It seems almost inconceivable that his successor could have taken charge of the office without having made a sufficient examination of past records to discover that there had been some irregularity. And that there could disappear from the public funds as much as fifty thousand dollars without its becoming known to other county officials shows that the methods of handling county business in Idaho are years behind the times. With regard to the affair, the St. Mary's Record says:
"A deplorable condition of laxity in the matter of keeping the county records is said to have been revealed by the examiners.
"Practically every known offense in the category of fraudulent entries has been disclosed, ranging from the disappearance of entire books to the mutilation of special and vital pages.
"In one instance, it is reported, 21 pages of an important tax record have been removed and the book from which the sheets were taken shows the clean cut of a knife where the sheets were trimmed from the cloth binding. Over-charges and undercharges have been revealed, taxes collected more than once and many other irregularities found which will be substantiated when the auditor's report is made public.
"In some instances property owned by favored people has been skipped entirely by the assessor, it is alleged, and in others an unauthorized reduction of taxes has been made by the collector. Disclosures of this nature show a range of from 10 percent to 90 percent reduction of the original amount of the taxes shown on tax rolls."
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