County Treasurer Found in Deficit
Yakima County Commissioners order legal action against bondsmen to recover nearly $12,000 in missing public funds.
In the matter of the deficiency of Treasurer G. W. Cary: The board ordered that whereas George W. Cary, treasurer of Yakima county, is in default as county treasurer in the sum of $11,966.79, now, therefore, J. A. Rochford is authorized and directed to bring suit February 2, 1891, against the bondsmen of the said George W. Cary upon his official bond for said amount of money.
“George W. Cary, treasurer of Yakima county, is in default as county treasurer in the sum of $11,966.79.”
Public corruption and the misuse of county funds remain perennial challenges in local government. Today, such a deficit would trigger immediate state auditing and public oversight far beyond what was possible in the 1890s.
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