Every Cent Accounted For: The New Treasurer Counts Out the County's Gold

At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon J. W. Maple receipted to Dr. A. P. Mitten for the last of the cash in the treasury of King county, and became the duly qualified head of that office. All day long he had been engaged in the work of looking after the details of the transfer, and at last, when the task had been accomplished, he declared that he had done the hardest day's work of the year.

Early in the morning the treasurer-elect, accompanied by numerous supporters and aspirants for place, entered the court house and quietly went to the treasurer's office. The work of checking up the warrants was at once taken up by the county commissioners, and it was found that the accounts were in proper shape, the investigation of the books showing that they were not a single cent out of balance.

Then Dr. Mitten and Mr. Maple made a tour of the banks in which county money is deposited, and as fast as the funds were inspected they were receipted for by the new treasurer. The money paid over by Dr. Mitten was more than 80 per cent gold, and in every instance it was counted out in cash and paid over. The same money was deposited again in the same banks, and will be forthcoming any time it may be wanted. The transaction was not finished until the middle of the afternoon, when Dr. Mitten and Mr. Maple went back to the court house and the keys to the office changed hands.

The list of banks and the amounts deposited include: National Bank of Commerce, $60,956.59; Boston National, $42,759.34; Puget Sound National, $33,777.75; Dexter Horton & Co., $32,516.66; Seattle National, $24,877.58; Washington National, $23,731.42; People's Savings, $21,578.78; Guarantee Loan & Trust Co., $19,380.61; Merchants' National, $17,884.56; Bank of British Columbia, $7,778.73; Seattle Savings, $7,708; Bank of Auburn, $2,461.02. Ex-Treasurer Mitten's balance sheet for the term shows a total of $464,905.37 handled.

Mr. Maple announces that no changes in policy will be made and that the money will remain on deposit in the banks where it is at present.

There was evidently some disappointment in store for a large part of the throng of applicants for positions in the office. There are not places enough to go round by any means, and a large majority of those who hoped for recognition will be turned away. The force for the office has already been pretty well determined: J. W. Maple, treasurer; P. P. Padden, chief deputy of the cash; F. M. Davis, chief bookkeeper; James Wilson, delinquent desk; Robert Wilson, assistant chief deputy of the cash (probably); Lyman Wood, F. E. Wright, Cash Monohoo, Frank Cavanaugh and Fred Snyder, deputies.

Padden and Davis are the only two deputies so far named who are not Populists, the one being a Democrat and the other a Republican. The above appointments cause the remaining Republicans in the office to go about their duties with a look on their faces suggesting "there are only a few of us left, and our time won't be for long."