Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-22
THE ENTERPRISE VS.. THE EIDE
SCHOOL BOND.

SCHOOL BOND.
Our hystericsl G street ueighbor has
not recovered from his recent attack Of
"school bill collie" as we had hoped,
but the symptoms indicate that the dis
ease is assuming q bilious type, which
threatens that kind Of insanity deuomi-
mated monomanis. On ordinary topics
his mind Is in the possession Of its
usual ealmness, integrity and force ;
but let the words "school bond"
aboard of Education" or "Collins,"
be whispered within speaking distance,
he will roar, aud rave, aud froth like an
irritated bull in the ring, with a red
flag aouted in his face. When these
terrible fits are upon him, his nervous
system is entirely beyond the reach
of anpsthetics; no amount of. sulphuric
ether, nitrous oxyde or chloroform, will
relax his muscles or quiet his mind. On
Wednesday morning, the goth inst, the
patient burst forth in thrce-fourths Of a
column of wild, incoherent and disor-
dered rawlings, about school matters,
that trauspirsd four, five and six years
since. As a knowledge Of the existence
of the distsmper which occasionally
controls him has been .s~tudiously with
holden from the public, We feel called
upon, in justice to truth, to refute, fol
about the tenth time, his statements,
that have no foundation whatever IN
truth. It has forgotten the old proverb,
that 4" liars should have good memo
ries."
We propose, very briefly, to answer y
few of its falsehoods, but for a complete
yindication Of the action Of Col COL
Inns and the Board Of Education, we re-
fer our readers to a lengthy statement
in tho Safeguard Of the Goth inst, from
tho pen of Mr.. Collins. The Enterprise
alleges: First, That "the So, 900 school
bonds were issued without authority"
We refer u readers for authority to
subdivision 18th of section 2, on page
ll6 of the printed laws Of the Territory
Of Nevada, 1862. Second, That "some
of the bonds were redeemed by the ras-
cally Board Of Education that uttered
them, before their redemption could be
prevented by kicking tho peculating
rogues out of Office"
These bonds were redeemed by the
Board Of Education, as they should
have been, so soon as the school funds
in the treasury would permit. The rec
ords Of the Board show that in August,
1868, it requested from Mr. Leroy an
extension of time in the payment of the
$3.50 coupon due in September, but in
January, 1864, it redeemed $4,000 Of
these bonds, thus stopping a monthly
interest of Sl20, and We are assured by
| Colonel Collins hat the Eide bond
| would have been redeemed had the
Board been satisfied that the school
funds would be equal to the expsndi-
lures to the December following. The
| School Board which went into Office in
the spring Of 1864, Of which Tilford
was President, Flood Secretary, Ball
Treasurer, and Robinson and Mallon
were influential members, passed upon
this Eide bond for payment. Again the
Board of Education advertised for pro-
posals for these $4,000 bonds, in the
Enterprise and San Francisco Bulletin,
but not n word of caution or remon-
STRANGE from our neighbor about the
~illegality, or tho population, rascalisy or
extravaganza of the Board Of Education.
Az to the kicking out Of Office the
members of the old Board, we are bold
to assert that no suggestion Of that kind
ever appeared in the Enterprise. With
the Enterprise before us, we find nothing
but culoSy Of the public schools and Of
| Col. Collins in it, columns, from 1861
to 1864. The reports Of the Board arc
published aud referred TO with n flourish
of trumpets. We find, by reference to
its columns, that in April, 1864, a public
meeting was held in the Court House,
called to nominate q ticket for the
Board of Education in Virginia, to be
voted for at a special election, ut which
Collins, Haynes, Phelnn, and Knox
were nominees. At that time Col. Collins
was i'll in California. Neither At that
meeting, nor in the Enterprise, was there
one word reported, either in regard to
extravaganza or rascality. The public
generally considered the election Of that
ticket a certainty, and did not turn out
generally to the polls. About IL A. N.
a Democratic ticket was sprung, and by
vigorous action was elected. Col. Col
Inns received nearly twice the number Of
votes of his defeated associates.
From the foregoing, the following
statement of the Enterprise will DO re-
gardcd, probably, rs rather highly
colorsd :
every man, woman and child In Storey
County knows how the school moneys wero
squandered-audaciously squandered."
Third.-"The bond was rejected as an illc-
gal issue, when presented for payment, by
County Treasurer Fargo in 1866, and again
rejected, as alleged, in 1866, by County
Treasurer Thomas, when presented for pay
ment."
We think ourselves safe in affirming
that this bond has not been in Storey
County since the day of its issue-that
it was never presented to either County
Treasurer Fargo or Thomas for pay
ment in regular form, and further, that
no intelligent lawyer ever pronounced
this bond as illegal.
After the Board of Education was
abolished in March, 1865, by the Legis-
laturc, Tilforl persisted in exsrcisino