The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-03-27

26 county and town resources over and
above all liabilities! And now, 10! behold
in the face of these facts, VIII ch are true as
on record in the accounts and proceedings
of our Board, the aforesaid Thomas Clark has
the extraoI dinary assurance to assert that
during the last four years &16,4oS have
been drawn for over and above the levies"
'The tax levy for year 1874 amounts to
81, ,35s 26, in detail items as follows:
t'tdle 81, 1.t1
Schools :. 600 &C
Town 8. 800 0U
Noauey l4o-22
Iotal- S22, ,35S 26
Up to the present time, probably hal
this amount has been collected ln
From tie foregoing facts, it will appear
that the county of Douglas had on the 23d
of Nov mber, 1874, available resources
alone in the shape of tax assets. 3,644 26,
TO which NAV be added the following re
sources, set forth in summary appended to
the annual report of the County Clerk, Dee
g. 1878:
Cour, House and public Offices. - SIS, zoe
Jail and public lands 10 On0
Sandry franchises, estimated at 25.0Do
ioto' Sot tttt
Here. now We have in face of all these
facts, substantially affirmed by Richard Reli
and Thomas Clark, the one having acted as
County Clerk, and the other on Board of Re-
view, their united assertions in this weeks
paper, that the county of Douglas is in debt
over and above all it's tax levies, fifteen to
sixteen thousand dollars!
Such statements apparently emanating
from reliable resources the one "a retired
County Clerk and the other one District
Attorney. in progress of becoming likewise
"A retired one may attract some notice
abroad where the men are not known, but
amongst US at home here, residents of this
place, it will excite little surprise, the nature
of the men being so well known; and when
the real facts are now set forth to prove their
statements and assertions respecting our
county finances are erroneous, false aud an
true, it cannot surprise any of us in the
least, especially il. respect to The immaculate,
Simon-puret.) official parsonage who -four
ishes his Official signature to his assertions
the District a,tolnes"-old Tom Clark
for our ears have often been saluted with
such language as this: "A thleviDg old rat;
II would not give five cents FIR anything he
has to say-worth no more than the bark of
dog in the street., etc, etc.
Hence, therefore, his assertions put fo tn
in the present Instance have but little effect
aud no influence here whatever.
Iii proper, however, in view of the fact
that many of our outside property holders
are ignorant in respect to the condition of
our county, that these erroneous assertions
of said Clark should be further reviewed.
We shall now proceed to what he has to saw
in regard to the expenditures.
The Estate Drainage FUND.-, IS 900. re-
ceived from the Sta e, has been applied to-
ward the purposes for which it was intended:
not exactly in draining some swamp sect on
of land. away out in the back woods, but in
cutting out and improving roads through a
territory thai is mostly swampy", aud In
draining portions of the marshy, unoccupied
streets of our town; herein complying with
everything that the law contemplates in re
spect TO practicable and proper expendi-
ture of the money under direction of a Board
of Supervisors.
We have opened up roads to give US access
! to the numbering countr, and other desirable
localities south and east Gf this place, said
roads penetrating a swampy country, thereby
draining TO some extent tn lands, aud h. nee
we consider We have n.ade the best practica.
bic expenditure of the money, and to say
We should eIpend i. all in draining section
of land, put it in swamp hole" away out
III the woods, which We never waut to use
and where we never want to 90, would be
simply an act of childish foly, and nobody
but some lazy old beggerman ike Tom Clark
that never made any money III his life, nor
never will max" any, would ever advise such
expenditure. II We get snS more drainage
money, and l trust We shall, ws viii eKpoad