Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-05

the audience. Here also is the cvwardii.
ness OF me speech most apparent. Page
alluded to the destruction Of the "Renwh.
Isc0n" office, and charged it all to the
conspiratGrs. The LIE Row neonle 1pnar.
ally believe the thing TO be a Thin iodce
Of "Old Hotch" to try to get IN a littic
sympathy for his paper.
Page said that AT the last fern, of
court there was q packed grand inrv
packed to clear such criminals a. Har.
wood, the forger. This packed iurv had
foreman, Charles Lamb, who is notori.
ou-sas the biggest horse-thief and counter.
feiter in the state" Page said. "Ohi 7
wish could spend five minutes to show
you up HarwO0d; aud oh! / ought tn
spend few minutes to tell YOU about
the county fiances" He then spoke At
length about county expenses. SHOWING
that when he was manipulating the wires
the yearly expenses were about $4,000.
but since his star waned in 1876. thew
were $26OOO per year, aud that it was a
lie that he made them so heavy. He
claimed that 1t was the Chairman Of the
board OF commissioners and the Pioneer-
Press that made the expenses 40 heavy
through their tools in Austin. orchards
under the law il entitled 10 but 500 per
year, but in the last year he has received
between 5000 and 500. Oh! YOU have
no idea OF how this man has been souan-
derlng YOUR money. He has in the last
year sold to the County Poor Farm. 5000
worth of lumber out Of his own lumber
yard, thing he had no right to do under
the statute. He got q bill of S47.12 Al.
lowed himself for assistance to tramDs.
There Is q regular system of outlawry
among the county officers. As q sample |
OF their extravaganza, the Boari: allowed |
bill of $3.50 tor ice for the court house
IN January last. Here, too, comes in the
interest the st. Paul Press hadin NV inn.
parchment. The county officers are bv
law restricted t. an allowance of 800 ner
year to each officer for supplies, but IN
the last Is months the Pioneer Presa
alone has received over 5000 for supplies
furnished. Then as 10 the Jail, I have al
ways said you ought to have competent
man to take care Of It, One who would
stay In the Jail for that purpose, and IL
fixed the compensation at 500 per month.
Well! We have never had but one good
and faithful jailor, Mr.. Allen,
and Hall DISCHARGED him because he
would not curse Page, and because he
(HalD wanted to provide for his prospec-
live son.in-law-a green BeardQess) boy,
who has neglected his duties, and run
about the county for days at q time. II
wished to look into the condition of the
jail. as was my duty, and went there for
hat purpose, but found no jailor. went
again with like result. kept going
lay after day for about a month, until /
1nally decided it to be my duty to step
between this swindle of drawing pay for
LONG nothing, and the taxpayers there
" defrau6ed. And so issued the order
evoking the approval, and cutting off {
be pay. And here let me say, Judge
3rill had no authority to make the ap-
'roval. Judge Brill had authority 10
lold term Of court here, and no more.
find also that the complaints made to l
ne OF the way prisoners are kept, are to
great extent true. MIR. Hall has fed the i
'risoners generally upon dry bread and
once In the morning, and dry bread and
ca at night, while he is allowed 81 per
Feek by law for boarding a prisoner. U
1t seems to me, as If I am the only u
IAN standing between the taxpayers
nd those who are seeking to rob them, I
nd no half dozen OF conspirators and
ublic swindlers, are gong 10 be heard .
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