Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-23
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Or the Devious Road That Leads 10
the County school Fund.

VT the Devious Road That Leads TO
the County school Fund.
Until a man m into actual contact
with the barriers that the law interposes
between him and the public crib, he is not
likely to have any idea of the devious road
which he must sometimes travel over be-
fore be can get his claim cashed. This is
said without any disposition to sarcasm.
Tor the reference is not to those who wear
a sesame before which treasury doors fly
open, and who, with violated law staring
them In the face, live with their arms bur-
aea 10 the shoulder in the peoples sack.
THESE public plunderers, armed with
brass and a conscience of flint, are supe-
rior to the statutes and Indifferent to the
loaihing or anger of an outraged COM
munity. Our reference is to the plain,
blunt man who has dealings for the first
time directly with the county. He pre-
sents his bill to an officer as in the ordinary
course OF business he would hand IL 10 his
%neighbor. He finds that he has but taken
one step towards getting pay from the
county, one step leading into a series
through which he must be directed as
though he were travelling through q
strange country cut up with roads diverg-
ing at unexpected angles. The following
is an illustration: A carpenter did q little
job OF work at the Eureka public school
house, the price of which was Six bits. He
presented his bill to q member of the
Board of Trustees who had ordered the
work done. That Trustee marked the
bill correct and directed the carpenter to
the Clerk Of the Board, who drew an or
der in favor of the mechanic for the
amount named on the County Superin-
tendent. The claimant began to get
tired, but was cheered on his way down to
the Eureka Con-. reduction works, where
the Superintendent, Mr.. Douthett, keeps
his office. There he got an order for
a warrant on the County Recorder. and
tramped back up own to the Courthouse.
There Deputy Recorder B. @. Levy met
him and wrote very p~rettily and plainly
on a large printed document, bearing the
Silver States insignia, an order for him
for six bits on the County Treasurer.
Ben. smiled as he handed the tired crafts
man the big, handsome paper, but the re-
cipient Of it did not smile. With an ex-
preston Of WEAKNESS OF his face, but with
an air which bespoke also a determination
to go through with the collection if it took
him all day to accomplish it, he next bent
his bewildered footsteps towards the bank
Of Paxton 4 Co. When he had snapped his
paper in that place of final resort for the
long sought for six bits, and Mr.. Hoadley,
the Deputy County Treasurer, had shaken
hands with him in congratulation, he got
out onto the pavement in a dazed condi-
ton Of mind. He turned the three quar-
ters over and over in his horny palms, and
with a far off look in his eye he seemed to
be trying TO recall the adventures through
which he had been led to that magnificent
outcome; but, collecting his wits pretty
soon, he strobe off to his shop, there to
ponder upon the problem why it is that he
had such a devil of a time to get six bits
out of the County Treasury while others
are said TO dive in and come out every
time, uDhampered, with their hands chuck
full Of $40 pieces.