Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-09-06
THE .APPEAL" WINS.

balance due on advertising, was
decided in the Justice Court, and
a Judgment given the APPEAL for
$84 and costs of suit
The suit was brought to recover
balance due the paper for adver-
Using. The amount allowed for
the work by the Board of Examin-
ers was $84. Attorney General
Davenport and Secretary of State
Dormer considered this amount the
proper pay under the law, but Gov
ernor Adams refused to audit the
bill, although he had the highest
legal authority of the State that
the bill was just. and ac!c'goqer ddi!p9g TO
law. He even had the bad breed
ing to insinuate, while the Board
was in session and the publisher Of
the APPEAL before it, as a claimant
on business, that the advertisement
had been Improperly measured.
The following witnesses were
n1aced on the stand by the APPEAL
70 verify the APPEALS measure
ment and computation: General
povning, author of the law fixing
the official rates Of advertising,
Joseph Harlow the State Printer
and Wells Drury Deputy Secretary
of State and printer Of twenty
years standing.
The State placed Marshall Robin
son on the stand as their witness,
but he proved the best witness OF
all for the plaintiff.
He swore that the charge made
by the APPEAL was correct, and
further testified, under cross ex-
animation, that he would have
made the same charge.
The testimony Of their main wit
ness, under cross examination, was
the biggest bombshell that fell in
their camp. There has always
been a disposition on the part OF
Controller Hallock to make covert
war upon the typographical frater-
nity of Nevada. In 1881 he sub
mitted a report to the Legislature
Of Nevada asking that a law be
passed reducing the price paid pub
fishers for advertising to 81 pei
SQUARE for the first insertion ane
50 cents for each additional inser
ton. The Legislature, however
refused to cripple the newspape
industry of Nevada by passin'
such a "Cheap John" law, ant
made the official rates of advertis
ing to compare with the regula
schedule adopted by the printers o
the coast years ago, 50 30 for tn
first insertion, and 81 for each ad
ditional insertion. The Board o
Examiners deducted 81 for eacl
Monday in the month, because n
APPEAL is issued on Mondays. w
do not dispute the justice OF thl
deduction, which was allowed b.
the Court. We would like to ask
however, if Controller Hallock dc
Quoted from his salary the time h
has spent away from the Stat
while travelling in the East.
This is the second suit which ha
been brought by the APPEAL
determine the legal value OF tn
advertising space in a newspaper
and the Courts have in both II
stances decided for US. A lawye
GOES into court for an hour an
charges ten times what a newsp;
ner would charge for a month s Sc
vice.
We have known Attorneys ELL
and Clarke to charge and recei7
$1,000 for making and arguing
motion in a case. Such chare
may seem high, but when the Coz
Of law libraries is considered, t
gether with the years OF stud
necessary to enable these gentl'
men to make their business SUI
cess, it is not.
DIR. Bronson Of Virginia City hs
received $500 for surgical oper'
ton taking him not over half a
hour. He might have done 1t Il
S. and lost no money, but the ta'
must be considered that it CO..
him thousands of dollars, and yea
Of study to master his professor
So it is with a paper. The cost
printing a four-square advertls
meut may not be over 80 cents, 81
the various printing material upc
which this advertisement was pr
Am n0n hoosr