Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-08-08

La Rue says he went to Mr.. Cleveland,
of this city, and asked him the price
of furniture and could not buy
it any cheaper than the price the board
paid Taylor & Berry. MI. Budde says
every n that worked on that school.
house he had to have a fight with in
settling with them and he finally had to
get Mr.. Ensign to measure Chauncy
McTaggart's work.
Creel said there wa no need to have
an engineer to measure it. Any school
boy twelve years of age could find the
area of a rectangle. He thought all the
school board should have guardians over
them.
MI. Budde said he would like to see
the man that. can beat him on building
contracts. He will give him lots of
work and $40 day.
MI. Creel-Yes, you are a nice con.
tractor. You figured on a building here
and forgot to figure on the roof.
Mr.. Budde-I can build a man a
house without a roof if he wants it.
Yes, l can build him a carload of them.
Col. Nash was present and thought he
would take the circus in. Yes, Oh,
yes, this is a very brilliant board; at
least l have an idea it is"
MI. LaRue was about to say some
thing, but MI. Creel did not deign to
argue the points in question with La
Rue, saying, "Young man, 1 don't wish
to discuss the subject with you, as you
are not competent"
At the afternoon session Mr.. Stanley
said: According to my offer to build the
school house of this town, I could have
built it and did all the extra work for
$137 less than MI. Budde. There was
also another bill of $40 that should not
have cost this township anything that
was paid for keeping fires in the school
house to keep the plaster from freezing,
and should have come out of the plas-
terer who contracted for the work.
Mr. Budde-I refused to pay a great
many orders, but 1 was compelled to. /
absolutely refused to pay Tillotson for
legal advice.
Mr.. Rumney moved that the clerk
and treasurer's school report for Lake
school township be accepted.
Mr.. Creel voted no for the reasons he
gave Saturday.
Mr.. Budde hoped this school report
would be printed in the newspapers, as
he wants it we'll ventilated and shown
to the public.
Mr.. Creel said he (Budde) should not
want it published. as it would not show
him up well as a business man. In
fact you will be shown to be a worse
financier than ] am, and that is bad
enough. The board have not done
right, and their own figures condemn
them.
Mr.. La Rue made a statement that
when G. S. Ulinc resigned MI. Tillotson
was recommended as a good legal adj
wiser and a good business man to fill the
vacancy. He assumed authority in a
very short time. He was attorney fol-
the working men, and in favor of allow
ing all the bills. lie called attention to
Willis Arnold's bill of $147 as an in
stance. La Rue said that Budde and
himself held that they could not pay it;
Tillotson said he would collect it and
see that it was paid, and all through
their dealings he (Tillotson) showed he
had no desire to help the board or work
for the interests of the taxpayers, but
wanted to make all the money he could
himself. In disposing of these bonds
they thought Mr.. Tillotson was a law
yer and IA the best man to look after
it and there was no doubt Mr.. Tillotson
deceived the board in regard to the
$1,000 bond, and it could have been
placed to better advantage and profit to
the taxpayers.