The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-01-31
THE TROUBLES OF A COUNTY Of
FICIAL.
Warming to Young Men to Keep
Out Of Politics and Make No
Promises They Cannot Fulfill.

Lincoln County needs about thirty
additional school districts, so that all the
young lady applicants out in Utah for
teachers certificates and district to
teach in can be accommodated and the
Superintendent of Schools make good his
promises. Of course the Supt. Of Schools
could not refuse any young lady re-
quest that she be granted certificate to
teach and school furnished her, SO he
wrote to each young lady, and the
RECORD, under the circumstances, does
not blame him for doing so, for they all
claimed to be handsome and had no OBJ
lection to matrimony and the Supt. OF |
Schools desires wiping out the objection |
that Mormons have to him filling the
Office, to come right along and that he
would either furnish them with school
or marry them. Thursdays stage from
Utah brought in the glad tidings to the
Supt. of Schools that there was train
of five wagons. containing five young
ladies each, and they all stated that they
were on their way to Lincoln county,
Nevada, where they would secure
school to teach, or else marry the County
Supt. of Public Schools, and each Of the
young ladies had decided to do the latter
, OF course on receiving the intelligence of
this good news the Supt.of Schools turned
, white about the gills, his sight became
misty and his head grew dizzy, then all
of sudden he doubled.up, as though his
: stomach had caved in, and fell back into
a a bottomless chair, where he remained
; for some time, a superb monument of de-
a lection. AS he thus sat, in sad retro
). spection, innumerable were the paths out
}. of the dilemma that appeared before him,
l but after traversing them a short dis
:, lance with his mind there appeared in
he was forced to turn back. As he sat
and deliberated, endeavoring to devise
/, some means whereby he would be enabled
to extricate himself from the predicament,
n he thought: :" l can marry them all, for
notwithstanding that the laws of Nevada
prohibits polygamy, it is literally in.
.; dulged within her borders; but then
l. can't feed them, and there is not suffici.
q ent washing to be done in Phoebe for
them to do and keep me. There is one
). district in need of q teacher, that sup
- plies a position for one, and leaves but
10 twenty-four more to dispose Of. There
y are five male teachers in the county, anc
4. as these men were given certificates a
70 teachers by my predecessor. Of course
Of they are not men of good moral charac
" ter, therefore will exercise my preroga
tive and do little in the civil servic
I'd reform line, and turn the rascals out
Ia and put the ladies in their places. Thi
does away with six of the ladies'. ant
IN but nineteen remain to be stored away.
w The remaining nineteen, after considera
y BILE bordering, became quite weighty il
the mind of the school superintendent
IS. and he called meeting of the Board 0
n. Examiners, and in glowing terms told tn
Board of the charming young ladies Of
On their way to Phoebe, and in the generous
r. ness of his heart, he informed the mem
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IT. nineteen young ladies over to their kin
We consideration, at the same time tellin
ng them of the many blessings, pleasantrie
ST. and virtues possessed in polygamy. TIL
ok members of the Board, at the conclusio
Ike these remarks, became excited, arose t
lat their feet, and at the same time all az
knowledged the gre,. happiness and VII
an. tues of the practice of polygamy, and no
withstanding their great desire so posses
ice charming girls and enter into the practit
so of polygamy, they feared to attempt i
". as they were all married, and that the
III unfortunately possessed strong-minde
women for wives, and it was certa
lp' death if it was discovered that they hs
his even thought of such thing, and the
tn. and there resigned their places as mer
ton bers of the Board. Being thus deserte
Joe by the Board, with heavy heart and ;
no. aching head, most miserable and u
aid happy wretch was the Supt. of Schoo
be- as he crawled into bed that night, wo
not dering how he would accomplish the il
possibility of crowding nineteen femal
into his little cot. Horrid were Il
ned dreams of this miserable officeholder al
maker of false promises. The visio
nay that presented themseles to the sleep
that night as he journeyed through drea
the land were more terrible than the pictur
which appeared on Belshazzar's wall. +
saw himself pursued and captured by e
To- ragged and heartless females and then fe
himself cut into pieces, placed on fork
sticks and roasted over slow fiji
rom While in the midst of this agony bea
tiful angel, dressed in pure white al
with golden wings, descending throu
our the ceiling Of the room and appeared
~. the tortured man, driving away the a
enc onizing pain from his fevered brow
EN-. smoothing it with her soft white han
the banishing the fever from his lips
ave pressing them with her own sweet lii
ing and then whispering in his ear, isle