Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-11-02

Bumstcad, who came to Dakota simply |
for the benefit of his health, tells the peo.
pic Of this county that he and his part
ners have made up their minds that the |
Jail should be abandoned. Out upon such
political rascality!
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Let US disseet this question of expense
little further. Bumstaad and Wade
have told the voters that there would be
saving of expense by moving the county
seat The two items of expense that
the taxpayers have most complained Of
were the salary Of the district attorney
rand Of the jailers he Arse Office has
been abolished. SO far as the county board
is concerned, and after January it will
take al order of court TO cause another
cent to be expended in that direction.
The location of the county seat will have
no bearing on the question of the legality
of the office. If the court should be ap-
pealed to and decide the office legal, the
salary would have to be paid wherever
the county seat might be.
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The office of salaried jailer can he and
should be abolished But that Can be
| done here as we'll lis on the towuste
property of Cobb s. Bumstead. 1t is
something entirely between the people
and their commissioners. The office was
established at the earnest aud repeated
assertion of Sheriff Wade that it was
| something OF great necessity. The salary at
| first was $500, but the sheriff wanted it
higher. The sum was afterward reduced
to $500, against the vigorous protest of
the said sheriff. Mr.. Bumstead and his
! friends have never petltioned the board to
abolish the Office. They didn't want it
abolished they needed it for use US cam
paign capital. Some competent person
in the county--one living not too far away
could be employed to come to the
county seat and take care of and board
prisoners when there was occasion and
when there were no prisoners there would
not be a cent of expense.
| The Times also nisstatcs the amount
charged for boarding prisoners here it is
rs cents per day. instead of dollar.
Early in the fight Bumstead made capi-
tai out of tue fact that the county paid
rent for county Offices. The officials arc
now comfortably fixed in the Jail build
ing, and at no expense TO the taxpayers.
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| To read the Times one would think the
| people of the county were on u steady
run to and from the county seat. Nine.
tenths of the taxes are sent in by mail,
and people don't prove up every day. In
the absence of court terms there is very
little business to call people to county
seat. Not ene-half of our citizens have
ever had occasion to visit this town as
yet. In fact the editors Of the Times
have made but few trips here. and then
only when they had political AK to
| grind.
Another of the misstatements IN Bum
| stead's article is that the county owns but
| four lots here. The county owns a full
! block of twenty. four lOts--the block on
which the Jail is situated.
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Taxpayers of Enmous County, we
fwant to call your attention to the fact
that If Mr. Bumstead, Mr. Parker, MIR.
| Cobb, Mr.. Van Beck and the other gen
tlemen who have been given lots at Win.
chester succeed in moving the county scat
to another temporary location, that NOT
ONE CENT of expense will be saved, but
that, on the contrary, THOUSAND DOL
LARS will not be one quarter of the extra
expense that will be necessary. Remem
Der, too, that the men who have ridden
over this county and asked your support
for Il scheme which they concocted in Sc
crct-men who have everything to gain
are working for their own selfish inter
| esls. Remember that one of them--a
man who has canvassed the county aud
beseeched taxpayers to help him out--has
never paid one cent Of taxes since he came
into the county, and that he at present
owes taxes to the amount of two hundred
and forty five dollars and forty six cents
Remember, aso--and you can examine
the laws and sec for yourselycs--that the
removal of the county seat sacrifices all
county property. and that such property
government and this again must he sac
rlticed should the county seat again move
to a railroad town. We give the follow
ing reasons why such removal TO another
non-railroad town should not take place
l. Because, if removed the county s
property must be abandoned. Ifremovcd
it must again be abandoned should Win.
chester fail to get a railroad, and she has
no mere reason to expect one than any
other point in the county.
g. The law says the Jail must he kept at
the county seat.
g. The law says the board of county
commissioners SHALL build jail
4. The law says that the current reve.
nue. Of the year may be used for such pur.
pose.
g. The law says that no persons arrest
ed for petty offenses shall be taken out OF
the county and imprisoned.
8. Running the county without a jail,
did the law allow it, would render it IN
possible to punish auy petty crime, as
no place unless under city organization
can establish local cnlaboose or prison.
7. There is absolutely nothing known
to be in existence that can by law com.
pei Bunstead and his friends to remove
tho safe and records in case the voters
put the county seat on their property
AS far as the alleged bond is concerned
written, 1t is simply a promise nothing
else.
In conclusion VIC will say that not ono
cent will be saved to the county by re-
noval, as the hnselfish and patriotic Bum
stead claims but, on The contrary, every
dollars worth of property that is thrown
away at Williamsport must be replaced at
Winchester. Mr.. Rumstead knows this,
and that is the reason why he is working
heaven and earth to have the county seat
put on his property.
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