Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-03-22
MORE OF THOSE FIGURES AND FACTS

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see the Sentinel of the 18th leaves
off its battle Flag" head lines. and
runs simply a ''streamer." Now what
is the matter with you, Granger (Dand
Jenny? Why do you not come out and
argue the question upon its merits, and
if you have specific charges make them
over your own signature. Are you
moral coward? Are you afraid that
your name signed under the letters will
give you and your Whole scheme
1 think SO; yes. know so. for l know
your identity just as well rs if you sign
ed those two capitals which look SO near ,
alike. You, Grangert?) are the very !
self.same tax payer, who came before
the board Of county commissioners and
asked of them, July last, one Of the
most absurd things that any tax payer
in this county ever asked, and you
know it. have known you for the
past l3 years, as politician, an Office
seeker, and fancy farmer, and moral
coward as such; a man who abuses his
best friends, and even insults them if
things do not go to suit you. In last
weeks issue you talked straight at me.
and am glad of it; and now I'll talk
straight back, and I'll inform you for
your benefit. that wrote those letters
over my name. no one ever dictated or
advised single word or sentence; l
wrote them in my own house. and no
one near. If you and Jenny are so
ANXIOUS to give light to the grangers
and tax payers of the county, why do
you not publish both sides of the ques-
tionP
You granger( y 9s-54(?), accuse me of
using cunning and deception" in my
statement, and use Il grand display of
figures to bolster up your cause. You
say that l used "taken from the
records,"I say "are taken from the
records by the county clerk" Why did
you not quote the whole sentence, did
you think that you could better explain
it to your own liking? Yes, sir, l
wrote to the county clerk for an item
lied statement of 1887; he sent it to me
and says it is correct, except the mis-
take which occurred somehow in re-
gard to the levy of mills made by school
townships which reads in my letter rs
published March 8, Parker lndepend-
| TX mills which should read Parker
independent, IL mills. Parker village
TX mills" which accounts for the
balance of the 1907 mills which you
have SO much trouble over. aud also for
the 18th school township you could not
find. You say give Sl,554.S2 for pau
pers and Sl52.41 for temporary relief,
which our county clerk says is right,
and believe him. Q have not COM
pared the list with the official records).
You say give S472.SO for keeping of
prisoners, but you fail to say that l
give an account of more, which l
gave as given to me by mike" which
is for sheriff, deputies, bailiffs, and
prisoners, Sl,2l6.6O, which added to
$472.SO makes 81 ,6S9.4O. You will find
wolf bounty, board of health, veterinary
surgeon, classification, commissioner of
insane etc. all accounted forif you take
the trouble to 60 to the records and
look it up. as also you will the ditcher
and plow accounted for.
NOW we como to where he tried to
convince his readers by a display of
figures used in his former statement,
and says that he got his statement from
the New Era. | have not taken mine
from any paper, give it as taken from
the county records by the county clerk,
nor shall try to conyince them any
more than to ask them to compare my
statement with the county records.
You say "Ol consistency, thou art a
jewel" 1 have no doubt you would
like to have consistency, but tell me
where the consistency is when you
state that this county is paying 45
mills tax" and then contradict yourself
. and say that we are paying nearly AZ
mills on the total valuation" or the
consistency of your saving that Turner
county owes S2,l5O for Jail cells when
y.u know as well as I do that Turner
county does not owe one dollar on those
; cells until the county warrants are
issued for them, nor can you or any one
else charge it up to the expenditures OF
any year until the warrants are issued
for them. Where is the consistency oil
your saying that the county board
voted with one exception to abate
Messrs Tiahrt's taxes" on any
account, when you know that it is not
so, or else Messrs. .- Tiahrt's take.
would stand abated, which is not SO!
where is the consistency of your saying
I that every section line is a public road
q when you know that the United State:
q law gives every person "l60 acres
: more or less" and the territorial law
q cannot repeal nor conflict with it, and
, this is why all section lines have to b'
opened by petition; but tell us when il
: 1887 there has been single line opened
q by Il committee from the county boart
as you describe. Where is the consis
tency of you stating that "our count
pays commission of four per cent tt
p the treasurer for the collection of roat
G receipts, when such is not the truth
:, the county pays nothing for collecting
8 road receipts. And now about my bill
that were allowed by the county; il
you will take the trouble you will fin,
them on file and that all, or nearly al
!, of them are itemized. l find April q
:, looking after road scrapers, S4.3(
During the time previous to my hunt
: ing those scrapers up, the path-master
;. inquired of me what they should do fo
= scrapers to work the roads l the
: made inquiry of the county board. an
y found that Mr.. Kaufman had draw
: 18 new scrapers from the count,
When succeeded Mr.. T. he said moth