Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-10-05

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ter, and go to prove that removal to am
other non railroad town will do no harm.
Among their assertions are these
l. That the Williamsport people want
to divide the county Not only false,
but, with their clear record at the polls,
silly In the extreme.
2. That, if the county scat were re-
moved to Winchester the offices of dis.
trict attorney and jaller would be vacated
Bumstead and Wade used this repeatedly
in the Holland Settlement. AS far as the
district attorneys Office is concerned, the
county board has failed to name it in the
election call. This will give an opportu
nifty to test the question, if thought
That was Sheriff Wadc's pet hobby, and
the office was created on his repeated as
sertion that there must be man IN
charge of the Jail to receive prisoners
The retention or vacation of the office
lies wholly with the county board, wher-
ever the county seat may be, and not with
the new Winchester Townsite firm Of
Parker, Wade q Bumstead.
8. That Wade will furnish II building to
the county free, and Charley Bumstead
said, down in the Holland Settlement,
last week, that he would fix up the build
ing for occupancy, which is Il very patri-
otto promise on the part uf gentleman
who asserts up here and in certain other
portions of the county that his interests
at Winchester have been disposed Of
The fact is that the Wade building at
Winchester is one of the kind that you
can fling cat through" Wade agced to
complete it several years ago, and with
| that understanding Il gentleman and his
| wife came out from New York to run a
| hotel there. But William didn't fix it up
for habitancy, and how many taxpayers
believe that either Wade or Bumstead
| would spend a nickel to repair the shack
after the county seat should be removed?
We have nothing but their "promise" to
| do so. Besides the board has ordered the
county offices, safe, records, etc., removed
to the Jail building. The county officials
will vacate the Doughcrty building this
week and occupy the new offices. and the
taxpayers will have no more rent to pay
at least until the county seat shall be
permanently located at some railroad
point.
T. The removers- and Mr.. Parker in
particular that there could be no
Jail built at Winchester without a vote of
the people. This is incorrect. The board is
allowed to use the general.fund revenue
of any current year for that purpose, as
the following section from the Revised
Statutes (Caltlwell's Code) will show
Section 607. Said board shall have authority
and power, under the provisions OF this chapter,
TO provide for the erection and repairing o.
| court-houses, jails, and other necessary build
| ings within and for the county, and to make con
tracts OH behalf Of the county for the building
repairing Of the same; but no expenditure fo,
| the purpose herein named greater than can Lt
paid out Of the reUtnue Of the county for the cur.
| rent year shall be made unless the question o.
such expenditure shnll have first been submitted
IN u If ock,c p,,,t1
| and shall have been approved by 4 majority o.
the votes SO cast; and the board shall determine
| the amount and rate Of taxes to be submitted tG
| vote for such purpose.
1t will thus he seen that any sum thai
can be paid out of the years revenues
may be used to be put up building. Bu
the law does not stop here, as the follow
ing section from the Revised Statutes
will plainly denote:
Section 1922 There shaN be established ant
| kept in every county, by authority of the boart
Of county commissioners and at the expense o
the county, n prison for the sufe keeping of pris
| oners lawfully comlnitted.
Now there Is no "lf' nor "und" abou
the matter in this section. 1t says that O
| prison SHALL be established and kept il
every county, while Sec. 607, above given
specifies what funds may be used for thl
purpose. And yet MIR. Parker tells tin
taxpayers that the law will not allow tn
expenditure of money at Winchester b,
the county, without vote by the people
and that the county scat should be re
moved to his town as matter of econ
omy! There is little fear that the tax
payers will abandon the Jail building u
Williamsport, which they can have ren
free for county Offices, not only for tw,
years, but as long as they want it, ant
not have to rely upon the promises of Mr.
Bumstead and Mr.. Wade to repair the oil,
rat-trap at Winchester.