Arizona republican., 1890-10-23

Supervisors few days ago he arose and in that "Latter-Day-Saint" style of his, said
 Well, gentlemen, have been having my wife and boy treated at the County Hospital and would like to know from my fellow members of this Board how much I owe this county?"
 Can it be that this truly good and honest Supervisor had suddenly changed his opinion that public office was a private snap? Let us see whether or not c. R. flakes had any right to have his wife and child treated at the County Hospital. Among the laws passed by the Fifteenth Legislature was one en- titled: "An Act to Prescribe Additional Duties to the Board of Supervisors, |" from which we quote as follows:
 SEC. 8. That no person other than indigent, that is absolutely without property or money, shall receive public aid. or be admitted into any hospital the expenses of which are paid by taxation. And any manager, superintendent or other persons having charge of any hospital who shall receive into the same, for subsist- ence, any person other than such as are herein before spec fled and described, shall be guilty of misdemeanor and punished by a fine not ex- ceeding Three Hundred Dollars.
 SEC. 6. That all persons who are applicants for public or official charity in any way what ever, us by admission to County Hospitals or outdoor relief shall make an affidavit before a Justice of the Peace that he is citizen of the United States sick or disabled, and that he is utterly destitute of the means to pay for his subsistence, care and medical attention. If from illness the applicant is unable to make such affidavit, any one knowing the facts may do so for him. The officer taking such affidavit shall charge no fee for his service. The affidavit shall be presented to the acting chairman of Board of Supervisors of the county in which the hospital is situated who shall there upon, If satisfied of the truth of the same, admit the applicant to said hospital or outdoor re- lief.
 Does Supervisor flakes pretend to say that he or his wife and son are paupers The assessment roll shows for him per sonal property, $S92; realty, $450; i'm provements, $550; total, $1392. In the face of this did c. R. flakes make affi- davit for his family, as provided in sec ton 6, and then did he, as chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Pooh Bah like, pass upon said affidavit?
 And what was the matter with you, Dr. II. A. Hughes, that you should ad- init this mans family to the hospital to be treated at county expenseP Are you so tied up in the corrupt combination that you set aside the law and place yourself subject to fine of $300, ,imerely that this looter's family may be doc- tored at the ccunty's expense?
 What are you doing, Mir. District At torney, that you do not file informa- tions against both these men and see to their prosecution for such open jobbery and defiance of the law?
 The time is at hand when such men must be taught lesson and that can only be done by severe rebuke at the polls. Backed by the infamous Cochise colony they have grown so bold that they assume to themselves a dictator ship over Maricopa county, and it behooves all honest voters, Democrats as we'll as Republicans, to see that this notorious gang is relegated to private | life.