Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-01-04

THERE is an aggregation Of bowling
dervlshes over in Mandan that calls itself
I 1.-THE Reform School Board" This col.
lection Of CURES is also standing with theil
feet in the state-treasury trough. squeal.
| ing for swill. The fact is that this al
legged board is an Illegal body. When
Gov. Shortridge filled the. board he ap.
pointed four Morton county men. and, as
soda to the sour mess. for the fifth mem.
ber he named an innocent and unsophis-
ticated soul who dwells amid the badger.
mounds OF Emmons, and whose aurname
Is Yeater. When the latter received his
commission he looked upon itand WA
exceeding glad. With mileage IN his eye
and per diem in his heart, atraightway
the member from Wayha hied himself
/ to the metropolis on the west bank. Ar
irving there, after looking at the 'keers"
and gazing IN the show windows for
an hour or two, he procured the services
of policeman, who keptthe small boys
away from him until he found the place
Whero the board Was to meet. He there.
upon shook the Russian thistles from his
hair and sat down. He soon saw that a
war-dance was in progress, and that the
local men were equally divided. Each
faction wanted him 10 join 'em and assist
in making one of their men president or
chairman Of the board, and they fell over
one another in their des sperate struggles
for tho privilege of flllng him with lem
onade and soda water. But be commnned
with himself and said :. Lo l. l will Join
the tribe the physical appearance of whose
members bears the greater evidence of
longevity" Aud lie did. And they
made him the head man of the three-to-
two board. And that's where he made a
mistake.
Time passed on, and one of the major
.ity crossed the silent river. Then another
one resigned; and thus the chairman
was left without any legs to his chair. So
they deposcd him and caused him again
to mingle with the common herd. And
he departed from the land of the Man
danites with corner on sadness and
wisdom.
And that's why the board is, as at
present constituted, not lawful body.
After his summary = or wintry = depo-
sitiOn, the Emmons county member
spoke to the governor aud attorney gen
eral about it, and they agreed in stating
that the boards arbitrary action was il
legal. But, - the position didn't amount
To anything, the Emmons county inno
cent took his medicine and said nothing.
The other day this rump board held
meeting and received bids for REFORM
school site. Mr.. Yeater received no notice
Of the meeting. They decided to take land
belonging to the son of a member of the
board-provided that the government re y
fuses to give up what remains of Fort
Lincoln after the Morton county rustlers
carry off all they want. Then the mem
bers of the board strxyed across the liver
and proceeded to yank the governor limb
for the So, 600 reform-school appropria.
tion. But they didn't get it, for the rea-
son that science has not yet found sue
cessful method Of extracting blood from
turnip. The governor told 'em to 10
back to Mandan or he'd take 'em up and
advertise 'em under the sstray law.
In the meantime the states few reform
school prisoners are cared for in South
Dakota at a modlcum of the expense that
would be necessary to run reformatory
of our own.
The re. forming of the reform-school
board ought to be one OF Gov. Allln's
first acts And he could do the people
great favor by appointing men on the
board who. would promise to hold no.
meetings, spend no money, and draw no
pay.