Mohave County miner., 1896-02-01
CONAN SHEDS MORE LIGHT.
But the "Shed" is in c Fog.

southern blood of Mir. Cowsn to well up into his neck and the sudden attack of vertig, caused him to go home and have written a charming little article in which abuse of the iitor of the MINER takes the leading part. The Mineral Wealth is responsible for the accouchment, and this should bs "A warning to never again give birth to anything until it is ripe. The article abounds in Ishmselites, lagos, unmitigated liars, j,ckasses, em. bezz'ers, peri Irers and various and sundr, endearing epirhets. Dear me! Mr. Cowan says that we are politically dead. We have been in constantfeaf fo months past that some one would rudely awaken us from our pleasant dream of the fat offices, such as Mir. Cowan has held for years, that were in store for us. 'fSas ever thus. O,car, Te always knew you were a gentleman, but did not thlnk you were working at it since you ran the saloon on the "bucket of blood" order, below B trstow, on the Southern Call. fornis railroad grade. Your graduation from behind the bar cured you of the aliurements before it. But, great Gosh. en, how you must have reformed in these intervening yesrsl Good, fat of- fces have worked radical change, while poor Ve have tackled lhe tiger Tn his den. Only shis, and nothing more.
 With all the blow, bluster and blUf, Mir. Cowan fails in A single instance to refute charge made by the MINER. He publishes an sffi lsvit from Treasurer Hubbs setting fortn the fact that he makes his regular monthly settleme nts with that officer. No charge has ever been made relating to these reports. We know and scknow ledge fully and freely that Mir. Cowan m m4kes A monthly report to the treasurer, bat fails to make his quarterly report to the board of super. visors. He says that the bills Of the supervisors were m,re clerical errors on his part. II " grte ous of him to take all the blame for something the law re-. anires him to do and which he fsis 10 attend to. How remarkable that Mir. Fros,'s bill in Jam iry should follow ont the line of Mes-rs. Johnson and Grants bills in 0:tober. How convenient that "memorandun" was, and how incon. venient the renord. Mr. CJwan says we pm mltted perjury in swearing to a bill tor services as i'm migration commissioner when we kneS at the time the law had bsen declared unconsti utioDai. Dear, dear! Mir. Cogan swore to bull in July 1895, on which he drew 375$ for the ararter ending June 30th when the 1nrts h ,d decided he was only entitled to 25J$ Was this perj ny? Mir. Cowsn says it WAS. Mr Cowan swore to hill on whci, he drew 275$ for traDscribinp records when the law says his salary should cover It. We wonder what Mir. Cowan calls it. In O:tober he puts in 8 bill of 5)s for making duplicate assess. ment roll and draws the 5). The law s4ys he shall receive no extra compen
 sativn as clerk. The bills of Anson Smith and L. o. Gown present df ference without a distinction. Smith'- affi lavit 10 an account that was disal. lowed is perjury, while Cowsn's oath Att 4ched to frau iulent account, that was allowed, is just A little cuteness in the man with the "pull " ..
 N,w, it would be sn unmitisated lie il we said that it would take more than five minutes in his company in the vaul' to convince us of his utter incapacity to fil any off @, and to take in the presence of the old beer barrel, half filled wilh i'm. por,ant papers. We could not help being attracted to the miscellaneous litter oi i important books and papers in that sell same vault, and we did not use our skel
 eton key to open the combination lock on the door to get in, either. How vir tnonsy indignant Mr. Gown waxes over the m amer in which we "sneakei" into the courthouse to get m .terial for our write up. Oar "sneaking," as all ou' re .ders know. consisted in notifying the off ;ials through the MINER the previous week of our intention, and thea going to the court house and getting the item 2 ,d hi Ia from Mr. Cowsn. The bills were copie in the off @ of the recorder and Mr. Cowau's attention was ,lled to the rch4rges of the supervisors. H Jw