The Arizona sentinel., 1897-07-10
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clear sky. Captain Ingalls,, his man Friday (Elliott), Sam and Carp. have been on the move all the week fixing things for the Cap tain. The funniest part of the whole matter is the fact that they seemed to think that the SENTINEL had made "grave charges" against Ingalls. We were laborlng under the delusion that we had made no charges-just asked simple ques- ton; what had Captain Ingalls done with the money belonging to Go. H? Another delusion, we thought every citizen had the right to ask what had been done with public money.
 Well we live to learn, first we have learned that, according to Capt. Ingalls,, we have no right to know where public money ha. gone; next we have found out, what we started to find out, where that money has gone; or at least we think we have. It was rather round about way; but it got there all the same. On the 9th of July when the militia assembled at their armory, which they did (at least about fourteen of them did) with the assistance of eorporal's guard armed with guns with bayonets, Capt, Ingalls, informed the boys in blue that livery grave charges had been made against their Captain in the SENTINEL" he also told them how badly he felt about the matter and how innocent he was, and so that they might be of the same opinion he ordered them to appear at the armory on Thursday at o'clock P. NJ. to investigate his honor, etc. But ineidently he pro, ceeded to give Seargent Alexander, Treasurer of the company, fits be- cause he had allowed the SENTINEL reporter to examine the books. It was too bad that a taxpayer of the Territory should be allowed to see the books of an officer, in which the record of the disbursements of public money were kept; it is so unmilitary don't you know. In showing those books Seargent Alex
 ander was showing disrespect to his superior officer" Well to mak 6 long story short, the company met Thursday night, when Captain IngaJs GppOimted c cOnamitt:e to i7s- oestigate tue books kept by hi8 neam FridGy. As a result the committee brought in report to the effect that the Captain had received $180 from the Territory within the dates mentioned in the SENTINEL; of that amount he had expended $t05 for company purposes, and lad on hand s75 belonqi'eg tO..ths company. When this report was brought in it did not suit the Captain he wanted them to pat him on the back and at the same time read the rot act to the SENTINEL. After he and Sam had made long and eloquent pleas, they finally agreed to add to their report that they had con- fdence in their Captain, but they would not censure the SENTINEL.
 Ingalls, excuse for not turning this money over to Alexander, treasurer of the company, was ''that he, Alexander, was not a member of the company" He made no such excuse the many times Alexander asked him about the money during the past months, his excuse then was that he had not received the money. Not only that but he sent Alexander a written order, along with the rest of the company to appear at drill on the 4th, and when he did not get there on time a corporal and file of sol diers went after him. When he got there he took his position as first seargent of the company and Capt. Ingalls, recognized him as such, no he did not make that excuse then. But if it was true that hloUo,N1or hon