The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-07
KNOCKS OUT THE SCHEME
Great Northern's Refusal to Paw
School Taxes.
WORKS GREAT HARDSHIP
An Attempt VIII Be Made to R aise the
Necessary Money by Popular
Observation-Disclosures for
the Courts

board of trustees of school district No
l have had more troubles on their
hands than can be told in any news
paper article. The amount of tax
which was affected by the decision was
about $4,000 in round numbers, and the
effect of it's non-payment will be to
close the schools about the last of jan
uary, thereby doing away with five
months of schooling for the 1000 pupils
or this district. Besides the closing Of
the schools great confusion and hard
snip VIII result to the 40 or more teach
ers now employed and litigation will
necessarily follow, and the Great Falls
district will acquire an unenviable rep
utation among teachers and throughout
the school world. through no fault Of the
district or it's supporters
With the closing Of the schools large
percentage of the teachers will of course
leave here and endeavor to secure posi-
tons elsewhere, and when the schools
again open the whole work of the past
1--WE years will have to be begun over
again and the building up start from
the bottom of the ladder. The school
board have done and are doing every
thing which lies in their lower to keep
open the schools, the closing of which
would to this city be a public calamity,
but the obstacles met with are very dis
couraging. A committee from the trus-
tees called upon Governor Smith in the
endeavor to have him call an extra seq
sion, six weeks ago, but were not sue
cessful in their efforts.
Later the certificate plan proposed by
County Attorney Gorrnley was looked
into, and while not given up by any
manner of means, it was opposed
strongly by the legal representatives of
interests here, without which it would
be impossible to go ahead, and it was
passed by for the time being To carry
out any plan it was necessary first to
have money advanced, and without
concert of the large interests no one
could be found who was willing to take
the chances involved.
Following the certificate plan the fol-
lowing paper was drawn up by a couple
of prominent attorneys of the city, who
are the legal advisors of large interests
and who are anxious to avert the
calamity attendant upon the closing of
the schools:
This agreement, made this day
of ------- 1899. by and between school
district No. l of Cascade county, in the
state of Montana, the party Of the first
part, and the subscribing corporations
and individuals of said county of Cas-
cade, parties of the second part.
Whereas, heretofore and recently the
and by virtue of which the several
school districts in this state have pro-
Vided by special tax levies for the sup
port of the public schools, has been de-
termined and declared by the supreme
court of the state of Montana to be in
operative, and
Whereas. by reason of said decision
and the effect thereof. said school dis
trict No. is without power to raise by
taxation or otherwise, the funds which
are required for maintaining the schools
in said district, and
Whereas, the said school district, in
order to avoid the closing of it's public
schools and to provide for their main
tenance during the current school year,
has applied to the parties of the second
part hereto for loans, and has agreed
that. If hereafter so authorized by law,
it will repay to each Of the undersigned
parties of the second part the amounts
advanced and loaned by them respect
lively, with interest thereon at the rate
of 6 per cent per annum from the Gate
OF such advances: and will employ all
reasonable means to induce the legis-
lative assembly of Montana to author
ize the repayment of said loans by said
district. and to provide means for the
raising Of the funds required for that
purpose.
Now. therefore, this agreement wit
nesseth that, in consideration of the
premises and of the mutual covenants
herein contained, the said school dis
trict No 1 and each of the subscribing
corporations and individuals hereby |
undertake and agree with each other as
follows:
First-Each of the subscribing corpo-
rations and individuals hereby agrees to |
advance and loan to school district No. |
of Cascade county the sum of money |
hereinafter set opposite their respective |
signatures thereto, and to pay said sum |
to the county treasurer of Cascade |
county for the credit and benefit of said |
school district No. ! on or before the 18th |
day of January, 1900, each of said sums, |
so to be advanced, being hereby espe- |
cially appropriated and loaned exclu- |
sively for the purpose of maintaining |
the schools in said district during the |
current school year. |
Second-The said school district No. /,
acting herein through its lawfully |
elected trustees, hereby agrees to use
all lawful means for procuring author |
ity to repay all loans made to it under |
this agreement, and that. if so author |
lied, it will repay the same with inter- |
est thereon at the rate of per cent |
per annum from the date of such adj
vances, and that all sums, SO advanced |
and loaned to it, shall be expended and |
used exclusively for the purpose of |
the schools in said district
during the current school year.
Third-It is expressly and especially |
and agreed, by and between
the parties hereto, that all OF the agree
ments herein contained on behalf of the
parties of the second part are made
upon the condition that none IF the
loans herein agreed to be made shall
be consummated until the total sub
scribed for and agreed to be loaned to
said district shall amount to $24 900.
In execution whereof. in duplicate, the
said school district No. l has caused
this instrument to be signed in its be-
half by its trustees, each of the sub
scribing corporations hereto has caused
this instrument to be signed in its be-
half by one of it's executive officers,
and each of the individual subscribers
has hereunto set his hand and seal.
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. OF CAS-
CADE COUNTY, by Trustees.
The names of parties and corpora
tions subscribing 10 follow.
This thought RI he an |