The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-10-18
A RECORD OF FAILURE
and MISMAllAcEMEMT
Done the State Dur
ing
EVERY EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SHOWS WOEFUl IKCApACITY.
Political Qualification Position Uuder Gov
Lind. s

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lection of the eamn ara fish, but to
employ "Geputy garre wardens" to
travel through their. respective coun-
ties, organizing Bryan and Lind clubs.
Besides this, eech denuty game ward
en- was assessed part of his monthly
salary to support the reform" press
bureau.
One Republican deputy was retained,
P. o. Stevens of Detroit, Becker coun-
ty. Mr.. Stevens was Obliged to con
tribute a percentage of his salary TO
the reform bureau, to hold his job.
bat when it was demanded of him, as
a condition of, his remaining on the
force, that he get out and poll the
county in the interests of Lind. he re.
signed. Even the employees at the state
fish hatchery, drawing $40 a month
wages, We're OBLIGED to assist i'll
'grea sing the Wheels
And in return for this expenditure,
what are the benefits derived by the
taxpayer? During the recent "close"
season, the violations of the game
laws were open and fragrant. Every
hotel and restaurant in ST. Paul and
Minneapolis served prairie chickens
during the month of August. Mayor
Smith Democratic) of st. Paul, stated
that the enforcement of the game law
under the present administration was
rotten" and Uri Lamprey, the well
known Democratic attorney of ST.
Paul, expressed the opinion that it
would take ten years time to repair
the mischief for which the present
game warden is responsible.
Dr -onr,,o,icc;nn ahliUaI ta
make some showing. On the first day
of the shooting season, Saturday. Sept.
1st, Rev. Alexander McGregor of st.
Paul went out hunting and bagged
sixteen prairie chickens. AS they would
spoil If carried until Monday, he sent
them in a satchel. checked as baggage,
to st. Paul His little son called for
the satchel, and was arrested with il
in his possession by an alert game
warden, and was bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of shipping
chickens contrary to law-an offense
which the law plainly does not con-
template in such case. The S.strict
court promptly dismissed the case.
A couple of weeks ago an old man.
Polander, ignorant of the laws. Gus
toms and even the language of the
land, was fishing for bullheads and
catfish, with a net, in the Mississippi
river. Three valiant deputy game
wardens went out in a launch, armed
with shotguns, two cases of beer ana
a bottle of cocktails. They confiscat-
ed the old mans net, and when he ex-
postulated he was shot and killed. The
Ramsey county grand jury has in
dicted his slayer, Deputy Game Ward
en- Edward Corbett, for murder in the
first degree.
This. then, is the record of the game
and fish commission under the re
form" management: Fish, chickens.
deer and moose slaughtered out OF sea-
son: S25, 900 Of the peoples money
suuandered; a fifteen-year-old boy
wrongfully and Illegally arrested fol-
carving some chickens his father had
shot, and an inoffensive old man
killed.
"DOn't Co Back the Red Line"
This remark of Public Examiner
Pope to the expert accountant who
investigated the books of the city OF
Mankato, will pass into history. When
the expert was about to commence his
work, Gen" Pope called him to Que
side and said:
.sYou will find "a red line in the
books: don't go back of it. as I, my
self, audited the books up to that date
and found them correct
But the expert did "go back of the
red line" Furthermore he found that
"back of the red line the books
showed a peculiar shortage-s500.
was missing from the public library
fund without any record of It. An IN
yestigation on the outside showed that
it had been borrowed" by Mr., Pope,
while he was president of the library
board, and neither back nor before the
red line was there any record OF that
sum having been repaid. In fact. no
one knew of the loan. AS a result OF
the experts going back Of the red line,
the city attorney. of Mankato was d.
rected to commence proceedings
against Mr.. Pope for the recovery OF
the $4,000 and interest for the time ne
had held it-about five years MI,
Pope settled the matter by paving
back the $500.00 with interest Would
it have been repaid yet If the expert
had not gone back of the red liz
Even the Democratic papers of Mr.
pope town condemned his action as
illegal and peculiar"
tzz# Is still a Vacancy.
The vacancy in the department OF ed
ucation caused by the resignation OF
State Superintendent Prendergast has
not vet been filled Gov. Lind appoint
ed a gentleman named Lewis-who had
no other experience than teaching In
a small school-to fill the place, but
county superintendent all over the
state are aware of his incompetence.
This is one of the departments with
which the general public is not brought
in close contact hence it's WORKINGS
pass unnoticed, save when some glaring
mistake is made Mr.. Lewis has dis
tinguished''a himself by two of these.
The first was by an effort to hold dis
trict" summer training schools for
teachers. After one trial this was
abandoned and the former plan of
holding them in each county was re-
sumed. His second effort was when he
accused five teachers in Douglas coun-
ty. who were taking examinations for
certificates. of tchesting." This was
indignantly repudiatetl by the Douglas
county superintendent of schools "a
Democrat), and nv. Lewis very will
ingly dropped the j., + end of the poker.
.Reme,uner the Twipe.v
But it is in the management Of tho
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