The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-18

SndHutc mas NOT Dccn tICdtCu idiily
at all times by the county board.
This may be true; so may it be true
of any other locality. A report has
been circulated on the street that
bills have been turned down by the
county board emanating from Chan
ute and that Mr.. Alleman is respon-
sible therefore. Mr.. Alleman nor no
other one man can control the board
of three. Some one tried to make
capital against Mr.. Alleman on the
grounds that he had cut bill pre-
scnted by Mr.. F. M. Groom for car
ing for sick man. The bill was
cut and probably unjustly, but it
was done by Chanute man who was
on the board at that time. Mr.. Allie
man was not commissioner then. A
big cry was raised, all for political
effect, because the expense we incur
red here last winter in the care of
smallpox patients was not paid by
the county. The commissioners
could not have lawfully allowed
those bills If they had all been Cha
unite men, and would not have done
it. The law provides that such cities
shall take care of their own contag-
ious diseases. Ask any attorney if
such is not the case.
Bills amounting to many hundred
dollars from the country districts
for the care of smallpox patience,
were presented about the same time.
They were all turned down by the
board. Some of them from Mr.. AL
leman's own township, Canville, and
one or two from his own little town
of carleton. The city of Erie took
care of her own smallpox and dyph-
liberia patients and presented no bill
to the county. We are prepared to
say, after investigating the matter
carefully, that there was not one of
these bills in the last six months
turned down that could have been
legally allowed by the board. DR..
Ralph Lights bill for medical at
tendence was clipped little, but
he has great reason to rejoice that he
Jared so much better than physicians
from other parts of the county with
similar bills.
l wish to give few items that oc-
cur in these bills and ask every in
telligent taxpayer of the district
what he would think of board of
county commissioners that would
allow them, especially when unac-
companied by any pauper affidavit
and simply fired into the board by
mail, without any explanation:
Peaches, apricots and other canned goods.
$40 suit of clothes.
cook stove.
1 heating stove.
House rent.
Blankets comforts and pillows.
folding chair.
mattress:
Furnishings for pest house, etc.
Now in all fairness and candor,
would you have set of commiSs-
toner's indiscriminately allowing
such bills from all over the county?
If they were allowed, the county
would soon be bankrupt.
Should Chanute claim any special
privileges? We are to be congratu
lated that we have so competent a
board. That we have board with
the nerve and backbone to stand
I'D and protect us from ourselves.
Some Just bills have doubtless been
disallowed but when they are jun,b-
led up with all these manifestly un
Just ones and not accompanied by |
the proper affidavlts, how are com
missioners gong to winnow them?
Gentlemen should disabuse their
minds of this erroneous idea that
Chanute is being unjustly discrimin-
ated against, and that our interests
are not properly looked after at the
county seat. Chanute's object is
not to elect a commissioner for the
purpose of raiding the county treas
ury, but some of the talk that is be-
ing indulged in by few parties
might lead our friends in the rest of
the district to believe that 10 be the
object.