Mohave County miner., 1902-04-19

On these bids, in the face of the fact
that both the Arrow and the MINEF
bids were fully $1,000 below that of st
Charles, the contract was awarded to
the latter and the taxpayer will have
to pay the prize money. Because st
Charles supported johnson, Neal and
Scanlan for office the people who are
so unfortunate as to own property in
the county will be called upon to stand
and deliver. Thousands of dollars OF
the good tax money of the people have
already gone to fill the capacious NAV
of this man st. Charles and he is clam
ering for more. Just think of the rake.
off on legal blanks The offer is made
to furnish them for 6s per thousand;
st. Charles bid calls for 50s per thous
and. During an election year fully
ten thousand of these blanks are used.
This means the payment OF 50JS to st.
Charles, whereas, under the other bid
only COS would be paid, difference
alone of i40S. On blank books there
is the same wide discrepancy. Take a
Xxx envelope, that costs % cents and
LAOS he asks 4.50 and 6s per thousand
for. The commercial rate for the xxx
and xxxx is only 4s and So. Letter
heads furnished the county the past
year by this man break In two in fold
ing and the daub of ink that is sup
posed to constitute the printing on
them fastens the folded sheet together
"a effectually as a coating of glue. Take
the last delinquent tax list, for which
the county paid the MINER sos. Under
the st. Charles bid the county would
have to pay the sum of 206S, while the
other bidders would do the work for
24,72S and 4944s respectively. There
is not one item in the list that the ST.
Charles bid does not exceed the others
by from four TO ten times. The reason
of the award, as given by Supervisor
Neal, was that the other bids we're too
low, and by Supervisor Johnson that
il the contract was let to the MINER
long string of extras would be brought
in at the end of the year. As the su-
pervisors have the matter of allowance
of bills in their own hands is hard to
see how the long string of extras would
buy anything, unless it worked out on
the plan OF the Meyers warrant LIST
week. Possibly the supervisors base
all their calculations on the methvis
pursued by them selves and their clerk,
which in plain terms is to cut down
every bill Of an enemy no matter how
just it may be, and allow all bills of
their friends, 20 meter how outrageous
steal. They have done this and
more: They have been running the of
fees of reeorder aud supervisors as an
adjunct of Kean st. Charles "rat"
printing office, by employing printer
who at one time worked on the sheet
and is now Sub" when occasion re.
quires. When the business of the "rat"
sheet dwindled down the printer was
placed on the county's payroll to be
used in case of emergency by Kean ST.
Charles. In this way he can have the
county get his 'rat" sheet out for him
and then pay for the privilege. The
board of supervisors have taken from
the treasury and turned over to John
p. Feeny, during his incum bency i'm of.
flee, more than 5000, for which not
one dollar has been accounted for on
the record books of the county, nor
was there ever any service rendered or
supplies furnished to the county on
account Of which this money was drawn
from the treasury. This board has also
drawn warrants on the treasury for
hundreds Of dollars in favor of Mr.. |
Feeny for alleged extra services, which