Mohave County miner., 1902-04-12
County Printing and Other ReminIs.
cences.

! SounVf FTlntlnB anu OlneT heUllnlS'
cences.
Yesterday bids were opened by the
board of supervisors for the county
printing for the ensuing year and al
though the bid of the Miner was fully
2,O0OS below that of the Mineral Wealth
the "rat" sheet was presented with the
goods. When the bids were opened
and read Kean St. Charles, Lew Blake
ly aud Anson II. Smith, the three bid
ders were present. Notice was given
that no action would be taken on the
bids until the following day. While
in the room the board conducted all
! business in whispers and as soon as
the gentlemen departed the contract
was awarded to the Faker and his "rat"
| sheet. This, of course, was to be eX
pected, as no honest motive atany time
or under any circum tances can be
justly imputed to this super visorial
gang, from the clerk TO the Faker, who
receives his "bread aud butter" from
them. A few months ago, when the
Miner offered to do work for fifty dol
lars that the Faker demanded 1908 for,
/ Neal & johnson rejected the rule of
Boss Nike and sided with the people,
but they had to slip around to the "rat'
office and make their peace with the
| Faker and possibly give him the prom
ise that VII the time came they
would give him the big chunk. They
/ have done so aud Boss Mike for the
! time being must feel that he has scored
point. The scoring Of this point by
Boss Mike will not bring back to his
inside pocket that 375S which he was
made to disgorge only few short
pathway when again, month hence,
he will be called upon to cough up the
ducats of the county, with which be
! has taken undue liberties. His aide
de camp, the Mr.. John Feeny, will be
/ in on the relief, as he will receive a
pressing invitation from the district
court to help swell the conscience
fund that the Boss Mike so thought
fully and magnanimously founded
Aud the grey-polled Faker, the friend
of the criminal and bad, bad gun men,
aud editor of the "rat" sheet, and rep.
resentative extraordinary of Boss
Mike, will be called before the bar of
justice and asked to disgorge. Will
they do it? Well, we rather guess they
| will. And no amount OF weeping,
mixture of brine and booze, will avail
| the Faker of the "rat" sheet when the
! time comes. These men have all had
a long pull and strong pull at the
treasury sack and now they will have
! to refund to the people not less than
6,000S. No maudlin tears will swerve
from their purpose the men having the
matter in charge. Last fall, when Il.
NJ. Sanford had been employed to com
pei this gang to disgorge and suits hao
been instituted against Ed. linus and
| Mike Scanlon and over ,lO0S collected
out of sympathy for John p. Feeny the
cases against him were never pressed.
The editor of the Miner had too tender
heart to press the suit against man
who would "go off his head" at the first
intimation of the suit. 1t was then
that the Faker came to us and in a
voice choking with sobs and bouze,
asked us to desist. While the Faker
was speaking a rivulet of tears was me-
andering down his cadaverous cheeks
and falling like wind beaten raindrops
on the adamantine pavement. That
settled it. Whether these tears we've
yelling up from the booze tank below
or honestly coming from the lacry
glands, we had no means in the uncer-
tain evening light of knowing. But we
capitulated, because we were ever a
tenderhearted fellow, unable to look
upon the sorrow of woman, much
less that of grey haired man, even if
that semi blance of man be a Faker aud
boon companion of the criminals and
gun fighters of the west We have put
on our war paint and we are after the
dishonest official from big Boss Mike
down to the humblest treasury looter
of the bunch.
The Racf ri nOd Durifiar