Mohave County miner., 1902-05-10
A Statement of Fact.

sheet, kean st. Charles acknowledged
that he is not able to withstand honest
competition and that the backing of
the county treasury is necessary to
keep his ueasly sheet from going to
the wall. He says that the supervisors
are too "patriotic", too generous,
and gentlenanly to allow the other
two county papers to close him up:
that the low bids of the other papers
were put before the board at the las t
letting of the county contracts with
the ulterior and fieDdish motive of
closing up his den and then when clear
sailing is assured the county will have
to dance to the music of the remaining
papers. He must know something
about combination matters and to be
fearful for the future welfare of the
county. Such matters did not enter
into his calculations two years ago
when this county was mulcted in the
sum of SO0Cs, sum never equaled by
county of its size in the United
States in our whole history for the one
item of printing. He makes bold to
state that he will be pleased to receive
the sum of l50Os for the county print
ing for this year, when the fact is this
sum is 1l00s in excess of the bid of the
MINER. The board we know are spa.
triots", but we do not think the people
will allow this heeler to be fed on big
wads of the peoples money. Just
think of the unadulterated gall of the
man who inhabits the shack near the
courthouse, when be vauuts the fact
of being given the contract for the
county printing by the "patrioticn
board of supervisors for sum of ll0OS
in excess of other bids. for no other
reason than the fact that the board
will use the county treasury to keep
his rat" sheet afloat. When the bids
we're being examined by the board
Boss Scanlon asked the other men,
bers of the board if they intended to
give the printing to paper that had
been fighting them and had raised
money to prosecute you and me-.
This reference was made to the suit
that had been instituted to pei
Boss Mike to refund the money to the
county that he had swiped and which
money to the amount of 375S he paid
back into the treasury. The paying
back of money was so severe a blow
to Boss Mike that even the condolences
OF Boss Feeny who has some money to
pay back, and the editor of the "rat"
sheet could not dispel the large chunks
of gloom that lowered over the subse
quent proceeding. There are some
few repayments to be still made by
Boss Mike aud some more gloom will
settle over the Boss from the White |
Hills. Even ST. Charles will be called |
upon to contribute that 1908 bill he |
took with hun to Phenix and Jerome
and Flagstaff and Winslow and AL
buquerque and few other resorts of
pleasure. Mike will also have to dis.
gorge the amount he swiped on the
same occasion. These worthless ap.
pear to believe that the county treas.
ury is at their command, but in this
they are liable to go up against it in
the future. People are having their
eyes opened to the fact that they are
being worked for all there is in it by
the solid five. In the recorders office
they recognize job that will be
worked over in he near future. They
ill see that Boss Feeny will have to
do his work for the salary that the
law allows him in place of playing the
gentleman John" Since his election