The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-09
ASK REMOVAL
SCHOOL BOARD
Committee Waits On District AT.
torney With a Signed
Petition.
PETITIONERS TAKE EXCEPTION
Make Known Objections to Using
Funds Outside of
Ely.
PETITIONERS TAKE EXCEPTION

committee of fifteen called upon
District Attorney Eddy last night
while the county prosecutor was in
his office in the Reipe building, and
presented him petition demanding
that the school board be removed
and that a new board be appointed.
| The committee had not been in the
| Office but a few minutes when Il
score or more men arrived and for
| half an hour or SO the rooms were
crowded.
The petition is self-explanatory
and reads as follows:
This is a petition for the remo-
val of the school trustees.
ITO the Honorable District Attor-
ney and Superintendent of Schools
of White Pine county. Nevada:
your petitioners, the undersigned
residents and taxpayers of Ely School
District No. |. respectively represent
that on the 1st day of July. 1907, an
election was held in the said Ely
School District for the purpose OF
voting on the question of bonding
the said Ely School District In the
sum of $4,000 to erect and equip
school building in the city of Ely:
THAT your petitioners believed at
the time said bond election was held
that the money arising from the sale
of said bonds thus authorized would
be used in erecting and equipping
the said school house in the said city
of Ely
"That your petitioners are in
formed and believe that the trustees
of said Ely School District contem-
plate using a portion of the money
derived from the sale of said bonds
to erect and equip school house at
a place beyond and without the cor
porate limits of said city of Ely, the
amount to be thus appropriated be-
ing unknown to your petitioners.
Therefore, your petitioners pray
that you fill the vacancies existing in
the board of trustees of Ely District
by the appointment of new board
of trustees of said district in accord
ance with law. And your petitioners
will ever pray.
Dated at Ely, New, August Z,
1907"
It is signed by about IS persons.
1t seems that there has not been II
school election in ten years and that
the board has been appointed from
sisting of Messrs. Comins, Bragg and
Mcdonald, was appointed by Attor-
Walker. District Attorney Eddy also
serves as superintendent of schools
and, the petitioners allege. has the
right to remove the board by elect
ing their successors. The term of
the members of the present board ex-
pired last May and the trustees are
holding office by virtue of the fact
that their successors have not been
elected or appointed.
The meeting was apparently made
as secret as possible. as there were
many who did not know anything
about 1t until the business of the
committee had been transacted
The board is said to have recently
considered the proposition of erect
ing a school house in Ely City. where
there are So school children. The
matter was thoroughly discussed al
the meeting of the Commercial club
last Monday night. The petition pre-
sented to Mr.. Eddy is said to have
been signed during yesterday after
noon.
Mr.. Eddy stated he would take the
matter under consideration, and that
if after looking up the law he found
it his duty to appoint a new board,
he would do so. He took the stand
that the matter should be investigat
ed and that he should do his duty
as the statutes prescribe.