Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-10-23
liver has been . : Good Fellow
with the County s Money
Spends it LaVishly with Dec
.tectives. Allows ThenP Plenty
Booze Money and "A Fl L
OF "A TIME

i Look, Mr.. Voter, look. While we.
are about it let us look into the past
record of Mi: Silver. serumgard. this
self same cock Of the walk who is mp
for re-election to the odlceSso of states:
attorney of Ramsey county. He was
elected last term by mistake by the
people Of the county who thought il,
we'll to, give him q chance. but they
will not elect his this times that is IL
they care about the county money be-
ing expended Tor a lot on oolishnessy
WesWill tell you where it as going
Mr.. Silver sserumg has spent it
layishly On every Tom, Dick and Hars
~, who would come to his ONCE and
tell him that John Browns chickens
had scratched the eyes out Jim Jones'
cat and that he wanted a warrant for
the chickens and Mr.. serumgard, OBJ
|liging that he Is, would pull out: the
warrants and issue them as fast as
complaints came into the office, caring
nothing for the expense that he was
putting the county to-: &
81. Like Herod, King Of the Jews he has
been mighty severe with some OF the
poor people, While others he has let
command him at their " Ill. q. He has
Isat iii his Offices on hot summer days
and resolved that with the coming of
tomorrow he would HE himself away
20 some neighboring town in the
county and make an investigation at
the expense of the county, and there
would only find a poor quality of stale
malt or red pop, but still the expenses
were pouring into the county with
l.siVer,s signature attached for investi.
eating liquor cases. Not satisfied
with the ability Of the sheriR and his
deputies to hound down these law.
lbreakers ! he has on several occasions
tsent to the east and hired detectives
to DO the investig ating when the
county Is paying salary 70 the sher-
itf and deputies for doing this work.
The dectiYes went into the Held with
the instructio Ions from the states at
torney that they were to be good fol,
lows, buy all the booze they could and
spend as much money as they please.
for Ramsey ounty was rich and could
afford The dective following the
advice of the states attorney stood up
to the bar and spent dollars every
day on themselves ana every hanger
on the place. I,hey would come
back nth so much nformat ion that
the States Attttorney would send them
to some other section off tile county
and tell them to have the same kind
of hell off time. /, he tax pay
3ers On Ramsey county were paying
safor all this amusement all the time.
DO you want 70 nay Tor 81 Il next year? !?
EYery time these iIlvesti igaf fions were
started they meant dollars 70 the
county they were started very fra-
5qnently aud they meant many dollars
to the count
The cases that siveI. are Interested
Id would make d book large than the
Ebihie but the cont nfs of THE bible is
|far different litera tire than she his
tory of the cases III recor of
at our otica II thatts of Mary
IIIaigflss isessi u, rs,a, bas syssy
mouse HI this and 81 yer llau her
ftapinched I, NE case nun fire a tlle
court sonaa time and TsrIy Mary
was Slet o ith a good sized bill
lso the conntt shere we're ~ .asu
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