The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-10-14
REPORT Of COM
MISSIONER Of
THE THIRD DIST.
JOS. DARNELL, OF LAKESIDE,
ACCUSES THE CHELAN LEAD
Err OF WILFUL MISREPRESEN-
NEWSPAPER TO LOCATE.

Editor Daily World:
AS we have no paper in our neck
of the woods whereby an honest
man can get justice, and place facts
before the people as they actually
are, 1 wish to make a few facts
known through the medium of your
publication.
There were so many misrepresen-
tations published in the Chelan
Leader that l shall refer to only
some of them. l promised a check
ling up of all the funds expended in
the third district. l have shown
where a goodly portion of our in
roads to help those that were not
able to help themselves.
AS far as where the balance of
the money went, the roads will
show for themselves. Every rancher
living in the third district, except
those that were Influenced by the
Chelan Leader, are well satisfied
with my work and concede~ that it
is the first legitimate work done on
the roads in the last five or six
years.
The Chelan Leader says the Board
ignored a petition, signed by a
greater part of the citizens in the
CChelan country, asking that Mr..
Keller be removed from the super
! visorship and Mr.. Bardon be ap-
pointed.
There the Leader makes an in
territorial misrepresentation. The
only signatures on that petition (and
can produce them) were people
that tried to defeat me two years
ago and worked every underhand-
ed scheme to defeat me in our last
primary simply because l did not
live in Chelan. The most important
reason for turning the petition down
was because we have a road grader
in our district that has been dragged
over our hills for a long time all
summer and nothing done. AS ev-
eryone knows, we cannot work the
roads after they once dry up.
The first thing 1 did was to have
that grader put where l could keep
my eye on it, and equip the district
with tools with which men could do
honest work, and l am proud to say
our roads are in first-class shape.
And, unless we have washouts in the
spring, there will be very little work
to be done next year on the roads
in the third district.
This Chelan Leader also insinuates
that | appropriated a part Of the
funds for personal use, or, in other
words, stole it (some people call it
graft.
l would only have had one ooject
for stealing the money, and that
would be for the purpose Of buying
stock in the thirty thousand dead
horse (such as dams and steamboats,
the paper boosted for. In trying to
down a legitimate business it busted
a poor Swede in getting him to put
his money into what they called
steamboat. After it was bull it
would have looked like a raft along
side of Robert FultOn's first boat. 1t
is now moored at my dock in front of
the Lake View house and can be seen
without expense. All along the line
this paper and its dictators are re-
sponsible for the present social condl-
lions in this Chelan country. It
claims to be non-partisan, advocates
of the two towns of
Chelan and Lakeside, harps harmony
and claims to treat all fairly, when in
fact it has meen more cause for dis
sension than all other causes put t.
gether.
Instead of doing something or say
ing something that would be Of in
terest to the people on the outside
Chat the Chelan Falls road, for in
stance, had been put in a good and
safe condition by mel, it never men,
toned it. sim ply because the man that
did it did not live in Chelan.
There have been some misleading
preparation asked for TO help build
a bridge across the Chelan river at
Chelan within the incorporation, that
l feel justified in placing the facts be-
fore the people.
Now, there is q large percentage of
the voters of Chelan county who
have no occasion to look up the law
pertaining to roads and bridges or the
disposition of the funds.
Unfortunately the freshets Of two
years ago removed number of
bridges belonging to Chelan county.
and it has been the misfortune of
the present board to replace the
bridges as fast as the funds would
permit. In fact, we have had to
place the fund in bad condition in
order to do SO, as many farmers and
fruit raisers were cut of from trans
portation and could not market
their products.
However, / want to say the bridges