Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-18
SCHOOLS START PROSPEROUS
 NEW YEAR 
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 TOMBSTONE, Sept l6th.3The majority of the public schools of Cochise county have been opened and according to the reports received by County Superintendent Stover, there has been an increased enrolment in most of the. schools. Schools win be started in several new districts this year including one at Leslie Cayon where new school house has just been completed. and one a SerVos in the Sulphur Spring valley and others at Kansas, Sulphur Springs, Rodeo and Palominas. A new high school was also started at Wilcox.
 The schools of Cochise county give employment to between 15O and 160 teachers and last year there were enrolled 5s27 pupils. while this year it is expected that the enrolment will go over 6,O0O. There are I9 high school teachers with over 25O pupils enrolled therein. There are 49 school districts in the county ten new ones being added during the past year. The total expenses of maintaining the schools last year outside of the build ing expenses was s140.274.73 of this amount Sse.33S.52 was paid out as teachers salaries. The average cost per pupil for the past year was S25.O9.
 It has been estimated that the cost of maintaining the schools for this year will be sl40,O00 or between there and $145,000 This amount of money will be raised in number of ways, the larger portion. however, by the levy of 50 cents per hundred on the tax valuation. On August first there was balance in the school fund of little over s12.OOO There will be raised by the collection of the $2.5e school tax about 10000, the Territory will contribute about S12,0O0. Fines and bail forfeitures will add in the neighborhood of s4.00O. This leaves a balance of $92,000 that will be necessary to raise by the direct tax levy which with the rate of 50 cents per hundred on the assessed valuation of the county, of s1S,e57, ,7S7,s1 will suffice. The estimates placed on the other resources is very conservative and the amounts will be increased by several thousand dollars in most every instance
 The most of the schools have start ed of with one or two exceptions with funds enough to their credit to car ry them until the county taxes begin coming in which will be the latter part of November A. S5,00O apportion- ment was made by the superintendent recently so as to place the schools on a cash basis the money being distri- buted as equally as possible especial ly among those districts whose funds were rather low.
 Superintendent Stover expects that this year will be the banner year of the schools in the county not only in number of pupils enrolled but in the work accomplished as the standard of the schools has been greatly raised so that they compare most fayorably with any schools of the west.
 Signing Up Bonds.
 Clerk H. E. Berner, of the Board of Supervisors, has just completed the work of signing up the bonds and cou- pons of the new Douglas school bondsi of the recent ss0,000 issue that car ried in that city recently for the pur pose of erecting additional school houses. It was necessary for the clerk to afix his signature 690 differ ent times. Chairman McCabe yester- day at Hereford signing his name 750 times to them, the bonds being taken there by Clerk Berner. It will now be necessary for County Treasurer Hicks to add his and they will then be ready for delivery to the purchas- , CTS.
 Trying to Get Bond.
 J. c. Gung1, one of the attorneys for Dan Williams. who is held in the county jail On charge of an assault with intent to commit murder on the person of Policeman Russell at Doug Las recently. was in the city on yes terday iR conference with his client in regard to fixing the amount of his bond which was placed at sI9.00 So far they have been unable to obtain this amount but in conversation with District Attorney Williams, Gungl stated that he expected to raise the amount within the next few days. He hoped to secure security in the sum of $5,0O0 by having property owners sign the bond and to be able to de- posit the sum of s5,000 in cash with the clerk of the court. He asked the District Attorney if this sort of a