Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-18
To W. N. Larrabee, County Clerk

Dear Sir: Your favor to the public
in general and to me in particular re-
ceived through the courtesy of our
excellent papers. / hardly believe it
fair that you should insist on an an
swer till you have fully and explicit
ly and definately answered taxpay-
er's letter to you few days ago, and
when you do, you might add few
lines to the Voda correspondent as
the contents of yours to him are
so uncertain.
Mr.. Larabee, you should not be Of
Tended at any thing in taxpayers
communication, as yours of January
last was to the Citizens and taxpay-
ers; and good etiquette would permit
any citizen or taxpayer or all of them
to answer that article; and please re-
member that S. NJ. Hutzel is citizen
and a taxpayer, and you should have
treated the article to w. N. Larabee,
county clerk with decency and polite
ness if you know any thing about
them.
The suffrage of Trego county has
honored you with the best office and
the best paying Office in the county
and you should not betray the trust;
you should not take money belonging
to the public which does not belong
to YOU The records of your Office
show that the County Commissioners
have appropriated money for purpos-
es other than warranted and allowed
by law and that you have been the
beneficiary.
Mr.. Larabee, you are begging the
question, but remember that you can
not dodge the stern realities nor
evade the facts by mere promises,
Misrepresentation, imputationS, in
nuendoeS and insinuations, but you
must admit that every charge wheth-
er the offense charged is perpetrated
by commission or by omission should
be treated fairly, and, the fact that
not one cent of the county funds is
allowed or paid out unless ordered by
the Board of County Commissioners
and the order signed by the chair
man, does not lessen the offense if
not warranted and allowed by law.
You have wholly failed to account
for the taking of money as fees not
allowed by law in drawing the jury
when you are on a salary and the
time is not yours but belongs to the
county; and you have not accounted
for the taking of other money not
legally allowed; and you have failed
to account for the numerous leaks to
which taxpayer called your atten-
tion; and you have failed to account
for the extravaganza generally and
the paying out of more money out of
the County General fund, including
the excess for bridges mentioned by
taxpayer, than allowed by law and
the taking of other funds to supply
the deficiency not warranted by law;
and you did not mention the fact
that the Board of County Commits
sioners went the limit in making the
levy for the County General fund,
and yon have failed to account for
the deficiency to which your atten-
tion has been called; and you have
failed to show why you used the first
of the year in your table when the
taxes were all paid in and none paid
out instead of the last of the year
when all and more too were paid out
and the county was in debt. And 1
have not noticed where the County
Commissioners have collected any Of
fee rent for insurance and other pri-
yate business transacted in the offices,
in which business the county and
the public have no interest; and you