The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-11-01
THE FARCE AT ST. ANTHONY
Spent Ten Thousand Dollars and
Nothing Done; Boys and Girls
Are Still Flogged.

The board of regents for the Re-
form School at st. Anthony held a
meeting last week at Boise and ad-
journed without doing anything.
They held several sessions, talked
some, wrangled some and voted to
meet again on the 18th of November
a couple of weeks after the election.
Governor HaWley objected to this de-
lay, and wanted to do. whatever was
going to be done. but Mrs. May Scott
Workman said she had not read the
testimony and Miss Grace Shepherd
wanted more time to review the part
she had not listened to at the investi-
cation, and they thought a month
would be sufficient time for them to
become informed so they could act
i~ntelligently on the matter.
The bill OF stenographer w. Orr
Chapman of Blackfoot was handed
to them for the sum of $500. When
they recovered from their surprise
they went over the matter and found
that it was in conformity with the
rate usually paid for court work by
the state, though in federal courts
the rate is lower. They proposed
settling the bill for $4,000, but Mr..
Chapman refused to consider any
such amount, so it was passed up to
the state board of examiners for
their approval. If they order it paid
in full it will be paid in full.
The board discussed the matter of
having meat served at the school Of
tener than once a week, and talked
OF buying more cows and chickens
so the inmates could have butter and
eggs more frequently, but nothing
was decided upon.
Superintendent HUMPHREYS has pur-
chased about $500 worth of appar-
atus for the playground or gymnae-
ium, and members of the board said
this expenditure was unauthorized.
Some thought it should be paid out
of the building fund and others
thought it should be paid out of the
maintenance fund, but that was only
a difference of which pocket to take
1t out of, and would not affect the
net result.
The investigation started owe the
inhuman whipping of a boy named
Greer on the 23rd of July. The
state officials arrived on the scene
early in August in possession of
some of the whips used and with the
Scared and bruised boy as evidence
OF the crime. The brute who had
done the beating had been complain
ed against and put in Jail pending
his trial, but Supt. HUMPHREYS and
others at the school furnished a cash
bond of $4,000 and got him out.
After a few days they put him back
work again at the school.
Supt. HUMPHREYS and all the old
employees are still on the payroll, and
been all the time. When the
Investigators went to st. Anthony
they were met at the train by the
superintendent and his wife with We
hlcles, and wore given the glad hand
invitations to go right. to the school
md be guests of the superintendent
FAMILY at the institution.
Governor Hawley replied that he
was there to investigate conditions
the school and that he could not
the same time be their guests, that
would have to decline their invit-
alton and go to the hotel. Attorney
General McDougal and chairman Geo.
Hill OF the Board Of Regents took
me same course but Mrs. Nancy Pug
mire of Bear Lake, and Miss Grace
shepherd, the state superintendent
schools accepted, and were guests
at the institution for ten days, or I'M
Ill they went home, declaring their
minds e made up and that the
investigation ought to be stopped;
hat they would not believe the testi-
mony of the children against Mr..
Attorney General Nc
0ougal said that he did not believe
n corporal punishment of the kind
hat they had been administering
here. but that there were some
ough subjects in the school that had
o be handled in some a
Governor Hawley engaged w. Orr
jhapman as stenographer to take the
estimony, and he was authorized to
ranscribe 1t, making six copies,
Which he did, the total making 1900
ages written on sheets 8 x14 in.
Tx copies of each sheet raised the
mount of manuscript to 1900.
'y the use of carbon sheets, a person
writes six pages as rapidly as one.
AS to what the typewriter record
eveals, this paper has already pub
lshed nine thousand words of it re-
the samples of the way it
uns throughout, and our readers
ave q fair idea Of the subject.
The investigation has dragged along
1to the third month, a number Of
ffcials have gone back and forth
etween st. Anthony and Boise, some
I them have spent considerable time
18th 1t, many witnesses have been ex-
mined besides the inmates. members
I the board Of Regents have had a
Zip to Boise last week and spent a