The Parker post., 1913-09-06

FOR SYSTEM
DIRECTORS OF PALO VERDE MU-
TUAL WATER COMPANY VOTE
ASSESSMENT WILL DOUBLE
WATER DELIVERY
(Palo Verde Valley Herali

Well, Nestor, the lofty browed di-
rectOrs Of the great Palo Verde Nut
ual Water Company while duly assem-
bled in regular monthly convention,
after due, prolix and pOnderous de-
liberation did wilfully, legally and
automatically declare and levy an
assessment of three dollars a share
against the stock Of the p. Y. Nj.
w. Co, thus demanding that you
produce the universal rudder to the
extent Ct 48O plunks for your measly,
little alkalied quarter section of
st,mp-nfested rancho, this being a
slight accretion to the 32O silver discs
which were forcibly filched from your
shallow badger hole few months ago
1t was an act Of Rooseveltian nerve,
especially so when We consider the
fact that these five supposedly ser
wants of the people were aware of
| the common rumOr that an indigna-
ton meeting was about to be called
for the purpose Of permitting the mu-
| titudinous malcontents of the valley
to throw Wideopen the valves of ar
ticulation which have for months
stop-cocked the unuttered anathemas
which have longed to soar unhamp
cred in clamorous and blistering ca
dence throughout the length and
breadth of Californias most product
i've valley, and at last to focus itself
with red-hot intensity where it is
magnetically drawn to the iron gals
OF the autocratic five.
Now, listen! These uncommunicat
i've five do not with meek and apollo
getic demeanor crave pardon nor
SOItCASu lIOul the
abused stock-hOlder and this in face
of the fact that they did not consult
the wishes, much less receive the ap-
probation of a single known stock
holder. Without warning the man
holding 5000 shares received a de-
mand to come across with $4,000
dollars with as little intimation of the
unexpected hold-up as the poor devil
with but twenty shares and whose
paucity of blue denim causes frequent
trips to the marts of news to be
conventionally, impossible
! Let us ascertain the cause of this
high-fisted manner of doing things;
let us delve beneath the callous hide
OF the taciturn directors and seek the
motive.
One poor, meek tiller of an adobe
slough whispered behind his thin,
weary hand. Graft, and this little
monOsyllable which first issued forth
like soft zephyr waited through the
tops OF the signing mesQuites, becom
ing more harsh with each reiteration
finally grew in volume until it prom
ised to reyerberate upon the wax
smeared tympanums in a mad charge
through a garbage heap. But, alas,
at the psychological moment when
the taut vocal chords OF thousand
peevish nestors turned to dizzy
pitch are about to thunder forth in
one long unified, infuriated wall, it is
| learned that at this same secret ses-
sion these self-same wielders of the
big stick did without dissenting vote
authorize the secretary to make out a
complete and comprehensive state
ment showing every dollar received
and paid out by the water company
during the past year; and to print and
post the same so that none may be
ignorant of the graft, the graftOrs or
the graftees. Wouldn't it be sad if
a good, deep. probe into the core of
things would develop the fact that
| these extravagant directors have dur
ing the past year, done much work
and have expended much personal
mazuma for which they asked no re-
turn?
What have they done?
When the present board of direc