The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-16


Such a shock Don't ever do that
again. L could not believe it. Such
a munificent Board of Supervisors.
And they are really going to build
Parker a jail to cost $500 Do you
mean it? Wont we be proud of such
a building? l want to have a postal
card taken Of it in all its splendor
and get it copyrighted.
Just imagine what building we
can put up for that. Cement and lum
Der is cheap and so is labor, Why we
will have granite pillars, marble
halls, and tiled bath and toilet
wonder if they gave this matter very
careful thot! Strange.
Will they have money enough left
out of the county funds to go off to
any more conventions this year? You
know we should not overlook the ne
cessity of having representatives at
these different conventions, especial
ly if they happen to be where our
members happen to have business Of
their own or should happen to want
to go. In such case we could cut
down the appropriation.
You see, this is the way l look at
it. I have been here four years now
and have indirectly paid quite a few
dollars taxes into the treasury Of
Yuma county ,and we have never seen
a cent of it since, and a sight CT
any OF this money floating back
might give me a spasm
Once there was a board of super
visors Of Yuma county who attempted
to build a jail for Parker and offer
ed 81 900 for it, but the grasping
contractor absolutly refused to build
house for that money and they
saved the coin thereby.
Now there are a few others who
have been paying taxes in the sal
way who got a pocketful of promises
along in the year of our Lord, 1911,
in exchange for their votes ,and they
are in. the same position as l am in
regard to their feelings. They are
afraid of heart failure, which is said
to be induced by the sudden shock,
such as for the Board of Supervisors
Of Yuma county to make good a
pledge for instance. 1t is SC much
more important that they spend this
money travelling around in Pullman
cars, than in building roads and jails
for us people.
In the first place we have no bus
ness wanting to go to Jail, and now,
no self respecting iail bird will come
to see III, for he Knows we have no
accommodation for him, except there
happens to be an empty box car on
the track and the railroad company
lends it to us. Who wants to sleep in
box car when our Supervisors are
allowed Pullmans?
And any old trail is good enough
for burros. If we had any roads, we
would ,ust about mortgage the farm
We are going to get from the govern
ment someday, and buy an auto
mobile and waste our money buying
gasoline instead of whiskey.
In all, | think the present Board
Of Supervisors are a very business
like bunch and know better than we
do what is best for us, just as Taft
said about our constitution OF course
the fool people of Arizona got up
and showed Taft where to get eff at.
(Of course Mr.. Editor | am not max
ing any assertions.) I think these
fellows learned their methods from
a correspondence school down in
Arkansaw, or some other narrow con
tracted cross roads.
They ought to know, and if they
don't, the clerk of the board ought to
tell them, that $4,000 would not
build a first class toilet, let alone a
building that would hold a person
who needed to go to Jail. l wonder
what they take us people for? Just
what we are, I guess. A set of blam