Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-23
REFORM SCHOOL
 HARPER TALKS
Tells How Governor Forced
 Incompetent Political Fav- orites Into Institution, With Conyicts From Penitentiary


 After all the whipping administered to bunch of boys in the Arizona Re form school may result in some good. MT Harner. the deposed superintend- ent. is throwing a searchIight on this institution and the manner in which Governor Hnnt has dictated it's man agement which may result in reforms that will be beneficial to the state and the erring youth confined in the re- form tsshooa The following article from the Benson Signal gives the first installpent of statemepts made to the editor of that paper by Mir. Harp. CT.
 Aren't the summary dismissal of A. l.. Harper, as superintendent of the Industrial school. the following state ment may be of interest in showing the conditions which maintain at that institution. and which caused consid. erable iIl-feeling between Gov. Hunt and Superintendent Harper.
 The cause of the dismissal of Su- perintendent Harper of the industrial chool. had it's incipiency during the first part of July past To be exact. on July 3rd Governor Hunt sent Miss Edith Whitaker to the school to act in the capacity Of stenOgrapher and bockkeeper. Mir. Harper states that she immediately demonstrated her fu- competency. and that on July 10th when MT. Osborne. secretary af the hoard of control visited the institu ton for the purpose of opening bids for the schools supplies. he inquired of Mir HaTner as to Miss Whittakers stencgraphic and bookkeeping ability and the superintendent informed him that her work was very unsatisfacto ry: in fact, he believed she had a very slight knowledge of the calling for which she was employed: and that if she failed to show an improvement in her work he would recommend her dis missal
 Nr. Orborne then remarked that for ncliticai reasons it would be good poi icy to hermit her to remain. Where upon Mir Harper replied that as lons as he was superintendent politics should rot and would not enter into matters connected with the school.
 Mir. Harrer further states that as Miss Whitaker could not take dicta- ton he. on July 18th, drafted letter and requested her to write it on the typewriter. with the result that she submitted 9 copy which was smudged and almost nlegibie. and caused him to remark that her work was highly unsatisfactory and that she would have to do better. otherwise he would discharge her She replied that she would take no orders or commands or reprimands from any one but Gov. Hunt. Thereupon MT. Harper ir- formed her that she was discharged She left the institution for Phoenix, but in sveral days returned with the aDpo3ntment as first matron- Governor Hunt seeming. to possess a determna ton that she should hold m official position. and it probably was good politics to employ her. as Mir Harper says Mir. Osborne had previously n- formed him.
 "Mr. Huhes states that he dis charged another one of Governor Hunts favored political pets, Law renee gTulloch, whom he considered an abse@4telv unsuitable man for the DO sition. and this further widened the breach between the superintendent and the governor.
 In reply to the question, Are con victs who should be in the penileh' tiarv inmates of the school? MT Harper replied there were three, one twentv-one years of age, and two over