Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-03-28
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE TAXPAYERS
OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6.

for three days, at an expense o.
$S3.25. Did We get value received
for our money? Let's see.
| When we were ready to put them Oh
the stand, just before the noon ad
journment, in the hope of proving
that the district had sold supplies
and manual training work, the de
Tense stated that Mr.. Warner was
preparing a statement for the year
1913, and would have it ready at
conyeaing of Court after dinner. In
the afternoon, they produced a state
ment showing that in 1913 the school
district had received from the sale
| 4 paints, paper and erasers,.
Sl3.55, had sold books to the amount
of $1610, and had taken in, in the
Manual Training Department, $76.80,
making total of $106.45, and they
admitted that in the year 1912, the
same transactions had taken place,
only varying in the amounts. 1t cost
G. e. Corker and other taxpayers of
the district $S325 to produce the
idence in Court that there. was a
secret or special fund kept by |. B.
Warner of $10645 taken in during
3. We had been striving to get
that information for the past three
years without the necessity of going
e expense, which proved to be
within $2320 of the amount admitted
to have been taken in for 1918.
Neither in the report of 1910, 1911,
1912 nor the three reports of 1913
does there once appear even an in
timation of any money being received
by the district for the above items.
Yet two members of the board swore
at the trial that they had done the
very best they knew how,
In one of the articles published last
summer, we mentioned the prevalent
opinion that the supplies etc, which
We're being sold to the pupils, were
paid for by the district, and asked
Il it were so, and if it We're SO,
why the amount taken in for the sale
of those supplies was not given to us
in any report. We have at last got |
ten the information that the supplies
We're paid for by the district, sold to
the children, and the money kept in
a special fund, which has never been
accounted for in any of the reports.
The price paid for that knowledge is
pretty high, and the Board gloat in
the fact that they threw the cos
on Corker, but we think the informa-
tion was worth the cost, )
In one of the articles last year, we
called attention to the fact that the
County Commissioners Proceedings
published the statement that Kittie
S. Cowen, Clerk of the Board Of this
district, had sold to the county a
typewriter for the sum Of $500.
We asked that it be reported to us
where that $500 went to, but in
neither the first nor the second re-
ports for 1913, was any notice taken
of the request. After we served
legal notice. on the County Treasurer,
we got a report showing that money
had been put in another special fund
kept in the First National Bank, but
the National Bank special fund, to
he credit of the Clerk of the
was never mentioned in any but the
last report of 1913, when the balance
left was $306, and then that report
only showed where $3.50 of that
fund was spent. Now, that you may
know what that fund consisted of,
since April 18th, 1909, | will give
you the items that went to make it
up, and the expenditures, until there
was a balance left of only $2S.56.
For that purpose | will publish that
page of the statement of Money re-
eeived from other sources than ap-
Of the statement sub
'cribed and sworn to by Mr.. B. L.
on the 18th day of April,
1913, for which the Board paid him
$500 of the districts money, and
which has never appeared in any re-
)ort to date.