Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-22
REPORT HAS IT THAT GOV, HUNT PAYS NO
 TAXES IN ARIZONA

PHOENIX, Oct 21.-several recent happenings which are just coming to light are causing considerable amuse. ment and some chagrin. among the politicians of Maricopa county The republicans are somewhat mora amused than are the democrats, though both share the chagrin which is mixed up with whatever of amuse- ment the spectacle affords.
 It has just been discovered that our governor. although a rich man, is not taxpayer in this state The extent of his wealth may be guessed from one small item of 1.-the recent sale of his interest in a Globe mercantile house for approximately y6O.0O0 Thus there is no great danger of the wolf approaching his door when he leaves the capitol in the near future But the fact that although wealthy he does not pay taxes, puts him in stronger position to indulge his well known propensity to spread charity with a lavish hand One of these char fly schemes, where the governor does not let his right hand know what his left hand doeth, is in connection with the Florence prison expenditures.
 Some delegates to the recent labor convention were greatly interested, not to say dazzled, by one of the in- novations which is no doubt the re- suit of the governors thoughtful at tention. This was the elaborate menu card, containing two kinds of pie and two kinds of cake, which is supplied the prisoners daily. A miner from Gila county was at first little bit peeved at this, owing to the fact that he was accustomed to only one kind of pie himself while the menu of brother miner from Cochise, whose mine had been forced to shut down, did not contain any pie at all.
 But tie thoughtful care of the gov ernor did not stop there. Not only was a choice of various kinds of pie and cake supplied the prisoners, but every preoaution was taken to make sure that the grade of flour put into this pastry was the very finest obtain able. This last interesting feature was glaened from the following cpl sode.
 A Mesa milling company, an Ari- zona concern milling Arizona grown wheat, Tut in a bid to supply flour to the Florence prison. The bid of this Arizona concern although the lowest, was turned down by the gov ernor, and a higher bid from Kansas accepted, on the ground that the pris- on needed the very best grade of flour obtainable. regardless of price Arizona flour was not good enough for the prisoners.
 At the time, this action in turning down one of our state industries, in spite of it's low bid, caused some com ment; but in view of the menu above referred to, with its choice of pies, the mystery is solved It is of course not well to do things in a half-hearted way, and if we give our prisoners two kinds of pie at at sitting it is no ents should be of the very finest grade Arizona flour may be good enough for ordinary Arizonans, but if they want to get the very finest flour obtainable they must become extra ordinary and so oDtain lodgings in Florence. The sojourn, however. will be well worth while. as the fine flour will be served to them in the form of two kinds of pie at once.
 The chagrin spoken of in connection with this episode was caused by the fact that the taxpayers are paying for these luXuries. But this chagrin has been generally followed by good natured amusement and approbation, owing 10 the suggestion that the gov ernor might spend some of the money he is saving by not making contribu- tions tO the tax collector, in paying out of his own pocket for this super fine grade of flour and the two kinds of pie.
 Freddie Welsh and Matty Baldwin