Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-02-28
SAY, FELLERS, THERE'S SOMETHING DOING
in OUR BACK YARD, ALL RIGHT,
ALL RIGHT.
Summary Proceedings For Removal From Office
Commenced This Week Against Two Mem
bers Of the School Board Mrs. Nttie S.
Cowen, Clerk, and Frank P AXE, Chairman.
Continued from page l

IN that it sp flied expenditures o.
MONEYS to people to whom no el
penditurs were made, among others
Attorney General McDougal arc
to State Superintendent Miss Sher
herd; and many ml5sa emen
as 20 the items Tor which expeldl
lures were made, among them, to c.
g. Cor.Ier and 0. e. Norell for cleri-
cal services and thai neither of sad
parti performed clerical serv. cea
/ for said district That said report
was false in that it did not
give true statement of moneys
resolved and expended, nor the true
atement Of the am amt OF money on
on hand, but that said report wholly
omit d The sum OF $2C5.77 that was
hex by said district at the beginning
Of said year; the amount Of $2l4.06
received during said year from sale
of books, for destroyed oil, sale OF
typewriter. and from high school play;
and omitted the am 1unt of $39l,27 of
expenditures made during said year
and $2S.56, money on hand and to
ae credit of said district on July |,
1912. That sad pretend report as
published shows that said district had
paichased great quantities of school
supplies for the benefit Of said school
and that afGiant is informed and be-
lieves that said district sold a large
proportion OF said supplies, but that
the amount of the same S Unknown
to plaintiff, ard that said report
wholly failed to specify any sums so
re- eiVed by said strict during said
year; and that a5fiant therefore al
leges that he is informed and
believes that there are other
large sums of money so received
by and to the credit of said
district not contained in said report.
That said school also conducted
manual training department, purchas-
ing lumber and other materials for
articles therein, and af-
fiant is informed and believes that
said district then sold the articles
90 p,anufa cturad opI raaoiyeJ 10 roe
sums of money during said year
ending July /, 1912 therefor, but that
the amount thereof is unknown to
plaintiff; and that said pretended re
port did not contain an account of
any such money received, That com
plainant therefore alleges that he
is informed and believes that a large
sum Of money so received was not
10 ltained in, said report.
Thai said defendant, as member
OF said board OF school trustees, act
lng with one other member CT said
board, making majority thereof,
knowingly, wilfully and Intentionally
failed to make a report in writing ON
the first day Of July 1918, of the fin
anclal condition of said district, show
ing the amount OF money received,
from what source, the amount ex-
and in what MAJ ner, and for
what purpose expended, and the
of money in tbs treasury of
the district on hand ut the date OF
the report, or showing the full fin
ancial condition of the district on
the date thereof for the year ending
July |, 1913, and stating in the re-
port of the expenditures the specific
items, amounts and names to whom
such expenditures We're made; and
faded to post such report as re-
CURED by Sec. 10, Chapter 115, Ses-
ON Laws of 1913. That said de-
PENDANT, acting with one of the other
members of the board, made a pre-
tended report on or about December
10, 1913, but that said pretended re-
port did not contain the specific
items, amounts and names to whom
the expenditures were made but that
sad report contained, among others,
items as pad to l. b. Warner amount
ing to $l47.75 for substitute teachers,
which affiant is informed and believesI
was merely paid through the said l.
B. Warner to other parties, and so
stated to conceal the unlawful and
fraudulent payment of money of said
district to different persons for teach
ng that were not qualified teachers
Of said county. 1t contained several
TENS paid to defendant Kittie S.
Jowen In a statement of one lump
sum, so as to conceal the purpose
or which they were paid and the /
mount paid for each, for the
purpose of concealing payment to
Ter of Illegal fees and many other
TENS do not state the persons to
whom said payments were made, nor
he purposes for which they are