The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-04-09


 Funds in York District Discovered
 But What Disposition Was Made
 of Funds is Shrowded in Mystery
 Which Witnesses Fail to Explain
 Away.
 Button. button. who is got the button?
 That was the game the Board of Supervisors were playing at the Court House on Monday afternoon last when they began the investiga- ton of alleged irregularities in the expenditure of public funds in York District No. 1.
 At the conclusion of the investigas tion one of the supervisors remarked: .sWe spent all afternoon on this thing and blamed if we are any near CT a conclusion now than when we started ''
 What the Board was trying to dis cover was who received the money on two teachers vouchers issued ir York district covering payment foI two months salary when no school was taught ih this district for the same period.
 Well, the Board did not solve the s170 90 mystery and neither did anyone else
 The vouchers were made out by the teacher, Mrs. Lon Mcbride, and signed by two of the trustees. One of these two vouchers under investi- gation was duplicate for one that was supposed to have been lost. An other was one issued in order that it might be shown that school had been maintained in the district for at least eight months in the year. Both of these vouchers, also the one supposed to have been lost, were paid through the First National Bank of this city, but no endorsement ap- pears on the vouchers other than the signature of the teacher. Mrs. Mcbride testifed she did not receive the money and told why she made out the vouchers for the two extra months as requested The cashier of the First National Bank could not iremem ber-to whom he paid the money. Two members of the Board of Trustees from York did not know what became of the money but ad- nitted that 1t might have been ex- pended for repairs on the building by the Clerk of the Board, MT. Greer. without their knowledge. Incidentally MT. Greer has passed to the Great Beyond since the transaction and st the end of the afternon's investigation the Board decided to let the dead past bury Its. dead.
 The inyestimtion waA launched Ns a result of a communication received from Auditor Brubaker, who A em- ployeA by the three large ninins companies to make monthly reports on the receipts and expenditures raadS by the county.
 On March 2nd the Board of SupSr- visors received the followins com munication from MT. Brubaker:
 Clifton. Arizona. Mar. 2. 1915. To the Board of Supervisors Of
 Greehlee County, Arizona J Gentlemea:
 Having discovered . delinquency in enc of the school districts of Green lee County, and as Paragraph 2418 of the Civil Code of Arizona gives the board Of supervisors Jurisdiction and power to investigate such matters and also gives the Board supervision over the official conduct of all county officers and officers of all districts charged with disbursing public reven- ues, consider it my duty under my employment to report this delinquency to you.
 Some months ago I ascertained that the trustees of School District No. 1 ~tyork Flat) were claiming that shortage was apparent in the fund of their district. I wrote to one of the trustees for particulars but receiving no reply I made a trip to the district to talk with the trustees and after ward located the person who taught school in this district during the term ending June 1913 when the discrep- ancy occurred. As result received the following information:
 That during the school year 1912-13 this district referred to employed teacher for seven consecutive months from September 3oth, 1912 to April 18th. 1913, at monthly salary of eighty dollars ($8O .oO) payable and raid monthly during the term; that said teacher received the sum of five hundred and sixty dollars $(56o.-