Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-10
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IS SCENE OF
 STRIFE
Teacher Makes
 Bitter Complaint
SAYS OSBORNE IS INTER- FIRING WITH MANAGE MENT OF SUPERINTEND- ENT PULLIAM AND HAIR ASSING HER

PHOENIX, March 8.-That fester- ing sore on the body polite of Ari- zona, the state industrial school, is running again. This time the out break takes the, form of charges by one of the teachers that Secretary Osborne, citizen member of the state board of control, is interfering with the management of the institution and hampering the administration of the superintendent, former Sheriff Pulliam of Coconino county.
 The complaints were made public by Senator Stapley in the senate this afternoon, when he read the follow ing letter:
 Fort Grant, Ariz., March 4, 1915. Senator Stapley,
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 My dear Mir. Stapleys
 Perhaps you will be able to recall meeting me while at Fort Grant last month. l was the teacher at the girls dormitory the day you were here Since then have been transferred to the boys school and am teaching the 4th and 9th grades inclusive.
 From some cause Mr. Osborne seems to have serious objections to me as an employe and what it is no one knows and he does not say.
 am the only one, of the two teachers, who holds hany kind of a | certificate. 1 hold an unexpired first grade and lack but two credits being entitled to an Arizona life diploma, and have had twelve years experience | in public school teaching. The teach ITS here have been paid $65 including -oom and board, and now he objects to my being paid but $50, and has withheld my checks, (while the other teacher that he sent here and favors gets $85) After not making a sue cess of reducing my wages he comes again asking that l give proof of certificate, etc.
 He simply refuses to be decent to any one that Mir. Pulliam employs and persists in sending old worn out religious cranks here who make all the trouble they can and do things over the superintendents head; and they do not hesitate to say that MT. Osborne has told them that they were not under the superintendent.
 Mr. Pulliam does not know that l am writing you and I would not do it for the world if I thought it would cause him one moments trouble, but l wanted some one there at the heart of the trouble to know how perfectly he makes 1t for Mir. Pull liam.
 He simply does not want MT. Pull liam to have any say whatever, but do just as he suggests which would be utterly impossible, neither does he want any one employed here that will work for the superintendent in terest and make the place a success.
 From every indication he wants him to fail because his candidate for the place failed to get in.
 I am told, from a reliable source, that he is furious over the report you made after visiting here because the report of the amount of leather re- hected on him.
 Please believe me when I tell you that MT. Pulliam has never talked these things to me, but he showed me the letter concerning my salary. It is easy to see what he has to contend with and without a doubt he is the man for the place. l regret to leave him after his asking me to come and l do feel an interest and have done my best (and there has been and is yet much to do) but if this disturb ance is to continue I shall resign the first of April.
 came the 14th of January, and as yet have not gotten one cent of sal lry on account of his withholding my checks.
 I trust that this letter will not be considered too great an imposition, and sincerely hope that matters can be adjusted for MT. Pulliam's sake.
 Sincerely,