The Ordway new era., 1915-11-12

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bills with warrants which are
cashable.
That condition exists.
It's the taxes you must pay to board
prisoners for weeks awaiting sessions
OF the district court when ordinarily
such persons would have been given
hnes. their cases disposed Of and the
county relieved of the burden OF feed.
ing them for weeks because OF some
minor charge.
It's the taxes you must pay for ex-
ira heavy costs of official work done
by peace officers when private indi'
viduals get similar work done for less.
These Mr.. Taxpayer are some OF the
items YOU pay taxes for. and which
tend to make taxation burden.
Aud now they would have you take
over and finance a county fair.
You readers Of the New Era will
fight to have the commissioners use
the available rooms 10 the new county
Jail as a court house in order to save
rent, light and fuel at the present
court house. We showed conclusive
ly there was an office room available
for every county Official. We had a
plat on the first page OF the New Era
showing the available space was
greater 10 square feet Of room measure
ment in the jail building than there
was square feet OF building area 10
the present court house.
You remember too. that not one
word we said had to be retracted.
We spoke the truth and we put It
squarely before our readers.
Did the New Era lose by it?. Yes.
and No.
We lost one subscribers deputy
offlcIal who has since been put on the
strsighs Y. SALARY list by the county.
He could not swsllOw the truth.
We added 81 new subscribers dur
ing that same period Of time:
Therefore we gained 38 good sub.
stantial readers. But we did lose 10
another way, and here is how. We
lost business we had been getting
from the county com missioners and
to show you we have lost IL we print
here the following resolution passed
by that board on Oct, 5. 1915:
Moved and seconded that the
county clerk be instructed to place all
printing with the Crowley County
Leader and Sugar City Gazette. as
long as the prices are the same. and
to buy all local supplies from said
firms.
Mind you Mr.. Taxpayer we made
the fight for the protection Of your
interests and then lost the business
80 don't let anyone tell YOU we
failed to get business and then made
the fight. The fight we made was In
June and July. Note this resolution
WAS passed in October.
Do you know Mr.. Taxpayer certain
office holders in this county have
asked the aid of two farmers we know
OF to stop their New Era and have
others do the same thing in the hope
of either putting us out of business or
frightening us into silence, decming
it. IL none OF the New Era's business
how the county commissioners spend
the peoples money. But the New
Era Is not silenced. and to you tax.
payers we want TO say that you are
the people we have with US always.
while politicians come and go.
At a session Of the county commits
sioners on July %, 1915, the following
resolution was passed.
Moved and seconded that the
undersheriff be paid a salary Of $50
per month.
Motion carried.
Alta session held on October 4, the
following amended resolution was
passed:
, Moved and seconded that the
motion in regard to the payment
Of $50 per month to the under
sheriff passed by this board on
July %, 1915, be changed to read
"undersheriff and jailer."
Motion carried.
The highest price paid Pueblo
county for "boarding and rooming"
our prisoners during any month
Of 1914 and 1915 was sll5. That
was Ia October OF 1914. The aver
age per month during all Of 1914
and 1915 up to the time We
brought our prisoners to our own
"boarding house" was $3.50.
Now Sis. mind you, was the most
We paid Pueblo county in one
month 10 1914 and 1915, but the