Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-14

directly by them The justice of
the the States Attorney checks and O. X these bills
to amount They have nothing to do with the county
stenographc which paid This nsinuation of
shuttewors only show that his aim is to besmirch
and he doesn't how ne does it,
The S1S7.33 item he says my salary account
evidently thru the fact that he claims the
attorney organized which unorganizd
entitled but $4,000 per year
under Chapter 826 laws of 1913 while drew 100000
per year this the date into effect until
session the printed
10000 but you will find this is by referring to
pages 2251, 227O Journal 1913 pages
1878 1879 Senate Journal 1913 report
Conference adoption Mr. F. and Mr. A. J.
both have these books Just look them and
what the legislature I should 100000
shutteworth would doubt have discovered
this the the other but he be able
but side
brings the $500 paid appoint
men of state Ben Judge
McGee if he appointed Sheriff Clark Evans himself
If the States Attorney did advise Shutteworh that attor
ney appointed defend Evans, gentlemanly
I call him liar" but Frank
him any such thing true that
plea guilty l entered it myself
and Evans got sentence of sixty days jail for grand
larceny which sentence suspended. you think
somebody have represented him and did a fair job?
This the total amount" $2,3S136 which
says county Do you think
I should? When I do, will somebody with much more
authority than assistant looking reputa-
1 that am righfuIly and legally
entitled to received from Fall River county
anyone else else wouldn't it, and will con-
nue to believe until wrong
will be ready at time get back to fight it
out in the and earned this money or
paid it out for necessary and legitimate incurred
official capacity, willing some more work
to convince the people right have the
me that wrong
The next "ar of law and reference bought
by the county etc" who would think that
it complete library and of Office equipment I'm
fact he he inventory the incoming attorney
shows that the only thing to be found in attorneys
office was one pencil sharpener That true just
zone pencil sharpener found when went into
the office. All found two rooms The code pro-
vides that the county commissioners shall provide
for the States Attorney and furnish the same
the same" myself with good library and lot of office
equipment including my typewriter used these for
two the furnished nothing not even code
until typewriter my chairs broken
up in jury rooms and my stock of files exhausted
before the commissioners and told them that wanted
TO furnish the states attorneys Office provided but
it cost something to that they didn't want to spend
that much money, they compromised with me by buying
articles
forth in Shutewor report except the attorneys docket
stationary book cases and typewriter articles total
$l549O making the 1923 per month they
paid me and saved the county hundred dollars it
would have cost to have fitted that office. 1
whether you think this is good business not people
don't believe in saving money But this first time
counties have rented Office equipment known them to
rent buildings for court houses attorneys docket cost
$3.50 1t is made for use but shuteworh thinks
should have kept intact my successor
The other items of files stationary amounted to s2S95
and are also bought to up needed used these up be-
fore went out of Office bought with my own money
The typewriter they bought replace the one of my own
which had been out attorneys Office with
the understanding had for two years in the states
attorneys Office which did, four years use
they got out of one typewriter use too Now
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