Arizona sentinel., 1917-10-18
,1ou1oNc WILL, TAXPAYERS PERMIT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO PLAY THEM AS oOChENo!
 LOOKS LIKE NOW IS TIME I'D GALL HALL.

Tn last weeks issue of the ARIZONA SENTINEL the foowino item of news was printed the front page
 GIT IS A PRETTY HOW-DO WHEN COUNTY OFFICITL GOES TO THE COAST ON A VACATION AND THEN WANTS TO CHARGE HIS TRAVELLING EXPENSES AGAINST THE COUNTY. SUCH A THING WAS BOLDLY CONTEMPLATED TWO WEEKS AGO, BUT WHEN THE OFFICIAL FOOND OUT THE SENTINEL WAS INVESTIGATING HE FACTS HE TUCKED HIS "DEMAND' IN Hlo POCKET, AND KEPT ON SMILING. II ONL an AMOUNTED TO $68. THE EDITOR OF THIS PAP FIR WILL GIVE HIM THE $6S IF HE WILL FILE THE DEMAND AND HAVE THE BOARD OF SO- PERVISORS O. K IT.
 Not chirp has been heard about the accuracy of the statement It stands out in bold relief as an aoSoue ao beyond contradiction.
 Since then have been reliably informed that this same supervisor before starting his trip to the coast oroereo all automobile to call his farm in the valley and take n o the depot for which he put in claim abonS the county o TWO DOLLARS and that when he returned he had anot CT automobile take him home for which he put in another claim for TWO DOLLARS and that also was paid out O. county funds.
 These are matters of record as published the Morn ing Sun of October 7, as follows:
 "No 1847-J. O. Heaton auto hire for member boaro of supervisors, $2OO
 No. Pacific Auto Service, hire for member board of supervisors-$2OO"
 These awfully paltry matters too small to raise
 fuss over except for the principle involved Ii member of the board of supervisors has the right in law to chag automobile hire against the taxpayers whenever he wants to 20 to Los Angeles or from there why hash he the right to charge against the county every time he makes trip to the city of Yuma from his farm couple ot miles away? For just such monkey business this several o the board of supervisors of the city of Los Angeles are now being tried criminal court in that city, one of them a ready having been busted from office It is high time something of the same of procedure be begun in Yuma county for unless check put this individual member there is no telling how hard he will eventually soak the taxpayers"
 There is no use beating te devil around the bush n this matter by withholding the of thS supervisor for his name is on the vouchers His Elliott But everybody in the county could guess without the name being written.
 He is the great champion of the Big He Highbinder ot Los Angeles So intensely interested is he in the welfare of that individual that he positively refuses to permit any one to run an electric line down the valley supply the gins with power to gin our great cotton crop He apparent lv wants the Big He Highbnders franchise protected to the extent of excluding all others from that prolific field lust why he should adopt this arbitrary stand knows except himself.
 The people of Yuma Valley entitled to better treat ment at the hands of their board of supervisors They mand electric power for their domestic purposes well as for their uuasipubc utilities It shame and outrage that the permit granted the people who asked 1t the last meeting of the board especially when they agreed to turn the line the Big He Hghbnder at cost when ever he constructed his line down through the valley anc they far to say they would take their pay 1T 'uce But the majority of the board stood pat for the Big He Highbnder He has deathgrp on the city of Yu