The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-08-10
IF SOMEBODY SHOULD
TURN THE SPOTLIGHT ON
WalIey Tribune. BainviIIel

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According to rumors that are both
persistent and frequent the report
of the State Examiner on the records
of Roosevelt county, supposed to
have been made several months ago,
has been completed and copies plac-
ed in the hands of the County Board
and the County Attorney, many
weeks ago.
Reports Of gross mismanagement
and Juggling Of funds that have cir
culated since shortly after our fine
young county was born, lend the
keenest interest on the part of the
patient taxpayers of the county to
what the public examiner may have
found upon his last investigation.
Readers of that highly meritorious
and v~irtuous official organ of the
county, the Poplar Standard, have
been thrilled each week as they I'M
folded its pages, in anticipation of
finding this gripping, "~grasping"
narrative, woven of facts and fig
ures CLEANED from the records in the
offices of MI. Dwyer and Mr.. It'd
land.
But never a grip nor a thrill con-
corning the state of the county's
affairs. Plenty about the next NOV
les, and the strength of "Pat" and
other "stand pat" candidates in good
standing with Frank and Jack, but
nothing about the balances due the
various school districts that are pay
ing their claims with interest bearing
warrants. Likewise nothing about a
renewal of the thrifty Standards
printing contract, awarded without
the formality of bids. 1t is not a
penal offence not to get bids on
printing and supplies, so why gyp
the home printshop.
Several citizens, deeply interested
in county affairs, and hoping to find
things not quite so bad as limited,
have requested copies Of the report
from the county officials who hold
forth in and about the little red
school house. But you know how it
is folks, with the big rush of fence
fixing time, and the preliminaries of
the hoped for harvest only a short
distance away, there really is no
time for tipping lengthy documents
for curious citizens. So after paying
a few mileage claims out of the petty
cash, the boys hurry. away to get
their latest orders.
Possibly along about August oath
the official organ may publish a few
expurgated extracts at legal rates
per folio.
Meanwhile some of those without
the sacred precincts Of the charmed
circle cannot kept their active ina
ginations from specializing on some
of the contents of the vital i%nstru-
ment prepared by Mr.. L. @. Skeletons
deputies and now supposedly peace
fully reposing in pigeon holes or
vaults. Fortunate indeed it is that
the weather is dry lest the folds OF
the perhaps many pages become
mouldy as well as sere with age. {
But getting back to imaginings, {
,ain or otherwise, would it not be a +
peculiar coincidence if n should
imagine that this report of the au-
horned checker-up of public Off t
ials said something about cashiers {
hecks of a nearby favorite deposit '
ory in the sum of umpty-nine
thousand dollars, held by the treas '
Irer for three months, unsecured and S
Without interest, and it should prove i
hat this imagination was in close ac- y
ord with the facts? l
Would it not be peculiar if another
Intellect, tingling with anticipation, $
hould imagine that it was shown /