Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-11-03

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county.
The figures which Mr.. Eller
refers to are as follows:
Eller's expenses for boarding
prisoners during the year 1920,
$571.00. My expenses for board.
ing prisoners during 1921, $453,-
10. My automobile hire for
1921, $990.55; Mr.. Ellel's auto
hire for 1920. $1,249.40. Fees
collected by Eller in 1920, ST..
204.99. Fees / collected in 1921,
81, S72.97. The number of cases
handled by my office in 1921 was
more than twice the number
handled by Mr.. Eller in the pre-
ceding year, being the last year
of his term, or 1920. This in
cluded both civil and criminal
cases.
Referring to these figures, Mr..
Eller says: "1n truth and fact
wholly contrary to the records
which anyone can examine and
see for himself. Mr.. Eller fur
Their states: ITO go into details
would take too long and be too
voluminous."
If Mr. Eller had gone into de.
tails he would have found my fig
ures correct, and since the re-
cords seem too voluminous to Mr..
Eller, | am willing for him to
hire an accountant and go over
these records.
And as a special inducement
to Mr.. Eller | will place in the
bank a certified check for $500
to be paid to him if he can prove
that | have falsified the records,
as quoted above, and if he can
prove any Justification of the
above figures to the amount of
one dollar in dollar and cents he
may have the check.
There are no strings to this
proposition. Mr.. Eller has made
the statement that my figures
are false. He can make $4,000
by simply proving his statement
true.
Mr.. Eller makes reference to
the item of auto hire and sub
stantlally admits that my fig
ures are correct, but he says |
furnished my own transporta-
ton at a cost less than he could
hire jitneys. | agree with Mr..
Eller that some of the jitney hire
was eXhorbitant. In one in
stance, particularly when he
paid 500 for an auto to trans
port him to a 4th of July cele-
bration to administer to two
DRINKS who had already been
taken into custody by Mr.. Eller's
special deputy on duty at the
celebration. Upon Mr.. Eller's
arrival at the celebration the cul-
prits had been released. No fines
were imposed and nobody out a
cent-excepting the bill of 500
for so miles auto hire which
Idaho county paid. This expen-
diture Mr.. Eller attributes to
High Cost of Living During
War Times"
Mr.. Eller speaks of the high
prices he was compelled to pay
for board of prisoners. | find
that he paid 35 cents per meal
for prisoners food during 1920.
II | resorted to the same method
to feed prisoners that he did |
could not procure the meals for
any less at this time.
With some pride and more
sarcasm Mn. Eller concludes his
published article by stating. 81
do not know the exact number
of arrests made by myself OF Mr..
Eimers during said period, but
they fail to state how many con-
Vlctlons he secured out of the
great number of arrests"
Replying to this | want to say
that the sheriff nor any other
one official cannot be held res
ponsible for lack of convictions.
Frequently, however, one lone
citizen does throw himself in the
way of the prosecution. If other
citizens had rallied to the sup
port of defendants in Idaho
county courts during my term as
sheriff as freely as Mr.. Eller did
in criminal cases / doubt if we
would have had a single convic-
ton, except in a case where a
bootlegger pleaded guilty and Mr.
Filler WAC on his hOpd