Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-12-18

his duties As examiner and seven or eight hours each
day playing golf and for which he had the unmitgated
gall and nerve to charge this debt ridden county the
sum of $500 and In addition to this he charged Plenty
wood another $4,000 for examining its books one ev-
ening. He also soaked Westby and Outlook and maybe
he got into the Golfers of Medicine Lake also, which
must also be paid by our taxpayers.
The County Commissioners may not have done
everything just in accordance with the wishes Of that
hireling of the state Of Montana who could come in and
tell the commissioners they MUST raise the taxes
to the limit, but then our County commissioners are
human and know the conditions here far better than
any golf playing two-by-four what-not such as this
man Risley has proven himself to be. There are over
10000 laws on our statute books and about half Of
them applies to the affairs Of the County Commission
ers- There is not a county in the state Of Montana
where affairs are administered exactly in accordance
with a lot of our laws. The law which should apply and
especially in these days OF depression and short crops,
is the law of common sense, and that is what our Conn
missioners used and exactly what Mr.. Risley failed to
use.
That same golf playing examiner gave a very
nasty report on conditions in Roosevelt County, but
why did they get a whitewash there! Why did state
examiner Robertson come there and make out an am
mended report! They got it there, but not here, and
we suspected the hand Of Taylor being mixed up in
the whole affair here.
Had those tax levies been made in accordance with
law during the red regime Of this county, the levy
made last summer would have been correct, but they
failed to dc this, and yet in spite Of cutting down the
taxes during that period, the land owners here were
unable to pay their taxes and at this time Sheridan
county owns more than 10000 acres Of land and hum
dreds of lots in our cities and towns Had that addi-
tional levy Of IL mills been placed this year there would
have been hundreds Of farmers who could not have
paid their first half of the taxes and they would in
many instances have thrown up their hands and let the
county or the mortgage holders have the land.
However, the Producers News tries to make cap
ital over this acrimonious and black financial report
OF this county and in their editorial try to make it ap-
pear that this story alone was worth $500 10 every
subscriber.
In the future, we suggest that the State examiner
use a little more OF the gray matter that God has given
to use and not to ~disabuse, and send someone here that
Will use more common sense, play less golf, and work
his full day the same as the rest of we common mortals
We owe many thanks to Commissioners French,
Anker and lverson for having taken the determined
stand they did in refusing to increase the levies, and
although they have made some mistakes, the same a
every commissioner will make, there are none Of them
OF any significance. and can be very easily corrected.
1t is reported that through this same deputy ex-
aminer's report on McCone county in 1929 brought
matters to such a crisis that a grand jury was called
there which resulted in a lengthy term Of District
Court which cost about $4,000 Of the taxpayers money
IN that county, and resulted in absolutely nothing. ey-
erything being thrown out Of court.