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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1920)
pr U') s. 4TCIIAY, OCVOMR St, 1MW. THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON TAOHTWO uv J - "i f ?.... ' . JtL, -' .. I. THE EVENING HERALD ANSWERED fc ' WHO authorized the building of the Hot Springs Court House? Answer THE PEOPLE; and the Supreme Court ap proved their decision. WHO started the Main street Court House? Aaswer-MARION HANKS; and the people recoZed him, and Judge Hamilton of the Circuit Court says the people trier fight, SHALL WE finisn and occupy tae Hot Sprints Court House?, Answer THE PEOPLE voted for 'the Hot Spring. Court House. The Klamath Development Co. offered a site, of five acres now worth $50,000. We get title to it if the County builds and occu pies the Hot, Springs Court House. BUT NOT OTHERWISE. If we don't build there, we violate our contract, and we lose $145,915.12 cash and $50,000 real estate. WILL Klamath Development Co. let the County keep the Hot Springs site if they abandon die building? Answer NOT ON YOUR LIFE! Did the Evening Herald have any authority whatever for the statement that the Klamath Development Co. would give that site to the County? 'Answer NO. The Evening Herald has no, authority to give away anything belonging to Klamath County, and certainly nothing belonging to the Klamath Development Co. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT Ask Klamath De velopment Co. The Evening Herald says it will take $175,000 to finish Hot Springs Court House. Is that true? Answer NO; it is not true. There is money enough in the Court House fund right now to finish Hot Springs Court House without calling on the tax payers for another dollar for court house pur poses. CAN you take that money, levied and collected for Hot Springs Court House, and divert it and use it for roads or schools, or any other specific pur pose, as urged and promised in the Evening Herald? Answer NO; YOU CAN NOT, unless the Judge and Commissioners of the County Court who follow that advice go to jail or pay a fine. Here is the law: Sec. 3675 Lord's Oregon Laws: "When any moneys shall have been collected "or received by any officer for any distinct and "specified object, no portion of them shall be paid "or applied to any other' object or purpose, . . . "but shall be kept a separate fund for such speci fied object; and any officer failing to comply, "with the provisions of this section shall be liable "to a fine not exceeding $500, or to imprisonment "in the county jail not exceeding six months." What would be the loss by so doing? Answer Over $330,000. The Evening Herald says: If Chastain and Peterson are elected they will make the County occupythe Main street Court House. What will be the effect of occupying Main street Court House and "throwing away" Hot Springs Court House? Answer DOUGAN will get his ONLY CHANCE to get back his money on an illegal contract. If the County Court would accept the Main street Court House it would have to pay Dougan. DID NOT the people of Klamath County vote $347, 000 road bonds, to which the State of Oregon added an equal amount and the United States doubled; making over $1,000,000, and has not a part of that money been expended this year on highways until the State and the United States were stopped by injunction and threaten to with draw all further financial aid to Klamath County? Answer YES. The people of Klamath county are already now co-operating with the State and United States to build highways to the fullest ex tent permitted by law. WHAT ABOUT that Hot Air scheme of the Evening Herald to unlawfully divert money now in the Court House fund, which can be used ONLY to finish Hot Springs Court House see Judge Ham ilton's decision and make the State of Oregon and the United States parties' to a scheme, illegal a it is impossible and visionary, to create a mil lion dollar fund to be used for road purposes? Answer BUNK! Batu in bmlhy! Was this scheme to enjoin the State and stop, spending money on Klamath County highways practically approved by the Evening Herald? ' Answer YES. See Evening Herald of Oct. '18, 1920. Why?, Answer Anything to beat Robt. H. Bunnell and Bur rell Short; to force the County to take the Main Street Court House, and to pay Dougan and his friends a large amount of money that the courts say they are not entitled to. . What is the logical conclusion from the editorials pub lished by the Evening Herald? Answer That the editor of the Herald considers the people of Klamath County easy to "camouflage," and that Chastain and Peterson are to be his pup pet, and carry out all the wild visionary and un lawful schemes he has sprung in this campaign. . Will the people be fooled? Answer-NO. YOU CANT DO IT, Mr. Editor'. Government League of rt'l i ( 1 R. A. EMMITT, President i At I v.i i ' ua,
