For the Arkansas In'eI!igencer,
{"newspaper_name": "Arkansas intelligencer.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2064, "word_count": 388, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9429000020027161], "ccnet_perplexity": [1981.699951171875], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
F,YErTtvLrE AK, June 81, lSl5.


''Thc character o public men, is the property Of the
people" "A II Sewer.


Mssrs Editors VIII the Survey Genera Ar
kansas favor the public with little explanatory inform
att on the following suhlrcf


In the fall Of 1912, David G Iiarri'a deputy survey
or completed eUHifHct Of pnbIic csin, and in


his setl' meut with the surveyor general for the pay
ment of the work, Mr Pelham requested MIR Harris
to let him Pelham retain part OF the money due
the contract, and accept in lieu thereof ind vd
al notes. one on Thomas azen OF Van Bnren, and one
on VIM. Quesen enbury near Fort Smith, the notes
amounting 10 about one hundred and fifty dollars =
Mr Harris agreed 10 this Prnpn aud took the nnIrs
giving Mr.. Pelham his receipts in fuI f,r the whoe
amount due hun lor surveying. Mr.. IL iris resided at
collecting thee notes UPWARDS of two weeks and al
an expense of some twenty or thirty dellars. Now
Why was Tins 7 Was Mr. harris so sngulariy uccom.
motaiIng as TO accept notes on per ons living fifty
miles from where he od, aud then spend his time and
d bout one nth "I s demands collecting them when
he could have taken tie ready money! Or was Mr..
fcH am only pursuing h usu course with his depu
tes. tainlmg their money E.is ha nds aud pay
Iug them on with notes "n private individuals


We ASK an inpurin! pVhhG 10 Judge winch of these
would most hk y be the case. That Mr.. Harris was
ihe loser by tbs arrangement Of Mr. Pehams is evil
dent and although the circumstances Of tie case may
be sm"thcred over and tho terms applied to it varied
that Mr.. Harris was swIndcd out u a portion of his
just dues, by the Official misconduct ol the Sury, yur
ueneril aud tUr his own private and pecuniary bene.
i'll.


Mr.. Pelham may say that these statements are false
Oul viii HIS hIend Mr. harris DENY their truth! lie
uIH not. 7


he neNt subject TO which he attention of the Sur
veyOr General is respectfully called, is certain ar
TdHgement made and entered into between Mr. Will
sm Pelhim Snd Robert W. Mcckba Esa, Of Benton