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Show T RU T H. 10 ment by authority of Mr. Heath of J. 0 E. Jones as postofflce physician at a year. Irregularities in advertising contracts. Failure to furnish affidavit of publishers showing that rates charged were not excessive. Irregular payment of $90 for cleriservices on postofflce directory. cal ' Irregular payments for 'cleaning.' No details shown. Irregular payments for street car tickets by authority of Mr. Heath. Irregular payment from accounts of Washington office of approximately $35,000 on account of mailbag repair $1,-70- shops.' Irregular payments by order of Mr. Heath to eight mechanics," two of whom were also paid as clerks. Irregular payments on incomplete vouchers by order of Mr. Heath, including drug bill for seidlitz powders, pills, pennyroyal, calomel, etc., contracted by an employee on military roll." Jt ft The New York World, of the 18tS', segregates Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristows report and asserts that it has been shown that: ITeath forced appointment after appointment on the Washington postofflce. He arbitrarily ordered the payment of bills that had been held up for Irregularities. He paid his own traveling expenses out of the funds of the Washington city postofflce, instead of from those of the general department. He had his personal friends drawing two and sometimes three salaries from the government while doing no work. He bought supplies recklessly, without competitive bidding, and paid excessive prices therefor. He used the Washington city postofflce to further the political ends of the Republican party, without regard to protests from auditors or financial officers or from anybody else. fraudulent One of the grossly is the alleged appointment of charges O. H. Smith of Muncie, Indiana, Smith is a personal friend of Heath and was appointed as a laborer" at a salary of $600 per annum. He got $2 per diem for expenses and car fare. He was then detailed to paint letter boxes for which he received $2 per diem more. In one year, through the thrifty methods of Smith and the generous treatment of Heath, this Muncie man was enabled to draw down $1,348.60 on a salary of $600 as laborer. Continuing the World says: Heath made many allowances of carfare for Smith. For the quarter ending September 30, 1898, Smith was paid $22.50 for car fare, yet the inspector says Smith spent all this time at Camp Alger, where there were no Also: Smith was in Indiana cars. for several weeks before election and drew his full per diem for repairing street letter boxes. He was paid by the direct order of Heath." Also: The Washington city post office, on authorization of Heath, paid in 1898 for travelling expenses of $87.25 Heath and Beavers to Philadelphia and New York on September 30, $17.75 expenses for Beavers traveling elsewhere. There are numerous other expense accounts of this kind. The inspector states that there is no reason why the Washington post office should be compelled to pay the expenses of men employed by the genAlso: eral post office department. Heath increased the rent of the old post office building on G street from $20,000 to $22,500 per year, the new lease overlapping the old lease three months. Jl Jl Commenting upon the news in its The deepcolumns, the World says: er the post office scandal is probed the greater is the extent of the rottenness revealed. There are indications of fraud, favoritism, CTftfy Waokmail and pickings and stealings in nearly every branch of the postal service. The civil service commissions report that the Washington post office has been used as a dumping ground for large numbers of unnecessary employees, is confirmed by the report of Special Examiner Bristow, though Mr. Payne seeks to put all the responsibility upon the late and still lamented President McKinley and his Postmaster General Smith. The rural free delivery mail carriers have been used as drummers' for private business and electioneering agents for congressmen. Mail pouches have been bought at three times the market price. Large printing contracts have been so drawn as to be securely awarded to favored bidders at enormous profits. Cash registers and other fixtures have been foisted upon the government through political push, in the profits of which conniving officials or their relatives have shared. Promotions and increases of salary have been obtained for a price. Concluding the World declares that unless the president shall take action In his own vigorous way the Democracy of the nation will need no other battle cry in the next campaign than the n one which obtained for Samuel J. the majority of the votes of the people of the United States, viz: Turn the rascals out." Commenting upon Mr. Smith, Mr. Heath's favorite, the editor becomes humoristic and sarcastic. He says: This thing of nagging faithful postal officials is being run into the ground. For instance, they are criticising Perry Heath for allowing his friend Smith to collect $22.50 for carfare when he was stationed at a camp where there were no cars. Well, what of it? Was it Smiths fault that there were no cars at Camp Alger? You couldn't expect him to build a railroad with $22.50, could you? That money was what he would have spent if the cars had been there. He waited for them, but they never came. He stood there at his lonely post, faithfully guarding that $22.50 am ready to do his duty as soon as other people did theirs. But he got no reward for it, no medal not even thanks; and now an ungrateful public is abusing him for his thoughtfulness. And what cuts Smith even more bitterly, the critics are not content with abusing him they abuse his great and upright friend Perry Heath! Truly; if republics are ungrateful some Republicans are unfortunate. Til-de- -- Ji Jl BANKERS washed in case he is out of reach of the law, by allowing him to escape the WALKER BROTHERS fullest exposure of what he has done. He has brought his party into disgrace, and it can only be rid of the Established 1851 smirch by treating him without mercy, laft Lake City, Utah criminal. as it would treat any other A General Banking Business Transacted. The fact that his misdeeds are four Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent. years old does not lessen his offense, and it is childish to pretend that it .... does. o CHAMPION Dan NIckum has returned from a ii. trip to the northwest and along the coast. Usually Nickum goes fishing it every summer, camping out on the Provo, the Weber or over In Strawberry valley, but this season he will not go. Dan explains that he has had all the fishing he wants. To a lot of friends gathered at Harrs, Dan told . Bo., Bank, i .i ' STABLXSHBD 1851. Capital and Surplus, - j i $11,589,494.47 General Banking Buslneaa Exehange on principal elites of United Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the reel of tke world. the following: No fishing for me this summer. I have had all the fun I want for one year. You see my trip took me to Astoria, and while I was there I concluded to go fishing. I asked one of my friends, who runs a salmon cannery, if I could have any fun fishing up there, and he told me yes, but not to try to catch salmon, as they were too common. What you want, he I asked said, is to fish, for trout. him what kind of trout, and he informed me the Columbia was full of salmon trout, as long as a mans leg, sometimes, so I rigged up some tackle and went down one morning. . Used fish eggs for bait' tied on above my fly. Say, I never saw such fishing in all my life. When I .threw in my fly the water became black with them. Caught seventy in an hour, and not one of them was less than two feet six inches long. I tell you I was tired by the time I packed that string back to town. Thats all the fishing I need until next summer. I should think It would be, remarked one of the group. Packing that lot of fish was no small job, he continued, doing some figuring on a bit of wrapping paper. They were pretty heavy, said Dan, looking askance at the arithmetics problem his friend was working out, but what are you doing there? You say you caught seventy? Inquired the friend. Seventy, exactly, replied Dan. And not one was less than two feet six inches? Thats what I said. I wish I was as strong and big as you, Dan, continued the friend. You certainly are a daisy. A fish that length will weigh twelve pounds, and as you had seventy, you must have toted 840 pounds back to town with you. What did you string em on; a willow? But just then Dan saw a street car he wanted to catch and he rushed out. five-yea- -- k wells, Fargo i The New York Commercial Advertiser has the following editorial expression: It is announced that Perry S. Heath will resign his position as of the National Republican Committee and that he is contemplating a trip abroad. That he should resign from the secretaryship of the committee, under compulsion if that be necessary to get rid of him, is not a debatable question. His continuance in that position would be a scandal which would taint the entire party management. As for going abroad that should not be permitted until the o exact nature of Mr. Heaths offending and his liability under the laws are The Ford hotel on First South ascertained. According to the Bris- street has recently passed under the tow report he was guilty of certain serious offenses years ago. Were management of J. R. Norris and Mrs. r these criminal, and if so, are they Ready under a lease. Mr. barred from prosecution by. the stat- Norris, who will have charge of the ute of limitation? ' What the public demands is explicit information on house, has been connected with leadthese points, and the Roosevelt ad- ing hotels throughout the country and ministration, we are sure, will furnish 'was until a short time ago chief clerk it without fear or favor. If Mr. Heath at the Kenyon. The entire building is has committed criminal acta, and is still within reach of the law, he must being overhauled and refurnished and be brought to trial, and, if proven the new proprietor intends to make guilty, made' to suffer the penalty of of it the most comfortable family hotel hi criwss, cannot be white-- in thq city, secretary H. L Miller, Ceihlar John E. Miles. Asst. Cashier. Hamer 8. elng, Pres. FISH STORY. Utah Light & Power Go. INSTALLATION. blbotrioal.1 Salt Lake Salt Lake Ogden Leased Water-24- 00 Steam Water-60- 00 Plant.... ... Water-80- 00 H. P. H. P. H. P. H. P. AS. 3 Salt Lake Ogden 1500 400 M Cn. 60 M Cn. Ft. Dally. Ft. Dally. 7 8. MAIN 8TREET. ALT LAIC CITV. 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