Show ROBBING THE MAILS for two weeks past a quiet tion by the postoffice post office authorities and ot emeral count s merchants has been in progress to detect the culprit or culprits guilty of tampering the mails Asfar bick is february eselson of ferron forwarded a letter through the mails to the bank of the republic at salt like city con taming in currency and in checks ahe letter never reached its destination in april sam singleton of the molen co op store sent to the same bank in currency and in checks and this letter met with a fate similar to that of nelson su petty s in the same month mr if luke of the orangey ille co op sent three remit to the same bank allot which are reported to have failed to reich that institution ahe total amount lost b mr luke in checks in most of these cases payment on the checks was annulled and duplicate checks afterwards obtained from the original makers so thit the loss wis al most 11 that of the currency bent in the letters ahe huntington co op is also reported to have met with loss over i year igo mr luke instituted the investigation but so far has obtained no clue leading to even i suspicion of the guilty parta rhe mail from the south is sorted at Cast ledale ind put into a price sad where it is again sorted ind dumped in to a salt lake pouch the postal clerks handle the mail matter between price and silt lake city the merchants who have thus lost considerable money and s offered mach annoyance through some dishonest per son are still very indignant and propose to keep uncle sam reminded that some one or more 0 tug servings ser vints have been pilfering |