Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1891-12-04 | Page 1 | Mr. Carman Tells How Railroad Troubles Arise

Hr Carman Tells How Railroad Troubles Arise OMAHA Neb Dee 4Speclal telegram to THE HERALD Since the cases against the various railroad companies have been abandoned aban-doned the officials who were wanted as witnesses wit-nesses have suddenly returned to Omaha George Carman superintendent of tho Western Weighing association the principal witness returned re-turned today He said he had been away on business and did not know the United States marshal was looking for him that he returned the day after the cases wore abandoned was merely an accident In speaking of the york of his association Mr Carman said The shippers are chiefly responsible for these troubles They go to a railroad agent with the statement that a rival railroad offers certain inducements for their business The agent must meet competition or lose business and probably his head too Every month we have to end out from our Chicago office one hundred and fifty to two hundred notices to prominent merchants in Chicago and S1 Louis calling their attention to shipments that have been uuderbilled Somo of them write thank lug us and saying it will not occur again and then they commit the same offense the very next day Let me give you an Instance of our experience ex-perience A shipper loaded a car with stoves and concealed them with a pile of shingles In of the door The front shipment was billed as shingles and the loss t the company would have been O i our service had not detected the fraud The interested party made a long 1 journey t the point of shipment and paid his I fare there in order to load that car I Mr Carman intends leaving today for Sioux City and Mr Krotschmer plans to start tonight to-night for Memphis by way of Chicago No further effort will be nude to bring the cases before the grand jury I j