Show FREIGHT WEIGHTS A System Permitting Falsification Falsifica-tion at High Figures Union Pacific Ofliclals to Investigate Curious Irregularities at Denver and Other Points Any reader would say there must be something radically wrong with a system of conducting a railroad freight business I which will permit of frauds whereby the company or the customer can be swindled out of from 20 to 40 a car through a falsification falsifi-cation of weights Yet such a system or want of system has prevailed with clerks in the Union Pacific employ by which certain dealers according to the Denver Republican through underweighing wore enabled to almost control tho trade in Colorado The district attorney in Denver drawing a complaint at the request of a detective mentions five firms as being in this grain ring I is stated that this system of under weighing has been going on indefinitely and It was on this account that George L Carman superintendent of the Western Weighing and Inspection bureau has been visiting the west I west There is also another phase of the question 1 ques-tion and that is an inquiry whiohit is asserted as-serted will be made by S H H Clark of II the Union Pacific The nature of this inquiry in-quiry it is stated will be in relation to i laxity of methods Li allowing a system of falsification of weights to continue for an indefinite 1 period without disco rAn r-An official of the Union Pacific stated that the arrangement was that Superintendent Superin-tendent Carman was to leave town and matters be allowed to apoarently quiet down in order that tbe company might the more surely fasten the guilt upon persons per-sons suspected This accounts for the fact perhaps that the complaint drawn by the district attorney containing a charge of forgery was not early filed with a justice and the inference is that the man against whom the charge is made is not the only employe suspected of complicity in the frauds A actor in the case is the departure of Fred Wild jr assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific presumably to confer with tie superior officials of the corporation There was D time when the Burlington Missouri controlled a large share of the grain traffic and although this road has more 20cent points on Its line than tho Union Pacific has 25cent points yet for I the throe months of August September and October the Burlington Missouri received re-ceived 313 carloads ot grain against 1331 by the Union Pacific not including carloads car-loads billed by the Union Pacific to Colorado Colo-rado points other than Denver The Rock Island has brought no carloads of grain Into Denver during that period with the exception of a car or two of wheat although al-though the line runs through a rich grain country This indicates tho extent to whioh the frauds have gone For a long time railway men have declared de-clared that there was a slashing of rates somewhere or somehow For an equal period grain men have assorted that other grain men were in some way getting an advantage in rates The developments tend to bear out these assertions Agents of other lines than the Union Pacific have intimated that that road was responsible Grain men have declared that the blame lay with other grain men The action of the Union Pacific indicates that the corporation corpo-ration holds some of its own employees primarily responsible with the grain ring as accesscries There promises to be some very curious developments and with a triple investigation investiga-tion begun the facts in the case it would seem should be clearly brought out It is loudly whispered about the local offices of the Union Pacific that the persons in the end found to be implicated and possibly profiting may not l be clerks and tbe grain men The investigation of S H H Clark should he institute one may uncover some interesting faots |