Show Troubles Tuble of a Claim Cam Agent John Burleigh h chief clerk of ot the claim department nt of the tl Oregon Short Line expects to receive from time to time unique requests reuel through the mail mal regarding alleged lessee leases in transit trani but they are usually couched in couche pure type typewritten typewritten written Yesterday however he be was rudely astonished 1 receive a claim accompanied by b an M voice which defied solution Apparent Apparently ly by 1 the bill bi of goods gos was W written in Pitman shorthand After giving a a casual glance It was a handed over to Stenographer Cummings to decipher was wa once nonplussed He sated anted ante and paused passed pa d to Rufus Cobb who after sonie sorte hesitation affirmed that the invoice was drafted according to the tho new lop loop stenography of ot which he had hadn no n cognizance Expert opinion from the he freight was subsequently ob oh tamed when It I developed that the doc doe document document waa 8 written in Hebrew by one Abraham Abalan balan a New York commis commission sion slon merchant This ThI unique was duplicated I some som days das ago by the receipt of ot a t claim from a woman who affirmed in five pages that her sewing machine had been damaged damage in transit She conduct conducted I ed ad her letter as follows Mine e leter B gre grecious gf cious clo I want ant mine new leg Ie my m machine cost ost me m seventy dollars Mr Ir Railroad I |