Show LAST OF STAR ROUTERS RU I Case Vase Against Salisbury Broth Brothers ers Dismissed 1 END OF FAMOUS SCANDAL SC f I LOST MANY i THOUSAND DOLLARS i i I Inthe InAthe e Suit Against 0 J 1 and Mon de Salisbury Cash C sh si to the ike he Amount of Was Demanded Ac tion Pending In United States Stat s Court Fifteen Years t The dismissal of the case of the gov gor go against O J and Monroe Sat Sal iry In the United States court court a few days ago aso marks the closing chapter in n one of ot the biggest scandals that ever everTT TT surrounded the th mall mail service of the United States of America The case e has been pending in the court for fora a little over fifteen years and at this late day it was dismissed on account SL otan of an inability to secure certain wit nesses that were absolutely necessary to a prosecution of the case And It was only one among am mg many others of or a similar nature that were an n oj outgrowth STO th of the carriage of mails malls by the Star route system In every part of ot the United States St tes where there i was a o system of ot mull mail service by other means than railroad d the result was suits by the government to recover for money which was obtained it was claimed on fraudulent representations For tor a period of over four years tain tam parties who controlled the mail mall n Isolated districts added to their own remuneration from that source and added to the expense of the government by b representations that had It is alleged allegeS no foundation in fact tact There were thousands of suits that were similar to this one and the theona theone one ona against the was the last laston laston laston on the docket of ot the courts of the land The whole matter is therefore closed cIos d by the dismissal of this suit Caused Great Commotion Comm tion Those who were residents r of the western country during the early eighties will remember the commotion that was caused caus d when an investigation of the mall mail service was made The most startling disclosures were made and the whole mail service proved to be reeking with corruption It was found that those who had the system in charge Were wen receiving money monc for the payment oJ of o carriers and horses that being used and that at all necessary It was discovered also that a service of three throe and four times a week was being made to places where there nt enough inhabitants to war rant a n service once a week All this was being done at the expense of the government and the private better betterment betterment ment meat of those who held the contracts The disclosures also went a little farther Those who were making the investigations found that the whole of the Star route system throughout the country was controlled by men in ln Washington who bid for the contracts and then sublet them to others mak making ing lag an enormous profit thereby and andall andall andall all of it at the expense of the govern government government ment meat Head Man Han Is Arrested One of or the most moat Interesting events of ot the crusade was waR the arrest of a man prominent in Washington Washinton official cir dr circles cbs cles cl by the name of Brady who was arrested by minions of the law lav la on the I evening of a large luge reception rec that was 1 being given in his honor While he was in the act of or making a speech I thanking the fashionable J d society of Washington for their kindness In ten tendering tendering tendering dering him the reception re he lie was dragged off to jail The suit against the Salisbury broth brothers brothers f ers era was flied filed in itt the territorial court on March 2 1885 W H B DIckson and I George L Douglass representing the United States It was for the recovery of ot said sald to have haye been een obtained from the government under fraudulent representations The route which the Salisbury brothers controlled was to twelve small towns in Nevada Baskin Van Home Horne represented the defend defendants ants In the suit It was transferred to the federal court In 1898 and was final finally finally finally ly dismissed sed on Monday last The government claimed in the case that the tys represented to them that the ther In maintain maintaining lag ing the mall mail service were much larger than they really were the excess be being beIng being ing the amount that was asked for tor in inthe inthe Inthe the suit o i V |