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Show Post ltoute Brokers. Washington, 14. The postoffice department is in receipt of information informa-tion that parties who lio owurcl contracts for a large number of mail routes in the western states are systematically sys-tematically ottering to sublet them, thereby assuming in eflect the position posi-tion of mail route brokers. Oneparty in Kansas has sent out postal cards inviting bitls for sub-letting specific mutes, and slating in a printed postscript post-script that he has sixty-five routes lo dipuse of. and will send catalogues on application. Tne department has taken steps to break up this business. busi-ness. The president has appointed Lyan-der Lyan-der C. Dyer, of Tennesseo, consul at Odessa, Russia. |