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Show PENNSY CLERK ON $30 SALARY BOUGHT COAL STOCK WORTH $75,000 ' BULLETIN. PHILADELPHIA, June 7. Testifying before the Interstate Commerce commission here today Joseph K. Aiken, wU has been chief clerk in the office of the superintendent of the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad', revealed almost as startling evidence as that given by Joseph Boyer before , the commission yesterday. On a salary which he said varied from $30 to $126 per month, Aiken had purchased stock in different dif-ferent coal companies amounting to nearly $75,000. He admitted having hav-ing received gifts of cash from coal operators on the Pennsylvania lines, and had also received $70 a month for several months from a company store. mlssioners were almost stupefied by the startling admissions. Mr. Aiken, who has been chief clerk In the superintendent's effke of tlfe Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad, gave some interesting testimony. At the outset he showed a disposition to spar with Attorney Glasgow. Glas-gow. After almost every question he would stop to reflect, cast his eyes upon up-on the celling and then repeat the question before answering. He told of large coal company interests which he said he had purchased with his own money. When Mr. Glasgow wanted to know-how know-how he got the money, he answered "by judicious Investment of my salaiy." In 1900, witness turned a profit of 10,000 by selling an option on coal lands to the Pittsburg & Buffalo Coal company. com-pany. Witness confirmed the testimony of Joseph B. Boyer, who eafd yesterday yester-day that Aiken had paid him 5 cents a ton on coal which the. Dunkirk Coal company furnished to the railroad, for which Boyer worked, CHAEGES PRESIDENT A. J. CAS-SATT CAS-SATT MUST FACE: "Freezing out" small mine-owners. Exceptionally favoring the Ber-wind-WMte Coal Mining company. Direct responsibility for keeping cars from small operators. Knowing his assistants own much stock in favored concerns. Approving "arrangements" (in effect, ef-fect, rebates) with favored concerns. Knowledge of rate discrimination generally. . PHILADELPHIA. June 7. Joseph Boyer. the Pennsylvania railroad employee, em-ployee, who yesterday testified before the interstate Commerce commission to having received large sums of money and other gratuities from producers of coal on the Pennsylvania lines, was to- j day dismissed from the service of the company. When the matter was brought to the attention of President Cassatt he dl-t dl-t reefed the Immediate discharge of Boyer. Boyer, in his testimony yesterday, said that he had accepted more than $46,000 from coal mining companies . during a period of three years. He was chief clerk in the office of A. .W. Glbbs, superintendent of motive power of the' Pennsylvania Railroad company and purchased the fuel coal used in the locomotives of the com- i pany. The donors, he said, were five different differ-ent companies which furnish coal to the railroad. Boyer's testimony was of a sensational character. He testified that he had been allowed al-lowed from 3 to 5 cents on each ton sold to the railroad company in such a matter of fact manner that the Com- |
