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Show Colorado Volunteer Charges Corruption. Denver, Colo., Sept. 16. Napoleon E. Guyot, late private of company G, First Colorado Yolunteers, who, during dur-ing the last three months of 1808 served as a clerk under Major Ivil-bourne, Ivil-bourne, and later under Lieut.-Col. Potter, auditor of public accounts, Manila, publishes a signed statement in which charges of corruption are made against American officials in Manila. lie says an examination of the vouchers forwarded to Washington will show that exhorbitant prices are paid for all kinds of supplies purchased pur-chased in Manila; that vast quantities of high-class wines and other supplies have been purchased, ostensibly for the Spanish hospitals, while in the American hospitals only the coarsest supplies are furnished. The robberies, he asserts, will aggregate ag-gregate an enormous' sum. |