| Show literary Over landers I 1 I 1 they are me great readers all au along the overland I 1 mail route they bay say that harpers I 1 monthlies a d weeklies godels Go deys ladyka ladya I 1 books 1 new york ledgers and atlantic montal B s are about as thick on the whole line as franked speeches and congressional globes used to be in the mining camps ramps it has puzzled travelers to account for this I 1 phenomena which was never observed until the the steamers ceased carrying the malls mails we have seen a letter from one of the ibe gov eminent officials of nevada territory terri torr which may possie y throw some light on the very creditable quite puzzling fact he ays says that at sand springs some bome eighty miles cast ast of carson city he saw a passenger jus arrived overland from the east who toli him im that the newspaper mail bags bacs were opened all along the route b by a I 1 the he employees of the mail company and th that judge turner of carson also just arrived confirmed the statement 11 the tore fore foregoing olne oine from a california paper is un unquestionably questionably true as it has generally been the pac tice of the mail mali carriers carrier i conductors passengers t and station keepers i lon ion on the route both east cast and west of this city sto to help themselves to all the monthlies 1 weekles weeklies ll 11 etc they wished along the route I 1 and for that purpose the presumption is that they are supplied with keys from some source I 1 else how can they get them out of the mail mali bags I 1 rr or sack without cutting them then open the asser lion of the californians calif who complain bitterly of the thieving propensity prope sit git es ot of those lit jit ierard over overl landers andere 2 that they are cormons mormons Mor mons are as false nise as are the other reports concerning cormons mormons along the route where none dwell and but bul few are employed |
