| Show BY yen veri gic wic iann AMERICAN new NEW york 12 A washington correspondent of tho the rimes times furnishes for this thia mornings paper another batch hatch of star route frauds he says bays the dish dishonest oneat star roum route contrad contractors tors and their confederates seem to have llave at last reached tilo tile conclusion that government is really in earnest and intends to prosecute them and punish them if possible after the election of president garfield they used all their political influence to affect his choice of postmaster gene ral then they exerted their coin corn bened strength through ex senator dorsey and others to secure in bradys place a person who would be satisfactory to them but there was an honest man at thebe the adof of the department and ho lie was determined there should be good men around him and the jobbers failed to get any one of their candid candidates ites in bradys Brady fl place there seems to bo be but one daily newspaper in the district which is not under bradys control and the tho people of washington are almost entirely dependent upon outside papers for information concerning ning tho the startling discoveries which have been made per persons ons employed to gather evidence of the wickedness quietly and persistently pursue their way supported by high authorities who employ and who approve their selection in the chair formerly disgraced by brady sits an upright gentleman of rare business ability who is rapidly becoming acquainted quain ted with all the details of the contract bureau and an and J who looks with astonishment upon a system in which true business methods seema to be completely ignored the postmaster general is binding on every hand evidence of corruption and reckless extravagance and looks through h the reforms of the present to a realization of a dream of a self sustaining department and cheaper postage in the near future energetic subordinates gather evidence which will overwhelm the guilty it is hart harl for one who gains an insight into these those records and who studies the history of the previous investigation to cs es cape capa the belief that tile poston nice lice department has hns been a sink of iniquity for bearg xem xea and it ft will bv ber no easy task to compute to tilo the a amount mou n t of the peoples peopled money mones stolen or thrown away tho the correspondent notes domere some gome remarkable increases of pay by the familiar method of increase and expedition tion on one route the pay was raised from MO to 1 and on another from 2550 to 10 NO aethen devotes himself liim self seif to an exposition bosi Dosi tion of the tho texas temporary service a newly discovered ramification of the frauds the favorites who hold temporary service in texas are general frank C armstrong of texas and bunjor john D adams of arkansas who in this matter are practically one and tile the same person and A if ff brown james B colegrave R C hems kems R ems and J P harbach armstrong was a general in the tiie confederate army adams was a friend and supporter of ex senator dorsey dobey domey A 11 brown wag once a clerk in the department at chicago in charge of territorial routes by which the government has been robbed of many millions it appears says bays the correspondent to have been brady bradys s custom to keep a select circle favorites of informed as to his decisions in regard to temporary contracts so they could put in their proposals without delay these proposals were at once accepted without question and without competition no opportunity port unity was given to local local stage men or others to compete for work which was usually given to a favorite for one year at a price chidi h was three time times as much as the work was really worth the favorites sublet the route to local men and pocketed or divided the difference when one of the favorites became possessed of a little ready money lie could very easily get temporary contracts on oil three or four or half a dozen rou routes tes in a bunch at his own figurea figures it is known that a woman secured 12 such contracts in one day the route bill passed in 1879 established about routes brady emily put temporary service very soon afterward upon 1300 of them atthe at tho the investigation of isso he presented a statement of temporary service put on from july 1879 to october lat 1879 most of the jobs v given to favorites did not appear in this statement but were bestowed at laer dates of 0 thea vin sum of representing tho the total my yay say oa oil tomp temporary contracts acte iu ill rex tex lex as was riven given to armstrong adams brown Duxbury Colegrave harbach Har bachand and kerns kerna Cole coie grave gravo was a friend of ex chief clerk clork french harbach is the nent 0 of the tile louisiana lottery company and a friend of ex congressman morey and kerns id is head of the tile kerns combination of st louis NEW as tribune ex sen acors conkling and plait were away from the hotel a good deal yesterday and this gave rise to a rumor which was circulated about the hotels last last night that a conference was being held hold vice president arthur says kays lie he has not been absent from his house during the day that he be had not seen conkling since thursday and anat lie knew nothing about aljy any conference it is probable there was no conference further than what conkling li llad adIth with ex senator platt Sei sel senator lator jonas jones and a few others in the afternoon ex senator conkling ccok a walk with captain michael cregan when they returned cregan said sald r aid paid the ex senators would probably return to albany today to day he said there was no prospect ofa change in the situation and anti no man knew what the outcome of the present deadlock would be ho he declared the talk of a conference to consider tho withdrawal of conkling and platt was yas vas unfounded WIN fiend FIELD kanba kansa 13 A cyclone visited sumner and aud sedgewick counties sunday night causing the destruction of a vast amount of property ro perty killing ling a few an and wounding ng many persons per sous it was firs first t seen near nar Ninn inn isah on the ArIca arila arkansas river three miles from murvale junction and traveled rapidly in a northeasterly direction striking in a cornfield corn nield field near Mul mui vale vaie it passed a mile north of murvale and picking up a two story etory frame house turned it over twice nii all and smashed it to smithereens A lady and her child were severely injured internally as well as bruised and the chances are she will die the residence of a man named egan was demolished this was done byone by one ono brandhof branc branch hof of the cyclone water spout another did much damage at bell plain the two united near mul vale and it was wag the two combined ti at did the work during the destruction sot st large hailstones fell in immense quantities and a hot wind whid prevailed making it difficult to breathe brea theand and turning leaves ff corn us dlack black zus uart aner leaving mul mui vale the cyclone wheeled oil in a southerly direction and struck floral a small town about four miles from seely beely one person was killed there antl and two more or less dangerously wounded crops are much injured NEW IS 13 the tribune tribunes ai london it is understood inquiries in dublin convince him of the necessity first of enforcing the coercion act more vigorously than hitherto and second of supplying the necessary force of police and military to en able the tho meers officers off to serve legal processes of eviction or other writs without inquiry into the circumstances Et ances anees For colleagues alter some hesitation recognized the tho paramount obligation to enforce the queen queens authority which this said league is challenging on a larger scale than ever Par nells hyde park speech lias has been accepted in ireland aa as a signal for seditious violence and lias has been accepted by the government as sufficient evidence of tile the impossibility of making any compromise whatever chamberlains remarkable speech at birmingham ming liam llam proves that no single member of the tho government any auy longer lodger questions tho the necessity of using force to maintain order in ireland while the enthusiastic reception of that speech among the most radical constituency in england demoralizes what remained of radical opposition in parliament to flie itie be government policy there is i i a growing catalogue of out outrage raffe in ireland such hsueh attempts as that in liverpool are creating a degree of indignation among moderate people which no government can disregard Glad stones speech yesterday on the E english land quest question icil indicates a readiness to accept in the existing system of tenure he condemns limited ownership but suggested important changes in ill the system of restriction of the tilo transfer of land he thought however that american competition had more influence in creating the present depression of landed property than the artificial disabilities of the owners the tilo conservatives discredit the reported intention of the government covern sovern ment to call an autumn bession session if the lords lorda it reject the land bill they insist that a dissolution is probable and aud openly avow that they are preparing for the tilo contingency hence bence the unusual number of speeches of the tho conservative lv lender leader but neither neit nelt lier iier sir Staf stafford rord northcote mr cross nor detill less the smaller fry have havo made an impression in preg pres slon sion upon their constituencies the worlds london special says bays in his midlothian Mid lothian campaign campaigner mr gladstone with an eye ou on the wish irish vote in english boroughs declared that the explosion at Cler kenwell prison in 1867 by which michael barrett and his fellow conspirators killed hilled 12 and lacerated innocent people led up to the church disestablishment bill of 1869 and the land bill of 1870 following up the premiers theory the parnell part party y may assert with good face that the attempts to blow up the central police station and af t the tho e town hall at liverpool are simply forcible methods of calling 0 the governments attention to tl tiie tite ic necessity for prohibiting evictions it is certain however that these outrages are doing irreparable harm to the irish trish cause there was a shadow of an excuse for the tilo Cler kenwell aclair and a great deal to be said in defense of allan clark dark and obrien who killed sergeant brett in the prison sori van rescue at manch manchester ester and captain lackeys mackeys Mac keys attacks on the artello martello Bl towers at Queens queenstown town and his raids on gun smiths shops at cork during the 1867 1667 troubles were laudable enough from his point of view but for the powder aud and dynamite affairs now occurring there is no possible excuse the tho 4 wrecking of the liverpool town hall or for that matter of the british museum would not shorten En glands strong right arm one span A strong feeling of irritation is growing everywhere and I 1 should not be surprised to hear bear any day of an attack upon the irish quarter in liverpool it is need needless nt edless less to say that th ese ou t rages combined with the anarchy existing in many parts of ireland render it more and more difficult of mr Glads gladstone tofte to carry the land bill what the Parnel lites hope to gain by thwarting him passes comprehension the tory leaders makes no secret of or the course they would adopt if called to power agrarianism would be summarily f tamped stamped out the league would be bb suppressed as an in illegal organization public meetings would be he prohibited and leicester connaught and munster at once placed under martial law jaw I 1 heard a prominent tory exclaim the other day oh for a week of lord Str etharine at cork his lordship wh wiio wilo 0 as sir hugh rose won a grim reputation during the indian mutiny by blowing from the cannons mouth was in command of the forces in the cork district in hi 1867 when tho the of that city marched out 1500 strong one snowy morning lna inA in larch March spent a whole dittin day in be edging four policemen in the barracks and then returned to cork and volunteered en masse as informers asked by the castle authorities to re report porton on the state of his district the old bengal tig tiger er as the coriou I 1 ans dubbed him briefly replied that he was ready to reduce the city to ashes at a it moments notice and to sweep the country from you youghal hal hai to bantry banary ban nan try in two days that this would bo be the tory method of ireland the more more bloodthirsty of or their journals frankly avow the marq marg Alar quis guis uis of salisbury who would be premier if mr gladstone was ousted has taunted the government for putting down the revolt by quaker measures and how bow mr parnell can think that his countrymen country men would profit by a change of or masters is known only to himself mr gladstone has staked the existence of tho the ministry upon the sue success of h his Is irish policy and is doing all that indomitable energy can do to push the land bill through the house but the mad course of the Parnel lites tes teg is terribly dishearten disheartening ng to him the bill viii will not satisfy the league no bill however radical could do that for it lives only for agitation but reasonable home rulers like shaw of cork mitchell henry of power of mayo maso and mccoan oi 01 wicklow who have done and dared more for ireland in the way of personal sacrifice than all the nire fire eaters combined are perfectly satisfied with it obstructionists however seem beem de ter mined to prevent its reaching the upper house this session and they strengthen the hands bands of the tories by encouraging the bad work now going on in ireland mr gladstone is losing patience and no wonder the spectator which has advocated a generous irish milcy policy in reason season and out of tin tit far assi Is and rud in its ita issue today to day it axel ox claims alms in a way of de spar lr Is it of any ube even to attempt to benefit a people eo so jr irrational the news that the pope has determined to put a stop to the tile proceedings of clerical agitators is the only bright spot in the isky archbishop croke who was waa a atam aYam rampant pant leaguer a week ago has taken the hint and in his speech this week at and veered around several points and urged parnell parn ell eli to accept the land bill and frown down resistance of the law it turns out to be that a number of very loud mouthed league orators have been trying to get net bought onn oft with government office OC omler power the other day exposed a blatant ballinrobe Ballin robe lawyer named daly 1 who was wl willing ailing to keep silent antho on the wrongs of his country for the crown prosecutor ship of mayo and I 1 t understand some rich of the same samo sort will shortly be given to the house by lytton liberal member for county tyrone Par Parn nelis neils nells elPs followers take pope hennessey Hennes sey scy and william keogh for their model as irish patriots patrio tse tso WASHING TION 13 tho the commissioner of indian affair to jay received a tele telegram giam from tLe the southern ute agency to the deflect that a new station on the denver and rio grande railroad had been established on the reservation and that stores saloons and danco dance houses were being located there he buys says it is inexpedient to uso use indian police to enforce the united states jaws and imd military force will be required the commissioner sent cent a telegram to secretary kirkwood with a ro re commendation that the war department bo be requested to issue orders for the commanding officer of the troops stationed near the agency to place himself in n with agent page and immediately remove from the reservation all intruders together with their |
