Show STAB STAR SERVICE BUNDLES SWINDLES how gilmar salisbury got to carry U S mails halls by WU U telegraph to the tile NEW YORK june 19 the washington correspondent of the times says the collection and classification of dishonest star route contracts have been continued quietly but slowly during tho the week the force employed is small but c excellent xcell ent progress is made evidence is is i coming in from all parts of tho the country and the investigators have had their attention directed c even cry day to hitherto unknown cases of fraud at the same time tile postmaster general and second assistant elmer have continued tho tile application of common sense methods and business principles to the existing fraudulent star service and tho the incomes of former favorites are continually becoming beautifully less reports made by honest service agents in relation to crooked service are now comin coming gin in every day and much useless and fraudulent service has been marked for discontinuance action u upon pon these cases is postponed until after exhaustive examination and con conclusion elusion of arguments on both sides the department part ment proposes to bo be sure it is right before it goes ahead at the same time the tile methods which have prevailed at the department of allotment of clerical work location of divisions and many other bureaus have been closely examined by a commission whose purpose is to introduce proper business methods and reorganize the working force in the most efficient manner which the circumstances cum stances will allow tile results result of the labors of tho the investigators examiners of fraudulent and useless service and inspectors of tile internal economy of the department cannot i fail to be of the utmost incalculable advantage to the people of the nation the correspondent tells a story of another salisbury route i in n which he says the he records show t that h at in this case as in in many others salisbury was not troubled by the little formality of adversia ad advertising vertia ing each route every every four years in n 1870 gilmer salisbury were carrying the mails on tho the route from franklin idaho to helena montana As their annual pay was they got more alian 15 ar per milo mile for one trip per week the dis distance stanco di being miles ana and the service seven trips per week lc in the list of bidders appear several persons who then represented the salisbury combination but who do not now appear in the tile same m way ay sanderson tho the barlow combination would do 10 tile work for salisbury would take it for but sa sand dersons man huntly could do it for 65 and men white ana and others could do 10 it all tile way down from to 15 this was certain certainly rema ic the w mormons Mor mons put in a bid of jackson was given the contract for a term of four yc years rs from july 1st ast 1874 his principals pro probably bably continued the work on the route for four months their pay was reduced b by the result of advertising fr from OM per annum to only 15 A after cr f four ur months they availed themselves tho the old plan jackson was allowed to fail and wa was declared a failing contractor because as was said li lie failed on dec 1874 but before that time gilmer salisbury had got t in one I and a half months month s service at the de department part ment went up tile list of bidders and could find no one who would stand by his bid until D parker was reached his ilia bid lia biad d been 1500 and it was handed over to I him at that price although it had let for parker been originally rig anally was be highest of the bidders controlled by salisbury and big ad dress tei ansa care of gilmer sl salis bur part bury but for the last four years the larkers erfa have made a comb combination nation of their own w i i parker oy salisbury r v lia had T 10 lo r toute x it c at M until J jelv ul v 1878 the end of the term As jackson jacksons sons a pay had been parkers must at least havo have been then i lien for rome reason the route was not advertised for the term of 1882 until three months after the proper time BO so that the new now contractors could not bo W given work until oct 1st alst 1878 instead of july 1878 this left a pap gap months which was filled in empI employing dying gilmer salisbury salisbury for that time at a pay of we no havo lave now readied reached abe beginning of the current contract term 1878 1882 tile result of the advertisement is given in the bids as follows route franklin to helena distance miles service seven trips per week time schedule 76 75 hours in bummer summer and hours in winter fir miles and aj miles per hour ku hours for third class matter there were eleven bullers buh bid lers dera 03 J salisbury isabura U S huntley Hunt lcy IN bennett 47 ill W 31 griffith 11 II M Niort norton 38 av W N parker IN W 31 wilson joseph edbis K 11 II williams E a tn travia vis J W travia travis four our years before the barlow part party biad ad put in alie highest bid now sat outranked out ranked them all while N the two we travis his representatives were at tt the foot the barlow party was second kerns party a new one was backed by active politicians on july ad 1878 travis was given th alie e contract hit principal continued services until oct 1818 then lie became the contractor on paper at least of course lie failed as jackson had failed before lefore him travis downfall according to the books occurred on march 11 1879 brad brady went up tile list and it is supposed fosef circulars were sent to the bidders they declined or refused to reply ly at all until salisbury the very highest highest man was beachm readied the arrangement ran gement by means of which huntley and Grif griffith lith and partner were induced to keep keel a part is not described on the book Gril griffith lith kerns yas was the only one who made any sort of OlIer ho ile wrote lie would have the route at if brady would give him time for the necessary preparation a and lio lie would begin service as soon as practicable able owing to tile probable opposition orl of second parties tho the contract with tile present service he lie added may require more than ordinary it is I as unnecessary to say that griffith did lid net nt get the route there was ft a great gap of between barlows and and gig Salis alis burys bids bil and brady apparently did not feel like jumping limping it and accepted salis bury burys s offer just then levi L blake came forward with an offer to do the work for and it was accepted blako blake was another representative of salisbury who was one of liis bondsmen blakes term began on n april 1879 but it was very soon discovered that ho lie had been used as travis and jackson had once been used and had once been declared a failing bidder or contractor tills this disqualified qualified Us him and brady gave tho the contract to his bondsmen monroe salisbury and 11 warren at tho tile samo same price sa salisbury lisbury filed a subcontract sub contract and alius lu the route was secured in his hands land again at a higher price for four years more after salisbury had gota birin hold of a route at there was some s special cial service amplo employed ed at a r rate of f per year this line ine extended from franklin on the boundary between utah and idalio idaho and find dirc directly cily north of salt lake city northward through eastern idalio idaho to alele helena na montana this course ver very nearly coincided with that of the ull utah northern railway which was then in process of construction st northward from january let 1880 tile route was shortened lillesand miles nille and sand the mails transferred to the railroad It is cof of course they had bad been earned carried on the railroad railroad for salisbury for somo gomo months gix six months later thirty miles more were cut off and on feb let 1881 45 miles more there was doubt about mr blakes offer to do tho the work for 55 00 patrick of oregon had put an rl offer to do it for and claim was set up that blakes proposal did not come in in until after the expiration odthe of the time set by tho the department patrick made complaint through senator saunders but no charge was made I AVERS cherry pectoral is mild and soothing in ill its immediate and apparent effects and possesses far real reaching abing obing and powerful healing qualities ua it I I es which its stent use will remonstrate demonstrate in any tiny case of COU coughs cold ator lung troubles of any kind |