| Show I 1 SALT SA LT LAKE LAK I 1 E I 1 AND A I 1 ND STATE S T A TE NEWS NE T T 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 FROM correspondents AND STATE EXCHANGES HAS INSPECTOR INSPECT OFt BEEM beeps IMPOSED ON t patrons of salt lake tice anxiously await developments at washington I 1 the following is from the salt fake tribune I 1 those who have been watching the coar coming n g and going ot inspectors detailed to in charges of irregularity in III the local fico the past year are anxiously awaiting developments at washington resulting esula from a recent inquiry they know that at least two post omeo inspectors havo have vi visited itea salt lake been taken in dowby parties interested and that their visits have fia not changed the situation the inference fere nee is that the reports have been favorable to the officials here herb now the wonder Is if the in inspectors in charge ot of the denver division alvis loh hate has been imposed on as it is believed inspectors spec tors have been in the past that there has been a particular intimation ti 11 between postmaster thomas thomaa and inspector sharp of salt 1 lake iad is know nto so many bensons per pen sons ai to 0 o cause calls 0 remark it Is further know n bv a 9 nin tier ber that ont one of the chief employed emp loyes of the is it r itis dis reputable man and that thal hs conduct hs has been reported to the postmaster with no evidence wha whatever tevor of af even pvn it a reprimand on the postmasters the local inspector too ls far familiar nillar with the situation in tome cases cages he is alleged to 10 have been a party offender tile tho question that arises in the minds of those ni aho vho lie are acquainted with this matter is why is it that thal poe postmaster emaster thomas will tolerate lerate td such an employed in III abts office 1 postmaster master thomas it ls Is alleged and it Is understood der stood airo proved ed carrle carries a i young oung woman on the payrolls as janitor when she Is performing clerical services this conduct has not only cost other postmasters their positions but Is a i matter that is criticised criticized in every branch of the ac govern government meni congressmen are arc not free from having their own relatives carried on oil the payrolls as janitors when as a master of fact them lier perform form no such service it le ig merely a ruso ruse employment for favored ones wid and eases cases that arp are investigated reveal the fad fact that little or no service is performed postoffice Post office inspector sharp enow that there have been violat violations igns of a serious cha character of the rules of the local postoffice post office or elso else lie he is incompetent the citi question estion arkid is if h he is incompetent why is it that lie he i is permitted to remain at salt sall lake lae jj he winks at the these iq viola violations lions t why is it that inspector after inspector ue be tailed to look into provable charges preferred against him and against jhb defendants a clean bill of health there are stories that po postoffice Post office in 0 specter sharp has attempted to intimidate timi date employed emp loyes of the service who have information of tits his ledd al e misconduct nille mise it is said that ahat postmaster thomas does not dare remove an old ola offender in his office I 1 it Is charged that so serious an of te recorder corder at station A edif can be proven by fhe records of llie hie ecord af it is known that a clrk clerk of the departments a of the postmaster has haa apac appeared akred on the tha I 1 streets repeatedly la jn eastly a beastly state ot of intoxication that hal h has hai been vm intoxicated during working hours and that these facts hive have been laid R before postmaster thomas that clerk I 1 still employed in the he I 1 it is also known th that atthe arthe salt lake I 1 post postoffice office shows the gros grossest gest signs of mismanagement the mixing of malls mails is a common complaint charges of delay in abe dispatch of malls mails in some of the outlying districts district has been investigated vesti gated by the tribune and found to bo be true letters in the eastern part of the alt city mailed by the tribune were delayed from ai twelve elve to thirty six hours po postmaster emaster thomas possibly would not be hold held personally responsible for this his ere it not that complaint shave been made to him repeat repeatedly edh without any improvement in verice one friend of his attempted to explain the alleged mismanage merit of I 1 this abis office says that postmaster thomas has been held down donby by ablitt 1 cal appointees with churuti pulls ind and is powerless to fo regulate his office as a postmaster should be able abac to 40 A son in law of president joseph ia smith sinith is his assistant Post postoffice office inspector Inspect oi mckee who re I 1 bently can aly investigated the postoffice post office Is said to havo have admitted that he found irregularities ho he Is now itis alleged on his way to washington to report in the meantime as has been stal stated cd those who be are watching the case won der if another post postoffice office inspector has been taken care of by those directly interested in the results of his invests j gatian 1 great property while this rumor has not been verified and it is not stated at ab what figures tho the control of the shoshone was obtained it is known in this city that tor for some gome time past schwab has been quietly taking up options for prominent bullfrog stocks among which was included the shoshone the effort to secure we shoshone Sho has extended to other properties adjacent in addition and it Is reported that the amethyst property I 1 Is 9 oho ofte spoke in the great wheel that the pittsburg man Is trying to turn at tho the recent trial before the united i states court at carson evidence was introduced showing that the shoshone had within the upper levels of the mine ore to the value of fou rm millions illions of dollars dollar s and it is not thought that the control of the property coul dhave been secured by schwab at a less figure ure proportionately I 1 FURNITURE silt salt lake lahe feb fb h 11 tho tribune says manager place of the manufacturers and merchants association is in correspondence with two firms that are looking toward this city is as a possible field for investment of capital in the manufacture of furniture of the cheap standard grades this field has been carefully examined durin gilio hat few weeks by confidential agents of tho the parties interested te tC who likye have made a favorable report to their r superiors and who are pow jiow on the lookout for a desirable location close to the principal railroad lines where the factory can have ha advantage of bf faaili ti ases elect lect these agents have asked the manufacturers and merchants association to put them in 1 touch with persons who have factory sites bites that will fill the necessary requirements including an abundance of power which can be secured at a low cost one of these concerns his has at this time machinery of modern and alp ilp up to date kind valued at all ready to be moved to this state as soon as a del desirable loca location can be secured on the he right kind of terms ger ager place yesterday afternoon the association has been asked to open correspondence with owners of sites bites that thai will be desirable in order that some action may be taken at once to bring this machinery here the investment of this machinery in the state will make it necessary to erect a factory building to cost not less than and when this factory Is completed frem freer aty 10 tv to 10 fane hundred and fifty men and boys will be emp employed at good wages MRS HILTON IS LOSER salt lake feb 11 II judge morse has sustained a demurrer in the case i of annie F A hilton against the administrator of the estate of george thatcher Thatch cr deceased mrs sued alleging that she i was the wife of dr tark at the time of hw death to recover the value of one third of a of property sold by dr park to mr it thatcher ysais cai I 1 ago the basis of the action wa was that I 1 mr hilton was entitled to oo one third ne ird of the property yasher as her dower right the demurrer was upon the ground that hat mrs huton hilton never owned any interest in the property and that her action ivos was baided by the statute of limitations in judge morse horse held the con tensions tent ions well taken and decided the matter accordingly the hilton park controversy Is one with which the people of utah aro are familiar it Is known as the celestial marriage case the supreme court cour having held that although dr park and mrs hilton never lived together and that the woman was for many years the wife of another man she wits was still the lawful wife of park at 1 the time cimeot of his death MILL FOR MASONIC I 1 new camp near carson Is beginning to assert its importance 11 the caners of the pittsburg group of claims in masonic are preparing to erect a stamp mill and the leaders expect to combine rind and do likewise thus spoke J INT bryan of lorena in the briggs house carson to a representative of arh 1 11 news mr fr beyan anan in company with J S phillips and caleb dorsey recently sold the celebia ce celebrated lebra ted jump up joe mine in masente Mas onte to loose brothers of bodle and utah receiving a portion of the shares of stock in the company 1 besides a cash consideration the three men arp are owners of the I 1 pittsburg which followed the jump up joo joe as a shipping producer two of tho the leases are now shipping and the returns average in the neighborhood of all the ore goes through carson I 1 to the western ore purchasing company at reno mr dryan bryan says that the shipping and smelting smelling sm elting charges amount to nearly CO 60 a ton ten and it is the intention of the claim owners and leasers leaders to keep the oro ore on the dumps until the two contemplated tem plated mills are erected 11 lorena the town of masonic district has already a population of and boasts of two weekly papers the ledge and pioneer when spring opens a big rush Is anticipated as the showing Is a splendid one and the in are all all for permanency and increase in values as depth Is attained the winter Is not so severe on masonic mountain as is generally bellev believed although at present the snow is in III places forty feet deep while in other places the ground Is bare masonic mountain Is well timbered with chion wood while water Is very plentiful with better roads or better still a railroad masonic will become it a great assistant to carson city which js B its present shipping point all al though efforts are ard being made to divert diverl the trade to wabuska babuska Wa buska 0 I 1 THIRD BODY BROUGHT IN I 1 I 1 salt lake fob feb 12 the body of oc ill the chiff of tho the explosion which occurred on wednesday morning on the line of the western pacific railroad sixty five flye west of salt lake was brought into inta the city last night and placed in charge of undertaker joseph aro arn taylor the name of morton briinger Bri inner is supposed lupio sed to bo be that of the dead man papers bearing that bat naino were found in his pockets 13 brenners Brun runner ners adeath ed death eath was due to In internal terrial injuries he died didd saturday having je been in n a semiconscious semi SOMI conscious condition luncef ethe no ae accident ciden tWe wednesday 1101 ras abai a wilt years afi old and it is supposed ho he was wai Td resident of iowa in a wallet found in one of brunner a pockets wac it a tax rece receipt apt lpt made i I 1 in his name from the compty treasurer of union county la at creston it shows that brunner owns at least ono one lot somewhere in that county and state the date of the receipt la is july 24 1905 the envelope containing the document bears a receiving postmark poat post maik of farmington utah july 28 1905 the sending bending postmark Is creston iowa undertaker taylor will communicate wit athe county treasurer at groston in tho hope of learning who bruiners Brun nera ners relatives are STEAM SHOVEL IN ACTION first machine in utah makes its appearance pe arance at cactus 0 the republican says the steam shovel as a devico tor for tho the ocon economic ornic extraction of if big tonnage is now in active commission in utah the first machine Is at work on tho the properties of tho the newhouse mines smelters Sm elters corporation deaver beaver county to this extent the methods employed in this state in the mining of its ores orca have advanced another stop step toward methods long employed in the iron fields of thi the north northeast cast tho the cave in system for the extraction of ores introduced trod in this country by capt duncan Mao macvichie Vichie who was at the time the guterl superintendent nten dent of do de la mars mercur properties is now in use at not a few of the th mines and with results that show a considerable ro reduction in the cost or 0 extraction with the 0 machino machine in commission at tho the cactus mines the management will be permitted to add materially to the output at less lees cost to meet the requirements require menta of this increased tonnage the enlargement of the mill at newhouse ae will be undertaken at once the mana management gemen t to be reducing as much as 1500 tons of pro pre dally daily before the close of the yearn year meanwhile the physical condition of other workings in the property affords a source of not a little astonishment ten to lo those who haye recently jn specter them TRACK IS LAID SWIFTLY salt sail lake feb 12 A nevada man who was in ill tho the city yesterday told old a story of the rapidity with which tho the las vegas tonopah railroad is being constructed A short time ago said lie he feet of track was laid in a single day this is believed to break all recoils for track laying jan 4 and jan 30 twenty three miles of 0 track was completed and surfaced indian springs forty five miles from las vegas will probably be reached by feb 25 and trains train s will be in operation to that t uy 13 march 1 according to present plans k I 1 |
