Show MILITARY NOTES A Had yiall Service at Fort lu Chesnc The following clipped from a letter from an officer at Fort Du Chesne shows the bad condition of the mail service at that post This post of Fort Du Chesno has been established just seven months and we are still without i mail service and no prospect pros-pect of ever v ng any that we can see due to criminal carelessness on the part of the military authorities or the postoffice department or both The Inspector General United States Army when hero said he would make a special effort for us As we have not heard a word from him since he leftwe havemade up our minds that he has either forgotten us or that he bas no influence with the authorities on the subject It seems hard that in addition to our other hardships and privations wo must be cut off entirely entire-ly from our friends families and the news of the outside world The Union Pacific Railroad Company has engaged to send our mail from Green River and they are fulfilling this contract about as they do everything else They engage in making a perfect failure of it They have hired an irresponsible party who owns but one horse to carry it 150 miles over a mountain road The mail is so largethat be cannot carry it all So be destroys and throws away enough to lighted the sack This is easily done as instead of giving the post a lock sack hroucli from the railroad it can be and is opened at every wayside station Our papers are nearly all either stolen or lost and some of our letters go the same way This one miserable impecunious mail carrier is all the Valley of Ashby county ontaining 2500 people two large Indian In-dian agencies and six cavalry troops have to connect them with the outside world Repeated letters have been sent to De > artment headquarters army headquarters headquar-ters the PostmasterGeneral and his assistants They are all quietly pigeonholed pigeon-holed and ignored We succeded in ending our mail out by courier to Price eightysix miles But the postal clerks insist on sending all out mail via Green River even when addressed to Price Utah So we are perfectly helpless We are now talking of having our mail sent by express to Price and thence to Du Chesne by freighters But this is a glorious Government gloriously mis served that compels its soldiers and citizens to be treated in this manner |