White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-12-27
The Same sabtect, Continued.


While we have our hand in on the
subject Of mail matters. we may as well
finish up. We have this week received
o statement from Mr.. Aug. Miller, Post
master at Wsthena, Of which the follow
ing 10 the substance:
"For the last six weeks. 70 all matter
from above, for White Cloud, Highland.
lows Point, Hiawatha. etc., has come
down as far as Wathena, where stop il,
and return it the next day. Very often,
some Of the same mail matter returns by
next mail. This morning. (25tb.) /
stopped about 80 bundles of mail design
ed for Hiawatbs. Highland, lows Point,
etc. / don't know who is to blame for
sllthis but one thing l do know: Some
Of she Postmssters on said route are to
blame. Perhaps an article in the Chief
would wake them up to their senses as
regards their official duty"
We have no doubt that Postmasters
frequently let mail matter belonging to
their Offices slip by; and there are many
Postmasters so careless or Indifferent,
that when they come across matter that
has slipped through another office, they
will not stop it and return it by the next
mail, but will send it on until some one
else turns it back. The present contrac.
tors do not ruu through Iowa Point. bu,
ons-horse side mail goes to the latter
place from Highland. Highland is the
place for the Iowa Point and Hiawatha
mails to change routes and if packages
for these places keep wandering about, i,
is the fault either OF the Postmaster a,
Highland, or of the mail crrriers. Ou,
opinion is, that the Highland Postms sste,
is not to blame for the greater part of the
mistakes, but that the stage drivers are
responsible. 1t happens in this way
Lest week. for example. when the drivers
struck an unusually bad streak, they
came to this place bat once or twice, bat
passed rs BY. At Mo- o-Heart, the first Office
above. the Postmaster would stop the
packages for White Cloud, and put them
in the next down mail. 1t usually hap
apsned. that they went down in the even.
ing; and in order to save time. they pass
cd as again, carrying our mail back to-
ward st. Joseph. As it was late whsn
they reached Highland and Troy. we have
no doubt that they ran on through with
out stopping, and thus the Postmast ct
Wathena was the 6rst to discover It. In
this manner, the White Cloud mail was
carried back and forth three or four times
last week.
Last weeks issue ofthe Chief was placed
in the Post office at the usual time; vet,
in consequence of the stage passing Us by,
it did not 60 out until Sunday evening,
and for sught we know, was then sent on
through to st. Joseph and back before it
found its place of destination. This week,
90 far, we have had no cause for com.
plant.
This is fair specimen of our mail
blessings. A gentleman who rode on the
coash short distance recently, inform s
us that thss driver told him that Mr..
Wheeler, one of the contractors, bad
said they were under obligations to deliver
the mail at White Cloud but three times
s,.week. Acting upon this licenes. the
drivers come just when it suits them.
The advertisements for proposals, and
the schedule.furnished to our Post office
BY the Department, require six mails per
week each way; but the contractors. may
bave amended it to suit themselves
Snch being the facts, the people along
the route are justifable in complaining,
and of right ought to lay the facts before