The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-09

l 4ul0 ny oe nouL ue 10 ING second
Auditor. The Second Auditor sent me
/ 10 The Third, and the Third sent me IA
the First Comptroller Of the Corn Beef
Division. This begun 10 look like busi,
mesa He examined bis books and allShi5
loose papers, but with no success. / wss
encouraged. During that week I got a.
tar as the Sixth Comptroller In that al.
vision; the next week ! got through The
Claims Department; the third WeeF / be.
igan and completed the MiSlaid Contracts
| DepaEtments and got q ioothold in ne
Dead Reckoning Department finished
that In three days. There was only one
Iplace left for Il now. Ilaid siege 10 the
1 Commissioner ofiodds and Ends. To
his clerk, rather-he was not there him.
self There weresixteen beautiful young
ladies In the room, writing in books, and
There were seven well favored clefks
showing them how. The young women
smiled up over their shoulders, and the
clerks smiled back at them, and all went
merry as marriage bell. Two or three
clerks that were reading the nevspapers
looked ct me- rather hard, and want IN
tteading, and NOBODY bald anything. How,
ever, ! had been used TO this Kind Of
alacrity from fourth assistant Junior clerks
all through my eyentiul career, from tbe
very day entered the first Office Of Ina
Corn Beef Bureau clear till passed out
Of the last one in,the Dead Reckoning
Division. 1had got SO accomplished by
this time thatl could stand on one loot
from themoment ! entered the Office mi
q clerk spoke 10 me, without changing
more than two, maybe three, times.
30 l stool there till had changed four
different times. Then ! said to one of
the clerks who was reading: .-l
"lllustrious. VSgrant, where Is the
Grand TurkI"
"What do you mean. sir? whom do
you mesnI II you mean the Chief Of
the Bureau, he Is out."ia : ).
Twill he visit the harem to dayS"
The young man gazed upon me Tor a
while, and then went on reading his
paper. But i knew, the ways of those
clerks. / knew was safe II he Got
through before another New York mail
arrived. BE had only two more papers
left. After while he fnhhed them, and
then he asked me what \ wanted,
Renowned and honored Imbecile: On
or about D. . or
@You are the beef contract man. Give
me your papers"
BE took them, and for q long time he
ransacked his odds and ends. Finally he
found the northwest passage as ! regard.
ed it-heitound the long. lost record Of
that. beef contract-he found the rock
upon which so many oil my ancestors, had
split before they ever got TO 1t, Twas
tdeeplY moyedsS- And yet I,rtjoIced=ior
had survived. said with emotion,
"Give It TO me. The Government will
settle now" He waved me back, and
said there was something yet 10 be done
| first.
@Where is this John Wilson Macken.
zle?" said he.
Dead"
"When did.h die Z"
HE didn't die at sll-hs was killed.
"HoW ~ e.7-5r=. -77
"Tomahawked."
"Who tomahaWked him I"
".Why, an Indian, Of course. You did
not mot suppose 1t was superintendent Of
a Sundy school, did you n
'"No. An Indian, was III"
"The same"
"Name Of the Indian p s,
@His names Idon't know his name .
"Must have his name, Who saw the
tomakaWking done 7" 's s..'.flE { !
u don't know" -,
"Were you not present, thenP =
4 ~ *
absent"
"Then how do you know that Macken.
zie Is deadr ~
Because he certainly died Of the time,
and I have every reason to believe that he
has been dead ever since. know he
has, in tact.n j a...
the Indian :" '''''
"Ot course not" 9'aai
"Well, you must get him. Have you
got the tomahAwkS' -t,Tt : u ~
II never thought Of such q thing" !
"You must get the tomshsWk. You
must produce the Indian and the toma.
hawk. nMackenzie's death can be proven
by these, you can then go before the com.
mission appointed TO audit claims with
some show Of getting your thunder head.
way That your children may possibly live
TO receive the money and enjoy il. But
that name death must be proven. how
ever, l may as well tell you that the
Government will never pay the transpof.
tatton and those travelling expenses al the
lamented Mackenzie, Il NAV possibly
pay for the barrel Of beef that Shermanis
soldiers captured, II You can get q relief
bill through Congress making an. ammo.
priatlon Tor that purpose; but It Willneyer
pay for the twenty.nine barrels The In.
dams ate." i1l2S -. ''s -
"Then there Is only one hundred dol
lars due me, and that isn't certain, After
all Mackebzle'S traVels'fna Europe, Asia,
and America with that, beei; aliet al BIS
trials and tribulations and.transportatiop;
alter tho slaughter Of oil those limo cents
that tried 70 collect that bill. Young man,
why didn't the Frat Controller Of the
Cofn-beei Division tellme THAR. g,
HE didn't know anything about The
genuineness Of tho claim =; s:laGJ D. O.
"Why didn't the Second tell me why
didn't the Third , why didn't all those d.
visions and departments tel meG aa4 6.
s"None Of them knew. We. do thihEs
BY routine here, You have followed ,i6e
routine and found out what You wanted
to know. II Is the best Wav.- II d the
only way. It very regular and veFv
SLOW, but II Is very certain *.
aYes, certain death. Il has bean n. tbe
most Of our, tribe. ], begin 10 leel thai i,