Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-01
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OMAHA, April 24.-The Missouri is six inches higher than last night, and reached a standstill at o'clock this evening. Railroad connections are maintained by boat transfer at COun- cil Bluffs.
 The Star Route Steal.
 WASHINGTON, April 2J.-Oficial figures show the annual pay of 90 star routes out of 92 was raised be-. tween the lettings of 1878 and Janu- ary l, 1880, from $727, ll9 to S2,SU3,- 2l4. The regular appropriation for the star route service for the year end ing June 90, 1880, was S5, 900. 0OO. Of this amount $2,SO2, 2l4 was ab- sOrbed by the 92 routes.
 Important Railroad scheme.
 NEW YORK, April 9 Tine Worlds St. Louis special says: A. A Talm- age, general agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad, left here Thursday for New York. It is an open secret that he goes east to mature a plan for the consolidation of the Missouri Pa cific, the Missouri, Kansas and Tex as, the Texas and Pacific and the h. ternaiionsI and Great Northern rail- ways. Tie controlling interest in the three first named railways is owned by Jay Gould and his associates in New York, and 1t is rumored that the sale was yesterday affected in New York to scmc parties Ot the lnterna- tional and Great Northern railroad or at least of a majority Of the stock of that road. The importance of this transaction may be appreciated from he following schedule of the length 1f the roads now about tO be cOnsOll- dated: Missouri Pacific, 1000 miles :; Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the branches under constructor, 1290 miles; Texas Pacific and New Or cans and Pacific, l449 miles; Inter la,lonal and Great Northern, TO miles. Total mileage, 44f9 miles. By the coalition an uubsoken line Of railway communication will be esJab-
 isheG from St. Louis Co New Or leans. Houston, Galveston and the Mexican border at Laredo. TuIs con tinuous road will be connected uIth
 he extensive railroad system nov constructing lH MtA-CD-
 Norsels of DepravitY.
 NEW YcaR. April 25.-The Times special fire D Washing Cl says: Those who claim to know all the points of tue investigation now being made into tbe star rIug ssy the na.f has not been made public, and will not be until measures are taken Co bring Brady Co justice and the peni.entiaIy, If possi- Oe. The whole steal Is GlvId d be- tween what Is known ss the Dorsey gang and the Gilmer and Salisbury party, the latter being by far the most extensive operators ln the scandal. The Dorsey gang is composed of J. W. Dorsey, J. Nj. Peck and J. k. Minor, who have acted as blinds for stephen W. Dorsey, ex-Senator from Arkansas and Secretary of the Repub- lican National Committee, in bidding ior and receiving contracts. J. W. Dorsey is brother of stephen ". Dor sCy. Only a little over three years ago he was a farmer in NermOnt-an ignoran, and stupid specimen of hu- manity. He was nc. so stupid but that his more brilliant brother could use him as cat'spaw 10 pull gold from the pubic treasury, and he was brought on 10 Washington for thIs purpose. J. M Peck, the second worthy of the ring, is brother-in-law of 2. W. Dorsey, having married a sister Of the latter's wife; and J. x. M nor is a partner of the great OrIgi- nal Dorsey himself. He was brought from Sandusky expressly to go into the star route business. The amount known to have been pOcketed by the Dorsey gang III excess Cf the amount called for by the original bids is not less than S442, 900. What percentage of this was transferred to Brady as his share of the spells only stephen W. Dorsey and hIs partners can tell.
 The firm Of Gilmer, Salisbury & Co.,, which did an even more eXten- sive business in swindles than the Dorsey crowd, is composed of J. T.. Gilmer, Monroe Salisbury and Q. l. Salisbury, a younger brother of Mol- roe. J. T. Gilmer was formerly stage driver over the Holla- day overland route from St. JO- seph 10 Sacramento. He was very ignorant man and could scarcely write his name; but he had a shrewd eye for business. In 1868 he formed a partnership with the two SalisbuTys and bought out the stage line or Wells, Fargo < Co.,, over which most of the mail in the Territories were at the tine carried. Since then the firm has been engaged in the S-ar Route business and made large fortunes. Among the agents who have made straw bids in the interest of the firm, are V. W. Parker, T. X. McDevett, A. II. Patrick, Luke Voorhees,, Geo. II. Platt, 0. J. Salisbury, Patrick & Brown, A. Fl. Brown, c. c. Messer- oil, c. 4. COsgrove, W A. Giddings, | c. D. Seelly, F. W. Gilman, brother of I. F. Gilman, W D. Hill, Hugh White, Salisbury ( Nichols, Wm. Hamilton, NJ. V. Nichols and W. u. Force. The excess O. pay received by the Gilmer & Salisbury conbina- tion over that called fer by the orig. ! inal contracts amounts to the neat little sum of SITS, sos, with more still | 10 hear from. In addition Co the money given them three large con- ! tractors who made their bids through straw agents, small tOrtUaeS have been divided between Brady and the small CT contractors, who made their bid; on their own account. In Louisiana, Dr. J. K. Pearson secured an excess ol ! $40. .26I on g route Of 26l miles. DT | Pearson was formerly member o the Yarmouth ring in Louiiiana' but
 now lives in this city upon an lncom' derived from the dealings with Brady Charles Andrews, who received O. two routes, each % miles long, sl
 excess of SIP, ,257, is D Washington
 man, formerly clerk in the posto1c