New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-11

sexpeditedy from 81, $50 to sS2l 300. j. ~ dorsey
n brother of s. w Dorsey has the contract on INC
routc from Dallas to Lake View. in southern olo S
ZION. which route was also expedited" from Fo,Voo
90 $4,000. II is probable, therefore, That nc'S
had charge of only small part OF the business VI
the Dorsey ring in Oregon. -,
The Oreocnian OF tomorrow viii say Of the deVel-
ppments in the StarRoute frauds;
Ex-senator Dorsey VII nar dner ssS sp him
,.ea-ee A Steele, who has been nominated lot tns
P 81 Tor Oregon. Washington and
idaho az the the Star service was 40 idIb'y
eSs 1snduent ncrcased Tie knew All about these
transactions he had bis attention called 10 ts %
Especially 20 the route from Dallas 10 baseI Ci,y "a
Csnyon CIV which route was expedited from SSSss 70
$4,000 II would I've "a pertinent Inquiry 70 leaIn Use
the nature OF his reports TO the IVA he hein
routes and what recommendation he made. pa so ,h
the contractors work w these routes ana sg m,
spianitles 10 sie Department. just now since he eS,
poets 10 be Postmaster q Iortan li,e a ba iihonf
fnoui,tcs We venture the OPINION ana thht
special hazard. that - post eleiai ne tere% w o'
stacies IN the way OF the eNp''HuuH 0""'l "''"''
The Dorsey suit was begun at Denver Tor the rea-
sop that the plaintiff able to get service on Dor
sey there Wilcox is still in Oregon. The attorney
who sent the claim from Portland TO Denver to be
sned is J. H. Woodward, formerly County Judge OIL
shis N,nltnomahl County The original of the doc
uments printed above are here in the custody Ol the
agent of the Associated Press.
THREE MORE ROUTES DISCONTINUED.
EXPENSIVE MODE OF DEVELOPING TIE soUTh-EA-
TRAvAGANT SUBSIDIES TO STEAMBOAT LINES.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO TIRE TRlBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, May lO.-Three more steamboat
mail contracts were cancelled to-day IN compliance
with The recommendations made by the ComIms-
sion sent 10 Memphis by the POstmaster-GeneraL
md an estimated saving has been effected OF
S55.OOo a year The contracts were made when
the policy of developing the South by public I'M
movements found favor. The experiment has been
thoroughly tried aud il is found that there are lew
peope in the localities 10 be benefited or II there,
they are not Of the class who care TO use the mails
extensively An examination of the books OF the
Auditors Office was made and the fact was disclosed
that the Little Rock aud Fort Smith route had only
four intermediate offices not supplied by other
routes Only one of them was old enough to
have made quarterly reports and this
one returned revenue Of SO a quarter.
a liberal estimate woud place the annual receipts
of the four Offices at less than nifty dollars year
The annual cost of the route was SlOO0O. The oil
res will be supplied hereafter al an expense OF ABOUT
forty dollars q year.
On another of the discontinued soutes. that from
Jacksonport Ark, To Batesyille. Ark, there were
OILY two intermediate offices, paying from 80 70 -
q quarter each, less than forty dollars year, and
The cost of the route $1,000. The third r0nte
suspended was that from Camden, Ark, 70 New
Orleans, upon which action the saving viii be
$4,000 a year. This route Is OIL mics IL
length aud had upon u fourteen offices which de
pend exclusively npon il for mails. For the fourth
quarter of 1850 the epts from these offices were
E2S7 ~, OF at the rate ot 81. las 40 year
Il il not the purpose Of tho Department 20 leave
tbc Offices affected 10y these dscOntil naIces without
service but they viii al he supplied IN other ways
and without the enormous dispropOTtloD between
expenses and receipts shown by the figures given
0bOTF.