The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20
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Glendale and Dillon Postofices
ar Heard From--Where is the
.,..t .. .. Trouble ? ,

..'H .. .E . IIoOblO Z .. ..r.
Mr., Otto Zugbaum, postmaster at Glendale,
writes us a letter in which he says that it is
no fault OF the Glendale postmaster, because
OF the non-arrivai aud deliveryo f the DAILY
MINER at that place. He says that our cor
respondent, "a Subscriper, does not correct
ly represent the matter. Mr.. Zugbaum
adds: alt is a well known fact
that the DAILY MINER does not reach
this (Glendaie) Office regularly, and some
times not for several days after its issue,
and we sometimes receive the MINEt. of the
latest issue in advance of those issued two
or three days before. Now, it is surely not the
fault of this office that your subscribers do
not receive their papers at the right time.
for we can only distribute papers when &C.
tual!y received. To-day, again we received
no DAILY MINER, although the Inter Noun
tain came to hand. Now where lies the
trouble ?",
On complaint of subscribers and patrons
of the MINER at Dillon and in that section
of the Territory, we published al. item call
Jig attention TO these complaints. and sug-
gested that carelessness was what was the
matter at the Dillon office. A correspond
ent at Dillon writes the following letter,
which, if it does not give Mi. Tom. Warren
mostly away in the matter of carelessness at
the Dillon postotfice, it comes very near it.
AS We do not wish to do an injustice we in
sert 'Justice's'' defense of Tom, as it will
give the public u fair idea of the way many
postotticss in Montana are managed:
DILLON, NJ. r., Sept. 10, 1881.
Editor Miner:
! ! am sorry to note III your paper of the
9th q local item rejecting on Tom Warren,
the postmaster llere-stating that The non
receipt Of the MINER MAY he the result of
caretesSneSS. Some parties may be 50 unfor-
tunatc as to lose their papers occasionally
but it is not Toms fault, | assure you. Eel
lows who are friends Of his will persist in
going behind tie delivery and sitting down
TO read, and of course take papers out of tie
boxes, which they are not always careful to
put b ok. Of couIse Tom can't order them
our. They would get down on him. There
is no Use in people making SO much fuss
about a paper. Tom is always o3iiginy to
those he likes, and sometimes hurs Inns If
by it. He gave three or four papt rs TO a
friend one day, out Of the Otfi e, and the
fellow was mean enough to tell on him and
old whose mail il was. | consider that fel.
low too mean TO live. Everybody is picking
at Tom, and as a friend of his | don like to
see it. They TX rect him to be at he office at
all hours Of the day, aud to open before I
o'clock in the NOR ing, and to e just as ar
uticlar with the mail for those who do NJ
rent boxes as W it'll those who do.
The st age company has got down on him
because he is not always at the office when
the stage comes in, which is nearly Away
before I, and insists That it is his duty to re-
c"ive the mail whenever it arrives. He lives
'hem as good as they send on that string,
however. Because he is a q. 5. ofticiaI is 10
cause fol making a slave of him. He has
other business besides the postottice to attend
to. He has a saloon and is an auctioneer,
time. Willie is smart and is as capable and
polite as his father, but people are always
complaining of him because some times he
don't need to run the letters over to see if a
mau's name is there. He knows most CT
them after he has looked them through once,
without wearing them out every time a man
puts his face to the delivery window. Let
them buy a box if they are 8, particular.
Several of the business men say they get their
mail all right. They all rent boxes. 1t is
rancllmen and men who don't like him that
complain SO much. There have not been
more than two registered letters lost in the
office yet. That is say ing more than most
postmasters can. I'll venture there are more
papers from Dillon lost in other offices than
Butte papers lost in the Dillon Office. l don't
think the editor Of the Tribune has any
trouhle with his mail. 1t does no good to
slAuder Tom. He has political backing hat
will keep him in position in spite of the Nhoie
Territory. | want you to publish this letter
in justice to tim. Yours, respectfully,
JUsri,E.