Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-24
EASTERN intelligence.
GREAT DAMAGE ANTICIPATED FROM
HIGH WATER.
Revelations Connected with the Star
Route Contract.
Two Million Dollars a Year Mis-
applied.
corrupting theaNewspapers and
congressman,
Brady Must Disgorge or 10 to the
Penftentinry.
Corrupting theaNewspapers and
congressman,

Especial to the SENTINEL

COUNCIL BLUFFS Iowa), April 22.--The
situation from the river rising continues
to grow worse. 1t is now not only serious
but desperate. The water has been rising
at the rate of an inch an hour all day, and
the entire bottoms are inundated to a
depth of from four to six feet. TIL tracks
Of the railroads leading to the Union De-
pot are under water from two to three feet.
The Union Pacific track has been washed
out for several hundred yards, and plat
forms are erected over the water for the
transfer Of passengers and baggage. The
river last night was II inches higher than
ever known. Trains from all directions
are arriving late and irregular, and are
using each others tracks to get to the city,
and in the lower districts of the city are
completely and effectually surrounded, and
can only be reached by boats or improvised
RATS. Up the river the reports are to the
effect that the river is still rising, which
occasions considerable apprehension here,
as we now have as much water as we can
stand.
ST. PAUL Mimi, April 22.-The Pio-
neer-Press' specials from towns on the Red
River state that the river is rising rapidly,
though no danger is expected. The ice
has commenced to break up at Fargo,
Grand Forks and Pembina, and the river
is expected to be clear in a short time.
The star Route steals.
New York, April 22.-The Times says:
The plain story, elsewhere published, of the
mail route contracts between Mineral
Park, Arizona, and Phoebe, Nevada, prom
ises an excellent illustration of Postoffice
management. which Congress attempted to
whitewash and Hayes was persuaded to
overlook. A contract is made for weekly
conveyance of mails, consisting of about
three letters a week, between the points
named. The original contractor sub-let
the contract, which they accepted at 50, 900
to q person to whom they agreed to pay
"a, S00-or 81, 800 more than the Govern
ment allows them. The reason Of this lib
erality becomes apparent when the Post
office ring in Washington succeeded in hav-
ing the ser vice made tri-weekly, and in
getting the compensation increased to $22,-
300. Of this latter sum the sub-contractor
gets only S12, 600. Not satisfied with their
share of SO, 700 a year the conspirators sue
ceeded in establishing a daily mail service
between Mineral Park and Phoebe at the
annual sum of S52 900. of which the SUBJ
contractor received but SIS, 900. By this
time the original contractors. nave made
way for J.. w. Dorsey, who thus secures
S24. 900 a year for his own profit and that
Of his confederates. The story is eloquent
enough to dispense with the necessity for
comment. The Times intimates that other
retirements will probably follow Brady as
a result of the investigation now going on.
1t is possible that the ring within the De-
partment, with its probable allies in the
Treasury, may have steered clear of any
offense of which cognizance could be taken
by a criminal court, but if nobody can be
sent to the penitentiary there should at
successful issue suits for a restitution of the
moneys secured by obvious collusion and
The Tribune is editorially silent on the
subject.
New. YoRK, April %. The Worlds
Washington special says: A great deal Of
curiosity Ia felt here over the promised
revelations in connection with the Star
route contracts. James and the other
officials, who are preparing the data, will
say nothing for publication about what
may be expected, but James is reported to
have said privately that at the proper time
disclosures would be made compared to
which the Tweed regime will go down to
history as respectable. 1t is said to be
capable of proof, that for four years not
less than two millions q year was misap-
piled. Brady and his associates naturally
became rich. 1t was given out for the |
comfort of such as might believe it, that |
Brady proftted largely in telephone stock. |
They bought and controlled newspapers, |
correspondents, Congressman, and such
others as might be useful to them. One
weekly paper here is commonly said to |
have been bought outright by the con-
tractors during last years Investigation. |
The silence, and afterwards the support Of
another weekly paper, was also Sc
cured. In one of the dailies Brady
is q large stakeholder. The paper has
nothing to say about the removal,
except indirectly, by calling a paper that
has exposed Brady's doings "a filter for
flanders Of sharpers, swindiers and
thieves" Another daily keeps its hands
OF editorially, and losses aside the news Of
the day in a mean to indicate
that there is little or nothing in it. A
are good, says there is little doubt of last
ah1S bAot 1A0Ay Va 10 luQltttAs |
and he reports ONE Of the officials engaged
the case to have said to-day that
Brady must either disgorge or go to the
It should be said, however,
that the common belief is that nothing
will be done beyond a complete exposure.
reporter Of the Associated Press called
on Postmaster General James last night
and asked II he could give any positive in
formation about the Star route investiga-
ton. He replied that he could not yet
open his mouth, that the investigation will
thorough and complete, and no guilty
man will escape. The air Is full Of ru-
.ors connecting numerous men with the
star route scandal, but none can be veri-
led. as the officials who know what. has
been developed will not give it out. One
hing is stated on good authority, and that
8 that the report connecting Gen. Tyer
With the affair is ~unfounded. When the
Investigation shall be finished, all the facts
will be turned over to the Attorney-Gen-
raj for his action.
Sensational.
ST.. LOUIS, April 22.-Hon. Thos. Allen,
ate president Of the Iron Mountain Rail-
Dad and Congressman-elect from the Sec
nd district of this city, whose name has
esn connected in Eastern newspapers with
n alleged project for the conquest Of Mex
by armed forces under Grant, denies
nost emphatically knowing anything about
he matter. He says the rumors are not
My sensational but silly. He has no
interest in Mexico, and thinks the
My conquest OF the country that can or
ill be made is a commercial one BY build
ng railroads In it and opening 1t up to trade
commerce. he knows very little of
ZEN. Grants projects in Mexico. but is en-
tra1u nnfiaGad that h. hal - 4La-alA of -