Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-06-28
PENSION CLAIMS.

The retiring Commissioner of Pension
is trying to create an impression, absurd t.
every one familiar with the work of hi
office-that he was removed because b.
stood in tie way of the passage of fraudu
lent claims pushed by claim agents. Tha
this is untrue is shown by the fact tina
the country are represented by less thai
half a dozen whom the Commission has
absolute power to suspend from practice
and that in the six ye rs Of his service he
found no occasion to suspect one of those
agents. 1t is popularity supposed that the
claimant who has fictitious claim secures
the best assistance in trying to secure its
allowance, and this may be true, but the
Commissioner, with an ample force of
detectives has not connected one of the
prominent agents with any fraud. The
pension business is getting to be serious
one. In the near future it will cost the
Government much more coin than it now
does, but it will not help the matter to
make reckless charges against soldiers as q
body or against their attorneys.
Referring to the Salt Lake & Western
Railroad, articles of incorporation for
which were filed at Carson City last Fri.
day, the Salt Lake Herald says: 1t is not
to be, as anticipated, an extension of the
Utah and Nevada Railway, but is entirely
q new line. The road will be standard
gauge, and commence, as near as we can
learn, somewhere about Lehi, and con-
structed westward to Nevada, entering that
State on the fortieth parallel; and passing
through Nevada, will run in Southwestern
ly direction and enter California about the
thirty-eight parallel. From this point it
will strike the nearest possible direction
for San Francisco. It is believed the work
will begin Immediately, engineers already
being in the field.
The government supplies so far bid for
this year will cost less than at any previous
time. In the matter of stamps, envelopes,
ETC., for the Department the reduction is |
great. This is due partly to improvements
in machinery and in competition, but in |
part also to conviction that the Depart |
ment is to run on business principles, and |
that no unreasonable bid would be accepted. |
The methods of the Postmaster General |
may we'll be initiated in this respect by |
all other Cabinet officials
A consolidation has been effected of the
Utah Central, Utah Southern and Utah Elk
tension raiload. Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon,
John Sharp and other capitalists connected
with Union Pacific are directors in the new
company. The entire line will hereafter
be known by the name of the Utah Central,
It extends from Ogden to Frisco, a distance
of $50 miles, and the probability is that t. e
line will be extended southwark to make
railway connection in Arizona.
Let the stock market be manipulated as
it may, in the interest of one combina' ion
or another, remarks the New York Econo-
mist. the country is doing we'll at the
present time, and may be confidently relied
on to do better. Such fabric of public
as industry is now erecting on
so broad basis cannot be thrown down all
at once in any contest between 'bulls" and
bears" astraa ssgt-E q. "aa
The work of cleaning out inefficier t
clerks in the government Departments wi
be we'll under way before July first. It is
believed that these changes now will be
greater than on any, other year since 1866
md that unlike the ordinary practice -
hose who go out because of inefficiency or
,ther faults viii 60 TO stay.
A police justice in Syr.cuse refused to
punish man who insulted a woman who
adj flirted with him. ''Virtuous women
ave no right to firt," said the level headed +