The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-26
STAR ROUTE sTEALINGs.
BRADY and His Associates in
the Mail COntraes Business.
A Big and Bad Showing, bat
Punishment not Expected.
Some BOesI Names Figure IN
the Exposure.

inc Exposure.
Washington, 24.-The official figures
show the annual pay of ninety threI
Star routes, out Of 8, 225 were raised b..
tweea the iettings Of 1873 and JsnuarJ
lst 1880, from $727,119 to g, SOP 2l4
The regular appropriation for the StAl
route service for the year ending june
3Olh, 1880, was SIS, sou, 900. or The
amount 81, COZ, 2l4 wAs absorbed by the
ninety three routes noted, leaving So,
O97, 1856 for the remaining 9, l35 routes.
New York, 24.-The Times, this morn
ing, has the following iron Is spec =
Washington correspondents: Those Who
claim to know all the points of the in-
vestigation which is being made into the
methods Of the Star rings, cay the half
has not yet been made public and will
not be until measures are taken 10 bring
Brady to justice, and to the penitentisry,
il possible. Toe whole steal is divided
between what is known as the Dorsey
gang and the Miner and Salisbury party,
The latter being by far the most extensive
operators In the sWIndle. The Dorsey
gang is composed OF j. w. Dorsey j.
NJ. Peck and j. K. Miner. who have
acted as blinds for Stephen w. Dorsey,
ex-senator from Arkansas and secre AIRY
OF The republican national committees,
bidding for and receiving contracts. j.
". Dorsey Is brother of Stephen w.
Dorsey. Only little over three years
ago he was a farmer in Vermont, an ig-
nOrant, stupid specimen of humanity.
He was not SO stupid that his more bril-
liant brother could not use him as q CATS
paw to pull gold nom the public treasury,
and be was brought out TO Washington
for this purpose. j. NJ. Peck, the second
worthy of the trio, Is q broIher-in-iaw Of
Stephen w. Dorsey, having married
sister of the latter's wife; and j r.
Miner is partner Of the great
original Dorsey himself. He was
brought from Ssndusky, Ohio, ex-
pressly 10 go into the Star route
business. The amount known to have
been pOcketed by the Stephen w. Dorsey
gang, In excess Of the amount called for
by their original bids, is not less in round
than S4l2, 0OC. What percentage
of this was transferred to Brady, as ais
shsre of the spolls, only Stephen W.
Dorsey, and his partners can tell. The |
firm of Gilmer, Salisbury & Co., which |
has even done more extensive business |
in swindles, than the Dorsey crowd is /
OF ]. L. GIlmer, Monroe Sails
bury and o. j. Salisbury, younger |
brother fof Monroe. j. L. Gimer was |
g stage driver over the Holiday |
Overland route, from ST. Joseph, TO |
California. He was very
ignorant man, and could scarcely write |
his own name, but he had shrswd eve |
for business. In '6S he formed a |
with the two Salis bury S |
and bought out the stage line OF Wells,
Fargo u Co., over which most |
Of the mails in the territories werr. at |
hat time carried. Since then the firm |
has been engaged in the Star routs BUSH
ness, and made large fortune. Among |
Inc sgents who have made straw bids in |
The interest Of tbese firms are V. w. |
Parker, 7. A. McDeviGt, A. S. Patrick,
Luke voorhees,, Geo. b. Pislt o. j. |
Salisbury, Patrick & Brown, A. ID.
Brown, g. V. Messersle, O. A. Cos |
grove. w. A. Giddings, G. D. Seely, F |
w. w. Gilmer, brother of j. T. G Inner,
w. ID. Hill, Hugh White, Salisbury 81
Wm; Hamilton, NJ. v. Mich
OILS and VIM. II. Force. The excess OF !
com binAtion over that cal ed for By the
original contracts, amounts TO the neat
little sum Of $77S, sos, with more still 10
hear from. In addition to the money
given TO these laIge contractors, who
made their bids through straw agents,
small fortunes have been divided be-
tween Brady and the smaller con-
tractors, who made their bids on their
own account. In Louisiana, DR.. j. h.
Pearson secured an excess Of S40,2 on Q
route of Dol miles. DR.. Pearson was
member of the WarmouiE
ring in Louisiana, but now lives in this
city upon an income derived from deal
ings with Brady. Chase Andrews, who
received on two routes, each twenty
miles long, an excess of S12 257, is
Washington man. He was formerly q
clerk in the postofice department here,
but was removed by Postmaster-GenerAl
Jewell, for matfeasance in office. John
A. Walsh, who secured an increase OF
$lS8, 475 on the route from Prescott TO
Santa Ee, Arizona, for which he origin
ally contracted for SIS, 500, is native Of
Louisiana. When the war broke but he
joined the rebel army, but sitter ths re-
construction Of Louisiana, joinei the
Yarmouth ring. He was indie ed in
New Orleans for making illicit whisky,
and was saved from imprisonment by
Brady, who was at that time supervise
of internal revenue in New Orleans, and
refused to appear as a witness against
him.
Salisbury, Gilmer, VOORHEES, and
White constitute one firm, AM pull to-
gethsr for their account and advantage.
The firm maintains representative con-
stsntly In Washington, whom tUey pay
81, 200 per annum to look after their con-
tracts and 10 see they are increased and
expedited ct the proper time. Their
attorney is Colonel Joseph McKibben,
g former member of Congress from Cali
fornla. McKIbben having the privilege
of :he House of Representlyes, was able
to render efficient service during the con-
gTessional investigation CO Quoted at the
beginning Of last year These persons
do not require any political b7cklng,
being able, through the manisulations of
their attorney, to keep matters all right
at the postoffiee department. Some Of
the local newspaper writers howl about
the attempts being made 10 blackmail
Brady and the Star route contractors and
the firm he represents. One Of these
writers is said to have drawn on Sails
bury last summer for q large amount #
money, which draft went to protest.
1t was subsequently paid, however, and
the msn who received the money gained
control OF q newspaper in which be is
constantly intimating that those whe are
exposing the Stsr route iniquity are striv-
ing to blacKmail Brady and Star route
contractors.
New York, Is "A Baltimore cores
pendent of the times affirmS positively
regarding the Star route iobbers, that il
the conspIrators are tried in Washington
they will never be punished, though the
evidence against them should bt
piled mountain high. A locker on in
Washington for twenty-five years
have never known q solitary case in
which q wrong doer of high official psi.
ton, who had money, has ever been pun
ished. make no charge, only state fact.
j Ii YOU can give me q single lnstance. iusI