The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-05
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Times in its pursuit of these ~rascals, but it!
imperfect scent or its fear of tracking it,
game too near the executive mansion al
| Washington, leads it off into lonely by paths
in search of prey less dangerous to handle
when found. In Its roamings 1t has discov-
cred a route running from White Sulphur
Springs to Fort Custer over which it has ap-
pointed itself chief inspector and general
critic. To present to its readers in an enter
tanning manner the crookedness that marks
the expediting Of this particular route our
enterprising contemporary commenced, some
time since, the publication of a series of arti-
cles which were paraded Lefore the public UNI
der a uniform caption or headline, as follows !:
1.-THE White Sulphur Springs and Fl. Custer
Star Route" In discussing the merits OF the
service upon this route our blind %neighbor
has failed to see the hand of Brady or that OF
any of his political associates. 1t don't see
Brady al all. A stranger to the country and
to the history of that gentleman's connection
with post route frauds would, if he regarded
the Inter Mountain as authority, suppose that
some democrat in Montana projected that
route and committed all the deviltry that
converted it into a machine by which $4,000
was annually squeezed out of the govern
meut. We shall not stop to SHOW the Inter
Mountain the s'head centre of these star
route frauds. It. couldn't see him if he were
showed under its nose. As we have before
stated that journal is afflicted with mental
strabismus. If we pointed out Brady, it
would cast one eye on a democratic congress
and the other on old eX-Postmaster General
Key, whom it persists in calling a democrat,
and utterly fail to see Brady. 1t sees only
democrats. 1t has an eye for democrats, and
as it claims to be an expert in hunting down
democrats, We have cut out a little more
in that line of business for our nosing
contemporary.
We call upon our neighbor 10 expose the
that has been influencing Mr..
Theophilus French in his little business with
Leland Stanford, president of the Central
Pacific railroad. 1t appears that Mr.. French,
a representative republican of the most ap-
proved pattern, is United States railroad conf
under the Thurman act of May,
1878. Last winter Mr.. French complained
to Congress that the Central Pacific was vio-
lating the provisions of the act named IN that
it diverted its earnings to leased lines. In
The same communication he recommended
that the railroad company be required to turn
;,,to tia e;pI-;, n f,,pi EH a rc1lt tretcnl ~
25 per cent, of it's net earnings, as had been
before required, and as the Union Pacific was
is still doing. Upon the receipt of Mr..
French's statement congress ordered an in
should go over until winter and that
IN the meantime Mr.. French should go west
work the case up so as to make a ON
plete one against the company. Mr.. French
went west as far as he could go by land and
met Mr.. Stanford at San Francisco. The in
appears to have been not only short
but decidedly sweet to Mr.. French. 1t must
have been of the same character to Mr.. Stan
ford also, for Notwithstanding suit had been
in the circuit court for the southern
of New York to force the
company of which Mr.. Stanford is president
10 payment and to enjoin dividends until
he same should be paid, he has informed the
Californian by letter that the Attorney Gen
eral would be urged to withdraw the suit.
This Mr.. French has lone without first re.
porting to the government the result of his
Investigations Or making it known to The
Attorney General. OF course President Gar
field is mad, but President Stanford is I'M
good natured. Now what we want
10 know is, what democrat is at the bottom of
his scandalous matter? Who sa,c French?
Was it some prominent democrat, or was it
Stanford's money? We are confident the
Inter Mountain can solve the problem, and if
work and cheek avail it will succeed in i'm
p~licating some one if he be no higher in the
scale of political importance than a delegate
10 congress.
Mr.. Bergh, President of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has re-
sent a singing letter to the New York
State Association for the protection of Fish
and Game, protesting against the proposed
wing. shot tournament that is soon to come off
at Coney Island. Mr.. Bergh contends that
to capture 10000 birds and to kill and mutt
late them for the sport Of so ,ioiu. cannot be
called ;" protection," but is simply aud pure
ly destruction. The pigeons, be says are not
to be killed for food supply, and the p~retense
it is TO be done to improve Workmanship
is silly, as there are many mechanical targets
which answer all purposes. The veteran
protector of birds and other animals appears
to have the best of the argument. He sup
pressed one tournament in 1872, which led to
a suit in which he was sustained by the
courts and he may be able to "down" the
one. Tie officers of the association
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