Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-25

Pacific Coast Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, April 24th. Following are
the Pacific coast postal changes fer tie
week ending April 23i:
Offices established = Cleveland, Klikitat
county, Washington, Tolo Lowenherg, Post
master: Imusdale, Jefferson county, Wash
iugtou, Dudley w. Moore, Postmaster.
Offices discoatirued-Jett Nye county,
Nevada; Mckay, San Juan county, Wash
ington Parley's Park, Summit county,
Utah; Empire, Pima county, Arizona,
Names chaneed-Gaspoint, Shasta county,
California to Pinckney; Quilent, Jefferson
county, Washington, to QuiIlayette.
Postmasters ppoiated-Robert Charlton,
Magave, Kern county. California; Charles
Hamel, Natividad, Monterey county, Cal
ifornia William Moosly, Oak Run, Shasta
county, California Thomas Quigley, Ore
Elmo, Siskiyou county, California A. G.
Mayfield, Kiagsburg, Tulare county, Califor
MIA; d. T: YalHe; RiPon, San Joaquin
county, California Miss Julia Caldwell, Sar
Miguel, San Francisco, California d. B
Wariield, Soulsbyville, Tuolumne county
California; Louis n. Gutter, Livermore, AL
aneda county. California Samuel w. Kelly
Three Rivers, Tulsre county, California Ho
race Bentley, Woodbridge, San Joaquin
county, California; Mrs. Rosanna Wilcox
Camp Creek, Lane county, Oregon A. 10
cite. ChampOez. Marion county, Oregon w
d. Ogden, Yakima, Yakima county. Wash
ingtop.
he situation az Omaha and Vicinity
OMAHA, April 24sh.-The situation between
Omaha and Council Bluffs, and at all points
in this vicinity, is becoming more alarming
The river rose an additional five inches las
night, making ii twenty-three feet and eigh
inches above low.wa5er mark.
All the buildings on the Omaha levee hav,
beea abandoned, and the people are anxiously
awaiting the result. The principal interes
is centred in the Union Pacific shops. smelt
ing works, packing house aud lumber yards
A frame slaughter hoated down ant
struck the boom this morning near the Unior
Pacific shops. and broke it, letting loose
large lot Of telegraph poles. Three large ice
houses have fallen down. The lumber yard
are utterly demoralized, everything being
ah pat, but held by booms. Nearly every of
fee, shed and other buildings in the yards ar,
floating or toppled out of position.
The Union Pacific trains arrived and de
parted from Omaha on time to-day.
Boats sail through street after street o
Council Bluffs, in the lower part, where sew
eral hundred houses are abandoned, and il
which the water varies from three to fv,
feet in depth 1t is estimated that there ar
500 people driven from their homes.
person starting at the northern city limits t.
go to the southern limits, can sail almost in
straight line through thickly- settled streets
in territory, at least. fully one-half of th
city
Reports from Sioux City is that the Biz
Sioux river rose four feet yesterday, ant
would reach the Missouri river last night
1t was doing considerable damage, and vii
cause an additional rise in the Missouri
Covington, Neb., opposite Sioux City, ha
agsin been entirely submerged, and the PEG
pie have gone over to Sioux City.
Claim AgaiHst the Government.
WASHINGTON, April 2fth.-A petition ha
been fled with the United States Court o
Claims by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany for compensation for transportation o
mails The amount claimed to be due i
81, 16l, 720. The petitioner maintains the
one half the sum claimed as earned, namely
$3.50. $50, should be applied by the Govern
ment IN aid Of the construction of the rail
road, and that the other hall should be paiC
over in money to the company.
Fire and Rain.
OMAHA, April 4sh.-A prairie fire to
night threatened the property at For
Omaha, and the garrison was called out tt
check is progress. 4 heavy rain set il at /
Pm.
The ST. Louis street Railroad Strike.
ST.. LOUIS, April 24th-Affairs in regard
TO the strike of street railroad employees havc
been, with single exception, very quiet TO-
day. No cars have been run on any roec
except the Bellefonta;ne, and it is understood
that the managers have concluded not tx
attempt to run any until Thursday, and per.
haps not then.
steamship Arrival.
NEW York, April 24th -The steamer
from AsPinwall the 10th, arrived
tonight.
The Star Ring Swindle.
NEW YORK, April 25th-A. M.-The Time.
this morning has the following from its special
Washington correspondent Those who
claim to know all the points Of the investiga.
ton which is being made into the methods OF
the star ring, say the half has not yet been
made public, and will not be until measures
are taken to bring Brady to justice and the
Penitentiary If possible. The whole steal is
divided between what is known as the Dorsey
gang and the Gilmer and Salisbury party,
the latter being by far the most extensive
operators in the sHindle. The Dorsey gang
is composed of j. w. Dorsey, j. NJ. Peck
and j. II. Miner, who have acted as blinds
for Stephen Dorsey, ex-senator from Arkau.
sas and Secretary of the Republican National
Committee, in bidding for and receiving con-
tracts. J. w. Dorsey is a brother of Stephen
w. Dorsey. Only little over three years
ago he was farmer in Vermont, an igaor.
ant. stupid specimen of humanity. He was
not so stupid that his more brilliant
brother could not use him as a cat's.paw
to pull gold from the public treas
ury, and he was brought out to
Washington for the purpose. J. NJ Peck,
the seco1d worthy of the trio, is brother in.
law Of Stephen w. Dorsey, having married a
sister of the latter's wife, and j. NJ. Miner is
partner of the great original Dorsey him
self He was brought from Sandusky ex-
pressly to 90 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 numbers than
SAP, 600. What percentage of this was
spoils only Stephen w. Dorsey and MS part.
rers can tell. The firm of Giimer, Salisbury
& Co., which did even more extensive
business in the swindles than the Dorsey
crowd, is composed of J. T. Gilmer, Monroe
Salisbury and z. j. Salisbury, younger
brother Of Monroe. j. T. Gilmer was for.
merly stage driver over the Holiday over.
land route from St. Joseph to Sacramento,
California. He vas very ignorant man,
and could scarcely write his own name but
he had shrewd eye for business. In 1865
he formed partnership with the two Sails
burys and bought out the stage lines Of
Wells, Fargo & Co., over which most
of the mails in the Territories were at that
time carried. Since then the firm has been
engaged in the star route business, and made
a large fortune. Among the agents who have
made straw bids in the interest of these firms
are V. w. Parker, L. A McDevitt, A II
Patrick, Luke Voorhees,, George H. Platt,
o. J. Salisbury, Patrick l. Brown, A. II
Brown, Ct. V. Messerole, c. a. Cosgrove,
w. A. Giddings. C. ID. Seely, Z. W. Gilmer
Ia brother OF G.. +. Gilmer), w. d.
Hill, Hugh White, Salisbury & Mich.
OILS, William Hamilton, NJ. V. Nichols,
and William Force. The excess OF pay re-
ceived by the Gilmer and Salisbury combina
ton over that called for by the original con-
tracts amounts to the neat little sum Of
S77S, sos, with more still to hear from. In
addition to the money given these large con.
tractors, who made their bids through
straw agents, small fortunes have been
divided between Brady and the smaller
contractors who made their bids on their OWL
account. In Louisiana, DIR. J. I'll. Pearson re-
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