Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-09-10

The Testimony Submitted 20 DIR Eek
1eidt Yesterday

10 o'clock Yesterday morning, hut M
witnesses for the prosecution We're
present. Mr.. Eckfe waited fifteen
minutes and then announced that az
aud had refused to appear he would
take up the dispositions of Sparge,
Cheney and Abel now on file and pre-
coed, as the defendants had requested
70 be heard on their own behalf.
sPARGo's LETTER TO CRAWFORD.
The following letter was taken up by
| Mr.. Eckfeldt:
CARSON. July Cd, 1882.
Hon. JAMES CRAWFORD-Dear Sir !:
Some few days since appealed to you
| to remove me from the department you
| consigned me to last November. ] fully
expected after the vivid m inner DE-
scribed my situstinn to you YOU would
take immediate action in the matter
but perceive by your silence your in
attention to my appeal. l told you in
pain words that all ever expect to az
quirc and retain is an honest AMI up
right name, the only legacy, in all prob
ability, will leave for my cIiIhren'~
inheritance that by your PC jon last
November Of cnnSigning me (again~t
my willy into the Meters and RefineFS'
Department you had done me and my
family Il great lnjus'ic ice by placing me
among the most disreputablp, unron-
scious. tyrannical, low, degraded per
sons who have no reputation nor regard
for the standing of others that may he
assigned to any duty under their igro-
rant, i;lsolent staff of officers Very re-
specially. T. SPARGO.
Mr.. Eckfeldt remarked that the le'-
ter contained no charges and was in
itself sufficient cause for the discharge
of the author. He only wished to
know why the lett was anti dated.
Mr.. Hofer then took the stand and
testified that the removal Of Spargo
had been fixed upon some time before
the trouble and his discharge made out
ROBERT HoFER's CEMETERY FENCE.
The next charge was relative to the
building of fence at the cemetery
from Mint material and Mint labor.
MIR. HoFER's TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Hofer testified as follows:
am the Chief Clerk of the Mint in |
this city, have held the position for
eight years. l received permission
from the Superintendent to use certain
blacksmith tools which were not to be |
found anywhere else in the city, and |
also to give certain employees work who |
had been suspended without pay. They |
were E. B. Cults and Charles Meder.
Although on the Mint rolls, they re-
ceived no pay whatever from the Gov
eminent. They were suspended by
the order Of the Department. [The
witness here introduced the order from
suspending them They
were suspended April LIST. 1881, and
November LIST, 1881. I en-
ployed Cults and Meder to make
fence for few days in May. All the
material purchased and paved for. l
paid the men for their labor on personal
account. Had their pay come from the
their names would appear
on the monthly pay rolls, or the vouch-
ers, which would appear in the account
which is audited and adjusted at WASH
ington. WITNESS here submitted the
following bills I: Nevada State Prison,
81 feet Of cut stone, $3.50; +. B. Raii,
3l5 feet gas pipe, s45.64; V. & 7. r.
castings and labor, S27.H;
John Tapp, blacksmithing, 81; Ed.
Harper, laying foundation, $40. The
bills were II receipted.l
Some 500 more had been paid for
lrayage and outside labor for which
10 vouchers were presented.
Witness then askel to offer in evil
lence the bills Of the Mint fer that
month"; Mr.. Erkfeldt said that it was
rot necessary, rs the Department had
lready examined these accounts and
Ound them correct.
c.. P. Mason, Of the V. & T. r. r. ,
Company, took the stand and testified .