The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-11

iug f0poers -gG general misconduct u
!. tbs GlaosgsneDt oC the posipficse ia this
G city. The Vt ,ie Tenor Of the article
was calculated to misiead the public
s aud 10 convey false impressions. II re
. fiec.e ed also upon my integrity as mar
and an officer Had the author know
the real facts, which he could have as
: certained by calling ON me, he certainly
could not have found il in his heart Il
publish the article. will moi
now say anything of the mo-
tives which ] believe dictated the pub
LEGATION. 1 will leave the public tc
e draw their own conclusions. and the au-
e thor to do as he thinks best In the prem,
ises, merely remarking that there is not
: a correct statement in the Republican s
J.. puFported expose, as win be abundantly
proven by the facts, and by the inter
a vention OF time.
Now, as to the truth Of what has
transpired: About the first of April l
had the conviction reluctantly forced
upon me that there was q. leakage in the
posloflce. How il occurred ] could not
tell. put the matter in the hands of
, the city marshal, and told him the cir
> cumstances and my suspicious. Soon
. after, / told one or two friends, whom l
thought could assist me in ferreting
, the matter out. The matter ran
along a week or two longer, the
! officers gathering such facts as they
could. The case was then given to the
county attorney, and be with couple
OF detectives was engaged in working
the matter up when the Republican in
some way got hold of il, and made its
unfair statement of the case. desired
to catch the thief and recover the
money. want 10 state here, that the
safe was 1t no time broken open, and that
neither the government nor any patron
has lost or will lose Q cent No one
suffers cents loss but myself. There
has been no attempt TO cover up any
thing, further than to keep the mat
ter quiet that l might accom-
plish my purpose in trying to
recover my serious loss and to fix the
thieving on the right party. 1 should
suppose that even my worst enemy
would desire nay success in this respect.
want TO say also thst deny in toto
the Republicans inuendOes ami state
ments about the conduct of the Office.
1 assert, and court the fullest inveetiga
ton, that the Office is run as carefully
and with as ew mistakes as any office
| in the. state That there are mistakes
made do not deny, and somrIim-s they
creep in when they seem Inrxcusable
We are handling the mail matter If
probably 10000 people, one-third of
whom are constantly new people.
There are seven daily mails ar
irving and departing, and our work
has to be done hurriedly. Hundreds.of
the letters mailed each day are brought
to the Office, and have to be sorted, |
stamped, distributed and tied up within |
quarter of an hour of the time the |
different mails go out. / am now Civ |
ing my entire personal attention to the |
post Office, and shall continue to do SO |
as long as / stay in it. believe every |
clerk in the Office is honestly devoted 10 |
the interests of the Office. II did not |
believe SO l would not keep them a min |
ute. During my occupancy of the |
Office / have handled nearly 100000 |
and perhaps 10000 registered letters. |
Every cent of this money and every |
registered letter haS been honestly &C |
counted for, Ms my receipts show. Not |
one of those letters has ever been |
lost in the Emporia Office, and not a |
cent of the money. / claim this is |
something to the credit of the office |
aud is better evidence as 10 the conduct
of the Office, than outside reports and |
complaints l have ever urged people |
who had complaints to make to bring |
them to me. There is a chance for me !
to detect errors when reported promptly. |
have always taken pains to find them |
when l had an opportunity and the |
facts in relation to them. Many of the |
complaints made, are entirely ground
less. Recently there has been a
good deal of trouble about the loss of |
mail. 1t has been traced to the east
and arrests have been made of the |
thieves. Emporia business men suffer
ed to some extent Some of the letters |
have turned up all right, and others
have been returned TO the Office from |
the dead letter office. There has not
been as much trouble at Emporia as at |
other important offices.
can only say now that the investiga-
ton as to who stole the money is pro
crossing, though the unwarranted ar
ticle in the Republican has frustrated |
our plans very much. Whenever any
thing of interest to the public occurs,
which it is proper to publish, it will be
given.
In closing simply wish to say that
in this trouble have been the victim
of misplaced confidence, an accident
that is liable To, and does Overtake many
men in similar positions. There have
been postOfiice robbeTies al severa' i'm
pOrtanl points in Ka s,s since me
into The Offlce, aud / nA, begun q con,
graidIaie C~lnyseif that oulu
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ship Tor me-. Il steciu!iy,
| q ~ JACOB SToTLER.
Accident at the Presbyterian Church.
Quite little panic occurred at the
Presbyterian church Sunday morning
The usual Introductory services
tud ibeep5 icompae,ed, and Rev.
Mr.. Hendy had just com
menced his sermon, when about one
third of the plastering Of the panel di
rcctly above the choir became detached
and fell, a small portion striking Mr..
SBRiggs on the head severely bruising
| his on0ln and cy,vip0 him r,,;ta q sho.lr