The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-15
CHEAP MAIL SERVICE.
The Route From Warsaw to
Quincy Taken at q Figure That
Will Not Pay Expenses.

Captain f II. Richardson, one of War
saws most prominent citizens, while i'm
town yesterday, was looking into the con-
tract that has been let for carrying the
mail on q recently established route from
Warsaw to Quincy, in Hickory county,
which service Is To begin the first of July.
The contract has been given out to
party in Kentucky, with a number Of
others, and an agent has been appointed,
with headquarters at this place, to sub-let
these different routes, but that gentleman
could not be found by the Captain yester-
day. the contract in question was bid in
at the sum of $500, BY the original con-
tractor. and if party will sit down and
figure the cost of ierriage and Oiher incl
dental expense for q twelve-mOnIh, it will
be readily discerned that the expenses can
not be met by the amount of money re-
ceived from the government for the trans
pOrtatiOn of the mail over this route; and
II will also be seen that the contractor is
stuck, as ii we're, as he is bound by his
bond to carry the contract out in good
faith. The only reasonable theory Tor TAX
ing it AT such low figures is the TACT that
the cOntrac or may save himself ON other
routes in the staie-that is, it was taken Ii
a general pool with other routes.
Captain Richardson is q very earnest
advocate OF he party who now runs hack
line from Warsaw to Quincy, Jake Shields,
and properly mAini lbs that the work can
be done by him cheaper than any one else,
and even by him the very lowest figure at
which the mails can be prOftably carried
on this route is one thousand dollars.
Captain Richardson is we'll posted in this
II La &rA
that sub-contractOr cannot be found who
has more money than judgment, and Is
willing to accommodate The contractor to
the d-triment Of his own interests.
Lost His Thumb.
H. b. Weyman, q Carpenter employed at
The X Il T. shops, met with an accident
yesterday forenoon that cost him his right
thumb and middle finger. He was work
ing with what is known as a shsper-s
pOin- ed, three cornered knife, and BY some
manner which he is unable 10 explain his
thumb vas struck at the second joint BY
the knife and amputated almost as smooth
~ as if done by a surgeon. The knife
then skipped the fore-6nger. or barely
grazed it, and struck the middle finger at
the second joint, making still another am
putatiOn.
Mr. Weyman went at once to the hospi-
tai, where the.injured members were dress
ed, after which he proceeded home. IL
will be several weeks before he is able to
resume his labors, but he can congratulate
himself that il was no worse.
A Marrow Escape.
Yesterday morning about IL o'clock, as.
Mr.. VIM. Baker, of Heaths creek township,
accompanied by Two ladies, each of whom
had baby in her arms, was in the act Of
driving across the street car track IT the
Ohio street crossing, in two horse buggy
drawn by a pair Of spirited horses, the
car driver failed to slack up and the car
tongue struck the bed of the buggy with
considerable violence, causing the horses
to take fright and suddenly turn, thereby
breaking the tongue Of the buggy. The
horses then began to kick and plunge and
serious accident seemed inevitable, and
undoubtedly would have occurred had not
Officers Jim Gossage and Jackson. assisted
by Mr. George Dixon, seized the maddened
horses. at the peril Of receiving great
bodily injury, and held them
until the thoroughly frightened oc-
cupants could get out. The affair