Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-07


gone, it seems to show most fragrant viola
tions of law by such companies as Hussey's
express, Boyd's dispatch post. Manhattan
district telegraph company and United
States circular delivery company, the two
organizations last named being one and
the same company. The prosecution of
this unlawful business by such com panies,
postothce officers here say,
not only results in the loss of
large revenues to the department,
but materially and in many ways inter
feres with the proper conduct of the
United States postal business, and brings
undeserved dis credit upon the United
States lpostal administration. Investiga-
ton shows that in many cases business
men IN New York have given letters to
subordinates to mail, with money to pay
postage at government rates, and that such
subordinates, instead of mailing the letters
in the postofice, have given them to one
OF the private postal companies, which
would deliver them more cheaply than
the government, and have then pocketed
the difference between the private and gov
eminent rates. Many of these letters have
been lost or delayed, and the writers, at
trlbutlng such loss or delay to the United
States postal authorities, have made COM
plant of bad service to the department,
which was in no way responsible therefor.
The Boyd and Hussey companies take col
lections and deliveries only twice day,
while the regular government carriers de-
liver and collect from eight to twenty
times daily. 1t is not true, therefore, that
private postal companies are
patronized because their service is
better than that of the govern
ment. The only advantage which these
private postal companies have over the
government, is that of lower rates. The
private organization doing bushes under
Manhattan District Telegraph company"
and Circular delivery company has re-
Gently begun to transmit mail matter i'm
bulk to other cities where they have
agencies and distribute it there, thus be-
ginning the formation of net work of
mail routes in clearly illegal competition
with the postofice department.
NEW METAL.
j. Edwin Sherman, metallurgist of
Boston, has just concluded here a series of
experiments upon new metal recently
discovered by him, with view to ascer-
tanning its fitness as compared with other
metals for telegraph wire. The expert
ments, it is stated, show that wire made of
this metal has great tenacity, does not
rust, and is superior in point of conduo-
ton to any wire used for electrical pur
poses. The metal, which has nearly the
specific gravity aud somewhat the appear
ance OF silver, can be produced, it is said,
at cost of five cents pound.
ORDERED TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENTS.
Tho falInp,i,,r. ofSo L
the signal corps will be relieved from duty
in this city July 1, and ordered to join
their regiments: Maj. James W. Powell,
captain Sixth infantry; Col. VIM. Ii. Clap,
captain Sixteenth infantry; Capt. S. NJ.
Mills, Fifth infantry, and Lieut.. Richard
P. Strong, Fourth artillery. The latter
officer has been in command of Fort
Whipple since its establishment as q sig
nal station in 1868.
MISTAKE IN INDIAN RESERVATION SURVEYS.
Through miscalculation in surveying
lands for the Zuli Indian reservation in
Mexico, an error was made and the inten-
ton of the government that the reservation
should include the springs which lie direct
ly on the northeast of the boundary line of
the reservation was not carried out. Re-
Gently it has been stated, that Paymaster
VIM. L. Tucker, son-in-law of Senator Lo-
gan, and his associates, have taken up six.
claims, three 'desert" and three homestead,
containing in all 2,4OO acres, which en-
brace the springs mentioned. 1t is further
stated that should the claims of Tucker
and associates be granted the water supply
of the Zulis will be practically cut off. In
the absence of the survey, Tucker claims,
however, that they are rendered void by is
suance of May LIST of the executive order
amending the original order, so as to in
clude within the limits of the Zull reserva-
ton the additional tract of lands on which
the springs are situated. 1t was learned at
the general land Office to-day that W. T..
Tucker filed an application for these lands
in the Santa Fe land Office, Nov. %, 1882.