Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-18
THE ELECTRIC LEAK. \
AN ASTONiSHER FOR THE
CITIZENS OF CARSON.
Business and Political Secrets
Dribb!ing Through the V
e r. Office.

Harris of the Secret Service ana re-
ported exclusively in the APPEAL CT
Yesterday was the biggest eye-orener
for the citizens of Carson that has
been sprung in this city for years.
It dep. onstrated the fact that there
was absolutely no secrecy III western
Union telegraph dispatches sent out
of this city. One man said on III"
street yesterday:
"The APPEAL has only given put
licitv to what has been known :"
many peorle here for the last ten
wears. 1t has been an open secret 10
at leg 81 a score Of business men, that
YOU couldn't send a dispatch over The
wire that couldn't be read in the V. y
T. office There are at least dozen
men in this city who when the,t have
ANYTHING particularly private. mail It
10 the telegraph office in Reno and
have it cent from here.
There were many people who doubt
ed the statement 1t seemed ipcrodlt-
able to them that a telegraph COM
pany taking money from citizens for
wears for the transmission OF private
dispatches, could not have been aware,
If there was such leak as charged.
It is very simple thing to demon
strate however The wires from the
Western Union Cffice ran into the V.
& T. office and out again. There are
plent ; Of men in this city who had
full knowledge OF this fact for years,
having tested the proposition to their
full satisfaction, yet hundreds OF
people walk under the place every day
where the wires run into the depot md
never suspect that the two circni. con-
necrions GARY secret dispatches off
the Western Union wire into the Office
Of the depot where they can he read at
will
"No wonder we have been done up
in Stocks was one mans comment
Now | see how The Republican
bosses got on 10 our political bust
ness" said another.
There are parties in this city who
are looking up the law to see II they
cannot sue the Western Union for col
Letting money for alleged secret trans
mission of dispatches which were no
more secret than if they had been
pasted up on the Court Honse bulletin
board
About wear ago the Railroad com
pany made an attempt 70 take the
telegraph office out Of the Bullion
Bank Building and put it in the V. 4
T. building, but there was such a de-
termined protest raised that the conf
! pary let go. In the light OF the pre-
sent developments however, one is at
| a loss to understand what mutual ben
eft such change would be 10 any
one wishing to have access to the. Sc
! crets Of the wire. although it would
| have saved the wages If one operator.
The disclosures relieve Miss Hum
| phries OF suspicion that has at differ
/ ept times fallen upon her She is I'M
der oath in the Western Union Com
panv not to disclose dispatches. while
railroad operators are not under oath
and not considered answerable 20 any
! one but the railroad.
THE DENIAL.
The Tribune Of last evening argues
that the dispatch referred 10 10y Har-
ris got off the wires in Chicago and
was wired back 10 the Chronicle OF
San Francisco. De Young says it did
not come from Carson, but declines 70
tell how he got it.
| Mr.. Arderv. who is manager "f the
| local Office referred to. says that any
insinuation or accusation tina eds
latch wa made public through any
one connected with the telegraph OF
flee or by their assistance. is bare
faced falsehood.
1t is not likely, however. that Mt
Ardery will deny the fact that the
Western Union wires run into the V.
& T. office and a V. & L. operator can
take any dispatch off the wire that is
sent from this city as the Western
Union and the r. r. Company use
the same wire and the same circuit.