The evening times., 1902-07-23
Interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of the Government Bureaus.
A GEORGIAN WHO CAME WITH HOKE S
Record of Good Clerk Who Held Many Important
Offices in the Cracker State Before He Shook
Its Dust Off-Some Personal Notes.

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and the SO a year Uncle sam allowed
him for the faithful performance Of his
duties Trains do not stop at Curvetoa
not even the freights-and so the mail
was placed in a separate sack and kicked
of the train into Miller's front yard
His duties we're not oneTous, therefore
but he became dissatisfied and AZ the
end Of his third year Of Office resigned.
The receipt of his resignation did not
make the stir ne thought 1t might in
Washington. In fact. he never heard
from it. The mail sacks were still IN
loaded in his yard and he kept the Office
open for two years more without an
audible mUrmur- Then he resigned
again This action did not have the ef-
feet OF stopping the receipt OF the mail
bags He finally discovered that it was
a hard matter to let go of the job He
resigned at intervals. whenever ne could
spare time from his other duties to
write cut his resignation
Detective Sergeant Ed Weldon OF the
Metropolitan police force, has been pur-
suing the wicked for thirteen years. AS
a detective he has achieved distinction,
and he is one Of the main reliances Of
the force at the Capital City. He is an
alI-round good officer. bright, popular
and able He has made hundreds of ar
rests, many of them difficult and
dangerous. He has an excellent record
in police and detective work and is
well liked by the people CT the city.
He is unmarried and has Oeen a resident
Of the District for many years He be
gan as a private OF police
The arrest OF Big Bill Mason. one
0F hn ~ svaEa 4 ha
Capital. was one Of Sergeant Weldon 8
best pieces OF work Bill had declared
that no Jail would hold him, and the
capture OF q man Of such bloody repu-
JatiOn and known courage was not a job
TO be desired. The sergeant, however,
got Bill SO quietly and neatly that the
bad man did not have a word TO say.
The sergeant was also one OF the most
active officers in the search for and
capture OF the noted gang OF safe rob
bers, who operated here several years
ago. This was one Of the most arduOus
cases the police ever had TO tackle
Sergeant Weldon is often detailed TO
do duty at the conventions in and around
the city He has a large experience with
the crooks and has been the means OF
saving thousands of dollars to people
attending meetings OF various sorts.
There are several big rascals in the
penitentiary who give the sergeant the
credit for their present condition, and
who blame him with wrecking their
promising business
a weII-known and accomplished man.
the superintendent of one Of 5he build
ings CT one of the departments, has
been IN the West q great deal He has
has had the rough experiences common
TO men who go out into the wilds to
open new country He thinks the hottest
and poorest place to live is Indio,
Arizona, the lowest point on the north
ern hemisphere It is situated on what
was once the bottom Of a salt sea, AMI
lit is now rather dreary but promising
place The site of Indio IS $50 feet
below the sea level Yuma is q much
better place, though described by most
tourists as the back door of hades.
Yuma IS at the edge Of the great Color
ado desert, which It is now proposed
10 put II the rose garden class by means
Of irrigation
A Kentuckian in the Treasury Depart /
ment who recently attended a reunion
OF Morgan's men IN Kentucky, says that
requests Tor facts as 10 the life OF the
great Confederate raider are coming
into Kentucky all the time IN increasing ]
volume Morgan was one Of the most
picturesque figures of the war. This
Kentuckian say:
'MOrgan's Kentuckians have some /
times been recklessIy and unfairly class
ed with those guerrilla bands that waze {
war more in tie spirit CT Vandals than
Of organized and disciplined soldiers.
The command first and last embraced (
the best young bloods Of Kentucky. /
many OF them graduates Of the highest !
Eastern colleges and others too young
10 be graduated. Among the leaders /
were Willie Breckinridge, Hart Gibson
OF Yale, al one time Morgan's adjutant (
general; Colonel Griggsby, Of an old /
Virginian family and a graduate of the /
University OF Virginia: Colonel ChenauIt- ]
Colonel Tucker, Colonel Cicero Coleman. (
Governor NcCreary and scores Of others (
whose names are prominent IN the West. /
and, in fact, all over the Union, as hon I
Orable and active citizens
The ranks of the corps at the be (
ginning and all through its career were
filed with the flower OF the youth 7
around Louisville and the Blue Grass /
country where Morgan was known.
Morgan took naturally to raiding be /
cause OF his love OF horses and his ex- ,
PeTience in the Mexican war. where 1
he had commanded a company. Ills /.
men had early been taught horseman- F!
ship. in fact born IN the saddle With
OF without saddle or surcingIe it was
all the same"