The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-01
.P0ST0FFICE SCANDAL
SEEMS INSIGNIFICANT
Settling Mass of Corruption Uncovered by Te8ti
mOny Of Liant K. Salisbury
Many Prominent People of Grand Rapids Mich nvovsd-Sx
Gigantic Water Deals
ORAND RAPIDs. L.. ~

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Nov. co.
The confession of ex-City Attor-
ney Liant X. Salisbury regarding
the notorious water scandal i'm this city
yyas told for the first time today in
court at the preliminary examination
or state Senator David Burns. and IL
has created "a tremendous sensation on
gccount Of the number of prominent
persons it duplicates In addition TO the
seventeen officials and former officials
VINO were arrested on bribery charges
ten Gays ago.
Never once did Salisbury have to re-
4tf 20 notes. and he rendered his testf-
hony readily and rapidly. giving
names, dates and occurrences as fboug1
the alleged events happened only Iast
wees instead of three years ago.
The examination of Senator Burns
was completely lost TO view ia the
storE of the conspiracy as related by
eaisoury- The persons implicated By
c-ilsoufy during his testimony against
state Senator Burns. and thc amounts
lows.
Accused Persons.
George r. Perry, eN-mayer. St3.725. j.
ozark Sproal. manager of TIM Grand
fapid5 Democrat. S3.333; r. A. Cam
E1n, New York, $500. state Senator
F1GVid -. Burns. SEQ. Alderman Nc
Cool $500 Alderman Ellen. $3.50. AL
= dcfman johnson. $3.50 or $500: Alder
man StOneh0use. $3.50. Alderman IOz-
Ter, $500, Alderman Shriver. $3.50. AL
Nerinan Mol. $3.50, Alderman Ghysels.
$500; Alderman Hedges $500. Alderman
hIoCum. $500. Cory T. BiseU $500. ]
Russell Thomson, reporter ON Evening
Press $500. Isaac Lamore. ex-city
clerk $l.5e0. State Representative Van
[oeren. $3.50, State Representative Van
uefcook. $50. Ed. Conger. manager
Grand Rapids Herald. $4,000. Thomas
e. McGarry. a prominent attorney now
I'm Floida. $500. e.. s. Burch. manager
OF the Evening Press. $4,000.
lie also implicated in the water deal
g. r. waters, eX-president of the board
OF public works. ID. Mike DeVries exc
city physician; George Ellis. a local
broker. Samuel NJ. Lemon. collector Of
internal revenue and William II. An
dersou. president of the Fourth Ma
tio1al bank.
Six Separate Deals.
six separate water conspiracy deals
veere on fra Grand Rapids at once. ac-
coriinE TO Salsbury's sworn testimony.
each gigantic i'm its size and all calling
for the use of Doodle fund In addf-
ton 60 the Henry Taylor 500 900 Lake
Michigan water deal. ne testified that
tlfIt were IlNe uLncT strings out. from
. each one of which thousands Of dol
lars were hanging. Every one of these
six sets of men who offered to advance
corporation fund. were dupes so
Salisbury says. of himself, Perry Nc
Garry and SprOaI.
. Pat Flynn Of New York he names as
one of those at the head Of one con-
Epiracy. The men interested in the Hy-
surauiic Water company are named as
the hackers Of another deal in Chicago.
Then there was a Milwaukee deal. in
which he said Contractor Loss Of Chi
CaEO was interested. the Omaha deal
iu which tho Barton milliouaires are
are said To- have put up $4,000. and the
Gillespie deal. On top Of all these.
Salisbury complexities Revenue Collector
Samuel Lemon with deal. charging
Lemon with coming to him with
proposition to buy the council after
having bought tho mayor for $4,000.
j. n. Crow Of Grand Rapids and Mo-
yes Crow of New York are also men
oned I'm connection with one Of the
deals.