Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-07
?, Evidence Of Chief Clerk AIKEN
Of MonongaheIa Division Of
The Pennsylvania.
SMALL SALARY, HUGE PROFITS
Nm Salary Of $50 a Month Bought
coaI Stocks Amounting to
Almost $4,000.
Now he Got Money lie An
s,,,rcd. by Judlclous Investment
OF Ny salary

philadelphia, June 7.-Tesilfy'ns
,.so-. the interstate commerce COM
',.,,oo today Joseph X. Aiken, VINO
'''-', -, chief clerk I'm the office of
,se superintendent Of the Mononsane'a
u, 49,, ~ he Pennsylvania railroad
w.. H., siynost as startling evidence
.h., given By Joseph Boyer before
-. commission yesterday, on sal
s,v which he said varied from $50 to
s,os per month. Aiken had purchased
- I'm different coal companies
'.,onrupg TO nearly $4,000. lie ad-
t-t,ted having received gifts OF cash
~. M coal operators on the Penhsyl-
10 lines and had also received Wv
r,onth for several months from
company store n.-.-,.,,.., rau.
,osd employe, who yesterday tes'ileo
;sfore the Interstate commerce COM
mission 10 having received large sums
~ money and other graluitles from
,roducers Of coal on the Pennsy lNah'a
ysGrosd lines. was today DISMISSED
,rom the service Of the company
When the matter was brought to mo
attention OF President Cassau he d.
rected the immediate discharge OF
Boyer
Rover In his testimony Yesterday
said that he had accepted more than
iis 900 from coal mining companies
during a period Of three years. lie
Was chief clerk I'm the office Of a. w.
Gibbs superintendent Of motive pow
o. Of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad COM
rany and purchased the fuel coal used
In the locomotives Of the company.
The doners. he said were five different
companies which. furnished coal to the
railroad. Boyer's testimony was OF
sensational character lie testified
that he had been allowed from to 5
cents on each ton sold TO the railroad
company IN such a matter Of fact man.
nsr that the commissioners were NJ
NOS, stupefed by the startling admis-
SONS.
Mr.. Aiken. who he's been chief clerk
~ the superlntendcuts ofhce OF the
ntononpa hela division OF the Pennsyl-
yanla railroad. gave some interesting
testimony. AT the outset he showed a
disposition TO spar with Atty Gas
gov. After almost every question he
would stop 10 reflect cast his eyes
upon the ceiling and then repeat the
question before answering. He told OF
large coal companies interests which
be said De had purchased with his own
money When Mr.. Glasgow wanted 10
know how he got the money. he an
sVered "by iudicious investment Of my
salary
in 1900 witness turned a profit OF
5000 by selling an option ON coal
lands 20 me piltsburg & Buffalo Coal
COMPANY Witness confirmed the
testimony Of Joseph y. Boyer. who
said Yesterday that Aiken had paid
him five cents a ton on coal which the
Dunk.r6 Coal company furnished TO
the railroad for which BOYER worked.
Nr AIKEN oaniidly admitted that the
money Was given TO Boyer Tor the busi-
ness which Boyer could give. Mr.. AK
en- has received $50 from coal com.
p7rles because his position with the
railroad made him valuable TO the Goa
companies Witness said he owned ODD
sn1res of the Braznel Coal company
f7r which De hal paid $4,000. That {.
az zoe rate NJ SO share hut the com.
lauys book, shcN that 800 per sharD
was raid. Nr. Glasgow admitted that
ne books showed that price, but doubt,
Cd mat mat price had really been paid