The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-30
BUNDLE OF REBATE
EVIDENCE IS
FOUND
AFTER 1T HAD BLOWN OUT OF
A CAR AND ESCAPED THE
FLAMES.
TELLS OF AGREEMENT
To Refund 23 t-3 Per Cent.--tncrimi
mating Letters We're Written
On Burlington Railroad
Stationery.

Greeley Center, Neb., July ~ Two
burlington freight cars, CONTAINING
boxes and barrels filled with lemon
and papers, were saturated with kefo
sene oil bv four men and with all the
contents were destroyed by fire
Belfast, an obscure siding eight miles
north of Greeley Center, about
O'Clock Thursday evening. Matthew
| Luce. son of a farmer living near
| Belfast. picked mp a bundle Of letter
and papers blown out Of one OF the
care before the flames had reached ~.
The following Is copy of one oil the
letters In The bundle;
''Beatrice, Nob.. March ! /. 1904.
"Mr Edward Clark. S G. A.. Omaha
Nsb.: CIV. w J. Claim 2l37D DeaI
Sir. Herewith papers In claim John
Stewart, Concordia. for 1851 rebate on
shipment of produce from points or
our Concordia branch. Our engage
ment witch AIR. Stewart Is to refund
80 i.3 per cent Of the charges on th'
shipments wnIcn move from point
within the state of Kansas,
Yours truly
wv. w. JOHNSTON"
burlington route
ON this letter are several stamp
ali of them bearing the words bh'
lington Route" or letters and worl
"R and NJ. r. r. In Nebraska. Othe
lcter. in the bundle picked mp b.
) young Luce are similar in imporianc
10 the one quoted above, although h
refuses 10 permit them 10 be cope
saving that he has been advised not u
turn them over TO anybody In th'
r bundle were also Burlington way bill
and other records. and papers datini
! back as far as 1854.
When The Burlington regular frelgh
3 train arrived here from the cas-
Thursday two freight cars cars wer
: detached from the train. coupled I
another engine. aud taken to Belfast
Z The cars were accompanied by tW'
section men aud two other men. a
; Rolfast th wu cars were uncouple'
from the engine and then opene1
Each ear was loaded with boxes ba'
roIs ami bags of papers. In each ca
were two barrels of kcrosenc.
The men sprinkled keroseue owe
, both car. and their contents and Sc
fire to the whole when the fire die
: down the four men came back to Gre'
lev center. remaining an night IN tn
I section hou.e here and leaving ON
q gasoline car on Friday morning.
r. Trains once 4 ,!eek.
]. Rolfa. Is a very obscure siding %
the Buil uglon branch To Erickson
y and trains run there bui once a weel
b Greeley Center people are making a
y sorts ~ con lectures about the hurnn
D of Tho cars and their contents Ia We
r lot the recent agitation of rebate case
4 In which the Burlington has figure
p prominently
Yesterday morning section ma
> named Campbell went from here
! Belfast to burn any papers that mist
b not vet Do consumed tie was AT III
= work an forenoon. and there rs not
. scrap of the papers loft there.
y st tne Burlington general Office
lin Omaha today on cials nt thc roa
denied knuwlc lEe Of ans cars haN,n
r. hoen burned st Tolfa-i AND said ih'
e un records relating tr rebates ha
- been removed from ihr offices
e Omaha o. b. thc custom. ihcy -sid.
r destroy freight bills periodically. b'
+. Ifr ,,-,.r, ,-s-s none i- De- rnvr1 fur
o wears during which time they az
e open tu inspecii.n of Interested re
p -uu-
o. never has Eeou CUSTOMARY lh-
5 declared. ~ take rec1.ds ni AT
p panc-s fru-a their onires into u
c country and destroy them. ana Sued
{ .thfne u.ruid rot hc permit cd