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Dear Old New York.
DISTINGUISHED traveller wa

A DISTINGUISHED traveller was talk
\ ing at a dinner about New York;
dearness.
New York is much dearer than Lon
don, he said In London for example
you can get haircut in Soho for s cents,
but here haircut costs 40 cents or half A
dollar.
Il knew an English actor who got
shave and haircut in one of your subter-
ranean barber shops of onyx and gold.
His bill would have been l. cents i'm
Soho, but here 1t was ~ cents. AS he
paid the barber said TO him:
Hang these flies. / wish / could get
rid OF all these flies. sir
IN tell you how to get rid of them
said the Englishman.
Thank you. sir said the barber
gratefully. What am | to do
You must catch a fly said the Eng
hshman. and you must cut its hair and
give II shave, and then you must hand il
a check for > cents. II will Immediately
fly away and never return again. Do
this with fly after fly and your establish
ment will soon be perfectly fyless. Good
morning."
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ment. When all who had aided in the APP
prehensiOn and conviction of the bandits
had applied for their share of the reward
Uncle Sam found that there were just
sixteen people. most of them schoolboys.
entitled to portions of the 5000 reward
money.
BY our national system of doing bust
ness every postmaster who issues money
orders sends a daily. semi-monthly or
monthly list of the amount of the orders
TO the auditor. The postmaster also in
cludeS in the report record OF funds
paid out by him for cashnS money or
ders and he sends in the paid money or
ders themselves. Every day about twelve
pounds of money orders made out mac
curately are sent into the auditors office
to be destroyed. About fifty pounds of
paid money orders are received daily by
the auditor. Then the most active lives
of these vouchers begin. for first they are
taken up to the top floor OF the large
post office building. where clerks seated in
the centers of round tables divided into
compartments assert the orders according
to the states where they were issued. The
orders are then assorted into offices of Is
sue and arranged in numerical sequence,
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. QUARTERLY Report
81 AS AID GO
BUNDLES OF VOUCHERS
SENT EROn
A LARGE POST-OFFICE

where they thought the banks We're
unrelia bic. 10 hey money orders 4 man
having $500 which he feared TO keep him
self and feared 20 trust 10 "A bank would
frequently buy six OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
money orders. having them made payable
to himself. His trust in the United States
government as steward for his wealth
was implicit, and so he left the Office with
a feeling of security. Now that the
postal savings banks have been estab-
liShed il is expected that those who have
been in the habit Of purchasing money
orders as a means of securing a safe
depository for their earnings will now
bank their surplus cash with the advan-
ta@e OF having il earn per cent interest.
The newest department of work done in
the office Of the auditor for the Post
Office Department is that of handling
the postal savings accounts of postmas-
tiers. According to the records for the
first six months of their existence the
receipts of the various postal banks ag
gregated nearly sh30,nD. The funds
withdrawn amounted to about Sl6o,oso.
leaving S1C0,oOo due the depostors. At
present there are nearly 300 post offices
designated postal savings repositories.
and as the number will probably be dou-
bled. Auditor Kram anticipates that more
his office. For this rea son he will create
a division for the auditing of savings
accounts of postmasters.
Despite the fact that close official COLI
tact is maintained between the auditors
office and the various post offices through
out the country, attempts are constantly
being made by individuals to avoid meet
ing their obligations with the postal
department. At times carriers who have
contracted with the department to carry
mails fail to keep the terms of their
contracts. PoStmaSters sometimes fail ID
turn their surplus funds into the treasury.
In some instances individuals have forged
money orders. In such cases il * the
auditors duty to collect the money due
the United States. even if it is necessary
to bring n suit in the United States
courts. The legal questions involved are
frequently complex and have been so in
tricate to require decisions of the
United States Supreme Court.
In 1Si6, when the auditors office was
established, there was enrolment or
forty-siX clerks. Today the work OF tins
governmental branch demands the serv-
ices of GIL employees. The present aucitor.
who numbers twenty-five in this official
line. entered the government service twen-
ty-one years ago. and has progressed
through various grades OF clerkship to the
head of the office.
Copyright 1911. 10y Mrs. Faber Stcyeu.on.J
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refusal be put in the custody of the ser
geant-at-arms of the House.
Then, to save the witness from bolts
and bars. that overworked writ of ha-
beas corpus would be put in service
again. Mr.. Lindabury would petition one
of the judges of the District Of Column
bia for the writ and finally get the case
before the Supreme Court of the United
States The question for the Supreme
Court would now be whether or not the
Stanley committee had jurisdiction I'M
der the House resolution in view of the
starting of the government suit OF dlsso-
luton; in other words, it would be a
question of the construction of the reso-
luton The point of fairness. not being
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a question of law. would not OF course.
be considered by the supreme Court.
1t is stated on excellent authority.
however, that: there would he no occ2-
sion to take Il high steel official, like Mr..
Morgan, for instance. through all this
procedure. If the Stanley committee
should invite Mr.. MORGAN to appear and
testify he would most likely be advised
by his counsel to comply. Indeed. IL Is
pretty safe to say that advice to the con-
trary would not be needed. for a man like
Mr.. Morgan cannot afford to appear
having any business dealings to conceal
from the Stanley committee or from any,
body else.
GILES RUSSELL TAGGART.
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The OHiceseeker.
G ENATOR BOURNE was talking about
- confirmed officeseeker.

G ENATOR BOURNE was talking about
- a confirmed officeseeker.
His little son. said Senator Bourne.
Cooked up from his history lesson one
night and said to his mother:
Mother. if anything should happen to
the King of England. who would be king?'
The Prince OF Wales, his mother
answered
IF the Prince of Wales should die,
who would be king them
The mother hesitated. She stammered
something or other. 1t was plain she
didn't really know who would succeed the
Prince of Wales. Then the boy inter-
rupted her:
Well he said. with :igh, anyhow,
hope father won't try for it.
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All She Asked.

I1'HE late Justice Harlan" said a
Washington lawyer was an advo-
cate Of temperance in eating. in drinking
IN the use of tobacco, in all things.
Justice Harlan praising temperance at
a lawyers banquet, once told a story
about young wife who said to her hus-
band:
Jack. dear do wish you'd stop
drinking! Every time YOU 30 to one OF
these banquets of yours you get up the
next morning pale and tired. YOU won't
eat anything: you just gulp down nine or
ten glasses of water. Do stop drinking.
won't YOU dear? ] know it's bad for YOU
But all great men have been drinking
men,, Jack grumbled. Look at Webster;
look at Poe look at Charles Lamb:
look
We'll interrupted his wife. you just
promise. dear, that you'll quit drinking
till you're great and I'll be satisfied.
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AUTOMATIC SORTING
49, AND nG
TABULATlFG MACHINES
USED In AUDITING
PAID Money ORDERS

make small offices larger is felt by am
bilious postmas ters throughout the coun-
try. This is partly due to the fact that
the salary of the office depends upon Its
business. The poStmasterS whose duties
are lightest know that all stamps can
celed count in their favor. for up to $40
the postmaster receives the face value OF
every stamp which he cancels, provided
he makes proper report of it once every
three months to the auditors office.
X 4
When reports of an office show that it's
gross receipts have reached 1890 for
four consecutive quarters the postmaster
is given q regular salary. Hundreds of
reports with the vouchers sent in by post
masters form great bundles, yet the
clerks in the Office think the auditing of
these accounts quite simple compared
with the examination and checking up OF
the statements sent in from such offices
as New York and Chicago These large
offices accompany their reports with
numerous pay rolls and vouchers. so that
their bundles of formidable looking
papers are taxing even in their avoirdu-
pois. At least eighty pounds of expenses
and receipts from one office alone often
find it's way from one clerk to the other,
each auditing some item in which he has
gained especial knowledge In the
large offices the rents from the lock boxes
and from the sale of waste paper is con-
siderable. for from these sources over
four million dollars We're turned over to
the government last year.
AS important as it is for the auditing
office to examine the receipts of the
many offices throughout the nation, it
is deemed equally as urgent by the au-
ditOr that he should keep keen eyes upon
the expenses of every post office. One
item of expense which every citizen OF
the nation feels warranted without ques-
ton is that Of the employment of carriers
for the delivery of mail; whether in rural
districts or in cities. every one halls
the coming Of the postman with delight.
The railway postal clerks who sort the
mail on trains so that it may reach its
destination with greatest dispatch may
see the records Of their salaries in the
reports of the postmasters sent into the
auditing office. Acknowledging the fact
that all places .of business should be
kept clean and attractive. most postmas-
tiers have made efforts in that direction
In auditing the records OF an office
such as the general post office in New
York city Uncle Sam sees that every
year moneys are required for pens blot
tiers, mucilage and many other neces-
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people of the United States as cheapiy as
you are selling Johnnie Bull?
Show me-" continues Uncle Sam, after
a pause. 'one single trust including your
self that was not organized either for the
purpose of regulating prices whose
commodities did not go up in price short
tire after the combination was formed?''
NO more showing responds the trust:
'ro more frankness about our affairs We
refer on t. our nsei. Mr.. Lindabury.
When a part of the committee assem-
bled at Washington, Monday, November
20. 1911 for the first meeting after the
summer vacat on, Mr.. Richard V. Linda
bury of Newark n. j., attorney for the
steel trust. quietly asked Chairman STAN
ley If he didn't think, in view of the gov
eminent suit that further hearings and
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The trusts are beginning to share the
popular interest in the moves against
them The captains of industry see
that Uncle sam means business. They
used TO treat all complaints with tepid
u: concern. When protests piled high on
their desks. Well-Ailah had endowed
them with wastepaper baskets
Now, however, the trusts are resisting
never before. They don't want their
businesses broken up. even in the way
the tobacco trust was split, and-who
wants TO 20 10 jail?
Recently. Washington taXicabs have
been carrying expenses lawyers Of
the. beef and steel trusts on anxious Wis
its 10 members OF Congress and to Chief
Justice Whites house. The beef trust
Inagnates have been fighting against fac
ing d criminal trial in Chicago. and the
~Io.l trust officials have been holding
be.k from further hearings before the
Stanley investigating committee or the
Iicus. OF Representatives.
TIE steel trust has been so hand-in-
glove with Uncle sam of late years that
seine of the other trusts have been cali
ing il a dude. 1t courted the fullest in
yCstigation of its affairs by the govern
ment x saved the country so some
claim-from panic in 1897. and its ON
cials have been having heart-to-heart
bers of the House investigating commit
tee
But since their last talk. In August,
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ton. He represents the district in which
Oyster Bay, Mr.. Roosevelt's home, Is
situated, a district usually republican
In a hurried look now, in passing, at
come of the things the investigation of
the Stanley committee and of other
branches of the government have called
attention to concerning the steel trust,
one stares in amazement at the naSnl-
tude of the figures.
In the first place the steel trust is the
biggest in the world 1t is made up of p
beWildering array of companies engaged
in mining iron ore and coal and in manu-
featuring. transporting and selling iron
and steel in all kinds of shapes from
small cigar box nail to the great Panama
canal dams.
In 1901 all these concerns perfected their
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plans for consolidation By the formation
o: a huge combination. They organized Il
company whose business it was simply to
have and hold the stock OF the associated
companies This holding company was
the Uni ed States Steel Corporation
AT the time OF the organization of the
United States Steel Corporation certifi-
ates OF stool. We're issued to the extent
of over billion and half dollars, half
of which was water. that is to saw
about seven hundred millions-tlink of it
was represented not by actual property
but by expectations of profit. In other
words, the promoters of this huge holding
cOmpany-and it is reported that the pro-
motors got sixty millions for their work
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orders. representing nearly siaD.HEifIj.
were issued. the government. receiving
nearly s6pp,f.D in fees.
In all there are $500 post offices
where money orders are issued in the
United States and its possessions. In
Guam there is but one Office, but looking
at the other end OF the list the greatest
number OF such offices are found in
Pennsylvania. where there are 3,160. II
remains. however. for New York state TO
issue the greatest number Of these orders,
for there nearly 7,G;o.GD We're sold for
about S11.an.G1
If the neighbory feeling can be rep
resented by the decimal system. surely
there is a spirit Of brotherly love exist
ing between Uncle Sam and John Bull
for last year over Sl4,Gp.C00 left this
country in money orders for Great Brit
ain. Probably great portion Of this
sum was used in payment for foreign
merchandise. Italy. where the greatest
amount was sent, received over S2b,UtOUU
of American money through this postal
device. \ visit to the money order win
dOws of a large posi- office is convincing
that much Of this money was sent back
to the folks at home in sunny Italy by
many of her swarthy sons WHO We're
yearning to have their loved ones cross
the ocean to make homes in the land of
the free.
That many orders issued are never
credible to the individual who has re-
ceived a much-needed money order from
home during a summer vacation. In
reality the failure to ask for the money
for the order is by no means uncommon.
Since the establishment of the money or
der system in 1864 nearly So01o,oo has
been turned into the Treasury of the
, United States because money orders TO
that value have been issued hut not
claimed by the payees. He who can
tell the reason for such negligence on
the part of SO many persons to whom
money was sent is a wise man. Perhaps
; it was that Yergis Ionshiyitch could not
read what had been sent to him. 1t might
have been that the joy of the Newlywed S
household preferred the tender slip OF
b the postal currency to anything else for
v his breakfast on one fretful morning
The playful wind has been known to
, thieve when papers have been left too
near the open window. Until recently it
has not been uncommon for people living
in localities where there We're no banks,
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I N d G N A Mt at Uncle
1 Sans Suit, Steel Trust
Magnates Regret Their Tete-
a-Tete With Stanley Inves-
tigating Committee - Some
Startling Facts About the
Biggest Trust in the World
Will the Investigation Be
Completed or Not?-Should
Mr.. Morgan Testify?
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HALL we comply
with the request of
the steel officials
and stop investi-
eating the steel
trust 90 asks the
Stanley investigat-
ing committee. This
is one of the things
that the House of
X e p T G s entatives,
which convenes to-
morrow, will have
to decide.
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inquiries on the part of the committee
into the affairs Of the steel trust ought to
stop, especially Investigations of matters
zee o.,,4a!s ctar&td ~ The government
suit
Chairman Stanley Immediately saw the
y, 'Fffs arst'" hi REQUEST asked the
Withdraw wal from the committee room of
everybody except Mr.. Lindabury. and re-
ques ted him to state his objections to the
committee thus III executive session
'At first, said Mr.. Lindahury in dis
cussing the interview later Il made the
cast I Won no, be fair 10 the
officials OF the steel corporation to compel
them TO defend themselves at two differ
ent times before two different tribunals:
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HE lament that ev-
erything is going
out and that moth
ing Is coming in
may he heard in
some business Of
fees of the nation.
A peep at the ac-
counting rooms IN
the office of the
auditor for the Post
Office Department
where busy clerks
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A SAVING of Seventeen
"A and a Half Million
Dollars-In the Accounting
Rooms in the Office of Audi
tor for Post Office Depart
nent-Newly Installed Ma
chimes Convince a Visitor
That Business Is Good-Rev-
enues of Postal Service-The
Running Expenses of the
Great System.
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Every time a postal card or postage
stamp is bought the purchaser pays a
Kenny or more to the Post Office Depart
ment. In all there about $1,000 post
masters in the United States selling
stamps so just that many reports reach
the great auditing office al Washington
every quarter. Last year over two hun
dTed million dollars were paid to the gov
eminent for stamps alone. If all of this
money had been paid for two-cent stamps
there would have been ten billions bought,
or enough stamps. il laid side by side. to
form a belt nearly four feet wide extend
ing from New York to San Francisco.
But this is not all the money that the
auditors office reported as received for
postage. for about fourteen million dollars
revenue was realized from postage paid
directly in money to the Post Office De-
partment. AS the audited receipts of the
Post Office Department for the last fiscal
year reached nearly two hundred and
thirty-eight million dollars, it is reckOned
that if all of the population of the United
States patroniZed the postal department
with equal energy each person paid sos
for his postal privileges.
Some postmasters whose Offices are To-
Gated in remote regions have little work
in preparing their quarterly reports Of
one sheet with but a few items of account
filled in. These postmaSterS report sales
of postals and stamps low 81 a
quarter. with no other receipts for their
offices. /, is from these officials that let
tiers sent to the auditors Office become of
interest to the clerks whose business it is
TO sort out the thousands of pieces of
miscellaneous mail received weekly. One
postmaster recently wrote: II am tired
of his job. and have been trying to get
shut of it for several years but / am the
only man about here that's getting 1t
down that | can read and rite" AS
there seemed no probability of this man
of letters providing q successor the gov
eminent good na-uredly still imposes it's
postal business at the cross roads upon
the long suffering patriot.
FROM the shortest report to the most
lengthy there is tremendous leap.
Thousands and thousands OF reports
showing prosperous offices are sent in for
guar erly examina ton The incentive to
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arc working away at newly 1nstaiied MA
chimes can but convince the observer
that there business must be good Au-
ditor Charles y. kram shows IN MS
latest report that during the hscal year
which closed last June the audited reVe-
MUGS of the postal service have exceeded
the audited expenses by S2l9.On. ms
is the first time that a balance has ap-
reared ON this side of the big government
ledger of the postal department since
1852 1t is the ninth time that there has
been any surplus since the establishment
Of the auditors office seventy-five years
ago Two years ago the postal deficit
was over Sl1.0e0Go. In twenty-four
months. therefore. the, Postmaster Cen
eraI has accomplished saving of about
seventeen and a half million dollars IN
the running expenses of the natlonai
postal system.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-25
FORMER RESIDENT IS KILLED IN
 BARSTOW
(Mohave County Winery


 Tom Springer, one of the best known employees of the Santa Fe, was fatally injured by falling from swinging seaffolding at the Bar stow viaduet, last Thursday after noon.. When picked up he was un- conscious and remained in that con dition until his death some time during Thursday night. His remains were taken to Needles, where the funeral was held under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias, Rev. F. c. Farr preaching the funeral ser mon. Tom Springer had many friends in this section and among them is sorrow over lis untimely death.
 MT. Springer resided in this city several years ago. He was a bridge builder by occupation and was in the employ of the s. F., P. 6 P. He was an industrious and popular young man and the news of his death will be received with regret by all who enjoyed his acquaintance.
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Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-25
NEW MEXICO vs. ARIZONA.

According to the figures of the Santa Fe New Mexican, the opera. tions of the new state government of Arizona will cost more than that of the State of New Mexico. The Ari, zonans (Demoerats) made the sal aries small but the jobs numerous; the New Mexicans made the salaries reasonable but the number of offices smaller.
 Arizona s 54 legislators are to be paid $l,000 more than New Mexico s. Arizona's judiciary will cost the State $1O,00O more than New Mex ieo's. The Arizona Constitution pro- vides for a total expenditure for sal aries of $1O3,6sO, while New Mexico s salaries will add up to $99,9OO. How ever, Arizona's Constitution makes no provision for a Land Commis- sioner, and that official will have to be provided for by the State Legisla- ture.
 Compared with Arizona, New Mex ico is a model of economy, says the New Mexican. Here is the eompari- son. It is a striking one:
 New Mexico Legislature-Twenty- four Senators and 49 Representatives at s per day. Per day, $965. For 60 day session $21,90O.
 Arizona Legislature-Nineteen Sen ators and B Representatives at $7 per day. Per day, $S7s. For 60 day ses- sion, $22,6SO.
 Sixty-day legislative sessions are provided by both Constitutions.
 New Mexico Judiciary-Three Su- preme Court Judges at $6,OOO per an nun, s1s,OOO; eight District Court Judges at $4,5OO per annum, s36,OO0. Total, $54,OOO.
 Arizona Judiciary-Three Supreme Court Judges at s5,OOO per annum, $15,OOO; five Superior Court Judges, at $4,OO0 per annum, $2OO,O0O; one Supreme Court Judge at $3,5OO per annum; eight Superior Court Judge. at $3,OOO per annum, $24,OOO; total, $62, ,5OO.
 Arizona has provided one Judge for each county, and the Constitution fixes the salary as based on popula- tion. Provision is also made that in counties having over 45,OOO popula- tion additional judges may be elected