The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-12-15
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT

By c. T. RAWALT
A week ago very good Trade at Home" ar
tcle received prize of simoleon from the gotten
gains of the NewsChamp. On Monday of this week the
recipient of the aforesaid prize observed unloading
shipment of groceries purchased in Denver Playing
both ends against the middle it
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1t has been privilege this week to read very
curate history of the used by the Wall Street
thieves to rob and destroy the Denver Rio Grande rail
road The story reads like romance How the Goulds
and their associates deliberately conspred to loot the
Grande build the Western and eliminate the original
stockholders of the best system in the west The foul
work conducted through system of nterlocking d
rectorates Do you that term? 1t that the
directors of the Rio Grande supposedly guarding the in
of that road also the directors of the West
elected for the express purpose of stealing the Rio
Grande We arrest and like Harry Gardner
the mail robber who in point of manness shines like
first magnitude compared to who could be
induced to do what these directors lid T. Jeffray
the Rio Grande had to be willing creature
of the highwaymen their scheme would have failed
Saaried in amount running to thousands month to
his road he betrayed his employers and connved
their robbery. Henry McAster attorney of great
mark, thought quite within his rights to steer through
the colossal steal, and w. Waterman, considered
of sufficient character to be sent to the United
States Senate assisted Mr. McAlster to jimmie the Rio
Grande safe OH it is sordd story. great railroad
system, built honor by western railroad men who had
and honesty looted robbed destroyed by
the very who elected to safe guard it. Just
take little item for sort of example. The Utah
Company, Rio Grande subsidiary sold by these
highbnders for 100000 and it has been sworn in
open that the property worth S12o00000o At
torneys Grande hired by the directors who
acting for both sides to have been hired
cusvely to making any defense against the safe
blowers. Well known of similar nature, which
would have shaken the amenabe jurist who gave
the decision for the thieves, carefully suppressed
and not brought attention Furnished the Honor
Judge alibi it We have somewhere read
recently that a suit for restitution being pre-
pared. We certainly hope For of all the crooked
devry which railroad history this Rio Grande job
has the others off the map 1t would crowd
the capacity of the Rio Grande mogu engines to
pull the crowd who ought to time in the penten
the crimes committed by them against the de-
fenceess stockholders Coorados greatest and best
railroad.
The Denver Express bitterly arraigns the who
responsible the Satanic Mine horror by which six
men, coal killed by gas 1t that not
the precautions had been taken to
lives of the workmen and the mine inspection
department of the have kindly overlooked
deficiency. The Express wants to watch what Gov
Shoup does Bah! 1t just common miners who were
killed What do you want to the Governor with it
Do you spoil his Christmas by such folly
asking him up a accident to common peo-
these? Your proposition is les majesty to the
least
ing Pacific matters is way for involving Uncle Sam in
impressed