The eagle., February 13, 1895, Page 11, Image 11

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THE EAGLE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1895.
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ItequeKted to Investigate.
The Enterprise of the 1st prints what
it calls the proceedings of the commis
sioner's meeting held ten days previous
ly. The report of the proceedings is
very meager and gives the reader but a
little idea of . what transpired at the
meeting. For instance it says that J. E.
Sheridan, the editor of the Enterprise,
was the lowest bidder for the county
printing and was awarded the contract.
A very important part of the proceedings
of the commissioners is the price at
which Mr. Sheridan took the county
printing, and an interesting part of the
proceedings is the bids made by other
men for this work, all of which was
carefully omitted by the Enterprise. It
is understood chat the Enterprise in its
greed for the printing offered to print
the proceedings for nothing. This,
however, is no excuse for leaving out
of the report any important part thereof.
It also printed some twelve columns of
the delinquent tax list, for which print
ing it gets but little more than it does
for proceedings. When it took the con
tract for printing the tax list it was un
derstood that the list should be printed
correctly, and this involved reading and
correcting the proof. From the appear
ance of the list it looks as though a proof
reader had never seen it. There are
many glaring errors in it, and of course
mese errors invalidate tne descrip
tion in which they appear and ren
der it useless as an advertisement. It is
stated that the Enterprise will claim in
mitigation of these errors and omissions
that it is giving full value for all it re
ceives in what printing it does, but this
is no excuse. The law provides that the
county shall have printed certain mat
ters, and if a paper is so foolish as to un
dertake to do this printing at a ruinous
price it should Iks held as strictly to the
work that should he done as if it was
getting four prices for doing the work.
The county commissioners are requested
to investigate the matter. Western Liberal.
A I'oxtage Stump Fraud. .
A niuulier of people in this city have
been receiving requests for stamps for
an alleged charitable purpose. ISut the
true gist of the matter is set forth in the
following clipping from the IMainville,
III., Observer:
A young woman of Eaneville, Kane
county, this state, has conceived a bril
liant idea for collecting postage stamps,
which at the same time has made her
town famous and is causing the postollice
no end of trouble. She wrote to three
persons asking them to send her ten or
more cancelled postage stamps and each
to write to three other people asking them
to do the same, the chain of geometrical
progression to bo kept up until it reached
i i ft y when it was to lie broken. She
stated as a reason for this request that
she was a cripple and desired to secure a
million stamps which she could exchange
for treatment in a hospital. The result
is astounding, even to the brilliant mind
that conceived the scheme. Kaneville.a
postofHce that at most received twenty
five letters a day, now receives a daily
mail of from 10,000 to 17,000 letters, near
ly all addressed to Edna Brown, the au
thor of the brilliant idea. Over eight
million stamps have been collected and
the end is not yet. Edna Brow n is a
married woman named Gorman and the
hospital Htory is a myth. The public is
requested to stop sending stamps and
thus relieve an overburdened fourth-class
postmaster from the arduous duty of as
sorting thousands of letters daily.
The Latest About Citpt. .John 1'. Hyland.
The Globe-Democrat prints the follow
ing special :
Maryvili.k, Mo., February 4. The
identification f John O'Connor, the
missing postmaster from this city about
twelve years ago, has been claiming at
tention from the press lately, based on
rumors. The following letter, received
here today, is from a reliable source, and
satisfies the best judgment in Maryville
that John Hyland, of the Kingston
"Shaft," published at Kingston, N. M.,
is John O Connor:
"Hillsboro, N. M., February 1, 1895.
Ira K. Alderman, United States commis
sioner, Maryville Mo. : Dear Sir Yours
of January 28 is received. It seems clear,
from recent developments, that John P.
Hyland, who formerly resided at Kings
ton and edited the Kingston "Shaft,"
there, and who lately resided at Uincon,
N. M., and edited the Hincón "Shaft,"
is the same John O Connor for whom
you are inquiring. I see that it is an
nounced in the i'A raso (lex.) 'Times
and New Mexico papers that John Hy
land has disappeared and is nowhere to
be found at his residence in Hincón. I
happened to be on the train upon which
Hyland went from Hincón to El Paso,
and since that time he has not been seen
in the territory, lie came to Kingston,
N. M., about twelve years ago, but from
where he came no one seems to know.
He has posed as an ex-soldier, and has
been prominent in the Grand Army
Lodge at Kingston ever since coining
here. He is a man about 5 feet (i or 8
inches tall, weighs about 175 pounds,
black hair and mustache not quite gray;
about 50 years old. Has a very light
complexion, through which a great deal
of color shows. Since going to El Paso
on the train mentioned 1 know of no one
who knows anything of his whereabouts.
I conversed with him and was then
aware of the charges against him, but
the subject was not mentioned between
us. If I learn anything definite I will
communicate wit 1 you."
Mr. Hyland is said to have a family
living at Kingston. Mrs. O'Connor, his
Maryville wite, stoutly insists that her
husband is dead.
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