WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
NO. 1.]
TERMS AND CONDITION ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION:
The public are notified that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission or messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is oricinally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message; and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
A. STAGER Gen. Supt., Cleveland, Ohio
I. R. ELWOOD, Secy., Rochester, N. Y.
To Agent, Blue Rock, Ariz - 5-11-'89
Jim Stokes, the two-gun man, is believed to be headed for Mexico through your country—double guard stage until further notice.
Walter Dickenson, G.M.
Overland Express Co.