Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-07-16
Washington News.

! John c. Wise is appointed postmaster at
Mankato, MINI.
/ Col John Gibbon viii be made n brigadier
general when Augur retires.
( The president joined IN the singing Of
America AT DIR. sunderland's church IN
I Washington.
I The rumor that Miles win succeed Augur
In command Of the departm eat ~ the Mis-
sonri IL not credited.
! The government statisticians have been
counting the shade tTces Ia Washington.
They number 6t,57l.
The president has accepted the resgna-
ton al l.. b. :. pinehback ~ surveyor Of
customs at New Orleans
Tie postma ster general vi terminate
leases of buildings for postollecs where the
rates Seem Ia him evorbitant.
The commissioner 81 agriculture has APP
pointed Tom King OF Ohio chief OF the seed
division ~ the agricultural department.
Ii win g 81 Lieut.. Schultz year Of hard
travelling deliver 10 the Lena Delta peo-
pie the presents voted them by con gcss.
Hugh Haroldson Of Georgia has been APP
pointed chief Of division in the seventh
auditors Office % the treasury department.
4. G. Mash the postmaster generals new
chief clerk. has for some time been nm eli-
torial writer on the Indianapolis Journal.
II h expected that Judge Alexander, the
only remaining auditor oi the five appoint
ed under Republican rule. viii be relieved and
succeeded
The following postmasters we're commits
stoned: J. NJ. Long, Primhas, Iowa. III.
Sinter, Ada, WIS, j J, I0nrad, Pine Bluff,
Wis. Fannie Weissenberg stephensyille,
wis.
I. ID. Killer % Albany, n. ", has been
appointed tlisbursing clerk ~ the treasury
for the sixth auditors office. Mr., Killer
was NJ one time private secretary VI sena-
tor Fair.
Postmasters commissioned. ~. e, Gun.
ningham, Brndiord, Idaho; j. w. Burton,
Custer, Idaho; Julia Bridges, Paris, Idaho
X. +. Shields, Park Rapids. Mimi; j. Smith.
Arena, Wis; j. !. kennedy Highland, Wis;
J. ~ Smith, Merrimae, Wis,
The court martial appointed to try
Pnymaster General Smith. ofthe navy con
yaned recently. The charges an which the
paymaster general il 10 be tried are 'scan
slaious conduct, tending TO the destruction
OF good morals, and calpahle deficiency in
the peri0rniisles 81 duty
BY orders received from the secretary ~
the treasury, the office ~ deputy collector
Of customs, weighcr and gaugar aud two
coastwise inspcrtors ship Rt Providence,
r. L.. were abolished, ID Is supposed to Fe-
duce the expenses in conformity with the no.
dueed appropriation available for these
offices.
The president appointed postmasters in
eight cities 81 al vacancies occurring by the
ex iration oJeonmissions and designations.
Thirty.nine enscs iOr removal were epnsid-
cred. Among these twenty-five susl,sn,
sions were made and in seventeen eases
the alleged cause WAS not deemed sufficient.
The suspension At 81. Paul, Neb., was made
bee aiIsc the postmaster was found Ia have
used over $500 81 tho public money in his
private business, The suspensions in one or
two eases were for personal unfit conduct,
and the Others craftsmanship.
The president appointed the following
presidential postmasters: Robert w. Specr,
at Denver, Col. vice Robert Morris, sus.
pended Michael Wayan az MetItord, WIS,
vice H. IL. kaoler, suspended, John Pep
per at Boseohel Wis. vice William H. De
lap, resigned, The postmaster general has
curtailcd the mali service upon the star
route from kelton. Utah, to Weimcr, Ida
no, thas cfieeting an annual saving 81 sl9,-
600. Bids were recently opened Tor the
stone work on the postofilec IN Peoria, III,
Braiaard Il Co, 81 Joliet. H., waro the low
est bidders, A protest against their being
awarded the contract was, however filed
by Messrs Straub Il Go. OF Buffa-
To- the next lowest bidders, on
che ground that Brainafd a Co. are con-
tractors al the labor of the Illinois state
prison and would employ eonsiet labor on
the postofiice. The matter was referred to
Solicitor Mct'ue, who gave an opinion that
tha department should not he expected 10
dictate the means by which contractors
should perform their work, and that he did
not believe the protest a valid one. Score
tary Manning has Sustained the solicitor,
and the contract win bs awarded to Brain.
ard Il Go.