Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-11
THE Bill PRINTER.
.psrDEHT HARRISON NAMES PAL
MER OF ILLINOIS.
And Thus Gives the Pacific slope the Cold
shoulder Again-A Number Of Other
Appointments = WINDOWS Improved
Condition.

shoulder Again-A Number of othe
,ppointments Windows Improve
Condition.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-Attorney Geners
Miller has called upon Marshalls Jones an
Naadles for an explanation OF their cor
Jnct and that Of their deputies, on tn
~occasion Of the opening OF Oklahoma ter
ritory.
Tue president to-day appointed the fol
lowing postmasters: VIM. II. Fem a
Buffalo, Wyoming Territory; Nathan II
Shaw, Ventura, Gala; james e. Wilson
selma, Gala; Edwin M. Bennett, Past
Robles, Cala.i Chas. Swine, Murray, Idaho
Frank c. Morse, Coliax, w. T.; VIM H. H
Fouts, Dayton, w. T.
The President, this evening, appointed
Frank w. Palmer, of Illinois, to be pub
lie printer; Theodore Roosevelt, OF New
York, ami Hugh s. Thompson, of South
Carolina, to be civil service commissioners.
Palmer, who was appointed public prin,
ter, was horn in Manchester, Ind, in 1927,
and ut the age of 15 was apprenticed to
learn the printing trade, BE first booked
as q journey man in New York city, and
then removed to Jameston. N. Y, where
for ten years he al the publisher and edi
tor OF the jamestown Journal" He was
a member Of the New York assembly in
1858 and 1854. In 1854 he removed to
Iowa, and became editor and part owner
Of the Dubuque "Times." In 1880 he
was elected state printer, holding the office
eight years. While at Des Moines as state
printer he secured control Of the Estate
Register" the paper o owned by First
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson.
In 1868 he was elected representative from
Iowa to the ~torty-first congress, and was
re.ele ted to the forty-second congress.
After leaving congress Palmer bought an
interest in the Chicago Inter Ocean,"
Roosevelt, appointed to the civil service
commission, is a member If the well known
Roosevelt family in New York. He has
taken an active part in politics in that
state and will be remembered as the Re-.
publican candidate for mayor of New York
CITY at the mayoralty election OF three
wears ago, running against Abraham 8.
Hewitt and Henry George. He has been a
decided civil service reformer all his life,
and while in the state senate of New York
secured the passage of what is now known
as the Roosevelt reform bill.
Arthur L. Thomas, appointed governor
OF Utah, is @ member OF the Utah Com.
mission. He is a native Of Pittsburg, Pa.
and for several years was clerk in the Office
Of the clerk of the National House OF
Representative and was appointed secre-
tary OF Utah in 1877.
Elijah Sells. appointed secretary OF
Ttah, was a native Republican in the early
days of the party in low a, and was
elected by Republicans to the Office OF
secretary Of state and auditor of Iowa,
and afterward emigrated to Utah, and
for some time has been a member OF the
Gentle party.
More than ordinary interest attaches to
the appointment of Jos. F. Bennett of New
Mexico, as Indian agent at Mescalero Agen-
cy, New Mexico, owing to the charges which
have been made that Bennett 8 predecessor
was removed by the present administration
for no other reason than that he was a
Catholic in religion. The new appointee is
himself catholic, it is said. He was q gal
LIANT soldier during the war, aud vas pro-
NOTED to the rank Of captain. He was a
resident of Las Cruces.
Secretary Window is so improved that
be assumed his duties at the department,
today, and attended q cabinet meeting in
the afternoon.