Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
\ Few POstOffice Seekers
Made to Feel Good.
UNCLE SAMUEL is NOT SCARED.
The British Men-of-War Sent to
Behring Sea Don't Lose Him
Sleep These Nights.

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches to the HERALD.f
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The president
appointed the following postmasters:
William 7. Brush Cloverdale, CAL,
vice John Field, resigned; Jacob r.
Leese, Monterey, CAL, vice Edward
Ingram, resigned; Albert G. Barton, at
San Pedro, which office has become
Presidential; James A. Fowler, at Selmo,
CAL, vice William L. Smith, resigned;
Charles Taylor, at Great Falls, Mont,
which has become Presidential; Val. A.
Milroy. at Olympia, WASH, vice Arthur
D. Glover, removed; Orlow w. Chap
man, of New York, has also been ap--
pointed Solicitor General.
The President has also appointed John
B. Cotton, Lewiston, Me-, Assistant At
torney- General, vice Robert A. Howard,
of Arkansas, resigned. He will have
charge of all Government business be-
fore the Court of Claims.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE CLERKS.
The Civil Service Commission gives
notice that, in order to secure ample
registers of persons eligible for appoint
ment to the position of railway mail
clerks from the following named States
and Territories, special examinations of
applicants for that position will be held
by the United States Civil Service Com
mission on the dates and at the places
named below: At Denver, Col. Chey-
enne, Wyoming; Boise City, Idaho;
Miles City and Helena, Mont. Carson
City, New; Albuquerque, N. NJ; Port
land and Roseburg, Ore. Salt Lake City,
Utah; Spokane Falls and Seattle, W. T.;
on Friday, June 14th.
WHO'S AFRAID?
Nobody at the State and Navy Depart
ment expressed alarm at the news COM
ing from Victoria, B. c.. that the British
North Pacific squadron had been ordered
to Behring Sea. Commodore Walker, in
charge of the detail Office at the Navy
Department, says that none of our naval
cept the Thetis, which was assigned to
regularly engaged in patroling the Alas
kan coast for several summers past. He
Gays he does not think that Great Britain
and the United States will go to war
about the seal fisheries.
1
In the matter of star-route contracts
suspended by Second Assistant Post
master General Whitfield, because of ap-
parent illegal, not fraudulent, execution
the Assistant Attorney General for the
Postoffice Department has just rendered
decision. He holds that the entire
series of contracts, amounting to $l47,-
600, are illegal and void.
The proposals upon which the con.
tracts are based, while held irregular in
many respects, are not deemed absolute
ly void. The Assistant Attorney GEN
eral holds that, based upon those pro-
posals, new contracts, properly and ie-
gally executed, may be received. The
opinion recites at length the exculpatory
evidence presented by the contractors.
PAsTEUR's GOOD WORK.
Consul Griffin, at Sydney, Australia,
in report to the Department of State,
says the disease known as anthrax, or
splenetic apoplexy, which for 80 many
years has been devastating the herds of
New South Wales, is in q fair way of
being very effectually checked by Pas
teur's system Of incubation.
DIsAaREEABLE BUSINESS POSTPONED.
In response to call issued by General
Groner, Chairman of the antiMahone
wing of the Republican party Of Virginia,
a delegation, composed of about $50 of
the most prominent members of that
section, met at the Ebbitt House to-day,
and prepared a comm dnication addressed
to General Malone, to be submitted to
his committee for their approval or rejec-
ton. The committee then called upon
the President for the purpose of present.
ing to him their side of the question of
Republican politics in Virginia. The
President was unable to hear them to-
day, but said he would meet them at a
future day. He said he would be glad
to have a copy of the proposition made
to the Malone committee, and the COM
mittee promised to send it to him.
BULLY BIG BACK PAY.
A certificate for pension was to-day
granted to Philip Flood, formerly q
private in Company E, Forty-second
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The amount
arrears allowed by the pension officer in
in this case is SIS, ,289, his disability
dating back to November IA, 1862. This
is the largest first payment on record in
the Pension Of CO.
sTANFoRD's LITTLE DEER.
Senator Stanford has sent to the Smith
sonian Institution young antelope from
California, to add TO its collection for the
National Zoo. 1t was eleven days on the
the trip, and reached the Park badly
banged up, but it is recovering, and Cap.
tain Weedin, the keeper, hopes to be
able to save it. Heretofore it has been
found impossible to keep antelopes in
confinement for any length of time.
| THE NATIONAL "zoo."
| The site of the new geological park,
for which Congress appropriated 5000, 600
at its last session, has been selected by
the commission to whom the matter was
referred. 1t lies along the banks of Rock
Creek, northwest of the city, between
Woodley Lane and Klingel road, and
comprises about $50 acres, delightfully."-
situated and admirably adapted for park
purposes.
The Pacific Mail steamship Co.
New York, May 29.-The annual meet
ing of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany was held to-day. The following
m aro ra. a.o1actad aa dirootoro. T,x, N1..IS