The morning call., 1891-07-23
COAST INTERESTS.
Depa tment Decisions Transfer of Army
Officers, POStmaSterS and Pensions

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Assistant Secre-
tary Spalding said to-day that there was no
truth in the report that Wasson OF Port
Townsend had already been selected 10 suc-
ceed the Collector of the Puget Sound dis
trict, Mr. Bradshaw. The matter viii be
settled within the next few days.
The application of Williams, Dimoad &
Co. of San Francisco for an allowance in
the adjustment of duties on account Of the
increase in the weight Of coal by reason Of
absorption of sea water, has been denied,
as the appraiser who examined the coal re-
ports that there was no such excess Of
weight.
In the case Of Henry Chapman VS.. The
Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain
Wagon Company. involving land in the
Lake View district, the decision Of the Com
missioner is affirmed.
PosTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
A Martineli has been commissioned Post
mast ter at Marshall, Marin County. Cal,
vice c. 2. Cheda, deceased, and G. w. WILL
frug at RincOn, San Bernardno County,
Cal, vice w. Ii. Bnrkbart, resigned, and
james j. Gowan at Rockport, Cal.
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.
Engineer Thomas G. MacCUllum, United
States Navy, has been ordered to duty at
Sidney. Wash, in connection with tie loca-
ton and construction OF new dry-doek on
Puget Sound.
The following army orders were issued
to-day concerning the transfers of Pacific
Coast companies: First Lieutenant Robert
III. Noble from the Fifteenth Infantry to
tenant John P. Finley from the Fifteenth
Infantry to the Ninth Infantry, Company
f; First Lieutenant Frederick Z. Day from
the Ninth Infantry to the Twentieth In
fantry, Company c; First Lieutenant Carl
Reichmann from the Seventh Infantry to
Lieutenant Magnus Q. Hollis from
the Twenty third Infantry to the Fourth
Infantry, Company A; First Lieutenant
Blanton c. Welsh from the First Infantry to
the Fifteenth infantry, Company X; First
Lieutenant George P. Ahern from the
Fourth Infantry to the Twenty-ffth In
fantry, Company III; First Lieutenant El-
more +, Taggart from the Fourth Infantry
to the Sixth Infantry. Company K; First
Lieutenant Samson l.. Faison from the
Thirteenth Infantry to the First Infantry,
Company l; First Lieutenant Alfred Has
brouck Jr from the Thirteenth Infantry
to the Fourteenth Infantry, Company K;
First Lieutenant Wendell l.. Simpson from
the Twentieth Infantry to the Ninth ln-
iantry, Company ID; First Lieutenant J ohm
Twentieth Infantry, Company +; First
Lieutenant Andrews Rowan from the Ninth
Infantry to the Nineteenth Infantry, COM
pany G.; First Lieutenant Florence r. Ed
wards from the First Infantry to the
Twenty third Infantry, Company X; First
Lieutenant Marry Nichols from the Four
teenth Infantry to the Seventh Infantry,
Company Z.
GENERAL SERVICE CLERKS.
The following transfer of general service
clerks and managers is made by an order is
sued to-day: Albert de Ford, from Chicago,
ILL.,, to the headquarters OF the Department
of Arizona, Los Angeles, CAL; NJ. }. Nor
ton, from Chicago. ILL.,, to the headquarters
of the Department of California, San Fran
Louis, Mo-, to the headquarters of the De-
partment of the Columbia, Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash.
BY direction of the Secretary of War Ma
jor William NJ. Maynard, Paymaster, will,
upon the completion of the payments as
signed 10 him to June so, 1891, proceed to
Los Angeles, Cal, and report TO tho COM
mandng General Of the Department Of Ar
lzona for temporary duty as Chief Paymas-
ter of that department.
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Pensions have been granted to the follow
ing Californians: Joseph d. Conklin, Ar
thur G. Moore, Abraham +. Green, Alexan
der Moore, James f. Daley, John McCor-
mick, Johu Z. Robbins, Adam l.. Rankin,
Jasper Leickte.
SPECIAL ATTORNEY APPOINTED.
Attorney General Miller has appointed
Albert Ii. Tanner Special Assistant United
States Attorney In the District of Oregon
for the prosecution of the wagon-road land
grant forfeiture cases.
SMALL SILVER COINS.
Director of the Mint Leach says he will
soon begin the coinage of twenty-GYe-cent
pieces at the San Francisco Mint.