The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
OFF INTEREST 70 THE COAST.
Additional Pensions Granted in CaIifor-
mia and OreGon.

mia and Oregon.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1s.-By direction
Of the Assistant Secretary of War, Post Quarter
master Sergeant Homer W. Newman, now at
Fort Townsend, Wash, viii be sent to Preside
of San Francisco. He viii report upon arrival
to the commanding officer of that post for duty.
Commissary Sergeant Emil Miller, now at
Fort Townsend, will be sent TO Fort Spokane,
Wash. He win report upon arrival at that
point to the commanding officer to relieve
Commissary Sergeant Isidore Crone.
Commissary Sergeant Crone, when thus re-
lieved, will be sent to San Francisco. He will
report upon arrival at that place to Major
Charles P. Eagan, commissary of subsistence,
for duty.
Hospital Steward Gustav Smith, Fort Mason,
Cal, is placed on the retired list.
Postofiees were established to day at
Abrams, Trinity County, Cal. Special from
Trinity, James G. Mather, Postmaster; TETON,
Kern County, Charles l.. Wood, Postmaster;
Lenox, Washington County, Or, Peter Jossy,
Postmaster; Ellers, Shasta County, Cal, George
K. Eldredge, Postmaster; Talega, Orange
County, Cal. Marietta Morris, Postmistress;
Mule, Harvey County, Or, James F. Mahan,
Postmaster. Charles Cantrell has been COM
missioned Postmaster at Pieta, Cal.
Pensions: a-Original-James E.
Owen, Pomona, Los Angeles County; Henry L..
Atwood, Hallsck, San Bernardino County. In
crease-John Ford, Yountville, Napa County;
Walter Lyman, Auburn, Placer County; Hor-
ace Ashley, Pasadena. Restoration and supple
mental-John Jordan (deceased), Wilmington,
Los Angeles County. Reissued-Smith Hub
bell, San Jose. Reissue and increase-Robert
H. McIlroy, Emmett, San Benito County. Origi-
nal widows-Jane Jordan, Wilmington, Los
Angeles County. Minors-W. Downing, Oak
n
San Francisco; Ado,ph Mautner, San Francisco.
Mexican wax survivors, increase-John Curtis,
Sacramento.
Oregon Original - Widows and children,
Martha A. Baldwin, Winchester, Douglas
County; John Sanders, Wolf Creek, Josephine
County; Daniel Watts, Myrtle Point, Coos
County. Reissue-Calvin Bair, Salem, Marion
County, Wash. Original-Henry Daum, RAN
kin, Lewis County; Gowen w. Wilson, KenRo-
wick, Yakima County.
Washington-Increase-H r. Preston,
Blaine, Whatcom County. Original widows
and orphans-John Etheridge Qather), Little
Falls, Lewis County.
Among the California arrivals are ]. F.
Evans Of San Francisco and W. P. Gould and
William P. Gerdel of Santa Barbara. A. H.
Ricketts,, representing the California Miners
Association, is here to see the Secretary of the
Interior regarding the selecting of mineral
lands by the Southern Pacific Railroad. He
protests against valuable mineral lands being
patented 10 the road and insists that no
patents be granted until proper classification
has been made and adequate notice of the
selections have been posted for the proper
length of time.
Ex-Representative Caminetti is also in CON-
munieation with the department in the inter
est of the miners.
guests yesterday, this being the last of her
brilliant series of inequalities for the season
before her departure for Europe. She will
spend everal months in travel.