The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-11-26
A PENSION CLAIM.
An Adverse Decision Given in the Case
of GottIieb Ellersick.
PATENT RULE AMENDMENTS.
Beardon Process of Making Butter-To BID
for the Kansas Pacihc-Currency Re
form-Rule Against Indefinite
Post once Addresses.


WASHINGTON, Nov. pa pension
claim which has been pending ~ years
and which is admitted would carry
back pay of SIS, 600 was decided to-day
by Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Davis. It is the case of Gottleib Eller-
sick, of Missouri, whose claim for al
legged total blindness due to disease of
the eyes contracted during military
service in 1864 is rejected. The case
has attracted much interest and pre-
sented many perplexing features, but
it was found that no record of the eX
istence of any disease of the eyes in
service existed nor was there compe-
tent testimony to show the incurrence
of any such disability in the service.
The claimant was discharged from the
army in 1865 and did not lose his sight
until 1868. No effort to establish his
claim. presented in 1870, was made I'M
til 1890, 25 years after his discharge,
when most of those who could have
testified from personal knowledge
were dead The decision holds that
the claimants own statements were
inconsistent and fatty contradictory
from which the physicians and ocu-
present blindness as due to any service
origin.
Amendments to Patent Rules.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Acting Com
missioner of Patents Greedy has made
a number of important amendments
to the rules governing the practice of
the patent Office and they have been
approved by Secretary Bliss. These
rules will apply to all cases fled after
January l, all cases fled prior thereto
being subject to the old rules The
new rules provide that no invention
submitted is patentable if it has been
| described in printed publications two
or more years before the fling of the
application. Heretofore, if foreign
patent had been taken out before an
American patent the term of the lat
ter was limited to the expiration O;
the foreign patent, which often re.
suited in the practical loss of many
valuable patents by giving them
very short life. The new rules do not
make this limitation, but if the period
between the two patents is over seven
months no American patent will be
granted. One year is named as the
period within which failure TO prose
cute will be held to constitute ar
abandonment of the application for
patent.
Beardon Process OF Making Butter.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Dr. D. E
Salmon, chief of the bureau of ANNA;
industry of the agricultural depart
hos do -
tary of agriculture on what is known
as the Beardon process of making but
ter. The report describes the process
which consists of churning a certain
quantity of butter with cream, ant
also the experiments conducted by the
department. The resulting com
pounds were sent to New York wher.
an expert was requested to score them
He reported as follows: 1T cannot b
classified as creamery, imitation cream
cry, factory or dairy butter, and w
have no grading On any other kind o
butter except these kinds. l find thes
samples poor in flavor, the grain
badly broken, showing that it has beer
much overworked and is very salvy-
consider it unfit for table use-only
use that could be made of it would be
to a cheap class of bakers trade
To Bid for the Kansa. Pacific.
WAsHINGToN, Nov. 24.-Attorney
General McKenna yesterday took the
first steps to qualify the government
to bid at the sale of the Kansas Pacific
December Is. A certified check for
81, 0O0,0 900 will be prepared and depos-
tied. The president is strongly in
clined, as he had determined in the
case of the Union Pacific, to have the
government represented at the sale
! and to bid the full amount of the
claim, S19, 600, 900. rather than suffer
any loss. Senators and representatives
are encouraging him in this inclina-
ton. The reorganization committee
is prepared to bid Sl2, 1000. 600, but has
given no sign of going further.
Currency Reform.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24..-Vice Presl.
dent Hobart has joined the senators
and representatives who believe
that congress will put through
some monetary legislation this winter
At dinner in Patterson, N. j.. the
vice president said: The people de-
mand currency reform in this country,
and that at once. l believe the repre-
sentatives will pass a currency law that
will meet the temper, the tone, the re-
quirements of the people of the United
| States. l know not how it will be
evolved, but believe such bill will
be passed to harmonic the existing
financial difficulties"
Rule AgaInst Indefinite Addresses.
WAsHINGToN, Nov. "a. - Assistant
Postmaster General Merritt has issued
an order stating that it is not permits
| sible to write upon third or fourth
class mail matter or its wrapper, or to
print or write upon second-class mat
ter or its wrapper directions relative
to delivery. Consequently directions
to deliver to some indefinite address,
as to druggist" or physician" if
the matter be unbelievable to that
addressee, must in all cases be disre-
garded by postmasters- Postmasters
| have been instructed that after March
1, 1898, matter SO addressed will be
held to be unavailable.
Wife. Child and Nancy Gone