The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-31
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Special TO sas Pos,-Inte,ngsaee-.

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WASHINGTON. March 3a.-Eugh I.
Cooper, civsl engineer, wea known IN
Spokane ard other cities % Washington,
has teen n the city during the pas. week
Nr. Coop~r's ssSeS- successful piece OF En-
cheering was IN building . mammoth dam
across the Missouri river. fourteen miles
above Hesena- Mont. He Is now employ
&c by bag electric light firm q Dayton.
O., ard vii travel ali over tie United
States Investigating the various water
powers which are 20 be foun6- especially
il the South and West NJ. Cooper IS now
on his way 20 North Carolina 20 investi-
gate a waterfall s4a feet high. on tae yad-
kin river, In that state he stopped n
Washington 20 obtain data from the SEQ
logical survey bureau
Senator Turner and Representative
Jones have introduced IN their respective
houses bill sppro7-iating 1900 for the
rescaing, caring for ard rransporta ton
OF wrecked seanen from the schooner c.
CT. White. which was wrecked On the south
end OF kadiac island, Alaska April i2
1854 A,pAonso c. Edwar1~. formerly OF
Spokane, now United States commissioner
OF Alaska, IS interested IN securing this
appropriation for ire men who riSazed
their lives and used their property Tor the
benefit % those shipwrscked seanen. The
81 coo. he says would be very small COM
pensstion for the work done aid the loss
OF time incurred
II. C. Thompson. OF Poneroy. Wash. an
Old soldier who served three years IN the
civil war il an applicant for the possrnaS-
tership ar that place. Mr.. Thompson has
resided in Pomeroy for twelve years. and
Is strongly supported by petitions OF the
patrons OF thai Office.
Senator WILSON, who has thousands OF
applications for Office in the various parts
of the state OF washington. has devised
a system OF ciassifcstton which is ahso-
lu.eiy perfect. Each application is jacketed
and on the outside is printed the follow
ing: Office. - candidate. -: indorser,
-; Acknowledged. -: preferred, -.
The applications being jackesed are then
classified according 70 the on >es. and thus.
In one moment, the senator can tell at any
time OF the day how many applications
there are for any particular Office in the
state, who are the candidates. who are
their irdorsers. and what has been done
with the letters which have been received.
Louis Adams. OF Spokane. has sent
petition OF l59 Republicans Of that city 70
Senator wilson, asking that he be ap-
pointed Indian agent On the CoIv!i!e reser-
vation-
L. e. kellogg. publisher OF the Lake
Cheian Herald Is an applicant for the re-
ownership oe the wsterville land Office.
and is indorsed by ex-senator John B.
Allen, Thomas n. Brents. L. $. Hewlett,
and other prominent Republicans Of East
ern Washington Hon. I. w. Matthews
is an applicant for the registrarship.
c. E Kiadt, young attorney OF Port
land. Or. is an applicant for commits
sioner of navigation.
John p. Hoyt Of Seattle. wants 20 be
made consul general TO Honolulu. or some
other place. He prefers the Hawaiian
islands on account OF the health of his
oldest son, whom he thinks would be
greatly benefited by a sojourn In that To-
caliry.
An original pension has been issued 20
Samuel Hiee OF Tacoma
John Martin Kuhn, OF Seattle, who
made application for a pension some time
ago. has been rejected on the ground that
ne is not disabled for manual labor IN
pensionabIe degree
Al original pension has been issued to
John NJ. Ray, OF Moscow Idaho.
TIE following patents have been Issued
to inventors IN the Pacific Northwest:
John A. Magnusson. Tacoma. Wash,
bicycle wheel; John Wilhelm. Portland,
Or, assigror to A. Maurer, OF Great Fails,
Mont. a truck for moving heavy bodies:
William Playhouse. Boise, Idaho. shoe re-
pairing Jack.
VIII r. Gay, of Seattle. has been adj
mitted 10 practice IN the United States SUI
preu1e court.
Edward W. Taylor. OF Tacoma, has been
admitted to practice an attorney before
the interior department.
ALLAN 3. SLAUSON
Some Western senators and members are
humorously critical OF the presidents new
timber reservations. and declare that the