The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-26
A PENSION CLAIM.
An Adverse Decision Given in the Case
of Gottiieb EIlersick.
PATENT RULE AMENDMENTS.
Beardon Process of Making Butter-To Bis
for the Kansas Pacific Currency Re-
form-Ruie Against Indefinitc
Post Once Addresses.

! WAsHrSGToN, Nov ga pension
claim which has been pending 2T years
and which is admitted would carry
back pay of S25. 600 was decided to-day
by Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Davis 1t 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 1854 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 70 establish his
| claim, presented in 1870, was made un-
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
of his most important witnesses, aside
from which the physicians and ocu-
| lists decline to accept the cause of his
present blindness as due to any service
origin.
Amend ments to Patent Rules.
WAsHrSGToS, Nov. "a Acting Com.
missioner of Patents Greedy has made
number of important amendments
to the rules governing the practice of
he ftn npH Nd bo-
approved by Secretary Bliss These
rules will apply to all cases filed after
January /, all cases filed 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 filing of the
application. Heretofore, il 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 II the period
between the two patents is over seven
months no American patent will be
granted. One year is named as tn.
period within which failure 10 prose
cute will be held to constitute ar
abandonment of the application for
patent.
BeardOn Process of Making Butter.
WAsHISGToS, Nov. 24-Dr. d. Z
salmon, chief of the bureau of anima,
industry of the agricultural depart
I /.
tary of agriculture on what is knowr
as the Beardon process of making but
ter. The report describes the process
which consists of churning n certain
quantity of butter with cream, ant
also the experiments conducted by tn,
department The resulting com
| pounds were sent to New York wher,
an expert was requested 10 score them
He reported as follows: ut cannot b
classified as creamery, imitation cream
cry, factory or dairy butter. and W
have no grading On any other kind
butter except these kinds. l find thes
samples poor in favor. the grain
badly broken, showing that ii 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 hid for the Kansa. Pacific.
WAsHISGroS, Nov. 24.-Attorney
General Mckenna yesterday took the
first steps TO qualify the government
to bid ut the sale of the Kansas Pacific
December Is. A certified check for
81, 900, 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, Sl9, 900, 900. rather than suffer
any loss. Senators and representatives
are encouraging him in this inclina-
tion. The reorganization committee
is prepared to bid sl2, 900, but has
given no sign of going further
Currency Reform.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24..-Vice Presi.
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.
anu bHht dt ONce DelleVe the repre-
sentatives will pass currency law that
will meet the temper, the tone. the re-
quirements of the people of the United
States / know not how it will be
evolved, but believe such bill will
be passed to harmonic the existing
| financial difficulties.-
Rule Against Indefinite Addressel
WAsuISGToS, Nov. "a. = Assistant
Postmaster General Merritt has issued
an order stating that it is not permis.
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." II
the matter be unbelievable to that
addressee. must in all cases be disre.
garded by postmasters Postmasters
have been instructed that after March
/, 1898, matter so addressed will be
held to be unmailable.
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