The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-29

about five miles. six times week, round
trips The service begins April H. 4 new
contract IS 10 be let before the end of the
present fiscal year.
Maa VIII leave Forks for Pins on
wednesday al a. ~. returning the next
day. The hour Of arrival u. each office
VIII be 400
The twice 81 day mail between Isakevlew
ana Srafaway Will leave I.akeview a, 4
m. and Il m. daily except Sunday, and
isave Spanaway returning at $50 a. III. and
i;jo p. m. the same days.
The commissioner OF pensions has r..
fused 10 grant pension 10 William
6ross, a colorsd citizen 81 Tacoma, who
was cabin hoy on the United States
steamer N!ncennes in the year lNsS AT
that time, in an effort To save the ufe az
a man who had fallen overheard young
Gross injured his right leg. from which
ne never recovered, which now gives him
much srouhle and prevents him from doing
manual labor. The pension commissioner
states that Gross has been unable in
spite OF all the assistance given him. ~
connect his present disability with his ma
val service. evidence regarding the coatin-
uanee OF the disability of the leg being
lacking. tie cannot get a pension under
the new law. which permits a rating to
any enc unable 10 work, no matter how
they were disabled. Ter that law applies
only 10 soldiers and sailors OF the civil
war. whereas Gross injury was contract
ed seven years prior thereto. Representa-
tive Lewis is trying to get 4 special bill
passed ~ pension Gross.
Miss Belle Ramsay of Washington. has
been appointed seams;ress at the Warm
Springs Indian school. Oregon, at $40 per
annnm. and Miss Martha II. Barge. OF
Washington. u seanlstress at the Lemhi
school. Idaho. at $3.50 per annum.
Representative Lewis has accepted an
Invitation to deliver an address in April
before the school OF medicine Of the Bal
timore university.
A postoffice called kiondike has been
established in Illinois.
An additional twice monthly exchange
OF inner registered sacks has been or
dered 10 commence at ence between Seat
tie and Douglas. Fort Wrangel and Ju-
neau. Alaska. Sacks are To be dispatched
by the steamer FaraiIon in both directions.
The postoffice at Buenna, King county,
has been changed one and one-half miles
northeast and the name changed To
Stones. Nelson ]. Tilleu mas been ap-
pointed postmaster at this office.
The postoffice at Morris. Chehal.s coun-
ty. has been discontinued. The mail will
hereafter be taken TO otter.
The following star services have been
establishes: Marr's Landing. Washington.
to Warrendale. Oregon. four miles and
back three times week, by a schedule
of not to exceed one and one-half hours
running time each way, from July l. lS9S,
TO June 80. 1ada.
Cascades. Washington. 10 Bonneville.
Oregon. two and twenty-five one-hun-
dredths miles and back, three times q
week. by schedule of not to exceed one
hour running time each way, from July
l. 1893. TO June 30. 1902.
mail messenger service has been -s-
tablshed at Fairhaven and New What
com to the railroad station and steam
boat landings as often as required.
From April the railroad service from
New Kam.lchie to kamlchie will be dis
continued 1t will then be superseded by
star service.
The following change In the mail serv-
ice from South Park IN Sunnydale has
been ordered: Leave South Park daily
except Sunday at a. m. arriving at Sum
nydale by 10 a. m. and returning leave
Sunnydala except Sunday at 1880 a. m.
arriving at South Park by 1890 p. m.
Ferdinand A. Davis has been commits
scned postmaster at Oakes daie. Wash
Pensions have been granted In the state
of Washington as fellows:
Decentralization Parker, Orting. III;
Daniel A. Morrison. Boundary. s..
Increase--Joseph III. Mallory. Castle
Rock, Sc TO $40; Noah l. Edgill. Port Town
send, So to $40: Joseph Murphy. Spokane.
81 TO IS: Achilles w. Ballard. Tacoma, -
10 $50
Original widows-Estella Cartwright.
Spokane. si2; Margaret Caw!ey, Manor. ~
A natsn, has be.n granted to Joseph
Hare. of Vancouver, Wash, for a mag.
azine firearm. and to Norman Isachson. or
Marion, Idaho, for hay carrier.
Enoch F.. Plummer has been appointed
inspector in the custom house al Fort
Townsend at $3.50 day.
ALLAN Il. SLACSON.