The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-30
WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENCE.

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Special Dispatch TO the puss-Tntefiigenrer
~ AshlNGfQ&. March 1--sA. cfyl SER
ne nsss EXAMINATION Is 10 be held At Port
sifion Of assaysr In the custom house AZ
that place. The subjects or whf.h the
applicants will he examined are pennaAn-
snip, istfer~wrtEtng. chemical arithmetic
ana PRACTICAL questions relating to as
saVng. The examination 10 open to Sill
eluxeDs OF the United States who comply
WITH the requirements Prospective COM
p-saiors should write the secretary of tire
BOARD OF examiners in the Port Townsend
custom house for blanks ard informa sion-
Tie salary Of the position Ii s per dien.
MAJ. Elmer r. Heg, brigade surgeon Of
volunteers. appointed from North Taxi
ma. and now on service IN Cuba. = one
OF those who Will be soon discharged the
service MAJ, Hegs commission Will ex-
L. ima. ~ " s0 ~
The resignation OF Second Lieut. John
9. Barbour, First Idaho volunteer infan-
try. has ben accepted and an honorable
discharge Issued.
February "A last an order was issued by
the war department appointing Sergeant
Major Walter W. Thomas. Fourteenth in
faniry. commissary sergeant, and direct
Ing him 10 report To Col. David l.. Brain
ard chief commissary. department OF the
Pacific Now an order is made reyoking
the above and saying that the appoint
ment was erroneous
Private Charles Triton. hospital corps,
win be transferred from Augusta, Ga.
where he now Il. TO Vancouver barracks.
The following honorable discharges have
been ordered:
Private Lee NJ Travis. Company c. Sec
ond Oregon volunteer infantry. Eugene,
Or
Sergeant John r. Jansen, Company A.
Sixteenth infantry.
Corporal Richard o'Dowd. Company A.
Sixteenth infantry.
Private Frank J. Mashek. Company II,
Sixteenth infantry.
Private Frank r. Tate, Company D, Six
teentif infantry,
Private Patrick DOMAIN Company A.
Sixteenth infantry.
Private James A. Mcintyre, Company
r, Sixteenth infantry
Private William Armstrong Company
Fl. Sixteenth infantry.
Privates Sam V Coney. Charles l..
Maston and George 8. Phillips. Company
N. Sixteenth Infantry
Oscar Rsymann. William j. Mum. Peter
4. Morrison, Lewis A. knight and Arthur
Evans have been appointed attendants in
the marine hospital al Port Townsend
Patents have been issued to George H.
Gilman. w. Il. Norton and r. H. Brown
for hrake-adJusting mechanism. Ezra
| Campbell and {. -. Woodwork OF Day
ton. Wash, have been granted patent for
grass catcher for lawn mowers.
In February last j. H. Causten was rec
commended for appointment as United
Alaska WORD has BEEN re ss from iS Nh, Il
lam l.. DIsfin surveyor general of the land
office at Sitka. that upon Mr.. Causten quail
flying himself for the position he VIII be
very glad TO commission him.
The secretary OF the interior has ordered
patented TO the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company eighty acres Of land In the Spo-
kane district. Wash.
pi Pensions ,i have been granted as follows:
month. Francis NJ. Daugherty Barry. S.;
s ssl;sa, Gregory; Dayton. p Georgs W.
Soldiers Solder Home, s. David PAGE, Ts mn,ss
= kinesid censralia, =: Mrs. kineaid Is
fhs waoT a q veteran ran. OF the Mexican war
receive pension of sl2 a month In lieu OF
p. which he has been getting.
S. r. Weston, Of Seattle, left for New
He will return next week
Assistant surgeon Henry r. Carter, jr.
join Capt. Glenn's Alaska expedition. Sec
ond Lieut.. Joseph T. Gohn. Fourteenth in
fantry. has been ordered to New York
for examination for promotion While
there ne viii also serve recorder Of The
examining heard
Former Congressman Lewis has request
ed the postnnlee department 10 send Al, in
spector te Stevens county TO investigate
the advfsahiiity Ct establishing post
office n. a point three miles east OF Iiar-
vey and about two and une~half miles
west of Arzina. This has been done at
the request Of citizens Of that locality
VINO send a long list or names with their
[ petition, and who desire the new post
I efyice IL established tn be located In the
store of e. r. TAYLOR. and to be known az
Rise postofytce and Mr. E r Taylo- 10
hs F.Nst xfsysa
flee should be established II would benefit
50 The petition states. about three hundred
patrons Of the old offices "a the office
weuid te located I'm the center of the
best and most thckiy settled farming
community OF the district and be At a
point where the business OF the county
Is transacted and would be on the short
eat and most Travelled read from Kettle
Falls to Miles IsosfofTjce The petitioners
state that they now have to pass through
private property for two miles in going
20 said offioe. or go a distance OF seven
ana Ii half miles by the public highway
and return They never go Ia either Har~
Npy srxina bat for their mail ard are
row compelled TO hire "A special CARRIER
as 20 get the bene8t II a daily mail
a1d save themselves q LARGE amount NJ
= time. There ia no doUh: the petition viii
: ne granted ard the inspector sent.
! Possibilities have been established at
Ariel. t0wlitz county. with special mali
servfee from Etna. nine miles west; and
5 ut Keller, Stevens county. With n spec al
: carrier service from LARK p&Eft srseA
south The new postmaster Mt Ariel So
Ieaader NJ entity. and At Keller. Fred
erigk w Mi@ackinS
The commissions Of Jehn Fl Gibson and
+ os Charles r Erehua as poStnla&ters r.
spee lively "a isSaaash and Wiikescn.
( Wash have Asea s4gneS:
Following are recent changes ln mail
service.
oshviIi~ So Connie Tuesdays Thursdays
I and Saturdays leaving Connie ar "a a
~. and oakville at ,. III The trip each
way is - be made in two hsaurs
NssaauxSi 10 skye Tuesdays Thurs
DAYS and 50 tur7fayS. leaving skye at a.
rs and WasAougal st il se q III. sak!ng
the trip each way in two and on~-hals
hours
Nsaa so fsartfaE9 Tuesdays Talurxsla -
and Saturdays. leaving pagtfor: at y O.
atsss Mead al ~ a. III the trip each
WAY requiring oaiS oae hour
ir8 20 esgeni Afsorg oar Gssi people
{ more than t9sT ss a year which Ire rxe~sgis
{ af the tTnited States have Beer TIA sae
Ess2 sending abroad IS discussed
In she annual report - ire
( chief 90 statistics wAtch has
! Just henn made rsss9se The xuE