Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-20
IOWA AT WASHINGTON.
Doings Of Hawkeye Residents at tn
Naflon.a Capital.

Washington, March 100. G. Fos-
ter has been appointed postmaster at
Ontario, Story county, vice r. Il. Par
son, resigned.
Postmasters commissioned: William
S. Berry, Let's; Mary Blick, Mcclure;
VIM. C. Morley, Sylvia; Fred G. Hirt,
Hills.
Iowa Pensions: Original-Thomas
X. Palmer, Red Oak, Sc. Increase
Frank V. Uaginaux, Council Bluffs. Sc
TO So; Simon j. Davis, Republic, SIP L
SD; Albert NJ. Lula, Red Oak, SIP to
SIT; Benz. I. johnson, Bondurant, Sc
TO S.; Jos. Pugh, Allerton. Sc to So.
Reissue-Mike d. Watkins, Sioux City,
S14. Reissue and increase-James
Warren, Henderson, Sc to $40. Orig
|inal Acknowledgment Cool, of Avoca,
So.
Washington, March 13.-Iowa pen
|saons: Original-Jonathan NJ. Joseph,
Creston, SIS; E. r. Mason, Marion, Sc.
Increase-Lorenzo d. Graham, Cory
don, Sc to IS; Charles T. Brown, Water
loo, Sc to SIS; John NJ. Guther, Lehigh,
Sc to $40; VIM. Z. Anderson, Keokuk,
Sc to $40. Original widow-Kate Sears,
Atlantic, SIS.
Washington, March 1.-THE abb
stract of the condition of the national
banks of Iowa, exclusive of Des Moines
at the close of business on February
IS, as reported to the comptroller of
the currency, shows the average re-
serve ito have been 26.07 per cent,
against 24.04 per cent on December 2;
loans and discounts, decrease from
47,s15,277 to .S43,020,535; stocks and
securities, increase from S 2,220,062 to
So, 435 ,s21; gold coin, decrease from
1904, 927 to 81, 600,03S; total specie in
crease from $2,573,26s to $2,5s1,s97:
lawful money reserve from $500 ,652
to $3,721.6S9; individual deposits de-
creased from $40, 49, LOG to $4O,076, 1856.
Iowa pensions: Additional-Leander
ID. Boone, Soldiers Home MARSHALL
town, So to $40. Restoration and re-
issue-Morgan w. B%onecutter (dead),
P~leasantville. $12. Renewal-Joseph
w. Gale. Moulton, S12. Increase-Jas.
cey, Nashua. Sc to IS; Frederick NJ.
Ade. Williams, Sc to S.: Harvey r..
Fuller, Wayerly, Sc to SIS; Thos. A..
Douglass. Liberty Center, Sc to IS;
Paul Grabill. Des Moines, SIT to $50:
Isaiah H. French, Sulphur Springs, SIT
to $24; Arthur l.. Terrill, Postville, Sc
to SIS: VIM. Staley, Prescott, Sc to SIS;
Erastus Holiday, Lamoille, SIS to $12.
Reissue-Abraham Wolff, Rock Rapids,
$45. Original widows, etc.-Minors of
David See, Des Moines, $14: Maria f.
Bonecutter, Pleasantville, SIS; Mary E..
Kitchen. Rhodes, SIS.
G. w. Gable has been appointed post
master at Bernila, Mahaska county,
vice G. A. Compton, resigned.
Iowa patents: Edwin j. Huchert,
G~arnayillo, rotary engine; Wilhelm
Heidecker, New Hampton, brace for
threshing machine; Elijah B. Kiken-
dali, Leander, road grading machine;
I. II. Leickband, Adair, gas meter;
Obed Long, Marshalltown, self-locking
wagon jack; Geo. r. Mott, West Union
watering trough; John III. Pease, Cedar
Rapids, fastener for storm windows;
JOS. L. Robbins, Newton, apparatus for
generating steam and destroying and
utilizing garbage; Sam'l IT. Warren,
keosauqua, watch chain; o. II. Wat
kins, Clinton, end gate; Henry Whit
lock, Pennington, cream separator.
Des Moines, March 15.-Postmasters
appointed for Iowa: Conroy, Iowa
county, II. A. Aherns, vice H. j. Glass.
resigned; Pilotsburg, Washington
county. A. r. Young, vice D. Plank,
resigned.
The president has commissioned Ev-
an B. Dowell as postmaster at Indian
ola.
Iowa pensions: original-George NJ.
Robertson, Oskaloosa, So: Josiah My
ers, Cedar Rapids, So. Additional-Mar-
tin Hollingsworth, Cordova, Sc to $40.
Renewal-Ira d. Morse, Baskerville, Sc.
Increase--Albert Burton, Knowlton, Sc
to IS; George w. Harrison. Grinnell, SO
to $40; Henry II. Ladd, Shannon City,
$40 to $17; Chas. Knapp, M~uscatine, Sc
to SIS; VIM. Rosenkrans, .Anamosa. Sc
to So: Edw. +. Lane, Masonyille. SIS to
$12. Reissue-Holbert d. Sage, Storm
Lake, SID; lothian Bliss. Fort Dodge,
IS. Original widows. etc.-Zachariah