Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-10-30
A POSTAL REPORT.
More Postmastsrs Appointed Last
Year Than Ever Before.
REPORT BY GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA.


"~SoU WAY WV oVs-A Ovol U
s,270 presidential postmasters was
appointed last year, according to the
annual report Of J. L. Bristow, fourth
assistant postmaster general, issued
yesterday. This Is the largest num-
Der appointed in any one year in the
history Of the postal service. The
increase was due mainly to the ex-
piration Of commissions during the
year and the advance Of many
fourth-class Offices to the presiden-
tial grade. The total number Of ap-
pointments OF p~ostmasters Of all
classes was 1890, an increase of l.
313. There was a slight increase in
the number Of removals of postmas-
tiers "for cause" as a result Of a
strict discipline for ~carelessness and
Irregularities. There were 3,O5s
post offices established and 4,O59 dis
continued, the latter attributable
mostly to the extension of the rural
free delivery service and the consoli-
dalton Of post offices adjacent to
large presidential offices. The num-
Der Of post Offices in the United
States June 80 was 1924, of which
22O were first class, 1923 second
class, 3,4SS third-class and 1913
fourth-class.
The report shows hat burglaries
Of post Offices and the robberies of
mail boxes are on the increase. Ar
rests and convictions for all offenses
have materially increased. There
were 1,746 robberies of post offices,
II robberies Of mail trains, 16 of mail
passengers, star route carriers and
wagons and 465 of letter boxes. OF
the total 1,721 persons arrested for
violating postal laws, 3O4 were con
nected with the postal service, in
GLIDING liz postmasters.
Mr.. Bristow renews his recon-
mendations that a law be enacted re-
curing assistant postmasters, cash
iers and other employees to give bonds
to postmasters direct and that post
masters be held responsible under
their own bonds for all acts and de-
at their offices. An appropria-
ton Is asked for the construction of
'lookouts" for inspectors use in post
offices wherever needed in the opinion
Of the postmaster general. An
amendment Of the interstate COM
.erce law is urged to prohibit tele-
graph and express companies or their
employees from aiding in the green
goods or lottery swindles or similar
schemes carried on partly by mail
Ind partly by common carrier.
Report Of the Governor of Arizona.
Washington, Oct. 3o.-Gov. Brodie,
If Arizona, in his annual report to
The secretary, Of the interiors re-
news the plea for statehood and
makes the following recommends
ions: That under the Newlands-
ia~nsbrough act the claims of Arizo
Ia for government aid in irrigation
,e fairly and carefully considered
md extended, so as to inaugurate in
he territory the first Of the great
irrigation systems under the act;
lction to rejuvenate the depleted
crest area; increases in Indian
chool facilities, in the salary Of the
'overnor, in the appropriation for
he Arizona national guard, a propo-
ition to improve the Colorado river
to construct a levee from Yuma
o the Mexican line to prevent the
verfow of cultivated land by the an
Iual freshets, and appropriations for
urchasing sites and erecting public !
uildings in Arizona cities. The re-
ort places the total taxable property !
I the territory at $50, s IT'S. .