Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-10

Beemer. Neb., with $4,000 capital; also
the application of A, J. Wilson, r. E.
Hughes, Charles A. Blossom, William l.
Pollock, F. NJ. Ballon and others to or
ganize the Boone National bank OF Boone,
Ia. with 100000 capital ....
These rural letter carriers were ap-
pointed today: Nebraska-Mead, regular.
Enoch q. Edoff; substitute. Carl J. Carl
son. Norfolk, regular. Lee Upton; Bubsti
tute, Horace Eisley. Ponca. regular, Frank
d. Slower; substitute, William Sellenbur-
ger. Iowa-Dow City, regular, William H.
Rule; substitute, James @. Rule. Latimer
regular, Edwin Sawtell; substitute, Ella
sawtell. sanborn. regular. Harry @. Gibbs;
substitute, Harvey Powell. Sergeant Bluff
regular. Ernest e. Bryan: substitute. Ell
B. Woodfcrd. Toledo, regular. George w.
Davis; substitute, Perry e. Davis. Walker,
regulars, John B. Edwards, Charles o.
Bross; substitutes, Ollie NJ. Edwards. Lot
tie Bross,
Frank Baldwin Of Charlton, Albert W.
Sides of Usage, Thomas d. Lawrence of
Corning, Ia, were today appointed railway
mail clerks.
Postmasters appointed: Iowa-Ewen j.
Campbell. Hobart, Kossuth county; W. H.
johnson. Homer, Hamilton county; P. l..
Kepple, Ionia, Chickasaw county. South
Dakota--Charles Mallory, Date, Butte
county; Martin J. Wegner. st. Herbert,
Edmunds county. Wyoming-Rongis, FIRE.
mont county, Gilbert Stevens.
The comptroller OF the currency today
approved the Iowa National bank Of Des
Moines as reserve agent for the Charlton
National bank of Charlton, Ia.
To He Chief Paymaster.
Major George r. Smith has been desig-
| mated as chief paymaster Of the division
Of the Philippines, relieving Lieutenant
| Colonel Charles II. Whipple, deputy pay
master general, who has been ordered to
this country to report Immediately to the
adjutant general. Major Elijah w. Hal
| ford, who has been serving in the Philip
pines as paymaster, has been relieved OF
duty, He will report to General Corbir
In washington for duty. ~. a. -.
Indian Authority Sustained.
| The court Of appeals OF the District Of
| Columbia has sustained the authority Of the
Indian tribes in Indian Territory to make
a payment Of q permit fee or tribal tax
prerequisite to grazing of cattle and othel
live stock within Indian Territory by per,
sons who are not members OF the tribes
and has sustained the authority Of tn,
| SoCT0ldTy Oh Iuo interior TO enforce BuCL
an Indian law by removing from Indiar
Territory all cattle and other live stool
upon which this fee is not paid. The de-
cision was rendered IN the case Of Edwin
T. Morris and other Texas cattlemeI
against Ethan A. Hitchcock secretary o
the interior, In which the plaintiffs sough
to enjoin the secretary from removing from
Indian Territory cattle upon which the,
had refused to nav the tax
Troops AssiEned in Islands.
The United States troops which lef
San Francisco about March 10 have beel
assigned as follows: Department of Luzon
The Tenth. Thirty-eighth. Eighty-ffth ant
One Hundred and Eighth companies, coas
artillery, at Quartet de Espana; the Mint
and Eighteenth batteries, field artillery. a
Paya Barracks, Manila. The Department
Of Mindanao: The Seventeenth battery
feld artillery. at Camp Wears, to reliev
the Twenty-ffth battery, field artillery
which will return to the United States
Department Of the VizcRyas: The Four
teenth infantry, one battalion at LAgual
and two battalions at Calbayog. Samar. T.
relieve the First infantry, ordered to pro
ceed to Manila. The Twenty fifth, Twenty
seventh, Thirty-frst and Thirty-sixth com
panies. coast artillery, and the Fourth an
Fifteenth batteries. field artillery, are no,
enroute from Manila to San Francisco, an
II is expected that the First infantry an
headquarters band, First squadron. sixt
cavalry, will sail from Manila for tn