Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13
CLAIMS OF TELECRAPBERS
E. RoaeWAtsf Presents to President Psti
tiOn Of Men in Military Service.
WYOMING LAND WITHDRAWN FROM ENTRY
Bids Asked for Large Amount of Con-
crete and Bridge work in wy
OminR on the North Platte
Irrigation Project.
(From a Stan Correspondent) }

WASHINGTON. oct. 12-(specisl Teie-
gram .)-Edward Rosewater. editor OF Tho
Bee, arrived in Washington today to re-
main the balance of the week. Mr.. Rose
water spent the day in the departments
looking after matters for friends. He was
a caller at the White House and the presi-
dent insisted that the Omaha editor remain
until Saturday for a personal interview.
On that occasion Mr.. Rosewater, as a
representative of the army telegraph corps,
will present the memorial of that associa-
tion adopted at its last annual meeting in
New York in September. urging the presi
dent to recommend in his message that
they be placed on an equal footing with
other union veterans.
Bridge Case Coming Up.
+. b. Kellogg, general attorney for the
Great Western Of St. Paul. is in Washing
ton for the purpose of representing that
company's side in the controversy over the
Union Pacific bridge, which is scheduled
for argument next week in the supreme
court
Land Withdrawn from Settlement.
The secretary OF the interior today in
structed land officials at Cheyenne and
Douglas, Wyo., to withdraw from entry
&c. 100 acres in the Cheyenne land district
This withdrawal is made on account OF
the North Platte irrigation project. Tho
lands withdrawn from the public domain
in the Cheyenne district are thus de-
scribed: Township 26 north range s4 west,
and townships q and 2S. range So west. In
the Douglas land district, these lands are
withdrawn: Township % north ranges
81. 50 and Sc west. and township 80 north,
ranges IS and Sc west.
Bids on Irrigation Work.
The secretary of the interior is adver-
tising for bids for the construction of con-
crete culverts, siphons, drops fumes, waste
ways, bridge abutments, etc, furnishing
ten combination highway bridges and S7O.-
900 pounds of steel. The total amount Of
concrete will be about 10000 cubic yards.
This work is to be done along the line of
the interstate canal from Torrington, Wyo..
a distance of forty-five miles. in connection
with the North Platte irrigation project in
Wyoming and Nebraska, In order to deliver
water to the Whalen Falls canal during the
irrigation season of 1906 The bids will be
opened at the office of the reclamation SER
vice in Denver November 8, and according
to the terms of the contract the successful
bidders shall begin work within thirty
days after signing the contract. Certain
| pOEllOIb Ol IHt WOIh are 10 Oe COIIlpitleo
by May T. 1906, and the entire work is to
be finished and ready for use by December
| !, 1906.
PostmRsters Appointed.
Postmasters Appointed-Nebraska, Ger
mantown, Seward county. Michael o.
| Wantz. vice l.. S. Callahan. resigned
White, Hayes county, John B. Thornley,,
carrier, vice C. d. Coler, resigned. Iowa
Bunch. Davis county. Addison f. Paris
vice ]. NJ. Jones. resigned Jamison, Clark
county, Theodore Barnard, vice Benjamin
| F. Clay, resigned; Saint Marys. Warren
| county, Theodore f. Lippold, vice John II
| Schultz. resigned Sharpsburg, Taylor
| county, Abbie NJ. Fulton, vice ]. NJ. Green
| resigned. South Dakota, Amherst, Mar
shal county, Gustav Holstein, vice Willie
| Jahing resigned.
Rural carriers appointed for Iowa
routes: Calmar. route /. Henry Butter
week. carrier; Anthony Einck, substitute
| Forest City. route 4, Julius s. George
carrier; r. NJ George. substitute; route Z
Horace b. Holcomb, carrier; Deona B. Hol
| comb, substitute
sharpe Succeeds Weston.
The president today directed the appoint
ment of Colonel Henry w, Sharpe to be
chief Of the commissary of subsistence. witt
the rank of brigadier general to succeed
| Brigadier General John Weston, promoted
to major general.