Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-06
RURAL HEADQUARTERS MOVE
Change in POstofice System Takes
Division TO Kansas City.
ACTION TAKEN ON CORE OF ECONOMY
Omce of superintendent Is Abolished
and Field Agents Report TO chief
of inspectors of the POST
ONCE Department.
oFrom a stafr Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-tSpecial Tele-
gram.)-As has been anticipated the rural
free delivery division headquarters at
Omaha is marked for change in july
the beginning of the next fiscal year Ever
since the change made in transferring the
rural free delivery service from the fourth
! assistant postmaster general to the first
assistant postmaster general and placing
! all general agents under the inspector in
charge there has been more or less inquiry
as TO where the division agents would land.
In the transfer of division headquarters in
the creation of the Omaha division there
| was considerable criticism on account of
Omaha succeeding over Kansas City. Post
master General Cortelyou found that in
the transfer he was saving the government
some money in locating the division head
quarters at Omaha Now the new change
| is to be made and the division headquarters
will terminate in July. according to the
! following letter which Senator Millard to-
! day received from Postmaster General Cor
telyou
Referring to your letter of recent date,
| making inquiry as to discontinuance of di-
service, at Omaha. 1 have to say that on
; December |, by the reorganization of the
| the division of inspectors and II is the in
! tention TO consolidate the two forces at an
! early date. After July ] next IL is expected
| that all of the rural agents will become
postoffice inspectors and will report di-
! rectly TO the inspectors in charge of di-
| visions. This will not make any difference
| IN the number OF agents assigned to each
state or the manner of handling the work.
The postoffice inspectors who now work in
the state of Nebraska Will report to the
| Inspector in charge at Kansas city. The
consolidation of the Omaha headquarters
| with that of Kansas City Will be in the
interest OF economy, and as the division
headquarters Is connected with the field
service largely by use of the malls the To-
cation OF the Headquarters can make but
little difference. In the new arrangement
there will be as many rural agents assigned
! to the state of Nebras ka as AT the present
and the work viii be handled just as we'll
Iowa Building Bills.
Representative Birdsal today introduced
bills providing for the purchase of sites
and the erection OF public buildings at
Manchester and Iowa Falls, each bill cali
ing for an appropriation of 100000
University to Get Cannon.
Senator Gamble today secured the pas
sage, through the senate, of his joint reso-
luton authorizing the secretary of war to
furnish condemned cannon to be placed
in the campus OF tho University of South
Dakota at Vermilon, to commemorate the
D. services of students of that institution who
participated in the Spanish-American wal.
EeFSohai hcuttOhs
Judge w. ID. McIIugh of Omaha is in
Washington. ~
Rev Edwin Hart jerks, pastor OF the
First Prcspyteriap church ef o'na ha, Is il
Washington en- route TO the Holy Land.
Postal Matters. '
| Postmasters appointed: Nebraska =
Leigh, Colfax county. Henry c. Hooker
vice G. w. Kibler, resigned Iowa-Gunder
Clayton county, John e. jacobson vice
Marie HaNorsen, resigned.
Rural carriers appointed for Iowa routes
, Postville, route l, Gaddis A. Brooks car
, route l. Arthur Goodwin, carrier; Alice
, Limkc, substitute. WOODBURY., route
, Samuel r. HOFFMAN, carrier; Seth e. HoOt
, man. substitute.
New Banks Authorized.
Applications to organize Nebraska ma
tional banks approved today: The Firs
= National bank of Benedict. with $25,O
I capital, by Il. b. Crownover, George w
Q Post, y. W, Dean, L. J. Wightman anC
5 August Zimmerer;s The First Nationa
5 bank of Bradshaw, with $4,000 capital, b!
j. F. Houseman, George w. Post, N. W
= merer.
G The Farmers National bank of Oska
0 loosa, Ia, has been authorized to begin
business with a capital of 100000; w. l
Beans, president; W. II. Pike, vice presi
0 dent II. K Davis, cashier