Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-19
THE Pc Sion OFFICE

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TH B PEN Sion 9 FFICE
St1UMoR rHAT SPICES THE ROUTINE
WORK or THE OFFICIALS.
Some OF the Quaint and Original Ap-i
plicationn For Payments That HAYS
Becn Handed IN to the Represents,
tives of Uncle sam.
n he dared to do SO the ommissioner
of pensions at Washington could com
pile a delightful volume, putting there
In the strange applic ations for pensions
that come to his Office. Some Of these
letters belong to the TOO good to keep
class, and they find their way out into
the world, where they add q good deal;
to the hilarity Of nations. Some appli-3
cants for pensions manifest the most
childlike ignorance regarding the meth
cd Of procedure necessary when apply
ing for q pension. They seem to thirlk
that all they have to do Is to send an,
application to the pension Office end
Uncle san, viii forward q check by Ne
turn mail.
Soon after the close Of the civil war
there came! to the pension office In.
Washington the following unique and
ipoetical application for pension that
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years ago: Z 81.
ito Commissioner OF Pensions wa shfnRton.
these many years I've tried IN vain
To ~ suo,nd r racs'n.a a - np srt.
at first Battle 81 Bun Run 2.s
one Of otioes sons 90 brave
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Z ,a,,ai shai1 49, hais $500 e
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Mt t,.a,,E. Il os,a !, iiys ~,
ss,aa. .s,,s h,., ME- s,ss.,,, cnsa
"a @,,,s we ,,,a. Iast Il ,'.N 81.
for ID wright ana read poafre
i hope that with that Eye TO see the day
wnen unkel Sam nis cripples VIII Fay.
Much more recent is the letter sent
to the commissioner Of pensions by an
applicant who had contracted blood
',oisoning In the following remarkable
manner:
+ ] got blood poison by beinge hit with 81
hens eg wen cam back from the frunt.i
The eg was not good wen you send my
pension want the Deed made SOS my
wife can't get none OF It. She throde the
eg. She war q rebbel.
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= NC . Dsss
Was announcer letter sent 70 the pension
Office In which the applicant set forth
His claims II. 4 ,n,,ain,, ~ fy,ir Visa. sS
8. IS HI
/. me. way rs BOZ my war ingery Was a
ketchn q e shog. Ihe Hog war wanted
n 2. our captain Tor forege. We was chasin
tne. hog and snea. craW y threw e. hole.
and tried Is e i wv nut :, - st,,c,. -,
in tryin to wiggle out throde the raiesl
on an one It hit me on my he'd and nocked
~ ssnseies s 20 not snal'A !. lae nos naa
ala not ketch the hos. Wich she never never
was caut. SO pleze send along my pension.
one aged pensioner had evidently
made 4 serious b,under ~ takinr
INTO h,mself 4 Wifi, II his nId aua. ffnr
love Sc pain seems Is have been sthe3
motive &c the woman who married him,
iii the following letter stated the facts
In the case: '75
Dear M,atsr Il !, q Die. 3, ~. u.s.,
my penshun papers 50 81 my. wife Il Ie cant 81
draw my twelve dolers q munt when i
am a., 3. aea; she Say she marTyed me for 10y
~ =, - ,vss ~ =. no ~.
self BY being my widower 50 1 pi E. III let
my penshun end with me but pleze doant
e. On g ner anat you got tnas from me
IL hotter now than i can stand d when when
send, word that s. am 10 moar then send, Sand
her this e Won want to but not untiI Tire
penshun Is shut 81 Whitcll It q her tust
desserts for marvin Tor money ~ IL. L
Mersheenary spirrut 1s:
90
Ohe Gay mere came 20 tne pension
Office q very old and Subdued looking
man who cn,,ld scarcely fnftar. alnno
~, g, ~
.is " " Z nis sa1e
was a very robust and perfectly self
reliant young woman OF perhaps thirty
yea II n i - w1ar aoyne. ana vent
s. g y 80.