The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-09-25
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Miss Anna C. Klett of Cheyenne,
Wyo.. has been appointed clerk in
the Agricultural Department
Oct. 14th civil service examination
for letter carriers and postal clerks
will be held at LeadvilIe. Colorado.
President Roosevelt in a letter to
William b. Mckinley, chairman of the
Republican congressional committee,
made public Sunday, appeals to citizens
to join with the national Republican
committee and the congressional com
mittee in movement to elect William
H. Taft as President and a Republican
Congress to support him.
Postmaster General Meyer has made
an order that postmasters of the coun-
try confer with their local school au-
thoritics as to tie practicability and
desirability of delivering to the school
children short talks on the postal ser
vice. The design is to inform the pu
pills of the scope of it's operations the
methods of delivering the mails, clas
sification of mai! matter and registry
and money order systems.
The definite decision of the United
States forestry service to establish
forest service district headquarters in
nounccd. The forest states will be
divided into six districts with head
quarters at San Francisco, Missoula,
Mont; Ogden, Utah; Denver, Port.
land. Orc, and Albuquerque. N. NJ.
These headquarters will be in charge
of forosters vested with authority to
settle the purely local problems with
in their respective districts.
81 say to you emphatically that your
work must be improved. Embezzle-
ments have failed of discovery, defal.
cation and dishonesty have been con
cealed from you and in many cases you
have failed to correctly or even approx.
imately estimate the value of the pa
per and securities held by the bank"
This was the declaration made by
Comptroller of the Currency Lawrence
o. Murray in addressing the confer
encc in Washington of national bank
examiners representing practically all
OF the territory east of Ohio.
Col. f. f. Stewart of the Coast ar
tillcry. whose case, because of his de-
tail 10 the ungarrisoned post at Fort
Grant Arizona, has been before the
public Tor some time, has been or
dercd TO appear before the retiring
board at Washington, ID. c., where he
VIII b" examined as to his disability,
its nature and whether it was inc .rred
in III" line of duty. A board at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona. where he appeared
recently for the purpose of taking the
test ride of ninety miles directed by
President Roosevelt, reported that the
colonel was practically blind in one
eye and that, because of this and ,he
additional fact that he had heart trou-
Bile, he was disabled for military ser
vice. Privilege to take the ride was
denied Colonel Stewart, the examining
board in its report declaring that to
do so would endanser his life.
Specifications have been issued BY
the bureau of Yards and Docks invit.
ing bids for dredging at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii where the United States is to
establish an important nasal station.
Four hundred thousand dollars was
made available for the proposed work
at the last session of Congress. but
the entire improvement will approx
mate in cost $2,50O,O0O Prop sails for
the dredging will be opened December
lst.
The Postoffice Department has re-
newed it's lease with Reese McCloskey
for postoffice accommodations at Du.
range for five years from Nov. 1st.