The Glenwood post., 1908-09-26
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 Leadville, 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 a 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
thorities as to tie practicability and
desirability of delivering to the schoo
children short talks on the postal ser
vice. The design is to inform the pu
pills of the scope of its operations, the
methods Of delivering the mails, elias
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
the national forest states has been an
nounced. The forest states will be
divided into SIX districts with head
quarters at San Francisco, Missoula
Mont; Ogden, Utah; Denver, Port.
land, Ore, and Albuquerque, N NJ
These headquarters will be in charge
of foresters 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.
ence In Washington of national bank
examiners representing practically all
of the territory east of Ohio.
Col. F. F. Stewart of the Coast ar.
tillery, whose case, because of his de.
tail to the ungarrisoned post at Fort
Grant, Arizona, has been before the
public for some time, has been or.
dered to appear before the retiring
board at Washington, d. c., where he
will be examined as to his disability
its nature and whether it was inc .-rred
in the 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 the
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 endanger 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 naval 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 $2.5OO,OOO. Prop sails for
the dredging will be opened December
LIST.
The Postoffice Department has re.
newed Its lease with Reese McCloskey
for postoffice accommodations at Du.
range for five years from Nov. LIST.