The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-09-24
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Oct. 14th civil service examination
for letter carriers and postal clerks
will be held at Leadville, Colorado.
The Postoffice Department has re.
newed its lease with Reese McCloskey
for postoffice accommodations at Du-
range for five years from Nov. LIST
John l.. Wilson has been appointed
postmaster at Bonanza. Saguache
county. Colorado, vice l.. F. Cornell.
removed p. G. Richardson and Guy
M. Stevenson of Denver are appointed
railway mail clerks.
About Jan. list sub-postoffice will
be established on the south side OF
West Eighth avenue, Denver, between
Kalamath and Lipan streets, on proper
ty owned by J. and r. A. Savageau.
This property has been leased for ten
years, the lease including all equip
ment, heat, light, safe, etc.
In the shooting tournament at Sea
Grit, New Jersey, the United States
Marine Corps won the Dryden trophy
match. Ohio finished second, United
States Infantry third, New Jersey
fourth, United States cavalry fifth.
Maryland sixth, New York seventh,
and the District of Columbia eighth.
The most important government sta
lions in Alaska are now in complete
wireless communication with the
United States. The signal corps has
completed the establishment of six
wireless stations at n cost of over
500, 900. which will insure continuous
communication in every season of the
year.
According to the annual report of
the Vicksburg National Park Commits
sion, a total of $4,000 has been APP
propriated up to this time by the va
rious state legislatures for memorials,
monuments and markers to certain
persons and organizations. Union and
Confederate memorials both adorn the
park.
Postmaster General Meyer has made
an order that postmasters of the coun-
try confer with their local school au-
thorities as to the 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 its operations, the
methods of delivering the mails, clas-
sification OF mai! matter and registry
and money order systems.
0petlllCillolS nave Deeu lSSueu ny
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 $2,500,000. Proposals for
hn ICin vi 6n
list.
The State Department has tele-
gram from the American consul at Ba
hia, Brazil, reporting the conclusion Of
the trial of the fillibustering expedi-
ton led by Zebastian II. l.. De Magali
into that republic in 1907. The expe-
dition consisted of eight men under the
leadership of Magali four of whom
were young Americans-Samuel Park
err, Herbert Phannebecker, Everitt Will
son and George Vice, all Of New York.
Magali received a two-year sentence;
skirmish which led to the arrest of the
men, was acquitted; George Gordon,
Scotchman, and follower of Magali.
was sentenced to one year. and the re-
naming members of the expedition
were sentenced to Imprisonment for
one year and five months.
The appointment of an inter-depart-
mental statistical committee by the
President upon recommendation OF Sec
rotary Straus of the Department of
Commerce and Labor to coordinate the
entire statistical work Of the govern
ment has been announced. The COM
mittee will meet in the near future. Its
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statistical methods. terms and results.
preventing Implications, rendering pos
sible closer cooperation and keeping
the statistical work Of the government
abreast of the most modern methods.
The committee is headed by Lawrence
o. Murray. comptroller of the currency.
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