The Springfield herald., 1908-09-25
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

MISS Aulld Y. hltlI Ol SHeyeuue,
Wyo., has been appointed clerk in
the Agricultural Department.
Oct. 18th 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. 1st,
The PostofIice Department in Wash
ington states that the six motor cars
being used to collect mail in the Dis
trict of Columbia are doing the work
formerly performed by eight men an
twelve horses.
The most important government sta
tions in ALASKA are now in complete
wireless communication with the
United States. The signal corps has
completed the establishment of six
wireless stations at cost OF over
100000. which will insure continuous
communication in every season of the
year.
According to the annual report of
the Nicksburg National Park Commits
sion, a total of $797, 900 has been ap-
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.
President Roosevelt has pardoned
X. Yashida a Japanese, who, with
others, was convicted in 1905 in
Alaska for numbering the Japanese
fol eman of n canning factory in which
they We're employed. He was SEN
fenced to thirty years in the pentiten
tiary. On condition that he sail at once
for Japan, he was freed, the pardon
taking effect upon his going on ship
board.
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 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.
Specifications have been issued by
the Bureau of Yards and Docks invit-
ing bids for dredgin 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 approxi-
mate in cost S2,50O,000. Proposals for
the dredging will be opened December
list.
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, Orc, 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.
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
er, Herbert Phannebecker, Everitt Will
son and George Vice. all of New York.
Magali received a twoyaar sentence;
Vice, who was seriously wounded in the
skirmish which led to the arrest of the
men, was acquitted; George Gordon, a
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.
About Jan. 1st a sub-postoffice will
be established on the south side of
West Eighth avenue, Denver, between
kalamath and LiDan streets, on proper
ty owned by ]. and R. A. Savageau
This property has been leased for ten
years, the lease including all equip
ment, heat, light, safe, etc.
The government receipts paid into
the treasury since September 1st
shows marked improvement, even
exceeding the receipts for the CORE
spending period in September, 1907.
WHICH WIS some weeks before tnere
were any indications of money
panic.
The appointment of an inter-depart-
mental statistical committee by the
President upon recommendation OF Sec
retary 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
purpose is to promote uniformity of
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,
as chairman.