The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-19
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

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
John l.. Wilson has been appointed
postmaster at Bonanza, Saguache
county, Colorado, vice l.. F. Correll,
removed. p. G. Richardson and Guy
Nj. Stevenson of Denver are appointed
railway mail clerks.
About Jan. 1st a 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
Girt. 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
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 a cost of over
100000, 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 $797,000 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.
Postmaster General Meyer has made
an order that postmasters of the coun-
try confer with their local school au-
thorities as to the practicabilty 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 mail matter and registry
and money order systems.
Specifications nave 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 S2,500,000 Proposals for
the dredging will be opened December
1st.
The State Department has a tele
gram from the American consul at Ba-
hia, Brazil, reporting the conclusion of
the trial of the fillibustering expedi-
tion 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-SamuelP Park
er, Herbert Phannebecker, Everitt Will
son and George Vice, all of New York
Magali received a two-year sentence;
Vice, who was seriously wounded in the
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
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.