The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

the sum of $3.50 for 20 cords of wood
Furnished the army in 1852 and for SER
vices as scout during the war of the
rebellion.
Bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay to Edward Duffin the
sum of $500, in full compensation for
injury received While at work at Fort
Leavenworth as a plumber in the en-
ploy of the United States government.
Bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay to Mrs. William c.
O'Brien the sum of $4,000 for the de-
struction of a gristmill and sawmill
and the lumber and grain in the mills,
belonging to her husband William c.
O'Brien, situated in HUMBOLDT. on or
about October IA, 1861, while used by
and in the possession ofhsthe United
States army
Bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay to Daniel NJ. Frost, a
former register of the United States
land office at Garden City, the fees
earned by him for issuing notices Of
cancellation of entries, and required by
the secretary of the interior to be COW
cred into the treasury Of the United
States, contrary to the provisions of
congress.
Bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to issue registered bonds of
the percentum loan of 1908 to 1918 In
favor of the estate of James Mitchell,
with interest from February l, 1901, in
lieu of United States 2 percentum cou-
pom bonds of said loan, for 500 each.
The measure further provides that the
administrator of the estate shall first
file in the treasury department a bond
in the penal sum of double the amount
of the principal and the unpaid inter-
est coupons of the bonds. in such form
and with such sureties as may be ac-
ceptable to the secretary of the treas
ury, to indemnify the government
against loss on account Of the original
coupon bonds.
Dill Of
treasury to pay to William H. Spar
row the sum of $165.26 on account of
the difference of salary between that
of first sergeant and lieutenant of
Company I, Twelfth regiment, Indiana
volunteer infantry, from May l, 1855,
to July q, 1865.
Bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay to w. II. DeLong the
without any fault on his part, in the
year 1888, while serving as a railway
postal clerk in the employ of the gov
eminent.
During the grazing season of 1909, the
forest service will again cooperate with
the bureau of animal industry and the
state officials in efforts to stamp out
the disease known as scab which eX-
lists among the sheep in a number OF
the western states and territories. This
work has been carried on by the bureau
of animal industry for several years
mast The forest service has endeavor-
ed to assist the bureau, as well as the
state authorities, in enforcing the law
by refusing to admit any sheep on q
rational forest, within the prescribed
states, that were not accompanied by
a certificate of inspection. signed by ar
inspector of the bureau of animal in
dustry, to the effect that they were
free from the disease or had been dip
ped in accordance with the regulations
OF the bureau
In nearly all the western sheep-rais-
ing states, the state boards, charged
with protecting the health of the live
stock, have been very active in sup
pressing this disease, and between the
bureau of animal industry, the state
authorities, and the forest service, i
has practically been wiped out of man!
of the states and greatly reduced il
the others.
During the season of 1909 the worl
will be continued in the states of Col
orado, Utah, Nevada, California, anC
the territories of New Mexico and Ari
iona, and it is hoped that at the clos'
of 1Iis present year the results viii
parts of this area may also be pro
nounced free from the disease and re
Iieved from quarantine restrictions
Wherever 1t has been found necessary
to burn the corrals, counting-c hute
and other improvements on a rang,
which were possibly infested with thi!
disease, the material for new ones hai
been furnished to the stockmen fret
OF charge by the forest service.
Announcement is made of the coming
marriage of the Rev. John Var