The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17

examined for appointment in the cav
| airy, field and artillery or infantry
| branches of the service: Corp. x. f.
Blauvelt, Washington, d. c.; Sergt.
! Carl BieIisk, Fort Myer; Sergt. Frank
Brezma, Yosemite National Park, Cal;
Private o. w. Budd, Fort Sam Hous-
ton; Sergt. R. c. Ditto, Fort Monroe;
Corp. James A. Green, Fort Leaven-
worth; Sergt. c. H. Hodges, Fort Nc
Pherson; Sergt. James A. McGrath,
Fort Sam Houston; Sergt- Charles G.
Reynolds, Fort Oglethorpe; Squadron
Sergt. Maj. George G. Seaman, Fort
Des Moines; Sergt. A. w. Smith, Fort
Leavenworth; Sergt. Samuel L. Strib-
Sergt. Frank A. Turner, Fort Des
Moines; Corp. James NJ. White, Fort
Sam Houston.
Herbert Smith. of Kansas, has been
appointed to a position in the immi-
grafton service of Ell Paso, Tex, at an
annual salary of $1,000. Samuel G..
GaIiher of Kansas, also in the service
of the immigration bureau, has been
transferred to a western field of SER
vice, with Detroit as his headquarters.
He was promoted to $1,40O.
Senator Curtis introduced a bill to
increase the pensions of John w.
Spencer, Ezra w. Robinson, David A.
McKeehen, Lafayette Spangle, John E.
Walters, George w. Taylor, William
Anderson, Morris B. McKeever, N. H.
Kendrick, Elmer D. Cook, Ada Ward,
and Jacob WeIcher.
Congressman D. R. Anthony pre-
scented similar bills for Henry Austin,
Wesley A. Mcdonald, Phillip E. Sell
lers, George w. Southwell, and Mar
guerite Murphy.
Experiments will be made during
the summer with the standard hello
graphs which are now used in the war
department, for signaling on the Ma
tiOnal Forests. One of these expert
ments will be on the Kanikeu Nation
al Forest, in Idaho, and the other on
the Stanislaus Forest in California.
1t is intended to discover whether
these instruments will be of use on
National Forests to report fires or
transmit other messages in areas where
there is no quick method of commun-
ication.
The conditions of climate and lati-
tude. as well as the species of inflam-
mable trees in the two forests are suf-
ficiently different to determine Wheth-
er the instrument is suited to some To-
calities and not to others.
Easy and quick communication to
all parts of a forest must be had if
fire is to be kept down. Anyone who
knows of the fearful damage wrought
by forest fires on private and unpro-
tected lands each year, will easily see
that through fire patrol, use of tele-
phone lines and other means of COM
munication such as is maintained on
the 1875 million acres contained in the
national forests, the losses can be re-
duced to a minimum.
For the administration and protec-
ton of the 14S national forests in nine
teen states and territories and Alaska
about one and one-half cents an acre
for the calendar year 1908. OF this
amount 1892, 1919 was spent for per-
manent improvements including the
construction of 3,40O miles of trains,
100 miles of wagon roads, 5000 miles
of telephone lines and forty miles of
fire lines.
w. Yoder, postmaster at Haddam.
Kan. The Office became presidential
April I.
The postmaster general appointed
John r. Lamport postmaster at Sun.
Barber county, Kan, to succeed NJ.
Saunders, resigned.
Odee postoffice, Meade county,
Kan, viii be discontinued on July 81.
After that date mail to Meade.
hudson have been appointed rural let
ter carriers at Levants Kan.
President Taft, when he talks to
public man, especially one of the old
timers with whom he is well acquaint-
ed, has way of putting both hands
on his shoulders of his visitor in the
most brotherly and affectionate fash
ion. 1t proves more effective than the
use of the Big Stick.
Il can't wait any further for you. What
are you reading. anyhow" Henry James
Wait until I finish this chapter I'll
wait until you get to the next comma, and
no longer. Louisville Courier-Journal