The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
ASKS FIVE THOUSAND
This Would Compensate Kansan
for False Arrest.
LeavenwOrth Army Post School
Gets Big Appropriation.

Washington, D. c., May J2.-Prof.
Charles l. Marlatt of Manhattan, Kan,
assistant entomologIst of the United
States department of agriculture, has
fled a suit for $4,000 damages in the
supreme court of the District of Col
umbia against Julius Peyser, a neigh
Dor.
Prof. Msrlatt says in his petition that
MIR. Peyser had him arrested on charge
of altering a fierce which divided their
residence properties without authority.
He says he was acquitted by Judge
KimbaH in police court on April 70 but
declares he has sustained an injured
reputation.
Prof. Marlatt recently married the
daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Mackay-
Smith Of New York, and is prominent
in social circles of the national capital.
The secretary of war has apportion-
ed the $4,000 appropriation by congress
to provide means for the theoretical
and practical instruction at the army
service schools at Fort Leavenworth
and the mounted service school at Fort
Riley for the next fiscal year. The
former institution will receive SIG 900
and the latter $4,000
In a recent publication to the rural
that an order had been issued by the
postoft1cs department requiring patrons
OF rural routes to buy in the aggregate
90 cents worth of stamps per day in
order to have a route Continued.
Postmaster General Hitchcock refer
ring to the matter today, said that the
department had not issued such an or
der, nor had any instructions or state
ments been issued by the department
Which could have given rise to the ar
ticle, unless it was that in connection
with a rural route which was not be-
ing sufficiently patronized, a postmas-
ter had been advised. as is usual in
such cases. that unless the patronage
on route was increased and there
was a more extended use of the mails
by the patrons the route would be put
on a. tri-Weekly basis or discontinued.
Mr.. Hitchcock says 1t is barely pos
sible that the erroneous statement may
have originated in another way: Ow-
ing to hardships and delays to rural
carriers occasiored by patrons placing
loose coin in mail boxes for postage
when desiring to dispatch mail, post
masters are directed by the depart
ment to urge upon patrons the desir-
ability of providing supply of stamps
In advance of their needs. But there
Is nothing contained in these directions
TO warrant the statement that patrons
must buy an aggregate of 90 cents
worth OF stamps a day to secure the
continuance of a rural route
Up to April 80 there were received by
the postottice department 59,522 petit
items for rural service upon 1876 of
which adverse reports were made. On
May l, there were in operation 40,525
routes, Eerved by 1882 carriers. There
are 6S3 routes upon which service is
rendered but three times each week OF
the 1880 petitions pending, 119 have
been assigned for establishment June
/. one for June 16. and lie for July 1,
n a If 1 n
upon.
A decrease of 78,S13 is shown in the
number of undelivered letters and par
GELS received at the division of dead
letters during the month of April 1909,
as compared with the same month last
year; the total icing 959.416 and 1885,
500 pieces respectively. The number of
dead letters containing money decreas-
ed from 6795 to Clip.
For the first four months of 1909,
there has been n decrease of 424, 300 in
the number of undelivered letters and
packages as compared with the same
period in 1908 The decrease in the
number of dead letters is especially no.
table in view Of the general increase
In the postal business. it indicates
that the postoffce department is meet
Ing with success in its efforts to pro-
mete care in addressing. and the use
of the writer's return address on mail
lhatter. r5sr-gT
AS has been the case for some time
past, all letters received at the division
of dead letters which disclose the names
and addresses of the senders are being
returned within a few days after re-
ceiDt.
Measures introduced in the house bv
Congressman Charles F. Scott: Bill
providing for the purchase of a site
and the erection of a federal building
at Ottawa; bill to erect a monument
in memory of the Union soldiers who
are inferred in the national cemetery
at Fort Scott; bill granting. pensions
TO widows of certain enlisted men SOL
diers and officers, who served in the
civil war and the war with Mexico.
bills for the relief of Albert H Camp-
bell, Elizabeth A. White, Benjamin P.
Head, George w. Johnson, J. NJ. John
ston, Charles Flanders. Franklin $
Cowan, Harry Hume Ainsworth and
the legal representatives of Sarah D.
lookout; bill to increase the pensions
of Margaret Dickson, Clara J. Kiser.
Samuel H. Bawden, Richard Hill
George w. Cox. Ulrich Levenberger
David Deity, Floyd Cornweu Ben
jamin F. Green, Amanda Blake Mich
ael Stagg, George w. Moore, James. M
Stanley, Dorwin S. Curtis, Henry Car
bon William A. Drew, John Hiet
Mary Adam, Estella NJ Brown. John
z. Herriott, and Jesse D. Bond.
Senator Bristow presented petitions
OF citizens OF Osawatomie. Leroy
Gridley. Lawrence. Westphalia and