The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28

| mulgated an opinion of the attorney
general relative to the requirement OF
state licenses of surety companies as
prerequisite to doing business with
the United States
Uuder the existing regulations of the
department, a bond cannot be accept
! ed by any officer in the treasury de-
partment, if executed by a company
or it's agent in state where the COM
pany has not obtained a state license.
Under the opinion just promulgat-
ed, the department rules that an Of
ficer may accept bond if executed
by a surety company at its home Of
flee or at an office outside of the
boundaries of the state wherein it
has no license, for a principal resid-
ing in such a state or for a contract
to be performed therein. a
The attorney general holds that
such bonds running to the United
States are valid and enforceable
against the company whether or not
it maintains an agency in the state
in which the principal resides, and
that the execution of bond in this
manner would not be doing business
within the state, within the meaning
of the law.
More than usual interest attaches
to the selection recently made by the
treasury department of the site for
the federal building at Plymouth,
Mass. For this purpose the property
of the Baptist church at Leyden and
Main streets has been acquired.
1t happens that these are the two
oldest streets in the United States,
having been laid out in 1920. The lot
selected is the one originally assigned
to William Brewster, the Ruling
Elder" of the Pilgrim church. On this
spot BREWSTER lived and disseminated
that religious liberty which distin-
guishes the United States among the
nations. "
Governor Bradford's house was on
the opposite corner, hardly 100 feet
away, and at the head of the street is
Town Square, overlooked by historic
Burial HILL
The government house of the colony
which gave way in 1S49 to the court
house, in 1920, became the town house
The latter is still in use as the NUM-
cipal office center and is only 200 feet
distant from the postoffice site. The
price paid for the site was $4,000.
r s $50 aE tHv Esuia
Col. Clarence Deems of Fort Han
cock, N. j., who has been a problem
for the war department for some time
because, among other things, of, the
devotion he has for his dog, has been
ordered away from his station at that
place and sent all the way out of
the Preside at San Francisco. And
the little waggle- tailed canine was
one of the remote causes for the
change. -
Sometime ago Col Deems was in
command of the artillery district of
Fort Howard, Maryland While at
that post his constant companion was
"a little dog-so constant a companion.
in fact, that his brother officers said
that it toddled at his heels in the day
time and slept at his feet at night.
The dog became such a source of
discomfort to the other officers and
men at the post that protest was made
to the war department against Col.
Deems on the ground. Other objec-
lions were filed, but the dog occupied
the center of the arena in the quiet
investigation that followed. 1t was af-
ter this. that the department decided
that Col. Deems who didn't seem to
gibe temperamentally with the offic-
ers under his command and insisted
on standing by the dog, should not be
placed at the head district. Accord