The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-17
Seventy Eight Kansas Post
masters Salaries Raised.
Will Get an Increase of About
500 a Year.
AFFECTS 1873 IN ALL.
Fifty-Nine Were Given Raise
Short Time Ago.
Other Kansas News of General
Interest to Readers.

Washington, D. c., June 16.-The
postmaster general has announced
that seventy-eight additional post
masters in the state of Kansas are to
receive an automatic increase in sal
airy, commencing the first of the COM
ing month. The list follows:
Abilene, salary increased from $2,-
500 to $4,000 a year.
Altamont, from $1,100 to $1,000.
Alton, from s ], 100 to $1,000.
Altoona, from $1,000 to $1,000.
Anthony, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Arcadia, from $1,000 to $1.10O.
Ashland. from $1,400 to $1,000.
Attica, from $1,000 to $1,000.
Augusta. from $1,000 to $1,700.
Belle PLANE. from $1,000 to $1,000.
Belleville, from $1,000 to $4,000.
Beloit, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Bronson, from 81, 600 to $1,100.
Bucklin, from $1,400 to $1,000.
Burden, from $1,000 to $1,100.
Burr Oak. from $1,000 to $1,400.
Burton. from $1,000 to $1,000.
Caldwell, from $1,000 to $4,000.
Caney, from $4,000 to $2,100.
Canton, from $1,000 to $1,400.
Chapman, from $1,40O to $1,000.
Cheney. from $1,100 to $1,000.
Chetopa, from $1,000 to $1,70O:
Cimarron, from $1,000 to $1,40O.
Claflin, from $1,000 to $1,400.
Clifton, from $1,4O0 to $500.
Coffeyville, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Coldwater, from $1,000 to $1,4O0.
Concordia, from $2,400 to $4,000.
Conway Springs, from s1'5oO to
Council Grove, from $1,000 to
$4,000.
Delphos, from $1,000 to s1.4oO.
Douglass, from $1,000 to $1,000.
Effingham, from $1,100 to $1,000.
Eldorado. from $4,000 to $4,000.
Ellsworth, from $1,000 to $4,000.
Englewood, from $1,000 to $1,000.
Esbon, from $1,000 to $1,000.
Eudora, from $1,000 to s1,100.
Eureka, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Florence from $1,400 to $1,000.
Fort Leavenworth, from $1,000 to
$4,000
Fowler, from $1.100 to $1,000.
Frankfort, from $1,000 to s1.70O.
Fredonia. from $2,300 to $2,40O.
Frontenac, from $1,000 to $1.1O0.
Galena, from $4,000 to $1,000.
Garnett, from $2,100 to $4,000.
Gas, from $1,100 to $1,000.
Geneseo, from $1.100 to $1,000.
Girard, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Glasco, from $1,400 to $1,000.
Glen Elder, from $1,000 to 1,4oo.
Great Bend, from 50, 400 to $4,000.
Greenleaf, from $1,000 to $500.
Greensburg, from $1,400 to $1,000.
Haddan. from $1,100 to $1,000.
Halstead. from $1,000 to $1,000.
Harper, from $1.700 to $500.
Hartford, from 81, 200 to $1,400.
Haviland, from $1,000 to 400.
Hays, from 81, 800 to $1,000.
Hillsboro, from 1.4O0 to 81 500.
Hoisington. from $1,000 to $1,700.
Hope. from 81 200 to $1,000.
Horton, from $1,000 to $4,000
Hoxie, from 81. 800 to S1,400.
Humboldt, from 81 800 to 81 300.
Hutchinson, from So 100 to $500.
Independence, from $500 to $1,000.
jamestown, from $1,000 to 81 300.
Kensington, from 1900 to s1,4OO.
Kingman, from 81, 100 to $1,000.
XioWa, from 81 700 to 81, 800
Lewis, from 81, 100 to $1,000.
Lincoln, from $1,7O0 to 1900.
Lindsborg, from 81, 900 to $1,000.
This list is supplementary to one an
nounced the other day, including the
adjustment of SO Kansas postmasters'
In all there are 1873 postoffices
in the Sunfower state which will be af-
fected by increased pay, while four Of
fees will suffer reduction.
PoStmastefs Confirmed.
The following presidential postmas-
ter appointments have been confirmed
by the senate: Thomas A. Dilley, Ster-
ling; Frank Hobart, Glen Elder; Will
lam M. Jones, Lyons; S1dney ii. Knapp,
Clyde; David We Naill, Herington;
Joseph A. Schmitt, Ellsworth; James
D. Smith, West Mineral; Charles B.
Spencer, lola; Floyd E. Young, Stock
ton; James R. Young, Oakley. All are
with the exception of
James R. Young at Oakley, who sue
eeeds Louisa Kerns, resigned.
Jacob H. Nipz has been appointed
postmaster at Francis, a fourth-class
office in. Ness county, Kan, to succeed
Il. Ninz, resigned.
The house committee on claims has