The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
kANSANS AT CAPITAL
John Bond Is Dead-AnOther Batch
OF SunflOwer POstmasters.

Washington. ID. c., March 2S.-
John Bond, at .one time mayor and
postmaster Of Americas. Kan, and
the manager of a large stock farm.
died in this city yesterday at the age
of seventy-eight years, at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. David ]. Rob-
erts. GA Lexington street, n. E.
The funeral services will be held to-
day at the residence of Mrs. Roberts,
Rev. George w. Van Fossen of Trinity
church officiating. Interment will
be made in Rock Creek cemetery.
Mr.. Bond was born at Port Carbon,
Pa. living there until he was thirty
years old. He then moved to Kansas,
where he resided for about thirty
five years. following which he re-
moved to Washington and lived with
his daughter. Besides Mrs. Roberts
he leaves his wife and another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Elsie Bond Bischoff, former
ly Of this city but now residing in
Portland Ore. Mr.. D. J. Roberts, his
son-in-law, a resident of Usage City,
Kan, is an official Of the government
printing Office.
The following presidential postmas-
ter appointments for Kansas have
been confirmed by the senate:
]. H. Burnett to be postmaster at
Blue Mound, in place of Charles w.
Mcclure.
Emery W. Caywood at Clifton. in
place Of Nathan B. Needham.
Ida Mccain at Macksville. in place
of Edgar B. Dykes. resigned.
William Reedy at Yates Center. IN
place of William E. Hogueland.
John 1. Saunders at Cheney, in place
of John A. Hartley.
Other Kansas pOstmaSters appointed
are: Alma d. Webb. Williamstown;
Mabel A. Hogue. Highland; John Nc
Donald. Dalton; oliver C. Head, Kelso:
John L. Paden, Fowler; Edwin s. Ir-
win, Liberal; James E. Miller, Walnut;
Thomas w. Reed, Antelope; Jesse H.
Davis. Grinnell; George B. Mast, Walls
burg. The postofiice at Hartford, Kan,
has been ordered changed from it's pres
ent site to the Reser building, on Com
mercial street, between Plum and Ex-
change avenues.
Kansas postoffices abolished: Half
mound. Jefferson county: HARDWOOD.
Haskell county; Iowa Point, Doniphan
county.
The war department has decided to
close the army service school at Fort
Leavenworth upon completion of the
present term on June 20, in accord
ance with a recommendation made by
the commandant Of the schools.
There has been under consideration
the question of holding certain exer-
cises upon which the student officers
of the school could be employed dur
ing the summer months, and it was
suggested that these officers be sent to
Texas for work with the troops in the
field there. but probably neither Of
these plants will be adopted. 1t is
more likely that the student officers
will be ordered to join their respective
regiments upon the completion of the
present term of the school
They tell several stories on Editor
Murdoch, otherwise known as Con-
gresham Murdoch, the leader of the
Progressive party in the house, rela-
tive to his continuation OF the editorial
s'we.''
Editors and kings and a certain class
OF afflicted men alone are allowed to
refer to themselves as "we:" when it
occurs in the case of q king it may
be all right. but in the case of a con-
gresham it is liable to be perplexing :
which way are we voting?" de-
manded an anxious member the other