Show VETERANS DYING OFF Pension Report Shows Decrease Decrease De De- De crease of Pen t During Year 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 44 j i 4 H I PENSIONS E 1028 4 4 4 44 Washington Sept 30 The The annual report of commissioner of at pensions shows allows 1028 pensioners pensioners pen pen- in Utah drawing I tl Washington Sept 30 At At th the end of oC the governments government's fiscal year ear June 30 there were pensioners on the rolls This was a decrease e of or 1 12 70 from tho the previous year the the greatest great great- i est decrease for COl an any one year ear in the time history of ot tho the bureau the time commissioner commissioner commis commis- of or pensions an announces in his annual report just made public The fhe I number of pensioners now on the rolls is time the smallest since There Thero wore were added during dimming tho the year 1 f 1 persons per sons SOilS over oyer of or th these thc se being new ones one The Tho annual value yalu of ot the roll la Is This Is neall nearly as large as It was last year cal In commenting this the time commissioner upon says sas This arises from flOm the fact that hat the ratings 0 of many invalid pensioners arc are constantly increasing and amid therefore therefore there there- fore tho the annual value of such pensions Is Js greater than the year car previous The annual value alue of civil war pensions Is la steadily increasing whilo while a slight decrease de do- crease Is shown in pensions based bused upon tho the war with Spain and tho the regular esta establishment lJ I i h m en t. t Of the tue 17 14 pensioners dropped droppel I from nm the time rolls last year cm over O were were- from flom death i 9 survivors ors o of the time civil war were In this big death deuth roll roil There aro are now civil war pen pensioners I |