| Show MUST PAY PULL POSTAGE Messenger Service With Drop Letters Against the Law Provo Sept 10At the meeting of the Board of County Commlrfslonenj held today to-day Plorpont Hcaton were awarded the contract for putting in heating apparatus In tho county Infirmary for 1150 The Commissioners also considered unofficially un-officially a question which was brought up somo time ago VI YI The regality of the Treasurer sending tax notices to taxpayers tax-payers outside of Provo through the post office of the town where the taxpayers reside tho letters being first sent to the town by express or private messenger Sending them In this manner saves 1 cent postage on each letter and would be a paving of about 2CO a year to th county The following letter received by Poslmaf tcr Clove however shows the department depart-ment Instructs adversely to that method of mailing The letter Is dated Washington Washing-ton D C Sontember 0 I 1903 and reads Postmaster Provo City UtnliSIr Tour letter of the 18th nil addressed to the First Assistant PostmasterGeneral bas been transmitted to this office In reply re-ply you are Informed that postmasters are Instructed b > the department that they must not become parties to defrauding defraud-ing the Government of Its proper revenue reve-nue by admitting to the malls as drop letters partially written tax notices prepaid pre-paid ono cent which have been sent to their offices by express In order to avoid the payment of regular letter rates Whenever any such matter Is received It nhould bo treated under section 521 P Land L-and Pv the deficient postage being rated therein Very respectfully EDWIN C MADDEN Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral Davis Jurors for September Farmlngton Sent 10 County Clerk Phillips Attorney Strocper and Treasurer Blood today mada a dmvltigof petit Jurors Jur-ors to serve durlnz the September term of the Second District court The following follow-ing twenty names were drawn Woods Cross Frank Mann Philander Htttch A L Burnham George W Johnson John-son James IT Ifornsby and Fred Clever ley Bountiful Joseph 13 ITcpworth Jere mlnh Wllloy James Smodlcyand William J Holt Oentervllle John Duncan and Ragucl Barber Farmlnaton Joseph A Toppctts William Wil-liam V flalght Kaysvlllc George F Bishop John E Barker Laylon WllllanT Young f < Syracuse John T Knlghton David Cook Sr South Hooper Hasmus Christensen JToro Smallpox at Springville Sprlrgvllle Sept Sprlngvllle has another an-other caso of smallpox The victim Is Jcs 8lo CurUis who came In from the railroad In Wyoming Ho broke out with the disease yesterday This makes four cases now In town Boy Killed by a Colt Sprlngvlllc Sept 10 The little three yearold BOH of Mr and Mrs C L Crandall Cran-dall of this city got kicked In the head by a colt this morning The colts hoof cut a gash about four Inches long just sibovo the right eyo and fractured the okull The Injury Is quite serious |
