Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-25 | Page 20 | Denial of Pension will be Protested

DENIAL OF PENSION WILL BE PROTESTED Utah Official Believes Federal Department Depart-ment Errs in Decision on Claim of Alma Staker. Being of the opinion that the federal pension department has erred in denying the claim of Alma Staker, exception has been taken to the ruling by Mrs. Kliza-beth Kliza-beth M. Cohen, Utah pension commissioner, commission-er, and she will make a further effort to have the allowance mado. It ir. shown in the Utah records that Mr. Staker was a member of Captain George Tucker's company and served 214 days in Sanpelecounly in the Black Hawk war of 1S66. The federal pension bureau denied the claim on the ground that "there is no paper on file in the state archives shown to be a muster roll or To have been on file with the adjutant general gen-eral of Utah prior to March 1, 1917." Mrs. Cohen believes that the "Washington "Washing-ton office lias made a mistake in Mr. Staker' s case, as well as in some others, and "she is asking a review- of the evidence evi-dence which she has supplied. .Advices from Washington to Mrs. Coh,en apprise her of the fact that a pension lias been allowed to Milford B. Shipp, who died a little more than a month ago and who had lived at 2444 South Seventh East street. Mr. Shipp served in the company of Captain Charles Crow in the Black Hawk Indian war of 1866. Frank Stanley, 909 Concord street, who saw Indian war service in Montana, is also allowred a pension, as is Peter Wim-rner Wim-rner of Parowan, who served with Captain Cap-tain Ed Dalton's company In 1866.