Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-30 | Page 16 | Senator King Aids Veterans of Utah

SENATOR KING AIDS VETERANS OF UTAH Sends for Information Concerning Participants Par-ticipants in Black Hawk Wars for Use in Securing Pensions. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cohen, pensions commissioner for Utah, has received a letter from Senator William H. King, which is aimed to second , the effort to 'obtaiu for veterans of the Black Hawk Indian wars of I860, 1866 and 1867 the allowances which congress intended to give when it passed the amendment to the pensious act which was approved March 4, 1917. Concerned Con-cerned in the movement are members of the expeditionary forces of Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Wasatch military mili-tary districts and the home guard and cavalry companies qf Sanpete, Sevier and Iron military districts. Senator King suggests that a typical case be selected from each of the organizations or-ganizations named and the facts fully set forth, for the information of the pensions commissioner at Washington. Mrs. Cohen has alreacly begun this work. She will in a few days communicate com-municate with the veterans concerned, in order that the proper legal procedure pro-cedure before the pensions bureau ma-be ma-be properly observed. Pushing the effort of the veterans to obtaiu their allowances is the state board of examiners, consisting of the governor, the secretary of state and the attorney general.