Show IL PENSION EXAMINERS EXAMINER'S WORK STIRS UP SOME FUNNY TALES G GI W WI Uline After Completing His Work In Iii Utah and Idaho Tells of Taylors Taylor's Story I 1 G G. W. W Uline sp special pension O exam examiner examIner iner leaves Frida Friday for his headquarters in Denver after five months ii in Utah and Idaho While hile doing doing- the work In this district Mr Uline lia has made this city his ills headquarters PensIoners Pensioners Pen Pen- have been looked up b by Mr Uline and he will recommend severa several veterans for pensions when he returns to Denver During the five live months he has been in Utah Ulah and Idaho Mr Ill Uline has pi-ac- pi cleared up the pension business which had accumulated for years e rs He found no flO violations in two states Just before leaving however he ho told tolda a a. rather amu amusing ln incident of wh what t the pension examiners have to deal with sIth at ut times Here I Is the story Ta Taylor lor a a. veteran of or tho the Civil war who lived near Denver had been granted a a. small pension In the late SOs One finger had been shot oft off offIn In 10 the war but otherwise the old man was sound and w well oil The pension was Increased from tram time to time until it became one of rather respectable pro pro- portions One day when Taylor was working in iii a lumber mill where ho he was employed a sliver from a plank went wrong and started up his armon arm armon on DIu the inside It caused blood poison polson to Lo set in an and Taylor lost the arm aria atthe at atthe athe the he shoulder Taylor had been a a. pretty good pensioner pen pen- and a t Was stretched In hi his I case Facts in iii tho the case ass were wele learned and the g government gave ve him the thc benefit ben ben- cut of the doubt raising his pension to 55 S 5 per month on oil the supposition that the loss of tho the finger was one of or ne causes of tho the later amputation amputation- that blood poison polson would not have setin set setIn setIn In If all the fingers had been where the they belonged But that Increase to 55 made Ta Tay Tay- lor br over zealous along the line linc of pensions pensions pen pen- and caused his downfall d He lie got to thinking about tho matter one day dar and remembered a comra comrade e Alonzo Livingston who had been shot down at his sl side c. c Alonzos Alonzo's wl widow ow had remarried soon after uler the war so Taylor Tay Tay- lor br figured there would be nothing heard hear 1 on that score So ho he went to the pension In Denver Den gave g-avo his name as Livingston and told of or ills his ls enlistment and Injury Ho lie said the tho I arm was taken off ort during the warIn war I In looking up the records s it was found that the wJ widow of Livingston Ll had applied for fora a pension but had been refused Then the pension officers sat satU U up straight thought awhile and then arrested Taylor Talor Ho He confessed an and Isnow is isnow now no serving ser The few Tew remaining weeks on a n sentence of 1 18 S months In prison That Is a tt sample of what the pension pension pension pen pen- sion examiners have ha to deal with will and Investigate in before a pension Is granted grante Perfect records arc are kept however and it Is next to Impo impossible for tor an applicant applicant applicant cant to slip silo through with two pen pensions |