| Show VETERANS LOSE PENSION PAPERS Commander Co Command mand r William i Z h Finds Valuable Documents S J on fl His Desk and Has Been i 1 Unable to Find the Owners ti- ti 1 While a sailor and a n. soldier veterans 1 ot of the Civil war If It alive arc perhaps Fr searching vainly for their discharge I I papers and pension vouchers ouche William 1 1 PaRler commander of ot the George Gcorge R. R i Maxwell Post PORt No G G G. A A. R. R Is 18 making mak muk- fr lug ing ove every cry effort to get et some somo trace of ot the tile two veterans lie He has their valuable I j able able papers In his ills po possession and hasI has luis I failed In ever every effort to get them Into I the hands of oC their owners Much mystery surrounds the tho manner man man- L nel ner In which Commander got Jot i 1 possession of oC the documents anti and he be heI 1 fa kiss Jias failed Called to discover lIsco where they come canto I The papers papel's were found on OZI his desk lesk In the post room six elx weeks n ago o and members of or the organization ea eathey lay laythe iy the toy they know nothing about them The Th owners owner of or the documents are arc prevented from drawing good goodly sums lIum In pension 4 by by not having hn the papers i- i On One of oC documents contains the thie discharge o papers paper of or one Samuel r Na Naylor lor a 0 second class fireman who served ser on the tile U. U S. S S. S Ohio and Sacra- Sacra LI menlo mento from December 12 1863 until J. J August 17 1865 when ho was honorably honor honor- i abl ably discharged from the service The i also contained a pension showing that Naylor Is entitled entitled en- en J titled to receive 8 S a month month- One Ono voucher Is for tor the sum of ot 24 2 payable at San Francisco In June 1901 Without Without With With- out this voucher and the other papers Naylor If It he Is still alive can not draw drav any of or his ha pension rifts to 10 T Commander has written to the tite San Nr pons pension Ion authorities but his inquiry has hn- foiled tailed to bring brInK any ny word relative to the whereabouts of C V the tho owner o of the papers He lie Iw is in n nr A lT n with Other ather auth aud I I I.- I. j hopes t 8 to learn e irn s something r o i of Nn Naylor lor orI or I some nemo of ot his relatives The 1110 papers are i in tn excellent condition arid and show no signs of ot having been lying about In InI iniE have havo been well cared iE I the Uhe street They if OP or I r Tho The other hunch bunch of or papers are arc thol tho the l property of ot one ono James N. N Kelly who dR j t believed to have havo once lived JIved at nt El Paso laso aso Texas anti and who drew hIs lifs pen pon- Blon stion mone money at ot Topeka Kansas Kelly A three successive enlistments as asa a musician beginning in 1861 Ills 1115 pension penion certificate shows that ho Ito Is 8 entitled to receive 1 12 a n month and anC the tile certificate calls for tor 1 12 due duo In May 07 I I Commander Pastier w wrote ote to the El HI Paso raso postmaster anti and r received a reply to to the effect that no such man was to him Ho lie also wrote to other t I places but has received no word that permit him to return tho the papers paper Tho commander will r retain possession of ot tho the documents document until their own owners rH a call enU for tor or them and amI prove PIO property He Tic can not Imagine how tho the papers got goL Into the post room and onto his desk without some somo members of or tho the post knowing something about it He Tie Is of oC the opinion that the they havo have been stolen 1 b by someone who when discovering I that they could not b bo be used sUpped slipped them to the post pORt room I |
