Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock
This item includes a letter that gives recommendations for filling the positions of receiver and register at Missoula, Kalispell, and Miles City, Montana.
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WHITE HOUSE,
WASHINGTON.
April 18, 1902.
To the Secretary of the Interior:
In Montana I find that the terms of the receiver at
Missoula and the receiver and registers at Kalispell and
Miles City expired last year. I have seen Mr . Bonner in
relation to these of fices and have felt great confidence
in his judgment. In place of Ranit, receiver at Mis-
soula, I desire to nominate Daniel H. Ross. Mr. Bonner
has been over the mortgage matter concerning which Ross
was accused, and it seems to me that the action of Mr.
Ross was greatly to his credit. At Kalispell, in the
place of Nash and Whipps, Andrew W. Swaney and John E.
Lewis have been recommended. Mr. Bonner speaks in the
highest terms of both men. He says that the accusation
that Lewis conducted a saloon is entirely untrue, save
in the sense that on his property at Columbia Falls is
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