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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Personal. 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