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Just before Mrs. Rachel Wasson departed for California last June, she received notice that she had been granted a widow's pension of $8 per month with arrearages amounting to $521, but started on her trip before her voucher arrived. It came to her address at this office in due time and was forwarded to her at Cayucuas, California, where she was visiting. It never reached her and after several weeks' delay and much correspondence with the Pension Department by her attorney, G. Tayler Wright, of this place, it was finally concluded that the missing voucher had been destroyed in the wreck and burning of a mail car on the Santa Fe in Colorado, and a new voucher was issued and dispatched by mail to her California address.
But weeks passed again, the long looked for voucher did not arrive and Mrs. Wasson began to believe that she was fated never to receive it. Finally, she received a letter from a ranchman up in the mountains of Tulare County, asking if she was still at her former address, if so, to let him know, as he had mail matter belonging to her. She replied and in due time received the long lost voucher, with a letter from the ranchman stating that the mail carrier who conveyed the mail over the mountain route had got drunk and lay in his barn over one night, and that weeks after he had found it in the litter of the barn. How it got out of the mail sack was not explained, but it was alright and after four months of delay proved good as gold.
-Lineville Tribune
Leon Reporter-Iowa
November 8, 1894
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