The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
SUGAR IMPORTS
AZ Six of the Principal Ports During
the Month of July.
This Government to Be Represented in the
International Exposition on Hygiene
Sanitary Service on Shipboard-Sec-
rotary Bliss Issues q Warning.

sanitary Service on Sn1pDOaru-cec-
rotary Bliss Issues q Warning.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE treasury
statement of the imports of sugar
shows that the July importatlons at
the six principal ports, Baltimore, Bos-
ton, New Orleans, New York, Philadel-
phia and San Francisco, aggregated
It's, OO4, 900 pounds, valued at $4, 152, 245.
OF this amount 5000, 113 pounds, val
ued at 81, 242, 1868, came in free under
the reciprocity treaty with Hawaii.
The naval armor board was in SEES
sion again Tuesday in the ordnance
bureau, devoting nearly all of the time
to a study of the accumulated informa-
ton in the navy department bearing
on the subject of their investigation.
Of this there is great store, including
the great mass of data collected for the
benefit of Secretary Herbert when he
reported to congress upon the cost OF
production of armor and also the ma
terial collected in pursuance of the in
vestigation into the defective armor
supplied some years ago by one
of the firms The board has
arranged for a visit to Bethlehem and
also to Carnegie'S armor works. Beth
lehem will be visited Monday morning,
just how long a stay will be made there
has not vet been settled, but from there
the board will go to Carnegie's place,
near Pittsburgh. Both of the armOr
makers have volunteered to admit the
members of the board individually to
the interior of their establishments
and to furnish all proper information
called for, which removes an expected
obstacle to the investigation.
DIR. Joseph j. Kinyoun, passed assist
ant surgeon United States marine hos
pital service, has been designated by
the secretary of the treasury to repre-
sent this government at the interna-
tional exposition on hygiene and sani-
tary service on ship board, to be held
in Brussels in September. DIR. KinyOun
has also been appointed delegate to the
Berlin international conference to be
held in October to discuss the leproSy
question. DIR. Kinyoun has been in
structed to visit the several bacteria
logical laboratories on the continent
for the purpose of obtaining informa-
ton for the use of the Marine hospital
service as to recent advances in the in
vestigation of contagious diseases. DR..
KinyOun will return to the United
States in December next.
The state department has not yet re-
ceived the application from the British
government for permission to run d
telegraph line through the United
States territory connecting the gold
fields of the Klondyke with the outer
world. 1t is said that the application
will raise new question only compar-
able to that which was involved in the
establishment of the mixed mail route
in Alaska, which gave rise to so much
talk.
Secretary Bliss has taken cognizance
of the rush to the Klondyke gold fields
and Alaska and has issued the follow
ing warning to the general public:
To Whom it May Concern:
In view of information received at
this department that 5000 persons with
1000 tons of baggage and freight are
now waiting at the entrance to White
pass in Alaska for an opportunity to
cross the mountains to the Yukon
river, and that many more are
preparing to join them, l deem
it proper to call the attention of
all who contemplate making that trip
to the exposure, privation, suffering
and danger incident thereto at this adj
vanced period of the season, even if
they should succeed in crossing the
mountains. To reach Dawson City,
when over the pass, 700 miles of diff
fcult navigation on the Yukon river,
without adequate means of Transports
| ton, will still be before them, and it is
doubtful if the journey can be COM
pleted before the river is closed by ice.
am moved to draw public notice to
these conditions by the gravity of the
possible consequences to people de-
tanned in the mountainous wilderness
during five or six months of an arctic
winter, where no relief can reach them
however great the need.
c. N. BLISS,
Secretary of the Interior.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE William
Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building
Co., of Philadelphia, Tuesday brought
suit against the United States govern
ment in the court of claims to recover
damages alleged to have been in
Cured by the company in build
ing the battleships Massachusetts,
Iowa and Indiana, and the
cruisers New York, Brooklyn and Co.
lumbia. The compliments cite DELAYS
and defaults of the United States in