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Amendment Proposed.
NOUS AND COARSE"
Characterization by COmmissiOner
Wight of Letter of Complaint.

The following communication has been
received by the District Commissioners
from resident of 18th street, signed ''Suf-
ferer:"
During the last week the street, 18th
northwest from l. to Massachusetts avenue
has been roped off, thus entirely shutting
off vehicle traffic on this square This is
an outrage on the rights of the residents
and would not be tolerated in any other
city, not even country town of any pre-
tensions. The excuse for this closing UP of
a public highway is that an old lady resi-
dert, long an invalid. has had a stroke Of
paralysis. Now, in the Name of common
sense, put stop to this and open the
street. This is one way in which this city is
a back number, and fifty years behind the
times, is often asserted
Commissioner Wight called the attention
of his associates TO the communication in
the following memorandum:
81 recommend that no attention be paid
to this communication 1t is anonymous
and coarse. No privileges have been grant
ed in this case which are not granted in
many other cases. Probably if the writer
had serious case Of sickness in his house
he would be only too glad TO avail himself
of the protection which is daily afforded un-
der same circumstances.
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Prosecutor NuIIowny's Action in Case
of James Duncan.

James Duncan. the young man charged
with the theft of half pint of whisky from
J. T. Crowley in a lunch room in George
town few days ago. as published in The
Star AT the time, was tried in the Police
Court today Prosecuting Attorney Null
lowny abandoned the case and the jury ac-
quilted him.
Sergeant Bradley was the officer in the
case. and he was present in court as Il wit
ness. Crowley explained that he was in a
lunch room several nights ago with the
bottle OF whisky in his pocket Duncan.
whom he had known all his life took the
bottle, poured a drink of whisky in his
tDuncan's) coffee and returned the bottle
10 his tCrOwley's) pocket
Is that all he did?' the prosecuting at
tOrney asked
Yes, sir, the witness answered
And Duncan has been in iaiI for several
days added Mr.. Mullowny. I'm abandon
this case
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Referred to House Committee.

The District Commissioners have trans
mitted to the House District committee a
copy of a letter received by them from Mr..
Wilfiam Birney Of this city relative to the
nature of ground on the south side of
Pennsylvania avenue. with reference to its
fitness for foundation sites for public build
ings. The statements in the letter. the
Commissioners explain. have been verified
by officials of the District engineer depart
ment, and they say they have reason to
believe that they are accurate. The SUBJ
stance of Mr.. Birney's letter has been pub
lished in The Star he having demonstrated
that secure foundations can be obtained on
the south side of the avenue.
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ADVERSE REPORT.
Comm issiOners Prefer That but One
TeIeph0ne C0mpanX Shall Onernte.

Adverse action on House bill 1878, to
incorporate the Columbia Telephone Com
pany, was today recommended by the Dis
trict Commissioners in a letter to Repre-
sentative Babcock, chairman of the House
District committee The Commissioners eX-
plain that they have advised against the
incorporation of additional telephone COM
panies in the District in the belief that the
telephone service could be better rendered
by single company, under proper man.
agement, and at proper rates. than by two
or more companies having separate lines
and instruments For these reasons they
recommend adverse action on the bill in
question.
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JANUARY FIRES,
Report Of Chief Paris to District
COmmi ssiOncrs.

In his report to the District Commission
ers for the month of January, 1899. Chief
Paris of the fire department states that
there were forty-six alarms of fire, an in
crease of four as compared with the pre-
vious month, and an increase of six as
compared with the corresponding month
of the preceding year
There were also twenty-eight local or
silent alarms, for which no bells were
sounded which were answered by the de-
partmeut.
The estimated loss for the month was
SS3,s2o, covered by an insurance OF $50 900
against loss OF Sill, ,S55 ana en- insurance
of ssSl15 for the previous month and Il
less of sl5,241, insurance s12411. for the
corresponding month OF the preceding
year.
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Permission Denied

In denying a request Of Mr. f. b. PYLE of
1903 f street for permission to install a
hydraulic elevator at Connecticut avenue
and Q street, the District Commissioners
state that owing TO the seriously limited
water supply their recent order restrictins
the use of water as motive power for ele-
Vators must be enforced
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necommena Favorable Action

The District Commissioners in a letter
to Chairman Mcmillan of the Senate Dis
trict committee have recommended favora-
BILE action on Senate bill 5326, for the ex-
tension of New Hampshire avenue from
Whitney TO Brightwood avenue. The let
ter is similar to one addressed by them
recently to the House District committee
heretofore published in The Star.
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plaintiff that December 10 last the defend
ants unlawfully elected him from the
premises, where he was in lawful possess
sion; that they received the rents issues
and profits for the same amounting TO
$1,000 to the loss of the plaintiff, and that
as result of his ejectment and the loss he
has sustained he seeks TO recover $1,000.
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Inauest Not Necessarr.

Coroner Carr today decided that It was
not necessary to have an inquest either
in the case of Thomas Marshall, who drop
ped dead in a saloon on Water street last
evening. or that of Ellen I.omax, who was
found dead by her husband Sunday night
at their hcEne, No. a52 Ridge street north
west.
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DOES GIFEEE AGREE WlTg
W@W9

II not, drink Csrain-O -O-flade from pure grains A
lady writes: The first time ] made Grain o lid
pot like a. lat after using II for week nothing
would INDUCE TO back to coffee II nnur-
ishes and feeds the system, The children can drink
SC freely with great benent- Ii is the strengthen
ing substance Of pure grains. Get a package today
irom your grocer. follow the directions in making
IL ard you will have delicious and heathful table
beverage for old and young. I5c. and Ne.
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ALLEGES ILLEGAL ELECTION.
John HI. ROthert Sues for Possession
of Owen House,

of Owen House.
John II. Rothert has instituted proceed
ings in the District Supreme Court against
Catherine E. Owens, Kate Dean Owens
Jessie Owen Cugle and Charles D. Cugle,
by which he seeks to recover possession of
part of lot 8. square Dds, on which is located
the Owen House. 1t 10 act forth by the
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Police Changes.

Acting Sergeant Charles H. Bradley of
the Georgetown precinct has been trans
ferred to No. 6 precinct, to take the place
of Sergeant Lorlbardy recently reduced at
his own request, Sergeant Keefe of the
third precinct has been transferred to the
seventh, vice Bradley.
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1t pays to read tie want columns of The
Star Hundreds OF situations are filled
through them.
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other "starboard.' The prisoner will be
held until the ownership of the articles is
aScertaine0. ~
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The most famous water color artists Of modern
times use Rowneys C0l0A
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Ankle fractured.

Rev. Father Marcus Dyer, the son of the
late Mrs. Susan c. Dyer of 3ith and n
streets, who is attached to the cathedral ir
New York city, but who has been in the
city for some days, coming here to attend
the funeral of his mother, While walking
en- Pennsylvania avenue yesterday Slipped
and fell on the snow at 2Jth street near St
Stephens Church, and fractured his ankle
He was taken to the home of his brother al
110S 25th street in a carriage, and the
broken bore set by DR.. John F. Moran
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ABANDONs THE CHARGE,

\ Wounded: Forty-One
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Passed Away Peacefully at Leb-
anon Yesterday Afternoon.
Death Due to an Attack Of the Grip, Fol-
lowed BY a Relapse.
Deceased One Of the Best Known
Men in Public Life, Having
Represented the Eighth Mis-
souri, District in Congress
Twenty-Four Years.

LEBANON (Mo.), June 15.-Richard
Parks Bland, Congressman from the
Eighth Missouri District, passed peace
fully away at exactly half past four
this morning. Tuesday night about 10
o'clock he fell into sleep, from which
he never awakened. The physicians
used every means in their power to
arouse him, but he never regained con-
sciousness in the slightest degree.
seen that he was sinking rapidly, and
at half-past four he ceased to breathe.
Toward the end the action of his heart
increased perceptibly, and hopes were
expressed that he was awakening, but
it was fruitless hope
The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Opera
house, and the body will be buried in
the Catholic Cemetery. The funeral
services will be in charge of Sergeant
alarms of the House of Representa-
tives. and will be conducted by Masonic
lodges. Private Secretary Bell has
notified the Clerk of the House of Mr..
BANDS death, requesting him to ap-
point committee of members to at
tend the funeral.
Prominent friends of Mr. Bland
throughout the country have heen roti
fled of the funeral arrangements.
Mr.. Bland was a member of no
church. and the ministers of all denom-
nations will participate in the serv-
ices. 1t is planned to have Colonel
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MRS. JANE STANFORD.
Deeds More Property to the STAN
ford University

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-Refore
leaving for Europe Mrs. Jane Stan
ford prepared two deeds which were
placed on record to-day conveying val
liable real estate to Stanford Univer-
sity. The property consists of LOO
acres in Lassen County and 16O acres
in Tehama County. All of this land
was recently purchased by Mrs Stan
ford to secure valuable water rights
and grazing land for big flocks of sheep
owned by her, and which are to be
transferred to the Vina ranch. now
owned by the University. All this is in
addition to her recent endowment of
over $11, 100000
By this latest gift Mrs. Stanford has
transferred all her realty to the Uni
versity save house and lot in Sacra-
mento, the residence of the Senator and
his family in early days. and particu-
larly at the outset of his career as a
railway magnate. She will eventually
give that property also.
Mrs. Stanford is now on her way to
Europe for three months tour. While
away, it is said, she contemplates in
vesting 100000 in rare bric-a-brac
for the University museum.
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cial of the War Department as follows:
The increase of the size of the COM
panies with General Otis with 12S men
to the company was made from S,1OO
men, heretofore the hospital corps,
which the controller had decided may
be enlisted over and above the So 900
men provided by law. In addition, the
Twenty y-fourth and the Twenty-fifth
Regiments of Infantry have been or
dered to Manila, and General Otis has
been ordered to organize three skeleton
volunteer regiments in Manila, Differed
from volunteers in the Philippines and
from the regular army. General Otis
has informed the department that he
can organize these regiments. 1t is
proposed to send him recruits from here
to fill them to their maximum limit.
The arrangements referred to will give
S-sneral Otis a fighting fo.ce If over
33, GOO men of the line These plans
have been approved by the President,
and will be put into execution with the
least possible delay
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THE GAMERS TRUST.
San Jose Men Who Discredit the
Rapoxfed. Comhiue.

AoR086e0~ ~G0xnb10e.
SAN JOSE, June 15.-Efforts have
been made to secure some confirmation
among local fruit Gamers of the state
ment from San Francisco that the can
nerieS of the State are being organized
into big combine. All the Gamers
seen acknowledge that they have heard
of such move, but beyond that not
much information is given out. The
manager of the San Jose Cannery said
he had no public statement to make.
Manager Graham of the j. H. Flick
niger Cannery said he knew nothing
of the reported pool than what he had
seen in the papers. IF there is a pool -
he added, the Flickinger Cannery does
not belong to it. / was East when the
matter was being agitated, and what
the result is / do not know"
Colonel T. R. Weaver, who is promi-
nently identified with fruit interests,
stated that when the effort was first
made to form a. pool it failed because
a sufficient number of canneries did not
join. He did not think it had since
been successful, though he said he had
no positive knowledge on the subject.
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MURDER OF KILRoY.
Testimony Adduced at the Trial Of
Ed. Moore.

NEVADA. June 15.-In the trial of
Ed. Moore for the murder of Policeman
kilroy, several witnesses testified that
they had heard Moore threaten to
pump Kilroy full of Lead if the latter
did not stop threatening to arrest him.
Three other witnesses told how Moore
reviled and defied Kilroy, and said that
when the latter put his hands on
Moore's shoulder and leaning forward
shouted in his ear, Il could arrest you,
but l don't want to-" Moore opened fire.
Sheriff Getchell related the incidents
of the chase after the fugitive, while
Sheriff j. S. Gregory and E. w. Schmidt
testified that when they picked up the
dead officers body his pistol was i'll his
holster fully loaded and his club in his
hip pocket.
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Isthmian Canal Commission.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-The mem
bers of the commission appointed by
the President to examine into the ques-
tion of the most feasible route for
canal across the IsthTnus of Panama
met this morning in the Corina build
ing. The only absentee was ex-senator
Pasco of Florida. Admiral Walker was
elected President. after which the COM
mission called upon the President in
body to pay their respects. Later they
went to the State Department and call
ed upon Secretary Hay with whom they
discussed some of the details of the
plans of work before them.
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ary issue over until the High Commits
sion meets in August. II may he stated
that any arrangement FAtified by this
Government is not like to be limited
in such fashion. Moreoter. as the rec
ord published of the 1Skt proceedings
of the High Commission showed that
the Canadian side refused to discuss
any other questions until the boundary
issue was adjusted. it IS to be presuri-
ed that they will adhert to that deci
sion and that the boundary question
must be removed from the field of dis
pute by modus vivendi as a condition
for the meeting of the United States
commission
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FRENCH CABINET.
M. Poincare Accepts the Task Of
Forming a New Ministry.

PARIS, June 15.-M. Poincare iE-
formed President Loubet this morning
that he would accept the task of FORM
ing a Cabinet. He will take the war
portfolio, in addition to the Presidency
of the Council.
M. Moline, in an interview with M.
Poincare, strongly urged the latter to
form a Cabinet, whose main plank will
be the settlement of the Dreyfus af-
fair.
members of the Chamber of Deputies,
including many Socialists, will be con-
tented with an order of the day. censur-
ing General Mercier, the former Minis
ter of War, for the part he has taken
in the Dreyfus case. instead of his
prosecution If this could be done, it
would remove one of the most serious
causes of friction between the factions.
There is still some doubt whether NJ
Poincare will succeed in forming a
Ministry He wishes NM Ribot and
Barthou to join him. but the Radicals
object to their presence in the Cabinet,
1t is understood that M. Del Casse will
remain at the Foreign Office.
Private conversation of NJ. Krantz,
Minister of War in the retiring Cabinet,
has been published here, which repre-
sent him as still believing that Drey-
fus is guilty. If this be the case, he
is nct likely to appear in the new Min
istry.
The Dreyfus agitation is far from
having subsided. Quarrels between Of
ficers ait Brest, where Dreyfus will dis
embark, have just led to two duels; and
numerous Mayors have been suspended
for refusing to placard the Judgment Of
the Court of Cessation.
Madame Loubet received last week
hundreds of anonymous letters, written
on superfne paper in elegant penman-
ship. Some of these were menacing.
The writers threatened that if she ac-
companied her husband to the Grand
Prix she would return a widow.
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ALASKA BOUNDARY.
No Official Confirmation of the Re-
ported Agreement.

WASHINGTON, June 15-No official
confirmation of the reaching Of an
agreement in London providing for the
temporary delmitation of the Alaskan
boundary has been received at the
State Department 1t is gathered that
a responsive answer has not yet been
received from Canada by the British
Government to the Americans definite
proposition At any rate, the british
Government has not made conclusive
answer on it's part
Lest a misleading impression be car
ried by the statement from London to
the, effect that arrangements have been
reached which would carry the bound
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EMBAssADoR CAMBoN.
Is to Receive From Harvard Uni-
versity the Degree Of LID.

versdty the Degree OF Lid.
WASHINGTON, June 10. = The
French ambassador. nj. Cambon, is
about to receive from the University of
Harvard the degree of LL. D. in recog
milton of the distinguished public SER
vices he performed in thk negotiations
which restored peace Between the
United States and Spains
Harvard has conferred this degree on
President Cleveland, Secretary Bayard
and other noted public men, but this is
probably the only instance in which the
ambassador of a foreign Power has re-
ceived such distinguished honor from
a leading American university.
The Enbassador will go to Boston
on the Goth, and later will be escorted.
to Harvard by Governor Wolcott and
other leading State officials. The con-
ferring Of the degree occurs on the
2Sth
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The Hanchette Murder.

LOS ANGELES, June 15--The in
quest over the remains of Mrs. Earl
Hanchette, who was killed by her hus-
hand yesterday, was held to-day and a
verdict that death resulted from a gun
shot wound inflicted by Earl Hanchette
with murderous intent, was returned.
Hanchette is still alive, though he shot
himself through the abdomen, and may
recover The Coroner and Bresee
BROTHERS, undertakers, are having a
snuabble over the handling of the re-
mains of the woman, and the Coron-
ar Is trying to secure the arrest Of one
of the brothers on a charge of interfer-
ing with an officer.
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Montgomery S. Curry's Estate.

SU1SUN, June15.-The late Montgom-
cry S. Curry, who died in San Francisco
in January, 1898, left will which was
as follows:
Il will my property. real and person
al, to r. ]. Curry, in trust for Julia A.
Curry"
Miss Curry is ten years old, a daugh-
ter of the decease. The estate was ap-
praised at 100000. The widow, Louise,
Curry, some time ago petitioned the Su-
perior Court here for a distribution of
the estate, asking for her rights as
widow and heir at law. Judge Buck
les has rendered a decision declaring
the trust endeavored to be created in
the will void. An order was made al
lowing a partial distribution to the
widow
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Banks Doors Closed.

MONTEVISTA (Col). June .15.-The
State Bank, a private concern, has pest
ed notice: 'Closed until return of
President The bank also has offices
at Hooper and Creede. It's nominal
capital is $4,000 The total liabilities
given to the public at the last state
ment were $25,554 The assets were
S114,469. The President of the bank
is ]. D. Maben. He is expected to ar
rive tomorrow. The bank was incor-
porated August II, 1890
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INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
HELD. A SESSION ONLY IN THE
AFTERNOON.
But One Witness Examined, J. N.
Javie, Manager Of Arbuckle
Sugar Refaer&es.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-The In
dustrial Commission held only an aft
ernoon session, and heard but one wit
|.ness to-day, ]. N. Jarvie of the firm
|sUf Arbuckle and Brothers, manager
of the sugar refining business. Mr..
Jarvie's testimony was brief He was
easy and courteous in his attitude to-
ward his inquisitors, refusing to an
swer only one question, viz: How much
it cost his company to refine sugar.
He said he did not wish to give in
fomation of that sort to his business
competitors.
Mr.. Jarvie put the necessary margin
between raw and refined sugar at be-
tween 50 and so points, to allow a
profit on the business. He said that
when his firm started business in 1898,
this margin was about 80. 1t had drop
ped as low as 80, and was now about
80. His firm, he said, had never cut
the price of sugar except to meet the
rates Of the American Sugar Refining
Company, commonly known as the
sugar trust.
When asked if the Arbucklese would
continue to meet their rivals figures
he replied decisively that his firm was
in the refining business to stay, beyond
that he would not wish to say.
He explained the entrance of the Ar
buckles into the sugar field by saying
that in 1898 they secured a machine
for weighing and packing sugar, and
undertook to sell package sugar to the
wholesale trade. They bought from
the American Refining Company, but
= u. 1,,1<l II "a
way, and so started their own refinery
He said the tariff differential of one
eighth of cent a pond on refined su-
gar did not figure in the business just
now Domestic competition was so
sharp as to keep out all foreign sugar.
Asked if the removal of the one-eighth
CT oent would affect the business now,
he said he did not know enough about
the foreign trade to say.
Mr.. Jarvie said there had been many
overtures from the sugar trust to set
tie the differentials with the Arbuckles.
but they had all been made ''for stock
jobbing purposes and consequently
there had been nothing in them.
Witness. in speaking of the coffee
business, i'm which the American Sugar
Refinery invaded the Arbuckle field.
said that while there had been a decline
in prices, it would not be fair to lay it
all to competition, as there had been a
great increase in coffee production all
over the world, last years crop going
from 11,OO0O0O to 15,000,000 bags.
Asked if he could suggest any plan
that would lessen the present destruc-
tive competition in the sugar business.
witness said that the fight could stop
only when the one big concern decided
to be content with less than 100 per
cent Of all the business in the country.
When asked how long the rival COM
pany could keep on selling sugar at a
loss, Mr.. Jarvie replied cheerfully that
he thought a concern supplying 80 per
cent of the sugar sold in this coun-
try would lose more under those con-
ditions than the firm supplying the 9TH
er. 10 per cent. and that he had the 10
per cent end Of the bargain just now.