The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-03
WILL NOT BE A SUPPORT
CAPE NOME, IN GOLDEN ALASKA, To
REMAIN AS 1T NOW is.
Canadian scheme to Evade United
States Laws Thwarted by the
Treasury Department..

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The attention
OF the Treasury Department has been
called to the advertisements Of Cana
dian steamship lines soliciting freight
to be shipped during the coming
season from Seattle to Cape Nome. Alaska.
This is done on the erroneous assumption
that Cape Nome would be made SUPPORT
of entry of the United States. The route
of these shipments il was intended, should
be from Seattle to Vancouver by rail.
distance of fifty or sixty miles. thence to
Cape Nome by steamer, thus cvading.
according to the officials. our laws which
prohibit foreign vessels from carrying
goods from one port in the United States
to another. The department. in view Of this
fact. has decided. for the present at least,
not to make Cape Nome a SUPPORT of
entry, leaving st. Michaels the nearest port
to the new gold fields. The effect of this
action will be TO preserve the trade with
Cape Nome to American vessels.
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Second Lieut..
J. p. Wade, Fifth Cavalry, to be first lieu
tenant: Passed Assistant Surgeon j. +.
Uric, TO be surgeon in the navy; Assistant
Surgeon w. NJ. Wheeler, to be passed as
Congressman Eppes, of Virginia. was op-
Grated on. at Garfield Hospital to-day for
appendicitis. His condition is critical
1t has been decided that the failure Of
the exchange copies of the Samoan arbi-
tration treaty to reach Washington by next
Wednesday shall not be permitted to pre-
vent the consummation of the convention.
Although the treaty requires the exchange
to be effected by the 9Th instant. 1t is now
believed that the requirements can be fully
met by the unique method of telegraphic
exchange.
Surgeon General Sternberg received to-
day a report from Surgeon Blair d. Tay-
lor, of Honolulu, dated Feb. L. in regard to
the plague existing in the Hawaiian
Islands. DR.. Taylor says: "Snce my last
report there have been five suspect plague
cases in Honolulu, with no deaths. The
disease has reached the island of Maui, the
second island southeast, and about one
hundred miles distant, seven deaths having
occurred there, and the diagnosis confirmed
by the bacteriologist of the Board of
Health. A case Of plague. fatal. has oc-
Cured at Hilo, island of Hawaii, about two
hundred miles from here. A crusade
against rats has begun, which will doubt
less prove valuable means Of Kidding the
city of infection. The only permanent
safety for Honolulu can be found in a
complete and perfect sewerage and drain
age system, sanitary buildings and sites,
aboliShing all cesspools, filling in the low
grounds with clean earth-not garbage as
most of IL contains now-and the forbid
ding OF cultivation within the city limits
of such crops as taro and rice, which re-
quires the ground to be constantly flooded"
The secretary of state authorizes a con-
tradiction Of the printed statement that
the State Department has secured the as
sent or other powers TO the provisions of
the pending canal convention. No PROPOSE
lions In relation to the subject matter of
this convention. he says, have been laid
before any other country.
Siege Battery o. Seventh Artillery, which
has been stationed at Washington ever
since its organization, has been ordered to
Fort Riley, Kan. The change is made i'm
battery, which is a new feature in the mill
tary organization of the United States.
Representative Hemenway left for home
this afternoon and will not return until his
nominating convention is held.
Steps have been taken by the War De-
partment for the return to the United
States of the entire Fifth Regiment OF cav
airy. now distributed at different posts in
Porto Rico. The movement will be made
gradually. and so far as possible the va
Gated posts Will be occupied by native
troops recruited in Porto Rico. Orders
have been issued for four troops of this
regiment to be brought to the United
States within the next few weeks and sta
toned at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.
One battalion of the Fifth Cavalry will be
station at Jefferson Barracks, another
probably at Fort Riley. Kansas, and an
other at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This
distribution of the regiment will enable
the department to carry out it's present in
tention of having the entire Sixth Cavalry
stationed at posts on the Pacific coast.