Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-01-25
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gsseste.
Washington. January %.

would be delighted to attend II more
pressing business did not claim Dis
presence elsewhere. :.
Attorney General Griggs received
another urgent message from Marshal
Bennett, at Muskogee, /. t., this morn
iug, requesting authority to expend
sum not exceeding $500 to meet I'm.
usual difficulty attending execution OF
process. The marshal says there 10
actual defiance of federal authority.
The attorney general wired Bennett to
spend the amount named.
"a good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches" wrote Senator SUI
Ivan of Mississippi, to former con-
sti,uent of his, now residing In Kansas,
who has a new scheme Of getting some
thing for nothing. He informed the
Senator that he had named a son OF his
William Sullivan. His first son. he
said, had been named after Galveston
Jew, who had promptly sent check for
500. He impressed the Senator that
the second Offering had been named
after the greatest man in the State OF
Mississippi, and that being the case ne
should receive not less than 25O.
Therefore the Senator sent the line
quoted above.
According to the Indian bureau here
the uprising among the Choctaw and
Creek nations is held to be oil less
alarming proportions than some reports.
would indicate The Commissioner OF
Indian affairs says that Governor
Brown. chief Of the Seminoles, has that
tribe under absolute control aud that
no participation in any uprising Will be
taken by them. A telegram from
Treen McCurtain, dated Red Oak, l..
T., January "a, and addressed to J. 5.
STANDBY representative OF the Choctaws
10 Washington, says: "Snake party
excitement Is exaggerated by schemers.
Letter follows :" Commissioner OF
Iudian affairs Jones says: "McCurtain
is IS intelligent man as there is In the
territory and have the highest regard
for his judgment. Whatever may be
the intentions of these schemers to
which he refers the people may rest
assured that the outbreak will soon be
amicably settled"
President Mckinley has received the
following messaes from King Edward
VII 10 reply to the condolences that
were sent him by the Chief Executive:
osborne, Jan. "a.
1.-THE President, White House, Wash
ingtoD
"Am most grateful of your kind SYM
patty in the irrepsrable loss which the
nation and / have sustained. l felt con-
WINGED that it would be shared by you
and the American people.
The House committee on foreign az
fairs today completed the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill which
carries nearly two million dollars.
Among the changes made are the fol-
lowing: The consulates at Chun King,
China, and Morrisburg, Canada, are
dropped: the Minister to Bolivia will get
81 500, instead of s.. 900; 500 900 are a.
lowed for the extension of legation
grounds at Pekin; 81 $40 is sppropriat-
| ed as The share OF the United States In
maintaining permanent court OF arbi-
tratio1 at the Hague; Sofia is raised
from So 600 TO S. 900; Cornwall, Canada,
raised to 81 500; Hanover, Germany
and Malta raised from 81 500 to 81, 900;
Nottingham, salary increased to $1,000;
Niuchwang, China, increased to So 600;
Znrick, raise to $1,000; Moscow, sals-
ried at 81 500.
Mr.. william Gordon Crawford, Of
New York, and Miss Kathleen Beal
Owen, daughter of the late Surgeon
Owen, U. 5. N were married at St..
Paul's Episcopal Church here yester-
day. Among the ushers were Messrs.
Acosta Nichols, Albert Fairfax and ].
De NJ. Crawford, OF New York; Messrs.
Walter Davidge, jr., William s. Rev
burn, Robert E. Lee and Newton Q
Adams.
The flyiOg of the White House flag
at half mast 10 respect Of the memory
of Queen Victoria is creating more and
more talk here. 1t is recalled that such
thing was not done at the death OF
the Emperor OF Russia or Germany or
Italy or the President of France, and II
it be not done hereafter at that OF any
OF the other foreign rulers, 1t might be
looked upon In the light of an afront,
and be the cause Of trouble.
In the new agricultural bill provision
is made for q government survey OF the
farming lands OF Virginia, but Only those
in the James River Valley.
Some OF the legitimate heirs OF the
late Col. James E. Slaughter of Gull
pepper county, Virginia, bat who lived
10 the far South and Mexico, and died
in Mobile, are here, making inquiries
and consulting about his estate, which
is said to be quite large.
AS rural free delivery necessarily
tends to abolish fourth class postoi-
fces, several of the Virginia Congress-
men in whose districts such delivery
has been established, are having some
trouble about 1t with their constituents,
but as the Postmaster General is In ia
vor OF it, 1t is likely to increase.
In the Senate today Senator Martin
of Virginia called up the bill to give the
employees of the navy yards a yearly
holiday of fifteen days without forfeit
ing their pay. 1t was opposed by Mr..
Hale, but was passed, and having pre-.
viously passed the House, will be law
as soon as the President shall sign It,
| Washington was vi,ited by storm Of sleet
and snow this merning that reminded resi-
dents unplessantly Of the blizzard Of Febru.
sry 1899. Fortunately the temperature was
not as low by 20 degrees a. it was on that
memorable occasion, and little suffering re.
suited. Nearly every street Car line In town
| was tied mp for little while and ss q result q
large number Of snow covered pedestrians
| fought their way TO work. Snow plows were
put to work by the street car companies and
the tie up did not DELAY traffic very long. The
storm abated before 10 o'clock.
The Honse committee on foreign relstions
today reported fsvorably the Jenking bill to