Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-08-15
WASHINGTON LETTER
S% Especial Correspondence

LIN Il LII u 4
country in chewed I'D thousand don,
ollis Tor 10 cents or the only America,
Eat1onal Spoon for $4,9S. Souveni
nats, umbrellas, canes, capitol, rbrarv
Fyhlte House, Washington monument
mount Vernon and 100 other varietia,
OF souvenirs are as thick as
IN a cheap lunchroom. Whom T 1,o1I
diong your business streets. tho sbor
lnuoW remind me of one of tbo hio
International expositions.
1Aere seems to be something which
appeals to humanity in the sonvanir
BUSINESS. laugh at the appalling num.
yer OF the things which are got IN for
- sue purpose Of enticing the stran-
SCI "llnln yOur gates, but I buv so11va-
LIS al the same. / have a chin from
"ne washington monument and all tho
Aest Oh tnem, and I know that whom r
set nome my wife will put some around
LIE house and people will be interest
GU ana she Will be proud of then
nneH the children will take their share
tne youngsters the vicious looking 200.
ule dog, made Of macerated oraan
oacks, and the big girls the sDoons ana
generally I will make a hit. If is a
strange business when YOU come +o
tn1nk of it, but it is one that ANNALS
- every n away from home and in a
pace OF note. My own choice is for
monographs, and I have found them
tne pest, most lasting and most = alma
Dle mementos Of the places [ want to |
remember" y ~
Japan's Chinese N
President Mckinley is expected b.ok
III washington within a short time for ,
a LAX WIN his cabinet officials and for
me transaction of any business that |
Mdy demand his personal attention
neie' Ihere are some features of the !
oHinese problem that may nave to he
passed upon by the president. IT is said
'nat nothing has been heard at tba
s.ate department from Commissioner
nochnlll IN regard to the hitch over tbe
indemnity, which seems to he
the only stumbling block in tbn com
ple'ion OF arrangements Japan, it will
oe recalled, coptented herself with the
eA1relnely modest indemnity Of S24.-
ooo'ooO, which represented the oblioa.
'io1s actually incurred by her relief
ana other expeditions. When she cove
~ arrange for the floating of the Chi
Aese 4 per cent bonds with which +bo 4
inuenlnltles We're to be paid, she fo,1nd ,
tney would not in her mor1-o+ =
more than sc per cent of their face val. +
She accordingly went back to tba {
powers to ask for an increase TO moLo r
gooo the IA per cent discount, To tbis q
TIE powers were not ready to aoroo p
anu Fussla was particularly hostile G
Inc attitude of the United States 7
Nhlch Mr.. Rockhill has represented +
oas e that this extra allowance ~ o
Japan will be fair, and we have hoon ! q
sllllng to grant it if the other novars u
'oulo agree. The commissioners 81 +,
ehce is thought to indicate difficulty in r
eacnlng an agreement.
Runs In the Family. :
Inc announcement by Charles H AL
en tuaC ne Will not return TO Porto al
sico ana the certainty that William H CT
unt WIZ succeed him as governor re- OF
- tue Iact That Mr.. Hunt comes of q &c
OF lnsular colonial dignitaries to
III HUNT, his great-grandfather IN
as an Ehgllshman Il acting govern IN
! VI tue III several occa- &C
Jus ny virtue OF his position as a &C
iennoer OF the upper council Of that 10
oiy LOT a number of years, BEGIN tn
lnS WIN 1'o6. A son of Thomas Hunt WI
Leu 1Nopeft, became a resident Of WI
ie hahdnas and held various high Of OF
ces lhere, among others the Dresiden-
u tue lngS council, which made
II actlhg governor on two occasions
about 1896. The present Isl
ioilai representative of the family TAI
'san' IKE the Hunts of the earlier ag
with an office below tho pa
guest ana has served as acting gov. tnt
nor during the absence of his chiof an
lt When he holds the presidents com. cu1
lssion as governor he will have eclins- ma
them In actual rank. all
More Asnbo1+ fax
Mr.. ?. R. Quinlan of Syracuse and WI
{ Warner-Qulnla Asphalt comma ~.
Ads come to Washington to look a.
Ter some details in connection with s
frying out the contract awarded his
hpany by the District tn T
We oz'ooo square yards of streets in a Y
He said: ski
we are erecting a plant for this
'rk on the grounds of the Brennan
nstructlon company here and expect
De able to undertake our contract
~ soon. Our company is still get
g ITS asphalt from Trinidad, but we
pc soon to get it from Venezuela
e long drawn out controversy about
venezuela asphalt is still in the
lrts, but we may be able to obtain
terlal from there before long"
Patent ONCE History.
ne preparation Of a complete his
y OF the patent Office has Just been
'un under an order of Commissioner
Patents Frederick I. Allen. which @
acts that Principal Examiners
npbeH, Kinnan, Newton. SeUau