Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-28

capital and the surrounding country
will witness the event.
The Postofice Department issued
fraud orders this morning against tne
Harrison Manufacturing Co., on the
Home Supply Co., of Altoona, fa.'
and the Leslie Novelty Co., of Chicago,
Their methods were of the same gen.
eral character, that of engaging persons
to do letter writing at home, in the hrst
case in the interest of a ladies' belt ana
in the latter of Cucumber Cream ior tne
face The applicants were required 10
nav 81 for instruction, paper, etc.
Charles NJ. Waters of Denver, Col
orado. was today placed in charge OF
the division Of salaries and allowances
of the Postoffice Department and Geo.
w. Beavers, who has been general Sup
erintendent of that Division for many
wears, but who recently resigned under
pressure, to take effect March 81, i'm
mediately retired. 1t is understood
that upon the return Of Postmaster
General Payne, Mr.. Waters will be re-
commended for the position Of general
superintendent of the postal service
division. 1t has been decided to trans
fer the tree delivery division, OF which
A. w. Machen is general superintend-
ent, from the control of the first to that
of the fourth assistant postmaster
general.
Charges were filed with the President
today by F. E. Stebbins, counsel for the
antitrust league, against Judge Ga
baugh, who was yesterday appointed by
the President to be chief justice of the
Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia, vice Chief Justice Bingham, retired.
Stebbins alleges that Judge Clabaugh
has several times issued ex parte orders
from the bench to the detriment of liti-
giants and that he has otherwise been un-
judicial in his rulings.
A formal contract for the lease of the
newly constructed Willard building on
Fourteenth street, for the use of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
was signed by Mrs. Sarah B. Willard and
her husband, Mr.. Henry A. Willard,
on the one side and by Secretary COrtel-
YOU on the other. The new department
has leased the entire building which it
is expected will be completed about the
first of MAY. After the signing of the
necessary papers Mrs. Willard presented
Secretary Cortelyou with a handsome
American flag, which will be used on
the building during the occupancy OF
the building by the department.
Hereafter all persons who engage to
enter the service of this government in
the Philippines will have to pay their
fare to the islands or have the cost de-
Quoted from their pay with a forfeit, un-
less they remain with the government
for at least two years. This is in effect
a new regulation passed by the Philip
pine commission and applies to all
civilians. 1t has been adopted because
of the numerous instances in the past
wherein free passage to Manila and re-
turn had been obtained through the
securing of an appointment. Each
applicant is now required to sign con-
tract. Two years of satisfactory service
entities him to passage one way and a
third year to free passage both ways
with half pay coming and going.
1t is learned through the mail received
by the War Department that Commander
Henry C. Ide, just before leaving Manila
for the United States, gave toward the
establishment Of a general hospital in
that city the sum of 10, 900 pesos. The
money is to be invested and the income
devoted to maintaining free beds. The
institution has become necessary because
of the increasing illness and disease in
the islands which cannot be cared for by
the government hospitals.
Prospecting for gold in the mountains
of the Philippines is not particularly
encouraged by the Filipinos. Mail re-
ceived by the War Department today
relates the death in an awful manner of
John Prucha and Ed. Chase, two Ameri-
cans, who sought for the yellow metal in
Zamboanga and found only hostile
Moros. They had placer claims up the
Santa Maria river. In February word
came down the stream that they had
been butchered. The party of Ameri-
cans who went up to the spot to investi-
gate found the prOspectors' hut sur
rounded by scattered human remains
while inside a head dangled by a string
on the wall. 1t was identified as that of
Chase. Later Prucha's body was found
in another place horribly mutilated al
though it was evident that he had es-
capped before his torturers had completed
their work. Prucha is believed to have
gone to the islands from Reading, Pa,
and Chase is known to have prospected
in Alaska where he had Pat Calvin for
| a partner.