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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
FUNERAL OF KENNETH PRATT.
Former High School Pupil Buried This
Afternoon.

The remains OF Kenneth J. Pratt, who
was drowned last week at Center Lowell,
Me-, arrived in Washington this morning
and were carried to the home of his par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. James c. Pratt, 1925
10th street northwest
Young Pratt. accompanied by party of
friends from Washington. reached Center
Lowell on Friday, and in the early morning
started for row on a nearby lake. The
rowing party consisted of George Kennedy.
the two Mcleod boys. Miss Dorothy Ruff
and two other young ladies. After the party
had returned. Pratt, together with son of
T. L. Cole and young Kennedy. went out
for swim. Pratt had not been in the
water long when he was taken either with
cramps or heart failure and sank before as
sistance could reach him. His companions
made a heroic attempt to save his life. but
all efforts were futile. DR.. S. s. Stearns
was along as a member of the outing party
and was across the lake at the time Pratt
went under. DR.. Stearns, aided by the
boys, finally recovered the body.
Mr.. Pratt was only seventeen years of
age and was student at the Central High
School He was a popular member of the
High School Cadets and took part in the
last sham battle on the White Lot. Pratt
recovered recently from an attack of ty-
phoid fever and he came out of his illness
with a weak heart, which is thought by
drowning.
The funeral services will be held at the
residence of his parents at AIS O'Clock this
afternoon. The High School Cadets will
attend and six of their number will act
as pallbearerS.
Rev DR.. E. Slater Dunlap. assistant rec
tor of st. Johns Church, will officiate. In
torment will be private
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
BOUND FOR MoUNDsvILLE.
Prisoners to Be Conveyed to Peniten-
tiary Tonight.

The following. recently sentenced in the
local criminal courts, will be taken to the
West Virginia penitentiary at Mounds
Vile this evening, starting from the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad depot shortly
after o'clock:
John Saunders rape, thirty years: Har-
rison RenniX, robbery, four years; Thos.
Lanihan. white. HOUSEKEEPING. two
years; Mary Williams, colored, larceny
from the person, one year and one day;
Lacy Hill, colored. HOUSEKEEPING, two
years; William Dixon, colored, robbery.
four years; Conway Jackson, colored. as
sault with a dangerous weapon. three
years; James Robinson, alias Rock, col
ored grand larceny, one year and one
a dangerous weapon. one year and one
breaking, two years; Edward Thompson,
white, assault with a dangerous weapon,
one year and one day: Levi Kettler. col
ored, HOUSEKEEPING. five years; Mason
Carey, colored housebreaking. five years;
Fred Cole. colored, robbery, ten years:
Levi P. Cheatham, colored, forgery three
years; Enoch Lyles, white, larceny three
years; Robert ]. Olsen, alias Sears, white,
receiving stolen property, one year and
one day: John Barton. alias Seymour,
housebreaking. three and one-half years:
Rebecca Robinson, colored. assault with
dangerous weapon, three years; Morris
Young, alias Moore. colored, housebreak-
ing. three years: Arthur Perry. white,
larceny. five years: Michael Lyons, white
attempt to rape, six years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
MURDER SUSPECTS HELD.
Tramps at Norfolk Suspected Of Penn
sYlvania Crimes.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NORFOLK, Va, July 1.-THE chief of
police of Lancaster, Pa, in long distance
telephone conversation with the Norfolk
county authorities today, said he would
send to Norfolk in the next day or two an
officer to indemnity the men John Brien
and Joseph Day, tramps. arrested at Pin
ner's- point. and who. 1t is now charged
are the pair wanted in Lancaster for nu-
merous crimes. among them being the kill
ing and robbing of Sam Ressler. an aged
tollgate keeper and the shooting Of a
farmer and Gordonsville Pa.) hotel bar
tender
j. c. Gorsuch accidentally received a
newspaper here telling of the Pennsylvania
crimes. He had read of the arrest here for
vagrancy of O'Brien and Day. The descrip-
tons tailed. and Gorsuch wired the Ian
caster police The result was warrants for
murder against o Brien and Day. who to-
day deny their guilt, saying they haven't
been in western Pennsylvania in a year.
The Lancaster police are sure they are the
men wanted.
G. +. Greenwood, aged seventy -nine the
Oldest jeweler in Norfolk. died today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
Opening of Market Was
Active and Broad Today.
CHANGES WE'RE SMALL
LARGE AMOUNTS OF LEADING
STOCKS CHANGE HANDS.
Market Hesltated on Selling fractions,
coalers and q. 8. Steel Preferred,
but Moved Up Later.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE stock market
opened active and broad today, but the
changes were for the most part small
There were large dealings in Reading.
United States Steel preferred. Pennsyiva-
MIA and the Pacifics. Reading opened I'D
an eighth and then ran or on realizing. but
the other leaders were a fraction higher
as was the general market. Metropolitan
Street Railway fell a half Erie first pre-
ferred and Chicago Terminal preferred
gained y.
The market hesitated slightly on selling
OF the fractions. coalers and United States
Steel preferred. but moved up when these
stocks encountered supporting orders.
Large amounts of all the leading stocks
changed hands at small variations ST.
Paul. Union Pacific. Louisville, Reading and
Amalgamated Copper advanced II over Sat
urdays closing. The Pressed Steel Car
stocks gained 1a1k. Lead IN and Cleve-
land, Cincinnati and Chicago and st. Louis
y. while Chicago Great Western "A" Ann
Arbor. Metropolitan Street Railway and In
Prices were shaded again before II O'Clock
and the market was less active. Pennsyl
vania receded to below lis.
large new demand for Southern Pa
ctfic lifted that stock u and hardened the
market in sympathy. The only wide move
ments were in specialties Gains of 7salh
were made by St Paul preferred, Virginia
Carolina Chemical Pacific Coast. Lead pre-
ferred and Pump. Toledo railways rose
~. Third Avenue and Canadian Pacific
declined u and Commercial Cable dropped
I on one transaction. Advances were not
held and the market became dull again at
a slight reaction. Bonds were irregular at
noon.
The market steadied when the reaction
had carried prices generally back to par
ity with last weeks final figures Some
buying Of the coalers and specialties de-
veloped at the lower level. but the general
re ilroad list was neglected.
Prices sank slowly during the afternoon
until the market averaged slightly below
last Saturday. The local traction stocks,
Reading st. Paul. Atchison. Union Pacific.
Southern Pacific and United States Steel
preferred were most freely offered. Nash
VILE Chattanooga and st. Paul declined
points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
NAVAL BOARD OF INQUIRY
To Look Into Grounding of the Siren
Schooner Wrecked.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NORFOLK Va, July 11.-Commander
Henry McCrea, u. S. N. inspector of the
NTH lighthouse district. arrived here today
and left for an inspection tour on the ten
der Violet for North Carolina waters.
Rear Admiral Harrington commanding
the Norfolk naval station. left last night
for special duty at the Naval War College
Newport. r. l He will be absent for ten
days.
naval board of inquiry will at once ex-
anime into the causes of the grounding in
North river. Virginia on Friday last of the
auxiliary gunboat Siren. attached to the
naval training station here. The Siren. In
command Of Mate William Mackay. stuck
her nose in mud bar at the mouth of
North river as the result of a misplaced
buoy, and remained aground thirty-six
hours before she succeeded in floating her
self. The gunboat was but little injured by
the mishap.
The schooner ]. r. Poulson. Captain
Doughtey. was lowed to Norfolk today bot
tom upward by the New York tug Albert
Ellis The PoulsOn. bound to Norfolk with
oysters. was caught in a severe storm on
Cape Charles and turned turtle. The mem
beers of the crew Were all thrown into the
ocean. but escaped. The tug Ellis came
along and lowed the Poulson in. The
schooner is in "A bad condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
A SHAKE UP.
Unexpected Change of Offices in War
Department.

general shaking up of officers In the
War Department occurred between 1 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, when the department
closed for the day, and o'clock this morn
ing. when 1t again opened for business
The desks and working apparatus of nearly
300 clerks were transferred to new offices
without any knowledge on their part that
such movement was in contemplation
The movement was entirely In the newly
created bureau of the military secretary
1t includes the transfer of the desks and
furniture of the old divisions of the ad
Jutant generals office in the central cor
ridor and the southern part of the western
corridor to the north wing of the building
to rooms formerly occupied by employees of
the record and pension office. The latter
force was transferred to the rooms vacated
in the central and southwestern corridors
Owing to the unexpected change there
was more or less confusion in the opening
of business in the two offices this morning
but affairs soon adjusted themselves and
this afternoon business was going ahead
as uual The change was made at the in
stance of Gen. Ainsworth, the military sec
rotary. and is designed to facilitate the
rapid dispatch of business under the new
order of things One effect of the change
is to place the old divisions of the adtu-
tant generals office more directly in touch
with the new military secretary whose
office Is in the north wing of the building
overlooking Pennsylvania avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
APPROVE "RuMMAGE sALEsv
Commissioners Refuse Petition of
South Washington Merchants.

Commissioner West today made a recon-
Eiendation that the Commissioners inform
Louis kressn and other business men in
Southwest Washington that the so-called
rummage sales conducted by the Salvation
Army in various parts of the city are not
conducted in violation of the law. but that
the stores are regularly licensed by the Dis
trict for the sale of second hand material.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Kressin and others
presented to the Commissioners "a petition
protesting against the so-calIed rummaye
sales conducted by the Salvation Army in
southwest Washington. The petitioners de-
clared that the sales We're doing great in
jury TO their business. Furthermore the
petitioners claimed this class of relief work
on the part OF the army :has a tendency
to Increase fdleness among the peopIe en-
pioyed by the army to collect the old cIot n
ing, etc, making them sort of tramps. 90
ing around on begging trip, calling from
house to house In their effort to get the
goods and articles desired"
The DIRECTORS argued that the business
conducted by the Salvation Army should
pe suppressed because they declared it had
bad moral effect and injured the business
of persons who help support the District
by the payment of taxes.
The protest was referred to the police de-
partment for investigation and report
Lieut.. Moore of the sixth precinct. Lieut..
Matthews of the fourth precinct and Acting
Lieut.. DUNCAN. in whose precincts the rum
mage sales are conducted. all reported on
the matter. They state that the stores
maintained by the army are regularly
licensed as secondhand stores and are not
in violation of the law. The officers of the
police department declare that more are
benefited than injured by the enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
IMPORTANT TROOP MOVEMENTS.
Extensive Military Changes Ordered
by Acting Secretary Oliver.


Acting Secretary Oliver today issued the
following general orders for the movement
of troops:
General Orders No. 107. War Depart
ment, June IS, 1904. directing Companies A,
B, c.. D, and NJ. Sth Infantry. upon arrival
in San Francisco. to proceed to Madison
barracks, New York, are modified so as to
direct Companies A. B, c and d. 9Th Infa n
try, to proceed to Fort Siocum, N. Y, and
Companies l and NJ 9Th Infantry, to Fort
Niagara, N. Y, for station. Upon arrival
of Companies 1 and M, 9Th Infantry. at
Fort Niagara, Companies A and d. 9th In
fantry. will proceed to Madison barracks.
New York, for station relieving the head
quarters, band and I'd and Sd Battaiions.
9th Infantry. which upon being thus re-
lieved will proceed to Fort Thomas. KY.
for station.
1.-The following changes in stations OF
troops are ordered:
'"The LIST Battalion Of the 10th Infantry.
upon its departure from Fort Slocum. N.
Y, for the maneuvers at Manassas juno
ton Va will ship It's property to Fort Nc
Pherson. Ga, to which post 1t Will proceed
for station. upon the termination of the
maneuvers.
"On September 30. 1904. the 21st Infan-
try will proceed from it's present stations in
the Department Of Dakota to the infantry
cantonment at the Preside of San Fran
cisco for station. relieving the 2Sth !nfan-
try. which upon being thus relieved will
proceed to and take station at Fort SHELL
ing. Mimi, with the exception of two COM
panies. to be selected by the regimental
Commander, which will proceed to and take
station at Fort Lincoln, N. D.
"On December 81, 1904. Company X, 18th
Infantry. at Fort Niobrara. Neb.. and Com
pany l.. nth Infantry. at Fort Washable.
Wvo will proceed to Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyo, for station
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
To Be Excused From Office.
COL. LONG PROMOTED.
Appointed Brigadier in Recognition
of Valuable Services

Lieut. Col Oscar F. Long of the quarter
masters department was today appointed
a brigadier general in the army, in recogni-
ton of his valuable services during the
Spanish war and the Philippine insurrec-
ton, and at his own request he was placed
on the retired list.
Born In New York. he was appointed to
the Military Academy in July, 1872. and on
his graduation. four years later, was ap-
pointed second lieutenant 9Th Infantry. He
served with that regiment, the latter part
Of the time as first lieutenant. until May,
1892. when he was appointed an assistant
Quartermaster. with the rank of captain.
During the Spanish war lie served In the
volunteer QuartermaSterS department, first
as a major and then as lieutenant colo
mel In April. 1901. he was appointed
brigadier general of volunteers. and served
as such until the volunteer army was dis
banded.
During his thirty-two years service in the
army Gen. Long has rendered excellent
service. He made highly creditabe rec
ord in charge of the transpor. service at
San Francisco, for which service he gained
the highest concentrations from Gems
Shafter. Sumner. Ludington and other Sc
nior officers. He organized the transport
service between San Francisco and the
Philippines. and superintended the trans
portation of about 100000 passengers, mill
tary and civil. between the two countries.
without the loss of single life, record
which is not surpassed by any transatlan-
tic steamship line. 1t was largely on ac-
count of this achievement that the Presi-
dent directed his appointment as briga-
der general. His good record as a soldier
was not. however, confined to the period Of
the Philippine Instruction, for earlier in
his career he was awarded a congressional
medal OF honor for most distinguished gal
iantry In action against the Indians at Bear
Paw mountains in Montana"
zen. Long will remain in Washington for
several days. closing up the affairs of the
transport division Of the quartermaster
generals office. of which he has been in
charge for several months past. and will
then go to Oakland. Cal. where he will
make his home. His family is already
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
APPROPRIATION AVAILABLE.
Controllers Decision Regarding Money
for Girls Reform School.

Several days ago the president of the
board of trustees of the District of Column
bia reform schools for girls requested the
controller of the treasury to render de-
cision as to whether or not $4,000. which
was appropriated by Congress for the erec-
ton of a building at the institution for
the accommodation of male attendants, a
store house and other purposes, would be
available after the close of the recent ifs
cal wear. The reform school authorities
have been DESTROYS of constructing the
building. which it is stated is very much
needed. but up to this time they have been
unable to put the necessary working plans
into use and by the closing of the fiscal
year June 30 they were afraid they would
lose the appropriation,
The controller has decided that the Of
ficials may use 1t at any time during the
present fiscal year for the purpose for which
II was made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
GETS TWENTY YEARS.
Edward Jenkins Sentenced for As
saulting Schooner's Captain and Mate

saulting Schooner's Captain and Mate.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
ALEXANDRIA. Va. July 11-Edward
Jenkins colored, pleaded guilty of the
charges Of murderously assaulting Captain
Brown and Mate Griffith in the corporation
court this morning and was sentenced to a
term OF twenty years in the penitentiary.
The crime which jenkins committed &C.
Cured May IL last at the foot of Cameron
street. According to the story told at the
time the captain was the first man as
saulted.
Shortly after midnight he was awakened
by call at his window. He recognized the
visitor. he stated, as Jenkins who had been
employed oHtthe vessel and who had been
discharged last Saturday. When Capt.
Brown asked what he wanted, the man
stated that he had come to get some OF his
belongings left on the boat. After a search.
in which nothing was found. the negro
asked the captain to show him the way to
the wharf of the steamer Wakefield.
The captain started to accompany Jen-
kins to the place in question, it is stated.
and had gotten out on Union street when
the negro stepped behind for a second. The
next moment the captain had been felled
to the pavement by terrific blow on the
head with heavy iron bar. He lost con-
seriousness. but came to himself a few
minutes later, and remembers being struck
several other blows about the body. Then
he relapsed into protracted state of I'M
The mate WAS sleeping in his room on
the vessel, not having been aroused by
the first visit of the negro. Some little
time elapsed after the assault upon the
captain when the mate was awakened by
vestigate. and as he was about to step off
the vessel he received heavy blow in the
dark which sent him to the ground in an
unconscious state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
A THREE-RINGED CIRCUS.
Postmaster General Payne's Comment
on Democratic Convention.

Postmaster General Payne, who left
Washington this afternoon for Poland
Springs Me and other northern points. on
II short vacation. was asked his opinion %
the work Of the democratic convention at
ST Louis. He smiled as he said:
1T was three-ringed circus"
Mr.. Payne could not be induced to ~
large upon this opinion. and said he was
too worn out with the work he had been
through during the past few weeks To is
'uSs politics or the potentialities of the
coming campaign.
MIS-. PAYNE accompanied him on his New
England trip. and during his absence lie
VIII take a complete rest. Mr.. Francis u
whitney. his private secretary, will not go
with him.
The Postmaster General VIII return -
the city for brief time about July IS and
afterward VIII probably go to his NIL
waukee home for the few weeks between
then and the return of the President. First
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne viii
b" acting postmaster general du.ing the
absence Of Mr.. Payne
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-11
FOUND ! PgfAD IN ROOM
FORMER DISTRICT WOMAN COM
MITs SUICIDE IN ST. LOUIS.
What il Learned About Her From
Former Neighbors in This
49, City.

ST. LOUIS. July 1.-THE dead body of q
fashionably dressed woman was found in o
room at the Hotel Milton today. where she
registered Juiy'7 an Mrs. NJ. Smith of New
York" Two empty bottles were found by
the side Of the bed. One had contained
some drug that has not yet been Identified
and the other alcohol.
From statements made by Rev. Allen X.
Smith. rector Of Christ Church Cathedral
In whom the woman is said to have con-
fided to some extent her correct name is
MRS. NJ X. Dantes of either New York or
Washington. 80
Upon promise to secrecy. the woman
told the Rev. Mr.. Smith that her mothers
name Is Mrs. Martha Virgins and that
she lives at Ill X street northwest Wash
ington. d. c.
When pressed by Mr.. Smith for her rea-
sons for using an assumed name. Mrs.
remarking that she had personal reasons
for not wishing to be known by her correct
name
Inquiry at III X street. this city. dis
closed the fact that Mrs. Martha Virgins
and a daughter. Miss kitty" Virgins.
lived In the house for several years. The
daughter left about year ago last Novem-
Der. and the mother the following April.
Mrs. f. B. Mead, who lives next door, told
a Star reporter this afternoon that Mrs.
Virgins had. she believed, gone to live
with married brother at Kent. suburb
Of Norfolk. Va.
She had another son at Norfolk. who
was unmarried, it was learned, where the
daughter. kitty" had gone, and what
had been her home after leaving here Mrs.
Mead did not known, except that she
understood kitty" was going away to be
married. The name of her prospective hus-
band was not learned, though it may have
been Dantes.
Miss kitty" and her mother were. it is
said. very quiet persons. The younger was
about forty years of age. and dressed
plainly but well. She was employed at one
time In the census office, and it is said
after losing this position worried a great
deal.