Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-18
From Washington.


]. w. Boyd, aged 40, clerk in the
Marine Hospital Service, was arrested
today, charged with embezzling govern
ment funds and confessed that for the
past two years he had Incorporated,
through the manipulation Of vouches
about 500. 900. Boyd has been an ex-
trayagant liver. His wife is now in
Europe. He was appointed from the
District of Columbia and received a sal
airy of 81 800.
Brigadier General Jesse NJ. Lee, of
the Department of Texas, in his annual
report to the War Department today,
declares that after an exhaustive inquiry
with conditions, and correspondence and
interviews and men of ten posts under
his command regarding the army canteen,
he finds: THAT 80 per cent of the
soldiers drink stimulants, the majority
drinking moderately of beer and light
wines when they can get these beverages;
that a we'll regulated canteen where beer
and light wines may be sold couserves
discipline, controls and decreases drunk"
euness and disorders, lessons absenteeism
and to that extent tends to reduce deser-
tons: that the only tendency the anti
canteen has on those who drink strong
intoxicants under any and all conditions
is to increase the number; that the anti
canteen law either adds to the number
of saloons contiguous TO garrisons or in
creases their sales and profits, and that
it encourages the creating evil.
John Coleman, secretary of the Cen
trail Labor Union, of Buffalo, n. T.,
appeared before the Council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor this morning
and requested the cooperation of the
national organization in The labor move
ment in that city. B. A. Larger and
John Rickett, of the United Garment
Workers, requested the cooperation of
the executive council in building up the
organization in certain parts of the coun-
try where il has deteriorated recently.
The Geological Survey has started out
to solve the mystery of the "blowing"
or "breatbing' wells, but there is
1earth of information. The information
now possessed by the survey comes
mainly from the type in the State of
Nebraska and in Rapides Parish, Louis
lana. 1t is believed that changes in at
mospheric pressure is responsible for the
phenomina.
The actual counting of the silver and
gold in the United States Treasury, be-
gun two and half months ago, was par
Italy completed today. % men have
been engaged in the work.
When certain clerical duties in con-
nection with the count are finished the
new treasurer, G. H. Treat, will present
Ellis H. Roberts, the retired treasurer,
with receipt for the full amount OF
money. This will be done probably to-
morrow, and Mr.. Roberts bond will then
be cancelled. The treasury has in bond,
security, paper, gold and silver in the
neiphborhood of billion dollars. The
amount of currency is about 1888, OOO,-
900.
Fire caused the loss of about SO, 600 to
George Killian's paper box factory, at
Wards alley and Cephas court between
Sixth and Seventh, NJ and n streets
northwest this morning.
According to the Geological Survey the
total quantity of fuller's earth consumed In
this country last year amounted TO nearly
40. 900 tons, of which go, $50 tons were produc'
ed in this country. The demand and con-
sumption in 1904 was much larger than dur
ing the preceding year. Fuller's earth. is
chiefly employed for deodorizng, bleaching
and clarifying fats, oils and greases. Florida
produced three.fourths of the entire American
output. with Arkansas second, in the latter
State il being used in refining animal and
cotton seed oils The survey takes the posi-.
ton that fuller's earth has almost superseded
bone back in this refining process