Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-17
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, ID. O., July II.

Correspondence OF the Ale1hhuIIa Oa]e"e'I
Washington, ID. c., July II.
U. S. District Attorney Morgan Beach,
selected by Attorney General Moody tC
investigate the leak scandal in the Agri.
culture Department, has gone to New
York TO interview Van Ryper, Price
aud other brokers mentioned in the re-
cent repor! of the secret service on which
Associate Statistician Holmes was dis
charged. Before leaving Washington,
Mr.. Beach secured considerable addition.
al information from Richard Cheatham'
Secretary of the Southern Cotton Grow
era Association, who has been making
an independent investigation on behalf
of the cotton producers of the country
President Shontz, Chief Engineer
Stevens and General O. II. Ernst, OF
the Panama Canal Commission, will
sail from New York on Thursday next
on the steamer Mexico for Panama. Mr..
Stevens will arrive in this city tomorrow
and will remain here only long enough
to close up his Office here. The head
quarters of the canal commission re-
ceived dispatch this morning from
Governor Magoon, of the canal zone, re-
porting one additional case of yellow
fever, Juan 0sego FierrO, a Spaniard,
non-employee at Panama. The re-
covery of August Schimpf, an American
employee at Colon, who was taken sick
on July 4th, was also reported.
A bulletin issued this afternoon by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
shows that during January, February
and March of this year there were 20 pas
sengers and 2O4 employee killed, and 1861
and 2,O62 employees injured in train &C.
cidents, making in all 292 killed and
S,7I3 injured. Other accidents to pas
sengers and employees, not the result OF
collisions or derailments, bring the total
number of casualties for the quarter up
to Is, 300 (9U9 killed and 1887 in
iured. J The total number of collisions
and derailments was 8, los. Damage tc
railroad property by reason of these &C
cidents aggregated 81, 449, 24S.
During the absence of President
Roosevelt and his family for the sum
mer. the White House is undergoing an
extensive house cleaning and course OF
repairs. Although but three years have
elapsed since the interior of the presi-
dental mansion was remodeled at great
expense, several defects have appeared
and it has been found that some of the
material and workmanship were not OF
the best grade. The big pillars, erected
in the large entrance on the main floor,
have crumbled in the past year. They
are built of brick and plaster about steel
girders. At the time they were put in
the architects were criticised for not
using marble. The outside material
has been replaced during the past few
weeks. Tie exterior Of the White House
is being given scrub down with soap
and water. Owing TO the fine quality
of white paint used every other year in
renewing the immaculate appearance OF
the building, the coating will stand a
washing on the of years without ap-
pearing s,reaked.
The PostOflice Department has given
the postmaster of Chicago an allowance
of $40, 600 for emergency clerk hire.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
not decided to recall the June report on
cotton acreage, said TO have been lamp
cred with. Many believe new report
will never be ordered, as such action
might reflect on Chief Statistician John
Hyde.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, left
Baltimore today, for Lee, Mass, with
Mrs. BOnaparte who will spend the rest
of the summer in the Berkshires. They
have engaged rooms at the GreenOck Inn,
at Lee. where the secretary will stay for
several days, leaving Friday for Bolton
Landing, Lake George, where he will at
tend the meeting of the Council of the
National Civil Service Reform League of
which he is the chairman Owing to
his duties as member of the Cabinet he
will be compelled to relinquish his posi-
llOI us CuhlIilldu vi lhC COuhSii ohN O
successor will be elected at Saturdays
meeting. Secretary Bonaparte expects
to return to this city the early part of
next week.
The Navy Department received telegram
this morning announcing the death of Lieu
tenant Commander Francis Boughter in a
hospital at Philadelphia from heat apoplexy.
He was considered one of the best informed
and most valuable officers in the navy.
The State Department last evening reeelv-
ed a confirmation from Ambassador Meyer.
at st. Petersburg, of the proposed sailing of
NJ. Witte and his party July IS.
W.D. Mabry, formerly clerk in the office
of the Auditor of the War Department and
now in the employ of the canal commission
on the isthmus, writes friend in this city
painting ore optimistic picture of life on
the isthmus than is gained from the daily
fever report issued by the bureau OF lnsular
affairs Mabry writes that he and his wife
are stopping at brand new government
hotel at CorOzal, three miles from Panama,
where the board is excellent and the big
binding is very comfortable. The tempera-
ture, he says, is more comfortable than in
Washington at this season Of the year, and
people 90 about their business with no more
thought Of yellow fever than Of pneumonia
or typhoid fever in Washington. Other letters
from Panama, however, state that the cOndi-
tons there are worse than the newspapers re-
port them to be.
To Stand Trial for Murder.