Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. d. c.. July 90.

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culture, who resigned yesterday, are
said to be urging him to delay his resig-
nation to Secretary Wilson and his i'm
mediate superOrs. 1t is believed that
DR.. Moore did so merely to permit them
to clear his name. That his supeIiors
did not stand by him is said to have been
sore disappointment to DR.. Moore.
By securing further patent on the
method of ground inocculatiOn, which he
made over to the government, it IS said
by men acquainted with the system
that he can make a fortune.
Copies of the japanese blue book for
1905, prepared by the Department Of
Finance, Just issued from the government
printing Office at Toxic, has been re-
ceived here. The progressive enterprise
of the japanese is exhibited in this
publication, which is printed in English.
According TO the blue book, the Empire
of Japan, comprising nearly 100 main
and nearly 500 adjacent small islands,
has about Is, 900 miles of seacoast. 1t
has an erea of 16l, l48 square miles.
The total population was little over
SO. 900. 900 in 1872 and has risen to A.
Sl2. 7O2, besides 3, 059, 235 for Formosa,
these being the figures given at the close
of the fiscal year 1905. The close ap-
Proclamation to exactness in the division
of numbers between male and female is
remarkable.
One new case of yellow fever is re-
ported from the Panama canal zone.
Northumberland Willard, of Vir-
ginia, was here last night and met a
number of his friends. He is in good
spirits and seems well satisfied with his
canvass for the governorship Of his State.
He left today for Hampton where he will
speak tonight.
John Hyde, the former chief of the
Statistical Bureau of the Agricultural
Department, who Unexpectedly went to
Europe just as his testimony was needed
by the grand jury here, which is investi-
eating the cotton leak scandal, will not
be permitted to escape surveillance. 1t
is understood that the State Department,
acting on the request of District Attor-
ney Beach, has requested the British
government to keep a watch on Mr..
Hyde's movements so that he may be
found if it should become necessary or
desirable to bring him back to this
country. If Mr.. Hyde should go to the
continent the system Of espionage main
tanned the as a general thing over all
foreigners arriving will be sufficient to
ensure that his whereabouts will be
known should the information be re-
quired here. Mr.. Holmes. the Assist
ant Chief of the Statistical Bureau, who
was discharged Because of his completely
10 theTottou leaks, and who has also
absented himself, is said to have gone to
one of the Dakotas. The British gov
eminent will also, it is said, be asked to
keep track of his movements in case be
should find it convenient to 60 across
the frontier into Canada.
The report that he had sent his resig'
nation to the President was brought
to the attention of Secretary of Agricul-
.ure Wilson, this morning. "MaliciOusly
gotten up, malciously circulated by those
that lie" was the way he refuted it. The
Secretary has entirely recovered from
the attack of acute indigestion he sui
iered Monday and is planning to leave
the city shortly on his summer vacation.
Assistant Secretary Millet NJ. Hays will
have charge during his absence.
Lieut.. Robert S. Clark, 9th Infantry,
stepson of Bishop Potter of New York,
has terdered his resignation and it has
been accepted by the President. lie Is
tired of army life.
Although the United States Treasury
deficit at the close of the business yes.
terday was over $40, 600, 600 for the %
DAYS of the first month of the fiscal year,
it is estimated that this will be reduced
to less than $14, 900, 600 by August l
For the same month last year the deficit
was over $40, 900, 600. There has been
no decrease in receipts from customs and
internal revenue during the month, but
the expenditures have been very heavy.
Justice Wright in Criminal Court No. |
held today that Moses Haas, New York
broker. need not answer questions pro-
pounded by the United States District
Attorney which might tend to incrimi-
nate him before the grand jury, in the
special investigation which it is making
into the recent cotton leak scandal in
the Agricultural Department Hs' 5
claimed immunity under the cOnstiIu-
ton, claiming that if he were directly or
indirectly connected by the Secret Ser
vice men with the action of the former
Statistician Holmes, whom it was sought
to indict for conspiracy, answers to GER
tain questions might incriminate him.
Justice Wright held that the witness was
clearly within his constitutional rights;
and that the report of Secretary Wilson
on the cotton leak investigation should
be taken into consideration and has
given privileges accorded those under
charges. He held that the witness could
be required to incriminate himself, and
that each question propounded by the
| District Attorney should be taken sep
erately as 10 whether II was of character
to be answered.
5. n. Crawford, a Philadelphia trav-
cling man, was found dead in Wyoming
Villa Hotel, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, this
morning. He had committed suicide,
as his room was filed with gas, death
being due to ssphyxiation. Two notes
addressed To relatives found on his dress