Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-11
of the Alexandria Gazette,

used in gathering and tabulating figures
on all the staples. There is no doubt
about suspicion being rife among pro-
ducers of all crops since the Holmes in
cident," said Secretary Wilson this
morning. A general overhauling is not
impr ,babIe under the circumstances.
This morning, Mr.. Hyde, assistant
Secretary Hays and force of clerks
were locked in the rooms of the bureau
of statistice and it looked as if the Oft
repeated assertion that there is no
chance for leak would apply truth
fully to the crop report this afternoon.
In the Postoffice Department crusade
against impurity in the mails attention
has been directed to questionable SOU
yenir postal cards. Daily the offices OF
the general superintendent OF the city
and rural free delivery are in receipt OF
scores of these pieces of brilliantly print
ed card board having tendency toward
the immoral, obscene or protane. They
are sent in by argus-eyed mail carriers,
postal clerks or postmasters, all over the
country in conformity with the instruc-
tons of the postmaster general that such
missiyes must not be delivered to the
persons addressed. Hundreds of designs
Just triAe ''off COLOR" but which may
be seen exhibited in windows of reputa-
Bile stores in the city, town and hamlet,
are among the tabooed. The fellow who
buys the card that bears the inscription
'I'm having devil of time, with the
devil represented by flaming red figure
of his Santanic majesty will be greatly
disappointed when he learns that the
cent stamp affixed carried his cheerful
message to Postmaster General Cortelyou
instead of to his chum back at Jones'
Vile.
In reply to a message from President
r. NJ. Miller, jr., of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Association, request
ing representation during the prepare
ton of the August cotton report, pro-
vided Secretary Cheatham, of the South
ern Cotton Growers Association, Is
present, Secretary Wilson, of the De
partmeut of Agriculture, has wired that
the regular custom will be followed per
hitting only the departmental statisil-
clans and the secretary or assistant sec
rotary of the department to observe the
complication of the figures. The only
outsiders who have ever witnessed the
preparation of final figures on crop re-
ports have been members of Congress,
officially invited so they might inspect
the methods employed.
Theo. f. Shonts, chairman of the Pan
anna Canal Commission, and John f.
Stevens, the new chief engineer, re-
turned today from Oyster Bay where
they had a pleasant interview with the
President in anticipation Of their APP
preaching visit to the isthmus. it was
Mr.. Stevens first meeting with the Pres
ident and he took advantage of the OPP
portunity to assure him that in accept
ing the appointment of Chief Engineer
of the canal he did so with the full in
tention of staying until the completion
of the Job. Messrs. Shonts and Stevens
expect to sail for the lsthmus on the
18th or goth inst. Mr.. Stevens says that
he will make no appointments on his
engineering staff until after he has ar
rived at Panama and has examined the
material he has at hand. An additional
case of yellow fever has been announced
by Gov. Magoon. The patient is Au-
gust Schimpf, an American employee at
Colon.
Baron Rosen, the new Russian Am
bassador, left here for New York this
morning. He will be joined there by
Assistant Secretary of State Peirce to-
morrow and on Thursday morning they
will be taken on board the Presidents
yacht the Sylph to Oyster Bay where
Baron Rosen will present the letters OF
recall of Count Cassini and his own let
letrs of credence as the new Russian
representative to this country.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has
outlined his position in reference to ac-
cepting passes for free transportation on
the railroads. In one or two instances
in which passes have been sent to him
he has returned them with thanks for the
courtesy extended to him, but stating
that by reason of the public position
which he occupies he feels unable to
avail himself of the consideration shown
him.
More than million deaths from the
bubonic plague occurred in India last
year, according to the latest report of
the Marine Hospital and Public Health
Service. Every effort to stamp ii out
has failed, great alarm following among
all classes. In Arabia the disease is dy-
ing out, but outbreaks are reported in
Japan, Siam and Annoy.
The Board of Visitors of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Nd,
has made its report to the Secretary of
the Navy. The board expresses the
opinion that the discipline Of the ins;i-
tuition and the morale of the midshipmen
are undoubtedly in hight state of per
fiction and they believe that the practice
of hazing has been effectively ended.
An absolute denial was given by Of
fcials of the War Department this morn
ing of the sensational stories published
from Philadelphia that as result of a
scandal involving the manufacture of
for the army at the Schuylkill
arsenal, Philadelphia, Quartermaster
General Humphrey had preemptorially
ordered work stopped on 100000 dress
coats being made under contract The