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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
BEAVERS WANTED IN CASE
Alleged to Have Fled to Escape 8
Hooker Subpoena-

George w. Beavers, the former chief of
the division of allowances and salaries of
the Post Office Department Is wanted at
Albany to testify in the proceedings against
Supreme Court Justice Hooker. State Of
ficials have been trying for a week to find
Beavers in order to serve a subpoena upon
him, but their efforts have failed The coun-
sci, the family and the personal friends of
Beavers in order to serve subpoena upon
information concerning his whereabouts
The assembly is so anxious to secure the
testimony of Beavers that Sergeant-at-
Arms Johnson has been instructed to con-
tinue the search for him, and the judiciary
committee has asked for an extension of
time.
1t is said that during Beavers closing
days as boss of the Post Office Depart
ment he had dealings with the postal au-
thorites at Fredonia, and that he is famiI-
lar with all of the details leading up to the
lease of the building owned by Justice
Hooker and Stearns for a post office The
fact that Beavers cannot be found is con-
sdered pretty good evidence in itself that
he is in a position to furnish valuable testi-
mony.
A moiety of the s45,OO0OOO a year that
Beavers used to control for the postal sery-
ice is believed to have found its way into
the pockets of persons who were favored
with strong political backing in Chautauqua
county. 1t was admitted yesterday by a
close personal friend of Beavers that he ia
purposely avoiding the assembly subpoena
THE statement that Beavers has run
away said a friend, lis absurd. because
he cannot run away. He is under $40, 0OG
bail, $4,000 to appear for trial in Kings
county on the charge of having influenced
government contracts, and $4,000 on in
dictments against him by the Washington
grand jury on charges of conspiring to de-
fraud the government and bribery"
Mr.. Seabury Of Morgan & Seabury, coun-
sci for Beavers declined to say anything
about the whereabouts of his client.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
North Washington Citizens.

The North Washington Citizens Associa-
ton will be addressed next Monday evening
by Gen. George II. Harries and Rev. John
NJ. Gill, pastor of Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Church. The subject of Gen.
Harries' address will be along the line of
his personal experience in presenting the
demands for local improvements before the
committees of Congress and suggestions In
reference TO local improvements.
The association is among the latest of the
citizens organizations and is said to have
secured many improvements during the last
two years 1t was formerly known by the
name of the Bloomingdale, lie Droit Park
and Reservoir Heights Citizens Association,
but after spirited contest its new name
was substituted Among the matters to be
discussed at the next meeting are the reso-
luttons adopted by the committee of fifteen
relating to instructions on morals In public
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
Decrease of $e4e, COL for the Month Of
March.

The monthly statement of the public debt
shows that at the close of business, March
81, 1905, the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $9sS, 824. 557, which is de-
crease of $949,60l as compared with last
month The debt is recapitulated as fol-
lows: Interest bearing debt, $685., 157 $50;
debt on which interest has ceased since ma
turity, 81, 400, 450; debt bearing no interest,
1888, 49,, 200; total, $1,2S0, 448, $50. This
amount, however, does not include 5000, 61I,-
$50 in certificates and treasury notes out
standing, which are Offset by an equal
amount Of cash in the treasury held for
their redemption. The cash in the treasury
is classified as follows: Gold reserve, $780,
100000; trust funds, 5000. 611 1853; general
fund.- $13S. 264 ,194; in national bank deposit
taries, $50, 1876 ,01S; In Philippine treasury,
s4,925.3I0; total, 1873. LOG, 552 against which
there. are demand liabilities outstanding
amounting to $1.087 374, 920, which leaves a
cash balance on hand Of $40, 1921 ,623.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

H. Camden who has been on sick leave for
the past two months will rejoin the ship
while she is lying at Baltimore.
The steamer Governor MCLain of the
Maryland states fisheries force, employed
on the Potomac, is in a dry dock for
cleansing and painting and for such other
stated the McLan will be laid up until the
opening of the next oyster season.
The summer exodus to the resorts on the
lower river has started early this year, in
consequence of the warm weather at this
season. On every trip the river steamers
carry to points on the Potomac the house
furnishings for the cottages of summer
colonies.
A large lighter belonging to the Washing
ton Stone Company is at Benefits boat
yard and will be hauled out soon as the
two coast survey launches now on the rail-
way are launched. The lighter is to be re-
built for service on the river between this
city and Occoquan.
The power launches Stella, Stranger and
Celestic, which were out on the marine rail-
way at Reagan's boatyard for painting and
minor repairs, have been launched and the
Enola and unnamed dory launch have
been hauled out in their stead. The
Stranger has gone into commission and will
sail for trip on the river today.
Edward Whyte is building, at the boat
house foot of 9TH street, several six
teen-foot batteaus for the use of fishing
parties during the coming summer. Several
power launches and sailing vessels are also
putting in trim for service.
The bugeye shaped schooner Edna A.
Pogue has arrived here with cargo of
Pine lumber from Virginia port for the
dealers.
The steam barge Daniel X. Jackson COM
pleted the unloading of her cargo of lumber
yesterday and sailed for Aqua creek to
load again for this city.
The schooners Sidonia Curley and John
Maginis have been chartered to load lum-
Der in the Kappa hammock river for this city
in the river bound to this port with a cargo
of red cedar posts for the dealers here.
The steam barge Lily and Howard has
taken up her charter to tow fish laden YES
sells from the nets in the lower river to
this city.
A pilot from this city has gone to the
mouth of the river to meet the u. S. ship
Dolphin and pilot her up to the navy yard.
The schooner r. B. Spedden, laden with
lalns from Norfolk, has arrived in port con-
signed to dealers.
The schooner Columbia, S. c., left port
yesterday afternoon light for Baltimore
where she will load salt for the fish-pack-
ing houses at Kinsale.
The schooners Regulator and Bertha
May have arrived in port with full cargoes
of cord wood from the lower river.
The schooner Bessie Reed sailed yester-
day afternoon with cargo of shingles for
a point on the lower river.
The schooner Sidonia Curley, under char
ter to load lumoer on the James river for
this city, has sailed for her trading point
The charters of the SchoonerS Flora and
Agnes and the schooner Alethea, by John
& Wimsatt of this city, are reported
They are to load lumber on the Rappahan-
mock river for this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
WOMAN'S SAD STORY
GIVEN PLACE TO SLEEP AT HOUSE
OF DETENTION.

A young woman and her three year-olt
child were given beds at the house of de-
tention last night because they were in
destitute circumstances and had no place to
go. The story told by the woman was a
sad one, but she did not tell enough to give
the police a chance to make an investiga-
ton in order that they might be of more
service to her than merely providing her
with food and a bed for the night.
I've read so much in the papers about
destitute people in cities" she said that Z
am almost afraid to say anything"
The woman approached Crossing Polce-
man E. V. Rowe at North Capitol and II
streets and told him she was without funds
and that she knew nobody in the city at
whose house she could stop for the night.
The officer told her that he could do nothing
for her other than to send her to the house
of detention. 1t was then about T:30
o'clock her little boy was tired and sleepy.
and she was willing to go almost anywhere
In order to get accommodations. The wo-
man was escorted to the sixth precinct po-
lice station, and by the time she reached
there her boy was fast asleep. Placing him
upon the bed in the witness room, the
mother took seat near him and said she
was glad to get little rest.
MY name is Victoria Williams" she said
in response to the question asked by the
desk sergeant.
And the boys manner"
His name is Winston"
Mrs. Williamson was not at all communi-
cative, and told what she did only because
of the questions asked her by those who
were anxious to befriend her and her child.
She was neatly dressed, and her little ones
clothing did not seem to bear out her state
ment that she had been employed in this
city domestic and that she had to give
up her place because her employer would
not let her keep her boy with her She
said she was penniless and friendless, but
refused to tell the police where she had
been employed or where her husband is
living.
She did say that he was working for 50
cents a day somewhere in Anne Arundel
county, Nd. She was well dressed and
showed signs of prosperity. There was
nothing about her general appearance, dress
or conduct to indicate that she had ever
been so employed, and told the police no
other story before she was sent to the house
of detention. Mrs Williamson said that she
was from Charlottesville, Va, and that she
was married in Baltimore. To the police
she said that she wanted employment and
did not want to be sent out of the city. II
is likely that the police will make an effort
to find her relatives tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
WORK OF THE INSECTS
LECTURE ON FOREST PREsERVA-
TON BY DIR. HOPKINS.

DR. A D. Hopkins, in charge of the forest
insect Investigations of the bureau OF ehto-
mology. Department of Agriculture, del1V-
cred a lecture at the National Museum yes
terday afternoon on the subject of forest
insects and their destructive work, when
is particularly timely just now when so
much interest is being evinced in the gem
eral subject of forest preservation Dr.
Hopkins said that the results of the inves-
LEGATIONS lead to the conclusion that the
average annual loss from insect work on
forest trees and their crude and finished
products amounts to at least $1Oo,Ooo.OUo.
Dr. Hopkins said that within recent
years there has been a notable increased
interest in the subject of forestry and the
conservation of the countryS wealth. IN
forest resources. With IL has come de-
mand for Investigations to determine the
character and extent of losses from depre-
dations by natural enemies Until recent
years little was known about the insect
enemies of American forest trees, ana
therefore il has been necessary to visit dlf-
ferent sections of the country, collect speci-
mems and study in detail the species which
are primarily to blame for the death Of
trees the loss of forest products the con-
ditions favorable and unfavorable for their
multiplication and the character and extent
of the damage and the methods of prevent
ing losses
Pine Bark Beetles Destructive.
Dr. Hopkins said that the pine bark bee
tie of which but little was known prior
to the recent Investigations made under his
direction, had destroyed hundreds of thou
sands of pine and spruce trees in Virginia
and West Virginia in 1890 and 1892; the
bark beetle of a similar species had killed
hundreds of millions of feet of the best
spruce in northern Maine and New Hamp-
shire another bark BEETLE had rendered
unfit for use nearly a billion feet of tim
Der in the Black Hills forest reserve; the
supply of hickory timber through the east
ern United States is being destroyed by the
hickory bark beetle and the chestnut worm
has practically ruined. so far as CONNER
cial use is concerned, ali available chestnut
timber.
DIR. Hopkins said that 'fn addition to the
economic features of the Investigations of
these destructive enemies, which have for
their primary object the determination of
methods for preventing losses. there is
much of deepest interest in the line of pure
science. To the student of nature. in its
broadcast sense, either from the pure love of
1t or in profound search for some of her
hidden secrets, an abundance of material
teeming with interesting facts and unsOlv-
ed problems may be found among the IN
habitants of a forest tree. No better ex-
amples can be found, perhaps, of the strug-
gle for existence and the resulting develop
ment of characters and characteristics
than that furnished by a forest tree and
its insect friends and foes. The army OF
invaders attacking the living tree their
struggle against the opposing vital force
OF the plant and their final victory, might
be compared with the storming of a forth
hcation by an invading army of men,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Carrie Swain Declared Not a Wife.

The court at Paris has dismissed the suit
of Carrie Swain, formerly an American
actress, against Frank L. Gardner, the mil
nonaire race horse owner, to establish that
they were married and to recover 500, 900,
ruling that the plaintiffs evidence was not
supported. She was forbidden to use Mr.
Gardeners name under a penalty of 100
francs each time she did so, and 1t was
ordered that she pay the bulk of the costs
Of the action. Mr.. Gardeners counter claim
for damages was rejected, and he was d.
rected to pay one-tenth of the costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
ON THE RIVER FRONT
POWER CRAFT ADDED
TO THE LOCAL FLEET.
Rebuilding Down River Steamboat
Landings-overhauli at the
Boatyards-0ther Notes.

Mr. Ernest Bethel of this city has re-
Gently had his thirtyfoot sailing craft
equipped with a gasoline explosive engine
and on the trial trip she had few days
ago she ran from this city to Blackstone S
Island in eight and a half hours, remark
ably fast time for this class of vessel. The
little craft is equipped with a Knox two
cycle six and one-half horsepower engine
and will be used by her owner for pleasure
and business cruises on the river Ten
years ago there were but few power boats
on the river, and they began to make their
appearance about that time. In the last
year or two power craft have rapidly in
creased on the river, and today there are
but few pleasure craft belonging to the
local fleet but that is equipped with an
auxiliary engine using gasoline, alcohol or
the like for its power.
In the past twenty-four hours about TO-
600 shad and 10000 herring have been re-
ceived by the dealers at the wholesale fish
market Yesterday the market on shad
went all to pieces and fine roe shad could
be bought for 10 cents each, while bucks
sold for 10 cents each. This is for Potomoc
stock, prices on Potomac being dropped
from S1.25 per hundred to Toe. per hundred
and even lower.
The two-masted schooner John Q. Fergu-
son, which unloadcd cargo of cord wood
here a few days ago, was yesterday Hbeled
by one of her crew for wages alleged to be
due him. The vessel is lying at anchor in
the lower end of the harbor pending the
settlement of the trouble.
The power launch Stella, with her owner,
Mr.. ]. A. Nicholson, and his family aboard.
sailed yesterday afternoon for cruise on
the river. She will visit Blackstone island.
Nomini wharf in the creek of the same
name. in Virginia, at which the steamers
from this city land each trip, has been re-
built and put in thorough order for the
summer traffic on it. Lower Cedar Point
wharf, which is now owned by Baltimore
parties, is to be rebuilt at once. 1t is I'M
derstood that Stiff's wharf, which was car
ried away by the ice in the early part of
the winter, will also be rebuilt before the
summer traffic on the river opens.
Cumberland & Son. boatbuilders, at the
foot of 9th street, will shortly begin the
construction of a large lighter for Messrs.
Johnson & Wimsatt The lighter will be
about fifty feet long, and will be used in
oarrying lumber and building material to
}rby points on the river. The material
90 the vessel is on the ground, and the
construction work, it is stated, will be
started in a few days.
General River Matters.
The revenue cutter VIM. Window has
gone out of service at Baltimore, and is to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Pyramid Hit by lightning.

cablegram from Cairo says: The Pyra-
mid OF Khephren, otherwise the Second
Pyramid, has been struck by lightning and
several blocks of stone at the top have
been dislodged. II is stated that this is the
first time that any of the pyramids have
been struck by lightning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Former Ring Champion Dead.

NEW YORK, April John German, for
merly an amateur boxer and featherweight
champion, died of paralysis in Long Island
City today. He won the championship at
125 pounds in 1891 and defended it success
fully for four years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Funston Off for New Command.

CHICAGO, April brig. Gen. Frederick
Funston today retired from command of
the Department of the Lakes and started
for San Francisco to take command of tho
Department of California on April 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Mr.. Danforth's Condition Unchanged,

Physicians attending Elliott Danforth of
New York, who is i'll of typhoid fever at
Providence Hospital in this city, reported
last night that his condition remained prac-
tically unchanged. He was resting COM
forta BILE at a late hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
NEARING COMPLETION
Work of Dredging Eastern
Branch Channel.
DEEP CUT FOR SEWER
PLANNING FOR sIPHoN ACROSS
THE POTOMAC.
Warships Can Now Dock at the Navy
Yard - Flats Filled in
With Mud.

The work of the dredge Dewey, belonging
to the Sanford & Brooks Company, in
deepening the channel of the Eastern
branch from the river channel to the navy
yard will be completed early in next week.
The deepening of the Eastern branch proper
completed a week or two ago, and
recently the dredge has been engaged in
making the deep cut in the bed of the
branch, in which will be laid the sewer
pipes, through which the sewerage of the
city is to be syphoned across the branch
and through the lower part of the District
to the outlet in the river above Alexan-
dria. This cut is twenty feet deep, so that
the syphon will be buried deep enough to
be out of the reach of all future deepening
operations in the Eastern branch
Under the contract just completed the
contractors, Sanford & Brooks Company of
Baltimore, Md, have completed a channel
300 or more feet wide and twenty feet deep
from the mouth of the river to the eastern
extremity of the navy yard. This channel
is now wide and deep enough to allow al
most any war ship that come up the
Potomac to go up to the docks at the navy
yard. 1t has also been made straight, COM
pared to the former channel of the branch,
which resembled the letter S in it's twists
and turns, and in order to accomplish this
a considerable portion of the outer end of
old Buzzards point had to be cut away in
order to eliminate the double bend in the
channel around the bar that ran out from
be nint
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
THE RUSSIAN CHURCH
Movement rs lSr Greater Free
dom q 4 Vital Topic
WITH TIE oLERGYMEN
1T IS NOT DIRECTED AGAINST
THE EMPEROR.
But in Opposition to the Subordination
of the Church to Civil

ST. PETERSBURG, April p am.-The
movement for greater freedom for the Rus
sian Church and the demand for the con-
vocation of a general council to consider
reforms in the spiritual and administrative
life of the church, voiced in the mani
festo of a group of St. Petersburg priests
and printed in these dispatches April l..
finds support in the influential clergy, not
only in the capital, but in the provinces,
and is to be regarded as another mani
festation of general revolt in Russia
against the domination of the bureaucracy,
which is equally predominant in church
as in political administration.
1t is mistake to suppose the movement
is directed against the emperor, with whose
position as divine representative and viceroy
upon earth the whole belief of the Russian
church is bound up, but against the sub
ordination of church to civil authority aims
Which nave been steadily growing since the
Institution by Peter the Great of the holy
synod
A Notable Manifesto.
The manifesto was followed yesterday by
letter from Bishop Dmitri of Novo-Mir-
gorod, one of the influential provincial bish-
ops, in which he demands freedom of the
church from the power of the Chinovniks
ana the bureaucracy, and names the chief
procurator of the holy synod both as an
ofhclal whose power needs curtailment and
VINO hlmsef stands in the way of reform,
Inc whole movement, in fact is aimed al
Procurator General of the Holy SYNOD
Pobedonostsef and the chancellerie under
MS direction, which, though in essence a
political organization, has attained such
powers that without it's permission no pull
pit can be occupied, and not even repairs in
a church in the remotest government can
be undertaken.
Not Agreed on Extent of Reforms
Inc reformers are not agreed as to the
extent to which the reforms should 60
Some are asking only for the abolition of
the bureaucratic annex to the holy synod
While others suggest the return to the pa
triarchate which preceded the synod with
church councils as the final authority in all
matters of doctrine.
Under the patriarchate which prevailed
over century after the Russian Church
broke away from the spiritual leadership
OF the patriarch of Constantinople the hier-
archy of the church eliminated in a pa
tr1arch elected by bishops, who exercised
spiritual sovereignty under the emperor but
whose claims were pushed so far forward
under the patriarch Nixon in the reign of
Alexis, father of Peter the Great, that Nixon
himself was deposed by Alexis and the pa
trlarchate was abolished by Peter.
The influential journals are lending sup
port to the movement within the church
the Novoe Vremya declaring that the church
is lying in paralysis its voice no longer
needed, because of the predominance of the
bureaucrat, which has made the office of
metropolitan nothing and that of procurator
OF the holy synod everything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
General River Matters.

The revenue cutter VIM. Window has
gone out of service at Baltimore, and is to
receive her spring overhauling before she
again goes into commission. First Lieut.. B.