Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-31
From Washington.
: Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. ID. c.. August 81.

Washington. ID. u, August 81.
The Insular Bureau of the War De.
partment today received a cable message
flom Manila to the effect that the Taft
party sailed at noon on the transport
Logan for .Rong Kong. There the
party will divide, Secretary Taft and
those returning to the United States
sailing at noon, September 6, on the
steamship Korea. No stop will be made
on return voyage at Honolulu, and mail
addressed to members of the party there
will be held at San Francisco. A
rush trip will be made across the Pacific.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and the people
making the Picking journey will continue
from Hong Kong on the Logan as far as
Tier Tsin. 1t is understood that they
will remain in China until about the
fifteenth of September Miss Roose-
velrs plans are as yet unknown. Some
of the party will make further tour Of
Japan. and some also will return via
Europe.
In few days all the members of the
commission appointed by the President
to investigate the business methods of
The various departments will have re-
turned to the city and the compilation
of data carried on during the summer
will be concluded and other lines of in
vestigatiOn taken up. Plans for num-
Der If reforms are being laid. Among
these is one for the closer cooperation of
the DEPARTMENTS. Efforts will be made
to secure greater publicity in the depart
merits. 1t is believed a recommendation
will be made, for instance, that an
nouncements Of all resi- nations or re-
mOvals from the service be posted con-
spicnousiy and the cause set forth to all.
United States Consul General Rogers
at shanghai, China, reported to the State
Department by cable this morning that
the boycott situation in that city was
greatly improved. The conclusion OF
peace between Russia and Japan will, ii
is thought, do much to break the boy
colt. The opening up to the commerce
Of the world Of the ports in Manchuria
will cause sucn an fuhux into China of
American-made goods that it will be next
10 impossible, it is declared, for the
Chinese merchants participating in the
boycott to ignore American products.
Mr.. Korea, the Nicaraguan Minister to
this city, called at the State Department
this morning for the purpose of talking
over the case Of Mr.. Alhers, the Ameri-
can citizen imprisoned in Nicaragua,
with acting Secretary of State Adee
Mr.. Korea has no more information on
the subject than has the State Depart
ment but he assured Mr.. Adee that Mr..
Albers would receive fair and impair
tial trial for his alleged ohenses The
matter Of the cancellation by the Nicara-
guam government of the eXequatOr OF
United States Consul Donaldson at Ma
nagua, for interference in the Albers
case was subject OF serious discussion
between Minister Korea and acting Sec
rotary Adee. Mr.. Korea has been
notified 10y his government that full
report on the case would be sent him
soon and the State Department has direct
ed United States Minister Merry also to
make a report. 1t is believed at the
State Department that the matter may be
amicable settled between the two govern
ments.
Mrs. Robert Castleberg, of this city,
has received a letter from her husband,
whose strange disappearance caused con-
siderable anxiety. tt e letter WAS mailed
from South Dakota and indicated that
he was bound for the Pacific coast.