Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-13

prevent similar occurrences IN the luluIo1
So the Japanese Imperial government
was called upon with the result that
punitive expedition was organized.
Several chiefs of the savage tribes i'm
plicated re captured, number of
their houses we're burned, and the ma
,iyes were thoroughly scared. II vas,
however, impossible to ascertain who
really perpetrated the murders, and the
guilty ones will doubtless escape pun
i,nment.
The Haitian Minister here, Mr.. Leger,
called at the State Department this
morning 10 present to acting Secretary
LOOMS the objections Of his government
to what they have been pleased to call
the alarmist dispatches which u. ;.
Minister Powell has been sending regard
ing the internal conditions of Haiti
This was the first opportunity that Mr.
Leger has had to discuss the matter with
the head of the department although he
has heretofore brought it TO the attention
of assistant Secretary Adee. The par
ticular point in Minister PowelPs dis
patches to which umbrage is taken by
Haiti is his statement that the Haitian
government would not be able TO pre-
serve order during the anticipated dis
turbances of March 81 and April !,
which, by the way, never occurred
How Powell could predict that the
government would not be able to handle
any outbreak that might have occurred
is a mystery to the Haitians and in view
of the fact that his dispatch on the sub
ieet prevented the successful conclusion
in Europe of negotiations for a loan they
feel that Powell oyerstepped his prov
ince and is no longer as welcome at
the Haitian capital as he was. No FORM
al demand for his recall has, however
been presented and Mr.. Leger's call this
morning was simply to acquai mt Secre-
tary LOOMS with the situation from the
Haitian standpoint.
The races at Benning, after most
successful season, closed this evening.
A l'rse crowd attended the closing days
races.
The Postmaster General today issued q
fraud order against the Physicians Protective
Association and the United Protective Asso-
citation, of Kansas City, Mo-, and Coffeyyille,
Kas. These concerns are alleged to have col
lected bad accounts for physicians, the prin-
cipal objection made by the latter being that
the collectors failed TO account for any of the
collections,
Secretary of War Taft is about to take up
The general question of railroad construction
In the Philippines under the act passed by
the recent session of Congress authorizing the
extension of government aid through guaran-
tee of four per cent. interest on money invest
ed by private parties in the bu lding of rail-
roads there. The Secretary will this week
have consultations with General Manager
DeIano, Of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad. who is acting as his special
advisor in this matter, and with James Speyer
and !. G. White New York fnanciers, who
have iu contemplation the financing Of GER
tain of the proposed Philippine roads.
Word has been received from Manila ofa
proposition made to the Philippine govern
ment by A. J. Dawson, an American sailor
and veteran of the civil war, to fit out an
expedition and raise the American flag over
one of the Islands Of the south Pacific, now in
habited by maneaters, but possessed Of untold
treasure in the shape of gold, copper, plnti-
mum aud tin. The island has been caarted,
according to Dawson, but its exact location is
not known here. Dawson first told the story
to Consul General Bragg. at Hong Kong, who
referred him to Governor Wright, of Manila.
Dawson says that he lived among the an
thropophagi on the treasure island for four
wears. when he aroused their displeasure
They nursuei him and shot both legs full OF
poisoned arrows, causing wounds from which
he is now slowly cOnvalescing. The Philip
pine government, according to the adyices
received, has declined to authorize an Of
fetal expedition, and Dawson is now .endeay-
oring to interest adventurous Americans IL
the Philippines to establish new kingdom
ON the island.