Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-15
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. j
Washington. ID. c., July 10.

shire have asked for and been granted
the honor of entertaining the Russian
and japanese peace plenipotentiarles
during the period of their conferences at
Portsmouth. The finest available hotel
Accommodations will be furnished the dis
tinguished visitors, free carriage will be
placed at their command, and various
forms of entertainment provided for them
and the citizens of the Granite State will
foot the bills. This arrangement is the
result of a conference recently held at
the Department of State between the
Secretary of the State of New Hampshire
and Assistant Secretary of State PIERCE.
New Hampshire's Secretary announced
that that State would consider it an
honor to have the peace negotiators
rs its guests and promised that they
should be furnished with such entertain
ment as behtted their personal dignity
and the importance of their mission.
The offer has been accepted and Assls-
tant Secretary PIERCE is now in Ports
mouth making the final arrangements in
cooperation with New Hampshire's rep
resentative. The plenipo,entiaries with
their respective suites will be lodged IN
the Hotel Wentworth, one of the hand
soonest hotels on the New England coast
and ofmodern construction. 1t is situat-
ed near the river on the outskirts OF the
town of Portsmouth. 1t is possible that
the whole of the hotel will be reserved
for the use of the peace commissioners, or
at least several floors. Probably never
before in the history of the making Of
peace treaties have the negotiators recelv-
ed similar handsome treatment from the
country in which they assembled to define
the terms upon which war should cease.
Very little real expense will be put upon
the United States federal government
through the decision of the belligerents
in the far East to discuss peace in this
country. The United States has placed
A government building in the Ports
mouth navy yard at the disposition OF
the negotiators. The Mayhower and
Dolphin will convey the commits
sioners from New York to Oyster Bay
on the day that the President will intro
duce them to each other. The two
boats that will be assigned to their use
during the conferences would be employ
ed on other duty if not here. 1t is prob
able that there will be one or more State
dinners or receptions given by the Presi-
dent to the commissioners at some time
during their stay in this country. All
expenses of this sort and such others as
may become necessary will be met by
drafts on the $75, 200 emergency fund
of the State Department. They will
probably, however, not amount to more
than a few hundred dollars.
Two additional cases of yellow fever
we're reported from the isthmus today.
The death of G. H. Harper, Of Texas,
taken sick July 9th, is also reported.
He was clerical employee in the de-
partmeut of government and sanitation.
The Navy Department will establish
immediately school of instruction for
newly appointed assistant paymasters.
The school will be located in this city
and the first course will begin on August
LIST.
The War Department has been in
formed of the death of Captain Napoleon
J. T. Dana, U. S. army, retired, at
Portsmouth, n. II today from apOplexy.
President Jordan and Secretary Cheat
ham of the Southern Cotton Growers
Association and Col. Henry G. Hester,
secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change. held a conference this morning
at the Ebbitt House, at which they
agreed 10 insist that Secretary Wilson OF
the Agricultural Department shall issue
a revised acreage cotton report, covering
The planting season. The last report
given out when Edwin 5. Holmes
was associate statistician is alleged
to have be tempered with and if
this is true it would be false report.
The three cotton men have also agreed
to render any possible assistance to Act
ing Attorney General HOyt and United
states Attorney Beach in the investiga-
ton of the AgricuturaPs Bureau of Sta
tstics. Jordan got some valuable in
formation from the New York Cotton Elk
change yesterday and will return there
tonight to continue his inquiries. He
has not yet visited Oyster Bay.
The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers Association with headquarters
in New York City has brought two com
plants before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, one against the Atlantic
Coast Line and other railroads operating
in the territory south of the Potomac
and Ohio and east of the Mississippi
rivers, and the other against the Pennsyl-
vania and other railroads operating
north of the Potomac and Ohio
and east of the Mississippi rivers.
The complaint against the roads is that
the shippers of lumber are obliged to
spend So d car for racking the lumber on
flat cars, which the railroads really ought
to pay, but for which they allow diff
ferential of but 500 pounds per car,
which is not sufficient The complain
ants aver that the regulation in question
results in unreasonable and unjust
charges.
The japanese legation this afternoon
received the following official advices
from Toxic: The Sakhalin army re-
ports that on the tenth our troops, pur-
suing the enemy. dislodged him from
Vladimirovka and vicinity. He retreated
to fortified positions in the northwest
where he made stubborn resistance with
field and machine guns. On the 18th