Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-05

This he did to bring his action in har-
mony with the requirements Of the civil
service. Ricketts, made reply and the
next move was up to Palmer. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Charles h.
Keep. chairman of the commission, is
spending his vacation in the AdiroDdacks.
The only member OF the commission in
the city is acting Postmaster General
Hitchcock. He has not received any
notification that the commission is to
take up the matter. 1t is believed the
papers will he sent to Chairman Keep.
The War Department this morning
made public the annual report of Briga-
dier General Carr, commanding the De
partment of Dakota. He calls attention
10 the fact that assertions in his COM
mand alone during the past year aggre-
gated 29S, or nearly twelve per cent OF
the average strength of his command.
In this connection he says "Perhaps
the most potent factor in causing deser-
lions is the regard in which an enlist
ment in the army is held by the average
American citizen. | believe that in
time of peace most Of our people look
on an enlistment as a contract merely,
and desertion as nothing more grave
than a breach of contract. A more Sc
we're punishment for the crime, for such
il is. and an infexible policy of not con-
doning the ofense in any way, might
possibly cause our people to view the
subject in different light" General
Carr recommends that Fort Yellowstone,
in the Yellowstone National Park, be
made a four troop post.
May Wood, the former postoffice de-
partment clerk whose name figured in
some proposed litigation against Senator
Thomas G. Plat, of New York, prior to
the latter's marriage, has filed charges
with the State Department against GER
tain ficials. According to Miss Wood S
intention, announced in Omaha, she had
in mind charges agains Robert j. Wynne,
now Consul General at London, and j.
Martin Miller, appointed consul at AK
la Chapelle, Germany, who is now 10
this country owing to difficulties about
bis exeQuatur, which Germany is with
holding because of snti-German senti-
ments expressed in some of Mr.. Miller
writings. Reticence is observed by the
State Department officials about the May
Wood business, but it is admitted that
some inquiry is being conducted. The
charges were filed over month ago.
Their nature will not at present be dis
closed. Miss Wood in public utteraDces
has accused Secretary Loeb, Mr.. Miller
and to some extent Mr.. Wynne with
having obtained from her certain letters
which she proposed to publish in book
form under the name title Glove Letters
of Boss" Miss Woods counsel made
strenuous efforts to serve papers in a
civil suit on Mr.. Loeb on his last two
trips west, but each time he missed pass
ing through Omaha.
Chairman Shonts of the lsthmian
Canal Commission is most DESTROYS that
the general public be informed in the
manner desired by the commission, Of
what is being done in the way of digging
the canal through the Isthmus ofPanama.
For this reason, as announced by him
today, he has appointed Mr.. Joseph
auckland Bishop, of New York, Exc
cutive Secretary of Canal Commission, "
and says that Mr.. Bishop twill have
charge of the publicly and literary branch
of the commission work"
The Insular Bureau has received from
Manila news of the death of Vernon ID.
Taylor, medical inspector of the Philip
pine constabuIary, who was drowned
several days ago in the Province of Tar
lac. His home was in Load, GreenocB
county, Ky.
Miss Susan J. Madison has been APP
pointed postmaster at Alum Springs,
Shenandoah, Va.
The Statistical Board of the Agricultural
Department at noon gave out the following
report on the cotton crop: Average condl
tious on August 25th, I'll. as compared will
| "A g on July 25 1905, S4.1 on August 25th
1904, S1.2 on August %, 1908, and ten veal
acreage of 1910.