Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-19

bonds to be Issued Dv Tue AIoaSuiy "
oartmeut have already been received, and
by the time the department closes tomor-
row afternoon it is expected that as many
more will have come in. Many nation
al banks are among the bidders and
number Of offers have come from small
investors. Secretary Shaw believes that
he will sell the whole issue OF tSO, OOO,-
900 at between 103 and l04. Bids will
be received up to The hour of4:3O O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon. In order that the
results of the sale NAV be known that
night it is the intention OF the Secretary
of the Treasury to appoint committee
to open the bids, beginning at 4:SOp. no.
They will be placed in a room under
lock and key. The telephone will be
removed and they will not be allowed
communication with the outside world
until their task has beeu completed.
Under the arrangement it is expected
that the tabulsted bids may be made
known by midnight tomorrow.
Up to 2:30 p. N. the Treasury De-
partment has received in the neighbor-
hood of 1000 bids for Panama bonds.
off Japan is successful along the lines
she ia now working the individuals and
corporations of America that are striv-
ing for the trade of the Orient will dis
cover that they are not competing for
this trade against individuals and cor
porations of Japan, bat that they
are in commercial conflict with
the japanese na:ion." Such is the
view of Consul. General Henry B. Mil
Ter, of Yokohama, Japan. He believes
that it is the purpose of the State coun-
ell OF Japan 10 have the Japanese gov
crnment protect, supervise, develop and
natioDalize all important industries
This has gone so far as to secure a9-
vocates for the Japanese government to
furnish several million dollars to develop
the industries Of Manchuria. 1t is pro-
posed by many that the government and
private capitalists form a joint company,
the government to contribute the rail-
ways, mines and other property owned
in Manchuria as its share, valued, as
they now stand, at about $S5, 600, 900.
The capitalists would assist in raising
the working fund of some $50, 600, OOO'
The State Department today received
a dispatch from United States Minister
Combs to the effects that he has arrived
at San Jose, Guatemala, and that he
will 90 aboard the Cruiser Marblehead
and together with Minister Merry, OF
Salvador will be present at the negotia-
tons of the peace commissioners OF the
billigerent Central American States
1t is probable that the entire foreign
Indebtedness of Santo Domingo will be
paid 10 accordance with plan agreed
ca by Senior Vslesquez, the Minister of
FinSace of the Dominican Republic and
DR.. ]. Il. hollander, the Baltimore mali
who has been attempting to adjust the
claims against Santo Domingo for the
past yesr. Senior Valesquez, accompan'
led by DR.. HollsnSer, called at the State
Department today 4And reported that the
outlook for readustment of the Do
minicen Indebtedness is most favorable,
aud that they expect their plan for the
payment of all the foreign claims will
result in a settlement which will be
agreeable to all parties concerned. the
creditors. the Dominican Government
and the United states.
Advices received by the Bureau OF
fnsulsr Affairs of the War Department
today froE, Chicago state that the entire
band of wandering IgoTrotes have finally
been gathered together under th6 C1arge
of Mr.. F. f. Barker, an attorney OF that
bureau who has had charge OF the affair
The prosecution of Truman X. Hunt,
the man who brought the IgorrOtes from
the Philippines to this country and who
is charged with embezzle'Hrnt and with
holding pay f{om the little brown men,
viii begin in few dAys. 1t is the pres
ent plan of the War Department to have
the IgorrOtoes Immediately taken to San
Francisco and placed aboard an amy
transport to sail from there for the Phil
ippines on July %.
Newspapermen and officials who have come
an contact with Louis A. GOurdain, t e re-
puted jailsseeker, are of the opinion that he
isn't nearly so scGes,trjc as he assumes to be.
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