Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-23
From Washington.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, Nov. %.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, Nov. 90.
Much 10 The surprise Of officials of the
Department Of Agriculture, they have
on their hands a treelutof lemons when
they we're expecting orange. However,
the discovery made today is regarded as
of the greatest importance, and it may
mean a revolulionizing of the lemon
growing industry OF this country. Sew
erai months ago Professor L. Z. Gallo
yay. Chief OF The Bureau Of Plant lr-
dustry. and Herbert W. Webber, his
assistant. began experiments on grating
Florida orange tree and the japanese
orange tree known as "a FOliata, Their
object was TO get an orange tree that
would grow in q climate cooler than that
of Florida and southern California, The
Japanese la Foliata is hardy tree
and produces oranges In a cool climate,
and it was believed that a hybrid
would be just the thing TO introduce
orange growing in states farther north
than Florida. Instead Of oranges 1t
will be lemons, fruit almost equally
az valuable, and one Of which
California, according 10 statistics, has
produced more than ninety per cent
When the fruit was ready to pick today
several supposed oranges were taken
on the tree and peeled 1t was found
that they we're thin-skinned and they
gave every appearance OF the orange un-
| til one of the assistants bit one Of them
The pickering of his lips told the tale
palmer than his words The fruit locks
like an orange in shape and color and
only its sourness is different from the
syeeter product. This tree, il is believed
will grow and produce lemons as far
north as Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Arkansas and other states in
the same longitude.
one of the first things President
| Roosevelt will take up on his return
from Panama next week, will he the
confidential report Secretary Metcsli has
prepared on the trouble In San Fran
cisco over the demands OF the Japanese
| to be admitted to the schools with white
pupils. Secretary Metcalf refuses 10
discuss the matter and il his report or
any Part Of it is made public, it prob
ably will como from the President.
Reports from A. B. Alexander, the
special representative of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor in New
foundand, which have been received by
the State Department announce the ar
rest of another colonial fisherman for vi
olation of the local fishing laws and fol-
selling bait 10 American fishing vessels.
This makea the third arrest made by the
colonial authorities for the purpose Of
testing the efficacy of the local laws in
connection with The modu9 yivendl
which extends certain privileges 10 Amer
lean fishermen for the present season.
DR.. James G. Mickey figures in the
Bassett divorce care. Mr9 Bassett SIS
cribes to him, who some years ago
was maniiestly the family doctor,
the credit for keeping Mr. Bsssett in
ignorance Of his real personal feel
ings toward him, during the summer Of
1904. Brssett ASSERTS that when hei
husband went away in May she had
made up her mind never TO live with
him sgain, because of his alleged
cruel treatment of her. She says
that Or. Mckay not only advised hel
10 continue to write loving letters
to her husband, but also told her mol
to irritate him for fear he might come
to Washington and Kill all of them
Mrs. Bassett says the physicians tolt
her she must pursue this course unit
her plans were settled as to the future
| Col William !. Pitcher, commanding
the Seventeenth Infantry in Cuba, ha'
denied to the War Department that HI
was correctly quoted in the Chicago news
papers in connection with the dismissa
Of three bstsllions of the Twenty fIf
Infantry, colored In ordering the dis
misssl of these troops, the President di
rected that Col Pitcher be called upor
for an explanation of his alleged re
marks criticising negro troops.
Consul General Frank II. Mason, who Il
J now stationed at Paris, but who for man!
| years served at Frankfort and Berlin. Ger
many, has been appointed a member Of III
| Cnited States Commission which is now II
Germany for the purpose of consulting will
tariff experts of that ceantry with view TO
| revision of the customs regulations and tar
ifs of the two nations in ON effort to svert
threatened commercial war Mr.. Mason !
an Ohio man but has been in the service II
| Europe for over twenty year,.
n lfCongress is going to investigate the dealt