Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-18
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria GaEette.l
WaahinOton. July IL.

the lighthouse tender Anem0ne, design
ed for serVice on the Great Lakes. All
the bids submitted were above the $40,
900 appropriated for the vessel.
The Guatemalsn Minister, Senior
Munoz, has been advised by cable from
his government Of the appointment by
Guatemala of three peace commissioners.
They will board the United States cruiser
Marblehead tomorrow at San Jose.
Senior Munoz has also been advised that
the srmistice between Guatemala and
Salvador went into effect at 6 o'clock
this morning.
Announcement was made at the State
Department today of the transfer of Mr..
Jacob Sleeper from secretary of legation
ia Havana, Cuba, to secretary of the ~.
s. legation 10 Caracas, Venezuela, to sue
ceed Mr.. Norman Hutchinson, who has
been sent to Stockholm, Sweden. Mr.
Charles s. Wilson. at present secretary
to legation at Athens, Greece, ha9 been
ordered to Havana Osucceed Mr.. Sleeper
and a new appointment will be made to
succeed Mr.. Wilson 10 Greece. Secretary
Root has planned general reorganisa-
ton of the diplomatic corps as his next
big work at the State Department.
Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon
this morning received dispatch from
Secretary to Legatinn Brown in Guata-
msla City iE Which he says the armistice
between Guatemala snd Salvador has
been definitely settled TO begin this
morning instead of this evening. Orders
we're issued yesterday 10 the Guatsmalan
troops 10 cease fighting this morning at
six O'Clock. A similar dispatch has
been received by the State Department
from U. S. Minister Merry at San Sal
vador.
A report from Batangas, Philippine
Islands, is to the effect that Captain
Ray, commanding r troop, 7th Cavalry,
stationed at Camp McGrath, is in trouble
With bis commanding officer, Col. Nor
ton, who has placed him under arrest.
During recent field maneuveFs a misun-
Outstanding arose and Col. Morton is re,
ported to have called Capt. Bay liar in
the presence of enlisted men. Capt. Ray
demanded an apology, but instead Of re-
ceiving sn apology was placed under ar
rest. Col. Morton ia native of Ohio,
graduate of West Point, aud appointed
from the State of Missouri. He served
in the civil war.
Commissioner General Frank P. Sar-
gent, chief OF the bureau of inning grafton
aud naturalization, left today to make
al inspection OF the immigration station
at Buffalo.
Capt. Uriel Sebree, naval secretary OF
the lighthouse board, will leave Wash
ington next week on tour Of inspection
of The lights among the middle Attain
tic and New England States.
"Jail seeker" Gourdain, the Chicago
mau whose friends have temporarily
interferred with his serving the four
and half years sentence passed upon |
him for conducting a lottery, spent a |
sleepless night thinking Of schemes BY |
which he can get himself back into the
Federal penilentiary at Joliet, Illinois.
The Chicago man saws he is convict
and that his official name is Number
95UO". Shortly after ten o'clock,
3ourdain appeared at the Office of the
clerk of the Supreme Court with a
petition for a grit Of mandsmus upon
Judge Grosscup, which be as ked per-
mission to file. Acting Clerk Msher
explained that such a paper could be
only in open court, and that
here would be no opportunity for this
until October. 9, when the court
meets after the SPINNER recess.
9ourdain then inquired for the address
If the nearest justice, and was referred
o Justice William R. Day, at Canton,
} He was told, however, that a single
ustice could not act in the matter, as
t was an original application, requiring
he attention of the entire court. Un-
Iaunted By this unfavorable information,
iOurdain announced bis intention OF
elegraphing to Justice Day and asking
or an appointment at Canton in the
ext day or two. Gourdain who said
70 has not eaten anything since Monday
roke his fast today. lie says his honor
ompels him to serve his Jail sentence.
lOurdain will leave for New York city 1
t three O'Clock aud will make his head
uRrters at the savoy Hotel Tomorrow 4
9 will 60 to Nsragansett Pier to STE {
ustice White.
The War Department was advised this
forming of the arrest in Chicago OF
ruman X. Hunt, the man who brought /
} this country the band of fifty odd '
gorrote natives of the Philippines t
nd, after using them for exhibition !
nrposes ell over the United States, and I
snsda, sbononed them to shift for C
lemselves. Acting under instructions t
ON the War Department Hunt has been |
finally charged by the authorities with s
Unfolding from the dog eating little
llipinos for fifteen months the salaries \
hich he agreed to pay them 10 a for 9
al contract and also with embezzliDg =
lie sum of 81, 900 from his charges, .
oney they had made by selling souv'- q
lrs from their far away home. =
Arrangements are about completed for the =
Dlding Of the greatest assemblage Of edu- 1
tied c0lored people ever seen in Washing )
N since the emancipation Of thu slaves, be- a,
inning July 81 aud continuing about =
eek. "A Generation in the Making Of a y
ace and its Results" will be the theme for o.
scnssion at the convention. The Second Ell
Negro Young Peoples Christian a,
ID Educational Congress" is the name given =
h. nd nth Ia1a | u
er the entire south IL is estimated that be-
.aar tar, and hAaan thnnsand nanrnas Mill