Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-17
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Ga1ette.l
Washington, July IL.

canal zone to such an extent that II
rivals Monte Carlo. Some of the caral
employees have lost all their earnings,
have borrowed money at high rates OF
! interest, lost this, and have pledged
three month"; salary TO square up their
gambling debts. This is the condition
of affairs existingo on the isthmus, accord
ing to James E Smith, for six months
editor of the Panama Journal, who has
lust arrived in Washington.
The Comptroller of the Currency an
uounces that the First National Sank,
of Leesville, Louisiana, which was de-
cIared insolyent aud placed in the hands
of a receiver on November "a, 1905,
having complied with the conditions i'm
posed by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency precedent to resumption, and its
capital stock being now unimpaired, has
today been permitted to reopen its doors
for business as an active national bank
ing association. .,
Good old.fashioned American dried
apples would sell "like sixty" in Brazil,
is the opinion OF Consul-General George
f. Anderson, at Rio de Janerio. The
Brazilians have been buying loads of
preserved and dried fruits, but all OF
them have been purchased from Euro
pean countries. The consul.genersl can
not see why, with a representative OF
American fruit interests in the field,
that America cannot secure the bulk OF
this trade.
That a national ice trust exists, with
headquarters in New York and branches
10 practically every large city 10 the
United States, is the belief of high ofic-
ials of the Department of Justice. It'll
said that the matter has been called to
the attention of Attorney General Moody
personally by District Attorney Jerome,
of New York. No steps have been
taken TO attack the trust except in the
District of Columbia, where officials of the
American Ice Company are under indict-
ment for entering into an unlawful agree"
ment to control prices 10 the District.
The district attorney here is of the opinion
that if the trust is to be energeticslly at
tackled, it will have to be in New YORK,
and that the Department of Justice might
take an interest in such proceeding.
GAS far as know" said Solicitor Cen
eral Hoyt, who is acting attorney gener-
al, ono steps against the ice trust are
now in contemplation. 1t is possible,
however, that the attorney general may
have had his attention called to the mat
ter without my knowledge" Assistant
Attorney General Purdy, to whom mat
tiers pertaining to trust litigations are en-
trusted, will be 10 the city tomorrow.
No information has been received at
the State Department besring out the
press dispatches from Havana which re-
late the srrest and imprisonment on the
Isle of Pines, of two American men and
one American woman for violating an
old Jaw in the erection of toy telegraph
line. la the absence of official informa-
ton on the subject the State Department
is inclined TO the view that there is no
truth in the story, or, at least, that it has
been exaggerated and distorted beyond
all recognition. No notice will be taken
by acting Secretary Bacon on the mat
ter unless the American minister at
l.ayana shall report 1t.
Word was received at the Navy De-
partment today that the United states
cruiser Marblehead, aboard which the
peace commissioners of San Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras will meet, has
sailed from La Libertad for Acajutla, Sal
vsdor.
Adyices were received by the State
Department today stating that an armis-
tice has been agreed upon by Guate-
mala, Salvador and Honduras, to take
effect tomorrow afternoon. Efforts are
being made by the three bellIgerents to
to get the news Of the armistice to
their respective armies at the front.
4 II of the dispatches received from the
scene Of the trouble today by the State
Department show full willingness on
the part of all the nations involved to
cease fighting and settle their differences
amiably by conference as suggested By
President Roosevelt and Dia2:
That hundreds of japanese have Sc
cured admissions TO this country by in
trigue during the last year has been
proven to the satisfaction OF the Bureau
of Immigration and Naturalization, by
careful investigation into the subject.
incidentally agents assisting the immi-
grants have made large sums of money
by charging Commission" for their
part in outwitting the law makers and
executive officials.
A band of fifty dog-eating Igorrotes,
brought to this country two years ago to
be exhibited as samples Of the wild men
of the Philippine Islands, are having a
hard time of it in this country attempt
ing to get used to the canned meats of
the Chicago packing houses, and will be
rounded up by the authorities of the
Var Department and shipped back TO
their native country aboard a transport
of the United States Government.
A crusade against gambling IN the Philip
pines, conducted by an organization known
as the Moral Progress League, has brought
out statement from Emilio AguinaldO, the
ex-dictator, who has allied himself with the
reform forces of the archipelago, and has,
furthermore, uncovered the existence Of what
is called the cockpit trust. 81 am heartily
in sympathy with the objects of the Moral
Progress League" Aguinsldo is quoted as
saying. "COckpits and card-playing must
go. Gambling, more than anything else, is
the mother of crime in the Philippines. The
fact is that gamblers have gone so far as TO
pawn their children and even their wives to
pay debts contracted in play and in order to
continue playing. ! would 90 so far as to
prohibit the importation of gaming cards in
to the islands," The cockpit trust is prepsr-