Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-30

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much easier to navigate the big structure
and where other vessels may be passed
without difficulty.
Through the efforts Of Mr.. Rixey bills
have been passed by the House lacress'
ing the pensions of J. G. France, OF
Fairfax county, to $50 and that Of Mrs.
Elizabeth. Meeks, of Alexandra county.
to 500 per month. Mr.. Rixey has also
secured the passa e of a bill granting a
pension of $l2 per month to James Z.
Flewellen, of Fairfax county, who was
injured while cadet from Georgia at
West Point before the war. After the
war broke out, however, Mr.. Flewellen
entered the Confederate army and served
till the surrender.
1t is reported here that there is an
understanding between the President
and Secretary Taft who is to have full
opportunity 10 secure the republican
nomination for the presidency. Should
The people want Mr. Taft, the President
j. said to be willing to enter the Cabl-
net as Secretary OF State aud take charge
of the Panama canal.
Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service
has received word from New York OF
the arrest of David Carmine for making
AID passing counterfeit silver coins.
Carmine will probably hereafter be a
believer ia the i'll luck of Is, for when
the secret service detectives gathered
him in he had 10 bad half dollars in his
pockets and there were llS counterfeit
silver quarters and halves in his room.
Carmine is said to be an old offender in
the money-making line.
The Hughes bill, applicable to the
case of Caleb Powers, of Kentucky, I'M
der conviction for the murder Governor
VIM. Goebel, of Kentucky, which pro-
vides that in capital cases the prose-
cution may be removed from State to
federal courts, if on account OF local pre-
iudices the defendant cannot enforce his
constitutional rights in the State courts,
was argued TODAY before the House com
mittee on the judiciary. John w. Lang
lev. a leading Kentucky republican,
spoke in support of the measure. Rep
resentative James, of Kentucky spoke in
opposition.
The U S. Supreme Court today, with
some slight changes in the framing OF
the decree, affirmed the judgement of
the U. S. Court of Claims in favor OF
the Cherokee nation The claims Of the
Indians have been pending for years.
The U. S. Supreme Court today al
frmed the conviction of Sawyer and
Adams, two seamen found guilty of MUIR
der on the high seas by toe Circuit
Court for the eastern district of North
Carolina The defendants, with sea-
man named Scott, who turned States
evidence, were the survivors of the crew
of coast wise schooner bound up the
coast in October, 1905. Sawyer and
Adams were alleged to have murdered
the captain, mate, cook, carpenter aud
seaman, throwing their bodies over
board They were afterward captured
aud turned over to the authorities at
Wilmington, n. G.
The following dispatch was received
his morning by the War Department
from General Greedy at San Francisco
'In order to reduce expenses request
that troops sent here be reduced TO one
regiment cavalry and one of infantry,
aegregating one thousand men. Services
of fifteen hundred other troops can be
dispensed with provided that forty i've
selected officers and men of administra
tive ability, sound judgement and ply
steal energy are sent here as frame work
of INSTRUMENTATION. Excellent health
continues unchanged with absence of
any prospective epidemic of contagious
disease Water conditions improving
commercial supplies are arriving rapidly;
cooperation of navy national guard and
civil authorities continues most har-
moniOus."
The following announcement was
made by the American National Red
Cross today "Judge Morrow, Presi-
dent of the California Red Cross, tele-
graphed to the Secretary of the Red
Cross. Washington, that provisions and
supplies received would meet present
needs, and that Red Cross contributions
should now consist of money. Acting
upon this suggestion the Secretary in
mediately telegraphed TO the United
States mint, San Francisco, to the credit
OF James ID. Pbelan, chairman OF the
Red Cross finance committee $500, 900.
The finance committee was also informed
that the Red Cross had in its treasury
over a million dollars subject to the
wishes of the committee.
The Supreme G urt of the United
States decided today that Circuit
Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction 10
issue writ of cerliOrari TO United
States District Court, its jurisdiction be-
ing purely appellate. The case VAS that
of E. l.. Whitney, warden of the Idaho
state prison, versus George Dick. Dick
was fined aud sentenced to imprisonment
for taking liquor into the Nez Perez in
dian reservation. He obtained writ
OF certiosari from the Circuit Court of
Appeals for the ninth district but this
Procedure was today held bad.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has re-
lected both OF the plans for the Panama
canal, suggested by the board of engi-
neers, has evolved one of his own, and
today introduced bill in the Senate to
carry it into effect. 1t proposes a sea
level canal from the Atlantic, as far rs
Obispo, and from the Pacific as far as
Mira6ores, with a central lock section
through the Culebra Heights, for dis
lance of about 81 miles. These locks
are to be between 60 and So feet high,
according TO the determination of the