Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-08
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gasette.l
Washington. Feb. 6.

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The Brownsville inquiry wss coz
tinued today by the Senate military
committee. The principal witness vas
George Jackson, who was The sergeant
in charge OF the company p barracks on
the n eht of the affair. He was the man
who unlocked the gun racks OF that com
pany when the call TO arms was sounded.
He was also one Of the twelve men who
we're put under arrest for alleged partio-
ipation in the shooting. He described
all Of his movements from the time
he was awakened by the sound Of
the shooting until inspection on The
following morning. He declared thai
he had nothing to do with the shoot
ing and knew nothing would lead him
to suspect any other man OF the con-
mand of being implicated in it. &c
and ten other military prisoners had been
discharged at Fort Reno, after being Ioid
that they were to be tried on the sky
second article of war, but the twelfth
man, Ernest Allison, an ex-soldier who
ran the saloon 10 Brownsville frquenied
By the soldiers, was turned over to the
civil authorities 'fThs last ] heard OF
him." said the witness. che was still in
prison and on the verge of becoming in
sane" He declared that he had never
heard any threats made by the soldiers
against the people OF Brownsville and
that it was his belief that none of them
was engaged in the firing
The bill authorizing the construction
of o railroad in Alaska from Cordova
Bay, on the cosst to Etgle, in the heart
of the copper region, was today author
lied 10 be reported fsvorably by the Sen
ate committee on territories. This is
the bill to which it has been alleg' d that
the American Smelling and Refining
Company represented by Simon Gug'
eenheim, Senator.elect from Colorado,
has been opposed because of its desire tn
maintain the market price Of copper, II
being stated hat i! the railroad was bull
there would be 80 great an amount Of
copper brought out that it would ineVi-
tabIy affect prices.
The average citizen Of tho United
States consumed one hall bis Own weight
in sugar in tho past year Figures
compiled by the Bureau of Statistics
of the Department Of Commerce and
Labor show that the quantity OF snRa'
brought into the INIT d States in 1906,
plus that produced ut home, minus tht
quantity exported announced in 1906
TO nearly 6. billion pounds. Divld
ing into this enormous total the nun
Der OF people in the United States
| it IL shown that the average consump'
ton was 76 ponds per capita
The cost was over 800 million dollars.
One fifth of this sugar was produced al
home. another fifth was brought from
our islands, and the remaining three
ffths from foreign countries More than
nine -tenths of the sugar imported from
foreign countries and all of that brought
from our own islands was produced from
cane, and legs than ne-ienth from beets
Consumption of sugar in the past II
years has increased two million pounds
Michael ]. Flynn, who had been con-
nected with the Police Court for mum
Der OF years, committed suicide at hii
home. No. % n street, sometime during
the night by shooting himself Yester-
day he had q bad fall. The Coroner
says that Flynn was driven to suicide
by excessive pain. lie had acted quoerlJ
for some time He had been employed
Tor a number Of years as q balliE in thu
police court. lie was born in Ireland
Dr. w. Charles Adnmson, of Georgia
who has been a member Of Congress fol
ten years, is organizing among the mem
hers of the House and Senate and anti
hold up association whose members will
pledge themselves to pay no more than
q certain price for board, house rent and
other necessities of life.
Secretary TAFT will leave tomorrow
for New York, where be will attend the
annual dinner of the Yale Club
A detailed report Of the killing Of
Master.at- Arms Douglas by Harry
Burke, ordinary seaman, on the cruiser
Tennessee, at the League Island Navy
Yard, Wednesday, has been asked o.
Rear Admiral Craig, cOmmandant o.
the yard, by the Navy Department.
The subcommittee Of the House com
| miltee on the judiciary today made it:
report on the anti-ipjuuction bill, II
maintains that the United States courts
have uris LECTION to issue injnuctions tC
protect the exercise of perSonal rights as
distinguished from property rights and
that the right to carry on business is
property right Of such q character as tt
be entitled to the protection OF injunc
tons in proper cases.
That the situation on the frontier be
| tween Nicaragua and Honduras is quit'
grave and that war between the twt
| Central American countries is imminent
Is made plain in Two dispatches received
this afternoon at the State Department
and the governments Of the United State
and Mexico have already taken the pre-
liminary looking to arbitration Of th'
difficulties, hoping TO fOreslall actua
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