Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-12

practically all OF the elder statesmen
recognize that they would be undertaking
tremendously big job If they were 10
put the United States in fighting mood.
They are wise enough to see that While
it is quite possible that in the earlier
stages of war they might be successful
in cutting off America from her Pscihc
possessions, in the. end Japan would be
crushed. They are bending their en-
ergies now to the development OF Man-
churia and Korea, and 10 the upbuildiDg
of their home manufactures. Their do
nestle problems are keeping them too
busy TO seek to pick a war with the
United States.
The mystery surrounding the loss OF
the launch of the Minnesota with six
midshipmen and FIVE sailors, in Hamp-
ton Roads yesterday has not yet been
solved. There is strong belief, how
ever that the boat was run down by q
steamer. In fact the report comes from
Norfolk that Admiral Evans knows the
name of the vessel and is preparing TO
cause the arrest of her captain and crew.
The Navy Department has sent in
structions to the admiral to make the
most thorough investigation, and to re-
port frequently by wire on the develop
ments. Admiral Evans has already
convened a board Of inquiry. Much
qualification was felt by officers at the
navy department today over the fact
that Lieutenant Randall, who was at
first reported 10 have been lost with the
others, had put in his appearance later
in the day. He had intended taking
the launch back to the ship, and missed
it by only few minutes, necessitating
his stopping at hotel in Norfolk.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt left for
Oyster Bay at $50 o'clock this morn
ing. Secretaries Cortelyou, Stratus, Gar
field and Root, and Admiral COwles, and
Assistant Secretrly o: State Bacon were
among those who saw him off. Several
hundred people assembled in the station
and cheered him Justify as the train
pulled out. AtJersey City the President
will take tug for Long Island City aud
will reach Oyster Bay about D O'Clock
this evening. A score of clerks and sec
retaries accompanied the President to the
"summer capital" He will not return
to Washington till October. The Pres
ident this morning dictated the following
message after his train had left Wash
ington: $50 Rear Admiral Evans. We
are inexpressably shocked and grieved by
the news of the disaster to the officers
and men of the Minnesota"
The action begun today in The
United State Circuit Court at Phila-
delphia by the Department of Justice
which seeks to dissolve what it charaC-
terizes q the anthracite coal trust, may
have much greater scope before the suit
is finished than is apparent in the state
ment made public by the Attorney Gen
ersI. An examination Of the petition
itself discloses the f,c, that not only is
the government after six leading railway
com panies, holding company, and seven
subsidiary coal companies, tn, it will try
to have made parties defendant later in
the action large number OF Independent
operators, whose identity is nov unknown.
1t is charged that these operators, who
mine % per cent. of the annual supply
of anthracite coal have been forced by
the conpiracy of the cOal-carring lines
to enter into uniform agreements oblig-
ating themselves "to deliver to the de-
PENDANT carriers all the anthracite there
after mined from any of their mines now
opened and operated, or which they
might thereafter open, deliveries TO be
made from time to time, as called for
by the said carriers or their subsidiary
coal com panies.p