Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-13

logical Survey, is to be saieguardeo by
an s'honor" system, according to an an
nouncement by the new director, Gen.
Otis Smith. The possibilities for graft
in this work, and consequent loss to land
owners throughout premature revelation
of facts of confidential nature of which
the scientists become aware, ss they
travel throughout the country, have
been responsible for the new step. All
the scientific employees of the Survey
have been requested to sign an agree
ment, in which they pledge themselves
to refrain from making any unauthorized
mention of facts of q confidential nature
which have in any wsy come 10 their
knowledge. They further pledge them
selves not to testify in litigation during
their employment on the Survey and for
three wears after the termination OF such
employment not to act as experts iu min
ing litigation concerning properties in
any district in the United States upon
which they have made report. Direc-
tor Smith says this is done 10 safeguard
properly the interests of those with whom
the Survey has to deal.
Georgia won a complete victory in
the U. s. Supreme Cour: today over the
Tennessee Copper Company and the
Ducktown Copper Company, OF Tennes-
see, in its long fight TO stop the manu-
facture of copper, because sulPhuric
fumes from the plant spread over
Georgia territory, killing vegetation and
injuring health. According to decision
handed down by Justice Peckham today
the claim of Georgia was sustained, and
an announcement made that the court
would issue an injunction next fall,
against the companies, provided Georgia
presses the case, and the companies do
not succeed in abolishing the nuisance.
1t was denied at the War Department
today that there was any clash between
the army and the officials of the James
town Exposition Company over tie din
ner which President Tucker, OF the fair
company, announced he would tender
to Gen. KurOki and Vice Admiral ljluin
and the officers OF their stats in Norfolk
tonight. General Grant, the official en-
tertainer for the army at the exposition,
had arranged to entertain the party on a
house boat in Hampton Roads during
the illumination of the wsrShipS tonight;
hence it was necessary for the visitors to
decline the invitation of President
Tucker.
Riysling the financial genius of a
Morgan or a Schwab, Myron M. Parker,
former district commissioner and now a
real estate promoter, wss made de-
PENDANT in suit for accounting of $780,
900 in the District Supreme Court to-
day. 1t is alleged in the petition filed
by Abraham d. Prince ct ais, that Get
tain Michigan men paid $240, 600 for
land sold to them by Parker which was
subsequently, discovered to be NO tn
only $780, Parker so tied up the
affairs of the syndicate turning over his
interests, which he later disposed Of TO
persons OF no financial responsibility,
that he manage to clear o. himself and
John d. Norton, a banker Of Pontiac,
Mich. the difference between the orig
inal purchase price or $50, 900 and the
selling price o. $24O,OOO less an incum-
barance of $25, 600. Among those who
we're members of the buying syndicate
we're Senators Don Cameron, Vest, San
ders, ex-Representative Washington,
J. NJ. Bell, U. S. A., aud Nat Goodwin.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
has discovered a serious stale of affairs
in the Denver mint by sending several
special agents there few weeks ago to
investigate complaints. Having settled
these, be probed further, in his desire to
ascertain how deep seated the differences
we're. 1t is understood that disclosures
point to the necessity of recognizing
the entire mint force from Superinten-
dent down. The Secretary will take no
action until he has received the report
of the special agents.
The u. s. Supreme Court today, by a
decision in the Massachusetts case of
Ellis vs.. the United States, upheld the
cOnstitutiOnality of the eight-hour law,
as applied to public works.
At the State Department it is denied
that at any negotiations are in progress
between the United States and Japan
for treaty to define the
respective spheres of iuAunce OF
the two countries in the Philippine,
Corea and Manchuria, similar to that
which japan has recently negotiated
with France in relation to her Asiat ic
colonies.