Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-20

church over the body Of Ernest Langley
today, RappeI Aultman cried bitterly al
the House of Detention. Between sobs,
he expressed the hope that no one would
believe be chad killed his best friend on
purpo Je." The fifteen year old prisoner,
arrested in Newsrk, N. j., Saturday,
where he weat to see his step-father just
after the scufiis with langley, which re-
suited in the lstter's death from q STAB
wound, was, brought back here by De-
tective Evans. He lamented the fsct
that he had run away. The cutting, he
said, was purely accidental and when ne
found that his friend was stabbed, his
first impulse was to flee. He did not
know that the boy had died until be was
on his way back to Washington. Young
Aultman will be held pending the decision
of the coroner. Ii is doubtful If he will
be tried. The coroner's jury this alter
noon exonorated young Aultman. finding
that the death OF Langley was the result
of an accident.
Preliminary arrangements have just
been completed by the Geological Sur
vey, the Weather Bureau and the Rec
lsmati0n Service, for the most extensive
study of evaporation ever conducted by
scientists, surely in America. The i'm
mediate object is to ascertain how rap
idly the water eyaporstes from the Sal
ton basin, converted into an inland sea
by the Colorado river bursting through
its banks and flooding thousands of scres
10 depth Of eighty feet. The river has
been turned back into its old course, and
The water in the basin is left to eysporate.
That the evaporation is enormous, is
shown by tire estimation that enough
water will evsporae from the new Roose-
welt reservoir in Arizona, in one year to
irrigaie so, 600 acres.
Postmaster General Meyer today is
sued an order declaring unavailable more
than score of unlawful medical adver-
tisements of parties 10 Chicago. Inves-
LEGATIONS by special agents of the depart
ment disclosed that the advertisements
related to illegal practices, The par
ties are alleged to be engaged in perform
ing criminal operations, and selling IL
legal medicines for the use Of women.
Many of the names under which the ad-
veTtisements were placed we're found to
be fictitious, and assumed to hide the
identities of the real parties. The post
master is directed TO refuse to permit
these advertisements to enter the mails,
and all the newspapers Of Chicago will
be so advised. Mail received for he fc
tilious NAMES and addresses will be re-
turned to the writers uudeliyered. As
result of the invC s!igations made by
the department at Chicago, criminal pro-
ceedings have been instituted against
three of the parties alleged to be en-
gagged in these illegal practices.
In communication to Secretary Taft,
of the War Department, Col. Coethals,
chief engineer of the canal zone, indi-
Gates that no further importations of
labor to The is,hmus should be made at
the present time, the reason for this,
apparently being that rainy SEASON has
developed which is retardiag the progress
of work 10 some extent.
JOE. II. Brilliant has been appointed
postmaster at FleetOu, Northumberland
county.
Owing 10 embarrassing labor conditions at
San Francisco the Union Iron Works has
found itself compelled to turn over TO the
government, undT completion, the new
armored cruiser California, on which it has
been been unable to make any material prog
ress the past two months.