Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-30

the Virgin timber 10 the United States
will have been cut. The per capita con-
sumption per year in this country is now
500 feet. board measure, In Europe it is
only 60 ieet. S, grave is the peril that
conironts the forests and future welfare
of the country, that the forest service is
redoubling its tffjrts to have lumber
men not only to cut moro conservstiyely,
but to pla1t TOR future esaDs.
Briga5ier General Murray, chief OF
artillery, today announced that four sd.
d t'onal companies Of coast artillery will
be sent to the Philippine, about March
IL. They will be selected from the COM
pasies now strtioned at Atlantic coast
points I'd they will IA from New York
via the Suez canal.
Because Secretary of the Treasury
Oortelyou and bis three sssis ut secrs-
laries, Reynolds, Winthrop and Cool
idge, will be away Tuesday voting for
TAFT a! their respective bones and leaV.
irg the Treasury Department lonely and
forlorn, shorn of its greatness, an execu-
tive order was necessary yesterday to
proyideaa Temporary head. The presi-
dent designated the director Of the mint,
Frank A. L'ach, SIS acting secretary for
November 2. 3 aud 4.
Alleging that the wholessling of an
thraeite coal in New York state Is regu-
lated by the railroads which transport Il
from Pennsylvsnis, and accusing the
Delaware, Lackawanus and Western OF
limiting the output and discriminating
against dealers, Jay NJ Billou, 8 retail
coal dealer OF New York city and Oort-
land, N. Y, today filed complaint with
the Interstate Commtrce Com mission.
Henry Lane Wilson, u. S Minister
to Belgium, Ia, notified the Stare De-
partmeut that tomorrow the king will
crea 9 the Department of Colonies and
appoint Mr.. Renkit, minister for the
colonies. On the same day will appta'
the royal decree provided in article 4 OF
the annexation Tray, fixing the date OF
the Belgian assumption OF Sovereignty
over the Congo.
Justice Wright. of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, today stt
November 10 for the hearing of the
contempt charges against President
Gompers, Vice President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor, alleging violation OF
the boycott Injunction secured by the
Bucks Stove snd Range Company of st
Louis.
u. S. Minister Merry today telegraph
ed to the State Department that under
the most favorable conditions decision
by the high court Of justice at Garage,
Costa Rica, In the pending case between
Honduras and Salvador and Guatemala
cannot be rendered before December Is.
Honduras spilled to the court for an ex'
tension of time OF three months in which
to complete its collection of evidence fer
The proper presentation of lite case. The
Gua,emalan government raised oblec-
lions to this delay and the court finally
allowed Honduras an issue of twenty five
days. After the cases close the court
will have thirty Gays 10 wnicn 70 renoef
its decision.
"Prince Emmanuel of Jerusalem" was
the name on card sent 10 to Secretary
Loeb today with request to see the
president. 1t was denied.
A final appeal to organized labor oD
behalf of the democratic national ticket
was issued today by Mr., G1mpers, in
the form of a special number Of the
American federationist, which will be
mailed to all central lsbrr unions
throuhout the country for distribution
among their members
Secretary of War Wright, who has just re
turned from campaigning for the republien
cause in Virginia, announced at the White
House today that he would not be able to vote
in his horne state OF Tennessee. He said that
while he hardly expected Taft to carry the
state, conditions there were favorable to it.