Washington telegraph., 1909-01-01

airy /, there. is a change in rule No.
8 B., under which shippers will be
required to load and unload cars.
The reading is as follows: "Owners
will be required to load and unload
freight in carload lots when car
ried at carload rates. Owners will
be required to load and unload To-
cal package shipments of heavy or
bulky freight, such as cannot be
handled by station employees" The
revision of the ruling is expected
to prevent congestion at depots.
The rule is practically an old one
and the change will not affect the
present custom in Little Rock.
Shippers in some other cities, how
ever, deem it an unnecessary exac-
ton and are disposed to oppose it.
Other changes provide that all
freight in less than carload lots
must bear full Identification and
address on every package to insure
delivery in case of separation from
the original shipment, and that
where shippers of vegetables in cold
weather send an attendant in the
car, where stove is needed, the
attendant will be allowed transport
tation only one way.
Despite the heroic efforts of the
several hundred men who have been
fighting flames in Joseph Letters
colliery at Zeigler, ILL.,, the fire still
exists, though to what extent can not
be determined. It is next to i'm
possible to ascertain any informa-
ton as to the gravity of the situa-
ton at Zeigler, as orders have been
issued forbidding any non-residents
from lettering about the town. 1t
is thought an effort will be made
by a party of men to descend into
the mine to ascertain just what has
been accomplished in the last ten
days. 1t is probable that flooding
the mine will next be resorted to.
A special dispatch from Port au
Prince says that the United States
gunboat Dolphin left that port
Monday night under orders to pro-
ceed at once to Curacao to await
Developments in the Venezuelan
7 SITUATION. The cruiser Des Morues
is leaving also for Curacao, accord
ing to the dispatch. News of the
movement of these vessels adds in
terest to the secrecy surrounding
the battleship Maine, which is pre-
sumed to be en- route to Venezuela,
to be followed by the North Caro-
lima, although the State Department
has made no announcement of the
purpose of their journey.
The Ida Rice mill at Rayne, La,
owned by j. ID. Marks, was entirely
destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon
and 1000 bags of rough rice and
5000 pockets of clean rice burned.
The mill was valued at $4,000 and
had $4,000 insurance. The rice
was worth about $4,000, but the
amount of insurance is not accu-
rately known. The warehouse of
Mervin Kahn, containing several
thousand bags of rice, was also
burned. The Lewis & Taylor lum-
Der yard was damaged to the ex-
tent of $1,000. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
Already the hotels at Washington
are being pressed for rooms for in
auguration week. Some of them
are refusing to reserve apartments
for less than the full week. and the
prlces-but why be melancholy? A
Kansas man who wrote to a friend
to engage him a modest room with
bath at one of the hotels on "the
avenue" was told that none was
available on the avenue frontage
from which the Inauguration pa
rade could be seen. He could, how
ever, obtain back room for the
simple price of $S4 for the week.
Justice Dunn, all members of the