Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-09
FROM w -ASHIN GTON.
Correspondence of Alexandria Gazette

Department of Justice, came about
through request for his resignation
by the attorney general. 1t is re-
ported here that the retirement OF
Col. Mosby was due to his INABILITY
on account of age, to meet the severe
requirements OF the service.
Secretary Of the Navy Meyer is hold
| inc down the lid in Washington today.
Until yesterday Secretary Nagel per-
mormed that function, being the onlJ
member OF the cabinet in town. AS soon
rs he heard of Secretary Meyers ar
rival Inc took advantage of his oppor-
tuniy aud left today for brief vacation
prior TO his trip to Alaska with Attor-
new General Wickersham. Secretary
Never will be the acting head Of the
government until next week when Post
Imastcr General Hitchcock returns.
The immediate occasion OF Secretary
Movers return to Washington was to
take up the question Of charging the
Edocks ut New York, Norfolk and
Brcmcrton. Puget Sound.
A hearing will he conducted by the
Interstate Commerce commission In
I Philadelphia July ii to investigate
complaint that the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company unduly favors the Key
stone elevator, which is located in north
Philadelphia.
The achievement recently made by
Mrs. Nj. b, Wadsworth, the societ,
leader OF New York and Washington,
in riding, with party of friends, 2l2
miles in II single day has opened the
ewes Of the War Department to the
possibility OF finding better mounts for
the cavalry arm. At the direction OF
General AlcShire, quartcrmastcr gen
crlI. Capt. G. Fl. Conrad made an
examination Of the horses used by Mrs.
ellsworth and her friends. General
Alcshirc himself after looking over the
horses came to the conclusion that 1t
was worth while to look into the Gen
cscc Valley In New York as a place for
breeding cavalry horses. Captain Con-
rad will look over the ground and will
attempt to encourage the breeding OF
mounts in that region.
The condition Of Midshipmen Glen
A. Smith, and Richard f. Byrd, jr.,
the latter from Virginia, who were
put ashore at Plymouth, England,
with typhoid fever has been reported
to the Navy Department rs being $"
satisfactory that they have been or
dcrcd 10 proceed to the United States
when discharged from the Naval Hos
pital. They will report AT the Naval
Academy.
General Rixby, chief Of engineers OF
the army, will probably announce with.
in few days the appointment of a
board OF officers to examine the wreck
Of the Maine Which lies in Havana
larbnr, with the view OF determining
whether or not the $500, 600 appro-
priatcd for raising the vessel will be
sufficient In the informal conferences
which have already been held to con-
slider the problem the engineering corps
claims that it has puzzle almost defy
| ing solution. The amount set aside for
the work is said to be inadequate. The
War Department gives out statement
thai ii is confronted by the problem OF
finding officers for the work. None, it
said. can be very well spared for the
six months it will take to examine the
wreck almost buried i'll the mud of
Havana harbor. The whole truth is
that those in authority do not want this
wreck raised.
A naval board of inquiry has been
ordered to investigate the theft of Sc, OpO
from the receiving ship Franklin at tie
Norfolk yard. The Navy Department
received Il dispatch today from the
franklin reporting shat the paymaster' S
safe had been broken open and the
money stolen. Paymaster Hilton, in
charge of the funds on the Franklin
has been ordered to return to his ship
from his home in Baltimore where he
was on leave. There is no clue to the
theft which is Il puzzIing mystery.
Information that the Madriz faction
had offered Il Nicaraguan island to Il
European power rs coaling station on
\
half of the Madriz faction in Nicaragua
opposing the policy of the United States
WAS received at the State Department
to-day. Department officials decline to
make public the name of the country
to which the proposal was made. 1t is
believed that offer will mot receive Sc
riouS consideration and the incident is
regarded III The State Department
merely rs another phase Of tle desper-
ate attempts of Madriz 10 rehabiitate
himself by bringing about foreign
intervention.
The new piccnwork system OF punch
ing the population cards in the census
bureau has resulted ina serious delay
of IT,, pay envelopes of the several hum
drtd girls who come from various parts
OF the country.
Mrs. Helen l.. Mel. kimball clerk
in the office of the comptroller Of the
currency celebrated her Goth anniver-
Sary of her birthday at the treasury
today. Her associates in the comp
trolcr'S office gave lunch in her honor.
Mrs. kimball has been in the service
II years.
James 0. Carter, sixty-two years old,
i railway tie contractor, was overcome
by heat today and later died.
Wheat.
Chicago, July 9.-Wheat prices
bounded upward with rush at the