Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.

VI ShiNAhhNiA 10 CetNNheN~l
Dispatches confirming the death of
General RivaS and the evacuation OF
Blueiield's Bluff were received at the
State Department today from Thomas
p. Moffat, u. 5. Consul at Bluefields,
Nicaragua. Moffat stated Riyas was
killed in an attack by General Mena,
rovolutionist, upon a force OF zoe
Madriz men in western Nicaragua.
rhe MadriZ forces were routed and
Rivas' body was found on the field.
The evacuation of Bluefield's Bluff
was accomplished by means Of the
Madriz gunboat Venus, which took
the garrison to Greytown. Moffat also
stated that when the reyolutlonists at
tackled Granada, the Madriz officials
lied TO the steamer Victoria and set
out across Lake Nicaragua, seeking a
place Of safety.
The Forest Service today telegraphed
Assistant Forester Buck at Medford,
Ore. TO use the most urgent method
in experimenting men supposed to
have deliberately started the forest
fires in that section of Oregon. AT
the same time an appeal was sent to
the War Department for more troops.
The crime OF setting fire to forest,
is looked upon by government officials
rs equal to murder. The extent Of
damage and loss of life that may re-
suit from such an act cannot be estl-
mated Several cases are on record,
however. where men through enmity to
land owners actually have set whole
countrysides afre Buck wired the
Foresty Office that he was convinced
lhat the fires around Medford and in
the Crater National Forest, in Oregon,
we're incendiary. He sent out twenty
five scouts today i'll an effort to cap
mre the miscreants. Five companies
Of Infantry. from American Lake,
Washington we're expected by the War
Department to reach Medford today
and will aid in fighting the fires as
well as in tracing the fire bugs AssO-
ciate Forester Potter, in charge of the
Forestry bureau here, issued a state
ment today declaring that the facilities
for fighting forest fires are pitlfully
Inadequate. The War Department to
dav agreed to send two fully equipped
army pack trains to MiSsoula to be used
in rescue work.
Mrs. Julia b. Pugh, of this city, who
was injured in a runaway accident
near Pohick, Va, died today in the
Emergency Hospital.
Continuous efforts of lawyers represent
ing Indiana packers today failed to shake
the faith of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, gov
crnment chemist. in his belief that ben
zeate OF soda is injurious 10 the human
system Finally in answer TO direct
question. Wiley said LAT this moment
am firmly convinced that this preser-
vative is harmful. no matter in what
quantities il is taken 1t is expected
that the taking OF testimony here will be
completed tomorrow and the evidence
will be submitted TO the Indiana courts,
which will pass upon the state pure food
law.
The battlcsbip squadron on which the
midshipmen have been making the an
nual practice cruise. lasting two months,
passed in the Chesapeake Capes today.
The Navy Department was Informed
today that Midshipman K. Il. IAndy,
who was appointed from the Fifth Con
grcssioual district Of Tennessee, died
Yesterday of peritonitis. on board the
battlcship Iowa, OF Cape Henry.
Col sylvester Il. Burch. chief clerk of
the Department of \ griculture, died here
today.