Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-21

every train. The mark.ts are flooded
VITA green stuffs OF all sorts forcing the
price OF canned goods down aud making
the hou,ekeeper's let easier than for
long time past. Receipts By commission
merchants, of butter, eggs and poultry
have jumped, due to the early spring and
drop In the price uf feed, which means
material cut. Aitogt tier the housewife
will find great joy 10 the market from
now op, and the "honest farmer" st
whose door the blame has been laid, will
be landed by her for his part In forcing
values down t, the Housekeeping P ocket
book.
Tie Department of the Interior, at
the head of which is Secretary Bal
liuger, Clifford Pinchot's political
enemy, today gave authority for
tae naming of tree after Mr..
Pinchot 10 the Muir Woods Monument
grove in California, upon tue request OF
the Sierra Club of San Francisco. The
t.ee to be named after the former chief
forester is said to be one OF tbs foest
specimens Of the giant redwoods In Gal.
itornia.
That the Department of Ju tice In
lends to proset u g what 1t believes to be
wrong doing, no matter who may be hnrt,
is indicated By the statement of Attor-
uey General Wicker,ham today, when,
10 answer t, the question as t, whether
be had noticed that 1t was charged that
bis investigation into the cotton pool had
been started at the instance of some
"besr" operators who feuad themselves
unable to deliver the goods, he said:
eyes, have seen that intimation; tu'
I guess I can bear under the imputstion
implied. This is the Department OF
Justice aad while I am at its head l
shsll eudeavor to see that justice Is ad-
miuistered whether 1t happens to bit the
tulls or the bears 10 the stock marks"
Commissioner of Labor Neill, who
bias been in Chicago endeaVoring to
select third arbitrator In the dispute
between the 48 railroads Running west
of that city and their firemen aud engine
men, is expected to return here today
ready to announce hls selection. Some
time 10 the course of the day he will
have conference with Chairman kusrp,
of the Interstate Commerce Commission,
ths ether government mediator, and, II
the latter approve, the name OF the
third arbitrator will be made public
Today the arbit.ators In the controversy
between the Southern Railway Com
! pauy and It's telegraphers met for the
purpose of choosing an umpire or third
| arbitrator. J. J. Dermody, vice.presi.
dert Of the Order of Railroad Telegraph
ers, representated the employees and J.
s. B. Thompson, of Atlantis, assistant
20 the president OF the Sluthern Rail-
way, represented the railroad. The =
have Eve days, beginning today, In
which TO reach an agreement and 10 the
event of failure they will request the
government medistors to find the third
map. The latt,r have already settled
| satisfactorily moot of the grievances OF
the men and the only questions nov
oatstsndings In this case are those oil
wages and hours OF labor OF certain
classes Of employees.
Thomss Walsh, an Inmate of tho in.
sane asylum, wandered away from there
last night aud jamped into the river.
| he found the ws t 81 too cold and swan to
| the shore. They took him back.
/ Eight cadets expelled from West Point
are 6Ddipg friends in the Senate. The
committee on military affairs today re.
commended the passage of the bill u re-
instste the cadets 80 that they may have
TIE benefit Of Law recently passed which
gives the cadet charged with hszlpg tie
benefit of trial by court marital.
President Flanders of the Dairymens
Union today for two hours fought the
battle of the dairymen against the Burle-
| son bill removing the tax on olemargar-
inc before the House com mittee on
agriculture.
Flanders finally admitted that law
preventing or effectually minimizing the
l fraud in the sale or use of oleomargarine
as butter whether or not that bill included a
tax on olemargarine woulA be satisfactory to
him. He refused, however to answer for
other than himself
| California wine manufacturers won a vic
tory before the Pure Food and Drug Board OF
the Department Of Agriculture today. That
body decided that port and sherry lnanufac'
tured in California need be labelled only as
California port or sherry" and not port or
sherry tyne"
Dat OF - candidates who took the recent
1 examination for positions as cadets of the line
| in the revenue cutter service only 10 passed.
| They will all receive appointments. Among
| the names are E. F. Stone, of Norfolk, Vs.,
and II. s. Dodd, of Portsmouth, Va.
Mr. Jan. Fagg, widow of Mexican war
| veteran aud a cousin of Senator Bob Taylor,
was found dead in bad this morning at 1901
Eleventh st eet northwest.