Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-09
FROM WASHING TON.

| Department of Justice, came about
| through a 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
ing down the lid in Washington today.
Until Yesterday Secretary Nagel per-
mormed that function, being the onl
member Of the cabinet in town. As soon
as he heard OF Secretary Meyers ar
| rival ne took advantage OF his oppor-
tuniy and left today for a brief vacation
prior to his trip to Alaska with Attor-
ney General Wickersham. Secretary
| Never will be the acting head OF the
Igovernment until next week when Post
Imasler General Hitchcock returns.
The immediate occasion of Secretary
Meyers return to Washington was to
take up the question Of enlarging the
ldocks at New York, Norfolk and
Bremerton, Puget Sound.
A hearing will be conducted by the
| Interstate Commerce commission in
| Philadelphia July ii to investigate a
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 society
leader of New York and Washington,
in riding, with a party of friends, 2l2
miles in a single day has opened the
eyes Of the War Department to the
possibility Of finding better mounts for
the cavalry arm. At the direction of
General AleShire, quartermaSter gen
cral. Capt. c. H.. Conrad made an
examination Of the horses used by Mrs.
ellsworth and her friends. General
Alcshire himself after looking over the
horses came TO the conclusion that it
was worth while to look into the Gen
esee Valley In New York as a place for
breeding cavalry horses. Captain Con
rad will look oven 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, ir.,
the latter from Virginia, who were
put ashore at Plymouth, England,
with typhoid fever has been reported
to the Navy Department as being So
satisfactory that they have been or
dered 10 proceed to the United States
when discharged from the Naval Hos
pital. They will report at the Naval
Academy.
General Riyby, chief Of engineers Of
the army, will probably announce with
in q few days the appointment of a
board Of officers to examine the wreck
Of the Maine which lies in Havana
harbor, with the view Of determining
whether or not the $500, 600 apprO-
priated for raising the vessel will be
sufficient. In the informal conferences
which have already been held to con
slider the problem heengineering corps
claims that it has a puzzle almost defy
ing solution. The amount set aside for
the work is said to be inadequate. The
War Department gives out a statement
that it 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 in 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 5000
from the receiving ship Franklin at tie
Norfolk yard. The Navy Department
received a dispatch today from the
franklin repoltings 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 a pulling mystery.
Information that the Madriz faction
had offered a Nicaraguan island to a
European power as n coaling station on
condition that it would interfere on be-
half of the Madriz faction in Nicaragua
opposing the policy Of the United States
was received AT the State Department
today. Department officials decline to
make public the name OF the country
to which the proposal was made. IL is
believed that offer will not receive Sc
riouS consideration and the incident is
regarded at the State Department
merely rs another phase OF the desper-
ate attempts of Madriz to rehabilitate
himself by bringing about foreign
Intervention.
The new %pieccWork system of punch
ing the population cards in the census
bureau has resulted III a serious delay
Of th, pay envelopes of the several hum
drcd girls who come from various parts
II the country.
Mrs. Helen L. Mel. Kimball a clerk
in the office Of the comptroller of the
currency celebrated her Goth auniver.
sary Of her birthday at the treasury
Her associates in the comp
troller'S Office gave lunch in her honor.
Mrs. Kimball has been in the service
A years.
James o. Carter. sixty-two years old,
a railway tie contractor, was overcome
by heat today and later died.
|
Wheat.
Chicago, July 9.-Wheat prices
bounded upward with a rush at the
opening of the market TODAY as a re-