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

every iraIp. The nsrkttI are flooded
WITH green stuffs OF ell sorts forcing the
price OF canned goods down aud making
the hculeKeepsr's let easier than for a
long time past. Receipts by commission
merchants, of butter, eggs aud poultry
have jumped, due TO the early spring and
drop In the price 1f feed, which meaus q
material cut. Altogether the housewife
will 6od great joy 10 The market from
now Oh, snd the "honest farmer" st
whose door the blame has been laid, will
be Landed by her for bis part In forcing
values down to the housekeeping P ocket
book.
The Department Of the Interior, at
the head of which Is Secretary Bal
linger, Clifford PinchoPs political
enemy, today gave authority for
the naming of tree after Mr..
Piuchot 10 the Muir Woods Monument
grove 10 California, upon tue reques! OF
the Sierra Club OF San Francisco. The
tree ID be named after the former chief
forester is said to be one OF the foest
specimens Of the giant redwoods In Gal.
iiornia.
That the Department of Ju tice In
tends to prosetu Q what II believes TO be
wrong doing, no matter who may be hurt,
is indicated By the ststfment of Att1r-
ney General Wicker,hsm today, when,
10 snswer to the que.tlou 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
Fbesr" operators who found themselves
unable TO deliver the goods, he said:
ayes, l have seen that intimation; tu,
| guess can bear under the imputst'on
implied. This Is the Department OF
Justice and while I am at Its head l
shall eudeavor to see that justice Is ad.
ministered whether 1t happens to bit the
tulls or the bears 10 the stock market"
Commissioner of Labor NELL, who
has been in Chicago endeavoring to
select a third arbitrator 10 the dispute
between the 4S railroads RAINING wet
Of that city and their 6femeu aud epgint-
men, is expected to return here today
ready to announce hls selection. S1ue
time 10 the course Of the day he will
have conference with Chairman KusFp,
of the Interstate Commerce Commission,
the other government mediator, and, II
the latter approve, the name of TIE
third arbitrator will be made public
Today the arbit,ators In the coz ttoversy
between the Southern Railway Com
psny snd Its telegrsphers met for the
purpose of choosing an umpire or third
arb trator. J. J. Dermody, vice. presi-
deut Of the Order OF Railroad Telegraph.
ers. representsted the employees and j.
Is. B. Thompson, Of Atlanta, assistint
20 the president OF the Sluthern Ball
wsy, represented the railroad. They
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
man. The latter have already settled
satisfactorily moot Of the grievances OF
the men and the only questions now
outstendIDgs In this case are those OF
wages and hours OF labor OF certain
classes Of employees.
Thomss Welsh, an Inmate OF the iu-
cane asylum, wandered away from there
last night aud Jumped into the river.
He found the wstsr too cold and swan to
the shore. They took him back.
Eight cadets expelled from West Point
are fDdlng friends in the Senate. The
committee on military affairs today re-
commended the passage Of the bill II re-
iustale the cadets so that they may have
the benefit Of q Law recently passed which
gives the cadet charged with hSzlDg the
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
fraud in the sale or use of oleomsrgarine
as butter whether or not that bill included
| tax on olemargarine woulI be satisfactory to
him. He refused, however to answer for
] oiher 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
"Cslifornia port or sherry" and not port or
sherry tyne"
Dat of 70 candidates who took the recent
examination for positions as cadets Of the line
in the revenue cutter service only 19 passed.
They will all receive appointments. Among
the names are E. F. Stone. Of Norfolk, We,
and II. s. DOdd, of Portsmouth, Va.
Mr., Jan, Fsgg, widow Of a Mexican war
veteran aud a cousin of Senator Bob Taylor,
was found dead in bed this morning at 1901
Eleventh st eet northwest.