Show MERCHANTS DEMAND DENIED washington pel 6 demands ot the panama merchants that the privileges of the commissary conducted by the isthmian canal commission be denied to laborers havo been refused by that body according to a dispatch received at the offices hero iwae slight modifications in existing conditions will be made by the commission intended to amel lorato certain of the complaints advanced by the merchants at the office of the commission it was said today that the action taken settles the whole question so far as the commission is concerned it is expected however that the Pan amans will not let it rest there but will seek to have it opened reopened re through diplo marlc channels washington feb 6 james W pinchot father of alfford chief forester of the government died to night at his homo in this city aged 77 |