Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-11-06

projects Tor permanent seacoaSt de-
fenses have been adopted. and cites
the Improvements at Porto Rico. Ha-
wall Guam. Manila and Subig bay.
According to the report the seacoast
deienses are somewhat more than 80
per cent completed; twenty-five of the
principal harbors of the United States
have a sufficient number of heavy
| guns and mortars mounted to permit
an effective defense against naval at
tack, and during the last two years
considerable progress has been made
in the installation of an adequate rap
| id-fre armament. now the matter of
| first Importance. The existing pro
jects comprise 356 heavy guns of s.
inch. 1oinch and 12-inch calibers, ,294
rapid-tire guns from the 2.24-inch to G.
inch calibre. and 544 mortars. The
total cost for the engineering work is
estimated at s50.000,0O0, including
what has been completed as well as
what remains to be done.
| KANSAS CITY. Mo. Nov 4-Kan-
sas City is just now the Mecca for
| club women from all parts of Mis-
| souri,. The annual meeting OF the
State Federation of Women's clubs
opened auspiciously this morning and
will continue through tomorrow.
| Large delegations are in attendance
| from St Louis, Springfield, ST Joseph
and other leading cities of the state
Todays proceedings We're largely of
routine nature. The gathering was
formally called to order at 10 O'Clock
this morning. After addresses of vel
come and responses the delegates lis
tened to the reports of officers and
committees, which occupied most of
the time until the hour for luncheon
arrived. This afternoon there were
! more reports from the art committee,
the state library committee and the
literary committee, all of them show
ing year of unusual activity in all
fields of club work This evening Mrs
Lydia p. Williams of Minneapolis,
addresses the convention.
NEW YORK. Nov. 4.-W. Byrd Ray
mond the automobilist who was sen
fenced yesterday to six months in the
penitentiary for collision with
trolley car at Yonkers, in which TWEEN
ty-two persons were injured, came OUT
of Jail this morning with his hair
cropped short and ran to carriage
with his hands before his shame
stricken face. A few minutes before
his attorneys had served the writ of
appeal on the warden Raymond was
stripped of his convict suit and ready
to go forth in his old clothes, but mi
nus his hair Outside stood a number
of photographers. read to snap him
the moment he appeared. When he
saw them he gave a gasp and threw
his hands up to his face His black
Derby was pulled down over his eyes
and his coat collar was turned up to
hide the lower part of his face.
Thus protected he fairly ran to the
carriage and jumped in. The prison
officials We're notified of the appeal
last night, but could not act without
being served with the papers. Be
sides, 1t was contrary to the rules to
release prisoners after . O'Clock. Then
the busy prison officials. though aware
that Mr.. Raymond would not spend
more than twelve hours in their keep
ing, called in the prison barber and
IL
His clothes were stripped from him
and prison attendants gave him a
scrub. striped prison suit was put
on him and he was given a number
and measured according to the Bertil-
Ion system, used for the identification
OF criminals. Mr.. Raymond was so
dazed that he offered no resistance to
being treated like a common criminal
The Automobile club of America
and the National Association Manu-
facturers will investigate the circum-
stances which have resulted in this
drastic dose of justice. The case is
such an unusual one that the two or
CARNATIONS will take joint action.
H. Robert Marble. a chaffeur EN-
ployed by the Westchester Automo
bile company of New York, was today
found guilty of manslaughter by jury
at New Haven. He was charged with
having caused the death of John
Moies, farmer at Wallingford, on the
night of September 23rd. Marble was
Psentenced to one year in Jail and fined
81.
Another automobile case is pending
in the Criminal court at New Haven,
in which Henry w. Dupuy, a Yale
senior, is defendant. He, too, is
DES MONIES. Ia, Nov. 4.-The
state supreme court of Iowa has added
an important chapter to the history
of the long and eventful struggle to
keep the liquor traffic out of the state.
1t has just reversed two trial courts
on the question of C. o. d. sales of
liquor by express companies, declar-
ing in effect it was an evasion of the
police laws of the commonwealth and
that the sale of liquor in this way
makes the packages contraband and
liable to seizure if found in the pos
session of the express companies
In the two cases which led to the
| decision, and in which the express
companies won in the lower courts
seizures were made of liquor which
express companies were transferring
| to purchase in exchange for C. o.
| D. payments. For some years the
Iowa Anti-Saloon league has been
prosecuting express companies on the
trtHn hot