Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-09-18

Ienks. s-the Cornell trust expert wh,
| Investigated European trusts for thu
Industrial commission, are the presi
dents guests at lunch today.
SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. IA spc
cial to the Times from Skagway
Alaska. says: AT O'Clock yesterday
afternoon an unknown man waiket
into the Canadian Bank of Commerce
revolver In one hand and dynamite
bomb in the other, and demanded
100000 or he threatened to blow all
into eternity. Cashier Pooley and
Teller Wallace were only two in the
bank. Wallace ducked to get a gun
| and ran quickly to the back of the
room, yelling for Pooley to do the
same No, you don't" yelled the
man and dropped the bomb. The
clerks had just gotten out of win
dow. The bank was wrecked and the
robber had his head smashed In and
one arm torn off. A Lole was torn In
the right wall of the bank and the
front windows were blown clear
across the street. The money lying
in sight was scattered to the four
winds.
The side of the building bulged out
and people living above the bank were
blown into the air from the cpncus.
sion The windows in buildings f1,
blocks We're broken. The dynamiter
was taken to the hospital. where he
died. No papers were found on his
body to reveal his identity.
SlLVERTON. Colo, Sept 17.-Mat.
son. on trial in the district court.
charged with an unmentionable crime,
was acquitted this morning.
CHICAGO. Ills, Sept. 1.-THE firm
of Armour & Co. of this city has sent
a sum of money approximating 81 OO0.-
600 to New York to be placed on loan
there. The transaction was frankly
admitted last night by j. Ogden Ar
mour, head of the packing corpora
ton. but he would say nothing in re
gard to the exact amount sent.
neither in denying nor confirming the
figures given above. THE report Is
quite true" said Mr.. Armour. "in all
respects but one-namely, that the
money was sent with the idea of re-
lieving any financial straits that may
exist In Wall street. That part of It
is entirely groundless. We had the
money here and loaned it as a simple
business proposition, sending 1t TO
New York because we found that
higher rates of interest could be OBJ
tained" there.
LONDON. Sept, 17.-Russo British
relations will not be improved by the
latest Muscoyite movement in Man
churia. If NJ. Paul Lessar, Russian
to China. has ventured-as
Picking advices assert-to select the
British members Of the Chinese inn
perial customs service for exclusion
from the vast segment of the Chinese
empire still occupied by Russian
troops, he is guilty not only of gross
breach of international courtesy, but
has made the crowning blunder of
muddled career in Peking.
At the British foreign office strict
silence is observed regarding the re-
ported affront. and most of the lead
ing organs Of public opinion are al
most equally reticent.
There Is no disposition to find I'M
aginary grievances, and any logical
explanation of NJ Lessars action,
should the reports of it prove well
founded. would be accepted by Lord
Landsdowne. who holds with Salis-
bury that there is room enough IN
Asia for both Britain and Russia. But
If the Lessar incident has been cor
rectly stated. the British government
will be compelled to take sweeping ac-
ton to enforce British-Chinese rights
under the long-standing agreement
as to customs management between
Pcking and London.
Attention is called here to the ca
BILE announcement that for the pres
ent at least the United States govern
ment will treat the affair as one in
which it is not directly concerned.
AS to this the morning Post OBJ
serves; "In definition of Washing
toms attitude toward the latest re.
ported phase of the Chinese question
there Is a significant limitation in the
words for the present We may take
it that Mr.. Roosevelt, and his brilliant
adviser, Mr.. Hay, do not fail to un-
derstand thoroughly the trend of RuA
sian policy.
Mr.. Hay has done more than any
other politician now in office to estab-
lish the open-door principle enunclat-
ed by Lord Salisbury, and it is incon
ceivable that he or any other respon-
slble American statesman would toll
crate an indirect attempt by any pow
er to render nugatory the splendid re
suits achieved for the freedom of com
merce In the far east"
If NJ. Lessar has directed the expul.
sion from Manchuria of the British
born imperial customs employees, Lord
will call upon the Chi
nese government to retain them.
While there is echnical right In
the Russian government to expel all
Chinese customs officials so long as
the Russian occupation continues, this
right Is based upon the promise that
the occupation Is not to be perma-
nent. It Is limited also by the agree
ment of the powers that the Chinese
are to control their own customs and
postal service throughout the empire
both as respects organization and ad-
NJ. Lessar's programme
seems to ignore the promise and the
agreement.
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