Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-08-06
TELEGRAPHic NEWS.

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for distribution where 1t would do the
most good among high officials and
congressman are promised here
through a sweeping investigation
The officers are mostly in Manila
The scandals have been suppressed
for about three years. General Leon
ard Wood is one of the prosecutors.
MANILA, Aug. 2.-Colonel Wood,
while investigating the accounts of
the army for construction, ETC., found
evidence of graft going on for the
past four years. Four army quarter
masters and two clerks have been or
dered from the United States to testi-
fly that alleged vouchers were falsi-
fed and the payrolls padded. Cap
tains Nagent, Cole, Kimball and
Frienenolph were in charge of the
quartermaster's department during
that time. No specific accusation
against the men has been made.
TOLEDO, Aug. 2.-The Standard
Oil company posted a cut of three
cents on eastern oil and two cents on
Western oil. A large supply is alleg-
ed to be the cause. Kansas and In
dian Territory oil of 80 degrees and
above is now As cents.
OMAHA, Aug. EVERY man in
ID packing houses began this morn
ing to wear white duck clothing
while at work. 1t is ordered that no
man wear anything but white. Seven
thousand suits were made, which
were given free to the employees, and
in connection the packing houses will
wash them free of charge. Every
employe will have fresh suit each
morning and when engaged in par
ticularly dirty work will have two.
White dresses for 5000 girls have
also been ordered.
NEW CASTLE, Pa, Aug. q
Thomas O'Toole, who has before at
tempted to break Jail to escape ex-
in-law, escaped from the county Jail
this afternoon.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 1.-The wheat
crop of Kansas is going to be enor-
nous, and will break all records. The
output now assured will reach 100000,
900 bushels and may go higher This
will be 100000 bushels greater than
last year
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.-Word
has been received here from Mabel
Gilman, the actress. saying she Has
no use for William Ellis Corey" In
oh bac at
young admirer who insists upon
making her his wife. His relatives
are bitterly opposed to the marriage,
however. Detectives are here and in
New York to get a record of her life
In the two places for the purpose of
<hreaking up the proposed match.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va. Aug. q
The Syrian leper. George Rossett,
WHO has been an unlimited guest of
this city since Tuesday, was early
this morning struggled away on a
special train of the Baltimore &, Ohio
road to his former home. The depor-
tation was ordered by the governor.
OURAY, Aug. 2.-The bodies of L.
A. Thompson, general manager of
the Tempest-Apex Mining & Milling
company, and V. w. Matthews, mine
foreman of the Mickey Breen mine,
who disappeared a week ago from
the boarding house of the Mickey
Breen mine, were found In small
tunnel on the Royal Consort property
about half mile from the Mickey
Breen boarding house. The tunnel is
about so feet long and was filled 30
OR 40 feet with debris, washed in by
a cloudburst on the mountain above.
The men were lying side by side near
the breast of the tunnel. The storm
came upon them without minutes
notice. They had taken refuge in the
tunnel from the rain.
The rain. which amounted almost
to cloudburst, caused flood to
rush down the mountain side and en-
ter the tunnel which is on an incline,
causing a cavein and also covering
the mouth of the tunnel, and 1t Is be
lieved the men were smothered to
death, although the full facts Will not
be known until the return of the cor
oner who went up this forenoon to
hold the inquest, the bodies having
been found at $50 this morning. 1t
is week today since the men disap-
peared,
LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. 2.-lnfor-
nation reaches here that four were
killed and two wounded by sherih
posse In trying to quell a fued be
tween the Hall and Martin factions In
Knott county. The Martin faction has
so men strongly entrenched.
NEW YORK, Aug. "A dispatch
received here today states that Al
more subpoenas for officers and OIL
Gals OF the Standard Oil compani
were forwarded from Chicago.
BERLIN, Aug. 1.-The ferry boa
which crosses the vistula river sanl
this morning near Wilnaowo and 81
persons we're drowned.
BERLIN, Aug. 2.-It is ofiiciall
stated here today that the Unite
States paid the German government
$4,000 to settle its Samoan claim
with Germany. Great Britain pal