Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-03
TELEeaApHlc NEWS.

| WASHINGTON, Dec. l. - Senator
Warren of Wyoming arrived here last
evening. He was caller at the
White House this morning. Late last
evening he gave out statement re.
garding the affidavit OF Special Agent
Myendorff of the general land office
made Wednesday at Salt Lake City.
in which Mr.. Warren and his col.
| league, Senator Clark charged with
conspiring with others to put stop
TO Investigations into charges made
in connection with entry of coal lands
owned by .he Union Pacific Railway
Myendorff made such an affidavit he
must have been indulging In pipe
dreams. ] am informed that Senator
Clark never saw that man and never
had any connection with him. oral or
written
The idea of Senator Clark needing
Myendorff's assistance in his rs-elec.
ton is absurd. as Wyoming was prac-
tcally solid for him and no candidate
opposing. AS for myself never knew
that such n man as Special Agent
Myendorf existed until some time late
In 1908 when received n letter from
him saying that he wished to see me.
that he had heard somebody had been
writing me to his discrcdit and asking
II would not let him know when |
was in Cheyenne or Denver. so that
he might call. that we were brothers
OF the Civil war | did see him but
the meetings were unimportant. ex-
cept that | offered to help him to a
political job. AS to the subject mat
Ter of the testimony have no connec-
lions with coal land entries of the
Union Pacific company or any other
company whatever, or any interest
urther than an ambition to get plenty
of coal and good quality at reasonable
prices, and that the world might know
Of the vast deposits of coal underly-
ing the soil. And. further than this. l
desire TO say that anyone who accuses
ne otherwise. speaks falsely. no mat
ter who, when or where"
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 1.-The to-
bacco stemmeries OF John Steger and
John G. Orr, the latter controlled by
he Imperial Tobacco company of
New York, were destroyed early to-
day by fire kindled by mob OF
masked men. The loss Is estimated
at $4,000.
The mob which numbered about
three hundred men entered Princeton
between 1 and 2 o'clock, seized the
night town marshal and disarmed
him They then went to the factories
and quickly applied the torch. The
masked men stood on guard, permit
ting nobody to come near until the
buildings were completely enveloped
in flames and help was useless. A
squad of the mob took charge of the
telephone office and no word of the
affair was permitted to go out.
The work of the mob is believed to
be only furtherance OF the agitation
by the tobacco raisers against the
Tobacco Trust. The organization of
farmers is known as the Dark To
bacco Growers Protective association,
but 1t is not known that any member
of that organization was in last
nights mob.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The rela-
tions between the United States and
Japan. as result of the attitude OF
the japanese government towards the
California authorities in school mat
ters have become acute. An erroneous
impression as to the presidents posi-
ton has been widely circulated The
president absolutely concurs with
Secretary Metcalf that the Japanese
have no cause for grievance and no
treaty right has been abrogated. He
did not think so at first, but is now
convinced that the state has per-
feet right to separate the Japanese
from other scholars. The president
says the Japanese are asking too
much.