Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-24
TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

mas all the SOundings of Monterey
bay, and so far as marine topogra.
ply is concerned is In readiness to
land an army at Santa. Cruz previous
to March !. Not a gun is mounted
on all Monterey bay to repel invaders.
there is no surf except a few days in
the winter to interfere in any way
with landing troops upon the beach
II would be very hard to defend this
great open roadstead. and with a hos
tile fleet conveying troops once at an
chor there, the landing of an army
vess.id not be one-tenth as difficult as
was the landing of the American ar
my of invasion in Cuba at Siboney
Sondings of the harbor of Monterey
were secured after the usual manner
OF making typographical observations
and~soundings by Japanese. They
were taken under the guise of a fish
ing enterprise and the residents of
Santa Cruz have just now awakened
to operations that were going on right
under their noses.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw arrived here,
but up to noon today had not visited
the financial district. Bankers with
an intimate knowledge of the treas
ury department say, however. that he
Will deposit twenty-five millions in
the national banks to tide over the
acute stringency attending the end of
the years settlements. The depos-
its will be temporary and will be CON
verted back into the treasury after
the 18th at the rate of five millions a
week
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-At a con
ference today it was settled that the
lead among nations in an effort to
have reforms effected in the Congo
country will be taken by the United
States. The senate committee on
foreign relations will, directly after
the holiday recess, report favorably
the Lodge resolution looking toward
an inquiry, and the president will be
asked to take any steps he may see
fit to end the atrocities, and he will
have the senate's cordial support.
WAYNESBURG, Pa. Dec. 20.-The
arrest is expected today of one of the
most prominent men in town, charg-
ed with collusion with Cashier Rine-
hart of the closed Farmers and Drov-
ers' bank. The man has notes at the
bank amounting to three-quarters of
million dollars, but repudiates them,
claiming they are forgeries. He has
been large borrower. however 1t
is case similar TO that of Nipple, the
suicide president of the wrecked
Philadelphia Real Estate and Trust
Co., and Promoter Adolf Segal.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-Secret serv-
: ice men brought to an end tolay a
scheme to win ten million dollars by
by skillful sharpers. Some time ago
the detectives in Shieldr' office saw
want ad asking the service of a first
class steel engraver. One of the men
answered, assuming to be an engrav
er, and secured the job. the men en-
ploying him. The men gradually laid
bare their scheme, which was to
engrave ten million dollars of Colum-
bian nots and a half million of the
notes of Cuba. The consDirators in
the gigantic fraud had all arranged
for a sale. They are well known in
the business world. Today they are
called upon to answer the charge.
They are Simon Bohen. head of the
importing house of Pratte & Co., and
Samuel Otero, a young an prominent
South American.
ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. 20.-Govern-
or Higgins this morning commuted
the sentence OF Albert T. Patrick, con-
t.yicted of the murder of William Rice,
to life Imprisonment. Patrick was
a New York lawyer. charged with
killing Rice to secure his money, had
been sentenced to death in the cleo
trio chair. His attorneys took steps
to appeal the case, but ended this eff
fort n few days ago in expectation of
a communication of the sentence.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-According to
the police Herman Billik, the hypno-
tist. accused of poisoning members
Of the Vorzal family, admitted that
he had been in league with Cassie
Chadwick, the Cleveland, o., swnd-
ler He is said to have furnished her
with the names of the bankers she
defrauded.
OMAHA, Dec. 20.-Patrick Multi
gan, an aged inmate OF the poor house
OF this county. has Just received in
formation that he has fallen heir to
$1,OO0000 left him by Andrew Milli-
gan. wealthy mining man of San
Francisco, who was killed in that city
a year ago. Attorneys have been
searching for Mulligan and he was
not located until today. The firm of
Hughes, Rouss & Eicherman of New
York, of which Gov Hughes is
member, has the case in its hands
and succeeded in locating the missing
brother in the Douglas county poor
house. The old pauper refuses TO
leave the poor farm until the actual
cash is placed in his hands
LEADVILLE, Colo. Dec. 20.-Jo-
seph Dale, aged 20 years, ticket agent
for the Denver & Rio Grande, was
shot by masked robber and serious
ly, If not fatally. injured in his office
nj 10 o'cIOck this morninp Tho hold