Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-25
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plans had miscarried strapped on q
life preserver and leaped into the sea.
In the meantime the accomplice had
encountered resistance in the engine
room. He was overpowered and placed
in irons.
The Buckman is now proceeding to
San Francisco in charge of First Off
Ger Brennan. She will arrive in quar-.
antine this afternoon. The attempt
to rob the Buchanan was reported to
the steamer President, northbound.
The President searched the vicinity for
Thomas without result
Word of the hold-up reached this
city late last night from Fort Hum.
bolt by wireless telegraph.
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 22.-Fifty
are dead in and around Wallace, Idaho,
with property loss of four million.
The fire has not enlarged the area
burned Saturday night this morning.
Mullan is probably safe, but fire still
threatens 1t. Elk City is reported still
unburned. Four or more are dead in
the fires near Newport, Wash. One
hundred and eighty men in the forestry
service are missing in ST. Joe county.
Taft. Mont, has been burned. Salt
ese is surrounded by fire. Dedorgia
and st. Regis are seriously threatened
Haughman, Mont, is reported destroy
ed A solid line of fire from Thompson
Falls, Mont, for fifty miles to the Ida
White Pine, Noxen and Heron is burn.
ing A conflagration RACES in the
Gallatin forest Montana. Thompson
Falls is in peril. Anatone, Asotin
ton. Ymirbe is in danger from fires
which are burning in the bush. Other
fires are gaining Roadway in that re
gion and the situation Is alarming
Avery, Idaho, has been destroyed and
the people have flocked to Tekoa.
MISSOULA, Aug 22.-From every
corner of western Montana and Idaho
this morning there are prayers that
NV "SaehVi bhituu mas I'LL IL FlRHI Ill
its forecast for showers tonight. Moth.
ing but rain can save the situation.
Hundreds of weary men who for days
battled with flames are in the forests,
staggering to safety with bloodshot
eye and aching limbs, are immersing
themselves in streams or burying their
faces in the mud for protection from
the maddening heat of their conquer
ing foe. From forty to 100 people are
dead.
The only improvement In the situa.
ton is at Wallace where the remnant
of the town that is left seems to be
safe from fire and at Mullan where the
town was threatened all day yesterday
and believed TO be safe.
TELLURIDE, Aug. 22.-Vint Rodg.
ers is still an inmate of the county
Jail. 1t is not stated when he will be
given preliminary hearing.
In reviewing the arrest and short
age the Examiner Of this place says:
What on earth the man did with
the money no one seems able to de-
termine, though 1t has been guessed
at and figured at by every one cogniz-
ant OF the immense shortage; in fact,
1t is said that Mr.. Rodgers himself
does not know what became of it. He
never drinks and he has never gam
bled, SO far as his intimate friends
can tell. He was loaning money, but
was well enough acquainted with peo-
pie with whom he dealt not to lose
much, II any, in that way.
He has mined some, but never on a
large scale, and it does not seem that
he could lose such an enormous sum
as $4,000 and over"
NEW YORK, Aug 23.-President
Taft and ex-President Roosevelt are
again fellow workers in the same DO
litical field. The fear that they might
pull apart has been forfended by a
full explanation on one side of an
unreserved acceptance on the other.
The president has made it plain in
letters given out by Lloyd c. Girls
com, president of the New York Re-
publican county commit ees, how the
Misunderstanding arose. President
Taft explained he never took any part
in the committee cabal to defeat Col
onel Roosevelt for temporary chair.
man of the coming Republican state
convention. On the contrary, he ex-
plicitly deplores the result of the COM
mittee meeting which choose Vice
President Sherman; he rebukes the
leaders who have permitted it to go
abroad uncontradicted that the presi-
dent of the United States was behind
the fractional preference He insists
that at every opportunity he advised
the fullest conference with Roosevelt
and he explains he has been panied
by the column of unfounded stories in
newspapers concerning his attitude in
respect to the New York situation.
For his part Colonel Roosevelt,
when he read President Taft's let
ter as communicated to him at Oyster
Bay. said: Il am very glad to see
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