VAMPIRE IN REAL
LIFE BEATS FILM
Death and Ruin to Men Caused
by Fascinating Los An
geles Beauty.
^ER POWER IS FATAL
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Whole Gamut of Passionate Emotions
Enshroud Career of Maud Kafitz
—Trouble, Love, Hate, Re
t venge, Mark Career.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Mrs. Maud Ka
fitz—a vampire In real life!
The woman around whom centers
the suicide of Charles McGwire, the
bombing of the residence of Oscar
Lawler and the sordid tragedy of a
ruined home and a broken-hearted hus
band is, by her record, the stage vam
pire become a living personality.
m Her life study is a character study
of fascination—her fascination—her
power—over men of a certain type.
Men mark the milestones of her life.
And these men suffered.
William Kafitz, Charles McGwire
and her other friends and admirers
were drawn to the flame of her per
sonality and were scorched by the
blaze. Her husband died, broken
hearted, eight months after she shot
him. McGwire lies in a suicide’s
grave, dishonored, and charged with
the bombing of the residence of Os
car Lawler and the serious injuring
w Mr. and Mrs. Lawler. Those other
men whose lives touched hers are in
troubled waters.
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Always Trouble.
Trouble, trouble—love, hate, re
venge, the whole gamut of passionate
emotions, enshroud the career of Maud
Kafitz. And always trouble.
Born in Toronto. Ohio, 40 years ago,
pWf! has been characterized by heir own
sister as a ’“wayward girl” since she
was eleven years old.
Little is known of her life up to the
time of her meeting William Kafitz in
Los Angeleis in 1905, but ‘she had been
in California before, in 1900, and there
, were rumors of a tragedy in San Jose.
\ A man shot another man there. Both
\ are said to have been admirers of the
then Maud Myers. Her remarkable in
fluence over men of a certain type had,
as, far as can be learned, claimed its
first tragic denouement.
In 1905 Maud Myers came to Los
Angeles with her parents and sister.
They rented a house at Winfield and
Westlake. William Kafitz, who was
in the real estate business, had this
house on his list and called there to
show it to a prospective buyetr. He
ntet Maud Myers, and his middle-aged
heart throbbed with youth. He came
to sell. He remained to court—and
to regret. They were married in 1906.
Kftfitz’ marital sea was comparative
ly unruffled until the death of his
Death and Ruin Caused by Beauty.
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wife’s father. Mr. Myers always had
told his daughters he was in moderate
circumstances. lie had settled $5,000
on Maud when she married Kafitz, but
had led her to believe he was a com
paratively poor man. With his death
it was learned he was wealthy and
Mrs. Kafitz inherited $50,000.
Handsome Stranger Appears.
E^ter—trouble. This was the cue
and trouble accepted it.
Mrs. Kafitz bought, against he>r hus
band’s advice, an expensive limousine
and engaged a chauffeur, Jacob Migeot.
She made many trips in the car which
kept her away from home all day. She
said she was shopping, but her hus
band was warned Tiat at an automo
bile show she was accompanied by a
“handsome stranger” and wore orchids.
The stranger was Jacob Jepsin. This
was the beginning. Far beyond lie
Campbell, Abeam, Beyerle, McGwim
the shooting of William Kafitz, while
the smoke from the burning Lawler
hoAe rises in the distance.
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Commenting on an interview from
Dr. C. O. Georgeson, head of agricul
tural experiment work in Alaska, con
cerning his recent trip to the Interior
and developments there and in his
work, the Skagway Alaskan says:
“What is needed for the Interior
is more families—men with their
wives and children. The average
poor man in the States who would
like to come to Alaska can not do so
4h account of the heavy expense at
tached to it. Men hasten after a pros
pect of a million in a year or two,
but when it comes to the farming
game, they know what clearing land,
building a home and starting in to
till the soil means. It’s a long, slow
process, and when you have to freight
all your machinery, tools, cattle and
the like over two thousand miles of
expensive transportation system, a
man must have some financial back
ing to do it. It is not the same prop
osition as when the men came West.
Then they could pack their all on a
prairie schooner and start West as
sured that if the Indians did not get*
them and they wanted to return it
was possible to do so in the same way.
“Alaska is not that kind of a prop
osition. It’s no harder from the stand
riAi'nl /~\P f r\ m o n titVi ic
and the prospects are as good or bet
ter than they were in the pioneer days
in the West, but when it comes to get
ting here you must have more than
the man who came West had.
“There is one reason for the faith
of Alaskans that when a man does
come he is out of the ordinary. He
is ready to take a chance, and it’s a
good gamble that he will make good
in the country. But we «need men
with families, men who will make
Alaska their home, who will demand
schools, and trading centers, and start
small towns for the sale of some of
the surplus stock. And we need a
cheaper freight and passenger rate.
These will make Alaska the great land
she is certain to become.”
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States requires that a census of the
United States be taken every ten
years. It is by this means that the
apportionment of members of the
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SUMMONS
No. C-170
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Auralee
P. Pritchard, plaintiff, vs. Carl A.
Pritchard, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to wit,
within thirty days after the 23d day
of January, 1920, to answer the com
plaint of the above-named plaintiff in
the above-entitled action, wherein
said plaintiff prays that she be given
an absolute decree of divorce from
you forever dissolving the bonds of
matrimony heretofore existing be
tween you and said plaintiff.
And unless you so appear and an
swer, the plaintiff will take judgment
against you for want thereof and will
apply to the court for the relief de
manded in her said complaint as here
inabove set out.
The date of the order for service
by publication herein is December 8,
1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and filed herein on said
date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is December 9, 1919,
and the date of its last publication is
January 22, 1920.
Witness: The Honorable CHARLES
E. BUNNELL, Judge of the said
Court, and the seal of said Court,
on this 8th day of December, 1919.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division.
By JOHN B. MILLER, Deputy.
R. H. L. Noakes, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
First publication, Dec. 9, 1919.
Last publication, Jan. 6, 1920.
ORDINANCE NO. 68
Ann Ordinance amending Ordinance
5, entitled “An Ordinance to pro
vide for general and special elec
tions in the Town of Cordova ,in
the Territory of Alaska.”
Be it ordained by the Common Coun
cil of the Town of Cordova Terri
tory of Alaska.
Section 1. That section Five of Or
dinance No. 5 entitled “An ordi
nance to provide for general and
special municipal elections in the
Town of Cordova, Territory of Alas
ka”, is hereby amended and made
to read as follows: The qualifica
tions of a voter for members of the
school board for the Cordova school
district shall be as follows: All
adults, male and female who are
citizens of the United States, bona
fide residents of the Territory of
Alaska for one year or more and of
the town of Cordova for at least
six months immediately preceeding
the date of election.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take ef
fect immediately upon its passage.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be pub
lished for one week in the Cordova
Daily Times at Cordova, Alaska.
Passed and approved, December 15th,
1919.
SEAL A. J. ADAMS Mayor
K. G. ROBINSON,Town Clerk.
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