Empress Theatre
TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
The Fearless Star
HELEN HOLMES
in the Thrilling 5 Act Railroad Dvina
“THE MANAGER OF THE B.&A.”
A story full of action from start to finish.
HEARST PATIIE NEWS—Scenes from the Front.
TRIANGLE KOMODY—“A FILM EXPOSURE.”
Mrs. Jack Sapiro at the Piano
GENERAL ADMISSION.
HAPPENINGS OE EDGAE
AND PERSONAL INTEREST
Mrs. Otto Kulper of Katalla is the
mother of a baby girl horn here last
night.
D. O. Kennedy, who has charge of a
fish trap down the Sound, is spending
a couple of days in town.
The ladies of the W (\ T. IT. will
meet at the home of Mrs Oohrs to
morrow (Friday) afternoon for Red
Cross work. They art* requested to
provide themselves with needles
thimbles and crochet hooks.
Ernest 13. Hussy and Eminent Com
mander Knight arc cumin nortii on
the steamship Maiiieda to install
Scottish Rite classes at Seward and
\nehoragc They will he met here by
our former townsman. M. S. Whittier,
now of Juneau, who will accompany
them on the trip to the westward.
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Ole Alstad and Bjarne Sverklie,
who are registered in the States, have
been inducted into the service by the
local exemption board, and will be
sent to Fort Seward at Haines on tlx
Admiral Schley.
It is reported that many of the blue
berries grown hereabouts are wormy
and unfit lor use, although they look
safe and sound.
The Hoonah Packing Company's
launch Northland was in port last
night, endeavoring to secure some
men for cannery work.
Miss Haynes has resigned her posi
tion as bookkeeper for the Alaska
»ns:'er Company to accept a clerk
ship with tlx* local exemption hoard
ON 'WHEATLESS BAYS
tot no BRiAn awards.
PASTRY OR RKTAKTAST
POODS CONTAINING |
WHEAT.'
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
TO JOIN FORCES IN ITALY
LINCOLN. Neb. Aug. 15.- Leave
of absence for one year has been
grantee] by the board of regents to
Dr. K. .1 Stewart, athletic director of
the Cniversity of Nebraska, who will
leave shortly for the front as director
of forces in Italy
The regents will select a successor
to net in the absence of Dr. Stewart,
v ho has been dirot tor at the univer
.ty tor lwo veil \tliletics will be
irried on as usual Several applica
thins are under consideration.
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I’HILADKLI’HIA, Aug. 15.-As coal
experts predict that anthracite coal is
going to he scarce this winter, all of
the inventive genius in the anthracite
industry has been hunting for new
sources of supply. Operators are
working abandoned mines, installing
new devices and putting in electric
power.
The barrier pillar between the New
Boston and Mill Creek collieries, con
taining 50o,one ions of anthracite, is
to be mined. Bancroft mountain,
south of Ashland, is to be stripped of j
its surface coal veins for a stretch i
l
of two miles Fifty years ago this j
mine was supposedly worked out,
abandoned and then flooded with j
\> afer.
With a dwindling force of Ml.nun;
men in ilu* anthraeile mines and the
prospect of this number being still
further depleted by the draft, the in
dustry is lighting harder than ever;
before, if possible, to maintain a max
imum output rinse to 7 ‘» ton of1
anthracite a day.
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In these times everyone con
sults his conscience when pre
paring for his immediate and
future needs.
Hoarding is contrary to the
public good. Intelligent econ- r
omy is a patriotic dutv.
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Mam men need clothes now.
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Buy lor a reasonable time
ahead but don’t hoard.
(Jet the styleplus habit. You f
will wear stylish, serviceable
clothes at prices that permit
thrift and destroy the tempta
tion to hoard.
Hmlir dll’ ddi id
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The BLUM, O’NEILL Co.
Hardware Phone 48 :: Grocery Phone 6 1
THE PENALTY OF
\V Hlancetl, who was executed here I
today, was convicted of the murder
of Clyde H. Armour, a young Sioux
City, Iowa, railroad clerk, near here on
October 20, 1915. He was convicted
on May X and was sentenced to hang
on June X. His attorneys appealed
to the supreme court, which acted as
a stay of execution The case was
argued late in June, and on July la
the court handed down a decision up
holding the verdict of the lower court
and resentenced Hlancetl to hang on
August 15.
It was on September 19, 19 HI. that
Clyde I). Armour, with his sister
started from Sioux City, Iowa, eti
route to their home in Fresno, Cal,
by automobile. At York, Nidi., the
sister was taken ill. and it was ar
ranged that she and her mother
should complete the trip by train,
leaving the brother to drive the car
through. When Clyde Armour ar
rived at Denver he inserted an ad
vertisement in a newspaper tor a
young man familiar with autos and
accustomed to driving through inoun-,
tain roads as a companion on the trip
to California. Hlancetl answered and
was engaged.
V 111 III! ' ' l ' I I I 11 K III VM lllllt'l «. " , I . » I * t.
n young man drove into Santa Ke in
an automobile equipped with a camp
ing outfit, guns and other parapher !
nalia generally used by tourists on j
long trips. When In* registered at a
local hotel he started to make an
"K." evidently intending to use* h:s
own name, but changed his mind and;
wrote “Clyde D \ rttiour." \fter
spending a day or two tli«*i* In* pro
ceeded to \lbvic|tn*r<|in*. where he dis
poll'd of the car. camping outsit. extra
tires, casing-, and a couple of dia
mond ring - II* p»*ut iiioin > t n ely
'That lUamctt b**came familiar wi ll
\rmoiirs personal aftairs during their
trip from Denver to Santa Ke is shown
by the fact that Blaneett returned to
Santa Ke from Mhuquei que and
through messages signed with Ar
mour’s name obtained several remit
tames from a firm in Sioux City which
owed Armour money. On the occa
sion of his second trip to Santa Ke
he registered under his right nano*.
Blaneett finally hoarded a train for
the west.
In November Mrs Armour. Clvde's,
mother, who in tin* meantime had
reached Kresno. received a message
dated at N»*c*dles. Cal., signed “Clyde."
reading: “Have sold ear; am com-!
.
mg on tram.
After waiting lor several days and
her son failing to show up at Kresno.
Ml.- V.M.w.m- 1 • I vi i. i-i i >. I I lor
n .i. 1" .. started oin in make an in
vestigation. Mis lirst stop was at
Needles, where lie inspected the origi
nal message and foil nil that it Mas not
in Clyde's handwriting, lie proceeded
to M1 in >| iii'r< | ii i‘ and Santa Fe and
found that at both places a man had |
posed as Clyde I). Armour, bill hls|
description did not correspond with
Armour's.
Somebody remembered that a fam-i
ilv by the name of ltlancett at one j
time lived in an adjoining county. In
ipiiry revealed the fact that they had
removed to Friday Harbor, Wash.
The authorities there were communi
cated with and lllanrott's arrest fol
lowed on December TO, llllti.
Blancett was at a lumber camp
when arrested, lie was left alone fori
,i moment in o:.e of the buildings and
od/.ed a sliotgi n and inflicted a wound
in one side of his neck,
Blaniett was brought back here and I
plaeed on trial in April. 11H7, and was j
convicted on the Zf>th day of that
month He admitted killing Armour, |
but said it was accidental.
It wtis not until after Blancett's ar
rest that Armour’s body was found
one day a Mexican farmer who lived
a short distance east of here noticed
his little dog dragging something
around He Investigated and found it
to be a human foot encased In a shoe.
He immediately began a search and
found the body.
_A
LOW FREIGHT RATE ON
ALASKA SPUDS EKTENDED
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 15.—To en
courage the consumption in Alaska of
Matanuska potatoes of last year's
crop, the steamship companies oper
ating In northern waters have ax
tended the time limit of the low
freight rate of $4 a ton on the vege
tables to September 15. ThlB rate,
Save 10 Per Cent
While You Can
A BIG DISCOUNT ON
ALL COOK STOVES
AND RANGES
111 order to reduce our stock of Stoves we g
jiji will irive a 10 per cent discount, for a limited
time, on all < '<><ik Stoves in our stock.
Come in and look them over. Buy now and
Save 10 per cent
FINKELSTEIN & SAPIRO
Phones: Grocery Dept., 21 Office, 72
applicable from Mtehorage to other
Masha lov.e was first granted ill j
April, to remain in effect until Mrs
I pi,n it expiration Mnlrow Christ-n
sen, head of the land and industrial
department of tho Alaskan engineer
ing commission, made representations
to Philip It, Itradley of Juneau, food i
administrator for Alaska, that there
was still a large quantity of Mala
miska potatoes of last year's crop in
the possession of farmers; that the
extension of the low freight rate was
a requisite to their marketing, and
that the marketing of them would re
sult in a material conservation <>fj
food Mr Itrndhy at once communi
cated with the steamship companies
ami they without hesitation extended |
the time limit of the $4 tare
The 1 iteM order for Matannska po :
tallies was a "repeal ' order for four |
tons from the Kennecott Copper Cor
poration of Kennecott.
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The Northwestern Hardware Com
pany has just received a shipment ot
"Desolui" sewer and drain pipe el' ,lit
ers
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A new stock of 35f. and 30-enliber!
Newton rifles for your inspection a
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
Thursday, August 15
Low water .) 2 5*1 a.in. 2 1
water . 7:01a.m. 8.15
Low w ater .12:0£ p.ni. :>.t>
I Lull water . ... ti :42 p.m. 11.0
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