A jury in the district court Thursday
found John Smith guilty of criminal
syndicalism a few minutes after re
tiring for a verdict. The case is one
of great importance to the community,
and \yas ably handled by District At
torney W. A. Monly, who delivered a
scathing address to the jury in con
demnation of the crime for which the
accused was found guilty.
Smith was arrested on a warrant
sworn to by George Hayes and T. J.
Devinney. When the newrs of the
shooting of the ex-service men wras
received Smith is alleged to have re
marked to George Hayes and Mr. De
vinney that ‘‘he would like to have
been down there with them I. W. W.’s
shooting at those soldiers,” and fur
ther remarked that ‘‘the
- that was over there ought to
have been shot,” referring to the sol
diers comprising the expeditionary
forces in Germany and France.
The law against this kind of radical
ism is very plain, and was intended
for the crime for which the prisoner
was tried. The act reals as followrs:
‘‘Criminal syndicalism is the doc
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violence or other unlawful methods of
terrorism as a means of accomplish
ing industrial or political reform or
which advocates the overthrow by
force or violence of the government of
the United States or of the territory
of Alaska. The advocacy of such doc
trine. whether by word of mouth or
writing, is a felony, punishable as in
this act otherwise provided.
“Sec. 2. Any person who: * * *
(3) openly, willfully and deliberately
justifies by word of mouth or writing
the commission or the attempt to com
mit crime, sabotage, violence or other
unlawful methods of terrorism with
intent to exemplify, spread or advocate
the propriety of criminal syndicalism.”
The verdict shows that our people
will not tolerate anarchy nor the acts
of I. W. W. murderers, and is a whole
some warning to those who do not be
lieve in our government to at least
keep quiet.—Valdez Miner.
FIRST DEATH OCCURS
IN STURDY FAMILY OF
, TWENTY CHILDREN
RAPID CITY, S. D„ May 17 (by As
sociated Press).—The first death in a
family of twenty children, the young
est of whom is 26 years old, occurred
when Ernest J. Smith died here re
cently.
The father of the family, 77 years
old, still does all of the work on his
hog farm in the suburbs of Sioux Falls.
He has never had need for the serv
ices of a doctor.
The father came to the United
States from Germany in 1857, when
he was 14 years old. He served four
years in the Civil war.
He was twice married. To his first
wife were born nine sons and four
daughters. Three sons and four
daughters wgre born to his second
wife. Each of the sons now weighs
more than two hundred pounds.
Ernest’s four grandparents each
lived to be more than 80 years old.
The inherent bravery, the reckless
ness of the native American, is demon
strated by the zest with which h<
tackles any of the I-made-it-myselt
stuff.
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Alsace-Lorraine has formally re
turned to France and the lost provinces
are no more. So ends tlie dream of
Bismarck of a permanently conquered
France.
The railroad administration urges
the curtailment of riding for pleasure,
thus modestly flattering itself that
riding under government operation is
a pleasure.
The statement of the style commit
tee of the suit and skirt manufactur
ers that skirts “will be frankly short
without abbreviation” is not so clear
as it might be.
Turkey is still begging assistance
from the great powers for a happy
independence. Whether continued
slaughter of Armenians is included in
this happiness is not specified.
Over 1,000,000 destitute children in
Europe will be clothed by American
charity. The comment over there of
this as a land of dollars is under
going radical revision.
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PRIMARY ELECTION VOTE
TO BE CANVASSED NOT
LATER THAN NEXT WEEK
The certificates of election to those
who were elected as delegates and
alternates to the Republican and Dem
ocratic National conventions will be
issued about May 25th—perhaps be
fore that time. The law provides
that the clerks of the court shall
canvass the returns within their res
| pective Divisions, and wire the re
sults to the Secretary of the Terri
tory, who shall issue the certificate
of election.
Territoriay Secretary R. J. Som
mers has determined that the certi
ficates of election should be in the
hands of the Republican National
Committeeman and the delegates to
the Republican National Convention
not later than May 25, and he has
notified the Clerks of the court of
that. The Republican National con
vention convenes at Chicago on June
8th.
The law permits the Clerks of the
Court to canvass the votes they have
on hand whenever it is evident to
them that the unreported returns
would not change the results from
those at hand. It is also evident that
certificates of election must be issued
in time to permit the delegates to
attend the National conventions.
It is not believed that any of the
contests are so close that they will
not be clearly decided by the returns
in the hands of the clerks of the
court by the end of this week.
FISHERIES EXPERTS
ON WAY TO YUKON
TO INVESTIGATE FISH
Henry O’Mally, field agent at Seat
tle for the United States Bureau of
Fisheries with headquarters at Seat
j tie, and Dr. C. H. Gilbert, professor
of Ichthyology at Stanford Univer
sity, are on their way to the Yukon
to make a study and report of the
Yukon fisheries. They will make an
investigation for the specific purpose
of determining whether or not the
cannery and commercial fisheries on
the Yukon are depleting the food
supply of the natives of the Yukon
and its tributaries.
They will ^o down the Yukon to
St. Michael and be at the mouth of
the river when the salmon run begins
and follow the run up the river. They
also expect to go up the Tanana and
other tributaries of the Yukon and
view the spawning ground of the sal
mon.
The investigation is the result of
complaints made by Archdeacon Hud
son Stuck, the Nenana Changer of
Commerce and others in the interior,
that the cannery at Andreafsky is
destroying the salmon supply of the
Yukon.
ZION NATIONAL PARK
IS FORMALLY OPENED
AT SALT LAKE CITY
SALT LAKE CITY, May 17 (by As
sociated Press).—Zion National park,
Utah’s greatest natural wonder, was
officially opened to the public Satur
day.
During the coming summer and fall
it is expected it will be visited by
thousands of tourists from many parts
of the United States. Zion park, the
nation’s newest, is located in the
southwestern part of the state, and
was created by act of congress Nov.
19, 1919. It has an area of approxi
mately 80,000 acres.
Hugged scenery, similar to thai of
the Grand canyon, is Zion’s greatest
drawing card, and the region in which
it is located has changed but little
since the early Mormon colonisation
days.
Many new wonders are being un
earthed within the park boundaries.
Chief among these are ancient cliff
dwellings, located high up on the
hills. These dwellings have never
been explored by the present genera
tion because of their inaccessible lo
cation, and are visible only through
strong^ field glasses. Photographs
taken of the ruins with long-distance
cameras, however, show the crude
houses to be in a perfect state of pres
ervation, and during the coming sum
mer a party of archeologists plans to
make extensive explorations of them.
H(*w they will gain access has not yet
been determined, but scientists con
nected with the Univei’sity of Utah
here declare it will be possible, if no
other way is found, to lower the ex
plorers over the tops of the cliffs by
means of ropes.
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