OLD VIGILANTE
LAST OF BAND
AgeitCalifornian Tells of Hanging
of Casey and Cora
Years Ago.
MURDERED AN EDITOR
Stirring Days When San Francisco
Was Raw Mining Camp, Full of
Gambling Hells, Recalled by
Recital.
Lo« Gatos, ('ill. Nearly ninety years
of au«*. lull still hale ami hearty, S. S.
Hutlor of this place lias just written
Ills memoirs of those stirring days
when San Francisco was a gold mining
camp, and when law and order were
administered with a liberal hand by
the Vigilantes.
Mr. Hutlor is the last known living
member of the mysterious hand which
brought order out of chaos In the old
days when gold was free, life was
cheap, and every other shack in camp
was a boozing den and gambling hell.
“I came to San Francisco In
said Mr. Hutler. “One of the first
early morning sights that greeted me
was a dead man lying on a street cor
ner. Tin* city was full of thieves and
vagabonds, and murders were of daily
or nightly occurrence.
What Started Vigilantes.
“The killing of Fnited States Mar
shal Hichardsoti by a man named < ’ora
and the death of James King, editor
of th* Hiilletin. at the hands of one
Casey started the vigilance movement.
The Low and order league already
was in existence, hut its efforts carried
little weight with th** element it was
supposed to hi>1(1 In check. It was
strong for legal procedure, the result
of which, more often than not, was
freedom for the malefactor.
“In all some b.tMHj men Joined the
Vigilantes. I was No. l.ldT. When
King died, the great triangle on the
roof of Fort Gunnyhags was rung. \W
didn't have a hell, as some of the
writers have said. Tt was a huge steel
triangle, that you could hear for
lihn'lv. I was just coming out of my
plan of business when the triangle
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Casey and King Were Hanged.
rang. Within 11 \ «* minutes, there were
about 1.r»<hi members of the committee
nt Fort (Junnyhngs. Tlie number kept
growing. We bit off the tops of our
paper cartridges, runinied home pow
der and hull In our Hint lock musket s
and w ent to the Jail.
Hanged as Cortege Passed.
"The law and order rlllemen were
atatinned «»n top of the Jail, For two
hour* "e stood there, while our bad
ers demanded t’nsey ami Corn. Those
two hours wen* the most severe nerv
ous strain 1 ever went through.
“At hist we got the prisoners and
took them to Fort (Junnybags, where.
the funeral rortege of King went
through the streets, Casey and Cora
were hanged out of an upper window.
“The Vigilantes did not Inflict the
death penalty on anyone who did not
deserve It.
“The Vigilantes deported a good
many undesirable eharncters. After
the committee disbanded many of
them came hack. Billy Mullican, one
of those deported, returned, went on n
rampage and shot two men before a
policeman killed him.
“The last procession of the Vigi
lantes culled out r>,000 men under
arms. They inarched down the street
In n great body and then disbanded.
The whole work of the committee was
done in less than four months.”
TOLD FALSELY OF DEATH
Girl, In Spirit of Revenge, Sends Bad
News to Mother of Army
Officer.
.New York.—Miss Mnrtlm Elizabeth
Simmons, 28 years old. was nrn>sted
In New York city, where she pleaded
guilty to a charge that she wrote a
letter to Mrs. Nellie Estes of St. Louis,
falsely Intimating that her son, Lieut.
Stockton M. Estes, had been killed In
France.
Miss Simmons said In court that she
wrote the communication, which bore
a fictitious signature, because Mrs. Es
tes had charge of a plant from which
the defendant was discharged.
PLUCKY OPERATOR
FIGHTS WRECKERS
—
Girl in Signal Tower Prevents
Catastrophe to Ammuni
tion Train.
Olsf, I*n.—When three desperadoes,
•probably (Jerman agents, attempted to
wreck tin ammunition train on the
Pennsylvania railroad here. Miss K. M.
Yensel, girl operator in a signal tower,
fought them off with n revolver.
The girl barricaded herself In the
lower and rained bullets upon (In' three
men. Tin* latter returned the tire and
bullets trashed through the windows
and door of the girl’s haven. She
Returning Shot for Shot.
fought on, returning shot for shot, un
til the arrival of u freight train
frightened the gang away.
"I saw th** men tampering with tin*
switch and 1 ordered them away," said
the* girl, calmly, after it was all over.
“They pointed revolvers at me. and I
ran buck to tin* signal tower ami got
out the pistol we keep there. 1 bar
ricaded the door and then, opening a
window, I tired down on the men.
They fired hac k and we kept it lip till
the freight whistled for the* c rossing.”
The c rew of the* freight train found
n pile of logs upon the track. The
telephone wires, leading to Miss Veu
sel’s tower, had been cut.
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| LITTLE FLIRTATION COST J
% CHICAGO GIRL DIAMOND ±
4» Chicago.- It’s a shame, girls, j
J hut it’s not safe* to make ac- J
+ quaiutance via the* flirtation +
. route with a strange, though u
+ handsome looking man in this *r
4! city. Carrie Meyers did It the J
j other day, inviting him to talk T
4. with her by the use* of her eyes. +
4 He* walked home with her, shook J
4. hands good by. and an hour later X
T she found that in doing so he T
i had removed a $200 diamond
J ring. X
ARE RE-WED AFTER 22 YEARS
Man Twice Married Since. Returns to
First Wife and They
"Make Up."
St. Louis.—Twenty-two years ngo
Mrs. Llnnle May Fuller of St. Louis
obtained a divorce from her husband,
.laeksoii. and he went away, far be
yond her ken.
In the eourse of Ids wanderings lie
took unto himself a wife on two huc
ceedlng occasions, quite legally each
time. Mrs. Fuller, however, remained
unwedded. She reared her daughter.
May. to young womanhood, supporting
herself, meanwhile, by sewing, keeping
a lodging house, etc.
The other day, Jackson, the wan
derer. came hack to St. Louis, and a
new chapter in the Fullers’ romance
was written when they were remar
ried by a justice of the peace. Their
daughter. May. was bridesmaid.
COURT KNOCKS OUT CUPID
Rafusea to Suspend Sentence of Man
to Enable Him to Get
Married.
Cleveland, O.—Cupid got n solar
j plexus blow lit the band of Police
Judge Phillips when I,ouIs A. Berbers
pleaded with the court tlint his sen
tence for trespassing In an automobile
he suspended so that ho might get mnr
ripil. The court refused the plea and
| gave I,outs a three-months’ term nt the
workhouse. In the meantime, Miss
Clara Burekel was “waiting at the
church." for she was to have married
Berbers that morning. When lie failed
J to appear for the ceremony, she start
ed a search for him that led to the
police court. When she learned that
the wedding was off for the time being,
nt lenst. Miss Burekel fainted.
Steal Artificial Eyes.
Martlnsburg, Va.—'Thieves stole
$.'10 worth of artificial eyes from the
office of a local physician. Articles of
much greater value were left undis
turbed.
JANUARY
CLEARANCE SALE
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In Order to Make Room For New Spring
Merchandise on the Way. We Will
Give a Discount of From 10 to
35 Per Cent Off On
COATS, S ITS,
Hats, Sweaters and Shoes.
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MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
Phone 171
SOCIETY AT
WASHINGTON
It is the testimony of careful and
just judges of things that the Wash
ington State and Alaska Society is
the largest, most pepful and merriest
state society of the many in existence
in the national capital.
Just before the Spanish influenza
got in its work last September a
temporary organization of this soci
ety was effected, with Representative
John F. Miller as temporary chair
man. The "Hu" prevented further
meetings, so it was not until a few
nights ago that the society got to
gether for permanent organization.
Then it adopted a constitution and
chose these officers to serve for the
ensuing six months:
President. Senator Wesley K. Jones;
vice president. Judge James Wick
et-sham; secretary-treasurer, R. Ii.
Pratt, formerly of Seattle and Alaska.
The crowd, and it was a big one,
hail a regular "old home" time, per
sons from the same town getting to
gether for the lirst time since they
came to Washington. Senator Jones.
Representatives Miller. Johnson and
Service Commissioner Mention 1).
1)111. Judge Wickersham and Civil
Craven made speeches, after which
there was dancing.
Uniforms were numerous in the
crowd Lieutenant Park Weed Willis.
Jr., of the navy, son of Dr. Willis of
Seattle; Major Kenneth Marr. a dis
tinguished aviator, formerly of the
Lafayette eseadrllle in France, and
later a successful air lighter on the
western front, a former Alaskan; Dr.
Byers, professor of chemistry at the
University of Washington, now a cap
tain in the chemical warfare section,
and stationed at the American uni
versity, Washington; Lieutenant Da
vdd Legg of Seattle, now instructor
in aviation at Bolling Held. Washing
ton, were among those in the crowd.
The society is to meet on the first
Thursday in each month at the audi
torium of the Thomson public school,
the one used by several of the state
societies.
Fraternity Men High in Air
The war is responsible for an im
, promptu meeting of a section of the
i Theta Chi fraternity of the Univer
sity of Washington at the top land
ing place of the Washington monu
ment recently. Three members of the
fraternity chanced to meet there two
others. Great joy thereat. Her were
the five:
Lieutenant Jesse Leverich, signal
corps, U. 8. A. He went to France
with th<- signal corps battalion oi liie
Fortv-flrst division, which battalion
formerly was a part of the national
guard of Washington. Ho saw fight
ing in the Verdun sector, and is now
back, stationed at Camp Meade, Md„
as an Instructor.
Uieufonant David I.egg, aviation
servioe, one of the most expert flyers
In the army, whose ability as an in
structor hits kept him from getting
overseas. In recent months he has
been stationed at Hulling field, teach
ing majors, lieutenant colonels and
colonels how to fly. On the side he
organized and coached a football
team, made up of enlisted men at
Dolling field, and, by using Dobie tac
tics, put it all over various of. er
service teams in the vicinity of Wash
iugton. Now and then he runs over
to Annapolis and yarns over old Uni
versity of Washington football glo
ries with Dobie himself.
Captain Thomas G. Thompson,
chemical warfare service, formerly an
instructor in chemistry at the Uni
versity of Washington, now stationed
at the Edge wood arsenal, Maryland,
where he has been experimenting and
developing poison gases. Some of
them are good. He knows. They got
away from him and gassed him twice,
causing him to lose his voice on
each occasion. Then lie had a wres
tle with influenza recently. Hut he
lias not lost his pep.
Gerald Hath, now with tlie civilian
relief service of the American ited
Cross in Washington.
"Gob" Turns Out Best Humor
Take it from Major David S. Harry.
Jr., of the marine corps, the navy has
it over the marine corps and the army
in one thing—the humor of the en
listed man. The "gob" has a humor
unmatched.
Recently Major Harry and some
other officers were viewing the
ground in the vicinity of the large
naval reservations adjacent to Hamp
ton Roads, Va„ planning some train
ing maneuvers. They came upon a
group of bluejackets repairing motor
trucks, another running a portable
sawmill and another laying down a
narrow-gauge railwuy.
One "gob." evidently a new-caught
one, was swinging u sledge, trying to
spike down a rail. He missed the
spike about every other stroke. An
other "gob” viewed the proceedings
with disgust. Spitting to lee’ard con
temptuously, ho addressed the of
fender in this manner:
“And you call yourself a sailor!
Hell! Why, you can't even builld a
railroad."
"That's nothing." remarked a re
tired naval officer to whom the tale
was told. "In the Spanish war wo
had u crew aboard the little converted
yacht on which I was serving that lit
erally could do everything. One day
the safe in the captain’s office re
fused to open, and nobody knew the
combination. We simply passed the
_
a orb torward. 'All burglars lay alt.'
Three responded tit once, and w • • bad
the safe open in fifteen minutes."
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Jewelers and
Opticians
Watch Repairing
;g Jewelry to Order gj
igi CORDOVA, ALASKA jg
JUST RECEIVED
A Large Shipment of
i LIVE
CHICKENS
Excellent Fryers
FRESH EGGS
FOR SALE
JOE FREY
Phone 22
TAX NOTICE
Notice Is hereby given that the
town taxes for the town of Cordova
for the year 19X8 are now due and
payable to the undersigned at his of
fice. Taxes will be delinquent on
Monday, February 10, 1919, at 6 p. nu,
and thereafter a penalty of 5 per cent
will be added.
THOS. S. SCOTT,
Town Treasurer.
Dec. 27 to Jan. 9, 1919.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINIS
TRATION
in the United States Commissioner's
Court for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska (in Probato).
in the matter of the Estate of Nick
Aboff, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that K. E.
Holden has filed In the commission
er's court of Cordova preeim Alaska,
a petition praying that h-' ■ . of ad
ministration be issued to him upon
the estate of Nick Abort, deceased,
and that Wednesday, the lath day ef
January, 1919, at 10 o'cloc k a. m of
said day. at the court room of said
commissioner's court, in the city of
Cordova, territory aforesaid, has been
set for hearing srld petition, when
and where any person interested may
appear and show cause why the
prayer of said petition should not lie
granted.
Witness the lion.
(Seal) A. .1 .DAMS,
Judge of the said Commissioner's
Court, and the seal of said Court
hereto affixed, tills 30th day of
December, 1919.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINIS
TRATION
III tlio United State:’. Commissioner's
Court of the Territory of Alaska,
for Cordova Precinct (in Probate).
In the matter of the Ksiat. if Will
iam ilerrold. deceased
Notice ir hereby given that K (',.
It.ibinson lias filed in the i-nmaii: don
ers court oi Cordova precinct, Alaska,
a petition praying that ietteis of ad
ministration he i sued to him upon
the estate of William H Trold, de
c eased, and that Wednesday the lath
day of January, 1919, at 10 o'eloek
a. in. of said day. at the court room
of said commissioner's court in the
city of Cordova, territory aforesaid,
has been set for hearing said petition,
when and where any person interested
may appear and show cause why the
prayer of said petition should not lie
granted.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS.
Judge of the said Commissioner's
Court, and the seal of said court
hereunto affixed, this 30th day of
December, 1918.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, Chitina Precinct, Third Divi
sion. Territory of Alaska (In Pro
bate). In the matter of the Estate
of Edward Gustafson, deceased—ss
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed administrator of the estate of
Edward Gustafson deceased, to the
creditors and all persons having
claims against the said Edward Gus
tafson. deceased, to present the same,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six months from the date of the firs:
publication of this notice, to the ad
mlnistrator at his place of business
at Strelna, in Chitina precinct, terrl
tory of Alaska, tiro same being th<
place for the transaction of the bus!
ness of the said estate.
\r. J. DWYER, Administrator