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(VOLUME XX, NUMBER 97.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
FIRE RAYAGiNG HECLA MINES
NEPHEW PACKING
MAN TRYING WREST
WILL FROM WIDOW
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TESTIFIES HIS UNCLE PROMISED
HIM BUSINESS IF HE WOULD
DEVOTE LIFE TO IT.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Wn„ Apr. 24.—William
J. Henry, nephew of James Henry
went on the stand here yesterday at
the trial of William’s suit to wrest
from the widow. and other legatees
the will of the packing business of
James, his uncle, which was left here
worth five hundred thousand dollars,
with three million dollars’ transac
tions annually.
The nephew testified that his un
cle promised him that he would give
him the business if he would drop his
intention of becoming a civil engineer
and devote his life to the business
^ which he did, but his hopes of twenty
years were blasted when the will
read.
He also testified that the widow. So
phia Henry, placed another man in
charge soon after James died, and
that he was soon after dismissed.
KING BORIS OF
BELGRADE HIDES
• FROM ANGRY MOB
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(By Associated Press)
ROMP], April 23.—A dispatch from
the Tribuna, Belgrade, said that King
Boris is imprisoned in his palace by
an angry mob, because the National
ist military element objected to the
sovereign's request that Premier
Tzankoff resign and permit the forma
tion of a coalition cabinet including
representatives of the opposition.
Angry mobs are swarming about
the palace demanding that the
1 premier remain in office.
COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 23.—The commit
tee appointed at yesterday’s meeting
A.egan the investigation of several Se
attle concerns reported selling worth
less oil stock.
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.GENTLE SADIE, A BEAR,
ENTERS ROOMING HOUSE
(By Associated Press)
OAKLAND, Calif., Apr. 23.—A bear,
big and shaggy, entered an apartment
here today and started upstairs to an
accompaniment of screams, slamming
of doors and clicking keys in locks.
Police trapped it on the top floor.
It was gentle Sadie from the Oak
£ :and zoo, hunting for peanuts, the
trainer said.
WE’VE HEARD IT BEFORE
The pleasant part of buying a vase
at a ten-cent store is that the clerk
doesn't call it a “vaws.”
COEUR D’ALENE JACK
IS DEAD AT SPOKANE
SPOKANE, April 24.—John McLin,
knowm as “Coeur d’Alene” Jack, who
as a baby w'as drawn on a hand sled
his parents from Butte to the
Coeur dAlene mining district in the
d£ad of winter, forty-two years ago,
died here yesterday of apoplexy, it
became known toda>
McLin’s father, of L*e same name,
who survives him, staked the second
claim in the district, but it netted
4him nothing. He is survived by his
t parents, a brother and his widow, all
res' lents of Missoula, Mont.
17 MEN TRAPPED
WHEN FIRE BREAKS
OUT IN HECLA MINE
THREE MEN BROUGHT TO THE
SURFACE ALIVE FROM THE
THOUSAND-FOOT LEVEL.
FIRE SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
Reporter Holds High Hopes That All
Men Trapped Will Be Rescued;
Started at Pump Station.
(By Associated Press)
WALLACE, Ida., Apr. 24.—Fire
trapped fourteen miners in the Heela
mine yesterday.
WALLACE, Ida., Apr. 24—Fire
broke out at 11:10 last night at the
Heela mine here and trapped seven
teen miners. Three of the unfortun
ate men were brought out alive from
the 1,000 foot level during the remain
der of the night.
A crew of about one hundred es
caped leaving fourteen caught below
the sixteen hundred foot level. A re
porter returning from the mine today
expressed the hope that the fourteen
men trapped would be rescued. He '
said these men were in the Star work
ing. two miles from the Heela main
shaft. Air compressors are working
to clear the Star workings of gas and
smoke that might penetrate the min
ers. and declared that the prisoners
were not greatly imperiled if they re
main in the Star workings and predict
ed that the fire could be confined to
the Heela mine proper and the start
ing of the fire pumps this morning
would soon bring under control the
fire that started at the two-thousand
foot level, the base of the main shaft.
The pump man left his station for
a time and found the plant afire when
he returned in ten minutes.
The Star workings extend lateral
ly from the main shaft.
A fire in the Heela mines at Burke,
Ida., in July of 1923, destroyed the
surface workings, when several hund
red miners escaped with no loss of
life. The town of Mace and Burke
were nearly destroyed when high
winds whipped up flames from an un
known origin up the narrow canyon
containing the two towns.
Airplane Carries Two
Grand Pianos as Freight
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 24—A bi
plane carrying six men and two baby
grand pianos, one for Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, left Mineola today, and ar
rived at Bolling field.
OPERATORS SEATTLE CARD
PARLORS TO BE PROSECUTED
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 24.—Players and
operators of card rooms and cigar
stores in Seattle who accept percent
ages of receipts from games of dice
or cards wrill be arrested, Edwin D.
Colvin, King County prosecutor, an
nounced today.
“In cases where card players pay
for use of a table by the hour, the
loser paying the table rental, the
men are not violating the law,” Col
vin said. “When men shake between
themselves to decide which pays for
cigars, I don’t call that gambling any
more that it is gambling to draw
straws to decide who carries in the
wood.”
Dice games commonly played in
cigar stores for cash stakes or trade
checks are gambling, Colvin declared.
COMMUNISTS PAID
WAGES ADVANCE
CRIME IN BULGARIA
BOLSHEVIK FARMER HELPED TO
SPREAD CALUMNY INTO
JUGOSLAVIA.
(By Associated Tress)
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Apr. 24—Minis
ter of the Interior Rousseff told for
eign correspondents that not over fif
teen hundred persons executed the
campaign against the terrorists, and
declared that Moscow paid individuals
and bands regular monthly salaries in
Bulgaria and gave special premiums
for crimes.
He charged that agrarian Com
munists, who went to Jugo-Slavia
from Bulgaria were pushing a cam
paign of calumny against Bulgaria,
and added that Macedonians and
Thracians were expelled from their
homes which caused the formation of
elements of disorder in Bulgaria.
AMERICAN FLEET
WILL CRUISE TO
AUSTRALIA 1925
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 24.—
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur an
nounced that the American battle
fleet would make its cruise to Aus
tralia this summer, and that it would
proceed despite the protests received
from American citizens’ organizations.
He said he was answering the objec
tors with a form letter declaring that
if everything was known “Speakers
and writers would not attempt to ham
per the government’s efforts to pro
mote friendship and peace abroad,
and thus make certain our ability to
maintain peace for our own land.”
DEMPSEY, WILLS
FIGHT MAY BE
ASSURED FACT
DEMPSEY WILL FIGHT WILLS BE
FORE RETIRING PROVIDING
MATCH ARRANGED
NEW YORK, April 24.—Dempsey
said he would postpone his honey
moon to Europe to defend his title
against Harry Wills, negro contender
for the heavyweight title, providing
Tex Rickard can assure him within
two weeks the match can be staged
without interference.
Dempsey said “I want to end my
fighting days the way the public
wishes, defending my title. Wills
seems the popular choice for my op
ponent, and I -would like to settle it
before retiring.
STRANGLER TO
MEET BIG MUNN
MICHIGAN CITY
CHICAGO, April 24.—“Strangler”
Lewis has signed a contract to meet
Wayne “Big” Munn, former champ
in a finish wrestling match at Michi
gan City, Ind., Decoration Day. A
purse of thirty thousand dollars has
been raised for the match.
TOKIO, Apr. 24.—Victor Kopp, am
bassador to Japan from Russia arriv
ed here yesterday.
SLAYER HAS 85 PER CENT
CHANCE TO BE SET FREE
EVERETT, April 24—Efficiency in
law enforcement deserves the same
place in everyday life as efficiency
in health, Luke S. May, criminalogist
of Seattle, told Everett Kiwanians
yesterday. Statistics of capital
crimes in the United States in 1923
showed the murderer had an 85 per
cent chance of getting free, May ex
plained. In London the same year
there were seventeen murders and
17 men and women were convicted;
in Seattle there were twenty-four mur
ders and only eight were convicted.
DEFENCE~RESTED
CASE IN WHEELER
TRIAL YESTERDAY
(By Associated Press)
GRE *T FAILS. M:ul., Apr. 24.—
The defense rested it case in the trial
of Senator Wheeler, abandoning its
attempt to bring witnesses into the
controversy. The Government’s star
is George P. Hays.
GREAT FALLS. Mont., Apr. 24.—
Slattery opened his argument in the
Wheeler trial and told the jury “even
■Presidents may be impeached in this
land of ours, as there is no room for
kings and tyrants, and I submit the
Government has proved everything
with which Senator Wheeler is
charged.” He warned against “sym
pathy and prejudice,” which he pro
nounced were “enemies to justice.”
GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 23 —
The Wheeler trial suspended business
today on account of running out of
witnesses. The government refused
to stipulate that telephone records in
Washington did not show a call for
Hayes March 13, 1923. Hayes testi
fied that on this date Booth called
him and arranged with him to meet
Senator Wheeler.
BANK ROBBERY
SUSPECTS NOW
UNDER ARREST
ATTEMPT TO RELEASE THREE
OTHER DEFENDANTS FROM
KING COUNTY JAIL
SEATTLE, April 24.—Ed Gorman,
Alfred Castro, James Burns and Mr
and Mrs. Edward Rabror, additional
suspects of the forty-two thousand
dollar bank robbery at Nanimo Iasi
December, were thwarted in a pur
ported attempt to release thrpe othei
defendants in the King County jail
They were placed under arrest to
day by a number of Seattle detec
lives.
Ross and Watson, former Seattle
detectives and another suspect are
awaiting trial in British Columbia
Gorman, Castro and Burns are
jointly charged with the robbery ol
five hundred rounds of ammunitior
and several sawed-off shotguns anc
pistols, taken by the police from the
Rabror home. Police declare Castrc
Burns and Gorman are known in Sar
Francisco as Tony Muresco, Ernesi
Cambertoli and Ed Farrington.
Greek Troops Being
Mobolized is Claim
LONDON, April 24.—A Daily Mai
dispatch from Brindissi, Italy, says i
report has been received there tha
a portion of the Greek army is mo
bilizing.
SUTHERLAND MEN
DEFEAT SHELDON’S
RESOLUTION TODAY
S
HOUSE DEFIES PAUL AND IN
DIANS BY PASSING MEASURE
PROHIBITING INDIANS FROM
RECEIVING OLD AGE PENSION
(Special to Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, April 24.—Suth
erland men in the Senate today brot
about the defeat of Sheldon’s resolu
tion endorsing the appointment of
George Parks for Governor and thank
ing the President for the appoint
ment. They also snowed under Di
mond’s memorial defending Alaska’s
good name against the charges of law
lessness, made in the Stone interview
last February.
Sheldon’s resolution which passed
the House by a big vote, failed to
pass the Senate, the vote standing
four to four, Aldrich, Brown, Dunn
and Hunt, whose votes earlier this
week prevented the striking of the
exemption clause from the Grier Lit
eracy Bill, voting no to the endorse
ment of Parks.
Stone Memorial Defeated
The Stone memorial was defeated
three to five, only Ayer, Dimond and
Pratt favoring the passage. Explain
ing their votes against it Aldrich said
it was prematurely introduced; Dunn
said the message was too violent in
tone; Howard opined that there might
be a mistake in the interview and
Stone misquoted; Hunt, labeling his
home town of Ketchikan as vice-rid
den, said the charges were true, and
Brown made no statement.
The general taxation measure was
reported to the House this morning
with the salmon tax schedule restored
to the rates now prevailing; traps
were reduced to two hundred dol
lars; the clause prohibiting munici
palities from placing license taxes
on automobiles was stricken; the
rates on mild-cured salmon were re
duced from fifteen cents per hundred
to five cents per hundred. There is
a mixup on the mining schedule of
taxation, which is unreduced from
the rates announced - some time ago,
three members only approving such
rates while five signed the report as
non-concurring.
House Defies Paul
The House defied Paul and the
Indians on the pension issue,
when it adopted an amendment
yesterday expressly excluding all
Indians from the old age pension
list, the measure being identical
with the amendment adopted yes
terday to the Mother's Pension
Bill which passed the House to
day.
Many minor measures were pur
through both houses which are speed
ing up work in an effort to ciear the
way for the Taxation and General Ap
propriation Bills, which have to be
handled in the week remair iug of
the session.
SEATTLE TAXES
ARE MOUNTING
COLOSSAL FIGURE
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 24.—The Oham
ber of Commerce published a telegram
from Jack Underwood, its agent in
Washington, D. C., reporting that the
Department of Commerce had found
[ the per capita taxation in Seattle was
$28.69 in 1917; $41 in 1922; $41.25 in
[ 1923 and $33.08 in 1924. Eight per
i cent of the city’s revenues in 1923 were
; derived from public utilities.
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