NEVADA REFUSES
TO ABOLISH GAS
TO KILL SLAYERS
DESPITE “BARBARISM” CRY AF
TER DEATH TONGMAN, STATE
LEGISLATURE WILL NOT ACT.
CARSON CITY, March 20.—Lethal
passing will remain the means ot' ex
ecution in Nevada.
That death by this method is the
most humane inflicted today seems
to be tlie contention of tlie majority
of the Nevada state senators and
assemblymen. Nevada pioneer in
an untried method of imposing
the age-old penalty of “tooth
for a tooth,” executed a Chinese tong
slayer with the deadly hydrocyanic
acid gas in February last year.
Ever since other states have watch
ed with interest to see if the law
calling for death by gas would be
repealed by the state legislature.
“Nevada, so far as 1 know, has no
intention of striking out the law that
made the world gasp last year,” said
John I. Peterson, state senator. “Al
though capital punishment in any
form seems horrible it is necessary;
and it is my opinion that the lethal
gas execution is the solution of the
humaneness of the problem.”
Will Stick to Gas
Many other members of the senate
are of the same opinion. They de
nounce electrocution, hanging and
shooting, and say that if any bill in
tended to repeal the lethal-gas law is
introduced in the state legislature
they will fight it.
From the medical profession which
was represented by several physi
cians at the execution last >ear, on
ly one dissenting voice was heard
One doctor charged that Gee Jon,
the convicted slayer had died from
“cold and exposure” and not from
inhalation of the deadly fumes.
This was later pointed out to be er
ronous by Warden Denver S Dick
erson, who called attention to the
three electric heaters in the death
cell and said that the temperature
of the room was above 80 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Nevada’s lethal-gas means of cap
ital punishment had its birth when
an Assemblyman from Elko county
read a novel in which one of the
characters committed suicide by the
“almond scented gas route.” The
book described how painless that
death was; and a bill to adopt this
form of capital punishment was im
mediately introduced in the legis
lature and passed.
No certain gas was decided upon,
and no provisions for its administra
tion were made. When Gee Jon, the
tongman . was convicted of murder
it was found that the execution had
to be by gas.
Sanford Dinsmore, state food and
drug commissioner, was called into
consultation, and hydrocyanogen, a
gas derived from hydrocyanic acid,
was decided upon. The acid had been
in use for several years as a spray
for fruit trees, and the gas had been
used to rid granaries of Vermin.
Preperations were started imme
diately on a death-cell, the building
chosen being a ramshackle affair in
the prison yard. The interior was
covered with plaster and the window
edges sealed with paraffin.
Nevada then snuffed out Gee Jon’s
life, amid the cries of “Barbarians!”
from other states. The execution
was such a success from the humane
standpoint, according to medical
authorities, that it seems the state
will cling to the method and fight
any attempts to repeal the law.
See It Every Day
Pearl Knosit—Mother, do look at
Mrs. Dowd. She’s actually eating her
salad with her fish fork.
Mother—Yes, I see. Poor thing. She
has no daughter to guide her
His First Cone
A rather awkward looking Cook In
let fox farmer went into Sylvia’s the
other day and bought an icecream
cone. He went out on the side walk
to eat it. Presently he reappeared
with the cone emptied of the cream,
and handing it to the astonished clerk
said: “Thank you for the vase.”
“Exposure make them tough,” says
a writer on health. So that accounts
for the flapper.
The burden of moving may be light
ened by first taking home the things
you have borrowed.
NEW LONG LINER
WILL FISH HERE
(From Pacific Fisherman)
Peter Wold’s new long-liner Attu,
built by Matt Anderson, of Olalla,
Wash., made her trial trip on Lake
Washington February 8, and sailed a
few days later for Portlock Banks.
She is on the same lines as the Kana
tak, built by Capt. Wold in 1923, but
is 5 feet longer with more beam and
depth, being 74 feet by 17 feet 4 in.
by S feet G in., and of very heavy and
substantial construction. The keel
and keelson are 10x12 with sister keel
| sons 14x8, edge bolted and double
sawed1 frames sided 4 in. and moulded
11 in. at the keel and 4.5 in. at sheer,
spaced 18 inches on centers. She
measures 37 tons net, having a carry
ing capacity of 65,u00 lbs. For the
present she will carry ten men and
two dories, though fifteen men and
five dories cau be accommodated. The
forecastle contains eight bunks be
sides a large galley range, folding ta
ble and sink; while there are six
bunks, together with a heating stove
and wash stand, located aft of the en
gine room. The water tanks carry
700 gallons.
The main engine is a 125 h. p. Atlas
Imperial, with a small auxiliary Atlas
engine running the air compressor and
some of the pumps, while a separate
pumping system run off the main en
gine makes it possible to pump out
the bilge at any time both forward
and aft. A 45-ampere generator is run
by the flywheel. The Olson & Sunde
cable winch is connected up with the
main shaft in a way that saves space
in the fish hold for about 5,000 lbs.,
compared with some of the arrange
ments used, leaving a small port be
tween the hold and the engine room
for ventilation. A gurdy of the same
make is placed in front of the hatch
and a hand capstan for emergency
use is placed on the forecastle head.
The engine is so simple a child can
| start it, but 10 pounds air pressure be
| ing used. Three thousand gallons of
fuel oil are carried in the tanks. Her
| ground tackle consists of a 250-pound
| navy type anchor with 5-8 inch chain
! and a 350-pound anchor with a 3-4 in.
1 wire cable. The cost of the boat was
; $30,000, ready for fishing.
This is the fifth halibut vessel built
j bv Capt. Wold, who started halibut
| fishing on this coast in 1910, and re
! turned to the game after spending a
few years in Nome. His first was the
; Alaska, then the Atlas, and the Dis
, covery, and in 1923 he and his broth
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er Conrad built the Kanatak, on which
the latter now sails as master. Capt.
Peter Wold is skipper of the new ship.
The halibut schooner Chelsea was
also launched January 24, and will be
added to the Portlock fleet. The new
vessel is 72 feet long, 17 feet beam,
8 feet depth and is powered with a
100 h. p. diesel.
NEW HERRING SALTERY
The Svendsen-Shaw Packing Com
pany has been incorporated at Olym
pia, Washington, capitalized at $30,000.
Chas. Svendsen, formerly of the Gran
heim company is president, Frank
Oleson, vice president, and Ed Shaw,
secretary treasurer. The company will
operate a floating herring saltery in
the Kodiak district and westward.
HERRING CO. INCORPORATES.
The Johnson Packing company of
Latouehe, has been incorporated. The
company has been operating a plant
at Latouehe, but were not incorpo
rated. Jos. G. Johnson is president,
Olaf Breimo, vice president, M. Sande,
secretary-treasurer.
The three great plagues are bubon
ic, pneumonic and the neighbor’s chil
dren.
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Important
—the point of a Parker & Duofold
is made of genuine n native
Tasmanian Iridium fly which costs
over three times as I / much as the
iridium used in//ordinary
fountain pen // points. That’s
why the Parker If Duofold is
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That’s whyit If/ is the cheapest
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