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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925
HIJACKER TELLS
MURDER GILLIS
ON BERYL G.
(Rv Associated Press)
VICTORIA, B. C.. Mar. 27.—A vol
untary confession has been made by
George Sowash, hijacker, enroute to
Victoria from New Orleans. The con
fession, which was read in the court
room blamed Baker for the murder of
Capt. Gillis and son, of the Beryl G.
who were killed and thrown over
board while running a cargo of liquor
from Vancouver to Seattle. The hi
► jackers, Sowash said, wrapped chains
about the bodies before they were
-cast overboard.
Sowash said after he was released
a year or so ago from McNeil s Island,
he tried to go “straight,’ but in Se
attle he met Baker, and accepted an
offer to raid liquor caches with Ba
ker, Morris, Stromkins and Sheetwooi.
After several unsuccessful raids, So
li wash said that Baker, Morris and
Stromkins came to him in Victoria,
and said, “This time tomorrow you
will be rich.”
The confession described the raid
on the Beryl G., which fired two shots
before being overcome. Sowash asked
Morris what the trouble was. and
Morris said that Baker had shot Gil
lis in the arm. Sowash said he want
ed to ask Baker about wrhat was done
with Gillis but refrained when he saw
Baker’s twitchine face.
BODIES OF VICTIMS
CHICAGO POISONER
ARE DISINTERRED
{.By Associated Press I
CHICAGO. Mar. 27—The body of
Dr. Oscar Olson, believed to have
been a victim of William Shepherd’s
typhoid perms, was raised from the
grave today. That of Mrs. Emma N.
McClintock, mother of the “orphan”
millionaire who met his death at the
hands of Shepherd, will be raised to
day for chemical examination and in
quests. This makes three exhuma
tions in four deaths, whose investiga
tion Judge Harry Olson, the nemesis
of William D. Shepherd, instigated.
Canneryman Granted
Divorced In Seattle
H (By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Mar 27—Ernest Schoen
wald, one time reputed millionaire
cannery man and manager of the Pe
tersburg Packing Corporation, Alaska,
was granted an interlocutory decree
in divorce court here today when his
wife. Henrietta, sought to dismiss her
previous action for divorce.
The court found that Sehoenwaic!
had given his wife more than J100.00C
since they were married in 1919.
“When this court granted Mrs,
* Schoenwald an interlocutory decree in
1923. it directed the husband to pay
$300 a month alimony,” said Judge J
T. Roland. “The husband has paid al
least $1,000 a month because the wife
lured him along with hints of recoil
ciliation. She is guilty of extreme
cruelty.”
The court today granted additional
alimony of $5,000 to Mrs. Schoenwald
to be paid at the rate of $200 a month
% Schoenwald said he had met with re
verses in the cannery business and
was now getting $600 a month as
manager of the cannery corporation
S. M. H "’lessey was marooned ir
his car n. unction City, Kan., foi
an hour by iwo bulls fighting in the
road.
The Gateway’s weather man pre
dieted just before press t,T«e that
the cold spell ends tomorov*
Prairie Fires Damage
Several States Million
VALENTINE, Neb., Mar. 27— A prai
rie fire which ravaged Northern Ne
braska and South Dakota, was virtu
ally extinguished last night. A survey
of the damage at noon indicated the
loss of five lives and damage amount
ing to over §1,000,000.
BANDITS GET AWAY WITH
ARMOUR CO.’S PAY ROLL
SPOKANE, March 27.—Armed with
sawed-off shotguns two men held up
Armour and Company employees to
day and escaped with a five thousand
dollar payroll.
SAYS AUTOMATIC
| SAFETY DEVICE
WRECK TRAINS
(Br Associated Tress)
NEW YORK, Mar. 27—Chief Stone
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers filed an affidavit today in the
Federal court supporting the Dela
ware & Hundson railway’s petition
for an injunction against the Inter
state Commerce Commission’s order
to instal automatic safety devices on
its freight trains.
Stone’s affidavit predicted that such
devices would some day buckle a
freight train and throw it before a
passenger train on an adjoining track,
“the chances being that every human
being on the passenger train would
be killed or c.ippied.”
Stone declared the device was not
safe to use on freights as it had not
yet been perfected to a noint where it
would operate automatically.
Starvation Specialist
Fined for Practicing
—
(By Associated Press)
BREMERTON, Wn.. Mar. 27.—Dr
Hazzard, starvation specialist, and
director of a sanitarium at Olalla, was
convicted today and fined $500 fji
practicing without a license.
SEATTLE STAR MUST
FACE $15,000 LIBEL
SUIT, COURT DECIDES
OLYMPIA, March 27.—The Seattle
Star Publishing company of Seattle
must stand trial in a libel suit bro
bv Louis Graham, a former Seattle
policeman, the state supreme cour
decided yesterday, reversing the Kin?
County superior court decision whicl
dismissed the action.
Graham seeks $15,000 alleged dam
ages from the newspaper because o
an article printed June 3, 1924, ir
which he was listed among forty for
mer policemen who were said tc
have been suspended or dismissec
on charges ranging from drunkeness
while on duty to various crimes ant
Cache of Stolen Goods
Valued at Million Fount
NEW YORK, Mar. 27.—Two men
purported to be members of an effi
cientlv organized band of bootlegger;
and robbers, whose cache of slolei
goods estimated at $1,000,000 was dis
covered in an old two-storv buildin?
yesterday, were arrested today as thej
entered the building with other stoler
property.
Mitchell County, Kan., paays a boun
tv for jack rabbits ears, which are ac
cepted as legal tender by a loca'
merchant.
The will of G. A. Dodson, of Mays
ville, Ky„ disposing of a $150,000 es
tate to his wife nd children, was
found written on an old paper bag.
SHERMAN BILL TO
PAY PENSIONS
REPORTED OUT
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 27.—The
House Ways and Means committee
favorably reported Sherman's bill car
rying $10,000 supplemental to the
fund for allowances to aged pioneers,
and to enable the Territory to increase
pension allotments curtailed last fall,
owing to shortage in Hie regular ap
propriation, and to pprove some of the
applications for pensions h< Id in abey
ance several months. Passage of the
measure will probably be expedited.
The Ways and Means Committee
also reported favorably on a bill con
tinuing the shipping subsidy for ves
sels plying westward from Seward to
points on the Seward peninsula, ap
propriating $17,000 for that purpose.
The Education Committee reported
favorably on Sherman's bill appropri
ating $7,500 to build a schoolhouse at
Kenai.
The Senate passed six measures,
including Senator Oimond's bill au
thorizing the dismissal of cases
against persons held for grand jury
investigation before cases reach that
body, and other minor measures af
fecting the recording of mortgages
and payments thereon, and in realty
transfers.
• Information was received here that
Senator Hunt is improving in a Se
attle hospital, and may leave for Ju
neau Saturday.
Body Admiral Dewey
be Removed Cathedral
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 27.—At
tended by a marine guard of honor,
the body of Admiral George Dewey
hero of the battle of Santiago, will be
removed from the Arlington cemeteiy
soon, and placed in tha Bethlehem
chapel of the National cathedral.
Former Conductor On
White Pass Is Dead
i SEATTLE, Mar. 27.—James M.
; Rourke. 71. died last night at his home
| in this city. He was for 23 years a
' conductor on the White Pass Ac Yukon
Railway, but retired three years ago
on account of ill health. He has lived
in Seattle the past year.
racmc-Amencan Fisheries
Expend One Million Dollars
BELLINGHAM, Wn., Mar. 26.—
? The Pacific American Fisheries, op
i erator of nine Alaska canneries has
• spent one million three hundred thou
i sand dollars for supplies, and one
[ million dollars expended for wages
i the last year, said Archie Shiels,
[ vice president of the the firm.
He also declared that expenditures
in Alaska this year will be twice as
large owing to the increased help
which will maintain its canneries
j during the year.
School House Wrecked
When Bomb Explodes
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mar. 27.-An
explosion wrecked the schoolhouse in
Swiss Vale suburb last night, the jan
itor of the building being killed. The
ruins are being removed t) find his
body.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
for the arrest of the person causing
the blast which rocked houses and
broke windows within a radius of sev
eral blocks.
The Coolidge horse gallops and
gets nowhere. Why not name it
.Economy?
Government To Keep
Buildings At Eklutna
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 27 —
The Interior Department announced
today that two buildings, worth $20,000
each will be erected at Eklutna, near
Anchorage; one costing $10,000 will
he erected at White Mountain, near
Nome, which will be the nucleus of an :
industrial vocational system for In- j
dians and Eskimos. This is made pos-,
sible by an act by the last Congress
authorizing the Bureau of Education
to take over unoccupied government
buildings and military reservations.
[Fort Gibbons, it is expected, will be ;
j taken and used for a school.
SENATOR WHEELER
ETAL INDICTED FOR
OIL CONSPIRACY
(By Associated Press)
j WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 27.—
i Senator Wheeler and Gordon Camp*
j bell, a Montana oil operator, and Ed
| win S. Booth, former solicitor in the
I Interior department were indicted to*
! day for conspiracy in leasing of gov
jernment oil lands.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 26.—
The indictment said that the accus
j ed, if able to secure possession and
j control of nine thousand more acres
j than either or all be entitled under
I the law. Wheeler, after election, the
; indictment charged, was to use his
| influence as part of a conspiracy
j with the Department of the Interior
* as senator, and Booth, was to pro
cure the permits without disclosing
; his personal interest in the matter.
Mexican Killed by Posse;
Was Murderer of Three
(By Associated Press)
SWEETWATER. Texas, Mar. 27.
Lopez Morales, a Mexican, was killed
by a barage of bullets fired bv hun
dreds of men, as he leaped from his
hiding place in a freight car at Lawn,
Texas, after the posse had dynamited
'the car. Morales had killed two offi
; cers and a Mexican.
The bandit was literally shot to
| pieces, over a hundred bullet wounds
; being found in his body.
jsHERIFF AND WIFE
LEAVE ON TRIP
(By Associated Press)
i SEATTLE, Mar. 27—The car wheels
i are rolling south under Sheriff and
! Mrs. Matt Starw'ich, but he and not
the State of Washington, will pay her
expenses, he announced before leav
ing.
j Foiled by Gov. Hartley’s economy
program when the sheriff thought he
had everything fixed for his wife to
go with him as a deputy sheriff, and
for the two of them to bring back Mrs.
George A. Miles and Jesse Lambert
from Los Angeles, Starwich bided his
time. Hartley, wrho refused February
20 to ask extradition for Mrs. Mills
and Lambert, signed papers received
here for Joe Wing, accused of gamb
ling. That gives the husband his trip.
“Believe me,” averred the sheriff,
“Mrs. Starwich is going to enjoy this
trip ta Los Angeles. It was no picnic
for her—all these faked up charges.”
By this Starwich meant his exoner
ation in Federal court Monday and
in Superior court yesterday from ac
cusations of giving prisoners too
much liberty and confining them too
strictly.
“And, before I forget it, I am paying
the expenses of this trip for my wife.
I want that known before somebody
goes dashing into court with more
J nonsense.”
TRIANGULAR LOVE
AFFAIR LEADS
TO DEATH
ALEX GEYSO, WIFE AND LOVER
DEAD IN SHOOTING SCRAPE
(By Associated Press)
ABERDEEN, March 27—Alex Geyso
his wife and Joe Trinko were found
dead in a house here yesterday.
Geyso sought aid frui t the police last
Tuesday in an effort to find his wife
who has been away from her home fop
over a week.
Geyso married Mrs. Geyso in Ger
many a year ago and brought her to
this country. He built her a home,
bought her an automobile and dia
monds, and started a bank account for
her, but still she was not satisfied,
one quarrel leading to another.
Ten days ago Mrs. Geyso left her
husband to join Joe Trinko who liv
ed in a house but a few miles from
the Geyso home, where the bodies
were found.
The police found more than fiv*
hundred dollars worth of diamonds in
the Trinko home, believed to belong
to Mrs. Geyso.
It was first believed that Geyso kilt
ed the pair and then himself, but
upon examination three bullet wounds
were found in his body, and the wea
pon used found at the side of Mrs.
Geyso, who was killed with one shot,
Trinko was also shot but once. 1'0
lice are now working on the theory
that Geyso traced his wife to Trinko'a
home, shot Trinko and that Mrs. Geyso
shot her husband and then herself.
WHEAT TAKES DROP
(By Associated Press)
WINNIPEG, Mar. 27.—Wheat drop
| ped nine and five-eighths cents today
to a dollar fifty-one and one-half.
GOVERNMENT TO
REFUND LARGE
AMOUNT MONEY
(By Associated Press)
WICHITA, March 27.—From eleven
j to seventeen millions of dollars will
i be paid back by the government to
' oil companies as a result of federal
j judge Pollock’s decision on a test caso
by the Derby Oil Company to recover
i six thousand five hundred and ninety
! dollars in transport itmvi taws paid in
; 1919.
Oregon Farm Warped
Out of Shape by Quake
(By Associated Press)
ESTACADA, March 27.—In a min
iature earthquake which occurred on
two farms near here, a deep revine
nearly a mile long has opened up in
the ground.
In the series of puzzling natural
disturbances, bubbling springs dried
up, water pipes were broken and a
house was toppled from its founda
tion .
The terrain in which the crevice
was formed is on a sloping hillside.
One geologist said the cracks may be
the result of a settling of clay under
strata, brought about by heavy rains.
The ground cracked and dropped
to a depth of from ten to twelve
feet for about 200 acres. In other
areas the earth crust was raised.
The home of John Stormer was
moved from its foundation, a water
system under the house was destroy
ed and the well filled up. A fence
post was moved three feet from its
original position.
No one has been able to give the
exact time of the disturbance, resi
dents of both farms being absent
while their acreage frisked about as
do mice when the controlling influ
ence of the cat is missing