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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 169
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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1025
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TRIAL OF SCOPES
STARTSDAYTON;
TEST OF TENNESSEE LAW ON
TEACHING EVOLUTION BE
MADE BY COURTS
DAYTON, Tenn.. July lu (.-?)—The
ial of John Thomas Scopes, charged
Y. ith violating the new Tennessee law
,y teaching the theories of evolution ;
m a public stliool, began here this
torning with his reindictment by a
-pecial grand jury, after Judge Rauls*
- :>n had read the law and the first
hapter of Genesis before the court
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'William dinings Bryan, nni-evolu
onist, who volunteered his services
> prosecute the aged professor, re
ived an ovation when he entered the
uirt room. Clarence Darrow and ’
mdloy Field Malone, heading the
mns 1 for the defense, greeted the;
lief prosecutor cordially. Darrow
was in his shiii sleeves, and apparent-,
]y suffered from the intense heat. The
itorneys conferred together while the
-.rand jury was out.
Attorney General A. T. Stewart in
: >rmed the defense that the State
;ould object to tlie introduction of
cientific testimony regarding evolu-.
ion. That the case was not to de
^-yrmine the truth of evolution nor of
Jhe bible, but rather to try Scopes for
violating a state law.
Several boys, pupils of Scopes, tes-.
lifted before the grand after they re
tired that Hunter's Biology was the j
text book Scopes used in his teaeli
: lgs. _ It wag placed in evidence.
Walter White, superintendent of the
Rhea County schools and prosecuting
witness was also called before the
grand jury. The indictment was a1
mere formality to meet with the re-1
quirements of thirty days between
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summoning a grand jury and the in- i
uictment. The previous indictment I
was quashed when the second was re
turned. Rev. William Cartwight open-1
-d the court with prayer and a squad
or blue uniformed policemen from
Chattanooga filed in and took the best
positions to maintain order.
Many Scientists Will Testify.
Darrow told the court the defense
•expected to call many scientists, who
were busy men, and that he would
like some indication when he would
he ready to hear them. Stewart re
marked that it would take but a short
lime to select the jury. The court post
poned its answer until the jury is
^sworn. Stewart told the court that
the prosecution would vigorously re
sist any evidence tending to reconcile
evolution with the Bible.
Stewart proposed to, take the rest
of the day off to give visiting lawyers
a chance to get acclimated, but Judge
Jtaulston ordered an afternoon session
for the selection of a jury.
Sheriff Draws Names from Hat
Jury selection begun by the Sheriff
drawing the names from a hat. Both
sides accepted W. F. Robinson, a far
mer-teacher, who said he had formed
an opinion as to the guilt or innocence
of Scopes, but could disregard it in
his deliberations. J. W. Bagley told
Clarence Darrow he knew nothing
about evolution and declared his
ability to be perfectly fair. He ac
. cepted Jim Riley, a farmer Baptist,
•who admitted he could not read.
Darrow rejected J. T. Massengale,
<4 a Baptist minister, who declared, “I
am strictly with the Bible.” The
Judge suppressed the tumult of ap
plause at these words. W. G. Taylor,
a farmer Methodist, said he had some
opinions about the case but would de
cide fairly. He was accepted.
ALASKA DUE IN MORNING
The steamship Alaska will arrive in
Seward at 3 o’clock in the morning,
according to the latest advices receiv
ed locally.
John D. Rockefeller Deeds
Fine Home To John D., Jr.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. July 10 (JP).
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., today deeded
to Young John D.. the Pocantico Hills
estate at Tarry town, \ his home for
many years, valued at a million and
a quarter dollars. County officials
explained this was done to avoid pay
ment of several hundred thousand dol
lars inheritance tax when the elder
John D. dies.
DAWSON. Y. T., July 10 (JP)— An
influenza epidemic has caused two
d' aths here and the hospital is filled
to capacity, whole families being
stricken. The disease is pronounced
mild. A nurse has gone to the Selkirk
Indian village where two have died,
and 100 are sick. A doctor has been
dispatched to Circle, where many out
law. k are reported.
SALACIOUS BOOK PUBLISHED
NEW YORK, July 9 (JP)—Horace B.
Liveright of Doni & Livewright, pub
lishers, and Thomas R. Smith, the
firm's literary editor, were yesterday
indicted for the publication of an al
leged salacious book.
NOTED BRITISH AUCTIONER
DIES AT RIPE OLD AGE
ADDLES TONE, Eng., July 10. (/P)
—Henry Stevens, one of Britain's
olck-st practicing auctioneers and a
curio* king, died recently at the- age
of 82.
Among the many curios which
came under his hammer were Pres
ident Kruger’s hat and the waist
coat of King Charles II.
. Stevens during his life time had
sold every conceivable thing, includ
ing late Lord Derby’s great menage
rie of more than 1,600 animals and
birds; the death mask of Napoleon;
a piece of Queen Victoria’s wedding
cake; the spear that killed General
Gordon, and one of Dick Turpin’s
pistols, and 21 out of the known 75
auk’s eggs in the world.
BUSINESS MEN CAN STOP
RUM FLOW, SAYS SPEAKER
PORTLAND, Ore., July 10. (/P)—If
business men would boycott bootleg
gers the eighteenth amendment would
soon be enforcible, said Stanley B.
V andersal of Boston, in an address
today at the thirtieth International
Christian Endeavor convention.
Many business men who expect
their employes to respect the laws of
this country are purchasers of boot
leg liquors, and all intoxicating li
quor by reason of the prohibition
laws are in that class,” said Mr. Van
dersall. ‘‘Without the buying power
of the men with money who scoff
at the prohibition laws back them,
the bootlegers could not exist. ‘Boy
cott bootleggers’ would be a good
slogan for the business men to adopt
and put into practice.”
BRITAIN IS FREE OF
CATTLE RESTRICTION
LONDON, July 10. (^—Restric
tions imposed by the ministry of ag
riculture in connection with foot-and
mouth disease in the counties of
Warwick, Chashire and Northamp
ton have been w'ithdrawn. There are
now no restrictions in force in Gt.
Britain for the first time since the
widespread outbreak of 1923.
There is such a thing as carrying
precautionary measures too far. A
Chicago man who had run down a
pedestrian pleaded that his vision
had been obscured by a large ‘‘safety
first” sticker on his windshield.
SCOTT C. BONE
SAYS BUREAUS
GREATEST WOE
SEATTLE, July 10 (JP)—Bureau
cracy is the greatest curse of Alaska’s
government, Scott C. Bone told the
Young Men’s Republican Club, last
night, when in talking about Alaska
he contrasted Alaska’s old age pen
sion law which is without cost to the
government. The functioning of the
Federal bureaus he declared was much
less efficient. Although Alaska has
| made but little gain in population in
; recent years, the territory has been
i ‘ barely scratched over.” The country
tapped by the railroad will eventually
I prove as rich as the Ohio and Missis
sippi valleys. At no distant date
j Alaska will add a star, or perhaps
| two, to “Old Glory,” because the ter
' ritory is too vast for one state.
Nationals
New York 3-7. Pittsburgh 12 5.
Philadelphia 3-11, Cincinnati 6-S.
| Boston 1. St. Louis 5.
j Brooklyn l, Chicago 2.
Americans
Detroit 5, Boston 2.
Cleveland 13, Philadelphia 5. six in.
- nings.
Chicago 5. Washington S, 11 innings.
St. Louis—New York, rain.
Coast
Seattle 4, Sacramento 3.
Portland 6. Salt Lake 2.
Portland 4, Vernon 0.
Los Angeles 3, San Fraflcisco 6.
REVENUES FOR
1925 NEARLY AS
GREAT AS 1924
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10 (£>)—
Internal revenue receipts for the year
1925 are only $212,168,000 under that
of 1924. despite the sharp cuts the
last congress made in income and
other tax rates. The total receipts
for the year ending June 30, were
$2,584,011,000, including $1,761,462 for
direct assesment of incomes; $822,329,
000 from miscellaneous sources.
Treasury officials declare that the
present law. while operative only the
latter half of the fiscal year, showed
the lowered tax would increase re
ceipts, and predicted the law which
was intended to reduce the tax bur
den by $400,000,000 would never ac
complish the result. They said the
lower rates had opened up new chan
nels of income and encouraged capi
tal to enter productive enterprises.
Receipts at Washington including
the Alaska income tax were $14,614,
000 the previous year, and $12,515,000
for the year just ended.
DANCE AT ODD FELLOWS HALL
Big hop tomorrow night at Odd Fel
lows Hall. The Jolly Three orchestra
will furnish the usual brand of good
music. Remember, Saturday night.
CABLESHIP TO ARRIVE
The cableship Dellwood will arrive
in Seward early next week. The Dell
wood will overhaul the cable between
Seward and Valdez, and between Sew
ard and Cordova.
Miss Margaret Slatery, authoress,
lecturer and teacher, declares that
the education of youth is too much
standardized, consequently more or
less futile.
Miss Helen Hope Edwards, daugh
ter of a wealthy mattress manufac
turer, will marry J. Edmond Bradley
of Boston, whom she met while look
ing for a golf ball lost by her father.
Severe Earth Shocks
Noted, Helena, Mont.
HELENA, Mont., July 10 (/P)—Sev
eral severe earthquake shocks at 7:49
this morning terrified people in many
parts of Montana but did no material
damage.
JUNEAU, July 10 (7Pj—An epidem- j
ic of influenza is sweeping the Bristol
Bay Indian and fishing villages, ac- j
cording to inform -lion received by j
Govern Parks from officials of the j
Alaska Packers Association, which!
with the Alaska Portland Packers are |
handling tlm situation through com-'
pany physicians and cannery hospital 1
and medical facilities. The compa
nies said they would continue to look [
after the affected areas until the ■; lo.-e j
of the packing season.
The epidemic is said to be similar j
to that of 1910. wli u hundreds of In-j
dians in isolated communities wer j
stricken, resulting in many deaths. |
RAIDERS CARRY OFF LIQUOR
SYDNEY, N. S„ July 9 (/P)—The
custom house at Port Morien, South
Cape Briton, was stormed this morn
ing by night raiders who drove up in
motors and attired in ghostly apparel
carried off 43 kegs of liquor.
REFUSE DIVORCE TO INVENTOR
NEW YORK, July 9 (/P)—The Su
preme Court yesterday refused to
grant a divorce to Thomas H. Syming
ton, a wealthy manufacturer and in
ventor. The court also exonerated Ida
May Symington of the charges of mis
conduct with Talbot W. Chambers, a
coal merchant and Maurice Faite, an
architect, who were the star witnesses
for her husband.
ATTENDANT ASKS DAMAGES
NEW YORK, July 9 (/P)—James L.
Savage, personal attendant to the late
Daniel G. Reid, capitalist, alleges in a
suit against the estate for $23,100 for
services, that Reid shot at him sev
eral times and threatened to kill him
when unbalanced by stimulants.
MINER SHOT BY MARSHAL
MOUNT VERNON, July 9 (^5^)—
Mike Stonisdi, a miner, is dying with
two bullets in his lungs and Harry
Houehens, the city marshal of Nai
shone is nursing wounds in his right
arm. following a four-cornered gun
duel last night in which Mayor A. W.
Sinclair participated.
ADVERTISING CONSTRUCTIVE
VALUE TEN COMMANDMENTS
PORTLAND, July 10. (/p)—Modern
advertising methods applied to the
Ten Commandments ‘"would soon
change them from stern prohibition
laws to factors contributing to true
happiness,” declared Clarence C.
Hamilton of Bocston, speaking at to
day’s session of the thirtieth In
ternational Christian Endeavor con
vention.
“Modern advertising then should
adopt the positive form of the com
mandments in order to convince the
public that they were not prohibition
laws,” said Mr. Hamilton. “Too many
persons regard them as prohibition
laws and apparently take delight in
violating them. They do not appre
ciate their constructive values and
the contribution their observance
makes toward the true happiness of
the individual and community.”
iVjce President Dawes has recently
been admitted to membership in the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston, whose history
is traced back to 1637. The distin
guished recruit is doing some summer
target practice shooting at the Sen
ate rules.
LOUIS L. LANE,
ARCTIC EXPLORER
VISITING SEWARD
Will Spend Summer in This District
Hunting Whales for Use by
Breeders of Foxes
HERE LAST ON STR. BUFORD'
!s Pioneer In New Alaskan Industry—
Experienced Arctic Navigator
and Explorer
Copt. Louis L. Lane. noted Arctic
navigator in command of the Polar
Bear for a number of years, and for
mer master' of the steamer Buford, ar
rived in Seva’d this morning from
San Francisco via so at.! asv-rn Alaska
with the small whaler Gar ear. Capt.
Lane is one of the mo prominent of
Alaskan skippers and true A for many
years on the Arctic cc:
Captain Lane i a sou the 1 te
Charles D. Lane, piore mimng engi
.i. ,'cr and oper. . a in
s >f N ■ i> tv Iiei lie was
prominent in the cmtuA •. -im-iti*
Capt. Lane has headed many expe
ditions to the far north, several years
ago figuring in a rein f < xpedition to
Wrangell Island. In 1914 he rescued
Stefanssen and his party. Four years
ago he spent the season whaling in
the vicinity of Kodiak. Two years ago
he commanded the former army trans
port Buford which was purchased by
San Francisco people. The trip of the
Buford to Seward, with prominent
San Franciscans aboard, will be re
called. Last year he commanded the
steamer Hermann which went to Her
ald Island in the Arctic, where Capt.
Lane discovered the skeletons of a
former Arctic expedition.
Snow Takes Movies.
H. H. Snow, the internationally
known big hunter and moving picture
man. accompanied Captain Lane on
last year's trip to the Arctic, where
ha procured many reels of Arctic wild
game life. It is stated that just prior
to Captain Lane’s departure from San
Francisco, the film had been released
and was showing to capacity houses.
The title of the picture is “H. H.
Snow, hunting wild game in the Arc
tic with gun and camera.”
Richard Holbrook, one of the part
ners in the present venture, was a
member of the Herman crew under
Capt. Lane, signed on as a quarter
master. Mr. Holbrokk has been sail
ing with Captain Lane for the past
five and & half years.
Stock In Western Mines
Take Rise In Market
NEW YORK, July 10 (/P)—An enor
mous turnover in stock of the Golden
Center mines comprised nearly one
fourth of the day’s transactions on
the curb. One hundred and twenty
five thousand shares moved j The
company owns the British Columbia
mine. Trading in the Engineers’ Gold
quieted down, stock falling to 88.
NEW METHOD TRIED BY POLICE
CHIEF TO CATCH AUTO BANDITS
NEW ORLEANS, July 10. (/P)—
Payroll bandits and other hold-up
men who use automobiles to escape
after downtown robberies are finding
it harder to get away due to a sys
tem installed by Thomas Healy, new
chief of police. Under the rule when
a policeman discovers lawbreakers
escaping in a machine he blows a
long blast and four short ones on his
whistle and nearby traffic officers
stop all vehicles until further notice.
Payroll robberies have been comman
here this summer, averaging almost
one a week and it was because of
these crimes and the recent robbery
of a jeweler’s messenger of $30,000
in gems as he came out of a down
town bank vault that the experiment
was tried.