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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 115.
SEWARD,
ALASKA. THURSDAY. MAY 20,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WAS SUED AT EVERY TURN; SHOT
IN LEG ONCE WHEN VISITED
V' CHORUS GIRL'S ROOM
WAS AUTHOR OF ONE BOOK
Favorite Pursuit Was Breeding Thor
oughbred Horses—Owned
Stock Farm.
NEW YORK, May 20. (£>)—'W. E. D.
Stokes, financier and hotel owner, died
at his home here today.
The history of William Earle Dodge
Stokes is chiefly the history of his
litigation—both divorce and civil—
which kept him almost constantly in
the courts and the limelight.
His marital career, consisting of two
marriages, one divorce and an unsuc
cessful attempt for five years to di
vorce his second wife, Mrs. Helen El
wood Stokes, attracted wide attention.
Stokes was born in New York in
1S53 and inherited from his banker
father, James Stokes, property valued
at $11,000,000. Figures revealed by his
second wife when she sued him for
dower rights showed that his net es
tate was $7,23S,000.
On his graduation from Yale Uni
versity in 1S74, Stokes showed a tal
ent for finance and became associated
with his father- in business. On the
latter’s death he built the Ansonia Ho
f tel and conducted it until 1911 when
he leased it for a long term for sever
al million dollars.
His first marriage was in 1S95 to
Rita Hernandez de Alba Acosta, daugh
ter of a wealthy Cuban, landed family
described by Paul Helleu, the painter,
as “the most nearly perfectly beauti
.•'# fill woman in the world.” They had
one child, W. E. D. Stokes, jr.( and in
1900 she divorced him secretly, alleg
ing infidelity.
Later she became the financee of the
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, former rec
tor of the Church of the Ascension,
who was forbidden by Bishop Man
ning to marry her because she was di
vorced.
In 1911, Stokes married Miss Helen
1 Elwood, Denver, Col. She was twen
| ty-two years old while the hotel man
gave his age as “over forty-five years
old.” Two children were born to
them.
Stokes, in- 1919, began divorce pro
ceedings, alleging misconduct by his
wife “with upward of ten correspond
ents.” Mrs. Stokes replied with a
✓ cross-bill charging “cruel and inhu
man treatment.” After two years lit
igation the court ruled that Mrs.
Stokes had not been proved unfaith
ful, but that she did not deserve a di
vorce because she had written endear
ing letters to her husband during the
period of the "cruel treatment.”
With difficulty Stokes obtained a
retrial of the case. But before it be
gan District Attorney Pecora dis
closed that four witnesses had testi
fied falsely in relation to Stokes’
charges that his wife had been seen
in the apartment of Edgar T. Wallace,
wealthy California oil man.
As a result the wife sued her step
son, W. E. D. Stokes, jr., for $1,000,
000 charging that he tried to defame
her character and had Stokes and sev
eral witnesses indicted in Chicago on
the same allegation.
The civil suit was dropped, while
a jury acquitted Stokes of the crimi
nal charge. The second divorce case,
however, continued for nearly three
more years and again ended in the de
feat of Stokes.
Mrs. Stokes meanwhile had started
separation proceedings which resulted
in an agreement by which Stokes was
to have access at all times to their
children who were to remain in the
custody of their mother. The settle
ment was understood to have called
for a $600,000 trust fund.
Soon after Stokes was sued by his
counsel, Attorney Steur, who entered
a suit of $15,000 against him, charg
ing that payment had been refused on
three of Stokes’ cheeks. The law firm
of Nugent & Nugent sued him for $61,
000 fees, and later asked $1,000,000,
alleging Stokes had slandered them
by charging that they had stolen some
of his papers during the divorce trial.
Daniel B. Ellis, Denver, Col., lawyer
was awarded a verdict of $3,800 with
costs and interests totalling more than
$5,000 in a suit against Stokes for fees.
In the meantime, Stokes had filed
a bill against the Ottoman-American
Development Company for $5,250 in a
financial matter and the defendant re
plied by demanding $1,500,000 for 14.
000 shares of stock and additional
damages making the total $S.120,000.
The hotel man came in for some
notoriety in 1911 shortly after his sec
ond marriage, when he went to the
apartment of Ethel Conrad and Lillian
Graham, chorus girls, to get some let
ters and was shot three times in the
leg. The girls pleaded self-defense
and were acquitted. Miss Graham sued
.Stokes for $100,000 alleging malicious
prosecution but later the case dropped
out from sight.
Stokes’ only plunge into authorship
also landed him in court. The book
was entitled, "The Right to be Well
Born” and his publishers sued him for
$5,000 for work on it. He was also
sued in 1907 for $4,500 by a Kentucky
woman for maintenance of her son,
but the suit was dropped.
One of the hotel man’s pursuits was
the breeding of thoroughbred horses.
He owned the Patchen Wilkes stock
farm in Kentucky and operated it un
til 1924 when he turned it over to
"Weddie” Stokes. Mr. Stokes belong
ed to several clubs and made his home
at the Ansonia hotel.
ALBERT WHITE CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20. (Jp)
—The Senate confirmed the nomina
tion of Albert White as First Division
marshal in Alaska.
OSLO, Norway, May 29. (JP)—It is
reported from Spitzsbergen that Lt.
Byrd plans an expedition to the South
Pole as soon as possible. Byrd and
members of the expedition leave
Kings Bay for London tomorrow.
CUTTER BEAR OFF, ARCTIC
SEATTLE, May 20. (/P)—The cut
ter Bear leaves this afternoon for Un
alaska, Bering Sea and the Arctic
ocean with a full cargo. Commander
C. S. Cochran is in command.
Frank Logerquist, local carpenter,
was among those who departed for
Fairbanks this morning.
ALASKA DUE IN' PORI
TOMORROW MOHR
_
ALMOST THOUSAND TONS GENER
AL CARGO BE DISCHARGED
AT THIS PORT
Smashing all previous records made
to Cordova from Seatle the SS. Al
aska of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany. arrived at the Copper City yes
terday (Wednesday) afternoon at 1
o’clock, just 101 hours out of Seattle,
j The fast liner is scheduled to arrive
in port tomorrow (Friday) morning
at 4 o’clock, and will remain here un
til at least late Saturday when she
departs for Uganik with cannery crew?
i and supplies. Almost a thousand tons
of general cargo will f>e discharged
locally, of which 40 tons is billed to
the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co.,
j 40 tons to the Standard Oi plant. 40
I tons for local merchants. 250 tons for
the Alaska Railroad, and 550 tons for
rail points. Included in the tonnage
I are five automobiles for Fairbanks
i The shipment for the railroad n.Orac
i es ties and telegraph poles.
CAPTAIN EACKLAND WILL TRADE
IN FAR NORTH—RETURNS
SEATTLE IN AUTUVN
SEATTLE. May 20. 'The
schooner C. S. Holmes, which John
Backland owns and commands, sailing
j tomorrow, carries first class knock
| down houses for Eskimos on St. Law
; rence Island and elsewhere under the
: Bureau of Education jurisdiction. The
; houses are of four and five rooms and
j double constructed. One goes to Shis
mare-f. Thev cost the natives $1,340
I each, including the hardware. The
Holmes goes to Kotzebue, Barrow and
other places with groceries, lumber,
coal and other supplies.
Captain Backland will trade all sum
mer and return to Seatte in autumn.
NEW VESSEL OF RUSH
5. S. CO. ARRIVE POUT
LARGE GENERAL CARGO
The Alaska line freighter Jeptha,
C-apt. Anderson and Purser Parker,
arrived in port last night from the
south with a large general cargo for
local, rail points, and the Standard Oil
plant. For the latter 29S tons of oil
supplies was discharged.
The Jeptha is one of the three ves
sels purchased last winter by the Al
aska Steamship Company. It is of
the same class as the Oduna and has
a cargo capacity of about 500 tons.
It was procured by the company from
the U. S. Shipping Board. It is mak
ing its second voyage into Alaskan
waters.
P. Lawrence, Juneau broker, was
among those leaving for the Interior |
this morning.
STAMPEDING STEER DROWNS
DURING PEND^E^Oh E$C*p*DE
—
One of the two steers which f'a»
peded up the street froxx the dock yes
terday afrerxoox In ax a*ewpt tf
swim the bay, drowned. a meres
party reached the aximai 1®s: a lltflfe
too late. The steers broke kvoee after
being swung to the doc* front the big
freighter Jeptha After their long cot?
Snemext on the *esse. the smei: <G Se
ward’s greens evident**- was ai. the
steers needed to start then: ox a texx
pare for as soox as they hit the wharf
from the deck of the vessel the* step
ped ox the accelerator axe hit ft for
up the creek Members of the ere*
armed with improvised lariets apex:
the resrt of the <!fcv at ax mprrrisec
rodeo.
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ALBANY. may 36. —ProfcSbl: rtt
took it? place amnnfr -toe -issne* of
the tall ©lectior it Xesr York irith
the announce® en: ton into: by Gover
nor Smith that toe toad >;rnet Kar;e
Phelps' bill, p-oridinc for a referen
da® ot the qnestiot at the central
elec riot: “Should the Omrrross 'toe
Pnirec Stares modify the reue-s act
to enforce the Eirt'-enth Amend met:
so that same shall not nMUbtt the
man torture sale, transportation, im
portation and exportaTK* o? toece-aip
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as determined in accordance ar*h
law of respective Spates.”
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ward last Slight from the . i i i iawn
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will be left here all summer tor the
benefit of the tourists.
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