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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 252.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHARGED WITH
MURDER KELSO
EDITORLAST JUNE
Supt. Kelso Waterworks Arrested on
Warrant Sworn Out by Ex-Mayor
A. Ruric Todd
KELSO, Sept. 21. (/P)—George H.
Norris, Superintendent of the Kelso
Water Works, was arrested on a war
rant sworn out by A. Ruric Todd, ex
mayor of Kelso, charged with murder
ing Thomas Dovery, Kelso editor, who
•was shot down on the streets June 19.
Norris was released a few hours
later and the warrant declared invalid
by County Attorney Inus, who said a
justice of the peace had no authority
to issue a warrant for a felony. Inus
said he had no reason to suspect Nor
ris.
On the eleventh of September Sher
iff Clark Studebaker and deputies serv
d a warrant on Norris, charging him
with embezzlement of the city’s funds,
along with eleven other prominent
Kelso citizens. The warrants were
issued on a complaint filed by A. Ruric
Todd.
The warrants were issued by Jus
txce of the Peace W. M. McCoy of Cas
tleroek. George A. Poland, Kelso
justice of the peace, is one of the per
sons charged by Todd.
On advice of Prosecuting Attorney
Hite Inus, Sheriff Studebaker an
nounced he will release all arrested
under the Todd charges on $1,500 bond
each, on each count.
Six are charged with embezzlement
and conspiracy to defraud the city of
Kelso of $1,000 and more, obtained
from funds available for construction
of a city filtration plant. Those charg
ed under this complaint are:
E. E. Brown, former councilman and
heavy property owner here.
C. C. Basliore, cashier of the First
National Bank of Kelso.
Albert Maurer, former mayor and
present postmaster of Kelso.
A. D. Bvram, former councilman and
proprietor of the Washington hotel.
George H. Norris, city engineer.
Joseph Gross, former councilman
and West Kelso property owner.
Another complaint filed by Todd
upon which other warrants are based,
charge Bvram, Norris, Maurer, and
Brown with embezzlement of $300 of
the funds of the Kelso water plant.
Frank G. Barnes, state senator and
heavy property owner in this county,
is charged with perjury, the complaint
alleging that Barnes testified on oath
falsely at the libel trial of Todd sev
eral months ago, that he (Barnes) had
never known or heard of an investiga
tion by the state senate concerning
Barnes’ purchase of certain lands be
longing to the schools of the state at
below their fair value, or of bribing
certain timber cruisers for making
false and fictitious estimates of the
value of the property purchased.
Barnes’ bail was fixed at §1,500.
•George A. Poland, Kelso justice of
the peace and president of the Kelso
school board, is charged with embez
zlement, the complaint alleging that
Poland, while police judge, converted
to his personal use without lawful
right, more than §300 of the funds of
his office. Poland’s bail was also fix
ed at §1,500.
FISHERMEN ARE .
NOT SATISFIED
WITH RAISES
NEW WESTMINISTER, B. C., Sept.
21. (/P)—Dissatisfied with increases al
ready granted them, the Fraser River
fishermen have appointed a committee
to appeal to the Dominion Director of
Fisheries next Thursday, instructing
them to tell him they will quit if their
demands are refused.
RUM RUNNERS HAVE QUIT
CALIFORNIAN WATERS
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 (£>)—Cana
dian and Belgian rum runners have
entirely deserted southern California
waters according to Capt. C. Lucas
master of the coast guard cutter Ta
marasa, which came into port yester
day after an extended hunt of the
wet fleet.
EQUINOCTIAL STORM REACHES
ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST
SEATTLE, Sept. 21 (£>)— Equinoc
tial storms are raging from Alaska tc
the southern California coast accord
ing to reports received by the weath
er bureau today. In Alaska heavy
rains are reported with wind in some
places, while wind and rain prevail
along the Oregon and California
coast.
MISSION VESSEL
IS WRECKED AT
TELLER HARBOR
* NOME, Sept. 21. (&)—'The Lutheran
: mntnrshin Aripl Rrnwn ivpnf achnrc
at Teller last Monday, her rudder
breaking and her forward mast broken
off. The crew of the vessel was
landed safely at Teller.
The vessel was returning to Nome
from the Little Diomedes Islands, and
was caught in a storm which blew it
through the Bering ^Straits into the
Arctic Ocean. The vessel landed at
Shismaref and there the crew took ref
uge with George Goshaw, fox rancher.
When the wind changed the vessel
proceeded to Teller where she was
wrecked.
COAL ADVANCES IN EAST
CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (].p)—American
anthracite coal will advance from 25
to 50 cents a bushel toda£. This is
due to the miners’ strike. It was an
nounced here tonight that further ad
vances are expected unless mining is
resumed soon.
GUESTS OF MOVIE ACTORS
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21 (£>)—Vice
President and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes
went behind the scenes today in Hol
lywood visiting several motion picture
studios. They were luncheon guests
of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford.
ALBERT PETERSON
CRUSHED BY BIG
DKKDIiK mm
NOME. Sept. 21. (>P)—Albert Peter
son, employed on Anvil creek on a
dredge belonging to J. J. Cole, Otto
Meisen & Kjelhberg, was instantly
killed Saturday when he was crushed
by a big revolving screen. Peterson
was well known in Nome and has a
brother living in British Columbia. He
was drafted in Nome during the war.
WILL TEACH TEMPERANCE
IN CHURCHES OF NATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21. (£>)
—A campaign to intensify the teach
ing of temperance in the churches,
is to be undertaken by the federal
council of the churches, as a sequel
to disclosures-made by a prohibition
report of the council’s research depart
ment.
AMERICAN AVIATORS IN
AFRICA ARE VIOLATING
LAWS OF UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21. (JP)
—The Department of State has noti
fied American aviators taking part in
the French war on the Riffians, that
they are performing service in viola
tion to the United States laws.
VILLAGE ON THE
COLVILLE HAS
HISTORIC PAST
Erected by Indians During War on the
Coastal Eskimos, Says Veteran
Editor of Nome Paper
NOME, Sept. 21. (/P)—Commenting
on the survey party’s discovery of an
old deserted village in the Colville
River villey, Maynard, editor of the
Nome Nugget, said:
“It is quite posible the village was
ocupied by the Yukon Indians, during
their pilgrimage from the Yukon sec
tions to the coast, when it will be re
membered the Indians made war on
the coastal Eskimos, many years ago,
for breach of tribal relations, and very
nearly annihilated the Alaskan eskimo.
“It was always considered the In
dians traveled up the Koyukuk river,
crossed the divide, coming down the
Colville river. If such was the case,
it would be natural they would buijd
a camp or village for substation dur
ing their march acros the divide.
“Very little was learned of the bat
tle for the survivors were wiped out
! by plague and sickness.’’
Maynard) recalled one visit to a bat
I tie field twenty-four years ago at the
head of Salt Lake, fifty miles in the
Interior from Teller, and at that time
found identically the same kind of con
ditions.
TWO LOSE LIVES
DURING CIRCUS
NEAR SPOKANE
SPOKANE, Sept. 21. (/P)—Lieuten
ant Schuyler Piestley and Private J.
A. Avey, Jr., of Spokane, were killed
here when the airplane in which they
were flying, fell four hundred feet
during the air circus Sunday, in which
twenty-three planes participated.
Thirty thousand witnessed the two
aviators flying around the field, when
their plane, making a turn, slipped in
to a spinning nose dive and plunged
into a twenty-five foot pit where work
men had been digging a well.
DEBT SETTLEMENT WILL BE
OFFERED TO UNITED STATES
PARIS, Sept. 21. (/P)—The debt pro
posal, which Caillaux, it is understood,
prepared for submittal to the Ameri
can commission at Washington, calls
for and offers a substantial payment in
1926, with increasing amounts annual
ly for twenty years.
DAVIS IS FIRST
WITNESS BEFORE
AIRPLANE BOARD
Says No Reason for People to Be Pan
icky Over Conditions in Army
Air Service
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21. (JP)
—Acting Secretary of War, Davis, was
the first witness in the President’s air
board of Inquiry. He declared “there
is no reason for the American people
to be come panic striken over condi
tions in the army air service. The
amount of equipment is inadequate,
and the personnel limited, but unex
celled by any air service of the world,
and is at least equal in skill, hardi
hood and bravery.
“The placing of the administration,
which is purely civil, under military
supervision, is economically unsound
and basically unwise. Military and
civilian aviation should cooperate
closely, but should be administered
seperately,” Davis stated.
SAYS MITCHELL RESPONSIBLE
FOR DEATH OF TWO AVIATORS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21 (/P)—
Admiral W. A. Moffatt placed the re
sponsibility for the deaths of two avi
ators killed during an aviation meet
at San Antonio upon the shoulders of
Col. Mitchell. He declared that if the
planes in which the officers met their
deaths were dilapidated as Mitchell
claims it was the duty of the high
aviator present at the meet to exercise
his authority and prevent the flight.
POVERTY IN FRESNO
FRESNO, Cal., Sept. 21 (£>)—Six
safes were cracked and looted in two
days in this city, $375 being obtained
by the burglars.
SHOP GIRL KILLED
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (^—Cather
ine Gore, a pretty 24-year-old shop
girl was found dead here today after
having been attacked by an unknown
assailant.
NEGRO TIMBER
CUTTER BURNED
FOR ASSAULT
NEW ALBANY, Miss., Sept. 21. (£>)
—L. Q. Ivy, a negro timber cutter was
burned at the stake by a mob which
took him from the authorities. Ivy
confessed that he attacked the daugh
ter of a farmer, last Friday. He was
caught by the authorities when he re
turned to the scene of the attack.
regiH!ar army planes
BARRED IN SPOKANE CIRCUS
' SPOKANE, Sept. 21. (/P)—The par
ticipation of regular United States
army flyers or the use of of regular
army planes in tlie flying circus of the
national guard here Sunday, has been
prohibited, by acting-secretary of war
Davis, following a protest from the
Ministerial Association, asking that
national guard planes take part only.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 21. (JP)—Ed
ward Dithmar, former lieutenant gov
ernor and the only anti-Lafollette can
didate, following the withdrawal of
Roy Wilcox, has filed as an indepen
dent candidate.^
AMUNDSEN WILL FLY IN MAY
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Sept. 21.
Amundsen will start his next flight
to the North Pole in May, expecting
to make the trip in 45 hours.
SEATTLE LAWYER
SHOT IN JAW BY
WAGON DRIVER
Claimed Motorists Insisted in Forcing
Him Off the Road—Had been in
Several Smashups.
*<r
OLYMPIA, Sept. 21. (/P)—Irritated
by what he considered persistent and
malicious attempts of motorists to
force him off the highways, (since he
left Paradise, Montana in June in a
wagon, J. Ingram was arrested after
he had shot Joe Hedges, Seattle Law
yer, following the crash of the car
Hedges was riding in, with Ingram’s
wagon.
Hedges’ jaw was broken but his
wounds are not considered serious. A
half hour before George L. Barnes, the
mayor of Centralia, who had assisted
in the capture of Tom Murray, Oregon
convict, dented his fender when he hit
Ingram’s wagon in an attempt to pass
it.
% Ingram threatened to “shoot him be
tween the eyes” but Barnes succeed
ed in talking him out of the idea.
“That fellow is tougher than Tom
Murray,” said Barnes.
PRESIDENT HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
FROM MACHINE
_
Nearly Run Down by Auto Driver who
Is Arrested for Cutting Corners
Three Thousand Bond
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 21. (£>)
President Coolidge narrowly escaped
being struck by an automobile when
he stepped from a curb downtown.
The driver of the automobile, Na
than D. Smith of Baltimore, was ar
rested, charged with violating traffic
regulations. He was later released
on $3,500 bond. Smith was charged
with cutting corners and failing to
give right of way to pedestrians. A
secret service man saved the Presi
dent, by grabbing his arm.
ELECTRICITY WILL HEAT
CITIES IN THE FUTURE
BOSTON, Sept. 21. (£>)—The Chris
tian Science Monitor quotes Heiyy
Ford as saying electricity will heat the
American cities in the future. “Why
not convert coal into electrical power
by burning it under ground and send
ing it to the city from the mine, with
I licit
uui utilising u uie sunace.
is what they’ll do in the future,” said
Ford.
TAKE SUSPECTS INTO CUSTODY
WINTON, la., Sept. 21 (jT*)—Search
for -clues that would lead to the ar
rest of the person who shot and killed
Mrs. Myrtle Cook, the prohiniuton
leader in her home here Monday
night, caused Sheriff Whitehead to
take into custody three youths who
are said to be narcotic addicts. No
charges have been placed against
them.
BRITISH RADICAL
SAYS WEST WILL
BE ENDANGERED
LONDON, Sept. 21. (JP)—Shapurji
Saklatvala, alluding to the action of
the American Secretary of States, in
an address to his parliamentary con
stituents, said, “If America was con
quered by Japan, Coolidge and Kellogg
would not utter the kind of speeches
made in the House of Commons on In
dia, cited by Kellogg in his depart
ment. They w'ould be despicable hu
man beings if they submitted on bend
ed knees and worshipped their con
querers. If the long, wicked criminal
rule oi Great Britain m inaia, Atnca
and China continues, the workers of
the west will be endangered.”
PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN
IN TROUBLE WITH COURT
SEATTLE, Sept. 21. (£>)—Sid Brunn
professional bondsman, arrested on
an open charge in connection with
bail bond - irregularities involving 31
police court prisoners, has been releas
ed on the payment of $3,000 bail.
MANSION OF JAP PRINCE
BURNED TO GROUND
TOKIO, Sept. 21. (/P)—Sunday the
mansion of Prince I. Tokugawa, in the
suburbs of Tokfo, burned at a loss of
a million yen. Three laborers have
been arrested, suspected of incendiar
ism.
Japanese Halibut Boat
on Way to Vancouver
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 19 (/P)—
The 110 foot Haruna Maru is due here
today with several tons of halibut for
a local cold storage. This is declared
to be the first shipment of Japanese
halibut made to this continent.