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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925. PRICE TEN CENTS.
HIJACKERS HELD
OVER; TRIED IN
. MAY FOR MURDER
BAKER AND SOWASH TRIED FOR
MURDER OF GILLES’— WIT
NESS TELLS OF KILLING
VICTORIA. March 2S.—Baker ami
Sowash will be held for trial for the
murder of the Gillises in the next as
sizes in May.
Paul Stromkins. chief witness in the
•case against Baker and Sowash, col
lapsed today during the preliminary
hearing when Baker and Sowash fo
cused their eyes on him while he was
relating the incidents of the Beryl G.
raid. He testified this afternoon
that after boarding the schooner, Gil
lis’s son appeared on deck. Stromkins
said he saw Sowash follow him and
kill him. knocking him to the deck.
“Sowash said to Baker, ‘I killed him’
^ and Baker shook hands with him. I
didn't see Baker kill the captain but
Baker later said he shot the old man
because he was too strong” testified
Stromkins.
Handcuffed Men Together
SEATTLE. March 28.—Paul Strom
* kins, chief witness against Baker and
Sowash, stated that after slaying Wil
liam Gillies and his son. the bodies
were handcuffed together at Halibut
Island, tied to the Beryl G.’s anchor,
thrown into the water and then were
towed out a ways where the anchor
chain was cut.
Another Stillman Episode
Looms In New York Court
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NEW YORK, Mar. 28.—Clifford
Hendricks, a wealthy New York and
California sportsman, has named Joe
Sheeahulca, an Hopi Indian guide as
co-respondent in his divorce suit
against Ida Hendricks. The couple
were married in 1920. Two trips
to Europe in 1923 were followed by
a trip through the west in a hunt
ing expedition. It was during the
hunt last fall, according to the com
plaint, that the misconduct involving
Mrs. Hendricks and the guide took
place. Hendricks caused the arrest
of his wife and guide at ^Riverside,
California last October, charging
thebn with the violation of the Mann
Act.
Past Grand President of
» Grand Igloo PioGneers
Is Visiting In Seward
R. C. Rothenberg, of Fairbanks, past
grand president of the grand igloo of
Pioneers of Alaska, arrived on today’s
boat on his way to his home in Fair
banks. Mr. Rothenberg reports one
of the best sessions of the order ever
enjoyed by the Pioneers. Much busi
ness was done and perfect harmony
prevailed.
» Mr. Rothenberg in taking back with
him the corpse of Sam Jensen, a pio
neer of the Fairbanks district, who
passed through here a month or so
ago for Tenakee, in search of health.
Funeral services were held over the
remains of Mr. Jensen in Juneau, un
der the auspices of Igloo No. 6, the
members of the grand igloo and of the
legislature attending in a body. Inter
' FAMINE IN IRELAND
^ BELFAST, Mar. 28.—Colonel Geo.
O’Callaghan, the Westroph leader of
the Irish Farmers’ Union, reported a:
a conference last night that cattle
and sheep are dying by the hund
reds in County Clare on account of
a famine. People in one township,
30 miles long and ten miles wide
lost eighty per cent of their live
stock and are themselves eating
Tdried leaves to sustain their life, i
ENGLAND PAY SHIGH
TRIBUTE TO CURZON
LONDON. Mar. 28—The highest
tribute possible for the British na
tion to offer in the memory of one
of its statesmen was paid at noon
to the late Marquis Curzon, when
thefuneral services were held at
Westminister Abbey and was attend
ed by many thousands.
JaPA, _ L TR ri
TOKYO. Mar. .
this morning attacked the residences
of certain peers who were promi
nent in opposition to universal suf
frage measure, during yesterday’s
session in the upper house. Onl\
flight damage was done, but the at
tacks have caused serious complica
tions in the situation of the upper
house, which refuses to continue the
discussion of suffrage measure until
the honor of the house has been
satisfied by the home minister.
YOUTHS CONFESS
TO MURDER OF
CHEHAUS MAN
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 28—Two youths
in the penitentiary here, who have
served four months of a five year term
for burglary, confessed today to steal
ing an automobile at Seattle and latei
robbing and killing a drunken man at
Chehalis in May. They said they want
ed a clear conscience.
The boys said that they killed the
man near Seattle, and carried the body
in the auto previously stolen through
Chehalis, and buried it south of that
city in May. The boys who are Ar
mand Derner and James Hatch, re
cently sentenced for burglary from
Jackson county.
The corpse was found Sunday with
a bullet hole in the forehead. Dernei
and Hatch said the man was drunfc
and resisted and they shot him. A
diamond pin and $350 were taken oft
the body.
ROSS J. KINNEE IN TOWN
ON WAV TO THE IDITAROC
Ross Kinney, for many years con
nected with the Alaska Road Com
mission in the Iditarod and Kusko
kwim districts, arrived in town on the
steamship Alaska, on his way to the
upper waters of the Kuskokwim. Mr
Kinney came out last year by way ot
the lower Kuskokwim, where he start
ed work at Kolmakofsky, thence tc
the mouth of the Aniak, and to the
mouth of the Tulisak. This trail elim
inates the rough ground along the riv
er altogether, and continuing down
the river by Akiak, Bethel, Eek and
thence down to Kwiniak and to Good
News Bay. The trail then leads from
Good News Bay down to Nushagak
Koggiung and Egigak to Lake Beach
rof, coming out at Kanatak. The trail
is all lined out, and is well supplied
with relief cabins with the exception
of that portion from Egigak to Kana
tak. The distance is about 1250 miles
and the trail is of the greatest conve
nience to winter travelers.
Mr. Kinney, who leaves on tomor
row’s train, will be stationed at To
kotna this season.
PLAN AIRPLANE FLIGHT
ACROSS THE NORTH POLE
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28.—An
airplane flight from Paris to San Fran
cisco, crossing the Arctic near the
North Pole, is planned as a feature of
the Diamond Jubilee to be held in the
state in September by Hammer, ori
ginator of the plan, who contemplates
the London-North Pole-Tokio flight.
DES MOINES, la., Mar. 28.—Sen
ator Brookhart statemented today
regarding the contest of- his election
by representatives of the State Cen
tral committee as “dishonest, fraud
llent and a conspiracy to oust him.”
BONE DRY LAW
NOT BE REPEALED
' BY LEGISLATURE
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 28—A ma
! jority report by the Judiciary Commit
'* veu the measure for
Bone Dry
ju . , ..ending that ;
■'it do not pass.” Murray and Elliott 1
signed the minority report as not con- j
curring, with Watson. Ross and Fer-;
guson signing the majority report. The 1
measure is up for its second reading
today, but there is little likelihood the ;
law will be repealed.
The Senate adjourned today out of
respect to the memory of the late
Attorney General Jerry Murphy, who
! died this week, the House recessing
two hours for the same purpose.
In a mixup over the rules governing
the form of bills when passed, six of
the Senate bills passed yesterday were
ordered returned by the House this
morning without being received. The
House objected to engrossed bills be
ing unsigned by the president and sec
retary of the Senate, claiming that
this did not comply with the require
ments of Section 13, of the Organic
Act. The Senate had claimed it was
unnecessary to sign the bills until
they had passed both houses.
Juneau American Legion Post peti
tioned the legislature to legalize box
ing matches by amateurs, which have
been under ban in the First division
the past year.
BODIES OF CREW
GERMAN VESSELS
FOUND IN WRECK
SCAPA FLOW, Orkney Islands. Mar.
28.—Workmen digging up a scuttled
German destroyer beached in Mill Bay
when the Germans surrendered the
fleet, found the bodies of live officers
and sailors, apparently not warned
! when the crews sank the flee? June
21, 1919.
REQUISITION FOR SPADONI
OLYMPIA, Mar. 28—Governor Ro
land Hartley has issued a requisition
on the governor of California for the
return of Spadoni, who victimized a
number of Italians in a get rich quick
banking scheme.
FORMER HOME OF SPANISH
EMBASSY RAIDED; BIG HAUL
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 28.—
A raid on the former Spanish embas
sy, in the fashionable presidential
district of this city today netted the
dt*y squad one of the largest plants
for the manufacture of illegal liquor
ever found in Washington. The house
is now owned by a restaurant keep
er. Several stills were found in full
operation.
Mistakes Husband for
Prowler—She Shoots
SEATTLE, Wn., Mar. 28.—Hearing
a man trying to enter her home ear
ly this morning, Mrs. Mabel Colom
bo called the police who took him
away. He returned home and she
shot him in the chest, and with his
life now hanging on a thread for
recovery, she learned it was her
husband, Joe Colombo, a barber of
this city.
MANY KILLED IN SHAFT FALL
METZ, Lorraine, Mar. 28.—A lift
in the Merlebach mine dropped three
hundred feet into the pit with forty
men aboard. Res' workers believe
that the majority * them have met
-death.
LILLIAN GISH BEEN TRIFLING
WITH OTHER PRODUCERS
WHICH CALLS HER TO STAND
NEW YORK, Mar. 28— Lillian
Gish, movie star will take the stand
on Monday, in the trial of Charles
Dnell producer, who is suing her
lor an alleged breach of contract to
make pictures for his company alone.
WILL HEAD COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 28
Former Representative McKenzie of
Illinois heads a commission of five,
named by the president to make a
study of the Muscle Shoals propo
sition.
FIVE NAVAL OFFICERS WILL
BE SENT OVER; BOOZE CHARGE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 28.—
At least five naval officers will be
court-martialed as the result of
smuggling liquor into this country on
the naval transport Buford a short
while ago.
VETERAN CORDOVA
TRAPPER DIES
HOSPITAL
PENCIL SCRAWL ASKS THAT HIS
BODY BE BURNED IN CABIN
WROTE TRAPPING BOOK
(Special to Gateway)
CORDOVA, March 2S.—Scrawling a
penciled will on a piece of cardboard,
Harry Christie, 63. veteran trapper and
author, died in the hospital here last
Thursday.
Christie asked in his will that his
body be taken to his cabin and burn
ed. Hospital officials are in a quan
dry over his request.
Harry Christie came to Cordova over
twenty years ago and built a cabin at
Alganik, the original site of the Cop
per City. He published a book on
practical: trapping, thinking his work
would bring him a fortune. As far as
is known he has no relatives.
REDLIGHT DISTRICT LOWER
CALIFORNIA ORDERED CLOSED
MEXICALI. March 28—Every red
light district in Lower California was
ordered closed and foreign inmates
expelled, by order of a department
mandate issued by Governor Rodiguez
to the police of all cities of the pro
vince.
TUNNEY GIVEN DECISION
OVER HARRY GREB
ST. PAUL, March 2S.—Newspaper
experts gave Gene Tunney the light
heavyweight championship in a ten
round fight against Harry Gred. The
fight lasted but six of the scheduled
ten rounds.
SLOT MACHINES
SEIZED SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Mar. 28.—Following the
seizure by deputy sheriffs of thirty
slot machines and three supply de
plot which authorities claim were fin
anced in California, Chief of Police
Sevryhe charged that Mayor Brown
had given Jack O’Connor, owner of
one of the depots, special privileges
to run slot machines in down town
cigar stores and pool halls over the
chief’s protest.
The chief said he had told the may
or the machines were crooked. Sev
ryns said, “The mayo” ordered a spe
cial squad Saturday .id McJnday to
confiscate these machines, and 19 were
gathered in from drug stores and gro
ceries. Only one was taken from
O’Connor’s, which was found in a
store which the mayor had refused
to allow the machines to be placed in.’'
ASK GIRL PLEAD
GUILTY TO STOP
HER SUFFERING
'JURY IN ELLINGSON CASE PICK
ED—ASK FOR PLEA SEC
OND DEGREE MURDER
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28—The
; Ellingson jury composed of nine men
and three women has been picked. Dis
trict Attorney Brady in a statement
in today’s bulletin, predicted the ag
ony the girl is going through, would
be stopped if the girl’s attorneys will
enter a plea of guilty of murder in the
second degree.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28.—The
counsel late today, for Dorothy El
lingson, in a conference with Judge
Loudetback who is presiding over
the trial, refused to plead guilty in
any degree of murder.
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FINANCIER IMPROVING
NEW YORK, Mar, 28.—Charles W.
Morse, aged 69, financier and ship
operator, who has been suffering
I from paralysis of the right side was
! reported tonight by his physicians as
! much improved.
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HAD A LIGHT FALL SUIT ON?
NEW YORK, Mar. 28.—Michael
Haiburger fell one story through a
skylight while washing windows, and
was found hunting around for his
chamois skin cloth when the ambu
lance arrived.
U. S. AFTER GERMAN DYES
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mar. 28.—
The United States Court of Appeals
affirmed the decision of the Federal
District Court of Delamare, dismiss
ing the Government’s suit for recov
ery of the seized German dye pat
ents from the Chemical Foundation,
Inc., which purchased them from the
! Alien property custodian during the
Wilson administration. The Govern
ment is expected to appeal to the
Supreme court.
CAMBRIDGE WINS IN ANNUAL
2-MILE RACE WITH OXFORRD
1 -
PUTNEY, Oxford, Mar. 28.—Oxford
was forced to quit after rowing two
miles in rough water, Cambridge win -
ning easily in the annual Oxford-Cam
bridge race of four miles. The Oxford
boat was waterlogged. Time 21:51.
Steamer Yukon Sails
At 9 This Morning
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Mar. 28.—The steamer
Yukon of the Alaska Steamship com
pany sailed this morning at nine
o’clock with the following passengers
for Seward:
L. J. Palmer, Edward Gibbs, Geo.
Clark, J. Korikowski, E. W. Parks,
F. J. Englehorn, E. Englehorn, C.
Asnussen, T. Gaffney, J. Rosendall,
J. Hill, E. Morgan, L. Engbloom, J.
Carlson, H. Antlionson, R. Sonder*
berg, D. Thompson, D. Peterson, J.
Korning, A. Berry, T. Katiner, Enid
Pederson, G. Peterson, A. McGrem
mon, A. Alandahl, Dan Wilder, John
Swanson, Henry Loof, C. L. Olson,
G. Campbell, Charles Kimball, T. D.
Harris, A. J. White, Mrs. C. John*
son, L. J. Till, J. Belleview, J. K.
Nichols, N. J. Gaikewa, wife and
baby, Charles Cobb, Claude Cobb, E.
Petry, Charles Petry, C. C. Apple, J.
H. Bartholf, E. S. Lee, W. E. Tynes,
and wife, Minnie Thompson, Mrs. R,
Zerker, Mrs. O. White, Mrs. A. C.
Wanamaker, John Strom, Capt. G.
A. Green, F. L. Larson, A. Anderson,
J. W. Duncall, A. J. Allen, E. John*
son, A. Cope, P. M. Hubbard, Miss
E. A. Neile, J. W. Walker, Capt. T.
Hynes, Miss E. Romig, Mrs. J. Cleve*
land, Mrs. A. Helty, Miss G. Lap
pin, Mrs. P. Ellis and one steerage.