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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 261 w
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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1825
PRICE TEN CENTS
NO FIREARMS
DISPLAYED AT
NORRIS TRIAL
Firearms, Which Todd Predicted Be
Cause Bloodshed at Trial, Failed to
Materialize—Norris is Released on
Fifty Thousand Dollar Bail.
CASTLE ROCK, Sept. 24. (/P)—Fire
arms, which Todd, former mayor of
Kelso, predicted would cause blood
shep during the trial of George Nor
ris, being tried on murder and con
spiracy charges, failed to materialize
when the sheriff and deputies search
ed all spectators, finding no weapons.
Witnesses testified they saw a man
and a woman running from the scene
of the murder. Another said he had
seen Norris in the vicinity the same
night.
Norris has been bound over to the
superior court and will be released up
on payment of $40,000 bail.
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Chicago 2, Brooklyn 1.
Pittsburg 2, Philadelphia 1.
Cincinnati 1-1, Boston 6-2.
St. Louis 8, 8, New York 0, 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Philadelphia, 6-7, St. Louis 3-3.
Washington, Cleveland, rain.
New York 7, Chicago 6.
Boston 1, Detroit 15.
COAST LEAGUE—
Vernon 2, Portland 8.
Salt Lake 4, San Francisco 15.
Sacramento 2. Los Angeles 1.
Oakland 2, Seattle 3.
WOMAN WITNESS
TESTIFIES SHE
SAW NORRIS RUN
DEFENDANT IN KELSO MURDER
CASE SOBS AS HE IS LED
FROM COURT ROOM
CASTLEROCK, Wn., Sept. 24 (/P)—
Norris sobbed when he was led from
the courtroom last night, as the big •
crowd of witnesses cheered. Mrs. Ju-;
lia Price, of Kelso, testified she heard
the shot at midnight, and going to her i
window saw a man run toward a row
of cottages near her auto which was j
parked, then turrn and leap over a low j
fence. She said she recognized the j
man as Norris, and refused to be sha-'
ken in her testimony by cross exami- j
nation. Her testimony was the most;
damaging by far.
SILENT STREET CARS WITH
RUBBER WHEELS BE MADE
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 24—'
Light, noiseless street cars which can I
be operated at half the cost of regu
lar equipment and have the same car
rying capacity are being experimented -
with here in an effort to meet motor
bus competition.
The experiments are being closely
followed by the American Electric
Railroad Association. It is contended
that if the cars prove practical street
railways will be able to operate more
profitably than busses and will pro
vide more rapid and comfortable
transportation.
Two eagles fighting aloft in the
Swiss Alps dropped a small pig at the
feet of an English mountain climber.
Jos McSweeney of Donegal, Ireland,
had his first picture taken on his 116th
birthday with his wife who is 80.
Gilbert Yegian, 20 months old baby
of Woonsocket, R. I., fell 30 feet from
a window and landed on a pile of
gravel and was only slightly hurt.
HEALTH REGULATION MAY
DEPRIVE LIVERPOOL OF
U. S. HAM AND BACON
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 23. (yP)—Trade
in bacon and ham between this town
and North America is said to be in
grave danger from the regulotions is
sued by the ministry of health pro
hibiting the use of borax preserva
tive in food, says the Daily Post.
Members of the Liverpool Produce
Exchange declare that without the
use of borax, all the supplies of ba
con and ham from America, and the
greater part of Canadian supplies
which together form 48 per cent of
the total consumption of Great Brit
ain, will be stopped. The only alter
native to borax is the hard salt cure,
which is not popular with the Brit
ish people.
HALIBUTTREATY
1 BE IN EFFECT 2
MORE WINTERS
SOMEWHAT EARLY TO TELL OF
EFFECTS OF TREATY SAYS
BRITISH COMMISSIONER
VANCOUVER, B. C.( Sept. 24 (TP)—
W. A. Found, director of Canadian
Fisheries at Ottowa, declared last
night that the coast halibut industry,
including the fishermen, is behind the
International treaty providing for a
closed season three months in each
year on the halibut banks in the north
Pacific.
“It is a little early to determine the
effect of the closed season ^hich goes
in effect each year from November 16
to February 15, but it will continue
for the same period two more years,”
declared Mr. Found.
AERIAL MOTORCADE IS
PLANNED BY HENRY FORD
CHICAGO, Sept. 24 (TP)—An aerial
motorcade, sponsored by Henry Ford
and associates is planned to be flown
through the air across the country la
ter in the month, it was disclosed to
day when representatives of the Ford
aviation interests arrived here today
by airplane.
Representatives of the Association
of Commerce said details remained to
be worked out, but that they under
stood Mr. Ford was desirous of mak
ing a demonstration that would enlist
the support of substantial business
men.
NEW LUMBER BUSINESS IS
SIX PER CENT OVER OUTPUT
SEATTLE, Sept. 24 (TP)—One hun
dred and fourteen mills reporting to
the West Coast Lumbermen’s Associa
tion for the week ending August 29,
manufactured 107,220,163 feet of lum
ber; sold 113,482,276 feet, and shipped
103,312,788 feet.
New business was 6 per cent above
production and shipments were 9 per
cent below new business.
About 400 logs shipped to Emery
ville, N. Y., from Canada, were hol
lowed out and filled writh bottles of
whiskey.
Pigeons have damaged the walls of
St. Paul’s cathedral in London by
picking the mortar from between the
stones.
At the time of his recent death Ju
nius Groves, a former slave, was the
richest negro in Kansas and was
known far and wide as a potato king.
Mrs. Eleanor Raynor of Brooklyn,
New York, is mourning the loss of a
pet turtle which she saw a motorist
pick up and carry away.
After a spirited run the Boston
lire department found that the call
bad been sent in by a horse gnawing
it a fire box.
THREE ESCAPED
PRISONERSSEEN
GRANITE FALLS
Armed Deputies Kept on Watch Dur
ing Night—Expect Recapture Men
Inside 48 Hours—Believed to Have
Uncovered Cache Money Stolen at
Marysville holdup.
SEATTLE, Sept. 24. (/P)—The Seat
tle Post-Inteligeneer last night said
definite knowledge that at least three
of the jail-breakers have reunited in
the vicinity of Granite Falls, north of
Everett, has been obtained. Heavily
armed deputies were ordered to stay
on the job all night until relieved in
the morning. Deputies are confident
of the capture of the men within 24
hours. It is believed Johnson accom
panied by Ward and Kilbourn, and pos
sibly his mother, are the three seen.
A photograph of Johnson was recog
nized by Mrs. Howard, proprietor of
a grocery store and gas station at the
Falls, as one of the two men who stop
ped at her place in an autmobile Sun
day, took some food and offered to pay
her with a fifty dollar bill. When she
couldn’t make change Kilbourn and
the other man said, “Oh, hell, we’ve
got to have food,” and walked away
with the groceries and the bill.
No fifty dollar bills were taken by
Kilbourn at the Bothell robbery but
several were taken during the Marys
ville holdup, a month before. "Tt is
believed the robbers have unearthed
their cache. Judge William Sheller
saw a man Sunday near Granite Falls
whom was later identified as Ward.
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KING COUNTY
JAILER ARRESTED
SEATTLE, Sept. 24. (/P)—David
Morgan, King County jailer, suspend
ed after the decent jail’break, was ar
rested yesterday charged with boot
legging liquor to the grocery who de
livered groceries to the prisoners.
Morgan obtained liquor from former
prisoners in exchange for favors giv
en them while they were in jail. He
was bonded at §2;000, arraignment to
take place October 2nd.
COURT OF INQUIRY NEARS
END OF ITS FUNCTIONS
LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 24 (/p)—
The court of inquiry today questioned
the suurvivors of the Shenandoah
disaster who explained the construc
tion of the big dirigible and its func
tions. The inqury will end Saturday.
SELDOVIANS ARE
JOINED WEDLOCK
GEORGE KEARNS AND MRS. VAN
HOUTEN JOIN RANKS OF
BENEDICTS.
SELDOVIA, Sept. 18.—Seldovia
was thescene of a pretty wedding on
Sunday evening when Mrs. Van Hou
ten and George Kearns were joined
in t'he holy bonds of wedlock by U.
S. Commissioner Ralph V. Ander
son.
A dance was held in Wagner’s hall
after the ceremony, in honor of the
newlyweds and the evening was much
enjoyed by the many present.
Mr. Kearns is a Seldovia sawmill
operator and 'well known thruout 1
the district. Mrs. Van Houten form- (
erly wTas in the employe of the Wag
ner establishment. The couple will
make their home in Seldovia. ^ '<
Dashing from a court room in which
tie was being tried for speeding at
Taft, Col., Col. J. C. Morris ran into -
the jail by mistake and was captured. 1
ALBINO BABY ALARMS SAVAGE
TRIBE IN WHICH IT WAS BORN
SEATTLE, Sept. 23. (/P)—Curtis
King, a Memphis manufacturer, in
Seattle this summer, returning from
the Far East, told of an albino child
that had been born to parents of
the Mois race, a savage tribe wearing
brass rings on ankles and wrists
and whose ears are pierced with
strange ornaments. King said he
traveled hundreds of miles out of
his way to the settlements. King
said he travelled hundreds of miles
out of his way to the settlement of
Djiring, French Indo-China, to take
pictures of the youngster.
When the baby was born the par
ents and the rest of the jungle com
munity were so amazed that they
feared some evil was descending
upon them, King related. The child
is now four years old.
COMMISSIONERS
MEETTOCONFER
ON FRENCH DEBT
FRANCE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN
WHAT SHE OWES AMERICA,
SAYS MINISTER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24 (Jp).
French and American commissioners
met this morning to settle France’s
§4,000,000,000 war debt to the United
States, pledged to face the issue as
practical men recognizing the prob
lems of each other and desirous of
reaching a quick -agreement.
J. Caillaux said, “France has not
forgotten what we owe America for
her splendid work at the end of the
war and the generous help of our peo
ple received from the citizens of the
United States.”
Secredary of the Treasury Mellon
declared that he realized the influence
the conference will have on the peace
of the world and described the Ameri
can desire for settle as a duty to its
citizens, but declared that this nation
desired to be fair in its settlement
and-the time given it make it active.”
CAMEL BONES OVER 6,000,000
YEARS OLD FOUND IN WYO.
. CHICAGO. Sept. 24 (/P)—Six million
years ago a-freak storm drove thou
sands of camels, each eight or nine
feet high into an area nine by four
miles near Lusk, Wyo., where nearly
all of them perished.
The skull, leg bones and neck of one
of these American camels have been
discovered by Paul C. Miller, curator
of the Walker museum at the Univer
sity of Chicago. He is sending them
together with 1600 pounds of miscel
laneous fossils found in the miocene
and oligocene areas of Nebraska, So.
Dakota and Wyoming. i
A million years after the storm two ;
merychippi, or three-toed horses, an
cestors of the modern horse, died at i
Seep creek, Nebraska. Their skele
tons, about as large as Shetland po- :
noies, have been found.
In the oligocene strata, going back i
ten million years, Dr. Miller found a i
sabre-totthed tiger, another three-toed <
horse and a giant titanotlierium, a rel- i
ative of the fhodern rhinoceros, with
a skull two and a half feet rock.
The camel was encased in a rock
shell built around it by many centu- i
rids. More than a year will be requir- 1
ed to remove all the bones from their I
rock envelopes.
The first sewer system to be con- 1
structed in the United States in any <
city was in Chicago in 1886. i
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A dog found Charles Oakes, lost and
almost starved in the woods near s
York, Me., and led him to safety. <
Speeding to pay a bill in time to
save 80 cents discount, Joe Vander
roest of Kalamazoo was fined $7.50. c
SCHOOLTEACHER
HAS INTERESTING
ALASKAN VOYAGE
Teaching School at Shismaref—Boat
Capsized Five Times in Trip From
Island to Village at Cape Prince of
Wales—Reach Seattle on Siberian
Trading Schooner.
SEATTLE, Sept. 24. (/P)—Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Keichahn returned to
Seattle today after teaching school for
two years at Shismaref.
Mr. and Mrs. Keichahn left Sliish
maref in an open boat and capsized
five times before they reached an In
dian village at Cape Prince of Wales.
On their trip there they lost most of
their duffle and had to live on seal
meat for the greater part of the jour
ney.
At Prince of Wales they saw a 40
foot, black schooner and went aboard
where they found Captain Edward
Gross, American, who had been trad
ing in Siberia. Aboard the boat was a
crew of two Russians one of whom had
mutinied half way over from Siberia.
The Russian had defied the captain
with a gun from a hold in the ship,
where he crawled and attempted to
sink the ship by boring a hole in the
hull. The anchor rope was also cut by
the insane man, who was later sub
dued by the captain.
The Keichahn’s will attend the U.
of W. here, this winter.
FALLS FROM WALL
WAY TO SCHOOL
YOUNG BOY DIES
TEACHER KEEPS HIM IN BE
CAUSE HEAD HURT SO HE
COULD NOT THINK
ST. PAUL, Sept. 24 (ff)—Kept in
after school because he “could not
think” on account of his head hurt
ing him all the afternoon, Kenneth
Bergquist, aged 9, returned home and
complaining of a severe headache
became unconscious and died during
:he night. The lad said h« fell from
a high wall which he was walking on
bis way to school.
Examination showed that the lad’s
skull was severely fractured.
VALUATIONS MORE
TOTAL FOR WASHINGTON SAID
TO BE 31,010,000,000
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Sept. 24 (JP)—
Washington’s taxable property in
creased by $10,579,450 during the last
rear, giving the state an assessable
relue of $1,010,237,800, according to
i compilation of county assessment
'oils submitted to the state tax com
nission.
King county showed the biggest
?ain in valuation, the increase being
58,110,711, or more than any other 10
counties combined. Spokane county
showed an increase of $1,315,978 and
3ierce county gained $1,387,600.
Max Arndt, of Manitowac, Wis., hid
52,000 in a cigar box under some
joards in his garage and a thief got
he money.
Charles Ramsay, a negro preacher,
vas arrested at Norristown, Pa., with
i Bible in one hand and a suitcase
ull of liquor in the other.
Basil Tchesloosky, a former Rus
han general, is now working in Chi
sago, and is a private in the Illinois
National Guard.
The first killing frost of the season
»ccurred in Seward last night.