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VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 84
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1925 PRICE TEN CENTS.
GIRL MURDERESS
FOUND INSANE
* BY JURY TODAY
Dorothy Faints When She
Hears Verdict Read—
Carried from Room
CONFINED IN ASYLUM
May Be Tried for Murder
Later In Case She Is
Declared Sane
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SAX FRANCISCO. April 9.—A jury
by a vote of 11 to 1 found Dorothy El
lingson. who killed her mother because
the latter upbraided her for attending
a jazz party, found Dorothy Ellingson
insane after deliberating but thirty
minutes. Dorothy fainted when she
heard the verdict and remained uncon
♦ scious when the jury had been polled
and the courtroom cleared.
TUe verdict means she will go to an
insane asylum, but the murder charge
may be tried in case she is released
from custody later.
Dorothy Plays Up Strong
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9—During
the closing arguments regarding the
sanity of Dorothy Ellingson, were
completed as her attorney repeated in
cidents following the tragedy. The
girl’s tension snapped aand she jump
ed to her feet shouting: “I can’t stand
it any longer; anyone could get up
those lies. I wish you would get on
the stand and tell the truth. You’d
better get out of my sight before I
choke you.”
A FORCED LOAN
PARIS, Apr. 9.—(AP).—The sit
uation which has hinged in the Gov
ernment’s Bill, dealing with the in
crease of currency thru an issue by
the Bank of France was forced to
a loan.
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ZANESVILLE, O.. April 9.—Hal. the ;
19-year-old son of Governor Vic. Don- :
ahey of Ohio, was fined S100 and costs j
by the juvenile court here today for !
contributing to the delinquency of Lil- |
Man Vogel, a 15-year-old Zanesville :
girl of Zanesville, whom he took to
Columbus Sunday night. The girl’s
whereabouts remained a mystery un-:
til her discovery yesterday in a room-1
ing house. The young man. until con
fronted by the girl at the executive
mansion, denied taking her to Colum
bus. The girl declared he had treated
her “like a lady and hadn’t done any
thing wrong.”
The Governor said, “we have as
much respect or this girl as we have
for our own children. Let the law !
take its course.”
Hal’s mother, after a vigorous
search found the boy and girl in a
rooming house and turned both over
to the juvenile court here.
REPORT CONFIRMED OF
SALE OF PREMIER MINE
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4.
VANCOUVER, B. C., April 9.—A. B.
Trites, one of the largest stockhold
ers of the Premier mine confirmed the
report of its purchase by the Selwoke
Mining Company of London.
LORD BALFOUR GETS
A “RIOTING” WELCOME
DAMASCUS, Apr. 9.—(AP).—A fu
rious mob stoned the Hotel Victoria
where Earl Balfour was staying. The
police dispersed the crowd withou.
any L u ?.
THOUSAND KURDS KILLED
IN FIERCE FIGHTING
LONDON, Apr. 9.—(AP).—A dis
patch from the Exchange Telegraph
in Constantinople, said that the Turks
have captured Ghendj in Kurdistan.
The Kurds are said to have lost with
a thousand killed and many wounded.
UNITED STATES NAVY
HEADS MACMILLAN OUTFIT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 9.—
(AP).—The naval section of the Mac
Millan Arctic expedition this sum
mer will operate a special unit un
der the authority of Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur it was announced
here today.
Officers, men and planes will be
furnished by the United States navy.
ACRIMONY ENSUES
OVER MEMORIAL
INDORSING PARKS
Sheldon and Paul Indulge in
in Brisk Repartee Over
Republican Party
MANY BILLS FLOW IN
Six Legislators Refuse to In
dorse Appointment of
George A. Parks
JUNEAU, Alaska, April 9.—Defeat
ing an effort to replace it with a sub
stitute which Representative Murray
declared was a back-handed slap at
President Coolidge, the House adopt
ed the Sheldon resolution indorsing
the appointment of George A. Parks
for governor. The vote was ten to
six, Paul, Nylen, Elliott, Grant and
Ross opposing its passage. In a de
bate before its passage Representative
Paul declared that if there was a real
Republican party in Alaska, such a
resolution could not be passed, and
that the measure was framed to split
the Republican organization, to which
Sheldon retorted that the main body
of the Republican organization was all
right but was already split by “the
leeches" which had attached them
selves to the organization.
Ross introduced compulsory Ter
ritorial industrial bill virtually iden
tical with a similar measure which
was defeated in 1923.
iiuuiuu muuuuceu a. um iui a con
troller of the territory, seeking to strip
the governor’s office of all the au
thority it has within the power of
the legislature, and follows in the
main the same measure which was
introduced by him two years ago and
defeated in the Senate.
The Senate committee on Education
reported without recommendation
Senator Dimond’s resolution refuting
Former Attorney General Stone’s
statement that “Alaska is a bad spot”
with no respect for law enforcement.
A bill seeking to prohibit the em
ployment of a highway engineer, a
position now held by Bob Summers,
was also reported without recommen
dation.
The local Parent-Teacher’s Associa
tion presented a resolution urging
the passage of the Grier literacy bill
and wired similar organizations in
the Territory requesting like action.
Prospects of the passage of the bill
is indicated as precarious unless it is
radically amended.
COUNT KAROLYI PREDICTS
WAR WILL ENSUE SOON
MONTREAL, April 9.—Count Mich
aey Karolyi, former president of Hun
gary, wrho has been for the past three
months in the United States, told re
porters yesterday that a series of wars
is inevitable if the Horthy government
continues in Hungary. He said he
left the country because he "was per
secuted as a radical.”
TWO SEAPLANES
MAKE SEWARD
SUMMER BASE
Mail Service Be Maintained j
Between Seward and
Bristol Bay Points
FOUR HOUR SERVICE
Government and Canneries
To Pay Expenses of
Flying Patrol
(Special to The Gateway)
SEATTLE, April 9.—Two Doug
las seaplanes, similar to the to
those used in the world flight will
be used this summer to partol the
fishing grounds at Bristol Bay and
provide air mail service for^ the
southwestern Alaskan towns, it
was announced today by Vrank
Wright, manager and president of
the Carlisle Packing Company. Mr.
Wright received word from Dele
gate Sutherland that the plans had
been accepted and that the planes
would be in charge of Lieut. G.
E. Pond, who established the fish
patrol at San Diego four years ago
and Lieut. C. B. Eielson, former
Alaska air mailman, flying from
Fairbanks to Tokotna. The ma
chines were flown to Seattle from
Norfolk, and will be shipped to
Seward on the U. S. coast guard
cutter Haida, sailing from Seattle
April 15. The planes will inaugu
rate a four-hour mail service from
Seward to Bristol Bay.
The cost including salaries and
transportation to Alaska will be
$12,000, the postoffice department
paying $5,000 and the canneries
guaranteeing the rest.
Each plane will be equipped
with the latest radio devices.
LLOYD’S REPORTS STEAMER
JONGE CATHARINA SINKING
LONDON, April 9.—A Lloyd report
from Flushing says that six of the
crew was killed on the Dutch steamer 1
Jonge Catharina, which sank in a col
lision with the British steamer, Clan
Monroe. Fifteen were saved and
three are missing.
TO POLE AND RETURN
OSLO, Norway, Apr. 9.—(AP).—
Roald Amundsen, on his way to the
Arctic expedition, left Tromsoe for
Kings ' Bay, Spitzbergen where it
will require a week to assemble his
planes for trial flights. After the
trial flights he will go to Dane Isl
and make their final dash to the
North Pole.
Amundsen denied that he would
go over the Pole to Alaska and add
ed that he would return direct to i
Spitzbergen.
ATTITUDE OF CAPITAL TOWARD
MINING MUST BE CHANGED
SEATTLE, April 9—Harry H.
Townsend, a Seattle mining engineer,
addressing the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon yesterday, said that the dis
trustful attitude of the United States
and Canada toward mining projects
would be changed if the English sys
tem of having competent mining engi
neers pass on the merits of a prop
erty before selling stock were adopted.
Mr. Townsend saaid “In England
mining shares start at par and go to
a premium if the venture succeeds.”
He declared that different methods in
this country was responsible for the
decline in the interest in mining in
Seattle, and since the Klondike days.
He declared that a great mining coun
try lies at Seattle’s door and the many
great mines developed in Alaska and
British Columbia prove this, but in
getting our industries before the pub
lic we must carefully separate facts
from hopes.
BABE RUTH FEELING ILL
NEW YORK, Apr. 9—(AP).—Babe
Ruth, who fainted in the washroom
of a Pullman car while on his way
from Asheville, North Carolina, in
which town he sickened pulled into
the Pennsylvania Station last night
and was rushed to a hospital.
Babe Ruth received a slight concus
sion of the brain when he fell on the
floor of the washroom. His condition
is more serious than was at first sup
posed.
HERRIOT WILL NOT RESIGN
PARIS, April 9.—The Herriot min
istry decided today to remain in of
fice following an all night conference
of the cabinet.
KETCHIKAN AND j
NOME MAYORS
ARE REELECTED
(Special to The Gateway)
^NOME, April 9.—Mayor George May
nard was re-elected for the fourth con
secutive term at Tuesday’s election.
The old city council was elected with
out opposition. A few scattering votes
were polled in a light vote.
(Special to The Gateway)
KETCHIKAN, April 8.—Tom Torry
was reelected mayor of Ketchikan for
the sixth consecutive time, polling
twice the number of votes that both of
opponents received, in the face of a
widespread distribution of extracts
from the Congressianal Record in
which Delegate Sutherland bitterly at
tacked Torry. M. J. Bucey, Van H.
Fisk and J. S. Ream were elected as
councilmen.
FALSELY LABELED WHISKEY
CONTAINS ENOUGH POISON
TO KILL 1,000 DRINKERS
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 9.—Sufficient
poison to kill 1,000 men wa sconfis
cated by federal dry sleuths here
the other day when they arrested
U. S. Sorenson.
Thirteen cases of booze labeled
“Watson’s Number 10” was seized
by the officers.
Chemists who analyzed the hootch
said it contained creosote and phen
ol in dangerous quantities.
Sorenson was charged with violat
ing the state poison act as well as
the prohibition law.
MOVING MOUNTAIN SHUTS
OFF TRAFFIC ONCE MORE
MEEKER, Colo., Apr.. 9.—“Moving
Mountain,” a chocolate drop shaped
mountain on the road between Rifle
and Meeker, has shifted again and
Meeker was temporarily shut off
from outside traffic yesterday. The
movement began yesterday and by
this morning had shifted seventy
five yards. About a quarter of a
mile was disturbed. The movement
elevated the road about ten feet,
“Moving mountain” has shifted sev
eral times since the first shift in
1909.
The steamship Northwestern is re
ported to be in Cordova this afternoon
and will probably arrive here some
time tomorrow night.
MINER DEAD AT FAIRBANKS
Stephan Markoff, a native of Bulga
ria, died at the Fairbanks hosiptal
this week after a long residence in
Alaska. The only known relative sur
viving him is a brother in Bulgaria.
93 OLDTIMERS AT THE HOME
There are now 93 pioneers at the
Home in Sitka, according to an offi
cial report received by Governor Scott
C. Bone. This is said to be the larg
est number ever received there at
any one time. The average number
of inmates is said to be about 60 to
65. The previous high number was 82.
FAMOUS STRELNA
INN DESTROYED
BY CHIMNEY FIRE
Best Known Tourist Resort
on Richardson Road Is
a Total Loss
OPERATED BY DWYER
Barn and Contents of John
McCrary Burn at Same
Time at Chitina
CORDOVA. Alaska. April 9.—Fire
yesterday afternoon completely de
stroyed the Strelna Inn and store op
erated by V. J. Dwyer at Strelna, the
loss being estimated at $30,000, partly
covered by insurance. A thirty mile
wind spread sparks from the chimney
making fighting flames useless. The
Inn was one of the best known tour
ist resorts on the Copper River. It
was a large log structure, built in 1912,
and was regarded as a landmark
among sportsmen, and was used by
travelers on the Richardson highway
as a stopping place.
The barn of John McCrary, a mail
carrier on the Chulitna-Gulkana route
was burned at Chitina Monday night.
Three hundred dollars worth of furs
were burned, the total loss being in
the neighborhood of $1600.
South Carolina Raises
Gasoline Tax to 5c
COLUMBUS, S. C., Apr. 9.—A leg
islative act increasing the gasoline
tax from 3 to 5 cents a gallon was
signed by Governor McLeod last
night. With the 5 cents a gallon
levy already in effect, South Caro
lina will have the highest gasoline
tax of any state in the union, it is
said.
SEATTLE WINS
SECOND GAME
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.—Despite
four moundsmen going to the box for
the Seals. Seattle won the second
game here yesterday, altho she used
three pitchers.
Herman homered in the fourth in
ning. Batteries, Moudy. Crockett,
Mitchell, Gerry, Agnew and Plumber.
Today’s Scores
Sacramento 4, Oakland 2; Los An
geles 4, Portland 0; Salt Lake 9. Ver
non 8: San Francisco 6. Seattle 11.
Self-Styled Emir Jailed
By Liverpool Police
LIVERPOOL. Apr. 8.—The self
styled Emir of Kurdestan. Prince
Zerdecheno Mohammed Said, deport
ed from the United States, was ar
rested upon his arrival here yester
day and held pending instructions
from the home secretary.
The police acted at the direction of
the immigration authorities, who say
the “Emir’s” title is a bogus one,
that his name and career are well
known.
HERRIOT TURNS ON ENEMIES
IN BITTER SPEECH IN CABINET
PARIS, April 8.—Premier Herriot to
day turned on his enemies and taking
the rostrum in the chamber of depu
ties made sweeping charges against
what he termed a faulty administra
tion of the treasury by every official
of France since the armistice was
signed. He promised to uncover all
the secrets of the treasury.