CAMP GIBBON NO. 25,
HAS BEEN INSTITUT
CAMP GIBBON NO. 25, ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD!
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Camp Gibbon No. 25. Arctic Brotherhood, is the name and num
ber ot the youngest member in the sisterhood of lodges of the North
land order.
The camp was instituted last Sunday evening at the new hall on
Second street, corner of Campbell evenue, by Deputy District Organizer
Phil Gallaher. Past Arctic Chief of Camp Cleary No. 22, at which a
large class of cbeechacos were initiated into the ways of the popular
brotherhood.
The lodge starts with a long list of charter members, and the in
terest displayed at the initial meeting easily foretells that the new sis
ter is destined to become a very active factor iu the social life of the
town of Tanaua.
The following roster of officers were elected for the present term,
ana will be installed at the next meeting of the camp, next Sunday
evening:
Past Arctic Chief, Charles F. Surridge.
Arctic Chief, Phil Gallaher.
Vice Arctic Chief, Fletcher Fullthorp.
Arctic Chaplain, G. M. Arbuckle.
Arctic Recorder, J. Russell Walle.
Keeper of Nuggets,G. H. Tiffiuy.
Trustees—Charles Chanquist, Frank C. Smith, George Vautier,
John S. Ellegood, Charles J. Smith.
At the next meeting the Arctic Chief will announce his selections
for the appointive offices—Arctic Trail Guide, Arctic Trail Blazer, Arc
tic Cook and Arctic Queen—aud also the membets of the Entertainment
Committee, one of the most important committees . of a growing lodge.
Another large ctowd of “mavericks” will be dealt with next Sunday
night, and the members are impatiently awaiting the joyous event.
Arizona Lawyer Goes to Bad
Denver, Colo., Aug. 15.—Fear that he would become a drunk
ard, coupled with the statement of his physician shat he might suc
cumb at any moment to a disease of which he had hitherto known
nothing, led to the undoing of Frank Thompson, at one time Gen.
Lawton’s secretary and a prominent attorney of Phoenix, Ariz.,
who confessed, when arrested hy Detective Bell, to have stolen
$0700 from the government land office in Arizona.
“It all seems like a horrid dream since I ruined my life July 20
by stealing $6700,” Thompson said yesterday afternoon as he sat
in a cell in the city jail with his companion, IV. B. Robinson, a
bookkeeper of Phoenix, Ariz., who was arrested at the same time.
“When my family physician told me that it would be impossi
ble for me to take out life insurance to protect my wife because I
might not live six months, I thought only of keeping my system so
filled with whisky that I might forget his verdict. I so wanted to
provide a little nest egg of $5000 to $10,000 for my wife in the
event of my spending my own foi-tune. Now I will die a slow death
within prison walls, tortured by the thought that I am a doomed
man.”
The thought and uncertainty of his impending doom so preyed
upon the mind of Thompson that, during a moment of drunken
thoughtlessness, he misappropriated $700 in cash and $6000 in ne
gotiable soldiers’ land scrip from the government land office in
Phoenix, with which he was connected in the capacity of legal ad
viser.
Thompson says he dreamed of a sudden death from the disease
of which he did not know he was a victim until the physician told
him that his days were numbered. His repeated statements that
his friend, also arrested on the charge of embezzlement, had abso
lutely nothing to do with the crime, has won for him the friendship
of the jailers.
Takes Boiler to Grant Greek
Sara Fox, Billy O’Brien and two others, who have been working
on Tufty gulch, in the Sullivan creek district, during the spring and
summer, arrived in town last Saturday. Mr. Fox brought a boiler with
him which he-intends to take to ('.rant ceeek, and operate on a piece of
Barry & Farley’s ground. The other three will go to the Iditarod dig.
gings.
la Boas Back to Old Ireland
Chicago, Aug. 15.—Miss Ella Gingles, the young Irish girl who
was recently acquitted of the charge of stealing lace from Miss
Agnes Barrett, a down-town shopkeeper, and who told a remark
able story, involving a plot to sell her into white slavery, left this
afternoon for her former home in County Antrim, Ireland. She
will resume her former occupation of lacemaking there. The Or
angemen of Chicago contributed money to pay the expenses of the
trip and for her traveling companion, Mrs. Grace Van Dusen Cooke,
who will take the girl to her parents in Ireland. Fifteen hundred
dollars has been subscribed by the Orangemen for the girl’s sup
port when she reaches Ireland. About twenty of the women who
were con picuous in the trial of the girl, a committee of Orange
men and her attorney, Pat II. O’Donnell, accompanied Miss Gingles
to her ti’ain. With tears in her eyes, the girl said goodbye to the
women, who threw their arms about her neck in turn and kissed
her.
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Ex-Convict Dies on Way Home
Davenport, la., Aug.15—Samuel Francis Smith, former mayor
of Davenport, embezzler of trust funds and son of the author of
“America,” just released from the state reformatory at Anamosa,
was taken ill at Toronto, Canada, while a passenger on a train
bearing him to Newton Center, Mass., where his wife and daughter
reside, and died in a hospital in the Canadian town today.
Gov. Carroll suspended his sentence because of old age. Con
victed of embezzling trust funds in Davenport live years ago, he
had served five years of his 11 years.
Six years ago Samuel Francis Smith was one of the most
highly respected citizens of Iowa. A former mayor of Davenport,
! a brilliant lawyer, a banker, a pillar of the church, he had many
| friends and few enemies. Son and namesake of the man whose
pen phrased the words of America’s national hymn, he was an hon
ored member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Sprung
from proud New England stock, Mr. Smith and his wife were
among the most prominent people of Davenport. Their palatial
■ home was the scene of many social events. They had one child, a
daughter, on whom they lavished wealth. Suddenly whispers
j began to spread, followed by open charges. Smith was placed
j under arrest. Examination of his books showed that he was a de
j faulter to the extent of $100,000 of funds intrusted to him. He ad
j mitted his guilt, anil asked for a speedy trial. He did not ask for
: mercy. Mrs. Smith, to appease creditors, sold her mansion in
j Davenport. She and her daughter have been supporting them
! selves at Newton Center by keeping boarders.
a Apia os Bock; Shoals
Washington. Aug. 15.—Reliable information received here is
that serious political conditions prevail in Cuba, ?nd that hence
forth President Gomez is going to have a pretty hard time steering
his ship of state. Recently the entire Cuban cabinet resigned. A
new cabinet has been organized, but, according to the latest in
formation, there will be still more changes. News has recently
reached Washington of an effort to sell to the government certain
lands adjoining Camp Columbia, a few miles outside of Havana,
where the Cuban regular army is established. Involved in this at
tempted sale, which almost went through, was a colossal piece of
graft. The land is needed for the establisnment of a target range
and a general enlargement of Camp Columbia.
The piece of land changed hands some months ago, possibly a
1 year or two ago, for $115,800. . It is understood that the owners
are willing to sell for this price, but when the transfer was made to
the government—the deal got as far as that—the price was $445,
,800, an advance of $300,000. The sale was made by authority of a
: presidential decree, which did not specify prices, but merely au
thorized the purchase. Before the government had paid out the
; real cash, however, the graft was discovered aud the scheme
i wrecked. ___
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Nome Indus. Worker, August 20:
F. E- Munson, who has been a res
j ident of Nome for the past four or
I five years, was found dead in a
cabin built at the end of one of W.
| J, Rowe’s stables, about 10:30 yes
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to Judge Fuller and after his ar
rival the body was examined, when
it was found that Munson had shot
himself through the heart with a
32-calibre revolver which was
found on the floor beside the bed.
Death was probably instantaneous
as the position in which the body
was lying indicated that no strug
gle had taken place.
Munson was a man about 65
years old, stout and apparently tn
good health, except that he was
subject to epilectic fits. He was a
quiet, unassuming man, and none
of his acquaintances knew that he
felt despondent or even that he was
'in financial straits, although a few
1 of them tried to find out from him
lately if he was in need of money.
He was a bookkeeper by occupa
tion and about three years ago was
employed in that capacity by A. H.
Moore, who was then connected
with the Gold Beach Transfer Co.
He had evidently expected that
Moore would give him work when
he returned this summer but was
disappointed. He was a man of
steady habits and was liked by all
who knew him.
A note was found on a chair by
his bed addressed “To whom it
may concern,” and was a request
that McAllister, a friend of his,
would take care of his effects. On
Wednesday evening he returned to
W. J. Rowe a tarpaulin and bed
springs that he had previously bor
rowed, explaining that he was
going to the Kougarok. He was
last seen about 9 o’clock that even
ing, when he requested George
Jones, one oi Rowe’s teamsters, to
call him at 8 the next morning.
A couple of years ago he had a
few thousand dollars, the most of
which, it is believed, he invested
in a local saloon, which was then
then being started up, and it is
thought that he lost all that he thus
invested.