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Outside Brevities
Plymouth, Ind.-7-Ray ,D Smith,
prominent farmer and leader in church
aJfairs, was arrested here today. He
ia-beld -on suspicion of murder in con
nection with the simultaneous disap
pearance ol,bio father, mother, wife
and k fan dm other.
Washington.—The McKenzie bill,
authorizing the acceptance of Henry
Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals, and em
phatically opposed in a minority re
port, ,waa submitted today by a mem
ber o| the House military committee
Herrin, Ills.—- Former Mayor Pace
was arrested today, charged with mur
der. The arrest came after Pace had
been sworn as foreman o? the grand
jury to investigate the killing of, Con
stable Caesar Cage!, a dry raid leader.
Seattle,-,-Albert J. White, govern
ment tutarpreter, is undep arrest here.
He i* charged,etith-having tile bed $27,
300 frpm aliens in. income taxes, re
bated, which, should have gone jnto the
natioqal treasury.
Los Angalee,-?Mrs Beatrice Beecher
Johnstone. a grand daughter 0/ Henry
Ward Beecher, is under arrest here,
chargpd with passing worthless cheats.
Herrin, Ills.—Due to ku kluk klaa
and' wotukiaa riots, fourteen national
guard companies are patrolling VV i 1
‘ism son couotv today,
CarsoD City, Nev.—Gee Jon. Chinese,
ronviqted of murder, paid the penalty
of bisprime Friday, wheo he died in
the world’s first lethal gas execution.
Sesttle.—The board of education to
day dgoied the requestor ku klux klan
leader* to use high schools for a series
snec^uree to students.
Seattle.—Col. F. A. Boutelle, 83, re
tired, ,ciwil war veteran and Indian
dgbtef, died at his home here, Friday.
Washington.—Green's joint resold
iion pfoppeiag a constitutional amend
meet to slop issuance of tas exempt se
curities was defeated in the House last
sight, losing out bv seven votes.
Seattle.—Three thousand former ser
vice men, io mass meeting, Tuesday af
ternoon, demanded that Congress pass
a soldiers’ bonus law.
Seattle.—Prohibition officers Monday
seized several bottles of whisky in the
lockers of students in the Queen Anne
high school.
Washington —The cruiser Rochester
has been despalbhed to Honduras to
protect Americans whose lives are re
ported to be menaced.
Milwaukee.—A Chicago & North
western. train struck an auto, truck
filled with newsaayst killing six of
them, Thursday.
Muskogee, Okla.—Edwin L>udlow, a
noted metallurgist, is dead here.
Rome.—Italy has signed a commer
cial treaty carrjiog de jure recognition
of Russia.
Rights of Placer Claim
ants, Quartz, Locators
Fairbanks News-MiDer.
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit, in a decision dated Jan
uary 7, J924, upholds the judgment of
the District Court in the case of Wm
Grant vs, Wra. Campbell and J.- L,
Tobio, which was triad before Federal
Judge Cecil H. Clegg here two- years
ago and attracted much attention at
the time, owing to the points of law in
volved and the bitterness o! the legal
contest, tha trial lasting-for nine days,
t The decision was in favor of William
Grant, who was represented by Attor
I ney Morton E.- Stevens. The appeal
was tilled ffm, J. Campbell and J. L.
i Tobin vs. Arabia AleJutyr.e, as admin
istrator of the estate- of Wm^Gramv
with K. F, Roth as attorney for the
plaintiffs in error.
i The ducisioo is of great interest in
j the standpoint of minme law. k, the
case involves questions of ;<>o*’ s
twesu the rights of plat-., o. si", u.s
aDd quartz locators which us believed
never before to have arisen id Alaska.
Only three similar cases iu the history
of law can be cited, it is believed.
Grant located the Hillside Placer
alaioa in the Eantiabna precinct.
Thereafter Quigley, without objection
from Giant, discovered a ledge within
boundaries of Grant’s Placer claim and
located on this ledge hi« Red Top
Quartz claim, thereby carving out that
portion which contained the ledge, so
far known. Afterwards Campbell and
Tobin entered upon the placer claim,
sunk a bole and discovered a ledge,
without the knowledge or consent of
Grant. They located the same as the
Silver King Lode claim After this
location Grant located, over bis placer
the same ledge, ao the Hillside Quartz
claim. The two main questions in
volved were: First, did Grant have a
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valid placer claim? Second, did the
defendants have the right to prospect
the claim, without Grant’s consent, in
order to find qtmiftz? -
When Gram located his placer he
adopted, as two of his comer stakes,
two stakes of an adjoining claim. It
was contended that'the Alaska Statute
must be strictly followed, which re
quires the locator to place stakes of a
certain dimension at each corner. The
Court of Appeals upholds the instruc
tions given by the District Court that
io the location of a mining claim the
requirements of the statute must be
substantially complied with. The adop
tion of the stakes of an adjoining claim
or of an abandoned claim is in this de
cision approved.
The appellate court holds that wheo
Campbell and To bib entered upon the
placer claim and prospected in oroer
to find the ledge they were trespassers
aDd, therefore, could Dot initiate any
title by location. It was conceded that
Quigley had a valid location, which lo
cation reduced the size of the placer
and eliminated therefrom the known i
vein.
Dances His Way Naked
as 7*009 Are Shocked
New York.—The lack of formality io
dress shown by 7*000 members and
friends of the Osceola Club as they
danced in the Seventh regiment arm
ory, Park avenue and Sixty-sixth
street, last Dight so impressed Solomon
Paige, 22.-of 25 West Ii2th street, that
he drooped formality altogether a«c»
danced his way into their midst devoid
of any clothiog whatever—just as the
band struck up “There’ll Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight.”
While women guests sought the pro
tection of their escorts and the escorts
were shouting for someone to do some
thing, stalwart attaches of the armory
led toe informal >*i?aige -to the cellar,
where* wrapped in tne protecting-foids
of blankets, he was held prisoner until
an ambulance arrived and conveyed
him to the observation ward in Belle
vue hospital.
Says Death Chair
Shock Never Fatal
Vienna.—Professor Jeliiosk, director
of the Electropathelogical institute,
states that electrocutinn does not kill,
but merely produces a cataleptic stale,
from which the victim recovers after
an indeterminate period, and therefore
hundreds,of- persons have been buried
alive, when thought dead.
Dr. Jellinsk states'that condemned
men wbec electrocuted should be cre
mated. or* put to quicklime afterward
so ensure death, instead of put to the
horrible torture of recovering con
sciousness in their graves. The savant
gives numerous experiences of persons
accidentally electrocuted by touching
live wires and being resuscitated after
pronoancea dead.
“Electrocuted people should not be
buried until decomposition begins, as
they mav be resuscitated' even weeks
afterward,” savs I >r Jellinsk.
A Lowland farmer on hie deathbed
recommended his wife to marry their
“servaut man,'’ and said that he could
net die happily until ahe promised to
do so.
•‘Oh. gudeman,” she replied, “ye
may dee in peace, for Sandy and I have
settled that, already!”—Yorkshire Post.
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