ONE YEAR
SEN fENCE
T. H. O’Brien Pleads
Guilty to Petit
Larceny.
Deputy United -States Marshal Mc
Mullen, on arriving here last evening,
was escorting Thomas II. O’Brien,
whom he arrested near Kobi, on suspi
cion of having entered the house of
Vivian Howard, at Tacotna, during
•early January and with stealing some
thing like 3k300 therefrom.
O’Brien was intercepted some forty
tfive milts this side of .Kobi and taken
into custody. Indignant, at his arrest,
he protested his innocence. However,
on close search by McMullen, a sum
■of money, alleged to tally cioselv in
amount and denominations with that
■stolen, was found sewed in light, can
vas, suspended aDd attached inside his
undershirt, between his shoulders.
■Kach $20 gold piece was separately
sewed in: the currency was inserted in
a pocket lower down. This safe de
posit also acted as a back protector for
favorable wind blowiug Kobiwise, but
which, nevertheless, was not strong
•enough to enable O’Brien to reach the
iron trail before falling into the meshes
of the law.
O’Brien was brought before U. S.
Commissioner Greeo at 2 o’clock this
afternoon, the complaint charging him
with having robbed Vivian Howard’s
■caibitiiof Sf-41.
Messrs. Albrecht and Taylor ap
peared for O'Brien, and after raising
various technical points and talking
the whole matter over freely, the case
was finally disposed of by dismissing
the original action and at once re
arresting the accused under a new war
rant charging simple larceny, to which
O’Brien pleaded guilty and was at once
■sentenced to one year iu the federal
jail, being remanded to the custody of
tthe United States Marshal, and is now
serving his time.
To have gone through with the orig
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inal case would have meant the keep*
iot; of \ iviun Howard as a witness and
the return of Postal Inspector I ink
hatu from Seattle, all of which would
have run the costs up into many thou
sands of dollars, with no certainty that
the punishment would be greater than
that meted out bv the commissioner.
And, on the prisoner’s side, he will
have served his sentence and be a free
man by the time that, in the regular
course of events, his trial cockl have
been started.
Heaviest Snowfall
Since Winter 1909-10
For the past fourteen days travel
throughout the interior has been prac
tically at a standstill, mauy mushers
being marooned at the roadhouses
until yesterday, when the storm broke,
ushering in a southeast chinook wind,
which settled the snow considerably..
An exceptionally heavy mantle of soow,
approximated at from three to four
feet, fell during this period, making
the average snowfall for the winter
around the (ive-foot mark.
Ruby, Iditarod and other interior
towns report this condition as general,
and old-timers declare it is the heavi
est snowfall since the winter of 1509 10,
when the Iditarod stampede occurred.
A shortage of snowshoes in the coun
try has compelled many mushers to
“hole up” under these conditions, and
many men await the opening of the
trails by the mail teams, which must
travel regardless.
Reports from Tacotna sUie that the
trail over the bill is snowed under and
will have to be shoveled out before
hauling with horses cam be indulged in.
Owing to the soft weather, the Ta
cotna Forks trail is breaking.up. This
condition compelled the<Innoko.Dredge
Company to cut down their loads,
thereby prolonging the work of hauling
from that point.
Wood choppers on Ganes creek have
been practically compelled to abandon
their contracts entered into with the
Innoko Dredging Company, the exces
sive snowfall being responsible for this
condition. However, the larger por
tiou of wood contractod for has been
put up, and dredging operators will not
be affected materially by this.
Sec. Work to Succeed
Fall; Senator New for
Postmaster General
Washington.—Political Washington
hears that President Harding has de
cided to transfer Postmaster General
Work to the head of the Interior de
partment. to succeed Albert B. Fall,
and that Senator New, defeated for re
election at the November polls, will
succeed Work as postmaster general.
Millionaire to Prison
for Slaying Autoist
Aurora, 111.—Jacob Klein, million
aire deputy sheriff of Du Page county,
has lost his tight to escape going to the
penitentiary for the murder of Leo
Neumann, Chicago motorist. The Illi
nois supreme court today denied him a
rehearing, and Klein, now at liberty
Will be Open for
Business at Ta
cotna, Feb. 1
Dr. D. C. Hardy
under $.'>0,000 bonds, will be taken to
prison as soon as the mandate arrives
from Springfield, State’s Attorney C.
W. Heed staled today.
Klein, who is past f>0, and one of the
best known men in Du Page -county,
was convicted of slaying Neumann be
cause the Chicago man failed to obev
his command to stop. In the tria
Klein claimed that Neumann was
speeding and that when he shot in the
air to frighten him the bullet went
through the back end of the automobile
as it went up an incline in iba/road.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To B. T. James, Ed McArdle and
Charles Knell, your heirs, executors
and assigns: tiba£-M
You are hereby notified:tbat <1, the
undersigned, your co-owner, have ex
pended in labor and improvements the
sum of not less than one hundred dol
lars [$100.00] for the years 1920 and
1921 upon your interests in the Good
Luck Fraction, situated between No. 1
and No. 2 Above Discovery on Moore
creek, in the Mt. McKinley mining and
recording precinct, Territory of Alaska,
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States aod
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
Ingelaimtfor the period ending June
30, 1921.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
ref-use to contribute youi; proportion -of
said expenditures, aa well as the costjo!
recording the same, and the costs of
this advertisement, your interests in
said claim will become the property ,o?
the undersigned, your co-owner, whc
has made the required expenditures
under the -terms of said section 2324 ,of
the , Revised Statutes of the; United
Slates. Cecil Baki*>w,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication. Jan. 6,. 1923.
Date of last'publication. April 7,1923.
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advance a liberal amount of money on your
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