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THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. VII. NO. 10
!. TAKOTNA. A LAS'a A. SA'JLRLAY, MARCH 5, iyk2
PRICE 25 CENT.
Jury in Beattie Case
Reaches Disagreement,
With 8 for Conviction
Special to The KusAo Times.
FAIRBANKS, March 10.—After 48
, honra’.^rpmment the jury in the Bates
eae iismissed. ast night at 9
o’clock.
called out.after forty
y kours Uy.>'l*udge Ritchie to determine
, *V steading of the jury.
U ursriid that the final standing of
♦y. jury, was eight for conviction and
four for acquittal. This is unofficial,
however. Also, no report has been
. made,by anyone.
Local, opnion is that this disagree
ment ol the joey is practically an ac
quittal, as in all probability the case
- will not be brought up for another
trial, astthe case costs the Govern
ment about $800 a day and nearly all
witnesses have left Fairbanks for the
States and elsewhere.
Fred Struthers, who was recently
« convicted of embezzlement, has been
, granted a new trial by Judge Ritchie.
Sig Wiig leaves with Marshal Lynn
, Smith as guard for prisoners. While
in the States he will undergo an oper
ation.
Joe Ferris, and bride, nee Miss
Mary Forest, eft last Tuesday for
•’ Takatna, where they will make their
home.
t. SC3TEMMBYER 0>r SHAM); RE
LATES ALLEGED STORY OF
1DITAROD MAiL ROBBERY
. {(Fairbanks News-Minor.)
William C. Schereyer, star witness
£ fqjr the government in its attempt to
. implicate. Mrs. Nellie, Bates in the
; Flat, mail robbery case, was called to
witness -stand marly this morning.
' In dhe testimony given this morning
Schermeyer is.nderstood to have fol
. lowed.-the.general lines,of the confes
sion made ast spiring .to Postal In
spector S. T. Pinkham.
Questioned by Clyde Ellis, special
, assistant prosecuting attorney in
i charge of the case for the govern
ment, Schermeyed gave his age as 71
. years and that he had lived in Alaska
continuously since 1900 until 1924.
He testified that he came to Fair
banks in 1904 and after spending
some time here went to the Kantishna
country, where he mined for several
years. Returning to Fairbanks in
1910, Schermeyer remained here until j
1912, when he left for the Iditarod
, country, where he Jived up to the
(imp he left for the States in Septem
ber, 1924. The witness gave his oc
cupation as a. gardener before com
ing to the North, and said since that
he varioously followed mining,
roadhouse keeping and the greenhouse
business.
Mhddy.Mr. Ellis what he was
v dolyg invitee fall of 1922, the year of
the^ robbery, -Schermeyer replied that
he was operating a roadhouse not far
from Iditarod. Mr. Ellis asked him
what happened there on the night of
December 30, 1922. At this point
Guy B. Erwin, Schermeyer’s attor
ney, asked the court to inform the
witness, that he did not have to give
any testimony that might possibly in
criminate him, Mr. . Ellis then asked
the witness if he was willing to con
tinue, and Schermeyer answered in
the affirmative.
On the-evening of the robbery, the
- witness said, "I was working around
the roadhouse as usual. Chester
Brink came in about 5 o’clock that
«. weening.” A short time later, he
said, William Duffy snd Mrs. Bates
drove up in the mail sleigh. Scher
meyer said that Mrs. Bates walked
into the house, motioned to him, and
then went into the fish cache.
“I went in there,” Schermeyer tes
tified, “and she put her hand on my1
shoulder. ‘Bill,’ she asked me, ‘are
you game to make some money to
night?’ ‘Nellie,’ I replied, ‘I’m al
ways game.’
“There’s $G0,000 in the mail sleigh
and I know where it is,” were Mrs.
Bates’ next words, according to the
testimony given by Schermeyer “Look
at the trouble it will get the boys
into,” the witness declared he told
her.
Mrs. Bates said there woud not be
any trouhe about that, he testified.
Continuing, he said that just then
Duffy came in to get some fish for
his dogs and that the witness changed
the subject by asking Schermeyer if
he coud get her “that gallon.’”
Schermeyer said he then went out
of the cache and started to get sup
per, as he knew Sig Wiig and Virginia
Howard were due to arrive soon.
After dinner, the witness declared,
the men went out to take care of
their dogs and he started to clean up
the table in preparation for a pan
game. Before .ijys, he said, Mrs.
Bates had gone into the kitchn. He
followed her and she told him that
she had brought a gallon of booze
and they would get the boys “boozed"
up, the witness said. He further
stated that she told him that she had
brought. a spool of thread and that
they would open the mail sack and
then sew i tup again in order that the
robbery might not be discovered until
later.
The pan game started, shortly
after this, Schermeyer said, and Mrs.
Bates mixed up drinks. . The agree
ment was, Schermeyer said, that he
was no tto drink. After 9 o’clock, the
witness said, Mrs. Bates went out the
back door, and shortly after this one
of the pan players complained about
a draft, and Schermeyer, on going to
the back door, found the door had
come partially open. A few minutes
later sh ereturned, Schermeyer stat
ed, and signaled to him from the kit
chen. She told him that the mail
sack was in the fish cache and he
must get rid of it, the witness said.
Schermeyer testified that he went
into the cache but couldn’t find the
sack. He returned and. asked Mrs.
Bates where it was, and she told him
that she had placed the small sack on
a shelf, Schermeyer said. He took a
flashlight and found the, sack on the
shelf, took it to the corner of the
hous and there buried it, according to
testimony offered on ;the .witness
stand.
Mr. Ellis asked him to describe the
sack and tell more explicity how he
had buried it. Schermeyer said that
he had dug out the snow and .after
palcing the sack in it had tramped
the snow firmly.
Schermeyer said that about 11
o’clock that night Mrs. Bates mo
tioned to him and again told hilm, “I
brought the mail sack in and it’s on
top of the fish. We must get rid of
it.” (This testimony refers to the
large sack in which the pouch con
taining the money alleged to have
been stolen was contained.) Scher
meyer declared that he secured the
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j RADIO APPP A It ATUS THAT
ACTUALLY RECEIVES MES
SAGES FROM ORE BODIES
SEATTLE, March 10.—Daniel G.
Chilson, a former Seattle man, now
visiting in this .city. who is being
hacked by the Arizona School of1
Mines, says he has perfected a deli-:
cate radio apparatus that actual!' re I
ceives radio messages from ore bodies.!
As he explained it, he broadcasted I
from a high-power set and the ore'
bodies absorb enough of energy to |
send back messages to a delicate re
ceiving set. By changing the angle,
of the loop of the antennae he can de-!
termine the location.
COMING MRS. DILL SAYS SHE
WILL REFUSE TO BECOME
AN ECHO TO HER HUSBAND;
NEW YORK, March 11.—The Lucy
Stone League, an organization of mar
ried women who retain their maiden
names, will gain a recruit when Miss
Rosalie Gardner Jones ! ocorties the i
bride of -Senator C. C. Did. of Wash
ington State, on March 15 at St.
John’s Episcopal Church at Cold
Springs Harbor, Long Island.
“I refuse to become an echo to my
husband,” she said, explaining that
while she would be Mrs. Dill socially,
she would continue to be Miss Jones
in the conduct of her varied business
interests.
Telegi&piiic Ticks.
SEATTLE, March 0.-^ William
Hickman Moore, A. Lou Cosen, John
B. Carrol! and Otto Case won council
manic seats at yesterday’s election, in
which the voters authorize the issue
of $1)00,000 bounds for a civic audi
torium and playfield.
—
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Senator
| C. C. Dili, of Washington State, an
i nounced today that within ten days j
he will wed Miss Rosalie Jones, of j
I New York, a lawyer, suffragette and
^ heiress to three million dollars
i SEATTLE, March 10.--Judge Wm.
; II. Bogle, one of Seattle’s ablest law
] yers, for many years general counsel
of the Alaska Steamship-Company,
j died at his home here tonight
S.S. WM. TUPPEK WILL SAIL
ON MAY 12 FOR KUSKOKW1M
SEATTLE, March 9.—Captain Wal-;
lace Langley, announced today that!
! the steamship Wm. Tupper will sail
| for the Kuskokwim on May 12. He !
j also stated that he has chartered his j
| steamship Santa Ana to the Siberian
j Cold Storage and Fishery Company ■
! for the season of 1927. The charter
ing concern is a subsdiary of the
Waechter Bros., traders, which oper
ates in Alaska as well as Siberia.
Jake Mutchle, who has been in
Fairbanks for several weeks, left
Nenana Tuesday for this place, on
his way to his home at Flat. Jake is
returning here with Jack Mutehler’s
team of Derby prize winners, Jack
having left ony. a few days ago for a
visit to Seattle , and other places on
tht Outside.
.. ...
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ebright, well
known teachers, formerly stationed at
Nelson Island, but more recently at
tached to the school at Shageluk, were
among yesterday arrivals here over
the trail from Nenana, and departed ■
this morning headed for Flat on their j
way to Shageluk.
U. S. Commissioner W. T. Vander- j
pool, of McGrath, who has been ailing i
for some days, will be a passenger!
for Fairbanks via arplane, as soon as
weather permits, to which place he
goes to receive medical treatment. ‘
Earthquake in Japan
Kills 2458; Fire De
stroys 6000 Homes
ASSERTS ALASKAN INDUCED
TWO MEN TO BEAT AND
> ROB HIS PARTNER, SEATTLE
SEATTLE, March 1.—Asserting
that Albert Barlow, now in jail in
Ketchikan «induced, two men . to beat
and rob his partner, R. V. Jewett, last
December, Prosecutor Colvin this af
ternoon filed an information in the
Superior Court against Barlow,
charging him with first degree as
sault.
Governor. Hartley has been asked to
approve , extradition papers for the
man’s return here for trial.
Bar ov and Jewett came here from
Ala.:..: 'ecember.
IUC7 '-'..OUNCES MATCH
L JIM MALONEY AND
L. uARKEY, ON MAY 19
NEW YORK, March 9.—Tex Rick
ard, well known fight promoter, an
nounced today that he had matched
Jim Maloney and Buck Sharkey, Bos
ton heavyweight, for a 15-round go
at the Yankee Stadium on May 19.
This bout will be .another step in the
eliminating tournament to produce a
contender for _the heavyweight title
held by Gene Tinney.
GOOD-WILL AND TRADE EX
CURSION TO ALASKA, IN 192S
SEATTLE, March 11.—Plans for a
good will and trade, excursion t
Alaska in 1928, to be participated in
bv manufacturers and merchants of
Seattle and. the. entire. State, were
launched at a meeting of the Alaska
commttee of the Young Men’s Busi
ness Clubv-last night. Ben Paris will
act as chairman of the excursion com
mittee.
Wenatchee, Spokane, Walla Walla
and Tacoma have already guaranteed
delegations.
An airplane from Anchorage, pilot
ed by Aviator Young, arrived at Mc
Grath yesterday, bringing two pas
sengers, both of whom will1 continue
via the plane to Bethel. This is the
first airplane to arrive directly from
Anehorage, the flight having been
most successful. The Anchorage air
plane is a four-passenger one, is en
closed, carries 8V gallons of gasoline,
and made the trip from Anchorage to
McGrath in two and one-quarter
hours.
Mrs. Victor Hill, after an absence
of several months cm the Outside vis
iting friends ami rc.lativ*u, was a yes
terday arrival here; coming via air
plane from..Fairbanks and leaving on
same late yesterday afternoon for
Ophir.
Bud Riley, after an absence of sev
eral weeks at Ganes on a wood haul
ing contract, was a yesterday arrival.
Claude N»yberg,' alter a stay of
some weeks at Ganes, was a yester
day arrival.
Ernie drove returned here Tuesday,
after a .‘‘■p” of several weeks at the
Greg St- ■ ' ' -ion fox farm, up the
Kusk':
Ma" tor Charlie Konig, with
the ir.c- mail, arr ved Tuesday,
continuing on his way on Wednesday.
TOKIO, March 9.—Twenty-two bun
dred persons lost their lives in three
Mineyama earthquakes wheb shocked'
Central Japan last evening one thou
sand being killed in the town of Mine
yama.
TOKIO, March 11.—Official reports
to the Home Office from the earth
quake area n Central Japan say there
are 24.18 dead, 5107 injured and 80
missing.
.Six thousand homes were destroyed
by fire or by colapssing and two thou
sand badly damaged.
Fifty thousand are homeless, and
| are beng relieved through the con
j struction of barracks .and good medi
; cinas flowing into the devastated re
I gion.
MILLER SENTENCED TO 18
MONTHS IN ATLANTA PRISON
AND TO PAY A FINE OF $5,001
NEW YORK, March 9.—Thomas
W. Miller, alien property custodian
during the Harding administration,
•was today sentenced to eighteen
months in the Federal prison at At
lanta and fined $5,000 for official dis
honesty in connection with war-seizeo
German property.
SAYS i . 3f H5WS NO INTENTION
OF INTERVENING ,NICARAGUA
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Th.
United States has no intention of in
tervening to establish protection nvp
I Nicaragua, -the State Department in
iormea tne ^senate lortjurv reiituon.
committee, in secret session,’today.
One American has been shot but
not killed, during the bombardment
according to the hearings mad»- publi.
today by the chairmen of both coni
mittees.
DANCE AT OPHIR ON MARCH lb
Thee people of Ophir intend to give
a dance on March l1', according to
word received yesterday by Thr
Times, the Tiote stating that a pleas
ant time is assured to all and that
everybody will lie welcome.
Joe. Keene, from his headquarters
up the Kuskokwim, was a Tuesday ar
rival, returning to McGrath today
Mr. Keene brought, up a silver gray
fox skin, an excellent specimen.
Charlie O’Halloran wes a Thursday
arrival from Ganes, leaving yester
day for a shall visit; at McGrath.
Tom Shallow, bringing up a load oi
shortages, returned here Tuesday
from a trip to McGrath.
Happy Jueobson was among Tues
day arrivals from McGrath comin?
for a short visit here.
Dan McGinty returned today from
a trip to McGrath. Aisp coming itj
was Miss Helen Fred, for .at vj--i* of v
few days.
Peter Snow, bringing tht outgoine
mail, arrived Thursday n parting yes
terday for McGrat
Alex Sakttotf" will be a departurt
for Fairbanks on the next trip of the
Bennett airplane.
William Phillips, well known Uphii
Ruby mail carrier, was a yesterda
arrival for a few days’ visit