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Evelyn Thaw Tells of
Fight Against ‘Dope’
Atlantic City, N. J.—Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw today told bow she had been
through "the Hollywood dope hell.”
*‘IV» fought the grimmest, most
heart-breaking light any woman or
man could tight, and I’ve won," she
said. “lrve beaten the drug habit,
which had me going, almost gone, for
nearly a.year.
“It was at Hollywood that fell
that hades for men and- women if they
have not the mental stamina and the
knowledge- -that’s the big thing—to
keep away. The dope peddlers and
their victims are waiting there at
every corner, in everv home, at every
party, for a chance to trap another vio
tiou
‘•Why, I remember one party at
Hollywood, where cocaine was served
in. a big sugar bowl. I had not fallen
yet. ‘‘Pass the sugar, somebody,”
would be the remark every few min
utes.
‘‘But they got me. I had a bad
toothache one day. A B’ollies girl—
she had been that—came aloug and
sympathized.
“ •I’ll fix you ui> in a minute,’ she
said. * And she did. First the needle,
a lit tle morphinB in my leg, and then a
piece of cotton tilled with cocaine in
the aching cavity. In a few minutes I
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felt all right. H,/w I blessed that girl.
And how I’ve cursed her ever since.
“She ruined me. Every cent 1 liad
weut for dope for her, and some for
me. When I.could Dot get the stuff 1
suffered the agonies of the damned. It
cost me $100,€00 to be a drug fiend in
cash alone. And it cost me my friends,
my self-respect, everything. My mother
made me take the cure. She threat
ened to take away my boy, Russell, i
couldn’t stand for that.
“So I put myself under the eare of
a physician here, and endnred a long
course of treatment, cut down from the
four-grain doses I was taking each day
to a sixteenth of a grain toward the
end, and then—nothing.”
Alaska News Notes |
By striking a tnat“h near a can of
carbide that had become wet and was
leaking, J. M. Corliss, of Ilyder, was
severely burned about the face recent
ly, and fear is entertained that he may
lose his sight.
Dolph Smith, Charlie Barricklow
and Liege Chambers are operating a
commodious roadhouse at the head of
Becharof Bake, on the way from the
oil fields to Kanatak, and report that
business is good.
Arthur Sessions, conductor on the
Overland Limited train on the Gov
ernment railroad between Anchorage
and Currv. died at Anchorage recently,
following a paralytic stroke. The re
mains were sent to Seattle for inter
ment.
Nellie Neal, one of Alaska’s famous
characters, at present operating the
roadhouse at Deadhorse, on the line of
the government railroad, it is under
stood, is contemplating taking a trip
; to South America, going out when the
railroad hotel at Curry is completed*
which will be very soon.
i C. F. Magaha, an employe of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission at
W illow creek, left for toe States re
cently. and will go to the Mayo hos
pital at Rochester, Minn., for medical
treusmeut. He is an old-time Alaskan,
having arrived in the Territory in
1884* and spent 3® years on the Yukon,
i That Guy Marks, a former Fairbanks
mining man, who operated on Nos. 8
and 9 Goldstream, where he was in
partnership with Gove, Samson and
Mates, was killed by Mexican bandits
in the state of Durango, last August, is
the news Goctaini d in a letter from
Tom Whitmore, now in Wilson, Ok la—
boma, received by Assistant Disc tel
Attorney E. B. Collins, of Fairbanks,
receutlv
A. T. Budd, genera,' manager of the
Willow Creek Mines Company, operat
ing the Gold Bullion, Lucky Strike and
War Babv mines on Craggie creek, in
the Willow creek district, is authority
for the statement that the company
plans operations this year on a moie
extensive scale than heretofore Ad
ditional stamps will be added to the
Lucky Strike mill and a cyanide plant
will be installed.
A telegram recently received at An
chorage from the clerk of the appellate
court at Sau Francisco slates that in
the case of M. J. Conroy, trus.ee, vs.
the Bank-of Anchorage aud the Mata
nuska Coal Company, bankrupt, the
judgment of the district court has been
reversed and the case ordered dis
missed. The action was brought to re
cover from the bank, for the benefit of
all the creditors, the sum of $17,000
paid to the bank in liquidation of sums
borrowed, the payment having been
made, it was alleged, within four
months of the time the Mataouska
Coal Company was declaim- a bank
rupt. It was set up bv the ueiense that
there was no such corporation as the
Mataouska Coal Company, and that the
adjudication of bankruptcy against
such concern had no bearing upon the
parties to the bank transaction, which
contention has evidently been upheld
by the court of appeals.
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