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TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY ll, 1923,
PRICE 25 CENTS
> Bays Bryan, Speaking of
Big Legal Battle Now
On Over Evolution.
Dayton, Term., July 11.—The
fight between evolution and
' Christianity “is a duel to the
death,*’ William J. Bryan said in
an address on his arrival here to
aid in the prosecution of Thomas
* Scopes, whose trial ou the crim
inal charge of tone hi g evolution
' in the school; of Tennessee be
jgihs here Friday.
Dayton, July 10. — With prayer
by the Rev. William M. Cart
wright, pastor of the Dayton
Methodist Episcopal Church
South; the special term of the
> Rhea county circuit court con
vened this morning for the trial
of John Thomas Scopes who is
charged wiih violating the anti
evolution law of Tennessee.
The opening of the court was
marked by what, was expected to
'be only the first of many demon
strations, when the entrance of
' William V ‘r.yan provoked a
burst of handcla; ping. Aa the
1 leading member of the prosecut
i' ing staff of attorneys walked
' within the bar of the court he
was greeted cordially by Clar
* enbe Darrow and Dudley Field
-VMalone. leaders of the defense
•group of lawyers.
' Dayton, July 11 —The /jury selected
to try Thomas Scopes was completed
' this morning. The jury is composed of
' - nine farmers, one school teacher, one
fruit gaower arid one shipping clerk.
* Following completion of tne jury, court
'■ adjourned until Monday.
Seattle, July 9. Swedish Baptist
ministers from all parts of the Uuited
'States and Canada, at a meeting in Se
attle, pre eding the general conference
*• at ■ their church, took a fiat stand
against modernism and particularly
‘ against evolution.
••MaQ was created in the#ame image
sis God, and not by evolution,” is the
coucludiug phrase of the resolution,
" which was adopted unanimously.
44 Perish in One of
Boston's Gay Resorts
Boston, July ; -Forty-four persons,
men and women, perished in the quar
1 lers of the Pickwick Club. a pay night
resort, when the building collapsed.
Liquor was being dispensed at the
' time.
E’’ete Carlson, of Carlson & Honnan,
1 Ophir merchants. who w is among yes
terdav arrivals from a trip to McGrath,
left this morning for <)phir.
Departing tomorrow for McGrath on
fcbe White &s Lind boat will he Mrs. B |
J. Boyd. Bessie Boyd, Nels Pearson i
and August Smith.
Frank LarsoD. Billy Case, (diaries
‘ King and Pete Carlson came up yester
day from the Sea- Wolf.
The Argonaut arrived iu Bethel at 3
f* 3*. «*.• on the [-P
Wife of Promi nen t Law
yer May Have Been
Murdered, Poison.
Astoria, .July 10. — Suspicion
that Ml'S. Yiolet'.e Adolia White,
26, of Seattle, who came to her
death in 1923, was the result of
poison administered with mur-i
derous intent, vViii result in ex
burning her body for analysis.
Mrs. White was the wife of
Crawford id. White, Seattle at
torney and past state president of
the Fraternal Order of Fayles. j
Petition for exln ation of the!
body was made by Mrs M .ry
Sjoblom. of Astoria, mother of
the dead woman.
Seattle.—Mrs. Vioieite Adelia White,
wife of Crawford W. White, whose
body is about to be exhumed for an
alysis for the purpose f determining
whether her death was caused by poi
son, was found dead in their home here
on August 26, I5t23.
W. T. Lopp to Take
Charge cf Reindeer
Indus i ry, Greenland
Seattle, July 8»—W. T. Lopp. former
superintendent of the Alaska bureau of 1
I education, left last t ight on a miss an
i for the Hu Aon Bay Company, t,o re
j organize its reiudtet udostry in i' jHin j
Land. Following ,• ip]e i*.n of this .
work Mr. Lot p w... t m . ha -ge of the
Danish govern m.-t..'.- eima . iutiusi ry
I in Greenland.
Norris Shies Leader
ship of ‘Progressives’
Washington, ,lulv tl—Senator George
W. Norris, of Nebraska, is not looking
for leadership of the progressive party.
Replying to an r to co-opera’te
with him in the leadership of the po
litical movement headed by the late
Senator La Follette, S, nator Norris as
serted that he did not ant to be asso
ciated with any political party as its
leader.
Alaska Launch, Crew
of 5, Report ! Missing
Seattle, July 8.—A w of five uien
aboard the launch Norman, which left
Snug Harbor-, Cook’s it Jet, for Eukak
bay, Shellikoff strait, laska, -lunedi*.
is missing, according to radio tits
patches f t in the nava. -tation at S i
dovia.
N. G. Hansen, newly accredited j
agent for the N. G. G mpany at Mc
Grath, with supei vision extending to
the Tokotna establishment, was a Mon
day arrival, having made the trip
overland via Candle. This is Mr. Han
sen’s first visit, here, and since his ar
rival lias been more or less busy in
grasping local conditions, lie returned
yesterday from a visit to Ophir and
several creeks, and exp> nts to leave to
morrow for McGrath.
George Davis, of McGrath, was a
Tuesday arrival.
Hopeless of Recovery
War Secretary Weeks
Sends in Resignation
Swampseolt, July 7.—The resigoa j
tioa of Secretary of War Wee's '.s in'
the hands of ’resident Coolidge. Sea- j
retary Weeks It i - :.i; time been •
broken in health and hopeless of rocov- :
erv, and is . glared to be suffering |
from thrombosis, a . at ru similar to
that which cat -ed the death of Wood
row Wilson
Speaks of Security Pacts
to Preserve Peace
of Europe.
Cambridge. Ma.-s., July 3.
Security pu< s to preserve the
peace of Europe were given a
pledge of moral support today
by President Cool id go, who ;
coupled his promise with a warn 1
mg that on . ; oblmr t< rms could (
America be > v.-oeted o contrib- •
ute to the further tiuaacial re
vival of the Oid World.
Coolidge spoke ,.l the celebra
tion of the l-'Olu anniversary of i
Washington taking command of
the Continental Army, and de-i
dared a ‘generous willingness1
of ali men everywhere to recog
nize as the first citizen of the!
world him -who has been so long
acclaimed as the- drst merit an.”
Many Tourists Are
Headed for Alaska
Seattle, July 9, —The steamships
Queen and Jefferson, saiIitier Wednes
day and Thursday fternoon for South
eastern Alaska, carried 4 jo passengers,
three fourths of wheat are excursion
ists.
Judge Indicted, Meets
Death in Auto Accident
Jackson, Tenn., July 10.—Judge J.
W. Ross, of the Western Tennessee
district federal court, who yesterday
was indicted in connection with the
failure of the People’s Savings Bank of
Jackson, was killed in an automobile
accident here today.
Washing! >ii Notes
Washington —lovi -tigationf carried
on by the war denar. neni have failed
to lift the mystery of th disappearance!
three months ago of Captain Robert M.1
Connell, of the regular army.
Washington.—A tax reduction of
three hundred million dollars bv the
next Congress was predicted by Chair
man Smoot, of the Senate finance com
mittee, Thursday.
Washington. — Looking to the future
protection of commefe and navigation,
fifty-three tracts 1.., be n reserved
for lighthouse purposes along the coast
of Alaska.
Washington.—Frank W. Mondell has
resigned as director of the war finance
corporation t< o. acie.p- law to this city.
Kill 1, Injure 2, in Des
perate Shooting Af
fair, Salinas, CaL
Salinas. Cal., July 7.—Cav
alrymen from the Presidio, of
Monterey, and citizens from
towns adjacent to Moss Landing,
near here, joined with coast
guardsmen today to run down
the crew of belligerent hijackers
who killed one member of a
po>se, late last night, injured
two peace officers and drove
county and state police to cover
by fire from a machine gun.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle. Major General Harry Tay
lor. chief of engineers, will sail July 12
on the cable ship Dell wood to inspect
the Wrangell Narrows improvement
project. He will be accompanied by
General Wilds P. I ii-hardson, retired.
Seattle.—In the great patriotic pa
geant in this city on July Fourth •
twelve thousand marched, with the :
uniforms of three wars in line, the j
American and British Hags being fol
lowed by vetervG of the world war.
Swempscott, Mass.- -President Cool
idge started off the celebration of the
Fourth, which was also tiis owu birth
day, by three hours’ work in the execu
tive office at Lynn, four miles from the
summer White House.
New York. —There are 20.738,447;
Catholics in the l ulled .Slates, accord- j
iog to the 1925 edition of ihe Catholic
Press Directory, iust from the press of
a Chicago publishing house.
Sealtle.— John Young, a well known
salesman, perished Thursday when he
ran into his burning home to rescue
his wife, though Mrs. Young had pre
viously escuped.
Chicago.—Fourteen railroads per- j
fecled plans here Monday for the con-;
struetion of a union station, the cost of i
whieh will total three hundred million
dollars.
Seattle.—One Hundred American and
Canadian odicers of the world war held
their second annual baouuet at the
Hotel Olyuipia Tuesday night.
Chicago.—The Tribune tower, built j
by the Chicago Tribune at a cost of
eight and one-half million dollars, was
formally opened Tuesday.
Seattle.—Secretary of Interior Work j
arrived Tuesday for a conference with j
Governor Hartley relative to the Kit-j
tisas reclamation project.
Swampscott. — President Coolidge
Thursday afternoon made his first trip
to sea for a cruise oil the Massachusetts
coast.
Vancouver.—General Lord Bvng,
governor general of Canada, arrived
Monday for a visit of several days.
Seattle.—Gilbert I!. Foy, mail trans
portation contractor, killed in an auto
accident, Monday.
Cos Angeles. Thomas Die Wool
wine. noted attorney, uieu at hii> home
here Thursday,
VOLSTEAD
VIOLATORS
Sec. Treas. Mellon Big
Distillery Owner, Says
Gifford Pinchot.
bos Angeles, July 10.—That
Secretary cf Treasury Andrew
W. Mellon is one of the largest
whiskey distillery owners in the
country and that only a few
weeks ago Mellon himself dis
posed of a million dollars’ worth
of whiskey, was the declaration
of Governor Gifford Pinchot, of
Pennsylvania, in an address
here. Pinchot, among other al
legations, also charged that the
Treasury Department is respon
sible for the large amount of de
natured alcohol being distributed
throughout the East.
Swampscott, July 8. — A fleet
of rum running ships lay in rune
row off the summer White House
tonight while a cordou of gov
ernment rum chasers maneu
vered desperately to prevent the
landing of a liquor cargo while
President Coolidge is here.
Girl Killed, Escort
Woundea for Refus
ing ‘Hands Up’ Order
Los Angeles, July 10.—Two high
wavmen this forenoon shot and killed
Miss Edna Eellin and wounded he:
escort, Theodore Stanford, when th*
couple refused to obey orders to -hold,
up their hands. They were seated ic
a parked car at rhe time.
Federal Govt. Commit
mitted to Development
of the Kittitas Project
Ellensburg, July 7.—The federa.
government is irrevocably committed
to the development of the Kittitae
reclamation r,ro;ect, involving an ex
peoditure of nitie million dollars, and
will begin'construction work this year
if the misunderstanding that has arisen
concerning the lacd settlemennt pro
vision of the appropriation be straight
ened out*-Secretary of Interior Wort
said in his address here today.
Oppressive Heat Pre
vails Throughout East
New York, July 10. Seeking relief
from the oppress: ve heat of yesterday,
Baroness Helen Zur Mahlin, of Java,
of Java, fell from ti seventh-story win
dow of the Hit :,-< arltnn hotel, and was
iustantly killed. She was formerly
Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio,
Texas
New York. The second day of the
heat wave which swooped down upon
the East from the Middle West, caused
cine deaths and dozens of prostrationc
here, Thursday.
Vivian Howard, after an absence o'
a couple of mouths, and who red^ntlv
came from Fairbanks to McGraEtW- v,c.
airolane, was a TtuH-sday fcrrivel