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VOL. XXL, NO. 3202.
: JNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. MARCH 26, 1923.
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NEW PROHIBITION MAN FOR ALASKA
Wealthy Man Mentioned in Murder of Cloak Model
SENATOR FROM
COLORADO HAS
PASSED AWAY
U. S. Senator Nicholson, Mil
lionaire Is Dead—Suc
cessor to Be Democrat.
DENVER, Mill'd! 2<>.—United States
Senator Samuel 1). Nicholson, of Colo
rado, died Saturday night from atom
iich itumor. He arrived here early
Saturday morning from Rochester,
Minn., where ho had summoned Dr.
Hubert Work, Secretary of Interior,
life-long friend, to pass his Judgment
as to whether an operation would
save lifs Mfe. Dr. Work decided an
operation would do no good and Sen
ator 'Nicholson came here by special
train. ‘Saturday noon he began
gradually slinking.
Senator Nicholson began his resi
dence fin Colorado as a laborer in the
gold mines near EeadvMle. Up be
came superintendent and then man
ager, finally a millionaire.
Senator Nichoolsn was elected fnom
LeadviUe to the Senate in 1920 as
“Nicholson, the miner, the man who
made himself useful as a citizen."
Senator Nicholson was a Republi
can and he will be succeeded by a
Democrat to be appointed by Gov. W.
E. Sweet. Democrat.
WILSON RECOMMENDS.
DENVER. Maroh 26.—Woodrow
Wilson has telegraphed Gov. Sweet
asking him to appoint Huston
Thompson. Democrat, to the United
Stater Senate as successor to Sena
tor Nicholson.
Thompson 1s now a member of
the Federal Trade Commission.
While Thompson was a student at
Princeton, he was founder and presi
dent of the first "Wilson for Presi
dent" Club. At the last Democratic
National Convention, held In San
Francisco, Thompson was an ardent
i upporter of McAdoo for the nom
ination as President.
ICE JAM IN
RIVER STILL
HOLDS WATER
Wide Section Is Being Flood
ed at Sioux City—Ask
for Bombing Plane.
SIOUX TUT V, ..larch 26.—The groat
ice g: !n th? Missouri River is
still holding and tho flood peril of
trie residents In the lowlands is grow
ig hourly. Many residential por
tions of tho city are flooded as tho
result of back waters.
lUnflees all of the dee jams are
broken within tho next 12 hours a
retention of the flood of 1881. which
deetrelyed it he town, is feared.
'Dynamite used yesterday failed to
break the Jam at Onawa.
WANT GOMBING PLANE
isroux CITY. March 26.—An appeal
ha^ been sent to the War Department
to dt.-patch a bombing plane here in
an attempt to break the dee gorge.
iSomo old river men believe the
Missouri will leave the regular chan
nel and cut a new one around the
ioe gorge if the ice holds a few days
long-r.
RAPID RISE OF WATER
DBS MOINES, March 26—An lee
gorge, believed to have been part
of the same one Which wa3 responsi
ble for floods near Sioux City and
■which floated (town tho river during
the might, has caused a rapid rise of
■water oppcalito Onawa. Iowa, result
ing dn an overflow and menacing
valuable farm lands.
Attends Palm Sunday
Mass, Murders
Two, Than Suicides
SAIND POINT. Idaho. March 26.—
Within an hour after attending Palm
Sunday mas® in the Catholic Church
here, Philip iPapa shot and killed
his wife, his mother-in-law and then
took Isis own .life. In a note he left,
Papa sard his wife did not love him
any more.
THREE NEW SENATORS IN WASHINGTON.
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Three new United States Senators have arrived in Washington
to take up their duties. They are Dr. Royal S. Copeland, of New
I torn; Rule B. Mayfield, of Texar, and Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon- i
tana. All three are Democrats. Mayfield faces a fight to unseat
him on the ground that he used excessive campaigns funds and on
i the further ground that he is a Ku Klux Klansman.
PARIS BEAUTY SHOT WHEN
IN DUEL; ANOTHER’S WIFE
VICTORIOUS IN M E E TIN G;
LOVE LETTERS MIXED UP
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1 Will Work for '
Highway Act
For Alaska
SEATTLE, March 2G. The
1 Seattle Chamber or Commerce t
will ask the Unite.il Stales
! Chamber of Commerce at the
j meeting in .May to pass a reso
lution asking Congress to ex- !
I tend the Federal Highway Act
| { to Alaska. I
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OLD POSEY IS
MAKING STAND
IN LAST BOUT
Famous Old Piute Indian Es
capes White Posse—Cap
ture Is Believed Near.
SALT LAKE, Utah. March' 28
Old Posey is making bis last stand
against his white pursuers. A while
posse under United 'States Marshal
J. Ray Ward, late yesterday brought
in 27 renegade Piutes, seven of them
in Irons.
OLd Posey, famous Piute eluded the
posse, but lis thought to be without
food and with a scanty supply of
ammunition His capture is momen
tarily expected, although he is cred
ited with the determination to ex
pend his last hit of energy and his
last round of ammunition in an ef
fort t o escape.
The prisoners brought iti yester
day were placed lin the county pound,
where already there were 80 or more
renegade Brutes.
Man Is Charged With
Murder Nearly Year Ago
EVERETT, Wash.. March 26.— In
frrmation has ibeon filed in the Su
perior Court by Prosecutor Tloscoe,
accusing George Dinas, of Morton,
with the murder of Peter Karas, who
■was shot .and killed on a lonely road
July 27. last year.
Dinas is already charged with ar
son in connection with the burning of
the Home Bakery here on March 17,
when MM 'Peter Karas, her brother
in-law and her two children were
burned or suffocated to death.
PARIS, March 26. - A« o result of
a bit of carelessness by which an er
rant husband put lrs love missive In
; the wrong envelope, tw i women In a
! Paris' triangle 1' light a duel.
I One of the it. s* Piously injured by
1 the only bullet out of 12 fired in
j Hip duel to tak ■ effect, now is in u
hospital.
Paris police are investigating t ie
strange episode.
The (Identity or ,women has
i been kept secret so far as possible,
extraordinary efforts being made to
prevent publicity.
However, it is understood that the
victor is the wife of a prominent
French author
Other Is Beauty of Twenty
The other, now said to b? recover
ing from her wound. Is a beautiful
girl of 20, whose first name is Made
line.
The author's wife is said to he 46
years old. Gossip relates that the
writer, voyaging into Turkey, wrote
two love letters
One olf them was to his wife, reit
erat’ng hlis affections. The other was
to Madeline, begging her to rejoin
him at Constantinople and enclosing
money for the journey.
The letters- bee am ■ mixed, the wife
I receiving the remittance and the In
! citation addressed to the young
I beauty.
i The wife, accompanied by two
j women friends, called upon .Madeline
with a challenge.
The young woman asked them to
wait until she could summon two of
her friends.
Each Fires Six Shota
Then the two wamen, each with
j the two feminine seconds, went to
I the Bois Vincennes, where they fired
1 silx shots each.
The last bullet from the wife's re
volver hit the beauty, whose shots
all went astray.
The affair is causing tremendous
excitement in society.
It Is declared it 11 it Madeline has
refused to make a formal complaint,
in which case police will be forced
to drop the matter
Intoxicated Man and
Cigar Causes Disaster
NEW YORK. March 26 — A
lighted cigar, believed to have been
carelessly thrown by on intoxicated
man, reused a fire which swept the
seven-story Princeton Apartment*
early this morning, occupied by
tdieatrioul and business people, re- |
suiting in the death of four and
serious Injury to many others.
SENSATION IN
MURDER CASE
IN NEW YORK
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Prominent Philadelphia Man
Said to Be Implicated in
Murder of Cloak Model.
NEW YORK. March 2K A sen-.i-i
tilon has been created here hy the an-!
DOiincement that “Mr. Marshall,”;
friend of Dorothy Keenan, slain cloak '
model, h< been idenf it .1 as Jo-ha i
K ear?-ley Mitt hell, president of the!
Philadelphia flubber \^»rks.
M i chell is a nopln w of Dr. S. j
Wr'r Mitchell, irovaliat. He is the!
husband of the daughter of KlwarJ
Townsend Stotesbury, head of Drex.d
& Co., of I’hi'ladelpjyrt, and member
of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
New York.
HAS FAITH IN MAN
PALM BEACH, March E. T.
Stciestwy, of Philadelphia, fa h tr-ln !
law of J. Kearaley Mfft hell. id?ntlfii I i
as the mysterious “Mr. Marshall'' in
the Dorothy Keenan mttrder ease si't.
New York, today » ■ I his faith In
Mitchell was unshaken bv the de
velopments. He S3'I he and Mrs.1
Mitchell will leave tomorrow for
Phtla doiphia.
BLACKMAIL PLOT
NEW YOltfK. March 3«. The police |
have spread a net over Broadway In |
search for a ponton believed to have [
attempted to blackmail J. Kearsley
Mltcheill and then murdered Dorothy:
Keenan. It Is claimed she refused |
to pant lei pate in the plot.
Arrests are momentauily expected.
BRISBANE EDITORIAL
Arthur Brisbane, editorial writer!
for the Heard newspapers, has the
following comment on the Keenan
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JURY TAMPERING
NOW ALLEGED IN
MICHIGAN CASE
Attempts Made to Get to
Jury Are Frustrated—
Two Men Involved.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 26.
Ckiunty officials announced i.U'a lust
Saturday that attempts made to tam
per With 'the jury in the William '/,
Poster case. Communist, were t'rus
trailed and the trial will proceed to
day. Two men, one a local man and
the other a stranger, ware caught fol
iowing the Jurors. They were re
oaseil after being uuostkmed closely
BIG CONFERENCE
IS NOW OPENED
American Republics Again
Get Together After Re- ,
cess of Fifteen Years.
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SANTIAGO. Chile. March 36.- I He
aved.)—<La»t Saturday, this city ]
'oundtd In 1541, was gaily decorated ,
'or the opening on Sunday of tile ]
iifth mnference of the American He ]
jublics, which after a lapse of 15 ,
■ears have again assembled. repre
mntitiives to taka measures for the ,
tommon good.
Mexico, Peru and Bolivia repre
mntatives are missing but delega
I'ons of 18 other Hopublkts are here
For the first time tin history of
he conference, international political
j.iostions will bo dlscussod. Among ;
hese will be the limitation of anna
nont expenditures, establishment of
•loser relations among the American
sovern-ments 'In contact with foreign
lowers.
RECESS HERRIN TRIAL
MARION, March 26. -— A recess
vas taken today in the Herrin riot
rial because of the illness of a
'hild of one of the members of the1
llir Jr*.
“UNCLE JOE” SAYS “GOOD-BY’
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"Uncle Joe" Cannon, veteran statesman, is shewn bidding
farewell to Miss Mllly Shcndow, clerk In the enrolling depart
ment of the House of Representatives, and W. II. Overhue, en
rolling clerk of the House, upon his departure front tile capital
for his home in Illinois. “For Good,” he says.
KISS AND MAKE UP EPIDEMIC
HITS MONTE CARLO HARD RAP
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Wins Title as |
Champion
Egg Eater
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MOSCOW, Idaho, March 38. -
Warren C. lloogle, of Wheatland,
| Cal., yesterday won the title of
champion egg eater. Doogl ■■
consumed Tor I: ktast :tl soft '
hoik'd eggs, one bowl of break
1 fast food, halt ,i grapcfruilt, one
: orange and on • | co of tu<~t
j at the annual c.or. st conducted
j by the Ba'.a Theta Pi fraternity
I of the University of Idah >
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CLAIMS OLD
PARTIES ARE
LOSING OUT
Slorth Dakota Senator Says
Important Surprises Are
Coming Next Year.
WASHINCTu.v March 2fi. (Bv
he Associated Press i- United Slat's
Senator Kd win K I, add of North
Jikota in a tatoni a' today | r< diet
'd rext year will continue Import nit
surprises f<> !ho old lln • jiol ‘i ll
►artrtes unless omething is d a-i b\
ur Inl ine" a.
Senator nul l demanded “? r. 'ling
>e done i|n regard to th"' sugir cor
ler." He d cl arid "the people are
omg stretched ahead of the,' backward
poking partita who -eem without
ournge to face th ■ prnllams of tha
Lmeriean masses. As a eons *.|ii 'nee
dd party lines are crumbling "
CRISIS LOOMING
By JAMES R NOURSE
WASH I NOTON, M» h 36 Disrop
ion rf the Republican r u onal coin
nittee is looked upon as in uiavchl
ibl« development lin tb • announce
nent by Attorney (ioneral Daugherty
>f plans to make President H tiding
i second-term nominee in 1924.
It la regarded as almost e rtain
hat Chairman John T Adams will
"esign h:.s post if the Harding ind
igent adopt, the suggestion m id • by
he Attorney (Ipneral that Will II
■days, former chairman; Charles U.
Bilks. Taft manager In 1912. or i.ome
>n^ else he called info manage the
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PARIS. March 4> With the first
I real sun of the season shedding its
j mol lowing influence over Monte Car
1*0. “rccontOI.rUons" &eom to bo tho
order of the day.
Tho first of the renewed friend
; (drips \va < nhscrve l when Mary Uar
i de l . :• I Claudia Mnzio publicly em
| braced in th * restaurant of the Ho*ol
Du Palais.
Tho second is the report that
jC', untc < Brunlta, dashing dark I :m
ly. Is again affiance I to Prince Rauls
tf Monaco. A symptom of this is
I that rive is obediently heeding his
! request n t to appear so Ben at the
i f e h wnable Carlton Supper Palace,
Where she and Ocorge .1 Gould. Jr.,
hava hitherto danced much together, j
Sees Funny Side
The third “reconciliation" Is that of
, Joe Coyne, famous American com-j
jedian. who has (become reconelled to
tho idea of losing his tnon.’y- ,;r so
he says.
! ‘ I have tii-* right system now," he
j said. "My Io;okm are limited to a
j ‘hotiytnd francs a niglit. and cannot!
possibly bp any more. I never put (
| more than that amount in my pocket,
lard I i ave mv check hook at home." |
In -pit) of tho ronowed speet
I friend - hlo. Muzio and Mary GW.ien i
remain two ef th most prominent!
(style rivals of the Riviera.
I I
Mary Leadv
Thus fir Mary seems to he ahea 1
in the r u e, bursting forth adopne! ;
! witii one pearl necklace :it 115 pearls.I
'two hug' emeralds, i diamond sun
i burs: and brooch, u diamond tiara, i
I two diamond marquise rings and dia-1
mom) shop buckles.
I Mur1 i sings magnificently at the
! Cosmo, while Mary, abandoning her
fav rite baccaret table, arrives at the,
‘age h. * just in time to bear her.j
land applauds vigorously
Tho Duke do ChoHseul remains here
l disconsolately denying rumors that
Mrs. Samuel Goldenborg Is to be
the next duchess.
Town Thrown Into
Panic by Mill Fire
WAHHOlKiAL, Wash . March 26.
Th" Wuhougil Woolen Mills were'
d roved here by fire with a loss'
( estimated $100,000. The town was
! thrown 'Onto a panU by Ihe hellef|
( t tin * the whole town was doomed
hut firemen assisted by the Camas|
department finally controlled the!
I flames.
Famous Preacher
Near Dawson, Dies
DAWSON, March 26.—Rev. Arnos
N’Jo'H, famous Indian preacher of
the ('hurt'll of Kngland. died recently,
( -.wording to word received from
; Rampart House.
MEANS TO BE
SUCCESSOR TO
J. B. MARSHALL
Oregon Man Will Come
North as Prohibition En
forcement Officer, Alaska.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 26.—A,
0. Mtanr, cf Oir^on, has been tp
pcint:d Prohibition Director for
Alarka by Roy Haines, Nationil
Piohibiti n Direct r. This is ac
coidinp' to an announcement made
her? t-day by Means.
Means has been acting in prohibi
tion cnfcicement work in the North
west fer sometime and recently re
turned here from Juneau, Alaska.
Means succeeds John B. Mar
shall, who has been transferred to
the lcjal department cf the pro
hibitim forces at Seattle.
Is Kncwn in Juneau.
A. O. Mean:' Is well known in Jn
necu on account of an official visit
here which began during the later
part of I nr! December. Soon after
his arrival here ne was taken to
St. Ann HocpiLal from the Gas'tlneail
Hotel, w here his serious illness
called for the attendance of Ills
wife and she came north and re
mained here until both went couth
several weeks ago.
Moans Is from Umatilla, Oregon.
He is a man about 115 years of age
and his wife Is a sister of Senator
Robert M, Stanfield, of Oregon. The
couple have two boys, aged 7 and
II, respectively.
Mr. Moans is a thirty-second de
gree Mason and a Shrlner. He has
been active in Republican politics
in Oregon for many years and dur
ing the last oampalgn was chairman
of one of the important committees.
UNITED STATES
NAVY MUST BE
MADE MODERN
Naval Experts Give Opinions
Regarding Washington
5*5-3 Agreement.
WASHINGTON. March 26.—The
5-5 3 naval ratio, the foundation of
all naval agreements growing out of
the Washington conference, will be
utterly destroyed unless the United
States carries out Its program to
modernize the American Fleet.
This si the opinion of expert naval
officials after a careful study- Some
of the ofUlcers stated the present
strength if approximately <1-5-4, with
Great Britain heading tho list and
the United States in an Intermediate
position.
FRENCH RESERVATIONS
PARIS, March 26.—French reser
valons which are expected to be
adopted by Parliament 'In ratifying
the naval treaty are 'in the form of
n.n artdilicnnl article to the treaty
text which will be communicated for
various signatories when ratifications
are exchanged. This is according to
the newspapers here.
Former Woman Resident
Of Juneau Passes Away
SEATTLE. Mmrcli 26 Mrs. Ellis
t?th A. Bridges, who first came to
Seattle in 1889. prominent In patrio
Mc work. Ms dead here Mrs. Brldgsfc
I rmerly lived in Juneau. Alaska.
Grand Jury Room
Is Scene of
Wild Party
DENVER. March 26 —Fifteen wit
mvts'es will be called before the
county grand jury in the probe of
an alleged party Bald to have been
»t iged In the grand jury room Saf
er lay afternoon try three or the lead
ing defendants in a trial of 20 alleged
confidence men. it was announced
hare la.st night.
The three defendants were saikf to
be in custody at the time of Deputy
Sheriff Tom Clark Four whisky
■bottles were sold to have been found
Hn the room after the party.