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| Lyle-Whitney
Not Guilty,
Says Jury
DEFENDANTS VICTIMS OF per
secution, said defense
. ATTORNEYS.
SEATTLE; .'Sept. 22.—Roy C. Lyle,
' William Whitney -fend Corwin were
* declared not guilty by a federal court
court jury, Avhich returned its verdict
; at 12:3R Sunday morning, after hav
ing been out for seven hours.
Whitney, .however, stil faces a per
. jury charge.
Judge Norcross. in his charge, in
structed the jury to be very cautious
in considering: testimony of convicts
and ex-convicts
SEATTLE, Sept. 20.—Roy Lyle and
his former official associates of the
prohibition bureau were described by
• defense- Attorney Moriarity as vic
. tims of a diabolical plot concocted by
‘ “Little Alfio .Hubbard and a group of
. felons.” Moriarity’s statement was
made in thp final defense argument
t to the jury.
Hubbard’s, .story was devised, he
charged, “.to save his dirty hide.”
The attorney .said the government’s
case is surrounded by suspicion,
suspicion, conjecture and innuendo.
<• The defendants are paying the pen
alty of honorable service for the
United - States”
He suggested conditions are as bad
or worse now from a prohiition stand
point than' in 1925, when the Olm
stcad ring was operating. “Since the
Department of Justice took over en
forcement in July nothing ut a boat
. has been seized,” said Moriarity.
He described government testimony
as a “tramp, tramp, tramp parade
from McNeill’s Island,” from where
many bf 'the government witnesses
came.
SEATTLE, Sep. 23.—If he so de
sires, Roy.-C. Lyle wil be automatic
ally reinstated in the federal dry en
forcement service, but not in the
Northwbof! district, Senator uesley
Jones.announced today.
REPUBLICANS NOMINATE
TUTTLE FOR N. Y. GOVERNOR
ALBANY, Sep. 26.—Charles H.
H. Tuttle, former federal district at
torney .of New York City, who advo
cates repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment,'"was nominated for governor by
the Republican state convention to
day.
Peter Jensen and Happy Jacobson
were town visitors for a day during
the past week, following which they
left for Ganes creek.
Andy Hansen, following a season
in the Cripple section, was a Sunday
arrival.
Frank Larson, after taking the last
Holy Crosfe-Ophir mail destined for
McGrath, returned here on Saturday.
John Novak, following a stay of a
few days here, left Thursday for his
homo at McGrath.
John H. Peterson, after a season
over in the Cripple section, was a
yesterday arrival.
Mr. and Mis. James Weir, Spruce
* creek, were Takotna visitors for a
i few hours, on Monday.
i
Doings At
Washington
HERBERT HOOVER, JR., A VIC
TIM OF TlffeERCULOSS OF
THE LUNGS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—Her
bert Hoover, Jr., is a victim of tuber
culosis of the lungs, Dr. Joel T.
Boone, White House physician, an
nounced today. The President and
Mrs. Hoover are surprisingly and
distressingly shocked. Young Hoover
will be treated at the President’s
Rapidan camp.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Major
Charles M. Steadman, member of
Congress from North Carolina, born
in 1841, lone Confederate soldier
member of either branch of Congress,
died at his home here yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Sept . 27.—Con
gressman Dill, leaving for Spokane
Wednesday, declared Hoover politics
in disfavor, asserting that the Presi
dent had run prosperity into the
ditch.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Nicho
las Roosevelt, against whose appoint
ment Filipinos protested, has re
signed as vice governor of the Philip
pines, and has been appoined minister
to Hungary.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Vice '
President Curtis announced today
that he Will take the stump in the
Congressional campaign, making his
lrst speech on October 6 at Wilming
ton, Cel., discussing the new tariff
and panicky times.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SCHUYLKILL, Pa., Sept. 26.—
John Payne Whitney of New York,
well known sportsman, and heir to
two million dollars, and Mary Eliza
beth Altemus, member of one of Phil
adelphia’s aristocratic families, were
married here last evening, leaving
shortly after the ceremony for Wash
ington on their honeymoon.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27.—A national'
finance publication today announced
that C. F. Alexander and Mark Reed,
both of Seattle, have their lives in
sured for one million dollars each.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27.—Coste and
Bellonte, owing to bad weather condi
tions, have passed up Seattle in their j
good-will flight, proceeding from
Pasco to San Francisco.
LOS ANGELES, Sep. 27.—Clara
Bow has stopped payment on $139,000
worth of checks drawn on a Los An
gees bank in payment of her losses
at a Calneva, Mexico* Tesort, where |
she had dropped it at blackjack.
MOSCOW, Sept. 26.—Forty-eight
members of a secret revolution so
ciety were shot to death, today.
ALEXANDER PANTAGES
MAY GET iNEW TRIAL
LOS ANGELES, Sept. ' 27.—The
District Court of Appeals, yesterday
resisted refusal of the Ariel court to
grant Alexander Pantages ~ a new
trial. This action, it effect, assures
a new trial for Pantages. i
Andrew Olson, coning’ from the -]
Yankee.dredge, was a Sunday ar- i
rival. i
TELLS OF ACTIVITIES RUBY
POORMAN MINING SECTION
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
News of the .Ruby camp is related
in a letter just received from C. T i
Spencer, Alaska ay eat-for the Reyig
ator Water Jar Company. Mr. Kpen
cer’s article from Ruby is called
“Revig-a-Touring th- Ruby M rung
District,” and is as follows:
Leaving Ruby Friday (August Ir),
we merrily jounced over the auto
road in Albert Verhonik’s “luffing Liz
zie” to the Susitna Albert missed a
few bumps, but he got them coming
back. It wasn’t possible to hit them
all going one way.
At the Saatna we met Ed Wilkin
son, the foreman of the road crew,
with a team and driver, and he kind
ly invited me to ride 'the nine miles :
between the Salatna and Poorman. j
The road was newly built, and the I
recent rains made it .so soft that t
was with difficulty that thet team :
made any progress. However, it was
a relief to get on the wagon and help
unload steel culverts whenever the
team stopped for this purpose. At
that the occasional lift on the better
stretches of road was much appreci-;
ated.
Mr. Wilkinson surely has made a:
wonderful showing with the funds
available. The road wil be completed
to Poorman by the end of July, 1931.
so that it will be possible for trucks
and autos to drive from Ruby to
Poorman and return th esame day. i
The recent downpours in this sec- ;
tion are the worst in years and are j
in large measure responsible fo- the i
condition of the roads. This is a dif
ficult section in which to construct
roads owing to the lack of gravel al
most the entire distance fsom Ruby
to Poorman.
When I arrived at Jesse's place ir J
Poorman it proceeded to rain ir j
great big gobs and kept it up for two ;
days and nights and thar begat.'
again for four solid days and nights.
There was no indication of a let-up,
so I paddled down Poorman creek to
ward Discovery on Beaver. At El
dorado I found Evan Jones building a
cabin preparatory to prospecting on
that creek this coming winter. Bil
Ferry and Clint Winan were there
from Nevada creek, where they will
operate with a small plant this win
ter. They have enough in sight for
an even break and the pay gets better
in their tunnel.
Ras Matson was there from Moose j
creek, and he reported that Shrop-;
shire nad struck rich pay under the;
messhouse—better pay than he had
before.
I waded on over to Beaver that
time, and long before I came to Dis
covery could see the gin pole with
the dump bucket coming up loaded
every ten minutes.
Next morning I went down in the j
drift and was surprised to see the!
amount of dirt that had been taken;
out. The first cleanup showed good,
but the pannings are- far better in the
new tunnel. There is pay for 200 feet
and they are now drifting toward the
discovery shaft, where thebe is known
to be good pay.
The wet ground that was reported
earlier in the season on Beaver creek
is not wet enough to give any great
lifficulty in actual mining, but the
water seeps in a little too fast to be
aaed out with a windlass.
A small steam pump or siphon
iiscovery shaft is dry and the ground
:onld easily handle the seepage. The
s easily worked. There is very lit
;le sediment and almost no boulders. |
Dnly three holes have been sunk be- 1
ow .discovery on the right limit
»enoh, and these show prospects, or
it least two of them do.
Mast of the holes sunk were either
Wine, Beer j
In Own Home
BEYOND REACH OF ENFORCE
MENT AGENCIES, SAYS PRO
HIBITION DIRECTOR.
_ I
WASHINGTON’, Sept. 27^-Citizens
who manufacture wine or beer in
their own homes for home consump
tion, with no sales involved, was held
today by National Prohibition Direc
tor Woodcock to be beyond reach of
federal .enforcement, agencies
17,0000 KILLED, THOUSANDS
OF WOMEN AND GIRLS CAR
RIED OFF BY BANDIT GANGS
PEKING, Sept, 27.—Seven thou-;
sand have beer killed .and several
thousand .women airgndn mfw fwyy
thousand women and girls carried off
for ransom in the province of Sonan,
the deeds of. twelve separate bandit
gangs. j
DORBANBT BRINGING SICK
MAN FROM ARCTIC SECTION
NOME, Sept. 23.^->Pilot Frank Dor
bandt arrived here today by plane,
bringing: Captain A. P. .Toquinson of
Seattle, who was critically ill and
marooned aboard the fur trader Ka
rise in the Arctic, off Cape Serdge.
in the present creeK bed or slightly
on the benches. There is certainy
room enough no V
the right and left units to miss the <
pay, and no doubt muc* "ptospecting
will be done higher up or .the henches
this winter.
The creeks are.wel woim down'
throughout ithe-Poormau. district, and
most of the pay found on . other
creeks does not follow closely the I
present channel but keeps well to the j
benches. It doesn’t seem possiblej
that Beaver would how good pay in
one spot only—there must be other ,
spots just as good. The~e don't seemJ 1
to be any continuous paystreaks in
camp as we know them ir Fairbanks '
but the spots are large enough to be j
worked at a profit.
On Poorman pay was found for a
distanre of two miles, and on Long it;
was even Longer (how's that for a ,
pun?). Even old Poorman’s turning
out some nice money this year. Baldo
this week cleaned up $8,000 and only i (
has about half his dump in. (He is!
just now sluicing his winter dump.) j
There will be a hundred men or;
more prospecting in the Poorman' ;
district. This country is large and ■
will stand a lot of prospecting. The j,
chances are that no bonanzas will be;
struck, but I am of the opinion that1
by spring the Rubv district will be a
larger producer .thir it has been for
years. 1
The people here are optimistic and
are. just waiting for cold weather so
as to begin, prospecting in earnest. If ‘
I had nothing else to do and no fain- j ‘
ily to support I certainly would
spend a winter here prospecting. It’s
a good gamble, better than “holing
up” in a cafouvor.rrjing to “pluck” a
tray of spades ia>a pan game where
there ain’t-no trey of spades. ,
Bill Goss, proprietoi of the Goss ’
Roadhouse cm ,th»- government road
at Yankee, was aunor.g the week’s (
visitors.
Hans Erickson, Gators creek, was a
town visitor-during the past week. 1
Ernie Gove was a Monday arrival i
from Yankee,.
Eighteenth
Amendment
NEW YORK REPUBLICAN SI \TE
CONVENTION PLATFORM HAS
PLANK FOR REPEAL
ALBANY, Sept. 26.—By a vote of
733 to 2505 the New York Republican
State convention incorporated in its
party platform today a plank asking
for repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—“]
insist that the commission go to the
very insides of the prohibition ques
tion,” Kenneth Macintosh, member of
the Hoover law enforcement commis
sion, said today. Mackintosh said he
regards the issue as one of the most
important sine- the question of slav
ery and that ths ■ commission should,
pass upon it.
PRESIDENT OF MARYLAND
RAILROAD SHOT AND KILLED
BALTIMORE, 'Sept.*. H4 M axwgli
P. Byers, president of the' -Western
Maryland Railway, was shot ahu
-tilled in his office today by Dudley
j. Gray, vice president of the roao
Dudley took his own life imraediatey
ifter.
Max Simel, bringing the last con
signment of mail from Holy Cross
irrived at Ophir on Thursday. Very
ittle mail for Ta^otna grrived, and-it
»> assumed z>-*. tatcb idestiriec
'or this place S&. nrmve . the 1,00(
rounds left, at* Holy. Orcss It may
dso be assumed that .the ms il nov
leld and destined for this- place will
lift through, piecemeal, following the
nauguraion of the winter service vis
tlitarod.
Emil Anderson and Gns Rosen
veil known dredgemen, following the
.•onclusion of their duties.at Yankee
;reek, were yesterday arrivals. They
dan to leave as soon as possible for
;he Outside—Mr. Anderson to his
iome.-.at -.Oakland. Mr. Rosen to his
lome in .Seattle.
Fritz Title 1. • well known, oldtimer,
vho left McGrath about four months
igo for the Outside to receive treat
nent for correction of a dislocated
shoulder, returned to McGrath a few
lays ago. His shoulder is greatly
mproved.
Billy Gibbs and Happy Jacobson
irrived a couple of days ago from
he Gibbs & Eisor dredge, Ganes,
meek.
Pete Michels, 'following a stay ‘of
wmie months at Fairbanks, returned
0 McGrath a few days ago;. Joining
>ver via airplane.
Robert Lowrie, following the con
tusion of his labors at Yankee._wns
1 yesterday arrival
Billy Lodge, following a season in
he Cripple section, is among late ar
rivals.
Tom Saknoff, after a season on the
Iredge at Yankee, was a yesterda.*
trrival.
Dan O’Keefe was an arrival s
:ouple of days ago from the Cripple
ection.
John Kriegor was a Monday arrival
fom Yankee creek.
Arnulf HjeWe -was ar Sunday.aur
>r a brief visit