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t Eriferett ns seccma-ciasa matter Au
jfust 59th, 192.3. at the postofficc at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, ISJih
Tiihotna, Masha. December 18, 1926.
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HU.!. SrrHIRMKYRR’S
casTRssroN brings
OCT REMINISCENCES
(Seward" Gateway.)
For many months past secret ser
men connected with the Post-,
office Department have been combing
whe world: not inly in Alaska but
Outside in the Slates, gathering bhs
>f evidence to he presented to- the
Federal Grand Jury when it meets at
Fairbanks, come time next .January
This one particular case has become
known as the Kuskokwim mail rob
bery. There doesn’t seem much likeli
hood now that. the. grand jury, in case
they do return any true bill, will link
Anything fn the TCuskokwim.
• About three jears ago, when the
nrs'r.t unfbf# sf ,h ’■obbery of the regis
'.en»d niaif m a e-m sitter able sum of
money Ada* received, it caused a lot of
tieriteffit-h't.f’F-tiie viiiriity' and general
i ntereaCWi e ry wbe r e. Rumore were
/ago<- twrQ-thirk, ‘"vcryone was accord
ed one or but tlicre re
™. ned a rfeeiit.V. .aat. ef anything
let!nite as to how- or vtkier or where r
robbery "Had oc* -.—recC Working or
the belief that somebody must have
rone it, ahwut every musher who trav
eled for a winter or two- was searched
every few niildsi' and it got so every
time a musher met a. stranger he
would begin ro remove his parka and
muklufes as a mark of saving time on
the trail. However, searching musb
Ji* served sne .Useful purposo—-it rev
jPV*red-$906 frmfced from, a girl of the
underworld.
Coirfessid a Re v i v es Interest.
Interest, in—the robbery had very
Wiefally dimf-nut wheti it was sud
leniy revived 'by the alleged confes
sion of Will C. Schirmeyer that he
oad committed'the mail, robbery at his
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......onso, id miles i'rom Iditarod, on
the mail trail. Bill is said to have al
leged that others helped him, and
goes into great details as. to how the
robbery was accomplished. For a
long time after the supposed robbery
Bill went around about his ordinary
acairs. and while the country is over
run with postal inspectors he is never
searched; then he left Iditarod and
went Outside, and is not searched! He
linady winds up in Tia Juana, where a
couple of skirts get him and take hint
to the cleaners, Later he is brought
to Los Angeies, sick, and left at the
La Saiie apartments, an alleged un
derworld joint run by a Russian
woman called Anna Tnkoff. At this
time he had about S2,000 in money
and some diamonds. By the alleged
raising of a small check—like front
flfr to $1,500—hLs funds, he claimed,
were reduced to LI cents, and a house-1
keeper copped off his diamonds and
clothes. Old-time friends from Fia!
came to his relief and cared for he
immediate needs.
Then came the big surprise wh ■ \
Bill’s friends learned that he had con
fessed to the mail robbery and gon5
North.
The question is, did Bill do it, or is;
he just romancing ? Many believe.
that the-story has a lot of romance
to it.
A Parallel Case Cited.
In this connection many believe (
there is a parallel case in what was i
known a few years ago as the “Great I
Humboldt Robbery,” At that time
the Washington-Alaska Bank at Fair
banks shipped by express four boxes
of gold, consisting of two large and
two small boxes. Traveling at the
same time as tourists with the gold
shipment was Mr. and Mrs. Adams, \
the former then president of the J
Adams Express Company, and re
marking the manner in which the {
shipment was handled, made: the •
prophecy: “Some time we are going!
to have a loss.” -
While on board ship the gold boxes |
were stored under a sort of Settee in ]
the purser’s ‘room. Ibid but of respect
to Mr. Adams and to sho^’ >fow gborij
the gold was guared, wh ile ‘the purser j
was at raeah tile 'nSUe wbuM pace to!
and fro in front t>f the de'ofr 1 of the j
purser’s room
On reaching Seattle an express |
wogan took receipt for • the boxes,!
later taking a receipt in good condi- j
tion for from the Seattle assay offices, i
Where the boxes were piled up against |
the wall and were not opened for
some time.
When the Content's of the boxes |
were examined it was discovered that!
^'considerable portion of the contents j
•f one of the larger boxes was. miss
ir.g.
Ey the time the robbery was discov
ered the Humboldt was away off on
•ft
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Fresh Fruits -
Fresh Groceries* Just Arrived
[Jp: to-Date ’Line of Clothing ;
New Suits:?
From $5.50 to $45 Per Suit
the Pacific, for the North again. The!
■ robbery was so large and so much in- 1
! crest was attracted by it that Wil
liam Burns, head of the great detec
; Live agency of his name, came West !
! from Chicago and handled the case in
j person.
1 Among the passengers on that trip
! of the Humboldt was a man and a
very beautiful woman, believed ta-the
I time to be the wife ol' the raau. ..ater
tlie couple were arrested in San -Fran
cisco, charged with the-theft of the t
gold, and confessed! They made-not
par tic uiar dele : m;.
The prisoners ddsoribed «1 greact
.en,.;th just how toe robbery was com
mitted.J The woman said -that she
had become well acquainted wit a the
purser find om evening kept him
walking back and- forth on tbe oppo- i
site side of the ship, while the man-i
went into the purser's ro<dir-pried out j
the end of one of the boxes, removed t*
the gold, and replaced the end, - allj
within .'IS- minutes’ time- *
Later it was found that the confes
sion was all a myth, that the robbery,
never occurred on the Humbbldt, that
no end had ever hben pried out of
any of the boxes, nor could it have
been done in the manner ot time-as.
described, and there there had new
been a. time when the purser’s To. .- j
had been Unguarded.' Mr. Bums1' tus- i
t’mony was' that the loss never - Pc-1
icurred on the Humboldt.
rSESS SQulBS. ‘
What King C otton-heeds is a-MCi3«
solini.—Arkansas G-rtefte.
League of "Nations might test itself
l>y disarming Chicago’s gunmen.—
Manchester C’nit u ■ •
What the political bosses would)
like to' hav* isf the primary without j
the pry.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
i Scientist esys that cert&v
II ‘o.s CJIl present sleep. S. er;
cn:, pramisso’y ffotes, jlrofe:,- •
tus Gazcfct.a, .
—— i
r- t is eM ii'.raftsJ fha^ ;-the dollar will
i,ow buy only - fx’iy-eight cents'" worthy
md sometimes what you receive for it
fsn’t worth thati -much.—Memphis 1
Commercial-Appeal.
Fleeting is fame. The other ’day a
paper referred to "Jack Dempsey;’
husband of-E^teStt Taylor:’’—Life.
Why doesn’t Chicago come right out
in the open and admit it's'a. refuge for
me protection of wild life?—Arkan
as Gazette.
- An authoress was arrested Tor writ
ing bad checks. There ought <to be
some way tr. get at ’em. for-writing i
bad books, too.—Mobile Register.
In fairness it ought to be bone®
that the old-fashioned • dime hotel
which is now selling for $2.50 is print
ed on better -paper.—Detroit News. •
An American schoolboy) proposes to
devote the proceeds of a book he has
written to the-cbst of the remainder of
his education. His example might
well be followed by many a grown-up
novelist.'—Punch'.
We have- been pretty successful in
- this country so far in keeping down
the red flags* but we are still having a
lot of trouble with the red tape.—
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
. It may be a difficult matter for- »■
rich man to entdr into the kingdom of
heaven, but it’s certainly dead easy
for him to get on the hoard of direct
ors of the Church'.—’Ohio State Jour
nal.
But the million-dollar senator is
pbobably after all not so dangerous as
the poor one for whose election the
millionaires are willing to make as
tounding contributions. — Columbus
The Lord Bishop of London, return-'
j ing from America, announced that he
; was unable to distinguish between a
Republican and a eurocrat. It’s easy,
your Lordship. A Republican says,
“Just look at prosperity under Cool
idge”; a Democrat says, “Yea—just
look at it.”—Life.
What labor really needs in these
days of instalment payments is not a
five-day week but a forty-day month.
—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Once women merely asked equality
with men, but now they have out
stript us.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph.
W* learn that a university man has
worked his wa through college by car
ing for a baby. Great numbers of
them have flunked tlieif examinations
fyr the same reason.—Portland Ore
gonian.
There are indications that affairs in
Europe are becoming stabilized.
France has had the same Cabinet for
several weeks.—Mem phis-Commercial
Appeal. -
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ANDREWS WOULD MANUFACV
TURK MEDICINAL I.ILOR
WASHINGTON.;—Assistant Treas
urer Andrews said the immediate cre
, ation of a private corporation for ths
' manufacture of medicinal whisky, and:
to take over all existing supplies of
liquor; will be asked of Congress.'
Andrews said it is imperative that
the corporation quickly set about dis
tilling whisky, lest the present supply
i of 15,000,000 gallons be exhausted be
' fore five years, the time estimated as
t necessary for new stock to age.
Andrews criticised the present sys
tem of private ownership and distri
bution of whisky. Mellon, wlro ”
joined with Coolidge in vetoing* the *
previous proposal that the Govern
ment take over supplies of medicinal
i :iquor, has indorsed the new plan.
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