Lower coast gazette., 1913-10-11

AS a means of shelving murder
mysteries he would commit a misde-
meanor after the murder. The man
claims never to have known his pa
rents. The earliest thing in his life
that he remembers was his impri-
sonment in a reform school from
which he escaped, thereafter living
with thieves and bad women. His
prison career began he said right
after his escape from the school. He
bought a suit Of stolen clothes for a
nickel. The judge and district at
torney wanted him to plead guilty
and get a sentence of 30 days. His
lawyer advised him to fight it out
and he got 10 years in the peniten-
tiary for a suit of clothes. While
there he was put into solitary confine-
ment. When he came out he said he
wanted blood. They gave him $40
when he left the p%enitentiary. He
spent SO of it for a revolver. The
man looked a saint. But he vas a
man with hell in him always.
The police after investigation have
concluded that Spencer's story is a
d~rug-inspired crime dream.
Nome, Alaska, was almost destroy
ed by a storm. Nome is the north
ermost city Of the world. Nome at
one time had a population of 10000
when the golden sand spit lured men
from the southernmost parts Of the
world. Nome has produced more than
$35,0OO,OO0 in gold.
At the trial Of Governor Sulzer,
Allen A. Ryan, son Of Thomas F.
Ryan, a New York financier, testi-
fed that his father had contributed
$4,000 to the Sulzer campaign fund
which was never accounted for by
the governor in his list of campaign
contributions. Allen A. Ryan said
that Governor Sulzer asked him to
60 to Washington and see Senator
Root and require Root to see Barnes
the Republican boss Of New York for
the purpose Of influencing the Repub-
lican State Senators in New York
State to vote against impeachment.
Suffers attorneys demanded that this
testimony be stricken off the record
on the grounds that it was not COM
petent. It was stricken out though
the press does not report in what
way it was incompetent.
Senator Harvey D. Human made
the opening address for the Sulzer
defense. He likened Sulzer to St.
Paul, whose former friends, Human
said, "did not attempt to impeach
him or his epistles for what he had
done while acting with them and while
one Of them. When in the nineteenth
century has voice been raised to con-
denim Paul or his epistles for his
acts as Saul"
Francis Burton Harrison new Gov
ernor- General Of the Philippines ar
rived in Manila. Governor Harrison's
address was a repetition of the in
structions he had received from Presi-
dent Wilson with regard to the man.
agement Of the Philippines with a
view Of preparing the Philippine peo-
pie for ultimate independence.
The American Beet Sugar Company
has announced that it will pay seven
ty-ive cents a ton less for beets de-
livered for the 1914 season than was
paid in past seasons.
Seven hundred rural bankers at
tending the American Bankers Con-
yention in Boston met in a confer
ence and voiced strenuous opposition
to the reserve clause Of the Glass
Currency Bill.
Representatives Of the Eastern
railroads testified that it will cost
the Eastern railroads $18,OO0,00O a
year more to operate if compelled to
grant the wage demands Of their 3d.
900 trainmen and conductors. This
testimony was given.