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The Washington times., 1915-12-12
Girls Story First
Link In Evidence

Hoy says the girls story was the
first link in his evidence. He said the
tale was the most convincing discovery
he had made tending to convince him
that a crime had been committed. and
that he worked from that point and
later the girl was approached by some
one VINO offered the family a round
sum if the girl were not allowed to
testify at the Price hearing against
the park board. By order of the de-
tective such evidence was kept secret
there. Hoy revealed his identity after
he had secured the girls story and
pledged all in the house to secrecy.
Etchison, before and after the alleged
crime, was a frequent visitor at the
Fridley home. and was. at the head OF
delegations of friends who condoled with
the family. He returned from the scene
carrying with him the lap dog "Cslum,"
saw murdered. He wept with the fam
lily and ostentatiously assisted in braC-
ing up and commiserating with the hus-
band.
wife for funds with which to carry on
prosecution against the Minneapolis
park board. He refused overtures Eof
settlement on the. part of the board s
them and faced their threats. He in
sisted against the advice of friends on
bringing the suit and braved out the
procedure until he was charged with
| bigamy.
Then he withdrew the civil action and
left the city. but returned of his own
i volition when he was told an indict-
| ment had been returned against him
accusing him Of bigamy. He. faced the
court and demanded that he be allowed
! bail Then he left town again.
He returned before his case was called
! for trial. Meanwhile Hoy had furnished
| the grand jury with evidence. and a
suggestion was made, that by artifice
Price be brought in for fear he might
be away when the murder Indictment
+ should be forthcoming. A bench war
rant was issued on the ground that the
| county prosecutor had asked that the
! bail on the bigamy charge be raised.
| Almost before the warrant was issued
| and before sheriff's deputies had oppnr-
tunity to serve it, Price appeared and
asked what was wanted of him.. He
said he had heard that the court wished
| to see him.
When he was told that the court had
| decided TO raise the bail--a prohibitiye
amount was named--he nonchalantly
, said he had better await trial in Jail
and surrendered himself to the court
! bailiif.
When the murder indictment was re-
! turned and he was advised OF the action
! showed very little interest, saying:
! STRANGER and more foolish things
| than that hovc happened.
| LET come what may. | refuse to be-
corrc perturhed OTcr foolish accusa'
! tons and indictments"
George Armstrong, assistant county
prosecutor. who met Etehison In Chi
The Washington times., 1915-12-12
Girl Near Scene
Was Kidnapped

Virgil Deneson. twe,ve-vear-old daugn-
ter of the bridge tender. was first to
arrive at the time Mrs. Price was killed
on the river banks. The girls home Is
within one hundred yards Of the scene.
high W. on the crass and cliffs border
ing the Mississippi.
BY degrees the detective pleced 10
getner the story OF the girl ana net
mother, which indicated to him that
Mrs Price was murdered.
The girl, II seemed. was playlns on
the bluff at nightfall. when she was
airy on the boulevard and oy the SOUND
Of some one clambering down the clif1s
by a zigzag path whicn wound lts way
fl ON where the machine stopped TO-
ward her home.
saw them when they picked up the BODY
OF a Woman all covered with blood. I
screamed and then fed. Both men
turned and l suppose saw me. l @ nan
the river made things plain
The girl is said to. have told her
mother. and when Price and Etch!son
ascended the banks with the body the
girl and her brothers had arrived at
men,. The two men looked sharply at
the girl and in less than two weeks the
girl was kidnapped. A closed machine
raced down the boulevard and the girl
was snatched from the roadway. she
said later she was taken to one of
the high cliffs near her home and but
for the protestation Of one Of the men
the other would have hurled her down
the cliffs. She said both men were
masked
She was not able to say whether her
abductors were the same men she had
seen pick up the woman at the foot
of the cliff two weeks tbefore.
The two men argued, she said. and
then decided that they had better let
her go. She was stripped and toppled
down the hill and after several hours
found her way home. Later her cloth
ing was found by police, who made a
futile inVestigat ton Of the case.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
NOT FOR MONEY.

Japanese expressions on the subject of direct intervention in the war in Europe for the most part are not en- tlusiastic. The allies might make the proposals attractive. but thus far the suggestion has been that Japan should content herself with the in- dennity which might he imposed on Germany. Nothing like an official com munication has been hinted at but the French publicists who advocate Ja- panese intervention put emphasis on the fact that Japan is debt ridden and struggling and that Europe offers Ger many as spoil for the victors.
 The Japanese are not attracted They reply that they are not offering soldiers on the market and that they do not desire 10 sell their men. For certain substantial recommendations affecting the nation they might undertake opera
 ions il Europe, but the exchange could not he made sordid. Merely as a way out of debt Japan would not sacrifice her soldiers. If national se- curity and honor could be advanced, if national dignity could be enhanced. conditions of life made easier, and the promise for Japan brighter, an army might be sacrificed for the cause, but not for a sum of money, no matter how large.
 II is 10 be considered. and is con sidered, that Japan has entered the ring and must abide by the conse- quences. At present the part is that of
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could not have lasted a month as such n tour de force of journalism IL lasts in spite of sensatiunalism not because of it. But since the interest in Thaw is deeply founded in some common in- stinct of us all, because it Is natural. it continues and will continue till the last line of the last chapter is written
 The irony of this is of course out standing. Here is a youth which the charitable phrase of the time labels "defective" There are thousands like him In that respect in the country Possessed of money and parental in diligence like many others of his kind he went the way of his kind-but with made him household word" A life time of useful and even brilliant effort would not have won him a scintilla of the interest he claims securely from his fellow men. Perhaps it was a glass of champagne that won him that tragic eminence. one glass too many among many-that and the tangled web of circumstance in which he and a wanton l and man of genius somehow had woven together
 Proverbial moralities may be spun out of the Thaw tragedy. but prover- hial moraiities do not wake hundred million to instant attention There must be at the bottom of our spontan- eous and persistent interest more vitalizlng quality. Making due allow ance for the obv inus claims on our in- terest of wealth" of passion" and deadly violence. of the melodrama in the long struggle which riches have enabled a culprit to make against the law" there is still something deeper something which sprang up from the first act of the drama something more than any melodrama the sense of a Sardonic jest of fate bitter tra gi IcomedS of accident in which the weak
 est of weddings lays his unsteady hands upon 6 costly fabric of life and brings it crashing down Almost Tn proportion to his own weakness and folly Thaw wrought out of destruction a significance which holds our human interest and will hold-Chicag go Tribune
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
sLlGHTS WIFE; MEETS HER
 BROTHERS AND IS INJURED

NEW YORK.-An invitation to a wedding and four brothers-in in law up set the household of Harris Hirsch, in Brooklyn.
 Hirseh was ma rried recently. The bride was Miss Bessie Tornick.. She reminded him he had been invited to the wedding of friend, but he de cided to stick to his books, of which he is very fond. Words were eX- changed, and Mrs Hirsch went home. Half an hour later, Hvman, Julius, Benjamin and Louie Tornick. his newly acquired hrothers-in in law, appeared. What ensued is known only to the five who participated Eventually some one summoned an ambulance, and Hirsch, bruised and bleeding, became the tenn porary concern of Dr. Costello, of St. NIarys Hospital.
 "I love my home" Hirsch told the physician. but if my wife ever asks me to go to a wedding, or anywhere else, I'll go. Goodnight"
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA. MARCH 17 1915.
ST. PATRICK.

Among the familiar names of his tory. be they of statesmen, warriors, kings or scholars. few are better known 10 the laity than that of the While it Is true that in the United States such familiarity is largely at tached to the popular belief that St. Patrick is responsible for the absence Of snakes in the Emerald Isle. else where he is known largely because of an extraordinary zeal ill laLoring to lift humanity from the depths of pagan superstition into the more elevated beliefs of christianity
 Few of those who have devoted their lives to the cause of humanity are more worthy of the reward of fame than is St Patrick From his earliest years until he was carried to his etcr- nal reward by the resistless hand of Time the good saint gave himself To the task Of teaching and uplifting hu- manity and his endeavors were crown cd with q success achieved by few of those whose names are written in re- ligious history Although the place of his birth is somewhat obscure, as is also his life up to the time when he undertook the task of converting the people of Ireland. from the time when he first appeared on the scene of his labors, some time about the year no, A. D., his kindly personality and eX- traordinary capacities created an im- pression in the minds of the Irish peo. pie which finally led to the conversion of practically the entire race AL though particularly venerated by the Irish people. his long. tireiess and un- selfish labors have won him the fullest measure of the worlds respect and praise and today probably more than at any other time since his death the true greatness of the Irish apostle is recognized and honored
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
STARTS NEW
 ALASKA TOWN
"Grindall City"

"Grindall City"
 This is the name of what. it's pro- motors say, will be the metropolis of Southeastern Alaska.
 Announcement was made recently of d project whereby the Grindall De velopment Co, of Seattle. expects to have a town in full swing score of miles across Grindall Bay from ketehi- kan--a town plated on the Southwest eln corner of Prince of Wales Island.
 The island is rich in ore and min eral resources. but the great salmon industry of the inside passage is de pended on to make" the city.
 City lots will be plated. and indus tries already procured for the new town include water works, an electric plant. a wharf lumber mill. cold stor- age plant, general store and hotel and buffet
 Grindall City is declared to have every natural advantage, including Il land locked harhor and several paving mines in proximity
 An executive If the company. says;
 This company holds through pat cnt from the United States so acres of land on Grlndal Bay, this being the only patented waterfront on Prince of Wales Island This tract covers one a land locked harbor one mile in diam eter, opening to east on Clarence Strait and to west on Kassan Bay.
 The water is very deep and free from reefs and other instructions. owing to federal reservations. no other land on this harbor can pass to private ownership.
 We are in the center of the salmon cod and halibut fisheries ,as well as the copper mining beds.
 The townsite of Grindall is covered with a heavy growth of splendid tim ber-cedar spruce hemlock plenty Ia build residences and stores and to fur nish fish boxes, for which there is d great demand.
 At the northern boundary of Grin dall, l75 feet above the sea level is q beautiful lake, several acres in extent Fish and game will be in abundance" Steamship companies have given the assurance thoy will put Grindall on their regular schedules. the company says
 Several preliminary buildings already have been constructed on the Grindall townsite and already it presents the Appearance of a frontier Village fM.
 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET $2.00 per month.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
ThAW.

on the whirling tape of publicity, from East Machias in Maine to San Diego in California, flashes once more the name Thaw Il has been there often. in letters of red. It will be there again. and q hundred million Americans will focus thought upon it. as they will not do upon the mighty words of q pre- sident Of the republic No public man or woman. not even champion ball player. is more certain of this instan- taneous tribute of a nations attention.
 A good many worthy people protest against this astonishing phenomenon as a vicious peryersity of the "sensa- tional press" The notoriety of Thaw
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

spectator, but victorious Germany would appear on Japan" horizon as a menace quite as formidable as Russia and less placable.
 Japan hit one of the big men in fight and now stands aside. If the big man disposes of his active enemy hell look around for the fellow who hit him when he was engaged,-N. Y Journal
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
WEATHER REPORT. ..

Nome, Alaska. March 16. 1915 Temperature-MaX IS, Min. 6 Barometer 296S inches Weather-Clear Wind-N w. 12 miles per hour Precipitation-Non
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
PHONE MAIN 46.

Entered as second class matter Feb. 26 1907. at the Postoffice at Nome, Alaska. under the Act of Congress of Narch 8, 1878
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
WE CAN DO IT.

For first class work and prompt de livery phone Main 151 and the Peoples Steam Laundry will call and get your laundry.
 AA AAlII LA Mc0M prnn
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
FIRE ALARM SIGNALS

- Stsndarn on Co l2 .........-. Carstens Cold Storage :. .... ! ] Sesnon Co, office #........ Headquarters Saloon r .............. =. Recorders office = #.-...-- =-#-..-. Pioneers ISloo 1a -. ... Ere Department !. ...........-....... Discovery Saloon ....-. .. . Yorkey's Cigar Store Pacific cold Storage Sandspit [" ....... Third Ave and Lanes Way
 Engine House Phone Main S7
 : "A hisil"s water 3 nre oni
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

lopy for regular advertisements mast be ill by 10 o'clock on the day e- publication,
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
A COOK WANTED

Wanted, a good woman cook for road house. Write Mrs. Lucy Pendersrast Marks Roadhouse, Council, Alaska.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

100 TONS OF FLOUR. Bread only 50. North Pole Bakery and Anvil Bakery.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

i,at,s for advertising space in any 9f tue th,ve publications will be made k,..wn on application.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17
Su DESCRIPTION RATES
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Nome Daily Nugget, month. .3z.00 Nome Daily Nugget, months. 5000 Some Daily Nugget, l year. $2O.Oo
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

\ sme Weekly Nugget. month. boc Aome Weekly Nugget, l year. .Sb.oo
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NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
 MAGAZINE.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

Weekly Nugget. only soc month
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

tissued Annually in October.) frice per copy. mailed. d.........t .ttc
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-17

W. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14
RECORD IN SPENDING
Democratic Congress Has SET
New Mark.
Promised Economy, Made Before the
Election, Has Given Place to the
Most Reckless Expenditure
in the country's History.

Inc administration is in the posi-
ton Of the young man who inherited
a fortune which he thought it impos-
sible to spend. when he received a no
tice from his bankers that he had
oVerdrawn his account. Three years
ago when the Democrats met in Balti-
more, they denounced the profigate
waste OF the money wrung from the
people by oppressive taxation through
the lavish appropriations of recent Re-
publican congresses" and they prom
ised to return to that simplicity and
economy which BELTS a democratic
government" There was a surplus of
Sl66,OO0,0G0 in the treasury when the
Democrats came into power. They
feared surplus and proceeded to re-
duce 1t both by checking the inflow OF
revenue and increasing the outgo of
expenditures, and Chairman Fizger-
aid now points to the danger of huge
deficit, the issut of bonds, and the pos
sible increase o. vexatious taxes In
two years the Democratic congress
has appropriated $2,231, 100000, or
nearly $200000,000 more than its most
extrayagant Republican predecessor,
and the administration made strenu-
GUS efforts to secure about 500. COO, 900
more. This same Democratic con-
gress changed customs taxes which
did not reduce the cost of living, and
introduced new and vexatious taxes
which call for an inquisition of every
mans income, Then it added more
vexatious war taxes in time of peace,
and at the close finds that it has used
up all its revenues and $125,000,000 Of
the nest egg left by the Republicans in
the treasury.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14
wickersham Sees Victory.

Former Attorney General George w.
Wiekersham of New York, who was
In the Taft cabinet. can see nothing
but Republican victory next year.
Everything is running to the Repub-
licans," said General Wickersham,
"and unless something unforeseen de-
velops to defect the current, the Re-
publicans must elect their ticket. The
people all over the country are dissat-
isfied with the way the Democrats
have conducted the government. The
president is not popular. the party is
not popular. his party's policies are
not popular. and the legislation passed
by the Democratic congress is not
popular. With all these conditions con-
fronting the voters, how is it possible
for the Democrats to be returned to
power?
with Republican success assured, it
is yet impossible to forecast VINO may
be the next president" continued Mr..
Wickersham. 1T is anybodys race for
the Republican nomination. But it is
certain that before long sentiment will
crystalline around some man and that
the nominee of the Republican conven-
tion Will be a strong and winning
choice"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14
Sees Merger Of Factions.

That the Republican and Progress
sive parties will be together in 1916 In
the fight on their common foe, Democ-
racy, was the prediction made by SEN
ator Poindexter of Washington, the
only member of the Progressive party
In the senate.
81 do not think the Progressive
party viii name candidate in 1916"
he said. Il think a progressive type
of Republican win be named, that both
parties will get behind him, and that
he win be elected.
"of course It will be impossible for
the people who voted for Roosevelt
two years ago to support reactionary
If one is nominated by the Republic
ans, and such a course would be fatal
TO any getting together of the two par
ties. l think and hope that this will
be fully realized by all Republicans.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14
q. ElIa pointed . the door.

room. Ella pointed to the door.
'Lenora, look outside. See if any
one is on that landing. ] fancied that
the door opened"
Lenora crossed the room and tried
the handle. Then she turned towards
her mistress In triumph.
at is locked. my lady" she re
ported.
60 down and ask Macdougal to
come up. am going to have this
thing explained"
Something Of her mistress agita-
ton seemed to have become commu-
nicated to Lenora.'
She walked quickly to the back part
of the hotel and assembled to the wing
in which the servants quarters were
situated. Here she made her way
along a corridor until she reached
Macdougals room. She knocked. and
knocked again. There was no answer.
She tried the door and found It was
locked Then she returned to the lift
and descended once more to the floor
upon which her mistress apartments
were situated. She opened the door
of the suite without knocking and
turned at once to the sitting room.
Il am sorry. my lady" she began.
Then she stopped short. The lift
boy. who had had little trouble with
his starting apparatus and had not as
yet descended. heard the scream
which broke from her lips, and a fire.
man in an adjacent corridor came run
ming up almost at the same moment.
Lenora was on her knees by her mis-.
tress' side. Ella was still lying in the
easy-chair in which she had been
seated. but her head was thrown back
in an unnatural fashion. There was
red mark Just across her throat
Lenora shrieked, She's tainted!
And the diamonds-the diamonds have
gone!"
A doctor. hurriedly summoned, had
just completed hasty examination
when police inspector. followed by a
detective. entered
This is your affair. gentlemen. not
mine" the doctor said gravely. "The
young lady is dead She has been
cruelty strangled within the last five
or ten minutes"
The inspector made careful exam
ination of the room.
'Tell me- he inquired, 'is this the
young lady who owned the wonderful
Ashleigh diamonds?"
They've gone!" Lenora shrieked.
They've been stolen, She was wear
ing them when left the roomi"
The Inspector turned to the tele-
phone.
'Mr Marsham." he said, 81 am
afraid this will be a difficult affair. [
am going to take the liberty of calling
in an expert. That you, exchange?
want r:.mber one, New York city
Mr.. Sanford Quest"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14

you win take you: cwn maid with
you, of course" Lord AsnIeigh contin-
ued. "Lenora is a good girl and am
sure she viii look after you quite well.
but : have decided to supplement Le-
nora's surveillance over your comfort
by sending with you, also, a sort of
courier and general attendant-whom
do you. think? Well, MacdougaI. He
has lived in New York for some years,
and you viii doubtless find this a
great advantage, Ella"
Ella glanced over her shoulder at
the two servants who were standing
discreetly in the background. Her
eyes rested upon the pale, expression
less face of the man who during the
last few years had enjoyed her ia
theirs confidence.
For a moment queer sense of ap-
pr ension troubled her Was it true,
she wondered. that she did not like the
man? She banished the thought al
most as soon as it was conceived.
You are spelling me, daddy" Ella
sighed.
IL you think so now" he remarked,
Il do not know what you will say to
me presently"
He laid upon the table a very ia
miliar morocco case, stamped with a
coronet.
Our diamondsl" Ella exclaimed.
The Ashleigh diamonds"
The necklace lay exposed to view,
the wonderful stones flashing in the
subdued light.
In New York." Lord Ashleigh con-
tinued, sit is the custom to wear Jew
elry in public more, even, than in this
country. Allow mel"
He leaned forward. With long. capa-
BILE fingers he fastened the necklace
around his daughters neck
1T is our farewell present to you, -
Lord Ashleigh declared.
Ella, impelled by some curious i'm
pulse which she could not quite I'M
derstand, glanced quickly around to
where the manservant was standing.
For once she saw something besides
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ton has been here. He says they
have come to the conclusion that a
very well-known gang of New York
criminals are in this thing. We know
how to track them down all right"
Il may go now, them" she repeated,
with immense relief.
Quest escorted the girl downstairs,
opened the front door, blew his whis-
tie and his car pulled up at the door.
Take this young lady," he ordered.
wherever she wishes. Goodnight"
The girl drove of. Quest watched
the car disappear around the corner.
Then he turned slowly and made prep
arations for his adventure.
Number 700, New York. he NUT
tered, half an hour later, as he left
his house. Beyond Fourteenth street
"a tough neighborhood."
He hesitated for a moment, feeling
the articles in his overcoat pocket-a
revolver in one, a small piece of hard
substance in the other. Then he
stepped into his car, which had just
returned.
Where did you leave the young
LADY," he asked the chauffeur
'Tn Broadway, sir. She left me and
boarded a cross-town car"
Quest nodded approyingly.
''No finesse,' he sighed.