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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-09-01
POSSES SEARCHING FOR THf
 W0ULD-bF MURDERER

Harry V. Hoben suggested that Dun' can Little, Howard Long, John Due breuil and others form different part ies, selecting their own armed men and make up line along the Resur- rection river to the hills to the rear of Nash's ranch. The suggestion was quickly adopted and armed parties went out. Manager Roberts of the San Juan cannery placed a gas boat at the disposal of the parties and one was taken out to the mouth of Resurrection river.
 Robert Weir placed handcar:, speeders and locomotive at the dis posal of the Mayor and these were uti- lzed by other searching parties.
 DEMPSEY IN FLIGHT
 Following the shooting, Dempsey ran east down Adams towards the de- pot, discarding his coat, then north on the track. Between the depot and the shops, Dempsey found handcal, placed this on the track and started north. At the commissions office those in charge had telephoned to be on the look out for Dempsey. Down at the shops, Judge Lindley Green was in his office when the telephone message was received. Green looked down the track, witnessed the approach of the handcar, left his office and grabbing up an inch plank, started towards the railroad track intending to throw the plank across the track and derail the handcar. Dempsey, who was near by this time, yelled at Green to keep away, as. he was armed and would shoot. This did not phase Green who threw the plank across the track, then stumbled in the sand. The plank only hit one rail, not extending across to the other and the handcar bounced ov- CT the plank and hit the rails on tDe other side. Dempsey did not shoot, on- ly made the remark: "You certainly have your nerve" and continued north on the hand car. Green intended to grapple with Dempsey if the car had become derailed.
 Dempsey then crossed the trestle and started towards Porcupine City. Either the car became derailed or else Dempsey concluded to take to the brush for the car was put in the ditch near the powder house. Dempsey be- fore hitting for the brush heard 2 speeder approaching from Seward. turned and with drawn gun held up the rider who was ID. C. Brownell. Dempsey only took Brownell's auto. matic then struck out for the woods.
 Dempsey is believed to be between the railroad track on the west, of Re- surrection bay on the north and east. and the Bay on the south, although he might have escaped towards Nash's ranch before the posses had reached that section.
 Circulars were printed. giving Q description of the man wanted, and these were distributed by speeders to the hunters and generally around the city.
 Arrangements are made to send coffee and sandwishes to the search ITS and other searching parties will be organized and start out late this
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-09-01
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All volunteers who will tonight relieve the searchers now in the man hunt are requested to meet at 2 o'clock at Graef's store, with their guns. Mayor Chamberlin wants to guard all avenues of es. cape until Deputy Marshal MoOs. man arrives from Anchorage, the latter now being on the way.
The sun., 1919-05-18
"The Wicked Marquis"

M r. oPpENHElM is an honest, con-
1'1 sistent purveyor of a standard
article Of fiction. The reader who picks
up novel of his knows just what sort of
entertainment to count on, and if he likes
Mr.. Oppenheim he never is disappointed.
As the Oppenheim brand is skilfully pre-
pared and not unwholesome, there is a
good deal to be said for it. We doubt
that it ever vi!iated anybody's taste and
hav, never been distressed over it by any
sense of struggle within the author be-
tween the writing he would like to do and
the writing his public wants. His trade
mark is now on forty-six books, some
score Of which we have read; we have
yet to read the first that was not inge-
riously planned and as satisfactory in its
line as he could make it.
The new story of The Wicked Marquis
IS less exciting than his stories used to be
end relics more on interest of character.
vi toulSt tHtIC ID d HCIO COLsCCI dItu W
revenge, but the vengeance is a fanatical
uncle's to whom the hero is bound by
great oath and the up to date weapon is
nothing more lethal than several thousand
fhares of worthless oil stock When
Une:e, TO whose daughter the Marquis long
ago extended the left hand, further forces
the worthy THAN to compromise the
daughter of the Marquis by entering her
boudoir through secret passage, you
don't find it as absurd as it may look
here-for those things happen in Open
keim.
The Marquis, with his tall talk, is
something of choice conversationalist and
so are other members cf a singular
British peeragc created in the authors
fancy. We question that the Marquis,
coming late to luncheon, would say "Let
TO one disturb themselves" or that sew
eral characters would say whom is" and
"whom was" as recklcssly as they do, il
The sun., 1919-05-18
Getting Fun Out of the War
= GORGE ALLAN ENGLAND con-

= FORGE ALLAN ENGLAND con-
~ ceives war to be terrific figure
of Mars occupying his own particular
grass plot on the earth and warning all
the rest of the world to keep off his grass.
Also, by some chain of reasoning not
made clear, he looks upon the years of
the recent hostilities as q time when there
were keep off the grass" signs up every
where, signs that really meant meatless
DAYS, wheatless days, income tax blanks,
theatre taxes, motorless Sundays and all
the other sacrifices we were called upon to
endure for less time than Europe did. And
out of this combination Mr. England has
written a book of nine>chapters that is
clearly humorous in intention, but which
this reporter did not discover as arriving
at the mark.
For example: A girl named Catherine
was singing "Liszt's Hungarian Rhap-
sody" (Mr. England is responsible for
that statement) for some soldiers at a
hostess house. "When Catherine was
about half through the Rhapsody, and
still going strong, some one called out:
what do you think Of her execution7'
and another voice shouted: I'm unani-
mously in favor Of it, and then-a shot
rang out and bullet lodged in the Love
Is Alp motto close by her head. g.
Wasn't it lucky the bullet missed when
you consider how much singing Catherine
is doing for the boys, and how her dear
little doggy, Pommery Sec, is almost
wholly dependent on herT Now 40
pages Of "humor" Of that sort does not
seem very humorous at all. The best We
can do is to hope that there are many
readers who will disagree with US wholly
and completely; even if we don't under
stand how they can.
KEEP OFF THE GRASS. BY GEORGE Al
Lam ENGLAND. Boston: Small Maynard
& Co. 81.
The sun., 1919-05-18
Books by Symonds

TT WO new items of Symondsiana have
Il made an almost simultaneous ap-
pearance in the last few weeks: Last
and First and In the Key Of Blue. From
the photographers point of view, the tirst
is of far greater importance, for the two
essays are reprinted for the first time
out of the magazines for which they were
originally written. In the Key Of Blue is
a reprint of volume first issued nearly
thirty years ago.
Last and First is a slender volume, con-
tanning two essays, The Nero Spirit and
Arthur Hugh Clough. The Ner Spirit is
a concise statement of the inner impulse
of the Renaissance, described by Symonds
as "an analysis of the emancipation of
the intellect in the fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries" This essay
ought to be read as a general intruduc
ton to the authors Renaissance IN Italy.
Arthur Hugh CIoagh, one Of the earliest
studies of the poet, is an exaggerated esti-
mate of Coughs talent, but It is conta-
gious in its youthful enthusiasm.
OF Last and First it may be said that
the reader of Symonds ought not to fail
to possess himself of q copy, but In the
Key Of Blue is delight in and for ITSELF.
1t is book that may be enjoyed by any
fairly cultivated reader, regardless Of the
fact that the author was a scholar whose
works zone ought really to know" It is
collection of miscellaneous essays, in
which, declares the author in the preface,
The sun., 1919-05-18

81 have tried to make the selection rep
reseItative of the different kinds of work
in which | have been principally en-
gaged-Greek and Renaissance literature,
description of places, translation, eriti-
cism, original verse" The book reveals
one side of the man we had almost
forgotten: his delight in describing places.
There are few books more fascinating than
travel books; a good description of an
Italian hill town one has never visited or
a plain town with which one is familiar,
fills the average reader with joy. John
Addington Symonds can write travel books
that stimulate and arouse curiosity and
enthusiasm. The present volume contains
three or four essays that belong to Sy
monds's best style: Notes Of Somerset
shire Home and Among the EaganeRdH
HILs are the finest of these.
In the Key of Blue, the opening es-
say, is a charming fantasy in prose and
verse on the blue costumes of Venice. =
We have as yet scarcely touched upon
the manifold riches in the little book, and
can no more than indicate the other es-
says on culture, on Platonic love, on the
Elizabetban drama and lyrics, on Tiepolo
and Zola-most of them In the authors
most readable vein-and this author is not
always free from turgidity.
In the Key Of Blue is in the best tradi-
ton Of the late Victorian essays; it Is
something to return to and inger over.
LAST AND FIRST. BY JOHN ADpINGTON
SYMoNDS. New York: Nicholas L. Brown,
so Lexington avenue. $1.5O.
IN THE KEY OF BLUE. BY JOHN AD-
DINGToN SYMoNbs. The Macmillan Com
pany. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-05-18

Mr.. Oppenheim had read his own proofs
or that gentlemen at the luncheon hour
would be in evening dress if Mr.. Crete,
the illustrator, had read the book at all.
THE WICKED MARQUIS. By f. PHIL
LIPS OPPENHEIM. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-05-18
Thoughts for
Non-Think

TN our humber moments most Of US
l. simply have to acknowledge that we
don't think, that we don't know how TO
live twenty-four hours a day. In the
course Of placing more than 10000
stenographers and business assistants in
Greater New York." Harry Collins Spill
man had this fact of our unthinkingness
impressed upon him, and to the end OF
curing that condition he delivered series
Of addresses before the New York high
schools under the joint auspices of the
Board of Education and the-Eew York
Chamber Of Commerce, and later before
ad clubs, rotary clubs and chambers, Of
commerce throughout the country. Now
he has put the matter of these addresses
into o book entitled Personality: Stsdies
in Personal Development, which is rieh
in what we fear the unregenerate would
call "uplift stuff" Mr.. Spillman takes
for his texts such impelling ideas as
Thinking Can, Winning With Words,
DOtNy CRtO OhcTSy DogDHsy HSc GUYS
and Making Friends With the Clock, this
last presenting the other face of the prev
alent idea that to watch the clock is to
waste time. This particular Books and
Book World reporter does not pretend
to be an authority on personality, but has
tried to inform himself on military af-
fairs. Therefore when he came to page
100 and found these two sentences he be-
gan to wonder as to the solidity of the
rest Of the text. They read: Explain it
as we may, a martial strain will urge
man into the front ranks of battle sooner
than an argument. That is why, on the
battle fronts of Europe, the musicians
were as indispensable as the fighters in
the front line trenches" We have read
that everything and everybody from food
to the Marines won the war, but when it
comes to ranking bandsmen with the in
fantry we simply and absolutely revolt,
personality TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing. And yet we are willing to coneede
that mental miners can delve some mug
gets of self Improvement out of these
pages.
PERSONALITY: STUDIES IN PER
The sun., 1919-05-18
THE BOUNDER
By Arthur Hodges

'It is a good deal to say that Ameri-
can literature is being enriched by work
that almost indisputably spells genius,
and yet it is no exaggeration to say
that readers of Thackeray or of Dickens
must have felt much the same when
first they read Vanity Fair" or Dom
hey and Son" as the reader now feels
who peruses Arthur Hodges "The
Bounder"
In a mediocre New York apartment
house Mr.. Hodges finds most of his
characters. They are writer's, profess
sionai dancers and broken-down or self
exiled aristocrats, delightfully."- human,
humanity eccentric people, with the in
clinations to sample life, to experiment
with life, if possible, to wrest from life
its most fascinating secrets. The back
ground is New York; the avenue,
Broadway, the popular cafes, the more
prominent hotels-everybody knows
them, and therefore it becomes the
more wonderful that they shall sud-
denly exercise so new and fresh an at
traction.
It has been argued that the great
American novel will be a tale of the
wide, free West; but such an argument
is futile In the face of book like "Fhe
Bounder." IF this be not America, if
these be not true Americans; if this be
not American life, then there is no such
thing as American life that can be
grasped and reduced to paper."-Phila-
delphia Press. $3.50 net.
The sun., 1919-05-18
THERE is NO DEATH!

The portal is but to a higher plane.
From the plane Of the twentieth degree
messages, authenticated by DR. Watson,
of Toronto, have come to add to the
sum Of our knowledge of intellectual and
spiritual things. 1nSersonal, con-
vincing, remarkable.
The sun., 1919-05-18
The 10th Plane

Reported By ALBERT DURRANT
WATSON, NJ. D., President Of the Royal
Astronomical Socisiy Of Canada and the
Association for Psychicdi Research Of
Canada.
The book has a scientific purpose and
reeounts, solely as evidence, the extraor-
binary recent conversations with great
men of the past, including Lincoln,
Tame, Moses, Beethoven and Plato. It
forms another important link in the
chain Of evidence in
proof of a life hereafter
(a) A serious, thought provoking
study of psychic phenomena,
written in beautiful and simple
language.
(b) A compelling and inspirational
volume of information and new
ideas on philoso ply, art, science
and religion.
(c) A book of consolation for those
in sorrow for their departed.
1t h said to be the only book dealing with the
spirit world that does not antasonfze the Church
Svo. Cloth. $500 net.
GEORGE W. JACOBS & co.
Philadelphia
Every bookseller has it.
The sun., 1919-05-18

PERSONALITY: STUDIES IN PER
SONAL DEVELOPMENT. BY HARRY
COLLINS SPILLMAN. Gregg Publishing
Company. $l.50.
The sun., 1919-05-18

"What Ar
mold Bennett
and Compton
M a C k nzie
have been do
ing for British
life, Arthur
Hodges is now
doing for
American life"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19

Camp No 50, Woodmen of thee
World, and Grove No. 27. WoodmeiI
circle, meeting last night at ODD
Fellows hall, Initiated three cand i
dates into Camp No. 50 and ole
into Grove No. ~. Hereafter ;EIl
candidates will be initia ed on the
first meeting night of each monf
and the second meeting night Will
be devoted to social entertainment.
J. +. Laughery, W. l.. Bowman and
Frank Bentrim were appointed as
a committee TO arrange for the
first entertainment to be held
Tuesday evening, April 10. The
officers of Camp No IS willsmeet
at the home of the consul com
mander, H O. Laurence, Tuesday
evening to discuss the advisablity
of securing camp site near FnOck
river for the entertainment uI
members and their friends during
the summer months. A communi-
cation was received from Sovereign
Commander W. A. Fraser, stating
that 17,167 applications for mean
bershIp were received by the order
during the month of February.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19
refer BILLS ON
UNIFORM BOOKS
Opinion Differs on Having Texts in
Schools the Same Throughout
the State.
PAINLESS DENTIST ADS HIT
Proposed Measure Introduced in
Legislature Against Fraudu-
lent Representation.

Springfield, Ill, March 19.-All
uniform text book bills before the
house committee on education have
been referred to a sub committee of
which Representative Harry Wilson
of Pinckneyville is a chairman. 9th
er members are Representatives
Smith, Stevens, Drake and Brewer.
MIR. Brewer is the author of two
bills, one proposing state uniform
ity and the other zone uniformity.
Representative Perkins of Lincoln
has a bill proposing state uniform
ity and Representative Smith
measure providing for county uni
formity.
Difference of opinion exists as TO
the propriety of having text books
the same throughout the state. The
argument in favor is that pupils
moving from one section to another
would not be confused by different
texts. The argument against is that
a text book concern powerful
enough would be able TO corner
state contract and thus gain a
monopoly.
Representative Boyd of Galva is
making a strong appeal for his bill
to enable counties to cooperate for
the purpose of erecting and main
tanning tuberculosis sanitariums
and dispensaries.
Some of the smaller counties of
the state like Brown, Putnam md
others have not the financial re-
sources to provide sanitarlum'
Mr. Boyd says. My bill would MAKE
it possible for them to go in with
larger counties and to share the
benefits by proportionate taxation"
Approximately half of the COM
ties of the state have authorized
taxes for tuberculosis sanitariums.
according to Boyd.
The present law places the man
agement of sanitariums in the
hands of boards of management
which are named by county boards
of supervisors. Every sanitarium is
free to the inhabitants of the
county. The only change in the
amending bill is to make possible
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19
KICK IN PATENT
MEDICINE TO BE
TAKEN OUT NEXT

Springfield. Manufacture.
of patent medicines find objec.
ton to Senator JEWELS bin TO eu.
force federal prohibition when Il
becomes operative The opposition
from this source is likely to md eE'
preston in attempts to amend the
measure when it comes up on sec.
ond reading, according TO members
of the senate license and miscel.
lany committee. It.is on the order
of first reading.
Provisions of the bill, which ar:
very drastic against Intoxicating
liquor for beverage purposes. are Sc
framed the patent medicine inter
ests insist, that they might be made
operative against medicines which
contain alcohol in quantities nee.
essary to preserve other drug i'm
gradients. The medicine compau.
les are said TO be anxious for sOmt
safeguard which Will make plaiE
their exemption from the provisions
Of the bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19
BLOW STRUCK AT
TICKET SCALPER
IN NEW MEASURE

Springfield, Ill.-A blow is struck
at ticket scalpers by a bill intro
duced in the house by Representa-
tive Thon of Chicago.
1t is intended ito prevent fraud
and extortion upon the public in
the sale, barter or exchange OF ad-
mission tickets to any theatre, cir
Gus, baseball park, place of public
entertainment or amusement in ex-
cess of the advertised price"
Violation would be misdemean-
or punishable by fine not to ex-
coed $500 and Imprisonment of not
exceeding one year or both and loss
by the theatre or persons concerned
of the license to operate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19
SHOT BY MAN IN
MONEY QUARREL
Condition Charles VI. SOmmers,
Nephew of Former Manager
Hotel Harms, Critical.
OCCURS IN CHICAGO GRILL
Assaulted in Attempt to Strengthen
Ont Controversy Over DenOm-
inati0n of Coin.

Charles NJ Sommers, formerly
steward of the Kimball hotel in
Davenport and a nephew of Harry
SOmmers, Sr., former manager of
Hotel Harms, was shot by man
known as Doc" in the st. James
grill in the Majestic hotel in Chi
cago last night. Sommers is man
a ger of the grill. He is a cousin of
Harry Sommers, Jr., who managed
the Keator house in Moline.
The assault is said to have taken
place following a controversy over
the denomination of a piece of cur
Tency given a waiter. Sommers is
in critical condition in st. Luke's
One bullet entered his
body over the heart, another en-
tered his left leg and the third
grazed mis- right thumb.
The assailant dined in the grill
with d woman and became involved
in a controversy with the waiter as
20 whether he had given him a S. or
q SO bill. The waiter had returned
change for IS, the sum of the check
having been subtracted.
The couple left the dining room
and the man returned, saying he
had come back TO get the 81. Som
mers replied:
Now, Doc, don ut excited You
have been drink IL come back
tomorrow, then x it up sat
isfactorily No wants to beat
you out of any money"
Pulls Gun and Fires.
After a few words in excitement
the assailant pulled a gun and fired.
Charles NJ. Sommers was stew
ard at the KimbalI hotel from 1893
to 1897 during which his uncle,
Harry Sommers, Sr., was manager.
He went from Davenport to Chi
>cago and during most of the time
he has been there he has been at
the st. James grill, where he is
said to have had a successful ca
reer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-19

system of joint construction ana
maintenance.
Advertisements of painless den
tistry" would be prohibited by a
bill regulating the practice OF den
tistry. 1t was introduced by Repre-
sentative Vice Fraudulent represen-
tations by so-called teeth experts
would be curbed. Regulation would
be in the hands of the department
of registration and education.
Licensed physicians and surgeons
would be permitted to extract
teeth but forbidden to practice den
tistry or dental surgery. The bill
would allow registered and licens-
ed nurses to perform the "so-called
operation of cleaning teeth" on in
mates of public institutions and
regularly enrolled pupils of the
public schools.
The department of registration
and education would be authorized
to refuse to issue a license or GER
titicate to individuals who have
advertised to practice dentistry
without causing pain or have adver-
tised the use of any drug of I'M
known formula or the use of dan
gerous or unknown anaesthetic; or
have advertised the use of drugs or
of any substance used in the max
ing of any dental products which
are falsely advertised or misnamed;
or have advertised in any matter
likely to deceive or defraud the pub
lie" Fines would range from $50 to
$500.
A house committee, headed by
Representative H. S. Hicks, Rock
ford. will go to Madison, Wisconsin
on Thursday to investigate the cleo
trical machine in use at the Wis
consin capital for mechanical vot-
ing of Legislators. The committee
trip was authorized by house res
olution. Other members are Repre-
sentatives Walz, Arthur Roe
Renchler and Vance. Bert H. Nc
Cam, clerk OF ,hc house, will ac-
company the committee. II takes
about twenty minutes for a roll
call under the present system.
The Wisconsin machine takes but
thirty seconds to record the vote
which is counted and photographed
it is said. Each legislator would
have an electric voting button on
his desk