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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
MRS, MAHONEY'S
 BODY IS F0UND;
 IS IDENTIFIED
Seattle Mystery Is Cleared Up-Mahoney Makes
 Short Statement.
BULLETIN-SEATTLE, Aug. g.

D U LLL l lN--CGhA ! A0, nus VI The body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney. wealthy woman, who disappeared last April, has been found. The body has been identified by Mrs. c. Hewitt, niece of Mrs. Mahoney, through clothing found In the trunk.
 James Mahoney, who has been under arrest for several months in connection with the disappearance of his bride, was this afternoon removed to a solitary cell.
 Mahoney maintained silence in connection with the discovery of the body. Finally he remarked to news paper men: .
 They cannot do anything more to me than hang me"
 I'll sleep over it," Mahoney later said to the police officers when they asked him if he would confess to the killing of his wife.
 He declined to view the body.
 The finding of the body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney clears up mystery which has been puzzling the police authorities for months past
 The dead woman and Mahoney were married last March. She was 75 years of age and he was 35 years years. During April she disappeared. Shortly after her disappearance, Ma honey gained access to his wife's private safety deposit vault and later exhibited authority, supposed to have been signed by Mrs. Mahoney, giving him custody of her property.
 The property is estimated to be valued at $200,000 and includes mining property ill Alaska.
 Mahoney could make no satisfact- ory statement regarding the disap- pearance of his aged bride. He claimed that she had suddenly left their home and her whereabouts were unknown.
 The police arrested Mahoney on suspicion. Then it developed that man answering Mahoney's@ descrip- tion, hired boat on Lake Union, loaded trunk in it, and was gone 12 hours before returning.
 This incident and others led the police to immediately believe that Mahoney had murderedi his wife, jammed the body into trunk and then weighing it down had sunk it in the lake.
 The. lake was dragged and then divers went down and explored the bottom.
 Somewhere between Seattle and Juneau are more particulars con- corning the finding of the body. The cable went up this forenoon but there is much press matter hung up somewhere between here and the south and the details of the finding of the body of Mrs. Mahoney were missing when the Empire went to press this afternoon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
Army Aviator Is Killed
 In Sight of Thousands

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Sergeant Pat rick Love, army aviator corps. was killed here yesterday while making a parachute jump before thousands of spectators at the Pageant of Prog ress.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
TRAMPS BURNED
 ALIVE; FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED
Fifteen Itinerants, Stealing Rides, Lose Lives in Dis
 aster Tn Texas.

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 9.--Fifteen tramps are believed to have been burned to death in the wreck this morning of a Gulf Coast line freight train No. 32, eastbound, near De Quincy, Louisiana. The bodies of the tramps are burned beyond recog nition
 The work of clearing away the debris of the wreck this morning is not completed and more bodies may be found.
 The tramps were probably asleep in empty box cars when the wreck occurred and might have been killed instantly before the flames, which immediately broke out, reached them
 Large numbers of itinerants are reported to have been stealing rides on freight trains lately
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
No More Allied Troops
 For Upper Silesia Now

PARIS, Aug. 9-The Allied Su preme Council decided today not to- send endorsements of Allied troops to the Upper Silesia at the present time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
Washington Coal Mines
 Will Reopen; Open Shop

SEATTLE. Aug. 9.-The commer- cial coal mine operators this after noon notified all former employees that the mines will be re-opened ''in- dependently of the union of the Mine Workers of America" and offered to take all men back at the wage scale recently recommended by the com mission. The miners refused
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09

Starving Russians Crawling on Their Hands and Knees

LONDON, Aug. 9.-Two thou sand refugees are pouring into Brestlitovsk daily Many are crawling on their hands and knees too weak to stand.
 Scores are dying along the roads, according to advices re- ceived here.
 The picture is said to be an appalling one of desolation and famine in stricken region.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
PRESIDENT IS BACK FROM HIS
 VACATION TRIP
Harding Signs Sweet Bill Nofiinations' Are Sent To
 the Senate Today. :

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. President Harding and Mrs. Harding fet,irned here today after a vacation. spent in the White Mountains of; New ,Hamp- shire. '. tsSi l.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
NOMINATIONS ARE MADE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-President Harding today nominated Charles R. Forbes, director of the War Risk Blu reau, to be director of the Veterans Bureau. created under the Sweet bill.
 President Harding also nominated Thomas G. Hathaway to be United liam L. Hill to be assayer at Helena, Mont.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
FIVE BODIES RECOVERED

HOUSTON. Tex, Aug. 9.-It is re- ported from De Quincy late this aft ernoon that five bodies have been taken from the burning wreckage. Ten more are expected to be re- covered.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
AMERICANS RELEASED

WASHINGTON, Aug. g. The State Department has re- ceived word from representa- tives at Riga and Reval that Americans have been released from Russian prisons and were en route to the frontier yester- day. They are expected to ar rive at Hamburg tonight.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
SWEET BILL SIGNED

WASHINGTON, Aug 9-President Harding has signed the Sweet bill, reorganizing the government service as pertains to former service men.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
SENATE. PASSES BILL

WASHINGTON, Aug, 9.-The Sen ate this afternoon passed the Capper- Tincher bill. which prevents gam5l- ing on the grain exchange.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. y.- The investigation of the wreck of the steamer Alaska by the Federal authorities will probably begin not later than tomorrow. Passengers and members of the crew are today being summoned to appear here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09

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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09
coRoNeR,s INQUEST HELD

EUREKA. Cal. Aug. 9-S. A. Carl sen. third assistant engineer of the steamer Alaska, testifying at the cor oner's inquest, today into the cause of the wreck, stated that the Alaska was proceeding at full speed despite the heavy fog.
 Carlson was on duty at the time the Alaska crashed onto Blunt's Reef last Saturday night.
 George Goodall. of Spokane, ono of the passengers on the Alaska, tes- tified and he was outspoken in criti- cism of the crew.
 Goodall testified that the crew be- came demoralized as soon as the steamer struck. He declared that lifeboats were also defective.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09

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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-09

IS DRIFTING HELPLEsslY
 SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9.-The steam schooner Multnomah is dis
The Press., 1921-06-23
FATE HARD ON MAMMALIAN
Austrian Archduke Really Man of Good Intentions but Consist
 ently Unfortunate.

When Maximilian was placed as ruler over LOmbardy by his brother, Francis Joseph of Austria, he was sent to Venice. Lombardy was, of course, entirely Italian, and hated Austria with a deep hatred. although there was no personal feeling against Maximilian, a dreamer and altruiSt, who would have been delighted to have his subjects like him. The dem onstrations that followed were aimed not at the unhappy Maximlian but entirely at the representative of Aus tria.
 To show his good intentions Maxi milan hired the leading theater and arranged for a great and very costly performance for the citizens of Ven Ice. At the hour the opera was to begin he drove up to the theater and dismOunted, only to find that besides himself and his staff there was not a single soul in the place. Later he discovered that instead of Venice be- ing sparse in population the facts were that the citizens withdrew from the streets whenever he appeared abroad. The climax came when he gave a series of balls, dinner parties and entertainments at the palace and not a single guest of the thousands in vited appeared. Shortly afterward France and Italy together took Lom- bardy away from Austria, and Maxi milan went hOme-tO prepare for his tragic fate in Mexico.
The Press., 1921-06-23
HONOR GOES @s JAMEsToWN
.VlrpInIan City Was 4hs Scene of the Flrwa Representative Assembly
 In the United States.

The Pilgrims have been referred to As the virtual founders of this nation in the sense that they first proclaimed the principles upon which our gov ernment Is based. Woodrow Wilson, in his History of the American People" speaking. of the Virginlan assembly which met in the chanceI of the church at Jamestown July :O, 1919, says:
 "We look back with some emotion upon it as the first representative assembly in America. as to the be- ginning of liberty and self lf-government in the English colonies; but the colo nists themselves seem to have taken 1t very quietly. as if they had expect ed it and looked upon 1t as matter of course in the circumstances"
 In the year before Sir George Yeardley had brought from England a document which Yirginians were henceforth to regard as the Great Charter of their liberties, "a docu- ment which made of their colony a little commonwealth" ~..:-
 So the Jamestown colony vas the first to have an assembly and a writ. ten constitution, and 1t also was the first to have trial by jury, an en. dowed colleges ~R schOolhOuse, a school for Indians, a minister, a church, to have 8. marriage; ceremony. a Thanks giving day. hospital a library, a courthouse, a post office, Masonic temple, and was the first to Christian ize the negro" as a southern writer points out.
The Press., 1921-06-23
Influence a Handicap.

Influence Is the worst handicap any young man can have. It tends to make him feel he need not exert himself to his full capacity and has 8 bad effect upon him. When other wOrkmen learn that one of their num- Der has a pull with somebody higher up, they look at him askance and the effect upon these other men is bad. Then the foreman. or whoever is over him, will either show him undue faVOrs and push him into a position for which he is not fitted. or, if the boss is of different stamp, he will hesi- tate to promote him even when he deserves 1t because the boss knows the others will think 1t Is a case of favor itism. The effect. therefore. Is had upon the whole organization. When any young engineer or college gradu- ate or anybody else comes to me ask ing for a letter to enable him to get a job at our works I say tO him just what have said here.-John D. Ryan in FOrhes Magazine.
The Press., 1921-06-23
He had deceived her. She smiled soft

He had deceived her. She smiled soft iy. It was like David.
 With the. gentleness born of the great love she now knew, Betty told the suffering bit of wreckage that she could easily forgive him. He offered her scant portion of the sum he had kept, but this she refused.
 'I have plenty" she told him. Keep it,. and if you need more before you get on your feet again, come to me-" . The man stood very straight. The shiftiness was gone from his eTes. Tt was conscience that kept me down" :" he said. 'I will face the world again, and when I can-I will repay you. I thank you more than can tell" He withdrew, for emotion was getting the better of him and Betty knew that a renewed soul had passed from her presence.
 David" she said quietly, ''have you any confession to make to me?" ~ David laughed happily. "NOne ex- cept that I love yOu-mOre every day"
 "David, look at me-have you no other confession to make to your Wife?"
 Something understanding in the vi- Olet eyes prompted David's memory. You weren't my wife then. dear" he said. "and there was nothing in life worth talking about or cOnfessing- until you became my wife. HOwev- er-I 'fess up. You are not sorry dear?"
 ''T couldn't be-" she said shylY,
The Press., 1921-06-23
AlI.EIectrIe Paper Mill.

A large paper mill at Vargo, Swed- en, was recently rebuilt upon the most modern lines. Formerly 10000 tons of coal were consumed annually and the problem of maintaining this supply was a very serious one, but at the present time there is no coal whatever consumed at the plant. The boiler house contains seven "electric" boil CTS, each of 5000 horsepower, and the current enters the boilers at a pres sure of 10000 volts without having to be stepped down. Each of the boilers Is provided with three electrodes, and the coupling arrangements are such that steam generation can be regulat- ed within 5 per cent. It is stated that full steam pressure can be raised in from five to ten minutes after switch ing on the current, and considerable economy in attendance is obtained, as compared with coal firing.
The Press., 1921-06-23
WOMAN WHO MADE GOOD"
Neighbcrs Are Not Going to See Any
 "For Sale" Sign Displayed at Her Farm Gate.

remember how hurried out of my seat at the window to take off my hat to her that day. Just a woman driving by with the farm team hitched to am old three-spring wagon. can St her now. Five little chaps tucked around her. When was that? Well, never mind just how long. I know it was after Jim went away for the last time over the Long Trail. Jim brought her into our neighborh0Od from her job teaching school. She did not know a single thing about farming. Couldn't evelS milk COW. Most of the folks said, when Jim got his call, "Well, that settles it. The farm will go to the dogs now. She never can make a go of it."
 More than one of us made our plans to buy the place when the flor sale" sign hung on the tree in the front yard. Deacon Jones offered to take a couple of the boys. so that it would be a bit easier for the widow but, no sir. She just gathered them all up little closer about heT and said, with firm look round her mouth, Thank you, deacon, but as long as He leaves us together we'll stick to one anOther!"
 And they did. And now, well-they fought .Jim's battle to the finish. and nobody has heard of the farm chang ing hands. That is what makes some of us feel little bit ashamed. To be beaten by a woman-you wouldn't like it yOurSQlf.
 They paid off the mortgage; they fixed up the house; they got better cows; they grew the best crops of anybody in the township. We have not seen the flor sale" sign on the tree. don't think we will very soon. either. On the other hand, the widow and her boys have just added another eighty to their place.
 There they go now! Let me get out before they are out of sight. A new car, sure as you are born. and Jim Junior at the wheel! That's fine! I'm just proud of them, even if they have beaten me all hollow. Only & woman Thank God there are women of that kind in this old world of ours-lOts of 'em; and they're the very salt of the earth Edgar l.. Vincent, in Farm Life.
The Press., 1921-06-23

have Interpreted 1t rightly. But the performance proceeded to the utmost satisfaction of every one. Eager faces watched every move. Necks craned forward after the first impression of fear was found grOundless.
 The air in the room was warm. 1t must have approached in degree that of the home of "Ana," and thus served to bring back the dormant life of the tropics. No longer did the reptile imagine himself stretching headfirst from the inanimate limb of a moss draped tree above the yellow swamp. He realized that a living, warm body was within his coils, and just now the girl was wrapping him around her bare throat. The instinct of hunger welled forward. It had been long time since the last feed, and "Ana" was just beginning to realize it.
 "Quick! Get 'im off" blurted the girl as she felt the reptile tightening around her neck.
 Dave ran to her aid. He tugged hard to no purpose; the python tight ened his grip and the girls face turned purple She could make no articulate sound. Her arms waved violently, beating the air.
 "Help me, for Gods sake!" shouted the sailor. "Open the window; help me get her out into the air; it's the only way to make i'm let go."
 In a minute the window was open and the girls body was pressed out into the cool night air. AS by magic the python stiffened into its apathetic state, and in another instant was un- cOiled from the girls neck.
 Shortly after daylight the next morning, twenty-four hours after the docking of the South American vessel, Professor AndertOn was passing through a deserted stretch of pave ment in Union square. He noticed bundle that at first seemed merely pack of newspapers. Curiosity caused him to stop and prod the bundle with the end of his cane. The paper tore and he saw the glittering tip of the 'python's tail. A crowd collected, and a policeman came. In a few minutes the heavy club had ended the life of the denizen of the tropics.
 By right of discovery the professor claimed the skin, and today he points to 1t hanging upon his wall and says:
 "That's the mystery. How a live python found its way from the jungle of a tropical country to a bench in Union square-that's what I'd like to know"
The Press., 1921-06-23
Canadian Fisheries Important.

The Canadian fisheries produce about $5O,OOOOOO a year, and the in dustry gives employment to about 1OO,- 900 people, with about 10000 on the sea fisheries, 10000 on the inland fresh water fisheries and approximately 2O.- 900 engaged in canning, curing and otherwise dealing" "With the fish, accord ing to a statement made by Prof E. E. Prince, Dominion commissioner of fisheries. He further stated that there were some 600 varieties of Canadian edible fish, of which only about 15O were known, while hardly more than twenty were really important factors on the market.
The Press., 1921-06-23
states Rutternx Enda ruharouloaIa.

S&@~GS 0uGEStNy GUUB BQDSFS0bO8SB.
 The French bacteriOlOgist Metalni- kow, in a report of his investigations which he has just presented to the Pasteur institute, states that for some time past he has been experimenting on the larvae of butterflies and moths, and he has, he declares, discovered that they have the power to destroy all the most dangerous known bacilf. He inOculated them with diphtheria, plague, tetanus and tuberculosis, and found that however heavy the dose the bacilli did not live more than a few days in the larvae, which seemed to contain germdestrOying juices. The bacillus of Koch, for example. which lives in the body of man for years after it once gets hold, was annihilated in the body of the i4==5gae in two or three days. -
 The. vitality of the larvae, the scien- list declares, is enormous, and he has not been able to find any bacilii which 7 can obtain a hold on their bodies. Now he Is endeavoring to isolate a serum of butterfly grubs with which he hopes to cure the world of tuberculosis.
The Press., 1921-06-23
Simnle gnitaphR,

While there is still indecision as to the ultimate epitaph for the "UnknOwn Warrior" it is interesting to remem- Der that in Westminster abbey, where he is to be laid are at least two mon- umental inscriptions of model brevity and beauty.
 One is. of course, the 70 Rare Ben JOnsOn.'' in Poets corner.
 The other, less known. but possibly most wistfully appealing of sll. is in the clOiSters. to young girl who died in the Seventeenth century.
 ITO Jane Lister.'" it reads. Dear ChiIde. e."-LondOn Chronicle.
The Press., 1921-06-23
ON HONOR'S FIELD
heW South American DueIiStS
 Settle Difficulties.
Vlelser From the United States Per eeiVeG Something Humorous in
 the "Desperate" Encounters.

AS was smoking on the throne of Secsahuaman, beheld party of two dozen distinguished-look gentle men in high hats approaching with a pair of weapons that resembled the cavalry sabers of NapoleOn's time. It seems that Senor Escalante, editor of El Comercio, and SenOr Castro, editor of Fl Naelonal, both of CuzcO, were about to settle an editorial quarrel upon the field of honor, Harry L. Eos ter writes in Leslie's.
 had already noted that newspaper men in Latin-America invariably car ried canes. I had at first supposed that they did it for the sake of dig nity, but after reading the editorials I decided 1t must be for self-defensP. Every Latin-American city, no matter how small, has half a dozen sheets published, not as commercial ventures, but as organs for the saying of mean things about each other
 Esealants and Castro had grown so heated in a debate over a local DO lit1cal campaign that only blood could atone for the insults. From the duel it appeared that both of them had read Mark Twain. They were still insulting each other as they met sword in hand, but both were shaking visi- ply.
 "GO on, smite him." shouted Esca- lante's seconds, as neither of them made move to start hOstilitieS.
 Thus encouraged, Escalante made a wild swipe with his weapon, clipping Ofr a piece of Castro's ear.
 Immediately swords were dropped, the cOmbatants embraced each other and the seconds led them back to town, where champagne was opened.
 Dueling is by no means limited to petty editors. During the last presi- dential campaign in Chile, according to a well-authenticated inside story. Don Arturo Alessandri, then the can didAte of the Liberty party, after a slight digsensiOn with Don GuilIermO Rivera, another politician, challenged him 10 a duel to take place near the famous monument of the Christ of the Andes In the Cordillera.
 Disguised with false whiSkers, ac- eording to the story, Alessandri and his seconds sneaked out of the capital. closely shadOwed by the police. The meeting was to take place at D. m. At 8 20 SenOr Rivera not having made appearance. Alessandri started back toward town. On the way he encOun- tered Rivera, but on another road just across the ravine.
 demanded Alessandri, shouting across the ravine.
 How could IY' demanded Senor RI vera. Your agents bought up all the mules so that couldn't get there"
The Press., 1921-06-23
Motor Ambulance for Sheen,

A motor ambulance especially de- signed for the care of sheep, and con taining ten pens, five on each side. is an unusual but highly valuable ad- junct to an enormous sheep ranch in Alberta, Canada. During the l.aSt season some 1000 lambs were born on the ranch, and the busy ambulance was the means of saving the lives of hundreds of them.-POpular Mechan- ics Magazine.
The Press., 1921-06-23
criminaIs Exploit Mentally Deficient

.
 Psychiatrists have long recognized the tendency among mental deficients towards criminality. It appears that this tendency is now being discovered and exploited by the criminal classes themselves. At recent meeting of the SOciete CliniQue de Medicine Men tale, reports the London Lancet, Drs. Marcel Brfand and BOrel presented a boy, aged fourteen, who had on two occasions been used as a tool of a professional thief. It Is clear that if this practice is at all widespread many mentally deficient children with out criminal tendencies in the first place may very soon acquire them. These children, incapable of moral judgment, as they often are, should be specially protected by society, which in defending them will at the same time be protecting its own interests.
The Press., 1921-06-23
Acuuirino MusclO@.

Flatbush-I see by this paper that there are 4,O81 muscles in the body of a moth.
 BensOnhurst-Well, say, I guess I'll give up eating meat as a muscle build CT and go home and eat a few of my .wife'S furS.
The Press., 1921-06-23
Wonderful searchIiqht.

Great fog penetrating power Is claimed for a searchlight thdt has been invented in France with a greenish" yellow glass in front and hacked by a reflector that also prevents moisture collecting on the glass.
The Press., 1921-06-23
SuralN.

Mrs. Style-I understand you are going to present your husband with wig for his birthday.
 Mrs. Myles-Well, don't you think 1t perfectly proper for a wife to try and cover up her husbands defects?
The Press., 1921-06-23
Goinn Some.

Bacon-1 see a man has invented a watch that will go for six years with out winding. What do you say to that?
 Egbert-Well, should say that is going some.