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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
CASE AGAINST ERNEST BRYS0N
 STARTS TODAY
Prosecution Examining Wit nesses-Expected to Fin-
 ish Case Tomorrow.

The prosecution is presenting it's case today in the trial of the United States against Ernest Bryson. in- dicted by the Grand Jury for mur- der in the first degree. Bryson is charged with having killed Robert II. Ferry by shooting him with a pistol November IA, last at Haines. The prosecution is starting its case with examination of witnesses and Identification of exhibits. Witnesses on the stand until 3 o'clock today were George Lundy, John Morrison, William Cole, Joseph Glover, Mrs. Dorothy Jones and U. s. Deputy Marshals W. R. Garster of Juneau and Steve Sheldon of Haines. It is the prosecution will com plete it's case tomorrow.
 The jury for the trial was impan- eled yesterday afternoon and the opening arguments of the prosecu- tion and the attorney for the de- fendant made. Bryson is defended by II. l.. Faulkner. Few spectators were in the court room this after noon.
 The members of the jury are: A. R. Edwards, Frank Cook, w. E. Cahill. August Olson, Gust Lundell. Joseph F. Kahrer. H. F. Dott, Frank Bach, Sr.. Martin Lavenick, T. P. Smith. W. II. Kelly, George
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
SUGAR BOYCOTT
 STARTED TODAY

WASHINGTON, May 1.-president Harding feels it wholly consistent for people who have complained about the prices of commodities to restrict their consumption of that commodity. This was stated at the White House today in connection with the boycott started on sugar in various parts of the country.
 II is stated that President Harding does not believe it is the business of the government to commend boycott Of any kind. His views fill probably be sent forth in greater length in a telegram soon to be sent to those who urged him to make q public ap. peal Cor less consumption of sugar.
 The President believes the ultimate solution as far as the government is concerned lies in the legal steps m der way for elimination of specula- tion.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
APRIL WEATHER
 MOST ORDERLY
 SAYS SUMMERS
Sun Shone on Good Average During Month-Tempera
 ture Breaks Average.

Except for the absence of a meas urable quantity of snowfall and the fact that the highest and lowest tenn peratures of the month both occurred on the same day, the weather con dftions of April possessed no unusual features, according to Meteorofogist M. B. Summers.
 The Weather Bureau's meteorologi cal summary, issued today, shows that the mean temperature of the month was 41.7 degrees, as against q 27-year average of 4O.S degrees The extremes of 57 degrees and 2s degrees occurrSd on the 4th, thus giving range for that day of 29 degrees. while the average daily range for the month was 13.4 degrees There were 6 days with freezing temperatures, an occurring in the first week, as against normal fol April of s days.
 With total of 5.44 inches of precipitation, the month received 0.1S inch more than the average of 27 years, and exactly half the amount that fell in April, 1922, which was the next to the wettest April on record. Only trace of snow fell, although there was much snowfall on the nearby mountain slopes. The normal snowfall for April is 5.5 inches. Precipitation in measurable quantity fell on IS days. which is exactly normal for April. The great est amount in any "A consecutive hours was 1.57 inches, from 5:12 a. m. of the 14th to 5:12 a. m. of the 18th.
 The sunshine totaled 31 per cent of the possible amount. as against a 7-year average for April of 36 per cent. The first days of the month were clear, and of the remaining 25 days, 5 were partly cloudy and 20 were cloudy.
 Moderate winds prevailed during the month, the average hourly ye- locity being 72 miles. and the maxi mum velocity for a 5-minute period, 2S miles an hour from the southeast, on the 18th.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
MEANS ASSUMES DUTIES
 PROHIBITION DIRECTOR

A. G. Means assumed his duties as Prohibition Director for Alaska today, succeeding J. B. Marshall, who has Ibene transferred to Wash ington, D. c. Mr. Means has been busy today arranging for the per- sonnel of his staff.
 Mr. Means has been in Juneau since the latter part of April, to acsuaint himself with the duties of the Alaska office. before taking over all charge He was transferred here from Portland, Oregon. Mr. Means spent some time in Juneau last winter and is well known here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
MONEY ALLOTTED F0 R WORK Q N
 SITKA MONUMENT
Peter Trierschield Custodian Improvements al Sitka
 Says Colonel Steese.

The National Park SerV.ce iias ap pointed Peter Trierschield of Sitka as custodian of the Sitka National Monument and has allotted a small amount of money for painting and re pairs of the totem poles this spring, according to Col. James c. Steese, president of the Alaska Road Com. mission, who returned this week from a trip of inspection of road and harbor work at siaka. A small allot- ment from next years appropriations will be available after July h> for ad ditional walks and benches and for a bulkhead along Indian River, to protect the Monument from over flow, Colonel Steese said.
 Additional funds have been allotted by the Alaska Road Commission fol repairs and protection to the suspen- sion bridge and all this work will be handled under the direction of the office here.
 Tine highway from SitHa to James town Bay and its extension to the power plant, formerly handled by the Alagka Road Commission, has been transferred to the Forest Service under the cooperative agreement Of last year, Colonel Steese said.
 Colonel Steese and Captain AgneN, who accompanied him on the trip to Sitka, also inspected the new dock and float, erected recently by c. NJ. McGrath, prominent merchant of that place; the erection Of the Standard Oil Company tanks on the ". P. Mills dock, the new small boat land ing erected by the city last fall, the site of the proposed city sea wall and the proposed dredging of the main channel off the city.
 Military Cemetery
 s4The most notable change at Sitka is in the military cemetery" said Colonel Steese. When 1 saw it last year it was yeritable jungle and it is now laid out with shelf walks the headstones have been cleaned and arranged in regular lines and the road has been grayeled from the cemetery to the experimental station road"
 The work in the cemetery was paid for partly by an appropriation by the United States navy and partly by the citizens of the town. The road work was performed by funds sub ,crfbed Jointly by the Territory and ,he Alaska Road Commission
 steps had been taken by the Coz
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
ARE VOTING

LOS ANGELES. May 1.-voters of Los Angeles. city and county. are today balloting on candidates for municipal and congressional offices. Six candidates, including five men and woman, seek the congressional seat in the 10th California district as d successor to the late Henry Os- borne.
 Five men, including the incumbent, George E. Cryers, are seeking the mayoraNy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
WHO'S WHO
 AND WHERE

James T. Barron, president of the Thlinget Packing Company, was in Juneau over the weekend from the company plant at Funter Bay on business.
 Mrs. J. Foley and her two little on the Northwestern and left last night on the EsteIbeth for Haines, where they will visit with Mrs. Foley's mother, Mrs. Ellen Pyne.
 F. H. Baileyg superintendent of the Pacific American Fisheries plants in morning on business.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
CORDOVA CHAMBER NAMES
 OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR

The following have been named officers of the Cordoya Chamber of Commerce for the next year: Presi- dent, George C. Hazelct; vice-presi- dent, Caleb Corser; secretary, Ed ward F. <Madley; treasurer, John Muller; executive committee, Nathan iel Greene. T. J. Donchie, Charles j. Coodall A. J. Adams. Caleb Corser, James l.. Galen and Harry c. Steel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
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ernor last fall to have the cemetery recorded as a National Cemetery and
 il is expected a regular custodian
 will be appointed and an annual al- lotment made for the maintenance, secured from the Quartermaster Gen eral of the Army. Colonel Steese said.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
Stefansson Laughs"
 At Reported Rescue

OTTAWA, May 1.-Explorer stef- ansson today bfanded' as absurd the dispatch from Tacoma yesterday to the effect that the schooner Iskum planned 10 rescue" members of the Stefansson expedition stranded on Wmngel Island. He asserted the men on the island were 'colonists" and do notsneed resclfing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
APPLE PLEADS NOT GUILTY.

w. ID. Apple, lndlcteu Uy tHe Grand Jury for embezzlement. was arraigned in the U. s. District Court this morning and this afternoon en- tered plea of not guilty. His trial was set for Monday morning, May T, at 10 o'clock. Apple was re- leased on $1,Oo0 bond which was furnished by James McCloskey and George Coury Appls-fs defended by Henry Roden.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
SOON LEAVE
 FOR MEXICO

WASHINGTON, May 1-Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne, American commissioners to negotiate with President Obregon's government for hastening restoration of friendly for Mexico. it was announced this
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
Bishop Alfred Harding
 Dies in Washington, D. C.

WASHINGTON. May 1.--Bishop Aldred Harding, of the Washington diuces of dhe Protestant Episcopal Church, died today of heart trouble after several weeks of illness.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
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CHICAGO May 1.-The police were forced to use their clubs this after noon to beat back a crush of mems hers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of the World, storming the entrance of the Auditorium to hear Eugene V. Debs make his May Day address.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
HUMAN SKULLS FouNn.

MINNEAPOLIS, May l. F Five human skulls, evidently from bodies of matured men, were found this afternon on the public dump in the southeastern part of the city. This is the announcement made by the police.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01
F|SH|NG STARTS

SEATTLE, May 1.-Hundreds of craft from small launches and row boats to big schooners were ready for commission today when the com mercial salmon fishing season on Puget Sound opened. Fisheries off ciais predict pack of more than 100000 cases of humpbacks but a small pack of sockeyes.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01

investigation ordered ty Governor A E. smith of New into Walter & Ward millionaire baker, for killing exsailor wllon while alleged bfackna him points chief was Western Union Telegraph companyo turn ing between father between s0ooo and $OoO00 to pay gang Chief Police If and that of looked like claimed Peters to him with Harry Scott, of New R. about political aspirations of of while of the iga6o
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01

George Ellison died April 21 last at lIorningside Sanitarium, from heart trouble. He was committed to the Sanitarium July II. 1920, from Sftka.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01

For that closed car service call Berry's Taxi. Stand at the Gas tln0u. -adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-01

H. F. Preston, representative for the West Coast Grocery Company, ar- rived here on the steamer Queen.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15

the Silver Screen. He obtained a number of intensely interesting pic lures of the country in the Alaska Peninsula district and experienced many narrow escapes from serious injury and possible death, in being lost, and meeting bear, unarmed. In 1919 MT. Rossman went to Africa with Dr. L. S.Sugden, noted lecturer on Alaska and the Yukon who was drowned at Stewart Falls in the Mayo district, week ago today, and filmed scenes of that country and it's people.
 MT. Rossman is a former news paper man and publicity writer.
 He plans to leave Juneau tonight with J. l.. Hill, fox farmer, for the Eldred Island fox farm, and will spend short time there. going or to Haines and returning here Wed nesday next.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
UNALGA LEAVES TO
 MEET OFFICIALS WHO
 WILL STUDY FISHERIES

The U s. Coast Guard Cutter Unalga, Capt. John Boedecker in command left Juneau at 11:30 o'clock last night enroute to Seat tie. The ship is going to that port to meet Henry O'Malley, U. s. Fish Commissioner, Senator Wesley L.. Jones' of Washington, and Repre- sentative Wallace H. White Jr, of Maine, who are coming north to make an extensive study of the fisheries.
 The party will leave Seattle the last of this month or July 1 and the itinerary calls for the Unalga to go direct from there to the sealing grounds at the Pribilofs, to the Bristol Bay region, and a slow trip down the coast, arriving in this district in August, when the salmon run is in full swing. At the invitation of Secretary of Com- merce Hoover. Delegate D. A. Suth- erland will accompany the party.
 The Unalga is going to Seattle at this early date to recruit men and to undergo small repairs for the trip.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15

James II of England in 1881.
 "Site of hunting camp of the
 Delaware Indians is on the Macea-
 bees home estate," said Mir. Markey.
 Tradition gives this as the spot of lone of William Penn's treaties with | the tribes. One of the buildings that have been religiously pre-
 served on the estate is a Colonial
 stone house built in 1783 und ' the
 direction of Penn's heirs near tho
 Indian camp ground. A
 "It may eventually be made . museum or repository of Colonial | and Revolutionary relics. Every foot of this land is sacred ground saturated with memories of the birth of America" By a recent amalgamaticH the Pennsylvania state homo of tho Maccsbees on the Penn grant at Chatham, Pa, has passed under the |coutrol of the National Maccaheea Home and Relief association. Tho amalgamation gave the association . fund of $500, ,O0o and enlarge ImentS and improvements ars under way at the home. It VIII be used to care fer the sick, indieeLt and aeed of the 4rnternal socisty which re- lcRufly decided to nationalizo it1 Iphilant1rcpieA A farm and dairf
 wfll b operated for tho reaident 1 cIaxiea -
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
R Q SS M A N WILL FL N PICTORIAL
 STUDY OF ALASKA
We'll Known Photographer Plans to Spend Year in
 North Making Picture.

To film scenes for pictorial study of Alaska. Earl Rossman, we'll known photographer, is in Juneau and plans to maintain his headquarters here until after the arrival of the Presidential party. MT Rossman ex poets to tour the entire Territory his itinerary being from Juneau to the Westward and over the govern ment railroad to Fairbanks, down the Yukon river to St. Michaels and across Norton Sound to Nome and from there on the U. s. Cutter Bear to Point Barrow. The trip will prob ably take a year and it is probable he will spend the winter in the North, MT Rossman said.
 Mr Rossman is making his pie ture himself. The theme is the con trast of the early developments in the country to their results and the developments under way at the present time Each part of the coun try will be shown in the detail oi its topography, peoples and develop ment An extensive study of the Yukon and Eskimo will be made Throughout the entire theme story will be run, which has been written by MT. Rossman.
 MT. Rossman is filming all the scenes with camera which repro duces natural eolors.
 Walter Forrest of Nenana. will arrive here probably on the Alaska and will accompany MT. Rossman as guide.
 MT. Rossmans is we'll known in Alaska, having spent most of last summer at the Westward on board
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
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 one-third of the total for the entire country.
 The tctal value is $27S,127, 900 greater than the estimated expendi- lures in 1922, and $387,325, 900 greater than the 1921 expenditures. The building plans in the central states or Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas call for an expenditure of $206. 6.180, 900. Of this 45.2 per cent will be ex- pended for extensions of transmits sion and distributing systems and 548 per cent represents new, and additions to, generating plants.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
eIaZsSa " z2nNh 5 Atty Ger pan6he'r:

NJ. Daugherty has been chief w. Smith, chum of Harding and Washington mystery" him. self the Attorney the will, scrfbbled Smith committed suicide scrbed despondency Smith, of Daugherty lived with i'm n
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15

T1CHICAGO = Histcric mementns }b6WIljam Penn un the eztate oun- kn161ths Naceabees hnme at Ch1t-
 I'm Pennsylvania, win be czrcfnl- 4y preserved for America. D. F.
 4HRkey, supreme commander of 6t |Gnncnbees, assufnd . meeting q bou1eninn soc1eties hefe. Inc 1Ene- )us1ss rEopeEty is paxt q the os3gi- e l4' Eg
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
AARON WAUGH, PIONEER
 OF DAWSON PASSES AWAY

Aaron Waugh, who had been en- gagged in mining in the Klondike |since 1898, died at Dawson recently |of cancer after having been in the hospital there for more than year and a half.
 Waugh was one of the developers |of Granville in the KIondike and prospered. He was 5S years of age. a native of Ireland, raised in Eng land and came to the United States when g young man, locating at St.
 Paul. He went to Dawson in 1898, end was married there in 1907 to
 Miss Elizabeth Black, a Salvation ArEly lassie who arrived at Dawson directly from her native Scotland. The widow and two children, Miss Francesv aged Il. and Miss Mildred; aged 8, survive,
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
HOT WAVE AT DAWSON.

June was usnered In this year With hot wave at Dawson. On June 2 the temperature registered 91 degrees in the shade-the hot test day but one. in the history of tn Klondike metropolis. On July 10, 1920, the temperature reached 92. It registered as high as 13e in the sun in several places in the city June z. a
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
POWER INDUSTRY FACES YEAR
 OF GREAT PROGRESS; REPORTS

completed and announced by the Illinois Committee on Public Utility Information.
 The expansion of the industry in the Middle West Is expected far to exceed that of any other section of the United States, as building pro- grams in the Central West call for expenditures aggregating more than
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15
YUKON COUNCIL IN SESSION

The Yukon Council convened at Dawson June in annual session, it was adjourned from May 27 on ac- count of the inability of Councilman Robert Lowe, Speaker of the Coun- .cil, to reach Dawson, due to ths con. dition of transportation
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15

CHICAGO, June 15.--(By Asso
 caited Press. )-The sum of $602,- 143,000 represents the total of new generating plants, additions to ex- isting plants. and extension of transmission and distribution sys- tems of the electric light and power industry of this country to be built this year, according to a survey just
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-15

THAT SPARE ROOM ie . casA' asset--if you use. tho Empire cIasdl |. lied You can fsht 1t ~ desirable| tenant at . good price. thus imssn.| iay your own rent-burdsu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
AUTHORIZATION DRIVE IS PLANNED
Wet Leaders Would Banish Drunkenness By Repeating
 VoIStead Act

HARRISBURG, Dec. 7.-Banish drunkenness by repeating the Vol stead act was the program ad- vocated here Friday by a strategy board of the nations most active wet leaders, planning an anti prohibition drive in the present Congress at Washington
 Their program for liberationiza- ton of enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. disclosed by Capt. Wilr liam H. Stayton of Baltimore, calls for a return to state autonomy in prohibition enforcement.
 After the volstead act is re- of the moist tendencies to adopt legislation similar to that of Quebec, where control of the liquor traffic has virtually eliminated drunken ness. according to Stayton.
 States favoring the sale of light wines and beer would thus be, able to sell such beverages under state supervision with a guarantee as to price and quality.
 Dry statesf Stayton pointed out to his conferees. could thus become "as dry as the Sahara" if they de- sired. something quite out of the question under the Volstead act, he declared.
 At a mass meeting Friday launch ing a drive against Governor Pin chot's political aspirations, during which he was termed the national dry leader" Congressman John P. Hill, of Baltimore, noted home brewer: Congressman James M. Mead, Buffalo, and State Represen- tative David Fowler of Pennsyl- vania, wet leaders, described the inn pending campaign t0Washington for repeal of the federal enforcement act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
STATE-W|O CLUB. TQ BE ORGANIZED
Poultry Breeders To Make Show Scene Of Annual
 Meetings

Organizing new poultry club of state wide membership is to be feature of next week during the holding of the poultry show. Three of the older clubs will hold their annual meetings. All members of the National S. c. White Leghorn club are called to assemble at the show for the purpose of organizing a state association and electing of- ficers for the ensuing year.
 A. F. Rolf, secretary of the Na- tional White Leghorn club and widely known expert, will lecture on Breeding to a Standard" Tuesday night in the auditorium of the old pest office. Wednesday night sthe State Orpington club meets. There will be 8 poultry Judging school Thursday and Thursday night tho State Rhode Island Red club will meet. Friday night there will be a lecture by Albert Angell and the regular meeting of the Jefferson County Breeders association.
 Eggs are shipped by the train load every 4s hours to New York from the Pentaluma district of California. This Is cited by MT. Rolf as an eX- ample of a community which spe- cializes in standard white leghorns These eggs despite their long trip across the continent, MT. Rolf said, compare with the New Jersey eggs of the same class and sell in New York at ever S1 a dozen.
 Many entries are still coming in and the show is expected to surpass anthing held in the south, declared D. M. Ousler, secretary of the or ganization, who displayed. Friday, 300 reservations received during the morning. Alabama will be well rep resented and Louisiana also, where a poultry show has just been held in New Orleans, ending last Satur- day
 Boy Scouts will be on duty all the week of the show to give inforn1a- Mon. Prizes and IS loving cups will be given. Many out-of-town ex- hibitors will accompany their birds to the show and a nufnber of fowls will be seld on the floor.
 Officially the show will open Tues day morning at 10 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
TALK FOR SALESMEN
Dr. Pennington, Psychologist, To Be Heard at Chamber of Commerce

Qualities of successful salesman ship will be discussed by pr. Julian Pennington Houston, Texas, psy- chologist, In a lecture to Birming- ham salesmen to be given Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the audi torium of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The talk will be under the auspices of tho Travellers Protective associa- tion and will be without cost.
 As vocational psychologist, Dr. Pennington has examined thousands of salesmen, and his notes on the essentials of efficient work in this line Is expected to be of great in- terest to the city's selling corps.
 His talk will be illustrated with blackboard diagrams, outlines and charts, and questions relative to training the mind for this work will be permitted.
 pr. Pennington is in Birming gham in the interest of establishing free clinic to give vocational guidance to industrial workers and others.