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The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-09-29
MARVELLOUS MILLSITE

BEGINNING at a point for corner Mo- l, identical with location. obliterated. corner not set as it falls in center of Mccarthy Creek, whence U. s. Location Monument No. 4, hereinbefore described, bears South 30 degrees, OI minutes, Al seconds West, 937lOO feet, point for corner No. 3, said Marvellous Lode bears South IS degrees, 27 minutes, g seconds West, 579S. B feet;
 THENCE. North co degrees, 34 minu- tes from true corner, 617.OO feet East to corner Mo- 3, identical with location, and marked by fir post X inches, standing 3 feet above ground, with mound of earth and stone, marked, IN. w. Cor. Marvellous Millsite''. scribed wv. Cs 4-1OS1---B'' and "2---1OS2--B",
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[Continued from page Il.
 MARVELLOUS LODE CLAIM

BEGINNING at corner No. 1, identical with the amended location and with cor ner No. 4, Godfrey Lode, U. S. Mineral Survey 10S2-A&B, hereinbefore descr- bed, whence U. s. Location Monument No. 4, hereinbefore described bears N. 78 degrees, minutes, B seconds West, 1451.74 feet;
 THENCE, North 38 degrees, 34 minu-
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tes East, along south line of said God frey Lode, HOO feet to corner Mo- ?, iden- tical with amended location, obliterated, and with corner Mo- 3, said Godfrey Lo- de, corner not set as it falls on top of in- accessible cliff:
 THENCE. South 59 degrees, 15minu- tes East, from true corner 531.G0 feet
 to point for corner NO. 3, identical with amended location, obliterated, corner
 not set as it falls on top of inaccessible cliff
 THENCE. South 3S degrees. 34 min uteS West from true corner, HOO feet to
 point for corner No. 1. on line between corners NOS. 2and ,, Keller Lode. Sur vey NO. GIT, identical with amended To- I cation, obliterated, corner not set as it | falls in center of rock glacier and Sub- ject to obliteration therefrom:
 THENCE, North 59 degrees, I5 minu- tes West. from true corner. along north side line Keller Lode, Survey No. 611, 53l 60, feet to'corner Mo- l. the place of | | beginning, containing an area of 13.209 acres, from which area should be exclu- ded the respective areas in conflict be tween said Marvellous Lode Claim and said Bonanza Lead, Survey No. S74 and said Bonanza Lead NO. 4, Survey No. S14 as such conflicts are shown by the field notes and official plat of said Survey No. 1OS2-A x B. Variation at all corners 3C degrees, 30 minutes East.
 This claim is bounded upon the north westerly side by said Godfrey Lode and by Bonanza Lead, Survey Mo- S14, both owned by said Mother Lode Coalition Mines Company, and both overlapped by his claim, on the nOrtheasterly end by said BonanZa Lead and said Bonanza Lead NO. 1, U. S. Survey No. S74, said Bonanza Lead and said Bonanza Lead No. both being overlapped by this claim, and both owned by said Mother Lode Coalition Mines Company. upon the southeasterly side by said Bonanza Lead No. 1, which IS overlapped by this claim, and upon the southwesterlv end by said Keller Lode, Survey No. 617, and by said Bonanza Lead NO. 4.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-09-29

teS East. 353 feet to corner Eo. 3, which Is identical with location, and marked by a fir post 6 6 inches, standing 5 feet above ground, with mou d of earth marked IN. E. Cor. Marvellous Millsite' andScribed '3-- -I0SI---B, :---l082-- B. THENCE, South % degrees 34 minu- teS Vest 6l100 feet 10 corner No. 1, which is identical with location and is marked by a spruce post 6N 6 inches standing 3 feet above ground, with mo und of earth, marked, ''S F. Cor. Mar vicious Millsite" and scribed '4--1OS2--B
 THENCE. North 80 degrees. 2G mi nutes West. 353 feet to point for corner No. l, the place of beginning. containing an area of , acres. Variation at all cor nerS 30 degrees 30 minutes East.
 This claim is bounded on the north by Hero Millsite, Survey No l0Sl-B. and on the east and west sides and south end by unsurveyed government land
 Frank A. Boyle, Register.
 B. o. Graham, Attorney for Applicant,
 Nordova, Alaska. First Publication Angus, p, Ie2:. Last Publication October 27. 1923. In The Commissioners Court For The Territory of Alaska, Third Di. vision, Mccarthy Precinct, at McCar thy. In Probate.
 Nose.
 In the Matter of the Estate of XIII SUZUKI, Deceased.
 Notice to Creditors
 Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned was duly and regularly ap pointed Administrator of the estate of Kihi Suzuki, deceased. by the above entitled court on the 18th day of Sep tember, 1923, and has qualified as such Administrator.
 That the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present the same, with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the undersigned at his place of business in the Town of Me Carthy, Alaska, which place of busi ness the undersigned selects as his place for transacting all matters connected with the said estate of Kihi Suzuki, deceased; or the claims may be filed with the United States Commissioner for the Mccarthy Precinct,at his office in Mccarthy Alaska.
 Dated, Mccarthy, Alaska Sept. I g, 1923. R.L.H. Marshall, Administrator of the estate of Kihi Suzuki deceased. J.L. Reed, Valdez. Alaska. Attorney for administrator. Publish Sept.22, 29 Oct. 6,13 and 2O
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-13
CoIored Man kidnapped
and Killed bv Masked
Band of Men in Louisiana

Shreveport. La, Jan. 4.-Leslie lie.
gett, Negro OF Spaniard, was Iyncfed
either last night or early today by n
party OF men who Kidnapped him. His
body was found today in the southern
part OF the city riddled with bullets.
Legett was seized at a garage and
paced in an automobile by his rfvs
"nlte abductors and spirited away.
Po1ce Chief Bazer said complaints
had been received that Legett was as.
sociattng with white women. Police
nave been Swallowing" him but had
failed to obtain enough evidence to
warrant his arrest.
The police said Legett was a Negro,
put CHARLES Papa, white grocer for
whom he worked. and in whose house
ne roomed, said he was Spaniard.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-13
DR.. DIXON STARTLES
U. S. SCIENTISTS
Paper Read Before Natl.
Association for Advance.
ment of Science.
SOME WISH TO IGNORE 1T

Cambridge. Mass, Dec. "a I ew
method Of exploiting atoms, ana thus
transmitting or disdntegratinS ele-
ments; a new theory OF the origin
of the American Indians which puts
Negroes or negroid types among their
ancestors and the latest researchers
into mysteries Of life itself were
among the contributions which were
laid today before the American Asso.
citation for the Advancement Of
Science. which practically concluded
It's sessions.
DR.. Louis Bell told of breaking car
bon atoms up into helium by the use
of high voltages.
DIR. Roland B. Dixon of Harvard
said that study of the earliest In.
dian skulls indicated that some were
descended from blacks or negroids.
Others from primitive Australian
STOCK, others from whites resembling
the Nordics and others from Mongol
or Turkish strains. all of whom cross.
ed the Boring Straits in prehistoric
time
me most recent approaches which
nave been made to the solution of th,
rldule OF life itself, the processes By
Wnich protoplasm makes living indi-
Viduals, were described by DR.. Eo.
mund B. Wilson. d. A.. Costa Profes.
sor OF Zoology at Columbia University.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-13
INDIAN SKULLS PROVE
BLACK ANCESTRY
Excavations Under Indian
Mounds in the West
to Be Continued.
EVIDENCE is CONCLUSIVE

bias it seems as II all those students
WHO have dealt with the problem OF
the origin OF the Indian regarded
America as indeed new world, a. ex
empt from the experiences OF the old,
and as one In which the laws, the prinf
ciples and conclusions which were val.
Id there did not apply. In America We
find basket makers crania. almost Ger
tainly some thousands Of years old. to
be Enthusiastically Of one type. while
those OF later population are equally
clearly OF another. Current orthodox
opinion declares the latter to be a
mere normal variant Of the former
and without significance as proving.
any succession Of racial types. Yet
these differences are precisely the
same. both in character and degree
as those which we find between the
long barrow and round barrow crania
in England"
After looking forward to much onno
sition to mis- hypothesis, the sneake+
continued.
THE solution here offered NAV no
largely altered in details. but its fun.
damental thesis that the aboriginal
peoples OF America are not of one race
put complex of many. will feel
sure, he sustained"
'The foregoing article is cuI,ed
from the n. Y. Times account of tho.
sessions of the National Association
for the Advancement of Science
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How many were there in the
crowd?" he was asked.
ABOUT twenty, maybe twenty-five.
Ihey wore black hoods. One man point
Ell at me and said, Here's one we wan
he put gun on me, As, I think.
lhey told me to get out of my car. I
got out and they blindfolded me witt,
red bandana handkerchief. I was
then led by two men to about twentN
i've feet beyond the road and told 10
SIT down. A little while later thew
brought Andrews and sat him down
near me. recognized him by his yoica
My granddaughter, Is years old.
knew was In car behind us when we
started and heard my granddaugr.
Ter voice saying, Poor Watt, Door
watt. We sat for quite a time, and
then Andrews and were led off and
loaded In to car. Andrews was the
only man I knew had been caught I'M.
I'll l was released at Coningston."
What happened after thew put Won
and Andrews in the car?p asked the
Attorney General.
we were driven back toward Bias.
trop Tor about an hour. Then they took
us out OF the car and we were led 10
a spot in the pine woods about thirty
yards from the road. They tol4 us we
Knew VINO had tlied to assassinate d,
mcholn and tnat if we didn't tell thew
would kill u.s."
HOW many were talking to youp"
ABOUT three. / told them T didn't
Know VINO tried to assassinate McKoin
AFTER that they took my pants down
ana whipped me with leather strap.
AFTER they got through with me they
nelped me up and started on Andrews.
Ihey whipped Andrews more than thew
did me- They beat him severely.
Andrews and were mt back in
the car after we were wbipned ond
driven to Colhngston. There they took
OH the blindfold and united our wrists
and we IRE told to go home. We were
put out right behind the depot at Col.
nngston. The man who put us out at
Collingston still wore his mask
me elder Daniel said THAT the mask
Ell man nearest to him was fully sfx
feet tall. Beyond that he could give no
description OF his assailants. and had
no suspicious as to VINO the members
or the mob could have been.
MCKoIN LAUGHS AT BEREAyED
FATHER
senator Warren asked Daniel about
me shots supposed to have been fired
Mt DR.. McKoin.
told Watt was going to McKoin
ana talk to him about the shooting"
the witness replied. "a few DAYS be-
1ore watt and couple OF other young
men ran into bunch of hooded men
VINO held up some boys. Watt came
nome and told me about it. That was
Detore the shooting. I thought it was
my duty, we being fellow Masons. to
go to DR.. McKoin and talk over the
matter. He told me he was not a ka.ns
man.
DR.. McKoin sitting in the CALLER, =.
seemed to find great deal of humor
In DaniePs testimony. He laughed m
roariously when Daniel repeated their
conversation.
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mum pigentation growing lighter, the
hair straighter. the face less prognath
Gus and certain welI-recogni.ed ne.
grofd characteristics of the skull, such
as the nasal fOssae. become more and
more attenuated. until they aimoat
wholly disappear.
absurd as the suggestion appears
at first sight. believe that with fuller
archaeological material from America
and Eastern Asia. the fact OF a very
early negroid.australoid stratum Will
be fully substantiated."
The prehistoric whites came first &C
cording to this theory The prehisror
&c blacks came later and pushed tire
whites to the wall or to the outer Inn
Its Of the continent.
In North America" the speaker con
tinued, this type Is thus mainly repre-
sented among the Eskimo of tho
whole northern and northeastern mar
GIN OF the Continent of Greenland, IN
South America among the living ana
extinct tribes OF The extreme south and
southeast. or all types 1t occupies the
remotest margins. as though It were OF
all forms the oldest in the New World.
After technical description of the
skulls Of this type. the speaker conain
ued:
Its relationships lie with that group
which forms the basis of what Is com.
monty called the Nordic race. but
whose representatives in Central and
Eastern Asia lack the exceptional
blondness which marks the Baltic
branch. Lest you dismiss with incred
Unity, or worse. this suggestion tina,
what may be called Caucasic elements
are traceable in the New World. NAV I
remind you that crania indistinyuish
able from the typical Nordic reihen.
grader skulls from Germany are char.
acterlstic of the early bronze-age Kur
gans of Minusinsk on the upper yeni
sci In Central Southern Siberia: that
apparently similar dolicho-cepholic
rranla of supposedly neolithic age have
peen found in the Trans-BaikaI and
others of definitely neolithic date in
japan; that further, in the living Don
ulation or parts of China. individuals
Oh this same type apparently. with
brown hair and hazel eyes. are NOT In
frequent. '' ~
1T is my belief that this type. which
i@u lts proXimate area of dispersal in
lhe Eurasiatic steppes. spread very
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-13

mag assume that the aboriginal pop.
lation Of America at the period OF the
earliest European contact was the 70
suit OF the blending of series of dill
erent racial types coming into tn,
North American continent at diff
erent periods across Boring Straits
from Asia.
After giving a technical description,
different parts of the geographical pat
term the speaker continued:
I'm both continents thus this tyre
is clearly an ancient one, as shown
both by archaeological evidence and
geographical distribution The afciliat-
ion which is suggested for this type
Will, / know. meet with incredulity
and strong opposition, for on the basis
OF the method followed its nearest rela
tives are to be found in the negroid
and australOid populations of Nelanes.
la. Australia and portions Of Southern
Asia.
BY this do not mean to imply
however. that It means a trans-Pacific
DRIFT from Melanesia to American
shores but rather that 1t reached the
new world at an early date by way of
the eastern Asiatic coast and the Ber.
Ing Straits. While at the present day
there 10 not much superficial evidence
OF negroid and australoid peoples In
Eastern Asia. there are, I believe.
indications that peoples blended O:
them once extended all along these
shores. In neOlithic times such types
We're present I'm Cambodia and Tonkin
and some Of the wild tribes of Indo-
China still show unmistakable eviden.
es OF their survival there. For China
the data are as yet too meagre to be OF
much value. although traces of the
type seem to be found In the Ainu OF
japan, and especially Of Sakhalien the
evidence OF its persistence is unmista,x
ape; moreover, certain supposedly az,
cient crania from the AIeutian Islands
afford still another link.
HOPEFUL OF SUBSTANTIATIoN
III one follows this tyne geogronh,.
'siliy from Southern India for exam
pie' east and north along the Asian.
&c coast to the American areas i'm
which IL occurs. progressive weaken.
ing In the superficial negroid charac.
terlstlcs may be observed. the mini.
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he said that both victims had lost
great quantities of blood before death
came. DR.. Lanford agreed with DR.. Du
vail that dynamite could not have caus
ed the injuries.
10 you think it was possible 70
nave inflicted these tortures without p
specially constructed device for inflict
Ing human torture and suffering?. ar
Guion, Assistant Attorney a-GeneraI
asked.
Il do not,9 said DR.. Lanford. az can
not conceive of this thing having been
done by anything other than an instru.
ment specially constructed.
VICTIM TELLS OF WHIPPINGS
The next witness called was w. c.
Andrews, one Of the three men who
were kidnapped by the masked band
with Daniel and Richards. Andrews
was born and raised in Mer Rouge ana
is a farmer less than one mile outside
the town. He told the court of going TO
the barbecue in Bastrop on August "a
taking with him ]. T. Noteworthy, and
the two drove back along the Mer
Rouge Road,
About a mile from Bastrop," he
said, I'VE were held up. A bunch of
men with black hoods on, looked to me
like there were about fifteen or TWEEN
ty came rushing up. One held gun
to me and told me to get out and tied
my hands and walked me about fifty
feet"
did you recognize any of them?'
the Attorney General asked.
mo" replied the witness.
"They led me over beside j. l.. Dan
iels" Andrews went on. "They had him
too. We want some others, too. /
heard them say. Then they got Rich
ards and brought him over. Is that
your he said to me. told him it War
Then Daniel was brought over. He sat
down and they pulled him to his feet
Wait minute, Buddy, don't be so
fast Watt said. They took me away
I asked them what they were going tn
do with me, but they would not an.
swer. We all walked down the road and
they put me In a CARVE came back TO
Bastrop."
How did you know where you were
going, IL you were blindfolded?" asked
the Attorney General.
II could smell the odor I the pulp
MILL" Andrews replied. I'VE drove
quite ways" he continued. "the car
stopped and they asked me what ]
knew about the attempted assassinat.
ionof McKoin. told them 1 didn't
know anything about II and told them
/ was not in town that night. Then
they pulled oc my trusers and threw
me down on the ground, then
they whipped me.
The next thing l remembered they
were beating old man Daniels. I could
hear him yelling. Then they came back
to me. They told me If wouldn't tell
them about shooting at DR.. McKoin
they were going to hang me. replied
did not have anything to tell, AMI
they put me back I'm the car. They ash.
ed me IL had recognized any one of
the party, and / said I hadn't.
It's mighty good for you that you
did not they said, now go on back
home"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-13
ASSERTIONS ARE BASED ON
SKULL MEASUREMENTS.

The earliest skulls of the Irouuois
and some other Indians show strong
negroid features, continually modified
from age to age as the Iroquois extend
Ell their power and territory, taking
captfves from other tribes and absorb
ing them.
The whole theory is based on tho
minute measurements of tens of thou.
sands Of skulls. The different types OF
man in the old stone age, according to
this theory, differed very sharply in
the shape Of their skulls. The middle
type. combining the characteristics or
the long heads and the broad heads.
was probably rare in early times and
was formed by the blending of sharply
differentiated ancient types, according
to DR.. Dixon. His method was to meas
ure thousands of Indian skulls of the
present day and thousands of years
ago in the effort to trace their charac
terlStics to earlier Asiatic and Euro,,.
can stock. The formation of the nasal
Dones played a prominent part in the
inquiry
DR.. DiXn who is a scientist of high
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"A little after that talk" Daniel
continued watt came to me and told
lhe ne q been held up. DR.. McKOin.
Laurie Calhoun and another man were
in the party"
Calhoun is Deputy Sheriff of More
house Parish and went to Baltimore
after DR.. McKoin.
That was the first time Watt was
held up. Daniel said. He was then
searched and box of cartridges was
taken from him.
Judge Odom broke into the testf.
mony at this juncture to adjourn
court He announced that the hearing
would not be resumed until Tuesday.
Monday being a legal holiday.
attorney General Coco, tonight said
that he was well satisfied with the
progress made so far.
We'll get the men who wore the
Dlack Masks" said the ATTORNEY Cen
eral.
JEFF" Burnett accused with DIR
Mckoin of being one of the slayers. TO
day lay ill on his steel cot in the Parish
JAIL
THINKS TORTURE MACHINE
WAS PRESS
DR.. DuvaE after the hearing had adj
Journed. was asked his opinion as to
the machine that had been used to tor
ture Daniels and Richards.
1t was some kind of a press that
gave force from each side" he said. "It
could not have been flat on the order
or letter press, as some Of the old tor
ture instruments of the barbaric ages
were. The peculiar manner in which
the bones were broken with almost
mathematical precision showed that.
He said the torture rack could have
had shape somewhat similar to that
OF human body. 1t could have been a
large. body-shaped box, with teeth on
the inside which came in contact with
the arms, legs and chest.
The evident torture to there two
men Is beyond believing" The patpolo-
gist said. There is nothing in technical
torture to compare with It,"
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autopsy over the headless forms OF
Daniel and Richards. J. L. Daniel. tire
father, listened with his chin in his
hands.
HANDS AND FEET CHOPPED oFp
After testifying that wires were
round bound about the body OF Danie,,
loi ming crude basket, DR.. Duvall con
timed:
Il would say that the hands and
rect had been chopped or smashed of;
me bones at these extremities were
Jagged and protruding. In the body Wa
found striking injuries, especially tn
the long bones in the arms and legs
Each of the twelve bones of the arms
and legs were broken in three places
At the lower, middle and upper pa1 L.
we found that the thighs had tho
same sort of fractures at the upper,
middle and lower parts.
Ihese breaks were always three IN
NUMBER and were equi-dicta2t from,
one another. The breaks were very
striking because of the marked SINH.
arity. There is very good evidence
tiiese bones were fractured before
ueath' we found also that the bones
ol the chest were fractured in pecu.
mar manner. The chest plate was frac
lured and crushed in and from the
character of the fracture we deduced
that THE force that caused them came
from more than one direction. that
one or more forces were exerted Iron
opposite directions"
DR.. Duyall said the internal or,,p,
were easily recognized, but apparentlv
were un1nJured. Other organs wore
.ohe ana the indications were that
ment. '''i
Was the cutting done before or aft.
er death?" Attorney General Coco ask
ell. WV "''
~ was our opinion" DR.. Duyal,
said' tnat the organs were removed
peIore death. The alterations foun
could not have been done after death
mere was evidence that much bIooo
had flown" "'o''
describing the injuries about tho
neau ne said: I'VE found It to be mere
~ ioose skin and few bones. The
orS1ns were gone. The head had been
crushed by forces coming from mora
IMAM one direction, in our opinion" he
auued. The nature Of the head wouuo,
suggested crushing rather than b,ow, =,
ana probably a device was used He ey
pressed the opinion that any one of the
injuries in itself could have caused
oeath. In the removal of certain o,.
cans Tor instance, the victim would
Fave bled to death.
We're these injuries inflicted simui
taneously or at different times?o Tho
attorney General asked.
THAT would depend upon wbetb.r
ne men were tortured" was the reply
Tftured.' exclaimed the ATTORNEY
General What is your opinion on
that?"
Il believe the men were most innu
manly tortured
BONES OF VICTIMS EXHIBITED
In describing the body of Richards,