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The Nome nugget., 1926-09-18
HUNDRED KANSAS
 FAMILIES HOMELESS

Emporia. Kansas. Sept. l3. M) The worst storms in q score of years left m awful toll. Three known dead and over one hundred families are homeless who are com pelled to sleep in churches and school houses, and uncounted thou sands of live stock have perished. The three rivers Neosho, Cotton wood and Verigris have flooded a region over sixty miles long and twenty five miles wide and the high water mark has not as yet been reached. It is reported that at Bur lington, Madison, Coloma and Neo- shO Falls rescue parties arc using boats in the streets where the roofs of second story buildings still pro trude the water.
The Nome nugget., 1926-09-18
WEDNESDAY,
 tTFi fGRsPH;CN
INJl NOTION FILED TO PREVENT DEMPSEY
 TtINSES FIGHT

Indianapolis. Sept. II, (Pl The petition filed by the Chicago Coli scum Club for an injunction to pre- vent the Dempsey Tunney fight Was granted by The Superior Court, which held that the Clubs owner ship contract with he champion rn- presented Property Rights, and opincd that although the Indiana law doesn't sanction prize fights the State does recognize property rights. and that is what the Co,r' construed the contract to be.
 James A. Farabaugll the Club at lorney said. We will enter suit in Pennsylvania immediately to make the injunction operative in that state.' aud reiterated that the Fed eral constitutional provision would make Pennsylvania' recognition of the Indiana mandate compulsory
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.,TEl.SE BREAKS RECORD FROM NOME TO VALDEZ
 IN FOUR DAVIS

Cordova, Sept II, G4t Colonel James Gordon Steese president of li.e Alaska Road Commission pass ed through here this morning en- route to Juneau on the steamer Northwestern after breaking all travel records. making the trip from Nome to Valdez in four days Col. Steesc travelled from Nome to Fairbanks via airplaue in nine and one half hours and after q twenty four hours rest Col Steese Jeff Fairbanks driving his own auto mobile reaching Valdez forty eight hours later. This WAS his second record breaking trip this year. He recently travelled from Wiseman in the koyukuk section to t"rdova in less than three days
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DEMOCRATS WAKING UP

Washington. D. C.. Sept. 14. iPO Senator Simmons of North Caro- lima. and n member of the Senate Finance Committee. declared In n statement to the Democratic Ma tional Committee. that the demo crnts would demand n half billion dollar tax reduction at the next session of congress- He also charg- cd that the republicans attempted to hold off reduction to further the republican presidential aspirants in order to provide political capital. He also is quoted as saying. '.there is five hundred and sixty two mll- lion dollar surplus available for re ducing expenses In the coming ses- sion.
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sHORTAGE OF WATER
 IN KOYUkUK COUNTRY

Tanana. Sept. 13. @-Peter Dow one of the discoyerers gold on Ham, mon River and an operator on Nolan Creek, Is aboard the gasoline BcOw Emma R.. enroute to Nenana from the Koyukuk. He reported the operations of the Detroit Mining Company on Hammon river and Nolan creek were closed down for the season. and that low water, on the upper Koyukuk prevented ship- ments from Bettles. g great portion of the supplies were for the Detroit company. He says that this com pany intends to construct a ditch to carry water from the North Fork of the Koyukuk river across the timber line on the divide to Ham mond river and Nolan creek Cap tain Rowden of the Detroit com pany expects to come out soon by airplane.
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NINE STATES VOTE
 PRIMARIES TOMORROW

Washington, D. C., Sept. 13, (R On Tuesday Sept. 18th nine states will vote h the primaries for state and national officers. Senator Jones a dry candidate of Washing ton state Is opposing six candidates including Frank Hammond. wet. Senator Butler of Massachusetts is opposing Washington Cook, Mem bers of the governors council fav- Ors modification of the Volstead Act. Public ownership of railroads, oil fields and water power projects. Senator Walsh Is an outstanding democrat in his state.
 Two hundred and fifty thousand persons qualified their vote as de mocrats In the Louisiana primary on Senator Broussard wet against J. Saunders . former dry governor.
 Senator Means, directing head of the Colorado Klan Is opposing Clar- ence c. Hamlin the republican ma tional committeeman. and leader of the anti-Klan group Senator Phipps.
 The New York campaign Is cent cred on prohibition. Senator Wads- worth Is seeking renomination. Senator Dale of Vermont sought re- nomination. Senator Weller of Maryland ia onnOaInp John phIIlin Hill of Michigan. The nominating of candidates for representatives fin South Carolina will be run of in this election. Senator Ellison Smith who is opposed by Colonel Edgar A. Brown. speaker of the state. For house of representatives nei- ther side received majOrItfes In the previous primaries.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To R E. Biistow. F. NJ Andersen
 s. Y. Andersen. T. J. Andersen
 R J. Nugent, II. C Edsingtor
 Fred W. Dnshloy, your I ITS. exc
 cutors. administrators and as
 signs.
 Yuu are hereby notified that th' undersigned has expended the sun of One Hundred Dollars in repro senting the Byror Association Placer Mining Claim situated between Rock and LuGnioom Creeks. il Cape Nome precincts Lo, a'ioa Ger tificate recorded ia Vol. l-G pnge ii5. in the Cape Nome Recording District Second Division. Territory of Alaska. during and for each of the years for annual expenditure on placer ring claims as required by law. from the year bcgi:nir.. Jan nary 1st, 1915 to and including the year ending July 1. 1914. except for the three years In sa.1 interval when tue requirement for expendl- ure wns suspended by Act of Con- gress
 And you and each of you, are notified that If you do nat pay your nrcportiouatc share of such expend- iture. to the undersigned at NOme. Alaska, within 90 days next follow ing the ntnety-dny period of publi- cation of this notlca. the interest of each. of you in and to the said claim will forfeit and he and be- come the property of he under signed. ET JZ pETrr JoIJ.yEEE c,.ovusr
 Publish July 3. 10. IT. 24. 3f. Aug. 2. II. 21. 2s. Sept. 1, II. IS. 25, 1926.
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MAINE ELECTION RETURNS

Portland, Maine. Sept II. PJ- The reelection nf Governor Brew ster republican, Is assured. Re- turns from five thirty three pre- cincts out of six thirty three pre- cincts gave Brewster eighty nine twenty seven votes Ernest L. Me Lean democrat. for governor. re ceived sixty eight seventy one votes Bcedy. Wallace II. White. John F.. Nelson. Ira C. IIersey all republi- cans were reelected. they had leads over the democrats ranging from seven thousand four hundred to ten thousand three hundred
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CONFESAES SHE FAXED
 SEASIDE COTTAGE STORY

Los Angeles. Sept. 13. F-An Examiner copyright story just pub lished said that Mrs. L. w. Seilaff, an eighteen dollar per week seam stress. confessed that she faked the story about her sharing seaside cottage at Carmel with her sister, the Miss x" and OrmistOn for five thousand dollars which she was supposed to have received from Aimee. She said she had received one hundred and fifty dollars as ex- pense money. The confession cli- maxed at a meeting between Seilan and the twin sister Mrs Virla Kim ball of Oakland. who was said to have requested the confession. They met at the newspaper office where Seilaf was taken from the county jail, having been arrested last Saturday charged with issuing worthless checks.
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MINISTER FINDS EDITORS
 CHAIR Is HARD TO FILL.

Yakima. Wash, N') No one can run the other fellows job aa well Is his own. though he may, until he has tried it be fully convinced lhat he is able to do SD, said Rev. D. w. Ferry here after Il week as edtor protcm of the Yakima naiiy Republic.
 The Presbyterian minister took the p"aiti0n after il series nf argu- ments with the editor. Col. W. W. Robertson. about the Republics editorial policy especially in regard to the prohibition law and its en- forcement.
 'Lots of persons think they eonld run newspapers and write editorials without the least difficulty, said MT. Ferry. "I wish they could all try il once. It would develop q fine spirit of tolerance, thongh after the experience they might not survive long enough to eXemplify it, If have to retire from the ministry certainly am not going to try to find any rest ill the editorial chair It isn't there.'
 Ferry said that he had learned that preaching every Sunday is not hing like the strain of filling editor- ial columns day by day. "The de- mnnds of newspaper space and time are so relentless that I could not stand up under them long"
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MONDAY
 t;e. .e~sr'nr,
URGES COOLIDGE TO PROMPTLY REPLACE
 ALASKA OFFICIALS

Washington. D. C.. Sept. Is. (R) Basil M. Manley, Director of the New York Peoples Legislative Ser vice. made public . telegram urg- ing President Coolidge to promptly replace Judge T. M. Reed and Dis trict Attorney ShOup of the First Division. and also Judge Ritchie of the Third Division of Alaska. Man ley stated that the telegram was sent at the request of reputable re- publicans in Alaska, who complain ed of "intolerable conditions" exist ing there due to the failure of re- placing these officials after they failed to be confirmed for renomi- nation.
 Manley did not name the republi- cans who urged the removal but declared that Justice Stone while Attorney General. recommended "a clean up and declared they should not be reappointed.
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NEARLY 200 NATIVES DIE OF INFLUENZA
 IN ARCTIC REGIONS

Vancouver. E. C., Sept. 13. R)- Captain Karl Klinkenberg of the trading schooner Old Maid No. 2. arrived here and reported that one hundred men and women in the Herschell Island region and thirty five adults of Coronation Gulf sec tion died of influenza during the past year. At another post thirteen natives were reduced to skin and bones and many others ill The Old Maid brought one hundred thousand dollars worth of furs. but klinckenberg says that the win ter's fur catch was not good. owing to the illness of the natives. Tho vessel arrived at Hersclell Island six days earlier than any other out side vessel and returned herc three months after she dcplrted on her long .'ourrey.
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CHARGES AIMEE
 ASSISTED PLOT

Los Angeles. Sept. 15. H)-Bcr- nice Morris. secretary to the late R A. Mckinley the blind Long Beach attorney. charged that Aimee Me Pherson assisted in the plot to pro duce mythical abductors in the De sert Shack kidnapping which she claims she can substantiate Tho Kidnapping story. Aimee declared it to he "absurd, untrue and evi- dently n giant conspiracy"
 Bernice Morris made an admis sion at midnight conference. when she asserted that Aimee supplies the suggestion that she was assist ed here. and in a statement said "Aimee identified photographs and heard voice of man she never had seen as one of her kidnappers." La ter she verified the incident of captiy ity which never happened. this was related to her to test her sincerity per, the assertions that she wanted to find the kidnapper. I know the mans voice. she identified had not hing to do with the case, my en- ployer produced him to see what Aimee wanted when negotiations were. Hegun for locating the kid nappers.
 Los Angeles. Sept. 15. M1-sIe- Ian announced that he would sub init all evidence he has In the Al
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cincts gave Charles Waterman thir- ty five five thirty two votes; Sen ator Rice Means received nineteen two nineteen; George A. Lukford eleven three fifty two. Mortimer nine seventy five for the Senatorial nomination For the nomination former governor Shoup received thirty five one eighty five: John F. Vivian twenty three eight fifty nine: Carl ;. Milliken nine four sixty For the senatorial nomination
 even ninety five precincts gave
 Paul PTosser eleven one fifty nine;
 Former Governor Sweet received twelve seven zero seven; Frank ]
 Hayes four thousand eight W. II
 Adams won the democratic contest 'or governor with twenty one zero sixty three votes against six six
 tightly eight, east ror Judge Sam uel Johnson.
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TUESDAY tTElE oRAPhtCl
Y YEsTERDAY'A
 BASEBALL
a(ORES

At Brooklyn-Cincinnati threat sned to run away with the game ia the first inning when they had all bases full but failed to net any runs, because the Robins supported Pitcher Grimea with faultless field ing. The Reds scored one fin the third and fourth and two in the eighth. Scores for three games are: Cincinnati four. five nothing. Brooklyn aothing. four one. Bat taries Rixey and Hargrave; Grimes Aud Hargrave.
 New York-The Giants hit four Pittsburg pitchers hard for two runs In the first inning. three runs In the fifth. three more in the sev- enth and one in the eighth. The Pi- rates rallied In the eighth inning for three runs. Scores for three games are; Pittsburgh five. nine one. New York nine. eleven. one Batteries Morrison. Koupal. Yde and Smith. Rinh, Davies and Me Mullen and Florence.
 National League-Chicag0 2 Philadelphia one. American Lea. |kue--P Philadelphia 3. Chicago o New York. ,. Detroit 1. Washing ton :, Cleveland (.
 At BOstOn-St. Louis and Bos- top battled for fourteen innings with Boston getting the extra run St. Louis took an early lead with |twa In. the first and fourth. Scorei for three games are; St. Louis four eleven, one. Boston i've. twelve two. < Batteriea sherdel. Alexander and O'Farrell. Weretz. Benton and J. Tayior.
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CONVICT CONFRssEs TOOK
 PART DOUBLE MURDER

Joliet. Illinois. Sept. 13y RD- Henry Nelson. . convict h. the Aev state prisop. cosfssssA that hs took part in . Aoshis murdsf at New Brunswick. September aftesnth. is- 23. the day befors tbs bodiss pf Asv. Edward Hail sad Mrs. James MllIs. were. found. The 7eonvict atated that he drove tho automobile with the other two men who killed the. man and woman at New Brunswlck.
 ! MeIsoAs vsa ssntenceA fron on1 70 tvsaty Sysary soa : ;bursiary cAarSs. sald hsAwas given three hundrsA doo- lars to drive the car but that the other men dia Ahs kiillag.g wapdb4 Green explaineA that all nsvspapefs ssxatlahDa tQ eonylcts were ,capsQred for crime news which was taken from them, and says that Nelson
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GILMORE RAZED BY
 KETCHIKAN PAPER

Ketchikan. Sept II. tP, The daily Chronicle said that P. r. Gil more who is urging President Coo lidge to appoint men immediately to replace Reed, Ritchic and Shoup on the grounds that conditions are steadily getting worse. states that he is a dlsgruntlcd office seeker and a former saloon keeper and has moi done days work since prohibition except for short time when he was employed as q policeman and was later discharged He even had his saloon license revoked in the wet days because of the had char acter of the place. his being the on ly license eyer revoked in Ketchi- kan. The Chronicle further says he is not Committeeman except by virtue of appointment thru John Frame. the bogus National Commit teeman, who was never recognized by the National Committed.
The Nome nugget., 1926-09-18
REPORTS ON YUKON
 MEDICAL CONDITIONS

Tanana, Sept II, tPl Doctor Curtis Welch who had charge of the Medical Supply boat Martha An geline on the Yukon river, the pass summer. reported having attended over one hundred and fifty cases. mostly tuberculosis. eczema. rheu- malism and pulling teeth. from stevens Village Il thousand miles to the mouth of the Yukon River
 Many of the Yukon indians are tubercular, which Is aggravated by their unsanitary living conditions.
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SALMON ONCE IN
 TRAP BECOMES
 PRIVATE PROPERTY

Ketchikan. Sept. 10, tPt Walter McCarl and Val Klcnn were cunvic- ted here yesterday of fish piracy. It is the first ease of is kind to he tried in Alaska. They were con victed of stealing forty five hun drcd salmon from the trap of the Pure Food Company. The court ruled that salmon once in the trap becomes private property. District attorney Shoup said, "the verdict shows that the people are going to do everything possible to protect the property of thoae engaped in the fishing industry.
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DEATH PENALTY ITALY
 MAY BE REVISED

Rome. Sept. II. M, The death penalty of Italy may be revised he cause of the attempts "f assassina ton made on the life of Premier Mussulin. some of the Fascist be putics requested parliament to dis russ the measure, bnl Muasolini said hr believed lie would di" q natural death. because. his star oi destiny protects him.
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Oakland. Sept. 13. R)-Due to the fact that laggard justice with held its smiles for thirty years from Captain Edward Andrews and Sophie A. Sutherland, two of the winners In the Bering Sea sealing claims against the government. now neither can be found. Both gave their address on their claims. but years have passed and they ap- parently have drifted into obscurity with ten thousand dollar check awaiting them.
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RORBERs sEIZE POUCH
 CONTAINING Se1a7, 900

Chicago. Sept. 1a. Robbers seized a mail pouch containing, one hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars. the payroll fors thres nrms. from a train bound for Harvey suburb of Chicago. The two rob bers left the train before 1t stopped and ran to . third man who was waiting iu an automobile, and no trace of them has been found.
The Nome nugget., 1926-09-18
AsUssOLINI Is READY .,CONRRONT ANY RISK

Rome. Sept. 1s. H9-Premier Musso1irti told the Associated Press carrespQ4dept to ''tell Americans 4thst leslkfs Sf America that nsithes thtats II szDnhE nor any other iastruments of death can make tin Aesist from his course 2 "Msssoiinf fuFthsr ssid," that thia third attempt asainat ne ls but like otksrs. they dId A0t disturb mo 'in the slishtest. ! consider myself
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could not gain the information of the Hall-Mllls slaying from the newspapers because he had no visi- tors.
 The San FranciscO police records here showed that Nelson was ar rested August second 1929, charg- ed with passing bad checks and was in jail awaiting trial time for the New Brunswick killings.
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KHAN SOU NDS BATTLE
 CRY OFFENSIVE

Washington. Sept. l5. 11 I'm perial Wizard Evans of tlte Klu klux Klan. sounded the battle cry for an immediate offensive against "Etomanism. Alicnism. Bolsheyism. and anti Ameriransm of all kinds" at the third Bic lninl convcnti ion al which delegates from every stale as well as Alaska and Pan American attended.
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ROBBERS HOLDUP
 RECEIPTS NINE STORES

Seattle. Sept. Ia. (R-Two arm ed meR held up two Piggly Wiggly collectors carrying the receipts of nine stores. They, obtained twelve hundred of the .Piggly Wigglys money, hundred and fifty the per sonal funds of. the collectors and fifty dollars from . man. iR tAe store who was trying to sell cheese to the Piggly Wiggly. The vabbsrs escaped In the collectors automo- bile.
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NAVY PLANES LEFT
 KETCHIKAN YESTERDAY

Ketchikan, Sept II, P) Three United States Navy airplanes pro- ceeded south from here yesterday after mapping the coast line of southeastern Alaska and are due to arrive at Bremerton, Washington, today. The Naval tender Gannett of the expedition departed today
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Washington. D. C., Sept. IA. (H1 The Navy Department received message confirming the reported firing on American detroyers Ste wart and Pope in Chinese waters September fifth and the bombard- ing of an American steamer the day before.
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Seattle. Sept. h, GPi 10e1 pre-
 3incts out of 2ls5 precincts for i'nited States Senator gave fe- pubicans as follows Wesley L..
 Innes q dry candidate, received H.251; Frank Hammond alsn wet.
 l2.sGi; Austin F Gfiffith- q dry. t9i74 votes. Leroy Henry 2g6l
 Democratic candidates for tho game
 ,tlice as follows; A. Scott Bullit re-
 eived eleven zero fou Cleveland
 .onEsir"ot four lifly- Helurns
 rom three hundred and twenty completed precincts of Gn2 pre- cinets gave for conrressmau iit Third District republicans as fol lows; Albert Johnson incumbent, ton D. T.onez thirteen three 2e.'a five. Early returns gave Ion"z ihe lead For con@rpaSman for the First Disttiri out of 2u5 precincts gave .I"hu F. Miller T dry candid ate. and present inrumha nj l shs ! votes. lame4 Alcrabt Wei "1a5 votes: IT. Alvin Moore alsn 8 dry candidate. received ii29 votes Alp parcutly thr winners of two siu- prrme Court acnta ar" Waiter VI. French who received 2S. idu- voteF ipainst Q l lIolcomh q, present incumbent Wh" rrcrScd f3.1p6 votes; and j, {" Bridges anoi her incumbent, vito received 2SsoIi against three opponents Winners for the state House of Representa-
 ives ont of ninety seven gave % Hartley men, 1% Hartley opponents and three doubtful or the twenty republican holdovrrs in the Scnal" put nf forty two seats there arc Pro Hartley l5, antillartlcv one Doubtful of twelve seats nominated, one Hartley, min" uppouonis, of which two are doubtful
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WEALTHY FATHER LEAVES
 EIGHT SONS sS.0o

Seattle. Sept. sl. @-Charles W. Peabody pioneer shipping man. whQ died August 18th. be- queathed virtually 3 his. entire for tune of a seven hundred and Afty thousand dollar estate to his widow, and left eight sons Ave dollars each.
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Montpelier, Vermont. Sept l5. Pl Former Judge John w. Weeks was chosen ns thc republi can candidate for Governor by al- most as many votes as the cnmbin ed vote of his two opponents. De mocratic nominee Herbert C, Cum mins was unopposcd for Congress- man. Elberts $. BriEam republi- can was rcnomiratcd for United States Senator over Porter II. Dale I republican, James F Kennedy | democrat wag unoppogod for U. $. Senator.
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Washington. Sept. la. (Fi--Man- ley later declared that P. r. GIL more the Committeeman tor the first division. said. "conditions are steadily growing worse on account of Reed, Ritchie and ahoup stll! re- maining in oilice."
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MANY MORE BRITISH WOMEN

London. Qp--The lat,st Resis- trar- Generals report shows t'iere were nearly 100000 more wo- men than men in England.
 The review says that in June of I1924 the population of England and Wales was estimated at ss,- 7s4.000 persons. ls.546.000 being males and 2O.e01.OO0 females.
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DAN l'TIlEItl.AND
 IS IN FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks. Sept. II, H') Dan Sutherland opened his campaign here last night and addressed a full house at the Empress Theatre and was the first public appearance ol Alaska's delegate this year.
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Mw orleans Sept l5, (H1- United states Senator Edwin l,rous
 tard led Jared Sanders the former governor, nine forty eight precinct pnt of l313 gave Groussard seven " six three eighty eight votes. San ;iers received seventy two one forty ,wo. Representative Zach Sl ear
 ne was the only democrats o. posed he had fifteen one f r'V rine votes; Van nurcn Burris F 'oivei
 'rven two fifty: k. SteaInt one three ninety five: Mrs. F |. Wi Hams six seventy five. Rrurcseata- lives renominated without prv con tests were James O Connor. " P Martin. ]. x. Sandlin. K ]. Wilson Bolivar Kemp. Iadislas Lazard. and ]. F. Aswell. The only one in the republican primary was Dertlinf who led Marder hv three hundred and thirty seven votes in l2 ont of 1i3 precincts for representative
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Boston, Sept, 15. H'l The pre- sent rongrcssmrn were renominat ed on the republican state ticket The attorney general nomination went to District Attorney Arthur K Leading of Middlcscx county. who Won by fifteen thousand votes oyer Elijah Adlow of Boston. John F. Swift won the democratic nomina ton over Harold Williams Jr by twenty thousand votes. William J Thomas C. O'Bricn for the demo nraiis ronomination.
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a soldier who has special orders and am ready to confront any risk that my duties impose upon me in my task of working for inc well being of the Italian people.