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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

Miss DeEsta Cook, supervisor of
primary work in the schools, has
gone to Berkeley to spend the sum-
mer.
o. M. Ross and family have re-
turned to Douglas after an absence
Of over a year.
H. A. Tobelman, chief chemist
for the G. & A., left last night with
his family for a vacation visit to
New York.
Mr.. Stuppi, father of Joe and
John Stuppi, left yesterday for
Sonora where he has valuable min
ing and agricultural property,
In Tombstone last evening the
engagement was announced OF
Frank Demarest, oi Douglas, and
Miss Lillian Buck, one OF the
teachers at the county seat.
Long distance telephone connec-
ton to Ell Paso over the lines of
the Tri-State company was opened
yesterday, with appropriate cere-
monies. In the absence of Mayor
Mcguire, Ed Grindel did the hon
orS for Douglas.
Arturo Lopez, Who was sentenced
to serve eight years in the federal
prison at Hermosillo, was shot
while trying to escape" according
to reports here.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
STORM DEAD IN
KENTUCKY ADDS
THREE TO TOTAL

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 81. (H9-
Three deaths reported today in
creased to 13 the known dead in the
cloudburst and storms in the Ken
lucky mountains Sunday night and
Monday.
Three each in Tennessee and Vir-
ginia made the total 10. Several also
were reported missing in Kentucky.
Dr. IT. B. Bailey, whose mother,
wife and son were drowned Sunday
night as they fled from their home,
died today of shock and injuries.
The Burton, KY, Jail, on the left
fork Of Beaver creek, was washed
away and it's two prisoners said to
have drowned. Many other towns
along Beaver creek we're cut off from
outside communication and extent of
damage could not be learned
Two additional deaths in Fleming
county were confirmed late today with
recovery of the bodies of Patton
Jones, So years DID, and his grandson,
Arthur Jones, IT, on Big Town creek,
20 miles below Fleming.
Jones had carried his wife and two
children to safety and had returned
for his grandson when their home
collapsed
Train service on the McRoberts
division of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad has been discontinued.
Reports of heavy damage to tracks,
due to washouts and slides were only
partly confirmed at the general Of
fices here.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
More Truth Than Poetry
Rv JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
BY JAMES
TO A GOLD FISH

Upon the receipt of cheering news
Full often, with heavy heart
Though cheerily gave you greetlng
I've thought how soon we two must
part
And mourned that life should be
so fleeting;
I've never bought gold fish yet,
And brought it home to love and
cherish,
Which, shortly after we had met,
Did not incontinently perish.
I felt, the while you dashed about
The crystalline, transparent water,
That ere a brief six months were out
That shimmering form would reel
and totter-
That soon your tether you would slip
The slender thread of life would
sever
And bring a fond companionship
To it's distressing end forever.
But goldfish now are given food
Ct Gull this from a journals pageS)
Which adds to their longevitude
And makes them live to green old
ages;
Instead of parting it is found,
They grow each day more brisk and
stronger
And very often stick around
For twenty years, and even longer.
So when the frost is on my brow,
When with the years my eyes are
dimming
I'll gaze on you, as I do now
Around your clear container Swimm-
ing;
And life, that seemed a heavy load,
Will have the lightness of a feather
While you and I, along the road
Go on and on and on together!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
WOMAN, SENTENCED FOR
THEFT OF AUTO, WEEPS

TUCSON, May 81 R)-AIrs. Eva
Dugan, convicted of the theft of ala
automobile belonging to A, ]. Mathis,
aged rancher, last Friday, today
broke down and wept when sem
fenced to serve a term OF from three
TO six years.
Mrs. Dugan was brought back here
from White Plains, n. Y, to tacc
the theft charge. The whereabouts
CT Mathis who mysteriously disap-
peared last January has never been
tolved. At her trial Mrs. Dugan
testified that she was the "rouse-
keeper and common law wife" or
Mathis.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

crystalize a strong sentiment against
prohibition.
Thus reasons the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
the countrys principal wet organiza-
ton, which says it has more than
100000 members.
Nobody, according to National Sec
retary G.. G. Hinckley, is more anxi-
GUS to see the Volstead act enforced
than the association. If that happy
day comes, the. association expects a
tremendous increase in membership
and sufficient dissatisfaction to bring
about an upheaVal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

This story about the associations
hopes and activities incidentally, is
designed to inform all real vets and
to put the drys on their guard.
A great many people think the as
sociation can hope for as much sue
cess as a league to abolish private
kissing, but it's officers claim to be
riding on top of a rising tide, de-
spite the apathy of the average man
who can get a drink when he wants
it. It may be recalled that the Anti
Saloon league had a long, uphill
fight against the fact that a man
who didn't want a drink didn't have
to swallow it, but the league won
out against that handicap and the
association now hopes to be equally
successful in overcoming its own OBJ
StacleS.
THE RAY of hope that shines
/ through the clouds upon the as
sociation is the possibility that bus
mess and industrial leaders, who OBJ
tanned the passage of prohibition
laws in cooperation with the churches
and other interests, are beginning to
become disgusted with prohibitions
effects. Officers of the association
declare that those big fellows actual
ly are beginning to tumble off the
dromedary's back.
Scores of business and professional
men, of course, already are members
of the organization, Only few are
W. w. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania,
Lamont and Pierre S. du Pont, Mar
shall Field, August Heckscher, Pres
ident E. r. Johnson of the Victor
Talking Machine company; George
T. Marye, President Charles S. Sa-
bin, of the Guaranty Trust company,
and Henry B. Stetson, the hat man
ufacturer.
obviously, sentiment is becoming
stronger every day for a change in
the Volstead act," says Hinckley. 1--WE
can't tell when the big break will
come, but it is on the way"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Literary AnecdOte


There was nothing that James Whit
comb Riley liked better than cup of
weak tea. Once when he and Edgar
Wilson (BilD Nye we're eating chocolate
soldiers after an arduous siege of lee
turing, the talk turned to fame.
"The keystone OF every famous au-
thor's glory is one character" said Nye.
Shakespeare achieved fame through
inventing the character of Falstaff.
Dickens is deservedly well known for
his Samuel Weller. Thackeray created
Becky Sharp. Now then, Mr.. Riley,
from what character of your invention
did you obtain your reputation?"
II got it Orphan Annie" answered
Riley, who had not had more than
three cups of diluted tea since dinner
time. Akron Beacon Journal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Abe Martin

Protectin' Americans should be-
gin at home instead o. Shanghai!
Why does feller allus feel in his
vest pocket fer a cigar while hes
beggin' one when he knows ne
haint got none?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
SMITH HEADS P. 0. CLERKS

TUCSON, May 81 (P-Glen Smith,
of Miami, was elected president OF
the National Association of Post
office Clerks for Arizona at the
closing session OF the annual corr
Vention here yesterday Albert j.
Abbott, of Nogales, was elected vice
president and Hermann Won Colbitz,
of Tucson, secretary treasurer. The
convention adjourned late yesterday
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
ANTITRUST LAW VOID

WASHINGTON, May 81 lP-The
Colorado antitrust law was declared
void and unconstitutional by the su-
preme court today in an appear
brought by the district attorney OF
Denver III proceedings against the
Frink and other dairy companies.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

'They are both above medium height,
but she is the talker of the two."-
Weekly Paper.
The lady in the case generally is.
Humorist (London).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
fRSARRE0
HAIL. THE EQUATION,

A superintendent equation to de-
fine laws of motion is on the verge
of being worked out, says scientist.
But we have a feeling that it won't
be a bit of help to the lady who
strips her gears. Jiggle an atom
here, the law states, and every other
atom in the universe somehow jiggles
in response. In other words, the
Black Bottom, done with sufficient
stamping on the second floor, will
chase the sleep particles clear off
the first floor and may result in
shocks on the stairs. :. . Stub your
toe and Mars feels it, according to
this equation. Yes, and no doubt
hears about it, as well.
Never cross bridge partner
before all the blunt instruments
are removed from sight.
Now that Lindbergh's across o. X,
about the only form of free entertain
ment left is our murder trials.
America is country where
either the state department, the
senate, JIle WedCIleI VI Vic AAe0A
ket as usually wrong, but the peo-
pie always right.
= -
The chances against four perfect
simultaneous bridge hands are 2,OOO,-
600 900, 900 ,OOO,0OO,O0O to /. That's
why perfect bridge hands are good
stories every day in the week.
America is safe, the navy's
mimic war on the coast proved.
Now we can step out and buy
! straw hat.
#
An opponent Of vaccine offers to
let any mad dog bite him. Now, II
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc0
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

A contemporary says it is impossible
for Signor Mussolini to be in London
and in Italy at the same time. We
should never have dared to say that.
Punch
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Narrow Escape

NaTTUW LSCdpU
Pett Ridge tells of a junior clerk who
approached the head of firm which
was doing none to well, with a view
to a raise in salary.
Certainly not" was the reply "and
let me warn you, young man, if you're
not jolly careful I'll make you part
ner!"-London Opinion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Yes. Yirginia. There Is AM Elmer

Yes, Virginia, There Is an EIIner
From the Bay City Times Tribune:
Elmer Gantry, 1914 Trumbull street,
reported to the police that headlight
was stolen from his automobile while
it was parked at the rear of his house,
Wednesday," Spokane Spokesman-Re-
view.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
PIucked From the Plains
HOWDY DO
Rv BOh Flood

by 6OD rlOOu
If fellow meets you smiling
With a friendly howdy do,
It's just form of greeting,
He's not a quest'ning you.
So don't come back with an answer
That your stomach's workin' bad,
Or your rheumatic is awful
Or all the things you've had.
For the fellows spreadin' shunshine
And it's strictly up to you
To return his friendly greetin'
With pleasant howdy do.
And I swear you'll feel lots better
Not withstandin' the friend wife,
If you add, although YOU'RE lying,
Never better in my life.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

LETTERI=:NS' ERI=:
PIX @8
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

XVTASHINGTON-The main prop of
w prohibition is the fact that it is
so easy for citizen to buy drink.
This being the case, it is hard to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

Traffic Cop:-A large forceful per-
son of few words, but often.-Detroit
News.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
The Advance of Science

The Advance OF Sclence
A lot of lis can remember when nitro
glycerine was the strongest liquid
known to man.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
AS Produced

Theatrical Manager That's the first
act. How dyou like it?
Playwright: Fine-who wrote it?
Manager You did.-Weekly Tele-
graph Nondon).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Small Matter

Small Matter
Paris divorces are said to be good
for few years only. But by that time
their grantees will want new ones,
anyway
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

She: Well, my dear if you don't dance
don't drink and don't smoke, you can't
be having much fun.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01
Using Its Drag

Vesuvius must have secured the
Duce's permission to pull off that little
eruption.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

Now that Lindberghs across O. K,
about the only form of free entertain
ment left is our murder trials.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

He; Oh, yes-I'm looking at you.
lie Rire (ParisJ.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

Harry Mills, who used to direct the
Silver Cornet Band of this town, is
applying to the State board for a
pardon. ."-Mercyvill Qowa) Banner
If it's up to us, we vote mo" unan-
imously. York Evening Post.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

Don't you understand" said the
tired mother cricket to her joyful last
born, that nowayads legs are made
to be seen and not d?"-Collier's
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

Never cross bridge partner
before all the blunt instruments
are removed from sight.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

America is safe, the navy's
mimic war on the coast proved.
Now we can step out and buy
straw hat.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-01

An opponent of vaccine offers tt
let any mad dog bite him. Now, il
he'd just 49,.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, 1nco
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01

Association Placer of thia Survey. No. 1927. On the East the Ellen Claim. Survey No. 1923 and Alpha Group No. 1923 on the South. Burkes Association Survey No. 512 on the West unsurveyed.
 The notice of location of said placer mining claims gro recorded in the of1ce of the Recorder of the said Cape Nome Mining and Record ing District and Precinct, as fol- lows:
 Albany Association and Buford Association Placers. Volume 208, Page 124, and Channel Association and Quicksand Association Placer Mines in Volume 208. Page 138. The mineral monument to which this survey is tied is located and described as follows:
 U.S.L.M. No. 5l2 is a lime stone IF inches above ground, marked U.S.L.M. 5l3, located on high ground about 2100 feet North of the Shore of Boring Sea and about one-half mile South of Snake River and about hve miles westerly from the Town of Nome in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording Dis- trtct and Precinct, Territory of AL aska. and is In latitude e4 degrees 31 minutes N: longitude le6 deg. rees B minutes W,
 ELMER REED
 Register Publish-Aus. 20, 27, Sept 3, 10. IT. 2l. Oct. l, 8, Is, 1897.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FONCK SAYS REGULAR MAIL
 AND PASSENGER SERVICE
 '. g. 10 EUROPE NEXT YEAR

New York. Sept 30, B-Regular passenger and mail service by air between America and the European countries will be routine reality next spring if the plans of Captain Rene Fonck materialize. The great French ace says he has unlimited financial backing in both this coun- try and France for the project. He plans to put six planes into com mercial cross-seas service. He would obtain added revenue from mail contracts for which he is now ne gotiating with the American Gov ernment. The planes would fly be- tween New York and Paris follow ing the southerly route with stops at Azores. and northerly route with stops at Newfoundland and Ireland.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
DEMPSEY DENIES TUNNEY'S
 CLAIM ABOUT INSTRUCTIONS

New York. Sept. 2s. P)-Demp- sey came out with a flat denial of Tunney's claim regarding final in- structions from Referee Barry in the Chicago championship bout. He said; "I received no warning or in structions about retreating to the neutral corner in the event of a knockdown feel that lost the decision through the fault of the referee who was not favorable to me. I knocked Tunney out and can do it again. I want another match with him and I'm going to do my best 10 get it."
 Dempsey told the newspapermen repeatedly that he would make no protest of any kind but that his manager Flynn would have state ment ready soon that would throw a new angle on the last minute de velopments before the fighters en- tered the ring.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FRIDAY (TGlE6NAehtc)
SALMON CATCH REDUCED
 FIFTY PER CENT 1922

Washington. Sept. 3O.lP)-For reasons which are as yet mystery to both the fishing industry and to the Government experts. the salmon catch on the Pacific Coast this year ha. been reduced fifty per cent from the normal catch, according to Henry O'Malley. Commissioner of Fisheries for the district which in- cludes Alaska. He estimates that the Alaska catch has been cut to three and a half million cases and on Puget Sound it has been reduced to six hundred seventy-ive thous- and cases, about half of last years catch in both instances. In Brit ish Columbia the catch amounted to three hundred seventy-five thous- and cases. about half of last years catch.
 MT. O'Malley said: We are en- tirely at a loss to know why the salmon failed to put in their ap- pearance on the fishing grounds this year. The pink salmon variety which is a Ash which lives through a two-year cycle in salt water. were plentiful on the spawning beds in 1925. which should have brought the schools back 10 the fresh water streams in Alaska and on the Sound this year. but for some unknown reason the fish have been killed off or for some other reason failed to appear. All sorts ot stories have been circulated to account for the disappearance of the fish. Among these stories is one attributing the death of the fish at sea to a sub marine earthquake, but we have no record of that.
 Government regulations which have been adopted in Alaska in re- cent years for the protection of the fisheries have nothing to do with the matter. In spite of the disap- pearance of the fish this year. there is every reason to presume that the salmon in 1928 and later years, will continue to make their appearance on the fishing grounds at the out set of the spawning season."
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
VETS AND DRYS LINING
 UP IN CONGRESS ALREADY

Washington. Sept. 29, R-The Vets and Drys are already lining up for the start of the annual war
 fare in Congress. Neither side made any progress in the way of legislation at the last session. but The Drys are hopeful of getting through some administration pro- posals in the old Con Bill for the tightening up of the Volstead Act. Congressional Drys have pre- ponderance of the votes in both chambers. The Vets say there is no parliamentary method by which they can delay the decision as the first session will continue five or six months, probably until just be- fore the Republican National Con- vention next June. However. pro- ponents of additional Dry legisla tion incline to the view now that with the Presidential Campaign in the offing party leaders will not look with any great favor on the enactment of more stringent pro- visions to the law. which the Vets. charge it is impossible to enforce.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
THURSDAY
 tTElECRAPHIc)
QuADRUPLE SHAVING
 AT ELLENSBCRG WASH.

lrc1sburg. Wash. Sep: 29. .4', A quadruple staying, with a pos sible suicide pact angle, stirred the little coal mining town of Roslyn. when William German, fifty years of age, and for twenty years a coal miner, shot his wife and two children, Irene, thirteen years old. and Billy. eleven years old. drown ed the family dog in washtub and then poisoned himself.
 The tragedy was discovered when a letter containing five hundred dollars for funeral ex- psnses and revealing the staying pans was received by Dan McKean an engineer of the mine.
 The coroner and the sheriff in vestigated and found German g wifes body in the car in their gar age and the children in their beds. The wife's wrists had been slashed to make death doubly certain.
 No motive for the staying has yet been found but the letter hint ed that the crime had been plan ned by both German and his wife.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
BODY OF MAN FOL NJ,
 FLOATING IN THE SEA

H arbor Grace. N. F.. Sept 30. (E)
 It was reported here that the body of man with a helmet on the head, similar to those worn by avi- ators. was seen floating between Bell Island, in Conception Bay, and this town. The story was told here that two men reported that while going from the main land to Bell Isle in motor boat they saw the body and tried to recover it with boat hook. but the heavy swell on the ocean prevented their doing so. This rumor immediately start ed speculation among the residents as to whether the body seen was one of the lost airmen.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
RELIGION CAUSES MANY
 DEATHS IN MEXICO

Mexico City. Sept. 30. (P)-Thirty four rebellious "Catholic fanatics" were killed and Catholic Priest was captured, summary court mar tialed and executed after two brisk cambats with fedaral troops in one of the provinces, says a bulletin is- sued by the presidential bureau. One corporal and two soldiers were killed, one officer and nine soldiers were wounded. The first fight took place at Los Metzqutes, where thirty eight rebels, headed by Habano. and with another chieftan named Placenoia. were strongly ent-c 1'h- ed. The fight lasted four hours and fourteen rebels were killed and twn captured in the first enga cement. In the second engagement. which lasted three hours. eighteen were killed and many wounded.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
MISSING NILLIONAIRE FOUND
 WITH PRETTY WOMAN

St. Louis, Sept. 2s. P,-The search for Richard Reynolds. the heir to the Reynolds Tobacco mill lions, ended here last night in a restaurant when private detec- tive found Reynolds dining with pretty woman companion, who later vanished completely. Reynolds de- clared he was on vacation after at tending the Dempsey Tunney fight at Chicago. and has been living under an assumed name to prevent being bothered.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To H. S. NELSON, Your heirs, rep
 resentatives and assigns:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned and his grantors and assignors, as CO., owners of the placer claim herein after described, has expended, the sum of One Hundred Dollars dur ing each annual expenditure year ending on July 1st of each of the years 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927 in labor and improve ments on the Good Chance Associ- ation Placer Mining Claim. situate on the left limit of Last Chance Creek and the right limit of, North Fork; tributayies of Snake River, in the, Cape Meme Recording Dis trict, Second Division. Territory of Alaska. the record of the location of said claim being at page 67 of voiume 157 of the records of. said recording district.
 And you are further notified that If within ninety days from the com pletion of the publication hereof. you fail, neglect or refuse to con- tribute to the undersigned your pro- portion. cf. such expenditure as . co-owner, your interest in said mining claim will become the prop erty Of the undersigned.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska, August q. 1927.
 Publish Aug. 27. Sept. .. 10. IT. II. Oet. 1. :. IS, 33. 20, Nov, s. 13. lSs 1897.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
U. s. AND MEXICO
 TALK ON TELEPHONE

Washington, Sept. 30. R1-Ex- traordinary advancement in com munication between the nations has been one of the conspicuous ac- complishments of the present age, President Calvin Coolidge told Pres ident Gales of Mexico, during a conversation which inaugurated a telephone service between Washing ton and Mexico City. Speaking through the transmitter before 8 distinguished gathering. President Coolidge expressed the view to the chief executive of Mexico that these new communicat ton facilities would promote better understanding be- tween the peoples of our countries" 7"
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
LIEUTENANT kOENNECkE SAFE

London. Sept 2S. R-Lieuten- ant Koennecke. the German around the world flyer, for whose safety the whole world has felt anxious for the last three days. together with his companions. has arrived at Bagdad. according to a report received here. He will take on tomorrow in the continuance of his flight. His plane was forced down by engine trouble in the neighbor- hood of Moslemyte, north of Allep- DO. and after making repairs. ar rived at Bagdad safely.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FRANK M. CANTON, ONCE
 ALASKA MARSHAL, DEAD

Oklahoma City, Sept. 2s, R- Frank NJ. Canton, seventy-six years of age. a picturesque character of the Old West. died at his home at Edmond, near here yesterday.
 It was from Canton that Rex Beach drew the central character in "The Spoilers" He was also the character from whom Owen Mister depicted as the Vfrginian.
 Canton was once United States Marshal at Circle City. Alaska dur ing the gold rush days, which sent so many adventurers to the Klon- dike.