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LEGAL NOTICE
OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
 SERIAL NO. o6180

July 3, 1877. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the NEW ENGLAND FISH COMPA- NY, corporation organized under the Laws of the State of Maine and author ized to do business in the Territory of Alaska, has filed application, Serial O61SO, for patent under the provisions of Sec. 23O6, R. S., for tract of lana situated at Kodiak, Alaska, in Latitude 57 deg. 47 min. P sec. and Longitude 15O deg. 24 min. AT sec:, containing an area of 5.16 acres, and included within U. s. Survey No. 1854 and more particularly described as follows, to- wit:
 Commencing at Cor. No. M. [. on the line of ordinary high tide of St. Paul Harbor, whence U. 5. c. & G. s. Sta. bears N. 69 deg. Is min. 15 sec. E. 41.22 chs; running thence along the line of said high tide of St. Paul Harbor CD s. 50 deg. 51 min. w. 4.52 chs; CD $. 56 deg. 27 min W. 4.51 chs; (S) s. 49 deg. O4 min. W. 2.4O chs; (4) s. 61 deg. 2S min. W. 800 chs. to Cor. No M. c. on the line or ordinary high tide of St. Paul Harbor; thence N. 25 deg. 29 min. w. 4.55 chs. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 64 deg. 31 min. E. 14.32 chs. to Cor. No. 4; thence s. 25 deg. 29 min. E. 2.S3 chs. to Cor. No. the place of beginning, containing an area of 5.16 acres; magnetic yariat ation A deg. 20 min. E.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register U. $. Land Office. First publication July Il, 1927.
 Last publication Sept. 19, 1927.
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Cards were received in the mail announcing the marriage of Miss Billie Dunn, daughter of Mrs. Nina Eugene Dunn of Baltimore, Md, and Albert Rossville Hockey, ensign of the United States navy, on Saturday. July 16, in Baltimore. The groom is the son of MT. and Mrs. Ross Hockey of Chickaloon and is well known former Anchorage boy, and graduated last spring with the class of cadets from the naval academy at Annapo- lis
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Bob Miller recently defeated Mrs. Ruby Empens in a swimmin grace across Kasaan Bay. The distance was 3 1-2 miles and Miller made 1t in one hour and 39 minutes while it took Mrs. Empens two hours and -24 minutes Both parties were followed by men in row boats, and so much interest was displayed that other swimming contests were scheduled.
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c. T. Bunker, of Juneau, making the lowest of the four bids which were opened in Juneau for the con- struction of the new school building at Kasaan, was awarded the contract, according to L. D. Henderson, Ter ritorial Commissioner of Education. The contract calls for the building to be completed by September 30, and to have one class room, fuel room and hall on the main floor, with two rooms for teachers living quarters. and closets on the second floor
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sTANDARDlZING SALES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (P)-Bear- ing a message of quicker sales and bet ter prices, George T. Willingmyre, United States wool marketing and standardization specialist, has gone into the West to urge that fleece be sold by government grades.
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CAFE CLOSES DOORS

BERLIN, Aug. 10. (P)-Borchards Berlin's celebrated caterer, has gone into bankruptcy. After 70 years Of fame as the restaurant for epicures and as caterer to every German court, the establishment, with it's fancy grocery, has fallen victim to general fmproVerishment.
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NOTHERN NOTES

Three fishermen were fined in Cor dova last week when they entered pleas of guilty to the charge offishing in forbidden area. The men were Hank Stanaros, Q. J. and Alfred Munson.
 c. J. Molnar, the only unmismatic dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, writes to the Cordoya postmaster under the delusion that the Territory is for eign country and therefore should have foreign stamps. He requests that several sealed self-addresed envelopes be stamped with rare, Territorial postal specimens and postmarked lightly So that the Alas ka stamps may be added to his col lection of rare stamps and old coins.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-08-10

J. 0. Preston, who short time a. % had the misfortune to hurt his back. is up and around again feeling greatly improved,
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NOTICE

pr. James Sender, Eyesight Spe- cialist, from Seattle, will be at the Van Glider Hotel from Aug. 15 to 20. Everyone is urged to take ad- vantage of this opportunity to be properly fitted by specialist. Phone for appointment at once.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-08-10
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION, KODIAK PRECINCT, AT KODIAK.
 NO. 257 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the matter of the estate of
 ALBERT JOHNSON.

Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned was duly and regularly ap- pointed by the Probate Court for the Kodiak Precinct, Territory of Alaska, on the 11th day of July, 1927, admin istrator of the estate of Albert John son, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said de ceased to exhibit them, with the nec- essary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this no tice, to said administrator at the law office of M. L. Hickman, i'll the Town of Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transac- tion of the business of said estate in the Territory of Alaska.
 Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this 3Oth day of July, 1927.
 o. L. CRIMES, Administrator of the estate of Albert Johnson, deceased.
 M. L. Hickman,
 Attorney for Administrator. First publication August 10, 1927. Last publication September 1, 1927.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18
Bishops lawyers showing how he believes the killer


them and his hip-holster on the bedpost.
She fell asleep Immediately after getting
in bed, and was sometime later awakened
by the sound Of shots. There was the
thud of hurrying feet in the dark. A
dark shape blotted out the light from one
of the many windows for a moment
Then she arose, turned on the light, and
found her husband bleeding from eight
bullet wounds.
81 screamed" she said, land my
young son, boy friend who was spend
ing the night with him and my fathe,
came running. My husband died in my
arms. He was not conscious. | did not
see his revolvers anywhere.
j. X. Wright, a sardonic and cynical
county attorney, put the old man and
the boys on the stand and made them
admit they had not seen anyone escap-
ing by the sleeping porch window when
they ran into the room. Nor did they
hear the sound of retreating footsteps
by olllel witnesses, lie pTo'eu tHdl II
was drop Of thirteen feet from the
window to the ground.
Mr.. Wright asked Mrs. Bishop how
that particular window could have been
unattached by the hypothetical intruder.
getting in. and she didn't know. He
asked her how it came about that her
husbands revovers were missing when
the police arrived, yet were found in a
box in closet three days later. And
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

she said she didn't know. She denied
the crime. She had not been able to see
the murderer She was sure it was
man her husband had "sent up for
long stretch" while working as q
detective.
Mrs. Bishop reminded the cross ex-
aminer that the closet where the revolv.
ers were found had been unlocked after
the murder, and the weapons could cas-.
lily have been planted there without her
knowledge or that of any other member
of the household. He asked her how it
was her nightgown was blood-stained
after she gave the alarm, and when the
officers arrived. She wept. and said that
she had rushed to her husbands side as
soon as she saw his condition, and he
died in her arms.
Mr.. Wright asked her whether there
had been bloody finger prints on the foot
of her husbands bed when the first pc.
uCeulaH arrived, anu whether tley nau
been washed away while the officer was
out of the room. She said no.
Active and astute lawyers in her pay
put on witness after witness to prove
that Oklahoma was, in manner speak.
ing, "alive" with men who had baen
Jailed through the activity of Luther
Bishop. Some of them were at large,
the lawyers showed, and apparently still
practicing crime as profession. "Why
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

AN Oklahoma jury having recently
~ decided that Mrs. Luther Bishop
did not kill her husband, the in
habitants of that exciting commonwealth
have gone back to asking one another
the question that has been agitating the
Southwest ever since the morning Of
December 5, 1926: "Who killed Two,
Gun Bishop. them"
1t is pretty problem; one that would
have delighted Bishop himself, for
twenty years detective and peace OF
ficer of renown in the frontier settle
ments and oil boom towns of Oklahoma
Throughout the Southwest, Luthe,
Bishop was known, respected and feared
as a two-gun detective who usually got
his man. Six bandits had been Killed by
the doughty officer in line of duty, and
he had escaped unscathed from dozen
other gun fights with Southwestern out
laws.
Asleep or awake, his trusty six-shoot
ers we're always within easy reach, and
he let it be known that hostile bad men
who aspired to catch him unawares and
fill him full of lead before he could fight
back we're foolish in the head"
They'll never get me-" he boosted.
when he was in an expansive mood. "Or,
if they do, I'll drop few of them before
they drop me-" All of which was re-
membered and commented upon by his
former intmates the morning afte,
Bishop was killed with his own revovers
The two-gun terror of the outlaws
died, not in the saddle, leading foray
of law officers against bandit outpost,
but while he slept in his bed on a
glassed-in porch on the second floor OF
his comfortable and commonplace bunga
low in Oklahoma City. And his wife. a
pleasant-faced. "home body" kind Of
woman, was sleeping three feet away
from him when he was shot, she told in
vestigators.
When word Of the murder first got
abroad, everybody in Oklahoma thought
he knew the answer. "They got Luther
at last. did they" frontier wiseacres
would remark to one another. Then
they would start recalling his exploits as
a hard-boiled straght-shooting officer of
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

and startling developments. Try as they
would, counsel for the prosecution were
unable to stop the introduction of such
evidence, or to take away from its ef-
feet upon the jury.
Old "buddies" Of Bishop even told Of
the historic battle between the two-gun
detective and Al Spencer, the gray eagle
of Oklahoma banditry for fifteen years,
in which Spencer was the loser.
In 1923, AL and four of his temporary
lieutenants robbed train near Bartles-
vile, Oklahoma. 1t was the last of the
Oklahoma train robberies. And it was
staged along regular movie-thriller lines.
The men of the train crew were sur
prised and overpowered The safe was
blown. A currency shipment to an
Oklahoma bank constituted the plumber.
1t was about s125,oO0. Bishop headed
the posse that ran Al down near Bartles-
vile, and Bishop and he duelled to the
death-the bandits death.
The defense in Mrs. Bishops trial
pointed out that the men who assisted
Spencer the only time he ever had &C.
completes were still at large, and sup
posedly revengeful.
Surprised and dismayed by the verdict
acquitting Mrs. Bishop, the State Of
Oklahoma has made no further effort as
yet to run down the border detectives
slayer. In spite of what her lawyers
said, you can't indict criminal ele-
ment;' you must indict an individual.
And the authorities, very frankly,
haven't an idea in the world as to who it
is they ought to indict. Maybe the mys-
terry will always be one. And 1.-TWO.
Gun" Bishop will 60 down on the rec
ords as killed with his own straight
shooting revolvers by a person or per-
sons unknown.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

moned to the house. his own revolvers
were missing. But few hours before
Mrs. Bishop was arrested, the revolvers
were found in cardbox in closet of
the Bishop home, and there were four
empty chambers in each.
With such sinister evidence in their
possession, the prosecuting authorities
failed lamentably to make out their case,
although when they started the trial
betting was two to one they would con-
vct.
Basing their accusations on the re,
volvers, the number of shots in the muir.
dered detectives body. and the "improb-
ability of Mrs. Bishops story, tn. pros
ecutors tried hard.
The defense was, in the main, that she
mad no motive for killing husband who
was devoted to her, and the claim that
some bandit who hated Bishop for auld
lang syne had killed him and planted the
revolvers to throw suspicion upon the
wife.
Mrs. Bishop held to her story unde,
fire, and made the jurors believe it, and
IN an Oklahoma grown more or less law,
abiding, that is the important thing.
The woman said that on the night OF
the murder she ana her husband retired
at the usual hour, occupying beds about
three feet apart on the sleeping porch on
the second floor. She believed he had
been wearing his six-shooters. and hung
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

the law, and specializing as to
which of the many criminals he
had sent to Jail had gotten loose
and taken his revenge.
Three days after the shooting,
however, the state was shocked
and startled by the arrest of Mrs.
Bishop on suspicion of murder.
Men who had been Bishops
superiors in the State Bureau of
investigation said they, too. had
at first suspected vindictive bad
men, but had been compelled to
veer around to the theory involv-
ing his wife. or widow,
Bishop had been shot eight
times, with a forty-tive calibre
revolver, or revolvers; and they
said when they first were sum-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-18

"why not?" and freed the lawyers
client.
Certainly Oklahoma was not without
foes of society who would have liked
to dump off" Luther Bishop. He had
been literally a terror to the evil
doors of the rough-and-tumble from
tier and the mushroom oil towns, and
made enemies by the score.
Once he trapped and captured "Big
Jim" McGraw single-handed, after
that picturesque outlaw had staged
thirty-eight daylight robberies in Kan
sas, Arkansas and Oklahoma in four
years of crime. McGraw's loot had
aggregated 100000. Bishop took his
prisoner to the state penitentiary at
McAlester, Oklahoma, only to see his
work 60 for nothing when McGraw
escaped. Mrs Bishops lawyers did
not fail to emphasize the likelihood of
McGraw's being concerned in the Sleep
ing porch killing. And they were able to
show he was still at large, and in all
probability back at his old tricks.
Luther was working on a new plan
to recapture him, and earn $4,000 in
rewards, when they got him." Mrs.
Bishop testified.
She also said that her husband fire.
quently had mentioned the names Of
Matthew HINES and Ray Terrill as out
laws who were anxious to "get the drop"
on him.
Both were at large at the time of the
murder, and the trial, having escaped
from Jail after being caught through the
cleverness and courage of Bishop. Both
were classed as among the most desper.
ate criminals of the new Southwest.
Going even further back into the lurid
past of the two-gun border detective,
Mrs. Bishops attorneys brought up the
old matter of the Usage murders, which
shocked the Southwest years ago.
A band of clever and utterly un.
scrupulous criminals got members Of
their own clique to marry Usage Indian
girls, virtually all of them government
wards, and most of them heiresses, as
result of the discoveries in the oil fields.
Then Indians standing in the way of the
criminal white men were killed, and the
whites achieved marriage rights" in
great oil fortunes.
Bishop was a deputy marshal when
the Usage murders were committed, and
worked for five years on the case before
he ordered an arrest. But when he did.
he was ready, and secured several con.
victions. Mrs. Bishop told the court,
in her own strange defense, that Luther
had Informed her he was not through
with the Usage case and expected other
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
PLANE TAKES
II. FARGO MAIL TO
TWIN CITIES
Trip Made TO Demonstrate
Close Aerial Returns Be-
tween These Points

st. Paul, July l3.--tai--an airplane,
carving 1000 letters from Fargo, y.
d., business, houses to st. PAUL. ar
rived at the airport here Just be-
fore noon today, marking the first
step toward establishment Of pas
scnger and air mail line between
Fargo and the Twin Cities.
riloted BIZ Verne Roberts and car
rving Murray A. Baldwin, president
Of the Fargo Aeronautic club. the
plane was welcomed by reception
committee headed by Colonel l.. II.
Brittin of the Northwest Always.
Inc The flyers were taken to the
postoffiee. where they mailed the
letters they had brought here.
The trip was made to demonstrate
the close aerial returns between
Fargo and st. Paul, according TO
Colonel Brittin. who said that pas
seneer and air mail line between the
two cities will be established as soon
as facilities are completed at the
North Dakota city.
A site has been selected for the
Fargo airport and the opening Of the
line is expected soon. Colonel Brit
tin said :.
The Northwest Always. Inc. IS
carer TO extend its lines to that city.
he said, because of its importance as
q gateway to the Red River VALLEY.
the west and the Canadian north
wact
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Hail Losses Lower
So Far Than in '2G

despite heavily increased acreage
listed for protection, hail losses are
!. less for 1927 to date than for the
same period year ago, figures com
piled by the state hail insurance de-
partment show.
Records including claims up to the
end of last week show that 4,0l5
losses had been reported. At the
same time last year 1867 claims had
been listed. Many Of the claims re-
ported this year resulted from heavy
losses in isolated sections Of the
state and the average loss per claim
may be somewhat higher this year
than last, it was said.
Claims reported last week totaled
1913. Bowman county leading with
147 and Grant county beinrs second
with LOG. Other counties reporting
losses were: Adams 72, Barnes l..
Billings |, Bottineau 40, Burke l..
Burlcigh Is, Cavalier Is, Dickey 10.
Divide 7, Dunn SO. Emmons 8, Foster
i, Golden Valley 6, Hettinger Z, Kid
der Ii, LaMoure 9, McHenry 10, Nc
Lean ii. Mercer 20, Morton Ga.
Mountrail "a, Oliver 20, Pembina 8.
Renvil!e 26, Richland 2, Rolette l..
Sargent /, Sioux 2, Slope "a, Stark
~, Towner l, Walsh 1, Wells l, VIII
liams 8.
Stones as large as walnuts fell
FOR several minutes at Cleveland but
because of the directness of the fall
OF the hail, the damage was not re-
ported as serious. Many windows
were broken in the town itself.
Fifteen minutes Of hail in the
Steele district was also reported.
Heavy rain which accompanied the
hail was Morally beneficial through
out this vicinity.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Proof Lacking in
Iowa Girls Story
of Alleged Attack

Glenwood, Iowa, July l3.-(P)-
Parents Of l5-year-old Mabel White,
cripple, who told Il story Of an al
legged attack upon her after she was
found screaming in cornfield ad-
joining their farm home near Emer-
son. were content to consider the
matter a closed affair today.
The girl who, her parents told Of
ficers, was wandering about in the
darkness Of the field without her
dress, declared two masked men had
attacked her. but last night Sheriff
William DeMoss of Mills county said
no evidence had been found to sub
stantiate the story.
There was no evidence of a strug-
gle in the field and both the girls
hair and her clothes were clean and
orderly" said the sheriff. Doctors
said she had no bruises or injury Of
any kind to substantiate the attack
story" he added.
The girls parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Con White, said last night that she
had suffered a severe attack of in
fantile paralysis in her early child
hood and had always been very weak.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Funeral ParlOrs
Not a Nuisance,
High Court Says

Operation by II. o. Holberg Of an
unde rtaking establishment in Valley
City is not nuisance, the supreme
court held today.
The case was appealed from Barnes
county by Eliot Meldahl and others
who contended that Holberg's opera
tion of undertaking par:ors near
their homes constituted a nuisance.
The court held that the section in
which the establish ment is located is
changing now from a residence to a
business section and that the facts
do not justify court order directing
Holberg TO move his business else
where.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Idaho Will Have
Huge Potato Crop

Reaching a new high point in pc.
tato production this year Idaho VIII
harvest the largest potato crop IN
its history. Estimates place the pro-
duction between $4,000 and 3O.OO0
carloads. Averages all over the state
have increased greatly his year and
with irrigation conditions ideal farm
ers are expecting recDrd-breaklng
crop. sy,
Idaho's largest potato district lies
in the valley Of the mighty Snake
river from Yellowstone park to Twin
Falls. The Boise valley around Nam
pa and Caldwell is famous for early
potatoes.
The idho potato has established
and is holding an enviablc national
reputation for quality. 1t has been
fe tiscd at maay national functions
ar, rlany great r,en of the country
Ia. haruueted when Idaho potatoes
were named on the menu.
Through the courtesy Of the Twin
Falls Chamber Of Commerce the an
nual banquet Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce this year was
supplied with Idaho potatoes. News
dispatches went ticking over the
country recently when Governor ZAP
Smith of New York received a pack
age of Uncut Idaho Gems" The
package contained fancy Idaho po-
tatoes whose names are Melted
Gems" and were the compliments of
the State Chamber of Commerce. Ma
tional news photographers were right
on the scene when Senator William
F.. Borah of Idaho showed the chef
Of Washington's most exclusive hotel
: the Mayflower, how to prepare Idaho
potatoes for the Territorial Day
Z banquet held there.
The first air mail plane to take off
from the municipal airport of Boise
Idahos capital. carried package OF
Idaho potatoes for President Cool
idge, the gift of the American Legion
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Nelson Services to
Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Harry An
thOny Nelson, g.. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. b. Nelson Of this city, who was
drowned Monday night at Spiritwood
Lake north Of jamestown, will be
held at o'clock tomorrow morning
from st. Mary's cathedral.
Father Fischer will officiate aid
burial will take place in st. Mary's
cemetery.
The body will lie in State at the
Webb Brothers funeral parlor thia
afternoon and this evening from Z
to 8 o'clock. The youths father ID
clerk in the Bismarck postoffice.
Pallbearers have been chosen from
aUopg the membership Of the n. b
Arevenile lodge, to which the Mel.
son- boy belonged. They are Cleude
Carlander, Ralph Goddard, Virgil
Goddard and Homer Arnold.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-13
Lots l to 3, Block
Third Addition.

IHP aUOve 1Ot1 were formerly
owned by Elias Ellsflood and are
now owned by Burleieh County.
This offer to cover all the taxes up
TO and including the 1925 taxes.
Roll call: Fricke. Aye: Moynler,
Aye: Solder. Aye. Swanson. Aye. and
Moved by sodef end seconded By
Moynier that the County Treasurer
he and he hereby II authorised to
pay TO =. r. baird. Receiver, the
sum Of &3025,OQ on the Rice, Lake
Drainage warrant held BY him pro
eonnty t mtn ns @ f 9E2ish the
he 10 willing to accept a partial
paynent With the Understanding
that the interest ceases on that p0r-
tion Of the sum. Further. that the
amount paid be endorsed upon the
warrant deliver receipt for the
amc unit paid him.
Roll tall: Frfcke. Aye: Moynier,
Ave: Solder. Aye; Swanson, Aye. and
VIII. Aye.
Moved BY commiasioner rricke,