The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-22
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire
MAY 22, 1916.

The jury which was hearing the | forgery case aga nst Edward
 Krause returned the verdit of guilty on one of the indictments, and mot guilty on the other. In
 this case Krause was charged with | forgery, two indictments being com | 5ined under one trial. The indict- ments charged that Krause forged
 I letter to the Dexter Horton Bank 1t Seattle stating that he would | urn his entire bank account over | 70 Edward Krause and signed by Yamamoto The other indictment charged Krause forged an order on | the Dexter Horton Bank, signing | the name of K. Yamamoto transfer ring $20301 and interest to Edward ! Krause. The jury found him guilty of forging the signature on the let | ter, but not guilty of forging the order transferring the money. The
 trial of Krause for the murder of
 James O. Plunkett was postponed !
 until the following day. The court
 excused all members of the jury | panel except John Lund, Grant w.. | Johnson, C. H. Passells and Ben [ Hersey.
 Delegates to the Democratic Ter [ ritorial convention which planned i
 to convene at Juneau later in the | week were gathering. Among those who had arrived were Chairman . Joseph Baxter, of the Territorial central committee; Bernard Hirst of Sitka, J. F. Warder of Ketchikan. | L. T. Erwin was enroute from Se- [ attle. Among others enroute were John Roman of Seward, T. J. Dono- hoe and c. J. Todd from the Vest ward. It was understood that a
 majority of the Third Division dele gates favored nominating Senator Charles A. Sulzer for Delegate to Congress, and George B. Grigsby for Attorney General, and T. J. Dono- hoe of Valdez for National Com mitteeman.
 The Episcopal Church was crowd ,d to the doors the previous evening when members of the High School
 graduating class, teachers and non communicants joined the regular congregat ton in listening to the bac-
 ,alaureate sermon delivered by the
 Rev. G. D. Christian.
 A few of the hardy baseball mem- oers turned out the previous day and chased balls and knocked grounders and fungoes about the
 Last Chance Basin diamond. The | weather was threatening and those
 who wanted to turn out were de- erred by the prospects. Word came | from Treadwell that it would ebe at E | east two weeks before team there { 1 could be lined up.
 Mrs. w. c. Blanchard, wife ot
 Cashier Blanchard of the White.
 Pass. was a Skagway bound pas
 senger on the Spokane. She was4
 accompanied by her two sons and |
 Mrs. E. Blanchard who planS~a visita
 1t the Blanchard home for. some ! lime.
 City Assessor A. A. Gabbs was [ l preparing his records for making 1
 the rounds leyying the assessments l
 on the personal and real property
 of the residents of Juneau for the purpose of making up the 1916 tax roll It was estimated that the
 taxes would be approximately $l0,- 900 greater than in 1915 on ac- count of the new buildings and in- creased valuations in city prop
 erty
 Charley Hopp died the previous evening according to news received at Douglas The first Mayor of Douglas died at Everett, Washing ton His passing was a source of much sadness among many Doug
 las residents.
 George Greenlee and Max Peyser, two Juneau musicians who left a short time ago for the interior re- turned to Juneau on one of the last boats from the north.
 Weather report: Maximum, 53;
 minimum, 38; Partly Cloudy. SHOP IN JUNEAC.