UNDBLOM IS AT WAR
OVER $200 ACCOUNT!
iSAN FRANCISCO,—The aspirations
of Mrs. Hanna Sadie L’lrika Sparman
1-indblooin to he u motion picture
queen led to a sanguinary light re
cently 'm the offices of Erik O. Lind
blom, Alaska mining millionaire if the
Mills building.
t i.cause of a $200 bill c.mcrucled by
Mrs. l-indblom, as head cf the Liberty
Film Company, of San Mateo, there
was a fierce encounter between Lind
blom and his secretary, Charles An
derson, on one side and Victor Duhem
and his son, Ray Duhem, proprietors
of the Duhem Motion Picture Manu
facturing Company on the other.
At the end of the battle, which raged
for nearly twenty minutes and which
created, a near panic among hundreds
of tenants in the building, the Lind
blom offices resembled a shambles.
Anderson, the secretary, was bleed
ing from a dozen wounds and his fea
CRANE HEADS
COMMISSION
TO RUSSIA
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Infor
mation came from the White House
this morning to the effect that Chits.
R. prune, Ohkeago millionaire, ’will
be at the head of the American com
mission to Russia. The state depart
ment is today communienting with
him, advising him or this decision.
He is at present in Russia where
he went one month ago, on a private
mission. Announcement will be
forthcoming within a few days, as to
whom the others are who will make
up the American commission to that
country.
lures were swollen and discolored.
..omnium was nursing a wound on his
loti cheek and his left leg was injured.
The elder Duhem suffered cuts und
bruises and his son had broken bones
in his right hand and a deep cut on
Ids wrist.
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Police arrived while the battle was
still in full swing. The Duhems wore
taken into custody and charged w*ith
assault with a deadly weapon.
Lindblom and Anderson charge that
the Duhems attacked them with heavy
pieces of gold quartz seized off Lind
I blom's desk, after Lindblom hud re
fused to pay a bill which was said to
have been contracted by Mrs. Lind
blom in behalf of the Liberty Film
Company, in which Andesron also is
interested.
"Young Duhem, struck me,” said
Lindblom. "Anderson interfered to
save mo and then the elder Duhem
joined in the fight. I escaped to the
hallway to summon help and the door
locked itself behind me. Before I
couM re-cnt i the room the twc
Duhems attacked and mercilessly bent
Anderson.”
“Mrs Lindblom employed our firm to
develop and print a motion picture
film for the Liberty Film Company,"
said Hay Duhem. "Our bill was $200.
| A small payment was made. Our at
torney, Joseph .T, Webb, told us that
the Lindblonis were ready to settle
! the bill."
Hay Duhem was booked on a charge
of assault with a deadly weapon and
disturbing the peace. A piece of
quartz specimen was booked as evi
dence. Victor Dyliem, the father, was
booked for assau't with a deadly wea
pon.
The Duhems stayed in the city prison
for more than an hour before they
were liberated on $100 ball each.
Lindblom and Anderson were treat,e
d
by a physician, who was called to tns
offices. Lindblom declared he know
nothing of the debt alleged to bo due
father and son.
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Dream Theater
TONIGHT
Comedy
Ford Sterling In
SNITL JOINS THE REGULARS
THE OLD GOBBLER 2 PARTS
THE ANIMAL
TOMORROW NIGHT
SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY
5 Reels
Adm, 25c
Air. Lindblom is well known in Se
attle. He is vice president of the Pio
neer Minng Company, of Nome, and
has been associated with Jafet Lindc
berg in many mining ventures. Mr.
Lindblom and Air. Llndeberg, mushing
together on the Nome tundra an
autumn day in 1898, happened upon the
pay dirt of Anvil creek that led to
the Nome rush, the subsequent stam
pede and the location of the town of
Nome. He is one of the principals in
Itex Beach's famous talc of Alaska,
"The Spoilers.”
Of late years Mr. Lindblom has en
gaged actively iu milting ia Alaska
only during the slimmer, ilis inter
ests in San Francisco have been with
the International Banking Corporation
during the winters.
Mr. lJiHlblom’s life has been event
ful. As a sailor he shipped to Alaska
soon after the tirst tales of richness in
the Klondike began to Alter to the out
side world, lie disembarked from the
vessel on the bleak shores of Bering
sea and, with Jafet Llndeberg and
John Brynteson, conducted the prso
pectiiig that led to the founding of
Nome.
aALASKA NOTES
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On February 7 the thermometer at;
Anchorage reached 42 below zero.
Sam Magids has a wireless plant in
operation at Kobuk at the Newik mis
s'lon.
The residence of C. F. Peterson at
Anchorage, was destroyed by fire re
cently, entailing a loss of about $500.
The Moose lodge at Anchorage will
soon move into its new quarters in
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Union Labor Hall, which has recently1
been completed.
On February 2 the temperature at
Treadwell reached 22 below zero
which is said to have been the coldest
weather in twenty years,
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Dr. J. L. Buckley, fornuilj physi- j
cian at the Sulzer mine at Sulzer, has J
taken up his residence at Petersburg
and will practice his profession there.
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On February 2 the thermometer
dropped to two below zero at Cordo
va, the lowesj. temperature recorded
this year up to that date.
Alfanse Nerattini has commenced j
action 'in the District Court at Juneau ;
against the Pacific Coast Gypsum j
Company f(jr $15,000 damgaes for in- i
juries received while working for the j
company.
On January 27 fire broke out at
Olnes in the building occupied by Pe
ter Buckholtz as a hotel ami bar, and
threatened to wipe out the whole
town. A strong wind was blowing |
and the flames communicated to the I
store of William Voss and both build
ings were burned to the ground. The
COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following arc the lowest recorder1
temperatures Tor this year and last
on the days leaignated. The minus
sign before a cumber means below
zero.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
April 1 . 10 18
April 2 . 0 18
April 3 . 0 24
April 4 . 8 21
April 5.30 12
April 8. 28 8
April 7. 30 10
Aprtl 9 . 16 4
April 10. 5 2
April 11 .; 7 —1
April 12. 15 —12
April 13. 2 —9
April 14.—6 16
April 15.5 20
April 16 .8 25
April 17;. 8 22
April 18. —1 9
April 19.'...— 8 0
April' 20. —10 —1
April 21. —4 2
April 22. —8 0
store of John J.. White was also
damaged. Snow was used with ex
cellent results in fighting the fire and
preventing its further spread. The
loss is estimated at $15,000
it is reported from Tuseon, Ari
zona, that H. V. Winched, one of the
leading min'ing experts of the world,
is on his way north to examine the
(iastine.au gold mine at Juneau, and
possibly lo report on the Bonanza
and Jumbo copper properties at Ken
necotl.
Leaving Ketchikan in a small boat
recently while very 'ill, William Fiskc,
a resident of Met'akahtla, was com
pelled in lay up for two days at a
small shack without fire or food, lie
finally succeeded in signalling to some
passing natives who.took him to Sav
man. where, after much suffering, he
died on the evening of his ari'iral.
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