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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 263. SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
f Girl Found Murdered
, Thrown Into Slough
| Near Kirkland, Wn.
,f HAD VISITED DENTIST AND DISAPPEARED SOON
ji AFTER—CORONER’S AUTOPSY REVEALS VIC
I TIM OF FIENDS HAD BEEN OUTRAGED, KNOCK
| ED UNCONSCIOUS AND CAST INTO WATER—
I WAS STUDENT AT HIGH SCHOOL^DUCK HUNT
| ERS MAKE GREWSOME DISCOVERY
I jnMIM YOUTH flfiRESTEO BUT PROVIDES ALIBI
1 M
Only Clue Available is Report That Two Youths Seen
Loitering About Dentist’s Office While Girl Was Hav*
ing Work Done.—Was of Retiring Disposition and In
* active Socially
SEATTLE, Nov. 16. (/P)—The coroner’s autopsy on
* ^the body of Letitia Whitehall, aged 14, a High School
sophomore of Kirkland, across Lake Washington from
Seattle, whose body was found half submerged in a mud
dy slough ten miles from her home early Sunday, was
brutally attacked, knocked unconscious from a blow on
i the head and thrown into the slough. William Jones,
deputy coroner, who performed the autopsy, said:
“ While death in my opinion was due to drowning, there
are unmistakable evidence that the girl was violated and
* then received a violent blow on the head which resulted in
concussion and unconsciousness.”
Duck hunters found the body of the girl. She was
-5 la^t seen Saturday, October 13, coming out of a Kirkland
dentist’s office, where he repaired, her teeth.
George Whitehall, father of the girl, and a Kirkland
gasoline engineer, said the girl was quiet and studious
! and unactive socially. Her clothing was torn.
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JUNEAU, Noov. 16. (£>)—Returns
Trom the First division are complete
with the exception of four precincts
—Tokeen, Shakan, Saltchuk and Bar
anof.
For delegate, Marquam 2,378; Suth
erland 3,533.
Senator—Bacheller 581, Shattuck
258, Steel 2,544.
Representative — Benjamin 2,992,
Ferguson 2,908, Gurr 2,455, Hardy
2,459, Kubley 2,567, Paul 2,808, Worth
2,800.
This is the final consolidated bulle
tin from Juneau as the missing pre
cincts will not change the results.
FERDINAND TELLS MARIE
^ CHICAGO, Nov. 16. (JP)—Queen
Marie cancelled most of her southern
tour and will sail from New York De
cember 11 upon request of King Fer
dinand for her to be home on Christ
mas.
F. E. Leslie, in charge of local rail
road work for the Alaska railroad, is
over in Anchorage on business mat
ters DUt is returning tomorrow.
1 The girl’s father insists that the
girl was murdered. He said she was
hatless and had no money. While go
ing to Kirkland, her uncle, W. S.
Welch, picked her up and carried her
in his automobile to the dentist’s1
door.
Raymond Fisk, aged 17, brother of
Letitia’s best friend, and one of her
boy friends, said he saw two youths
loitering near the dentist’s when
Letitia went in and came out.
Ralph Jackson, paroled from the
Chehalis Training School, arrested
two days ago on suspicion of having
eloped with Letitia, proved an alibi,
having stolen a car and gone to Olym
pia the day she disappeared.
IRRIGATION NOT BLAMED
FOR RECENT HURBIGANES
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 16. (JP)— R.
O. Grant, chief of the weather bureau,
denied the statement that irrigation
of arid lands caused the prolific
storms of a few weeks ago. Grant
said: “Tornadoes usually are atten
dant upon storms which drift down
from the norwestern Alaska, and af
ter reaching the territory east of the
Rocky mountains receive accessions
of heat and moisture from -the south
ern States.”
FRAME LEADS DIMOND
(Special to The Gateway)
VALDEZ, Nov. 16.—A canvass of
all votes to date show Anthony Di»
mond has thus far received 1,658
votes and Arthur Frame 1,748. Ten
precincts are yet to be heard from
but their total vote will probably not
exceed 200.
MUSTER SLATS
FAMILY AID TH
TAKES 01 LIFE
SHOOTS WIFE WHILE LYING IN
BED, THEN SNUFFS OUT LIVES
OF FOUR CHILDREN—WAS PO
LICE JUDGE AND BUSINESS
MAN
SOUTH TORRINGTON, Wyo., Nov.
16. (JP)—Rev. J. B. Minort, a^ged 45,
Baptist pastor, shot ancT killed his
wife, aged 40 and four children, aged ,
1 four to 15, and then committed sui
cide. He shot his wife with a shot
gun while she lay in bed, ahd slew;
the children with a .45 calibre revol- ■
ver. He was Minort police judge, and
manager of a grain elevator in addi-i
tion to his ministerial duty.
DEPARTMENT SAYS
FURS ARE SCARCE:
TWENTY PER CENT DECREASE IN
SEASON’S OUTPUT AS COM-j
PARED WITH THAT OF LAST;
YEAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. {&)—'The
Agricultural Department says fur
coats may gain enhanced standing as
luxuries if the supply of fur-bearing j
animals continues to decrease as I
steadily as it did last year. The sea- j
son of 1925-26 showed a decrease of
20 per cent under the previous year, j
HT. REV. M. J. KIM
BISHOP SCRANTON REND
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SCRANTON, Penn., Nov. 16. (/P)—
Bishop M. J. Hoban, aged 73 of Scran
ton Catholic Dioces, died of pneu
monia. He has been ill since Sunday.
The Rt. Rev. Michael John Hoban,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of
Scranton, Pa., gained wide prominence
because of his activities in behalf of
the miners in the anthracite coal re
gions, by whom he was regarded as
a welfare as well as a spiritual lead
er. His interest in the miners was
second only to that in his church and
diocese and his relations with the coal
workers was such that his influence
had a beneficial effect upon the lives
of people of many faiths.
Bishop Hoban frequently was called
upon by the miners for advice and
aid in their disputes with the opera
tors and several times he was credit
ed with bringing the two sides to
gether in amicable agreement, gener
ally favorable to the miners. The con
fidence of the miners in the bishop
was such that even at times when
they did not agree with his sugges
tions they accepted them, knowing he
was acting not only for their inter
ests but for the general good of their
dependents. Bishop Hoban was an
active worker with citizens of the an
thracite region to rid Scranton and
other1 places of the mine cave menace.
During the World war the Scranton
diocese was the first in the United
States to contribute its quota of Cath
olic chaplains for war service and
for this he was specially commended
by the war and navy departments.
•assoc!.>-rs.D
LAFAYETTE YOUNG,SR.
FORMER II. S, SENATOR
LAFAYETTE YOUNG DEAD
DES MOINES, la., Nov. 16. (^—La
fayette Young, editor of the Des
Moines Daily Capital, former United
States Senator, died of heart disease,
aged 48.
Lafayette Young came from the
newspaper generation which produc
ed Greeley, Dana, Medill, Pulitzer and
Waterson. He belonged to that fam
ous old school of American journal
ism distinguished by an outstanding
editorial personality.
“Lafe” Young was a pure Iowa pro
duct. He was born on a farm near
Eddyville, Monroe county, Iowa, May
10, 1448 and spent his boyhood on the
farm. He then learned the printing
trade in Albia. Later he went to St.
Louis as a journeyman printer. He
went to Atlantic, Iowa, and his first
formal newspaper enterprise was the
Atlantic Telegraph, which he found
ed. Here, also, he got his start in
politics and for 12 years served his
district as state senator.
In 1890 he became owner and pub
lisher of the Des Moines Capital. For
the first few years he was the per
sonal boss and master hand in all de
partments. He installed and operated
presses; he was the best printer in
the shop, and in addition to this work
he conducted the news department,
wrote editorials and attended to the
business of advertising and circula
tion.
CHARLES GOSS OPTIONS
CREEK CIRCLE DISTRICT
CIRCLE CITY, Nov. 16. (£>) —
Charles Guss, representing himself
and Fairbanks interests, took an op
tion on a large portion of Deadwood
creek, one of the best known and old
est creeks worked in the district. It
was staked in the early part of the
nineties and worked by the oldtime
method since. Guss said he would
place a keystone drill on the creek
immediately to determine its value for
dredging.
ERECTING HIGH FLAG POLE
A new and splendid sight will
greet boats and steamers arriving in
port during the day time for a 125
foot flagstaff is being erected at the
radio station from which Old Glory
will hereafter stream out in all it’s
colorful beauty.
DUKE E. STUBBS, OLD-TIMER, IS
ASKED GATHER BOUQUET OF
BRUINS FOR MILLIONAIRE
EASTERNER — EVERY SHADE
AND COLOR WANTED AND
ALIVE
Wanted—A carload of bears. Bears
to match the linoleum on the kitchen
floor, the parlor rugs, the shade of
the piano and coal scuttle.
This is about the nature of an order
presented to Duke E. Stubbs, fox
farmer and well-known Alaskan who
has packed his ‘turkey’ from Resur
rection bay to where the Norge bump
ed into Alaska after crossing the Pole.
The order came from a Kansas
City millionaire, who has his own
reasons for wishing to present the
urside specimens to various zoologi
cal gardens. Maybe the Charleston
has become unpopular and some
new steps are desired, and this can
best be supplied by jumping clear
over the heads of Senegambian devo
tees of terpsichore and landing in
the midst of Nature’s most primitive
specimans of the last link between
the chimpanzee and lesser supposed
ly genetic liasons between man and a
species of bug now found by eminent
geologists imbedded in fossil life.
However this may be, it is bears
that are wanted—live bears regard
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EFFORTS ARE MADE
TO OUST CALLES
CLAIMED RELIGIOUS UNREST
CAUSE OF RECENT OUTBREAKS
OF REBEL BANDS AND BANDITS
IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16. (^—News
papers report that activities of rebel
and bandit groups indicated an. effort
to start a movement to overthrow
the Calles administration. The War
department asserted that the out
breaks are not a military problem be
cause of the small un-unified nature
of*the disturbances. Many revolu
tions reported are merely bandits,
profiting by religious unrest, become
active. Trains are run under mili
tary escort and, .troops are ready to be
rushed to points where trains are
held up.
Attorney L. V. Ray is now driving
a Nash auto having disposed of his
Buick, it is stated. The car is one
of the new Nash Light Six four-door
sedan and is a fine looking job.
BEHER11 PERFORMED
SMS FORD'S FOREMAN
DETROIT, Nov. 16. (£>)—Charles E.
Sorenson, superintendent o£ the main
Ford factory, announced that pay in
creases are gradually being given to
92,000 Ford employes to offset the
five-day week. He said the workers
turn but more and better work with
two days leisure.