VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 265.
SEWARD ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Alaska ‘Sourdoughnut’
Stakes Out Claim on
Maharajah of Indore
HIGH INDIAN POTENTATE SAYS HE IS OBSERV
ING AMERICA UNDER NON DE PLUME OF MR. T.
RADJE NOT WISHING TO EMULATE QUEEN
MARIE-MURDER OF MERCHANT IN NATIVE
LAND MINGLES IN CAREER
MRS. JENNIE MILLER DEPORTED TRAVELING WITH HINDU
With Daughter, Former Widow of Alaskan Millionaire
Reported With Rajah in Salt Lake City—Said to Have
Wealth Left by Sourdough Husband Who Is Said to
Have Made Stake in Early Day Rush
SEATTLE, Nov. 18. (/P)—Mrs. Jennie Miller of Seattle
who is in Salt Lake City with her daughter Nancy and a
man calling himself the former maharajah of Indore, is
said to be the widow of John Miller, an Alaskan miner.
She is reputed to be wealthy. The man signed himself
“Mr. T. Raje,” and said he “wanted to see America, not
as Queen Marie is seeing it, but quietly and unobserved.”
He wanted to study conditions unhindered.
The maharajah abdicated his throne following the
murder of a merchant who was a friend of the mahara
jah’s favorite dancer, Mumtaz Begum. She fled to the
merchant from Bombay when the maharajah’s agents
killed her daughter. When she refused to return to the
maharajah, the, merchant was murdered, and she was
1 badly slashed with a knife.
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HOUSE OF DAVID"
HEAD IS AHHESIED
AFTER TWO YEARS
STATE POLICE DISCOVER FUGI
TIVE HIDING IN ADMINISTRA
TION BUILDING OF “INSANE
COLONY"
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov.
18. (/P)—Benjamin Purnell, founder
of the House of David, was arrested
in the insane colony after a three
year world-wide search. He was re
leased on $50,000 bail being deposited.
He is charged with assaulting two
former girl inmates of the colony.
Two men and three women were
found with Purnell when the state
police smashed the windows and
doors of the “administration build
ing," where Purnell is reported to
have lived since the charges were
filed against him two years ago.
HARD RAIN FLOODS INE
TRAPPING SIX WORKMEN
HAZELTON, Pa., Nov. 18. (IP)—'The
fate of six miners who were entombed
yesterday behind a heavy rush of
water 1200 feet underground in a col
liery of the Lehigh Valley Coal com
pany, near here, remained a mystery.
A continuous 24-hour rain damaged
the anthracite region, flooding all the
old creek beds near the mine, and
then broke away and flooded the
mines water pumps. Four out of ten
men escaped.
SEWARD IS CLEAN TOWN
SAYS ATTORNEY MORTON
“Without a doubt Seward is the
cleanest town in Alaska,” asserted
Attorney H. F. Morton at yesterday’s
Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Mr.
Morton has about visited every camp,
community, town and city in the Ter
ritory and is lately returned from an
extended visit to Fairbanks. “No re
flections are meant toward the In
terior metropolis,” he said, “but it
was about the only place I had not
visited. Conditions there are pros
perous and the work of the Fairbanks
Exploration company is astounding
Rentals, particularly in the business
section, is considerably lower than
along the coast, and in my opinion I
see no reason why merchandise
should command higher prices than
those on the coast.
“Of outstanding importance next
fall will be the completion of the Yu
kon highway extending from Fair
banks to Circle. This w'ork is in the
able hands of the Alaska Road Com
mission and wdien the road is com
pletely done will be able to drive from
Valdez to Circle city, on the Yukon
river, and approximate distance, one
■way, of 500 miles.”
NEW STEWARD ON STARR
Several changes have been made
in the stewards department on the
steamer Starr one of which was the
retirement of Wm. Geary, after sev
eral years of active service. “Cur
ley” as his many friends know him,
came back to Seward from Seattle on
the Starr and plans remaining here
for the 'winter at least. He is suc
ceeded by A. J. Sullivan.
Until a telegram was received yes
terday from the captain of the An
chorage railroad basketball team it
was thought locally a series of games
would be played off but not so. The
wire from Captain Bortz was brief and
to the point in that he said the local
guarantee of $150 was insufficient for
the railroaders to come over. As it
was pointed out to The Gateway it is
to bad the speedy Anchorage five can
not see their way to come over for
the amount stated, for the local team
' is willing to journey over to the In
let on similar terms. It may be that
the railroad men feel a larger sum
can be safely guaranteed them but
judging from former attendance, and
they have been excellent, there is
just so much to figure on and when
they go above that they stand a migh
ty good chance of coming out on the
short end. The locals want to break
even at the very least. Series of this
I nature never have been a money mak
ing proposition but served to enter
tain if breaking even, in regards to
expenses it was considered a job well
done.
It would be interesting to see visi
tors endeavor to take the local in
camp but at the same time with all
the local material available there
will be many fast games played be
fore the snow disappears.
ANCHORAGE BOY LEFT SEATTLE
HOME TO VISIT THEATRE
FAILS TO RETURN
SEATTLE, Nov. 18. (IP)—On his
first visit to Seattle, Richard Bartholf,
son of C. A. Bartholf, of Anchorage,
Alasfla, went to a theatre Monday
night and has not been seen since he
left his parents’ home. He had fifty
cents "when he disappeared. C. A.
Bartholf is one of the owners of the
Mable mine at Willow Creek, Alaska.
LESLIE GIRLS AT ANCHORAGE
The Misses Elsie and Cecil Leslie
departed for Anchorage this morning
in connection with their recent pur
chase of the Palace of Sweets soda
fountain, equipment and other stock,
and which will be shipped to Seward
this week. It is expected they will
have their store open by December 1,
according to present plans, at least.
During their brief visit they are
scheduled to be on the program of
the Anchorage broadcasting station
so local radio fans are requested to
listen-in Friday and enjoy this treat.
The sisters will return home Satur
day.
ANTI-SALOONERS THREATEN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (^p)—The
Anti-Saloon league promised to make
a vigorous campaign to combat any
movement to nominate a wet candi
date for the Presidency and all effort
to insert wet planks in the national
party platforms.”
A1 Blair, guide, who recently re
turned to his local headquarters from
the lower Kenai peninsula country,
left for Kenai lake this morning to
look over some quartz property.
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STEFANSSOIt DEPRECATES
LOSS WRANGELL ISLAND
SEATTLE, Nov. 18. (JP)—Stefans
son declared that the loss of Wrangell
Island to Russia “serves the United
States and Great Britain right.” He
predicted that the Arctic would soon
be the center of the inhabited world
with many air routes traversing it.
He said the advantages in air naviga
tion far outrank the disadvantages.
Its ability to save time in transporta
tion by the trans-Arctic routes can
not be neglected.
NEW YORK SUFFERING
FROM GOLD ANO WIND
NEW YORK, Nov. 18. (^—Moder
ately cold weather prevails in East
ern states following a heavy rain
storm with a 72-mile an hour gale
which killed four persons and in
flicted heavy property damage. A
: score of fishing craft were sunk off
! Provincetown, Mass.
. LAUGHLIN CUTS HAND
George Laughlin, who has been with
the Alaska Hills Mines company at
Nuka bay for some time past, met
with a little hard luck recently while
at work when he cut a bad gash in
one of his hands. The injury neces
sitated his coming to Seward for
treatment and in all probabilities he
will remain here over tl^a ?^Ljiter.
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HAL SELBY ILL
H. B. Selby, former publisher of
The Seward Gateway, is very ill in
Bellingham, according to letters re
ceived locally in the last mail, so sick
in fact, that he could not undergo an
operation at the time the letter was
i dispatched.
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HULL'S LETTERS
READ AT HEARING
SOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 18. (/P)—
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall heard the
prosecutor read letters telling of the
• professed love of her husband for
' Mrs. Mills. One letter spoke of “burn
■ ing kisses,” another “holding you for
• the peace that nothing else brings/’
. again “I ant to feel the wonder of the
universe with you, hold you close and
with my left hand and stroke your
. dear face with my right.” Another
head: “Oh, how I did want to get
1 away with you* to dreamland. We can
■ have next Friday afternoon together.”
Mrs. Hall listened to the reading of
1 the letters unmoved. Prior to the
reading, a prosecution witness told
• of dark spots on the clothes of Willie
Stevens, sent to the cleaners follow
ing the murders.
Louise Geist Reihl, former maid
in the Hall household, said Rev. Hall,
in a telephone conversation with
Mrs. Mills on the afternoon before
the slaying said: “That’s too bad.
I am going to church. Can’t we
make arrangements for about a quar
ter to 8.” The maid said she didn’t
know whether Mrs. Hall heard the
conversation. She testified that the
minister later went out, telling his
wife he was “going to see about Mrs.
Mills’ hospital bill.”
DRUG CLERK AND DRUGGIST IN
SINUATE MOORE PREMEDIAT
ED MURDER OF WIFE FEW
DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH
PORT ANGELES, Nov. 18. (/P)—
Ralph Stone, aged 17, a clerk in the
Brayton pharmacy at Sequim, testi
fied that he saw Dr. Moore filling a
capsule ^n a prescription room of
the drug store July 16, 17, or IS.
Mrs. Moore died July 20.
Dr. H. S. Jessup of Sesquim, who
took over Moore’s practice on July 16,
testified that Moore appeared pessi
mistic about his wife’s recovery, and
predicted that she might die the ninth
day after her operation. She was op
erated on July 10. Jessup said he
tasted one of the capsules prescribed
for Mrs. Moore, and asserted it tast
ed bitter. Brayton, owner of the
drug store, said that after Moore was
in the drug store he noticed that a
poison bottle was empty. He testi
fied that Moore, in June, asked him
about the same kind of poison, saying
he wanted to get rid of an animal
around his house, and wanted to
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know how much it would take to kill
it.
OF GIL'S MURDER
SAYS NOT TO BLAME IF NO ONE
SAW LETITIA WHITEHALL AF
TER SHE LEFT OFFICE
SEATTLE, Nov. 18. (£>)—Dr. C. C.
Dobbs, Kirkland dentist, admitted to
a Post-Intelligencer reporter that he
is a suspect in the investigation of
the slaying of Letitia Whitehall, a 14
year-old High School girl, whose body
was found in a slough in Lake Wash
ington. Dobbs said: “I cannot help
it if no one happened to see the girl
after she left my office.”
FATHER SEES SON DIE
IN MINE EXPLOSION
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Nov. 18.
(IP)—A gas explosion in a coal mine
here killed two miners and a boy, in
jured three others and entombed two
a quarter of a mile from the shaft
Eleven miners escaped and were brot
to the surface four hours after the
explosion. Jesse Fogle watched his
son Walter die. The boy was visiting
his father when the blast came. The
workers fled, dragging the boy with
them. He was overcome before a
brattice was erected. The father cov
ered the boy’s head in an unavailing
effort to keep out the fumes.
NEW SEWARD FAMILY
James P. Clark, second officer of
his wife and three '’children who will
the S. S. Starr was accompanied by
make their home in Seward. Mr.
Clark is an experienced navigator and
has had considerable experience in
Alaskan waters.