VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 29. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1929.
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HAUNTED FDD FOUR
YEARS MURDER DF
GIRL, SURRENDERS
SUICIDE PACT AGREED UPON
WHEN GIRL REALIZED
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SEATTLE, Feb., 4, ilP)—Haunted
for four years by his failure to
keep his half of a suicide pact,
Harvey Selhaver, 36, walked into
the police station and confessed to
the murder of his 16-year old
sweetheart, Sarah Elizabeth John
son, in Kingston, New Jersey, on
August 14, 1924.
After shooting the girl he said
he was “So horrified the gun fell
from my hands and I turned and
ran.”
The girl was the eldest of four
daughters of Joseph Johnson, a
farmer for who Selhaver worked.
Shortly after starting to work he
became infatuated with Sarah and
the girl’s mother warned him to
.-ease his attentions. He subse
quently was discharged; this was
a . ...fore u.ie killing.
The suicide pact was agreed
upon when the girl realized she
was becoming a mother.
Selhaver has become so aged.
since the girl’s body was found on
the college campus on the shore
of Carnegie Lake, .hat finally it
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up. His half of the suicide pact,
was revealed at the time of the
girl’s death through a note .whicji
s ic left.
SAILING IS i'ARLIEST I V 1'IHtlOl.
MONTHS AHEAD OTHER
?.OKT!.'iDOUND 12" >ATS
SEATIUI, Feb., 4, el" -Bound
for the Aleutian Islands to harvest
;• quarter of a million dollars or
better in the winter crop of furs
and to supply rancher?, the aux
iliary schooner Iskum and the
new gasoline ranch tender Umnak
Native will sail from Seattle next
Wednesday, says H. E. Bowman,
president of the Kanaga Ranching
Company.
The sailing is the earliest the
company has ever made and is
nearly three months ahead of
other vessels to sail for the North.
Mr. Bowman will be accompanied
by eight others and included in
these will be R. H. Milne, former
ly with the Marshal Wells Hard- j
ware Co., who will take charge of i
the stations on Umnak Island. The ;
Iskum will be commanded by Capt.
James Nare with a crew of six.
COURT CIS FATHER
DAY PRODUCE CHILDREN
NEW YORK, Feb., 4. (A*) —A court
writ was served on Ole F. Wood
ward, giving him 24 hours to pro
duce h;s son and daughter whom
he recently “kidnapped” from a
French school where they were
placed by their mother. Wood
ward is suing his wife for divorce.
SKIPPER OF GASBOAT
ACCUSED OF SHOOTING
JUNEAU, Feb., 4, UP)— Mon
dires Qualo, captain of the gas
boat Herald, of the Northwesten
Fisheries cannery at Hunter Bay,
was arrested accused of shoot
ing Larson Olson with intent to
kill, at Craig. Olson was seriously
wounded on Friday.
BiniEsn
COiST OF HUSH
VESSEL WAS BEING TAKEN TO
OSAKA WHERE IT WAS TO
BE SCRAPPED
DUTCH HARBOR, Feb., 4, (lP)—
After battling a hurricane which
disabled its engines five days off
the coast cf Alaska earlier in the
week, the Steamer Havila is being
surveyed and repaired here. The
vessel was unable to make its
plight known on account of the
wrecked radio.
The S. S. Havila fought the
storm from last Sunday until
Thursday before reaching this port.
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the Hammer. •: ’ • :.:ber Company
from the U. Shipphr-; Beard and
v s be. ’’--.I! tt, Osaka to be
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IND'ANAVOUS. Feb.. 4, UPt—
Miss Rutlr McConnell. 21-year-old
are atm; nd Kenneth Coulter
.1 -eld !; 1 • icier c h_ • m.
license to • wed. Miss McConnell
gained v/irte publicity recently
,/hen ehc fled to the if io toast
:ind vp ' 'oi'i’s'-M-c in 'Mi pirp.11 ( '
i re\r .-cnl.p'vc of C“'Titer. •
METHODIST MINISTER DOING
SOME BOOKKEEPING FOR
HER ORGANIZATION
SEATTLE, Feb., 4, (IP)—Aimee
McPherson charged the legislative
inquiry into the $2,500 gift she
gave Judge Carlos Hardy, was a
political move and contended that
she was a political pawn in the
case.
She passed through Seattle en
route to Vancouver, B. C.. to con
duct evangilistic meetings. She
declared “Its all politics. They want
Hardy out so bad that they are
using my check in an effort to
oust him and I am but a political
pawn. But I am used to it. That
seems to be one of my chief roles.
You know I realize what it is to be
falsely accused because I have
gone all through that.
“If we had had a real auditor
at the time the check was writ
ten this wouldn't have happened
but we had a Methodist minister
doing some of our bookkeeping. I
asked him why he wrote legal on
that check and he said, 'Oh, I saw
it was to the Judge and thought,
of .course. it would lv? rv«*Hfted
under legal’.'’
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i: luding Vtce-Presiden ■ las. G.
On.v os have ret i i hst
Secretary of state K are )••.•
awarded the Nome P< ic: Prize for
’SdB b«caus of Iii : foi h
Pact catlrvciim wars.
AC-hS'.rN TO COMm l.VIISE
LONDON. Feb., -i. i.-i’! -Gene"al
Bramwell Booth i,r.tod h :•
would c; rce to a corn'.", anise with
the Salvation Arm:, high mncil on
realms and it ia ll.eafidh
may be settled with r legal
idjudiration.
; ALASKA WOMAN LEAVES
MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE
SEATTLE, Feb., 4, (A5)—Friends
have been informed that Mrs.
Lena De Grof, wealthy Alaska
mine owner who died in Califor
• nia, left an estate reported to be
! valued at more than $1,000,000.
She lived in both Alaska and Hon
j nolulu and is survived by a son
! an daughter.
TWO FORMER SEWARD RES
IDENTS NAMED OFFICERS
ORGANIZATION
—
SEATTLE, Feb., 4, (A5)—Adopt
ing the name of “Northern Light,”
' former Alaskans now living here,
have arranged to apply for a char
ter for a new lodge of the Free
Masons with a membership con
sisting of former Alaskans.
The officers named are Roscoe
R. Young, formerly of Juneau, as
worshipful master; Cecil G. Goss
of Seward, senior warden; Dr. O.
J. Keating of Seward, junior war
den; Stephen easier of Valdez,
secretary and Henry A. Slater of
C u-dova, treasurer.
Young, easier and Slater are
ail p:at masters of Alaskan lodges.
WASHINGTON. FAx. -1. til
Chairman O'Connor, of the United
States Shipping Board, tek! Prem
Jent Oooliclge that the United
states and American Merchant
line s will Id . ris week. P. W.
Chapman & Co. is the probable
buyers
PBEHY KB
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LETTER WAS FRAMED; ASKED
FOR HER REMOVAL AS A
TEACHER
SEATTLE, Feb., 4, (/P)—A fiery
controversy between a Quaker
missionary in Alaska and a beaut
iful 21 old woman of Renton, Wn.,
who taught school in the Terri
tory, flared into flame here Sat
urday when Mrs. Elanor D. Fort
son entered suit for $15,000 against
Delbert H. King, preacher, charg
ing him with slander.
She charged King accused her
of having been a cabaret dancer
which statement resulted in her
losing a school job twro years ago.
Attorneys for both parties pic
ture a religious fight with King a
strict Quaker, disapproving of the
woman’s activities in Kotzebue
and Noorvik, where she taught
school.
Local officials of the Bureau of
Education denied she had been
removed stating that she had quit
the service on her own accord be
cause of ill health. Her husband
is also an Alaska teacher.
The complaint cites a letter
sent to the bureau from Alaska
requesting the woman's removal.
A lawer declared the preacher
' • 5 i rop
ertj but King’s lawyer says his
c lieni is only a poor missionary.
The complaint recites the con
troversy began tit Noorvik' where
she was asked to speak before a
gathering of Eskimos in King’s
church. After the meeting Eskimo
Elders, with King, framed a let
ter asking her removal as a
teacher. The letter charges she
took charge of the church and
preached the wrong kind of doc
trine; that they should play cards,
dance and commit adultery.
King's church is indentified
with “Friends Missions’’ which is
said to be an off-shoot of a Quaker
organization in Los Angeles.
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i lie Chicago Civic Opera compan y will close its activities at its home of \
40 years (interior upper left) and move next fall to its new 42-story build- 1
ing (lower right). Adelina Patti (upper right) appeared in “Romeo and (
Juliet” when the old Auditorium opened in 1889. The same Shakespearean ;
drama will close the old building, wit h Edith Mason (lower left) as Juliet. I f
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II. S„ SO. MICH
SIANT SIDORSKY AMPHIBIAN
PLANE CARRIES THE FIRST
LOAD OF MAIL
HAVANA, Feb., 4, (/P)—Col. Chas.
4. Lindbergh, completing the first
ap of the first airmail flight to
Danama, landed here two hours
md thirteen minutes after taking
iff from Miami. An hour later he
lopped off from Havana for Belize,
British Honduras, on the second
ap where he hoped to reach by
ifternoon.
Colonel Lindbergh piloted the
siant Sidorsky amphibian plane,
rith its first load of mail for Cris
obal, Panama Canal Zone, ac
ompanied by Henry Buskey, ra
tio operator; Colonel Hambleton
nd J. T. Trippe, of the Pan Amer
:an Aircraft Corporation.
Tomorrow Lindbergh continues
n to Managua, Nicaragua where,
fter another night’s rest, a
light to Cristobal will be made.