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FORTY KILLED IN BIG TRAIN WRECK
CONSTITUTION NOT 1CIOE NO COIMNMl UW
MANY PERISH WHEN
TRAIN PLUNGES
JHRU BRIR6E
CASPER, Wyoming, Sept. 29—Thirty people, mainly residents of
inter mountain cities perished when a bridge collapsed and plunged a
Chicago Burlington and Qunicy passenger train into the swollen Coal
Creek at midnight Thursday.
CASPER, Sept. 29—This morning, thirty hours after the Chicago
Burlington passenger train dropped through the bridge over Coal Creek,
only two bodies out of a total of 40 victims of the wreck bad been
recovered, owing to continued flood waters.
DENVER. Sept. 29—A special dispatch to the Denver Post from
Casper, Wyoming says that one of the submerged cars of the Burl ngton
train which plunged into Coal Creek near Casper, Thursday night has
been pulled from the stream and eight persons were found alive ;u the
car. The dead is now estimated between forty and fifty.
ADVOCATES REPEAL
' OF PROHIBITION
AMENDMENTS
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 29—Waldo Newcomer, President of the
National Bank Division of the American Bankers Association in a speech
at a convention of the Association, advocated the repeal of the prohibition
amendment and said the constitution was not intended to be a code of
criminal law, but meant to lay down respective rights for the National
and 8tate governments and added, opens the way for amendments cov
ering all crimes.
UNITER STATES MARINES WIN NATIONAL MATCH
CAMBERRY, Sept. 29—The United States Marine Corps won the
National Rifle Team Match in what was termed as the feature event of
the National Rifle Association Tournament, with a score of 2836 or
sixty points better than the Cavalry or Infantry who finished third with
the Navy finishing in fourth place.
FOUNDER OF UNION OIL COMPANY DEAD
SEATTLE, Sept. 29—Lyman Stewart, founder of the Union Com
pany and a Dean operator in California died in Seattle yesterday accord
ing to a dispatch received today.
U. 8. WINS CUP IN AIR MEET
OOWBS, England, Sept. 29—United States won the Schneider
Cup at the World’s Chicago Naval Air Trophy Meet. The American
seaplane covered the course in 72 minutes.
RUMORS OF REPUBLIC FOR TURKEY
it—A Havas dispatch from Vienna says R is
rumored in that city that s Repullc form of government has been decid
ed on In Turkey.
A. F. OF L. PLACES CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL ON TRIAL
PORTLANP, Sept. 2t—The Seattle Central Labor Council whose
Union International Congress of Moscow
in defiance of*the Washington State Federal Labor Commission la on
trial today before the American Federation of Labor m Portland, Oregon.
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INJUNCTION FILED
AGAINST OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL GUARDS
OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. 29—Injunction proceedings to restrain
Adjutant General Markham and all members of the Oklahoma National
Guard from interfering with a Special Session of the Lower House of
the State Legislature was tiled in the State District Court in Oklahoma
MARTIAL LAW WIDENS IX OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 29—Stringent martial law in Oklahoma
spread further in the State last night when the Governor ordered troops
to Payne County in response from the District Judge of Cushing.
NATIONAL CH ARD ORDERED INTO MI RRAY COUNTY
OpLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 29—Troops of the Oklahoma National
Guard were ordered into Murray County last night in response to an
appeal from citizens of Sulphur, who charged the local authorities with
neglect in apprehending perpetrators of m<*b outrages in that district.
GOVERNOR HONE MAKES STATEMENT OX ALASKA DEVELOPMENT
VANCOUVER. Sept. 29 Governor Scott ('. Hone in passing thru
Vancouver enroute to Washington, said, Harding’s death would not halt
Alaska’s development along the lines indicated by the late Executive in
his last speeches.
NEW DESIGN CLUB TO BE USED IN GOLF
NEW YORK. Sept. 28-—The United Stales Golf Association an
nounced that after January first all slotted or punched clubs will be
barred, stamped lines may be used if they do not exceed one sixteenth
of an inch in 'width and are not less than three thirty seconds of an
inch apart.
LARGE SHIPMENT
OF SHEEP ON WAY
TO UNALASKA ID.
SEATTLE. Sept. 29 Two thousand specially bred Oregon sheep,
destined for Chernofskl on Unalaska Island were shipped yesterday on
the freighter Oduna. The sheep were consigned to the Stock Raising
Station of the Western Pacific Live Stock Raising Station of the Aleutian
Live Stock Company and the Western Pacific Live Stock Company of
Unalaska Island, where the climatic conditions and geological surveys
indicate the land to be ideal for sheep raising. This shipment was the
largest ever shipped to Alaska.
NEW JURY SYSTEM INAUGURATED NOME
A Jury was drawn in the U. S. Commissioner’s Court in Nome
today, the first one to be drawn under the new system which allows
ladies to serve on Juries, and also provides that the names be drawn from
a box with 75 percent of the names of voters in the Cape Nome precinct.
The Jury which was drawn today is to set in the case of the U. S.
re. Sam Larson and Peter Cass in an alleged violation of the Alaska Bone
Dry Law. Below are the names of the jurors drawn from the box:
Mrs. E. Williams, Chas. Kennedy, Mrs. W. P. Keane, Mrs. W. F.
Lehmann, Jens Olsen, Mrs. Louise Walsh, August Holmburger, A. L.
Carpenter, M. Jacobsgaard, Ralph Lomen, James A. Swartzell and Harry
• the ease for which thia Jnry was drawn will be tried before
Commissioner Charles Tfebrnfon, tVeaday. October 2nd in the Commie
HonerVCburt of the Cape Nome ttedifiet.
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ENRAGES BOARDER
KILLS LANDLADY
MAIMS HER SON
TACOMA, Sept. 29 John Carl, 74 years old. killed his landlady,
Mrs. Eunice Anderson, 35 years of age, with a hammer, following an
argument when he requested that noise in the rooming house stop. He
also dealt a blow which may result in the death of Mrs. Anderson's son,
Arthur, who is 9 years of age.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE KILI/KD IX AUTO COLLISION
SEATTLE Sept. 29 -Janice L. Cole, a graduate of the University
of Washington and an employee of the Federal Reserve Bank was killed
in an automobile collision yesterday. The deceased is a daughter of
Charles Cole.
ELECTION FIGHTS REPORTED FROM MANILA
MANILA, Sept. ‘29—Many l»Iits occurred during the Insular
elections on October 2nd in Manila according to a tispatch received
SEATTLE DIVORCE
CASE OFFERS A
DIG SENSATION
SEATTLE, Sept. 29—Mrs. Blanche Seavey and Mrs. Sophia Gard
ner who are former maids of Mrs. Bruckhardt, in personal statements
and thru affidavits, gave damaging testimony yesterday afternoon in
Judge Hall’s Court, against the wife of P. O. Bruckhardt the Alaska
Canneryman. Their statements direct and by affidavit alleged gross in
discretions by Mrs. Bruckhardt in her relations with Jerry O'Keefe,
Bruckhardt’s Alaska houseboy, and Maurice Galpin, the family chauffeur.
Mrs. Bruckhardt was also pictured as being frequently drunk and with
having had love affairs with a Denver man.
AMKltK’A.V FEDERATION OF LABOR HOLDS CONVENTION
PORTLAND, Sept. 29—The American Federation of Labor are
holding their Annual Convention at Portland. Oregon, according to a
dispatch received this morning.
SECOND BASEMAN FINED $500
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28—-Hornsby, who is the star second baseman
for St. Louis, was. fined five hundred dollars and suspended indefinitely
for refusing to play in yesterday’s game with Brooklyn. President.
Breadon of the St. Louis Club declared that Hornsby, who has been out
of the game since Sept. 9th with skin affecion. declined to play after
his physician pronounced him fit to return to the game.
SAN FRANCISCO MAN APPOINTED HEAD ALASKA R. R.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Lee H. Randis of San Francisco was
appointed today as General Manager of the Alaska Railway. The ap
pointment is effective October 1st, 1923. The appointment was declared
at the Interior Department to be the result of a decision reached by
Secretary Work, that with actual completion of the construction of the
road, the property should have a man in charge who is ah experienced
railroad man. Randis will leave at once for Anchorage.
LEAVING ON LAST BOAT
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