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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1925
Page
2
Springfield dispatch reports William Jinnings Bevan will retire from the platform to write memoirs after the evolution trial at Dayton Tennessee against Professor Scopes, marking an exit from public speaking in the near future.
A jumble of travelers and officials aboard ships Queen Estebeth Alaska and other vessels are noted in Juneau. Sapiro of Cordova sails home on the Yukon. Leila Patek returns to spend summer with parents. Miss Anna Palmer sails toward Seward from Anchorage. Capt. M. C. Martin and Mrs. Martin relocate to the States. Armour and National Grocery Company reps arrive on Queen. Local broker B. C. Delzelle returns post North. Marjorie Charles departs for Petersburgh. Several other named travelers, names and origins, are listed arriving or departing Juneau boats and hotels during a bustling harbor period.
The defense freely admitted yesterday at the trial of former Judge Fremont Campbell, charged with embezzlement as Secretary-Treasurer of the Pinta Hay Alaska Mining Company, that the company did not re-
The testimony notes an admission that some stock was sold without proper sales records. This admission came after the prosecution offered to prove unrecorded sales as part of the case.
Omaha report notes four killed and extensive property and crop damage from two small tornadoes and storms sweeping the southern section of the state with several injured. Chicago dispatch tallies fourteen dead across the Midwest from wind and electrical storms, including five near Minneapolis, four in Iowa, four in Nebraska, and one in Montana.
The Albert Trayman case closed in Federal District Court this afternoon with the jury retiring to deliberate after 3 p.m. He faces charges of violation of the prohibition laws possession and sale of liquor and maintenance of a public nuisance. His Front Street establishment was shut under a temporary injunction issued by Judge Reed this week.
Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor chief of Engineers plans a 30 day Alaska tour to inspect engineering works and see as much of the territory as possible. He will sail from Seattle around July 7 aboard the Dellwood, visit southeastern communities, then continue westward to inspect river and harbor programs under federal control. Col. Steese will arrange parts of the itinerary and may meet him at Seattle to coordinate the visit.
Eighteen year old Chaim Ezra Cohen, a student at Chicago University, was ordained as a rabbi at B Nai Molshe Synagogue in Chicago. He is believed to be the youngest rabbi in the country.
The event is expected to draw a large crowd from both clubs with several out of town guests. The program features vocal and instrumental music readings and talks. It is in two parts and a clipper will be served during the intermission.
I W Newell an officer of Ladd & Tilden Portland leads a party of eleven young ladies on the steamship Queen. The group is composed of members of the Union Pacific Railroad Club of Portland.
John FF Steffeen, formerly of Juneau, secured Cordova's contract to construct a new high school building ready for next winter. The reinforced concrete, two story on one side and four on the other, measures SL by 40 feet and connects to the current school for grade use. The project price is 346 725 dollars.
Miss Helen North spent a long visit with friends in Juneau and missed the Alaska steamer bound for the south from Cordova tonight. She was a year in Juneau before heading to Cordova last fall where she worked as bookkeeper for Frye-Brulin and in Blum & O'Neil in Cordova. Despite losing her possessions by the missed sailing she welcomed the time in Juneau and friends are glad she is back.
The steamship Jefferson of the Alaska Steamship Company is due to arrive at 6 p m from Skagway and Haines. It will take on a cargo of concentrates from the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company dock and remain in port about two hours.
Preparations were completed for a program and supper tonight at 8 o clock hosted by the Juneau Women's Club for the Douglas Island Woman's Club at the I Forget-Me-Not Tea Room. The event aims to foster fellowship between the clubs.
Benjamin Smith father of Mrs John Kelly died at Fairbanks May 21 aged 3 years He was born in England came to the United States in youth locating at Lebanon Pennsylvania He married in Shenandoah lens and later lived in Shenandoah Shenandoah Indiana retired five years ago and moved to Fairbanks to live with his daughter and son in law Burial will be at Shenandoah Indiana and the remains will be accompanied there by Mr and Mrs Kelly.
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