The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 8

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Crony. | Continuea rrom Page One) | 1| Ernost Lee Pulver's life was én-| i3 Japeaexs sish 29, Goes to bed JOLIET, Illinois, Feb. 23.—Three | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23— } 4 ‘.tangled by the Fatés il aaia | u. ‘l;i;n;;l"tnrna %g: g;f:;-‘uw. :convicts were killed when lowering | The Senate has passed and sent to but ry {akein. After years Of nmmobaRous| 15 NOI stvére 32 Mexican dish themselves to freedom over a 20- | the House the Smoot bill authoriz- i s e both i flowing B Ea s | 1L St 33 Knock o | {00t wall of the State Penitentiary |ing $20.877.000 for new Veterans' ne urmi a jeweler and in looking after the| . Fame . Nt 50, Builds tribe of Dan | here just before dawn Sunday. &hospital construction. Mr. Pu ore. 1 re late Emery Valentine, the cup of 29. };:ml.nmu Latin 6L Calm igi mr(;t:,arl;;um | Joseph Norkiewicz and Julio| The Senate passed the bill after turned about good fortune, overflowing, was giv-| 30 Hold back 4“. ‘n‘let:r‘)lrels:mm 5 DOWN 28, Draft animals !chnlenn, both convicted of a con-|eliminating the provision to re- hour, and then the night lights in |en him, and just as he wastabout| ** SSKEOR . (g live again Lo+ miomd e fidence game, and Alvin J. Kilman, | duce Veterans' compensation 50 store were on. He had evi- A |to raise it, suddenly it was dashed| s1. Alack 4 48. Gelatinlike 1. Manifest 42. Take out convicted of robbery, were the per cent while in a hospital er shop and got ¢ 1 |death, the Valentine Bullding, was| 0. Mother: dfal agar-agar season 41. Roman hous 1‘”‘:}’“ s of the kitchen detail. |tute for two House measures au- ed the entrance to the| | part of a rich estate that had been| il God of love 49. Ezultant 4. Fipish hold god uards were warned three weeks | thorizing $15,000,000 for specified ago the three men would attempt |projects for Federal Board hospital- o'clock e about y way to my own store, I thoug Mr. Pulver might be dozing at the {bequeathed him and that was ex- pected to pass soon to his absolute |ownership and control. & A | to escape but they never had a | chance. ization. The Smoot bill gives the Board a lump sum. now desk in the rear corner of the | | Mr. Pilver came 0 JtriaattaNous 7 Focused by the high prison| Under the Smoot bill location of jewelry store as he often did 1 |30 years ago. He was an excellent .--...//% searchlight, the men jumped, not| new projects will be determined. the door. It was not| | worker at the jeweler’s trade. S8oon 7 1 | heeding the command to halt. I R A T locked. I e d. The furnace | after his arrival here he was em- -... %“... Two automobiles, parked near-| LAWYER RETURNS HOME was making a noise, and I thought | (ployed by the late Mr. Valentine /A by, roared away in a hail of slugs; R. E. Robertson. 1awyer, was an he might be below in the furnace Business arrangements soon merged 7 7/ /8 q9 from guns of guards and eluded | incoming passenger on the Princess room. From the jewelry store 4 into strong friendship, Mr. Pulver % / pursuers. Norah Sunday from Seattle, where I went into the adjoining little room lns: Jam the reabibleii e the 47/ 7] g " hail besh-cafled on legal busi- in which the floor trap-door to the | property of Mr. Valentine when the .-fl%/%.-/ Hrttvry HEAS furnace room stairway is always [fatier: dien 1ast Sénktie A ELETCTRICAL WORK R R d open. 1 called down the! " Valuable Business Property %// (S e s A L Daily Empire waoe Ads Tay. irway. Excessive heal came from The property consists of the Val- % pitch dark furnace room. Not g how to turn on the ligl tened to my own store and g electric flash light On r » top of the fur y, I went down cau- room st tiously. is very n eps T miss one’s foot- asily One could e ing. When part way. down, I per- NEWPORT NEWS, ship to the President Hoover, James River. ite here to christen the The Pre eni Coolidge is one be built in American yards, the same ter | the i ship. The lifeboats will be equipped ‘| sends out SOS calls when turned on until you think bm"w[ Feb. 23—The President Coolidge, sis-! is prepared for the initial dive into Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. John Coolidge are| | of st the largest merchant ships t with an as the President Hoover and gned to enter the Trans-Pacific service of the Dollar Line. automobile radio which | entine Building at the corner of Seward and Front Streets, and the stock of goods in the Valen- tine jewelry store in .the struc- ture; the building occupied by Wol- land, the tailor, and Ordway’s Pho- tograph Store on Front Street; the Arctic Building, occupled by the Arctic Cigar and Billiard Hall and the Pioneer Barber Shop, also on Front Street; a lot occupied by a sheet iron garage on the east side of Franklin Street, immediately o ceived the form of Mr. Pulver. His [Tl keep it ) 24 Do A o ol e e Maia|or i, 1 told bim: T put 1 in my| | Accommts Short” - (oon 2 £ FeR S chest. I felt his hand. From its|safe. It is still there. = . ——1 | occupied by old wooden buildings tous I apprehended the worst. T “When Mr. Pulver was not drink- on the West side of Franklin Street L o o Wl AadEE NN NN JEE JE I WL IRy LT T T T T T H T went to Mr. Fox's office and he|ing he was not at -all superstitious p: between the Juneau Lat i und d notified the Commissioner and the| Mr. Truesdell sa;[q_Mr_. _Fl.ll-,rix- was s e g ’g’n i TR RS, I M;-v"rm_ I got a plumber to shut |61 _\mx.s‘ukl. W 15‘ birthday wsas south side of Second Street between PaPers to asceriain if he left a will, JUNEAU ON HOLIDAY | off the furnace. Valentine's day, February 14. ki Strost and the unding Norie has beenfound, SCHEDULE FOR TODAY Juneau today quietly observed the Washington Birthday anniver-| sary, the usual holiday regime clos- ing all business houses, Government and private offices. All Territorial and Federal offices remained closed In Appreciation of Our First President GEORGE WASHINGTON Store Closed All Day “He may noy have appeared so old,” expls d the witness, “be-| cause he was careful to keep his| and mustache dyed black.’ L. P. Dawes was Mr. Pul- s physiclan. The doctor was called st after the finding of|| the body amined it Mr. Truesdell has been put in charge of all the Valentine estate properties by Commissioner Sey. Appointment of an administrator) for them will be held in abeyanw1 until the return of Grover C. Winn,! who was Mr. Pulver's attorney. Mr. Winn is coming from Seattle on “I was very well acquainted with . Pulver. Almost daily he came | o my store three or four times. 1 frequently went into the jewel store. I had seen him Saturda just how late in the day, I do not| remember, but whenever it was, I} remember that he was not under occupied by Mrs. Winn's Hat Shop The only obligations imposed in Mr. Valentine’s will on Mr. Pulver was that the latter should pay $50 |a month to Mrs. Gertrude Thomp- son, of Juneau, colored widow, for the rest of her life on condition that she should not marry, and $15 He LT upper steps, and|[g plunged I downward to the| bottom, a distance of perhaps eight | feet. There was a bruise on the| forehead. | Was Rendered Unconscious “I surmise that he was rend unconscious. His head was t and twisted under his body. Tn such a position, he could not’ breathe and being unconscious he could not right himself. My con- the on one of store, he gave me an envelope with figures writ- ten on it. ‘Ti are the combi- nation figures to the two safes in the jewelry store’, he said. ‘You'll need them some day.’ I laughed. He had been drinking. On his in- sistence, however, T took the enve- lope. I still have it. It is in my safe. “Frequently, when he was drink- ing he would declaim about the hoodoo attached to a ring he wore. BACK FROM PETERSBURG M. E. Monagle, lawyer, has re- turned from a business trip to Petersburg. He was a passenger on the Queen. of his visits to my the influence of liquor “The skull was not fractured, the a month to Mr. Vale 0 0 s i g Hi 3 ntine's brother, the steamship Alameda, due here|throughout the day except the Post | 2 Premonitions of Dvoath :w}rck w snmi'._br_qken;th -l'»f(:“'-c;{ Julian Valentine, of Central City, tomorrow. Office where the general denverfl ‘Recalling the pnst_ now, he seem- [the coroner’s jury. y opinion is Col., for the rest of his life. A brother, 8. . Pulver, living in|window remained open between 10| ed to have premonitions of early [Mr. Pulver tripped near the top Executor Without Bonds Lyons, N. Y. and a sister, Mrs. and 11 a. m | death. About a month ago, on one [of the stairs or missed his footing The Valintine ‘Will Weaavaied -dir Nntha’n M ”WIlson an'lg m Rl Lt e ‘ < 3 | probate September 18, and in ac- cordance with its terms Mr. Pulver was appointed executor ~without ibonds. A few days before his death, Mr. Pulver said he expected that the estate would be settled and that titles to the propetty Brownsville, Tex., are believed to be the only surviving relatives of Mr. Pulver. They have been com-| municated with. Mr. Pulver and Mrs. Loppie Lock- hart were married some years ago. They were divorced from each other would be vested in him within four and she left Juneau about 15 years months. | ago. As executor, Mr. Pulver had col-| ~Mr. Pulver was a member in good; lected the rentals of the Valentine standing of the Loyal Order of properties and had conducted ‘thie Moose and of the Independent Or- R Associated Press Photo Mrs. Emma Fowler, former city reasurer of La Grande, Ore., was red rned sharged with larceny of public ‘unds when officials declared her wccounts were $112,000 short. It is set with three diamonds. I:|clusion is that he died ef suffo-| — —— had belonged to Emery Valentine, |cation. | Valentine Jewelry Store business. der of Odd Fellows. His body is who also had often declared it was| “There was no odor of iiquor UNE PLUYED The store’s patronage had fallen at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. | a hoo-doo and who had worn it|about him—mnot the slightest. My 8 off the last year of Mr. Valentine's Arrangements have not yet been until just before his death. Last|judgment is that he was not un-| life due to recurrent attacks of ill- made for the funreal suffered by him, Mr. | ———— ness andy Pulver had tried to build up the ATTENTION EASTERN STARS trade. He had employed Mrs. Halbra, Juneau Chapter No. 7, O. E. 8., Mohn as a clerk, She went to Sitka will meet Tuesday evening at 8| about 10 days ago and is still pm., Feb. 24th. Initiation and| there. , entertainment. Visiting members| At direction of TUnited States invited. Commissioner Charles Sey, who is also probate judge, M. H. Trues-| dell, long-time friend of Mr. Pulver, | has made a search of the latter'’s —adv. der the influence of liquor ab the time of the accident.” | Mr. Norstrand was the only other| witness at the inquest. Immedi- ately after Mr. Truesdell went into Mr. Fox's office and informed Mr. Fox and Mr. Nostrand aoout find- ing Mr. Pulver, Mr. Nostrand has-| tened to the furnace room. He| confirmed the statements of Mr. Friday, Mr. Pulver, who had been( drinking, came into my store and! extending his hand and spreading £ out his fingers, abused the ring as 5 an object of ill-omen. He wanted to give it to me. I declined it Tried to Jump on Ring “He took it off his finger, threw i it on the floor, and was about to ] jump on it, when I picked it up. IN MEXICALI UNDER GUARD Mexican Federal Troops Called Out—Ameri- cans Discharged JESSIE KELLER, Worthy Matron. FANNIE L. ROBINSON, Secretary. SARGON Butler, Mauro Drug Co. ! “When We Sell It—It’s Right” | TELEPHONE 134 WE DELIVER Express Money Orders i MEXICALI, Mexico, Feb. 23.— Hundreds of Mexicans, unnerved by pangs of hunger and lack of work roam the city going uneasily through the streets under watch- Quality I ro duCts J lful eyes of Federal soldiers who stand guard over stores for fear of {mob violence. The situation became tense over- night when heavy rains threw hun- dreds of men out of work in the agricultural sections, without money with which to buy food. | The crowds became a menace to | {stores and proprietors of grocery | | stores, fearing their establishments { would be stormed, handed out food | without charge until the crowds be- \came so large the soldiers were called to disperse them. | One American, Perly Matthews, suspected of attempting to steal tood, refused to obey a police com- | mand to halt and was shot. A Mex- | ican standing nearby, was also hit by bullets. Both will recover. Gov. Detejada, secking a solution of the situation has issued a blan- ket order to discharge all American employees in Mexicali and replace them with Mexican labor. Store closed all day Monday in honor of Washington’s Birthday CALIFORNIA GROCERY PHONE 478 § | | Truesdell and Doctor Dawes as to| the position of the body. | At the conclusion of the testi-| mony, the jury had no hesitancy | in arriving at the verdict of “acci- | dental death by suffocation.” WE HONOR THE MEMORY OF THAT - GREAT AMERICAN v j GEORGE W ASHINGTON Store Closed All Day Monday STORE CLOSED ALL DAY In Observance of Washington’s Birthday Condiiion of Sam Hill Is Critical | PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 23.—Sam| Hill is in a critical condition fol-} lowing an operation last Thursday.| Hospital attendants said the fa-| mous road builder passed a bad night. Relatives have been noti- fied of the change. A son, James N. Hill has left New York by air- plane to be at his father’s bed- side. 4 In Observance of WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY Store Closed Monday GARNICK’S-—Phone 174 George Brothers Leader Department Store Junémfs Own Store ., Daity cmpire wane Ads Pay.