The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1923, Page 3

PET es i kd @xereriterereme 5 CHILDREN AN 2 MOTHERS BURN Meet Terrible Death While Trapped in Blazing House WALLACEBURG, Ont, Deo, 8. Trapped in the kitchen of a blazing farmhouse, two mothers and thelr five children were burned to death near here last night, Nearly all the bodies were found in the kitchen and near the door, Indi cating a desperate attempt to escape the flames just before the roof fell in, Mrs. Harry Babeock, Wallaceburg, and her four children, and Mra, Ram: say, Port Huron, Mich, and her baby son, were the victims, Mra, Ramsay was a sister of Mra, Bab. cock, WIFE IS SLAIN; HUSBAND HELD MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. &— ‘The headless body of Mra Ora Tompkins, wife of E, Ray Tomp- kins, wealthy Milwaukee business man, was found in a shallow ditch in a ravine, 25 miles north of here today. Tompkins is held by police pend- ing Investigation The head fs still missing. Sheriff Westphal, who had charge of the hunt for the woman, sald the head had been hacked off with a blunt instrument. The body was nude and buried In 1 shallow grave Tompkins accompanied Westphal and other police officers to the grave. He appeared unmoved as the huddled body was brought to view, But he broke down and wept"at police headquarters. “Tam innocent,” he said. “Please be patient with me until we can determine who has done this thing.” TOKYO SLAYER IS. SENTENCED Gendarmerie Captain, Killer of Three, Gets Ten Years BY CLARENCE DUBOSE (United Press Staff Correspondent) TOKYO, Dec. $.—Captain Amkasu, of the gendarmie, today was sen. t ed to 10 years’ imprisonment for the murder of socialist leader Osugi, Osugi's wife and thelr 6-yearold nephew. The murder followed arrest of Osu- gi after the Japanese earthquake and fire, when many socialists were held ander guard to prevent disorders which were feared. Amkasu committed while guarding the Osugi family. Osugi was probably the best known of the Japanese socialist leaders, not only In Japan, but in Europe and America, Men Believed in Gas Holdup Case With the arrest of D. L. Morgan, 22, and Willis Thels, 18, Fridey nigh! detectives believed Saturday that they had frustrated one and possi bly more holdups of gasoline sta tions. Morgan and Theis are alleged to have proposed the holdup to an auto driver, asking him to drive the ban- dit car. Detectives Ross C. Watson and J. L. Willams arrested the palr t Fourth ave. and Main st. They admitted proposing the holdup, Capt, | Charles Tennant said, and declared they had just arrived in Seattle from Spokane. Police Hunt for TRIPLE POWER So Police Court Violators, Watch Out! If you mako or soll moonshine, speed your auto, parc by fireplug, | or beg on the atree!, you'd better wateh your step, ‘These or any other violations of olty ordinances Will draw Just three times as stiff @ penalty an they have bofere, Po: Mee Judge John B, Gordon warned Saturday, A recent law pasnod by the lets: lature providing for stiffer penal Aiea in such cases has just become effective thru ratification by the elty council. The law provides for greater juris@lction and power for the police court, Carl Peterson, $37 EB. 88rd at, [Was tho first victim of the now! law. Poterson, arrested Thursday | jon & charge of operatiny a still, | Tleaded guilty, He was astonished | when Judge Gordon said, “you're! fined $300 ant must serve 60 days jin jal,” | Under the provions cede, the maximum penalty in| Peterson's case wou 1 have been a $100 fine and 30 days in jail, Now it is a fine of 8300 and $0 daya in Jal, Speeders may now be sent to jail for a month at the will of the court. Drunken drivers may now be jailed for three months and fined $300. In every instance of city ordi. nance breaking the penalty has beon tripled. ‘The lowly traffic tag for parking In restricted areas, former- ly calling for a $2 fine, now means $8 from the driver'y poe “I am glad the jurisdiction of my court haa been increased," said Judge Gordon, Saturday Many |timea 1 have haa prisoners before jme who deserved much heavier sen. jtences than I could give them. Now |the court will be ablo to pass a [stiffer sentence and in that way {ereate a new and greater respect }for our offv Inws.* pollee court | | HERE'S MORE ABOUT SHIPWRECK STARTS ON PAGE 1 | Finding of the bodies in the posl- | tion reported and the dixcovery ir | day of the superstructure of the Lak leads him to belleve that there either a collision or that his stea! truck on Belle Rock or some buckled and filled. | The Snohomish Saturday was b: ing about the numerous island pe ages in the hopes of sighting some of the survivors, including the cop-| jtain, ashore on some uninhablt | island without means of communicat jing their condition to any settle. | |ments. Weatter Friday was com.| | paratively rough, but Saturday dawn. | the murdersied clear and calm and there were| Jovernor, |great hopes in Friday Harbor that | |the mystery would be cleared. Search. | ing was carried on Thursday by the | | Snohomish, a salvage tug chartered | |by Marvin, and a Friday Harbor fish | boat utilized by Prosecutor Buck and | |the sheriff's party. | | Of thono identtiied, Uddenderg, the | |mate, had served aboard the veteran | | veasel for 11 months. Ho was %4/ lyears old and is survived by his| | widow, Mrs. Louisa Uddenberg. and| two sons, Keith and Signo Udden- | bers, Jr. and his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Axel Uddenberg, of Gig Harbor. | Two sisters, Ada and Alice, reside in| | n, the chief engineer, was 31 years old. He is survived by his| | widow, Mra. Carrie Larsen; three sis. ters and a brother, and his parents, |Mr. and Mrs, Carl Larsen, of Port Orchard. j |“INDIANS” ARE | | GIVEN TREAT x Manuel Rozas, president of the Philippine legislature, to Washington, D. Rozras was much clared. | stopped in Seattle Saturday en route from his native land where he will plead for independence | for his country and the removal of Gen. Leonard Wood as pleased with Seattle, he de- HEIRS WIN IN CARMACK CASE Court Decision Clears Big Point in Fortune Fight A decisi bellaved will adjust- ment of the disposition of the $100,000 estate of George Washing- ton Carmack, mn which it is result In the speedy Alaska pioneer trap- per and hunter and discoverer of the enormoualy rich Klondike gold fields, was handed down Saturday by Judge King Dykeman. The decision was regarded as an important victory for the heirs as against the claims of Mrs. Mar Wartime Resident) tndians, nearty 200 of them, and| suerite Carmack, second wife of Detective H. W. Potter of the po- lice missing persons bureau, was searching Saturday for trace of Fred , who disappeared from Seattle ars ago. Sallf was working in the shipyards durin war when last heard from, according to Potter, | locate | who received a request to Salif from Mrs. W. H. Hemphill, 127 Lagrave ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Hemphill ts a sister of the miss- ing man. To Dedicate Church at Foster Sunday ation services for the new to take place Sunday, with the Rev, Mark A pastor of the Firet Pres- e, officiat- cation | iz e, with da big Government Orders Probe of Gas Price WASHINGTON, i. 8.—Agres ment, sald to have entered into by certain for control of been najor of] companies gasoline prices and tion of future under rtment invest of justice, 8 learned veral prosecutio : months warrarit anti-trust 1 ‘6 is not yet read WIFE'S SINGIN ell, if anyth be able to kee oor by sing! pack of ‘e uy from the A whole 16,000 PERSONS To BE KILLED. IN 1924 IN AUTO ACCIDENTS De xteen |all young braves, flooded The Star’s| circulation office Friday night, all| in full regalia and eager to have| a “heap big good tim And be-| |fore the night was over each and/| levery one had to admit that he aid | have a good time. | The “Indians” were all Star car- m™. The boys are divided into} | “tribes” according to the districts |in which they serve and on Friday | night nearly every member of every | | tribe was present at a big ‘“Pow-| | Wow.” | Boxing, wrestling, games and nearly everything else that is dear| to young boyhood the big party, and |tainment, in the office hausted they tramped down to the | Pan theater and attended the show as guests of ger Duncan Inverarity. The main reason for the big Vow” was the opening of the big new addition to The Star bulld-| |ing, which has just been | pleted after the enter. was ¢x 9 o'clock com po Serna eae 3 reer Be BLACKIE BEAR TO HAVE LITTLE CHAT WITH SANTA CLAUS || EAL crimpy this wasn’t it? When I went outside at o'clock I could tell by the way my fur ruffled that it wasn't more than de. grees, The weath er man said the same thing when I dropped in to seo him, and he || also said it's been || colder only this year so far. That was on the morning of the first of December, nen Jack Frost shoved the mer. cury down to 33. I'm going to drop in at one of the stores and have a chat with Santa Claus today. There'll be jota of children there, and ought to be as m grown-ups. It's watch folks try to act ested in truth @ nor | morning, once unconcerned Old Santa, when the wn, there's on who doesn’t get quite when they see him, That's 00, The trouble is they childish. And it is rt of it AE | was in order at] | When Carmack to the | |attie property in the estate ferty had Carmack ‘The legal battle over the Car- mack estate has been waged flerce- ly by heirs of the deceased miner, sined Carmack’s death in Seattle nearly two years ago. Mra. Mar: guerite Carmack, widow of the Klondike miner, his daughter Gra- phie Grace Carmack Saftig, and heirs of Kate Mason Carmack, the Tagish squaw wife of the miner and mother of Graphie, share of the property. IMPORTANT POINT 18 CLEARED UP Judge Dykeman’s decision Satur- day cleared up the most {mportant nt in the ntroversy died he left a will which said his estate should be divided among his heirs, “atcording inheritance laws of. the state of Washington.” The widow, Mra. mack, asked to be appointed admin- istratrix, She filed her final repor in which tate con- tained nothin She claim: ed that Seattle property, the Comet apartments, 11th ave. and Spruce st., and the Togo hotel, Sixth ave and Maynard st., valued at approx- entire ¢ |imately $100,000, was her personal property. On behalf of the state, Attorney Herman §. Frye was named admin- istrator of the estate and Mrs, Car- mack dismissed when It was proved she was a resident oF Catifora 6 brought suit to include the Se He brought # ina: benefit of all the heirs. ADMITS PROPERTY ACQUIRED JOINTLY ‘Attorney Frank B. Hammond was appointed counsel for the adminis. Under crons-examination, brought an admimion rmack that the prop acquired jointly by trator, Hammond from Mrs, C been Carmack and herself. Judge Dykeman's ruling Saturday that all of the property should be included in Carmack's es hould be divided among aa their claims were | declared tate and the helr hed in court Saftis, the miner and the In Carmac t suit to estat to the estate, which 4 been denied by also brought wuit ity of her moth the miner in the in the late ‘80# or court hearing, the sald the been. perform: custom, T rriage mony had ing to tribal all seek a} Marguerite Car-| . | California. ‘Policeman Too ‘Bass’ | Switchboard Girls at Main 7810 A sweet soprano singing “Police station’ will soon astonish those citi- zens who have business with the po- lice over the telephone, For instead of the tremendous and stentorian bellow “Police station!’ in masculine basa, the recelver will echo the del-| loate tones of a lady op | that the police | They'd much |the plugs on the awitchboard, But Police Chief W. B. Severyns says so | many persons have complained of the | ear-splitting shouts of the male oper- ators that he has been forced to in- stall women to prevent damage suits for loss of hearing being filed against the city. y The “hello girls will be assigned to duty in January, as soon ad changes can be made in the switch- board at headquarters, ’ (LIVE HAPPILY FOR 50 YEARS Fifty years of marital happiness | were celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Truax, of Brighton Beach, at the W. O. W, hall in Columbia City last night The reception and dance was given by neighbors and friends and a gold en purse was prese! guests. Mr. and Mrs. Trunx were married December 6, 1873, in Providence, R. I, and since then have resided there and in Massachusetts and Minnesota until the to Seattle in 1889, where they Hved nino They have three daughters, James Jones, Mrs, H. R {and Mrs. E. EB, Deyo, all of Brighton Beach. There are seven dren and 13 great-grandch!ldren. rator, tly like it to the honor Mrs. Raymond | Buzzer Fails; $100 in Opium Is Seized | Raiding a Chinese 210% ond cote opium den at Washington st, for the sec time this week, federal na officers seized approximately |$100 worth of opium an@ smoking equipment and arrested and Frank Wong. agents had little trouble in effecting en- |trance, despite the heavy protective doors, an they were admitted when |the warning buzzer. failed to op erate. Gong Seize Still and | Arrest Two Men A huge still, elaborately equipped, was found In operation at the home |of George Miller and O. Knight, one-half mile of Morningsid late Friday by Sheriff Matt Star wich and deputies, The two were ar |rested charged with manufacturing liquor still pending and as un i law marri considered a legal heir relationsh ith Carma common in defini |that of a legal have been wife fer a man to handie| grandchil-| HERE'S MORE ABOUT MEXICAN REBELS mmvontaoes | BATTLE TROOPS STARTS ON PAGE 1 Advance Guard on Way to Vera Cruz Meets Foe BY FREDERICK G, NEUMELER) (United Press Btaft Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, Deo. 8A battle {8 under way between federal forces and the De La Huerta forces at Jala- Pa, a dispateh said today, There was no further information, | 4nd government sources were alent. | It was reported the advance guard of the federal forces en route to Vera Cruz had come in contact with the insurrectionists sent out from Vera Cruz yesterday, Meanwhile President Obregon ac- cepted the offer of Gen. P, Elias Calles to suspend nis campaign for the presidency in the coming elec: tions and announced Calles probably would be put at the head of the government forces operating against the rebels, The position of the government | stil! appeared strong this afternoon and there seemed Iittle likelihood the movement started by Adolph» the youngest of five sisters, and|De¢ J Huerta and Gen. Guadalupe has always been a favorite with |} Sanchez would spread to national | Miss Lelia, In September of this | Proportions. year, Miss Georgia came to work Federal jeadera expected a victory jin a Weat Seattle bank, The Austin |!n any fighting that may bo neces. j sisters were taken in, one by one,|#4ry to restore order in the Vera by Miss Molean. A happy and |Cruz district. ; {congenial household was formed. = Urea A | You would have no doubt of this | should you get acquainted with the | family, Each one out there believes that something terrible happened to Nell Austin on that Sunday night, land the kidnaping theory is the one | they hold. | DENY TROUBLE AMONG SELVES | They all declare that there was | no trouble among the sisters, and CHAPTER 3 that money matters did not’ give| P- 8: Mason, president of the Se- |them bother, Nell owed a note to | Urity State bank at Newkirk, Okla. | a tank in Oklahoma, which she |@nd J. E. Curran and Carl F, Truitt, was paying off by monthly install: | Oklahoma lawyers, in looking over | ment, The president of the bank | he abstract of the property, got th is her personal friend, and her older | !#e4 that it might be possible to lo- alster is his private wcretary. Her | Cate the missing boy. Just a few | Jachool- work wan going weil. ‘Tho | Weeks before they had located a mias- principal told her at the last ex.|!s heir in @ similar case. amination that he was pleased with| 58° Mason went to the Philippines. it, and whe was more interested in| After long search he found a ngldier | ‘hor music than sie was in mea. {Who had married Carmichael's sister | Every one at the Mclean home {at the same time the Carmichacls says that Nell wax a happy, normal | ad been married, and thru him he girl, who shared her secrets with | traced the missing wife. others, and who made Ittle com-| Far in the interior, living in pov- plaint, or gave unusual trouble. |¢rty Ina squalid grass but, he found) That ‘sw was rarely ever ill and|them. It was almost an impossible | that ahe was not given to melan.|task to convince the native woman | choly, jot her good fortune, while Gregorie |” “Well, it did not take them long to|~-only 13—had no idea whatever ‘win me over to the kidnaping be. | bout what the dignified lawyer was| Nef, “But still, there were the hik- | t#!king about ing clothes, How and why did they The only thing he knew was bri become Neil's traveling apparel? {he was taken to town, his comfort. | Thera were only two or three |#ble shirt was thrown away, he outsiders who could have had access |Gressed up in a lot of scratchy for- lto these. ‘They were checked up | tien clothes, and with 10 native wit- | without connecting anyone with the | nesses, he, with his mother was bun- disnppearance of the hiking togs e on a reas ana: Gregorie spoke thru an interpreter |at the dock Saturday. of course,” he sald, “I'll be glad, Vor many years #he was connected with & prominent school in Min. nesota before coming here, threo or four years ago, Sho fs a motherly, tactful and experienced woman, NELL YOUN( FIVE SISTERS Minn Whitcombe, owner of th home, js a young woman of charm and intelligence, who impresses one with her sincer- ity and jrood nature, She twaches in the schools, while her older friend, Mins McLean, “runs the house, Then thero fy little Miss Burn- |ham, who also teaches, She tx the | daughter of an old friend of Mian | McLean in the East, She was Nell's roommate, She is bright and at- tractive and thoroly loyal to Nell, of whom she knows only good, And there are the three Austin | slaters, Mins Lella came out from |OKlahoma two or three years ago and has been teaching in the city jwchools, Last August Mina Nell camo out to take a position in the Highland Park school. She In t or who ‘a part HERE’S MORE ABOUT FILIPINO STARTS ON PAGE 1 1 between the daughter and the} | RIEND Again I was inclined to swing back to the theory that Nell was not - to become a iailliohatre, but I dowel naped, but had eae away of “her | know what I'd do with all that] fad been ai¢nicult. ‘Tho other young} money. Unlens—yes, T guess 1" give nad been difficult, The other yo th ie eee girls had their beaus, and Nell bad} and ifr ComiaY Aba. teacacumal none, ‘There was the monthly fn-| 1100. Interpreter » too, | jstallment on the note. And there| ~"(, . might have been homesickness. With| “If we get our share of the estate | it all something had given way in| Without any legal trouble, we'll stay Nell's head and she had started out |!" this wonderful country of yours not beginning to realize what she| hile I give Gregorie an education,” | wan up against. Of course, expect. | She said. My boy will be a wonder- ing to end up at the home of her ful lawyer. Poor thing. He hasn't | friend in Vancouver. jhad much chance. We have been| Later I found that she had no| to poor.” friend in Vancouver, Miss McLean yo et whom | has an acquaintance there, | Submarine Seaman | Nell met once at luncheon while the| | Vancouver woman was visiting in) Ig Alleged Forger | Seattle, . But Nell could have! Captured a week ago in Grants known her first name or her address | 7 denntnea, $0, dite . | Pass, Ore., E. aan ee ayie Nell’s awakentng’trom| {0 the submarine R-5, was. re- nen came } aken 4 turned to Seattle Friday night by De- unconsciousness In the hospital. And Sih “4 . Friday night by De ctive C. Howaldt and lodged in the | jtho story she told and retold was) city jail, Jennings Js accused of| this forging his b “s signs | ing his brother's signature to a | When within two blocks of the) oi ocy tor which he gave the | johurch on that Sunday night, tWo| sands Motor Co. In payment for an| men ran up behind her, threw her| auto, Jennings was driving the car | intd a waiting car and hurried off, | Wien captured, He is nald by police suppressing her efforts to cry out bY/ +4 have planned revenge on. his| holding a hand over her mouth. She| poner by signing the check to 1 recalls nothing more until days after | scoount. beeen] pean saa: when she found herself in the hos pital. The story was so natural, and so ike what hor fends: haat time| S8trOloger Hopes to Escape Hanging thought had happened, that those who heard her°tell it Whve ont the] gaTEM, Ore, Dec. 8.—Altho | slightest doubt to its mecuracy. | arthur Covell’s books on astrology POLICE BELIEVE i have not arrived at the state peni- BARNETT'S STORY tentiary here, the crippled as- But there is the girl on the Bothell|trologer, awaiting execution for highway and the Barnett story. | causing the murder of his sister-in- | The police believe Barnett’s story. | inw, still retatis his faith in the His wife believes it. She told me so. | stars. | And the women at the McLean home| “If the | think he Is telling the truth in so far|not be executed on December 21," as his having picked up a girl an-| he says, And moreover, he is firm. | well Nell’s description. But | ly convinced that he is promised, in jthey are positive that it was not|his horoscope, complete recovery Nell. They say that his desecription|from the effects of the accident of her teeth do not at all correspond | which has held him to his bed fc with Nell's teeth, and that the sim.| three years. |ilarity in other respects do not tally. | But the thing that has finally con: | vinced me that Nell Austin was tell ing a true story to th joctors in the Vancouver hospital was of Mrs, Austin, the mother of Nell as in Seattle yesterday on her to British Columbia © be. ves in Nell and the other girls with aith and a knowledge that leaves room for doubt. | She knows that they have no se-| |rious quarrels among themselves. | | She knows that Nell had no money troubles or man troubles. She knows | | that there was no melancholy in the family © knows that Nell was a good-natured, normal, healthy girl | And she knows that when Nell tells the story of her kidnapin it Is true. | She does not exactly tel! you that she knows these things, but if you were to talk with her for half an |hour you would know that sho knows, stars are right I will] | swerin Canada recently received an order from Rumania for a $9,000,000 deal | n woolen textiles | he coming To the Housewife: $ 59° in Cash Prizes will recelve thru list of Food Produ tured in Seattle. Keep and refer to it when You malls manuf Red-Headed Thief buyin * Makes Dry Haul’ | The Exchange Club offers Awakened by a red-headed burglar $50.00 in Cash Prizes to fami | who climbed into his apartment thru lies purchast |a window. O. B. Schwartz, Floral athountvot £ apartments, 12! Eastlak ave., Made Food Products | watched the man from the protection January, 1924, |of his counterpane early Saturday | during morning. The fiery thatched prowler | calmly searched the room, but when | he failed to find anything of value, ted in le, via the front door n was tall, slim, and had no tz said. For re particulars stration and further Call MA in-5060 and Ask for “Exchange Club” English guinea was so named id from which it was from Guinea. made came USED When we say ing placed, on that should be customers can cars in good condition. not simply a formality with us. It is an ironclad rule—and our way their cars are running. WL.Eatom East Pine at Summit Donsce BrotrHers CARS that our Used Cars are overhauled before be- sale, we mean that everything has been done done to put the It is tell it from the HERE’S MORE ABOUT ROXAS STARTS ON PAGE 1 pointed to office by the late Presi. dent Harding, is that he has failed to observe the spirit of the Jones Jaw, passed in 1916, which granted practical independence to the Philip- pine people with regard to thelr in- ternal affairs, SAYS WOOD HAS ACTED AUTOCRATIC “The governor-general is privileged to appoint @ cabinet, which must be approved by the legislature and consist of native Filipinos, and whose advice 8 supposed to direct in great measure the executive activities of the governor-general," Roxas ex- plained Saturday. “But since the ac- cession of General Wood to office, | his autocratic attitude, and disinell- nation to seek or take advice from the cabinet members, has resulted in | constant friction, to such a degree, in fact, that his latest cabinet re- signed in protest in July of this year and he has since been unable to re- place It, as the leading Filipino statesmen have refused to consider posts under him.” Roxas {x authorized, he sald, to suggest to congress that Gen, Wood be removed from office and a native | fovernor-general appointed to suc- ceed him. . SAYS JONES LAW IS TURNED INTO FARCE “The governor-general must be responsible to the people he Is chief executive over, or the idea of the | Jones law, which was to grant autonomy to the Filipinos, turned Into a farce,” Roxas declared. Every political party in the islands, Roxas said, is committed to a platform of absolute independ- ence. “Our country now boasts a popu- lation of 11,000,000, of which 10,¢ 200,000 are of the Christian faith Catholics and Protestants,” he sald “Approximately 400,000 cling to the Mohammedan faith, while 200,000, a mere remmant of the unclvilized hill people, are pagan.” Philippine public opinion agrees © that the country has advanced In the education of self-government to a degree that will enable them to handlé their domestic and foreiga affairs intelligently, the representas tive reported. URGES CITY TO BUILD £ SUGAR REFINERY y Roxas, a young man for such a important mission, set foot on Am-= erican soll for the first time when he landed in Seattle. “I like the country very much, from what I have studied; but of course-I have not, seen enough as yet to form an opifion worth expressing,” was his comment. “However, I wish to tell Seattle business men that the Phil- tppine trade is something worth _ looking after, and that it can ease ily be developed for this port thru your advantage in sailing distance over other Pacific coast cities, For one thing, sugar refineries would pay you. The Philippines now send | two-thirds of their sugar crop— }900,000,000 pounds annually—te |New York thru the Panama canal because the Pacific coast cannot res fine the product.” Thompson Thankful He Still Has Home Detectives Saturday were investi- | gating the theft of over $700 in cash |from the home of Albert Thompson, | 2880 W. 87th st., a week ago. Thompe son reported that the money, secures ly hidden in one of the rooms, wa stolen during a Thanksgiving day party which the Thompsons wera giving. 71,000 Owners ANY people believe that the railroads of this country individuals. A railroad are owned by a few wealthy This is not true. more than any other kind of business represents a multitude of owners, For example, 71,000 different individuals and corporations own Northern Pacific securities. The outstanding bonds, amounting to $321,466,500, are distributed among 33,- 000 owners, an average of $9,741 foreach, There are 38,000 different holders of stock representing total par value $248,+ 000,000, the average holding being 65 shares, worth at present market price less than $4 ,000. 20,612 individuals hold from 1 to 19 shares, 11,799 individuals hold from 20 to 99 shares. 32,391 individua or 85%, hold less than 100 shares each. 5,397 individuals hold 100 or more shares, | 37,788 13,599 of the stockholders are women. 2,269 of the stockholders are savings banks, insurance companies, trus« tees, guardians, colleges, charitable institutions, Northern Pacific Ry.