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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1D03. DEATH ENDS CASE LOSS OF VALUABLE PAPERS ON ALASKAN TRAIL, San Francisco Court Finds No Grounds for Suit Unless Dead Man Can be Found to Produce Necessary Documents. San Francisco. Feb. 24. Gripped in the fleshlesshand of a dead man some where in the snowblown wilderness of Alaska there lies burled forever from human ken a precious document which would have been worth thous ands in the United States circuit court of appeals yesterday, nut human jus tice was forced to stop before the grim Justice of nature, which had locked Its secret fast within the mys terious expanse of the Arctic's frozen circle. Within the sober court of the three circuit judges there was unraveled yesterday a tragedy of tho north which even caused the ready speech of the attorneys to halt and break. The spirits of men left to perish upon the snow barrens of the frozen North or to endure the tortures of lingering wnnt haunted the dingy red canopy over the heads of the magistrates. Northwestern Commercial Company vs. R. D. McDougal was merged into the vivid chancer' of Life vs Death. In the early arctic winter of 1900 R. D. McDougal, an almost money less miner from the interior, con tracted for his passage from Nome to Seattle with the Northwestern Com mercial Company. He gave tnem his last penny and agreed to make up the full dole of his passage by his labor. On the day of tho vessel's , sailing he was sent ashore to help load a lighter .after having taken his blankets and heavy clothing on board. That night the vessel sailed away in a blinding storm, leaving tho miner to fight the winter penniless and with out clothes. Ho brought suit against tho steam ship company In the Alaska circuit court nnd gained judgment for $11. 000. From this judgment the Com mercial company determined to take an appeal to the court of appeals for , tho ninth circuit meeting at San Fran I Cisco In the first week in February. To file their suit In time it was nec essary to Intrust It to the care of one ' of a party of men who were going overland by trail from Nome to Seat f tie. ' With a transcript of record and a I writ of error Dr. R. D. Miller started , over the winter's trail. Hut the travel ' es had not proceeded far when the 'rigors of tho wilderness gripped them. More and more painful be came each faltering step. Miller, the bearer of the precious documents. lagged farther and farther in the rear. 1 At last he froze to death The body land the documents were left to the ! wolves and tho winds. 1 When the attorneys endeavored to i plead their case before the magls i trates yesterday they were asked to (supply the necessary documents, and falling to do so their case was dis missed. The documents, which would have been worth thousands, were tight in n dead man's clutch far off somewhere In the depths of the last ing snows. EDUCATORS AT CINCINNATI. Hebrew Interpreter Wanted, Washington, D. C. Feb. 24. Uncle Sam greatly needs the services of some language students. A Hebrew interpreter, in particular. Is wanted, and examinations for this position are to be held today in the chief cities of the country. The candidate select ed will be assigned to the place of ' interpreter with the government im , migration bureau at Montreal with a I salary of $1200. Superintendents of the National Edu cational Association Meets Today in Cincinnati. Clnclnnntl. O., Feb. 24. The depart ment of superintendents of tho Na tional Educational Association con vened here today, the estimated at tendance being 1.400 persons. Tho Indications are that the gathering will prove to bo one of the most success ful over held by the society, for noth ing has been left undone which would conduce to the pleasure of the visitors. Many of the most prominent educat ors of the country arc present, tho number including Dr. W. T. Harris, United States commissioner of educa tion: President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, and President Nicholas Murray Uutler. of Columbia University. The opening session was held in St. Paul M. E. church, where tho address of welcome was delivered by Superin tendent Boone, of the Cincinnati pub lic schools, with a response by Sup erintendent Jordan, of Minneapolis, president of the department Tho regular program of papers and discus sions was then taken up. to bo con tinued during the next two days. Some of the principal topics to receive attention are as follows: Co-education In colleges and high schools; Reduc tion in time In the elementary grades; how to utilize fully the plant of a city school system: literature in the grades and how to use it; best meth ods of electing school boards; read justment of the high school curricu lum. At an open session this even ing Dr. Harris is to tell the conven tion of the University of Oxford and the Rhodes scholarships. THE BEST MFG. CO. 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