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jgust 29th, P.I2o. at - the postotlice at
' Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
I March 3, 1879.
Takotna. Alaska, Sept. 4. 1926.
IBANK HOUM PS DROP,
RECENT RECORDS SHOW
Pinehurst, X. C.—- Bank banditry in
t he United States has shown..a sud
< len drop, mainly due.to the hard-hit
i ting vigilante campaign against crim
inals conducted by the bankers in
Iowa, Illinois. Indiana, Kansas and
♦ Oklahoma, which are among the
. States where crime activities have
t been most violent. James E. Baum,
. manager of the protective department
1 of the American Bankers’ Association,
: said in his report of the committee an
i bank crime prevention and investiga
tion made public at the organiza
tion's executive council meeting here.
“The six months ended February 18
♦ witnessed the sharpest reduction in
< criminal attacks against member
t banks in the history of the protective
i department." Baum said. "Crimes of
♦ violence were cut to less than half of
♦ those reported last year, with daylight
i robberies dropping from 86 to.53, and
: but 14 burglaries reported, against 49
1 fast year, a reduction of 70 per cent.
With forgeries also reduced, the ad
’ ranee of banking in coping with crim
inals is more rigid this year than at
j any time since 1910, when the present
♦ wave of crime began to sweep across j
1 ‘he country.
“Since 1U24 *tht committee has
: stressed the fact that two-thirds udf’
: all bank crimes of violence were di- j
: reefed against hanks in but cigln
t States—California, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Okia
1 homa and Teyas. Last year the ba n k -
♦ ers in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas ami
< Oklahoma accepted this challenge
■ from the underworld and began .«
♦ vigorous and remarkably successful
♦ campaign of vigilante organizations,
following the lead of the Iowa Bank
■ ers’ Association, to combat the bank
t robber and his menacing advantage in
: surprise attack.
“The success of these-campaigns is
i best illustrated by the results, which
: show that 80 per cent of the reduc
tion in hank crimes of violence
tthroughout the country is accounted
.for in the four States named and
Iowa, where the present vigilante
plan originated. The results show
that curbing crime rests largely upon
tthe people to stamp it out.
“The ask of producing a model code
-of statutes and court rules dealing
ll
a
with criminal procedure, undertaken
by the American Law Institute, is
strongly red ended as an urgent
necessity t i apparent defects
in criminal justice.
“The protective committee opposes
the unrestricted manufacture, distri
bution and sale of conceatable fire
arms. Federal legislation, designed
to curb gunmen pistol-toting, must be
accompanied by suitable laws in every
State or another form of bootlegging
would be invited.”
inestimable benefits from
AIK-M Al’PING EPPEDDITION
Ketchikan.—.fit'Hawing a flight with
an air-mapping plane, District For
ester Charles St. Flopy said:
“The air-mapping iexpedition will
save the forest service many hundreds
of thousands of dollars, .and many
years of work. It is the greatest sin
gle step ever taken for the industrial
development of Southeastern Alaska.
It will he o !incalculable benefit to
the Geological Survey, the Coast and
Geodetic Sur\ y, and the Biological
Survey. The expedition is particular
ly valualde to the Forest Service in
the lacation of timber stands -and
power sites and in determining the
feasibility of linking power projects.
"A two-hour flight showed the fea
sibility of linking all of the Revilla
gigedo island power projects in one.
with a total of 30,000 horsepower,
which had been believed impossible
hitherto. Tin cost of concentrating
the island’s power at Ketchikan will
be not more than $300,000, and this
construction will be the means of fur
nishing power capable of producing
between .300 and 000 tons of news
print daily perpetually.’’
A WARNING TO TRAPPERS
VND SHIPPERS OF FI RS
Washington. July 7.—There are un
scrupulous fur dealers throughout the
United State- who advertise to pay
edvertisements through the mails
Alaskans who have responded to these
high prices for furs, and a number of
have been badly cheated in the money
returns sent them for their furs.
The criminal prosecution service of
the Postotfice Department has fol
lowed up some of these fraudulent
transactions, but it is difficult to get a
criminal case against these dealers.
The Department is now working on
a case where quite a number of Alas
kans, as well as trappers in other sec
tions of the Uni: States, have been
victimized by m ,g their furs to an
irresponsible co: • that advertises
in magazines and sends out circulars,
and the evidence secured against
them is such that a case of fraud may
be established.
The purpose of this letter is to
warn Alaskan trappers and fur deal
ers against accepting all advertise
ments of high prices to be paid for
furs as genuine.
There are many old established fur
houses in the United States where
furs may be sent and honest returns
made, and I would advise Alaskan
shippers to patronize these houses in
stead of responding to new advertise
ments before learning what their
commercial reputation is.
Respectfully,
Dan Sutherland.
J. H. McLEAN
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New Suits
From $5.50 to $45 Per Suit
PRESS SQUIBS.
In Pennsylvania the office seeks the
man.—Toledo Blade.
It look sas if the Chinese revolu
tion doesn’t know which way to turn.
—Dallas News.
The perfect prohibition law is one
under which no one has any kick com
ing:-—Arkansas Gazette.
j Our idea of a fine job for a go
getter is that of secretary of the
Herrin .chamber of commerce.—Flor
ence (Ala.) Herald.
For a complete change some of us
take a vacation when a vocation
would have practically the same ef
fect.— Detroit News.
“Ooolidge Urges Greater Economy”
—headline. Republican senatorships
are getting altogether too expensive.
—Norfoik V i rg i n ian-Pi lot.
Whether or not the youth of today
is better or worse than that of yester
day, or just about the same, it is pos
sible that in both cases room for im
provement was not, and is not being,
. exhausted. Charleston Mail.
How times do change! This year
Republicans are getting hot, with
Coolidge.—Dallas News.
! The waterway bill that covered the
most territory, however, was Vol
slead’s.—Publishers Syndicate (Chi
cago.
A New Thought speaker says that
people should live to be 160 years old.
I Not some people.—American Lumber
| man.
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Another masculine,prerogative that
j no woman wants is to be called “vet
eran” of anything.—-Arkansas Ga
zette.
It is hard to believe in a corn sur
plus when you hear a wet telling how
many stills are operating.—Anderson
(Ind.) Herald.
Cincinnati policemen are to he
armed with cameras. Has the city
manager no mercy whatever on law
breakers?—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The oats crop, Crop Statistician
West te-lls us, must have rain at once.
The wild variety can get on a long
time withou water.—Columbus Dis
patch.
One of the greatest examples of
unrequited affection is misery’s love
for company.—Arkansas Gazette.
It is probable that married men are
more successful for the same reason
that a cat will swim when you throw
it in the water.—Kingston Whig.
The subways are becoming so
crowded that even the men can’t all
get seats.—.New York American.
The confessions magazines are ex
plaining to half the world how the
other half lives, but they’re no ex
plaining-why.—Arkansas Gazette.
No Poor Richard has any business
running for office in Pennsylvania.—
Dallas News.
It is not difficult to understand the
I PIONEER
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Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work j
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built j
and Repaired |
Robt. E. Lowrie j
Tokotna, Alaska !
, lapse on the part of the printer who
I in setting up an item about Chiean )
, made it read “the Crook county jail.”
— Seattle Times.
The rags and old iron men of Chi
cago have organized a union. Now
they probably will charge us for
hauling it away.—American Lumber
man.
S Harvard professors are said to have (
discovered a new star. That may be
important, hut it arouses more inter
est when a.baseball manager discovers
i>i le.—cCineinnat i E nq u irer.
_ 1
We have our moments of depres- j
sion about Chicago when we wonder'
if it wasn’t a mistake,.after all, to re-i
build her after the big fire.— Ohio |
State Journal.
As we understand it, France U just
about as sore at us over the debt,
question as she would have been if we
bad decided not to let her have the1
money.—Macon Telegraph.
An inquiry has been received at the |
(vfiice of the Governor, Juneau, Alaska,
as to the whereabouts of one Charles
i G. Kartax, born in Minnesota, April
20, 1882, height 5 feet 8 L-2 inches.;
weight 175 pounds, dark hair, gray;
l eyes, following the occupation of ma
; chinist, and last heard from at Se- j
' attle, Wash., leaving . there for ;
Alaska. Kindly send, any information
in regard to the above to-the. Gov-1
ernor’s office.
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