THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL IX
NO. *
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 18. 19*0.
PRICE 25 CENT*
DealiilsTafces
Li/ .A* MIAMI, FLA, FOLLOW
ING TWO OPERATIONS FOR
APPENDICITIS.;/
JACKSONVILLE, FI*., Jan. 7.—
i'dS H fkard, nationally known-sport
i r.-n. t ti ed yesterday at. Miami
Eeach.li Hts body is now en route to
17iw York, where last ceremonies for
the deceased will be held. Death fol
Icv/e-i 4.. second operation for appendi
citis.
NEWTYORK, Jan. 8.—The body of
Te'xv Rikard.Iay in state today, in the
vast emptiness of Madison Square
Gdrden;- where the' promoter realised
most of his fondest dreams*of achieve--’
ment. The body was accompanied
from Florida by Jack Dempsey and
Mrs. SiikardV
NEW WORK, Jan. 9.—A spectacle
such asriTex Rickard never planned
dreVT'stampedingrrthousands <to Madi
son Square Garden this- afternoon
while tlie lamented promoter, encased
in: a SI5,000 bronze casket, beneath
th£: giare of calcium lights, amidst an
overpowering scest of massed floral
offering's, was-the central figure in his
sports-arena for the last time. When
thehfiuge crowds had filled the arena
frdm the flower-banked bier to the
appt£»osfc reaches of the galleries
the dears1 were shut against the
throngs still seeking admission and
funeral- services were conducted for
the -.iiffmoter in the'.presence of his
soft lj> weeping widow and many nota
blda 3+m had come to. honor Rickard.
The, body will be buried in Wood
la w nveemetery.
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, NEW'YORK, Jan. 10—Tex Rickard
left an ..estate estimated at $1,000,000,
Dempsey revealed today after a con
ference with the lawyers handling the
rci. oter’s affairs. He said that to
- orxow he would reveal the bequests
o Rickard’* widow, his infant daugh
r, and his mother. Dempsey said
i.e will provides $50,000 cash and all
{ Rickard's personal property for the
widow, with .adequate bequeathment
for his aged mother; in Seattle, the
rest of the estate going into a-,trust
fund for his daughter Maxine..
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Tex Rick
ard's wiir betjueaths $6,000 per,- year
for. life to his mother, Mrs. Adams,,
of S&ittle, and too Jessie Adams and
• Mrs. Alice D. Birk, halft sisters, the
sum of f'kOOQ each!
, ANNUAL SIGNAL ©ORPSDOG
HEKBY AT FAIRBANKS SCHED
ULED second Week in march.
In a wire to The Kusko Times the j
Fairbanks Kennel Club states that.
thhe annual Signal; Corps dog derby |
of the Fairbanks Kennel Club will be;
* held the second week in March. The-i
prizes, will bei approximately the same !
aa last year. The exact date and the!
«' amount of prizes will be announced]
later.
WOULD INCREASE FUND FOR' j
PROHILiTION ENFORCEMENTj
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—An in
cveasei of §25,000,000 in the fund for \
prohibition enforcement was approved'
^ today by the Senate appropriations
committee..
Henry iVj&'teHa and Rasmus Mat
ana, were, .Tiiittsday. departures.
t
Bullets Get
Two Bandits
i
SHOT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO
HOLD' UP BARTOS’ ’LOAN.'.
OFFICE,. SEATTLE..';.
SEATTLE, Jan. 9.—T*o- bandits
-T.te.i.pted a holdupi.of theBartos loan.
>Cicj, at Second and James streets,
. 'today. Both bandits were shot by.the
poice, or.e be ieved fata'-ly. Thomas
C. Lartos, proprietor of the office, was
. badly wounded.
j SEATTLE,. Jan. 9.—.Both bandits
i engaged in the Barters i loan office
holdup are dead. The i slain bandits
have been identified asn James M.
Force, 24, city fireman and.member of
' the crew of the fire boat Duwamish,
and Robert Dyne, 31.
Liquor will continue
TO FLOW FROM CANADA •
INTO the united states
OTTAWA, Jan, ll.-J-TKe flow ' of
i liquor across the border from Canada
1 into the United States is to continue,
i A four-day conference hetwisen Ca
nadian and United States representat
ives with the view to halting liquor
leaking into the States ended today,
with nothing done.
ROCKEFELLER, JR.. WILL OP
POSE RE-ELECTION STEWART
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—John D.
- Rockefeller, Jr,, has sent. letters, -to
stockholders of the Standard Oil Com
; i any of Indiana seeking their proxies
for the annual meeting in March, ,to
. ppose re-election of Colonel Robert
| W. Stewart as chairman of the com
! pany.
SWEDEN TO GIVE ADHERENCE
TO KELLOGG PEACE PACT
STOCKHOLM, Jan.- 11.-—King Os
car, in his speech from the throne
opening the new. riksdag, today, said
a bill would be submitted ratifying
Swedea’s adhesion to> the Kellogg
arbitration and: conciliation cmf mfw
pece pact and to. the general treaty of
r arbitration , and. conciliation recom
ended hy the League of Nations
WHERE IS JAKE ESTLEMANN?
Wha knows the whereabouts of
i Take Estlemann?
Mr. Estlemann, former fellow
■ townsman, left here ahout three years
ago, apparently without leaving any
forwarding address for. his mail.
Now comes F. G. Grosshans, an
uncle of Mr. Estlemann, who in a let
j ter to F. C. H. Spencer, local post
j master, states that a registered letter
addressed to the aforesaid Jacob at
| Takotna was returned to him, unde
; livered, due, of course, to t hefact of1
! ,.e la;k of a forwarding address^
Mr. Grosshans states that he, act
; ng on behalf of Mr. Estlemann’s pa®v
; ents, in Germany, is is anxious, to get
| in communication with' Mr;. Estle
; r ann, as the settlement of .,1 family'
| matters is involved.
Anyone knowing the '. whereabouts
of Mr. Estlemann will confer a favor
on all parties by addressing said iin
'formation to F; G. .Gro.s-snaks,. 1S5&.
v est 51st street^ Gfticagoj 111.!. I
* William Behan, with 1 th&r Del.
iihompsoft team .returned !. Friday
from a trip to Ojihir. ’
Frank Guskey; Nl C.^hianager,- and
DilTy Gibbs, after* abrief visit'here,
left for McGrath on-Friday?, ,
SURGEON GENERAL, AFTER
CALLING FLU CONFERENCE,
IS STRICKEN WITH DISEASE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Physi
cians and health officers gathered'
here today for a national'conference
to devise methods for the definite
control of influenza. The conference
met at a time when an outbreak "of
the disease has extended virtually ‘all.
over the' United States. This out
break was a factor in ■the calling'of
the conference by Surgeon General
Cuniming. The latter was stricken by
•‘nfluenza three days ago and was un
\bl“ to attend thfc conference he had
a'.’ed. His paper was read.’,
8 Killed la
Pl&ne Crash
T ARMY AVIATORS, 1 CIVILIAN
KILLED IN' CRASH NEAR:
RAY ALTON, PA:
1 MIDDLETOWN, Piu, Jan. 12.—
Lieutenant Rosen \Augel, a: pilot, and.
six other army aviators and one ci
vilian, all occupants, were killed yes
terday afternoon when the Fokker
0-2’army transport plane crashed to
earth one mile east of here,, at Royal
ton, Pa- .
HOUSE PASSES FENN BILL,
L TO PRESCRIBE METHODD FOR
ALLOTMENT OF ITS SEATS
WASHINGTON,, Jan. 12.—The
House late yesterday passed the Fenn
bill, to prescribe a method by which
■ ts scats shall be alloted among* the
States after the next census, in 1930,
if Congress .should* fail to act at that
time.
Telegraphic Ticks.
I. WASHINGTON* Jan*. 9.—Senator
Jones of Washington expressed the
opinion today that,.from informatoan
gathered by him, the rivers and har
bors authorization bill reported in the
IDqse at the last session will not be
passed by that body and is virtually
dead until the* next Congress..
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 9i—Mrs.
Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of the
noted Trans-Atlantic flyer, sustained
: her first earth quake when a violent
shock, accompanied1 biy a. terrifying
subterranean roar, occurred at An
gora last night during, a reception at
! the American embassy in her honor, j
SEATTLE, Jan. 9.t—Arthur A. Mur
phy, assistant to >the President of tbe
Southern Pacific system, was today
elected, president, of the Chamber of
Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Horace
: M. Albright today was named direc
tor of National Park service. He is a.
veteran of the Interior) Department.
SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—The Great
Northern Railway’s new $14,000,000
| tunnel through the Cascades was for
> mally opened this afternoou.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The
United Stales .air mail'.service carried'
over 400,000 pounds of mail in No-1
vemher, 1928, as .compared with 141),
.000 in. the same period of 1927, and.
about 37,080 for November, 1926..
PARIS."—The American demand'
for French divorces das exceeded the
supply so far that two years are re
uirod for delivery.
i
Ford Sees
New World
WHERE FARMERS DON'T FARM,
HOUSEKEEPERS. DON’T COOK,
MACHINERY DOES WORK.
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NEW YORK, Jan. TO.— A world in
which no one smoke9 nor discusses
prohibition, where farmers no longer
farm, and housekeepers no longer
cook,-and where machines take care of
the drudgery, is outlined by Henry
Ford in his book “My Philosophy of
( Industry,!’ just published.
BISHOP OF SACRAMENTO.
ROME, Jan. 9.—Rev. Robert J.
i Armstrong, pastor of St. Paul’s
i Church, Yakima, Washington, today
received notification of. his appoint
! ment as Bishop of Sacramento by
| Pope Pius XL
HUNDREDS-SICK WITH SMALL- ;
POX IfT LOWER KUKON-NOME I
AREA. SAYS DR. SUTHERLAND
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Having covered 2,040 miles by air
plane in bis campaign against the
smallpox epidemic, which is general
in the district tat he westward, Dr. J.:
A. Sutherland returned to Fairbanks'
this afternoon (tDec.. 17). Almost
everywhere he went the physician
found the direase had. gained a firm
hold, affecting both whites and na
tives.
It is estimated that there are he
tween.300 and 400 cases of smallpox
at present, and several deaths have
already been reported. However, the
worst stage of the- epidemic is belived
to be past, and- with, supplies of vac- j
cine available at . all communities1
where the disease sas broken out. and
more to be sent from Fairbanks soon, j
the task, of control from this time on ‘
will be comparatively, simple.
Wh«jn the steamer Victoria came
into Nome on one of her voyages last
summer there were several cases or
smallpox aboard, and it is- thought
likely the present ..epidemic had its
inception from those- cases. During
the rest of the summer there were
isolated cases of the disease, but not
until the last eight weeks did it.reach
outlying communities and assume ep
idemic form. The northern boundary
line of the district in which, smallpox
is now found is Cape Prince of Wales
and the southern boundary Marshall. j
About fifty cases of smallpox are
believed, to be under treatment at St.
Michael, over 100 at Deering .more
than 70 at Unalakleet, between 70 and
80 at Mountain Village and Marshall,
nd there are 52 known .cases at Can
dle.
All travel has been stopped south j
fr an Holy Cross, cy c I'.on Max*lull |
into the Blac't "ver country and also!
east from Old Fort "Hamilton, to pro-j
tect the lower Kuskokwim. To pre-!
vent spread of the disease into, the
Point Barrow section, travel from
Candle and Deering to Kotgehne has
been halted. Unalakleet .to Kaltag
travel is also barred. All mail* out
bound from the infected area is being
fumigated. No new cases have been
reported at Unalafcle.et for .the last
several days. A peculiar feature of
the epidemic is that it. has beau con
fined almost exclusively .to adults.
Had it not been for the aisplane the
situation would pta£ably iSev desper
ate, as the epidemic is so widespread
that it would have been months before
medical aid could have been sent to
each place. As it was, Dr. Suther-;
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Doings At
j Washington
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LUNCHEON INDICATES MELLON
MAY CONTINUE AS TREAS
URY HEAD.
WASHINGTON, Jan. !».—Presi
dent-Elect Hoover and Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon had a two-hour
luncheon talk today, with the result
that Washington is confident that the
Secretary’ will continue to head the
nation’s finances.
| Senator Borah today declared that
i he would not be the next Secretary of
! State.
Hoover today indicated that he will
call an extra session of Congress to
deal with farm legislation. He will
leave Washington Monday night for
Miami, Fla.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Presi
dent-Elect Hoover, as a result of his
conference with Republican Congres
sional leaders, indicated that an extra
session of Congress will be called' in
I early spring.
ARMY AIRPLANE ALIGHTS
AFTER BEING IN AIR CON
TINUOUSLY 150 HRS. 31 MIN.
I _
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.—'The
: army airplane Question Mark landed
Tuesday, after having been up in the
air continuously for 150 hours 31
| minutes, refueling,-while in flight.
i WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—President
: Coolidge addressed a letter of con
gratulations today to Major Carl
Spatz, commanding officer of the
| Question Mark.
APPARENTL IN POVERTY,
POSSIBLY WORTH MILLIONS
—
ATLANTIC CITY.—Amid condi
| tions indicating poverty but with sev
eral hundred thousand dollars within
reach, police today found the body of
James Cowden, 78 years old, real es
tate pioneer, who is believed to be a
multi-millionaire. Cowden’s body was
found in a dingy attic room of a cheap
lodging house, and death had appar
, ently resulted from natural causes.
Pocketbooks and folders were found
containing several thousand dollars in
cash, and stocks and bonds worth
millions of dollars were found in cor
ners of his room.
LONE BANDIT, IN ATTEMPTED
BANK HOLDUP, MEETS DEATH
BM SAN DIEGO.—Immediately af
ter he had tried to hold up the First
National Bank of La Jolla today, a
lone bandit was shot to death by Offi
cer A. T. Moore. Police reported the
bandit entered the bank shortly before
II a. m. and drew his gun as soon as
he had entered the door. A. M. Plais
ter, vice president and cashier of the
bank, rushed for his weapons and ex
changed shots with the bandit. In the
exchange, Plaister was shot twice in
the head, but not fatally wounded.
SOVIET DIVERS DISCOVER
HULL OF SUNKEN WARSHIP
NOVOROSSISK, Russia.—Soviet
divers have discovered the hull of the
largest warship of the Soviet Black
Sea fleet Free Russia, torpedoed off
Novorossisk harbor in 1918. The
ship was sunk by the Reds to prevent
its falling ir*' the hands of the Ger
mans. I1 i at a depth of 125
feet, and the authorities are;coirfideut
^ raising it.