THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
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Wednesday and Saturday
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Address alllCommunications-:
Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
McGRATH, ALASKA, JUNE 25,1921
ORDERED TO
THE PACIFIC
% Superdreadnaughts to
Replace Smaller
battleships*
Washington, June 24.—The
tsuperdreadnaughts Arizona, Ne
vada and Oklahoma, according
*to announced plans of the Navy
Department, will be ordered to
^he Pacific at an early date. It
is understood that they are to
replace four smaller battleships
mow in Pacific waters, which
will be returned to the Atlantic
'coast.
Bulk of €happel Estate
Placed in 60-Year Trust
'Seattle, June 23.—William Chappell,
k’ormer Klondike operator, whose death
‘occurred ut Baltimore some weeks ago,
by the terms of his will offered in pro
bate today, places three-fourths of a
'million dollars of the Seattle estate
Hnto a sixty-year trust. The will gives
■his widow an allowance of eight hun
dred dollars per month, and to two
’brothers two hundred dollars each per
month.
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
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[ Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
j Supplies
| Steamer Service On the Inoka
i River.
j Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
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j fairview, Innoko River
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. 1
One of the oil fields of the Pacific
coast, lying within a few miles of Los
Angeles, extends out into the Pacific >
ocean, and a considerable number of
oil wells are located at some distance i
from the shore. In England, the work-1
ings of the Cumberland coal field run [
two miles out under the sea. The ven-1
tilation of these mines is a nice engi
neering problem, but is successfully ac
complished At Workington, England,
in the year 1837, before the science of
surveying was as highly developed as ,
at present, the sea burst through and *
the workers were drowned. Many of
the oldest mines in England, long ago
worked out and abandoned, have filled
with water in the lapse of time, and
constitute an ever-present danger to
the miners in adjacent mines, who may
be drowned at any moment.
Uncle Jeff Snow says: “There's-dum
dum bullets and dum-dum 'foolishness,
and this idee of a woman starvin’ her
self to death to make her husband jine
church is the limit. If I’d of been that
feller I’d of jist pertended like I was
willin’ for the funeral to start any :
time, and I’d of begun flirtin’ with the
nurse, or a neighbor’s darter, or some
female or nuther. I’d he willin’ to bet
my chances fer office with President
Harding agin a busted tire that she’d
a got up and et to git strength enough |
to tell me what Jshe thought about I
me.”
The extremest known cold, believed
to be absolute zero or the total absence
of heat, is 459 degrees below zero'Fahr
enheit. Zero is the temperature of
melting ice mixed with salt, such as is
used in freezing ice creatn. 'Fahren
heit thought that was the coldest
thing possible and took it for zero on
his thermometer, but we know that his
zero is much nearer to boiling water
than to complete cold.
During the war, when tapioca was
scarce, the Postoffice Department found
that gum for postage stamps could be
made just as well from dextrine, one of
the products of corn. That substanee
is now used, corn dextrine being
cheaper than tapioca and just as good
for the purpose. It should be remem
bered that any sticky substance will
collect germs if it comes in contact
with them; therefore it is better not
to lick postage stamps.
Since the first year of the first Wil
son Administration the United States
has had a very close approach to free
trade. The duties or taxes on imports
have averaged only 6,3 per cent—the
lowest for more than one hundred
years—while under the old protection
tariff the average of duties had grown I
to over 50 per cent.
The best submarine afloat is the U.
S. S.-48, launched recently at Bridge
port, Conn. At least that is the judg
ment of U. S. Naval officers.
This latest undersea boat has a dou
ble hull, which adds much to its safety.
It has many new features, embodying
the lessons taught by the war. It is
one of the largest in any country, dis
placing 993 tons. The length is 240
feet; breadth at the widest part. 21£
feet. Its draft when on me surface is
13£ feet. It has two engines of 050 h. p. :
each, and five 21-inch torpedo tubes, f
and a heavy gun. Nine others, of the
same model, are under construction.
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Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
mm lumber co.
Flat’s Quality Restaurant
The Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Frank Keenan
PIONEER POOL ROOM
McGrath’s ’Popular liesoil
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Dave E. Clough - - Prop.
Who Said Freighting
That’s our business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all points—
JMeGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Cripple,
v. oven <as far as. Ruby.
W. H. Jones - Freighter :
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
Qn ihe Kuskokwim.
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Capt. Wallace Langley, (Manager.
rhe Kusko Times n $2 Per Month