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"TOKOTNA, ALASKA. AUG. 18, 1923
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle. James P. Agnew, deputy
•city comptroller, died today.
Seattle.—Ground was broken today
ifor the four million dollar Olympic
fiiotel.
Seattle—With a cast of ten thousand
.■singers, the Actors’ Historical Pageant
■of America opens here tonight.
New York.—Twenty-three persons
\were killed in auto accidents in New
iKork, Indiana and Missouri, today.
Port Washington, N. Y.— Lieutenant
jRutledge Divine this afternoon esiub
dished a record for seaplanes of 17C
.miles an hour.
San Frditocioco.—Thomas E. Feline,
tformer publisher and editor of tht
Wasp, killed himself in the Olympic
tClub rooms, today.
Seattle.—The Hotel Philson was de
stroyed Sunday morning by tire. Ho
mer Felts, former principal of the Por
tfcerville schools, perished in the flames
Chicago.—Tweptj^hve of the Jargew
•crude oil producing concerns of the
.country decided today to shut down foi
.a 60-day period, in order to maintaii
jprices.
New York.—Senator Hiram Johnson
<of California, returned from Europe to
‘day. He declined to say whether h<
"would strive for the presidential nom
anation. ■
Los Angeles.—William L. Cross, ar
iaerial photographer, and an unident
ified woman were killed when theii
•aeroplane crashed to the ground thi.
jafternoon.
Detroit.—Henry Ford today instruct
<ed his office to furnish bail for Mrs
.Katherine Gorka, who killed her hus
’band, Frank, because he had purchase!
;a Ford auto inslead of a Duick ma
ichine with their savings.
London.—The Duke of Orleans, wh<
would be king of France today if roy
;alty had survived, is confined in a pri
wate house located in the suburbs o
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London, under she cure of four physi
cians and several nt'end mts.
Los Angeles.—Reports that, the 1’an
ti ra canal has been clo.-ed by a land
slide aro contained in a radio message
received here today.
Scatt'o.—The :: otorship Kennecott,
which the owners announced would go
into the Alaska trade, was chartered
i today for Japan, and v ill^ there load
j for Europe.
I Loudon.—A a attempt is being made
to set up a republic in Greece, Mae
Neil, under secretary of foreign afl":rs,
stated in the Horn ■ or Commons, this
afternoon.
London.—A motion of Ramsey Mc
I Donald, Laborite leader, for a world
conference for helinma ion of arma
ments, v.as defeated in the House of
Commons tonight.
C’idorado Spring,-. — Mary, the 17
| .yeai-old daughter of Judge S. W. Wil
, kin-on of Memphi . Tonn., was killed
i wheo a rock .-.lide tiirew her over a 175
j foot cliff in Hi ck f canyon, today.
olulu. immediate removal <>!
Lei ,.:d Wood as governor' general of
the Philippines it asked in a resolution
adopted today at a meeting of two
i thousand 1'li’pities, residents of the
: island of Hawaii.
| Manila.—Johe Lefn wealthy Bel
j giari aviator, annum.; o today that in
; order to win a wager o: half a million
j frut.es he will, as s< >n as the typhoon
i season is over, attempt a ‘flight to
cross Sibei at, Ala- and Canada.
Knoxville. Tonn. i.t .-. .Tames Hale,
a Rapa.-a minister, was shot and killed
this afternoon as tit o . tiug on the
river bank, lishiag. 1 lit: killing was
the work of moouthi: 'gainst whom
the minister hud b. ■ . v. aging war.
New York. - f\nt,ounce tnent, was
made today of a propo-- u flight around
| the world by t- (group of six army
1 planes, which will hop off from New
York, travel.rig the . a»t way around,
and crossing the i’acific via the Aleu
tian islands.
She Stakes Last Sock
Upon Game of Poker
Chicago.—Fortunately, the police ar
rived just in time today to save Mis;
f rene M< G-v }. win* was playing ’‘strip
poker” with Louis i’eterson and Her
bert Hines. She had just lost her ro
teaming stocking, and was down to ?
verv short skirt of vivid green hue.
Neighbors . i Hie first and thirc
• floors had comp t.ued to the police thal
a poker game was in progress. What
■ two otlicers arrived to investigate, Pe
[ tersou had just won Miss McGeary’;
- last stocking. Both tnen ■ had losi
everything but their underwear. Pe
terson, who had the 1 rgest proprietary
> interest in the winnings, had staked a
hat against Miss .McCreary's single re
. miining garment when the police
j called all bets off.
After the three had reattired them
selves in their proflts and losses,■ they
were escorted to a police court anc
lined $5 each for disorderly conduct.
Lower River Notes.
Barney Walsh, on Crooked creek, if
short of water an'd had had no cleanuj
up to a few days ago, according to Jot
Kermend, a recent arrival from th<
lower river, v\ ho left last week for his
1 home at Flat.
Captain Geiger has the contract t<
_ construct the new sohoolhouse ai
Bethel. The structure will be located
next to Johnson’s roadhouse, and wil
cost about $1100.
Harry Stevens has a large supply o;
hydi-at 1: • ipe at the mouth of Crooked
creek for i- a- in his mining operations
Matt DeCoureev, who has a cinnabar
mine at the head of Iditarod river
came up from the lower river and goi
off at ttie mouth of Crooked creek.
Suicide at Bethel; In
fant Burned to Death
At Bethel, a few days ago, says |Joe
Oates, a native woman committed sui
eide by hanging herself. The leed was
accomplished by means of a dog rope,
with a snap at each end. One end of
the rope was snapped around a cabin
rafter, a sliding n •, having been per
fected wit h the snap and the other end
of the rope. The woman had tmen lead
only a few minutes wheo the hanging
body was discovered.
A few tuiles below Ohagamute an
other sad incident occurred. Three
women, one with an infant, were out
burying Stopping to make tea, the
infant, wa* placed in an improvised bed
a few feet distant. After heir tea the
women, leaving me infant, continued
inquest of their berries. >’i turning
in a couple of hoiirs the charred re
mains of the little one were found, the
fire Slaving tn,,.de a ck.au sv > for
many feet from its starting point.
A couple of buildings wore destroyed
and several dogs b tied to death a few
days ago at a native village not lar
above Georgetown. The natives were
attending a gathering a few mi!-*: iway
at the time, and tt e dogs, tied to their
ousts, were sn .In »n “srnno
The many friends of Abe Weiss, for- ||
mer Id'Urod nn chant, will bn ; leased jj
to know that he has entirely overcome 2
the sleeping sickness, with which he I
was afflicted for several months at, He- I
attle. In a letter to Grant Murdock, I
Mr. Weiss. wti< is at, present in Cali- [
fornia, states that he has fully recov- |
ered from his long illness and that he I
wist os to be remcmber'Hl to all of hi> I
old-time friends.
Notice of Appointment.
Estate of Hear , Jung, deceased.
Bertha Jung has been appointed and J
qualified as administrator of the estate j
of Henry Jung late ut Kuskokwim I
precinct, i’ourth division. Territory of [
| Alaska, deceased. 1
Hated at Napamute this doth day of
June, A. D. 1923.
G go. W. Hoffman,
Probate Judge of said Precinct.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Bennett James, John Holmgren,
Charles K Taylor, George W. Al
brecht, and Edward McArdle and
Charles Knell, and their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators, successors in interest, and
assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim No. One above -
Discovery on .Moore creek, in the Mt.
McKinlev mining and recording pre- ,
cinct, Alaska, has caused the annual
assessment wor k to he done on the
above described claun for the years
1920 and 11121, amounting to one hun
dred dollars for each year, and for each
of said years has paid for said work,
including the proportion duo from tne
above named parties;
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay your
proportion of the assessment work done
on said ground for each of said years,
within ninety days after the last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said property
will become forfeited to the under
signed. as provided by Section 2224 of
the revised statutes of the United
; States and amendments thereto.
, JosKi’ii H. Smith.
, Date of first publication, June 9, 1922.
Date of last publication. Sept. 8, 1922.
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iver Roadhouse
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