THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. XIII. NO. 25.
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933.
PRICE, 25 CENTfc
End of Trail
lor Lee Page
SKULL AND BREASTBONE POINT
TO HIM AS .UNFORTUNATE
VICTIM.
McGRATH.—Lee Page, well known
oldtimer of .this .section, who for
many years has made his headquar
ters up on the West Fork of the
Nixon, came to the end of life’s trail
some weeks ago, according to word
recently brought hare by -Alex Men
gel.
The end of the trail for the old
timer came at. a point about five miles
from his headquarters up the W*st
Fork, on a sandbar, on reaching
which, after -a hard day .of poling up
stream, he-apparently had set up his
mosquito tent-.and laid down for a
night of rest,. according to Mr. Men
gel, who -only a -few days ago left
'here on~.a trip .to the same locality,
Mr. Mengel, on reaching the spot
noted,'went ashore. No one there t»
. greet :him. Looking around, it was .a
-gruesome night that came within his
view. The tent, part of it still, stand
ing, was badly shredded, no one
within it. Continuing his.search, not
many feet distant, he came across a
human skull, while a little farther
away was found ..a human breastbone.
An inspection .of the poling boat re
vealed much disorder—sacks clawed
-and torn open, a general overturning
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Money for
I Hoad Work
! _
WORK ON PROJECTS IN THIS
( .SECTION TO CONTINUE TO
END OF SEASON.
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More money.and plenty of it.to con
tinue road work throughout this sec
tion was the cheerful news received
here a few days ago by Fred J.
Spach, A. R.'€. engineer in charge of
road .building ; activities in the Kus
kokwim district, coming from A. R. C.
■ headquarters at Juneau, stating that
| funds for public works projects in
! Alaska are now available.
, Among the allotments made .are
the following:
Medfra-Nixon Fork .Mine road,
$3,000.
Flat-Slate Creek, $»,000.
Bear Creek, $2,000.
Flat town field, $1,600.
McGrath field,;*2,00Q.
More money will be. available for
the first three named .projects. Work
on these projects is no wunder way
and will be continued to the end of
this working season.
U. J3. Commissioner Chris Bplgen
was among today’s visitors, coining
oved with P. W. Carlson, with. ,wtom
'he again returned to Qpbir.
Mrs. 'D. Hughes and Mrs. F^eda
Hurst, coming from Seattlej are re
cent arrivals here.
By Bdb Bartlett. j
WASHINGTON, July. .22.-^A sub- J
oommittee of the Senate committee
nr Indian affairs will make an official
visitation to Alaska during the com
ing fall.
Present {dans call for three mem
bers to make the trip. They are <Sen
.ators Burton K. Wheeler of Montana,
-chairman of the committee, timer
.Thomas of Oklahoma, and.Lynn J>
Frazier of North Dakota.
. John Collier, Commissioner of- In
^ dian Affairs, will accompany the com
mittee.
Albert A. Grarud*. the committee’s
attorney, is in charge of arrange
ments and .will also go North.
It is planned to leay&Steattle. short
ly iaf ter Labor Day. Because of the
limited time available the trip will
be (confined-to .Southeast Alaska and
perhaps only one hearing will he held,
either .at Metlakatla or Juneau. The
Investigation is to be madeKCapeciatly
with reference-to the Metlakatla res
ervation.
Mr. Gromd >planp to .remain in
Alaska for aome Uttle time after the
committee leaves to prepare plane for
a much moze>extensive trip next year
which will cover the entire Territory.
Miss Lorene*Nelson, who has taught
.school at Hpdnbiirg for a number of
.-pears, is visitiag her parents in this
.city. She catted x>n Delegate Dimond
-. during the wdek.
tack df fands has foroed the Office
of Jndian .Affairs to issue orders for
ginning of the hospital at Akiak and
the orphanage at Tanana. - Blind chil
dren now cared for at the orphanage
will be moved to Eklutna, as will be
^ether, children whoso, health is not
( good. Others ■ wjil fee. sent £o private
! homes,. thp understanding being that
the Government wijl provide for them
if norther, arrangements can be
made.. Most of the equipment from
the AJuftk hospital Js to bp taken to
Unalgska.
M,. Albright, retiring, di
rector of the National Park Service,
recently declare^, his . interest . in
Alaska and AJa^kans. ,His retire
ment, he remarked, is not due to .po
litical. reasons but Jtq h\s desire to
enter the business world, ..Mr. Al
bright’s primary interest, h^a been in
the national parks of the West and
Alaska, aiujl under the reorganization
pf the service ti)e,.scope gts duties
will be. greatly enlarged. ;For in
stance, it will have charge of public
grounds in the District pf Qplumbia.
Mr, Albright does not beBeve he could
invoke the same enthusiasm .over ad
ministration of grounds $f .that char
acter as of. the big .parte.
Mr. Albright was qj-g^d to remain
as director by both President Roose
velt and Secretary of the Interior
Ickes, but felt he could npt refuse the
attractive offer which hajl been made
to him by a phosphate pompany in
New Mexico.
John B. Miller w>s„aj>pQyited As
sistant United Spates! Attorney for
the Fourth division ,fey A^tofijey Gen
eral Uomer S.C\umnings last ,Mon
day. 0 He !wi4,aeJKft.4iuitr JJ. S. At
torney Ra^ph (At the same
time Sherman appointed
clerk in Mr. Rive*grf’pjfice.
Alaska has been in thn spotlight of
the metropolitan press since the in
ception of the Mattern) and .Post
)ContinaedrOBi Paso *)
F. J. SPACH, A. R. C. HEAD,
TELLS OF TRIPS TO CRTP- J
PLE AND MEDFRA SECTIONS
Fred J. Spach, Alaska Road Com
mission Engineer in charge of road
building activities in the Kuskokwim
district, recently returned from the
Cripple Creek section, where he called
on the operators and also made a rec
onnaissance survey for a tractor road
from Cripple mountain to Cripple vil
lage on the Innoko. He called on Mr.
and Mrs. Sid Paulson, who are locate
ed on upper Colorado creek and work
| ing the old Oregon Association claim,
i Mr. Paulson has 130,000 square feet
| stripped and ready to sluice, but due
I to the shortage of water this season
has not taker ;t any gold. '
At .the My. Spach’s visit to
| the jCripj Dave Stropdberg
! was down ik- k . r trying to get .his
' new 1 lr4-_yarU, 50-ton, steam burner
j dragline on the job. His outfit is.on
| two barges, and on August 1 one
barge was at Simel’s and the other
barge 60 miles below the. North Fork.
Harold Strandberg was in charge of
the operations on Cripple at the time
and . has been worlriqg ft ..crew of six
men this season, and.has stripped a
caim ength tq a width of, 160 feet. Mrt
Strandberg has a eas^ o«(\ tweive.cr n
tinuous claims on Cripple creek. '
| At the Wii^or -s^ Hard famp, ,io
! cated one claim length below the
! Strandberg camp,, it was,learned that
they havp spent, .m J.+ of . the season
st.ipping one cairn length to a \yiutn
of .90 feet an,l, wip-kinj^f ix to eight
> i.n this, se^f n They arc. using* a
iack.line scrap >r. Np ^pvjney has
been taken out x>f Cripple creek this
sc-.v-.on, due Jfo lack o^utficient water.
There are no other active mining
operations ii\tijit.Jpcalitjr.tlT. <'•. Wal
ii»'1v owpg ,tw«j fhupjfS . gyJeh.
a1- tiie bead of Cripple, but-nothing
has been done *£*?. y«pr, as
Mr. Wallick -letfc earlf- in.fehe spring
foi; Anchorage-hosr.-tal for the pur
pose of receiving medical .attention.
if s Mr. Spac (fashes to become.ac
qim'ntedjvfyh .thp roads and trails, as
wi. y the ,pe i a id ih-d* :n .-ds in
his district, be walkefljfroin^Qpbir to
Gripple. mountain over the winter
trail. This was his second big trail
trip this, sesaon, as about the middle
of June he walked Ijram the Ganes
creek dredge to Flat, making that
trip in three days and six hours. Both
Hie Cripple and Flat trips were made
alone.
Upon Mr...Spach’s return from
.Cripple he |ound an urgent reguest to
go to Medfra, where he has a crew of
fifteen men on the construction of thg
Medfra-Jslixon -Mine road. Due to the
dry weather this season the forest
fires were uite disastrous, especially
in this section. The first fixe, the
middle of July, had destroyed 1,000
feet of old corduroy road with several
timber culverts, and after this dam
age was repaired and 900 feet of new
rorduroy laid a second fire occurred
during the last week of July, burning
the newly-laid corduroy. At the
time of Mr. Qpach’s departure from
Medfra, August 11, his road crew had
completed the laying of 2,000 feet of
new corduroy road in Mile 6 and
going strong ton another 1,500-foot
stretch. Fortunately, the buildings
at the landing were saved, due .to
back-firing, as too timber fire had ap
proached within one mile of the river.
John T. Melberg returned .to Mc
Grath from Seward a few days ago,
following a stay of some months tin
hospital at the latter fflace for an in
jured.ankle. He returns greatly im
proved.
De Thompson was an eary-in-the
week arrival for a few. days’ visit.
4MM4 <mT. v>*. f
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events 1
HAVANA—A state of war grasped j
Cuba following a decree by President;
Machedo saying that u general strike
paralyzing industry and trade has
created a .-rev-dlutaonal state in the
country.
Conflicting and unyielding attitudes
of .numerous elementts are involved
in the growing .crisis of increased
public tension, apd grave concern is
ejfprc'; ' wfelare of citizens
m1 '• the stri ft terminated.
TV f t f ‘milk and.bread
• i- ... tributed under
urr: -A : i ioodetuff .stocks
ur-, ’•apidly H a; pearing.
V;-- -rou ~ uiferences are sched
uled r-tjaiay.
y The Spanish ambassador has prpr
tesed against the killling of two (Citi
zens of Spain Monday.
. The British are said also to have
protested.
From .the United States amt word
from. President-Roosevelt urging poli
ticians to Target 'theijr.4ifTerence* for
the good of the country.
HAVANA—In lightning actum in
which President Machedo »f Cuba
was throTjtti*oat of office by a cleverly
maneuvered coup d’ete,t,j.and his suc
cessor shortly afterward acclaimed,
Carlos Manuel def,Cespedes, former
ambassador to the United States, to
day- ^became the new president, of the
island republic.
The mob is vociferously celebrating
the-downfall of -Machado. In _ their
glee they sacked the lower ftoore of
the presidential palace and then pa
raded! through the secret.polic head
quarters.
HAVANA.—^Colone} Antonio Jimi
nejt, chief of the dreaded secret po
lice of the Machado regime, was shot
andvJcilled by soldiers after wounding
an unidentified man who was cele
brating the termination of the Ma
cfiado administration.
The -state department, in announc
ing Machado’s “leave,” said Orestes
Ferrara, secretary 6f state, \trho pre
viously resigned, is continuing to. ren
der his services to the' department: un
til liis successor is named.
The resignation df Ferrara as well
as Machado is a part df the United
States’ peace plan‘to permit the ap
pointment dfa new secretary of stats
acceptable to all 'factions and who
ever may . become president.
BELLINGHAM.—Salmon -packers
here announce increases-in -wages af
fecting 100 workers, Mio yesterday
subscribed to tbe NRA code with ex
ception of -hours' whiifc, -they eay, art
impossible because of uncertainty oJ
salmon runs.
The Pacific American Fisheries in
creased the wages of men from 30 to
40 cenfcts an hour, and women from
27 1-1! to 36 cent&an-hour.
The Bellingham - Canning Company
increased the hourly wage from 3fi
to 45 cents-an hour, and the monthly
wage from $10 t-r ?20. The Astoria
Puget Sound Company made the sarfe
merssae.
iHYDS PARK,—President Roose
velt last issued an executive
order piacutg^edl Government, con
tracts under terms of the National
Recovery -program for Shorter-work
ing boars .and higher wages. By this
move the 'President made certain that
any supplies provided for the public
works program must come from con
cerns which fly the “Blue Eagle.” -
WASHINGTON—Washington f ore
cas tsare made that the'K. R. A. is
going . to get rough with industries^
holding back; luminous coal oper
ators* .predict that NRA officials prob
ably will settle the differences* regard
ing wages and hours.
iOther * developments leading to the
forecast include the appointment of
“33 wocnets as Hniteaunt • generals to
organize family buyers and purchase
under the"‘‘Blue Eagle.'”
“•I fneceasary, the Federal .trade
commission and Dejjartme.B’ of .Jus
tice eventually will be used., to enforce
the recovery ^ct.
The refusal of Johnson to aceept
the newspaper svo<le <, resulted in b
bging sent back to tbe publishers
ytdth recommendations for changes.
The .federation of Labor was in
structed tf> investigate and- jpepOEl oc
violation^ by those displaying the
eagle.
The aides affecting 1,500,01)0 em
ploye sin electriyt light, ppwer, tele
phone, canning and construction in
dustries were approved today by
Hugh S. Johnson, recovery adminis
trate!:.
KANSAS .CITY.—Sheriff "Thomas
i Bash,, with his "wife and .eDputy
' Sheri Lawrence Hodges, while driv
ing along, saw two mem in.a large car
j shooting, at a thirds who was running
through a fashiqpable ;apartment
: hop-e "district. The sheriff grabbed
; the riot gun ami with Hodges leaped
r from 'the car as the men m the 'other
• machine started firing at fchi.
The -sheriff killed both , men in the
car and captured . the man whe was
running. The men killed by the
sheriff were George Faeone and .Sam
' Hogg.
^ The ■ man on foot was Ferris An
• thos, one time member of the Chicago
alcohol ring. He died of Hie wounds
' received while running. The men are
said tto have b#en night club uper
" a tors. The man arrested was ‘Charles
5 Gargotta, who . was taken when he
’ opened fire on the sheriff.
- WASHINGTON. — Coal operators
Still are unable to find a settlement
1 of major differences over the faix
* practice agreement regarding the in -
’ dustry.
i Nearly all* coal producers have jflat
" ly refused the request ®f the NRA to
follow the steel industry an dremove
the open shop clause themselves. The
* second major difference, over mini
•mum wages, is-further from settle
’ ment than ever.' The union proposes
" a $5 basic daily wage.
E WASHINGTON.—The NRA busied
itself, makingthe path rough for -anv
- transgressors of ite program. Hugh
» S. Johnson,, director of .-the recovery
i drive, white frowning on the word
“boycott,” said the Government would
i not buy from - firms which would not
» conform.
r At the same time Johnson said .that
- the names of those who display the
s “Blue Eagle’*but violate "their pledges
will be published in newspapers.
A nation-wide combine of hcuse
' wives is being organized to refuse, to
'■ 'buy from retail establishments < not
j conforming.
NEW -YORK.—Postmaster General
i Farley is|hfge to arrange for ’air
; planes to.carry NRA badges to Bast
: era cities, k He, said: “The people
■ have pulled us out of this terrible^*
pression before Labor. fl?y ”