THE KUSKO TIMES
PRICE 25 CENTS
VOL. IV. NO. 37
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1924.
LaFollette Accuses Him
of Taking No Steps
to ‘Clean House.’
- New York, Sept. 12.—Senator
Robert M. La Follette, in his
speech in Madison Square Gar
den tonight, laid the responsi
bility for the corruption in gov
eminent revealed by the Senate
investigation at the feet of Cool
idge. He declared that Coolidge
brought the set into his Cabinet
and, as presiding officer of the
Senate, had full knowledge of
the navy oil reserves and leases,
the veterans’ bureau frauds and
the Department of Justice scan
dals, but when elevated to the
presidency he took no steps to
clean house until driven to do so
by the force of congressional
opinion. LaFollette charged
that the republican party is pur-j
suing the vilest piece of political
strategy ever attempted in seek
ing to shift all blame to a man
nov dead.
New ...ork.—When Senator Ea Fol-j
lette opens his Eastern campaign for
president at Madison So-uare Garden
he wili face a house that has paid $12,
000 to hear him speak. The money
will be turned into the independent
campaign funds.
With the Around
the-World Flyers
Chicago.—The U. S. armv world
i flyers arriued here at 12:35 this after
dood. The skyscrapers of the city and
the windows of all tall buildings were
black with people. The fivers com
pleted the 294-miles north from Dayton
in 2 hours 55 minutes.
□ Seattle.—President Coolidge has des
ignated Major General Morton, of the
Ninth corp- area, as his representative
at the reception for the world flyers on
the completion of their exploit, when
they laD(l at Sand Point Field.
Earthquake Destroys •
102 Villages in Arme
nia, Killing Thousands
Constantinople, Sept. 12.—One hun
' dred and two villages were destroyed
by a violent earthquake yesterday, ac
■ cording to dispatches received by the
Turkish government from Krzureaum,
Armenia. Thousands are reported to
have been killed.
Superintendent Ross Kinney, of tha
Alaska Road Commission, left early in
the week for Cripple for the purpose
■ of giving attention to trail matters in
that section.
Superintendent Ross Kinney. Joseph
Ulmer, Owen Gray and Pred-Morlidge,
of the Alaska Road Commission force,
returned here a few days ago from
Flat.
Manager Jack Guinan, of the G. & A.
> dredge, Ganes creek, was an early in
'.he week visitor.
TYPHOON
IN JAPAN
Followed by Floods, Re
sults in 140,000 Deaths
in Tokyo Alone.
)
Tokyo, Sept. 13.—Floods, fol
lowing Thursday’s tremendous
typhoon, are indicated an many
parts of Japan, The death list
in Tokyo alone may reach onej
hundred and forty thousand in j
the flooded sections. Three hun
dred persons are reported miss
ing in one village in Satima
prefecture.
Soviets Plant Russ
Flag On Wrangell
Island, August 20th
Moscow, Sept.. 11.—The crew of the
Russian ship Krasny 'kiibar posted
the soviet dag on Wrangell island, off
Northern Siberia, on A :gust 2i, ac
cording to announcement made today
by the Rosta news agency. One Amer
ican and eleven Eskimos are Said to
have been found on the island.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Tientsin, China.—Dr. Dan.igan, pre
mier of Mongolia, was -assassinated by
bolsheviks, Tuesday. Travelers 'rum
Erga, the seat of the Mongolian gov
eminent, arriving here, state that
Americans, British and Danish are not
permitted to leave the city.
St. Paul.—Praying for pacifists, that
their hearts might be as their heads,
Ezra C. Clemons, chaplain, invoked the
patience of God for them, in opening
tiie sixth national convention of the
American Legion, Monday.
Washington.—Coolidge is accused of
participation in the plot to push the
Teapot Dome investigation into the
first section of the progressive cam
paign text book, issued Thursday.
Sidney, Greenland.—Greenland flap
pers haven’L bobbed their hair \ei, but
they certainly like cigaretts. Explorer
McMillan said, speaking of inhabitants
of the farthest north.
Syracuse, N. Y. — Jimmy Murphy,
Los Angeies motos dare-devil driver,
was killed here Tuesday afternoon,
when his car left the track.
Seattle.—Clarence N. Wood, boot
legger, was sentenced to the federal
penitentiary for two years and fined
$3,000, Tuesday.
Seattle.—Fisher, traasurer of the
Fisher Flouring Mills Company, of Se
attle, died today.
Seattle.—With 27 precincts still un
reported, Hartley has a lead of 1,802.
Friday, the 12th, at 10 p. in., seems
to be the combination jinx for Jake
Estelmau, for that was the time when
the roof of his Front street structure
collapsed. The building, an old land
mark, bad not been used for months,
further than the fact that Mr. Estie
man used it as a means of ingress and
egress to the attached annex, occupied
as sleeping .Quarters
Dem. Candidate Pre
dicts U. S. Will Join
League of Nations
Des MoiDes, Sept. 12.—John W. Da7is,
democratic presidential candidate, in
his address here this afternoon, pre
dicted that the United States would
shortly enter the League of Nations, as
a step toward the establishment of
world peace. le declared that Amer
ican admission to the xjeague would
result through sober judgment and
power.
MAX S
He Says Lots of Mail
for Ophir, Tokotna
and McGrath,
Max Simel, mail contractor, wires
The Times as follo-vs from Holy Cross;
“'Will leave here September 13 with
the steamer Pup for my place, aad will
tdxe mail wit a t gas boats to Qphir,
but do not know when 1 will get there.
Will try to get there as soon as pos
sible. t have lots of mail for Tokotna
and McGrath aud also for Ophir.”
John A. Wilson, Alas
kan Legislator, Meets
Death, Roadhouse Fire
Rome, Sept. 12.—.John A. Wilson,
representative of tins district in the
Alaska, Legislature, was burned to!
death in the fire which destroyed the
Megan roadhouse at 1-51 u T City, ifty
miles east of here, last night,.
Deputy McMullen and
Bride Soon to Arrive
When Deputy Marshal Peter Me
Mullen went to Fairbanks and to the
Outside, early this summer, he did not
say anything regarding his future
plans. Sly Pete is ow on his way up
river from Bethel, together with his
bride, they bavin,., arrived at Bethel
on the steamer Sam a Ana on the 10th
from Seattle. Mr McMullen was for-j
merly Miss Elizaot th K:rkpatrick, of
Kansas, professor of domestic science
s.1 the Alaska Agricultural College at]
Fairbanks, and her class became one of •
the most popular at tbe-eollege. This!
explains the frequency of Pete's visits
to Fairbanks, but he can be sure of a
most hearty welcome from the whole
of the community for himself and bride. >
Str. Santa Ana Arrived
Arrixed Bethel on 10th
Bethel, Sept. 10. The steamer Santa
Ana arrived in Bethel this morning.
Among the passengers are Deputy
Marshal Peter McMullen and Mrs. Mc
Mullen and Fritz Title), for McGrath;
.lack Stevenson, for Tuluwiksak.
Dr. J. L. Lane, dentist, will be a pas
senger up on the Tana, and will be
permanently located at Tokotna.
Leo Rodrigue returned here .Thurs
day from Medfra, having failed to con
nect at that point with A. Biggins and
J. L. Eerry, with whom he hoped to
make the trip via Menchumina to Ne
nana and continue to San Francisco.
AND
Mining Activities and
Other Notes From
That Section.
Regarding mining activities and
other doings in the fditarod section,
Charles 11. Tailor, o' Albrecht and
Taylor, well known attorneys, who ar
rived Thursday, summarises as fol
lows:
The two dredges are working away
on Otter creek, but the pav is getting
thinner an they go farther down the
creek. The Riley dredge expects to
turn around and go back up the creek
on the loft limit, taking the side pay
which they left on the way down. The
N. A. Co. dredge, formerly the Leatou
dredge, is following the creek bed,
heading down stream, and has had con
siderable interference from the high
water which prevailed at times this
summer.
Bill Toms is operating on the Alpha
claim, at the head of Flat, where eight
men have been operating all summer.
Three sets of laymen are operating
on the Stranibarg -property and are re
ported as doing well.
■Fete Stager is working on the Sum
mit association, where A l Walsh and
partners took oat some big cleanups.
Dan McDoon. and partners are doing
well on Chicken on the property pur
chased from amt formerly operated by
the Mathesoo Brothers.
Willow creek is also being worked ,
right along, Joe Lot-anger. Dona La
Chance, Pete Thibault and partners
working their several claims as for
merly.
Dick Perkins and Charles Court
wright .have been surveying a ditch on :
Willow, to<be used in connection with
the working <of rank Manley's prop
erty on that creek, ivte*. Perkins having
been sent in by Mr. Manley for that
purpose. Mr. Maolev is expected at
Iditarod at any time, he being now in
Fairbanks,
The Richaruson brothers —Bill and
Jack—are still wonting their ground
near Glen gulch and Slate creek.
Pete Miscovi. il found a niece of vir
gin ground or. lie ' .Vlene fraction,
which was so. . • ->• d to have been
worked out, b .t : - first cleanup-yield
ed over S4,00 .’ ,.ni tie is» ?,till at it.
Oldtimer Prank fierce sold out his
little stock of goods, rattled his cabin
and took a trip to the Outside, the first
in over twenty years, where be is going
to visit relatives, and says he is then
coaling back. He does not like the
idea of a permanent residence away !
from Alaska.
Lamuel Applebaum, the prosperous
merchant of Iditarod, has disposed of
his extensive mercantile and banking
interests to Harry Donnelley and Harry
P. Sheppard, who will take possession
next month.
Mr. Applebaum made his first trio to
the Outside in ill years last winter, and
it evidently created a desire to see
■more of it, as he is contemplating leav
ing Alaska to settle permanently on
the Outside. However, one can never
tell; so many of our citizens have done
the same thing, but the call of Alaska
has proven too strong and they have
come back.
idle two Har.ys will make a strong
combination in the business world, as
both of them are popular and wed
thmmh' of '• •1 .iu; sty a.- i
the ucctssui j ijud.iuicui.iuua mat go to I
make successful bu*iness men
WHEN‘MULE’
IS EVIDENCE
'Animal* Shown in New
Angle in a Recent
Trial at Elat,
iditaroo, Sept. 8.—Ohar»es Herggrec
was recently tried at Flat upon the
charge of haying: intoxicating liquor is.
his possession, the jury /ailing to agree
- upon a verdict.
This case arose out of the in/estiga
tion into the burning of the raoia o'.
Jimmy Powell, last January, and the
finding of Powell’s body in the cabin
T! e marshal, W. W. ! istes, testified
that he saw a trail of blood leading
from the burning cabin to the cabin o:
the defendant across the street, and.
following this trail, he discovered
Eerggren asleep in his cabin, with hit
face badly battered up and bSeedring
freely from a wound on his wrest. He
thereupon apprehended Rerggren and
locked him up. Pursuing his investi
gations, the marshal found a five-gal lor.
can of hootch, which he also tool: into
his possession and which was produced
at ti e trial. The coroner's ;ury alsc
visited the scece ecd each one of thee,
testified us to having aeon the teg o.
liquor in tire cabin.
The defense was that the tcarsha
and other people who went into the
cabin v, t; mere on business tithe:
than that of searching for liquor, that
they"'er3 there without a search war
ant and tout, they had no awful busi
ness in the abia iu connection with
the o.tieuse charged • that the evidenc.
thus produced was unlawfully before
the court, and that the government had
not lawfully proved its case. Assistant
District Attorney V. E. Collins prose
cuted the case, which rnav come u»
again for another trial.
Coroner’s Inquest on
Bodies of Two Found
in Holy Cross Section
ditarod; Sept. 8.—At the eonctusiou
of the term of court at Hat, U. S. Com
missioner H J. Stier and Deputy IJ. S.
Marshal Mates, of Flat, accompanied
the district court party es far as Holy
Cross, where they conducted a coro
ner’s iqeuest on the body of a man
named Strang: y. ;ttc was found near
llolokichuk with a bullet hole in his,
hrafn. A- silver watch arta:' a few dol
lars in bilver were found upon his per
son, and considerable conjecture was
had as to the circumstances under
which he met his death. ' Jtrangey .eft
"ditarod for down river-somy time ia
1921, and was not heard from after
ward. The verdict off the coroner s
jury wa3 that he had come to his death
at the hands of some person or persons
uoknowa.
The same jury also investigated the
case of the finding of another body,
which proved to be that of a native,
found near Holy Cross, and a similar
verdict was rendered in that ease
Mr. and Mrs. Dave E. Clough and
little Margaret Clough, coming from
Medhra on Chris M-elson's launch Billy
are recent, arrivals. They are ft'reudv
comfortably quartered in the iiubadc
Hebert home.
ill vs. John Liit-'k arrive ' r
uoiu bpi uce meek, and is the t;uMt «-c
Mrs r eoa C. fiooeiit