VOL. IV. NO. 41
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924.
PRICE 25 CENTS
SENATORS
WIN SERIES
Win World’s Baseball
Championship by Tak
ing Last 2 Games.
Griffith Stadium. Washington, Oct.
9.—The Senators evened the score with
the Giants today by winniDg the sixth
game of the series, the Senators pre
venting McGraw’s men from snatching
the championship and earned a chance
to make another try in the seventh
game here tomorrow.
Batteries: Giants—Gowdy and Nahf.
Senators—Ruel and Zachary.
Score by innings:
Giants..1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-2 ? \
Washington 00002000 2—4 4 0
Summary: Innings pitched by Nehf,
4; hits batted off. Nehf. 4; runs scored
off Nehf, 2; runs sonred offi'Nehf, 2;
runs responsible. Zachary 1, Nehf 4;
runs scored, by Zachary 1, Nehf 4: base
on balls, off Nehf 4; stolen bases. Me
Neely. Judge; two-base hits, Frisch 2;
sacrifice hit, Ruel; runs batted in,
Kelly, Uarris 2; double plays, Harris to
Peckinbaugh to Judge.
Umpires—Klem, Dinen, Quigley and
Connolly._
Washington, Oct. lO.-^Tbe. Senators
won the basetKtfl championship of the
world this afternoon, defeating the
Giants bv 4 to 3. It was a twelve
inning battle and the seventh game
played.
The Senators took the -lead in the
fourth inning, when Manager Harris
lifted a home run into the left field
stand. The Giants broka loose in the
sixth inniDg, scoring three runs.- The
Senators tied the score in the eighth, 3
to 3, when Harris singled to left and
scored Liebold and Ruel. Nehf, New
York's star southpaw, replaced Barnes
on the mound this innings and Walter
Johnson, amid the cheers of the crowd,
replaced Marberry in the box for the
Senators. Macquillan in this inning
replaced for the Giants.
Score by innings:
K H E
Giants 0 00003 0 004) 0 0—3 8 2
Wash. 00010002000 1—4 10 4
Summary: Ionings pitched, by Ogden
114, Mogridge 4}, Marberry 24, Barnes
71.
Trotzky Trying to
Crush Revolution
Constantinople, Oct. 10. — Trotzkj
has arrived in Butio to take command
of one hundred thousand troop9 whieh
he has thrown into the Caucasus, hop
ing thereby to crush revolution in
in those parts;
Traveling over the trail with dog
:eam, headed for the Outside, is fast
enough for some people, but not so
with Manager Julius Saupe, of the
Flume Dredge Company, and N. D.
Ulm, lately from Ganes creek. These
gentlemen are now negotiating with
the managers of the Rodebaugh plane
at Fairbanks, in the hope of booking
early passage from here. It is under
stood that several others are alee eager
to make the trip to the railroad by
airplane. _ _
Dan Nicholson, after a visit of sev
eral days in town, departed yesterday
?of his home on kittle.
DIRIGIBL
LOriGFLlGHT
Shenandoah Leaves on
Cross-Continent Trip
to Camp Lewis, Wn.
Lakehurst, N. J.. Oct. 7.—The naval
dirigible Shenandoah started her epoch
making round trip cruise to Camp
Lewis Wash., at 10a. m today, taking
to the air from her mooring mast in
perfect weather conditions, with Rear
Admiral Moffet, chief of the bureau of
aeronautics, oo board to make the en
tire trip. The navy’s pride of the air
fluttered the admiral’s pennant from
the stern, circled once about the flying
field and headed for Wilmington, des
ignated as the first city on her trans
continental route.
Fort Worth, Oct. 8.—The dirigible
Shenandoah arrived here lust night at
7:30, being thirty four hours in flight
! from Lakehurst, N. J. The big airship
resumed her flight this morning at 10,
headed for San Diego. The next stop
will be Seattle.
9 Bombing ’Planes to
Attempt Night Flight
Washington, Oct. 10. — Announce-'
rnent was made today of the formation
of a group of nine bombing airplanes
to make a night flight, the first ever
attempted at night, from Langley
Field, Virginia, to Mitchell Field, New
York, beginning tomorrow night.
Charges of Big Re
publican Slush Fund
Washington, Oet. I/*. — Senator Borah
has issued a call for a meeting, in
charge of the senatorial committee, to
investigate charges made by La Toi
lette that the republicans plan to raise
a slush fund for use in doubtful states
and to probe corrupt practices in sena
torial and presidential elections in the
absence of any law to ban such acts.
Robert Morris, Alas
kan, Suicides, Seattle
Seattle, Oct. 11.—Broken in health,
Robert Morrison, of Hope, Alaska,
committed suicide her© today by as
phyxiation. He left a note saying:
| ‘ God, be good to everybody and mv
dear mother, Mrs. Margaret BuzzardJ
of Seattle/’
Billy Jones left yesterday for Ophir,
and is expected to return at almost any
time with the mail brought from Holy
Cross by Max Simel. The amount of
mail arriving is said to have been quite
large—in the words of Eric Hard, who
had just arrived from Ophir, “about a
cord and a quarter.
Frank DeMers, after several months
at the G. & A. camp on Ganes, was
among those arriving here yesterday. O
Harry Meebao, from the G. & A.
camp, Ganes, was a Sunday arrival.
John Adams is among recent arrivals
from Yankee.
Harry Menzoff was a Sunday arrival
from Yankee .
Wheeler’s Indictment
Was Black, Dastard
ly Crime, Says Davis
Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 10.—The in
dictment of Senator Wheeler was as
black and dastardly a crime as could
have been committed by any man, dem
ocratic candidate John W. Davis de
clared in a speech here last night, add
ing that the Coolidge attack on La Fol
lette is simply «, smoke screen designed
to divert the attention of the country
from the real issues of the campaign.
Indianapoli-, Oct. 10.—American sen
timent will not tolerate the submission
of domestic questions to determination
by any group of powers, Secretary of
State Hughes declared here last Diglit
in aD address answering criticisms by
Davis, democratic presidential nom
inee, of the administration’s foreign
policy. _
Says Republican Poli
cies 50 Years Against
Western Farmers.
Albany, Oct. 7.—John W. Davis,
democratic presidential candidate, in I
a speech here, said nothing is clearer i
than that the policy pursued by the re 1
publican party, and approved by Cool
idge, has succeeded in setting the ag
ricultural West against the industrial
East. For fifty years, declared Davis,
tbe fiscal policy of the United States
has been dictated by an industrial bloc
to whose prosperity the farmer has;
becti compelled against his will to con- .
tribute.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Teattle, Oct. 10.—Alaskan songs and
Robert Service poems, redolent of the j
gold rusb of a generation ago. featured
the KFAO radio program jast night,
with the Young Men’s Business Club
acting as sponsors for the entertain
ment.
Tacoma.—An unideutifled man. who
attempted to hold up the Bank of Cali
fornia Monday afternoon, was shot and
killed by W. A. Everson, a clerk of the
institution. _
Seattle.—Proceedings were institut
ed Monday afternoon to remove former
Policeman J. O’Neal, who is held for
robbing the Bon Marche store in July
of #18,000. _
Wenatchee.—Four children, aged 8
to 15 years, of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Paulson were burned to death Sunday
night at their home in Orville.
Washington.—St. Louis has been se
lected for the next national convention
of the American Red Cross Society,
opening October 5, 1925.
Tokio. — Zanni, Argentine aviator
flying around the world, reached Kago
shima at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon
from Shanghai.
Seattle,—Lieutenants Smith, Nelson
and Wade, world flyers, with their ma
chinists, arrived here Suuday night
from Washington
EFEATED
Dissolution of British
Parliament; Elec
tions Oct. 29.
London, Oct.. 8.—Premier Macdonald
and the labor cabinet were defeated in
the House of Commons tonight when
the conservatives’ motion for censure,
which was carried by 304 to 198, fore
casted the resignation of the cabinet
and dissolution of parliament, with a
general election in November.
London, Oct. 9.— The House of Com
mons will be dissolved tonight, and a
general election will be held October
29th, it was announced this afternoon.
Following a private council at Buck
ingham Palace, the king signed the
proclamation proroguing parliament.
London, Oct. 10.—Parliament was
prorogued this evening bv the king,
whose speech, read in the House of
Lords, pointed out that the acceptance
of the Dawes plan was an achievement
of note, adding: “1 believe this settle
ment contributes largely to the restora
tion of international commerce.”
About to Be Grabbed,
Rum Schooner Burns
New York, Oct. 9.—The schooner
Anne Antoinette burst into flames and
sank fifteen miles off the New Jersey
coast today as a coast guard cutter was
approaching the vessel to seize it as a
rum runner. The crew of the schooner
escaped iD small boats.
Ezra Meeker, Western
Pioneer, Hits Capital
Washington, Oct. 7.—Ezra Meeker,
Seattle’s picturesque Ogden and Ore
gon trail blazer of fifty-two years ago,
after having flown with Lieutenant
Kelly from Vancouver, Wash., has ar
rived here, and is seeking an audience
with President Coolidge.
Sec. Mellon Guest at
Louisville Wedding
Louisville. Oct. 7.—Secretary of the
Treasury. Mellon, who arrived here to
day, will he a guest at the wedding to
rinit 'A Miss Louise Todd and H.
Parker Gilbert, Jr., agent of the gen
era! reparations commission. Miss
Todd is the daughter of James Ross
Todd, of Louisville.
The ice in the Tokotna in front of
town came to a halt about 7:30 yester
day morning, although there were sev
eral slight movements later in the day.
Tom McKinnon, George Wesch and
Anthony Sweeney left this morning for
the 1. D. camp, Ganes.
Manager Julius Saupe, of the Flume
Dredge Company, arrived Sunday from
Yankee. _
A. Lehreaux, from the G. & A. camp
on Ganes, was a yesterday arrival.
Ophir Glass and Jack Welcf arrived
yesterday from the G. & A. ca np.
Phil (Bud) Riley was a Siu dtty ar
rival from Yankee.