THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter August
2Pth, 1923. at the Post Office at
ToKotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3. 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA.
MAY 9 1925
Predicts Boom for Coal
in States, Due to Oil
Production Shortage
Anchorage Times.
“Inside of t wo years,” states Captain
Austin E. Lathrop, who returned from
an extended tour of the States vester
day afternoon, “business men of San
Francisco are predicting the ultimate
reversion of all railroads back to coal
burning in place of oil.
“Already cement and gvpsum
plants,” continued Captain Lathrop,
“are converting their power plants
from oil to coal, and steamship com
panies are laying plans for a reversion.
Architects who have been planning
large apartments and office buildings,
who formerly left a small place in the
basement for a boiler and a place for
an oil lank under the sidewalk, are now
makiDg plans for heating by coal.”
The reason js^ je to the big shrink
age in pro dm cl-jo of oil. especially
among the California llelds. At the
present time fuel oil iu Seattle is sell
ing at the high price of $2 a barrel.
Experts are predicting that within two
years the price of gasoline will be in
the neighborhood of 50 cents a gallon.
All this, qelieves Captain Lathrop.
tends to make the Alaskan coal fields
come into their own, to furnish coal
for the demand that is sure to develop.
It will also help the coal mines of
Western Washington and prove a big
stimulus to business in Seattle.
At the present time, stated Lathrop,
business conditions in the states west
of the Kocky mountains are tightening
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
up, and tnanv dipd are out of employ
ment. In Seattle, business conditions
are hard, with the lumber and saw
mills of the city working only four days
in the week. Conditions in Los An
geles are deplorable, the city being
still in the throes of the slump which
began lost year.
Birth Rate Menaces
Old American Families
Urban* h ■ ze of the American
add. o a loony the native stock fam -
ily has less than three children, while
it requires four, under the present mor
tality and marriage rate, to replace the
stock without any increase.
"It is not necessarily a tragedy that
much of our native stock is dyiog out
and that our increase comes wholly
from foreign stock, for foreign is cer
tainly not synonymous with inferior,”
said the professor "Yet few will admit
the desirability of such rapid replace
ment of our native stock, for it contains
some of our most precious population
elements. When we see 13 per cent of
our native families childless, and 18
per cent more with only one child each,
it seems to be significant.”
Turniug to the educational side of
the situation, Professor Baber declared
‘ Par too many of our educated people
oither sidestep marriage or marry loo
late in life to have a family. Prom
one half to three-fifths of our best edu
cated women are having no share in
producing the next generation, due
either to non-marriage or childless
riage.”
L' vtrsity of Illinois, who
ock in one genera
lise percent, accord
professor of eociol
Colonel J. G. Steese
Big Asset to Alaska
While discussing tlje assets of the
Territory of Alaska let us not forget
I Colonel James Gordon Steese, who has
; secured larger appropriations for
| Alaska than ever were made before,
I notwithstanding the determination of
j
President Coolidge and leaders in Con
gress fo decrease the government’s ex
penses.
As a result of Colonel Steese’s inde
fatigable work at Washington the past
few months the Ala-ka Road Commis
sion will get a direct appropriation of
$900,000, which is $175,000 larger than
the appropriation of last year, and,
with the other funds available, will
give the commission $1,250,000 for the
present year.
The Alaska Road Commission has
probably done as much, if not more, for
the real benefit of the Territory than
any other organisation, and has been
splendidly organized from the begin
ning. It found Alaska almost com
pletely without roads, while todav
there are hundreds of automobile
roads, besides sled roads and trails over
which freight mav be hauled.
The ) e i<-e i i Alaska are under great
obligations to Colonel Steese for the
splend he has done in Washing
t ■ f the Territory's mo9i
useful citizens.—Anchor
age Tin •-«.
A town that, never has anything to
do in a public way is on the road to the
cemetery. Any citizen who will do
nothing for his town is helping to dig
the grave. A man that curses the
town furnishes the coffin. The man
who is so selfish as to have no time
from his business to give to city alTairs
is making the shroud. The man who
will not advertise is driving the heaise.
The man who is always pulling back
from any public enterprise throws bou
quets on the grave. The man who is
so stingv as to be howling hard times
preaches the funeral service and sings
the doxology. And thus a town lies
buried from all sorrow and care. So
mote it be.—Ex.
PRESS SQUIBS.
Volsteap offenders are so numerous
out in Todd county, Minnesota, that
the sheriff has a waiting lit - f •* ‘.he
jail. Possibly they’ll soon be entering
their sons at birth, as is done by mem
bers of other exclusive clubs.—Jlev
York Herald Tribune.
What this country really needs for
the benefit of every one is some scheme
to boost the trice of wheat and at the
same time reduce the price of flour.—
i Boston Globe.
Governor Ritchie says government
lias uso' ped nine rights of the citizen,
whicn is about six more than the citi
zen had tostart with.—Tampa Tribune.
A British writer complains that he
spent five years writing a drama which
he can not get produced. Looks like a
case of all work and no play.—Detroit
News.
A skull half an inch thick, and un -
earthed in Arizona, has been seDt to!
Washington without the formality of
an election.—Detroit, News.
That international harmony of whieh
! the orators speak must be America
whistling for her money.—Norfolk Vir
ginian Pilot.
Taxpayers are right in wondering
why you only have internal revenue
cutters out on the water.—Manila Bul
letin.
America, savs a senator, made the
world what it is today. Always trying
to blame America.—Cleveland Press.
The mail carriers have one consola -
tion. Literature is getting lighter
every year.—Nelson News.
Law enforcement needs some of the
kick that bootlegger liquor has. — Nor
folk Virginian-Pilot.
A politician’s idea of a good citizen
is one who isn’t loo darned inquisitive.
—Chicago Journal.
A successful marriage is one where
the wife is boss but doesn’t know it.—
Toledo Blade.
Notice of Appointment.
Estate of Cberles C. Worden, de
ceased.
Joe Konechney has been appointed
aod qualified as administrator of the
estate of Charles C. Worden, late of
Kuskokwim precinct. Pivurth division.
Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated at Napamute this 1th day of
April, 1925.
Geo. W. Hoffman,
Probate Judge of said precinct.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Oeorge W. Albrecht,
Iditarod, Alaska..
Charles E. Taylor,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Practice in all Courts.
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
!
Flat City
Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
Blackburn
& Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
Hood Rubber
Boots
$10 PAIR
Hood
Shoe Pacs
The Best Ever
$6.50 PAIR
McGrath Pool Hall
George Mutchler, Proprietor
Cigars,Tobaccos, Candies,fruits
Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog- Houses.
Frank Larson - - Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager .