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VOL. III. NO. 49
TOEOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1923.
Polo Grounds, Ne York,
Sept. 14.—Jack Dumps; , Amer
ican heavyweight, knocked out
Buis Angel Pirpo, the rgentine
giant, in the second round, to-1
night.
Round 1—Dempsey missed a
left, and Pirpo dug right into his
body, sending him to his knees.
Dempsey floored Fir).; with a
left hook to chin, but he was up
after taking the count, and when!
he got up Dempsey sent him to
the floor for the second time,
with a hard right. L nips y
knocked him over for the third
time. When he got up Jack!
chased him to his corner, knock
ing him down again. Alter being
floored the fourth time Pirpo
knocked Dempsey through the!
ropes, and Dempsey came back!
groggy. Pirpo pound, d Demp
sey on the jaw with sledge-ham
mer rights, bringing blood from
his mouth. Pirpo also was bleed
ing when he went to hi corner.
Round 2—Firpo swung rigntj
to Dempsey’s back. Dempsey
landed left to chin. Jack drove
both fists to body and Pirpo fell
to the floor. Bleeding and grog-4
gy, he staggered into the center
of the ring. Dempsey hit him j
with a ]( i. hook to tk. chin and
with a right to the ime spot ,
knocking him hat He rolled
over on his back, with blood ,
trickling from his Enjuth, rc.1
maining in this posh Ion while I
ti. ■ referee swung tin count over i
him. Dempsey, nervous, rushed
over and helped to { k up his,
fallen l'ce, and then trotted to
his corner
Scores were injured in a wild j
slot wh ■ ’ several thousand fight !
fans changed the si ■ le ticket)
wagon selling bleac ■ r ickets j
for the tigiit, only 3,5<:f‘ bleacher
tickets, ar s'h30 each, being of-;
fered, while twenty thou land I
sought, to buy.
Following the fight Promoter
Tex Iiicka. d announc' d that he
was ready to stage another bout
next surni er between Dempsey
and Firpo or a bon' between
Firpo a-.d Harry Wills, Amer
ican negro. The receipts of the
Dempse\ Firpo brut !;■ t night i
were $1.200;000, Rickard stated.
Attendance, about 891 .
Buenos Aires.—The defeat of
Firpo by Dempsey was a stun
ning disappointment to people
here, thousands ot whom wept
before the bulletin boards.
5,000 IR
KLAN RIOT
New Jersey Town the
Scene of Tumultuous
Disturbance.
Perth Amboy,. N. X, Sept. 18.
—Five thousand persons broke
up a meeting of the ku kiux klan
at Oddfellows Hall. Seventy
five policemen and one hundred
and fifty firemen were unable to
drive back the throngs that
stormed ihe building. tFiremen
drove trucks into the mass of
people, but to no avail. t
Binghamton, N. Y.—Three men were
rescued bv the police after a protest
meeting called by the ku klux klan had
been broken up in riotiDg and fighting,
in iwhich several hundred participated.
Mexico City.—The editorial rooms of
Excelhior were the scenes of much
fighting last night between members of
the editorial staff and members of the
ku klux klan, as a result of the warfare
made by that paper on the hooded or
ganization.
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Charles Nicolet’^ unnamed graft left '
Bethel on the 17th for McGrath, ac
cording to advices received at the lat
ter place. Captain Bugge, with the *
Tokotna, was expected to leave for Me- 1
Grath on the 18th.
The Thor arrived Wednesday from .
the Forks, bringing 36 tons of the 1
Glass dredge material, and is here \
tonight with another load.
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Aftermath of Earth
quake, Tida Wave
and Fire.
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r*. $ ' i . _4«!& »
Aboard the Pres dent Jeffer
son, Kn Route to Seattle, Sept. ;
17. — Two thousand foreigners ;
joined the refugees on the Jef
ferson in Yokohama and Tokio.
Among those on board is Albert
Mandel, o S^n Francisco, who <
found hi: wi'odeatl in the ruins ;
rt Yokohai m, after walking from i
rokio through the devastated, i
iire-swei i ion, i mpered by1
i wooden le . Their two babies
reaped uninjured. j
The Briti.-.!; steamer Dengula, f
carrying refugees homeward,
leld forty funeral- ea route,
while the Empress of Australia 1
tad sixty amputa on cases in j
ler hold. l
Washington, Sent. I’ The total of
lounted dead in t!ie si anese disaster
ms passed the 200,000 i ark, according 1
o a cablegram received at the Japan- 1
se embassy .onight from ofhcia.s at
L’okio. i
Tho Lcdie.v of sixty thousand dead ;
lad been cremated by 'he authorities
n Tokio up to midnight, Sept, 12, tlio
apane.se minister for foreign affairs j *
aid in a telegram recei -ed here at the
apanese embassy. The number of ,
odies still unrecoveied is probably
ery great, it was added. It is esti
mated that sixty-live percent of the *
inhabitants of Tokl< were injured dur
insr- the earthquake. *
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’
worth of silk in Yokohama warehouses
were destroyed.
Tokio.—Deaths from earthquake and
tidal wave in and around Tokio are
now estimated at 15O.C0O. Groups of
one hundred'bodies have been found at
different spots. Dysentery is quite
prevalent.
Are Felt in China, Phil
ippine Islands, and
Sicily.
Shanghai, Sept. 18. — Three
earthquake shocks rocked the
province of Chihli today. Nu
merous buildings collap ad and
the casualties are heavy at Iluh
sion. Chihli province, in which
are Peking and Tientsen, has a
population of 32,000,000.
Manila, Sept. 18.—A severe
earthquake occurred at 7:30 this
morning, many buildings being
badly shaken. Churches were j
filled with worshipers attending |
mass when the shock came.
Syracuse, Sicily," Sept. 18.—A
violent earthquake shock was
felt here this morning at 7:30.
LI. S., Mexico Resume
Diplomatic Relations
Washington.—The United States and
Mexico resumed full diplomatic rela
tions today. the State Department an
nounced this afternoon.
Pete Jensen and Charlie Lovett ar
v’-ed Sunday from Iditarud, following
:ompletion of their operations for the
\laska Iload Commission. Mv. Jensen
eft Monday for Met rath, and Mr.
Lovett is scheduled to leave far Flat
vitfain the next couple of days.
As a reminder thin our old friend
tVinter is approaching, i* may be stat
’d that on t.iiis 22d day of February a
lalf mantle of white covered Tokotna
r.ountain a full third way down fron
ts peak.
The Pioneer arrived Thursday from
dcGrath, bringing up- a good load of
might, and left agah this morning
or the down-river town.
Billy JoDes, Ophir Glass and Charlie
Nichols went to McGrath Wednesday,
oing down with Jac' Mutchler and
auneh.
Henry A ho, who returned here
Tuesday from Ophir, left Wednesday
or McGrath going down with Chris
kelson.
Leo Rodriguez, who arrived yester
iay from Ganes, left this morning for I
,lcGrath, going down on the Pioneer.
The Dave Mutchler cold storage
large arrived at Ophir on Sept. 17.
Ai Goslow arrived Wedoespay and
eturned to McGrath Thursday.
Grant Murdock, Cai.dle, is spending
, few days in town.
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Berkeley, Sept. 17.—One thou
sand homes have been destroyed
and a financial Joss of four mil
lion dollars sust. mod by a tire
which startrd in a brush heap
this afternoon in North Berke
ley. The fire later spread to a
group of eucalyptus trees, the
prevailing wind carrying the
'flames over the entire city. The
tire burned until late in the
night, sweeping over eighty city
blocks. Two University students
were killed. Dynamiting was re
sorted to in an effort to stem the
progress of the flames towards
the buildings of the University.
Among the homes destroyed
were those of Benjamin Ide
Wheeler, president emeritus of
the University, and John How
ard Tyler, architect. The fra
ternity houses consumed include
Tau Kappa Ebsilon, Alpha Tau
Omega, Phi Kappa Sigma, and
the Tau Phi. Among the ma
jority of houses destroyed were
Zeta Tau Alpha Delta and Alpha
Sigma Delta. ..It is estimated
that not less than five ..thousand
people are homeless.
Berkeley, Sept. 18.—The prop
erty damage from yesterday’s
tire is estimated today at ten
million dollars. It is also esti
mated that the insurance carried
is six million dollars loss than
the total loss by fire. All of the
finest homes on Craigmeuth and
Euclid avenues, Loeiema Park,
were destroyed.
Absolute Necessity of High
way From Ruby to M’Grath
F. B. Camp, of Anchorage, arrived
in town Tuesday night, after complet
ing a ten-days’ mush from Ruby over
the embryo road of the Alaska Road
Commission. From Ruby to Long in
Milligan’s de luxe touring car over a
stretch of road twenty-nine miles in
length was accomplished in one hour
and thirty minutes. From Long to
Boorman, thence to L«ne Mountain and
on to Cripple took several strenuous
days of mushing. Following the win
ter road from Greenstone, =• "en miles
beyond the town of Long, the trail and
road which looms m so enticingly on
the Doad Commissi* n map, becomes a
nightmare of s'-’mps, niggerheads,
lakes and aim* passable sloughs,
over and througl . hmb progress of
any sffbt was a slow and tedious task.
The heavy rains which be,Tan falling
from the time Mr. Camp left Ruby con
tinued throughout the < s Li re trip,
causing the streams and ri.ers to run
hank full and submerging the trail and
road a foot deep with muddy wat<
From Cripple City the trav ’ ft
the winter trail and, going the
Cripple diggings, t ink the,., aimer
trail to Ophir and tl cnee to this place.
“The absolute necessity of a real
rotul between Ruby and Tokdtna and
McGrath,”’said Mr. Camp, “becomes
more and more a vita necessity for the
future development of this section of
. .iska. Cheaper and better trans
portation must become a reality before
To..otna, McGrath’and other towns
along the right-of-way of the road,
which should have been built ten years
ago, can ihope to become permanent
and prosperous communities. The
Alaska Road Commission c licials can
not fail to see the necessity for this
road, and it is to be hoped that they
will concentrate then' road-building
activities in this section of Alrska en
tirely upon the Ruby-McGrath high
way from now iuntil it is finally com
pleted, which should he accomplished
in two years. By appropriating a sutli
eient sum of money for the completion
of this r«ad within the next two years,
the people living in this section of
Alaska will be benefited as much as
those people along the right-of-way of
the Alaska Railroad,
“A good road means much cheaper
transportation. Cheaper transjwrta
tion means an increased pnpu Hi n,
and an increased population means the
ultimate finding and development of
more camps like Iditarod, Ophir and
Poorman,-’ said Mr. Camp. "The peo
ple located alomr the right-of-way of
both \i summer highways
connectin. Hue '/’itri McGrath ar6 all
waiting patiently for the completion of
this road and are becoming more im
patient with the apparent unnecessary
tardiness of the odi .ials of the Ala-ka
Hoad Commission in completing this
road. The recent visit of Delegate
Dan Sutherland to Poorman and other
points along this proposed road will
undoubtedly help to get early action,
and if all those people vitally interest
ed in this road will write to' Delegate
Dan urging him to make a special ef
fort to have the road completed at au
early date, much good will result. A
united effort and one voice demanding
this rmul will do much toward getting
it in the near future.”
Aside from being an able newspaper
man, Mr. Camp, who saw service dur
ing tiie world war, enjoys the distinc
tion of being known as the Soldier
Poet. He has become somewhat widely
known through the publication, re
cently, of a volume known as "Alaska
Nuggets,” of vvbicli over seven thou
sand copies were sold. His verses are
of a high order and decide 11 v pleasing.
Mr. Camp departed Wednesday for
McGrath on a business mission.
Mrs. S. Schultz, Tokotna’s first school
teacher under Territorial supervision,
arrived here Thursday. Mrs. Schultz,
who carries excellent credentials con
cerning her school work in both North
Dakota aud Montana, is eager to as
sume her new duties here. Until such
time as the new school house is ready,
the contract for which was awarded
several Jays ago to John IT Baker,
school sessions will be belli in Pioneer
Hall, opening Monday morning next.
Mrs. James Weir, well known Ophir
ite, after au absence of about two years
among childhood’s scenes at her old
home in Scotland, was among Thurs
day’s arrivals, en route to her home on
Spruce creek. Mrs. Weir was met at
McGrath by Mr. Weir, who accompa
nied her here, aud both wiil probably
leave tomorrow for Spruce.