VOL. III.
V \
NO. 38
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 7,
PRICE 25 CENTS
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ADDRESSES
DY HARDING
Discusses Various Mat
ters On His Way
Westward.
St. Louis, June21 —President!
Hardin" placed before the coun-1
try tonight a renewed plea for j
American adherence to permit-:
ting the court of international j
justice as the one and only ex
isting agency of peace to which j
we can safely subscribe without\
violation of the basic principles!
of our national being. To bring:
about that end, he said he would j
gladly help out factional differ
ences and proposed reconstruct ;
tion of the machinery of the in
ternational court to dispose of
all other's. He cited the appro
hension of danger from the ex !
ercise of any influence whatso
ever, either open or furtive, by
the league of nations or by any
other organization. He declared [
two conditions were indispen
able—first, that the tribunal be
so constituted as to appear and |
to be in theory and practice, in
form and substance, beyond the;
shadow of doubt a world court,
and not a league court; second,
thni the United States shall oo
cupy a plane of perfect equality
with every other power.
St. Louis.—At Grafton, W. Va., last
r.ight, Harding, in a train platform
speech, said: “1 am going to Alaska
so that the government may know bet
ter and may be helped In revealing
this treasure land of ours, which is
nearly as large as one-third of the
mainland of the Uuited States and
whose boundless resources are as yet
undeveloped.’’
Kansas City.—Harding?, during a ld
mile automobile drive in the broiling
sun through the streets of the city this
afternoon, was so sunburned that his
lips were swollen, but it did not pre
vent the delivery of his speech on
transportation problems tonight,
though he did have to. on the advice of
his pnysiciiiD, give up a visit to Swope
park and the war veterans’ hospital.
The President referred to his trip as
an official visit of inquiry to the vast
Territory of Alaska. In his speech,
devoted mainly to railroads, which he I
caid were finding it difficult to earn a
living, he declared he did not share
the views of those advocating govorn:
ment ownership.
Hutchinson.—Harding opened the
Kansas wheat harvest today by person
ally operating a combination thresher
and binder on the farm of Chester
O’Neil, seven miles out of the city.
Denver.—In his address here just be
fore his departure for the West, Hard
ing uttered warning that the States
must not shirk their duty and that bur
dens rauct not be increasingly thrown
cn the federal government. He de
clared, in effect, that the federal dry
law is on the statutes to stay.
Jgden.—Harding arrived here at 8
*
this morning f“ a short visit of fifty- ]
fivQ,minutes in Ogden, which was to
precede his a to bile journey from
here to Salt Lake Citv,
Sait Lake.—JR; t cling arrived here at
noon for a twelve hour visit, after ao
auto ride from Ogden, through fertile
valleys lying between snow-capped
mountain ranges. The chief execu
tive, accompanied by Governor Mabey
and Senators Smoot and King, was
given an almost continuous ovation
during his forty-mile ride.
Making the sixth of his prepared ad
dresses for his Western trip, Harding
in the Mormon Tabernacle tonight dis
cussed the question of taxation. His
address on this question was made here j
because Utah is the home of Chairman
Smoot, of the Senate finance commit
tee. He told what the government had
accomplished in decreasing taxes and
the public debt. Speaking of the cost
of the world war, he said, altogether
the war was not only the greatest sor
row the world has ever known, but the
greatest orgv of spending.
The President tried golf yesterday
afternoon with President Ileber J.
Grant., of the Mormon church, as
partner.
Id, ho Palls. Declaring that the need
of i: present is to shorten the bridge
between the producer and the con
sumer, Pre-id- ii. Harding, in his ad
dress here, proposed a plan of co-oper
ati :• iDong consumers, financed in
part at least through the carefully or
ganized and u per vised adoption of
principles of savings banks or building
and loan corporations.
Idaho Palls.—Harding today has left
Idaho and is in Montana, following a
route which tomorrow will bring his
Alaska bound party to Gardner. Sat
urday and S- . ay will be occupied in
visiting the Yellowstone national park.
Today the President is to speak at
Butte, taking as Sits subject a report on
post war revival of business.
Helena.— Hardd g, in his speech here
this afternoon, referred to the colossal
failure of Russia’s mad experiment and
said he believed that Russia is going
to rivet anew our belief in the estab
lished social order. Discussing condi
tions in this com try, the President de
cbtred both labor and capital bad the
right, to organize, the latter through
the medium of corporations.
Work of Tripoding
Summer Trail to Flat
A safe summer trail from Tokotna to
l'i it s now assured. For the purpose
of timing ami nipoding this trail
Charles Cove It aod Pete Jensen, of the
Ah ska Hoad Commission force, will
leave tomorrow morning’ for Canes
creek, from which the work of tripod
log through to Flat, as well as other
necessary win will commence.
Freightei Lilly Jones, who returned
this morning from a. trip to Ophir. will
leave ‘tomorrow morning for the
Twitchell reindeer camp, taking with
him a quantity of supplies for Messrs.
Lovett aDd Jensen.
Other work contemplated by the
Road Commission is the piaeiDg of a
pedestrian foot bridge over the Tata
lina for the benelit of those traveling
between McGrath, Candle and To
kotna. The cable for this bridge is
already on the ground, and the erec
tion of the structure at an early date is
assured? __
Tom McKinnon left Sunday morning
ior McGrath.
Brought Into American
Waters, Under Seal
of Foreign Govts.
Washington, June 30.—Secre
tary ol‘ the Treasury Mellon an
nounced late today that it had
been decided to seize all ship
liquor brought into American
waters, even though it is aboard
foreign ships and under the son 1
of foreign governments.
New York.—Government au
thorities today seized the liquor
stock aboard the liner 1 a!tic,
amounting to severei thousand
cases, all under British govern
ment seal.
London,—Premier Baldwin, in
the House of Commons today,
announced that the Unite'.’. St.it..-.5
is clearly within her i id ; iu
breaking the sealsvof rum laden
British ships when in Ame rican
waters.
Telegraphic Ticks.
—
[ Regina,- The village of Ernford was
totally destroyed hy a cyclone today,
i
Chicago.—Six prostrations and one
death here from heat this afternoon.
Dawson, Y. T.—The' legislature has
formally invited President Ha-ding to
visit Dawson._
Olympia.-—Governor Hart, on invita
tion, will join the Harding part; at
Spokane on July 2.
San Juan. Porto Rico. — Republicans
in convention here todai sel( .. . two
Harding delegates.
Rome.—The village of Ringuag> >sa.
on the slope of Mount Aetna, has been
destroyed bv a torrent of lava.
Merlin.—French Marshal Retain was
severely injured in the wrecking of a
Paris and Mayeece express train last
night. _
Essen —A Belgian corporal and a
private were killed tit Marl . h o they
endeavored to search two Ga mans at a
control post. _
Rome.—The Pope has issued a com
munication expressing the vie.- that
only after evacuation of the Ei hr can
pacification be reached.
Paris.—Attempting to establish an
altitude record, Lieut. Bury ascende•'
today in an aeroplane to a height of
150,000 feet. He grew faint, but made a
safe landing. _ _
Hanover.—The permanent court of
international justice constitutes a trio
anal with a standard “that conforms to
the highest courts,” Secretary of State
Hughes said hero today, speakidg at
the alumni gathering at Dartmouth
Seattle.—Tigert, commissioner of ed
ucation, will arrive in Seattle next
week od his way to Alaska, w here he
will hold a conference with superin
tendents of government schuols at Ju
neau during the period of President
Harding’s visit.
Lindeberg to Make Set
tlement; Suits Against
Metson and Lindblom.
San Francisco, June 30.—Suits
'involving stockholders’ liability
in the insolvent Scandinavian
| American Back of Seattle were
j liled today in the federal court
! against Eric O. Lindblom, Alas
kan milliona re, and W. H. Met
| son, lor §11,000, which sum is
I alleged to be due on an assess
[ meat made by > Wash ins ton
state bank si visor to raise
funds 'o meet bank's obliga
tions.
’acoraa, June 30.—The claims
! of the defunct Scandinavian
| American Bank of Tacoma and
Seattle against Jafet Lindeberg,
| amounting to §223,000, will be
j paid at an early date, according
I to a statement made by Forbes
i P. Hassel, Jr., receiver of the
j Tacoma institution. The money
jwil’ be divided as follows: 55
per cent to Seattle, 45 per cent
i to Tacoma. The payments will
! be distributed over a period of
, three years.
—
Tokotna Receives Its
I Fresh Food Supplies
| The Thor, Captain Frank Larson,
1 hove in sight at the bend below town
last Sunday afternoon, after a slow
trip up from McGrath. The Thor’s
! baive, owing to the low stage of water,
i had been left at a point about twelve
: miles below. Coming on the Thor
from McGrath were: Jack Mutchler,
Charles Stanford, John Savola, Billie
Roui. Thirty one sacks of mail was
also brought.
But Tuesday was t tie joyful day for
Tokotnans, ior on that day Frank Lar
son, with the aid of horses, was able to
land the Thor barge in front of town,
. > the deli:;l.t of local merchants and
J’okotnut s generally. Spuds, onions,
eggs, apples, grape fruit, oranges,
’n’ everything! <> b y! The famine
was . ‘T: s lie nig feast wa.> on! Life,
once i ire, was worth living.
Showers coming during last night
proved a real blessing to Tokotnans,
for they put an end to the two serious
brush lire, over which some apprehen
sion h:is been felt since Wednesday
last. For the past, three days these
tires—one from over the ridge in the
vicinity of G us Christenson’s place, on
the line of the government road, the
other starting in the vicinity of .the
lower end of the hill back of town—
bad at times appeared quite menacing.
Ophir Glass. BIuzo Crist and Jack
Welch were yesterday arrivals, having
come over the trail from Flat,
| New York.—Geraldine Farrar was
today granted a divorce from Lou Tel
legren. The u •,< e gives her the right
to reman” t. .denies Tellegren that
privilege. _
Redding, Cal. — know fell at Sisson
today.