THE KUSKO TIMES_
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1926 . PRICE 25 CENTS
VOL. VI. NO. 12
Party of Mining Engi
neers Kidnapped and
Badly Maltreated,
Mexico City, March 20.-—The kid -
i.mp-'ng' of a party of American min
ng engineers, who were tied to trees,
is cne .ucest in a series of attacks on
Americans near Asarco, State of Dur
rango. The bandits seized €. 1). Wea
ver, jr., Emil Kreglan, A. P. Norris
and Adolph Matz, a German. After
being robbed the men were carried
captives into the hills and tied to
trees, where they lingered for many
hours before being released.
TRAM RO AI) CON ST R U CTION
ON SEWARD PENINSULA
Washington, March 24.—The House
committee on territories today deliv
ered a favorable report on the reso
lution introduced by Delegate Suth
land of Alaska to authorize tram road
construction on the Seward Peninsula
by the Alaska Road Commission.
\ Resolution Proposing
Its Sale Introduced
by Utah Senator.
Washington, March 20.-—A resolu
tion proposing the sale of the Alaska
Railroad w as* introduced in the Sen
ate today-by Senator King of Utah.
Under the term sof the measure the
Secretary of the Interior would be au
thorized to appoint a commission and
receive bids for the road.
Ixo W. Bundy On.
Way to Ft. Barrow
With Wireless Set
Leo W. Bundy, former wireless op
erator at McGrath, has received as
signment as special correspondent for
the New York Times, and will be
among those who wil write interestin
ly from Point Barrow of Polar activi
ties and events at that point during
the coming summer, to give expres
sion to which he is taking in all
equipment for a complete radio set,
over which will be broadcasted all im
portant happenings. Mr. Bundy has
many friends in this section, and the
following letter to The Times man
may prove most interesting to his
many friends hereabouts:
Well, Old Topper, hardly expected
to hear from this neck of the country,
at 'least from the one-time operator
in charge of McGrath, lid you ?
Tt is seldom that we have the
chance to gratify a desire for travel
at the expense of the other feldw and
at the same tim efulfil that other de
sire which keeps us on the move after
the hard-earned dollar bill that is sc
much desired and so difficult of find
ing-enough of in this land. When this
opportunity was offered me in tht
shape of an offer from the New York
Times to accompany their correspond
ents to Point Barrow 1 nturally just
broke my neck running away fron:
the v man who made me the offer—1
don’t think!
The Associated Press in Seattle ap
proached me some time ago with a
tentative offe to go to Point Barrow
and write up the many forthcoming
pola expeditions, flights, attempts, etc
Upon careful consideration of the
statements of expense ad salry foi
myself, however, they turned dowr
FOR ARMY
AND NAVY
House JVI ilitary Commit
tee O.Kls. Big 5-Year
Building Program.
Washington, D. C., March 2G.—The
House military committee today ap
proved the five-year building program
for the army air service, designed to
leave the service with two thousand
new planes at the end of that period. ■
The program also provides an ad
ditional assistant secretary of war to
handle aviation matters, three addi
tional brigadie generals, 400 addi
tional officers and 600 additional en
listed men.
Prepares Resolution
to Amend Dry Act
Washington, March <G. -While the
Senate judiciary committee was lis
tening to Judge Ritchie today, Sen
ator Walter E. Edge, of New Jersev,
prepared a esolution under A’liicb a
rational referendum on the modifica
tion of the prohibition act would be
held.
1 “If the drys claim they have no
fear that public opinion has reversed
itself, then it would seem they should
unhesitatingly indorse this plan for a
legal national showdown," said the
: Senator.
I SOLUTION OF MURDER OF
WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR
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| Chicago, March 24. -Solution of the
! mysterious murder in 1!)22 of William
I Esmond Taylor, at Hollywood, Calif.,
was^said today by Asa Keyes, district
attorney of Los Angeles county, to be
imminent. “We now know who killed
: Taylor,” he added.
| Seattle, March 25.—Governor Parks
' of Alaska arrived tonight from the
National Capital, and will sail for Ju
neau on the steamer Yukon Saturday
morning.
the offer as being loo expensive for
the news vaue obtained from the ser
vice. Smith, the Seattle manager of
the Assoliuted Press branch, plead
with the New York office to accept ii
for several days, and they so obsti
natey refund that at last we gave it
up and I had foregone my hopes of
ever getting inside the Arctic Circle
Tat someone's expense) until some
! future date. Mr. I vons (Seattle cor
| respondent for the New York Times,
I on specia asignments) happened to
: hear tha I had offered o go for the A.
| P. ad called around to see me at the
; Cable office in Seattle, and asked me
what kind of a proposition I would
make the Times to accompany him
and to take a porable adio set up to
Barrow. Well, I stated practically
the same terms as to the A. P. (so
i much per month and all expenses of
' the trip while en route and returning
i to Seattle, as well as all expenses at
Barrow), and to m> surprise the New
I York office wired us to go ahead with
I preparations and to wire whenever
we were ready to begin our trip.
Of course the whole thing came as
quite a surprise, and I had only a
short time in which to make all pre
parations, in addition to getting all
the radio equipment ready and in
j such shape that it would guarantee
us adequate service to cover the situ
ation while we were up there. They
gave me one week in which to build
(or rather help build) two radio re
ceivers and a special portable trans
niitter which would enable us to main
tain satisfactory communication.
The Simpson Radio Corporation ol
Seattle had on hand plans for a set of
equipment which we believed would
adequately perform the service, so 1
began work the same day that we re
ceived authority to proceed with our
plans. They were very considerate
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Urged to Improve Ra
dio Service Between
Alaska and the States
Seattle, March 19.—Seattle was
urged to join in the campaign to in
sure adequate radio telegraphic ser
vice between the States and Alaska
today, when the Chamber of Com
i ineree received a telegram from the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
asking co-operation in an effort to ob
tain an amendment to the radio bill
now before the Senate, that would au
thorize the Navy to permit the use of
its radio facilities for transmission of
commercial messages- The Seattle
Chamber will investigate the situa
tion and act accordingly.
COURT MARTIAL TO TRY
COL. ALEXANDER WILLIAMS
Washington, March 24.—Secretary
! of Navy Wilbur today ordered a court
martial to try Colonel Alexander S.
Williams, of the U. S. Moarine Corps,
who is charged with drunkenness by
! Brigadier General Butler, commanri
j ing the marine base of San Diego.
Washington, March 25.—Judge Ken
Seattle, March 24.—Richard H.
i Stretch, construction esgineer of the
| White Pass & Yukon Railway, died
] at his home here today, at the age
I of 90.
_———
Bill to Disfranchise Il
literates of Alaska Or
dered Reported Out,
Washington, March 22.—Over the
opposition of Delegate, Sutherland the
House committee on Territories voted
to report out the bill to disfranchise
illiterates in Alaska.
I Abandonment of the amendment,
which exempted ill who legally cast
ballots in the 1921 election. Delegate
Sutherland declared an injustice to
I the Indians and white pioneers of
! Alaska.
WALTER H- HODGE, OF SE
ATTLE, CONFIRMED ASST.
ATTORNEY THIRD DIVISION
Seattle, March 25.—Notice of his
confirmation by the Attorney General
as Assistant District Attorney for
the Third judicial district of Alaska,
with headquarters at Cordova, was re
ceived this aofternoon by Attorney
Walter II. Hodge, of Seattle. Hodge
is tro years old, and graduated from
the University of Washington in 1919.
Te ] egra phi c Ticks.
Washington, Match 25.—Judge
Kenneth Mackir i, of the Washing
| ton State supreme court, was today
! proposed to President Coolidge by
| Senator Jones of Washington as suc
I cessor to Wallace McCamant on the
federal circuit court of appeals,
Seattle, March 26.—Governor of
Alaska Parks, addressing the mem
bers of the Council of the Chamber ot
Commerce, said Alaska can provide
1,300,000 tons pf pulp a year perma
nently without depleting the Terri
I tory’s resources.
Washington, March 20.—The Sen
ate Interstate Commerce Committee
today ordered a favorable report on
the bill to give passes to employes of
■i ; he Alaska Railroad.
Seattle, March 27. -The Steamer
• Yukon, sailing this morning for Sew
ard, took three hundred and forty pas
sengers, including Governor Parks, to
Juneau.
Washington, March 25.—'The Good
1 iug long aud short haul bill was de
feated today fc tin Senate.
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RITCHIE
ON STAND
Takes Slam at Dr. Clar
ence True Wilson, De
fends His Own Acts.
Washington, March 26.—Dr. Clar
ence; True Wilson, of the Methodist
Board of Temperance and Public
Morals, •who was called a liar in the
House on Wednesday, was invited to
change bis middle name today by
Federal Judge Ritchie, of Alaska, who
was test ifyin gbefore the Senate judi
ciary committee. Judge Ritchie add
e dthat while he could not character
ize Wilson as a falsifier, he (Ritchie)
considered Wilson was a retaier of
falsehoods. The question arose over
prohibition enforcement conditions in
Judge Ritchie’s district, and the
Judge, whose nomination is being
considered, was testifying in his own
defense. He referred to statements
he said Wilson had made about Alas
kan enforcement, and defended the
admnistration of justice in the Terri
tory as being most effective.
Judge Ritchie made emphatic denial
o fall charges against him, declaring
that narcotics were not sod openly in
his district, that the prohibition law
i was not flagrantly violated. Such re
ports, he asserted, were based on
i falsehoods.
Takotna Airplane
Landing Field 0. K.
The Fairbanks plane, with Aviator
Bennett at the helm, arrived at Mc
Grath yesterday afternoon at 3:45,
having left Fairbanks at ’.t a. m., the
time of the trip being due to the fact
that the pane made a landing at Miti
j chumina. C mil), ' he plane w ’ -
I Gus Gel lea, well known representative
! of an Outside house, who is headed
i for BetheL
A. A. Bennett, pilot of the Fair
I banks plane, which landed at Mc
| Grath yesterday afternoon, arrived in
| Takotna about noon today, coming up
with A1 Goslaw, who went down to
! McGrath last evening.
On the way < ver, Mr. Bennett
states, the airpane stopped at all river
roadhouses between Nenana and Mc
| Grath, in response to the wishes of
[ Gus Gelles, well known representative
| of an Outside commercial house, who
> made the trip over with Mr. Bennett.
Airjilanes, we’ll say, are getting
quite accommodating when they make
make these stops for the convenience
| of their patrons.
i Mr. Bennett, in company with Mr.
: Goslaw, this afternoon made an in
I spection of the Takotna landing field,
i on the hill hack of town, and, ir ak
■ ing to The Times, declared without
i hesitation that the field was all l ight,
j though perhaps inconvenient, and lie
| knew not the sl’ghtest reason why
airplanes should not land there. He
said, however, that he favored the
spot just below here, known locally as
“the meadows." All he desired for a
j landing field was a stretch a limit 500
! feet ong and 100 feet wide. With a
I couple of teams of horses and two or
| three men, he stated that an excellent
field, answering his purpose, could be
built. This, he said, would put the
landing almost in town, and at the
[ same time doing away with the incon
' venience of hill climbing.
Mr. Bennett, with Mr. Goslaw, will
j leave this evening for McGrath, from
; which place he will take flight tomor
i row, weather conditions permitting,
i for Fairbanks.
Bob Lowric and Chris Nelson r< -
i turned today from McGrath, to which
place Mr. Lowrie bade goodby to his
*,vifc as she toft over the trail for a
i visit to the Outside.
A. G. Johnson, N. C. manager, left
Thursday for a brief business visit at
McGrath^
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SEATTLE’S
| DRY SQUAD
Govt. Sleuths Grab Sev
eral Veterans of City
Police Force.
Seattle, March 26.—While federal
prohibition agents last night were
ra -i a bootlegging joint flourish
in,; a ross the street from police
headquarters, other government
sleuths, ambushed about a palatial
residence on Tenth avenue north, ar
rested Tom Peek and R. I). Kimsey,
veteran members of the police dry
squad, whom the government agents
charge with accepting a $500 bribe
from King Tanaka, a notorious Jap
anese moonshiner.
Seattle, March 27.—Sergeant Ray
F. Newton, of the dry squad, and Pa
trolmen George W. Christy, Tom Peek
and R. D. Kimsey were charged with
‘‘asking and receiving a bribe of
$2,000" in a formal complaint filed
today by Prosecuting Attorney Col
vin.
Star Route Service Be
tween Several Alas
kan Points.
Washington, March 23.—Contracts
( "ta ,' >- te mail service between
Kotzebue aid Shungnak, once a
month, except May and October, and
from Point Barrow to Kotzebue three
times in the winter, have been signed
with J. William Southward, of Kotze
bue. The contracts run for four years
from July 1.
An vinerr • rviee for the same
period also authorized for one trip
a month K ava il Chicken and St.
Timothy's, the carriers to be employed
by the Railway Mail Service.
The superintendent of the Seattle,
office is also authorized to establish a
service monthly between Hot Springs
and Fort Yukon, and once a month
between Tanana and Wiseman, for a
four-year period.
MARTEL I, A TO NENANA.
Henry Martella and team left yes
terday for McGrath, headed for Ne
nana, to which place he will take .sev
eral passengers.
Leaving from here with Mr. Mar
tella was Mr . R. E. Lowrie ami
Waino Pu a la.
Mrs. Lowr;c ' on her way to the
Outside for visit among friends ami
relatives, the duration of which- will
probably extend over seveal months.
Mr. Pntilo is on his way to Fair
banks on a business visit, and will
probably return here with Mr. Mar
tella.
Lt'aving McGrath with Mr. Martella
will be Gus Schuler, who it is said is
bidding farewell to this section, and
John Vouk, another well known old
time, who is on his way to some point
on the Outside.
From McGrath Mr. Matella’s team
will consist of twenty-three dogs.
A. S. Dundas and Alex. Mathison
were Friday arivals from Nenana, on
their way to Flat. Mr. Dundas, well
known in the Interior section, has for
the past three year been making a
visit at his old home in Scotland.
Mike Blame-ha, with Mamie Wroten
as a passenger, arrived yesterday and
departed today on their way to Flat.
A1 Goslaw eturned yesterday
a trip, to Qjdjij,.
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