THE
VOL,. V. NO. 5
TOKO IN A, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JANUARY El, 192:*.
PRICE 25 CENTS
SEATTLE
STIR-UP
ilfayor Takes a Hand
and Makes a Few
Comments..
Seattk^ January 25. — Mayor
Brpwn today directed Chief
Ivprsen not to suspend Police
m<£P Reynolds and Baerman. in
dicted in' connection wi'h Olm
stead’s alleged operations until
after trial.
The mayor said: ‘•Whatever
charges are against Reynolds
and Baerman, they cannot be
worse than those against William
M: Whitney on Pie back in Wash
ington, and it is a shame that
men of such characters as these
iederal prohibition officers should
be able to drag prominent men
before a grand jury and get in
dictments of innocent folks.”
Whitney is assistant federal
prohibition director.
Mrs. Peter Demo ski
Succumbs to Death
Tbe young wife of Peter Demoski
passed away Thursday at 1:30 p at. at
the Larson Roadhouse, to which place
Mr. Demoski, rushing his dogs to the
utmost, had brought her in a desperate
attempt to reach their home at Nulato
before death, which was not. unexpect
rtd, overtook her. she having expressed
a wish to be with father, with sister
and others roost dear to her, it being
her desire to pass away among her owe
people.
To gratify this wish of his wife, over
the trail from Nenana in the coldest of
weather, Mr. Demoski made his race
with the Grim Reaper until he reached
Tobotoa,' when it was seat, that t'ae
■jronng woman, in the last throes s>f
> tuberculosis, would be unable to stand
an> further att ain, apd it was decided
Co wait here until members of her
faatilv. who were rushing t>v dog team
from Nulato to meet them, should ar
rive, but even this reunion was deirnd
them. A IT efforts to stay the progress
Of the disease proved unavailing, even
Chough friend^ gave every attention
possible.
Friday' noon, accompanied bv Joe
Gals, who.was in charge of the De
enoskts* ttve-vear-old son, Mr. Demoski,
oo th* saddest journey of his life, pro
procMded on his way with the body of
hi* wife.* Mr. 'Oats- will continue on
the trail until the expected relatives
meet them,-when he will return.
Mrs* Demoski was about. 23 vears of
ago, aod leaves, beside her hushand
add little son, her father, a sister and
a brotherron-ehe Yukon.
Reconi Production of
Detroit Auto Concern
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Detroit. Jan 2ff.j—On® concern here
sold 250 curs an hour, 24 hours u day,
for'300 working davs in 1924 according
to statistics made public today. These
Bales, it is stated, were made in tlia
Doited Stmes alone.
Jaeir Lament, from Flat, with the
outgoing mail, arrived yesterday, con
4’nuing to McGrath today.
Trying to Implicate Him
in New Jersey Li
quor Scandal.
Jersey City, Jan. 20 Edward
I Edwards, senator from New
i Jersey, and former governor of
the state, was implicated today
in the New Jersey rum scandal
trial. Twelve Weehawken po
! Itcemen were indicted lor viola
tions of the prohibition law.
Two government dry agents
testified that the former gov
ernor had served as a link be
tween bootleggers liquor buyers
and William F. Griffis. master
mind of the conspiracy.
Prosecuting Attorne John
Milton said at the conclusion of
the trial that he wovtl'4. li've very
serious consideration to the
question of presenting to a
grand jury the evidence impli
eating Senator Edwards
Telegraphic Ticks.
New York.—Mrs. Eleanor Franklin
Eagan. well Known writer, anil wife of
Martin Eagan, of J„ P Morgan A i n ,
died Tuesday night. She was the au
thorof a number of books, her late-i
volume being. "War in the Cradle ot
| the World,”
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SJeuttle.—Clarence and Anna Hi ah
were convicted in the superior court
I here yesterday for having in their pos
I session ninety-two cases of whisky and
| champagnes, which were seiz d on the
j grounds of their home at Lake Wash
ington.
Belfast.—De Valera issued a proiesi
today against the proposed visit to [re
! land of i he Prince of Wales, on h
ground i hat "We don’t wain any I
eign king coming to our eoumr) ti
claim relationship.”
| Geneva.—Ttie League of Nations has
, appointed Walker 1). Hues, of New
I York, as commissioner of ecnotnic and
1 administrative details for Ifthine and
i Danube navigation
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London. — A great air base, eomhin
j iug military and commercial features.
| is to be built by the British air minis
j try at. Singapore, according 10 the Lon
UI'U news.
Seas tie. — William fcl. O'Brien, 27,
am of Moran O’Brien, foamier of the
town of O'Brien, this county, was
killed in an aut" Hccident, last night.
Tokio.— A tr> atj between Japan a< d
i Russia, providin'/; for the resumption
: of full diplomatic relations between the
two countries, was signet! Tt schty.
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Rome.— Premier Mussolini was-wiveri
a vote of confidence bv the house ot
deputies. Monday, approving in iirin,
ciple the premier’s electoral hill.
Seattle. — Mabel Northrop 22. Philip
Mebhoe. 66, and Alfonzo Thomas, 79.
all pleading broken hearts, shoo them
selves to death Tuesday night.
Seat'Ie. — Dr. Matthews, leading Se
attle divine, left Monday on a trip to
the Holy Land, tie-will visit LonaoD,
Paris, Athens and Rome eo route.
Americans Badly Law
Ridden, Says Beveridge
New York. Jrtn. 27.—“Ameripins are
more law-ridden than were Liussians
under their czar or Turks uhder their
sultan,” said fiumer Senator Bey
eridf>e. speaking last nighl at a dinner
c mmeusi raiirii’ ihe 124 h anniversary
of John Marshall's appointment as
ctiief justice of ihe United States su
preme court.
Flays Doheny and Sin
clair Leases; Bitterly
Assails Fall.
Washington, .fan. 16.—Seven
months after the close of the
famous oil investigation, the
Senate tins afternoon gave its
formal approval to the Walsh
report flaying the Doheny and
Sinclair leases and bitterly as
sailed Fall. The report, which
was tiled last June by Senator
; Walsh, of Montana, the chief
i prosecutor in the oil cases, was
! opposed ny administration sen
ators because of its attack on
; D* nby and because of its declar
! ation that Harding had acted
without authority of law in
transferring oil reserves from
the Navy Department to the In
tenor Department.
Portland School Girl
Wins $15,000 Prize
Portland, Oie., Jan. C4.—Julia G.
Legcoln, a high School junior, has won
i he grand national prize for her com
p -‘ticn on lighting, in the educatmal
j "ii.miltee's home lighting contest,
i compos!!ion of six hundred words
oi fugs her a $15,000 home to be erected
hero from plans designed bj New York
architects'._
Religious Disturbances
Many Parts of France
Paris, Jan 24 — Cath lie meetings
throughout. France in protest against
iht* gosermuem’s religious policy con
tinue' and at, Aixen province, where a
clash occurred, Catholics held a pro
cession, duriug which they chanted an
thems, while the communists also pa
raded, singing inter national and other
revolutionary stings.
Canadian Rum Runner
Sinks, After Explosion
Seattle. Jan. 28—The t median rum
runner Speedway went, down as the re
suit, of an explosion aboard of iter Mon
day afternoon, while about Pfteen miles
iff Cape Flattery. The crew drifted
for twenty hours before the\ were
p eked up.
Dr. Cr VV. Lane, piloted by Happy
Jack Siephensoo, left Thursday for
Ophir to give attention to professional
appointments. Mr. Stephenson re
turned here Thursday and left- yester
day for Ophir, with Mrs. Lane and
Miss Mary Snyder as pass, tigers.
DIPHTHERIA
HITS NOME
Six Deaths Past Week;
Antitoxin Supply
Exhausted.
Nome, Jan. 27.—Six deaths of
children have resulted here dur
ing the past week from an epi
demic of diphtheria.
The supply of diphtheria anti,
toxin has been exhausted, and |
Washington authorities, espe
cially the Surgeon General, have
been appealed to, through Dele
gate Sutherland.
From Sergeant l’a> ne,operator in
charge of the local wiralMa, Mfctlon, il
is learned that ualta of diph
theria antitoxin IM-MF tolas rushed
down the Y'iiuHu:!S.Th» carrier ia
charge will hewb||. at Unalakleet b?
Seppala wiih hia. faal team, and the
antitoxin speeded to Nome in all haste.
The government, it is understood, also
; has forwarded 1,000,000 units of unti
! of antitoxin, now several days out from
| Seattle. It will be some days before
i the first consignment can reach Nome,
nrnhahlv nor before hVhrtia -v 15. F.f
; forts are also being made, says Mr.
: Payne, to speed antitoxin from Fair
banks to Nome by airplane, and, if pus
I sible, there is every likelihood that
ibis step will be taken in an effort to
i relieve the extremely serious situation.
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Fred C. Anderson
Draws 14 Months
Fred C. Anderson, former wirel ss
Operator at Tokotna, was sentenced by
J idee (Jlegg to fourteen months iu the
penitentiary, after pleading guilty to
a charge of embezzlement.
Washington Notes
Washington.— Two cases attacking
tbe soldiers' bonus law were thrown
out by the supreme court, Tuesday.
Tbe court also ruled that prospective
profits can not be recovered from the
government on war contracts.
Washington.—Senate leaders Tues
day gave up all hope? of favorable ac
tion by this Congress on any major
propositions suggested by Coolidge iu
his annual message.
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Washington.—The salarv of members
I >f the Cabinet would be $17,.">00, instead
of $12 000. under the terras of a bill in
troduced by Representative Fish of
New York.
Washington.—"The eclipse was like
the democratic defeat iu November—
only temporary,” William J. Bryan
commented as he came from a call on
| Coolidge.
Washington.—Herbert Votaw, su
perintendent of prisons, and brother
in-law of the late President Harding,
bas resigned from government service.
Washington.— Harry S. New will
continue as Postmaster General after
j March 4. according to announcement
made at he White House, TuMda?.
Washington.—James !>• Martii© will
succeed Prince Caetaoi M IHltoa am
j bassador to WaatMofttp whM til* l*V
j ter retires, in
EASIER FOR
LINDEBERG
All Indictments Against
Him in Tacoma S.-A.
Bank Case Dismissed.
Tacoma, Jan. 26.—All of the
thirteen indictments against
Jafet Lindeberg, former prin
cipal stockholder in the defunct
Scandinavian.American Bank of
Tacoma, were dismisspd by Su
perior Court Judge Leath, to
day, on motion of Prosecuting
Attorney Selden. on the ground
that he had turned over two
hundred thousand dollars’ worth
of property, having, as claimed,
received but seventy thousand
dollars from the bank.
10 American Eskimo
Refugees Soon Home
Seattle. .T in. 25 —The ten Eskimos
taken from Wrangell island along with
Wells, and sent to Vladivostok, will ar
rive iu Seattle within the next three
weeks in care ot the American Red
Cross, according to advices received
here bv Jonathan H. Wagner, chief of
! .ko A I ■! _■ \r *i HitriiPifW . RlirAflll of
Education, from Washington. Ttao
I refugees will be received on their ar
rival here by Wagner, who will return
ibern to Alaska.
Tokio.—The body of Charles Wells,
of Wrangell island fame, is being sent
to Seattle.__
$39,000,000 for River
and Harbor Projects
Washington, Jan. 26.—The passage
Saturday afternoon of the army appro
priation bill by the Senate carried
with it approval of the 839 000,000 lump
sum appropriation for river and harbor
improvements, to be expended in detail.
As stated bv the chief of engineers in
his annual report in December, the bill
carries forward the work on existing
| Wage Increases Grant
ed by R. R. Labor Board
Chicago, Jan. 24.—Wage increases,
effective as of January 10, were grant
ed bv the United States Railroad Lul>or
Board here today to members of the
brotberhood of railway and steamship
clerks, freight handlers aod express
aul statioo employes, bv forty-four
major railroads, in all parts of the
couDtrv. ______
Henry Marcella, Bub Shively and
Clyde Glass returned here Tuesday
from a trip to Moore creek, to which
point Mr. Mariella took over a large
outfit for G. W. C. Glass, who is busy
in drilling operaiions on Moore. The
trip, said Mr. Martella. was a tough
one, due to the extremely cold weather
and because of the fact that trail had
to be made most of the way over.
Leoa G. Loomis, local N. C. manager,
after a visit of several days at Mc
Grath, and Frank J. Caskey, N. C. ac
oouutant, were Wednesday arrivals,
»nd both lefc Thursday for Ophir on a
business trip
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