TE& KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as seeoacMslaM matter August
a»th, Itt?, ,at the Post Office at,
ToAeioa, Alaska, under the
A«t:dl March 3, 1879.
JOJSOTNA, ALASKA. JULY: 6, J924
Arthur Barry* With'
Hfc Knife and JDogs,
Kilf& 200-Lb. Bruin
Arthur JBerry,likfr many another
lellofr* is one of those who i3, always
seeing something when he hasn’t his
gun with him. And, speaking of bears,
isre^s a iferUler, as related hy Mrs.
Berry* writing from Med fra,, in a letter
On Rqbept ybtvalj. ,
"Arthur was out. on the road vaatsr
iav yrith Rexand Jimmy and saw a
bear standing in the trail about, two
otile^ from heps, .but, of course, didn’t
Mar#} any gon along,” writes Mrs,
JBerrj. "Rex and Jjmmv gave it a
free^ebaee.- He wjent out there again
today,, end. before? he- left' he- said/.
'Theeewonlt be any use.to take a gun
along today, sv the dogs chased every-,
thing away yesterday.\« .
"Jack,. John and Rex, the dogs, went
xltk4>itn, and they caught a black
Q>6an£fe> almost thesame place. She
would weigh about 250 ppunds, and, of
teurse* he didn’t have any gun, -and- it
was tpo far to come back and get- the
goo. t He didn’t want todisappoint the
dogs., He had his big. Marble knife
with him, and so^cut a dry spruce pole
and tied,bis knife onto it, and while
the dogs were fighting the bear be
would jab him .with hia knife. Arthur
aaic! things were pretty lively for about
ten minutes. He made ten good cuts
on Mrs. Bear,, most of them behind the
shoulders,’and once in‘the throat. Rax
was game—would bite the bear and
thenijump. back. Arthur was gone
from the bouse only about two hours
when he came back with the bear hide
im a- feck on hia back."
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smith anti
Sheet Metal Work
AJlKindiof Repairs-.
Stoves Built
and Repaired
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Late First Time.in 30
Years, Loses Both Legs
Chicago.—For the first time in thirty
7ea?3 Samuel E. Freunlicbrheari sales
man at a downtown wholesale, house,
was late to work today.
Every work day ,tfor , thirty years
Preunlich caught a suburban train at
the same station and at the same time,
tie always arrived at the station five
minutes before train, time apd chatted
with the station master.;
This morning the station master no
ticed that Freunlich was not on hand
when the train pulled in, but ju$t as it
was leaving the station he saw his
friend running to the platform and
starting to “flip”,ah© rear coach. The
station master was sure, that ho should
make it, but fo?geKthat.Freunlich was
60 years old.
A half hour , later Freunlicb was
found a short distance from the station
platform, both legs severed. He was
rushed to a hospital^ .where it was said
that be might die.
Reprieved «Sq He. Can
Have Weeka&fRfcayer
Denver.—Governor Sweet greeted' a
one-week reprieve today to Joe- Mo
Gonigal, sentenced to hang, this week.'
for the slaying of Wilbur Ferguson, a
Colorado School of Mines student* and.
his sweetheart, at Aguilar, in June,
1922t.
The reprieve was granted at the re*
guest of Father Regis Barrett, assist*,
ant chaplain at the Colorado state pen*
itentiary, and concurred in. by Rev.
Fred Gv-Arnold, chaplain at toe prison.
Father Barrett- daclared MeGonigal
had not expected, to hang. Conse
quently, the priest declared, McGon
igal had sot accepted, any religions
faith, but within a week, according to
Father Barrett, he bad expressed a de
sire to do so.
A.man. was driving' -with -» fats wife,
and^ree^ ieto- a bridge before’he saw
that -another automobile ’bad started
across. It was a narrow bridge, and
his plain duty was to bach off. But his
wife seised the lever so he couldn’t re
verse and proceeded to give the driver
of the other car a tongue lashing for
daring to try to cross at such a time.
Her indignation rose as she thought
of his arrogance, and she said what she
thought.
When the unoffending driver was
convinced of hi&. criminality and gen
eral unfitness to live*among civilized
people he backed off tbe bridge and let
the woman’s husband proceed.
As he passed the culprit he said:
“Sorry, old-man, and thank you.”
TBs other replied: “Oh, don’t-apol
ogise: I’ve one at home myself. ’ ’—Ex.
"A flirt, am I!” exclaimed Mary!
|Abo, under notice to go. “WelV I
'know them as fjirts more than 1 dot
and with less hexcuse.” She shot a
spitefullook at her mistress, and add
0d: “I’m better lookin' than you.
More ’andsome. ’Ow do I know? Your.i
fusband told me so."
« ‘‘That will do." said hes> mistress,
frigidly;
“But I ain’t finished yet!’’ retorted
Mary Ann. “I can.giue a better kiss
than you! Want SO-knowwhotold me
that, mum?" '
"If you meaato suggest that my hus
band—”
>: ‘‘No, it'wasn’t your ’usband this
time," said Mary Ann. "It was your
cheuiffehr.”—E*.
PROFESSIONAL.
Albrecht audTayloir
Iditarod .Alaska,]
lawyers
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A Little of Everything.
Lloyd’s, the headquarters of the
world’s shipping insurance, maintains
an agent at every port in the world,
who transmits news of ail ships that
pass. All candidates for membership
at Lloyd’s have to deposit such secur
ity for their liabilities as may be re
quired. This security at the present
time amounts to more than 420,000,000.
Platinum is iound.in small gray par
ticles along with other metals, includ
ing gold and chrome iron. Occasion
ally it is diseovere&.in the form of nug
gets, which are naturally extremely
Valuable. A 25-pound nugget of plat
inum would at the present time be
worth over $30,000.
A ’‘curious calling” is that .of one
New York woman who earns a living
by pawning and redeeming.the- belong
ings of other women. w2o are in. need of
ready cash but who do not like to be
seen visiting the pawnshop. The
“broker” collects a small percentage
on each transaction.
The first paper mill in America was
opened near Philadelphia in, 1690. The
paperinaking was don* by hand, and
until 1756, when the pulp engine was
introduced into A meric* from Holland,
the nags continued to be beaten into
pulp by hand. _
The oldest bottle of wine ia the
world, so fa» as authenticated records
; can settle this question, is in the pos
session of a London wine expert. It is
a bottle of Bavarian, hock, which bears
on its label the date I54Cfc ;
Sixty-four members of a- church.- In
Council Bluffs, Iowa, reading- in 15
minute relays, from 6 o’clock in the
morning until 11:15 at night, completed
the reading of the New Testament ia
one day. _
Of the world to-estimated stock of 42
tons- oi diamondsr, aioce, thaa^ thraa
fonrths, or 75,000 'pounds, have- been
taken from African mines in the last
forty years.
Stockholm, Sweden, has the -only
skyscraper in Europe of the modern
American type. The structure is IS'
stones high.
The balance wheel of a watch re
volves 18,000 times ac hour, which
means that it travels about 2,500 miles
a year if constantly in use.
The noise made by the fall of a
feather can be heard by means of that
wonderful invention, the microphone,
You. folks work mighty
hard for your living. ,.
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Why Take Chances
When Insurance
Is So Cheap? <
* Wire me collect if yew want
i protection.
£$an Francisco > is headquar
ters lor all companies
on Pacific Coasts.
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General Insurance
38 Sansome Street
San Francisco
which is so marvelously attuned that
with itc aid ODe can hear a tiny bit of
tissue paper quite' plainly as it alights
on a table.
The art-of tinning plate iron was m*
vented in Bohemia, and introduced at
a later period into France, England
and other,countries.
In the Untied States 70,000 miles of
gas mains are used to supply 4,600
cities and towns with gas
In proportion to population, Japan
leads all other countries in the number
of divorce*.
Father was sitting:-smoking in his
chaif wneu up came k-jtle Ceorgie, his—
sob and heir. “Father,” he begaD, as
he held up a pip, “if I were to plant
this pip, would it grow to be a large
tree iu time?”
, “Certainly, my boy,” answered his
father. “And if yoa waited lon£.
enough, oranges wouki grow.”
, “Are you sure7”-asked the boy.
“Of course, my boy.”
“Oh,- but—well—,”
“Well, what about it?”
“Oh, nothing, dad; only I thought it
was rather funny for an orange-tree to
come from a iemoo pip.’*-—'Answers. .
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ber of All Kinds
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TOKOTNA
We Haw the Best
Shift’s PremiunrHams and Bacon
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StarHdm45c Bacon 50c
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(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses
Mr£. Frank Larson
Proprietor
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer-Trader of th4> Kuskokwim Valley
Napomnte.. Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
4. | Ohe of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Prices are right.
Good Prices for Tour Fur :
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
Operating Light Draught Steamers.
On theKuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager*,.