THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. V. NO. 22
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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Welfare * of: Explorer,
and Companions a
Big Mystery.
New York*- May 29.-^Today is
the eighth day since Explorer
Amundsen’s - flying expedition
bopped off for the North Pole, I
and the welfare of. Amundsen!
and his five companions remains
as much of. a mystery as ever.
San Francisco, May 28—Liebes
& Co. yesterday wirelessed the
ship Charles Brower, now off ,
St. Lawrence island, to proceed
at once to Point Hope and en
deavor to secure a trace of Cap
tain Amundsen and hi® corn pan
ions. The master of the ship'
replied today that the4ee of Ber
ing straits, piled up by north
gales, was preventing a passage,
but that as-soon as possible he
would make the 300-mile voyage.
Lifebes -said*Amundsen would*
likely proceed to Point Hope
from Point Barrow if he made
landing in Alaska,
Washington*., May 28:*—“An»-1
undsen is doomed if he is at the
North Pole with a ad-air
plane,” Commander Macmillan,
veteramArctic.explorer, declared
last night. “Itlis live hundred
miles from the Pole to nearest
land.” he said, “and Amundsen
will never be -able to walk that
distance over such ice.”
London, May 28.—The Nor
wegian Shipping. Union today
requested the government to
send two naval airplanes to as
sist in the search for the Am
undsen planes, acoording to a
dispatch from Oslo.
Bandits Attack Amer
icans’ Ranch, Mexico
Mexico City, May 27.—A special dis
patch frona Saltillo today said that ban
dits had attacked the neat* by Amer-*
scan-owned Sabinilla ranch and killed
She Mexican manager, Joae Peres/
Pederal troops have been ordered - out
and are in pursuit of the bandits.
The Tana, CaptaiD George Oree-a1,
got away from McGrath for 3etbel on
May 28, as per schedule, and will be on
band at the lowor>rive» port when the
Santa Ana and Tupper* arrive. GoiDg
down on the Tana- was Mrs. K. Moncb;
sister of Pete Michels* wbunrrived at
McGrath during the winter and who is
returning to her former home in New
Jersey, and Kettle McDonald and Elsie
Meneek, on the way-to their homes at
Napumute and Bethel, respectively.
Among the passengers coming:on the
Santa Ana is Mrs. A. G, Johnson, wife
of the local manager of the N> C. Co.,
according to a telegram received by
the latter early in the week.
John Heino returned Monday night
from a trip to McGrath.
Billy Case, who arrived Monday, re
turned to McGrath on Wednesday.
THREE ARE
REINDICTED
Fall,, Doheny and Sin
clair Again Face Con
spiracy Charges.
Washington?tfay 27..—Albert
B. Fall, former* Seert iary of the
Interior, EdwimlL I/bheny and
Harry F. Sinclair, whose indict
ments as a result of the oil scan
dal were recently dismissed* ora an
technicality, were reindicted*
here today. As in the previous
cases, the indictments charge
conspiracy in connection with*
the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills
oil leases._
Britain Has No Inten
tion Resuming Nego
tiations With Russia
Looqod, M'av 28v—Foreign Minister
SbamfcerlaiD, answering a question to
day in the House o? Commons, declared
the British government had no inten
tioD of resuming negotiations with
soviet Russia
BODY OF
R. SMITH
Found in Front of His
Cabin, on Banks of
Dietna River,
—
!
The body of R&lph Smith, a pros
pector, well known to the people of the
Ophir section, wan found o 3ront of his
cabin on the bank of the dietna river
on May 23 by Car! Johnson, a neigh
bor prospector, who arrived at Ophir
on the 27lh.
The body of Smith was found by
Johnson, who had been prospecting at
a point a'Jout fiftv miles above where
Smith was living. Johti“nn came down
on the 23d to the location of Smith's
upper tent, but, not linking Smith
there, continue i on down to Smith’s
cabin. Hvwrti-y dogs barkiug and
thinking Stan h was at home, JohnsoD
went ashore. He called for Smith, but
no response came. Finding nobody in
the cabin, he naturally gave a look
around the premises, and in doing this
he saw Smith’s body, lying not many
feet from the door. The clothiDg was
partly torn off, while the lower limbs
had been gnawed by the dogs.
Johnson covered the body with a tar
paulin, taken out of the cabin, from
suaitii’s bed, He made no further
search of the premises, but left imme
iiately down the Dietna to Fairview,
where he tried to get somebody to go
sack. Failing in this, Johnson trav- !
sled overland from Fairview to Ophir,
ibout sixty miles, and ^arrived on the 1
17th at Ophir, where be laid the mat -
■er before U. S. Commissioner Bulges. ,
Mr. Smith, according to friends, had
sot been feeling well for a long time, ,
ind during the past few months is said
io have suffered greatly with heart
irouhle. While at I'tphir during the-!'
winter some of his friends advised
against; him. returning to bis quarters
on the Dietaa, but he persisted in want
ing to g*> fetwk Eti& death is believed
to have resulted b'om heart affiiation.
Jl is reported) that Mr. Smith, before
coming to- Alaska, about four years
ago, resided in Tacoir.a. where ,t is j n -
derstood his father and other relatives
are still living. He was about 2o years
of age.
Coolidge Appeals for
Vigilant Enforcement
On Part of the States !
Washington. May 30.—Appealing for
more vigilant enforcement of the law
on the part of the states udc! local gov
ernments and for universal observance
of the constitution by the American
public, President Coolidge, in bis Me
morial Day address today at Arlington
Cemetery, declared that “what we
need is not more federal government,
but better local government.”
May Abolish Federal
JTrade Commission
Washington, May 2ft.—Indications
that efforts would be made at the next
session of Congress to abolish the fed
eral trade commission were followed
quickly today bv an address by Com
roissioue" W. E. Humphreys, in which
he challenged the right of the Senate
to direct it to make investigations for
its information.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Bellingham.—AK ,VerSoual bolong
iose and instruments left by Major
Martin and Staff Sergeant Harvev in
Alaska wheu their air flagship, the Se
attle, crashed on a mountain in May,
1924, were brought here today on the
steamship I ted wood.
Washington.—Representative Wm.
A. Oldfield, chairman of the demo
cratic congressional committee, will
succeed Cieo Shaur as chairman of the
democratic national committee, within j
the uem few weeks.
Washington.—Reports from United
States and Alsace indicate a poor yield
of wheat all over the world this vear,
the Department of Commerce an
nounced Monday.
Washington.—General Nel3on A.
Miles was buried Tuesday afternoon
»t she Arlington national cemetery, j
being accorded the highest military
honors.
Prince Rupert.—An airplane, which
is to be operated in tbe freighting ser
vice from Wrangell to the C'assiar gold
fields, arrived here Thursday ■from
Portland.
Moscow.—Leon Trotsky, deposed
bead of the soviet army, was elected a
member of the presidium by. the fed
eral congress the soviet states, Mon
lay. _____
Sofia, Bulgaria.—Three leaders in
he recent bombing of Sveli Krai ca
hedral.. in which 260 persons were
tilled,, ware banged here Friday.
W’ashiagtou.—President CooliUge is
suffering from an attack of indigestion,
ii» physicians announced, but the mal
idv is yielding to treatment.
Washington..— The United States
Shipping. Boards Monday, voted to
iffer for sale two hundred ships, for
crapping.
Deal, Eng.—Field . Marshal French
lied Morxlay afternoon.
MANY DEAD
ANDINJURED
Hundreds Killed and
Injured in Earth
quake, Japan.
London, May L6.—Dispatches
from Tokio today to the Evening
News says that the town of Ki
nesaki lias been destroyed by
earthquake and that a railroad
train was buried in the collapse
of a tunnel near Askiya.
Osaka.—Two hundred houses
collapsed and numerous fires
were raging today in the vicinity
of Toyooka. a town with a pop
ulation of 8.000, eighty miles
north of Osaka, as the result of
a violent earthquake.
Tokio. — The department of
communications announced late
today that more than two hun
dred were killed by the earth
quake this morning at Toyooka,
while several hundred were in
jured in the earthquake and in
tires at Kinesaka Springs, a fam
ous resort visited by tourists.
HART IS
ARRESTED
Washington Ex-Gover
nor Charged With So
liciting Bribe.
Tacoma, May '26.—Forbes P.
Haskell, ji\, receiver of the
Scandinavian-American Bank of
Tacoma, in a report tiled with
the Pierce county superior court
today, charged that former Gov
ernor Hart sought a split tn the
fees to be allowed the receiver
and his attorney.
Tacoma. —Former Governor
Hart was arrested here today,
charged with soliciting a bribe
jin matters pertaining to the re
ceivership of the Scandinavian
American Bank of Tacoma. He
was released on £15,000 bail.
Women Slayers Scorn
Moral Law Violators!
Lincoln. Neb.—Declaring that they i
did not want to associate with immoral
members of their sex, the seventeen
women prisoners of Nebraska peniten
tiary protested when a b»H was intro
duced in the- legislature v/bichi would
have removed'them to the women’s re
forms toryj
The seventeen- are charged with i
crimes ranging from robbery to mur
der. 'v
Those at the reformatory are vio
lators of the moi&l code. The lower
honse killed flie bilT yesterday.
a , I
OIL BARONS
GET A JOLT
Los Angeles Court Ren
ders Decision Against
Doheny Oil Interests.
Los Angeles, May 20.—The
Doheny oil interests, in a deci
sion rendered today by Federal
Judge Paul J. McCormick, are
ordered to give up for cancella
tion their leases of naval oil
reservation No. 1, Elk Hills,
California, and contracts for the
construction of oil storage facili
ties at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Judge McCormick declared the
leases void for two reasons—first,
owiug to fraud upon the United
States in E. L. Doheny’s pay
ment of $100,000 to Albert B.
Fall, then Secretary of the In
terior; and, second, because the
late President Harding’s order
transferring discretionary au
thority in the matter of oil leases
from the Navy Department to
the Interior Department was in
excess of his power as Presi
dent.
Judge McCormick also ordered
a settlement for all oil taken by
the Doheny company from the
Elks Hillr reserve.
Helped Coolidge to
the Vice Presidency
Washington, May 28.—Wallace Mc
Commaut, of Oregun. who is credited
•r' h having brouglr about, the nomi
nation of Coolidge .is vice president,
was today appointed federal circuit
judge in the Ninth udicial district.
Charles Kimball, f lume Dredge Com
pany superintendent, who returned
here Wednesday, says tiie company'*
dredge on Yankee w, J be all- right and
ready for operations mthio a (ew da vs.
The Little creek dredge is nearing
completion, and ho expects that dredgo
to be in operation bv the 8th or 10th of
June.
The Alaska Road Commission, com
mencing June 1, will have live teams
working between Yankee and inde
pendence creeks, graveling the old
stretch of corduroy between those
creeks. About fifteen men will be on
the Road Commission payroll, com
mencing Juue 11 according to Superin
tendent Ross Kinney.
The Joe Oates launch left Tuesday
for McGrath, those on board being Mr.
and Mrs. Oates, Miss Rose Oates, Jo
seph Oates, Joe Ferris, and Mrs. B. J.
Boyd, with Betty and Marian McDon
ald aud Elsie Meneek.
Charlie O’Hallorau, wtio came from
Yankee Tuesday night, left Wednes
day for McGrath.
The hull of Bob Lowrie’s now boat
was given its launching on Wednesday.
The new craft is 64 feet long, 14 feet
wide on the bottom, aud about 18 feet
wide over decking.
Chris Bolgen, U. S. commissioner, of
Ophir, was a Friday arrival on matters
of business connected with his office.
Andrew White, from his winter
quarters up the Tokotua, was a Friday,
arrival