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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923,
PRICE 25 CEBITS
’ No Reason for Negotia
tions With Soviets,
Says Kugftes.
Washington, Dec. 23. — A so
viet note asking for negotiations
with the United States to bring
■ about formal recognition of the
Russian government was re
ceived today at the White H mse.
Washington, Dec. 24.—Sucre
tary Hughes informed Russian
soviet officials today that “there
v would seetn to be at this time no
reasons for negotiations with the
soviet government,” and that the
American government “is not
proposing to barter away its
. principles.”
Moscow. — “We are continuing
■i ' to fix our hopes on a change in
public Opinion in America,” For
* eign Minister Tchitcherin told
newspaper correspondents to
* night, in commenting on the re
St*sa£ of the Washington govern
meat to recognize.Russia.
W a sh i ngton. — ] n te rcepted in
structions from Russia to the
workers’ party of America, oat
lining plans for a reVQhMjon in
America and to raise tbe red flag
■ over the While House, was m >de
public today in support of Sec
retary of State Hughes’ refusal
to enter into any negotiations
v with Russia. TIip Department
of Justice assured the State De
partment of the authenticity of
these instructions
Index Boards Would
Help a Great Deal
■Sam Appelhaum, traveling 'with
Harry Agotf, left McGrfith last Mon
« day nmroLcg'ur J3ig River, and at the
* end of the day run he reached—Mc
Grath, this circuit of Apple mountain
being due to the fact that tin reaching
the forks of the government trail he
took the trail to the left instead of the
one to the right. Was Sam mad? Well,
we’ll say yes.
All this may sound funny, hut it is
no joke. Elere is a man making a hur
ried trip to the Outside, oue who will
have much to do when tie reaches the
Outside, and who wishes to return over
the late winter trail. The loss of a day
going out may mean the loss of several
other days in making steamboat con
nection when reaching the coast.
The loss of this one day. with its pos
sible consequent eventualities, could
have been avoided had some one takeo
the precaution to put up a sign board
indexing routes to different points.
True, this might have taken several
minutes’’time of some emploje of the
Road Commission, but it is equally
true that sign posts at various poiuts
might save trail travelers a world of
! Sroubles.
It’s easy,' almost natural, for some
men to pick out the right trail, while
others have no sense of direction. All
in all, where is the mao who, in a mo
ment of indecision, has not taken the
‘ wrong trail?
Damages Railway, Tel
egraph and Telephone
Lines; 4 Drowned.
Seattle. Dee. 25.—Swept by a
j 06 mile from the south, the high
[ o»t wind velocity recorded in the
thirty years’ period of the local
weather bureau, Seattle suffered
much damage early this morn
ing Asa result of the terrific
giih*, five street railway lines and
the Seattle Tacoma in,t or urban
line were nut out of commission,
telegraph, telephone «:k! elec
trie light wires in every section
pf the city were torn down, and
shipping on the Sound and Lake
Washington was heavily dam
aged. Pour members of the
crew of the British Columbia
tug Tyee, which was swept on
the rocks at Pedder Bay, B. C.,
lost their lives.
Two thousand telephones were
put out of commission during the
first three hours of Christmas.
The Mercier Island ferry boat
Dawn sank at her dock early in
the morning.
Ex-Interior Secy. Fall
Writes Regarding Na
val Oil Reserves.
Washington, Dec. 23.— Former
Secretary of Interior Albert B.
Fall, in a letter to the Senate
committee investigating the leas
ing of naval oil reserves to pri
vate interests, writes: ‘‘I never
received any money by loan or
gift from Harry F. Sinclair or
E L Doheny.
Fall declared, however, that
he was advanced one hundred
thousand dollars by Edward B
McLean, Washington newspaper
publisher, to buy a ranch in
New Mexico.
Mrs. Clyde Glass, out at her home
on Ganes creek, sustained set ere burn*
111j; of her Lands last Saturday evening.
While reaching for some article on a
shelf in the rear of a stote, she tripped,
her head inclining toward a hot stove
pipe Instinctively, she shielded her
face with the front of her hands, the
bucks of which were hadlv scarred.
Waller Stephens arrived from Mc
Grath on Christ mas day, attended the
dance that evening, and returned to
McGrath on Wednesday', on his wav to
Nixon.
Charles Lovett, from Iditarod. who
arrived Wednesday, left thin -morning
for Ophir, headed 'for the Tolstoi sec
tion, whither he goes to give atteh'/ioa
to some Road Commission aflaire
California U. Student
Arrested as Writer of
Poison Pen Missives
Oakland. — Gustave William Beck,
18, a University of California junior
medical atudent, and son of a wealthy
German chemist, was arrested today,
charged with being the writer of a
dozen poison-,pen letters, in which the
wivesof men prominent in San Fran
cisco and Oakland were accused of in
timacy with students of the university.
j Telegraphic Ticks. I
Paris—The reparations .commission
this morning decided to offer Charles
G Dawes. comptroller of currency of
re United States, the presidency of
the committee which is to make an ex
amination into German tiuauces,
Paris.—MattO'Sevs toriav that Eng
land has raised the British Hag over
enormous • tert‘ito;.v, including the
South Pole, and "ill collect customs
and taxes from seal hunters, whalers
and all other sources.
Chicago.—Edith Rockefeller McCor
mick turned realtor today, having ac
quired a $113.000;000 interest in the real
estate firm of Krenn & Dato and be
come an active member.
Leavenworth. — Twenty-seven men
oonvieted of war time offenses, and re
cently pardoned by President Cool id ge.
were released from prison here Christ
mas eve.
Seattle — Esther Barrie and Ethel
Carlson. Brad rick high school girls,
each 16, disappeared from home two
days ago, and a .coastwise search is in
progress. _____ f*
Tokio.—The damage done by the
Japanese earthquake d's&ster last Sep
tember amounted to four billion dol
lars. Finance Minister linouye advised
today.
Mexico City.—Rebel troops are fall
ing back toward Vera Cruz, after e\ao
uattng San Marcos and Puebla, says a
dispatch to the war office.
Chicago.—Dr Harold N. Noyer, a
national authority on nervous and
mental diseases’ died this morning, due
to dilation of the heart.
.New York—Cyrus *i. K. Curtis, nub
tiSner, today puretlkseJ the Near Yttot
Evening Post, the consideration being
ai.voo.ouo. _
Loudon.—Said Lady Astor, Christ*
I mas night: "When Christmas comes,
mv heart turns back to Dixie and to
I Canada. ”
Paris.—The council of the League of
Nations has adopted a program for the
financial restoration of Hungary.
Paris. — Premier Mu.'Solini, of Italy,
has invited the League of Naiioos
Council to meet in Rome iu March.
Los Angeles —Edward L. Alderman,
past imperial potentate of the Mystic
Shrine, died this afternoon.
Dawson. Y. '1'.—Sheriff Brimstone
died at 7 p m. Christinas eve from ag
attack of pneumonia.
lieeent departures from McGrath in
clude Dr.'W. Si. ■Green, headed for the
Outside, traveling with Chris Dahl as
far as Nenana, and Deputy U. S. Mar
shal McMullen, headed for Fairbanks
tn be in attendauce at a session of the
district- court.
L. B. Loomis and frank Guskey, N.
C. Co. functionaries, were among tbore
who arrived Tuesday'to take oart in
the festivities her®
FOR FLIGHT
OVER POLE
Amundsen Makes Offi
cial Announcement
of His Plans.
Christiana, Dee. 16.—Captain
Roald Amundsen today officially
announced his plans for his con
'ceniplaoed flight over the North (
Pole next year. The cost of the
proposed flight, about $15i>,000,
has been assured by the co oper
ation of the American navy de-j
parturient and-aeronautic bu reau, j
The expedition will have three,
aeroplanes, which are now un
der construction at Bornier Wi
siva, in Fredericshaven. This
expedition will leave for the,
north as early as possible, and
flight will be made between Mav
and August, in several stages,
from Spitzbergen to Alaska.
—
Washington.—Donald McMillan, now
in the polar regions, has radioed to Ad
miral Moffett, suggesting that May or
.’one are the months best suited for
Arctic flights, because there are no
winds then. Aid from' natives and an
abundance < ? gatne can be had within
four hundred it t< - of the North Pole
IN DANGER
King and Queen of
Greece Hurried to
Roumania.
Athens, Dec. 24 —Consider
able anxiety its being expressed
ifc royalist circles concerning the
fate of King George.
King George and Queen Eliza
beth will leave Athens tonight
for Roumania. The government
last night informed George in
writing that it considered it ad
visable for him to leave- Greece
until the national assembly had
decided on the regime best betit
ting the country. The letter ad
vising the king to leave was
signed by Premier Gonatas and
Colonel Plastiras.
The big doings at Opbir on Christ
mas day centered, as usual, at the
Paulson Liou>e. Thirty-four quests sat
down at the big dinner, in which the
popular hostelry s-etned to more than
maintain its high standing. The dance
whs also a bi-g feature of the day’s
doings, thoroughly enjoyed by all those
present. _
John O. Strand, well known Engle
creek mining man, was among Tues
day’s arrivals. Hi declared there is
nothing new up in his district at the
present time.
Charles Ivastner, of Flat, was a Wed*
aesda* arrival.
AIR MAIL,
10 WEEKS
Nenana-McGrath Tests
to Be Thorough, Says
P. O. Official,
Seattle, Dec. 27.—'The aerial
mail carrying tests over Alaskan
reaches to be attempted by the
Postal Department will be most
thorough. W. A. Vandervoort,
superintendent of the railway
mail service declared tonight.
He said the fights would cer
tainly be commenced in Febru
ary, with a weekly trip, probably
for ter, weeks, between Nenana,
and McGrath and that in that
time, under prevailing weather
conditions, the practicability of
such a service could be demon
st rated.
Washington Notes
Washington.—All the rites of aa old
fashioned New Eogland Christmas
Christmas were observed at the W.hibf;
House on Christmas day. A huff*
Christmas tree graced the blue root:;
with gifts for the Coolidges and their
guests, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stearns.
All attended the First Congregation*
Church. _
Washington.—Japan has approached
the State n»>*aruneot with a propose
for a revision of tee treaty bet wee:,
Japan and the United States in 000001'
non with Japanese hand rights, as re
ceotlv dehned b? the supreme court.
%VasbingtOD.—The Mexican goverc.
roant has scored a decisive victory
against the Vera ( rua rebels, accord
ing to an uttiaiei statement issued by
the embassv he e today.
Washington.—A protest against th®
presence of Amerlenu' worships iD Can
ton tiarbor was received here 'today
from Dr. Sun Yat Ren, president of the
South China republic.
Washington.—Christmas was ush
ered in at the Watt© House with a pro
gram of communitv sioging and with
the Wnite House grouods open to tli*
public. _. .
Washington.—The White House in
dicated today thai Coolidge plans tc
Dame an entirely new Shipping Board
menibeisbip.
August, Smith, Peter Snow, And*
White. KnaiLiud ami Patrick Sbeehac
comprised a delegation from up ibe
Tokoma that arrived Soudav to be oa
time nod <n baud during the Christmas
festivities. They a!! departed Wed
nesday for their respective up*river
headquarters.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Vina! went
qmong Souda^R arfiving quests, hay
iug come to participate in Tokotna’a
Christmas doings. Tbev returned to
their Spruce creek home on Wednes
day. .
Minnie I, Wroten,frorn Plat, was 6
Suuday arrival, headed for the Out
side, and is being piloted as far as Ko
naca by MikoBiaodsha.
Tom Shallow arrived Sunday from
McGrath._
Gaston St. Clair was u Monday
rival.
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