VOL. III. NO. 5!
PRICPJ 25 CENTS
TOKOPNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER o, 1921
Crisis Coming in Spe
cial Election to Deter
mine Powers of the
State Executive.
Oklahoma City. Sent. 20.—Ad
jutant '.Geoeral B H. Markham j
tonight wasordeped by Governor!
Walton to use all force of arms
necessary to prevent session of
Ihe lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature, called f^r noon Wed
nesday. All citizen soldiers be
tween the ages of 21 and 15 are
directed in the order to hold
themselves in readiness with
such arms as they possess or can
obtain to come to the assistance
of the sovereign state of Okla
homa when ordered to do so by
the governor. The troops will
be ordered to shoot to kill, if
that is necessary, to prevent the
assembly, the governor told the
newspaper men.
President Coolidge and Attor
ney General Daugherty were ap
pealed to tonight by Governor
Walton <to use their good offices
to prevent the members ol the
lower house of the legislature
from convening in any federal
building in the slaty.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 27.—
State troops are marshaled here
to prevent the impeachment ses
sion of the lower house of the
legislature. The members here
: have seemingly no intention to
resort to force, but will decide
upon a course of procedure at a
< caucus tonight. The adjutant
general is instructed to prevent
- a session at any other place in
v” the. state.
. State Hou.se, Oklahoma City, 1
Sept. 28.—The Oklahoma rebel
legislators were dispersed by
the military at noon today when
• they'attempted to convene a spe
*■ cial session of the lower house
to seek the impeachment of Gov- j
ernor Walton.
There was no violence. The!
house members, gathered before!
the entrance to the house chain- j
ben, were given curt orders by j
Colonel Key, military comman
der of the city, to not attempt to
assemble. Key read the order
of1 toe governor, forbidding the
assembling of any or all mem
bers of the legislature during
the present period of unrest. He
ordered the legislators to dis
perse immediately and enforced
f his order.
Martial law will be invoked in
i another county, Gov. Walton an
nounced tonight. Tulsa, Okla
1 homa; Murray and Creek coun
ties-are now under military rule, i
In announcing the establishing
of absolute.military rule in Mur
ray county, the governor de-i
clared-.tlrao martial law7 will re-1
main effective until all trace of
domination of the ku klux klan
in the government of the state is .
reversed.
Oklahoma City, Sent,. 2S.-St-rier.lv
martial law in Oklahon t widened to
night when Governor \. G ;ton ordered
troops to Pa;, ne county,
Tulsa, Oct. 1. —An injunction direct
ed against the entire na . rial guard of
the state and special state police com
missions. restraining th n Tom inter
fering with the election tomorrow, was
i.'.sued here todav oy District Judge
[Lent. Seven hundred anon have b en
sworn in by Sheriff Sanford, who de
clares the county laws ■ ill be enforced.
Oklahoma City, Oct ].—Oklahoma
has for two weeks been a maelstrom of
contest, revolving about the preroga
tives of Governor VWum, preparing
for the crisis. Tomorri 7 a. rn.. Ok
lahoma time, is the hour ,-et for open
ing the polls for a special election, at
which a measure will be oted on pav
ing the way for the leg future to con
sider the impeachment •'targes against
the executive, and at t! at time will be
determined the question whether offi
cers acting upon orders of the governor
can prevent the electorate of the state
from going to the {tolls.
Oklahoma City.—-Charges were filed
here tonight against M. C. Jewett,
grand dragon of the klahoma realm
of the ku klux klan. Jewett was
charged with implication in the flog
ging of E. I!. Merrimai.
Maj. Daniel Puilen, of
Skagway, With Fine
War Record, Passes On
Seattle, Sept. 29 Major Daniel Pul
len. of Skagway, a member of the en
gineer corns, former football and -row
athlete of the Univt ,ity of Washing
ton, died yesterday afternoon at Pal
ntet' Meed Hospital, in Washington. 1).
C. Moving toSkagway in 1^92, in 1906
he received appointment to the United
States Military Academy, being the
first man appointed from Alaska He
was made captain in 1916; major, 1917;
commissioned lieutenant-colonol of Lhe
tank corps of the array and sent to
France, where he became colonel in
the tank corps in October, 1918; and
was honorably dischrrged from the
army in March, 1920. to accept commis
sion as major in the corps of engineers.
Major Pullen was twice decorated for
gallant action. Ae leaves a widow,
daughter and mother, the latter Mrs.
Elizabeth Pullen, of the Pullen House,
Skagway.__
Passive Resistance in
Ruhr Comes to an End
Berlin, Sept. 29.—ft was officially an
nounced this afternoon that the pre
miers of German federated states at
their conference wish Chancellor
Streeseman, todav, agreed unanimous
ly to the ahandot meat of passive re
sistance in the Uuhr
Berlin, Oct. 1.—After a two-days’ ex
traordinary session of the-cabinet, fol
lowed by a conference of gov; rnmeut
nfticials, leaders of political parties,
industrial leaders, iaborites and big
bankers, the government late tonight
signed permission decreeing the erri
ng of passive resist..nee it. ’he Kunr.
John Auld, from Spruce creek-, who
irrived yesterday, was a passenger on
he Thor, this morning Jor. McGrath.
Tribute to 23 Who
Perished in Wreck
of Seven Destroyers
Kan Diego.—Is ine thousand naval
officers and man and three thousand
civilians paid tv. inte, at, the funeral
this afternoon, to the twenty-three en
listed men of the navy '■ ho perished
during the wre k of seven destroyers
ofT the Callforvi a toast. A mile wide
wreath of bios-.• ■,<, drifted out to sea,
was a fnature of the services.
Lee Langis, San Fran
cisco, Appointed Gen
eral Manager.
Washington. Sept. '29. - Lee
Langis, of .Situ Francisco, was
today appointed general man
ager of the -vlaska Railroad, ef
fective Octoboi 1. The appoint
ment was declared at the Interior
Department to be the result of a
decision of Secretary Work that,
with the actual completion of
construction, the property should
be in charge of an experienced
railroad man. Langis left today
! tor Anchorage to assume the du
ties of his appointment.
Washington Notes
Washington. — Fail!-, in spiritual
things, tempered by common sense
adapted to the needs of the wor’d, is
the kind of ideal is n r '.in r, is represented
in the history of . uet-ica, President
Cool id ye said in an address here t.odav,
adding i hat it was not likely any other
course would be adopted.
Washington.—The higher duties of
the Fordney-McCumber tariff boosted
customs receipts tvvu hundred million
dollars, in the Grs: ar of its opera
tion, over the receipts of the previous
twelve months, .Senator Underwood,
democratic leader, announced today
Washington.—Go eminent supervi
sion of the coal industry is proposed in
the final report of Sit* United States
coal commission, <■: ated by Congress
to recommend a solution of the prob
lems in that industry.
Washington.—The ( overnruent does
not possess the power to curry out the
Lasker plan of disposing of the FT. S.
Shipping Board fleet to eighteen cor
porations. Attorney General Daugherty
ruled tonight.
Washington. — The United States
Navy must be built around a battleship
rather than the airplane. Captain Luke
McNamee, director of naval intelli
genee, maintained in an address here,
tonight.
Washington.—Supreme Justice Taft
has called a meeting in Washington on
October 6 of all senior federal circuit
judges for the purpose of discussing
court conditions throughout the coun
try. __
Washington.—A lleuter dispatch
from Riga today says it is rumored in
surrectionary peasants are sqrrounding
Moscow and Petrograd.
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Alaska Canrteryman in
Spirited Divorce Case
On Trial, Seattle.
Seattle, Sept. 2-S.—'Testifying
in her action for divorce thin ptf
ternoon in Tud^e ’Tali', court
Mrs. Burckhardt branded her
husband, Brederisk Otto Burck
hardt, we.iitny Alaska salmon!
packer, as being an arsonist.!
The act that made him so, she,
testified, was committed at Chil- |
koot, Alaska, in 1910.
Mrs. Burckhardt. who also!
seeks custody of their 10 year-(
'old son. declares that, i290,006 i
• insurance was collected on the I
j burned plant.
Seattle, Seat. 2D.—Mrs. Blanche Sea- i
i vev and Mrs. Sophia Gardner, former
I maids of Mrs. Burckhardt, in a public
■ statement and through affidavits, gave i
! damaging testimony this afternoon in'
1 Judge Hall's court again, t the wife of
I KVederick ' >tto Burckhardt, Alaska
1 cannery roan. Their statements, direct
1 and by affidavit, alleged gross indiscre
1 tions by Mrs. Buretchardb in her rela
! tions witii Jerry O'Keefe, a house hoy.
and Maurice Golpin. the family chauf
feur. Mrs. Burckhardt was also pic
i tured as being frequently drunk and
i with having love affairs with a Denver
i man.
Bridge Collapses Under
C, B. & Q. Train,
Custer, Wyo
Casper, Wyo., Sept. 27.—
Thirty, mainly residents of ir
temauntain cities, perished
wilt'd a bridge collapsed and
plunged a Chicago, Burlington
(S' ‘t'uincy passenger train into
swollen Coal creek, last :xk
niglit.
Denver, Sept. 2G.—specia
dispatch to the Denver Post from
Casper, Wyo.. says "One o'
the submerged cars or the Bur
lington train, ISio. 30, which
plunged into Coal creek, near
Casper, last night, has beer
pulled from the stream and eight
persons found alive in it. The
number of dead is now estimated
at between forty and fifty.”
Casper, Sept. 20.—Up to thk
morning, thirty hours after the
Chicago & Burlington trair
dropped through the bridge-over
Coal creek, only two bodies o
the forty victims of the wrecl
have been recovered, owing tc
continued hood waters.
100,000 Rhinelanders in
Battle With Communists
| Dusseldorf, Oct. j.~ While one
'hundred thousand Rhineland
separat ionists were masted to
gether here Sunday afternoon'to
■arry out their program of form
| ing a republic, they were sud
■ denly attacked by armed imooos
I _
Bulgarian GovernmeiL
Menaced On All Sides
Haris, Sept. 2d.—A dispatch to the
Havas /vgeDcv from Sofia says a hun
dred t housund peasants, armed and or
ganized, are mu re hi .g on Sofia in an
attemp' to overthrow the government.
Bulgaria is no' only struggling to
crush the comm mist agrarian revolu
tion, of wide ramifications, but, accord-i
ing to government authorities, she is
menaced on her borders by fifty thou
sand foreign troops.
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Opium-Morphine Stir
ring League of Nations
Geneva. - The charge that* large
quantities of morphine and opium are
being manufactured in the Gnited
Statesvind Canada was made ut today’s
session of the League of Nations.
Switzerland protested that the Recusa
tion was not warranted.
Geneva.—The League of Isciienc
adopted a resolution today calling for a
conference of voon tries in which opium j
smoking prevail
oftoinraunk.ts, who ordered are
from several directions on the
dense crowds in several narrow
streets. The French authorities
estimate the casualties at d24.
The battleground covered twenty
miles cp street
Fires Lay Waste 15,
000 Acres, California
San Francisco. — Ten counties of
Northern California are tooight in the
grip of an intense heat, wave, accompa
nied by a high north wind, which
brought on an epidemic of [ires. Fif
teen thousand acres of grain and pas
ture lands, vineyards and national for
ests have been burned over.
The weather bureau announced this
morning that a general heat wave is
sweeping through Central California.
The thermometer reached 80 here last
night,
Contract for Alaska’s
New Submarine Cable
Seattle.—Following the return front
London of Col. George 11. Gibbs, for
mal announcement was made at Wash
ington today that the contract for the
purchase of 1800 miles of gutta perch*
insulated cable, at a cost of $T,244,000,
bad been completed with Stenan Bros.
L Co., of London. The cable ship Dei
wood will probably be desnatciw»»h
London lor the cable