Appendicitis I
Hits Delegate
TONY DIMOND STRICKEN SUD
DENLY; OPERATED UPON
(IMMEDIATELY
WASHINGTON, May 1.—Delegate
from Alaska Anthony J. Dimond was
operated on for .appendicitis today.
Mr. Bartlett, his secretary, announced ;
that Mr. Dimond was stricken very
suddenly and was rushed to the Prov
idence Hospital, where an operation
was performed at once.
ELIZABETH MARSH (SHAN
NON), FORMER M’GGRATHITE,
PASSES AWAY AT PUYALLUP
PUYALLUP, April 21.—The fu
neral of Elizabeth Marsh, 59-, better
known to .her numerous friends as
Mrs. Shannon, who formerly operated
a hotel at Juneau and McGrath, was
held in Tacoma yesterday. She passed
.away <here suddenly. Sh leaves seven
daughters and a son and sixteen
.grandchildren, all livin gin Canada.
The steamer W. H. Tupper, accord
ing to late reports, is scheduled to
leave Seattle for Bethel on or about
May 26.
Waino Puntila, coming from his
Little creek headquarters, was a to
day arrival. j
A Strike Up
11 CLAIMS STAKED; MANY OUT
FITS ARE BEING TAKEN
. IN B YAIRPLANE. •
FLAT.—Up -at the head of .the Ho
litna river a new strike has Been
made of coarse gold. Some has been
brought to Napamute, and Tony Mc
Donald and Davison are having Nat
Browne, aviator, take in Big outfits
now, and quite a few others are going
in with small outfits.
.Davidson was working around the
country all last winter, but this strike
is away up .stream at the head of the
river from where he was working last
winter, and the news came and broke
it Napamute a week ago, and Browne
lappened to come through and has
seen busy ever since.
(Valdez Miner.)
Reports of a stampede to Makai
:reek, a tributary of the Holitna
river, were recently brought to Fair
banks by U. S. .Commissioner George
Morgan from the Kuskokwim dis
;rict.
While looking for some stray rein
leer, about two years ago, Willie
Kasayule .and two other boys found
iome gold nuggets. Kasayujie, who
is a native, told the boys to keep
their.find a secret, as he did^ not want
THE MUKLUK TRAIL
"WASHINGTON, April ID.—Bishop
Antonin of the Russian Orthodox
cChurch of Alaska is a Washington
visitor. He came to the ".Capital'City
.with his secretary, Alexander A. P.
White, in connection -with the affairs
of his diocese. Bishop Antonin, whose
ihome is Unalaska, is conferring with
various governmental officials. rDele
:gate Dimond has arranged for him an
interview with President Roosevelt,
and the Bishop will call on -the Presi
dent this .afternoon. He and Mr.
White expect to leave on the return
journey to Alaska this week. Bishop
Antonin was one of the four surviv
ors when the Unmak Native was
v wrecked to the westward in January.
Be lived on the beach for 13 days be
fore he was rescued. His feet and
legs .were frozen, but he has prac
■, tically recovered now.
-i. Harmon .Caskey, old-time Alaska
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newspaper man, was an arrival at
Washington last week from his home
.in Los Angeles. He intends .to spend
.a few days .more here before "return
ing to the West Coast. For years
Mr.. Caskey <was owner and editor of
the Citizen in Fairbanks. He and
Mrs. .Caskey itemoved to Los Angeles
after th edestrnction of the Citizen
plant by fire. .They take an active
part in the:Affairs of the Alaska
Yukon Club in .the California city.
James .ft. Censors, .Democratic Na
tional Committeeman for Alaska, and
Mrs. Connpnat aUfLbaek in Washington |
after visiting; in, Maw York City and j
New EngMbd iKT^ spent several!
. days in A«ljogtpiilM»sS". where Mr.
Connors has a brother. Tomorrow
' they intend to start on the return trip
v»hBL.thei rhome in Juneau. The day •
following his.arrival .Mr. Connors and
Delegate Dimond conferred for an
hour with Attorney General Homer
S. Cummings and faund. him most
friendly to Alaska.
Delegate Dimond, Xyman . S. .Peck,
general manager of Pacific Alaska
Airways, and Harry S. Morton had a
conference last week with . General
Oscar Westover, chief of the. plane
division of the Army Air Corps,, and
Colonel Mason, who has traveled
widely in Alaska in years past. Both
the Army officers are keenly interest
ed i nAlaska, particularly..in respect
to its aviation problems.
The advisability of., the Army sta
tioning one er more air squadrons in
the Territory was explained to them.
Any such action is, of. course, contin
gent upon Congress granting the
necessary funds, but at least Alaska
is now assured of a powerful friend
at court in the person of _ General
Westover.
Mr. Peck returned to Washington
the day following the canfsropce. He
expects to remain in thee Cast-, until
after the arrival about the. middle of
the month fro mSeviard.,.of ^George
Marchand, chief clerk, of the-railway
mail service. He traveled to and from
Washington by air. Ed Yw*pg, pilot
for Pacific Alaska Airways*, is be
lieved to have reached J£ew York City
Sunday from Seattle, SI He , stopped
over in Michigan jtqfc dvisit relatives.
A bood of protests! continues t to
come from the Teorteory urging that
the five-day !weekj£xd)4nhour law. not
apply to Alaska. MdiHimond^as ap
peared before the'.-ilictjsui£ft*tfmittee
and explained the situation. 1> In the
Congressional Record of April ® he
had printed the memorial unahimoua
(Continued oa Rage 3.) i
to act until he found a white man be |
could trust as a partner.
.However, one .of. the boys was quite
friendly with a.u at.orek/eeper, near
Kalskag and he.,passed . the in
formation on to .. .him., The store
keeper organized % party, of four
sleds and left in. the night fox Makai
creek. One of the sleds was smashed
during the stampede an dits .driver
was compelled to.zeturu to Kalskap.
As soon .as Kasayulie learned what
had happened he outfitted and .start
ed for the strike to stak.e his ground.
When he got there be found that Joe
De Mandie ,a white man, had already
staked some of. the most promising
' ground. Many others immediately
| followed Kasayulie, and at present 31
! claims have been recorded. Among
j the stampeders is Harry Attain, son
1 in-law of Commissioner Morgan, and
at present is at the creek working his
ground.
“AL” SMITH, OLDTIMER, SUC
CUMBS T© HEART ATTACK AT
HIS PORCUPINE BLUFF CABIN
August Smith, better known as
“Al,” a well, known oldtimer of this
section,, dropped dead in front of his
cabin at Porcupine Blug about 7
o’clock last Sunday morning, appar
ently from a heart attack.
Miss Helen Konig, who with her
mother and sister, Miss Hettie Con
j rad, occupied another cabin perhaps
i a hundred or so feet distant, had en
i tered the. cabin only a few minutes
! before. Mr,.Smith stepped outside to
| place something away. It was only a
moment, before she heard a., heavy
falL Stepping outside, she. saw Mr.
Smith, stretched o.ut, helplesso‘„e jjiffi
Smith stretched out,, lifeless.
Miss. Helen, at the .direction of. her
mother and sister, was on her way to
! Takotna- to .send word ol .the death to
McGrath. .On. the..way coming up she
! met Chester Brink and .George Clyde.
! After telling of the .sad. .event Mr.
| Clyde..and Miss Helen returned to
; Porcupine, Mr. Brink, bringing the
sad message to Takotna.
.The body .was...taken, to. McGrath
over a npne top good J.rail on Tues
day morning by Charlie Konig and
Charlie Smithy to. McGrath.,.. An in
quest wag immediately held, the ver
dict. of. the coroner’s jury being that
death, was due to natural causes. The
funeral was held Wednesday moru
, ipg, with Stanley J. Nichols officiat
ing At. the services, and the body
placed, at rest, in McGrath cemetery.
August Smith first came to Mc
Grath about 1915 or 1916 and has
made his residence there, barring a
year or so spent on the Outside, ever
1 since. He is known t ohave lived in
Cordova for some time, and was later
in the Iditarod. Also coming with
him from Cordova was Peter Snow,
: then a young man in his teens. He
was 59 years o fage at time of death.
The whereabouts of surviving rela
i tives is a matter of uncertainty, al
; though it is thought he has a sister
and aunt located at Aztec, N. M., and
' it is also thought he leaves two
brothers, the whereabouts of whom
: are unknown.
I -
TANANA ICE
FAIRBANKS, May 1.—Weather
continues warm at Nenana and Fair
banks. The Chena slough is rising
| rapidly, and the Tanana at Nenana
I has raised about two and onedialf
feet. The ice, however, is still in one
solid mass, and it is estimated it will
not move before the 8!ii.
The Front street walk was some
what improved during the past weak
by R. E. Lowrie, who built an exten
sion of 100 feet to and beyond his
awn residence.
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
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CH 1C AGO.—Frank X. Holbrook, j
54, circulation employe of the -Chij]
cago Daily .Times, was shot to death <
mysteriously early today by gunmen i
who forced his automobile to the i
curb. A .woman, who. was riding in i
Holbrook’s car was dragged scream- '
ing into th eassassin’s machine, which <
speeded away. The slaying was wit- !
nessed by Sergeant Frank Donohue, -
of the coroner’s office, who pursued 1
the gunmen, but was . outdistanced.
W-ASHINGTON.—Standing on the 1
spot usually ociupied -by President '
Roosevelt when at his :desk in the
White House, Premier Ramsay Mas
donald of Great Britain pledged his
support to the Amerihan President in 1
the coming war against the world de
pression.
HOLLYWOOD.—A new search for)
a Lady Godiva was under way here j
today. The lady, who is to ride a
snow-white horse in an Agua Cali
ente, Mexico, fiesta, must have a
.beautiful face, a divine figure, and. a
wealth of golden locks* <ryaJ, that all
but sweep the ground
SAN JOSE,-—Robbers opened. the J
safe. of .the First Methodist Church
and escaped with ,1400, police discov
_e.red,.V$Uy. The robbery was revealed
.when Rev. C, V. Sylvester entered the
church today. The safe was moved ‘
from the church, office and covered
with jugs to deaden the sound of the
explosion.
j‘ .WASHINGTON.—A bill increas
ing from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000 Re
construction Finance Corporation
funds available for rebuilding Cali
fornia schools damaged in the recent
earthquake, was introduced in the
House today by Representative Burke
of California.
V WASHINGTON, D. C.—Comman
der Ralph Weyerbacber, Navy De
partment airship expert* testified be
fore a naval court of inquiry today
that the dirigible Akron- wasSbetter
built and constructed tof-,finer • ma
terials than any similar airship -in the
world.
LIMA, Peru.-t-The bodies of only
.nine of the twenty persons buried in
the landslide at iChiclayo, two days
ago, have been recovered, according
to advices received here today.
SPRINGFIELD, HL — Governor
Henry Horner commuted to life im
prisonment today the death sentence
of Russell McWilliams, boy slayer,
who was to have been electorcuted at
Joliet shortly after. Thursday mid
night. It was -the third time young
McWilliams, who sshat and killed Wil
liam S. Sayles,. motorman, in a street
car holdup in Rockford, when the
slayer was 16, had been saved from
death.
LONG BEACH— A tank filled with
compressed air, belonging to the
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.,
blew up here/ today. An employe
standing on top of the tank /had his
trousers blown off by the blast. He
was not.injured.
ATHENS.—An irthquake on the <
Island hfcKcs, i zv.;ie Aegean Sda, was j i
estimated toc$y tc have killed thirty 1
peratn*) .ttnd-' injured mere than one !
hundred. Hundreds of buildings were :
wrecked on the • nearby island of j ]
Nisyjos.
TOKYO.—General Gaishi Nazgoka
mrported owner of the seco® dicing
•at mustache in the world, died todaj
Lt the age of 78. Death resulted frons
in intestinal . ailment. Although for
ner president of the Imperial Avia
,ion Society and .a retired .military ,
lonunander, General Nazgoka derived
he greatest pride from having helped
'ound .the International Mustacbf
Hub.
SEWARD.—Unemployed -tie out
ers, angered by purchase of lumber
>y Abe Government-owned Alaska
itailroad from Seattle mills, --were be
ieved to have set,-fire, to forty car
oads of treated railroad ties here to
lay
SAN >JOAN, Puerto Rico.—tonsid
;ration of the controversial .birth con
,rol measure was postponed today for
several months when the insular leg
islature instructed, a special commit
;ee to report on the bill at the next
session.
COTTONWOOD. Calif—The Cot
.onwpoij railway station was closed
*>day,. L, M.. Corby, agent, took. *
lay. off. It . was his first vacation
since, 1908.
SAN /'FRANCISCOj—Its engines
ireakingtdown off Pedro Point, the
fishing sipack. Nina. with , a crew of
:wo men, hailed the lumber schooner
Hubert Schafer and was towed into
port Friday
v t>>V’ry rKAWJtsuu.—wrapped in *
sheet, the body o£ an infant girl was
found in St. Frapcis Wood, near San
Anselmo avenue,. Rriday night.
SAN FRA NCIS.CO —Jack Kearns,
former manager of Jack Dempsey,
arrived in San Francisco today to
handle. Mickey;.Waiter for his ten
round bout <with George Manley at
Exposition Auditorium Monday night,
LOS ANGELES.-—Two agents of
the Metropolitan Insurance Company
were robbed of the company’s payroll
of $1,645 today while riding in an
elevator.
MERCED.—Mrs. Amelia Carmen
McDonald, 82, great grand mere of
General Vallejo and Gen Pacheco,
early-day California governors, died
here today, following a brief illness.,
SACRAMENTO.—dloward,'Knight,
i rancher, went on record today as ar
-Xpert on hornets. He.seid oneichaseb!
him 10 miles while bgfsped a mo
torcycle from Oakland to his home,
Re finally won tfae^rayd, he said, by
iriving his cycle tkrougn a bonfire
KANSAS CITF.—Theodore Roose
velt Kline, 27, *ad«*t -.rie mistake of
thinking that Oowleii Boydstan, who
wears glasses and--is not very large,
would be an ea^f,.hold-up victim. He
;ntered Mr. Boydtan's hamburger
stand, produced a revolver and de
nanded money.'-He woke up at po
ice headquarters. The hamburger
nan said he,got mad and hit him.
MUKDEN,—The British consul at
Ifingkow'.-wBs warned today by the
Chinese I kidnapers oC three British
lava! i'itheersl that the officers wtuVd
>e skip adla to other bandrw, un
ess negotiations were immediately
tarted lo egect their release for *.
unsom of one million dollars. Tb-»
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