THE RUSKO TIMES
VOL. II. NO. 79
’ MCGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1922.
PRICE 25 CENTS
BONAR LAW
IN CONTROL
Britain’s New Premier
Names Members of
Cabinet.
.London, Oct. 23.—Bonar Law
was elected leader of the Union
ist party at noon. As leader, he
is; given power to accept the
king’s mandate and become pre
mier upon the dissolution of
Parliament, which is. expected
Thursday.
P. 0. Inspectors Trying
to Trace Mail Pouch
A recent issue of the Seattle Times
says that two seamen were detained by
postoffice inspectors upon the arrival of
the steamship Victoria from the North.
They were questioned in conneotion
with the alleged theft of a registered
mail pouch dispatched last June for St.
Michael, but which did not reach its
destination. The pouch contained nine
registered consignments, one of them,
mailed, by Joseph Mayer, Inc., of Se
attle, addressed to Charles A. Treager,
Unalakleet, containing gold triukets
and jewelry valued at $1,200.
A third roan was placed under arrest
on. a charge of grand lareeny. He is
said to have confessed to the theft of
furs shipped on the Victoria.
Joe Wills, in the U-600, left Monday
for Big river, being accompanied to
that point by Mort Adams and Enrico
Fernali, both of whom are headed for
Anchorage and tbe Outside.
London, Get. 23.—Bonar law,
Unionist leader, today accepted
fro no the king the task of form
ing a cabinet and advised his
majesty to dissolve Parliament
on Thursday.
London, Get. 24-—Bonar Law
moved into No. 10 Downing
street today. Stanley Baldwin
will be chancellor of the ex
chequer. Reginald McKenna,
former chancellor, though long
a Liberal, came out this after
noon in support of Bonar Law.
London, Oct. 26.—The chief
members of the new cabinet, as
announced tonight by Law, are
as follows: President of coun
cil, Marquis of Salisbury; lord
high chancellor,.Viscount Case;
chancellor of exchequer. Stanley
Baldwin; secretary of home af
fairs; William C. Bridgeman;
secretary of foreign affairs, Earl
Curzou; secretary for economies,
Duke of Devonshire; secretary
of war. Earl Derby; first lord of
admiralty, Lieut. Col. L. C. M.
S. Amery; president of board of
trade, Sir Philip Lloyd Greame.
The new cabinet was sworn in
at Buckingham PAlace this morn
ing.
Says Lloyd George, in
Speaking of Debt
to America.
London, Oct. 2S.—Addressing
the coalition members of Parlia
ment today, Lloyd George said:
?‘Britain must pay America all
her debts. I am for the League
of Nations, but until you get the
United feiates and all great na
tions to join, as well as small,
the League will be crippled and
can not serve its full purpose.
America and Britain must work
together. ”
Many Leave Flat for
Winter; Town Quiet
Flat, Get. 6.—Our camp all closed
down, except Itiley dredge. Many
people have left, including liobin Hood,
M'iss Gonray, Mrs. Jacob‘-gaard, Mc
Kinnon. Florence, Bob Duod, Sam
Gangland, Harry Scott, and about 15
others. The town is very quiet.
All freight arrived this year, aqou*
1,000 tons: also late mail.
Sits on Steamer Rail,
Then Kills Himself
Seattle.—M. G. Craig, formerly gen
eral passenger agent of the Loutsville
& Nashville railroad, sat on the rail of
the steamboat Bremerton in the mid
dle of the sound, today, and committed
suicide by shooting nimseif.
Third Degree for Al
leged Bomb Maker
Bordeaux.—Emile Souques is being
quizzed by the police today to deter
mine whether he sent the bomb to the
American embassy at Paris, a year
ago, which was designed to take the
life of Myron Herrick, United States
ambassador.
Situation at Vladivo
stok Fairly Tranquil
Tokyo.—Vladivostok’s seizure by
general strike involves all operators of
eotmnuoieations but those of the offi
cial wireless defense, is the present in
dication. The situation otherwise is
tranquil. The invading reds have
promised to respect rights of foreign
ers in Vladivostok.
First Ice, Oci. 24
Ice in the Kuskokwim made its first
appearance at this point on Monday
morning, coming down in small
batches. Yesterday the flow became
more noticeable, the river being per
haps one-third full, while todav it is
more than half full.
Ice in the Taootoa was also first no
ticed on Monday, and today it is com
ing down in rather large blocks. Very
little shore ice. Weather mild.
John Vouk, ffom Candle, was a Mon
day arrival.
I
Curzon Wants Near
East Peace Confer
ence Set Later Date
Paris.— Foreign Minister Curzon, on
account, of the British elections, asked
i
Premier Poincaire today to have the
Near East peace conference at Lau
sanne set for a date later than Novem
ber 14.
AGREEMENT
OF ALLIES
Great Britain Modifies
Position Regarding
[ Reparations.
Paris, Oct. 2">.—A modification
of Britain's position regarding
reparations, indicated by John
Bradbury at a meeting of the
reparations commission, will
make it possible for Berlin next
Sunday, with an unanimous al
lied agreement, to make public
whv measures will be imposed
on Germany's financial obliga
tions for the purpose of averting
a total collapse of that country.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Moscow.—The announcement, of the
resignation of Lloyd George is received
here with much delight.
New York.—Dr. Lyman Abbott, ed
itor of the Outlook, passed away this
i morning. Bronchitis was the cause of
' death. _
! New York.—Fourteen persons per*
: ished today in a Lexington avenue
i apartment house in a lire supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
Riga.—The Russiau armored cruisers
iio°siva and Grom hoi are reported to
have been lost in • furious storm on
tiio Baltic sea.
! Washington.— Daugherty indulged in
| “rhetoric of exaggeaation and false
hood” in his address at Canton, Ohio,
Sam Compels asserted today,
Oakland.—William Monahan and
Henry Shaffer, both of SaD Francisco,
were killed here last night while re
sisting arrest on the charge of robbery.
Marion, Ills.—The grand jury re
sumed its investigation into the Herrin
killings, and late this evening returned
indictments for murder iu which 48 are
named.
Vienna.— New taxation amounting
So four trillion crowns is proposed in a
financial reform measure which the
government has submitted to the
League of Nations for approval.
Seattle.—Mayor Brown was barred
from the federal grand jury room to
day by United States Attorney Ilevell,
despite his honor’s insisting that he
bad important testimony to give.
New Haven, Eng.—In gliding com
petition at Atford Hill, today, G R.
Olley, in a biplane, broke the world’s
record for gliding with a passenger,
remaining in. the air forty-nine min
utes.
Series of History-Mak
ing Letters Given
Publicity.
Boston, Oct. 2”)—A series of
history-making letters, describ
ing in derail the American war
cabinet and giving an intimate
picture of Woodrow Wilson as
he appeared while presiding
over the secret meetings of his
official family, has just been
made public. The letters were
written by the late Franklin K.
Lane, first Secretary of Interior
in the Wilson cabinet, and have
been collected and edited by his
widow, Anna Winteroute Lane,
the publishers being the Hough
ton Mifflin Company.
Ebert President of
Germany Till 1925
Berlin.—The reicbstag today ex
tended the term of office of Fritz
Ebert, provisional president of Ger
many, to June. 1925.
Unfavorable Action
on Tacotna School
Tacotna, Oct. 22.—Action on the pe
tition of the people of Tacotna for the
establishment of a Territorial school
here cannot be taken at this time, ac
cording to ;i recent dispatch from Com
missioner of Education Henderson, on
account of shortage of school funds.
Del Thompson is a recent arrival
here from Flat.
A new and commodious roadhouse
will soon be under way here for Mrs.
Frank Larson. Logs for the structure
are now being gotten out,
Frank Dawson and J. F. Keller,
Moore creek operators, are reported to
have had a successful season.
Says Daugherty Dry
Ruling Deadly Blow
to Merchant Marine
Chicago.—In an address here last
night Chairman of the Shipping Board
Lasker told Daugherty and other ban
queter’s that the Attorney General's
recent ruling that all ships entering
American waters must be drv was the
greatest blow that ceuld have hap
pened to the Cmerican merchant ma
rine.
Planning World Flight
By an Array Biplane
Washington.—Tentative plans fur an
attempted flight by an army airplane
around the world are under considera
tion. One route being considered is
from the Pacific via Alaska and Si
beria, the return home to be made via
Iceland and Ireland.
Ed Johnson returned here toil*y
from a trip to Candle