'-VOL. .VI. NO.--82
r TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1926
iPRICE 25 GENTS
By Mexican Authorities
Mexico City* Aug. 11.—Archbishop
Lcopoldo Ruisty Flores, who has just
arrived from Michoacan, has informed
Archbishop Rio®-.that.'., two Catholic
priests and thirty-seven Catholic citi
zens were executed;, by- the military
authorities on August .3 and 2 on the
charge of--.heading.' an, uprising grow
ing out of the religious situation.
A battle between -soldiers and citi
: zens lasted.for .astriuy in -the town of
Sahuay, Michoacan. The bishop esti
mated that forty persons were killed
.. in tho.battle
Mexico Gitv> Aug.- fG^An/impasse
in the struggle- between the Govern
ment and the Catholic Church in Mex
ico may possibly be solved through an
action^ by-the new Congress, which
convenes on-September l, Religious
. regulations are less drastic than those
which went-into-effect a week ago.
Mexico City, Aug. 8—At Guadala
jasa, the largest city in Southeastern
Mexico,-serious firing- between Catho
lics and government troops is in pro
, gress.
Thrertnsoldier-e were killed and- six
teen -Catholics-made prisoners, accord
ing ton bulletm-issued hv. Archbishop
Diaz,-head of the .Catholic-church in
Mexico. . The bulletin-states- that- the
situation is critical indhe State of
- Zacatecas
. Mexico jCityv Aug-. g.toEessimism
regarding- the religious oonfliot »-• be
tween. the government and Catholics
was more pronotmted today ; . The
business, depression, horn of the- eco
nomic boycott-declared by Catholics in
protest "against slion. religious regula
- tions, is. gripping many portions of
the republic and.causing apprehension
in other parts^irtoluding the capital.
TANA LEAVES FOR RETHLE.
The steamer Tana, Captain George
< Green, left Thursday for Bethel, there
to await the arrival of the steamer
Tupper, Captain Wallace Langley,
which is scheduled to leave Seattle to
morrow (August lb) for Bethel. The
Tupper is expected to arrive at Bethel
about August 30.
Outgoing passengers on the Tana
were Miss N. C. Halbach, former Mc
■ Grath school teacher, on her way to
Seattle, and Mrs. Woo, also on her
way to Seattle.
Mrs. B. J. Boyd, Takotna school
teacher, will be a passenger to Bethel
on the steamer Tupper on her way to
Takotna. Also coming with Mrs.
Boyd on the Tupper are Miss Rose
< Oates, after a visit of about a year in
. , Seattle; Miss Dolly Berry, daughter of
. Arthur Berry, on her way to Medfra;
and Miss Bessie Boyd, after a visit of
several months on the Outside.
Mining operations at-Gandle, for
" this season at least, came to a halt
on Tuesday last, according to a recent
arrivaL
Bob.Lowrie arrived here late Satur
day froiwMeGrath, after leaving the
steamer Anna Belle tied up at a point
about twelve miles down river.
Ootontlvdames G. Steese and Dele
gate Dan Sutherland are reported to
have arrived ai. Holy Cross on the 7th
on their way to Name.
Frank Lang "was •« .yesterday town
visitor,shaving come up on the Joe
' Oates craft.
Mail Contractor Max Simel is re
ported to have left Holy Cross with
the incoming mail on August 8.
Seattle, August 9.—Secretary of
Commerce Herbert' Hoover will de
liver an address here on the '21st.
Fairly warm for several days past.
A sample, on Friday, the 13th: 81 in
the shade; 116 in the sun.
William Behan returned Wednes
day from a visit of several days at
, Candle.
r
TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR
WAY ROUTE GETS THE
APPROVAL OF COGLIDGE
Paulsmith, N. Y., Aug.-13^—The
Transcontinental Airway was ap
proved today by President Coolidge,
as devised by the Department of Com
merce in its development of civilian
aviation.
The route will run from New York
to Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas
City, De Moines, 'North Platte, Chey
enne, Salt Lake City, from where
there will be one leg to San Fran
cisco and anotheh to Los Angeles.
SAYS GENERAL BUSINESS
CONDITIONS.OF COUNTRY
STRONGER THAN EVER
. Paulsmith, N. ,Y., Aug. 13.—Gen
eral business conditions of the coun
try are even stronger than ever in
the past, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover informed President Coolidge,
today.
Secretary of Navy
Wilbur, Other Big
Affairs,-at Seattle
Seattle, Aug. llr- Secretary - of
Navy Wilbur. ..arrived today- from
Alaska,.and tonight will attend- the
international-navy ball, as also -will
many Americans from the fleet.
The Eaglesbnational convention and
the Pacific Northwest Merchants’ Ex
position hss.-brouteht fall<y-ene -hun
dred thousand -visitors to the fity.
Speaking' before the Chamber of
Commerce this - .afternoon', Secretary
Wilbur- stressed the work of aerial
mapping that the-Navy now is doing
in Alaska, saying it is exceeding all
expectations. The success of the work
will he the opening of a laTge field
for utility airplane in survey work
that will prove of great value to the
Navy.
They Had a rieasani
Trip With Max Simel
Holy Cross, Aug. 10.—The launch
Bonzilla, leaving Ophir on the after
noon of July 27th, had as passengers
Mike Thompson, Tom Mulcahey and
J. P. Sherman, bound for the Fair
banks district; also a Mr. Snider, who
was a passenger with Mr. Simel.
Coming up en route, we picked up
Harry Meehan. He is on his way to
the Koyukuk district. We also had as
passengers Miss Beth Alexson, who is
on her way to Kwiguk, and Mike
Rokoe, who is going Outside.
We wish to thank Captain Max
Simel through the courtesy of The
Kusko Times for a very pleasant nine
days spent in his company, and to
yourself, oldtimer, wish you every
! success. R. W. Fidgeon.
Jack Stewart, Cap Carlson and
Walter Scott arrived at McGrath a
couple of days ago from Bear creek,
where they have been engaged for
some time. Mr. Scott will be remem
bered as former auditor of the Innoko
Dredging Company, who Ief here in
the fall of 1923.
Tom McKinnon, after a visit at. the
Ganes dredge, also Little crfeek-* and
Ophir, returned here Thursday’ttiorn
ing, and again departed for Ganeb the
same afternoon.
Wednesday arrivals from? th# Sea
Wolf, moored some miles down; river,
included Frank Larson, ' Bdly Case,
Vic Nystrom and John Dunn.
Carl Lotfsfeldt, A. R.' C; superin
tendent, returned Thursday from a
brief visit At McGrath.
Mr. and Mrai Joe Oates and family
were yesterday arrivals from Mc
Grath in the Joe Oates rraft.
Arrives Seattle With
KHMiflO Cases Salmon
Seattle* An?. 8--£Tbe Alaska Steam
ship tVwpp'inv's freighter Rupert ar
rived today « from Alaska Perinaula
canneries, -via- Bellingham. The Ru
pert brought 108-.600 cases of salmon,
said to b* the largest single shipment
of salmon sever brought by Kteamahii
from Alaska.' The company at pres
ent has, for the first, time, its entire
fleet *f sixteen vessels, aggregating
52,000’Ions, m the-Alaska • trade.
IMMEDIATE
EXTMKtTHHI
ForvRura JRiomer^ and
Bootlegger ss^Says
Andrews,
Seattle, Aug. ISA—JtRum 'Row faces
immediate extinction, and bootleggers
have been dealt a heavy blow in the
sale of their home products, in the
opinion of Brigadier General Andreevs,
who has just arrived here from Lon
don, bringing with- him the .negotia
tions agreement with Great Britain,
designed to. curb rumrunning,
Eight. recommendations in the
agreement have been approved by the
British- Foreign Office and by the
United States Department of State,
and will go into .effect at once, ae
cording to Andrews.
WHAT CAN HE ACCOMPLISHED
BY VIGOROUS CO-OPERATION
(Anchorage Times.)
The prompt action taken by the
Pnstaffice Department in relieving the
Susitna mail situation shows what
can be accomplished -by vigorous and
co-operative campaigning. The pros
pectors, trappers and oldtimers of
the StKitna and adjscent districts are
entitled to a summer mail service and
they cannot continue to live in that
section of Alaska unless the Govern
ment gives encouragement to the
maintenance of water transportation
between Anchorage and -Susitna Sta
tion—in fact, one branch of the Gov
ernment itself has found its work
handicapped because of the retrench
ment policy inaugurated by the Post
office Department, in view of the. fact
that the cost of maintaining the Su
sitna service is very small,-consider
ing the large territory swoied, the
postal authorities had smalt . reason
for refusing to restore ;tho service,
and it probably would no*, have beer
discontinued in the first place had .the
department authorities at Washing
ton understood the situation. It some
times happens-"that ■ Alaska repre -
sentatives of the big organization per
mit themselves to be carried to ex
tremes in their desire to save money
for their-department.
There are..other localities, like the
Susitna, which have been deprived of
their mail.service as a result of the
economy, campaign inaugurated by the
administration, the decision to discon
tinue contracts being suite as unjusti
fied as-was the case of Susitna; but,
unfortunately, some of the communi
ties have no chamber to speak for
Them, no one to direct a campaign for
Their relief.
The Kantishna district is one ol
them, and the Kuskokwim is little
better off, because of The routing of
mail by a roundabout course which
takes half the summer to negotiate,
when there is a very direct route to
McGrath and Takotna by way of Lake
Minchumina and the Kantishna. The
best that can be accomplished on this
route during the summer season is lit
tle better than .no service at alL Pa
pers mailed at Takotna, for example,
were virtually two months on the
road to Anchorage, -whereas the deliv
ery could have been made in as many
weeks over the TCantiShmi trail, and
in as many-hours by the air route.
Bill Pershinger and Paddy Sheehan
were Wednesday town visitors from
the Ophir way road camp.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT NOW ...
;' RUE RSC< > AT'DEI 'POSITS' A'tfj”
i • <l*R)PLRTVOF THE NATION
> llfirtti, City, Aug. 13.—Ttie Mex
icon ■'OBverrrmeiit now-rules that Coal
dufm-stcs" virc matronal property, as it
rCcPittly declared priroiemi; to -he
pfttperi o? the nation.
rTtuf nt vr rr.ihmg laws, which .have
Ron. into * tfect, declares that all com- :
mr'rcia»( v Insides, • mineral* and "pre
cious ‘■Wton ► -s mr e- als r properfi of .the
nntio: ,
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS PE
\TlTION FOR DIPLOMATIC |
“IN ILRVESmON, MESLCO
Washington, Aug. 13r—Vlte petition
<of tlie Knights.-of 'Columbus national
convention tor diplomatic intervention
in "the MexicairreligiouM controversy j
wkst reeeiv«d-'today''by Secretary of]
State Kellogg, who said afterwards ]
XHnt bik>had smttiiirg to *sy .
Revealing Domestic
. Aiffair »• 6£ the Baines
! family. Seattle Trial
•Seattle, A ugi 1J.—Overruh g the
defense’s objeotior, Judge clones this '
afternoon admitted the testimony of
George. Memctier in. the Gaines murder
trial-Gelatine* to the suicide attempt
of Gaines wife. Mrs, Elizabeth
Gaines, las! • Ni.vernier. .Through this
testimony the-State..was able, to estab
lish, that trouble in> the Gaines home
resulted-from what, the State refers
to as “the strange and unnatural re-^
lationship between Gaines and his
daughter SylyV.
During the testimony Metmner told
of Gaines-saying he.and Sylvia, were
going to- taka apartments down -town.
He said that ■when be was called to
thft Gaines home after Mrs. Gaines
had shot herself t:iat th- suitcases* 6?
Gaines -and 'Sylvia were -packed.
mbybk blum. WiKiaar, passes. *
Seattle, Aug: It.— Meyer Blurr., Val
dez business ntr.n, died at his home
here “yesterday. T:x ; tuner*: will die
held Friday, Under-'-tha -auspiees of -
the Cltostiinr^ciantist?.
MUTTON STEW REMOVEIFFROM
TA'BCEFOt*' ENtfMSH TOMMY
London.—rMmtoii "stew, along with
lamb chops •‘and Toast mutton, has >■
been crossed Off ti.c menu of the Brit
ish aarmygas. a measure of economy. r
By ceasing to-supply nm'tor., the
War"Office*, has7 ?ound'that it can save '
thousands -Of>■pounds «a year.. This •
kind of meat will «ot appear in the
army mess again until it becomes
much-cheaper. .Rosst and’-boiled-beef, •
and sausages,“will be served instead. <
I)r. 1L W.JLverill, well known deh- 1
List, after an .absence of several
months, was an.arrival at McGrath or.
Wednesday, having been an airplane
passenger of'Aviator A. A.-Sennett
from Fairbanks. Leaving here early
in February last,. Dr- Avsrill first
went 10 sK6jrui.uk-, thence to Fair
banks, and for the past three months
has-been making a home visit at Se
attle.
A.- G.'Jbhnson, Ideal N. C. manager,
was a Monday departure for McGrath
on a brief business visit, going down
with- Chris Nelson
Mike-Kerrone, well known oldtimer,
was a Monday arrival, after having
spent some weeks over in the Twin
Buttes section.
-Archie -Higgins, after a couple of
days in town, returned Tuesday to
Canes creek, going out with Billy
Jones,
Paul Heinrich£ was a Monday ar
rival from’the Gants dredge, and left
Tuesday .for Ophir.
'^Kingston, Engi and.-August y.-^Gei
trude Edet-le. American swimming
star, swam jrcrtfss the Engliai. chan
nel today, the first -time in history
that a woman has -accomplished the
feat. -She was fourteen and one-half'
hour* after starting1 from Cape
Grimez, France
Previous ret-ord.* of Gettenfif-Ederle
are as follows
100 meters—Time, 1 m, 1?.1-5 s., ir
Honolulu, Oct. 11.-1923.
lfft'yards—Time.-1 rft '47 2-f, a., at
Briar-Cliff, N. Y.,.J»ly ?8,- 1923.
..220 yards—rTime, 2 m. 46 4-f- ai
Brooklyn, N. Y., April 4, 1923.
300 yards—Time,. 3 m. fig 2-fi a., at
Brighton Beach, Sept. 4, 1922.
IVI NOIL P -OF T-lAGC ES’
CONVENTION KEATTI.F
.Seattle. * ug. 12—Michael O. Burns,
of Hamilton, Ohio, was elected na
tional president of the Eagles, and
Milwaukee was selected as the 1927
convention, city.
~L. V. -We.-iterman. - Seattle business
man,, was, elected . grand-worthy vice
president of the order.
A parade, in which ■ twenty thou
sand oarricioatsch was held, today.
WINNERS .in amors
STATEWIDE PRIMARIES
• Cincinnati, Aug. 11 —Tuesday’s
primaries resulted in tiie-nomination
of Senator-Frank H. Willis, Repub
lican, and former Senator Atlee Pom
crene, Democrat, 'for the United
States Senate from Ohio,
Governor Doaahev. we sre m.tninatedi
by the Democrats- while Myers Y
Cooper, Cincinnati business man. wot
the. JleWifaPeitn nomination- .for -gov
ir nor
BERI3NBACH DEFEATS STRIP
PING -IN A OXK-SLttET* BOUT
. New -’T'CFric.—^Forty-six thousand
Igbt fans saw Young-Stcibling beater
nto. a decisive, defeat here, last night
>y Paul. Rerlinbach in-’fifteen round'
>f ‘fighting that fell far from the spec
tacular., heights expected of-it The
•ugged -chanwiior. gave the challenge!
uv unmerciful pounding- almost from
•he start to finish, forcing the battle
n nearly «v®ry round,
At the outset Stribling. was flashily
■onfident- by comparison with Rerlin
jach’s alow maneuvering. The chal
lenger got away impressively in the
irst three eoands*»an(i the fans were
encouraged to believe they would see
i f(fr'd-cXhibi rior,. But-at about that
time a smashing left hook, .planted
just above th< heart, brought Strik
ing up-short, .That,-punch-was the
leciding one* -Jr robbed fitribling of
lis-epetd and agility and left him ar
sasy mark for the champion’s pile
Jriving blows
Telegraphic* Tirfes.
'Seattle, Aug. 13.—Charles Peabody
lied; last night at the Providence Hos
pital, following an operation for ap
pendicitis. ‘He was the founder of the
Alaska Steamship Company, the
Puget ’Sound Navigation • Company,
and-was a director of the Federal Re
serve Bank. Ho leaves a wife . and
eight sons,
Seattle, Aug. 13.—Leaders of the
Pacific Northwest Products Exposition
revealed today that they .plan & near
future exposition linking-uk Aliska,
the nations of -the Orient and -States
bi the Norcthw- s*
'Washington, Aujfc. 9^-Tbf tilien
population erf too ebiTfrtiy was' in
creased by the'erttrytr -196,104 emi
grants in the ^fiser.l-year ending (June
30,
'-'Seattle,* A ag- -lf^-Sormer > Payor
Brown has 'Ottered the race for the
Democratic '-nomination for prosecut
ing attorney of King county