THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as secona-ctass matter Au-:
Rust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at'
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1S79.
Late News Events
WASHINGTON. — Administration
votes in the Senate today beat down
the veteran bonus rebellion and de
feated a rider to the currency infla
tion bill for immediate cash payment
of upwards of two billion dollars to
former soldiers. The vote removes
the last serious obstacle to speedy i
■adoption of the unprecedented infla
tion bill sponsored by the Adminis- J
tration to raise commodity prices by
cheapening the American dollar.
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WASHINGTON.—Throughout the
country pysicians are now able to
prescribe liquor for their patients j
without severe limitations. The bill
recently passed by Congress, taking!
Pederal restrictions off the number j
©f liquor prescripions, became effect- :
ave last Monday.
LE MARS, Iowa.—Simultaneously1
■with the arrival of four hundred state j
troopers to establish martial law in
this center of farm unrest, a throng
of seven hundred farmers from sur- ■
Tounding counties converged outside |
the city. A State investigation was
clubbed and at least six deputy sher
iffs were injured in a pitched battle
•with two hundred enraged farmers
during a mortgage sale dispute.
SACRAMENTO. — Treatment of
hoys confined in the Preston'School
of Industry at lone was censured in
an address by Assemblyman Cecil R.
King, of Los Angeles, who declared
he had witnessed guards beat boys
black and blue, as punishment. They
•disrobe youths, strap them to tables
and lay it on heavy with feather
straps, he declared in argument for
passage of a bill to prevent corporal
punishment in State institutions. The
Assembly, after hearing Percy G.
West, Sacramento, declare that Pres
ton was one of the best-run institu
tions in the State, passed Mr. King’s
bill.
BUTTE, Mont.—Senator Charles
R. Eggleston, 75, one of Montana’s
most famous early-day newspaper
Editors, died at his home here today.
SACRAMENTO.—The committee
of fourteen today submitted to the
Legislature a new budget-balancing
plan, which, among other things, pro
vides for diversion of the gasoline tax j
fund and a 2 per cent sales tax.
FULLERTON, Cal.—Willie Adams
claimed records galore today and fin
ished his claim with a philosophical
utterance. “I’b 96; I’ve been shot
thirty-one times; I’ve only been ship
wrecked six times, and I’ve never,
never married.”
KETCHIKAN.—Four men and two
women were recovering today after
being rescued at sea. The party was
rescued by the Coast Guard cutter
265, after the mail boat City of Ana
cortes caught fire while returning
from Hyder. The vessel '.was de
stroyed.
SAN FRANCISCO.—-A 'rented auto
sought by police as a clue to the .gun
men who held up the Bayes Valley
branch of the Bank of America Tues
day, was found iodqy .near the busi
ness district of San Jose. The rob
bers, police believe, rented the ma
chine after completing the holdup.
HOLTCfN, Ind.—A father, angered
because his son failed to pass his final
examination in school, shot and killed
the school principal,.a township.trus
tee, and then himself, here today.
LOS ANGELES—The official death
toll of the March 10th earthquake to
day was set at 90, according to a re
port of Coroner Frank-A. Nance, list
ing March fatalitties.
SEATTLE.—In one of the most
serious ridts in this city in many
years Sheriff Claude G. Bannick and
nine devuties -were maltreated by a
mob of-approximately Z50 demonstra
tors who resented the eviction‘»f the
family of Frank Frandsen from its
home late Wednesday.
HASTINGS, N. Y.—Helen Vasko
was taken home today, almost com
pletely recovered from the eye opera
tion which medical authorities said
was necessary to save her life. She
was taken from Columbia Presby
terian Medical 'Center, in -New York
City, by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
SOURDOUGH TRADING POST
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Come and -Look Things Over.
W. T, VANDERPOOL - • PROP.
FIRE INSURANCE
You should carry a liberal amount of fire insurance
for the saJce of your credit and your peace of mind,
Needless to^y this insurance should be of the very
highest quality.
That’s the Kind Written By
Alaska Insurance Agency
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Inquire of Ktmko Times.
John Yaska. Physicians said she was
in no dapge -rof losing the sight' of
her other
ALLENimtN, Pa.—With State
officials planning .an investigation of
conditions in the .■ sweatshops of the
Lehigh Valley, the baby strikers
strengthened their lines today and
continued their fight with increased
enthusiasm.
New impetus was given the strike
Friday when Mrs. Gifford Pine hot,
wife of the Governor, joined the chil
dren on the picket line in Allentown
and Northampton. District Attorney
John Diefenderfer, of Lehigh county,
said he had assigned county detec
tives to investigate testimony of girl
workers that foremen and superin
tendents made advances to .them.
LINDEN, Texas.—:A jury of 12
farmers todqy found Paul Oakley, 20,
guilty of murder in connection with
the death of 3-year-old Bernice d%y
ton during a faith healing. The jury
declared, after a night of delibera
tion, that he was sane and guilty and
should be confined in the penitential^
tiary for fifty years.
The state, accusing Oakley of chok
ing the child to death, in closing ar
guments insisted the faith healer be
given a death sentence and electro
cuted. The defense pictured Oakley
as an unfortunate, ignorant and men
tally -depraved individual who -actu
ally killed the child while exercising
what he believed his God-given power
to cure by laying on of hands. In in
structing the jury Judge Hicks Har
vey said, “If Oakley believed the.lay
ing on of hands could cure by Divine
power and intervention and accident
ally killed the child, you will acquit
him.”
LOS ANGELES.—A sneeze landed
Joseph Majerozky in jail. Majerozky
was riding in a streetcar across the
aisle from a policeman. The sneeze
made him bend over, forced his coat
tail up,. and. revealed a revolver.
SEATTLE.—Clocks in ten Wash
ington cities, including Seattle, Spo
kane and Tacoma, were one hour
ahead of the rest of .the Pacific Coast
today. The towns adopted daylight
saving time Sunday.
WHY PEGPLKBMILE.
“I hear that Rose is to be married
at last. Who is the happy man?”
“Her father.”—Christian Science
Monitor.
Hunter—-ATe .you ever shot at .fey
mistake fbr a deer?
Guide (impressively) — I dunno.
They never live to tell what they shat
at me for.—Daily Eagle (Brooklyn).
“What has kept.you so late?”
“I was fixing a new ribbon .on my
typewriter.”
“You ought to be ashamed to own
it. You get rid of her or there’ll be
trouble.”—Sydney Bulletin.
First Burglar—Come on, Lefty,
let’s figure out what we .made on this
haul.
Second Burglar—I’ mtoo tired.
Let’s wait .and look in the morning
papers.—Cazette (Montreal).
Young Man—Darling, our ..engage
ment means everything ito ’me. I’m
in the seventh heaven.
Fiancee—Oh, indeed! And who.are
the six girls you’ve been engaged to
before?—Vart Hem (Stockholm).
. Do. you remember borrowing $2
from me a year ago, Dan?
Dan—Oi do not. Oi got full that
night, fell down th’ back stairs on me
head, and me mind has been a blank
ever since.—Daily Eagle (Brooklyn)!.
"George, this is Die third time
you’ve come home late this week?*
“Third time, ish it? I hope you*ne
not going in for shtatishtics, , my
dear.”—Bulletin , (Glasgow).
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