THE KUSKO TIMES
Ai X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday and Saturday
Two Dollars Per Month.
Address all.Communications:
Kosko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, APR. 27, 1921
From Over the Ocean.
From out of the clouds hanging over
the Atlantic a giant airship will come
this spring and light on the New York
coast. Thereafter the Roma will be at
home in America.
She is a giant flyer, planned and
built in Italy, and sold to the American
Government. She is to come to this
country, it is planned, in a no-stop
flight across the ocean. The Roma can
fly 3,125 miles without a stop: she is
capable of transporting 100 passengers,
carries 34,000 cubic yards of gas, and
has a speed of 50 to 60 miles an hour.
This huge ship of the air is 125 yards
long and develops 2500 horsepower
which operates six mammoth propel
lers, three on each side of the machine.
Her passengers are carried in her
Cabin, which, unlike those now in use,
is built in as a part of the ship.
The Roma is the most improved air
craft of her type yet constructed. It is
fitting that America should be her
home.—Ex.
Pay-roll robberies are leading indus
trial establishments to pay wages and
salaries by check only. The employees
go to the bank and get their money. A
special form of check is generally used,
having a double signature, after the
manner of travelers’ checks. This
makes identification needless.
I'f not endorsed until the moment of
payment, a check is useless to anybody
but the owner. Recently automobile
baud its robbed the Drovers’ National
Bank, of Kansas City, of $853,000 in
checks, but they were worthless in the
ATTORNEYS
Albrecht & Taylor
<Geo. W. Albrecht, I-ditarod, Alaska.
Ch-as. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
Practice in all the Courts.
■Seattle Law Office: L. C. Smith Bldg.
Elliott 1642.
FISHER
HOUSE
RUBY
When traveling through Ruby
stop at the
Fisher House Restaurant
Chas. Fisher & Family
robbers’ hands. The bank suffered do
loss except, a few hours’ extra book
keeping.
Dead In Its Bed.
For years and years the Dead Sea
has laid in it3 bed near Senlac, Canada.
Its salt-carpeted beaches shade off into
a desolate prairie, bleak and treeless.
On beyond are rich farming lands.
The la' 3 has been only used by small
boys as a swimming hole. It was des
tined to sleep on down through tibe
ages, unsung and undisturbed.
Recently strange snen came to its
shores. They lingered and left. When
word reached the country folk later
that Calgary capitalists had purchased
the body of water, the villagers
laughed. What would anyone want
with the Dead Sea? they questioned.
Today the lake is heralded as a gold
mine to its owners. It is reputed to be
the saltiest body of water in the world.
Analyzed, its salt content was an
nounced as 53 to 55 per went, or greater
than that of the Dead Sea in Palestine
and five times greater than that of
Great Salt Lake, Utah. The Sas
katchewan lake has no inlet or outlet,
but is fed by saline springs that are be
lieved to well up from rich salt deposits
deep in the earth’s bosom.
A solar plant has been erected on the
shores to extract the coarse salt from
the water. Its output is 10 tons a day.
and an evaooration plant is under con
struction which will increase the out
put to 500 tons. The wholesale price
of coarse salt is $27.50 per ton.
Every day opportunity passes by, un
recognized and untouched, by the mul
titudes, until men with vision seize and
capitalize it.—Ex.
The Navy Department will sink nine
once German warships as a test of cer
tain new kinds of bombs am) torpedoes.
The vessels were allotted to the United
States bv the Peace Conference. Id
common with ships allotted to other
Allied nations, thev must be destroyed
before tbe end of next summer. At
the same time the Nav? Department
will use the American battleships Iowa
and Kentucky as targets for dummy
air bombs. These ships will not be
sunk, however. During the experi
ments the vessels will not be manned,
but will be controlled from a distance
by wireless.
Senator Smoot told the Senate re
cently that women clerks in -some of
the Government departments make
their clothes in business hours. He had
personally investigated. When he
starts to visit a Government office, he
said, word is telephoned ahead that
Senator Smoot is coming and for every
one to get busv with the typewriters.
A Swedish engineer is reported to
have invented a method by which
“moving pictures can be made to
speak.” The actors speak, and phono
graph records and films are made at
tbe same instant, electrically, so that
the movement of the lips corresponds
exactly to the spoken-words.
PROFESSIONAL
W. F. Green—
M. D., D. D. S.
Office: McGrath, Aaa.
Flat’s Quality Restaurant
The Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Frank Keenan
Coffee Sandwiches
Doughnuts Cake and Pie
Served at All Hours
McGrath Pool Room & Cigar Store
Mrs. Ej P. Werner, Prop.
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Who Said Freighting
That’s our business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all -points—
..McGrath, iTacotna,' Qphir, ! Iditarod, Cripple,
■'even1 asTfar as' Ruby. ’1
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W. H. Jones - Freighter f<
PIONEER ROADHOUSE
South Fork—Seward-Iditarod Trail.
Plenty of Dog Feed. Antelope and Ibex always on tap.
In season, Mountain Sheep, Wild Moose and Grizzly Bear.JJ
Don’t forget to look in and see the man who blazedj the
I’traiL for yon over Rainy. Pass. Call in at Hellsgate and
•iget your hearings.
Joe Blanchell - - - Prop. >)
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers ;
\0n the Kuskdcwim.
XJa^t. Wallace1 Langley, Manager.
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