PROPERTY
¥he Kusko Times
VOL. 1. NO. 20
McGRATH, ALASKA, MARCH 26. 1921.
PRICE 25 CBNTS
CONGRESS
ON APRIL II
Harding Requests Ac
tion On the Fordney
Tariff Measure.
Washington, Karch 23.,—Pres
ident Harding today issued a
proclamation convening Con
gress in special dession on the
11th of April. The President
-requests that the Fordney-tariff
bill be put through immediately.
With the tariff settled, other
important measures are certain
to be considered, including
transportation problems, regu
lation of the packing and coal
industries, immigration restric
tion. am i-dumping, following which
will coco permanent tariff revision.
Save the '‘Fordney ■ emergency tariff
measure, none of 1 these subjects arc
mentioned i4c ' the ^resident’s'-aall' to
Congress.
Modified League of Nations.
Washington, March 25.—The French
Foreign Office is endeavoring, through
the State Department, to induce Hard
ing to favor a modified League of Na
tions. The Administration makes no
comment.
Wood Goes to Philip
pines to Study Claims
About Independence
Washington, March 24.—For the
{ purpose of giving thorough investiga
tion to the claims of the Filipinos con
cerning fcbelr right to independence,
-Genera! Leonard Wood, as the per
sonal representative of President Har
ding,'departed today for the Philip
pines. _______ /
Murderer Led Model Life.
Seattle.—Confessing that he had es
caped from the New Westminster pen
itentiary, *wbere he was serving a life
sentence for murder, Frank Forsythe
was arrested here in a grocery which
i he had been conducting since Novem
; her. 'His neighbors-say bis conduct
had been “most* eJtemjalary during his
> residence there.
Clerk of Court Lang
Passes Away, Valdez
• Valdez, March 24.—Arthur G. Lang,
-clerk of court for the Third Division,
■ difed here today, after a protracted ill
ness, aged'59. Mr. Lang arrived ifl
1 JJuneau in 1898, and had lived in Alaska
*ever-since. He was in the stampede
to Nome, from which place be came to
Valdez His wife survives him.
Louis 1 Gorman -is on his way here
tirorn Anchoragp.
Policy of Harding* Ad
ministration Regard
ing American Rights
Washington, March 24.—The policy
of the Harding administration regard
ing American rights growing out of
the war will not. it is understood, dif
fer materially from that under the
Wilson regime. The present adminis
tration will continue to defend the con
ten-t'on that the United States has not
yielded and cannot be deprived of anv
rights and that as one oj the victors
the United States must be considered
in all adjustments created by the war.
$25,000 for Alaska Game.
Washington, March 25.—The civil
bill signed by Wilson before Harding
was inaugurated carried an appropria
tion of $25,000 for the protection of
game in Alaska. No mention is mado
of fisheries.
I
MAY TEST
JONES LAW
fitscriminatory Against
Alaska, Legislat
ors Think.
Juneau, March 24.—Governor Riggs,
in a report to both houses, stated that
the situation at ilnga, where much
destitution had qeen reported, was
much improved. The Governor has
furnished supplies to temporally care
for the natives, added to whieh the cod
fishing season will soon start, which
will..greatly relieve the families in
need.
Few bills have been introduced in the
'Legislature so far. really not one ol
great impoi tance.
Sentiment among the legislators
seems to favor the Collins resolution
declaring the Jones shipping law dis
criminatory against Alaska and con
trary to the^federal constitution and in
structing the Attorney General to test
the law ii- an open fight to place Alaska
on the same footing as the rest of the
country.
Mail for Bethel and
Kuskokwim Points
Seattle, March 24.—Mail destined for
Bethel aud points on the Kuskokwim
will be despatched from Seattle after
May 15th via Fairbanks and the Yukon
river. _
Eskimo Take to Reindeef.
Washington.—W. T. Lopp, head ol
the reindeer industry in Alaska, told
a congressional committee today that
the raising of reindeer was marking a
pastoral people of the Eskime. who de
pended less on the products of the sea
for subsistence.
William Lodge is a late arrival from
Anchorage.
Alaska Bureau Will
Consider Questions
Pertaining to Alaska
Seattle, March 24.—The Alaska Bu
reau of ihe Seattle Chamber of Com
merce has appointed a commission to
study the matter of tariff protection 90
far as it relates to the herring and
other fisheries of Alaska. This com
mittee 'Will also investigate the inter
national questions involved with Si
berian competition, it being pointed
out that the Japanese are beginning to
work the Siberian fisheries, threaten
ing serious competition with thO' fish
eries of> Alaska.
Gov. Spry for Land Office.
Washington, March 24.—Governor
William Sprv, of Utah, was giveo re
cess appointment by President Harding
today as Commissioner of the Land
Office.
WANT AN
EMBARGO
Western Members of
Congress Appeal to
President.
Washington, March 24.—Western
members of Congress have appealed to
President Harding to place an embargo
upon imports of wool, hides, meats,
butter, lemons, cottonseed oil and cot
ton, which the President has taken
under advisement till such time as
Congress gives the President author
ity to place the embargo.
Against European Competition.
''Washington, March 24.—Legislation
having for its sole object the protection
of American industries from European
competition will be rushed through
Congress at*the special session in
April, according to present plans.
Alaska Favored.
Seattle, March 24.—Alaska will be
permitted to exhibit its agricultural as
well as mining resources at the Mining
Congress to be held at Chicago in Oc
tober, it was announced today. This
is a service not accorded any State.
Tax Revision Policy of
Treasury Department
Washington, March 24.—The Treas
ury Department policy on tax revision,
now being formulated, will probably toe
ready for submission to Congress at its
convenience, according to Secretary
Mellen. The sur-tax and income tax,
it is understood, will have first consid
eration. Secretary Mellen does not
indicate his stand, whether revenue or
tariff revision has his preference.
Harry Yeager is Reported to be on
his way in over the trail.
2 MURDERS
ON YUKON
White Men Med; Sad
Fate at the Hands
of Natives.
-Russian Mission. March *6. —
The body of a white man, who
was shot four timesin the back
by a native and buried on an
island iu the Yukon river a^hort
distance below thie place, was
dug up a short time ago.
The white man was married to
a native woman, and when he
was missed some two years ago
it was reported that he had
fallen off a raft and drowned, ft
few weeks ago, in some way, a
rumor started that someone was going
to dig on this island. One native asked
another native to go tc tee island' and
see if anything had been disturbed. He
did not go, but related what he had
been asked to do. Several white men
then weQt to the island and dug. which
resulted in the finding of the body.
When arrested the marshal from
Marshall the native implicated the
native woman, with whom he had been
living. After shooting the white man
twice he was left for dead, but later it
was discovered that he was alive, and
the woman urged him to return and
shoot again, which he did. He then
buried him where he was found.
The native and the woman are both
io jail.at Marshall.
Another white tnj*n is -rejtxjrted to
have beetvkilled a little below Andrea
ofsky, on the Yukon, by natives, who
are also in jail-, at Marshall. Details
are lacking.
Acquitted of Murder
Charge, Says ‘Happi
est Woman in World’
Hrdmore, March 22.—A jury today
acquitted Clara Matron, charged w*th
the murder of Jake Hamon, Oklahoma
oil magnate. The jury was oat forty
minutes, taking only one ballot.
“lain the happiest woman in the
world,was Mrs. Hamon’s comment
when ttse vd relict of not guHty was re
turned.
Nick Sopoff, H. M. Kat*d&rc6ff, Crist
Bogiher, Charles Salmi and E. Gustap
son all came in cm Mopday over the
trail from Anchorage.
Brewers May Make Beer
for Medicinal Purposes
New York, March:24.—Brewers an
nounce that they-wfli again make real
beer following a'rifling permitting the
manufacture of beer for medicinal pur
poses containing more than one and
one-half per-cent alcohol.