THE KUSKO
VOL IX NO. 3
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY ID. 1929.
PRICE Jo CENS>
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Investigate
Prohibition
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: HOOVER TO APPOINT A SPECIAL
COMMISSION SOON AFTER
MARCH4
'WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Presi
i dtent-Elect Hoover is to appoint a spe
<. cial’-t ommission soon after March 4
• to investigate prohibition and general
law violations, as well as court pro
■. ceedirtgs, and to make recommenda
tions looking to improvement -of the
«whole situation. This developed to
day .after a conference between
Hoo«e» ahd Senators Jones of Wash
iogton and Edge of New Jersey,, re
spective leaders of the Senate dry and
wet forces.
LOUIS S.‘ CATES MENTIONED
FOR HOOVER’S CABINET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Louis S.
? Cates, head of the Utah'Copper Com
pany, is the most-talked-of man for
. appointment as Hoover’s Secretary
t of 'Interior.
NOMINATED TREASURER U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Walter
* O.’-Woods of Kansas City was nom
inated today as treasurer of the
United States, the nomination of Tate
having failed of confirmation.
. GREAT BRITAIN PREPARING
TO TAKE ITS NEXT CENSUS
LONDON.—British census officials
i are already marshaling their forces
: foitlidie taking of Great Britain’s next
-'census in 1931.
.•.According to an official of the Reg
istrar-General’s department at Som
erset 'House, where the records are
' kept, the figures are expected to show
r a • marked increase* over those for
1921, when the last census was taken.
“The-census was first taken in 1801,
■5 when the figure was 8,893,000,” he
said. “In 1921 the population was
37,£87,000. The last general census
shewed that there were 96 more fe
males to males per thousand, com
pared with 57 in 1801T”
Feminists are particuldrly interest
ed in getting the new figures showing
? "the proportion of females to males in
the present population. They expect
the preponderance of women over men
which loomed so large just after the
7 war, to have been greatly reduced by
the increased number of males over
females shown in the post-war birth
rates.
Hereafter the British census will in
all probability be taken every five
years, instead of every ten years, as
has been the custom. The cost of the
last census was $1,755,000.
JUNEAU OUDTIMER PASSES.
JUNEAU.—Henry J. Raymond,
egd 57, a resident of Alaska for 31
years, died here festerday as the re
sult of blood poisoning, following a
slight injury ten days ago. Raymond
was prominent in local affairs and at
one t'f.e operated a store and baths
on Baranof island. In the early days
of Alaska he. represented many Out
side firms.
Commencing on January 1, which 1
will continue throughout the remain- i
der of the winter, the Alaska Steam- ■
ahip Com) any-began making three
sailings from Seattle to Seward. This
accounts *'r the receipt here of first
class s«i-I'i«CTily thrice a month, in
stead-times a month, as for-!
... merly
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PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY MAN
KILLS POLICE INSPECTOR IN
GUN BATTLE WITH POLICE
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.—W.
| Griffith Gribel, prominent society
man, is in a serious .condition after a
gun battle with police, in which a po
lice inspector was killed and a police
i chauffeur wounded. Gribel himself
I was shot three times. Gribel was shell
! shocked and gassed in the world war.
TO SERVE ON COMMITTEE
OF REPARATIONS EXPERTS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Howard,
British ambassador, informed Secre
tary of State Kellogg late today that
alien governments had selected Owen
i D. Young and J. P. Morgan as mem-’
j bers to serve on the committee of
i reparations experts.
BRAMWELL BOOTH DEPOSED
AS SALVATION ARMY HEAD
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LONDON, Jan. 17.—The high coun
cil last night deposed General Bram
well Booth as head of the Salvation
Army”. His successor is expected to
be named in the near future.
| SEATTLE, Jar. 16.—Edwin S. Bat
| well, well known Seattle newspaper
i man, and Hiram W. Hadley, former
! chief justice of Washington State su
I supreme courtj died at their homes in
! this city yesterday
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! MOTORSH1P SILVER WAVE
| FORCED HER WAY THROUGH
HEAY STORMS TO SEATTLE
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SEATTLE.—Leaking badly and
with her pumps barely able to take
care of the inflow, the little -32-ton
motorship Silver Wave, of the Arctic
Transport Companv, the.last vessel of
the year, from the Bering Sea,, arrived
at Seattle Sunday, after a voyage of
33 days from Nome.
Gales and snowstorms beset her
from the time she sailed. She went
ashore December 5 five miles south of
Watson Rock in Greenville channel.
She struck at night in a snow storm
and was so badly damaged that she
had to be beached three times for re
pairs en route to Seattle.
The Silver Wave was also forced to
seek shelter three days in King Cove.
Leaving Seward she was forced to
turn back after battling a southeast
gale for many hours. Captain Charles
Strand, master of the Silver Wave,
declared: “We fought gales and
snow storms all he way from Nome.
It was one continual blow. Some
times the wind reached a velocity f
90 miles an hour. We learned at
Seward that we had been in the same
storirh that swalloweu up the Seattle
halibuters Brunvold and Imperial.”
OPHIR NOTES.
OPHIR, Jan. 18.—One of the beat
dances of the present winter season
was held here on Wednesday night.
Dancing lasted until fe:30 a. m., with
the best of music. An excellent lunch
was served by Mrs. Paulson at the
| roadhouse.
i A real estate deal of some import-1
I ance occurred yesterday* wherein1
i Andy Hansen disposed of it is cabin!
: and lot to George Kangas. A second
i transaction involved the sale of the
j cabin and lot of Kangas to Hansen.
| Virtually a trade; crwido’ation not
reported.
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Mail Carrier Charlie O’Halloran,;
with the outgoing mail; and accompa
nied from Ophir by Miss Frieda
Konig after a couple ibf days’ visit at
that place, arrived Thursday, depart
ing on his way. to McGrath on Fri
day.
Peace Pact
Is Ratified
KELLOGG MEASURE RENOUNC
ING WAR AMONG NATIONS
SIGNED BY COOLID'G-E
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Tuesday
the Senate ratified the Kellogg-'Brratid
j multilateral peace pact renouncing
war as an instrument of national pol
icy among nations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—With a
I ceremony appropriate to what he con
siders one of the principal achieve
ments of his administration, President
| Coolidge late today affired his signa
| ture to the instrument ratifying the
i Kellogg anti-war treaty.
W. N. CUDDY NOMINATED U. S.
ATTORNEY THIRD'DIVISION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Presi
dent Coolidge today nominated War
.ren N. Cuddy of Alaska to be United
j States Attorney for the Third division
: of Alaska.
Telegraphic Ticks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Presi
dent-Elect Hoover, on Saturday, over
the telephone, will address the cele
bration at Brussels, which will be at
tended by the king and queen of Bel
gium.
I OLYMPIA, Jan. • 7.—Governor
Hartley last night opened his second
four-year term With the first radio in
augural ever staged in the United
States.
SAN .-FRANCISCO, Jan. 18.—The
; engagement of Helen Wills, noted
i tennis player, and Frederick S. Moody,
; Jr., of San -Francisco, was announced
i today.
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! SEATTLE, -Jon. 17.—Charles H.
Winders, general Western counsel of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, died at
his home here .today.
HONGKONG, Jan. 13.—Three hun
I dred Chinese perished with the sink
ing of the steamship Hsinwah, off
i Wageian.
I PARIS, Jan. 16.—General Foch and
former Premier Clemenceau are both
reported gravely ill.
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—Enoch Bag
shaw was deposed today as coach of
the University football team.
ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS
PLACED ON SALMON FISHING
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WASHINGTON. — Additional re
strictions were placed by the Depart
I meat of Commerce on salmon fishing
in Alaskan waters on January 1. The
new regulations are designed, the De
j partment announced, “to decrease the
■ catch in a few areas where it is be
j lieved the intensity of fishing has
I been too great” to allow the main
1 tenance of salmon breeding stock.
Approximately 95 salmon traps
which operated in 1928 will be closed
down during the 1929 season under
the new regulations. The use of
traps has been forbidden in the waters
of Cook Intet; Kodiak, Chignik and
Alaska Peninsula waters.
Mr. and Mrs; D. E. Clough, who re
cently purchased what is known as
the Higgins 'sresiuence, are now com
fortably settled in their new home,
into which they moved during the past
few days.
TnT CHARGES OF IMPEACH
MENT REPORTED AGAINST
GOV ERNOR QF OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY ,Jan. lf»._Ten
charges of impeachment against Gov
ernor Henry S. Johnston were report
ed to the House of Representatives
today by its investigating committee
of impeachment on charges of corrup
tion, neglect of duty.and offenses in
i volving moral turpitude.
HOOVER TO REST FOR MONTH
1 ON BELLE ISLAND, FLORIDA
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Presi
dent-Elect Hoover will leave here.
Monday fo> Miami Beach, Fla. He
will - be- -the guest of J. C. Penny on
i Belle Isle for a month.
j ALASKA PROSPEROUS, SAYS
I GOV. PARKS IN ANNUAL RE
PORT TO THE INTERIOR DEPT
“In view of an unerpected decline
; in the-production of the salmon fish
I eries, the industrial conditions and
I economic situation in Alaska were in
general as • satisfactory .as could be
erpected during the year wrhich closed
June .'JO, 1928,” declared Governor
George A. Parks in his annual report
to the Interior Department,
In his introduction to the report, in
which there is an ereelletti summar
ization of local conditions, the Gov
ernor said, in part:
“The revenues derive,! from the
I major industries declined, but the cap
; ital investment and number of per
| sons employed in them increased.
I “The balance in the Territorial
! treasury at the close of business on
I December 31. 1927, was $712,058J>9;
| this is the largest closing tialanee for
any year within the last decade, trea
i sury receipts from all sources erceed
I ing erpenditures by more than $150,
i 000.
“The Territorial and watiwmal 1 ranks
| in the Territory show combined re
; sources as follows: Capital*£915,000;
| surplus and undivided profits, .£820,
; 250; deposits, $12,196,500; as com
• pared with the following figures for
the previous year: Capital, $840,000;
1 surplus and undivided profits. $687,
; 500; deposits, $12,130,000."
nsning ana .mnmg.
i The importance of prosperity in
i the fishing and minin jfindustries’are
j stressed by the Governor in a ,signifi
! cant paragraph in which he declared:
“The principal industries in Alaska,
if classified according to capital in -
vestment and value of products, are
fishing and mining. Consequently,
i when there is a decline in the quan
tity of the production of the fisheries
! or in the value of the mineral output
j it is reflected in the economic condi
■ tion in the fishing or mining districts,
j The statistiis for the fiscal year which
ended June 30, 1928, show that there
was an unusual decline in the output
of both of these irahrstrif*-^nd the
! effect was apparent Hi - tmai ly ‘every
j section of the Territory,
j “The customs records disclose a de
cline of $20,055,973 in the shipments
I from Alaska to the United States,
! and an increase of $1,332,55-1 in the
: value of shipments to the Territory.
The total commerce, foreign inu du
| mestic, is vulited at $87,357,517; this
1 is $24,723,419, of 22-05 per cent less
i than that of 1527, -which amounted to
'$112,000,000. Nevertheless^ -the bal
! ance of trade in favor of-Alaska was,
$20,560,605. The exports -were val
i ued at $53,902,001, as compai ed with
j $80,018,0133 fo- 1927, while the im-’
; ports were reported to be"$33,395,450
in 1928 and $32,062,902 in 1927. The f
! sharp decline in exports is accounted I
for by "the falling off in the produc- j
tion of salmon fisheries, and, to a less
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Babe Ruth
i Grief Stricken
FORMER WIFE BURNED TO
DEATH rN HOME OF BOS
TON MAN
BOSTON, Jan. 1G.—Mrs. Babe Ruth
was burned to death Sunday in the
home of L>r. E. H. Kinder, with whore
she had been Jiving as wife since he?
estrangement from the baseball king.
Ruth, weeping today, declared he did
not care whether .he ever played. ball
again.
AL SMITH ASKS HELP TO WIPE
OUT BIG DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.— AI Smith,
recent Democratic presidential candi
date, made a radio address last night,
in which ha -appealed to those whr
voted for him to help cancel the
$1,500,000 deficit of the Democratic
national committee
j W. HARDING CONFIRMED
j AS JUDGE OF FIRST DIVISION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1C —The Sen
: ate late yesterday confirmed the nom
j ination of Justin W. Harding as.Fed
i eral District Judge in Alaska, District
I No. 1, succeeding Thomas M Reed
; deceased ,
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TREASURY DEPT. ANNOUNCES
NEARLY Sl.llLOOMW REFUNDS
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WASHINGTON. —The Treasury
i Department’s annual list of tax re
J funds covering the fiscal year endec
j last June,"when $142,393,567 in Hie
j gaily and erroneously collected taxes
j were returned to 168,501 individuals
. and corporations, made its .appearance
j at the- Capital today. ' Ten of the re
i funds amounted to over §1,000,000,
| with the W. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
I pany of Winston Salem, North Caro
! lina, receivipe- the largest, .amount
, $6,213*808.
dixon wallops cleghorn.
PORTLAND.—George Dixon, Port
land middleweight, .badly maltreated
Waller-42)eghoni well known Alaskar
; boxer, in .a ID-round main event and
won the decision by a wide margin
fn the fourth he closed Cleghorn1*
left-eye, and in the succeeding rounds
battered him from pillar to post, but
1 was unable U> knock him out.
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Mrs. Joe Perris,'.who has been con
fined to her home for the past five
months, afflicted with different ail
ments, none the least of which was
rheumatism, ie greatly improved, :is
I was evidenced hy her ability to pay a
I visit down town on Thursday, which
is a matter of gratification .to her
! friends.
i A1 Greenberg, of Greenberg &
! Jones., well known Cripple mining op
| erators, arrived Thursday on matters
i of business, again departing today
j for Ophir *n route home,
I Mail Carrier Charlie Konig, with
hte incoming mail, arrived Tuesday,
departing on his way on Wednesday.
—
Mrs. L. Livenhagen, driving her
own string of dogs, returned last Sun
, day from a trip to McGrath, covering
the course in 2 hours and 2G minutes
Mrs. Louise Livenhagen, after a so
i journ here of some days, tfcrriruest of
, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Brink, returbec’
! to Ophir on Wednesday