ika Agricultural laiiege
d School of Mines
the Kusko Times
VOL. '1. ''NO. 28
McGRATH, ALASKA, APRIL *27, 1921.
PRICE 25 OSfiNTS
SOUTHERN STATES SWEPT
BY TERRIFIC CYCLONE
Hundreds Are Reported Dead —Tremendous
Damage to Crops—Denver in Grip of One of
Worst Blizzards Known—Heavy Snowfalls.
Chicago, April 26.—Hundreds
of people are dead and many
hundreds injured, crops have
been laid waste and whole vil
lages destroyed, as a- result of
one of the worst cyclonic storms
that has visited the Southern
States in years.
Many- sections hit by the cy
clonic disturbance of Friday
were again marked for revisita
tion on Sunday by a disturbance
of even greater severity.
Sixty-three d«aths are reported fn
Arkansas, nine in -Texas, fourteen in
Alabama, and eighteen -in Mississippi.
It is feared the death toll will be much
greatt>r»-when full reports are received
from outlying sections. The toll of in
jured is enormous.
Tremendous damage has been done
to crops. Telegraphic communication
throughout the entire Southwest is
badly crippled, due unwind aod bliz
zard.
Denver is in the grip of one of the
worst blizzards known in years, all
traffic being blocked.
Kenosha, Wis., is ateo in the grip of
a record-breaking snowstorm, a foot of
snow having fallen, all business being
at a standstill.
In Iowa, all April records for snow
fall have been broken.
In Montana, hundreds of farm houses
are reported as hav4ng~ been unroofed
by the severe high winds.
BUSY DOWN
AT JUNEAU
• --
Legislators Seem to Be
Getting Down to
Business.
Juneau. April 26.—The Senate virtu
ally killed the soldier land bonus me
morial. amending it to read that home
steads will be granted only to bona fide
settlers, safeguarding the same from
speculation.
A general eight-hour law has been
substituted for the Getchell bill in the
Senate, covering all industries except
farming, domestic service, and hazard
ous occupations already covered by
law
During • introduction of the Price
> Chamberlain memorial to remove the
Territorial capital’ to Seward, Collins
intimated that he might offer amend
ment substituting Fairbanks for Sew
ard.
In the House.' Cochrane introduced a
bill providing for the election of Terri
torial mine inspector, commissioner of
education, both for two-year terms,
aodja treasurer for four years.
Julien introduced a bill providing
* for a referendum of female electors to
obtain their desires regarding jury ser
vice.!
The Senate passed the bill abolishing j
the bureau of publicity.
The House committee of investiga-j
tion of the Pioneers Home at Sitka re- i
ported the business administration in a •
. deplorable condition. A number of;
.recommendations were made.
NOMINATED
BY HARDING
F.^N. Goodwin, of Spo
kane, for Asst. Sec.
of Interior.
Washington, April 26.—President
HardiDg today sent to the Senate the
following nominations:
Francis N. Goodwin, of Spokane, to
be assistant secretary of the interior.
Robert E. Lovett, of Illinois, to be
assistant attorney general.
Theodore Riskley, of Illinois, for so
licitor of the Department of Labor.
One Billion Gold Marks
Must Be Ready April 30
Paris, April 25.—The Allied repara
tions commission has-sent a oote to
Germany stating that one billion gold
marks must be deposited in the Bank
of France before April-30.
New Reparations Offer.
Berlin, April 23.—Germany’s new
reparations offer proposes payment of
two hundred billion gold marks, the
payments to be spread over a period of
thirty or forty years.
MV. aDd Mrs. T. P. Aitken, of Can
dle, spent Tuesday in McGrath, attend
ing to business matters.
Bert E'dridge, after an absence of
about ten days, returned to town on
Monday.
Says Confession Not True
Buffalo, April 26.—liov Harris, who
is held here on his confession oi par
ticipation in the murder of Joseph D.
El well, a wealthy New Yorker, last
June, declared to the police today that
the lirst story of his confession of the
crime was untrue.
Seattle P.-I. Changes Hands. *
Seattle, April 25.—John H. Perry,
president of the American Press Asso
elation and a stock owner in many i
Seripps papers,.has purchased a con
trolling; interest in the Seattle Post
Intelligencer, according to announce
ment made here today.
BIG STRIKE
DUEMAY I
Marine Engineers At
Head of Widespread
Tie-Up Movement.
- t
New York, April 26.—The Marine
Engineers today proclaimed a strike,
effective May. 1.
It is asserted that one hundred thou
sand firemen, oilers and water tenders
will support the strike, and the predic
tion is made that the movement will
develop into international proportions.
British engineers having deferred ne
gotiations pending the outcome of the
American situation.
The strike will, in all probability, tie
up Pacific ooast shipping, involving be
tween twenty and thirty thousand
workers, fortv-five thousand firemen,
and twenty-three thousand enginemen.
All members of the Seamen’s Union, it
is asserted, will also strike on May 1.
The three unions claim a membership
of one hundred and seventy-nTe‘ thou
saoa.
Profiteer Knew He
Couldn’t Be Touched
Washington.—All U. S. district at
torneys have been instructed by At
torney General Daugherty to dismiss
all profiteering and hoarding prosecu
tions pending in their districts on ac
count of the Lever Act having been
recently ruled unconstitutional bv the
Supreme Court. Four hundred indict
ments are affected. An effort will be
made immediately to enact legislation
to properly deat with, such cases in-tbe
future.
Death of Claude Baker.
Claude Baker passed away at his
Jditarod home at 2:35 a. m. Monday,
according to word received from that
place. This will be sad news to those
who during many months have watched
the valiant fight made by Mr. Baker to
regain his former health, in which en
deavor he has had every assistance
that frienus and money could give.
Dau McDonell left today for Flat,
where be will lake charge of certain
work on the Upgrade Association for
Dave Strand berg.
BROKENINTO
SECTIONS
Expected Consolidation
of British Workmen
Has Been Blocked.
London. April 2-f.,—The ex
pected consolidation of British
workmen has been blocked.- .and
the labor forces broken, into sec
tions bv the refusal,of the rail
way transportation woi kers to
support the striking miners.
The electrical workers and
railway clerks withdrew from
the proposed strike.
The unions of seamen and
fishermen also voted against a
general Strike.
But little hope is entertained of a
settlement with the striking miners
before the conference of. miners f-om
ts.ll sections, which is called for Fridav
Meanwhile England faces a terrible
coal famine.
TRIEDAND
EXECUTED
First Woman to Suffer
Penalty In Warfare
In Ireland.
Dublin, April 24.—Mrs. Kitty Me
Carron, the first woman to be executed
during the present warfare in Ireland,
was taken from her home in the Mon
aghan-district, shot and killed, and a
card pinned to her holy- bearing the
inscription ‘ Spies and trfiitor-s, be
ware!'1
The woman is said to have been
tried, condemned and executed by the
Republican Army.
Hazlett’s Supporters
Still Full of Faith
Corfiors.,'v-'April 'HadettPs -sup
porters here still believe-fthat- hs will
be the next' Governor" o; Alaska afnd
unt'l the appointment is * made will
continue to have faith in the outcome.
-Sehool .Election Saturday.
Election of school officers for the en
suing year will take place in the school
house Saturday, April 30.
Mrs. E. P. Werner, who has capably
filled tbe position of clerk for the past
two years, is e«*iwpeRe$ to resign,sso as
to-be able to give her'’entire sttectiec
to the care of her mother, Mrs. Stout
School matters should interest, ever
uoe. and.ev§ry citizen should vote