VOL. IV. NO. 51
TOKOTNA. ALASKA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924.
PRICE 25 CENTS
DEATH OF
GOMPE
Aged President of A. F.
L, Passes On at San
Antonio.
San Antonio, DeG. 14.—Samuel
Gompers, aged president of the
American Federation of Labor,
died this morning, the primary
cause being acute heart trouble.
Gompers had been improv
ing early in the night and had
taken three naps, A change oc
curred at 3 a. m.< when his heart
began failing to respoud. His
physicians, William D. Mason.
James Duncan and other officials
of the. Federation who were
members of the Gompers party
on. the.i trip from Mexico City,
where he was taken ill, were at
his bedside when he died.
Mr. Gompers arrived at tlie
American border early yesterday
morning: in a critical condition,
suffering: from bronchial infec
uion an<jl was rushed through to
this place in the hope that hos
pital treatment might prove ben
eficial to the aged leader.
Immediately after Gompers'
death, members of the executive
couucil of the Federation and
ocher officials held a meeting to
make up a formal statement and
to make arrangements for the
funeral.
Saa- Antonio.—Gompers’ last words
were:’ “Nurse, this is the end. God
bless our American institutions. May
shoy grow better.’’
Gompers’ body will be escorted by
cavalry from fort Sam Houston and
carried on a military caisson to the
railroad stalioo, to begin its journey lo
Tarrytown, N. Y., for internment.
New York.—Chaplains of the Elks
and Masons and two rabbis will of
iiciate at the services for Samuel Gotn
perp here Thursday. The body will be
laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow cemetery,
Tarrytown, near the graves of Andrew
Carnegie and William Rockefeller.
Washington, Dec. 16—Gompers' body
arrived here this afternoon, and re
posed. tonight in fragrant flowers,
banked in the room where for years he
fought battles for American working
men. - With this impressive setting, in
the slow ceremony tonight, thousands
stopped for a moment at the flower
deoked bier for a last glance at the
features of their departed chief.
Arrange incuts are going ou apace
foritha big dance to occur at McGrath
ou .New Year’s eve—Wednesday night,
?>ec, 3!-^according to word received
bene today. Preparations have been
made to take oare of a large number of
visitors, and the people of McGrath give
assurance of a pleasant time for all in
attendance on that night.
Chester Brink returned here today
from • trip to Nenana, with Faye Bul
lock as a passenger, the latter return
ing from a trip to Anchorage.
John Mullen, lately from the Outside,
was among today’s arrivals, headed
for Flat._
Phi) Riley, with two horse team, left
Friday for McGrath for a load of
shortages.
Bank Robber Killed at
Kent, After Shooting
City Marshal.
Seattle, Dec. 13.—An uniden
j titled bandit was killed at three
! o’clock this afternoon by citizens
just, after he had robbed the Kent
National Bank of Kent ol tifteen
thousand dollars and had shot,
perhaps fatally wounding, City
! Marshal Fred Grant, who at
I tempted to take the outlaw,
j Grant had drawn his sun but
| was trying to aim without hit
ting W. S. Overlook, whom he
•shielded. When, however, Grant
fell, armed citizens began firing
| and killed the desperado.
—.—__
Seattle.—The dead Kent ban
dit has been identified by his
i widow as Lionel Edwards. 28,
j wayward son of one of Utah’s
oldest and most hisrhly respected
I families, and great grandson of
I the builder of the Mormon Tab
! ernacle in Salt Lake City. He
! was formerly an electrician in
| the United States navy. His
j widow has beeu working here as
a shop girl.
Charges Coimcilmen,
7 Business Men, Are
Dealers in Bootleg
Seattle, Dec. 15.—One city council
man, one councilman-elect and seven
business men of Ceeluin are named de
fendants and branded as bootleggers bv
Mrs. Glerina Karterman. a jeweler's
widow, of Seattle, in a suit to receive
forty thousand dollars for the sudden
death of her husband.
|F. C. Anderson Bound
Over to Grand Jury
—
Charged with grand larceny. Fred C.
| Anderson was placed under arrest here
: Tuesday by Deputy United States Mar
shal McMullen, Appearing before U.
S. Commissioner Vauderpool at Me
: Grath on Wednesday, Anderson waived
| a preliminary hearing and was bound
over to the graud jury. Bail was fixed
! at $5,000.
Charlie Koenig, bringing the incom
ing mail, arrived Sunday and con
tinued as far as Opiiir on Monday, Mr.
Koenig is substituting for Charlie Ross,
j who, while enroute from Iditarod some
! days ago, received severe injuries as
| the mail sled overturned when his
team scented and bolted for a band of
reindeer. Mr. Ro9s, who is laving
over at McGrath, is reported as im -
proving, and will probable be able Co
resume his duties on the return of Mr.
Koenig to McGrath.
Dr. U. R. Moore, who, while en
route from Flat, was detained here on
account of the serious illness of Mrs.
McKenzie, left Tuesday for McGrath,
on his way outward. He will remain
in Seattle probably a month or more
before leaving for the East.
Mail Carrier Jack Lruiont, bringing
the incoming mail, arrived this after
noma.
Congress Renders
Honor to Memory
of Woodrow Wilson
Washington, Dec. 16. — CJonere.se
paused in its round of activity today to
render honor to the memory of. Wood
row Wilson. The chamber o' the
House of llepresemai ives was the set
ting for the memorial services, with
Dr. Edwin Anderson AlderrnaD, presi
dent. of his old alma mater, the Uni
versity of Virginia, pronouncing from
the rostrum where the late President
revived Washington’s custom of deliv
ering in pers.>n his message to Con
gress. t h* eulogy of his life and Kchieve
rnents.
German-French Concili
ation Receives Set
Back, Feared.
Paris, Dec. 14.—The process
of conciliation between Germany
and the allies, particularly with
France, uas received a setback,
it is feared, in French circles, by
the report of the inter-allied mil.
i itar.y control mission in Germany
that the provisions of the Ver
sailles treaty concerning disarm
ament are not being carried out.
The allied commission, according
to its report, has found that the
German general staff continues
its deliberations as it did before
the war; that German arms fac
tories are turning out new war
material, and that, contrary to
‘the treaty, there is in Germany
an etfeciive force of soldiers far
surpassing the limit tixed by the
Versailles treaty.
Would Elect Presi
i dent By a Plurality
of Electoral College
Washington, Dec. 16.—Johnson, of
California, in the Senate today pro
posed a constitutional amendment pro
viding that the president should be
elected bv a plurality of the electoral
college instead of a majority, as now
provided by the constitution.
Piedmont, W. Va.—The locomotive
broke loose from the train bearing the
body of Gompers to Washington, a few
| miles west of here today, on a 17 mile
grade, but the coaches came to a stop
under their own brakes, without dam
! age.
The Kusko Times
To all its friends,
patrons, readers,
Extends
A Merry,
Joyful Christmas
!
WIPED OUT
AT FLAT
___
Fire Takes Snyder and
I Grand Hotels and Jake
Mutchler Office Bldg.
Plat. D*'c. 14—Fire broke out
G’aml Hotel (Room 7), J
flu. Some things were
- '.1 » of the Grand Hotel,
t of the furnishings of
r ,d>r House were saved.
: R > ti the Griind and the Snyder
j House were burned to the ground.
Jake Mutehler’s office burned,
and he also lost his tractor, an
auto and some horse feed. Heat
from the fire scorched the front
of the J. JE. Fullerton store, and
the ext.reme/heat broke the win-;
dows of Manuel Gularte s store.
Telegraphic Ticks.
—
Washington.—The immigration bu ;
reau has indicated that the mother of'
Charles Chaplin, motion picture come 1
diaD, will not be permitted to remain !
in the United States later than next 1
March, as she is ineligible to citizen- :
ship.
Seattle.—Charles D. Garfield, secre- i
lavy of the Bureau of the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce, and Miss j
Violet Edmundson, his private secre
tary, were quietly married, and are
honeymooning on Whidby island.
Sau Diego.—Four men are missing
and three seriously burned as the re
sult of an aviation accident Thursday
morning at the entrance to San Diego
bay, when a big navy seaplane fell into
the ocean. _
Canton.—Genera! Lituh Lin’s troops
Tuesday rescued twenty-three students
Kidnapped by bandits Saturday and re
turned them to Christian College.
Eight students are still held in cap
tivity.
Bridgewater, Mass.—Two hundred
and fiftv girls, scantily clad, were
driven from their dormitories when
tire destroyed three buildings of the
State Normal School, Tuesday morn
ing- _
Seattle. —An action to obtain a di
vorce was begun in the superior court
this afternoon by Hazel E.. wife of Jo
seph M. Gottsteio, scion of a wealthy
pioneer Seattle family.
New York.—Tern Gibbon* knocked
mu Kid Norfolk, Baltimore negro, in
the sixth round of a vicious fight at
Madisoa Square Garden. Monday night.
Olympia.—Governor Hart baa pa
roled Edward B. Filion, 19. ft former
Camp Lewis soldier, serving a life
term for the slaving of Karl Atimbft.
Detr • - Five robbers held up the
Grand V - venue branch of the
Bank D trek aod escape* with $11,
( 0(K*. 1 i 'V,t
Seat . ■ l>oe million dollars is being
paid out today to depositors of the de
funct Scandinavian American Bank.
London.—The admiralty Monday an
nounced the retirement of Admiral
Lord Jellicoe._
New York.—August Belmont di*d
suddenly at his home here, Thursday
evening.
Russian Soviet Sends
Caustic Note to Sec
retary Hughes.
Moscow, Dec. 16. — Tchit
cherin, minister of foreign af
fairs, on December 11, sent a
caustic note to Secretary of State
Hughes at Washington, com
plaining th it the United States
coast guard vessel Bear, in the
year 1920, committed an act
which constituted a gross viola
tion of international law, the
note adding that a similar law
less act would be sternly re
pressed by the soviet govern
ment.
The complaint was that the
Bear had affixed a brass plate to
a rock on Chukot peninsula, in
I Emma bay, Cape Pusino, in Si
! beria, near Bering strait, bear
ing the inscription: ‘“United
States Geodetic Magnetic Sta
tion.” The plate bears the warn
ing: “For disturbing this plate,
$250 tine or imprisonment.”
For the Promotion of
Comn^ dsu Aviation
Washington, Dec. 15.—Representa
tive Winslow, of Massachusetts, has
offered a bill in ihe House designed to
promote commercial aviation and pro
j vide a gigantic air fleet and training
' personnel in time of war. The bill
provides a complete civil air naviga
tion act to be administered by a spe
cial bureau.
Johu Auld, Gaston St. Clair and Lars
Indegard left Sunday for the Tolstoi,
where they expect to be busily engaged
during the greater part of the winter.
Mail Carrier Jack Lament, with the
outbound mail, arrived Tuesday, and
continued to McGrath on Wednesday.
Billy Duffy, with Nellie Bates as “a
passenger, arrived Tuesday from Flat,
on their way to the Outside.
George Walters, from McGrath, was
a Thursday arrival for a few days
visit. __
Harry Meehan, arriving Tuesday,
returned to Yankee the following day.
Jerry Franki returned Tuesday from
a business trip to McGrath.
Deputy Marshal McMullen was a
Thursday visitor, to {live attention to
oflicial duties, and returned to Mc
Grath on Friday.
Mauatrer L D Loomis, of the N. C.
Co., and Miss Grace Anderson were
today arrivals from McGrath.
Pete Jensen, from the Nixon section,
was atuuD}! today’s arrivals, coming up
from McGrath.
Ira Wood, from Flat, en route to the
Outside, was among today’s arrivals.
Jack Mutchler returned yesterday
from a trip to McGrath.
BUI Hummel left yesterday for Mc
Grath.