THE KUSKO TI
VOL. IV. NO. 14
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924.
PRICE 25 CENTS
STORY OF
OIL DEALS
What Happened at 1920
Republican National
Convention.
Washington, April 1.—Resum
ing it9 inquiry into the story of
an .oil deal at the republican na
tional convention in 1920, the
Senate oil investigating commit
tee today was told by R. H. Wil
son, former superintendent of
public instruction in Oklahoma,
of a ‘‘boast’ by the late Jake
Hammon. noted oil operator and
- republican national committee
man. that he had “put over” the
nomination of Harding. Wilson
also quoted Hammon as saying
that he gave $25,000 to Daugh
erty for the Harding campaign.
Lo* Angeles, March 31.—It was his
knowledge of the facts back of his nom
ination that led to the breakdow n and
death of Harding. A1 Jennings, re
formed bandit,and former candidate
for governor of Oklahoma, who . has
been summoned as a witness ha the
Senate oil probe, declared today. Jen
nings added that the oil interests had
* brought about Harding's nomination
by the payment of one million dollars.
Washington, Apr. 2 —George White,
* former chairman of the democratic na
tional committee, told the Senate oil
committee today that Doheny contrib
□ ted $34,906 to the democratic parly in
1920 and' 1921.
J. ET. Deyche, of Oklahoma City,
Okla., testified that $105,000 was dis
bursed in 1920 io the successful cam
paign to make the latu Jake L. Hatnon
a member of the republican national
<- committee.
Will Hays, testifying' before the oil
committee, deuied that Sinclair had
given stock to wipe a $1,500,000 deficit
of the republican national committee.
Sinclair, who was indicted Monday
afternoon by the federal grand jury fur
conte’mpt of the Senate because of hie
refusal to testify before the oil com
mittee, was formally arrested this af
ternoon, being immediately released on
bond of $5,000.
Dill,, introduced a resolution in the
Senate demanding that Coolidge im
mediately call for the resignation of
Assistant Secretary of Navy Roosevelt,
whom he declared was more involved
with Sinclair and the Teapot Dome oil
» leases thatv Deoby.
Testifying before the Senate commit
tee, former United States Attorney
Peck of Oklahoma charged Daugherty
with failing to recover one-half million
dollara’ worth of Oklahoma Indian
lands taken from the government by
frauds.
Special Prosecutors Roberts and
Pomerene announced today that on
£ April 16th the special grand jury will
begin indicting every one guilty of
wrongdoing in the naval oil iea9e
frauds.
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Sullivan, Ind.—Will Hays declared
as false the testimony of A1 Jennings
before the Senate oil committee that
he had received $25,000 from Jake
Harnon for services in the- nomination
of Harding. Hays asserts be gut no
money* either personally or as a cam
paign worker.
Major Gotwals Out of
Alaska R.R. and Alas
ka Road Commission
Washington, March 31. — Major John
C. Gotwals was today relieved through
an arrnv order from further service in
the Department of the Interior in con
nection with the Alaska railroad and
as a member of the, board of road com
missioners of Alaska. Gotwals has
been directed to report temporarily to
chief of engineers of the army, pending
permanent assignment.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Queenstown.—Two Hrit'sb soldiers
were killed and twelve wounded Mon
day night when fired upon by machine
guns by four men. in Irish Free State
uniforms as they were Landing to spend
the evening in town.
Kansas City.—Nine persons were
killed and seventy-five injured by tor-!
i nado and’ windstorms which swept |
parts of Oklahoma, Kansas. Texas, j
Missouri and Illinois, Tuesday night.
The properly loss is enormous-.
Rome.—Monstgnor Pack J. Hays,
archbishop of New York, and Mon
signor George W. Mundelein, arch
bishop of Chicago, were made cardinals
of the Roman Catholic church, Tues
day morning.
Detroit.—A plot to enforce Edsel
Ford, son of Henry Ford, to pay one
million, dollars, under threat to blind
hi* children, was uncovered Tuesday
night with the arrest of two Russian
Jews.
Atlantic City.—Observing that ‘“the
Country has been swept off its (eet bv
newspaper headlines,’’ Daugherty to
day announced his intention of return
ing to the practice of law.
Seattle—Edward J. Hagen, former
patrolman, convicted of conspiracy to
violate the federal prohibition act, was
sentenced to a term of two years at
McNeil island penitentiary.
Toledo. O.—Schoffield, an alcoholic
known as “canned heat,’’ which was
melted and drunk by occupants of a
hotei here, resulted in the death of
seven, Thursdsy
Ed wardsville, Ills.—Louis F. Lather,
once a farm milkhand, inventor of con
densed milk,, died at his home here
Tuesday, leaving? an estate of twelve
million dollars.
London.—A Japanese dispatch an
nounces that Russia is threatening mo
bilization against Japan. The dispatch
was received from Tokio.
Seattle.—Mrs. Louise C. Frye, 80.
owner of the Hotel Frye, passed awav
Monday. Site had been a resident of
Seattle for 73 years.
Seattle —Charles E. Burnside, vice
president of the Dexter Horton Na
tional Bank, dropped dead at his desk.
Monday afternoon.
Portland Ore—Oregon's compulsory
school law was declared unconstitu
tional today, in the opinion of the fed
eral supreme court.
Seattle.—Louis Debensten. widely
known Seattle druggist, dropped dead
from-heart disease, Tuesday
Paris.—Poincaire Monday agreed to
retain bis post and foim a new govern
ment. _________
Paris.—General Nivelle, commander
and hero of Verdun, died Tuesday.
FLEET OF
40 PLANES
Exhibition at Seattle in
Celebration ’Round
World Flight.
Seattle, March 29, — A fleet of
forty p'anes pave a big aerial
military exhibition over Sand
Point Field, Seattle, this after
noon, in celebration of the hop
off next week of the army’s
around-the world flyers. A great
military land program in connec
tion with the aerial exhibition is
being worked out simultaneously
at the Stadium.
Seattle,' April 4 —Mechanical diffi
culties unfavorable to the British G'o
•liinjtiia coaat weather has delayed the
start of the world flyers.
••We expect to be on our way tomor
row, though we will no be sure until
we start,’’ Commander Martin said
this afternoon.
The world flyers have shipped their
dress uniforms to To kin, planning to
attend no formal functions until reach
ing there.
Side Glances at
Political Doings
Seattle.—The King county repub
lican convention indorsed Coolidge.
Milwaukee.— With but half the votes
counted on April 4, La Follette was
Teadiag Coolidge in the state primary
election by one hundred thousand votes.
Washington.— George Harvey, for
m* i' ambassador to Great Britain, to
day predicted the nomination of Sen
ator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas,
by the democrats for the presidency.
Investigation of Rev
enue Bureau Affairs
Washington, Mar. 31.—Charges that
officials of the revenue bureau received
instructions not to assess taxes against
the Standard Steel Company of Butler,
Pit., one of the Mellon companies, were
made this afternoon before the Senate
investigation committee hy Senator
Co u sen 8.
Senator McKellar offered a resolu
tion proposing investigation by the
Senate judiciary committee of the
charges that Mellon is holding the
office of Secretary of Treasury illegally,
because of his business connections.
It was disclosed during the investi
gation this afternoon that G V. Rose
moor, a former bureau employe, had
manipulated the reducing of the tax
charge of twenty three million dollars
against the Standard Oil Company
down to five million dollars.
Ludendorff Acquitted
of Charge of Treason
Munich, April 1.—Ludendorff was
acquitted today of the charge of trea
son for Lis part in the unsuccessful re
volt in November. Hitler and former
Chief of Police Poohner were each sen
tenced to five years’ imprisonment.
John Myklebust, of Ophir, was a
Thursday arrival.
Ketchikan Fire Wipes
Out Several : s !
in Busin s
Ketchikan, March 31,—Stvrn build
ings, including two department stores
and the Ketchikan Spruce Mills, were
destroyed by fire last night, with a
total loss of about, SluO.OOO.
The fire stalled in the Rivilla Hotel,
destroying that, as well as the struct
ures occupied by Mayer Brothers, E,
Jemey, .Joseph Mevneh’s clothing
store, the Arcade restaurant and sev
eral smaller concerns.
Washington Notes
Washington.—The new veterans’ bu
reau act, designed to correct abuses
developed under Forbes' administra
tion. as disclosed by the Senate inves
tigating committee, was favorably re
ported by the Senate finance committee
last nigbt.
Washington.—Reports from experi
mental stations at Fairbanks and Ko
diak indicate that salisfaetery progress
is being made in the cross-breeding of
Siberian Holstetns and Galloways for
Alaska dairying purposes.
Washington.—Senator Dill is investi
gating the charge that Albert B. Fall,
while secretary, removed a $735 rug
from his Interior Department office to
his ran<‘h at Three Bivers, N. M.
Washington.—The soldiers’ bonus
and tax reduction bills will both be
passed at this session, according to a
statement made today by Smoot, of tbe
Senate finance committee.
Washington.—The House has au
thorized investigatiohs into the air
craft industry and into the duplication
of government bonds at the bureau of
engraving and printing.
Washington.—The Sena'o Tuesday
passed the Bursum bill, increasing pen
sions to veterans of all American wars
except the world war, at a coet of
$273,000,000 per year.
Washington.—Sinclair, oil magnate,
issued a statement Monday in which he
denounced Theodore and Archie Roose
velt as ‘•character assassins and scan
dal mongers.'’
Washington.—Provision in the reve
nue bill for a 2o per cent reduction on
income taxes payable this year was ap
proved lust night by the Senate finance
committee.
Washington.—The s’ ricting
immigration to two | ■ tie 1020
census was favorat , ■> t o the
Senate on Tuesda\.
Washington. — A cu bulletin to
day places the weaiih < : ih> nation at
$321,000,000,000 and the per capita at
$2.916;_
Idaho Prosecutor Dies
From Gunshot Wounds
Mountain Home, Idaho, April 2.—
Daniel McLaughlin, prosecuting attor
ney of Elmer county, died this morning
from four gunshot wounds suffered last
evening. Veru Faylor, former prose
cuting attorney, is being held by the
police on suspicion of having done the
shootiog. _
Thomas P. Aitken, after a siege of
some weeks in the Fairbanks hospital,
and Mrs. Aitken were Thursday ar
rivals at McGrath, on their way to
Candle. Mrs. Aitken, during Mr.
Aitken’s convalescene, made a brief
visit to the Outside.
Prominent Ones, With
Plenty of Liquor, at
Little Functions.
Washington, March 31—Dur
ing tiic Daugherty investigation
today Walter D. Miller, valet of
Daugherty, told the committee
of the goings-on at the H street
home of Daugherty and Jesse
Smith. The witness said that
frequent visitors at the attorney
generals home were Harding,
McLean, Fall, former Governor
Whitman of New York, Ogden
Armour, Sinclair, Severy, Sen
ator Elkins, Colonel Forbes and
other notables.
“Was there any liquor there?'’
Senator Wheeler asked.
•‘Plenty of it,” said Miller.
“Will Orr brought it in a suit
case every now and then, enough
each time to last a week."
Shipments of hams and bacon
from Armour & Co. were sent to
the house regularly, Miller said.
“It was a gift. They didn’t even
send a bill with the goodf,” h»
said. _
Washington, Mar. 31.—Roxie Stine
son, testifying before the Daugherty
committee, said that Jess Smith, her
former husband, told her that five men
in the fall of 1922 made thirtv-three
million dollars in a single Sinclair oil
deal.
••If ever a man stooped to cowardly,
dirty, low-down tricks, it was Daugh
erty when he attacked Roxie Stineson,
a defeoseless woman,” Senator Wheeler
declared.
Secretary of Navy Weeks complied
today with the request of the Senate
Daugherty committee for certain pa
pers bearing on the aircraft cases, but
the personal appearance of the Secre
tary for questioning was delayed UDtil
a later date.
Trying to Force the
Retirement of Mellon
Washington, April 2.—While a drive
to force the retirement of Secretary of
Secretary of Treasury Mellon is get
ting under way in the Senate, the res
ignation of Daugherty has cast some
doubt over the future course of the
special inquiry into his conduct.
An attack on Mellon in the Senate
today met resistance from administra
tion republicans, Smoot declaring that
the question of Mellon’s legal right to
hold office had been considered before
he secured the secretaryship.
A deal of some importance at Mc
Grath was consummated on Thursday,
when George Mutchler, of Flat, pur
chased the McGrath Pool Room from
Messrs. Clancey and McClure. Jack
Mutchler, who returned here yester
dav, acted as agent in behalf of his
brother George, now' tm his way from
Flat to take over the new purchase.
Dick Kuhloff, John Savola, Fred
Morledge, Lars- fndegard and John
Adams came Wednesday from Yankee,
the three latter returning to that point
today.