'■ YOLf. V. - NO. 35
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TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1925.
PRICE 25 CENTS
RPLANE
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I Permission to Test It
) I&l'Beiltif Withheld by
* Ijrdvt.v Says Mitchell.
) Chicago, Aug. 29.—Col. Wm.
' M itchell: former assistant chief
- of'the‘army air service, is au
■ thority for the statement that an
American super airplane, capa
ble of a non stop flight to Paris,
has been perfected, but the gov
■ ernmsnt’s permission to test it
has been withheld.
“The promoters believe, and I
’ believe, the’ biplanes they have
built 'are capable of flying to
*- Peking with a single stop at
Nome. Alaska, and this with a
■ ton ofx explosives. The planes
are rendy, and they will make
*.‘•113 miles an hour for 00 hours,’’
said Mitchell.
Soiv of Henry Ward
Beecher Falls to His
l Death, Pt. Townsend
—
Seattle, Aug. 29.— Captain Herbert
1 IF.' Beecher, 71, pioneer pilot of Puget
^ fjOucd, and soo of the late HeDry Ward
< * Beecher, was killed in Port Townsend
fclris mornine, when he fell from the
‘ Union dock to a pile driver tender,
twelve feet below.
’■ Work Commences on
New Wireless Station
Construction of Tokotna’s new wire
' less station by the Innoko Lumber
Company, made possible by the arrival
lastuigbt Df a large shipment of lum
1 ber from the company’s mill at Mc
Grath, is now under way, No lime
was lost in getting busy. Bob Rober
- aon. with his tractor, was on the job
at an early hour, and it was not long
before several thousand feet of lumber
was on the ground. The construction
of the building is under the supervision
"• of Manager VVidman, of the Innoko
1 Lumber Company. A force of active
and adept handlers of hammer, saw
1 and plane are on the job, assuring
’ early completion of the building. The
aew structure will be one and a half
■toriea high, 18x30 feel, its location
being on a high spot on Second avenue.
The Sea Wolf arrived Sunday from
5 Jbe E’orks, departed for McGrath on
Tuesday, returned here on Friday, and
again cleared down river this morning.
Among most important shipments
brought up on the Wolf arriving last
‘ aight was that of about 15,000 feet of
lumber, sent, up by the Inuoko Lumber
• *■ Company from Its mill at McGrath.
Passengers coming up included W. J.
Widman, manager of the Innoko Lum
. 1 ber Company, Jack Nixon, Claud Ny
berg, James Pernie and John Heino.
John Heino, who arrived Sunday
from the Ophir road camp, left Tues
day for McGrath, going down on the
Sea Wolf.
Archie Higgins returned Tuesday
from a trip to Ganes.
August Smith was a Friday arrival
l *rom McGrath.
A BILLION
DOLLARS
Will Be Gathered From
Easy Marks by Fake
Promoters in 1925.
New York, Aug. 26.—Despite
the enactment in many states of
bluesky laws for its protection,
the American public will pay a
billion dollars in 19*25 to the
operators of fraudulent stock
schemes, promoters of sandy oil
wells and financial wizards of
the Ponzi type, according to
statements published today by
the Better Business Bureau, of
New York.
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Commercial Aviation
in Actual Operation
in 2 Mid-West Fields
Chicago, Aug. 26.—Commercial avia
tion is now in actual operation in two
middle western fields, the Oklahoma
oil regions and over the Great Lakes
section. About Detroit, Ford flying
machines are carrying freight between
Detroit and Cleveland and Detroit and
Chicago at 12i cents a pound.
Telegraphic Ticks
Girard, Kas.—Clarence Darrow, not
ed criminal Jawver, who is credited
with having s^ved Loeb and Leopold,
slavers of young Bobby Franks, and
many other murderers from the gal
lows, announces here that be is through
practicing law, and says he will devote
the rest of his life to writing books.
Moscow.—The Asiatic expedition of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, under the leadership of Rov
Chapman Andrews, has been ordered
expelled from Mongolian territory, ac
cording to advices received here.
Chicago.—An unknown airman and
Irving Sehlieg, an aviator bootlegger,
were found shot to death near a su
burban aviation field. Thursday, follow
ing the renewal of war among boot
leggers.
Seattle.—Thirty of the 150 passen
gers on the Northwestern, which sailed
this morning, are Alaska school teach
ers, bound for Juneau to attend insti
tute work there.
Plyrhouth. Mass.—President and Mrs.
Coolidge. aboard the modern May
flower, the presidential yacht, visited
Plymouth Rock and the grave of Dan
iel Webster.
Mexico City.—Diplomatic relations
between Mexico and Great Britain,
which have been suspended since June,
1924, were resumed tod ay.
Chicago. — Forty postal clerks were
taken into custody Thursday in connec
tion with a plot to rob the Chicago-San
Francisco air mail.
Tokio.—The city is flooded today,
and many thousands are homeless, the
result of thirty-six hours’ continuous
rainfall.
Home.—Senator Walsh, of Montana,
was received by Pone Pius, Frirtav.
Cnieago Publisher Be ■
queaths Millions for
Benevolent Purposes
Chicago, Aug.'25.—The will of Victor
B\ Lawson, latepublisher of the 'Jhi
cago News, was probated' heratoday.
The wiH bequeaths $2,505,000 aad the
receipts of the Chicago Daily News to
benevolent purposes, and givas $200,005
to his brother, Everett M. Lawson,
who is the principal personal beneS
ciac.v. The Illinois Mercantile Trust
Company will manage the estate.
A THRIFTY
SERGEANT
Borrowed Police Assn.
F unds at 6 Pet., Loaned
to Fellows at 38 Pet.
Seattle. Au». 28.—Tee conver
sion of the i>ouLh of America to
radicalism is the goal of com
munism, declared Mrs. William
Sherman Walker, at a meeting
of the Young Men’s Republican
Club. “This is a most serious
aspect of the situation,” she
stated, “for, unfortunately,
men’s and women’s organiza
| tions are utilized in one way or
I another to spread the destruc
tive doctrines of the communis
tic international or the third in
ternational.”
3 in Hydroplane, Adrift
for Many Hours, Picked
Up in Milbank Sound
Seattle, Aug-, le.- Lieutenant Alan
H. full, of the Jericho station of the
Royal Canadian air force, and two com
panions, in a hydroplane of the Cana
dian fisheries department, who had
been adrift for many hours in Mil bank
Sound, were rescued yesterday after
noon bv the Alaska Steamship Com
pany's liner Yukon, south bound.
Responsibility Fixed for
Sinking of Str. Norman
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Washington, Aug. 27,—A War De
partment report on the sinking df ths
steamer Norman in the Mississippi
river, on May 6, has fixed resitoosibtl
itv for the disaster on nearly all dis
trict officials and employes directly
connected with the boat and with ^its
operation. Twenty-three lives were
lost in the disaster.
Former Nome Pioneer
Takes Final Plunge
Seattle, Aug, 28,—Poising for a- mo
ment, and fully clothed, on the spring
board at Lincoln Park swimming pool,
WiitiamP iper, 7fi, a former Nome pio
neer, plunged to his death this after
noon. He had been an inmate of the
Keenv Home for the aged since May.
Mrs. B. J. Boyd, Mrs. W. H Jones,
Miss Ellen Fred, Miss Bessie Boyd and
little Miss Margaret Clough, going out
with Billy Jones, left Tuesday for a
several days' outing at vankec ~freek_
QUIT WORK
ON SEPT. I
Miners in Hard CoaJ
Fields Ask a 10 Per
Cent Increase.
Philadelphia, Aug. 28.—Sus
pension of work in the hard coal
fields on .September I was called
last night by John F* Lewis,
president of the United Mine
Workers of America. The sus
pension, it is stated, was calied
because the miners were unable
to obtain from the operators a
10 per cent wage increase.
i
Nanaimo Bank Rob
| ber Draws 8 Years
and Twenty Lashes
i
—
Nana'icro, B. C., Aug. 28..—Harry
Stone, of Seattle, pleaded guilty today
to participation in the J 2,000 robbery
of the Iloya’ Bam: of Canada of this
place., He was sentenced to eight years ;
in the penitentiary and to suffer indie-,
j tioa of twenty lashes.
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: Von Hindenherg E*.
i presses OotimisiP
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1 Washington, Aug. 27.—The convic
tion that stabi!i :ation of economy and
I social-conditions in Oermanv will eon
\ tinue was expressed by President Von |
: Hiodenburg of Germany, in a message
! to American business men, made nub
lie this afternoon. j
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! Drowued on Day Her
| Wedding WTas to Occur
Seattle, Aug. 16.—Edith O’Connell, j
23, who was to have been married to
day to E. Stanford Keller, accidentally
fell from a Lake Washington house
boat at > o’clock this morning and
j drowned before assistance conld reach
\ her.
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Plenty Wood Alcohol,
j Says N. Y. Toxicologist
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( New York, Aug. 28.—Dr. A. © <5ett
| ler, Bellevue Hospital toaoeo'ogist,
says wood alcohol is being found ; a all
liquor, and declares that more persons
are dying from it than ever before.
Justice Taft Talks of
American Prosperity
Murray Bay. Que., Aug. 23.—“Ws
Americans should not. feel too happy
over our prosperity, or at least not feel
that it robs us cf responsibility toward
the rest-of the wurid,” said Chief Jus
tice Taft in an address today to a group
of American insurance men.
Superintendent [loss Kinney, now on
a tour of ibe lower river in connection
with Alaska Road Commission affairs,
is reported to have left Bethel on
Thursday for Bear creek.
John H. Peterson, coming up in his
own launch, was a late Friday arrival
frofl* McGrath.
COLLEGES
OF TODAY
A Few Slaps Taken at
Them Tby Colorado
Bishop.
Shenandoah, Iowa, Aug. 28.—
Bishop Irving Pease Johnson, of
Colorado, in an address here to
day, branded present-day col
leges as '-‘enlarged country
clubs, in which athletic and so
ciety activities are predominat
ing factors, with a cafeteria at
which an assortment of intel
lectual food may be obtained.11
U. S. Headed Toward
Unprecedented Pros
periiy, Assert Experts
Washington, Aug. 28.—The United
Slates is headed toward an era) of un
precedented prosperity. Department of
Commerce experts asserted today,
alter surveying all major factors en
tering into the present business situa
tioD.
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Chinese War Breaks
Op* in Several Cities
New Yon., Aug. 25.—Chinese war
broke out totJav in various cities, a few
hours aster tbe burial of Lee Kue.
king and mayor of Chinatown, who
was responsible for the recent truce
between the Hip Sing and On Lons';
tougs. Ten Cbieese in various cities
had been killed up to noon.
Jolt for Reclamation
Columbia River Basin
Washington, Aug. 27.—The spesiai.
commission of investigation on tbe pro
posed Columbia river basin reclama
tion project reported to Secretary of
Interior Work today that the time had
not arrived when local and national in
terests required the proposed construc
tion .
A Fairbanks airplane, piloted by
Noel Wien, arrived at McGrath at 7:20
p. m Wednesday, bringing Harry K.
Carter, for rue N. C. Co. manager at
McGrath. Tbe trip from Fairbanke
trok five hours, and was accompanied
by rain all the way from Kantishna.
Joe Oates, in his own boat, accom
panied by Henry Peel, arrived Tues
day, and returned to McGrath Thurs
day,
Charlie Mespelt, from the Nixon sec
tion, was a Sunday arrival, for » visit
of indefinite duration.
Jack Guioaru G. & A. dredge super
intendent, wan a Wednesday arrival
from Ganes.
Frank Lang aud Charlie Smith left
Thursday for McGrath, going down in
their own craft
John Grifiin, who- arrived ‘ Wednes
day, left Thursda* for McGrath, on hi*
way to Nixon.
Tom ShallcH" retarded T^daY-fr?**
a trio to Card’