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The Kusko Times
VOL. 1. NO. 59
McGRATH, ALASKA, AUGUST 16. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
MURDER IS
UNSOLVED;
Confident That Mur
derer of Priest Will
Be Apprehended.
San Francisco, Aug, 16.—The
mystery of the abduction of
Father Heslin*., the Colma priest,
is still unsolved.
From the day the priest left
his home with an unknown man,
ostensively to visit a dying mem
ber of his faith, until1 his body
was found buried in the sand
dunes at .Salada beach the move
ments of the abductors cannot
be traced, despite the fact that
several letters demanding a ran
som of fifteen thousand dollars
were sent to the priest’s friends.
Ar valuable watchand eighty-five
dollars in money was found on
the body when it was exhumed.*
William Hightower, who led
the police to the sand :hill where
the body was found, still clings
to his story of' a tip received
from a-« woman of the under
world.
No grueling by the police can
make Hightower change his
story, and when asked by the
chief of detectives why he did
not take his story* to the police
instead of to Bishop Hanna he
replied, in the most cold-blooded
way, ‘T was after the reward.”
Chief Matheson says High
tower is not the individual who
called for Father Heslin, and
look him away under the pre-1
tense that he was to visit a dying
man.. ‘‘We expect to locate that
man and have him under arrest
before Friday night,” he said.
Washington Notes
Washington.—The President today
nominated Thomas B. Hatheway to be
assayer at Seattle.
Washington. — The Senate today
passed-the bill prohibiting the ‘sale- of*
beer for medicinal purposes..
Washington.—President Harding’s
formal call for- a disarmament confer
ence was scot out today to the vacious
ppwera» _
Washington.—A bill was introduced
:b the Senate today the provisions of
which will make possible the appoint
ment of General Leonard' Wood' as
Governor General of the Philippines.
Washington.—Forbes, directorof the
war risk insurance bureau, has been
nominated . to be director of. the vet
erans bureau, created by the Sweet
bill, which was signed today by the
President.
A GIGANTIC
CONSPIRACY
Problems of Prohibition
to Be Tackled By
Administration.
Washington, Aug. 14.—Boot- j
legging in the United States,
during twelve months, has de
veloped into perhaps the most
gigantic criminal conspiracy in
the history of the world, accord
ing to cold facts and figures now
in the hands of the Federal pro
hibition authorities.
The problems- connected with
the enforcement of the prohibi
tion act were given considera
tion at today’s session of the
Cabinet, at which it was decided
that the Administration must
formulate a prohibition policy.
Latest From Ozrao.
The latest news from the #zmo re
ported her nearing Bethel, which
place she was expected to reach Aug.
13th. _"
Washington. — The United States
will reject the suggestion for separate
parleys with any powers invited to
participate in the coming conference
on armaments and the discussion of
Far Eastern questions.
FLIGHT TO
THE POLE
Delegate Sutherland Is
.Confident of Naulty’s[
Purpose.
Washington, Aug. 15.—Dele
gate Sutherland, of Alaska, is
co-operating with Edwin Fairfax
Nault.y, scientific observator of
ocean, air and ice currents, who
purposes to make a trans-Pacific
flight from Seattle to the North
Pole, via Anchorage, Nome and
Point Barrow, returning from
the polar region by way of Eu
i rope.
Delegate Sutherland is con
fident that Naulty will accom
plish the flight, and bases his
belief on the fact that the start
off for the Pole will be made
from Point Barrow.
Butte.^-The first wife of the late
James A. Murray is en route herefrom
the East. She will ask the court fop
permission- to intervene in the will
suits filed by the nephew and other
relatives of the deceased millionaire.
Telegraphic Ticks.,
Quebec.—Lord Byng was sworn in
today as Qovernor General of Canada.
Seattle.—Arthur Cotter McKong,
aged 16, was killed nere today in a mo
torcycle accident.
London.—Lloyd George announced
today that he will not personally at
tend the Washington disarmament con
ference. _
Seattle.—Ashley C. Moore, son of
Frank A. Moore, mining operator at
Tolovana, Alaska, died at the family
home here today.
Bakersfield, Cal.—John D. Spreckles,
1 jr., of San Francisco, was killed today
by the upsetting of his auto while
rounding a curve.
London.—Plans have been perfected
here for the transmission of news from
the giant naval airship ZR-2 during its
flight to America, next month.
San Francisco.—Federal investiga
tion of the steamship Alaska disaster
began here this afternoon before John
K. Belger, supervising marine in
spector. _
New York.—Seven million dollars in
gold seized by Germany in Russia and
Rumania during the war, and after
wards reminted in Switzerland, has
been received here.
St. Louis.—Missouri veterans of the
world war will be paid fifteen million
dollars, the question having been sub
mitted by the Legislature to a vote of
the people.
Yosemite, Cal.—Secretary of Interior
Fall has arrived here on a tour of the
Park. Speaking of Alaska, he^said he
deplored the condition of the Federal
administration of the Territory,
Philadelphia.—Babe Ruth, king of
home run hitters, knocked out his
forty-third home rtm todav in the
game with Philadelphia. Ruth is nine
days ahead of his last year’s record.
Paris.—King Albert of Belgium was
refused admittance to a fashionable
casino at DuVille this afternoon be
cause he wore a service bat. He had
just flown, to Duville from Brussels.
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Boogalousea, La.—Billie and Jack
Adams, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs.
William Adams, weighing eleven and
seventeen pounds, respective!#, were
given birth here today. Both are in
perfect health.
Seattle.—Mrs. Carrie M. Lewis, a
member of the Mountaineer Society,
and bookkeeper for W. D. Perkins, fell
three hundred feet from a precipice of
the Cascade mountains and was killed
instantly, today.
Eureka.—The body of Prank Kiug,
one of the stewards who perished on
the Alaska, was today identified by bis
wife. King, had been absent from home
for eight years, and his wife had lost
all track of. him six years ago.
Seattle.—The Seattle Chamber of
Commerce- today announced the es
tablishment of a bureau at Wash
ington; D. C. J. J. Underwood, for
merly of Alaska, and for many years
Washington correspondent of the Se
attle Times, toill be in charge of. the
new bureau.
A NEW BILL
FOR ALASKA
Seems to Have Indorse
ment of Administra
tion Leaders.
Washington, August 15.—The
transfer of the Government
owned Alaska railway to either
private individual or a corpora
tion is provided for in a bill in
troduced in the Senate today by
Senator New. The measure
would consolidate all Govern
ment bureaus relating to Alaska
into one bureau in the Depart
ment of the Interior.
Senator New said today that
he has no intention of pressing
action on the Alaska government
bill until the regular session of
Congress in December. The
Senator’s bill was introduced as
the result of conferences he,
Secretary Fall and Governor of
Alaska Bone had with Harding
before Bon<T3eparted for Alaska
and as a result of the recent talk
that New had with the Presi
dent. His bill, therefore, may
be said to embody the Adminis
tion’s views.
OCCUPATION
STATISTICS
Figures of Alaska as
Given Out By Cen
sus Bureau.
Washington, JAug. 15.—Occu
pation statistics for Alaska an
nounced today by the Census
Bureau disclose that £6,797 indi
viduals are engaged in gainful
occupations. Of this number,
24,712 are males, 5,038 of* whom
are engaged in agriculture, for
estry and animal husbandry*
5,285 in the-extraction of min
erals, 4,338 in manufacturing and
mechanical industries, 2,393 in
transportation, 1,390 in trading
pursuits, 1,344 in public service,
and 1,078 in professional call
ings. _
A1 Thorns,. Greg Stewart and C. O.
Peterson left this afternoon for Ta
cotna, going up on the launch Go
Devil. ___
Fred Spencer, on. the laundh Dora,
accompanied by Evan Jones, left yes
terday for Nixon Landing.