' VOL. 1. NO. 08
McGKATH, ALASKA, SEPTEMRBB 17. 1921.
PRICE
25 CENTS
FOUR INDICTMENTS ARE
FILED AGAINST ARBUCKLE
Two Manslaughter
and Two Murder
Charges.
Forty Bottles of Liquor
Consumed By Party in
3 Days in Arbuckie’s
Suite at the St. Francis.
San Francisco, Sept. 14.—An
indictment charging Arbuckle
with manslaughter was voted at
■ midnight by the grand-jury, and
the indictment will he returned
> tomorrow in the superior court.
District Attorney Brady ex
plained that the manslaughter
- charge will have no effect on the
■ murder charge now pending in
the police court, Arbuckle net
not being eligible to bail until
the murfei . charges are -dis
posed i r.
San, Francisco. —M1 ssW’irginia
Rappe came to her death from
acute peritonitis, brought about
• by injury due to the application
of some force which, in the be
lief of the coroner’s ,jury, was
..applied by Eosooe Arbuckle, and
the jury accordingly tonight
charged Arbuckle with man
slaughter and warned the au
thorities against San .Francisco
being made the rendezvous of
the debauchee and gangster.
San Francisco, Sept, 1:3.—The
missing witness in the Arbuckle
case appeared in the district at
torney’s office last -night, ex
pressing her willingness to make
very damaging statements, in
the alleged dying words of Miss
Rappe, against Arbuckle.
San Francisco, Sept. 10.—
(‘The people are ready to pro
ceed on the murder charges,”
announced District Attorney
Brady in Judge Lazarus’ court.
There are now two murder
charges and -two .manslaughter
charges ^against Arbuckle.
Counsel for Arbuckle sought a
continuance for ten days, but
i the court ..allowed .continuance
only until Thursday afternoon
The court room was tilled with
women, including a committee
vfrom' the Women’s .Vigilante
’Committee.
Eos Angeles, Sept. 16.—More
than forty quarts of liquor were
consumed in the three-days’
party in Arbuckle’s suite of
rooms in the San Francisco hotel
that ended with the death of Miss
Rappe, according to information
|-given Federal officials here by
.Frederick Fischback, a member
of the party at the inquest, as
^announced by Robert Camarillo,
assistant United States district
attorney, in the presence of E,
Forrest Mitchell, Federal prohi
bition director for California.
Paris. — French new simpers are giv
ing extended space to the Arbuckk
case, one of them remarking, “JEvi
alently there is liquor in America.”
San-Francisco.— Manv witnesses for
the‘prosecution in tire Arbnekle cast
■have appealed to the police for protec
tion.
Melbourne. — Theaters t.toroughou1
Australia have withdrawn all films o
Arbuckle.
Lasker to Straighten
Out Terrible Tangles
of the Shipping Board
Wasrbiugton. Keplying to attacks
being made on (Chairman masker, of |
the Shipping Board* President Hard-!
ing today said “Mr. Lasker is a man
of great genius and courage, and he is j
to straighten out » terrible tangle :n
Shipping Board aiTairs. ” %
Two at Seattle Con
fess to Stealing 3000
Bottles Govt. Liquor
Kenttle —Three thousand bottles of
liquor, .stolen recently from the Gov
ernment warehouse here, were recov
ered today by the authorities, who ar
rested Curtis Herndatel, secretary of
the Teamstors Union arid A. L. Legge.
Both men confessed.
Says France and Ger
many Rushing Head
long to Another War
New York.—France and Germany
are rushing headlong toward another
war, in the opinion of Judge Louis G.
> Gibbs, of tbs Bronx court, who has
’ just returned from a tour of western
and central Burope.
Col. J. G. Steese, Head of Alaska
.Road Commission, and Hon. Karl
Theile Pay McGrath a Brief Visit
Col. ’James ‘G. Steese. president, of
the Alaska Iload Commission, and Karl
Theile, Surveyor General of the Terri
tory, arrived in McGrath on the 14th
and loth, respectively, Both gentle
men leftiJuneau on August 25th by the
Admiral Watson, making the trip from
Valdez tor Fairbanks in two days by
automobile over the military road, Au
gust 29th and 30th; reached T&nanu bv
the Jacobs on September 1st, getting
to Ruby after a breakdown and a day
on si wash salmon at a fish camp, on
September 3d; reached Long the same
night, and Poor man on the 5th. They
left Poorman on the 0th, their guide,
according to Col. Steese, being none
too competent, and reached -Ophir on
the 13th. Col. Steese journeyed to Ta
cotna during the night, coming dowa
from the latter place on Capt. Heine’s
liunch. Surveyor General Thiele,
through an unavoidable delay, did not
arrive until late Thursday afternoon,
coming down with Capt. Hart, on the
Maple Leaf.
Col Steese, in addition to his duties
as president of the Alaska Road Com
mission, is district engineer for rivers
and harbors under the Secretary of
War, and consulting engineer for the
Sixteenth lighthouse. district uuder
the Secretary of Commerce. In addi
tion, he is charged with Territorial
work under the Territorial Road
Board, and with several other public
works covered by special acts of the
last Legislature.
“Last year,” said Col. Steese, ‘‘work
was resumed on the Ophir-Tacotna
portage road under an allotment of
$8,000 from the Territory and $22,000
fro the Alaska Road Commission.
This year work was continued under a
similar allotment from the Territory
and $32,000 from the Alaska Road
Commission, in addition, a separate
district for the Kuskokwim was create l
under the superintendeney of W. W.
Lukens, with headquarters at T&cotna.
Total allotments for the district for the
year amount to about $00,000. Work
was done on the Ruby Long road, and
a bridge was purchased and shipped in
for the Salatna river crossing on the
proposed extension to Root1 man. Relief
cabins and barns have been built on
the Idilurod trail'; work is also author
ized for the Ophir-Cripple trail, and
for the McGrath-Rainy Pass trail.
Some work will also be done on the
winter trails out of Bethel.
“Assuming that money is available,”
continued Col. Steese, “It is planned to
complete t he Ophir -Tacotna road next
season, to begin work on the Loug
Poorman road, to stake a summer trail
and possibly put in a couple of relief
cabins between Ophir and Poor man,
and to make a substantial allotment
towards rehabilitating all winter trails
as far sout h as.Quinhagak. The Kus
kokwim will be retained as an inde -
pendent district, under a competent
superintendent.''
Col. Steese and Surveyor General
Thiele departecTThursday night with
Captain Rob Hart on the launch Maple
Leaf for Bethel, from which place they
will-come back up river with Oscar
Samuelson and go over the portage to
Russian Mission, on the Yukon. From
there they will continue down river to
St. Miohael and Nome, and back to
Juneau via Seattle on the last trip of
the Victoria.
CONFERENCE
IMPOSSIBLE
Says Lord George, Re
plying to Claim of
De Valera.
London, «Sept. 15.— Because
Be Valera, in a communication,
wrote ‘'Ireland has formally de
clared its independence and rec
ognizes itself as a sovereign
state, ’ Lloyd George tonight
canceled arrangements fcr a con
ference with Sinn Fein delegates
at Inverness on September 20th
Telegraphing, his reply to De
Valera tonight, Lloyd George
said: “Your claim to negotiate
with Government as the repre
sentative of an independent and
sovereign state would make con
ference between us impossible.’
London. Sept. .12.—-A.kitch it*
I Irish peace negotiations was an
jnouuced by LI ■ ,d George to
night, and Boland and McGrath
are returning to-Dublin with ex
planations of certain points in
the Government’s proposals for
i consideration by Bail Eireann.
—
London. The Fo&t today said
“Lloyd George should take up
the task of re-establishing the
king’s authority in Ireland, cr
reorganization.”
Telegraphic Ticks.
'•Victoria.—The Canadian importer,
in a very disabled condition, was towed
into this port today.
San.Fcacciseo,—The schooner Lotus
burned at sea off the Centura coast;
yesterday. All members of the crew
we re saved.
New* York. —Babe Liuth smashed hi*
record today, when lie made his iifty
fifth home run, occurring in tho game
with St. Louis, with one man on first
base.
—
Detroit.—‘‘Before very long his re
covery will be complete,” former Sec
retary Tumulty, now here, replied
when iienry Ford inquired regarding
the lie:'1 ih of ex-President Wilson.
Dalian.—Lieut. Armstrong and Ser
geants Gibbon and White were lulled
at Love Field, near here, today, when
their army plane crashed to earth.
Washington^—Investigatiou by Con
gress of the Kultlux Klan will be pro
posed iu a resolution which Congress
man Tague is having drafted for intro
duction when the House assemlde?
next week