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TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1321.
-VOL.VTY. NO. 25
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G0GUD6E
CAMPAIGN
All Is Not Harmony
Among President’s
Lieutenants.
Washington, June 15.—Differ
ences among members of the Ad
ministration group and repub
lican leaders, which was dis
played openly during the closing
hours of the Cleveland conven
tion, burst out again yesterday,
and a break was only averted by
the action of Coolidge.
An issue was forced by C. B.
Slemp, secretary to the Presi
dent, over the methods used by
Butler. Coolidge campaign man
ager, which aroused strong feel
ing on both sides, and the matter
came to the President in a threat
by Slemp to resign, and this ac
tion was averted only when
' Coolidge assured Slemp he had
planned from the first to lodge
active conduct of the campaign
in the hands of an advisory com
' mittee and that there was no in
tention of maintaining a one-man
directorship. Slemp, after his
• conference with Coolidge, issued
a statement befort? leaving for
Cincinnati, saying he expected to
* retain the secretaryship and also
- to participate in the real manage
1 meat of the campaign.
»' Washington, -June 16.—The conduct
• oil‘his national earnpaign is expected
for Coolidge to be lodged in a national
* ohairman, members of the national
committee and slate and local leaders,
with a national advisory committee.
1,000 Dead on Battle
Field in Front of Ti
. rana, Albanian Capital
London, June 16.—On the battlefield
in front of Tirana, the capital of Al
bania, the death casualties from yes
engagement number over one
ahouMtnd, according to a London Times
telegram. Desperate fighting charac
terizes the drive for the capital being
carried on by the revolutionary forces.
Plane in Flames at Al
titude of 15,000 Feet,
Escapes by Parachute
Dayton, O., June 21.—First Lieuten
ant John A. Macready, veteran Amer
ican non-stop cross country flyer, es
caped death by making a parachute
drop from his plane when it burst into
■ flames at an altitude of fifteen thou
sand feet. He escaped uninjured.
The steamer Tana and Charles Nic
olet’s unnamed boat both left Bethel
on June 18 for up river, while the
Santa Ana left Bethel for Seattle on
June 19, according to advices received i
' here. _ i
Billy Case and Jack Melbern, from a
■ trip up the Tokotna, were early Wed- (
nasday morning aorivals. On' their
way down, at a point about six miles
up stream from town, Mr. Case shot a
* bear, of the black species, the hide of ;
v—j*hio.h measnred folly seven feet. . '
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RACE WITH
OLD DEATH
Palatial Liner Wins in
Time to Save Lives
of 900,
St. Johns, N. F., June 20.—
palatial Canadian Pacific liner
Metagama had to be beached on
the shoals of St. Johns harbor
last night in order to save the
lives of nine hundred passengers
and crew. Inbound from Glas
gow, the Metagama came into
collision with the Italian steam
ship Clara Camus off Cape Race,
and in a sinking condition she
was driven at top speed through
a dense fog in order to reach
land, which she did not many
minutes too soon.
leie^rapmc iicks.
Seattle.’—‘Hector LoDg, age 30, con
fessed to police officials today that in
order to get the thrill of tire engines in
action he set off a blaze which resulted
in ithe destruction of thirty thousand
dollars’ worth of property.
Seattle.—-General Charles G. Dawes,
republican vice presidential candidate,
and his brothers, Henry N. and Rufus
Dawes, are sole owners of all Seattle's
gas works, known as the Seattle Light
ing Company.
St. Paal.—The official count will be
required before the winners in the re
publican senatorial contest aud farmer
labor and republican gubernatorial
nominations race are determined.
New York.—A subpoena was issued
Friday requesting the presence of Sec
retary of Treasury Mellon at the trial
of Gaston B. Means, in the federal
court here, Tuesday.
New York.—Narcotics valued at two
million dolters were seised oa a motor
truck Tuesday as it was soaring off Ho
boken pier, the narcotics having been
smuggled from Europe.
Mitchell, S. D.—Fourteen persons
were.killed in the cyclone that swept
this state Monday night. Property
damages are estimated at oveu one
million dollars.
Mt. Vernoo.—Sheriff James Gillum
was shot twice, and probably fatally
wounded in a battle witb rum runners
on Cam a to island, Thursday.
New York.—Bill Brennan, one of
only two men who ever went the route
with" Champion Dempsey, was shot and
killed by gangsters today.
Columbus, O.— Judge R M. Wana
oaaker, of the Ohio supreme court,
committed suicide today, following
several weeks of ill health.
Seattle. — Twenty new patrolmen
were added to the police force on Mon
lay, in hopes of putting a stop to the
•eign of outlawry.
Detroit.—Burglars Monday secured
me hundred thousand dollars' worth
)f jewels from the home of Edeel l ord.
Seattle.—Former Ambassador Woods
arrived from Japan, Tuesday, and left
rhorsday for Washington
Wilson’s Last Political
Will May Be Part of
Democratic Platform
Baltimore, June 21.—A copyrighted
dispatch from New York to the Balti
more Sun says:
“Woodrow Wilson's last political
will and testament, a document of
jiarty principles and policy, is to bo
laid by a group 0t jjjs followers before
the resolutions ommittee when the
tiroo cornks to write- the democratic
platform. ”
The memorandum makes this posi
tion on foreign relationships:
“Straight-out and straight-forward
membership of. the United States in
the league of nations: .abandonment of
a farcical policy of unofficial observa
tions- adherence oi this nation to a
permanent- interstates.-court of justice
under auspices of the league and with
no .nullifying resorrations.'’
ENT
IS CLOSED
Says State Department,
in Making lieply
to Japan.
Washington, June 19. — The
Araorieac reply to Japan. over
Japanese 'exclusion, as made
public tonight, says in effect
that the incident is closed, and
observes that it is the inherent
right of any government to con
trol immigration, “an authority
which the Japanese government
has not failed to exercise in its
own discretion with respect to
the admission of aliens.”
Bomb Throw Among
Guests Jat Reception
Causes Death of Five
Canton, June Jit—Thice women aad
two men were tolled when an assassin
threw a bomb among the guests at the
reception this evening at the Victoria
Hotel to Governor General Merlin, of
French Indo-Cbtna, at wnicb hundreds
were iD attendance. The assassin es
caped. _
Foreign Flashes
Moscow.-—Twelve additional civilians
and officers in the red and imperial
armies were sentenced to death Tues
day. Four of them are alleged to have
carried secret documents and informa
tion relating to the red army to Tshe
chovltsch, a member of the Polish mis
sioa at .Leningrad.
Paris.—'Douaaergue, in his first mes
sage to parliament, Thursday, declared
that Germany, before the Dawes report
can be put into effect, must first prove
her good faitb.
Buenos Aires.—The Marooai new
radio beam ray afforded communica
tion today between Cornwall, Jdogland,
and Bueoos Aires by radio telegraph,
a distance of 6.333 miles.
Kheims, France.—The Uriited States
rifle team won the international rifle
tournament .here, with' "Switzerland
second
NEW RIVER i
IN ALASKA
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Reported Several Hun
dred Miles Long and
200 Yards Wide,
Washington, June IT.—The
discovery of a new river ;n the]
northern part of Alaska is an- j
nouncecl in a message received j
today by the Interior Depart- i
meat from Dr. Smith, chief of
the exploring party at the naval
petroleum reserve, No. 4.
The new river is described in
Smith’s message as being two
hundred -ards wide and several
hundred miles long.
Washington Notes
Washington.—Director Hines, -upon
instructions from President Coo'idge,
Monday afternoon turned over two
million dollars o: veterans’ bureau
funds to the War and Navy depart
ments to help defray the cost of carry
ing out the bonus law.
W ashlngton.*—The American answer.
to the Japanese orotest. against the ex
clusion provision of the -immigration
bill was handed to the (Japanese am
bassador Monday aftemoor.
Washinjyion. Major Martin, fallen
flight leader, has been assigned to duty
at the tactica hool at Langley Field,
Virginia.
Washington. - Britain paid sixty
eight million d< '!ars on her war debt
to the United Slates, Thursday after
noon.
Washington - ■ loolidge held a polit
ical txHifarence ’Tuesday aboard the
Mayflower with Mondeli and Smoot. t
Washington.—it isdeelared in White
House circles that GoOiidg® wanted
Hoover as a i tinning mate.
Washington. Iharles B. Wartea ‘
will resign as ambassador to Mexico on
Jutjl. _
Their Millions Not
to Be Used to Save
Sons From Gallows
Chicago, June 17.—Nathan Leopold
and Albert H. Losb, fathers of Nathau
•Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb, con
fessed slayers of Albert Franks, in a
statement issued today, declared that
their millions will not be used to save
their sons front the gallows.
Butterfly Set Lands
Choice Naval Posts
Washington, Sune "iO.-^Char^os that
choice nasal posts havo bCten parceled
out to toffleers in the butterfly sot, and
to none other', vere laid before Presi
dent Coolidpe - . lav by Hepreaeniacive
Britton, member of rhu Eldasa v:aval
affairs committee.
Mrs. S. Schultz, for the oast year
teacher in the Tokotna school; left
Wednesday for Ophir on her*waj to
Fairbanks, Seward and Seattle,- After
a short visit in Seattle Mrs. Sehultz
will leave for nga, on Unga isle.od,
where she has accepted eugatjetJ’eat,
for the "omi"!' school year
DEMOCRATS
ASSEMBLING
Will C onvention Abro^
gate the Two-thirds
Rule, Question
New York. June 10.—'fja«
democratic hosts are gathering,
preparatory uo .the convening, of
the national convention on TueC'
:lay ne:;t. The delegations from
practically every state have al
ready arrived.
The possibility of abrogating
the time-honored two-thirds
governing the nomination^ of:
candidates by the national corn
mittee continues today to be.thft
most discussed topic among the
leaders and delegates already
here.
Three distinct blocs are being
organised here tonight to break:
what is called the “machine,'
and the leader of each block,
seemingly, -6 relying upon (he
counsel and support of Wiliiacc
3. Bryan.
The campaign.of William „th
McAdoo for the. nomination of
president at- the hands o* the
convention entered its final phae®
with his arrival from Los, An
gelos y3stjiud3>v to take advisory
charge of hit- forces.
. Lx-eervioe -m®p* delegates d®
the, national,, convention:* Jpavs
started a anve mj
dier ou the ticket as a vice pres
dontial candidate.
Alaska Fisheries Re
servations Abolished:
By Executive Order
Washington* June —■'All Ashen**
reservations have berets abolished tof
executive order of ProskSeat Coolidg*.
as a consequence of the *?assage of the
Ssberies law by the late Congress
Washington. -—Coolidgefi eV.'Aar oS
yesterday^STCCially revokes ttlb '‘fish
eries reserves e? /»!**&* peninsula aotf.
Southwestern Ahisk&ereawsd.by Hard
ing in February, 1922.
i ale Dei eats Harvard,
4 Miles in 22 Minutes
Aew London, Code., .une 20.--The
Yale rsisr Sefeiaiecf Harvard, dn the
Thames, this afternoon. winning’ by
three lengths. Iho tirae for the four
miles w;as 22 mi cutes.
Manager Julius Saupe, of the Flume
Dredge Company, and Tars ludegarC
were Thursday visitors.
Herman Saupe, after a stay of some
days in town, returned to' ^nkee
:reek on Tuesday.
James Dcwney was among last^Sat
urday’s late arrivals, coming up on the
! led wing.
Gus Kundgren wae % yesterday <5>
rival’trooa Yanfcec.
'Seattle.—Pdter VaSfcb’n' formerly of
Fairbanks, Alaska, purchased the
Bristol Hotel, in »>W city, for’whlct
'150,000, I'oosd^
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