THE KUSKO TIMES
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(Entered as second-class matter August
29th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
'TOKOTNA, ALASKA. JUN£ 7, 1924
Railroad’s White Col
lar Overhead and Po
litical Pot, Anchorage
Anchorage, May 15.—Anchorage,
^wbicb has just passed one of its ,quiet*
,est winters, is much upset at the pres
ent time. You see the new railroad
jBnanagetnent. “knowing not Joseph,"
have even been indiscreet enough to
„cut off the official heads of some who
thought that the road could not be run
^without them. These latter have
friends, who have friends who feel that
It is a burning shame to let them out,
^specially when they bad made no pro
vision for the future. Frank opinion is
.that the concern was top-heavy with
.white-collared pencil pushers and that
Landis is letting out some of the dead
^timber.
Governor Bone was here yesterday,
and there is much dissatisfaction and
^criticism of him and of the conduct of
his cilice. You see, be Is an out-and
-out Administration. Secretary of Com
/nerce Hoover and Delegate Suther
land are not working well together,
and the governor oomes into the tight
py backing Hoover. The majority of
Alaskans, irrespective of party, back
Sutherland. People who know the iDs
and outs of this fishing business claim
that pan is absolutely right:' that
Hoover is in bad and hates to back out;
that the fish trust simply pulled ^he
wool over his eyes by telling him that
/t was conservation, after the Roose
yelt brand. The Hearst papers have
,taken up Delegate Sutherland’s end of
jfche fight, and the end is not vet.
The political pot boils here. Arthur
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
AU Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Rofot.. E. Lowrie i
Tokotna, Alaska
Frame is much disturbed because he
does not pet the Qatiooal committee*
manship. He is not w hat is known as
a good loser, and has gone to Juneau to
contest the matter. John Frame has
beaten him by about one hundred
votes. The governor, too, is peeved—
said he did not believe John would be
seated. Tbe Indians all voted for John
Frame, which to t&e fellow who does
not get them is like being hit below
the belt. _
Striking of Martin’s
Plane at Port Moller
From JR. Amundson, manager of the
cannery at Fort Moller. was received a
full aecot^nt of the striking of Major
Martin’s plane, says the Seward Gate
way.
The-piane hit a gentle rise and slid
oneihundred feet before it stopped, but
was demolished. They spent the night
of the 30th and all day on tbe lee side
of the fuselage while the storm raged
trying to keep warm from a fire made
from material taken from the plane,
but found it practically impossible to
sleep on account of the cold. They
afterward tried to reach the Pacific
ocean on May 2, but the two had much
trouble with their feet. After wander
ing that dav they camped in a bunch of
alders, making a fire and sleeping in
the branches, bi\t here the aviators se
cured little rest.
On May 3 the two airmen returned
to the plane, arriving about 4:30 Sun
day morning, when they made a resolu
tion never again to return to the
wrecked ship. Camping that night in
a canyon free of snow, they got some
rest, but Tuesday night, in four feet of
snow and bitter cold, they spent the
worst night of their experience.
The next day they were-overjoyed to
see salt water and find a trapper’s
cabin, where they ate some hotcakes
and salmon bellies. Sere they killed
and ate ducks and rabbits, setting out
Saturday morning feeling comparative
ly stronger and having little difficulty
in traveling the twenty miles along tbe
beach between the cabin and the can
nery. Some native saw them and
brought them in a power dory from tbe
spit where they were staggering when
he picked them up, but after a good
supper the men soon regained their
strength aDd appeared little the worse
for their experience.
Criminal Lawyer Talks
Burglars Out of Swag
New York.—Entering his apartment
early today, Frank VV. Stanton, a crim
inal lawyer, encountered two burglars,
ready to depart with jewelr\ worth
$4,000. He threw up his hands anil t.“e
men drew revolvers.
“Go ahead. I won't vassist. :h«
joke’s on me. I’ve been defending you
fellows for 19 years. I’m Frank Stan
ton.”
“Prove it!” commanded one of the
thieves.
Stanton showed papers establishing
his identity.
“Well, I’ll be blowed!” exclaimed
the burglar. “Here, take your stuff
back. We wouldn’t rob you.”
Reporting the case to the police,
Stanton remarked: “If I had talked to
them ten miD’ites longer, I would have
had their bank rolls.”
Man is but a wofm of the dust. He
coraeth up, wriggleth about—and then
some chicken gets him—Ex.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice jn all Courts.
A Little of Everything.
Up to the time of M. and Mme.
(Juried discovery, pitch-blende, the jet
black mineral in which radium is
found, was regarded as being almost
valueless. Mining companies actually
paid large sums to have the residue of
its pitch-blende -supplies, from which
other minerals had been extracted,
carted away to the destructor. , In this
manner many millions of dollars in ra
dium was lost forever.
In the island of Papua there are
tribes that can fairly be called dwarf.
The women are no taller than an eight
year-old child. They are very good
musicians. By nature they are cannibal
and of a quarrelsome type, but in these
days they have given up much of their
ancient fighting ways ,and become
peaceful
i.Au,uc» jvaiuci uju ui ucu, lauiuua a>
the author of mystery stories, is guilty
of only one literary affectation, it is
said, ond that is the Jealous preserva
tion of the old stumps of the pencils
with which she has written her tales.
London has several underground
rivers, one of them being, known as the
Tigris. This is supposed to have been
a ditch, widened by. Canute, to enable
the Danish vessels to sail around the
fortifications of the Thames.
Queen Elizabeth’s favorite, Leicester,
was the first man to receive a license
for the performance of plavs in Eng
land. His troupe was organized the
year after Elizabeth’s accession, and be
maintained it all bis life.
Jackie Coogan, the child film actor,
has had a wonderful series of teachers.
Paderewski has given him piano Jes
sons; Pavlova, danciog lessons; Sousa,
orchestral lessons; and Carpentier, box
ing lessons.
Experts say that a. vvatch keeps much
better time it it is wound in the morn
ing instead of -at night, because the
spring is taut throughout the day,
when it is subject to most vibration.
Grimsby. England, is now the great
est trawling center in the world. Ee
tween five and six hundred trawlers
alone are now registered at ibis port,
in addition to many other vessels.
In the Turkish theaters the female
roles are nearly always played by Ar
menian actresses, as Turkish women
are forbidden by law from taking any
part in a theatrical performance.
The reigning sovereign of Persia is
always called by his subjects the “red
I kiog,” from the color of bis turban. A
! red turban is, in Persia, the distin
\ guishing mark of royalty.
Madame de Pompadour—the un
crowned queen of France—was a woman
of humble birth, but captured the heart
of Louis XV. of France and held bis
love to the end.
The highest price over paid for a
poem was 6,000 golden crowns, paid to
Sannasaro by the citizens of Venice for
his eulogy of their city—a poem oi six
lines only.
Bricks laid at the rate of 10,000 a
day is the claim put forward on behalf
of a new electric machine, which ra
quires the services of three men only.
Old-time actors believed it very un
lucky to sell or give away any “pcpp”
which had helped him to success. His
good fortune might go with it.
The Begum of Bhopal, the only Rec
ognized woman ruler in Asia, com
mands the allegiance of nearly two
millions of people. *,. f
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A signal lantern has been invented
that carries its oil in reservoirs in the(
handle. ___
A locomotive traveling a mile a min-j
ute gives 1,200 puffs a second ' !
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
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Best of Everything in ?
Fruits Candies Cigars Tobaccos
All Fresh Goods
Jack Mutchler - - Proprietor
Larson Roadhouse^
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention •
New Dog Houses .
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor j f
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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