Kusko
Times
VOL. II.. NO. 4
McGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 19L2.
PRICE 25 GENTS
Movie Picture Theater,
Washington, Collapses;
119 Dead in the Ruins
Building Weakened By
Weight of 36 Hours of
; Steady Snow; Investi
gations Have Begun.
Washington, -Jan. 28.-vNinety
s people were killed last . night
• when, weakened by the great
weight <of' thirty-six hours of
steady - snow, the roof of the
: K n inker booker Theatre,: one of
t the Capital’s movie palaces.'
. caved in, without warning, at 9
o’clock, burying the audience of
i three hundred people under
» neath the mass of vsteel girders,
, concrete and snow.
v^_t-least one hundred people
aroseverely injured.,
vAmong the dead are former
( Congressman A.' J.i Barchfield,
of Pittsburg, Miss., and Miss
Barchfield, his daughter; Chaun
. cey Cv Brainerd, correspondent
. of the Brooklyn.Eagle; Gkuy S.
Aldrich, of Salt Lake, brother
( in law of Senator^Smoot; Capt.
'R.H. Conroy: formerly of the
y British army, and wife; Laverne
WANT NEW
; Sutherland arid Seaone
Working for Radios
l in Several Places.
Washington, Jan. 80.—Colonel
: Seaone, head of..the Washington
Alaska cable system, and Dele
• gate Sutherland a/re working to
gether to the end of securing for
■existing radio stations in> Alaska
new and/more up to date <equip
/ ment, and alsohave a num
ber of new stations established,
* especially at Bethel, ‘Betties,
Fort Egbert^ Kantishaa and Pt.
Barrow.
Col. Seaone expresses the hope
t that the Jones‘bill for a new
. cable across th6*Pacific from Se
attle to Yokohama, via Alaska,
- will be passed during the pres
ent session of Congress.
A social daoce is aeuounced for Fri
t. dfkv oight at Clough- Hall.
QUAKING OF
OLD IARTH
Two Heavy-Shocks in
’Frisco; Also Felt
in Oregon.
San Franeisco, Jan. 31.—The
greater part of California from
Sart Franeisco north and South
ern Oregon were shaken early
today by earthquake shocks,
which seismographs throughout
the United States recorded as
violent.
In San Francisco dishes and
windows rattled, and at Redding
a number of buildings were dam
aged. There were two heavy
shocks, one at 3 and the other at
5 a. in. _
George Mutchler, who arrived sev
eral days ago from Nixon, left yester
day for Tacoma, oo his way to Flat.
Charlie Stanford, with the Outside
mail, arrive 1 this afternoon, as per
schedule, bringing about 6Q0 pounds.
Sproul, nephew of Congressman
Sproul.
The seriously injured include
Edward Sharughnessy, second
assistant postmaster general,
and wife.
r List of De?d Numbers 114.
Washington, Jan. 30.—Burial
of the dead taken from the ruins
of the Knickerbocker Theater
began today. Sixty-two badly
i injured are still in hospitals.
With all bodies recovered, the
list of dead at 1 o’clock this af
ternoon numbered 114.
President:Harding today re
quested that all of the Capital’s
social functions be postponed
until the city recovers from its
grief., over the Knickerbocker
disaster.
Investigation into the cause of
the disaster was begun by the
District of Columbia govern
ment. Congress, in all proba
bility,. will also undertake ex
haustive inquiries, as indicated
in a resolution introduced today
by Capper, member of the Sen
ate District of Columbia com
mittee.
Senator Kenyon Gets
a Federal Judgeship
Washington.—Senator William S.
Kenyon, of Iowa, was today appointed
Federal judge for the Eighth circuit.
The Senate immediately confirmed
him. in open executive session, an
■honor rarely paid a nominee.
Four Tons of Silver.
Cobalt, Ont.—Four tons of silver, the
largest shipment io the history of the
Cobalt camp, left here today {er Kev^
Qork. The silver is for shipment to
China.
SHACKLETON
PASSES ON
Antarctic Explorer Died
Jan. 5, on Expedition
Ship Quest.
Montevideo, Phraguay, Jan.
BO.—Sbackleton, famed British
explorer, died January 5 on the
steamship Quest, on which he
was making another expedition
into the Antarctic. Death was
due to angina pectoris.
The body will be brought here
on a Norwegian steamer and
will be taken to Europe.
Professor Greuvel and oteer
members of tbe party will con
tinue the expedition, as mapped
out by the dead explorer.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Berlin.—Dr. Walter Rathenau was
today appointed German foreign min
ister. _
Paris.—Germany made her second
payment to France today of 31,000,000
gold marks
Seattle.—Maurice D. Leehy. well
known Seattle and Alaska attorney, is
seriously ill witn influenza.
Seattle.—Stephen Bennett Packard,
former governor of Louisiana, died of
pneumonia at his home here, today.
Seattle.—Robert Saunders, Federal
attorney here during the Wilson ad
ministration, died last eight at St.
Louis. _
Seattle.—Mrs. Edwin A. Craft, a
niece of General Pershing, died at her
home here today from pneumonia, -fol-*
lowing the birth of a daughter.
Washington.—Many trained news
paper correspondents here see^igns Of
a new third party, with SenatoriKen
yoa, of Iowa, as standard bearer, and
'backed by Henry Ford, io 1924.
New York.—Ignaties Lincoln, notori
ous Gei man spy during the world war,
was arrested here today. J. Burns, di
rector of the bureau of investigations
of the Department of Justice, said that
Lincoln’s arrest, was qpade for the .pur
pose of deporting him.
if
'a v~T
FINANCIAL
SCANDAL
Nationwide in lmport
anper Unearthed at
Cabinet Meeting.
' Washington, Jan; 80.—’A finan
eiai -scandal, nationwide in im
portance, was unearthed -at to
day’s Cabinet meeting when
President Harding was informed
by Secretary of Interior Fall
that vmiUions of dollars of -Gov
erssacnt moaey are being re
loaned by private bankers in the
West and Southwest to. farmers
and livestock raisers at,various
rates. The War Finance Cor
poration authorized ■ loan of the
‘money at five and<a half and six
per cent, .which, has I>een re
loaned at as-high, as twelve per
cent.
“The.Government is not going
4;o tolerate usury,” 1 hr- President
snapped.
Allied Debts Refunding Bill.
Washington—.An agreement to press
She Allied debts jifuqdiog bill to a
vote tomorrow, eyen if is necessitated
a night session of the Senate, was
reached late today bv Republican and
Democratic leaders, after Eve heurs of
debate.
MARRIES A
JAPANESE
Carita Coston, Former
Nome Girl, Does the
Unexpected.
Seattle^ Jan..; 2S,-^-Miss Alice
Oarita Go9ton, a former resident
cf :.Nome, - where she attended
school and grew to womanhood,
4be daughter of Porter J. Cos
ton, once Federal .Court commis
sioner there, was maimed to
night at Plainfield, N. J., to I.
W. A- Noda, aJapanese.who is
head of the oil department of
Mitsui & Company, a big Seattle
Japanese concern. The love af
fair began in the Mitsui offices,
where both were employed, and
later Miss Coston followed Nodf
East when he was transferred.
James Peroie left Sunday -rnornin>;
for-Nraon.
Michael Henry, a well known old
timer, arrived. .Monday,.iCOgiic#r tiror
Aacbpra.ye
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