THE KUSKO TIMES
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Bntered as second-class matter August
29th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3. IS 19.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. MAY 23, 1925
Word of Caution Re
garding Forest Fires
Nature is again awakening from its
lethargic slumber. The murmuring
'brooks and streams are rnshing madlv
onwards to the mighty waters of the
Bering sea.
Tb$winter snows are disappearing
fast, and all the countryside is putting
*OD the new cloak of spring.
Far up in the sky can we hear the
bonking, cloaking calls of the return
ing water fowl.
Everywhere Nature teems with glad
ness, for on everv hand there i9 a re
newal of life. Our many migrrtory
feathered songsters are here once more
to cheer with their songs and happy
frolics the lives of lonely men and
women scattered throughout this great
Northland.
Who has not listened to the robin as
be sang the old love song, so full of
wealth of feeling?
Who has not watched the busy build
inglof a little nest, or seen the great
care of the mother bird as she was
trying to bring a new life into this
world?
What, if I may ask my friend and
reader, have you done to repay for ail
the soogs and joys of life that you have
gleaned from our little feathered
friends?
Many times, 'for a number of years
past, some thoughtless persons, seem
ingly with ruthless vandal hands, have
caused the spread of forest fires during
the nesting months.
Quick as lightning came the flames
and destroyed countless numbers of
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
oar little songsters, where maybe but
a stamp of the foot or a little care on
someone’s part would have prevented
the calamity.
We all know that each and every
living thing is a little world unto itself.
Let us all resolve that in so far as
lies in our power we will see that no
menacing fires shall molest our little
animal kingdom.
Be assured, dear reader, that we all
will be ampiy repaid for our little
trouble when through the midsummer
days the young birds will join in the
chorus of our old friends in their song
of thanks. F. S.
Little Creek, May 18, 1915.
The Sins of a Great Race.
COld Stock Americans, reflecting on
the virtues of their Nordie forbears,
often find themselves sadly depressed
by the behavioristic inferiorities of the
new stock Americans. Well, tbev have
a right to feel this way. Consider this
document from W. N. Gemmil’s “The
Salem Witch Trials” {McClurg)— a
page from a Massachusetts court
docketior the year 1656:
James Standish fined for being ve
hemently suspected of being drunk.
Henry Walton fined for saving he
had as leave to hear a dog bark as to
hear Reverend Cobbell preach.
John Studly fined for stealing his
master’s ox and selling it to him.
Thomas Gray, of Marblehead, to be
whipped for being overseen in driok.
John Russell whipped for beating his
wife.
Philip Grumwell fined for Dot liviDg
with his wife.
William Claus whipped for spying
into the chamber of his master and re
porting what he saw.
Mrs. Griffith fined for sweariDg.
Robert Edwards fined for excess in
apparel iD wearing sleeve lace and gold
buttons.
Sarah Parrige fined for wearing a
silk hood.
Sarah Collins fined for railing at her
husband and calling him a “pot-gutted
divell.”
Robert Pike fined for living here and
his wife in England. Ordered to go to
her.
Charles Phillips fined for drunken
ness three times in two days.—Norfolk
Virginian Pilot.
PRESS SQUIBS.
A German has invented a kind of
ship that will come to t&e surface
again one hour after sinkiog. This
will be a life-saving invention for pas
sengers who can live sixty minutes
under water.—Southern Lumberman.
Washington scientists say astron
omers have estimated the weight of the
earth at several quintillion tons less
accurate figure. In the meat business
a mistake of that magnitude is ordi
narily the other way.—Detroit News.
Bricklayers and jazz band players
now get fifteen dollars a day, and the
bricklayers would be worth it if they
would throw the bricks at the jazz
band players.—Life.
It is claimed that it is the remnant
of the monkev in us that makes us
enjoy a joke. If Bryan hears that he’ll
never smile again.—Pittsburgh Gazette
Times.
America, say the war experts, is
short of airplanes. And yet when it
comes to a little matter like a world
flight we seem to have enough to go
around.—Life._
The Indian scientist who makes:
opaque objeets transparent might try
his hand on a congressman raising his
own pay.—New York World-Tribune.
Only the fast thinkers become lead
ers. He who hesitates is bossed.—As
sociated Editors. Chicago.
A farmer living in Cornwall informed
the local magistrates that he had no
idea that there bad been a European
war. Our sympathies are with him
& hen be tries to find oat who woo it.—
Punch. _
A publisher’s reader has explained
in a daily paper why novels are reject
ed. But what we want to know is why
they are Dot.—Punch.
It will be hard to clean up obscene
plaps as long as the public makes it
possible to clean up on them.—Norfolk
VirgiDian-Pilot.
“A new source of revenue” simply
means tapping the same fellow in a
new place.—New York Telegram and
Evening Mail.
Notice to Pay School Tax
To All Whom This Mav Concern:
In accord with Chapter 29, Session
Laws of Alaska, 1910, and amendments
thereto, all male persons between the
ages of twenty-one and fifty years, who
are aot “sailors in the United States
navy or revenue cutter service, volun
teer firemen, paupers or insane per
sons,” are required to pay an annual
school tax of five dollars (So)
This tax is due aDd payable af->'- h
first Monday tn the month of At>-i ,i
shall he paid before the first day f
May, providing you are iD the Terri
tory of Alaska on said first date; if not,
the tax is due within thirty days after
vour arrival in Alaska or within ten
days after written or oral demand is
made upon you by tbe school tax col
lector. Taxes not paid in accordance
with the foregoing- requirements shall
become delinquent, and each person de
linquent shall be subject to a fine of
two dollars.
All persons, firms and corporations
employing labor in Alaska shall fur
nish to collectors a list of all employes
subject to tax. and employers of labor
as above set out are authorized by pro
visions of said act to deduct amount of
the tax from the wages of each em
ployee who is subject thereto. If any
of such employers shall fail to report;
and deduct as herein specified within
the period designated for payment of
said tax, the said employers of labor
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
subject to a tine of from *50 to $.100.
All persons subject to, and refusing
or neglecting to pay, said tax, are sub
ject to a fine of $25, or imprisonment in
jail for period of one inooth; and all
such employers of labor as herein set
out. who neglect or refuse to collect
said tax from employees may be pro
ceeded against and shall pay the
amount of each individual tax, and a
further peoalty of $25 for each such
tax.
Tax receipts will be furnished by the
tax collectors.
Dated at Tokotna. Alaska, this 18th
day of May, 1925
Fred Mordedoe,
Duly authorized and qualified
• Alaska Territorial School Tax
Collector for Tokotna District.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
George W. Albrecht,
iditaeoJ, Alaska,
Charles E. Taylor,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Practice in all Courts.
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
Tokotna j
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
Blackburn
Sc Eldridge
McGrath.. Alaska
Hood Rubber
Boots
$19 PAIR
Hood
Shoe Pacs
The Best Ever
McGrath Pool Hall
George Mutchler, Proprietor
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Fruits
Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
Geo, W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
KBS
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses.
Frank Larson
Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manage* <