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PROPERTY OF
The Alaska Agricultural College
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VOL. 1. NO. 39
McGRATH, ALASKA, JUNE 8. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
200 DEAD AT PUEBLO,
COLO., THE RESULT OF
CLOUDBURST AND FLOOD
Big Reservoir Also Gives Way; Prop
> erty Loss Placed at Ten Million Dol
lars ; 100 Denver Undertakers Reach
the Scene; City Under Martial Law.
Pueblo, Col., June 5.—Friday
night’s cloudburst in the upper
reaches of the Arkansas river,
which was followed by a flood,
has resulted in a death toll of
y about two hundred residents of
this city. The property loss is
estimated at over ten million
dollars.
Pueblo, June 6.—This after
noon, just at the time when Pu
* eblo was beginning to recover
from its sudden disaster, the
Siiagway reservoir, located be
^ tween Florence and Victor, gave
way, and within an hour the
swollen torrent of the Arkansas
,--river had again inundated slowly
in sections of the city.
One hundred undertakers have
arrived from Denver and other
cities to care for the dead.
The loss of life was heaviest
in the alien section of the city,
f • .where many thousand are left
. homeless.
The city has been placed under
martial law,- and relief and sup
plies are already pouring in.
Washington, June 6.—Secre
tary of War Weeks announces
^ that the War Department will
co operate in every way possible
.in giving aid to those stricken
-by flood at Pueblo.
/ « _
Puebfo. June 7.—After a day’s
- search of the debris in the flood
ed districts, a -total of tiftj-two
bodies had been recovered to
. night.
Washington, June 7.—Presi
dent Harding tonight issued a
request to the people of the
» United States to assist by con
tributions to the American Red
f Cross in rendering -aid to the
flood-stricken people of Pueblo.
Pueblo, June 7.—The waters
covering the flooded sections are
rapidly receding. Order has
gradually been restored, with
the military in full control. To
night rangers with riot guns are
patrolling the devastated areas.
There was much looting in the
earlier stages of the disaster.
First Report of Flood.
Pueblo, Pol., June 4.—Five feet of
waters covers the business section of
this city today, resulting from a heavy
cloudburst and the Hooding of the
waters of the Arkansas river. Four
persons were drowned, and hundreds
of others narrowly escaped the same
fate, so rapid was the rising of the
water. _
Governor Asks for $20,000,000.
Cenver, June 6.—Governor Shoup to
day asked the Federal Government to
place twentv million dollars at the
command of the State to relieve dis
tressed conditions resulting from the
flood. _
Killed By Riot Gun.
Pueblo, June 7.—E’ nest E. Withers,
a prominent citizen of this city, while
driving down Grand avenue, had the
top of his head blown off, presumably
by a riot gunshot. A young son sitting
at his side in the machine was unin
iured.j »_
Menaced With Floods.
Denver, June 7.—Many Eastern Col
orado and Western Kansas towns are
menaced with floods. Rising water is
causing the greatest apprehension at
all river points.
Says Salary Lists of
Shipping Board Are
Reeking With Graft
Washington, June 6.—Salary lists of
the Shipping-Board, as well as expense
accounts, despite the whitewashing
given by a committee of investigation
in the last Congress, are reeking with
graft, Senator Kenyon-charged today
in a speech in the Senate.
Clerk of Court Kelly and other mem
bers of the court party reached Flat on
Monday, at which place the special
term of court is called for the 20th.
Miss Laura Bromwel!
Killed at Mineola, L. I.,
in Crash of Aeroplane
'.Mineola, L. I., June 7.—Miss Laura
Bromwell, holder of the loop and speed
records for women, met a sad death
this afternoon when her aeroplane at a
height cf a thousand feet crashed to
earth. The accident was witnessed by
thousands of jteople gathered to -wit
ness her exhibition.
Alleges Discrinatior..
San Francisco, June 7. — Senator
Sbortridge, at an early date, wiil pre
sent to Secretary of the Navv Denby
charges of discrimination against for
mer service men by officers at the
Mare Island Navy Yard.
A. Y. N. Employes Start.
Cordova.—Eighty-eight employes of
the American Yukon Navigation Com
pany sailed at 4 o'clock this afternoon
for St. Michael en route to their vari
ous points of occnpation.
GOVERNOR’S
NOMINATION
Has Not Yet Been
Confirmed.
All Appointments for
Alaska Are Held Up
for Time Being*.
Washington, June 7.—All Fed
eral appointments in-Alaska are
being held up until the arrival
of Scott C. Bone tomorrow from
New York to confer with Secre
tary of Interior Fall. Mr. Bone,
whose nomination file Senate
Committee on Territories has
favorably reported, will be ready
to leave for Alaska soon after
his'confirmation. He is to confer
With President Harding by spe
cial appointment as soon as con
firmed.
The^Senate.Committee on Ter
ritories will hold a hearing on
the’ 'Curry bill, the measure de
signed for the administration of
AJaska, beginning next week.
Was With Greeley Expedition.
San Jose, Cal.—Maurice Conhel, one
of the three surviving members of the
Greeley expedition to the Arctic, died
at his home here today.
Lake Lebarge is still closed and the
ice in St. Michael bay also holding, al
though weakening at both points, ac
cording to advices received here yes
tt rday.
ORDER IS
RESTORED
AT TULSA
Six Thousand Ne
groes Are Held
Under Guard
140 Dead, 15,000 Home
less, and 30 Blocks
of City Burned.
Tulsa, Okla., June 5.—With
one hundred and forty dead,
thirtv blocks of the city burned
to the "round, fifteen thousand
homeless, six thousand negroes
under guard, three hundred, in
cluding one hundred whites,
wounded, the State militia at
noon today had the situation
here well under control.
-Bolshevist propaganda, Spread
broadcast throughout Oklahoma,
which was inciting negroes of
this city and elsewhere in the
State to become antagonistic to
the whites beeause oJiJ&Q app ar
ent failure of their plans &rrace
equality, is declared to be the
principal cause leading to the
riots. _
Soldier Bonus Legis
lation Certain to Be
Passed This Session
Washington, June?.—The long |de
ferred soldiers bonus legislation will be
passed at this session of Congress, ac
cording to definite promises made to
day by the sub-committee of the Senate
finance committee, which has the sub
ject uuder consideration.
Banquet for Bone to
Be Held at the Wal
dorf Astoria. June 17
New York, June 7.—The banquet to
be given by John H. Perry in honor of
Scott,C. Bone, recently nominated for
the Governorship of Alaska, will take
place at the Waldorf Astoria on June
17. Mr. Bone plans to leave for Alaska
a few days later.
America Again Admonished.
London. — Another admonition to
America to “leave Ireland alone and
mind her own business” was given in
the House of Commons today during a
discussion-of affairs in Ireland.