THE KUSKO TIMES
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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925.
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FISHERIES
COMBINE
3 Large "Fishing Con
* c€frns l^ransfer to
. One Head.
■Seattle, May 7.—The transfer
of ownership of eighty boats and
other craft now in service in the :
fishing- industry along the Pacific
coast from Puget'Sound to Ber i
itu? Sea is under way.
The5 Marathon' Packing Com
pany. the Southern Alaska Can
ntng Company "and the Alaska
Pacific ^Fisheries are transfering
all their floating equipment to
the Alaska Consolidated Can
ning Company, Inc., of which C.
A. Burkbardt, of Seattle, is pres
ident.
The ftakat Packing Company,
also, is taking over all floating
aquipment of the A. & P. Pro
ducts Corporation, which is a
subsidiary of the great Atlantic
& Pacific Tea Company, which
has over twelve hundred retail
stores*scattered throughout the
country. __
Witness Tells How
Captain of Beryl G.
•* and Son Were Slain
yictt)r!a, B. Cl—Paul Stromkins,
boatman nod chief witness against
Baker and Sowash, who are held for
the alleged murder of Captain Gillis,
owner of the gas schooner Beryl G ,
and his son, Bald at the trial yesterday
that after the slaying of William Gillis
and his son the bodies were handcuffed
together at Halibut island, tied to the
Beryl G.’s anchor, and then thrown
into the water. The anchor was then
to wee out into deep water and the
ancboroha i o cu t.
Stromkins collapsed at the prelimi
nary hearing yesterday morning when
Baker and Sowash focused their eyes
on him, while he was relating the in
cidents of the Beryl G. raid
Stromkins testified that on the after
noon they boarded the schooner Gillis’
sou appeared on the decs: of the boat,
nod he sa-wSowash, who followed the
boy, kill him. Sowash said to Baker,
“I killed him,” and Baker shook hands
■” with Sowash.
Stromkins said that he didn’t see
Baker kill Captain Gillis, but heard
Baker say later, “I shot the old man
because he was too strong.”
Attempt Flight Paris
to New York, July 2
Paris, May 4.—The loDg proposed
Bight from Pa>r:s to New York will be
attempted July 2, Paul Tarasooa and
Fraucois Coli, aviators who will par
ticipate, announced today.
Cigarettes, Powder,
Dynamite; He’s Dead
—
Jonquieres. Qua.—James McLaugh
lin, of Manchester, N. H., was killed
here vesterdav when he tossed a light
ed cigatette into a keg of powder be
side a box of dynamite, on which he
1 was seated.
I
AIRPLANE
MISSING
Left Wiseman On 7th,
and Fails to Return
to Fairbanks.
Fairbanks, May 9.—The com
mercial airplane which left here
May 7lh with a passenger for
Wiseman, in the Koyukuk dis
trict, and which is supposed to
have left Wiseman at 4 p m. on
the same date on the return
journey, is still missing. An
other plane left here this morn
ing in search of the missing
plane. _______
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle.—The North Sea trawlers
Canada. Captain Walter Tinn, and Im~
bricaria, Captain Walter H. Meyers,
sailed Tuesday tor Japan where they
will begtn convoy duty lor Lieut. Col.
Pedro L. Zanni, Argentine army avi
ator. who is girdling the globe.
Seattle.—Curtis Adam*, one of ibe
party of eleven Eskimo* taken from
Wrangell island by the Russian soviet
government and brought to Seattle bv
the Americdn Red Cross, was drowned
Tuesday morning in Lake Union.
Chicago.—Strangler Lewis, Monday,
signed articles to meet Wayne Munn.
former champion Finnish wrestler, at
Michigan City. Ind. The bout will
take place on Decoration dav and will
be for a purse of 830,000
Seattlo. — The steamship Eastern
Gale, the last of the Northwestern
Fisheries Company’s Bering Sea can
nary fleet, put to sea Thursday for Nar
nek and Nushagak, with supplies and
three hundred cannervmen.
Loodon.—Sir Devertoo Sturdee Ax
minster, who commanded the British
squadron in the battle off Falkland
islands in 1914, and who later partici
pated in the battle off Jutland, died
Thursday. _
Youngstown, O.—“German soldiers
in the world war fought from a9 lofty
motive as did his enemies,’’ Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur asserted in an ad
dress to the Y. M. C. A. here, Thurs
day night.
Seattle.—S. F. Kovolski, a fireman
on the Alaska steamship Alameda, was
drowned last night as a result of at
tempting to jump from the deck of the
boat to the wharf.
Seattle.—Maurice O. Leehey, Tues
day. was elected president of the Se
attle Mining (Hub, formed primarily to
guard investors against wildcat stock
Seattle.—Joho J. Gary, president of
the Young Men’s Republican Club and
one of the prominent members of the
Seattle bar, died Thursday evening.
Denver.—Governor .Worley Tuesday
vetoed the bill passed by the assembly
which would have abolished the pres
ent state primary law.
Seattle.—Twenty oil engineers de
parted for the Kanatak fields on the
Admiral Evans, which sailed Tuesday.
London.—Viscount Leverhulme died
•f pneumonia, Thursday.
U rges W orld-WideEn
lightenmertt, Education? *
to Get Universal Peace
Pittsburgh, Mav 8.—In aa address at
Carnegie Institute, last night, Attor
ney General Sargent urged world-wide
enlightenment and education to 'bring
about universal peace. Sargent quot
ed from Scriptures to show that all
wars are based upon covetousness, with
all having to suffer in order to satisfy
the greed of a few.
MACMILLAN
EXPEDITION
Leaves June 20, With 2
Ships, Airplanes and
Party of Scientists.
i
Washington, Jane 7.—Donald
Macmillan will depart June 20
from Wiseasset, Me., with two
ships instead of one, as be first
intended. Included in the party
will be several scientists named
by the National Geographic bo
ciety. The personnel of the
party consists of specialists to
study plant and fish life and the
and the glaciers and weather of
the polar regions. A Dutch
whaler will carry two airplanes,
from which the region will be
mapped by the explorer.
Consideration is being given
by Secretary of Navy Wilbur to
sugges'ions that an additional
plane be furnished the Macmil
lan Arctic exploration expedi
tion and that the dirigible Shen
andoah be kept in readiness for
flight to the Arctic as a rescue
ship in the event ot mishap.
Washington Notes
Washington. — The federal trade
commission has dismissed an applies
won for a complaint against the Ken
necott Copper Corporation in which It
was charged with having acquired
stock of the Utah Copper Company in
violation of the Clayton act.
Washington.—^The dedication of the
95,000,000 TietoQ dam, on the Yakima,
Wash., project, has been set for July
15. Secretary of Interior Work will
make the dedicatory address, and he
will be aocompaoied there by Secretary
of Agriculture Jardio.
Members of Alaska's
NewGame Commission
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine re
cently appointed the following as mem
berg of the Alaska game commission ‘
Charles T. Gardiner, of Juneau;
Thomas D. Jensen, of Nome; Dr. Will
H. Chase, of Cordova; Dr. Preston S.
Whitnev, of Fairbanks.
Ernest P. Walker, who witl repre
sent the biological survey, will be ex
ecutive officer and fiscal ' agept of the
commission aod, under the direction of
the commission, shall' ’diradt the ad
ministration of the provisions of the
Alaska game law, and disburse such
sums as may be allotted therefor.
Commission headquarters will be at
Juneau, where they will administer
the new Alaska game law.
THEY GOT
THE BOOZE
Raided Home of Seattle
Bootlegger While He
Acted as Juryman.
Seattle. Map 8.—As a federal
jury in Judge Cushman’s court
was preparing to retire and con
sider testimony it bad been lis
tening to in an anarchistic case,
federal prohibition agents were
swearing out a warrant for the
arrest of Henry P. Peterson, one
of the jurors, on liquor chargee.
While Peterson with the other
jurors, was hearing the testi
mony in the case of Robert
Prospe, charged with the pos
session and sale of narcotics,
several of Prohibition Chief Haz
elton’s men raided Peterson’s
home, where they seized several
hundred bottles of beer, a quan
tity of mash, many bottles of
moonshine, as well as materials
for coloring the moonshine.
New York and Chicago
Overnight Air Express
New York, M»y $—An otrernight
air express between New York end
Chicago will be inaugurated within
two taoQih*. President Keys, of the
Cbnrch Airpiaae Motor Company,
which has the backing of Henry Ford
and others, announced today.
Must Be Inspired
By Peaceful Ideals
London, Ms- Am. riea if ready
to aid in the r / Knr peaa na
tioDK only if t r.• - p *‘»d bv peace
ful ideals,” Urn ed a<es Ambassador
Houghton declined in an address be
fore the Pilgrim Society, tooight.
Starts Action to Break
Will of Late Husband
Seattle, Mav 9.—An action to break
the half-caillion-dollar will of the late
O. D. Williams, pioneer sasb asd door
manufacturer, who ordered the entire
plant turned over to employes for $7S,
000, was started this morning bv his
wilow, Mrs. Hannah B. Williams.
Another Attempt to
Assassinate Boris
Budapest, May 5.—Another attempt
to assassinate King Boris was frustrat
ed today when guards discbversd an
almost complete subterranean "passage,
with atf explosive fuse, which’ was in
tended to blow up the royal palace.
Italian Revolutionists
an# Russ Communists
Rome, May 7.—Police declared to
day that they had discovered ao
Italian revolutionary organisation af
filiated with communist groups in Rus
sia, which has been planning workers'
strikes and demonstrations against the
government thrmigbeut Italy.
BOXER IS
EN ROUTE
Lumber, Machinery and
Material, and Sev
eral Teachers.,
Seattle, May 8.—The govern
ment motor schooner Boxer,
which sails tomorrow for Alaska,
will have on beard 100,000 feet
of lumber, machinery and other
material for the industrial shool
building which will be built for
the Kanakanak orphanage and
hospital at Dillingham. The
structure will be 52x82 feet and
one and one-half stories high. It
will have wood and iron working
j shops and tanaing equipment. A
i tractor, plows, scrapers, wood
working machinery and an elec
tric light plant have been landed
on the boxer for the building.
The Boxer will call first at
Ugashik, and will then visit Dil
lingham, Kuluakak and Good
news Bay, discharging cargo at
the last named place to be taken
to upriver points by small craft.
Seattle.—Passengers oo the Boxer
included Thomas V. Calkins, superin
tendent of the Bureau of Education for
the southwestern district; l. T. CL
Ford, of Bellicgh&m, who is going tc
Ugashik; R. A. Jones, who is going tc
Eulukuk m ee^b.,school* Miss it. BeK
P,eed, matron S' ’ ammercial teacher,
going to'Diliicghara:; Mr. and Mrs
Carl R. Tarbell, of Moscow, "daho.
i graduates of the University of Idateo
aCo teachers, who are going to Toglak
i Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Earson, e:
Bortland, bound for Dillinghasr.
Seppala \\ inner Mara
thon Dog Race, Nome
Nome, May 5. — Leonard Seppala to
' dav won the Borden cup Marathon doc
race. The distance, twenty eight
miles, was covered in the time of twc
hours and six minutes. Ed P.ohn, whc
was second, came in six minutes be
hind Seppala.
Here Are Four Lucky
Gentlemen, We’D Say
— n
The river broke at Nen&oa at S'32 p
m. on May~fth. according to word re
ceived here. The winners o’ the big
pool are Messrs. Cosletto and Marlto,
of Fairbanks, and Lamer and I:*oss, of
Anchorage. This pool is reported te
amount to over $11,000.
Plenty Liquor Bought
By Counterfeit Money
Wacbicgton, May 7.—A survey re
! garbing counterfeit cases, a report of
i which was made public today, de
clared that half of them had been run
down through clues resulting from the
tale of liqunr which was paid for by
counterfeit mnnev.
j Owen Gray, with his big string of
dogs, got awav Sunday •night for Mc
Grath. His team was the last to go
over the winter trail, which is cow
practically wiped out.
John Heino returned ThutsdgT$fror
a Crip to McGrath.