VOL. IV. NO. 13
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924.
PRICE 25 CENTS
DAUGHERTY
ALSOQUITS
Coolidge Demands Res
ignation, Gets It, and
Promptly Accepted.
Washington, March 28.'—At
torney General Daugherty ten
dered his resignation this morn
ing, at President Coolidge’s re
quest.
The demand for the resigna
tion of Daugherty was forwarded
promptly upon his refusal to per
mit the Senate investigating
committee to inspect papers and
records in the attorney general’s
office.
* The resignation was promptly
accepted by Coolidge? and the
administration is rid of another
of-, its Cabinet members who
have become storm centers in
ihe oil leases scandal.
Johnson Wins South
Dakota Delegation
Sioux Falls, March 17.—Hiram John
son gets the South Dakota del„■ Ration,
having defeated Coolldge in the pri
maries- by about 1.800;
' Fairbury, Jod.—Hiram Johnson, in a
speech here Tuesday afternoon, ac
cused Goolidge of attempting to buy
South Dakota delegates.
American Marine
Fired On, Honduras
Washington, March 24.—An Amer
lean marine from the cruiser Milwau
kee was fired upon this afternoon, the
State Department was advised tonight.
The fire was not returned. The de
¥
facta government of Honduras protest
ed that more bluejackets than neces
sary were landed.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Werner, former
McGrathltes, are settled down in An
chorage, at least for the time being.
Recent advices, however* are to the
effect that Mra. Werner has purchased
a 50x110-foot lot iu the town of Kaua
tak, where the Standard Oil Company
is drilling for oil. The lot is in the
heart of the town, three doors from an
SB.OOO'hotei project, and will, with-the
* advent of oil, be a most desirable busi
ness location.
Aviator Eielson, from Fairbanks,
bringing tbe fourth air mail, landed at
McGrath Wednesday noon. The run
was made in ordinary time, and thu
(light was a successful one in every
way, barriog a slight mishap to one of
the skiis in landing.
t' Owen Gray left McGrath Sunday for
Menana, whither he goes to bring in L.
8*. Bullard. Mr. Bullard, on his way
heto, it is understood, will detour to
* and make investigation of the Jiles
and Knudsen quartz properties, located
some months ago and which have beea
attracting some attention.
A. J. Bosmer was a Tuesday arrival
at McGrath, departing the following
day for his headquarters up Big river.
Charles Smith, from Salmon river,
arrived at McGrath last Monday.
BILLIONS
REFUNDED
List of Big Ones Fav
ored by Internal Rev
enue Bureau.
Washington, March 23. —Sen
ator McKellar today submitted
to the Senate committee investi
gating the internal revenue bu
reau a mass of data disclosing
that twenty hundred million dol
lars had been paid out by the
Treasury Department in the last
three years on refunds of federal
taxes. Topping this list of re
funds are the names of Mrs.
Blair, wife of Internal Revenue
Commissioner David H. Blair,
and several members of her fam
ily. Secretary of War Weeks, and
the Gulf Refining Company, of
whieh Secretary of Treasury
Mellon is the principal stock
holder. William Rockefeller and
the Cudahy Packing Company
received refunds of one million
and two million dollars, respect
ively.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Casper.—Following the murder of
his wife and 12-vear-old son. whose
bodies were thrown into the river,
Fred Van Gordon, prominent real es
tate man of this city, while resisting
arrest on suspicion of having commit
ted the double murder, was shot and
instantly killed Friday by Sheriff Al
bert Payton, of Converse county, Wy
oming. _
Norfolk.—Forty-three persons per
ished in the storm and shipwreck of
seven vessels, including the loss of the
six-masted schooner Wyoming, oca of
the largest vessels of her class in the
world, off the 'Virginia and Carolina
coasts. Seven tugs and eighteen barges
are also missing.
Seattle.—By a vote of its directors.
Thursday, the Seaboard National Bank
will be consolidated with the Dexter
Horton National Bank, which also re
cently absorbed the Union National.
The combined banks will have deposits
of about forty million dollars.
Seattle.—The conviction of Captain
Sullivan, former secretary of she police
department, on the charge of grand
larceny, with a penitentiary sentence,
was affirmed Friday by the state su
preme court.
London.—Britain is rushing plans to
beat Americans in an around-the-world
flight, the Evening News says. It had
been planned to start the British flight
on April 15th, but the date has been
put ahead. _
New York.—The British steamship
Orduna has been released under bonds
of one million dollars, pending the out*
come of the charge that she smuggled
in whisky and morphine.
Moscow.—The government has de
cided to release Archbishop Sepliak,
bead of the Catholic ohurch in Russia,
once condemned to daath for resistance
to the soviet government.
Mexico City.—Adolf de la Huerta,
liberal revolutionist) is in Sight to New
Orleans
Settlement of1. IX Co.
Affairs Is Promised,
Perhaps Few Weeks
There will be a settlement of Inneko
Dredging Company affairs, in all prob
ability before many weeks have passed,
according to a telegram received this
week by L. B. Loomis, who is tempo
rarily in charge of the company's af
fairs bare.
This dispatch from the San Francisco
headquarters to Mr, Loomis says, in
part:
* Please advise Alaskan creditors
that, with just a little more patience,
they will have their money. We are
sending in George Wescb to take
charge of Innoko affairs, and he will
check up all outstanding accounts and
make payments. We also intend doing
extensive drilling on the property this
year.” __
BOOSTING
SUMMER
AIR MAIL
Delegate Sutherland Is
Hopeful; Expert Air
Service Man to In
vestigate Soon.
That there is a strong proba
bility that Tokotua, Ophir and
McGrath will receive mail by a
summer air service is evidenced
in a communication just received
by The Times from Delegate
Dan Sutherland, who, as always,
has ever been foremost in his
endeavors to promote a better
mail service for Alaska, espe
cially the Interior section. Mr.
Sutherland says;:
“The success of Eielson's dem
onstration in carrying mail to
the Kuskokwim is such as to
warrant me in asking them for a
summer air service to that sec
tion.
“I have just had a conference
with Col. Henderson, second as
sistant postmaster general, and
he is very much interested in the
matter. He is sending an expert
air service man up to Alaska
within a few days to look over
the field with a view to recom
mending summer air service.
“I know that you will realize
the importance of landing mail
promptly in the Ophir-Tokotna
McGrath section during the sum.
mer months.”
Women Have Strong
Lobby at Washington
Seattle.—The organized women
of the country have a stronger and
more imposing lobby before Congress
at this time than ever before* in the
history of congressional legislation.
They are ably directed, and abeir com
pany includes eighteen of the most
prominent influential women’a national
groups, says a special press dispatch
from the National Capital.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Vieal, Spruce
creek, arrived today.
PROBING OF
DAUGHERTY
Illegal Withdrawals of
Whisky From Federal
Warehouses.
Washington, March 28.— More
collections of $1,000 bills were
unearthed today in testimony be
fore the Daugherty committee
for illicit withdrawals of whisky
from federal warehouses.
John Gorine, president of the
Alps Drug Company, New York,
testified that, after being refused
withdrawals by Prohibition Com
missioncr Hart, he had paid to
Owen Murphy, partner of Will
A. Orr, the sum of $150,000, and
to Orr $50,000, for withdrawal
permits. Orr was selling with
drawal permits for $15,000 cash,
and he understood that Howard
Mannington, a friend of the at
torney general, got $2,000 cash
for his part.
Washington Notes
Washington.—The charge of Repre
sentative Stevenson, of South Carolina,
that Sinclair gave Archie Roosevelt a
$15,000 year job for the use of Roose
velt influence in the navy drew from
Theodore Roosevelt a sharp statement,
in which he branded Stevenson & con
gressional crook.
Washington.—A White House Jstate
mect Thursday night said Coolidge
has no intention of complying with the
request inserted in the navy bill for
another international conference on
limitation of armaments.
Washington.—Secretary Mellon, in a
letter to the comaiittee of investigation
of the bureau of internal revenue, de
nied that be had ever interfered in any
way in assessing federal taxes.
Washington.—The Sens'? by resolu
tion, has directed Secretary of War
Weeks to supply complete information
of his sale of arms and munitions to
Mexico. _
Washington —The Mellon income
tax rate schedule was voted into the
revenue bill last night by the Senate
finance committee.
Washington —The House naval com
mittee has approved the plans of the
navy to establish an aviation base at
Sand Point, Wash.
—
Washington.—The Senate oil com
mittee has decided to investigate the
source of democratic campaign funds.
Tom Bare, who arrived Tuesday, re
turned to Spruce creek on Wednesday,
slightly disappointed, as he, as well as
tnaoy others, had hopes that Aviator
Eieleon would pay Tokotna a visit on
the latter day.
Bob Shively, Red Richardson and
Arthur Berry are reported as having
left Medfra a few days ago, headed for
the scene of the Jilss arid Knudsen
quarts find._
Gust Wilson left yesterday for Flat,
headed for Marvt i creek, whither he
goes to joia his associate, Chris Dahl,
in the operation of a new mining ven
ture.
A RACE OF
REAL MEN
In America, Thousands
of Years Ago, Says
Professor.
Los Angeles, March 28.—That
a race of thinking men, with a
degree of civilization, lived and
died in America thousands of
years before the apernan made
his appearance in Europe, was
the deduction of Dr. Chester
Stock, of the University of Cali
fornia. today, from a number of
skulls discovered by workmen
while digging sewers here.
Bureau Internal Reve
nue Seems Pervaded
Graft and Dishonesty
Washington.— Because of dishonesty
and graft, 756 revenue agents, inspect
ors and deputy collectors of the bureau
of internal revenue have been dis
charged in the last three years, Assist
ant Commissioner Nash Tuesday after
noon told the Senate committee inves
tigating the bureau.
Tex Rickard Fails for
Genuine Bunco Game
Washington.—Laughter greeted Tex
Rickard's declaration that he had been
buncoed when, as he averred, ho had
split his expected profits on the Demp
sey-Carpentier fight pictures, with the
understanding that others in the deal
wouid influence the passage of a law to
make their showing legal.
Vance R. McDonald, well known rep
resentative of the West Coast Grocery
Company, Love Dr? Goods Company,
Hood tRubber Company and Swift &
Co., wires from Nulato that he is on
his way and that he expects to be in
Tokotna between April 2nd and 5tb.
Mrs. Frank Joaouin, who underwent
an operation some months ago in the
hospital at Anchorage, is reported as
having fully recovered and feeling fine,
according to word lately received here
Ed Jerne arrived at McGrath on
Monday, having brought with him
from Nenana a 1600-pound pump con
signed to Thomas P. Aitken, for use
on the Candle drtdge.
Practically bare trails for a distance
of over one hundred miles are reported
beyond Big 'river, on the winter mail
route, and the trials of mall carriers
and mushers are far from pleasant.
Billy Gibbs, after a visit of several
months on the Outside, is numbered
among the returning ones, having
stopped off at Nixon.
Dr. W. F'. Green, who left McGrath
during the winter for the Outaide, was
at Long; Beach, Cal., when lait heard
from. _
John Griffin, after spending moat of
the winter on the Outside, returned
here Monday, leaving for Ophir on
Wednesday.
Captain George Green is acheduled
to tears Nanana for McGrath on Aprt- .
5th.