VOL/ IV.» NO. 7
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1924.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Oil Interests Had Big
Slush Fund at Capital
lor Use in ‘High5 Spots
"W ashingtoiij Feb. 14.—As the
result of a speech in which he in
« timated the sale by the late Pres
- ident Harding of the Marion Staf
for one-half million dollars should
« be investigated as to the sources
- of the money paid. Frank A,
Vanderlip has been summoned to
appear before the Senate inves
” tlgating committee.
It is also reported that the
committee has information of a
stash fund of one million dollars
sent to the National Capital by
the Sinclair orl interests for in
fluencing persons high in the
councils of both major political
parties.
John C. Shaffer, publisher of
the Chicago Evening Post and
other papers, testified today that
he obtained some acreage at the
Teapot Dome from Sinclair by
arrangement with Fall and that
he later sold his interest, for
which he had not paid any
money.
Shaffer further testified that,
in addition to a $92,500 rake off
that he got from the Standard
Oil, he also hoped to obtain from
Sinclair a one-half share in two
hundred acres of the Teapot
Dome reserves as the result of a
triangular understanding be
tween the two and Fall. Shaffer
also admitted that a year before.
the signing of the Teapot Dome
lease Fall told him of the ne- j
gotiations with Sinclair and had
promised him that he (Shaffer)
would be taken care of. Stand
ard Oil interests sold the hold
ings acquired from Shaffer to
Sinclair for one million dollars,
Shaffer told the committee.
'• Washington Notes
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Washington—Charts that the Black
Tom*explosion, in New Jersey, in 1918,
in which large loss of life was caused
by agents of the German government
in acting under orders * oca Berliu and
made in Berlin, were 81od with the
mixed claims commission today by the
Lehigh Valley Railway Company,
which asks $9,000.000 damages.
Washington.—The charge that R. B.
Creager, republican national commit
teeman for Texas, exercised his polit
ical iiinfiuence with the Postmaster
General and Attorney General to stifle
randnquiry into land frauds in Texas
was made Thursday in a resolution in-'
---troduced bv Senator Heflin.
Washington.—T. V. O’Connor, of
Buffalo, former president of the Inter
national Longshoremen’s Union and
present member of the United States
Shipping Board, was designated by
' Coolidga today to be chairman of the
* board.
Waabington.—Coolidge, in an ad
• dress opening the special conference on
Northwest and Middle West agricul
tural problems, outlined definite pro
Sxosals for government assistance for
v wheat farmers.
Washington.—The government has
sustained a loss of 62 per cent on all
surplus war material sold from the
1 lime of the armistice to January 1, the
war department announced Tuesday.
Washington. *— The smuggling of
aliens into the United States has
* • reached proportions in illicit industry
second only to that of bootleggers, Sec
retary of Labor Davis declares.
* Washington.—Coolidge today reiter
ated his opposition to soldiers’bonus,
when a delegation representing ex
• service men of the Auti-Benus League
called upon him.
. -T *
Washington.—Savings bank deposits
now total $7,000,000,000, an increase of
•ii7Q,000,000 in the past year, the fed
eral reserve board aonouaced today.
CWaabington.—Chief Justice Taft has
been ordered by his physicians to can
cel all engagements and take, complete
i, -.rest.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle.-—Charles D. Garfield »Dd
other*, testifying at the hearing In
progress here before Senators Fletcher
and Hamilton for the Senate committee
on mining, said that the high cost op
gold and silver production is at the
bottom of the mining decline is false.
Seattle. -Mrs. Henrioud. wife of G.
F. Henrioud, passenger agent af the
Alaska Steamship Company, was grant
ed a decree of divorce today, and the
custody of their daughter, on grounds
of mental cruelty.
Reno, Nev.— George Cool id ge Hunt
ington, bishop of the Protestant Epis
copal church in Nevada, a cousin of
President Coolidge, died today, follow
ing an attack of pneumonia.
□ Seattle.—Dr. J. Allen Smith, nation
ally known political author, and mem
ber of the University of Washington
faculty for twenty-seven years, died -at
his home here today.
Seattle.—Alfred Norridge. 65, a par
ticipant of early Alaska gold stam
pedes, was found dead Friday morning
in an abandoned well. He was nearly
blind.
Tacoma.—Arthur De Jacoby, minis
ter and educator, has disappeared, ail
circumstances indicating that he has
committed suicide by drowning.
Victoria. — The British Columbia
mineral output last year was $59,700,
000, Minister of Mines Sloan announced
today.
Albany.—Nine members of two fami
ilies named -Gerbig and Ftuhlin are
dead as a result of eating canned beans.
Chicago. -Telegraphic service in all
parts of the Fast is paralyzed by snow
storms.
San Francisco.—Tnere is a great
awakening in gold mining activities
in Nevada and California, according to
reports from various districts.
Seattle.—James Nolan, cigar dealer,
was held up just after-leaving a bank
and robbed of $12 000, today.
New Haven.—Bishop Keatoh, of the
Episcopal diocese of Olvmpia, died last
night, from heart diaaaee
*
Every Corrupt Of
ficial Will Be Re
moved—Goolidge
New York, Feb. 13.— A promise to
purge the countrT of thefoil lease
ecaodal narked the opening here to
night of Coolidge'a campaign, with the
President ia attendance. In an ad
dress before the National Republican
Club iCoolidge declared ho would em -
wote nrery corrupt official.
$2,000,000
OILANDCASH
Fashed by Sinclair to
Standard Oil in Land
ing Teapot Lease
■ Washington, Peb. IB.—Harry
F. Sinclair presented the Stand
ard Oil Company with one mil
lion dollars worth of oil in order
to remain undisturbed in the pos
sess: >n of Teapot Home, in addi
tion to one million dollars cash.
Publisher Bonfils, of the Denver
Post, testified this afternoon be
fore the Senate investigating
committee.
McAdoo, testifying before the
committee, emphasized that his
personal relations with Doheny,
recently terminated, were in
good faith and had nothing to do
with the leasing of naval oil' re
serves.
Strawii’s Name
Withdrawn as
Special Counsel
Washington, Feb. 15. — President
Coohdpe late today withdrew the name
of Silas H Strawn, republican, as spe
cial counsel in the oil lease scandal,
and at the same time he gave notice to
the Senate tjiat he would insist na the
confirmation of Atlee i’otnerene, dem
ocrat, as one of the members of special
counsel to trv the oil leases cases.
Bandits Make Two
! Fairly Good Hauls
Seattle.—President Toby, of the Rai
nier Valiey State Hank, was held up
and robbed oFfl.500 as he was coming
from the banki Thursday afternoon.
Butte.-r-Bandit3 held up the Mis
soula, Mont., Dostofllce, Monday morn
ing, seouring thirty-five thousand dol
lars in currency, consigned to a Mis
soula bank.
The telephone lioe between Tokotoo
and McGra'ih, which was down in sey
eral places, was repaired on Wednes
day by Grant .Murdock, .going from
this place, and Waioo Puntila; travel
ing from the McGrath end, both of
whom returned here the same day.
Deputy U J3. Marshal McMullen re
turned Sunday to MeGraib from -Fair
nan ks. whither he went in connection
with Court matters.
Anton Indegard, from Ganes, was a
ruesdav arrival
DAUGHERTY
MAY RESIGN
Senate Wants to Know
What He Did With
$1 ♦000,000 Appn.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Attor
ney. Genera] Daugherty will ar
rive from Florida this evening,
and reports are that he will im
mediately hand his resignation
to Coolidge.
Suit will- be tiled to cancel the
Teapot Dome and California oil
leases within, a fortnight, Pome
rene and Strawn, special coun
sel, indicated today.
The charge that Sinclair, . Do-,
heny and the Standard Gil Com
pany conspired to assure award
of the Teapot Dome lease to Sin
clair was made before the Sen
ate oil committee today by Fred
erick G. Bontils, Denver news
paper pabisher.
Dill introduced a resolution .n
the Senate aimed at disclosing
the possible- reward Fall re
ceived for his activity in induc
ing the United States to pay Co
lotnbia, a month after he had en
tered the Cabinet, twenty-five
million dollars, in the matter cf
the canal treaty.
Senator Walsh, in a speech
this afternoon, called upon Sec
retary Den by to resign, despite'
the fact that he appeared to re
main in the Cabinet with Cool
idge’s approval.
An investigation into the con
duct of war fraud cases by
Daugherty was ordered by the
Senate this afternoon, especially
to find out what he did with one
million dollars voted by Congress
to prosecute those cases
Govt. Loses Million a
Year in Lease by Fall
of Quapaw Oil Lands
Oklahoma City. — it was charged la
the atate senate today that the federal
government sustained an annual loss of
one million dollars through former
Secretary Fall's lease of Quapaw oil
lands to the Eagle Pitcher Land Com
pany. An investigation is demanded.
Foreign Flashes
Bombay.—'Physicians report that six
months at the seaside will restore the
health of Ghandi, .nationalist ’leader,
with four of a six-years' prison tern
still to^erve for sedition, so she gov
ernment released the prisoner uncondi
tionally. _
Moscow.—Russia has forwarded t
protest to Washington because the
American revenue cutter Bear entered
the Russian port of Kamchatka with
out permission of the soviet authori
ties.
l*aris.—<Jlem«Dc«au denied today at
without a grain of truth the statement
ascribed to Lloyd-George that Ciemen
eenu and Wilson entered into a secret
pact regarding occupation at Rhine
land.
Moscow.—Premier Rykov denies re
port* t.bat Trot/’kv is Isadinw a revolt.
BY VOTE OF
47 TO 34
Senate Passes Resol u*
tion Asking Denby’s
Resignation*
Washington, F’eb. li. — The
Senate, at 6 o’clock this even
ing, by a vote of 47 to 34, passed
tbe Robinson resolution, calling,
upon President Coolidge to d«
mand the resignation of Secre
tary of Navy Penby. Tec re
publicans^ including Hiram John,
eon, and two farmerdabor men.
bers; Sheepstead and Magne*
Johnson, voted with the demo
crats for ousting Denby,
■ Secretary of War Week*, fol
lowing a three-hour conference
with the President, stated tha.
Coolidge intends to retain Denby
and the White House isaued the,
statement that no official recog
nition can be given to the Senata
resolution concerning Denby.
WashiEgton.-r-LaFoUette, la » Bos.
ate speech, said Coolidge must bea;
the full measure of responsibility, ae&a
«m aware of tee situation in the Tea
pot Dome and otb«- ’vsseut long before
the Senate invet, igitioc called a'oten,
lion to them, add.ng that Ooolidge was
in the rice president s chair in the Cer
ate when tko Teapot Dome deal was
denounced as a piece of ooliticai cor
ruptioc.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, declare;,
that it required more than Coolidgee
certificate of confidence to reetor*
Denby to tha confidence of the Actor
ican people.
McAdoo Leaves
Nomination to
State Managers
Washington, Feb. 16.—William G,
WeAdoo announced tonight, that he
wouiu .eave m the leaders of his move
merit in each stale whether bis employ
ment as counsel for Doheny bad made
him unavailable as a candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination. A
conference of itct* tcianagers will be
held in Chicago within a few days
Philadelphian Wins
Bok Prize, $100,000
Philadelphia.--'Charles Herbert Lev
srraore, of New York, student of ime; -
national relations and former college
profeosor, is announced aa the winner
of the #100,000 price offered by Edw*rC
W. Hole for the beet plan to preserve
peace among the nations of the world.
Frank Dinner, she sat a very sick
msn Sunday and Monday, following a
pulmonary attack, is somewhat im
proved, having beecr&blc to sit up for a
few hours teste relay.
Manager Li. B. Lfcolxus, of the N. L’.,
nnd Miss Grace Anderson, who were
Thursday visitors, returned yesterday
so-McGrath.
Mall Carriar Billy Burke, with the
Outside mail, arrived Tuesday,- cop
t.inuiag to Ouhir on W«itneedav