THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday and Saturday
Two Dollars Per Month.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Reading Notices, per jine, per
issue . .25
Legal Advertising, per line, per
issue .. 20
Transient Display, per inch, per
issue (minimum charge fl).50
Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 18"9.
McGrath, alaska. jan. 3. 1922
Haywood’s Aid Tells
Plot to Poison Yanks
in Shipments of Food
Sacramento.—W. E. Townsend, who
aaid he formerly was the ‘‘right hand
man” of William D. Haywood, head of
the Industrial Workers of the Worl i,
testified at the trial of ten memoers of
that organization today that he and
other members of the I. W W. con
spired to send poisoned canned goods
to the American solciers iu France
duriDg the world war and to wreck
Trains.
Townsend, who was a surprise wit
ness fur the prosecution against the ten
men who are charged with violation of
the state criminal syndicalism law,
testified that in one of the big packing
houses in Chicago 300 or 400 industrial
workers were at work during the war
and that part of their task was to test
canned goods before shipment. Instead
of condemning the cans, ha said, the
industrial workers would let them pass.
“We wanted to cripple the packers,
and also we were opposed to the war,” I
rownseod testified. “We used to say,
“Let them poison Uncle Sam’s damned
gunners.’ ”
Further to ruin food contained in the
cans, Townsend said, the worker" drove
in the nails on the boxes so they would
pierce the can, and sometimes nails
were driven through the boxes at
at places where they were not needed
in order to ruin the contents.
He testified that he had obtained
employment on ut least two railroads
during the world war, with instruc
tions to blow them up; that he had
served in various branches of the mill
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Mrs. E. P. W enter
»
Proprietor
—H——H1 ■ M—
tarv ser vice, including the marines at
Mare Island. Cal , aod that the 1. W.
W. carried on an extensive ‘system ol
sabotage in the Middle West.
In their sabotage of the harvest
fields, Townsend testified, harvesters
were destroyed, hav fields tired, and
harvested wheat often destroyed by
placing the bundles of wheal upside
down so that the kernels of wheat
drew moisture from the groun'd and
sprouted. All of these acts, Townsend
related on the stand, are a part of a
general plan, and crews of men are as
signed to the work of destruction.
In reply to questions of Assistant
District Attorney Romeo Hughes rela
tive to the desire of Haywood to con
trol the fighting branches of the serv
ice, Townsend testified:
• Haywood complimented me on my
work while in the army, navy and ma
rines, and he told me that it was im
portant ‘to control Uncle Sam’s gun
men.’ Another lime he said. ‘If I had
50,000 men like vou I would show this
damned countrv what I could do.’”
Plane Goes at 220.458
Miles an Hour, Smash
ing All Speed Marks
Detroit.—Details of the test flight of
one of the new airplanes, the Army
Curtiss racer No. 2, held at Curtiss
field, Garden City, Long Island, last
Monday ‘ reveal that Lieutenant U. L.
Maughan piloted the plaoe over a
straightaway kilometer course at the
rate of 220.458 miles an hour, faster
than any other human being ever trav
eled. The official report of the test
was given out last nigbt upon the ar
rival at Selfridge field of Lieutenant
Maughan and the record-break iog
racer.
The racer is a biplane, powered by a
Curtiss Model D 12 motor of 315 horse
power.' The wings measure only 19
feet, and the body is only 18 feet 11
inches long. Glenn U.-Curtiss worked
with his engineers in designing the
Lieutenant Maughan’s performance
astounded army and navy observers, i
and the record reveals the centrifugal
pull rendered biu» unconscious for >a
few seconds during bis flight. /ffee-elec*
trically-timed kilometer was placed in
a ten-mile straightaway. Tbe • first
dash was made in 10 4 seconds, or at
the rate of 215.1 miles an hour; the
second was made in 10 seconds i'flat. or
223 704 miles an hour; the third in 10 2,
or 219.318 miles an hour, and the
fourth in 10 seconds flat. The average,
computed to offset any wind advantage,
gave the official record of 220'458 mdes
an hour. The propeller was screwing
ahead 12 per cent faster than it was
pulling.
During the Garden City flight Lieut.
Maughan made a right angle turn, a
feat many experts believed impossible.
Discussing the flight. C. R. Keys,
vice president of tbe Curtiss Aeroplane
and Motors Corporation, said he asked
the pilot what he was doing when he
turr ed at right angles. Lieutenant
Maughan was unable to explain it. be
cause it occurred while be was um.cn*
scious.'stunned by the centrifugal pull.
Lieut. Maughan’a time was slight!v
better, it >s said, than an army record
established a week previously by Liyut.
Lester J. Maitland over the same
course. Lieut. Maitland’s performance
was not made public by tbe war de
partment
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
5. h .
706 lj *j l
Praciice^iu^aii
PRESS SQUIBS.
Doctors report a steady Increase in
baldness, due probably to the fact that
the hair tonic is not being put .to its
intended use:— luOiaoapultaSt&r.
What interests the consumer .»ts not
the number o! square miles that con
tain coal, but the number of .square
people that sell coal.—Indiactapolis
Star.
Isn’t it somethin? of a curious com
mentary on our political system of
“registering the people’s -will” that
after three years of bonedi-V/we have
to depend on a poll by a weekly maga
zioe to God out what the people’s will
is.—45t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A statistician has just figured it out
that if the Administration had taken
all the steps it had been on the point
of taking in the last two years it would
have circled the globe seven times.—
Detroit News.
It is suggested that immigration be
reduced to one-half of one per cent. '
There is a reminiscent ring about those
figures which checks our<enthusiasm.
If we are goiog that tar,, why not cut
off importations altogether and trust
the future of the country .to home
brewed citizens?—New Yoiki Tribune.
River
General Supplies Fresh Front the
Outside
s Furs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home,Cooked.Meals. Prompt Attention
New. Dog Houses Under Construction ,
- ' •, _I
Mrs. i Frank;Larson - Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived |
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASXA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
CapL Wallace Langley, Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best'pessible meals. {Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog feed.
1 ---- i
diamond Dick - - Proprietor!
■ mir-mm wamammmm—- 1