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TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 22, 1930
PRICE 25 CENTS.
"That .Strike
OnPoorman
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t JfltUMOCR 3JPEET THICK, CARRY*
&SG W TO FOOT VALUES;
^QI^AMFBPBRS RUSHING IN. j
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i: -KAAKRAMES, Feb. 18—Prospect
«. ors ^JQ Reaver ceek, in ,the Poorman
u oxuHtfby district, have dug to bedrock
L three‘Jfeet thick, carrying estimated
v values thirty dollars to the foot.
.. Another hole is going down twelve
* feeUaway to determine width of the
piystisiakv
--Sl'ha theriiiomemeter has been read
- mg »7fl> t»-&5 telow qp .Beaver
!
- Oliver Anderson, N. C. Co. manager
•..at-.McGrath, during the past week re
•- ceivaed a message from William
t Grwwden. of Kuby, who gives interest
jngudetaiis regarding the recent find
i- thevBoorman section. An excerpt
- from -Mw. Growden’s message is as
folio vss: i
“Kov*s,.- Augusti and Gallagher
- mode strike on Beaver ceek, eight
milaskbeydnd Foorman and about four
. mileauthis side of JlFaerville. Beaver
. empties into Diamond. Width of
, pspatraak not tey found out, as
v weather . has been around 40 to 60
<-'l|9low for. last 22 days, but several
t boilers, areubeing taken in and should
tine i.■up'-pretty. quick after weather
- breaks.. -Fay =; hole averaged between
t4-f40 to the foot. Good wash
. fgdd-gTavel, 18 inches in last hole,:
•.< mitte 60 -feet muek. Bichest ground
- mr earn in this camp. Everything
k far^miles around staked, and., discov
•rers^have «t laya to many oldtimers
. asodnd There and turned down offers
ot.r companiees. It is a boons lde.
. sMIkati&U sight, and population is in
v. greasing every day. Wilson, Sutther-j
i.v4a*dsl Butte, ^Diamond and Nevada
. creeks-are xsgarded as likely creeks,;
; altebeing aboout the same as Beaver.**
;.k ILLEGAL WITHDRAWAL OF
MILLIE 1 OF GALLONS AL
< iCOHOL ‘FROM GOVT SOURCE j
tatlUAGO, Feb. 19.—A conspiracy'
msUetmvnt.jiguinst 15 persons* and 31 j
egrpotations,'vcbarging t.-em with
i plotting to violate th. ..atioiial pm-1
- hibikiofi'l.'.w,-wasreturntl by a fed-,
* sra&grand jury today. The indict
men W-was returned before Federal
.Jwlgfc: Carpenter, and charged illegal
t withdrawal of millions of gallors >f
«. aitoitol *r»M government sources. j
BOEffiRT. B RANDOLPH WILL
flEAK ATTEMPT TO RID CHI
CAGO- ORGANIZED CRIME
f CHICAGO; Feb, 22.—Robert Isham
• Jtandolph, t.-.whose forecasts were
: nightmares -to -Washington, today
•. look comantod of the meat elaborate
iand extensive mobilization ever at-;
' tempted/by any eity to rid itself of
■ organised crime. He is becked by one
million delfisr^ Add a committee of
• one hundred leading citizens. A sub
committee? of twelve will direct the
« experidttdeeg et badhey in the work.
■ T. ■<•« aFadSbns, N. C. Co. superin
> tendfcnt for Alaska, after a stay of:
i a©me-as,»’-at McGrath, departed last
1” Sunday lor Fairbanks.
A. H.*TwitehelT ’gas a today arrival
from bis reindeer headquarters on the.
Dietan. He reports bis associate. Mr.!
l mm too wdU oo ac
> eeqpt of anatttck of rbeamatism.
Kric Hdrd. after a visit el a few,
IMg#a bfta, departed te^py for Qphir.*■
Two Bodies
Recovered
LODIES OF EIELSON AND BQR
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LAND FOUND; SCOONKON
WAY TO FAIRBANKS.
POINT BARROW, Feb. 17.—The
body oof Earl Borland was found!
four days ago by Harold Gillara,
American piloot, and two members of
Kussian expedition, Commander Ber
die F. Foltz and Slipeosv. The report
was taken to th efur ship Nanuk to
day by Uillam, who said that Eiel
son’s body had not been found. That
Borland was instantly killed was evi
denced by the fact that his body was
found in five feet of snow four feet
beyond the engine, which was thrown
one hundred feet from the fuselage
in the fatal crash ot the plane.
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 20.—The body
of Carl Eielson was found Tuesday
near the wreck of his plane, 90 miles
northeast of North Cape, Siberia,
Pilot Joe Crosson radioed from the
fur-trading schooner Nanuk last
night.
Crosson in his message said that
the Dodies of Eielson and Borland will
be brought to the Nanuk ano thence
to Fairbanks as soon as possible. The
body was found abqdt 140 feet from
that of Borland, recovered a week ago
today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Delegate
Sutherland of Aaska announced today
that the State Department had ap
proved the request, that Jtussien avi
ators be permitted to escort the
bodies of Hie Ison and Borland from
the spoot in Siberia where they were
found to Fairbanks, Alaska.
MOTOKSH1F NAN UK, Siberia,
Feb. 22.—Slipenov, Russian aviator,
brought the bodies of Eielson and
Borland here .yesterday from the la
goon 30 miles southeast of North
•Cape, on the irst leg of the Journey
to their Inal eating place on American
soil. The bodies were placed in the
cabin plane flown to .the wreck by
Slipenov, who was in charge of the
searching party. i
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS
ON MERIT OF DRY STATUTE
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS—The first
Congressionaal hearing on the merits
of the dry statute opened at the Cap
ital today with a denunciation of the'
law by Chairman Graham of the
House judiciary committee. - j
Walter Liggitt, a magazine writer, i
was the first witness. He told of a
party in Detroit on the night of No
vember 5, 1929, at which he said the
Governor and chief of police of De
troit and four judges were present.
Frank Guskey, after a visit of a
few days here, returned to McGrath
on Saturday last, going down with
Charlie Goebel.
J. P. Taylor, who was among Ta
kotnans present at the St. Valentine'
party at McGrath, returned here Sun
day, coming up with Henry Martella.
Nels Vibe, after a short town visit,
returned to his Litte ereek headquar
ters yesterday. ,J
Mrs. Frank J. Guskpy, afte* a visit
of some weeks over at FaaMnka, re
turned to' hot hoTiu at Mcvirfcth on
Wednesday, eoming over via qirphuie .
“DEATH V’AXLET* TTCOTT DE
‘ CLAtfES STOCK MARKET HAS
WIPED '**,000,1)00' OF FORTEHE
KAKSAKiUIXyTseb. 17.—Waiter
(Death Valley)' Scott, eccentric pros
pector,- who itv trnildinir ■ a 'f28j0OO
home- oittaMl desert, near Tanopah,
| Nevada, declared today "that he'Had
lost *6,000,000 of hie foortune. He had I
been cleaned ouiain thei stock market,
[heaaidL* |
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NO^tSCRAPMNfiTlFEATTLE
SHIPiv SftT^WACIIONXXB
LUhmON, PeD.il*.—Premier Mac
Donal das sirred Ch^tJfouse. of »CSoin
mofts this afternoon that there will
be no serapp»ng..a£ British battleships ;
as a resiiit of the nasal conference
now in progress here. I
On t&e Trail
BODY OF ISO UPS HOUSE OF’FOVT
FOUND ON SHAGELUK TRAIL
ON LITTLE TEUTON RIVER.
IDITARO®, Feb. 25.-1110 frozen
body oof LoaisHouse yesterdaay by!
Mtb. Hal JLincaid at- a pijint 35 miles
from here >on the Shageuk trail, on'
Little YentzML rive etc. House was a •
well known eldtimer of this section,
about *0 years okl. fie. was (traveling
from ijhsgeluk 'to Iditarod with.dogs.
WINNERS OF GJRLS’ RACE, FLAT*
zLLUTAttOli, Feb. "24.—The winnes in
the girls' 'race, .pulled off Saturday,
were: Johanna Jensen, lrst; Gladys •
Peterson, secorid; Eva MiscovitCh, I
third. Hie race was palled OIF* at
noon Satturday and waa a. aomewha
interesting -event
Telegraphic Tides.
SEATTLE, F«a. .17.—Liont.Tt. JL *
Lukens, commander of the steamship
Survey oar of the Coast, and Geodetic
Survey will leave Saturday for Wash-:
ington to take charge of the publica
tW»n qf The 'Coast Pilot, which gives
sailing drections and descriptions of
harbors of coast lines of the United
States.
KIO DJC JANEIRO, Fab. IB.—Vice
President Hello Vienna Was shot ami
five slain in an outbuilding here dur
ing a political meeting at Montes
cleares.
SEATlLE, Feb. 17.—A superior
court jury today returned.' a verdict
o fnoot guilty by reasons of insanity
agaifast William H. Howard,, charged
with slaying his wife Catherine with
an, axe, December 6. , .
SEATTLE, reb. 17.—PhiKp Jdhn
son, president of the -oeing Airplane
Cohipany, baa caued for bids for the
construction of a residence in the
northern outskirts of the city, which
will cost *350,000.
SEATTLE, Feb. 18.—The Repub
lican state central committee, meet
ing m the Olympia Hotel today, se
lected Dillingham, May 22, as the
place and date of the state conven
tion.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 12.—
William G. Grattheld, Democrat, de
feated V. D. Griggs, Republican can
didate, in ths special election to re
elect a successor ad the lateOongresf
maniMdmer- •».
Doings At
Washington
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'NOBfTN'ATION OP CHARLES E.
IS CONFIRMED KV
MTPENATE, JL2 TO 3fi.
' WAS KINGTON., Feb. 17—The Sen
ate last flight, after a fight continu
ing for.* three days, confirmed the
nomination of Charles Ivans Hughes
for •Supreme -Court Justice, by a vote
of-62 t*M30.
.La Collette chargeed in a speech
that-the nomination of Hughes a as a
challenge to the Senate of the power
already usurped "by the judiciary.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Assert
ing . that/v the Federal Drug Commis
sion-had ‘'given he-radio trust and
the-potted trust” more'than half of
the, exclusive broadcast channels in
the >United*. States, was made today
hy. Sehator Wheeler, at a hearing by
(theSenate interstate committee on
the custom!* bill
WASHINGTON. . Fib. 18.—Chair
man Leavitt- of the House Indian af
fairs;'Womtaittee today introduced a
-billAto.ocreatf a marketing - corpora
tion* tO'promote the sale of Indian art
andhaiKfeWofk production and to pro
tect the public-against imitations.
A resolution. authorizing investiga
tion of the .prohibition bureau was in
troduced in the Senate t-.day by
Wheeler.
ASHlN c 1 ON, I r Feb. 15.—Presi
dent .that he would
immediately* appdim a commission of
fraonl ftve to ««sren to study the ques
tion of . when and how the American
government.:would / withdraw from
Haiti.
WASHINGTON. Seth* 17.—Though
Hughes 'was eohfirmed iiiihe Senate
last night, the debate warns reopened,
in the Senate today, one-member as-;,
serting that the.Supreme Court had
placed itself in politics, adding that if.
the people come to feel that the Su-.
preme Court has become their opr*
pressor, and. that the men ... upon it
can't-be govenaaed. theey. -will find a
way to change it. '“The-constitution
is conservative, rbut it provides ma
chinery for ehangin git,” he asserted.
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING.
SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—D. S. Collins,
financial secretary of the Brother hood
a£ Railway and Steamship Clerks,
was arrested this afternoon, charged
with embezzling $1,145 of the funds
of the order.
Tony Lundstrom, who arrived at
McGrath a few days ago via airplane
from fair banka, was a Friday arrival
here, earning up with Pilot Frank
Dofbandt. Also coming upland re
turning 'on same trip was Miss Hattie
Konig.
Mrs. Oliver Anderson, Mrs. Charles'
Ulsh and. Mss Hattie Konig, who
were among those present :at the
Washington Birthday party here, re- ‘
turned to their homes .at McGrath
yesterday. . ^
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hubbard, who.;
were among McGzathifes .present atJ.
the Washington Birthday anniver-t
sary partty here, reurned to their j
home at McGrath on Sunday.
Jack McDonald, After a visit of a
couple 0* day sphere, left Friday on
Jtis return tsip-taJMedfra.
Great Plans
Henry Ford
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WILL SPEND $100,000,000 FOUND
ING TRADE AND "VOCATIONAL
SCHOOLS TRBJJOtlT SU. S.
FORT MYERS, "Okia., h>b, 17.—
Henry.Ford, in a statement given out
here today, announced his intention
to devoetc the rest of his life and
one hundred million doollars of his
foortune to founding trade and voca
tional schooa, that some of them will
be large institutions, and that they
will be erected in various partta of
the c untry.
I.1N1UEERGH HAS NARROW
ESCAPE WREN GLIDER T Ki-Pfi
| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1$.—^harle*
A. Lindbergh spent his 27th birthday
anaivesary quietly at the home * of
Hi. and Mrs. Jack .Maddux here to
day.
The noted flier .came near losing his
life yesterday near L«.bec, CaJ'f,
while making a flight m a girder
w h)c.;i dropped to earth, though Luid
bergh’s grea. el: ill finally .guidod it
to .earth, perm.fling him to escape un
ir,u.refl.
NOBILE WAS LACKING IN
SEVERAL Ml INBS *>F ABILITY
ROUE, .Feb..-20.—Commander No
bile, who led Abe dirigible Lfc&lia expo
dition tothe North Pole in 1924, -wee
found by an -official investigating
OBUmittee hr— proved him
se£ to have lighted technical- ability
and to have leaked ability to com
SEATTLE PATROLMAN NABBED
WHILE SOTTING IN AT-POKES
SEATTLE, -Feb. 17.—Patroimac.
George F. Reynold* was arresteed
late ttua afternoon .by -a federal pro
hibition agent, and a.deputy sheriff in
gambling.raid-upon the Aurora 04r3
room. The raiders reported that they
found him playing poker, with *29 io
cash end-cards eg the table in Trout
of-him.
MLCKET -WALKER WINS-SECOND
-DECISION OVER LEO -LOMSKT
DETROIT, Eeb. 15.—Micky Wal
ker, .world middleweight champion,
invaded -the light-hfeavywoigbt divir
sion here last .night aad easily woo *
second decision over Lee Lomsky, of
Aberdeen, Wash., who contended in «
10-round battle before 17,000 spec
tators, in which Walker gave Lomsky
.a good lacing.
Clint Wiliam oldtimer w toe Matt
fra section*.,was a Friday arrival, was
in attendance . at the Washington
Birthday party on Saturday, and left
Sunday for the scene of tbereparttsd
new strike near Poorman.
Mr. and Mrs. Vietcr HiU and John
Kepo, all of whom were in attendance
at the Washington Birthday parity
here, departed Monday on their way
to, Ophir.
. Mail Carrier Charlie Konig, with
the ingoing mail, arrived Tuesday,
continuing on his way on Wednesday.
Accompanying <him this trip Is Miss
Freda, on a visit to Flat.
Mail Carrier Charlie CTHalloran-ar
rived yesterday, leering this morning
for Ophir, on hip way to Flatl Also
traveling with him is Tony
strom, on hia wpy to Flat