VOL. 1. NO. 65*
McGRATH, ALASKA, SEPTEMRBE 7. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Federal Troops Reach
Scenes of Insurrection;
Elements Are Breaking
Washington, Sept. B.—Secre
tary ot' War Weeks this morning
announced) that troop&rs from
damp Sherman will reach the
scene of the West Virginia dis
orders this afternoon and that
the rest of the Federal forces
will arrive during the night.
Incomplete telephone reports
late today from Brigadier Gen
eral Bandholtz said there were
indications that the insurrection
elements in West Virginia were
breaking up.
A . telegram from Camp Dix.
states that trains are leaving this
morning for West Virginia with
the Twenty sixth and Sixteenth
Infantry,
Logan, Sept. 4.—Machine guns
and high power rifles are pouiv
ing lead into the miners’ camp at
Blair mountain. Col. Jackson
Arnold,, commander at. Blair
mountain, reported a number of
deaths and many wounded among
the miners.
County deputies on Crooked
crock this evening were driven
down the hillside in skirmishes
with an armed force from the
othoeside o. Spruce Fork. Capt.
Hollingsworth reported tonight.
Charleston, Sept. 5.--The re
mainder of the troops ordered
into the State arrived today and
took up positions designated by
Brigadier General Bandholtz, in
command of Federal soldiers. .
Both Federal and State autbori- j
ties believe today will see the!
end of belligerency on the lioone J
and Logan boundary lines.
Federal troops operating out
of Madison, in territory occu- j
pied by armed bandits, had their ;
first encounter today when they j
met armed men holding a loco
motive on the Little Coal river
branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad.
The miners’ forces have cap
tured J. C. Swauson mine super
intended, hi.s wife and three
children, and are holding them
prisoners back in the hills.
St. Albans, Sept. 4,—Many
women and children from the
Little Coal river country, where
armed bandits have gathered
along the western slope of the
Spruce Fork ridge, have -arrived
here. They report thjftt persons
from towns around Blair have
been summoned to that place,
where a temporary hospital has
been opened for the wounded in
the fighting along Spruce Fork
ridge.
REPLY 6F
DEVALERA
Creates Consternation
&mong British When
Made Public.
London, Sept. 4.—De Valet a’s
reply to the Lloyd George note
of August 20. is an irrevocable
refutation of the terms handed
by the Irish president at the
close of the London parley. The
reply created consternation on
all sides when made public to
night.
New York—Secretary of War Weeks
announced today, as the House had
tabled the bill'making possible the ap
pointment of General Leonard Wood,
the only wav he can be appointed Gov
ernor of the Phillippine Islands is by
resigning from the army.
JAPANESE
QUESTION
American Legion, Se
attle, Asks Sec. Fall
to Make Ruling.
Seattle, Sept. &—The Amer
ican Legion thie afternoon asked
Secretary of Interior Pall to
promulgate a ruling that the
leasing of Indian lands- should
conform to state laws, suggest
ing that such an order would
make it impossible for Japanese
to lease reservation property in
the State of Washington. The
Secretary made no promise re
garding the request.
Port Townsend.—Theron W. Bur
gfQkihaus was killed here today bv the
averturniny: of his automobile
11 Men in Canadian
Importer’s Lifeboat
Picked Up On Sea
San Francisco.—Eleven men in the
lifeboat missing from the Canadian Im
porter were picked up at sea today by
the tug Sea Lion. The men in the
missing beat had rowed within a hun
dred miles of this port. All, of them
are reported well.
Forty-Seven Indicted.
Chicago.—Fortv-seven labor oper
ators. contractors and mill work manu
facturers of the Chicago industrial dis
trict were indicted today by the Fed
eral grand jury, charged with conspir
ing to violate the Sherman anti-trust
LANDIS GET
For: Accepting Private
Employment and
Emoluments.
Cincinnati, Sept. 5.—The ac
tion of Judge Landjs, National
commissioner, in a. clpfing pri
vate employment and private
emoluments while active on the
Federal bench, was declared to
meet with the unqualified con
demnation of the American Bar
Association, in session here, in
a resolution adopted last night.
Would Die in Style.
Lake Charles, La.—Joseph Barry, a
negro, hanged here last week, had re
quested that the scaffold in the jail
yard be painted white in keeping with
the white suit, tie and socks he wore.
He also asked that, his executioner and
deputies be clothed in white. His re
quest was not granted.
Tiie Shamrock, Capt. Nystrom, left
Monday for Berry Landing, having as
passengers Mike Blanusha and Tom
Shallow, headed for the Nixon mine,
and Andrew Olson, for his home, near
Sam Nesvoog’s place.
Among the arrivals on the Tana from
Berry Landing was VY. E. Welch, a
member of the Sanderson party coming
to the North fork by way of Lake
Menchumina. Mr. Welettn will leave
for Candle in the morning.
The launch Maple Leaf, Capt. Hart,
left early Monday morning for Tacotna,
having as passengers Major J. C. Got
wals, Al T'Dorns and Dr. VV. P. Green.
The McGrath school opened Tuesday
morning with ten children enrolled.
More pupiis are expected after the
freeze-up,
Helena.—William Clements, former
Federal attorney at Nome, died at his
home here today.
William Toby left Tacotna for Flat
on Sept. 4th.
\
Notorious Outlaw Gets
Away From the Mc
Neills Prison.
Seattle, Sept. 5.—Roy Gard
iner, notorious California outlaw,
! who led officers of the law a
| merry chase for a week last June
in the woods about Castle Rock
after ho had handcuffed his two
guards, got away from McNeills
Island penitentiary today, and
in his break for liberty a con
victed soldier was shot and
killed, and Lawrence Bogart,
another convicted soldier, badly
wounded.
1 Gardner is still at large on the
island, which is surrounded by
i launches loaded with armed men.
Gardner is serving a sentence
of fifty years for train robbery,
while Bogart is doing a life term
for criminal assault upon an
army nurse. *
Napa, Cal.—B. Gardner, wife
of the escaped bandit, has disap
peared from her oorae here.
Seattle, Sept. 0.—One hundred
! deputies are whipping the Mc
Neills island underbrush for Roy
Gardner, escaped outlaw. War
den Maloney believes the bandit
has not escaped to the mainland.
He recalled that Gardner in his
three escapes and whole career
had not fired a shot.
_
! Members of Lost Party
Suffered No Hardships
Douglas Meade, one of the four men
who lost their way en route from Ruby
to Ophir, arrived at Tacotna in com
pany with Messrs. Sweenev and Mc
Ginnis, making the trip from Flat in
six days. Mr. Meade says the mem
bers of the party, while lost, suffered
no very great hardship. They were
completely out of grub for two days,
living on blueberries for two days just
before reaching a cabin on the Tolstoi
river. The party made a raft on the
Tolstoi, and did not meet anyone until
just before reaching rfhageluk slough,
where they met a native. The party
was very fortunate in killing a moose,
and lived on moose straight during the
trip down river.
The party, when they hit the Tolstoi,
thought they were on the Innoko river
and above the town of Ophir. but after
drifting twelve hours were satisfied
they were on the wrong stream.
The other three men, who waited at
Shageluk for a boat, were due to ar
rive at Iditurod on Sept. 1.