VOL. III. NO. 54
T ■' OTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1923,
PRICE 25 CENTS
Over Pro and Anti Klan
Resolutions Before
American Legion.
San Francisco, Oct. 1! A ter
rific verbal battle ove pro 1,
klux klan and anii kla r
tions, daring which th< o-s o'
the country was chary; I with
trying to split the Arm : ii -
gion over the klan luestion,
raged for several hou. at to
day’s session of the Arnrieanj
Legion, finally resultin' 4P the
adoption of the Michigan ant
klan resolution, which avoid;,
using the name of tin hooded
order. Two hundred and forty
four delegates made it known
that while the Legion objected
to the klan order, it will not de !
nounce it through a resolution j
which calls a spade a spade.
With equal force the League
voted down the pro klan resolu
tion of the Oklahoma delegates.
Train Robbers Kill 4,
Injure 1, in Attempted j
Holdup of S. P. Train
_v
Portland.—Train robbers killed four
and seriously injured the fifth member
of the train crew of the Southern I'a
« cific passenger train No. 13. in an at
tempted holdup of the train near the
town of Siskyou, this afternoon. Th. i
robbers disappeared in two automo-;
biles, and up to a late hour tonight !i: d
not been apprehended,
Motorship Kennecolt
On Beach, Abandoned
Seattle.—Trie moeoiship Kenoecott:
is Iving broadside or, the beach on j
Kano Inlet, according to wire! -- dis- i
patches received here this morning.
These messages slate that the boat has
been abandoned and the members of
her crew taken aboard the cutter
Unalga and the freighter Cordova.
Says Vast Geological
Changes in Progress
W ashington.—Vast ami wonderful j
geological changes, in which the Andes j
mountains are being pushed slowly
eastward and the California coast
ranges forced northward, are xn pro
gress, in the opinion of I)r. Bailey
Willis, professor emeritus of geology
at Leiahd Stanford university. The
eastern part of Japan, he said, is prob
ably moving westward.
George F. Kilroy, Innoko Dredge
Company manager,'arrived yesterday
from Ganes, and will have tomorrow
morning for McGrath to ,'ive attention
to business matters.
Dick Stevens, a Wednesday arrival
from Moore, left yesterday for Mc
Grath. on his way to the Crooked
creek section.
John Auld returned here Mftnday!
from a visit of several days at. Me-1
Grath.
5 - • | £
St m B ^
3
Wealthy A meric ■ s and
Other Violators of
18th Amende. it.
Washington, Oct. 19. Wealthy
\ infricitns who v; :to the
eighteenth amendmen id those
wl: - violaii cons'! ituti- • prohi
bitions designul d 1 protect
property, Senator 1 to rah de
(•!; ■!■(] is. an nedrest # this
afternoon are both traveling the
ro ot of lawiessnoss, s ig the
seeds cf-destruction. ane unde,
mining th wl < !e fair of h :i
and order. Borah sj • before
the ellizei ship coni nee on
••Shall the Const! tat. of the
ITnit f d S' at'es I lecoi i Nul
11 ty T * _
Mrs. Harding U rake
Residence at Capital
Washington!®-Official .-..I social
Washington is displaying h inter
est. "it. the purpose of «M Harding,
who has announced her mention of
spending the winter and spring here,
it is unGersto< >! that she is m ,ive in a
ten-room apartment, near t home of
forme.- President VVoedrt v W Ism .
See.., of Labor Dav\«
Flies ’Frisco to Cliica.e :>
to Greet Lit d Get:, x
Omaha, Oct. 21.—Si- '-clary of Labor
James J. Davis, 11 vin^ :n San Fran
cisco to greet Lloyd ' urge, arrived
hf e at 11:31 a. in. toda -,, and departed
Chicago at 11:44 a. m.. with L. C.
Smith, of Omaha, as pilot. Davi, ar
rived at Cheyenne t train at 5:'-0
h i 1:k this morning, a- •' after partak
1. - (if a heavy breakfa took oil in an
air mail plane, piloted hv Frank K.
v<- ’ ’our air tnii! pilots can : d
Hav. v Saa* Fra,. i.- n to Rock !
Springs it reboursaj liftv-foor n •
utes ye ti , •, excluai' of stops.
Chicago, Oct.
Davie ant 1
plane from ' 1.
.so see- Llo, (
called upor..
18.—Secretary of Labor
this aft rnoon by air
nnc. whence he came
i go, »1mm he u i oney 1
•Vt Vioic.':fy Hi From
Eatinr Creomed Peas
Seattle.—Tliiriy-sevcri, women and |
men, delega' - to th King Countj!
Earents-Teac' ’ A union, fell vio-i
Jentlv ill teiiilv, presun *bly from cut
ing creamed pc.is at a luncheon at the
Ronald school, just r.< • U>. of the city.
All will recover.
James Barlaud an Sterling Dark,
headed for the (Jrool. r >■’,< section,
and traveling the ov< •, ,nii route, were
among Friday s depat ores.
Eric Bard, who returned here Mon
lay from a business tri >1 s/Veral days |
tt McGrath, left Thursday for Ophir. f
'f'otn Samuelson, coming from Moore
treek, was a Weanesday anrim.l,
A1 Berg was a Monday arrival from j
Jphiv.
Kills Man as d Burns
Body So Wile May Col
lect $100,000 Insurance
!: nt'ka, Calif. Alexander Kels, a
I wealthy butcher of Lodi, this morn
j iij*r euufeased that he had killed a
Cvra. ,■ in hist,i • h, near l.ndi, on
Sep ‘ iher 12th. K<>ls afterward set
lire to a hay stack, I timing the body,
and disappeared, which was done for
the ] i po^e of eaahding his wife to eol
j h ot li dfe insurance money, amount
in;’ to nee hundred thousand dollars.
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A 65-Hour \ir Service
Between l.wo Points
Is Predicted.
Sun Francisco, Oct. 20.—A Co
hour air service from New York
to Pekin was predicted this af
ternoon by (ioneral William
M hell, of tin tj, S. Army air
servi'-e. He said the flight from
v York to Lake Athabasca,
da, could la; math1 in four
hours. The remainder of the
route would b< by way of Nome
and the North A moor river to
Pekin.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle. —< 'harpes e! manslaughter
were filed today against Miss Winifred
Gibbons, who shot ami killed Harry
Lucii'e, advertising 111:1. ml publicity
director, at a roadhmiM- a few miles
out of this city.
Washington.— A cut of one-half hiI
liup dollars in tax revi ,.ue„ is planned*
bv Smoot, ranking republican on the
Senate finance committee, he revealed
at the While House t< lay
London.— Howard Carter, American,
Egyptologist, le.ft tod for Luxor and
the, valley of kings to .mine his inves
gatlons at tlie tomb if Tutankhamen.
Scotland Neck, N. ( —General Van
M n-h;. .>>>, in charg* 1 the Seventy -
- eoth division Ln France during tlie
. rid w, • died jn 11 , Saturday.
Tacoma. -Steps thi are expected to
to the further pi cution of Cus
taf Linderburg tiave been liletl by tlie
prosecuting attorney.
V ushington." — Prc.-ddcnt Cool id go
will hold conference on Monday with
the governors of vat us slates on pro
hibition enforcement.
ir;.—Driven by hunger, one tnou
sand war cripples and unemployed vet
erans today stormed many bakeries in
Berlin and suburbs.
Salt Lake City.—IWmund A. Bock,
former mayor of tb city, was acci
dentally shot and kill u while hunting
ducks, today. *
Seattle.-—Revera Thompson, 17, a
high school girl, was run down aou
killed today byaSeutt! -Tacoma inter
urban car.
Washington.—Mrs Cool id go has suc
ceeded Mrs. Hardin, as president of
the Girl Scouts of Am rica.
Seattle.—-A. C. Kern, a mechanic,
was run down and ki'led by an auto
mobile, today.
Sh ock i n g Cowl i lion s Re
spectin^ Prohibition
Enforcement.
New York, Oct. 20. — Nine
men, ideluuing Harry Foley, for
mer secretary to Senator Ed -
! wards, ol New Jersey, now state
superintendent of weights and
! measures, wen; arrested lute to
' day by federal agents. They
' are charged with bribing or at
: tempting to bribe prohibition
| agents with a fund of sixty thou
sand dollar, not to report viola
tions of the federal dry law.
New York. Oct. 21.—Discuss
ing the shocking conditions re
specting prohibition enforcement
I in connection with the arrest of
Foley and others last night, Fed
eral Attorney Hayward said to
day that seven hundred thousand
dollars had been given to agents
as bribes since this latest con
spiracy organization. He fur
thor asserted that a cumber of
state officials of New Jersey and
possibly Pennsylvania, as well
as politicians and persons of
high social standing, were in
league with the bootleggers and
conspirators.
School ic cher Turns
Bootlegger in Oder
to Support Her Son
Seattle. Nellie Srownlow, former
Seattle school teacher, arrested on
charges of whiskey smug ir and
bootlegging, was today b >vet- to
the federal grand jury iarges of
violating the national prohibition act,.
She told the arresting officers she had
been compelled to turn lawbreaker in
order to support her son.
Sold Morphine Without
Prescription, Charged
Seattle.—Dr. Win. A. Shannon, 66, a
well known physician, former regent
of the University ol Washington, and
member of the King County Medical
Society, was arrest* in his otlice this
afternoon, immediately after the filing
of a police char£2 that he had sold
morphine without a prescription. He
was released under hail of $1,500.
Electric Light Plant
Is Now in Operation
Tokotna now has an electric light
plant. Frank Larson has just com
pleted installation of the plant, and al
ready electricity has taken the place of
the gas lamps which formerly illum
inated the Larson itoadhouse. The
plant consists of a.'ih, p. Koheler en
gine and dynamo, capable of furnishing
seventy 40-kilowa:t iigiits, which means
that the plant is huge enough to fur
nish lights to all h . mess houses. A1
ready poles are being distributed along
Main street, and it looks as if the gas
lamp in many places will soon be a
thing of the past.
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Take Deciding Game in
Most Sensational
Fashion.
Polo Grounds. New York, Oct.
la. The Yankees won today’s
game and the world’s series, and
in most sensational fashion.
With the seor * of the game 1 to
1 against them at the opening of
the eighth inning, {.ho Yanks
rallied here’, ally and clos ‘d that
inning with six runs to their
credit, the -» > e of each remain
ing the same at. the finish. Babe
Ruth and Snyder each made
homers. Later, Until struck out,
with three men on Ins*- Meu
sel, however, came to the rescue
with a three-bagger. With three
men on has s it was the tense
moment of a lightning change
from defeat to victory for the
the dav and for the world’s cham
pionship. Score:
Yanks—IbOOuOOaO—0; hits, 5;
errors, 0.
Giants- 100111000.
The batteri s were Pennoc.k
and Jones and Seining for the
Yanks, and Nehf and Ryan and
Snyder for the 1 aits.
Polo Grounds, New York, Oct.
13. —On the tlii teenth day of
the month, with each team mak
ing thirteen hits, yet the Yatiks
won today's game, 8 to 4. And
such atl rubbing as the the Giants
got! During the first seven in
nings they used live pitchers and
four pinch hittv > and, though
rallying in the •• gdith, still they
went c vn to defeat- Young
made the only home run. Score:
Yankees—Obi 100000—8 runs;
hits, 13; errors, 0.
(.iants — 000(1" '031 — 4 runs;
hits, 13; errors, 10.
Batteries: Yankees—Bentley,
Shawk. y and Pen nock, Seining.
Giants—Scott, Rvan, McQuiii ,
Jonnard, Barn " lid Snyder.
Yankee Stadium, New York,
Oct. 11. The (■ mts us- i four
pitchers and sev ral pinch hit
ters m todao’s game, ail of which
availed nothing againts the
matchless game played by tne
Yankees Dugan, for tho Yanks,
made the only home run, total
ing three runs. Score:
Giants—100000000—1; Bits, 3:
errors, 3.
Yanks—340100000--8; hits, 14;
errors, 1.
'.Oho battorie- were Bentley,
Scott, Barnes and Jonnard for
the < 1 iants, and 1 tush and Schang
for the Yanks.
11 Dead, 35 Wounded,
in Disorders at Soil
Dusseldorf.—Disorders at Soli, in
British-ocoupid# teuitory, today, re
sulted in a casualiv list of eleven dead
and thirty-five wounded. Many stores
were pillaged. l>ri ,ish troops have Dot.
yet interfered.