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' MCGRATH, ALASKA. OCT. 5. 1921.
ATTITUDE
OF RUSSIA
Ready to Defend Fruits
of Revolution, Says
* Trotzky.
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Moscow. Oct. 3.—“Soviet Rus
sia wants peace with her neigh
bors, but if war is forced upon
us we will be found ready to de
fend the fruits of the revolution,
and more than a million work
men aud peasants are ready to
add their numbers to the live
hundred thousand red troops we
have in readiness.” declared
Trotzky this afternoon, when
asked about Russia’s attitude to
ward the coming world confer
ence.
Frank Fox, in his Salmon River
Flyer, left yesterday morning for Sal
mon. Going up on the Flyer were M.
F. Murphy. Skookum Olson and Ru
dolph Rula, all headed for Anchorage.
Mr. Rula, from the latter point, will
take passage to San Francisco.
Jesse Yoder arrived Monday evening
from the upper Kuskokwim, Jack Dunn
being a passenger from Berry Land
i ng.
Max Simel
1 The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
, Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
1 Supplies
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SteamerfServicelOn the^Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
LIFE RUINED
IN ALASKA
Ponzi’s Excuse for KiD-|
1 ing Woman and Tak
ing His Own Life.
Seattle, I Oct. *2.—M . Ponzi, ed
itor of an Italian publication of
this city, today shot and killed
Mrs. George Mattie, waitress in
a restaurant here, and then, .be
fore he could be taken in charge,
fired a bullet into laisown brain,
dying instantly.
Ponzi, in a note found on his
person, declared that his life
had been ruined in Alaska by
the woman and her husband.
Mining Notes From
the Ophir Section
Ophir, Sept. 28.—Al Berg and E.
Meier have taken a lay on the Howie
property, on lower Ophir iereek, and
will open up as soon as possible.
J. Stay ton has purchased the interest
of J. Suutala, on Lower Ophir.
Collins, Hard & Co. are starting a
Dew cut, which they hopette finish.this
fall.
Johnson, Bolgen & Johnson are .pre
paring to run a bedroek drain this win
ter. They are said to have tapped good ;
pay in the deep chanael.
Jack Stewart, i« his launch Tillicuin,
arrived here Suoday morning from a
trip up the Kuskokwira, after an ab
sence of several weeks. Charles Koenig
and Pete McDonell arrived at the same
time, the former’s launch Helen being
assisted by the Tillicum
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Which one of these is the third rail,
anyway?11
“I wonder whether this rope will
hold my weight?”
“That firecracker must have gone
out. 1’jl light it again.7’
“I wonder if it’s loaded. I’ll look
down the barrel and see.”
“Watch ove skate out past the ‘Dan
ger’ sign. I bet I can touch it.”
“What a funny noise that snake
makes. I think I’ll step on him.”
“I’ve never driven a car in traffic
before. But they say it’s perfectly
simple.”
“It’s no fun swimming around in
here. I’m going out beyond the life
liQes.”
“I thiok I’ll mix a little nitric acid
with this chloride of .potassium and Bee
what happens.”
“There’s only one way to manage a
mule. Walk right up in back of him
and surprise him.*’
“They say these things can’t possi
bly explode, no matter how much you
throw them around.”
“Oh, listen! That’s the train whistle.
Step on the accelerator, and we*ll try
to get across before it comes.”
“These traffic policemen think they
own the city. They can’t stop me. I’m
going to cross the street now. Tot the
chauffevrs look out for me.”
—Dorothy Parker in {Life.
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