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Entered as secona-ciass matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoflice at j
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, February 11, 1933
THAT BEER BILL
(Stroller’s Weekly)
Proponents of the beer bill now be
fore Congress have little to offer the
lover of the cup that worries our
Congressmen. It will either be so
weak as to be put aside for the rack
eteers' product or will be taxed so
heavily that the average man cannot.!
afford to drink it.
It is difficult to estimate the
amount of beer now being produced
in the home and in illicit breweries..
The Federal prohibition department
estimates that more than 20,000,000
barrels of high-powered illicit beer of j
an alcoholic content o fover 6 per cent
have been produced and consumed in
this country the past year without
payment of any tax. This beer is i
made unscientifically and under un- j
sanitary conditions, and is nothing
more than a rotted instead of a fer
mented beverage. It has done incal
culable harm to the consumers. Boot
leg beer has been sold the past year
for $40 to $50 per barrel, tax free.
Under the new act a tax of $5 will
be provided on beer, lager beer, ale,
porter and other fermented liquors.
By placing a license of $1,000 on
all brewers, the business will natural
ly gravitate to the larger concerns,
as the cost on a 100-barrel plant will
be as great as for a J,000-barrel
plant, and the little brewer will be
forced out.
No matter how the beer is placed
before the consumer, it will be the
saloon in a modified way. Drinking
places may be called b yany name
that sounds euphonious, but they are
still drinking places.
Lastly, it may be many a day be
fore the Democratic Southern Con
men wiJJ j»gree_to tinkering with the
Eighteenth amendment in any form.
Their opinions have changed since
they were, elected to office.
ALASKA’S OFFICIAL VOTE IN
LAST NOVEMBER ELECTION
JUENAU—Completion of the offi
cial count of votes in the Alaska Ter
ritorial election of November 8 was
recently completed by the Territorial
cavasnsing board, and revealed that j
the electorate of Alaska cast in the
contest a total of 14,202 ballots. This i
was the largest vote ever cast in the
h story of the Territory at one elec
tion.
The thoroughness of the Demo
cratic landslide is reflected in the vote
for Delegate, with Anthony J. Di
mond poling 0,940 votes, as against
3,820 poled by James Wickersham,
the present incumbent.
The only close contest was that for
Senator in the Third division in which
James Campbell, Democrat, polled
1803, and L. V. Ray, Republican, 1715,
a difference of 88 votes.
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big projects outlined for
NATION BY ROOSEVELT
WARM SPRINGS. — Roosevelt’s •
vast internal development scheme en
compasses reforestation, reclamation
of water power, agriculture rehabili
tation and the bringing of a fresh
balance of national population be
tween the cities and the country
areas. Such, in effect, is the plan as
outlined by the President-elect to
newspaper men.
The experiment i sexpected by the
President-elect to provide employ
ment for 200,000 men in the Tennes
see valley alone. He hopes to carry
the scheme into other sections of the
nation from the Alleghanies to the
Pacific coast and through it end un
employment and effect decenntraliza
tion of industry and of the population
under the watchful eye of the Gov
ernment.
HOOVER PLANS TO RETIRE
FROM THE PUBLIC EYE
WASHINGTON—President Hoover
has planned to retire from the public
eye for a nine-months’ period after
March 4, but will leave an unofficial
observer behind at the National Cap
ital. The President told some of his
friends that he intends to withhojl
decisons as to the future until aroufld
the dawn of 1934.
During th einterval the retiring
President will rest at his Palo Alto
home, and intends to issue no state
ments on the course of public affairs
and gtant no interviews. During the
period, however, he will watch na
SOURDOUGH TRADING POST
McGRATH. ALASKA
Groceries Clothing
- ANYTHING FROM A NEEDLE TO AN ANCHOR
Except a Few Missing Links
Come and Look Things Over.
W. T. YANDERPOOL • - PROP. |
FIRE INSURANCE
You should carry a literal amount of fire insurance
for the sake of your credit and your peace of mind,
Needless to say this insurance should be of the very
highest quality.
That’s the Kind Written By
Alaska Insurance Agency
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Inquire of Ka&ko Times.
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tional and other affairs through the
eyes of Lawrence Richey, hut .secre
tary and close intimate-aide of many
years, 'who will be in Washington
most of the time.
SNAKE BITES LOSES
TO MAN’S COURAGE
NEW ORLEANS.—Many jl saga
has been sung of the stolid courage
of the Lou siana swamp dweller who
defies water, muck and reptiles .tr
harvest th ■ pe't of the muskrat.
Now comes the story of Charles. A.
Wicheres, one-armed trapper.
He was out early in the morning
in his pirogue for his traps. .Deep.in
the swamp his shallow boat stuck a
tuft of marsh grass and he fell head
long, with his arm outstretched to
break the falL His .hand landed
squarely on a cotton-mouth mnccasin,
most deadly of the South’s venomous
snakes. The snake struck Wichere’s
wrist at the base of the thumb.
He sat on the grass tuft, brought
out a trapper’s clasp knife, opened it
with his teeth and, holding it in his
mouth, sank the steel deep into the
wound. He let the blood flow and
withdrew the poison. From his pi
rogue he took a fish line and with the
aid of his toes and teeth wound a
tourniquet round bis wrist.
His hand so numb he could hardly
hold a paddle, Wicheres pushed his
craft out of the swamp and Jin hour
later appeared .at a doctor’s office.
The doctor said the .trapper had
saved his own life.
Remnants of a prehistoric village
which has been practically washed
into or sunk in the sea 'with the
gradual sinking of the .shore line
thousands of years ago, were uncov
ered on St. Lawrence Island by Otto
W. Geist, Alaska College scientist,
who has copleted a -five-year investi
gation. A case of 35 prehistoric
skeletons was excavated, some having
been obtained at a depth of nine feet.
The find is regarded asas .exception
ally important.
'SETIW.S HldOSId AHit
Tarn About
“How did yo uget on in .yourae
tion for contpensation Against the
man whose dog bit.you?*'
“His lawyer proved that I Ait the
dog.”—-Answers (London)..
Nothing for Him
"Could you endure a post where
you have to stay 14 hours without
going out?”
“That is not much. 1 have jus£
done eight years in prison.”—Gaa
zetino Illustrato (Venice).
Easier Said Than—
Giglamps—I dare .not fight .with my
glasses, and without them I can see i
nothing.
Observer—Take a good loo hat' him
and hit him from memory.—Vart
Hem (Stockholm).
Made for Each Other
RalphAnd have you ever been to
Brightsea for your .holidays?
Ruth—Never.
Ralph—Neither have L 1 say, isn’t
it ripping hem every minute we’re dis
covering we have more and more in '<
common!—Humorist (London).
Common Sense J
“You say my pictures -are bad! !
How can you tell when yam know ‘
nothing about painting ?”
“I know nothing About laying, hut \
I know when an egg is bad.”—-Hum- -
mel Hummel (Hamburg).
Frank J. Guskey
| ‘Notaiy Public
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