VOL. IV. NO. 36
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
LOEB AND
0P8L
imprisonment for Ufe
Punishment Fixed by
Justice Caverly.
* Chicago, Sept. 5.—Life ira
prjsonrnetit was the punishment
fixed today by Judge Caverly
- upon Nathan Leopold, jr.., and
Rifihard Loeb, convicted of kid
napping and slaying Robert
Franks* 14 years old, son ol Ja
cob Pranks, retired millionaire,
on May 24, last.
JttSlice. Caverly, in his deci
[3fon, said that no minor has ever
been sentenced to hang in the
state of Illinois, cl\ a plot, of
guilty
Following imposition of the
sentence the guards hurried the
youths over- the “bridge of
sighs” to the elevator which car
ried them to their cell floor.
They will be removed to Joliet
at once. _
Joliet, Sept. 6.—The motor
cavalcade bearing Richard Loeb
and Nathan Leopold, ir., arrived
here at 7:50, central standard
time. Closely guarded, the pris
oners were immediately ushered
into the warden s office.
Strange Tales Come
From Unknown Arctic
The unknown Arctic region between
Colville and Porcupine rivers, where
Dr. Smith has led a party of the U. S.
Geological Survey on a perilous mis
sion of exploration, is the locale ol
strange tales spread among fur traders
and gold hunters by the native Eskimos
and Indians.
The territory which Smith has gou$
to investigate and chart appears on the
maps largely as a black space. Ceriair
rivers, like the Colville, never have
been traced to their headwaters, ant
what in the wav of topography and re
sources lies within an area of 35,00(
square miles has been a matter of con
jec.ture.
Reports have trickled out of th<
Polar basin that great lakes of oil wer«
to be found in this region. Put the Es
kimos and natives tell stranger stories
They say the land is hauuted bv weiri
beasts, some of such immense statim
that they leave tracks as large as din
ner plates. It is said that no Indiat
can be persuaded to penetrate the re
gion, even though he be tempted bj
the promise of abundant fur. The lor*
has it that there are great ureas of hoi
springs, where the snow never falls
and the streams never freeze.
Some of the more credulous of tbt
white men, linking the tales with theii
scientiticM-eading, contend that thert
still may lurk in the far north rem
nants of the mastodon herds that havt
left their boues and ivory in al-mosi
every stream bortleriug the lowei
Yukon river.—Seward Gateway.
Cecil Barlow, well known Moor:
creek mining.man, arrived today for t
brief business visit.
Bill Goss, Yankee creek, was a Fri
day visitor. __
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Youth Held in $50,000
Bail for 75 Robberies
New York.—Vincent Vincianza, l(i.
oldest of four boys accused bv Brooklyn
police of participating in seventy-five
burglaries, was held in $£>0,000 bail by
Magistrate O’Neil today for a bearing
Thursday. The boy readily admitted
thirty robberies, but insisted the other
boys were wrong in saying he was
with them on seventy-Gve marauding
expeditions. The four were arrested
today.
According to the police, the boys
posed as window washers, obtaining
jobs in apartments they wisht - to rob.
Vinziana is charged vith stealing jew
elry and money valued at $270 from the
apartment of Mis. Yetta Geffner, Sat
1 urday. He insisted lie got ouly six
cents.
Dressed in a worn ami dirty Knicker
bocker suit, his hair tousled and holes
in his stockings, the boy gazed coolly
at the magistrate and said he wanted
time to get a lawyer. Asked if he had
admitted “thirty jobs,” he said, “Yeah,
! that’s right.”
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C.13 NirV Tax Law—
Deduces the annual tax bill by $472,
000,000.
I Provides for a 25 per “ent reduction in
j this year’s income tax.
i Keeps the present exemption of $1,000
for single persons and makes $2,500 !
the exemption for all heads of fami
lies regardless of size of income.
Places a normal tax of 2 per cent on
net incomes to $4,000. 4 per cent oc
incomes between $4,000 and $8,000;
and C per cent abovd $8,000. The
existing rates are 4 per cent to $4,
000, and 8 per cent above.
Begins surtaxes with 1 percent at $10,
000 and carries them to a -0 pet- cent
maximum on incomes of over $500,
000. The present law stairs surtaxes
at $0,000, with a 50 per cent max
imum at $200,000.
Makes reductions of 25 per cent earned
incomes up to SU0.000. The first $5,
000 of any income is considered
earned.
Raises maximum estate ta . from 2.
per cent to 40 per cent with gift
i taxes to correspond.
j Retains existing 124 percent corpora
tion tax.
Depeals or reduces certain miscellane
ous taxes.
, Provides that names of taxpayers with
amount of taxes are to bt made pub
lic, and Congress is to have access to
tax returns.
$
What the Taxpayer Wains.
$ 20
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4.000
5.000
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9.000
10,000
14.000
20.000
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36.000
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100,000
300,000
;o 1,000, ooo
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100
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940
1,720
2,740
4,860
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30,140
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550,640
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167.50
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22,617.50
109 650.50
429,617.5
Rome.—Pope Pius has ratified the
decision annuling: the religious mar
riage of the Duchess of Talleyrand, the
former Anna Gould, to the Marquis
Boni de-Castellane.
Felix Charlton, afier several months
at Candle, arrived Thursday, and left
Saturday over the trail for Ruby. He
will probably spend the winter on the
Outside,
Hartley Wins Repub
lican Nomination
for Governor,
[Seattle, Sept. 5.- Hartley and
Adam and Berrle won on the re
publican nomination for gover
nor and lieutenant governor, re
spectively. Hartley defeated a
field of ten. with W. 0. Field, his
nearest contestan about eight
thousand behind, with the vote
half counted at 9 tb s morning.
Miller in the First congres
sional district, Hadley in the
Second, Johnson in the Third,
and Summers in the Fourth, all
republicans, have been renomi
nated. In the Fifth district the
contest between Cockeriil and
Edward Ferguson is close, with
the former probably winner.
Seattle.—With 2,84(1 precincts miss
ing, French has a lead of fill in the
gubernatorial nomination race.
the-World Flyers
Vvushfngton, Sept. — All three
pianos in the army world flight are
nm at Foiling Field, from which the
aviators expect to hop oil on Septem
ber 12, following a new schedule, which
provides for their arrivio at Seattle on
September 23.
W orld’s Star Robber
Seized, Los Angeles
j Los Angeles.—The ritie of “world's
i champion burglar.” witb a record of
1. jobs in eight years in every large
i s it; the cbpntry, goe- to Melvin (J.
Is.-Ism. 22-year-old navy deserter, ac
orn :ing to his boasts to police today.
"I haven’t struck a lick of work
since 1 deserted the U< S. S. Navigator
iu I9iy.” Nelson told Officers Uether
age and Misner.
Nelson was taken into custody at a
pawnshop when it is asserted he at
tempted to pawn a ring.
Nelson is declared to have confessed
Ids favorite method was to walk into
an apartment house and pick up any
thing he wanted.
Starting a career of crime when he
was 12 years of age. Nelson, except the
time he was in the navy, ommitted an
average of one burglary a day. he told
tiie police, tie said he arrived in Los
Angeles two weeks ago and in that
time had committed 25 burglaries.
Eielson to Urge Air
Mail Service. Alaska
Seattle.—C. 13. Eielson. Alaska's first
I aerial mail ■ pilot, who for several
months- last winter carried the mail
between Fairbanks and McGrath, is iu
this city en route to Washington, whert
he will urge an extended air mail ser
vice iu the Territory.
Salmon is said to be plentiful this
year on the lower river. I’rices art
I reported to range from 7 to 10 cents.
10 Armed Outlaws
Get $125,000 Gems
in Gotham Holdup
New York.—Ten automobiie bandits
today waylaid a customs truck on the
outskirts of Greenwich village, kid
naped the driver, terrorized a score of
spectators, and escaped with 29 pack
ages of imported jewefs and watches of
an estimated value of $120,000.
The loot, in a sealed mail pouch, was
consigned to Tiffany & Co., on Fifth
avenue, and 27 importers in the Mal
den Lane district of Lower Manhattan.
It had arrived on the steamships Le
viathan and Haris, and was intercepted
while on the way from the geueral
IKJSiollice near Pennsylvania station to
the United Appraisers’ stores, Twelfth
and Hudson streets.
While the traffic policemen on the
corner nearest the appraisers' building
was issuing a summons to a law-break
ing taxi driver, another taxicab cut off
the mail truck and forced it to the
curb. At that moment a sedan drove
up on the opposite side of the street.
Two armed men leaped from the tax
icab to the truck. Eight others issued
from the sedan and with pistols cowed
spectators into voiceless immobility.
Edward Foy. driver of the truck, was
hauled to the sedan, a prisoner, while
his companion on the driver’s seat.
Daniel Keahon, vice president of the
trucking corporation, which was trans
porting the mail under contract, was
brutally clubbed with pistol butts and
Hung into the gutter, unconscious.
Before the nearby traffic officer be
I came aware of the scene being acted at
I iiis back, the bag of valuables was
transferred to the taxicab, which
speeded off as the sedan, with Foy a
prisoner, started in another direction.
Keahon was first to telephone an
alarm to the cnstom- department, po
lice headquarters anti the general post
office. A few minutes later Foy tele
phoned from Washington Heights,
seven miles from the scene of the hold
up. that he had been dumped out
there. His captors headed north, he
reported.
'White Indians From
Panama Wilderness
New York.—Richard Marsh, civil
engineer and explorer, who arrived
here on the liner Calomares, has with
him three ‘‘white Indians.” discovered
in the San 151as wilderness, Panama.
They possess white skins, burned
pink in the tropical sun, pale blue eyes,
golden hair, and white eyebrows anc
eyelashes. One girl has her ban
i bobbed, the work of an American bar
I ber in Colon.
Matt Vaughn and Leo Rodrigue lefi
Wednesday for McGrath, wheie Mr
Rodrigue engaged passage on the
Maple Leaf to Medfra, in the hope thai
| he would be able to arrive in time t<
j join Archie Higgins and J. L. Berio
j and journey with them via the Las'
i Fork, Lake Minchumina and Kantishm
river to Nenana( on their way to th<
Outside. Messrs. Higgins, Berry ant
Rodrigue are all headed for theii
homes in San Francisco.
j Manager L. B. Loomis, of the N. C
1 Co., and Billy Gibbs were Wednesda;
| arrivals from McGrath, Mr. Gibbs re
| turning to McGrath on Friday.
Dick KuhlotT and Ilubaiie Hebert do
parted Wednesday for the Tuluwiksal
Hot Springs, prepared for a stay o
several months.
Scotty Auld, Sterling Dark and Ophi
Glass left Wednesday for Little creek
But Wills Inflicts Ter
| rifle Beating and Wins
Unofficial Decision.
Boyle’s Thirty Acres, .Jersey
City, Sept. 6. — Harry Wills,
known in pugilistic circles as
the ••black panther,” easily
gained an unofficial decision
over Luis Angel Firpo, tempera
mental Argentinian, at the end
of their 12-round bout, today, in
which no decision was awarded.
Ninety thousand spectators were
present.
Wills went out into the lead
with the opening bell, and never
once relinquished it for the rest
of the journey, dropping the
South American to the canvas
with a hard right to the jaw in
the second round. This punch
j robbed Firpo of all his buil-like
strength and he took a terrific
beating from Wills for the re
mainder of the bout, the negro
employing his usual tactics of
hitting and holding at all times.
Firpo protested *•- ~ ' v ;f< . ee,
Lanny Sullivan, o ?t Wills’
holding, but in va •.
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Saved From oose.
Victim Collapses
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San Quentin Penitentiary, Calif.—
Isaac Wolfgang. sailor, under sentence
to hung at 10 a. m. today for shooting a
Los Angeles policeman who arrested
him for stealing two bottles of milk,
collapsed this morning when he was in
formed that his execution had been de
layed. He was removed from the death
cell to the prison hospital.
Although the court acted late yester
day, under the law he could not. be iu
formed, and so had spent the night be
lieving he would die at the stroke of 10
a. m. today.
At the hour set for the hanging the
papers in the case hud not yet reached
the penitentiary and prison guards, as
required by law and rules, made ready
the gallows and set t he .--eerie for the
execution which will not take place.
I Noel W. Smith, Alas
ka R. R.’s New Head
Washington.—Noel W. Smith, who
has been appointed to investigate the
j Alaska Railroad and ihe discharge bv
Col. Lee EL Landis, manager, of three
of the large department chiefs and
their subsequent reinstatement by Sec
retary of Interior Work, began his
service with the Pennsylvania railroad
in 1887 as clerk. In 181)3 he worked as
roadman, and he rose steadily to be as
sistant supervisor, assistant engineer,
superintendent of division, and later of
the middle division la 1018 he was
, promoted tube general superintendent,
and in 1020 he r>-organized two
branches of the Pennsylvania system.
Smith goes to Alaska with powers to
• probe the conduct of the Landis admin
i istration, its character, and to make
f reco emendations to reorganize the
working system.
Hank Walliek we a Tuesday arrival
from Canes.