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McGrath, alaska. jan. 14.1922
MYSTERY
Woman Thought Dis
membered and Burned
in Her Own Home,
Tacoma, Jam 13.—The police
of tnis city are now convinced
that Mrs. John Rutherford, who
mysteriously disappeared on Oc
tober 6, was murdered and her
body sawed into bits and burned
in the heating stove at her home.
The husband, who is believed
to have committed the murder,
disappeared several days ago,
and the police are making every
effort possible to locate him.
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Aitken spent
yesterday in town,
J. G. RIVERS
Attorney At Law
Flat, Alaska
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
Alaska Postal Matter
Advanced Two Weeks
Over Former System
Anchorage Times.
Under the arrangement put into of—
feet December 1 by Postmaster Gen- |
eral Will Hays, mail service to Alaska !
has been advanced two weeks over old !
schedules. This is made possible by
the establishment by Superintendent1
Homer Elwell, of the Alaska mail ser-1
vice, of postoliices aboard all regular'
ships plying* to Alaska. Heretofore
mail arriving in Seattle from other
points and destined for Alaska was
compelled to lay over in that city to be j
sorted. Under the new arrangement I
all Alaska mail is transferred to ships
immediately upon ^arrival, where a I
mail clerk sorts it, arranging pouches!I
tu ue uistrmuiea irom tbe 'Various
ports wnieh the ships touch, and re
ceiving mail for transmission between
points. All mail for .Ketchikan aod
points distributed from that port are
made up in separate packages for their
ultimate destination; in addition, firm
mail is sortad and tied ready to be
be placed iDto lock boxes or distrib
uted as oocasion requires. The same
system is employed at every port, with
the result that all first class mail is
practically sorted by the time it
reaches the ports of distribution. At
each port a maii bag haugs at the rail
ready to receive mail for the steamship
postoftice, where it is sorted aod routed
for its destination.
In this work of tmprovemaut in the
mail service Mr. El-weil has bad the
hearty co-operation of -Governor .Bone,
who also backed former JJ. S. Commis
sioner W. A. Vinal in his efforts to
have mail for Iditarod routed over
Rainv pass, thus assuring Fegul&r and
expeditious delivery via Anchorage to
the upper Kuskokwim region instead
of the roundabout service employed
heretofore and which took several
weeks in delivery.
Incident in C. E. Kimball’s Trip.
Charles E. Kimball, wbo left over
the trail for Anchorage several weeks
ago. in a latter to Capt. George Green,
speaks as follows regarding an incident
on the trip out:
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“The trail was rough, and we were
all gjlad to reach Nancy. At Susitna
the river was still open in frent of
town, necessitating going a mile up
river, where it was frozen over. I
reached the river at 5 o’clock, and
when the dogs saw the lights across
the river they broke into a run, and at
the yump-off, into the river, got away
from me and made direct for the lights.
Had bo light, as .my flashlight was on
the sled, but went out on the river ice
as far as I dared, but could find no
f
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PP nf t ho r\r\ita * n urt
hind me thcee hours, so waited for
him, aod on arriving across the river
found my team had uot shown up. Sent
a white man and a native out with lan
terns, but they returned without find
ing them. At daylight 1 was out, and
there, across the river, on tbe edge of ;
tbe ice, was tbe team. Again bad to
go up river a mile and back down to
the dogs. Everything was all,right;
two dogs sleeping in the sleigh and ;
tbe other three curled up close, and
nothing disturbed. Was mighty glad
to find them, and they were apparently
glad to be piloted across tbe river for a
good feed.”
Mr. Saupe, near the end of trail,
met with an aceident in wbiph he
wrenched his ankle quite badly, being
detained under the doctor’s care for
about a week bejore .he and.Mrs. Saupe
could take departure from Anchor
age.
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Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
T
Napamute, Alaska
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim
Valley
GOOD STOCK PRICES RIGHT
PIONEER POOL ROOM
f
McGrath’s Papular Resort
Dave E. Clough - - Prop.
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
• On the.Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, (Manager.
DIRECT SERVICE [
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
jVia Inside Passage
M. S. “Anvil”
Freight and Passengers. Leaves Seattle May 10.
• Leaves Kuskokwim River, June 5th.
JVI. V. “Ruby”
Freight only <(meluding explosives).
Leaves Seattle, May 1st.
„ Sailings subject to change without notice.
: For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
7 Colman Dock, Seattle, Wash.