VOL. II. NO. 81
McGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1922.
PRICE 23 CENT S
U. S. TELLS i
THE WORLD!
i Serves Notice on Brit
ain, France and Italy
Regarding Rights.
Washington, Nov. 1. — This
■ Government has served notice
on Britain. France and 'Italy
that its interests, must be con
served in the proposed treaty of
. peace with Turkey. . In a memo
randum sent to 'the allied cap.
itals the State .Department de
. dared that it does, not regard
the interests of the United States
as entitled to less, .consideration
than those of any other couutry,
nor is this Government disposed
to relinquish its rights .for com
i mercial opportunity.
Mrs. Wallace Langiey, who will- un
■ doabtedlv attain her Sr. Dgb. degree
when the ice departs next spring, was
the first lady to cross the ice this win-j
ter. whieh she did Sunday when she
crossed over to where the steamer'
liana is stationed, i It was also the first
time in her life that she had ever
- crossed a frozen river, thus establish
ing a double record for herself.
FASGISTI
TRIUMPH
Results in Disturbances
On Serbian-Italian
Frontier.
London, Nov. . 1. — Fighting
has broken out on’ the Serbian
: Italian frontier as a result of the
Fascisti triumph . in Italy, ac
. cording to a Belgrade dispatch,
•which says that the greatest ex
t citeraent prevails in Serbia as a
result of the Fascisti coup. The
newspapers view the situation as
very grave and are discussing a
probable war.
Report Says 53 Kan*
tishna Claims |Taken
Over by Big. Concern
Seattle. — A report here indicates
that fifty-three quartz claims in the
Kantisbna district, controlled by J. J.
Price and Thomas P. Aitken, will be
• taken over by a large American min
ing corporation. The claims are those
located by A. M. Grant and Frank
Giles. ____________
Wi W. Lukens, Alaska Hoad Com
mission superintendent, arrived Mon
, day from Tacotua, to which piace -he
returned yesterday.
. Ed Morgan, dredgemaster at Candle,
t.-jras a Tuesday arrival.
Army of 800,000 Was
Ready to Enforce
Demands.
Rome, Oct. 29.—A council of
the cabinet has been in session
since midnight, in order to re
ceive reports from those prov
inces where the Pascisti move
ment has taken a subversive di
rection and to adopt measures
necessary to meet the situatien.
Rome, Oct. 30.—Italy today
bowed to Pascisti, and Benito
Mussolini busied himself #with
the task of forming a cabinet.
, The demand of Mussolini, the >
leader of the Pascistis, that the
complete control of the govern
ment be handed over to his or
ganization was met promptly by
King Emanuel when Mussolini (
was asked to form a ministry. |
His array, numbering eight hun-1
dred thousand, was ready to act;
if the government was not hand
ed over peaceably.
Rome, Oct. 31.—The new cab
inet under Benito Mussolini as
sumed office today. A general !
election is to follow the change
in government, and it is expect
ed that the Fascist! party will
gain many votes in the new par
liament. In the cabinet forma
tion Mussolini becomes both
president and minister of the
interior and'minister of foreign
affairs, with General Armandc
Diaz as minister of. war.
Rome, Oct. 31.—Groups of
Fascisti today invaded’the homes
of former Premier Nitti, Count
Valni, Deputy Nicola Bombacci, j
communist leader, and Arturo
Lacriola, socialist, and former
minister. Large quantities of
socialistic literature and other
pamphlets were confiscated.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Tokyo.—Vladivostok has been made i
the capital of Priamur province, which
is governed by a revolutionary com
mittee.
London.—Lloyd George has been
roi’ced to abandon his speaking en
gagement at Bristol on Thursday, be
cause of illness.
Tokyo.—Orders have been sent to :
the Japanese garrison at Tsingtao,
Shantung, to prepare to evacuate,
jnder teroas of the treaty with China
Seattle.-—Charges of perjury filed 1
igainst Sheriff Starwich. in which he
ivas alleged to have sworn falsely in
securing his naturalization papers,
were dismissed today.
Foreign Policy Hard
ing Administration
Outlined By Hughes
Boston.—'Avoidance of all contro
versies not involving our own interests,
and the protection of American inter
ests &t every plane, from whatever sov
ereignty may be in charge, constitute
the foreign policy of Harding’s admin
istration, Secretary of State Hughes
declared in an address here tonight. j
Germany Faces Winter
of Hunger and Cold,
Says Ebert.
Berlin, Oct. 31.—The German
people, lacking necessary food
and coal, are confronted by a
terrible winter of hunger and
cold. The attempt to make Ger
man economy, already sick unto
death, produce the greatest pos
sible results have satisfied nei
ther creditor nor debtor, Prasi
dent Ebert said today, in ad
dressing the first sessic- if t he
reparations committee.
A Tiara for William’s
Bride, Valued at 800
Million Marks
Berlin, Oct. 31.—Former Em
peror Wiliiam, with the -Perm an
crown jewels, is having made in
Berlin for Princess Hermoine,
who is soon to become his bride,
a gorgeous diamond tiara, com
posed of seven hundred dia
monds, the smallest of which is
one-half carat, and many of
which are many carats in si e. :
The estimated value of the gor
geous piece is eight hundred
million marks.
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France’s War Debt
to the United States
Paris.—The French government ,s
inclined to regard France’s war debt
to the United States as lying in abey
ance, pending some dsfinite develop
ment, in the reparations problem
Yes, the winter mail service is pre
sumed to have commenced today, hav
ing been scheduled to leave Kobi, on
the line of the Alaska railroad, on No
vember 1, At any rate, here’s to the
sueoess of the new route.
lied Richardson arrived th s after
noon from Tacotna.
Montana Woman Kills
Affinity, a Minister.
Then Suicides.
Havre, Mont., Oct>. 2&-—Kev
J. Crustier, a prominent clergy
man of this place, and mrs.
Margaret Carieton, wife of
Frank Carletou, formerly judge
of the district court here, were
found shot to death in the Christ
ie r home this u/c ruing
Evidence presented points to
Mrs. Carieton as a murderess
and suicide
The Rev. Christler and Mrs
Carieton had been infatuated
with one another, and the minis
ter is supposed to have tired of
the romance, which caused Mrs.
Carletou to take his life and her
own father than suffer the pang;
of .unrequited love,
, Lc'v Angeles, Oct. hi.—Mrs
Margaret Carieton, who with
Rev. J, Christler was found shot
to death in the Christler home at
Havre, Mont., had confessed her
love for Christler to her hus
band. Frank E. Carieton, former
judge of the -District Court at
Havre, Carieton.declared tonight
in a signed-statement
Havre, Mont.—A coroner's jury .lias
returned a verdict that .Mrs. ' arletOE
killed Rev. Christler-because of unre
quited love or a Section that had srowc
cold.
Rumania Unable to
Pay $38,000,000 Debt
to U. S. for 4 Years
Paris.—TUi mania will oe unable to
pay either the interest or principal of
her debt of thirty-eight million dollars
to the United States for at least four
years, according to Eftime Antonesko,
head of the Liumanian debt mission,
just arrived here, en route to the
United States
200 Pounds Second
Class Mail Arrives
About 200 pounds of second class
mail arrived today, being brought
from Ophir by Bob Itoberson aud John
Dunn, each driving his own .earn. The
carriers left Ophir with 40.', pounds,
but about 200 pounds of the amount
was billed to Taeotna.
Seattle-Sitka Cable
Out of Commission
The Sitka-S*- ,tle cabie, for the
lirst time in many months, went out of
commission on Monday and is at Pres
ent undergoing repairs. In the mean
time the naval radio stations ct Cor
dova aod Sitka are relayiDu- -Alaska
messages’to-Eentt e