KUSKO
TIMES
VOL. VI. NO. 7
TOKOTNA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 192f5.
PRICE 25 CENTS
ALASKA’S
OFFICIALS
5 Nominations Okayed*
hy Senate Judiciary
Committee.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Favorable
:reports were ordered today by-, the
Senate judiciary committee on the
nominations of Judge G. J. Lomen, of
the Second Alaska1.district; Marshal
Charles D. Jones ami United ..States
Attorney .William F. Harrison, of. the
division; Marshal Sullivan, of
ihWThind district, and Lynn Smith,
marshal .For the Fourth division.
The committee deferred action- on
the nominations of Judge E. E.
Ritchie and Thomas M. Reed, for the
Third. and. First-divisions, respective
ly. Their nominations are under lire
frdm Delegate Sutherland.
Spanish Aviator May
Attempt Flight From
Buenos* Aires do N. Y.
Buenos Aiies* Feb:. 11.—Having
fioivn from Palos, Spain, to Buenos
C6tn.raander Ramon Franco
said today he would send to King Al
foftso a proposal to continue his flight
from Buenos Aires to -New \York..
HOUSE PUBLIC 'LANDS COM
MITTEK-APPROVES BILL OF
DELEGATE SUTHERLAND
Washington,' Feb. 11.—The House
public lands committee today ap
proved the bill of Delegate Suther
land, of Alaska# to authorize depart
ure from the rectangular' system of
surveys for homesteads in that'Ter
ritory. The change was1 urged by
Delegate Sutherland to-overcome dif
ficulties in irregularities terrain and
divergence'.of meridian tides.. .
RECOMMEND INVESTIGATION
OF ALUMINUM COMPANY
Washington, Feb. 12.—-Another in
vestigation ©f the Aluminum Com
pany of America, in which Secretary
of Treasury^ Mellon‘i3 a stockholder,
was recommended'-tb the Seriate today
by its judiciary, committee.
AGAINST PUBLIC ATIONNIF
AMOUNTS OF INCOME TAX
Washington, Feb. 12.—Repeal of
If.w allowing publication, of amounts
of* income tax payments is assured,
the'Senate having approved this pro
vision written into each measure of
th£ bill by the House.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
O NABSTINENCE, PROHIBITION
New York, Feb. 12.—A new note
orr-prohibition, which has been agitat
ing the Episcopal church, has been
struck in the pronouncement by Car
dinal O’Cohnell, of Boston, that the
Roman Chtholic Church applauds vol
untary abstience but opposes compul
sory prohibition. •
Friday, February 12, the anniver^
sary of Lincoln's birthday, was most
appropriately observed by Tokotna
school. Suitable songs and readings
were rendered, and during the after
noon an excellent poster of Lincoln’s
log cabin home was finished and now
decorates the wall of the school. In'
this conneltion, it may also be said
that posters of Pied Piper and a
number * of scenes from Hiawatha,
also on the school walls, made by the
children during the school term, are
splendid examples of the children’s
activities along those lines. Some
splendid free-hand map drawing by
Joseph Oates is also on exhibition.
Jack Lament, with the outgoing
mail, arrived Thursday, and left yes
terday on hia way- to Big river
WILKINS,
EXPLORER
Ori His Way,. Bringing
2 Fokker Planes to
Fairbanks.
Seattle, Feb. IT.—Having arrived
last night from the East, Captain
George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, who
hopes to find' a new continent on the
top of the world, today began pre
parations for the Seattle-Fairbanks
leg of the journey. Wilkins ami Ma
jor Thomas G. Lamphier, of the army
air service, will sail Saturday on the
steamer Victoria for Seward, taking
with them two Fokker monoplanes,
which will be used in making the
polar flight from Point Harrow.
Seattle, Feb. 13.—Captain > Gborge
Hubert. Wilkins and Major Thomas
G. Lamphiers, members of the Wil
Wilkins polar expedition, sailed for
Point Harrow via Fairbanks on the'
liner Victoria,• for Seward, this morn-j
San Francisco, Feb. 13.-—“The Wil
kins expedition will never make the j
North Pole in planes,” Explorer Am-1
tmdsen declared here today.
SAYS SNOW MOTORS ARE
NOT SUITABLE FOR
POINT BARROW TRIP j
Seattle;.—Captain E. T. McIntyre,
veteran Alaskan trader and engineer,
predicted the failure of the Wilkins
flight from Point Barrow. He said;
“Hundreds of old Alaskans could
reach the North Pole quietly if some
body told them there was gold there,
.'out Wilkins won’t get there this
spring. They are assuming that they
will be able to haul gasoline to Point
Barrow from Fairbanks, but they will
never be able to cross the Endicott
range. They will find no trails, but
great hummocks of snow and ice that
their snow 'tractors can't crawl over
or go around. Even dogs couldn’t
haul gasoline across those mountains
at this time of year, but dogs would
come nearer doing it than tractors."
Juneau.—Wilkins’ snow tractors
may fail to haul supplies to Point!
Barrow from Nenana, is indicated hy
a report received here by the Alaska
Road Commission from the Fairbanks
j office,-after a..similar tractor had been
tested between Fairbanks and Birch
Lake, a distance of 58 miles. The
snow motor left Fairbanks January!
11 loaded with three tons, and arrived
at Birch Lake on the 14th with 800
pounds, it having been necessary to.
discharge the remainder of the load ;
en route. The running time was 24
hours, and 67 gallons of gasoline were l
consumed, indicating that it would re- j
quire more than four tons of fuel be- j
; tween Nenana and Point Barrow.
Officials reported that the steering
gear of the snow motor was unsatis- |
factory, making it impossible to oper- j
ate through the dry snow common in
the interior of Alaska, where lack of|
water prevents the snow from pack
ing, which is necessary to furnish j
traction for the revolving treads. The
test tractor dug itself into drifts and
moved sideways on a- sidling trail.
Nome.—Aarnout Castle left Nome
Sunday en route to oint Barrow. He
has a large string of dogs, and is tak
ing more than a quarter of ton of
provisions for the Wilkins expeditiin,
the provisions having been left at
Nome by Amundson’s ship Maud.
Castle will join Wilkins at Barrow,
I but does not know whethes he will be
I selected to participate in the flight..
He is anxious to go because he and
Wilkins worked together in previous
Arctic expeditions. An Eskimo is ac
companying Castle on the trip, which
will require about a month.
Wilkins Supply Party
Returns NenanaWith
Damaged Snow Motors
Nenana, Feb. 13.-—The Wilkins
polar expedition supply party re
turned to Nenana today, on accinnit
of damaged snow motors. The party
trot only three miles up the Tarana.
COAL STRIKE
SETTLES
Miners Return to Work
Under a Rive-Year
Agreement
Philadelphia, Feb. 13.—The anthra
cite coal miners' strike was settled
here today, when announcement was
made, that the proposition of the. op
erators to return to work mmediately
on a five-year agreement had been ap
proved by the miners.
Senate Passes Rig
Tax Reduction Rill
Washington, Feb. 13.’—The. Senate
late last night passed the tax reduc
tion bill providing a saving of four
hundred and fifty-.six million dollar's
in taxes this year to federal taxpay
ers and sent it to conference for ad
justment of differences with the
Houses
DEPUTY MARSHAL WISEMAN
ON WAY' TO FAIRBANKS
Deputy Marshal Frank Wiseman,
of Bethel, driving his own team, and
Dr. Wentz, of Akiak hospital, with
Willie Naoukay as driver, passed
through Tokolna on. Friday. All par
ties are headed for Fairbanks, pre
sumably to be in attendance before
the grand jury, which is called to
convene at that place on February
17 th.
Charged with infanticide, and
lodged in Fairbanks jail some time
ago, is a Bethel woman familiarly
known as “Mike,” and it is this case,
as well as other matters, for- which
Messrs. Wiseman anl Wentz are on
their way to Fairbanks.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Washington, Feb. 13.—The Federal
courts were .asked- by the government
today to prevent the formation of a
huge combination in the baking in
dustry.
Mosbsch, Baden. Feb. 12.—Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, rich Philadelphia
draft evader, is under arrest here.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Presidential
nominations today included Solicitor
of the Treasury Robert J. Mawhinney,
of Pennsylvania, and Collector of
Customs John McBride, at Juneau,
Alaska, for reappointment.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Charles R.
Forbes, former director of the Vet
erans' War Bureau, has asked the Su
preme Court to review his conviction
on the charge of conspiracy.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Repeal of
the inheritanre tax was approved to
day by the Senate.
SAIS AliASRil »rA
A TOURISTS* PARADISE
Washington, Feb. 12.—“Alaska is
rapidly becoming a tourists’ para
dise,” James Gordon Steese, president
of the Alaska Road Commission, told
a Congressional committee today.
$100,000 KIRK AT KETCHIKAN.
Ketchikan, Feb. 12.—Fire today de
stroyed the St. George’s Hotel, the
Pioneer Hotel and adjoining store
buildings, with » loss of £100.000.
GERMANY
AND ITALY
Premiers of 2 Countries
Discharging Wordy
Broadsides.
Berlin, Fob. 9.—“The German gov
ernment must decline to reply to Pre
mier Mussolini in a tone which is
better suited to mass meetings thaii
to diplomatic conversation with other
nations," Foreign Minister Stre.se
man said in the Reichstag today in
opening his reply to Saturday’s
broadside from the Italian premier
regarding the situation in South Ty
rol, where Mussolini declared in his
speech Saturday tjie Germans are
conducting an anti-Italian campaign.
Rome. Feb. 10.—Replying in the
Italian senate today to yesterday’s
address by Foreign Minister Strese
mann, of Germany, Premier Musso
lini said:
“1 confirm the letter and spirit of
j my previous speech, not excluding
j the accent upon my phrase referring
| to the possibility of the Italian flag
going beyond the Brennero frontier,
which Stresemann can interpret as he
pleases.”
London, Feb. 10.—Added interest
has been given the German-Ttalian
situation by the Rome report to the
Daily Express that the Italian ambas
sador and counsellor of the embassy
at Berlin have left Germany.
General Pershing’ m
Very Poor Health
Key West, Fla., Fob. —General
John J. Pc/shing nrrivoil here today
aboard the cruiser Denver en route to
Washington, from Arica, Chile, where
: he served until recently as neutrfl
chairman of the Tacna-Arica plebis
cite commission. General Pershing
appeared to be in very poor health.
Washington, Feb. 13.—General J.
J. Pershing returned to Washington
today for medical treatment, after
j five months' absence in South Amer
i ica as head of the Tacna-Arica pleb
iscite commission. He was met at the
I railway station by Secretary of State
| Kellogg.
G. W. C. GLASS RETURNS FROM
TRIP TO LOWER KUSKOKWIM
G. W. C. Glass, after a trip down
river as far as Akiak, returned here
Tuesday, having made the trip in
eleven days’ traveling time from Can
yon creek, about 80 miles from Akiak,
where he went to investigate a quartz
proposition, owned by Herman Oman.
Owing to mow and ice conditions, Mr.
Glass was unable to reach the ground.
However, he brought back a number
of samples, which will be sent out for
assay. From the looks of the ore and
and what is related of it, the ore
bears the earmarks of a promising
! proposition. Mr. Glass will probably
return to the ground at the opening
| of navigation to make further nives
t.igation.
On Bear creek, says Mr. Glass, it
l?s understood that the New York
Alaska Gold Dredging Company will
have all dredging material on the
ground on Bear creek by March 30.
P.11R Wilciin s*nH f’hris Dahl nro nrp
; paring for operations on the Marvel
creek ground. They have nineteen
dogs busy hauling hydraulic pipe,
etc., from Akiak. They will also haul
u quantity of material from Bear
creek.
Barney and A1 Walsh, on Crooked
creek, are sinking a shaft from which
they will run a crosscut to find the
extent of the pay on the lower rim of
their high bench channel.
Tom Saknof, from McGrath, w i
! today arrival..
FOB WETS
Treasury Dept. Recom
mends Changes in
Volstead Act.
Washington, Feb. 12.—The Treas
! ury Department has drafted recom
mendations for a series of changes in
the Volstead act and those statutes
having to do with enforcement of pro
hibition, in order to meet new condi
tions.
The proposed changes were drafted
by Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Andrews, in the light of his experi
ence as chief enforcement officer, and
have been approved by Secretary Mel
lon. They will be submitted to Con
gress immediately.
Blizzards, Bitter Cold
Hit Northeastern U. S.
New York, Feb. 12.—Bitter cold
weather today followed the second
blizzard that buried the Northeastern
United States under two feet of snow.
Sixteen deaths are reported.
4 rc inrvT \ T
DEATH IN KILLING OF NA
TIVE, SHAGELL'K VILLAGE
Recent reports coming from Flat
state that U. S. Commissioner F,. J.
Stier, Deputy Marshal Estes and Dr.
Wentz returned there a few days ago
from a village on Shageluk slough,
where they went to investigate an
alleged murder.
The case was one in which a native
man was shot by a r.jtive girl, the
latter being deaf and dumb. Tne girl,
according fcp accounts, had for some
time been annoyed by the attentions
of men of the native village.
Reports of the shooting ari con
flicting, so far as learned here. It
seems, however, that on the day in
question the native man called at the
home of the native woman, who re
pulsed the attenntions of the man.
The girl got hold of a gun. She dis
claimed that she intended to use it,
but it was discharged somehow, the
Bullet entering the back of the man’s
head, killing him instantly.
The coroner's jury returned a ver
dict of accidental death, and the girl
was disc car- ■ d.
SAYS IDITAROD MAIL ROBBERS
ARE FORCED TO THE WALL
Anchorage. — Fearing detection
by secret service operatives, two Idit
arod men, with a cache of $75,000
stolen from the mails two years ago,
are reduced to poverty, states Alex
Gunderson, recently arriving from the
Iditarod. It is claimed that the offi
cers know the thieves, but are unable
to prove a case on them, and are
keeping the suspects under constant
watch in the hope of securing evi
dence that will enable them to make
an arrest. Given the cold shoulder
by qjttizens of the district, the pair
are forced to exist on wild game and
to live in the wi’ ,'erness.
TEN FOREIGN PRIESTS EX
PELLED FROM MEXICO
Mexico City, Feb. 13.—Ten foreign
priests have been deported from Mex
ico. Fight more are held for expul
sion, and th - poli-'e are seeking others
accused of violating the Mexican con
stitution, it was oilicially announced
today.
FEDERAL TAX DODDERS
AVOID PAYING MILLIONS
Washington, Feb. 13,-—Treasury
agents have uncovered frauds
amounting to manny millions of dol
lars in their investigation of Federal
tax dodgers, the Treasury Depart*
mor»t annonur^i forj:\y.
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