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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. DEC. 20. 1922
Sensational Attack
tc Liberate Prison
ers in St. Paul Jail
St. Paul.—Less than 24 hours after
he had been liberated from the Ramsey
countv jail by twelve men, who staged
a sensational attack on that institution,
John C. Ryan, alleged leader of a shot
gun bandit gang, was again locked up
tonight with six men wno were said to
have participated in the attack.
The men were traced to a rooming
house and arrested there. One of
th em is Frances Green, brother of Ed
Green, whose release also was sought
by the band that broke into the jail.
xo making tne darmg release last
n igbt two of the meD, wearing federal
officers’ badges, entered the jailer’s
office with two other men who they
claimed wfte prisoners. The ’’two led-'
oral agents" and their ‘‘prisoners"
were admitted to the jail. They drew
guns, brought in eight more confeder
ates, seized the keys to all jail cells,
and forced the jailers into the cells.
A general fail delivery was frustrat
ed because the raiders could not find
keys to a main room where sixty pris
oners were detaiued.
The gunmen made a desperate at
tempt to free Eddie Green, one of
Ryan's lieutenants, hut made no efi'ort
to reach Roy Freeman, another mem
ber of the gang, who lost favor with
his pals because he permitted himself
to be captured without a struggle in
the trap at the Park Theater, a few
weeks since, when Ryan and O’Laugh
1 in were wounded and ^the gang
smashed.
The two jailers, bleeding and torn,
were locked up us the gunmen fled and
gave the alarm by sending in a fire
alarm.
firemen were unable to unlock the
doors, but spread a general alarm when
the jailers called to them from a win
dow to tell what had hnnnened.
Largest Airplane Will
Carry 2O;OO0 Pounds
Washington.—Results of extreme in*
| terest to the science of aeronautics are
expected by army aviation experts to
j be obtained from the forthcoming trials
• at Fairfield, O., of the 1 irgest airplane
| ever constructed in the United Siates.
The machine—a superbtmtber tri
plane with a wing spread of 12.7 feet
; and carrying six Liberty motors total*
jing 2.400 horsepower—will have an
I estiunited speed of 100 miles an hour
with a carrying load of 20,000 pounds.
Its construction was begun in 101!) and
carried forward secretly at the YVitte
mann Aircraft Company’s plant, lias
brook tleights, N. J.
The six motors are set in three pairs,
with one puller and one pusher to each [
group. The total weight, of the ma
chine. including the carrying load, will
be 30.900 pounds. A cruising radius of
7,300 miles is called for by the specifi
cations, exceeding by hundreds of;
miles the radius of bombing machines
now in the service
The machine will be known as Bar- !
ling bomber, in honor of W. E. Bar
ling, a British designer, who achieved
success in construction of war aircraft.
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Bonded Whisky Disap
pears Through Siphon
—
!
Peoria, 111.—That several hundreds,
perhaps thousands of gallons of bonded
whiskey was stolen from the Corning
distillery here by thieves working a
siphon system through 250 feet of rub
ber hose, is the belief of police and dis-|
tillery officials investigating losses sus-I
tained yesterday.
The thieves are believed to have
siphoned barrel after barrel of whisky
and carried their loot away on a truck.
Discovery of the robbery was made
when Superintendent Taylor, of the
distillery, found hose runniug to a
window. Several empty barrels were
found where the hose terminated out
side.
May Restore Old Salem
as Shrine of Lincoln
Washington.—b'ederal control and
restoration of Old Salem, 111., a few
miles from the state capital at Spring
field. is provided for in a bill intro
duced by Representative Guy L. Shaw,
of Illinois, who would restore the town
to its architecture as it was in the days
when Abraham Lincoln held wrestling
matches in the village st-ieets.
The Shaw bill directs that the gov
ernment shall restore the old mill, the
tavern, the villatre store, the log
houses, just as they were when Lincoln
Dr. W. f. Green
McGrath, Alaska
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
705 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice_in,.all Courts.
was a young surveyor and the village
storekeeper.
Little is known of what first attract
ed Lincoln to Old Salem, but the story
is told that while he was a voung man
he was boating on the Sangamon river
to learn if it was navigable. -'Some
thing on land attracted his attention,
lie climbed the bluff and came upon
the village of Old Salem.
So charmed whs he wi*h the sur
roundings that he decided to locate
there. He later became the village
storekeeper and set tip as a surveyor.
It was from Old Salem thtit he laid out
the present city of Petersburg, whose
oil izens have started the campaign for
a memorial.
There are many yet living who re
member how earnestly he courted Ann
Rutledge, daughter of the proprietor
of Rutledge’s tavern, at which he
hoarded. Her grave is now kept green
in the cemetery at Petersburg.
Tn years past many thousands of
Americans traveled to Old Salem to see
the place where Lincoln spent much of
his early manhood and held his famous
wrestling matches. But the old land
ma.-ks were gone, the buildings in
decay. Then blossomed the idea to
make Old Saiem a Lincoln shrine.
jttrSB&airaM If maNK 4
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
GSff^S
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best, of Horae Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction.
Mrs. Frank Larson
Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
Mew Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt Wallace Langley, Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog feed.
Proprietor
Diamond Dick