YOL. III. NO. 50
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1923.
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150 Survivors of Japan
ese Earthquake Ar
rive at Seattle.
Seattle, Sept. 24.—Uucompar
able tales of horror are told by
the hundred and fifty survivor.-*
of the Japanese earthquake ar-,
riving on the President Jefferson,
which made port at4 o’clock tins
morning, and the waiting crowd
wept in sympathy as the refu
gees landed.
Accounts given by the surviv-j
ors makethe telegraphicaccounts
appear mild. W. T. ’Hucker,
general manager of the Yoko
harna office of the Western Casu
alty Company, told of witnessing
a large barge, loaded with women
and children, perishing in a sea
of burning oil. While nearly all
arriving here were injured, only
five had to be taken to the hos
pital.
Washington.—The Japanese govern
ment has refused to accept relief from
the Russian soviet government.
Fourteen vessels, laden with relief
supplies for victims of the Japanese
earthquake, have sailed from* the
United States for Japan.
London.—Five thousand perished in
floods which followed a typhoon at Tet
teri, northwest of Kobe, Japan, on Sat
urday, according to a dispatch to the
Central News.
Juneau Girl Not Per
mitted to Participate,
Brings $150,000 Suit
—
Atlantic City, K. J*—A suit for $150,
Jjunsges1 was instituted todav against
the Atlantic Carnival Committee by
Miss Alaska, otherwise Miss Helma
Liderman, of Juneau, who came here
to participate in beauty contests. Miss
Liderman came here as the representa
tive of an Alaskan newspaper, but was
not permitted to participate.
Britain Sends Sharp
Reply to Russ Govt.
Moscow.— Replying; to a note sent by
Tchiteherin to Britain, protesting
against the raising of the British flag
on Wrangell island, Britain has in
formed Russia that the expedition was
a private affair and that any attempt
bv! Russia to hamper the work of the
expedition would be viewed by Britain
with the utmost gravity.
Alaska R. R. Shows
Big Gain in Revenues
Washinffton.—The Alaska Railroad
is showing substantial increases in
revenues. As published by the In
terior Department today the increase
of receipts during July of this year
over July of last year was $07,000. The
total revenues for July, 1923, were as
foilows: For freight. $70,000; for pas
senger traffic, $30,000; for oilier busi
ness, $15,000. During July, 1922, the
revenues amounted to $48,000.
Can’t Let Liquor Via
Airplane Over Alas
ka, Asserted.
Washington, Sept. 21.— The
plan before the provincial liquor
board at Vancouver, II. C.. for
using airplanes for the trans
portation of liquor ii,„o Yukon
Territory, across the strip of the
Mi skan panhandle, is regarded
by experts here as promising im
portant developments in inter
national law. These high judi
cial authorities assert that pro
hibition extends upward in the
air infinitely over American ter
ritory, and they hold that liquor
cannot be carried over Alaska
under any circumstances. This
view is based largely on supreme
court decisions in ship liquor and
other cases.
Pvythicr Indicted for
[Murder of Cronkhite
Wash ing ton.—The gove&nmen tasked
the supreme court today to reverse the
decision of the First district court ef
appeals, in discussing t>>e release of
Pothior, who h->d been held in connec
tion with the death of Cronkhite at
Camp Lewis, fn i s petition the gov
ernment poic ;d out that Pothier has
recently been indicted for the murder
of Cronkhite by the federal district
court for Western Washington.
Forgets tc Say How
Fast It Is Growing
Washington.—Acting Director Ar
thur G. Means, in a report to Federal
Commissioner Haynes, declares there
is a growing oeBtin-ec'; in Alaska for
prohibition.
The Guinau £r Ames Dredging Cor
poration is the title of the new com
pany about to install the new dredge
on Canes creek, of which Jack Guinan
is manager ano G. W. C. Glass secre
tary - treason according to the latter,
who arrived here Sunday on the Thor.
Much of this dredge material has al
ready been lauded at the meadows by
the Thor, and all of it will undoubtedly
be there within the next few days,
ready to be transported to the scene o
installation as soon as favorable cor:di •
tions perm;*
Chris Nelson, in his new launch, re
turned here Tuesday '■ "om a trip to
McGrath. Also returning here was
Henry Aho, who fount; it inadvisable
to attempt tin connect with a Yukon
boat at this date via the lower river
portage, and who has deferred starting
for the Outside until the opening of the
winter tiails.
Snowflakes Sunday, Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday iree.ing Wednesday
and Thursday nights; fall of snow this
morning, with afccut five Lends of the
“beautifi ' covering the ground at the
noonday hour
George P. Kilroy, lunoko Dredging
Company manager, arrived Tuesday to
give attention to business matters, and
again returned to Gtlnes on Thursday
[New Naval Dirigible
i ZR-1 Completes On
tin uous Flight
Rakehurst, N. J. - The uavai dirigi
ble ZR-1 completed a continuous twelve
Lours’ Sight when it descended at the
naval air station here tonight.
Washington.—‘'The dirigible ZR-I,
which Tuesday Hew over New York
and Philadelphia, will yet fly to the
North Pole belt of tlie globe and prove
a revolutionary instrument in trans
portation »Dd communication,” Re".r
Admiral Me j it declared today, in
praising the maker of the great air
shio and crew.
I
Italians Commence
Evacuation of Corfu
—
London. -Although the conference
of ambassadors fixed Sewtemher 27 as
the date for the Italian evacuation of
Corfu, the Italians actually began
evacuation of the island today, says a
dispatch from Athens.
Mrs. Leon G. Loomis, wife of the
manager of the local N. CJ., and four
youngsters—Leon G.. jr., and little
Misses Winifred, Margaret and Lil
lian— were Monday arrivals, being ac
companied here by Mr. Loomis, who
was at McGrath to meet Mrs. Loomis
and ,;ttle ones when i ey arrived on
the Tana. _
The many friends of Mrs. Frank
Joaquin will be pleased to hear that
sbe underwent a very successful opera
tion at the hands of Dr. Beeson at the
Anchorage hospital, a few days ago,
and that she is much improved, ac
cording to a telegram lately received
bv Hans Erickson, of Ganes creek.
Charles Pearson and John E. Strand,
well known Nixon mining men, who
for some weeks hav been at Fairbanks
giving attention to business matters,
arrived here Thursday from Iditarod,
and left on the i'hor tuis afternoon for
McGrath on their wav to Nixon.
Tho Thor left thh. afteanoon for Mc
Grath, with the folloMing passengers:
L. F. Bullard^ Charlie Pearson, John
I E. Strand, Ross Kinney, Gust Rund
gren, Tom Shallow.
Charles Nichols returned here yes
terday, coming up on the Tho*’
Washington Notes
Washington.— Admiral Koontz, com
manding the United States fleet- re
ported to the Navy Department today
that no adequate explanation has been
given for the unusual position of the
seven American destroyers when they
were wrecked on the Cali forth a coast.
He declared the squadron was far off
the prescribed course, in a fog, steam
ing at twenty knots.
Washington.—After a conference
with President , Cooiidge, Chairman
Adams, of the republican national com
mittee, raid the committee would meet
in Washington to select a place for the
holding of the 1924 republican national
convention.
.Vashington.—Fur an hour this af
ternoon President Cooiidge and cabinet
considered a remedy for the disastrous
conditions in the wheat belt which piro
. UAtjri U ; pi ■ ..V. , »T„lt t.- ..ii'Ll.C .',J
against both old political parties.
Washington.—Secretary of Interior
Work indicated today that he will an
nounce the appointment of a general
manager for the Alaska Railroad as
soon as lie can spot the practical man.
U. of W. Student Mixed
Up WiiL Foul Crime, '
Bris.M Bay Section.
Seattle, Sopt. 25.--Robert II.
Edwards, a s. udent last year of
the University of Washington,
and Ralph Wolfe, 20, a fisher- j
man of San Francisco, are held j
by the federal government at
Valdez, accused of the murder of
George Edwards, of San Fran
cisco, as he lay sleeping in his
: blankets, on August 17. The
j crime was committed at a point
| about sixty miles up the Kwi
i chak river trail from Libbyville,
Bristol Bay, according to George
Smith, Libbyville cannery su
perintendent, the authority for
the story.
Seattle.—Mrs. Robert S. Kdwards,
the oride of a University of Washing
ton student, who arrived here yester
day from Newport, Wash., found her
husband held on the charge of murder,
and for the li st time her identity be
came publicly known. Their romance,
culminating in elopement and marriage
last January, had veen kept secret till
» t0,1LV
Ruhr Occupation and
Reparations Question
Berlin.—Chancellor Ktresseinann, in
an address nere today, declared: “We
are ready to pive real guarantee? in
order to secure the freedom of the
Ruhr.’’ lie admitted, hovever, that
solution of ' problem could not be
obtained » passive resistance.
Paris.—Conversations trial are tak
ing place between .lac ’tin, minister of
defense, Margerio, French ambassador
to Germany, and CL. eellor Stresse
m: na, in Berlin, are tocu5 Jered by the
French government as lending towards
a settlement of the repara' s ques
j tion. __
27 Months of Explor
ation in Baffin Land
Winnipeg.—Dr. Burket Smith, of
Copenhagen, arrive t here today, after
twenty-seven months in Baffin Land as
second in command to Knud Rasmus
sen, who is making his way by the
orthern coast to Alaska. Dr. Smith
said he is under obligations to make
his first report to the king of Denmark,
under whose d! 'potion the authority
for the journey made.
Desirable Location for
Alaskan Naval Base
Seattle.—Representative Miller, a
member of the House military affairs
committee, this afternoon, discussing
the proposed Alaska naval base, said
that a naval base project in Alaska, as
well as the entire Pacific coast, calls
for a base far in the west part of
Alaska, the farther west the better,
adding that j robably the south coast of
the Aleutian group might be the only
desirable location.
Body of H. N. Lucason,
Former Alaskan, Dug
Up On Outside.
San Bernardino, Sept. 24 —
The body of a murdered man
loutid in a shallow "rave in
Eajon Pass is that of M. X. Lu
cason, a former resident of Alas
ka. according to Sheriff Shay,
who filed a murder complaint
against a m.in named Williams,
who lived with Lucasson for live
weeks. Seven weeks ago two
men loft Oakland in Lu-ason's
touring car on a camping trip.
Lucason was 02 years of age. lie
took up hb, residence in Oakland
after having lived in Alaska, for
fifteen years.
Military Directorate
Governing m Spain
London.—A new military iege has
been declared at Madrid, according to
a dispatch from the Spanish capita’ re
ceived here tonight, which states that
power has been assumed by the mili
tary authorities.
_■ • -
Madrid. -Kii,„— Alfonso returned to
Madrid this morning, and when he de
clined the premier’s request for au
thority to punish rovoiters the cabinet
resigned.
Paris.—The Spanish naval squadron
has arrived at Barcelona, and it is un
derstood that the admiral has received
drastic orders to put down the revolt,
headed bv Captain Yimavera. sajs a
San Sebastian dispatch. Martial law
has been proclaimed it Madrid.
Barcelona.—Rivera, whom King Al
phonse charged with the duty of form
ing a ne w cabinet, d eh- red this after
noon t.hut the king had accepted a di
rectorate proposed by military chiefs.
‘Ford for President’
Clubs in 18 Stales
Omaha.—Ford for President clubs
have been ostab -died in eighteen
states, according to Roy M. ilarrop,
chairman of the national independent
progressive party, who is hare making
arrangements for a meeting of the na
tional committee of the party on -No
vember 31.
Chinese Bandits Loot
Shops and Kidnap 100
Shanghai.—Bandit hordes have cap
tured the town of Menghsien, in the
western part of Honan. Tho invaders
looted shops anl the homes of wealthy
residents and kidnapped one hundred
persons, including the teachers and
pupils of the school and the town mag
istrate. _
London.—Some secret means discov
ered by Germans for damaging air
planes in Might is believed to be the
explanation of nearly thirty forced
French lanu'ngs in German territory
since the occupation of the Ruhr, says
the London Daily Mail.