THE KUSKO TIMES
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A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Pa hi inked Every Saturday
$1 P-er Month
Advertising Kates.
Heading matter, per line, per
isene ..$ .25
lLogal advertisements, per line,
issue -20
'^transient display, per inch, per
issue (minimum charge $1) . .50
Entered as second-class matter Au
tfUt 29th, 1023, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act af
.March 3, 1379.
Tokotna. Alaska. January 22,, 192li.
Some Recent
Outside Events
'Chicago.—-Owen 1*. Young, chair
jm»n of the General Electric Hoard,
turgad the American Farm Bureau
federation to encourage the.spread of
jpower transmission systems, ami said
tthat electric power would solve many
i )f the vexing farm problems.
Rome.—The tulian senate ratified
tthe Italian-American debt agreement
:and the $ 100,000,000 loan made to
iltaly by the Morgan firm, after
(speeches lauding the .United States.
Seattle.—The establishment of .an
jairplane mail route from Seattle to
Los Angeles, to save thirty-eigh‘
Ihours in delivery of mail, is being con
sidered by the postal authorities.
Albany, X. Y„—With a calmness
xwhich shocked veteran police, Albert
iDevine, 44, a respected .citizen of Al
lbany, confessed that he hud killed hi
wife with a hammer. Following hi
»;onfeseion, the body of Mrs. Devine
\was dug from its resting place in th
tcellar. AfJftrtK* jJa(i buried the body.
;Devine declared he was greatly n -
llieved and slept soundly that nigh,
for the first time in months, lie sal
ihe committed the murder because his
■.wife was continually finding fault
%with him.
Paris.—All bull fights, Whether
(aimed at killing or wounding the an
Ilmals, have been interdicted by order
»of the police prefect.
Chicago.—The hangouts pf gum -
liand were raided and wrecked by au
thorities. A score of notorious place
■were left in ruins, and a half-hundre.1
(hardened gangsters rested behind
jail bars. Dynamite bombs hurled at
tthe homes of police .officers who had
ibeett active in suppressing crime was
tthe signal for the great drive.
ir AIKHANKS-I UINT HAKKOW
FLIGHT OVER NORTH I “OLE
Seattle.—The Chamber of 'Cum
itnerce announces that the Detroit Avi
i«tion Society has telegraphed ad.viees
that it has accepted the offer to co
operate in the preparation for the
Fairbanks-Poirtt Barrow-North Pole
.sspitzenbergen flight. it is understood
;from this that the planes and sup
plies for the trip will -he shipped
iUorth from Seattle.
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Carl J. Lonien,, tihe grand .old man
<ot Nome, and head of the Lonien en
terprises there, who is now in Detroit,
■wired W. F. Thompson a Christmas,
gift in the shape of the first chance
tto take advantage of the enterprise of
a great news-gathering syndicate, the
.North American Newspaper Alliance,
which will have exclusive rights in all
the news emanating from the polar
flight above referred to, that we
might get first-hand and first the de
velopments of the trip. Mr. Lomen
has no financial interest in the Alli
ance. The Alliance had extended this
invitation to us by mail, hut Mr. Lo
*n*n knew about mails to here and
*rired it for them, at his own expense,
Jn 148 words. Only one newspaper
In this district can join with the Al
founce for this feature story, so they
pttiltfl ,W P.s, The expedition, is pn. i
soon, so they have to telegraph. The
tliers and their entourage leave Se
attle, apparently, almost immediately
for Seward; then come to Fairbanks
and (apparently) they freight their
planes and supplies from Our Town
aver the ice with dog teams to Point
Barrow, that they may be at Barrow
inside of ninety days, ready to hop off
for the Pole and the Spitzyplace. The
rest of the front page story stuff is
based upon the newspaper’s circula- j
lion. In fairness to Mr. Lornen, and
for his interest in us, we had to break
clean with him, so we wired him that
owing to conditions in our town it
wouldn't be fair to the Alliance to
sign on the dotted line with them,
payment upon a basis of circulation,
because we only have .2118 paid sub
scribers in our town, and the Alli
ance would never be able to figure
from those figures .whether they owed
us money on the,deal .or not; that the
chances -were that the Alliance on
tbs Fairbankssto-Barrow hike would
have to depend on us fur its front
page feature stuff; .that there was but
one other paper .published in this di- |
vision, it being the .Kusko Times,!
printed at Tokotna, somewhat out of
the way.amlthatthei-ihr h fwy fwdy w
the way, and that the Alliance might
do better by passing the benefit fo
them.
PRESS SQl'IBS.
Prohibition would be .more of a
force if it were less of a farce.—Co- 1
lumbia Record.
■Our Mr. Ford has not abandoned ■
the idea of milk from contented co- ,
:oknuts.—Detroit News.
‘‘Bodies of Royal Mound Builders
Found in Ohio, Clad in Rich Gems.”
Prehistoric bootleggers, obviously..—
Columbia Record.
There are mules in the coal fields
that are not hauling coal.—Detroit
News.
At least there will be no more wars
started to borrow from Uncle Sam.—
Wall Street Journal.
Tammany usually makes its op
ponents dancq. This time it was the
Hylan fling.—Tampa Tribune.
The way to have some of the best
families ask you to call again is to be
* bill collector.—Quincy Whig-Jour
nal.
About the only remaining place af
fording adequate parking facilities is
fame’s eternal camping ground.—Ar
kansas Gazette.
The finding of Dr. Bingham that
persons of high intelligence are
poorer automobile drivers than those
if lower intelligence is, of course,
discouraging to the most of us.—
Dmaha World-Herald.
“Stand by the Missoui mule,'” coun
sels one of the state’s patriotic para
graphed, By, not back of.—Detroit
News.
Kail rates have become such a bur
Jen to Middle-West farmers that
they travel only by automobile.—
Wall Street Journal.
Anyway, they can’t revive an old 1
lomplaint and apply it to the modern
;irl—that she puts everything on her
sack.—-Toledo Blade.
Things are so complicated. Nar
row-minded people are thick-headed.
—Columbia Record.
Poverty is partly a state of mind,
caused at times by a neighbor’s new
-•ar.—St. Paul Dispatch.
America is the land o fopportunity,
.vhieh may account for so much
c nocking.—Cleveland Times.
An Indiana man paid $500 for u
jee. Not so much. A political bug
jften costs more.—Toledo Blade.
How fine to get on the open road,
.vhere one isn’t shut in by buildings,
jut only by bill-boards.—Peoria Star.
“Never mind,” said the Chicago mo
;orist, “it’s only a pistol shot—I
:hought for a minute it was one of
;he tires.”—Detroit News.
England votes a bonus to prevent
i coal strike. We let the strike take
its corse. And if you study that for
!» while you will find it works out to
about the same thing:-—Detroit News.
Would a shake-up every six months
in the prohibition unit come under
the head of dry-cleaning?—Detroit
News.
Things might be worse. Suppose
Mr. Ford had gone in for the quan
tity production of popular-priced
■saxophones.—Columbia Record.
Science predicts synthetic steaks :
fro mcottonseed, but fails to tell
what, in that event, we’ll do for olive !
>il.—Brooklyn Eagle.
From a newspaper article clipped!
from the Literary Digest we learn
.hat divorces are more numerous in
:he United States than has ever been
recorded in the history of the world. [
Jur way of thinking about this situa- I
ion shows what a nation can accom
plish when it abolishes livker and
iohers up.—Greenville News.
A Newspaper Yarn.
William Allen White, the famous p
Kansas editor, told a newspaper story ,
tt a banquet in Emporia.
“Perhaps,” he began, "this story is '
i chestnut, but aren’t all good stories
•hestnuts?
“In the town uf Hot Dog there were
rw*> rival [rnpers, the Blade and the
Scimitar. The Scimitar came out
>ne morning with this article in a j
mndsome box on the front page:
“ ‘A miserable specimen of human- !
ty, all rags arid filth, entered our i
>ffice yesterday amid a strong spell of
looch. He gave his name as Gama
iel Chance Mullock, Jr., asked for
harity, and said that he had former
y worked in Hot Dog. But wt had
mr doubts as to his statement, and -
iccordingly put the fellow through a
rrilling cross-examination. It seems
hat he was telling us the truth.
“‘Our interviewer concluded in Hus ,
nanner:
“ ‘Then you really did work here in j
J. H. McLean
Tokatna
Swift’s Ham and Bacon
Golden State Butter
and Cheese
New Stock of dreen Hood
Woolen Goods
Hood All Rubber Pacs
Ladies’ Furnishings
Arctics Felt Slippers
King Island Mukhiks
Stamped Embroideries
Ladies’ Shoes and Slippers
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
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Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir al'out us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
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Hot Dop, Mr. Mallock ?
“‘Yes, sir.’
“‘What was your avocation?’
“ ‘I was editor of your contempo
rary, the Hot Dor Blade.’
“‘Humph! Editor of the Blade!
And to what do you attribute your re
markable rise in the world since that
time?”’
New York.—Baseball writers have
voted Ropers Hornsby the most valu
able player in the National Leapue.
mens arri •MnnHMMmnmaa i
Tokotna -j
Pool Hall
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Avoid the Rush!
Toilet Articles
Cigarette Holders
Cigar Holders
Pocket Combs
Sanitary Tooth finishes
1 Extracts—Lemon, Banana t
and Strawberry Flavors '
j
Imperial Cigarettes
at cost price
Jack Mntchler;
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Proprietor
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Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
B. & L Store
McGrath, Alaska
MUKLUKS
' HIP BOOTS
’KNEE "MUKLUKS
MUKLUKS FOR BOTH
i KIDS AND LADIES
i SPUINGXTOTS
3 feet wide
AT COST
A. R.
Larson Roadhouse
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Rest of Home Cooked Meals. ''Prompt Attention
-New Dog Houses
Frank Larson
Proprietor
General Transportation
How About Wood; Hauling?
See Joe Ferris or Bud Riley ^
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