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Entered as second-claaa matter \v
jfUst 2!>th, 1*.'23. at the pestoiKi-e a
Toi /tun. Alaska, under tha Act n
Warrh 3. 1S79.
KUSKOKWIV’S PIONEER PAPTii
The first ssue of the. Kiisku Tme
wa;- published in a, small cabin a
McGrath . I5*21—thir
teen'years igo. „ In ; November. 192(
the Writer nkeo ,uver the trail fror
McGrath to Tluby, where materia
enough to ppn} a small four colum
sheet was packed tor shipment. Th
writer then started back over th
trail, riding part of the way with be
hind Ben Derrick’s team of wolf dogs
The , “printing plant”, consisting o
1316 pounds, was later brought ove
the mail trail from Ruby to Ophir b;
Scotty Clark, at 20 cents per poum
and from Ophir to McGrath by Bill;
ion s, well known freighter of thos
days. When the plant finally arrive)
at ftfcGrath and opened* it was found
inprinters’ parlance,, to be ire badl;
Jpie<^’ conditiom.'The work of makini
the plant workable started in imme
diately, in which; the printer had as
sista’nce from a United States com
missioner and the ibcal school teache
and much advice from other sources
In '1923 the plant was moved-to Ta
kotna and became- weekly instead o:
bi-weekly.
Thirteen years is quite are epoql
m the life span of man or men, ii
which many events are covered.
During the life of The Kusko Time;
many changes havetaken place, a fev
notable ones in this section. In thi
early days mail was always carriei
by dog team, taking 10 or 12: days
to Anchorage, and was seldom lesi
than a month from- Seattle.Radios ha*
not reached their presesit state oi
perfection and were practically use
less. In 1823 Pilot Eielesen demon
strated the feasibility of airplane:
for this section, since which time th<
service has improved until practically
all winter transportation is by plane
The plane service in some measure
compensates for Uncle Sams fit o!
economy in depriving this section o
the wireless.
Among tlie unique adv rtisement
appearing in the first issue of Th
fuiies was that of Jot* Blanchel!, Pic
neer roadhouse keeper of the Rain;
i’a: s section, who advertised "Aw;
lope and ibex always on tap. Wil
trioose, mountain sheep and gri*7.I;
bear in season.”
Another unique one was that o
Chitnfie Rebhun, who ad\ r h ~
■. :i us “the Handy- Man, and when
ad read “A Bath in a Real Bathtub
/- .r on: the early-day subscriber
of The Kusko- Times were th. fol
J lowing:
Wiliam Gibbs, George Marsh, Mai'
* shall, Manuel Gularte, Janies P rn t
C’ntis Dahl, Charles Mespmt,
Smith, Gus Schuler, Grant Murdock
'Ml?:* Johis, Van-.e MeDoria"...!,
Johnson, Robert Lowrie, Matt 13
t . t. :hn. J. . Berry, Shorty Edwards
Louih Gorman, H. C. Wallick, Cap:
‘ Wa :ace Langley, S. J. Bates, Dai
McRae, Frank Larson, Paul Flynr
Charles Mespelt, ans Erickson, Ti
Boyd, B. B. Smith, William Lodge
ueorge r. Kilroy, Jess loaer, Marti]
.. j Clancey, Vic Hill, Clint Winan, A. J
I Hosmer, John Beaton,' Ed Morgan
s Anthony Sweeney, L. Wolf, L. F
Miller, Prank Lange, Wiliam Cribbti
, Andrew Olson, VVaino Puntila, Capt
- j George Green, Vivian Howard, Chas
,: icolet, -Halfdan Wiig, Frank Cioli
,: W. A. VinaJ, Joe Blanchell, Jack Mut
11 ch!er. J°e Keene, Harry' ceager, R. K
! Wite, Mrs. R. E. Stturtevant, Fratil
i McCaffrey, N. H. Pearson, Dan Me
3, t.inty, E. M. Whaen, Peter McMullen
.Mike Bozich, Lee ampreeht, Victoi
' i Rhodes, Mrs. E. P. Werner, D. Peck
E. V* . Park, Eli Walker, Capt. Bugge
Gus Gullickson, Adolph Car;son, i,.is
[[T. P. Aitken, Owen Gray, O’Malley <S
r I Johnson, George Walters, W. J. Wid
man, Dan McDonald, James Downey
'j Karl Thiele, Blackburn Goebel, Vir
f! ginia Howard, M„x §imel, Ruth Reat
,-'i Albrecht and Taylor,, George Smith
J Joe Sherwood, Ed Carlson, J. Heino
' j Evan Jones, Dan Sprague! Billy Star,
1; ton, Del Thompson, Joe Wills, Sit
, (Paulson, Sam esvoog, Charles Ny
r! strom, A1 Thorns, W. T. Vanderpool
^: John Rieck, H. Y. Groshong. Archi,
’ j Higgins, J. H. McLean, William
• I Schneirla, Wm. D. McGowan, Waltei
. i Stephens, Charles O’Halloran, Jacl
_, McDonald, Tom Bare, Frank Speljack
; Frank Fox J. O. Strand, Wm. Bean
1 Harvey Williams, R. S. Hart J. M
. Stewart, H. E. Carter, R. S. Boyd
. E. Carlson, Dave Clough, Dr.. W.. F
■ Green, John H. Peterson, Henry Mar
tella, John E. Sttrand, Charles Reb
hon, Fritz Tittel, John Baker, J. R
t Nixon, J. Sinclair, Chris Nelson, Did
i Matthews, Ikey Haye s. Frank Monk
man.
, Many of the above still remain.: c*
, The Times* subscription ist, others
. have moved to other parts, while not
I a few have reached the end of the
last trail.
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i “What happened to,, that nice lodges
you had1, Mrs. Murphy?” asked.one
landlady of another. , „
“Oh,” was .the reply, “I had to .get
!• rid of him... ■ Oo^o uknoow. he talc
i me he was a Bachelor of . Arts from
’ Chicago, and a week or so later 1
. found out by chance he had a wife
i and family in New York.”—Montreal
' Gazette.
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f SEEINji THROUGH THE.
WORLD’S LARGEST EYES
’ PASADENA,—Seeing- through the
i mo.a fa. -reaching eye on earth—the
K »nt 10‘l»jnch te-t scop.; at th • Caroc
' >jje Institution—Mount Wilson Obser
vatory—-astronomers in the year, just
!: close,;
r Announced-the begining of a ten or
lover.-v^ar cycle, which will bring
1 increas. it magnetic disturbances -n
he voi.n, occasionally disrupting, telr
?; graph and telephone service.
L’rrt - ., -b .• u.,t of nebulae
•ar ... .ike the Milky Way syst
em- vsn h itself, has more s.ars
han tl; t.aceti y. can sec - ajio ;i-i
'c at d t at- :• would be pc-ss'ble. to.
photograph fifty million: nebitat.
.Found new evidence that the Milky ;
Way. system, of which the sun anci
its planets are a minute uar,. is a.!
spiral nebulae, whirling ahuu like an
enormoudjoin wheel.
Decided that our Miiky Way Sys
tem was no larger than.others.
Many formerly had tnoughx it .sev
eral times bigger.
Discovered the free oxygen on
Mars was less han 1 per cent of that
on earth, not enough to sustain hu
man life.
Discovered carbon dioxide and me
thany gas on Venus and ammonia
gas on atmosphere oof Saturn and
Jupiter.., ,■
1 Watch closely the odd behavior of
, Corona Borealis, hazarding a guess
■ i it may be divided intto two stars ac- j
cording to the “Fission” theory of.1
.! star birth;
VICTIM OF 51,290 THEFT
, FACE*-#,. S. PROSEC ETON
i MT. CLE.-aENS., Mich.—A. man
| cohfessec to the theft of $12000 in.:
gold coin pleaded guilt ta the charge j
of rgand larceny before Judge N. E.
Reid in circuit court Thursday and a
man rfom whom he stole the gold
was threatened with prosecution by
the United States Department, of
, Justee frc hoard; g g;old.
Fred Kroimg JO years old; enlsted
'man of the Seventy-second Pursuit
Squadron, Selfridget Field, who-, ad
mitted the theft fro mFred Calwitz,
employed as engineer at Selgfridge,
pleaded guilty and,.was remanded to
i await sentence.
The sentence '■jka«^qfei'red upon re
quest of Roy M. Mcjilnstry, who told
the court he Had _ been insttructed by
the Deparment of ^Justice, who or
dered Gal «itz to ,;tugn over all his
hoarded tjgoold ...to ihq Governmnett
under tHj-eat, q#. prosecution.
Krome statedun open court that he
understood Osdwijyfc had $2,600 in:
hoarded gold before-; he took $1,200 of
it.
When he - pleaded - guilty to the
charge, Krome,,. was was questioned
by Judge Reed as oo where Calwitz
had obtained ht ego Id and how long
he had b een hoarding it. Krome ret
plied that he did not know.
In his confession Krome said he
took the gold from a two-inch pipe in
which Calwitz had the gold hidden in
his automobile.
A SICK BABY
The heart of the world is sound
when it responds to the thrill of a
young aviatoor who races hrough
storms and blizzards out of Texas to
Baltimore with a five-months old baby
that her life might be saved.
Jim Wedell, champion transconti
nental racer, dashed 1,400 miles j
through the air recently to bring - a |
wee infant suffering from a brain |
disorder to Johns Hopkins hospital
that Dr. Walter E, Dandy, a special
ist, might operate.
The heart of the world is all right
and every man and woman in Amer
ica will watch the sttruggle of that
wee mite as though it were heir own.
I is not the heart oof the world,
but the head. When the head,.catches
up with the heart and: ii£&>does no,
have to be obviously dramatized to
bring unity of understanding;, then
we wil make progress.
Tragedy has to be made personal
and dramatic before it catches . the
public interest.
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