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.Cnt.ered as second-class matter August
J9th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1819.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. FEB. 9, 1924
Outside Brevities
Washington. — Representative Ran
kin submitted a joint resolution pro
viding for Philippine independence by
July 4th, 1925. and also authorizing the
President to negotiate with world-wide
powers for treaties recognizing the in
dependence. He claims this will save
41,000,000 which is being spent annual
ly, for the maintenance of a naval es
tablishment., and believes refusal of in
dependence would be unjust to them,
saving the disarmament conference has
removed the formerly existing cause
for not granting it.
New York.—Harry Wills, the New
Orleans heavyweight contender, has
been offered $300,000 by Tex Rickard,
light promoter, to meet Luis Pirpo and
Jack Dempsey, next summer. The
promoter announces that the offer calls
lor a fight with F'rpo around July 4ih.
and if the oegro wins from Firpo, for
which he will receive $100,000. he will
meet Dempsey in September for an ad
ditional $200,000. making the $300,000.
London.—A dinner held in the House
of Commons last night was attended by
nineteen members of Parliament, all of
whom have been in jail, including con
scientious objectors, war suffragists,
agitators and passive resistance advo
cators. _
San Francisco.—Stale Ad jutant Kea
ton of the American Legion stated that
the American people would sutler
through departure of the Japanese
farmer and farm worker. He asserted
3
On Washington’s
Birthday
Big
Dance
At
Larson’s
Roadhouse
On
February
22d
a 111 1 r corporation was to be
formed u> iuu ihe Japanese who are
being forced off the farms.
Lakeburst, X. J.—The giant. dirigi
ble Shenandoah was taken from her
hangar and secured to a steel mooring
mast air station, to be left for one
week. This test is to determine the
practicability of using masts to moor
the airship to while on her proposed
North Pole flight ne«t summer and
also to test the dirigible while under
such conditions.
Washington.—Xiepublleans admitted
last night that Secretary of Treasury
Mellon's tax reduction plan could not
pass under the .present frame of mind
.in Congress and -would have to be al
tered, but the President is opposed to
tinkering with the plan, and the ad
mission is most disconcerting to Mel
lon.
Chicago.—-Charles -Gansler, broker,
and Miss Rose Stevens are in custody
today upon the discovery of the body of
Miss .Elizabeth Woods, 28 years old, at
Gadsler’s apartments. The women, ac
cording to the police, were at a drink
ing party in Gansler’s apartments.
Paris.—The French military authori
ties have closed the frontier between
the Bavarian palatinate and the unoc
cupied Germany and imposed a curfew
law upon the town of Spewer because
of clashes betweau separatists leaders
and townspeople.
Taylorsville, Ind.—John Tokoliy, a
soft drink parlor proprietor, was found
guiltv of manslaughter today in con
nection with several deaths of resi
dents who died from the effects of
drinking his poisouous liquor.
London.—A body found on the shore
near Rye, Sussex, was identified as
Lawrence B. Sperry, the famous Amer
ican aviator, who attempted to fly the
channel in a "flivver aeroplane” and
has been missing since Dee. 13.
Budapest.—Police have discovered a
conspiracy to overthrow the Bulgarian
government and establish a dictator
ship under Commander Titusu Hejjas,
leader of the Magyars. A number of
arrests have been made.
Chicago.—The search widened to
night, for the baud us who blazed their
way to freedom with sawed-off shotguns
and rifles, wounding five and probably
killing one, an.' ■ z.ug $400, yester
day aUei n< on
Washingi, n. — total of fourteen
billion s,x bunuieu aud seventy million
dollars worth oi tax exempt securities
are now in cueulatiou, the ways and
means committee announced to tbe
blouse yesterday.
lied Cloud. Neb.—Mrs. Ida Hammer,
accompanied by her three children,
walked three miles to the office of a
sheriff and told him she had killed her
husband, several hours before, during
a quarrel.
Chicago.—Oscar Egg and Almond
Grenda, the former from Switzerland
and the latter from Tasmania, won the
six-day bicycle race here, running 2,430
miles and 5 laps.
Berlin.—Widespread labor troubles
have broken out in Germany as a re
sult of the attempt tt scrap the eight
hour labor day aod reduce wages.
Washinglon.—Arouad-the-world fly
ers are gathering here, making plans
fur their equipment, starting from Se
attle on April 1.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,^
LAWYERS
Practice in all Courts.
Trader Tells of Activ- !
ities in Arctic Region |
Fairbanks News-Miner.
E. W. (Patsy) Wyant arrived in Ne
uana Friday from San Francisco, and
left Sunday for Fairbanks, where he
starts on the long tnusb to his trad.ng
poston iiailey island, off Cape t-.u
urst, on the Arctic coast (72 deg. north
latitude and 128 deg. west, Greenwich).
Mr. Wyant has been located at this
isolated point siuce 1917, previously
having been engaged in trapping on
the Middle river and on the upper
Chena, in this district.
He left Iiailey island last August on
e ,whaling schooner, bound for San
■Francisco, and the trip our, took three
months. In San Francisco he pur
chased several years’-supplies, which
will arrive at his post, with good luck,
on the whaling schooner next August.
Id an interview Mr. Wyant gave the
following Dews from the far Arctic:
While fox is the principal catch of
fur in that district, and a conservative
estimate for last year was a catch of
20,000 skins, of which the Hudson’s Bay
Companv took 12,000 alone. There are
about ten white people in the district,
and last year the Itoval Canadiau
Mounted Police established a post,
with corporal and private, at Bailey
island. Between the Hudson’s Bay
posts and Bailey island there is a 200
mile gap. Additional posts will prob
ably be established this year
Mr. Wyant states that the wind
which blows around Nenana is merely
a gentle zephyr compared with what
must be faced on the Arctic. Last
wimer it blew for twenty consecutive
days, with the mercury at 55 below.
Anyone having to travel wears two
suits of deerskin, one with the fur out
and the other with the fur toward the
body.
The prices of commodities-in his post,
last year were: Flour, $10 per cwt.;
bacon, $1.25 per pound, ana other com
modities iD proportion. Coal from Van
couver two years ago cost $260 per too,
but, last year a whaling vessel from
Sao Francisco sold the same grade at
$80 per ton.
JJIUOUDCS IUI IU LtJ a b UISLClfU
have been regulated, says Mr. W yant.,
according to the following table:
AlieD, first five years. $150 a year as
trapper and $1100 a year as trader; Brit
ish boro, $15 a year as trapper and $150
a year as trader; Canadian born, $2 a
year as trapper and $5 a year as trader.
Two years* residence is required before
a lower rate applies.
Mr. Wyant is enthusiastic over tbe
proposed airship Hight to the Uor.tte
Pole. He does not hesitate to say that
weather and ice conditions should be
ideal at tbe time set for the flight. He
will probably bring to that oui.iying
post the first news of the attempt to
reach the Pole by the air route. He
believes that the flight will be near
enough to bis post to see the giant
ship. _
A man, traveling in a train that had
made several abrupt stops and sudden
jerks, became ■* bit anxious. There
bad been numerous accidents on the
line of late, so be bad oeea told, and
there was cause for fear. Calling tbe
porter aside, be said:
"‘George, is this train safe?”
‘ Safe as any, sub.”
‘‘Is there a block system od the
road?”
George’s grin extended from ear t®
ear.
“Block system, sub? Why, boss, w®
has de greatest block system in de
world. Ten milts back we was blocked
by a load of bay, six miles buck we was
blocked by a mule, just "now we was
blocked by a cow, and I reckon when
we getB farther south we’ll be blocked
by an alligator. Block system, sub?
Well, I’ll say. it is!”—Country Gentle
man.
J. H. McLEAN ■ TOKOTHA
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