Govt. Hopes to Crush
Rum Trust Organiza
tk>nsrB£fare Winter
„ Washington.—The government hopes
to crush #be etim trust’s sea and land
organisations before winter, it was
learned at the Treasury today.
Officials disclosed that the heavier
coast guard ora't must be withdrawn
froin law enforfcemestt activities late in
October for the winter’s campaign of
navigation-protection both on the At
lantic and Facile.
Virtually all the cutters now oa the
ram patrol will be transferred to Mfe
and property saving work on steamer
I anas. ■
Insistent-demand has been made on
congresatooal representatives from San
Francisco,'’Los Angeles, Seattle, Ha
waii and coastwise cities from New
York to Muine that the coast guard be
given facilities for some adeouate pro
tection of the steamer lanes during the
covine winter.
It Was charged that in the intensive
war againsOftim, ■ with detailing most
of the coast guard equipment to this
phase of law enforcement the normal
navigation service has been neglected.
No demand for increase in the law
enforcement fleet is anticipated duriDg ,
the budget hearings which start early j
in the falU but it was expected that the i
Treasury would redommend the build
ing'of several new-cutters to take the
place of those submarined during the
war or scrapped since.
* To meet the employment of high j
speed launches for moving rum to i
shore the-coaot guard is making ex
peritneets on boats which will make 59 i
miles an hour. Onlv limited funds are |
available for the experiments.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars j
which «re being invested t>y private in- j
dividnals on the development lot apeea j
boats which can outrun express trains !
indicate that they will be used more
extensively than ever by the rum run- j
ners, officials said.
Dominick Henry, traffic expert of the
New York police department, said of j
r hie new traffic iaws the other day:
"Jama used to cause New York a loss
of half a billion dollars a vear. These
jaq>s were due in tho main to the park - |
iogof cars in the streets. One man j
who had parked his car iu a crowded 1
street for 58 hours said that was what
the streets were for. He said he was
within bis rights.”
Mr. Henry shrugged his shoulders.
“That fellow’s ideas of what is
iria'ht,” be went on, ‘‘were as wrong as
Uncle Ned’s.
„ *‘ ‘Uncle Ned,’ J said one day, ‘aren't
jOU*ashaiued to go off ’possum hunting,
and your wife at home bent over the
wash tub?’
•‘‘No, sah,? said Uncle Ned. ‘Mab
wife doan need no watchin’. She’ll
wu’k jess as hard all day, sah, as if Ah
wti dere.' ”_
Doctor (after removing his barber’s
appendix)—And now, mv dear sir, how
about a little liver or thvroid opera
tion? And your tonsils need trimmiDg
terribly.—Judge.
Science and Invention
x\n electric moving "picture camera
has been invented.
Pokker, Dutch airplane designer,,
has a new machine, with a speed of lit
miles per hoar.
By means of a light, beam, H. Grin
deli-Matthews, English inventor, claims
to-be able to steer vessels.
In Washington, the patent office now
has in storage more than 150,000
models, all dated since 1836.
The world’s first tunnel for pedes
trians, with moving seals and station
ary sidewalks, is under construction in
Los Angeles.
Although the patent laws of the
United States have been in force only
135 years, this country has issued more
patents than any other in the world.
President Coolidge has tl;e honor of
being the first person to have his voice
broadcast from a “phono-film.” The
voice comes from the scree:; where the
movies are projected.
Although the discovery of tetra ethyl
lead dates from 1854, its extensive use
is only about two years old. fn the
prepared gas, one part of tetrn-ethyl
lead is used to about 1.300 parts of gas- j
oline.
A process of chromium piatiDg pro-]
ducing wearing surfaces harder than
any other known metal, with a finish
having twenty times the life of nickel
plate, has been perfected by scientist
at Columbia university. Next to the
diamond, the new plating will lie the
hardest substance in existence.
A rotor propeller for rirplanes has
been invented which perforins on the
same principle as that of the German
rotor sailing ship. The inventor claims
that this new propeller has 50 per cent
greater pulling power than the old
style propellers now in use.
Max Simel I
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
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River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
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FREIGHTING
General Transportation
How About Wood Hauling?
See Joe Ferris or Bud Riley
George Horace Ijoricner, the famous
Philadelphia editor, is sometime.! at -
tacked bv unsuccessful writers, hut on
these occasions his defease is morn than
rd equate.
Ad unsuccessful super-realist at
tacked Mr. Lorimer at a dinner party
a Bryn Ma»r.
“Our magazines a e all rotten,” he J
said, “lean write a short story iu a;
lay, but I’ll be hanged if I. can se’l it;
in three months’
“Maybe, though,” said Mr Loutner, 1
“if yon wrote your story in. three
months, you’d be able to sell, it in ®,;
Albrecht and Taylor
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LAWYERS
George W. Albrecht,
lditarod, Alaska,
Charles E. Taylor.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Practice in all Courts,
I CHARLIE’S |
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing l
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhim
The Ilandj Man
W»« to--i r Vki m>
ATC YOU GrOlll^ wO iPtiiiiCl? j
We have in stock lumber of all kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a few lines, such
as Rustic and Shiplap, 4 and 0-inch Flooring, Win
dow and Door Casing, Window and Door Stopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
And if you are goin;; to build a sled, call on us. We hare btoe
best hickory in Alaska.
BHHKhuSESgg
Yankee
La €C
About 7 miles long', extending from
No. 1 below discovery down to.,.the
mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty wrll prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of ground is from 7
to 20 feet. Top is all black muck,
that can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1
per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long,
together with water rights. Ground
is pretty well cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 miles long. Also a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from
which water can be brought to
Yankee creek with a ditch less than
a mile long [4,900 feet], with a pres
sure or fall of 120 feet, being- 1000
feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck 'here
will be from 4 to 6 feet of dirt to
; handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken
out.
Prospecting work during the past
winter has resulted in finding values
| that run up to $1 per square foot of
j bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give
a lease on it. ^ If the prospect is ‘sat
isfactory to the buyer, a cash pay
ment will be expected.
For further information, terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.