VOL. III. NO. 21
McGRATII, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923,
PRICE 25 Cm a
High Prelates of Cath
olic Church in Russia
Are Sentenced to Death
' Temporary Stay of Sen
tence Granted; Appeal
Seems Hopeless.
London, Mar. 28.—The chair
• man of the all Russian --central
• executive committee in Moscow
i. has ordered the executions of
Archbishop Zepliak and Mon
signor Butchkavitch, says a dis
1 patch to the Times from Riga.
Rome.—Executions by the so
viet government of Archbishop
Zepliak, head of the Roman
1 Catholic church in Russia, and
Vicar General Butchkavitch has
been set' for Thursday, accord
» ing to a report from Monsignor
1 > Lorenzo Lauri, papal nuncio at
Warsaw, "fnade public from the
Vatican this afternoon
Londou.—.Ronald McNeil, un
der secretary for foreign affairs,
i told the Mouse of Commons this
afternoon that he feared the so
viet government would carry out
i the death senteflce against Arch
bishop Zepliak within the next
48 hours. He based his state
ment on a telegram from the
British agent in Moscow.
Warsaw.—Premier Sikorski of
Poland has issued a warning to
the Russian soviet government
not to execute Archbishop Zep
liak, iiead of the Roman Catholic
church in Russia, according to
recent sentence of death.
Warsaw. — Premier Sikorski
announced today that the Polish
government has been informed
by the Moscow government that
the death sentence against Arch
bishop Zepliak, the head of the
Roman Catholic church in Rus
sia, will not be carried out by
the soviet government, at least
for the present.
Rome.—The Vatican is deeply
affected by the death sentences
passed on Archbishop Zepliak
and Monsignor Buachlavitch in
Moscow, and Pope Pius is exert
ing his personal influence to save
the lives of the two prelates.
Moscow. — The appeals for
clemency of Catholic prelates
and priests, sentenced Monday,
will be considered at the first
meeting of the central executive
committee, to be held tomorrow
or next week, the government
announced today. Meanwhile a
temporary stay of sentence for
the condemned is applicable and
they will remain in prison.
PROCESS
SERVERS
—
Preceded Undertaker to
the Home of Sara
Bernhardt.
Paris, Mar. 28.—Process serv
ers preceded the undertaker to
the Bernhardt home this after
noon, but found that Maurice
Bernhardt, the tragedienne’s;
son, had already removed thej
furniture, together with live big
trunks crammed with objects of (
art, which were packed while i
the actress lay on her death bed.1
Bernhardt, the lamented, died aj
bankrupt.
Superintendent Bullard, of the Nixon
mine, coming down with Owen Gray,
arrived yesterday, and bothi left today
f6r Tacotua. en route to Fiat.
Mr. and Mrs. VV. A. Vinal are sched
nled to leave Anchorage on April 5,
headed for their home~6%©»hir
Attempted Release of
$100,000,000 Worth
of Whisky.
New York, March 22.—Charles
and Ralph idabatino, brothers,
were arraigned this afternoon
before United States Commis
sioner Hitchcock on charges of
attempted bribery of two high
prohibition officers, whice in
volved the release of one hun
dred million dollars’ worth of
whisky from a Brooklyn ware
house.
W. J. Widman. of the innoko Lum
ber Company, after a visit- to the Out
side.-went into hospital on his return
to Anchorage, about March 17. lle
2ent advices stale that Mr. Widtoan
3ante out of hospital on the 26 h, and
in all probability is now en route here
here over the Kobi trail.
Gust Schuler left today for Candle.
Wilson £nd McAdoo
Each Have Preference
for Colorado Senator
Denver.—While Woodrow Wilson is
urging Governor Sweet to appoint
Hustoo Thompson as senator to zuc
! oeed Nichelson, recently deceased, his
j son-in-law, William G McAdoo, has
■ recommended 'ormer Senator John *■’.
| ShalTroth for the seaatorship.
Tacotna Granted a
Territorial School
--
That Tacotna has been granted &
school by the Territorial School Hoard
and that authorisation and equipment,
for establishing the same is now on its
way to Tacotua, was the pleasing news
received here Thursday, with the ar
rival of Grant Murdock. The organ
i ization of the Tacotna school board
; will follow immediately upon the ar
i rival of the-proper authorization docu
ments. _ _
That Abe Weiss, former well known
merchant of Flat, i-. afflicted with steep
ing sickness in a Seattle hospital, is
the word brought from the Outside by
Grant Murdock. Mr. Weiss, accord
ing to the doctors, says Mr. Murdock,
is physically sound, but is rather down
hearted and not inclined to pat up the
battle for life, even though his physi
cians give him every encouragement.
The disease, if overcome, is one which
lingers with the stricken ones for
months or possibly a couple of years.
C. W. Moore, a well known dredge
! constructor, who vvtli install the new
dredge for the Incoko Dredging Coru
j paoy on Ganes creek, was a Thursday
arrival. Mr. Moore, who is an old
timer in the Dawson <> uitry, has con
structed and installed several dredges
in the upper country, and was also
with the Yukon Gold Company for sev
eral sr»p«. ?o WMR ifTt;tr11r those who
| loft yesterday for Tacoma.
; Mrs. George F. Kilrov, wife of the
( superintendent of the Tunoko Dredging
! Company, accompanied by her three
| little ones -Waller Desmond, Shirley
Mar caret aud John Beresford Kilroy
arrived Thursday, coming from Kobi
with Scotty Clark and ream. Mr. Kil
my was on band at Nieoli to welcome
tde incoming ones an ! to escort them
to Tacoma, for which place they ds
parted yesterday afternoon.
The Beaton fe Donnelly dredge, on
Otter creek, will be operated during
the coming season by Joe MeSunnon,
Uan McKenzie and John and George
Mattnewson, who have taken the
dredge over on lease. Mr. Beaton will
not come in this year.
Ed M. Whelan and .John E. Strand,
well known mining men, arrived over
the Kobi trail a few days ago, crossing
from NicoU over to their Nixoa work
ings. _
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle.—A typhoon, sweeping out of
, the Orient, headed for this coast, is
I due here tomorrow eveniag, according
| to advices.
St. Augustine, Fla.—Forces close to
the 1’resident and antagonistic to
Daugherty are circulating reports of a
split between Harding and the attor
ney general. _
New York.—Three women perished
in a tire which swept the Princeton
apartnionut iu this city, early this
morning
High Dignitaries, Rich
! and Poor* Represent
ed in Procession,
Paris, Marsh 29.—It was a
solemn funeral cortege that
wound through aaris streets to •
day carrying the body of the be
loved Bernhardt to its final rest
among the mortals of '/ere la
Ohai.se cemetery. Dignitaries of
France, representatives of for
eign governments, the rich and
poor, and the stage were repre •
seated in the slow-moving pro
cession. The body was laid to
rest ia her tomb at 4 o'clock,
Pays $20,000 for a
Stradivarius Violin
Pans.—Charles Luosch, a r.otee Ger
i man collector, has purchased for $20,
i 000 from the house of Caruso a Stradi
vurius, once the property of ^itiac.
This is the highest price ever paid for
a violin.
Oo Thursday last a hearing was held
before Cotnmfssiooer VV. F. Green,
wherein Dennis hireat was cited to
appear and show 'auso .’hy the child
Josephine Parent, of whom he is the
•stepfather, should not lie turned over
to the Hoard of Children’s Guardians
and by them placed in the care of Mr.
Commissioner Green, after hearing too
i evidence, awarded custody of the child
to its parents,- Josephine leaving 8hs
same day with her stepfather for their
home at Crooked Creek.
DEVICES
To Enable Alaska Cable;
to Carry Five Times
as Much Business
j Washington, Mar. 30.—Squier,
chief of the signal service, and
inventor of the technical trans
mission device '.mown as the
I !‘wired wireless," *s at work on
! problems of telegraphic trans
mission which vre expected tc
'change old standards, and these
improvements are to be ncor
porated in the ^able between Se
attle and Alaski. By these de
j vices the new cable, it is esti
mated, will .carry live times as
much business as carried at the
present time.
DDao Sprague made his appearance in
towQ today, for the tirst time in almost
ithree weeks. He reoorts himself much
- ‘inproved
LENINE ON
DEATHBED
Preparing lor Military
Dictatorship, Headed
hy Trotzky.
London, March <50.—Nicholas.
Lienine, head of the Russian so
viet government, Is dying, says
a dispatch from Stockholm to
day j quoting the Helsingfors cor
respondent of Svenska Tagbladt
as telegraphing that the soviet
’egation m Helsingfors has re
ceived confidential messages
from Moscow to that effect.
After Lenine’s death, the iner;
sage adds, ‘ a military dictatov
ship will be established, headed
by Minister of War Trotzky,
with four or five associates ”
Wild Disorder Scene
in French Chamber
Paris.—Premier Foicc&ire, aagerec
by commuaict insinuations that he wa*
controlled by Deputy ibeon Daudet
' royalist leader, started a scene of wihi
disorder when in today 's open session
of the chamber bo called communist
deputy Acare uerioon an
sooundre'.
Cill Goss, well kuown old-timer, who
left over the early trail for Anchorage,
to uodergo operation in the hospital
there, was among those who arrived
here today. The operation wascignly
-successful, Mr. Gdie-declaring that h®
never felt better, all of which will ne
most welcome news to hietuacsy 'rieuds
PURCHASED
Buys St?. Santa Ana
to Ply Between Se
attle and Bethel
The steams: crania Ana, <i:
ocean-going craft, has bean pur
chased by Capt. Wallace Lang
ley, according to advices received
here by L. B. <Lootnis, manager
of the N. C. Co. The r.evr boa;
will in all probability be placed
on the Seattle*}! ethel run ■■during
the summer season
The Santa Ana war, built ic
1900, and was formerly owned
by the Alaska Steamship Com
pany. She is registered at 70?
tons, is 182.4 test-long and 30.T
feet wide.
It. Ai. White was among today's ar
.„:n Nixon, for a brief visit.
Frank Guskey returned today from «
three-days’- business trio 'Pfteot-c