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The Alaska Agricultural
and School of Mines
The Kusko Times
VOL. 1. NO. 92
McGRATH, ALASKA, DECEM BER 10. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
DE VALERA
WITHHOLDS
Says He Cannot Recom
mend Peace Treaty
With Britain.
Dublin, Dec. 8.—De Valera to
nights issued a statement to the
effect that he cauld not recom
mend a peace treaty with Britain
to Dail Eireann or to the coun
try and that in his attitude he is
supported by ministers of de
fense of home affairs. A public
i meeting of Dail Eireaun is fixed
for Wednesday.
The third session of the Dail
i Eireann cabinet ended tonight,
f the members still being divided
, on the peace question. i
. „London/H)eo.- 8. -^-Ulster -prov
' iuce wild refuse to enter immedi:
. ately into Irish free- statehood,
. but Unionist leaders are con
• vinced- .-of the advisability of
joining later, after testing sin
cerity of the Sinn Fein, accord
ing to a message brought from
Belfast to Lloyd .George by
Geoffrey Shakespeare, the pre
i mier’s secretary.
London, Dec. 8.-*-Am Ulster
. clergyman and Heron, speaking
; at a bazar opened by.Lady Craig,
wife of the. Ulster premier, de
• scribed. LLoydGearge as “a son
• of Ananias and grandson of
,1 Judas Iscariot.”
London, Dee. 7.—George to
day issued a proclamation re
. leasing ail political prisoners in
terned in Ireland.
London, Dec. 8.—King George
and Lloyd George, to whom the
public accords chief -credit for
bringing about peace, were pho
tographed together # at Bucking
ham Palace, in Downing street.
Both are inundated with tele
: grams of congratulation from all
over the world.
W ar Between U. S. and!
Japan, Says N. Lenine
Riga, Dec. 8.—W»: between United
States and Japan is certain to be a ca
t lauiitv of the uot far distant future,
Slid Nikolai Lenine to Harley P. Chris
teusen, former labor candidate for the
presidency of the United States, who
has just returned from a month’s stay
i- in Moscow.
Christensen reports Rvssian matters
but little improved. Famine is still
prevalent in many parts, though an
effort is beiner made to largely increase
,; crop acreage for next season.
MONEY FDR
CHRISTMAS
Payments Soon to Begin
I to Seattle S. A. Bank
Depositors.
_
F
j Olympia, Dec. 8—The State
Guaranty Fund Board this after
noon assessed all mem per banks
one-half of one per cent of their
deposits for the benefit of depos
itors of the Seattle Scandinavian
| American Bank. ' This will en
able the victims of the defnnct
I concern to get some money pos
jsibly in time for Christmas.
Seattle.—Payments on proved
deposits of the defunct Scandi
navian American Bank from the
State Bank Guaranty Fund will
I commence within the next few
Ldays. R. A. Langley, who is
jsupervising the liquidation, ar
rived this morning, and it is his
intention to commence payments
to depositors at the earliest mo
ment possible.
BANDITS GET
$14,000
In Bank Holdup—One
Officer Killed, One
W ounded.
Grand Rapids, Dec. 9.—Three
bandits held up the Grand
Rapids -Savings Bank, secured
fourteen thousand, dollars and
made good their escape, after
killing one policeman and seri
ously wounding another, who at
tempted to halt the thieves as
they were leaving the bank. It
is believed that the robbers es
caped unhurt and were aided by
a fourth man who held an auto
mobile in waiting.
Guilty of Grand Larceny.
• Tacoma.—Gustav Liodberg, one of
the directors-of the defunct Scandina
vian American Bank, was found guilty
Of grand larceny bv a jury, last even
ing- _
John Lund, on Thursday, charged
with being druok and disorderly, paid
a tine of $25 and costs, and left shortly
afterward for Flat.
Owen Gray, with a load of freight,
le:t yesterday morn jog for the Nixod
mine.
Six Killed and Num
ber Injured in Train
Collision Near Celilo
Portland, Dec. 8.— Six persons were
killed outright and a number of others
seriouslv injured when two trains of
the Oregon-Washington-railway col
lided two miles east of Celilo, today.
An investigation is being held with
the view of fixing the blame for- the
wreck.
Death of Eddie Lewin.
Seattle.—Eddie Lewin, well known
Northerner, wbs found dead in his
room in the Arctic Club building to
day, death having resulted from acute
indigestion. Mr. Lewin was a pioneer
of the Klondike, afterwards engaged
in business at Iditarod, and later re
moved to Ruby, returning to Seattle
several years agi®
ARMAMENTS
CONFERENCE
Japan Said to Have Ap
proved Proposed Four
Power Treaty.
Honolulu, Dec. 8.—The Japan
ese diplomatic council formally
approved the proposed four
power treaty for the settlement
of Pacific ocean differences this
evening at a meetiug at Premier
Takapashi’s official residence,
according to a Tokio cablegram
to Nippujliji.
Washington, Dec. 8.-^Presi
dent Harding, addressing Red
Cross workers, touching upon
the Washington conference, said;
“I like to say it to you, because
I know whereof I speak, that we
are going to succeed beyond our
fondest hopes.” *
Washington. Dec.8-—The Japanesa
Government has accpptedtbe proposal
for a quadruple understanding in the
Pacific, according to a British spokes
man.
Washington.—Senator Borah de
clared today tbat-the conference of the
allied nations should be called "Ver
sailles Treaty rewritten.”
Washington.—The Chinese delega:
tion to the conference today received
explicit instructions from the Peking
government oot to recede from its po
sition for »be unconditional return of
the Kiam Chou lease-held in-Shantung
and to protect China's interest in Man
churia. _
Dan S. MeDouell and-Prank Dawson,
ifter-spendiug-a few days here attend
ing to business matters, departed yes
terday for Fiat. ^_
Jack Stephenson arrived Thursday
from down river.
FORTY CUT
OR BRUISED
Strike of Meat Packers
* Cause of Much Riot
ing At Chicago,
Chicago, Dec. 9.—The mea=
packers’ strike, ^already State
wide, is rapidly spreading, and
-many organizations from smaller
plants are continually joining
the strikers.
Forty men were either cut or
badly bruised this morning when
strike sympathizers stormed the
eleventh train carrying strike
breakers to the stockyards. All
windows of the train were bro
ken. Fifteen hundred policemen
were immediately rushed to the
yards to protect4>he strikefcreak
ers. Two hundred policemen
then tired into a thousand strike
sympathizers, who attacked th e
plant employes and finally the
policemen.
Riofein&Jafti been consent dur
iug the day, -in-which a cumber
have been wonnded.
A POOR JOB
One Killed: Two CajK
tured, in Holdup of
Portland Bank.
Portland, Dec. 8.— A bank
holdup, Later identified as Jo
seph Campbell, was killed- today
by Cashier Alt, of the Bank of
East Portland, after he find two
accomplices kad attempted to
loot the bank and had seriously
wounded President New sail, who
attempted resistance.
In the-confusion following the
shooting of the bank president,
Cashier Alt seized <-a gun and
opened fire, instantly killing the
bafidit Leader. The sounds of
the shbotiag^Joraught help, and
both of Campbell’s accomplices
were captured shortly after mak
ing their escape from the bank.
Evan Jones and John Griffin nrrired
frGm.Taeot.ua Last evening', departing
this morning for Nixon.
Billy Duffv arrived Thursday with
the Outside mail, departing on Eiijidr;
for.Tacotna un his, way. to JFli>'