VOL. III. NO; 59
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923.
PRICE 25 CENTS
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Complete Cessation of
All Reparations by
Germany.
Berlin, Nov. 17. —Complete
' cessation of every kind of rep
a ration payment by Germany
• was announced tonight. This
action was taken on the ground
that the treaty of Versailles had
been violated by France and that
therefore it could not be observed
by Germany.
After November 26 Germany
will no longer be able to meet
the drain upon her exchequer
for payment of unemployment in
the Ruhr and Rhineland, and
will then set both of these re
gions adrift, permitting them to
shift for themselves, according
to a statement made in oflicial
quarters tonight.
Lloyd George Seems
Pleased With U. S.
Prohibition System
-Southampton.~ljjbyd George, arriv
•teg'this afternoon, '"escribed his Amer
■ lean visit'as an a«la.dDg experience.
Regarding prohibition. Llovd George
Ba»d: ‘U.f there were a plebiscite, t
believe America wodM reaffirm its ver
dict.
Tokotna Wireless May
Be Working Tomorrow
To make a radio station storv very
short, it may be stated that the station
•at McGrath sent its last message Wed
nesday morning:, was immediately dis
mantled by Sergeant H. S. Kaiser and
- a. corps of assistants, and the plant ar
- nved here Thursday night, having
been brought up by John Heino and
* Del Thompson, with Mr. Heine’s five
horsee. .Sergeant Kaiser and Opera'or
Anderson arrived here a short time be
fore the arrival of the plant.
The big mast was hoisted and in po
sition. at,10:45 this morning, in which
work Sergeant Kaiser had the assist
• ance of most of Tokotna s male popula
tion, under the personal supervision of
several of the other sex. It occupied
only twemy minutes to place the 80
foot pole in position.
Sergeant Kaiser, an adept in this
■class of worky'under whose supervision
a.L details of removal and installation
have been made, said this noon that it
will be a matter of only a few hours
before the plant will be in operation,
possibly some time tomorrow.
Coolidge Congratulat
ed by Chas. E. Herron
Washington.—Charles E. Herron,
well known Alaskan, and prominent
newspaper man, called .on President
Coolidge this afternoon and eongratu
latad him on the appointment of Lee
B. Laudis as director general of the
Alaska Railway. Herron said the ap
pointment of Landis was pleasing to
Alaskans and Pacific coast people gen
i wally.
Hot Statements Before
War Bureau Investi
gating Committee.
Washington, Nov. 19. — “A
spiracy to encompass my de
struction by means of perjury,
subornation of perjury and sup
pression of material facts and
documents," was charged by
Forbes in his testimony today
•before the Senate investigating
committee.
Stirred by Forbes’ charges
against the committee, Counsel
Major General John F. O’Ryan
told the veterans’ committee
that he expected to prove “con
vincingly the w’ ole truth of
Mortimer’s charge that Colonel
Forbes was one of the conspir
ators who were tied together,
cheek and jowl, to defraud the
government. I expect further
to show,” O’Rvan said, “that
this criminal conduct was in con
sonance with his previous life
record.”
Murderer of Edwards
Sentenced to 20 Years
Valdez.—Robert Wolfe was convict
ed yesterday for killing ‘George Ed
wards, of San Francisco, last August,
as t he two were crossing the Aleutian
peninsula. Following the return of the !
jury’s verdict, Wolfe was sentenced to
a term of twenty years at the McNeill
island penitentiary.
$323,000,000 Proposed
Cut in Federal Taxes
Washington.—A revision of federal
taxes which is estimated to reduce the
total assessment by $32.1,000,000 next
year, is proposed in the program ap
proved by Secretary of Treasu. • Mel
lon, for submission to Congress at the
forthcoming session.
Chris Dahl and Fred Morledge left
Tokoina Monday for the mouth of
Yankee creek, to begin work on the
setting of the poles for the Flume
Dredge Company’s power line, for
which they and John Adams have
taken a contract. There w.ll be about
three hundred pales in all, running
from the power site ou the Innoko
•river up Yankee creek to the dredge
and to the Fathergill association on
Little creek.
Julius Saupe, manager of the Flume
Dredge Company, was a Tuesday de
parture (or MaGrath, headed for the
Outside, lie will make a short visit at
Fairbanks' .»nd then proceed to San
Franci- o, where be will spend the
winter.
Bod Mercies returned here Sunday
from a short visit at GaBeg; and left
Tuesday for handle, which place he
left Wednesday for .McGrath, headed
for the Outside. He wilt spend the
winter in San Francisco.
Bill Thoms, Flat toinin^ man, was, a
Sunday arrival, leaving Monday for
McGrath on his way to the Outside.
Delegates Assemble
in Initial Steps for
Creating New State
Juneau, Nov, 19.—Djlegates from
eight cities in Southeastern Ala ka
gathered here to lay or the purpose of
petitioning Congress to sepaia a the
panhandle from the rest of the Terri
tory and to form plans for the creation
of a state from this district. Intense
intense interest for the statehood pro
ject is shown everywhere throughout
the panhandle and connecting sections.
National Progressives
to Select Delegates
to Convention,
Chicago, Nov. 19.—A national
convention of progressive po
litical organisations, to launch
candidates for president and vice
president, will be held in either
St. Paul or Minneapolis, the
meeting here called for 'he pur
pose of launching the third party
•movement decided tonight. Ac
cording to 'he resolution provid
ing for its calling, the conven
tion will have as its keynote,
“Abolition of Special Priv
ileges.”
McGrath Notes.
McGrath, 5vTo \ :l'l.—Charlie O’Ha!
loran left Thus May "or Nixon.
Eli Agbaha left Th trrday morning
lor Auchorage.
Happy Jack Stevenson, Mattering
with a piece oi :-teel in hia eye, arri /o;.!
here a couple ofJaysago, in the hope
of obtaining r ■!'. The unfortunate
accident happened as Mr. Stevenson
was engaged ia snlitiing wood with a
hammer and wedge, a broken particle
of thdGutter finding embedment in die
oye. Tbeipjun, a painful one, is of
such a nature that relief, if it comes at
ail, can be-sea.'.red :u!y through the
aid of an eye peon. is;. Mr. Steven
son will return to Tuliksak. dose up
his business at that place, and immedi
ately leave for Anchorage, where he
hopes to obtain relief, and in which ho
carries with him .die sincere wishes of
his many frieuds.
Charlie Nystrom, who has beer suf
fering with tin poison for several
weeks, is still coniined to his bed, with
F’ete Michels acting as nurse. Mr.
M; -Arom is greatly improved, howe > ,
proof of which is >een in the fact t.:uu
he is.able to sit up in is laid for short
intervals, besides which he is able to
move his limbs with greater freedom.
All of which augurs well for his recov
ery in the near future.
Alex. Hately will leave Saturday for
Nenana, whither ha goes to meet Ter
rrtorial Secretary ilarl Theile, who'
will make a tour of inspection regard
ing matters in connection with his offi
cial position.
Lj. F. Bullard and Owen Gray were
among yesterday's arrivals from Mc
Grath. Mr, Bullard, «3 a passenger of
Mr. Gray, is scheduled to leave in a
few days for Nenana on his way to tne
Outside.
Court of Impeachment
Finds Him Guilty of
11 of 16 Charges,
Oklahoma City, Nov, 19.—
Walton, tilth governor of Okla
homa, was removed from office
tonight by tho unanimous vote
of the state senate court of im
peachment, after his trial, on
charges of corruption in office,
! neglect of duty, moral turpitude
and general incompetency. He
was found guilty of eleven of
i the sixteen charges presented,
| and the court by a standing vote
denied a motion for a new trial.
Oklahoma City, Nov 21.—The
names of ti'fty-tive members of
the Oklahoma house of repre
sentatives, who he charges are
members of tho ku klux klan,
were made public today in a
signed . tatement by Walton re
moved as governor.
Alien Land Laws Cali
fornia, Washington Up
held by Supreme Court
I T
Washi,.4' )n.—The. alien ureal laws off
I California and Washington, prohibit
ing aliens ineligible to citizenship from
owning or leasing land, were declared
constitutional today by the United
States supreme court,.
Advertised for 300;
00,000 Ask for Jobs
Hamburg.—Hans Haraban, owner of
a argo circti who is about to start for
South Atneri a vviif: his show, adver
tised three drys-ago for 300 acrobats,
workmen an., t .nloyees. Haraban is
practically swamped, having rec.ived
applications from over sixty thousand
men.
Washington Notes
Washiogtco.— Arrangements *ver3
made today for closing the interstate
Commerce Commission’s investigation1
into the possibility of raflway consoli
dation in the United States, January 7
• being se? a the date for the hearing of
c.ggmneuu., '■ ■]
Washing, on.-'President 'Soolidge to
day began actual work on his eaeasage
to Congress. p<m the results of bib
eborts. bis closest friends acknowl 'dge,
will depend to a considerable degree
bis political future.
Washington.—The police department
has asked r e Tr -asury department to
break up the gathering of bootleggers
in the (jmtruiuent building on Penn
sylvania avenue, two blocks from the
White House.
□ Washington.— Exports from the
United States during the rnentb of Oc
tober amounted to 8402.000.00C, com
pared with imports of 8304,000,000.
Washington.—The White House an
nounced tonight that Ureeideot Cool
idge will deliver his address in person
to Ooiwresr.
BATTLING IN
RHINELAND
130 Separatists Killed
in Fight With Loyal
ists, Near Bonn
Dusseidorfif Nov. 20.—Separ
atists in their, fight with loyal
ists near . Bonn, today, lost one
hundred men in-killed and many
wounded. The peaeact loyalists
practically annihilated a band of
separatists who invaded their
territory in an attempt to detach
it from the Reich and eet up a
Rhineland, republic,
Paris, Nov. 21.—Eight were
killed and sixty wounded in re
newed fighting between peasants
and .Rhineland separatists, that
broke out today at bineoerg
French troops intervened and
disarmed a thousand separatists,
Berlin, Nov. 21.—Charges oi
high treason have been formally
lodged against eight of those in
vol/ed in the recent Hitler-La
dendorff rebellion at Munich,
Luder.dorff’s name, however, is
conspicuously absent from the
list and he is at liberty on-his
“word of honor,”
New Oft, More Men
to Fight Rum Runners
Washington.—President Coolldge to
day gave his approval to Treasury De
partment. plans*ior the ..expansion of
the coast guard for the prevention of
rum smuggling. The plans contem
plate the expenditure ©f twenty million
dollars for new craft and additions'
personnel for the service.
A Few Former Tokotnaris.
Arcbie Higgins, who left, here dar
ing the-past summer to visit his old
home in Nova Scotia, was saddened
upon his arrival by jearcing that hii
mother had passed away-only four days,
before according to word met received
in a letter from Mus^udovit. M. S.,
where Mr. Higgins now is.
-Mr and Mrs.. John Cameron, for
merly 61 Lottie creea-, are now running
a restaurant in the Seattle market.
Herb Kearney, who left here last
July, bought iuto a garage after ar
riving in Seatt'e, wherrohe is at pres
ent.
Paul Mennik, after leaving here,
went as cook on the Caroline Francis,
which position he was still holding
wneb last heard from, which advice
however states that he will be in New
York on Christinas Day, as per agree
ment, to consummate a nuptial cere
tunny, to which he will' tv> one of the
■rlucipals,
Tim Oates is in Seattle
Fraaik Guskey, N. C. accountant,' Vaa
among yesterday’s arrivals, being ac
companied by Miss Helen Bechon, Mc
Grath school teacher, who is making a
short visit with Mrs. Leon G. Loomis,
. f ...
Harvey Williams and Gaston St.
Clair, from McGrath, were Sunday ar
rivals. .
Ophir Glass returned .Sunday frofr". »
'rio to McGrath