VOL. II. NO. 40.
McGKATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, i 22.
PRICE 2r» CENTS
An Adjunct of the Big
Packers, Says Dele
gate Sutherland.
Washington, Juneu.—Delegate
from Alaska Sutherland, com
menting on the statement issued
by the Department of Justice to
the effect that the Government
will wage war on fish pirates in
Alaska waters, declared that the
large cannery Interests operat
ing in Alaska are assisted at
every turn by the United States
Bureau of Fisheries, which is
really an adjunct of the packers
and under their domination and
control in their work of usurping
public fishery rights and obtain
ing special privileges and mo
nopolistic control of the natural
food supplies of the nation. The
real danger to Alaska fisheries
is not the petty thieves, but the
large and influential interests
that seem to be always immune
from punishment, asserted the
Delegate.
Escorted Out of Seattle,
Headed for North
Hole Region.
Seattle, June 4.—Capt. Iiaold
Amundsen’s ship Maud, Capt.
Oscar Wisting, escorted out of
the harbor by the naval tug Ma
hopae and twelve yachts of the
Seattle Yacht Club, sailed for
the North Pole, via Nome, at
8:00 this afternoon. A great
crowd witnessed the departure
of the expedition from the Union
Oil Company’s dock. Captain
Amundsen, sailing on the Vic
toria tomorrow, will join his ship
at Nome.
Completion of Flight
From Lisbon to Brazil
Pernambuco.—Captains Coutinhoes
and Sacdura. of the Portuguese navy,
arrived here today, completing the
last leg of their trans-Atlantic flight
from Lisbon to Brazil, which began on
March 20. __
Anvil for Seattle June 15th.
Cordova, June (i.
Kusko Times, McGrath,
Anvil leaves Bethel for Seattle June
15th. Accommodations for thirty-seven
first-class passengers.
Louis Knaflich.
N. H. Pearson, Lee Lamprecht and
Scotty Auld, coming from the Nixon
mine, arrived Tuesday noon.
Tim Murcum and Alex. Egberg were
Tuesday arrivals from the Forks.
500,000 Railroad Shop
Workers Are Affected;
Strike Threatened.
Chicago, June G.—Wages of
railroad shop employes were ut
sixty million dollars a year to
day by the United States ail
road Labor Board.
Five hundred thousand men
are affected by the board’s deci
sion today, which follows closely
upon the one. reducing r un
tenauce of-way employes ty
million dollars pei year, winch
was announced several days o.
'Reductions among shop word rs
in today’s cut are from 1 , ; 9
cents an hour.
Cincinnati, June (>. --Repre
sentatives of all railroad or: n
ization, with the exception of
those of the brotherhoods, in
conference here on the recent
wage reduction rulings of the
United States Railroad Labor
Board, decided this afternoon lo
take a strike vote of the million
rail workers ot the individual
unions affected.
Radio Station at Bethel
j May Be Erected Thir
Summer.
Seattle, June —The steam
Victoria, Captain C. S. Davis,
i sailed this morning for Noun
having on board </ji> passengers.
: a large consignment of freight,
i including perishables, and a
large accumulation of mail.
Prominent among t he VietOi
passengers is Capt, Raold Am
undsen, the Norwegian explorer,
who will join his ship Maud at
Nome and depart immediately
on his North Pole expedition.
Captain C. Li. l unkhead and a
Signal Corps detachment also
took passage on the Victoria.
They will erect a l igli-power i
radio station at Nome, also a
j station at Bethel, on the lower
Kuskokwim, and other radios at
some point on Kotzebue sound
! and Point Barrow, if transporta
tion from Nome to Barrow can
be arranged this summer.
French ’Plane Drops
Into English Channel
Folkstone, Lug.— A French air pi <■,
living from London to Paris, fell in he
English channel this morning. A
cross-channel boat picked up two of
the bodies, one of which had the pass
port name of Gordon Lay.
Jack Mutchler and Jerry Frank, Ta
cotpa, were Sunday arrivals.
George Carmack, Dis
coverer of Klondike,
Passer On, Vancouver
Vancouver, B. O.—George Carmack,
aged <>-, (Uncoveror <>f the Klondike
gulu hold , died last night i 1 toy croft
ho-pital, this ■Death van due to
pneumonia. He leaves an rate esti
mated at, a quartof a •;iil’ion dollars
t and an -ti.it. i !v I nook, • "lie Discov
ery of the Klondike.”
Brookhart Wins Iowa Primaries. |
Des Moines Smith W. Brookhart,
proL’t-p (vp marie a clean sweep of the
state in yesterday’s primaries for the
republican nomination for United
States M-nator, to succeed Kertyon, his
victory being a veritable landslide.
Alaska Voad Appro
priation Is Boosted,
$425,000 to $500,000
—
Washington, June i’>. The Senate to- .
day inctea-.-ri the Alaska road appro
priation from jUiur hundred and twenty
five thousand to live h tndred thousand 1
dollars.
D V M St S'tl KiiJbANIl,
Delegate from Alaska. I
Last Act in Drama of
Life Comes to Lillian
Russell, at Pittsburg
Pittsburg. Lillian Russell, noted
actress, also newspaper contributor, in
private life the wife of Alexander P.
Moore, publisher of the Pittsburg
Leader, died this morning. Death was
due to a complication of diseases re
sulting from a fall aboard ship.
Inv,.3tiaV2 Alaskan ilTairs.
Washing'.on. The party •>’ Govern •
merit officials, headed by Ass ,tant See
j retarv of Commerce Houston, recently
designated as a commission . >r the in
vustiga’ ion of Alaskan affairs, ■ special-;
V that pertaining to fur seal' - tnak - ;
, ing i•reparations t.o depart for s attic,
from which place they are sob ruled to;
sail on June IT for the North.
Increasing Prosperity
Indicated by Bus! .ess
of the Postoffice Dept.
Washington. —An increase of 15 per
cent in the business of the 1'ostollice
Department during the month of May,
as compared with the same month last
year, is regarded by the department as
an indication of steadily increasing
prosperity t hroughout the country.
Lenin Suffers Stroke
of Apoplexy; Condi
tion Reported Serious
Berlin.—Private advices, received in
soviet '-iroles in Berlin today, state
that Lenin suffered a stroke r apo
plexy Sunday and that his condition is.
considered quite serious. Maxim Lie
vinoff, Karl Radek and several other
soviet leaders here left immediately
j for Moscow.
Yukon Str. Movements
Sibilla down Nulato a. m. >lh.
Mutt at Nenuna.
St. Joseph at Holy Cross.
Teddy Li. down Gibbon 1 p. m. Oth.
Anna down Holy Cross p. in. Oth.
Seattle No. 0 up Tolov&na ’> a. ra. 7th.
Jacobs at Gibbon.
W. W. Lukens, Alaska Hoad Com
mission superintendent, was heard
from •* Hubv a few days ago, presum
ably coming*overland from that place
to Ophir.
Receive Jolt From Dr.
Bain, Head of U. S
Bureau of Mines.
Seattle, June id The Post
Intelligencer this morning pub
lishcs a special from Anchorage
pertaining to the Mfftanuska
coal fields, in part as follows:
There is not enough coal in
the Matanoska fields in Alaska
to justify consideration of ship
ment to Pacific, coast markets,,
in the opinion of Dr. H. Poster
rlain, director of the United
States Bureau of Mines, who has
just completed an investigation
of the fuel deposits in the Mata
nuska region. The Government
railroad must- depend for its sue
'•ess ou the development of tour
ist trace and on the gradual
growth of small industries, de
clares Dr. Main, whose state
ments were made at a meeting
of the' Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce.
.foe Wills, in the launch Aloha, w.
ihis morning for a trip to Berry hand
mtr, accompanied by Owen ('.ray or
his way to the Nixon mine.
Annual Labor Mining
Claims Due July 1.
Noon, 1922,
Washington, .Tune 0
Kusko Times. McGrath.
Chairman Rhodes, of the Com
mitten on Mines and ining, as.
sures me that no measure for
further suspension of work on
mining claims will [ ass at this
session. Therefore, under the
act of August i-tth. all an
: nual labor on claims n Alaska
must be performed by 1° o’clock,
noon, 'July 1st, 1922.
Da;. S .tm iu.anl,
Delegate from Alaska
Richard A. Ballinger,
Former Secretary of
Interior, Passes Away
Seattle —Richard A Ball merer-, for
merly Secretary of Inter ior in the cab
inet of i’resident Taft, died last night,
of heart disease, following an illness of
two da vs. Mr. Ballinger for some
months had been very :tive in repub
lican state politics.
Washington.—The ’. leg of the De
partment of the Interior was placed at
half staff xoday as a tribute to the
memory of former Secretary Ballinger,
who died last night at Seattle.
Charlie Goebel, after a trip to 'Pa
cotna for a missing box of scraper fit
ting.;, returned here Suuday, leaving
Monday morning for Nixon, accompa
nied by Jerry frank.
Frank Lange and I enry Peel lef"
this morning for a trip to river