THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL IX NO. 4 ^
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY S?6. 1919.
PRICE CENTS •
Doings At
Washington
HURLEY CONFIRMED AS U. S.
VTTORNEYFOR FOURTH
ALASKA DIVISION
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The-:W
-it*- ^Tuesday adopted the proposal of
Senator (Harris of Georgia to give the
President . $23,00X1,000 to be used un
der his personal direction to enforce
prohibition.
The Senate Monday confirmed the
nomination of Roy O. West i\s Secre
tary of. Interior.
The Senate judiciary committee
Oh Monday ordered a favorable report
on tivi.nomination of Julian A. Hur
ley for United States Attorney for
the Fourth Alaska division.
President Coolidge on Wednesday
nominated Howard D. Stabler of
Alaska for United States Attorney,
for the First Division of Alaska.
President Coolidge today appointed ;
Brigadier General Chari H. Bridges as
adjutant general of the.army.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
WILL NOT ACCEPT POST
OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
NFAV YORK, Jan. 21.—Charles1
Evans. Hughes “is not available for
any office,” his secretary announced
today, in response to reports from
Washington that Hoover, had offered
Hughea. the post of Secretary of
State.
ALASICA PACKERS ASSOCIA
TION HAD LEAN YEAR IN-,1928
SAN. FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.—The
Alaska. Packers Association’s profits
from cannery operations in 1928 was
$25,053, as against $151,760 for 1927,
stockholders were informed at their
annual'meeting here today; This re
duction is said to be due to large sums
placed in plant expansion and new
equipment. The total pack of the as
sociation’s thirteen canneries in Alas
ka; and'one plant on. Puget Sound for
1928 was 63,143 cases.
FEW DETAILS OF MURDER
THE HOHOLITNA RIVER
NAPAMUTE, Jan. lL-r-Geotgr-W.
Hoffhian, United States commissioner;
returned a day or two ago from,
a. .placfti'calfed Whitefish village,, 50
miles from the-, mouth, of the Hoho
litna. river, to which place he and’ a.
jury went to'investigate a murder, and
to hold an inquest upon the* body of
Andrew- Necketta, deceased, a native,
who was- shot tw.ica in the left eye byi
Gonstajvtine Beaver, another native.!
The murder happened on the 15th day
at November: The natives had been
drinking brew, and Constantine Bea
ver shot Necketta with a revolver.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Wiseman ac
companied tha commissioner to the
scene, with the following as jurors: j
AI Walsh, Hank Downey, Charles!
Amilld’n, Sam Voich, John Stephenson,
Hans Halve’*.-on. The inquest was
held December 22*. The - defendant,;
Beaver, aft: • the inquest, was given
a hearing, following which he wasj
held to ancv-er before the grand jury, j
Billy: Gibbs was a yesterday arrival,
eoming firm Medfra with Dave Peck.
The only i.ewir. ap Medfra way, says,
Mr. Gibb's was that of the arrival;
there a Hefmtitjrs ago of a son-to Mr.,
and Mrs. TT~A. ’McClure, a few days !
EXPLORER NANSEN ARRIVES j
FROM NORWAY TO PREPARE
FOR NORTH POLE FLIGHT. 1930
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Explorer |
Nansen, who arrived here Tuesday
from Norway, will discuss with Gov
ernrnent/officials the need for a moor
ing mast at Nome, Alaska, especially
in connection with his flight in 1930
over the North Pole in the dirigible
Graf Zeppelin.
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WASHINGTON AND IDAHO
BANKS, CLOSELY RELATED,.
HAVE CLOSED THEIR DOORS
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SPOKANE, Jan. 19^-The Exchange
National Bank of Spokane and the
First Exchange National Bank of
Coeur d’Alene closed, their doors Fri
day. The former institution had de
posits of seven and a half millions.
The two institutions were related, j
NINE KILLED, TWOSCORE IN- f
JURED IN TORNADO THAT |
PASSES THROUGH MIDWEST
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19.—Nine persons
were killed and two score injured in
the tornado which tore through por-'
tions of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana
Friday evening, striking first at Cape
Girarden, Mo.. Muncie, Indiana, ap-j
peared to be heaviest hit.
824.000,000 MORE FOR PROHIBI
TION ENFORCEMENT AND GEN
ERAL SURVEY OF SITUATION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The Sen
ate on Tuesday adopted the. amend
ment to the deficiency bill adding
$24,000,000. more for prohibition en
forcement and $250,000 for a general
survey of the prohibition situation, j
WOULD ABOLISH ALASKA
CABLE, SUBSTITUTE RADIO;
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The cur
rent issue of the Army and Navy.
Register indicates Major General
George S. Gibbs, chief signal officer,
| as favoring abolishing the Alaska
\ cable and substituting radio.' The
Register estimates that the _ change
could be made for $200,000.
CRUISER SALT LAKE CITY
LAUNCHED AT CAMDEN, N. J.
CAMDEN, N. J, Jan. 24.—The 10,.
OOOrton cruiser Salt *Lake City was
launched today at the yards of the
New York Shipbuilding Company, on
the Delaware.
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THREE UNITED STATES MA
RINES KILLED IN NICARAGUA
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 24.—
Three United States marines of a pa
trol of seven, which clashed with out-i
laws in Northeast Yali, in the depart
ment of Jinotega, on Monday, were
killed. i
Arriving at 'McGrath Friday frnmi
Bethel were the two planes of. thei
Bennett-Rodebaugh company, piloted
hy A. A. Bennett and TommycGbard,
From Bethel the planes had as pas
sengers Deputy Marshal Wiseman,
who had in charge Constantine Bea
ver, bound over to-the grand jury on
a charge of murdering Aiidrew Naek
etta at Whitefish village, about: fifty
miles up the Hoholifna river;- aKoutj'
the middle of November. Also com- i
ing asr rasarngera headed ,!Fair
banks in connection with the murder
case were three women and two men, i
witnesses in the case. The planes got
away yesterday afternoon* for Fair-,
banks....
Death Takes .!
Underwood
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FORMER ALABAMA SENATOR,. A
VICTIM OF PARALYSIS, DIES
AT HIS VIRGINIA HOME.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Former
Senator Oscar W. Underwood o Ala
bama died at his Virginia home, near,
here, today. He suffered a paralytic
stroke last December,. from which
he never rallied.
Oscar Underwood, Democrat, has
been a prominent figure: in the coun
cils o his party, from the time he en
tered the 54sh Congress as Repre
sentative, serving also in the 55th,
56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62d,
and 63d Congresses, and was elected
a member of the United.!States Senate
for the term beginning March 4, 1915;
and re-elected for the term beginning
March 4, 1921. He had a strong fol
lowing for nomination of President -in
the Democratic convention of 1924, of
which he was a foremost figure.
COUSIN OF GEN. JERSHING
BOASTS BEING COMMUNIST
NEW YORK, Jan. 21:—The World
today says that George Pershing, 2'J,
second cousin of General Pershing,
was the leader in the demonstration
before the British consulate last
Thursday which was broken up by the
police. The young man boasts that he
,s a communist.
Telegraphic Ticks.
PEKING, Jan. 26.—Bishop O’Shea,
of the Catholic mission at Kanchow,
reported today that communists had
kidnapped an American, Rev. Edwardl
Young, near Nananfu, Kiangsi prov
ince, and that a ransom of_S10,000
Tiad been demanded for his relrase.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Mary
Elizabeth Culbertson, daughter of the
late Senator.- Culbertson of Texas,
was charged today in police court
with driving an automobile while
drunk. She was released on bail..
SEATTLE, Jan. 25.—Thomas Jef
ferson and John T. Casey, attorneys,
brothers and law partners, we re
killed last night in an auto stage and'
bus crash on the Pacific highway in a
suburb of Des Moines.
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—President
Spencer last night rule.! that Bag-!
siiaw shall remain as- head football
coach of the University of Washing-!
ton, refusing to ratify the recent ac-l
tion of the student board.
SEATTLE, Jar). 23.—James M.
Byrne, for thirty years a member of
the police, detective force, was found
dead in his bed yesterday, as a result
of heart disease.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—John Schram,'
pioneer retail merchant, suffered aj
paralytic stroke o<n Tuesday and isrj
near death..
LONDON, Jan. 24.—King George
will be removed in a few days to Sir
Arthur Lee's Coast Craigwell House,
in Bognor, Sussex.
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—The North
western sailed for Seward this morn
ing, carrying 138 passengers.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—William H.
Bolen, well known attorney, died at
Bis home here today. .
LUDDENDORF DEMANDS THAT J
FORMER KAISER BE ALLOWED j
TO RETURN FROM HIS EXILE j
BERLIN, Jan. 26.—General Luden-j
dorc today, in the newspaper Deutche,
demanded that former Kaiser Wil
helm be allowed to return from his
exile in Holland, where he is really a
prisoner of a foreign power, to the
shame of Germany’s honor and de
cency. |
SAYS 11R. WILBUR, PRESIDENT
OF STANFORD U., CERTAIN TO
BE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24.—The
Chronicle today says it has informa
tion from Washington that Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford
University, will be Hoover’s Secretary
of Interior.
COOLIDGE FEELS INTERSTATE .
COMMERCE COMMISSION TOO
SLOW; WANTS QUICK ACTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Presi
dent Coolidge feels that the Interstate
Commerce Commission is too slow.
TTe would like to see the commission
ers dispose of questions much quicker ;
than they do.
JOHNSON SUSPENDED' AS
GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 24.—Gov.
Henry S. Johnson was suspended
from office Tuesday, the Legislature i
having voted his impeachment on
charges of corruption and other ac
cusation*.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 25.—The
! Legislature today extended its State.
House inquiry, which has brought out!
; allegations that whiskey, money and
political favors figured in the admin
istration of Johnson, impeached gov
ernor.
HOOVER ARRIVES FLORIDA.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 24.—
President-Elect Hoover arrived here
yesterday, and rested today at the
: home of J. C. Penny, on Belle Isle.
1 MRS. NORTIICOTT CONFESSES
| AND IS SENTENCED TO SAN |
QUENTIN PRISON FOR LIFE
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Mrs. Vera
Northcott pleaded guilty to the mur
der of Walter Collins in superior i
court and was sentenced to life im-;
prisonment. The woman ■ accepted
full responsibility for the murder of
three other youths. She blamed her j
husband, Cyrus Northcott, and San- i
ford Clark, her grandson, with com- j
plic'ty. She gave no motive for the!
crimes.
SAN QUENTIN, Calif.—Mrs. Sarah
Louise Northcott declared on her ar
rival here yesterday that she had
been tricked into pleading guilty of
the murder of Walter Collins. She
said the victim was an unknown New
York lad.
Mrs. Northcott was brought to San
Quentin to serve a life sentence after
pleading guilty on Monday.
Arriving here from Ophir yester-;
day, coming with Johnson Sozov’s
team, was Mrs. Sid Paulson, who was
on her way to McGrath to take air
plane passage to Fairbanks. Mrs. |
Paulson, for some days past, has been
feeling none too well, added to- which
she was unfortunate enough a few
days since to sustain a bad. fall, in
which she was injured, thus necessi- j
tating a trip to Fairbanks to receive
medical care. Mr. Paulson accompa
nied her to this point, Mrs. Paulson
taking the plane from McGrath yes
terday noon.
Minerals Of
Territory
A NOTEWORTHY INCREASE IN
GOLD PRODUCTION IN 1928
OVER THAT OFF 1927.
VVASHINTON, Jan. 1.—The De
partment of the Interior announces,
through advance statements prepared
by the Alaska branch of the Geolog
ical Survey, that mines in Alaska are
estimated to have produced minerals
to the value of §14,128,000 in 1928,
as against §14,401,000 in 1927. The
total value of the mineral output of
Alaska since 1880 is nearly §600,000,
000. The figures for 1928, which are
preliminary estimates and conse
quently subject^ to revision, are taken
from the Geological Survey’s annual
report on the mineral resources of
Alaska, now in preparation. The
source of this mineral wealth is ap
proximately as follows:
Value of Mineral Output of Alaska in
1928 and 1927.
Copper .
Gold .
Silver
Coal .
Other min
erals (lead, pe
troleum, mar
ble, tin, plat
inum, etc.),,..
1928 (est.)
0,100,000
$0,775,000
273.000
024.000
350,000
Totals .$14,128,000 *14,404,000
.HRDL 890$ .2) ’ ( "„L
Gold.
The total production of god from
Alaskan mines in 1928 is estimated at
36,775,000. This makes a noteworthy
increase over the production of the
preceding year and is attributable to,
increased output by both lode and
placer mines. The greatest increase,
however, came from lode mines, so
that the ratio of the value of the gold
produced by them to that of the gold
produced by the placers seems to
have been about 52.7 to 47.3. This
is a rather significant change, be
cause in 1927 the corresponding ratio
was about 50 to 50; in 1926 it was
about 44 to 56, and for the entire
period that gold mining has been in
progress in the Territory it has been
33 to 67.
1927.
7,250,000
85,927,000
356.000
548.000
323,000
The increase in the production of
gold from the lode mines is attrib
utable mostly to the greater output
utable mostly to the greater output
from properties of the Alaska Juneau
Gold Mining Company in Southeast
ern Alaska. The quantity of ore
mined by this company appears to
have been somewhat less than in the
preceding year, but its gold tenor was
much higher. No noteworthy new de
velopments were recorded at the other
golu iode mines, but most of the prop
erties that have been active durisg the
last few years continued operations.
Go!u mining at the three larger prop
erties on Chicagof Island was carried
on at a considerably reduced rate The
production from a number of small
mines in the Ilyder and Ketchikan
districts was considerably larger than
in 1927. In the Willow Creek district
the gold lode mines report a some
what smaller output than in the pre
ceding year and considerably less
than formerly. The small gold lode
mines in the Fairbanks district report
a considerable increase in their yield
of gold. Several other small lode
mines scattered widely through the
Territory, but especially in Keaai Pe
“ula, near Nuka Bay and at Crow
Creek, and in the Kuskokwim regiop
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