THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. VI. NO. 3
TOKOTNA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, .JANUARY 16, 1926.
PRICE 25 CBSrjfc
EIELSON FOR
NORTH POLE
One of Three Named to
Make Hop in Big
Polar Flight.
Seattle, .July .15.—.Captain Georgi
Hubert Y\ ilkins, commander of the
Arctic ftkjht expedition, will sail from
.Seattle, with his three monoplanet
..for‘the expedition, on the steamship
Victoria, on February 1
lEiie Ate mint. Ben. F. Eielson, n weli
! known former Alaskan aviator, onl>
■ one of the three, pilots whose name.
hhave been.announced,-..will depart or
.the. steamship Northwestern, on Feb
iruary 6.
Telegrams .giving sailing orders
were* received today by Alexander
Maloolm .Smith, second '.in command
Seattle,.. JU»n. 116.—North’ Polar ex
rplorers Smith and Rossman, accom
panied by, Gordon Scott and H.-Ala
.son, sailed this morning for Sewart
ami Nenaua on the steamship North
western. They took At ith them chret
sno wmotors and ten. tons of supplies
Seattle, Jan. 15.—The establish
meet and feasibility of a transpolai
air route from Northern Europe ti
liaiiris-rwashe'ii’.hy the. North Pacific is
one of the aims of the Detroit-Wu
1 kins Arctic flight expedition, whit!
hopies to discover a continent rich ir
■ oil, coal and minerals between Aiaskt
t-and the North. Pole.
Plenty of Prayes s
foriGardinal Mereiei
Brussels. Jan. Jo.—Prgyersrin ever;
UCatholie-’church throughout'.Belgium
'were ordered this ,,morning for Car
»dinal --Mercier. Pupils in Catholii
. schools..will pray every morning be
ffor* opening ulassys tot his. recovery
iTO BRINE*. NATIONAL PARKS
TO TII/OSE WHO HAVE NE1
THER AUTOMOBILES, MONEJ
Washington, Jan. 15.—Secretary o
Interior Work and Stephen T. Mather
director ef,.national parks service
have completed arrangements vvitl
motion picture promoters- for bring
ing nineteen ational parks of tin
United States to those who. have nei
ther time, automobiles nor the mone;
necessary to view them. Wild an
imals, esnec'ally those appearing 01
Mount McKinley, are to be featured
$165,000,000 PUBLIC BUILDINGS
BILL FAVORABLY REPORTEI
Washington, Jan. 14.—The $165,
000,600 public buildings bill, provid
ing fur the erection of new federa
.building- in a score of cities, was fav
orably leported to the Senate toda;
by the Senate public buildings com
mittee.
Washington.—The mixed claim
commission announced that German,
must pay American claimants $2,40.9,
413 for damages sustained when tin
giant liner Lusitania was torpedoei
during the war. The commission alsi
announced 30 awards for variou
.causes against Germany, totaling
more than $13,145,000.
Washington.—Major dry organiza
tions, including the Anti-Salooi
League, have decided to line up be
:hind President Coolidge and Secre
tar yof Treasury Mellon in their ef
Forts to enforce national prohibition
They will not join the attacks beiig
. made by some drys on the Coolidgi
administration.
Halfdan Hanson, mail carrier to
tween Akiak and Flat, was a passen
ger here today with Charlie Ross
who arrived today with the mail fron
Flat. Mr. Hanson is on his way t(
the Outside for medical treatment.
COUZENS
COMMITTEE
ISuys Laxity, Incompe
tency, Discrimination
! in Revenue Bureau.
Washington, Jan. 14.—Laxity, rank
incompetency, gross discriminatior
and abuse of power in the Bureau o!
Internal Revenue have cost the peo
ple .a loss of hundreds of millions oi
dollars in income taxes, the Couzen>
investigating committee reported t<
tire. Senate today, after a two-year in
vestigation. Improper allowances for
the amortization of war facilities
1 amount to $210,655,260 alone, the re
1 port charges.
—
Washington.—Revelations: of pow
erful corporations escaping payment>
of millions of dollars in income taxes
through favorable action of the Trea
: sury Department were gi' en to the
j Senate committee, headed by Senate)
Couzens. One of the. big corporations
j . anted as favored is the Gulf Oi
I Company, of which Secretary of the
j Treasury Meilon is one .of the princi
pal owners. The committee invest!
gating the collection of. federal in
ome taxes status that this companj
escaped the payment of $4,590,1183
i lie integrity as well as efficiency o:
many of the Treasury-officials .am
‘nil.oves of both the Wilson . am
HardingrCoolidge regime is ques
ioned. The committee .states . iha
.hey will make public in the very neai
future the names of several othei
prominent corporations that have «ls<
escaped millions in taxes. They stal
i that the poor delinquent who is halet
I before the Treasury subordinates i:
j certainly very severely dealt with
i but tht the rich and important tax
| payers, with a tax expert who. has in
| nlienee in the Treasury Department
I is received with open arms and get:
several millions chopped off his bill.
Washington Governor
Vetoes Many Measure*
Olympia, Jan. 15.—-Governor Hart
icy vetoed eight bills today, includin;
•no appropriating $100-000 .to creat
an industrial, home -and clinic Co:
| women land one appropriating $200.
,00 to represent Washington at thi
; independence Sesquicentennial Expo
j sition at Philadelphia. The Governo
j signed thirty-eight bills.
McGRATh Vtriisi in. i, ilOl.DS
FIRST SOCIAL EVENT OF YKA1
McGrath, Jan. 18.—The first sneia
jvciil uf the year was the meeting o
! the McGrath Whist Club, Saturda;
I light, January 16. As there was :
lac kof women players, several gen
. I .-omen kindiy assumed the roles o
| ladies.
hour prizes were awarded, .as lol
i iows:
J Ladies’ first prize, .to (Miss) M
r Green.
. j Ladies’ booby prize,, to (Miss) E
. j Stevenson.
|; Gentlemen’s first prize, to John St
i' Clair.
;j Gentlemen's booby prize, to Axe
Peterson.
Refreshments were served after th
prizes had been awarded, and a socia
■ 'ole time was had by all until th>
i “wee small” hours.
those present were: Dan Sprague
■ John St. Clair, James Downey, E<
Stevenson, Moody Green, R. M. White
■ Bert Stewart, George Davies, Martii
' Clancy, W. J. Widman, Mr. and Mrs
■ N. G. Hanson, Miss Halbach, T. A
Parsons, Axel Peterson.
This was the first meeting of thi
' club. The next meeting will occu
Saturday, January 22, at the resi
1 fience of N. G. Hansen,
' Henry Martella left Monday for i
trip to Nixon.
I
Big Prosecutor to As
sist in Olmstead Con
spiracy Trial, Seattle
Seattle, Jan. 15.—John B. Mar
shall, chief government counsel at the
| St. Louis liquor conspiracy case tried
! last month in Indianapolis, in which a
I score of prominent men were convict
| ed, joined forces here today with
1 United States Attorney Revelle for
' prosecution of 'the Olmstead liquor
I conspiracy; case.
AlaSfca R. R. and Bu
reau of Education to
Merge Activities.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Consolida
! tion of the Alaska Railroad and Bu
j real of Education at Seattle was an
! nounced today by Secretary of In
! tericrr Work. A saving of SI7,000 an
i ‘liuillv i promised as a result of the
' c. nsolitiation.
The an: iliary powered schooner
Ehitcer. which' has been operated from
Seattle exclusively by 'the Bureau of
! Education to transc. .-t supplies to
schools an<l hospital; n Alaska, is to
! used in the future’ jointly with the
Alaska' Railroad.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle, .Ian. 15.—Woodrow Wilson
I lemonal stamps were placed on sale
1: at the Sea* tie postoffice today. The
II ;ssue is of the 18-cent denomination.
i. _
(j Washington, Jan. 14.—President
. Coolidge today nominated Thomas J
. Smith for postmaster at Spokane.
,! -
Seattle. Jan. 15. Cecil Burrows, Id,
a high school pupil, son <T O. F. Bur
■ows, of the Newman Burrows Com
pany, ccnn.fitted suicide this morning
|!>y slrooting himself.
_
Seattle, Jan. 15.—Otto F. Kegel,
president of the Grotto Company, was
’ divoorced by his wife today on the
o-r ads of cruelty. His wife will re
i -mve 855.000" a- her share of the
property.
BUM 1.AW GRIP SHUTS
A I.ITTI.E TIGHTER
Washington.—A n irt ruling *hat
may lent! to far-reaching results in
,ithe enforcement of the Volstead law
iis. attract' na; considerable attention
i | n prohibition headquarter here to
f tiny. The ruling was made by Judge
. v"tt Barrett, of the Southern district
1 of Georgia, in the federal court at
Savannah.
Judge Barrett sent a defendant to
•ail for six- months for violating the
national prohibition law. and in pass
ing sentence laid down the principle
that a mail »vho gives information a*
to the place where liquor can be pur
chased, knowing that the person to
whom the information is given wants
' to buy a drink, is a party to the sale
i if any is made as a sequel to his ac
i i cion and is liable to punishment.
The ruling was made under au
. j thority of the federal statutes which
.' provide that any one who aids, abets
. | or contributes to a violation of the
! law is equally guilty with the one
! who commits the offense, but as ap
I ] plied to breaches of the prohibition
t j laws, which are framed to make the
II sale nd not the purchase of liquor an
; offense, it is regarded among prohibi
j tion workers here as an extension of
i legal principles beyond what has been
, j recognized up to the present. Appar
. ently the effect of the ruling, if it is
. sustained, would be to make it crim
inal for a man to tell any other who
his bootlegger is or to give directions
i to a thirsty fellow-being as to possible
cases for relief from drought.
MURDERERS
ARE HAN CEO
Baker and Sowash Pa\
Penalty at Okalla
Prison.
Vaneonuver, Jan. 14.—Owen K
i Baker and Harry F. Sowash wm
hanged a! Okalla today for the mur
der of Captain William J. Gillis and
his son, William E. Gillis, on board
the gasboat Beryl G., on September
.1.5, 1921.
The murder of Gillis and his son
by Baker and Sowash was.one of the
most cold-blooded. Paul Stromkins, a
: boatman, who was the chief witness
l against Baker and Sowash, said at the
i trial that after the slaying of William
Gillis and his. son the bodies were
handcuffed together at Halibut island
ued to the Beryl G.’s anchor, and then
thrown into the water. '1 he anchor
was then towed out into deep water
and the anchor chain cut.
Stromkins testified that on the af
ternoon they boarded the schoonei
Gillis’ son appeared on tire deck of
i-he boat and he sa wSowash, who fol
lowed the boy, kill him. Sowash said
to Baker, “1 killed him,” and Bakei
shook hands with Sowash.
Stromkins said that he didn’t set
. aker kill Captain Gillis, hut heard
Baker say later-, “1 shot the old rnai
I m iau.-r in.- v* an ujw mi imij;.
S. C. SENATOR ATTACKS
FOREKIN DIPLOMATS
Washington, Jan. 14.—Senatoi
oieuse, of South Carolina, in a Sen
ate speech tod.ay, attacked foreigr
:iploniats in Washington, charging
ihem witli feeding liquor to America:
women and deliaucning them.
FILE FOR MAYOR, S EATTLE.
Seattle, Jan. 16.—John B. Shortet
awyer, and VY. T. Campbell, council
! man, filed for mayoor today, bringing
the total entries up to six.
; MAXIM BRANDS Oils
LAW NATIONAL PERIL
i New York.—Hudson Maxim, in
| ventor of “concentrated destruction'
j in the form of high explosives, smoke
| less powder and torpedoes, left today
| on the Cunard liner Rerengaria with
I Tiis wife, his first trip abroad in
I years.
The silver-haired inventor voiced
I Ins condemnation of prohibition—a
Horrible thing it is, he said—befort
j che liner sailed. Prohibition, added
Via: ini, was one of his chief reasons
j for going abroad.
] “How glad I’ll be when I get to the
' '2 mile limit, where 1 can take «
l.-’.ss of ale and enjoy it without vio
lating a law—a law that is sapping
the vitality of our country,” he ex
.aimed..
“We will have to invent a new
j enforced, and that new race will have
1 to be aided and abetted by the Anti
i doon League.
“Human digestion is not constitut
ed to function under modern civilized
conditions without a'ebn >1. The by
product ferment in tin digestive tract
needs alcohol to keep it down. All
•vees who har the use of alcohol are
ao-account races in the struggle for
existence. 'Drinking races have al
ways dominated the world and will
| always do so.
“Enforcement of prohibition,” he
continued, “is enforcement of crime,
and that, is why people of ordinary
common sense have no sympathy with
the law.”
Tokio.—Fires of guns heralded the
birth of an imperial granddaughter,
All Japan joined in an expression of
joy for the crown princ and princess,
! the parents, but there would have
I been greater celebratin' s had the
child been a boy and heir to the
| throne.
I
PERTAINING
! TO ALASKA
Sutherland Measure Re
! jected; Treadway Pro
posals Also Fail.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The House
■ committee on territories today sum
; marily rejected Delegate, Sutherland’s
bill giving the people of Alaska the
right to elect a governor and a ten i
| torial secretary.
The House passed the Interior De
! partment appropriation bill, carrying
I $226,000,000.
The House rejected three amend
ments introduced hy Representative
Treadway (Rep.) of Massachusetts to
reduce Alaska Alaska appropriations.
Treadway proposed to reduce by
$500,000 a $1,700,000 appropriation
for the Alaska Railroad, to discon
tinue the same at the close of the
fiscal year 1027, authorization to
spend $500,000 of annual funds for
the road for expenditures chargeable
to capital account, and to strike an
appropriation of $18,700 for Mount
McKinley national park.
Body of Okltiine Yu
koner in Lonely Cabin
Edmonton, Jan. 14.-—A wireless dis
patch has been received by the Jcur
nal telling: of the finding of the lost
body of J. C. Nichol, an oldtime Yu
koner, in a lonely cabin in_,the Fort
Norman district anil the disappear
ance of L. Beaman, Nichol’s partner,
in a prospecting and trapping ven
ture.
v MERIT '•F • «1.S TO J)OFl
ms H AT—MORE TROl BLE
Washington, Jan. 14.—Investiga
tion of the report that an American
citizen was attacked by the Italian
consul at Athens was asked by the
State Department today in a cable to
i irvin B. Laughlin, American minister
; ui Athens. It was charged that the
i American was attacked because of
I failure to remove his hat when the
Italian consul entered the anteroom
of the Italian consulate.
New York.-Inhis annual address
at l lie Columbia University, Presi
dent Nicholas Murray Butler declared
that there has been a fajl in religious
training, blaming- it to a large extent
upon the “illiterate ministry,” trace
j able to the pour pay of clergymen.
j PIONEERS ELECT OFFICERS.
At a meeting of Pioneers, held last
evening, the following officers, all of
them present incumbents, were re
elected for the present year:
President—A. X. Grant.
Vice President — Gus Gullikson.
Secretary—Eli M. Walker.
’ Treasurer—("hr:- I Viol-son
Historian—Anthony Sweeney.
Sergeant-at-A rins—Chris Nelson.
Trustees—Jake Estleman, John
Heino, -Gks Christiansen.
(Chaplain—Robert Lowrie.
Tokotn Igloo, at last night’s meet
ing, voted to give a masquerade ball
on the night of February 20. Repairs
to tlie floor will be made and every
1 thing made ready for a pleasant time
on that occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mutchler,
after a visit here of several days, re
turned to .their home at McGrath to
day.
j Adolph Lind returned yesterday
from a brief visit at McGrath.
T. A. Parsons, better known to his
i friends as “Ernie,” manager of bln
j N. C. Company store at Nenana, wfe<
j arrived at McGrath a few days agi
and N. G. Hanson, N. C. m»' ager a
j McGrath, were among yesterday sc
| rivals for. a.abort hinoneas -ifsvLjw*.