VOL. III. NO. 18
McGRATH, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1923.
PRICE 25 CENTS
SAYS PEACE i
WILL COME
Poincaire Speaks of Ul
timate Outcome With
Germany.
Paris, March 20.—Germany in
her moral offensive is conduct
ing a world wide gas attack, Pre- j
mier Poincaire said today while '
j
addressing a gathering of Paris j
newspaper men, ‘but before!
long she will end it. She will j
be forced to guarantee our rep i
arations and definitely guarantee J
our security. Thus peace, which '
has been so Uncertain and sol
long awaited, will become a 1
reality.’* _
Berlin, Merch 18.—Forty-five!
French soldiers are reported to
have been killed in a train wreck
in the Ruhr valley last night.
Dusseldorf.—Advices from Es
sen state that several French
soldiers and a German civilian
were killed at that place today.
- Announcement this morninsf
states that German mine owners
have been allowed until April 15
to pay 41) per cent of their coal
assessments.
JERUSALEM
DISORDERS
Caused by the Turkish
Flag Flying During
Demonstration.
Jerusalem, March 18.— The
Turkish flag was llown here Fri-.
day during a procession held in
connection with a demonstration
called by Arabian leaders. Dur- i
mg the demonstration a number
of disorders broke out, compel
ling British troops to disperse
the paraders, but not before sev
eral Arabs and a few native po
licemen were wounded. Six ring
leaders in the demonetration
were arrested.
Superintendent L. F. Bullard, of lhe>
Nixon none, piloted hero from Kabi
by Owen Gray, arrived Sunday from a
trip of business and pleasure on the i
Outside, during wtnch he visited his
former home, Vancouver, B. O. Messrs.
Bullard and Gray left this morning for
Nixon. ____________
Merrill Bates, who arrived frotu Cal
ifornia a few weeks ago, has decided to
spend the summer in the Tacoma sc*o
tion. He is now with thw Innoko
Dredging Company and Witt be.located,
on Ganes creek.
OH? o^niCT
Ur ta
Secs. Work and Wal
lace to Visit Alaska
This Summer. *
Washington, Mar- h 19 —It is
practically cert-on th it Alaska,
in addition to President Eardimy
wiil see both Seon-tary of In
terior Work and Secretary of
Agriculture Wa!lace during the
coming summer.
Bo'h Cabinet officials will go
North to find oul fae's leMivr.
to the developue n> of the Terri
tory. Secretary Work will lock
over the Government railroad,
and may t ke a -.ide tie into the
oilfields of the Coid B y >ection.
Secretary Wallace will take in
the forests along the shore line
and visit the department's agri
cultural exp riment station at
Fairbanks. Secretary of War
Weeks, it is quite probable, will
also pay a visit to the Territory.
The War Department’s interest
in Alaska lies in the develop
ment of roads and in telegraphic
and cable communication, while
four departments are interested
in the construction of the pro
posed wireless station at Point
Barrow. The Navy Department
has large oil reserves there, and
plans are now being formulated
for their examination and c'evel
ma m n n I
Dun MeGimv was among tin -e *110
turned here yesterday. after a winter’s
visit, on the Outsidi coming from Kobi
a.-. a passentier of H. Grant Mr.
Gint.y’s itinerary on the Outs'le in
eluded m 15 principal Pacific coast cities
from Seatt le to San Diego, as well as a
view into Mexico's interior.
Mi3S Josephine Parent will have an
other birthday next Saturday— h r id. h
one, hy the way. To assist the voting
lady in celebrating the day her friends
will assemble at Clough hall Sa'urday
night and parttcij ate in dancing and
other pleasures. t<> wbicfi each and ail
are invited to lie present.
Each claiming the other for hts pas
Seuger, Frank Guskey and Sergeant
Bundy returned from Tacotna Mond
morning.. Questioned as to his im
pressions of that city and his rec pi ion.
Bundy says merely: ‘’Some place!
Some folks, and some time! Thanks to
every one of ’etui”
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' Charlie Mespeii and Ed dolimvn re
turned here Monday. after an absence
of three or four 11 nths on the Yukon,
in ,the vicinity of Nulato, whither they
went on a prospecting mission. They
say nothing.
Mr., and Mrs. At : her Berry and
daughter, Miss Su.okie, who arrived
Sunday from a visit of several days at
Tacot-ua, departed this nmroing for
their Berry Lauding home.
T. A. . Samuelson, of Ganes creek,
was a Monday arrival.
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Arrange Conference to
Consider Reparations
London.—Dispatches to the Timas
from Berlin says a conference has been
arranged between representatives of
I the German government and leading
'.whist rial ists to consider the situation
with regard to reparations.
So?d Cigarets to Girls,
Gets 6 Months in Jail
Seattle.—Tried and convicted on the
charge of selling cigarat’es to two high
school girls. Joseph Klenmvich was
i hi- morning sentenced to a t i in of six
months- in the cuumv jail.
Would Unite Countries
by Tunnel Under *
Bering Straits.
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Phil adelphia, March.18 —The
conn ction of America and #Asia
by a tunnel across Bering Strait
was suggested by prof Willi an
Etiug, of Pelting University, in
ait address here today. Aoier
iea’s destiny was more closely
bound with Asia than with Eu
rone hn tuvl
800, On 11 Ships, Ex
cluded From Land
ing in U. S.
Washington, March 19.—The
State Department, in a statement
i>sueci today, declared that eight
hundred refugees tirw on eleven
snips in Manila harbor can not
be brought to this country, due
to the fact that the Russian im
migration quota has been ex
hausted. These Russians, it is
unuerstood, are hosiile to the
soviet government, and lied the
country when the bolstrevists
pushed their control into Si
beria
J<>e McKinnon, di edgemuster of the
j Riley dreuge, and wife are expected to
| arrive within the next few dav*s. on
j their way to Flat.
j J.ie M-eberriu, well know,, uaveling
stales-man, driving his own team, got
! awa; tins meruiin* ior Rig river, eu
route to K'd,i and the Ouiside
Fred Whitehead lefi Tuesday for his
headquarters, over on ihe Ba.-a Fork.
John Sinclair returned Suuday from
a visit of sever*! days at Tacotn*.
Bloody Corpse In Can
vas, [Driverless Team,
Near Tanana.
Percy Huntington, said to be
an old timer in tho Tanana sec
lion, was foully murdered a few
days ago, according to word
brought here yesterday by
Frank Monk man.
Just prior to Mr, Monkman’s
leaving Nenana word was re
ceived there that the mail car
rier traveling up river, while at
a point IB miles b<Tow Tanana,
; aw a driverless dog team ap
proaching. The carrier stopped
the team. Making an examina
tion of the sled, In was appalled,
on unfolding the canvas, to see
ja lifeiess body within, bespat
tered with much blood.
Attaching the stray team to
the end of his own sled, the car
rier proceeded to Tanana, where
the body was identified as that
of Huntington.
Assistant Prosecutor E B
Collins and Deputy Jack Woods
were on the point of leaving
Nenana for Tanana as our in
formant was leaving, further
man wmcn an aecans concern
ing the grewsome crime are
lacking.
Billy Jones, freighter, went to Ta
eotna yesterday and is bark again to
day for more shortages to go up to
morrow.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Malphas. Bog.—Lord Choltnondeley
died here last night.
Constantinople — Dr. Nisad Kechad
Bey has been appointed Turkish min
ister to tlie United States.
Washington. — D. W. Davis, former
governor ol Idaho, was sworn in today
as special assistaai secretary of the in
terior.
Seattle.—Col. Me: rs, head of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission,
sailjti fur Anchorage ou the Alameda,
this morning.
Paris.— Mary Plummer Clemenceau,
estranged wife ot I lie former premier,
died here today. She was an Ainer
ict-', a native of Wisconsin.
Seattle—The steamship Roosevelt,
formerly the ship of Lieuteaant Peary,
polar explorer, is being converted into
a tug for barge towing.
^liatni, Pla —Attorney Geueral Hugh
D-ugherty, in a statement. issued to
day. deflates that President Harding,
if a candidate, will be reuomiuated and
re-elected.
Cairo, Egypt.—Earl Carnarvon, who
lias beeu supervising excavations at
the torno of King Tutlaukhamen, is
suffering severely from blood poisou
<ug, the result of an insect bite.
Submit Bid for Nome
Kotzebue Sound
Service.
Seattle, March 18,—E. J. Mat
thews, president of the Denny &
Renton Clay & Coal Company,
j acting on information supplied
by Lieut E. G. Fullerton, for
merly of the Amundsen expedi
tion, has submitted to the Post
office Department a bid to estab
lish an airplane mail service
from Nome to Kotzebue sound.
Pianes are to be used also in
transporting surveyors to the
! Naval oil reserves in the Arctic
region, recently established by
| presidential proclamation.
To carry out these projects
; Matthews has organized the
| Alaska Airways Company, pur
chased a naval flying boat and
engaged A. C. Eekman as his
pilot. Arrangements are being
made to ship a hydroaeroplane
to Nome on the Victoria, sailing
on June 9th. Action on the bid
tin.* man iCi ca
iui tan jiug
in May.
| Four Killed With Ax;
Bodies Buried in
Ruins.
Everett. March 18.—Mrs. Cleo
patra Karas and her two chil
dren— Polly, aged two, and Alex,
aged four—and Gust Karas, her
brother-in-law, were found dead
this morning in the ruins cf the
Home Bakery, which they con
duct d. The bodies revealed
that the two adulfs were first
killed with an ax. Peter Karas,
husband of the woman, was also
murdered about four months ago.
Klanner Says Break
‘Supergovernment’
Oklahoma Citv.— Rev. W. J. Ma
honey, imperial kloklard of the ku
klux klan, in a brief address to the
lower house of the legislature here to
day, said that “this country has a
supergovernment. We must break it.
We will.”
Frank Hart was a Monday arrival
from Tacotna, coming down with A us
tin Horner.
J. E. Beattie, with the outbound,
njail, arrived this afternoon.
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