2nd School of Mines
VOL. TV. NO. 38
THE KUSKO TIMES
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924,
PRICE 25 CENTS
U. S. ARMY
AVIATORS
3 World Flyers Reach
’Frisco; 100,000 On
Aviation Field.
San Francisco, Sept. 15. —
Lieutenants Smith, Wade and
Nelson, U. S. army world flyers,
flying their three, machines,
landed at Cressy Field at 2:40
this afternoon, having flown
from Santa Monica in five hours.
The entire city turned out to
greet the flyers, who sailed a
cloudless sky from the south
over the city. One hundred
thousand people were massed
about the aviation field when the
flyers lauded, and thirty-five
thousand autos occupied every
avaiiable parking place within
the Presidio.
Suggestions for Bet
tering Tokotna, Idit
arod Summer Trail
From Iditarod to Tokotna there is a
well defined summer trail which ex
tends along the ridges and mountains
between those places, and also Ophir,
which trail has recently been very
much improved by the placing of tri
pods and stakes, so that the traveling
between the places is comparatively
easy, said Charles'E. Taylor, of Idit
arod, during his recent visit nere. This
trail winds around the beads of the
various creeks, except in a few in
stances where it has been necessary to
descend for shelter conveniences.
Cabins have been placed at convenient
distances, and it is no trouble at all at
the present time to travel over the
trails, especially, for the oldtimer. But
to the casual traveler, says Mr. Taylor,
the trail could he made much better,
witb a comparatively small outlay of
labor. Knowing where one is going
gives a peace of mind and leaves no
place for worry; but going along in un
certainty as to where the trail leads to,
how far to shelter, how far to habita
tion, causes a worry and sometimes an
uneasiness that has much to do with
one’s physical condition. A mile-post
or two between- relief cabins; a sign
post indicating which creek one is
passing, especially where a cabin or
two is in sight in tbe distance, would
help amazingly; if tbe cabins are occu
pied, one would like to know who is
there, and to tbe local traveler this is
usuallv known. Especially is this con
dition noticeable between Ganes creek
and Ophir, where several creeks are
seen from the ridge, with local trails
between them, crossing tbe main trail.
If sign posts indicating the names of
these creeks were placed on the ridge,
it would save some traveler miles of
travel and considerable discomfort.
It is a small job for tbe Road Com
mission, but would be a boon to the
traveler. A short time ago one man
was landed on the Beaver instead of at
Ophir by not knowing when to come off
—--the ridge. -
John Krieger, after a visit of a cou
ple of days here, will leave tomorrow for
Ophir on his way to Tolstoi, tbe scene
MEEKER IN
BIG FLIGHT
_
Blazed Oregon Trail 52
Years Ago, Now Goes
by Plane to Dayton, O.
i m i -—
Vancouver, Wash. — Ezra E.
Meeker, 94 years old, Seattle
pioneer, who crossed the plains
to this coast with an ox team
fifty-two years ago. hopped off
today in an airplane for Dayton.
Ohio. He is a passenger of
Lieut. Oakley Kelley, the first to
make a non-stop flight across
this continent.
Boise, Idaho.—Ezra Meeker,
94. blazer of the Oregon trail,
arrived at Barker Field, Boise,
this afternoon, in a plane piloted
by Oakley G. Kelley, of trans
continental flight fame. They
made the trip from Vancouver
at a speed of 125 miles an hour.
Two Former McGrath
ites Wedded, Seattle
in *—
Louis Halverson, formerly one of the
proprietors of the McGrath Roadhonse,
writing from Seattle to The Kusko
Times, among other things, says:
Well, now, I’ll tell you what I’ve
been doing to myself since awav from
Alaska. First, I had a house built
here in Seattle. Then, on the 1st of
June, Miss Harriet Janke and I were
married, and now that we have ar
ranged things comfortably my wife and
I are going on a month’s auto tour to
Montevideo, Minn. Best wishes to all
our friends.
Ike Koski Fund, Candle.
R D Menzie.
Austin Horner...
A1 Colwell .
Bob Jaquemai...
John Sinclair.
George Walters.
W O’Palka!.
Felix Charton.
C Koenig.
N H Pearson.
C Konietzko.
Olaf Waagen.
John Jacobson..
Lars Indegard...
J Weir..
Mat Beilin.
John SazofL.
A Hansen....'..
F Whitehead_...
E J Gove.
A Olson.
G Murdock.
T P Aitken.
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James Weir, well known Ophirite,
sustained a broken leg at Candle a few
days ago, and is now in the hospital at
Akiak, to which place he was taken
by Joe Wills ia the 600-U, the trip
being made in forty-one hours. Late
wnrd from Akiak states that Mr. Weir
is resting easily and is doing as well as
can be expected.
The Sea Wolf arrived Tuesday from
McGrath with a large load of freight,
again leaving down river Wednesday
morning. _
The steamer Pioneer arrived Sun
day, bringing up a large load of
freight, and returned Tuesday to Mc
Grath.
Clint Winan, well known Nixon min
ing man, was among yesterday’s ar
Seattle Mayor Pans
Coolidge, Forgets Not
to Bouquet Himself
Seattle, Sept. 19.—Mayor Brown, in
opening the national democratic cam
paign in this state, in a speech at Ma
sonic Temple tonight, bitterly assailed
the Coolidge administration, asserted
special privileges dominated, and se
verely denounced the Mellon tax plans.
Brown closed with the words: “I have
made money and I have enjoyed it, but
I don’t want my country and my grand
children to tell about the money I left
as my god. No! I don’1 want them to
tell I was three times chosen by a great
party as its choice for the White
House. I want mv grandchildren to
hear that I was in the front of every
fight for the common people while I
lived. I think I have attained my am
bition.” _
Deputy McMullen and
Bride Reach McGrath
Deputy Marshal Peter McMullen and
Mrs. McM ulleu arrived at McGrath a
few days ago, coming up from Bethel
in their own launch. Concerning the
nuptials consummated a few weeks ago,
the many friends of the popular couple
will be interested in the following from
the Manhattan (Kas.) Times: 2
A wedding that will be of much in
terest here took place this morning at
9:30 in Marysville, Kans,, when Miss
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick was united in
marriage to Mr. Peter McMullen, of
McGrath, Alaska. The wedding took
place at the home of the bride’s
brother, P. W. Kirkpatrick; before im
mediate relatives of the couple. Mrs.
McMullen is the daughter of Mrs. M.
G. Kirkpatrick, 1735 Anderson avenue.
She attended K. S. A. C. and received
hor Bachelor of Science and Master’s
degree in Home Economics in 1920 and
1922. The past year she taught home
economics in the College of Alaska, at
Fairbanks. Alaska. Mr. McMullen is
cf McGrath, Alaska, and he and his
bride will make their home there. Mr.
and Mrs. McMullen left this evening
for Alaska. Thev have the congratu
lations and best wishes of a wide circle
of friends.
Notes From Flat,
Flat, Sept. 13.—At the recent con
vening of the District court at Flat a
number of applicants were admitted to
citizenship. Judge Cecil H. Clegg
commented on the excellent showing at
tbeir examination, especially to one
applicant who walked nearly one hun
dred miles.
Messrs. Twitchell and Fowler are
contemplating the construction of a
corral at Tokotna for their reindeer.
This will facilitate the disposal of their
surplus stock to the local market. I
Tom Shallow, erstwhile guide and
packer of the Interior, has taken over
the management of the Henry Durant
truck farm. Tom expects an increase
in the output of produce next season.
George MacKenzie recently departed
for Fairbanks, to undergo an operation
for appendicitis.
Rasmus Nielsen and Pete Miscovich
are each wearing a smile over the ar
rival of a new baby at their respective
homes, at Discovery.
Jerome Warren has located a new
quartz prospect at the bead of Caribou
creek, in the Otter district*
Mrs. Walter Wood is the successor
of Mrs. R. Rothaker as postmaster at
Iditarod.
Cecil Barlow, Moore creek mining
man, arrived.Tuesday fQr a visit here
of a few days.
Manager George Wesch, of the I. D.
Co., was a Tuesday visitor, returning
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COALMINE
EXPLOSION
Kemmerer, Wyo., Has
Another Mine Horror;
35 Bodies Recovered.
Kemmerer, Wyo., Sept. 18.—
The bodies of twenty-one miners,
killed yesterday in an explosion
in Sublet Mine No. 12 of the
Kemmerer Coal Company, have
been taken from the mine up to
noon today. Sixty miners were
entrapped, and indications are
that the death toll will reach
forty-eight.
This is the second occurrence
of explosion in the properties of
the Kemmerer Coal Company
within a year, ninety-one miners
having lost their lives as the re
sult of an explosion in the lower
level of Mine No. 1, last August.
Kemmerer, Sept. 19.—Thirty
five bodies have so far been re
covered from the workings of
Sublet Mine No. 12. Twelve
miners have been rescued alive,
while four are still entombed.
The work of recovery is slow,
due to gases which force suspen
sion of rescue work.
Concerning Alleged
Find On Mud River
Regarding the find, or alleged find,
of new placer ground in the Mud river
section, over which there has .been
more or less conjecture hereabouts for
several weeks, Henry C. Wallick on
September 5 received the following
telegram from Lynn Smith, N. C. Co.
manager at Ruby:
The Johnson stampede is forgotten.
Thirty men went. Johnson staked all
ground worth while. Only one creek,
120 feel deep. Has no pay, but sinking
one mile further up creek. Stakers
went down his holes, and did not even
record. On left fork of Big Mud, and
can be reached from ooneyard, head of
Crosschaket, and Birches is 30 miles in
winter.
The Johnson referred to in the fore
going is well known in the Ruby sec
tion as Discovery Johnson, it having
been Johnson and Charles Fernander
who were the first to discover gold on
Bear pup, a tributary of Long creek, in
that district.
Discovery Johnson and Bob Deacon,
another early-day operator on Bear
pup, are said to have been prospecting
in the Mud river section for some time
past. Mud river comes in on the right
limit of the Novikaket, about sixty
miles up. _
The many friends of Dr. and Mrs.
W. F. Green, so well known through
out the Interior, and especially this
section, will be pleased to learn that
they are now located at Long Beach,
Calif., their address being 1027 Pacific
Pacific avenue. In a letter received
by The Times, Dr. and Mrs. Green
wish to express their regards so all the
old timers.__
Jack Mutchler, after a trip up the
Kuskokwim, arrived Tuesday from Mc
Grath, coming up onTfae Sea" WolfT
Adolph Carlson, after a couple of
days in town, left this morning for his
LOUISIANA,
MICHIGAN
Would Bar LaFollette
Electors From Presi
dential Ballots.
Washington.—Senator Robert
M. LaFollette vigorously de
nounced tonight the barring of
his electors from ballots in sev
eral states, referring specially to
the action of the attorney gen
eral of Louisiana and a definite
report that Michigan has at
tempted to do the same thing.
LaFollette declared that these
procedures would react most dis
astrously against those guilty of
trying to prevent the fullest ex
pression of the people’s will.
Washington.—The demand of
Senator Smith W. Brookhart
that Charles G. Dawes withdraw
as the vice presidential candi
date and that the second place
be substituted with a farm bloc
candidate, in a letter to Butler,
chairman of the republican na
tional committee, has created a
sensation here in political cir
cles. _
Chicago—Lrookhart’s demand
for the resignation of Charles G.
Dawes as republican vice presi
dential candidate will be replied
to by Dawes in his address at
Kansas City tomorrow night.
American Legionaires
in Big Demonstration
St. Paul, Sept. 17.—American Le
gionnaires today fairly shook the Au
ditorium with applause when Judge
Landis, high commissioner of baseball,
urged them to vote back into office
those congressmen and senators who
voted to override the veto of the ad
justed compensation bill.
The presentation of legislation neces
sary to restore General J. J. Pershing
to the active list of the army, in order
that his valuable counsel will be avail
able to those responsible for the de
fense of the nation, was urged in a res
olution by the Legion this afternoon.
Nebraska will entertain the Legion
aires in 1926.
Mrs. R. E. Lowrie, who left some
weeks ago for Akiak to receive med
ical attention in the hospital at that
place, was a Sunday arrival on the Pio
neer, returning to her home here much
improved in health. Accompanying
Mrs. Lowrie from Pimute were young
Bettie and Marian McDonald, whose
father will arrive in Tokotna early in
the winter and make his home here.
J. W. Felder, of Bethel, who was on
his way to Flat to attehd court there,
was taken seriously ill when about
half way between Georgetown and Flat
and had to be taken back to Bethel.
He was on his way to attend the trial
of the case of Felder, Gale & Co. versus
H. Reeth, which was continued until
the next term of court on account of
he illness of Mr. ier.
Chris Nelson, with the launch Billie,
and Dave Clough left Tuesday for a
short run up the Nixon and a probable