THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
Mcgrath, Alaska, sept. 6,1922
75,000 Frenchmen
Killed in War By
Their Own Guns
Paris.—“Because of a false concep
tion of offensive principles, by lack of
liaison between artillery and infantry,
and by the irrational use of heavy ar
tillery, 75,000 Frenchmen were killed
in the war by their own artillery.”
This is the astounding revelation made
by General Etine Percin, once the corn
ua ander of a French army corps, in his
latest book, “The Massacre of Our in
fantry.”
Referring to the cost of munitions in
the war and in order to give what he
calls an example of the waste shown
during battles, General Percin re
marks: “As a result of waste of am
munition from August 2, 1914, to No
vember 11. 1918, we spent 20,000,000,000
francs in munitions, or one-seventh of
our total war expenses.”
News Notes From
the Lower River
Bethel, Sept. 19.—Mrs. Jack Herron,
who recently underwent a serious op
eration in Anchorage, 16 reported to be
improving rapidly. Deputy Marshal
Herron is on his way to Anchorage to
Anchorage to accompany Mrs. Herron
on her return here.
Mrs. Charles Knosber and Miss Hin
kleman are Bethel’s new teachers.
A full staff arrived on the Anvil’s
last voyage for Akiak Hospital, con
sisting of physician, two nurses, ma
tron, electrician, and man of all work.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCullough, of
Seattle, aro to have charge of the U. S.
Bureau of Education School at Sleit
mute during the coming winter.
J. Brown will teach at Napamute
during the coming term.
Supplemental Report
of Alaska Oil Fields
The result of the additional oil sur
veysin the Alaska holds made since
the publication of the preliminary re
port last year, are being prepared by
the Geological Survey for publication
in the near future. From the advance
sheets the following is learned:
The Cold Bay district promises to
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become a producing field. Certain
structural features In this distri •% and
probably in other parts of the Alaska
Peninsula, are favorable for the ac
cumulatson of oil and are of dimensions
indicating that they may contain large
pools of oil.
Oil seepages show a striking relation
to the anticlines, and it is along the
anticlines that the most promising oil
territory is likely to be found.
The Alaska Peninsula also offers a
promising tield for prospecting.
Regarding the Iniskin bay field, it is
stated future prospecting should extend
to test the main axial inclines of the
peninsula instead of restricted to known
oil seepages of the field. It is believed
this field may contain valuable de
posits.
A survey of the Nenana field shows
that supposed petroleum seepages
there are tar derivatives from burning
coal beds.
In the Anchorage district only drill
ing can prove whether oil is available
in commercial quantities.
The Last Frontier.
Seward Gateway.
Alaska, the wonderland, the last
frontier of America, is rapidly passing
the adolescence stage and emerging
into the long-pants period. The old
timers who packed their belongings in
on a sled and, pulling it by the neck,
journeyed many hundreds of miles into
the Interior, enduring cold, fatigue
and starvation for the purpose of inves
tigating some favorite creek, would not
know the Alaska of today.
With the building of the Valdez
Fairbanks trail and its adaptation by
autos, it was believed the last word In
luxury had been reached. The transi
tion from dog sled to stage and from
stage to auto occupied about ten years.
The old-timer paid bis hundred dollars
lor passage from Fairbanks to the
coast, the trip taking from three to
four days, owing to the depths of the
glacier streams and the condition of
the roadbed.
QThe building (of the Alaska railroad
changed all this, Instead of a four-day
trip, stopping at roadhouses over-night
and pacing from $4 to $6 per day for
meals and bed, the old-timer can now
step aboard the train at Seward and ce
whisked to Fairbanks in from 20 to 30
hours, riding the cushions, and epjoy
ing luxurious meals en route, without
stopping to “bile the kettle.” And the
fare is about one-fourth what it cost in
the old days. Before the railroad came
Fairbanks was a “camp,” dependent
upon local trade to market hsr pro
ducts, and storing vast stocks to last
through the winter until the opening
of navigation I the next year. Today
Fairbanks is the interior metropolis,
with the towns along the Government
railway at her feet. Her merchants
can order stocks as they are needed,
with the assurance that thev .will be
safely landed when guaranteed.
Thirty-six hours from the coast, six
hundred miles, the change is miracu
lous aDd links the past with the pres
ent. the present to the future, to the
further glory and upbuilding of this
great Northern Empire. The railroad
has carried the sea to Fairbanks, and
has inseparably linked Seward, An
chorage and coastal towns with the
great interior by bands of steel. J
ft Potash as Golf Player.
•‘In Hivin’s name, Potash, where did
ye get the rig?” asked'Dooley, as-’Pot
ash walked in just after noon one day.
“You mean the sport suit?” asked
Potash.
“Is that what they call it?” coun
tered Dooley.
“I could hardly expect, Dooley,1’
said Potash, “that you would know
something from golf. Aber the suit is
a golf suit, und fertig.”
“So ye’ve come to it at last, have ye?
Little did I expect to see this sad day!”
exclaimed Dooley. “ ’Tis credit for
more sense I pave you. Potash. Phwat
the divil does a man like yourself want
to be knockin’ a peewee around a hun
dred acre lot wid a shinny stick?'’
Potash slowly drained his glass of
near liquor, look a long breath and
sailed^in:
14 A whole day aDd half thenight you
sit here. Dooley, and the world goes by
you. The feller which don’t play,, und
talk golf in the summer time- might
just so quick close up the geschaft and
go home. The buyers which come from
the country bring mit the golf sticks,
the salesmen which come from the
manufacturers leave the car downstairs
rait the golf sticks; Dr. Roseowasser is
got a silver cup on his waitiog room
table und the golf sticks stand in the
ooraer, so he could leave even before
his office hours are over.”
‘:Well, aside from that, are ve as
good a player as the suit, Potash?”
“Geh sum Teufel, du—du—” said
Potash, and walked out.—Amer. Med.
Journal.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction.
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Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
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Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
; Napamute, Alaska ]
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New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
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Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
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Capt Wallace Langley, Manager.
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