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' VOL. III. NO. 13
McGRATH, ALASKA SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1023.
PRICE
2S CENTfc.
OPPOSITION
S STRONG
Filibuster Is Promised
Against International
Court Protocol.
Washington, March 1. -The
resolution to carry out the new
administration proposal for
American membership in the In
ternational Court of Justice, •or
ganized by the League of Na
tions, was introduced in the Sen
ate today by Senator King, of
Utah.
Irreconcilable senators, show
ing no abatement of their oppo
sition to the League of Nations,
proclaimed their determination
to filibuster against the ratifica
tion of any protocol under which
the United States would partici
pate in the International Court.
Washington, March 2.—Post
ponement of action until the next
session of Congress upon Hard
ing's request for authority to
enter the International Court
was virtually decided -on ’today
by the Senate foreign relations
• committee. .
IN IRELAND
Irregulars Blowing Up
Reservoirs in Many
Towns.
. Dublin, March 2. — Twenty
Irish irregulars, the most im
portant of whom was Sean Fitz
patrick, have been captured by
the criminal investigation de
partment of the Free State go\*
ernment in raids from army
headquarters, it was announced
tod ay.
• Heavy fighting is under way
between rebel forces and Free
State troops in Glen of Aherlow.
Several are reported killed. Ir
regulars are blowing up reser
voirs in many towns.
Value of Estate of
Late Henry Frick
New York.—The valuation of the
late Henry Clay Frick’s estate was
fixed at $92,953,55g today by the state
tax committee, which set the tax on it
at $20,953,905.
# L. B. La, mis, N. C. manager, re
turned yesterday from a business trip
v • to Tacoma. •
House Bill Asks Co-Op
eration of Foreign
Governments.
I -
Washington. March 2.—The
House tonight passed the Porter
resolution, calling upon the
President to urge, upon foreign
governments the Momfdiate ne
eessity for limiting the growth
and production of oytinm and
cola leaves to the amount actu
ally required for medicinal and
scientific purposes.
Honolulu, March 2 —A ma
chine gun was moun'ed on the
deck of tiie liner China to pre
vent opium smugglers picking
up packages of narcotics thrown
overboard
Telegraphic Ticks.
vCambridge.'—W i Ihja I mar Steffansoni
Arctic explorer, has been granted tlv
degree of master of arts by Harvard.
'Washington. — Harding today visited
tbe offices of Dr. W. H. Wihroar, co ed
eye specialist,und htid his eves exam
ined.
Washington.—President Harding o
dav signed tlie hill providing f■ t ac
ceptance of the British debt st tile
raent.
Berlin.—Carl4ladek, Russia’-, chief
! propagandist in the Ruhr, is in charge
! of communistic propaganda among
I French trooi>s.
j Seattle.—School children’s savings
' banks will be opened March Id, school
j board spodsors of the thrift plan an
I nounced this afternoon.
Santiago, Chile. — Harding’s sisters,
Mrs. N. H. Votaw anti Miss Abigail
Harding, upou their arrival today,
were received by President Alessau
dria. _
Paris.—Premier Poineaire today for
mally protested to Britain over the
latter’s action in withdrawing war
ships from Smyrna without consulting
France. _
Washington.—A second conference
of governors of various elates with the
President, for the purpose if discuss
ing prohibition enforcement, will bo
held in April.
Manila.—Six enlisted navy men were
burned to death yesterday in an explo
sion, due to the Bareback of oil in ihe
boiler room of the destroyer Halbert of
the Asiatic Beet.
J. E. Beattie, who arrived yesterday
with the mail from Big river, left this
morning for Tacotna, accompanied by
Ray Beattie and Omar Quinn. Ray
Beattie, it is understood, will relieve
Mail Carrier Duffy, whose presence for
the time being is in more or less de
mand at Flat.
Louis Blackburn left today on a
business trip to Nixon.
Mail Contractor Hill left yesterday
for Big river, headed foe Kobi
Sec. Fall Says Adieu,
Off for New Mexico
—
Washington. —Retiring Secretary of .
Interior Fall today bade farewell to (
President Harding anti official mem-1
bers as he rose from the Cabinet table
for the last' C.ue. After today’s session j
I he left the White House to resume his j
| private care, r in New Mexico.
Amundsen to Attempt
j Polar Flight in May
Nome.— Captain Roald Amundsen j
i will make hia attempt to ilv across the j
j North Pole iti lav. The explorer will
leave here for Y’u,;;t. .tight widiio the j
next few days. His ship Maud is now j
hard fast ia the ire near Wrangell i
island._
French Occupationists
Extend Their Limits
Limburg.—The French have extend
|ed their occupation limits in the zone
formerly occupied by Americans by
taking over Fla, miners fold s'ation, :>r.
the Altenki chen-Limburg railway,
with the intention of erecting a cus
toms department.
Bill Provides Bonus
for Federal Employes
Washington.—The bill providing a
bonus for federal employes drawing
less than twenty-five hundred dollars
oer year was favorably reported today
by the House appropriations commit
tee.
Sale of Ship Board Ves
sels Only Recourse
to Stop Losses:
Washington, March !.—The
sale of all government-owned
vessels is the only recourse left
| to the Government to stop losses
j entailed in the operation of the
1 United States Shipping Board,
| it was s'ated at the White House
| today, and the administration, it
is understood, will abandon all
elTorts to obtain government aid
; for a merchant marine.
Town of 15,000 Must
Be Moved to Permit
Mining Operations
Washington.— The towu of Ribbing,
Minn., with i population of more than
15.000. will be moved to enable the
Oliver Iron Mining Company to mine
the iron ore which underlies it, as a re
sult of fchp action of the Supreme Court
yesterday in dismissing for want of
jurisdiction the appeal of H P. Reed
and others.
The mining company owds most of
the land on which the town is located,
and when it proposed that the people
should move, Keed and seventy-four
others made an unsuccessful court light
against the proposal.
r
IjB
Deaf Hoy, 13, Made to
Dear Human Voice
and Music.
London, March 3.—One of the
marvslous results of the series
of experiments being conducted
by scientists at Marconi louse,
where Harry S hewer, age H,
deaf from birth, this* afternoon
heard music and a human voice
for the first time in his life, both
of which came over a loud speak -
ing wireless telephone device in
which a foxtrot was transmitted.
The boy showed many manifes
tations of delight.
Marriage Is Planned
for Prince of Wales
and Italian Princess
London -The Lennon -aiiy l ew
says this morning that plans are 02
foot for a union between the I’rinue of
Wales and an Italian princess. t de
clares that questions concerning the
trainee’s marina ire will be settled with
in the nezr few months.
The paper points out that there will
he universal congratulation if his
choice Is an English girl, but if a for
eign alliance i> announced, then it will
have to bear qlo.-ie scrutiny from more
than one standpoint.
Coast Hears Rumor M
Maiamute With Gold
Reports coining from the Interior,
says the Anchorage Times, allege that
a maiamute is running wild along the
lower Yckon with $31,000 in currency
strapped to his hack. It, is alleged the
thief who stole tog money strapped the
money on me dog's hack in a canvas
pack and started him inward’s Nome,
whence the animal is alleged- to have
come. Asa result of the report every
man ,n possession of the information is
out to catch the dog. which, owing to
strangeness and shyness, refuses to re
spond to blandishments. It is claimed
tho-aniaidl was seet: near Ruby headed
for the Nome trail. Efforts to confirm
the report through the local marshal’s
o35ce elicited the statement that the
officers war a .tot i pc ^session of anv
authentic information on the latest de
velopments of the mail robbery.
1. W. W. Quit Town
in Preference to Jail
Centralia. —Seven membars of the I.
W. W., convicted and sentenced to
terms of imprisonment, were given the
privilege of either going to jail or get
ting out of town. They accepted the
court’s offer and left town.
John H. Peterson arrived yesterday
and returned today to his down-river
headquarters.
Al Waish left yesterday for Flat, an
route to the lower river.
CLUBMAN
Responsible for Oeatf
of Two Women and
One Man
Plnladeiph.a,. March 1'wc
women and one man were killed
today when an ambulance, trav
eling fast, crashed into them as
they v, re alighting - from a trol
ley car. The driver was Henry
G. Brotney, banker, clubman and
member of a prominent v. hil
adelphia family, who was found
.drunk, standing toy his wrecked
car, four blocks away.
Naval-Military Re
serve for Alaska
Washington The withdrawal oT
twenty million acres oL.--i*ad 5»t>nr.
Alaska, to form a new ds-viw. erahHiiU
tary reserve, was acnoeocec-ye* tarda*
i by Secretary of .ntorior Fall.
•Jeputy Marshal-Jack Wood»,-witt
T fi. GdBriac irxsharge.-aod -mth the
team of. Aler. Brown^eet away Thurs
day for Fairbanks,-at-which place
y Brien will-serve the remasnder of
! 1 if ; i JU »• • OOU (A
PLAN FOR BIG
COMBINE
In Whioii All Western
j Roads May Be Placed
Under 4 Systems*
Washington, March 6.—A’pliU.
of vast magnitude for the con
solidation of all western rail
roads it;to four systems,'thereby
I systematizing and cheapening’
i transportation, was submitted fcc
i the interstate commerce com*
mission yesterday by President
Holden, of the Burlington lines
Old-Timer of Nome
Shot and Killed
The marshal’s ottioe at None is in
receipt of information from St. Michaef
says the Nome Nugget, that J. D. Shel
ton was shot end killed. It is presumed
that the shooting was'accidental, but
certain circumstances give rise to tha
suspicion that there may have beer
foul play.
The shooting occurred ai the soutl;
| mouth of the Yukon river, in the Wad*
i Hampton district.
Shelton was a well known Noro*ite
and kougaroker', having followed min
iug for a number of years in those sec
tions, the town of Shelton, in the Koc
garok, haviug been named after him
J. P. Dakin was-among yesfchbdt.v >
•arrivals