- VOL. V. NO. 4
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925,
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PRICE 25 CENTS
1 Liquor Conspirators In
clude Iiiglierups, Pro
fessional, Business.
Seattle. Jan. 19. — Reaching:
into high places occupied by
leading professional and busi
ness men, officials of the law and
; ' women of wealth, the federal
grand jury, after an exhaustive
jrrobe of the Pu*o t Sound tum
ning traffic, inuiced ninety per
sons this afternoon, in addiIi« n
to Roy Olnistead and Ins wife,
Elsie, 'i he defendants include a
widely known customs bicker,
leading an mbers of the bar, two
: police officers and an inventor.
'Olmstead was. according to
prohibition officials, the ^brains
of the'conspiracy. Z.
Many of those charged' in the
indictments live in the exclusive
Mount B iker residential district.
' Only the names of a few’ of the
indicted thus far have been re
veafed, however.
Seattle. Jan 2o.— Thir ' y.three
| ■ persons, inc!uding Koy Oimsiead
and ins wife, of the ninety in
- dieted in the liquor conspiracy
cases had been arrested by the
federal authorities up to nine
o'clock tonight. Olm>tead and
wife were released on bail of
00U.
Lieutena nt of Police George
Con.stock Policeman George P.
Reynolds and Attorney J> rry L
Pinch were the first, men arrest
ed today of the ninety indicted
in the Olmstead case.
Seattle, Jan. 17.—That patrolmen
bootieggers who appeared this week
before the grand jurv investigation of
the hqanr eon-pinici ease which, fed
eral officers say. involves Ruv Olm
stead wil be called to the witness stand
at the trial to tell their transactions in
detail it indictments are voted, was in
dicated today by federal i dicers. Ttiis,
it was atvcounced, was the main reason
whv 'the identity of witnesses before
the grand jury was concealed wherever
possible.
The voluminous record* of the traffic
in liQucr ib Seattle and other N'-rth
western cities, including lists of boot
ledgers," lhet places aud t.he names of
customers who were on delivery lists of
bottle buyers were plaetd before ttie
federal grand jury t' day by United
States Attorney Revelle.
Downward during the present week
has been th. tendency of the th* ititom
eter. ditto woodpile. Fifty two below
was nwtcfeiihle for several mornings on
The Times' thermt meter, although sev
eral other Instruments up town and
near OleaT areek hovered around the
60 below mark This morning, 43
below. _
?Ndtice of Dissolution.
Notice is tn re by given that on .Janu
ary 21st. 192”) the partnership hereto
fore existing between VVal'er \V
Johnson, ti. G. Peake and Thomas P.
Ai'ken, under the name of Kuskokwtm
Dredging Contpanv, was dissolved f>v
mutual consent, the said Thomas P.
Aitken withdrawing from said part.
Dership and its mining operations.
(Signed) THOMAS P. aitkkn,
W. W. JOHNSON,
H. G. Prank.
Delegate Says Measure
Will Do Away With
Much Complaint.
Washington, Jm —Dun Suth
erland, delegate from Alaska,
believes that the new Alaska
game rontmission law will do
awav with much complaint The
new game law-, lie sa.\ s, is the
best that could be obtained in
reaching an agree meet between
tlie divergent views.
The bill provides for the ap
pointment of a commission of
tour Alaskans to act in an advis
ory capacity with tLie Secretary
| of Agriculture in the administra
! tion of the game and fur laws of
! the Territory.
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1st Cabaret Perform
ance to Be Broadcast
ed, London to America
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I London, Jan. 19.—American radio
I t>ni bu~ia--ts will have an,oppori unity
j Thursday night i<> listen in hi the first,
j cabaret performance ever hrtmdeasted
from this side of the water in London’s
midnight follies, which will be broad
casted through the high power station
at C'heltu-foi d. the whole show begin
nintr at 12:4o Greenwich time.
Canadians May Get
Nanaimo BankSuspect
Seat lie. Jan. 20. — Judge Mitchell
Gilliam today recommended to the
Stale Department of the United estates
that i he Canadian an h< titles be al
lowed to have William Bagiev, to take
hint to British Columbia and put him
on trial as one of the Americans ac
| cused of the Nanaimo bank robbery,
some weeks ago.
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Telegraphic Ticks.
j Manila —Six United States destroy
ers left here Monday for Shanghai,
where factional leaders and military
governors are contesting for the pos
session of that city. Six American de
stroyers are now iher
Seattle.—Frank ti L> vice
president and chalrnmi minit
tee of the board of the Ann ican suiel
teriug & Kt lining Ci lupiiiy. was today
elected to tlie boaid of directors of ihe
Seattle National Ha nit.
London.—Five IrismueQ and I ish
woiuen were arrested in different pans
of London Thursday on a charge i f
beiug involved in a plot to blow up
British battler-hips and -utnnai iuet.
Paris.—Emile Daeschner. new French
ambassador lo the United Stales, sailed
Mouday from Havre for New York.
i Los Angeles.—Jacts Dempsey, it is
announced, will marry Estelle Taylor,
motion picture actress, tu June.
Santa Barbara. — Lionel Lion, the
first horse to trot a mile iu less tbau
two minutes, Tuesday.
New York.—Eamel Gray Keid, tiD
l»late king, died Monday.
1,016 Army Veterans
at Doors of Congress
Ask Belated Justice
Washington, Jan 19 —One thousand
and sixteen disabled war veterans this
afternoon hammered on the doors of
Congress for belated justice. This bat
talioD of cripples, with ttieir hundreds j
of war decorations from all allied j/ov
ernments, sent a delegation to plead
for the enactment of the Bursum bill,
granting retirement aud pay to dis
abled army veterans.
SEATTLE
TEACHER
Attacks McFarland &
Co. Failure in Suit
to Recover.
Seattle, Jan. 21.— Allegations
that gambling in stocks and mar
gins speculations was responsi
ble for the bankruptcy last No
vember of the tirm of James Me
Parland & Co , which closed its
doors with a deficit of $150,000
and more than one hundred and
! fifty unsatisfied creditors, were
made in a civil action begun in
the superior court tiiis after
noon.
Lydia Linberg, a teacher in
ihe Franklin high school, who
made the accusations, is the
plaintiff. iShe expects to re
cover $820, which she says she
advanced the company for legit
imate purchases of standard
stocks. Her money, she c harged,
was gambled away and its loss
concealed in a dummy account.
Senate Dems. Serve
Notice On Coolidge
Washington, Jan 10.—The demo
cratic membership of the Senate this
afternoon served notice <m Coolidge
i hat it will closely scrut inize all his
futute appointments to the United
States tat iff commission, as a result of
charges that large sugar interests were
raising funds to influence his selec
tions. _
D’Annunzio Would
Unseat Mussolini
London. Jan. 18.—Private dispatches
recoived in London todav in'iatated
that Gabriel D’Annunzio is preparing
to take an active hunr.1 in the move
ment to unerm Premie’ Mn-solini.
January 20ih being the eighth birth
day of Miss Mary McLean, Tokotna
school held open house from 2 to 4
Tuesday afternoon. Sample* of the
children’s work were on exhibition,
and an excellent luncheon, consisting
of ice cream and cake, lea and sand
wiehes, was served by Misses Mary
Snyder and Rose Oats Many Tokot
nans were present and thoroughly en
joyed the occasion.
Nels Vibe, after a visit of several
days in town, returned Frilay to Little
creek.
1 ..
Jack Lainont, bringing the incoming
mail, arrived Tuesday.
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HIGH SEAS
— • 6 t
British Steamship Re
turns to Port With
Amazing Story.
Hongkong. Jan. 21.—The Brit
! ish steamship Hongkwa, which
I sailed for Singapore three days
ago, put back into port today,
with an a teasing story of piracy
on the hiyb' seas. Ad of the
.ship’s passengers were penni
j less and the sale had been rifled,
yet those on board tne ship were
unharmed. For- fctuee days the
i vessel had been in possession of
| Chinese pirates, who embarked
| from this port with the rest of
; the passengers.
Peake and Johnson
Buy Aitken Interests
| Advices received here Thursday
stated that D. G. Peake and W. W.
Johnson have bought the T. P. Aitken
interest in the Candle creek dredge
and equipment and formed a Nevada
corporation under the name of Kusko
kwim Dredging Company, which will
operate the Candle creek dredge. Mr.
and Mrs. Aitkeu have do interest iD
! that corporation, aDd have leased to
: Peaks and Johnson all their Candle
creek holdings.
Washington Notes
Washington.—Surveys io Alaskan
waters, as recommended by the rivers
and harbors board, jovar Hyder har
bor, Ketchikan, Yukon riser near Fort
Yukon and near Holy Cross, Wrangell
harbor with a view to extending the
breakwater, and Saxman harbor io
T<mgas narrows.
| Washington, — In ihe House, t’epre
sentaiive Hawes, Tuesday, introduced
a resolution to investigate charges
brought by ihe St. Louis Post Dispatch
agaiust Federal Judge George W. Eng
lish, of the East St Louis district.
Washington. — Secretary of Labor
Davis has withdrawn Lis tentative
j resignation, submitted some time ago,
and will remain in the Cabinet, the
White House announced Monday.
Washington.— C- olidge has tendered
the post of Secretary of Agriculture to
Herbert Hoover, but Hoover replied
i thut he desired to remain iu the Coni*
| tneroe Department..
Washington. — A favorrble report in
j the nomination of Harlan F. Stone for
associate justice of the supreme court
was ordered Tueslay by the Senate ju
diciary Committee.
Washington—The Senate Tuesday
passed the deficiency appropriation
hill, after increasing it $159 00^,000, of
which $150,000,000 will be used for tax
refunds.
Washington.—Coolidge has narrowed
I to a half dozen the names under consid
eration for Secretary of Agriculture.
Two hundred applied for the job.
Washington. — The retirement of
Rov Havnes, prohibition commissioner,
was indicated at the White House on
I Thursday.
I
THAT PARIS
AGREEMENT
Ex-Ambassador Harvey
Joins in Attack On
Conclusions.
Washington, Jan. 19.—Declar
ling it inconceivable that a
staunch American like President
Coolidge “could approve an ar
rangement so' bitterly opposed
to all of our country's tradi
tions, principles and practices,”
George Harvey, former ambas
sador to Britain, today joined in
the attack on the Paris agree
ment, signed last week at the in
ternational financial conference.
Washington. — Secretary of
State Hughes today issued a
statement in which he asserted
l that the greement reaehed in
1 Paris at , e conference of allied
ministers imposed no obligations
legallv cr morally on the United
Statec, and that this country re
mains as free from commitments
in European matters as it ever
was.
Paris, Jan. 17.—All powers repre
sented in the interallied financial con
feience today signed the agreement re~
garding distribution of the Dawes an
nuities.
Rumania and Italy signed, but with
a resolution placing the limitations of
American claims at S2o,000,000, which
was stricken out.
Alan son B. Houghton
Will Succeed Kellogg
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Washington, Jan. 18.—The appoint
ment of Alanson B. Houghton, of New
York, present ambassador at Berlin, to
succeed Prank B. Kellogg, American
i ambassador at London, was announced
j tonight at the White House.
3,000,060 Facing Fam
ine Conditions, Korea
Tokin. Jan. H.—As the intensity of
the winter in Korea increases, thre«
milli*>u persons are suffering from fam
ine. according to word received here
today from Seoul.
In Close Embrace They
Die By Asphyxiation
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1 Aberdeen, Jau. 12.— Dressed ia their
! Sunday Snerv, the bodies of Frank
; Thlbault, 72, former banker of this
i place, and his wife, 6G. were found in
close embrace on the Door of their gaa
tilled bath room. On a stand in the
room was found a note giving instrue*
tions regarding their funeral.
Word received here Tuesday, coming
from Archie Higgins at San Francises,
: conveyed the information that John E.
Baker was nearing-the end. This, in
I deed, will be sad news- to that gsntle
| man’s maov frieeds, all' of whoa wer®
hopeful that the operation for cancer
undergone by hrtrn Would extend the
years of life’s declining span.
-AtGcslow, who arrived Tuesday, left
yesterday for Ophir, on the wav to hi*
RoToar headouarters.