THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. VLl NO
TAKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927
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INDICTE
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NcSlie Beattie and Oi:I
Schermeyer Face * ial
On Two Co lin ts.
Sfe ial to The Kusko Times.
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 18.—The Grand
Jury returned indictments against
Nellie .Beattie and William Scher
meyer on two counts, charging them
with the possession of and the con
cealing of mail matter, knowing the
same to' have been stolen. Both were
arraigned today andu allowed until
Saturday to plead to the indictments.
Thomas Marquam is representing
Evattie, while Guy Erwin is acting for
S’liermeyer.
ihe petit jury reports for duty on
Monday.;
George W. Albrecht, of Albrecht
and Taylor, who is on the Outside, is
e pected to return here next month.
Charles E. Taylor will leave for
Nome on Friday, making the trip in
connection with legal matters.
The Bennett & Rodebaugh airplane,
with Pilot Bennett, has bden at Eagle
all week, to which place -he went to
bring a sick woman to Fairbanks, the
object, of which has been prevented to
date by the exceedingly’cold weather.
ALFRED B. SMITH’S BOOM
FOR PRESIDENT LAUNCHED
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NEW YORK, Jan, 3.—New York’s
Democracy has offered Alfred E.
Smith 'to the country fdr ■ president.
The Governor’s boom was launched
last night by Senator-elect Wagner at
thfe ..dinner of the National- Demo
cratic Club to its new officers.
RECORD DAY FOR TRANSITS
THROUGH PANAMA CANAL
PANAMA, Dec. 30.—A record for
a single day’s transits through the
Panama canal was established yester
day, when twenty—eight vessels
passed through the waterway, sixteen
passing from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, and twelve the other way. The
tolls for the day aggregated $135,000.
DEPUTY MARSHALS TO TAKE
DECLARATIONS CITIZENSHIP
Special terms of the District Court,
for naturalizaton purposes especially,
will be held at McGrath and Bethel on
March 1 and 15, respectively, says the
FA!rbanks News-Miner.
Deputy Marshals Peter McMullen,
McGrath; F. C. Wiseman, Bethel; V.
0; Greeny , Wiseman; Sam Heeter,
Eagle, and- Thomas H. Long, of Ruby,
nave 1 on appointed special deputy
clerks so as-to enable aliens within
their respective districts to make ap
plications for ctizenship papers with
out necessitating their coming to
Fairbanks. Aliens are requested to
tile applications with the deputy
clerk. Prior to the r.ew appointment,
aliens in outlying districts were forced
to journey to the. clerk’s office at
Fairbanks to file their declarations.
Eli Walker, well known hereabouts,
s now-in New York city. He will re
turn to San Francisco, where he will
visit his mother until time to return
here by the first boat.
Benjamin Kwagaleg, JJack Johnson
and John Twitchell, after a stay of
several months on the Outside, were
among yesterday arrivals here, on
their way to Bethel, to whch place
they, are returning hy dog team.
influenza
THREATENS
To Cross Atlantic and
Repeat Scourge of
1918 in U. S.
WASHINGTON, -Tan. 13.—The
greatest of apprehension is expressed
among health officials here that the
united States will shortly suffer an
;pidemic of influenza equal to that of
1918.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A tidal
wave of the European influenza epi
demic is expected to sweep across to
this side of the Atlantic and precipi
tate a repetition of the 1918 scourge.
BALBOA, Jan. 13.—An epidemic of
influenza, whch was believed to be
under control, suddenly assumed
alarming proportions today through
out Spain..
LONDON, Jan. 13.—An epidemic of
smallpox has escaped from the con
trol of the authorities and is fast
sweeping over the north of England.
Telegraphic Ticks.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Count Lud
wig Salm’s separation suit against
his wife, the former Millicent Rogers,
Standard Oil heiress, has been settled
.out of court, Suprqny ^.Justice Levy
a d today. The count will receive
$325,000 from his wife’s father, Col.
lenry H. Rogers, and be given partial
justody of his small son, Peter.
SEATTLE, Jan. 14.—Anticipating
eavy spring travel, the Pacilic Steam
ship Company on March 10th will in
augurate a weekly service to South
eastern Alaska, and March. 25, week
:.he Dorothy- Alexander, making nine
•ound-trip excursions, beginning on
fune 10..
WASHINGTON, Jaft. 10.—The con
struction of an ammunition depot at
Hawthorne, Nev., to cost $3,200,000,
was asked of Congress today by Sec
retary of Navy Wilhur.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Provid
ng for an army of 118,750 men, .the
army appropriation bill, carrying
3506,001,118 for the next fiscal year,
was reported to the House today.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Arnold Day,
well known actor and theatrical man
ager, was found burned to. death to
day in his apartment.
TAMPICO, Jan. 14.—The Mexican
government has refused permission to
drill wells to oil companies which do
not recognize new oil regulations.
This decision has created a sensation
here.
NICARAGUAN AND MEXICAN
SITUATIONS LOOKING BETTER
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15^-Peace
appeals and other moves toward re
establishment of tranquil conditions
in Ncaragua and more cordial rela
tions between the . United States and
Mexico have developed both here and
abroad and have served at least to
temper the tense, atmosphere sur
rounding the. general American situa
tion by supplanting the talk of possi
ble war.
Mail Carrier Peter Snow, with the
icomin gmail, arrived Wednesday and
continued on his way on Thursday.
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN A CRUEL
HUSBAND, SAYS HIS WIFE.
IN ASK INC FOR DIVORCI
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—Charlu
Chaplin is painted as a cruel husbtuu
in a divorce suit filed here by hi;
wife, Lita Gray Chaplin. She ask
the custody of two children and a divi
sion of the Chaplin fortune, which six
estimates at $18,000,000.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Charlir
Chaplin, who is being sued for di
vorce by Lita Gray Chaplin, arrivec
today. lie reiterated the statement
that he would fight to the bitter enc
for his children.
BORAH ATTACKS COOLIDGE’S
NICARAGUAN POLICH
WASHINTON, Jan. 15.—Coolidge’i
Nicaraguan policy was attacked ir
the Senate today by Borah. The Sen
ator appealed to the Administrator
to abolish the use of force in dealing
with Central America and to seek tc
establish amity by amicable means.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secre
tary of State Kellog made the chargt
before the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations, today, that Russiar
Bolshevik leaders are using Mexico
and Latin America for the spreading
of their propaganda.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The Ad
ministration’s policy in Nicaragua was
examined in all its details and all ts
possibilities today by two committee:
of Congress.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF GOV.
PARKS, IN ANNUAL REPOR1
Tit his annual report to the Secre
tary of the Interior, his immediati
successor, Governor George A. Parks
of Alaska, recommends a repeal of th(
tax provisions, of the game law affect
ing resdents of the Territory; erec
tion of an industril school and hos
pital for tubercular natives, to be lo
cated at Tanana; combination of law
enforcement agencies in a federa
constabulary; investigation of salmot
fisheries on the Yukon and the Kusko
kwim rivers to. determine the advisa
bility of resuming commercial fishing
establisment of a detention home foi
incorrigibles and a hospital for th<
care of the insane; and the continua
tion of aerial mapping of the coasta
regions of Alaska. The Governor alsc
recommends that the Secretary of thi
Interior be authorized to allot anc
keep the grazing lands to protect th<
reindeer range, and he calls attentior
to the need for a larger market foi
reindeer meat, the herds increasing
faster than the demand for theii
meat.
The trade balance in Alaska’s favoi
in the last fiscal year was $20,024,224
Governor Parks states in his annua
report.. Fisheries, the. principal in
dustry, showed an expansion in in
vestment and persons employed,al al
though the returns decreased some
what in quantity and in value. The
fisheries investment has reached $67,
000,000, and the value of the products
was $40,000,000.
Substantial development in mining
is noted, particularly in the Fairbanks
dstrict. The output of the mines foi
the year aggregated $18,220,692, i
gain of $763,000. Copper declined ir
producton, but was greater in value
and there was a small increase ir
gold, silver, tin and lead.—Alaska
Weekly.
Arthur L’heureqx made- a hurriec
visit to town during the past week
coming'up fqr needed Supplies. He
reports that Vthe .new'^suspensioi
bridge which he is building at the
S’atalina will be' realty for use ir
about’ three", weeks. •
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A MILLION
; BY ‘KITING’
; A Seattle Lumberman
Mulcts Many Banks1
Thruout Country.
I SEATTLE, Jan. 12.—Alleged to
! have engineered one of the most dar
Tng check, “kiting” coups in the his
tory of modern banking, Henry E.
Hereth, Seattle lumberman, was in
dicted by the New York grand jury
yesterday on four counts of grand
larceny. It is alleged the Hamilton
National Bank, of New York City,
■was mulcted for 8150,000, while other
banks throughout the country suf
fered in excess of a million dollars.
ANDREWS MENTIONED IN CON
NECTION RUM-RUNNING PLOT
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—General An
drews, in charge of prohibition en
forcement, was mentioned in connec
tion with a rum-running scheme by
which it was said he was to receive
‘ $100,000 per year, was in the testi
mony offered today by the agent for
A. Bruce Delason.
MEXICAN CATHOLICS CHARGED
WITH RECENT REBELLION
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12.—The Mex
1 ican Catholc episcopate is accused of
responsibility for the recent Catholic
uprising in. MjVqco, .under.the banner
: of the “Long fiTye Christ” cult, in a
■ statement issued today by President
Calles. The statement declares the
Mexican government is convinced
that the rebels are acting under spe
and that orders save been issued to
punish energetically clergymen of
the cult inciting the rebellion.
CANTONESE TROOPS MAKING
TROUBLE FOR AMERICANS
SHANGHAI, Jan. 13.—Cantonese
troops are seizing American mission
property in Fukin province. The
American authorities have ordered
missionaries to leave some of ther
posts and others to be ready to de
part immediately.
WAYNE B. WHEELER EX
PRESSES HIMSELF ON BOOZE
WASHINGTON.—Said Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti
Saloon League:
“We are willing to knock out the
poison, if you will find substitutes
which really make alcohol unfit for
beverage use. When the Government
proceeds on the theory that its laws
wll be disobeyed it will decay witl'in
a year. The Government warned its
. citizens that there was poison in most
bootleg liquor. If a citizen goes
ahead and drinks it he is the same as
the man who walks into a drug store
and buys a bottle of carbolic acid
carrying a poison label and drinks
it.”
Wheeler protested to Mellon
against elimination of poisonous de
naturates from industrial alcohol.
Mellon reiterated that it was not the
Government’s function to poison and
kill, hut to enforce the law.
Wheeler replied: “We are even
willing that denaturants shall be less
deadly until substitues can be found,
i but the law prescribes that indus
trial alcohol shall be unfit for bev
erage purposes, and there can be only
one way to it—wood alcohol.”
HIMEE M P.
GOES FREE
Important State Wit
ness Declines to
Testify.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.—AU
criminal charges against the four de
fendants in the Aimee Semple Mc
Pherson case have been dismissed by
Superior Judge Stephens, at the re
quest of District Attorney Keyes.
The defendants were Mrs. McPher
son, Mrs. Kennedy, her mother, Ken
neth G. Ormiston and Mrs. Lorraine
Wiseman SeilafT.
LMstrict Attorney Keyes, in a
statement, blamed Wiseman Seilaff
for the collapse of his case.
NOT SNOW THAT TIES UP COM
MERCIAL TRAFFICE, ALASKA
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—It isn’t snow
that ties up automobile traffic on
Alaskan trails, said A. M. Anderson,
of Fairbanks. “It is the blamed cari
bou herds, moose, moose, black bear
and other varmints.”
SENATE ORDERS INVESTIGA
TION OF ELECTION OF VARE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—An in
vestigation of the senatorial election
in Pennsylvania in which Vare, Re
publican, is credited with a majority
over William B. Wilson, Democrat,
was ordered bv IT. ■ Senate today.
ANCHORAGE FORMS AIRPLANE
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ANCHORAGE.—Business and pro
fessional men of this city have or
ganized a $100,000 “Anchorage Air
Transport’’ Company, to engage in
aerial transportation to points within
convenient flying distance.
The company will use the latest
amphibian travel planes, of four per
sons capacity, equipped with Wright
Whirlwind motors. The planes will
carry wireless for the first time in
commercial aviation in Alaska.
It is reported that the first air
plane will start operating on March 1.
It will be used in big game hunting
in conjunction with the Alaska Gla
ciers Tour Association.
GOVERNMENT BLAMED FOR
DEATH FROM ALCOHOLISM
NEW YORK.—Chester Mills, fed
eral prohibition administrator, re
plied to Medical Examiner Norris’
charges that the Government, in de
naturing alcohol, was responsible for
many liquor deaths.
Mills said the practce began in
1906, and was intended to give non
beverage users alcohol at reasonable
prices and to allow producers to meet
foreign competition. The Govern
ment was not intending to risk the
lives of its citizens.
Norris said: “The Government
knows it is not stopping drinking by
putting poison in alcohol. It knows
what bootleggers are doing with it,
and yet it continues the poisoning
process.”
Mail Carrier Charlie Konig, bring
ing the outgoing mall, arrived yester
day, and left this morning for Mc
Grath.
A. H. Twitchell, after a stay of sev
eral days in town, left this morning
for Ganes, on his way to his reindeer
camp at Crater mountain.