KUSKO
VOL. V. NO. 12
TOKOTNA. ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 21,
PfilCE 25 CENTS
Trail of Tornado Leaves
Thousands Dead in Illi
nois, Indiana, Missouri
Chicago. March 1;'.—The most
devastating storm this country
has experienced in nearly half a
century swept through portions
of six mid-western states last
night, .collecting dead and in
jured as its lolls, wliieh are esti
mated at upward - of 4,000, and
causing property damages of
many millions of dollars.
So prostrated* were portions of
Illinois and Indiana through
which the tornado traveled, in a
series of erratic bops, that defi
nite figures on losses of life and
property were impossible to ob
tain early today, although au
thentic reports trickled hi from
territories in which communica
tion virtually was cut off which
added to increase ibe casualty
list. At dawn the reported death
list stood at nearly 1.000. while
approximately 3,0 0 were 'in
jured.
Several towns in the path of
the twister, which c me out of
4-ui. u;n . . •- »
uii vv v a c*. i i r i i i j n uu trn i ^ »,n i; 01
at Annapolis'. Mo., were virtu
ally destroyed, while tire in many
places added t&ths horror? s.id
shavoe. So tefritic was the force
• of the storm that bodies were re
ported as carried miles away,
while timbers from the wrecked
town of I>e Soto, IIIvy were found
in Du Quoin. 15 miles away.
The <rrea!est doss of life - oe
curred in Southern Illinois,
where more thah(400 were killed
as the tornado tore northeast
ward through Mubphysboro and
West Frankfort.
At DeSoto a School house was
razed, and only thred of the 250
occupants escaped- without in
jury Eigh-ty^eight bodies had
been taken from the ruins.
The main path' of the tornado
was less than" tvs*o hundred miles
in length, but'divisions of the
twister hopped off in several di
rectiooc. Starting from Annap
olis, the stores moved northeast,
aud after striking two other
towns on the Missouri side of
the river., jumped over into II1 i
nois, traveled that state, divided
near the Indiana state line, and
swept its force in Southern Iu
diana and Northern Kentucky.
Another line moved southeast,
ward from Annapolis through
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and
struck isolated portions of
Northern Tennessee, Kentucky
and Southern Ohio.
St. Louis, March 19 —An ap
palling loss of life and property
resulted from the tornado that
tore through Southern Illinois
late today. Conservative esti
mates tonight place the dead at
800. and the injured at 1500 En
tire villages have been devastat
ed by wind, flood and lire.
West Frankfort, in the heart
of the mining district, and Mur
physboro, a thriving city of
15,000 to the east, have the
heaviest losses of life, reports
indicating 150 dead at Murphys
boro and about the same number
at West Frankfort. At DeSoto
a hundred persons are missing.
01 this number, many were
school children who were
trapped in the grade school
building when it collapsed dur
ing the tornado.
Carbondale, III.— Upwards of
one thousand are dead and prob
ably three thousand injured, with
hundreds of other* homeless,
within a radius of twenty live
miles of this city, a* a result of
yesterday's tornado, according
to reports today.
John G. Sargent, Vt.,
Now Attorney General
W'hshitfiJrod, March 19 —The Senate
today Confirmed the nomination of
John G Saraeot, of Vermont, to be
Attorney General
Washington Notes
Washington.—Conlidge, as president
of the America'n R«?d Cross Society,
suggested'to Chairtnttn ?fr> n’e'thiit. all
facilities of the fcofg&i iiattioir be put
into operation ‘to re’lieVe the beonHf suf
ferers in-the'Middle West.
Washington. -- Further “'r(*4ogntiioD
was extended to two vrttrld’?_yers Mon
day- when rite President sent to the
Senate n tninatiot.s which will accord
second lieutenants in the air service to
OgdeL aud Uardtng
Washington.—Former Senator Ster
ling, of South Dakota, took Mrs.
Mayme E. McCaslin. 30. a fotrtner em
ploye of the Interior Department, for
his third wife, Tuesday night.
Washington.—The treaty between
the United States and Great Britain,
defining the boundary between the
United States and Canada, has been
ratified by the Senate.
Washington.—Coolidge, on Monday,
named JohD Hays Hammond a member
of the commission for the celebration
of the two hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Washington.
Washington —S-cro i d'enks Mod
day announced the be i n of Colonel
Creed C. Hammond, of Oregon, to be
chief of the militia bureau of the war
department.
Washington.—Former Senator Cul
berson, of Texas, died here today, due
to pneumonia.
Washington.—The Senate Tuesday
night confirmed the nomination of
Lieutenam Colonel James 15. Fechet to
be assistant chief of the army air ser
vice.
Washington.—The nomination of Dr.
Jacob Gnuid Schurmao, now minister
to China, to be ambassador to Ger
many, con fir me 1 Monday.
Washington.—The twenty-year old
treaty recognizing Cuban sovereignty
over the Isle of Piues was ratified Mon
day by the Senate.
Washington —Senator Smoot was
taken ill in the Senate on Tuesday, and
had to be assisted from the chamber.
Couzins Tells Vho ?
That Additional Tax i
Assessed Against Him
Wash log too* March 1.;.— Ao a J .1
i tional tax of $)0.tl91.1Jl has been as
sessed by tbe Treasury Department
against Senator Coming on the ski ■ :if
his Ford Motor stock in 1919. Ln mak
iutr this announcement today in the .
Senate. Cousins said !he had informa
tion that the computation on which the
assessment was based was made by the
New York firm of Thompson v Slack,
two years ago, in an effort to ‘‘get”
Henry Ford, who then was in a polit
ical fight, wiiii Truman Newberry, who
since has resigned from the Senate.
Loses Right to Undis
j puted Possession o**
Husband’s Estate,,
Olympia, March 16.—Marguer
ite. widow of George Carmack, ,
discoverer of the Klondike, lost
her right to the Undisputed pos- <
session of her husband’s estate, '
'in a decision handed down by !
the supreme court. * !
Mrs. Carmack was named ex
ecutrix when her husband died.
Then upon the scene appeared
Rose Curtis, a Yukon Indian,
claiming to be Carmack’s wife,
and Grade Saftig, who claimed
to be his daughter. They asked
the removal of Marguerite as ad
ministratrix and for a share in
Carmack’s property. Today’s
decision of the supreme court
held that Marguerite must leave
the distribution of Carmack’s
property to an administrator ap
pointed by the King county su
perior court.
J. W. Franklin Passes »
Away at Anchorage
J. W. Franklin, who left, here early
in February, going to Nenaoa with 1
Chester Hi ink, passed away at Anchor
aye on Febi Uar\ 27. according- to the :
Anchorage Times, which says:
"J. W. Franklin, pioneer of Alaska,
passed awav at the Anchorage govern
ment hospital this m ruing (Feb. 27) at ,
4:30. Franklin entered the hospital ,
yesterday for treatment, but was in ,
such critical condition that medical aid
was useless. Ths veteran pioneer’s ;
home was in Tokotna. The death of
Franklin, who was 53 years old, was
caused bv cancer of the stomach. *
‘‘Little is known of Franklin’s rela- -
lives or friends, and he was uocom '
municative at the hospital yesterday. 1
The body was taken to the Williams
Mortuary, to await funeral instruc
tions.” ■_
Henry Mutcbler left Tuesday for Ne- 1
day for Nenaua. from which point be (
will bring in three or four attaches of
the Kusltokwim Dredging'Company, as
well as a piece of machinery' for the 1
same concern. Also traveling with 1
Mr. Marteila on the outward trip was 1
Jack Mutcbler, who is headed for Se
attle, and who will return here-upon t
upon the onenintr of navigation.
Relief Agencies Work
ing to Recover Dead
and Succor injured.
Chicago, March 20. — Relief
igencies of the state and nation
were working tonight to recover
lie dead and to succor the in
jured and the heaaeless left in
lie wake of yesterday’s tornado,
jhat swept across the country
from Missouri to the Ohio val
ey. ievastat':!g Southern X11 i
aois, where the storm struck
svi'h its greatest fury, and which
low resembles a battlefield. Ac
lording to relief workers report
ng here today, there are 038
lea J in Illinois alone.
Chicago, .March 20.—Still prostrated,
jut with hurried efforts at temporary
•elief, supplemented by the arrival of
rained workers, supplies and triedi
does, the storm stricken of the Ohio
ralley today continued to count the
erritio loss of life and property.
A fairly systematic checking ia 35
titles and towns in the storm's path in
licated a death list of between 800 and
100. with approximately 3.000 injured,
ind many o'hi r thousands homeles.
government Files Suit
Against Doheny for In
come Taxes Year 1919
Los Angeles, March 15 —The gov
trntnent has tiled suit in the 1 Jen,
sourt here for $901551 income :axes
lue for 1919 from E. L. Doheny, ihe oil
nagoate. his son, his wife and two di
■ector* in bis cimtiianv. The coverrs
nerit charges that that, sum is ciu on
■axes for 1919, the defendant’s report
or that year showing a net taxable n
some of Jll.iitil, whereas it should have
teen 82 101 :!45,
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle.—Ralph Romeo, of Nome,
.ruder and reindeer owner, is eo route
o Washington, seeking to have ?he
Jotted States government force U is
liu to reimburse him for having j^t
!<1 a colony established by him on
.V range 11 island.
San Francisco. —Ad airplane which
s tooe used to transport mail and oaer
diandise from Seward to Alaska can
leries is to be taken to Alaska on the
•oast guyrd cutter Bear, sailing from
ieaitla May 15.
Seattle.—Captain T. P. Core,, re
ired, for many years master o! the
teamer Alaska, was rtsn down and
tilled by a speeding auto, driven y
•'ranis Skinner, of Tacoma;' Monday.
Seattle.—Joseph Farris, noted '.retie
whaler, and his half-breed’aoc were
ecently-fro en to death near Point
iarrow, according to word received by
’aptain Joseph LI. Bernard,
New York.—Walter Camp, noted
ootball coach, died todav at the Hotel
ielmoDt, his death being caused by
eart faiiure. _
Seattle.—Captain Charles P. MeCar
hv. former master of the Alaska liuer
Lorthwesioro. died Thursday
Death of Chicago Mill
ionaire Alleged Due to
Typhoid Inoculation.
Chicago, March IS.—The ty
phoid fever germs which killed
William Nelson McClintock, mil
lionaire. were given William Dar
I ling Sheppard, his foster father
land chief heir, upon his promise
to pay $100,000 after the settle
ment of the estate, Dr.C. C. Fai
! man, head of a school of bacteri
| ology. told Robert E. Crowe,
! the state’s attorney, today. This
i statement guides the state’s at
torney’s force in efforts to obtain
a murder indictment today from
j the grand jury investigating Me
Cliutock’s deatli from typhoid,
! last December.
_
1 Chicago, Mar. 19.—Charges of “mur
: der bv inoculation with typhoid germs”
i are contained :n true bills voted late
| today by the grand jury investigating
' ilio death by typhoid fever last Decem
ber of William Nelson McClintock, or
■phan millionaire. William D. Shep
j paid, foster father of young MeClin
! took and chief heir, and Charles A.
I Faiman. head of a science school, who
| has said he gave Sheppard the typhoid
i germs, were named in the bill.
Alaska Legislature In
vites Senate, Coolidge
to Make Alaska Visit
1 Washington, March IS.—The Senate
; today was invited by the Alaska legis
lature to-visit Alaska daring the com
ring summer. Similar invitations also
\ were extended to t’resident Coolidge
| and the members of his Cabinet.
$4,000,000 Conflagra
tion, Palm Beach, Fla
—
Paiin Bearh. Fla., March 20.—Four
million dollars' worth of property lay
in ruins here, today after u lire last
jight which swept through breakers to
Palm Beach hotels. Many shops were
also destroyed.
Tokio, March 19.—Twenty thousand
were rendered homeless when a major
Conflagration swept Northeastern Tokio
today, destroying S.OCO buildings, and
resulting in unestimatable casualties.
The fire was brought under control late
'this afternoon.
Wedding Bells at Bethel
Bethel, March 8. —Mr. Chris Nerbv
land Miss Julia Samuelson were united
| in marriage last evening at 8 o’clock,
the event taking place at Johnson’s
Roadhouse. Following the wedding a
dance given in honor of the newly-weds
was attended by many friends from
surrounding towns. After the dance
an enjoyable lunch wae served and
thoroughly appreciated by all partici
pating.
Miss Julia will be remembered as the
eldest daughter of the well known pop
ular pioneer mail carrier of tn,_ ,ower
Kuskokwim, and the best wishes of al
friends are extended to the hap'
co« ole.