THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1022, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1870.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. NOV. 22, 19*22
‘Gold Brick’ Man
Still Doing Business
San Francisco.—The “gold brick”
man is not dead. He wan only sleep
ing.
He just aroused long enough to dis
pose of twenty pounds of brass filings
to Morris Riskin, of the Pioneer Loan
Office on Kearney street, for $1,000 and
a. gold watch thrown in. If the sLuff
had been gold, as Riskin believed it to
be at the time of the sale, it would
have been worth iu the neighborhood
of ¥5.000, He was so elated at the sup
posed bargain that he presented the
capper” of the bunco with another
gold watch, bringing his total loss up
to /1.000 aod two gold watches.
A scene in old Mexico was the set
ting for the trick. Anthony Del Sol,
under arrest as the “capper,” interest
ed Riskin in a wizened bronzed and
aged Mexican just fresh from the wilds
of Sonora, where he mined on his own
account since early childhood. The
product of bis life’s labors consisted of
the twenty pounds of gold dust which
he had come to find a market for and
would dispose of for little or nothing.
The mining industry had so occupied
the recluse miner that he had neglect
tbe study of languages, and Dal Sol did
all the talking.
A sample produced In a bottle was
the real stuff. Riskin opened negotia
tions Immediately. As the old Mexican
■was not supposed to know much about
the value of precious metals, Del Sol
decided on the $1,000 and a watch.
Riskin wanted to get it cheaper, but
Del Sol insisted on looking after the
•>. miner’s interest, When the transac
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store |
For Sale
Mrs. E.P. Werner
Proprietor
tion was completed Uel Sol also set a
watch without asking for it.
Some few hours after the transaction
Riskiu brought t wenty pounds of brass
filings to the detective bureau with the
marks of several acid tests upon them.
Detectives John Dolan and Fred Bi.hr
soon afterwards arrested Del Sol, who
has a record for grand larcenv and
burglary. The “miner” confederate,
with the gains of the transaction, is
still at large.
Women Fight in Ring
to Win a Man’s Love
—
i Rochester, N. Y. — Approximately
live hundred persons formed a ring last
night in which two women, Eilleen
Clo8sen, 35. and Sadie B. Palmer, 32,
fought with hare fists for the love of a
man. The man, a witness of the fray,
is said to have told the contestants he
would give his affections to the winner.
News of the contemplated fight
brought the neighbors as spectators,
and witnesses told in court today of
bets having been placed.
Miss Palmer landed the first blow, a
right to the jaw. Her opponent coun
tered with au uppercut, but injured
her hand. Both went into a clinch.
Miss Clossen broke away, and when the
other swung, witnesses say, she dodged
and retaliated with a blow to the chin
for a knockout.
Both women were arrested and fined
110 each in court today.
The Governor’s office has been ap
pealed to for assistance in the search
for Carl A. PetersoD, aged about 44
and believed to be in Alaska. His
mother is very anxious to hear from
him, and any iuformotion in regard to
to him should be sent to bis sister, !
Mrs. Carrie Bt hlette, 1180 Thirteenth
street. Des Moines, I«wa.
Liquor in 10-Case Lots.
Memphis, Teon.— Letters aud price
lists of choice wines and iiquors pro- j
posing delivery in Memphis by auto-j
mobile truck in not less then ten-case 1
lots, received by a local hotel and pur- !
portiog to come from a cooperative j
agency in Victoria, B. C., were turned j
over to the police and federal officials
here. __
PRESS SQUIBS.
Won’t it be nice when we get back
from normalcy?—Brooklyn Eagle.
Ireland’s trouble is that she’s trying !
to get a union suit on over her Ulster, t
— Washington Post. (i
Dutch girls dress like their mothers,
but it is just the other way around in
America.—San Diego Sun.
France feels that the watch on the
Rhine should be continued as an
alarm clock.—Asheville Times.
The ex-kaiser says very little about
the war in his book. But then he saw
very little of it.—New York Tribune.
We burn 1,000.000 more gallons of
gas daily than we did last year. Times
are certainly bad.—Terre Haute Post.
Strange things happen. A woman
arrested as a pickpocket claims she has !
never been married.—Fort Worth
Press.
One graduate got through college by
writing short stories. Maybe he wrote
them to his father.—Youngstown Tele
gram.
Chairman Lasker seems to think
PROFESSIONAL
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Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
lditarod, Alaska,
and at
705 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice In all Courts.
Nona made a mistake when he took
the camel aboard the ark.—Greenville
Pied moot.
Ameriea, says a Washington for
ester, is being denuded. If It vs. it is
right in style.—American Lumberman
(Chicago).
Still, theehap who said skirts were
coming down hit it about as well as the
chap who said prices were.—Birming
ham S un
it may be that some people lark
backbone because too much of it has
beeo concentrated in the knot at the
top.—Lincoln Star.
W’ith a higher tariff scheduled for
dress poods, there will be nobody <o
blame but tberepublieans' if the gilds
have to shorten their* skirts again.—
Nashville SoUtherd Lumberman.
A woman’s college is teaching its
students all about dairying, but what
the flapper wants to milk is a bank ac
count.— Washington Post.
If hootch is essential to a successful
merchant marine, let us be thankful
that competing ships don’t furnish
opium pipes.—Passaic News.
At any rate, there seems to lie gen
eral agreement that good citizenship
requires the other fellow to obey the
Volstead law.—Warren Chronicle.
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River
i:
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
i
Furs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.i
Best of Home Cooked. Meals. Prompt Attention i
New Dog Houses Under Construction
i ■
Mrs. Frank Larson
i Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman:
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska \
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the priees are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
CapL Wallace Langley, Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the j
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals- . Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best > of lower river fish
for dog feed.
Diamond Dick - - Proprietor