nd School of Mine
The
Kusko
VOL. 1. NO. 101
McGRATH, ALASKA, JANUARY 14. 1912.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Resignation of Briand
Causes Consternation
His Action May Affect
Decisions Reached By
Washington Disarma
ment Conference^
p&ris, Jan. 12—Aristide Brand
resigned today as premier of
France.
Briand’s resignation was fol
io wed by those of his entire cab
inet. His action was taken at
the end of an hour’s statement
justifying* his attitude at the
Cannes conference, in which he
apparently had the sympathy of
the chamber. His resignation
came as a great surprise.
Briand put the Anglo French
pact, the question of postpone
ment of German reparations
and the March participation in
the Genoa conference sqqarely
up to the Chamber of Deputies,
telling the deputies in bluntest
terms to take them or leave
them. He held that France could
not remain out of* the Genoe
conference, especially if the
United States had agreed to
participate. His course had been
criticised because at the Genoa
conference the French would
have to meet Russians.
Arms Conference CiccIesShocked
Washington, Jan. 12- — The
resignation of Briand was re
ceived with almost bombshell ef
fect in arms conference circles,
his action being considered as
likely to have great effect on de
cisions already reached or about
to be reached. The belief also
was expressed in conference cir
cles that an overturn of the Brit
ish ministry would greatly affect
the Genoa economic conference,
in which American participation
had been invited, and also on the
present conference at Cannes.
Determination of the Adminis
tration’s attitude toward partici
pating in the international eco
nomical conference, called to
meet in Genoa m<March, may be
delayed as a result of the resig
nation ol: Briand, the State De
partment indicated.
Lloyd George Not Hopeful.
Cannes. Jan. 12.—When told
of Briand’s resignation, Lloyd
George said: “That ends the su
preme council, and it ends hope
for Europe’s present recovery.”
20 PER CENT
DIVIDEND
Issued to Depositors of
; Defunet S. A. Bark,
Seattle.
Seattle, Jan. 12. — Checks
amounting to twenty per cent of
the amount of all guaranteed de
posits weie mailed to- the vic
tims of the defunct Scandina vian
American Bank today s by the
administrators of the bank’s af
fai?s.
Fifteen per cent of the amount
was realized by the liquidation
of the bank's assets,, and five
per cent from the State guar
anty fund.
It is stated that all depositors
will be paid as rapidly as assets
can be realized upon.
Frank Dawsoa, coming: from* Flat,
arrived hero on Thursday.
Jim Per, of Flat* was-a Thursday ar
rival. .
ROBBED OF
A FORTUNE
Alaska Miner Carried
Fortune in His Belt;
Loses $20,000.
Seattle, Jan. 13.—Eli Breklich,
a miner until recently employed
by the Copper reiver Mining
Company, was beaten into un
consciousness and robbed of
twenty thousand dollars, which
he-earried in a belt around his
body, last night.
Beklieh had withdrawn his life
savings from the banks after the
Scandinavian American failure,
and though he had beeir warned
of the danger of carryings such
au amount of money on his per
son he refused to trust other
methods of caring for hfis~wealth.
There is uot the slightest clue to
the holdup- men.
L..C. Wernecke, superintendent of
the Alaska Treadwell Mining: Com
pany, left Frida; fir the Nixon Mine.
Vanderlip’s Syndicate
Sell’s Quarter Interest
Los Angeles.—The Standard Oil
Company of California has purchased a
one-quarter interest in Washington A.
Vanderlip’s syndicate, which some
months ago acquired vast concessions
in the Kamchatka peninsula from the
Russian soviet government, according
to the Los Angeles Times.
SUCCESSOR
APPOINTED
Floyd Marsh, of Kan
tishna, U. S. Commis
sioner, McGrath.
Special to Kusko Times.
Fairbanks, Jan. 14.—Answer
ing your telegram January 13th,
have already appointed Floyd
Marsh, of Kantislma, Commis
sioner Green’s successor. He is
now on the way. He is an ex
service man, with two years’
training in medical course, and
experienced in Red Cross work
in San Francisco. You and the j
people there will like him.
Clegg, Judge, j
Efforts Being Made
to Retain Dr. Green
U. S. Commissioner
At a cansultation of a number of Mc
Grath citizeas yesterday it was decided
to ask Dr. W. F. Green to reconsider
bis resignation as U. S. commissioner
of this district, and wires were imme
diately prepared bj; T. P. Aitken and
H. E. Carter and forwarded today.
Following is the wire sent to Judge
Clegg at Fairbanks:
McGrath. Jan. 13.
Judge Clegg,
Fairbanks. Alaska:
People of this district unanimously
petition you to reinstate Dr. W. F.
Green as commissioner. This com
munity cannot support a doctor, and
the commissionership* fees help out ma
terially. And especially will it be
necessary for him to move somewhere
else if, besides losing said fees, a den
tist should locate bere. Dr. Green is
also a dentist, and to our knowledge
revenue received by him the past few
years for combined service of doctor,
dentist and commissioner bas been very
little more than a good living. The
nearest doctor is located at Anchorage,
some 250 miles from here, aDd within
tbe past year Dr. Green has been the
possible means of saving four lives—
c-ases too serious to wait until a doctor
came from Auchorage, if he would
come, or to be moved any distance.
Gperated on man yesterday Serious
case, both feet badiv frozen. We can
not afford to be deprived of his ser
vices, and look to you to see tbe justice
of our contention, and give us immedi
ate assurance by wire.
Residents of Mt. McKinley
Mining Precmt,
Per T. P. Aitken.
Other telegrams of a like tenor were
forwarded by Mr. Aitken to Delegate
Dan Sutherland, Governor Bone and
others,.
RISK DAIL
ADJOURNS
Way Smoothed to Put
ting the New Treaty
Into Effect,
Dublin, Jan. 12-—When Dail
Eireand adjourned tonight till
February 14 the situation, which
last night was dangerous, had
been largely clarified. The new
president and new cabinet had
been elected and the way gen
erally smoothed to putting the
new treaty into effect.
Dublin, Jan. 12-—Leaders of
the Sinn Fein faction opposing
the peace treaty have been sum
moned by De Valera to consider
ths general situation growing
out of ratification of the treaty,
Belfast, Jan. 11.—A bomb was
thrown at a tram car bearing 75
persons to their work today.
Quick action resulted in the mis
sile going wide of its mark, al
though the explosion splintered
the car.
Dublin, Jan. 13.—Supporters
of the Irish treaty won twelve
out of the fifteen seats in elec
tion of the Sinn Fein executive
committee, De Valera and his
followers sustaining bad defeat.
300 DEATHS
BY ALCOHOL
Federal Officers Inves
tigate Deaths From
Poison Liquor.
New York, Jan. 13.—Investi
gation by prohibition officers
here has disclosed that more
than three hundred deaths thru
out the United States have been
caused by bootleg liquor since
January 1st, this year.
In some instances wood alco
hol develops in home brew made
of raisins, but the majority of
deaths are due to liquor pur
chased from bootleggers in the
belief that it has bren smuggled
into the country.
George Hamilton, of Flat, Ophir anti
Tacotna, passed through McGrath
about 11 a. m. Friday, apparently
headed for Anchorage.