VOL. IV. NO I
THE
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PRICE 25 CENTS
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 3924.
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Film Stars in Limelight
in Los Angeles Shooting
■ - '£<09 Angeles* Jan. 2. — Court
land S. Dines, wealthy club man
and oil operator of Denver, was
shot in his apartments last night
in the presence of Mabel Nor
mand. the mystery woman in the
William Taylor Desmond murder
case, and Edna Purviance, also
a well known filmstar. Joseph
Kelly, alias II. A. Greer, Miss
Normand’s chauffer, did the
shooting with her revolver. He
confessed the party had been
drinking. Miss Normand was
drunk, and Kelly, who sought to
take her home, claims Dines in
terfered and trioci to smash him
with a bottle. T)inos! physicians
sav lie will recover.
The infatuation of Kelly for
Miss Normand, his employer,
and his jealousy of her wealthy
Denver acquaintance, were the
motives that prompted him to
Attempt to Assassi
nate Regent Causes
Jap Cabinet to Resign
Toc'yo.—The cabinet resigned late
toduy as i he result of an -attempt to as
sassinate Hirito, regent of Japan. All
newspapers in Tokyo carrying reports
of the attempted arsassination were
suppressed, The metropolitan chief of
police, assuming full responsibility, re
signed also.
$180,000,000 Debts to
i>Be Paid U. S. in 1924
Washington.—Foreign governments
will pay the United Slates one hun
dred and eighty million dollars on
their total indebtedness during the
present year, the Treasury Departmeut
announced today.
Tragedy at Seattle
' Ends With Suicide
Seattle,—Johu Harwell, tG. city light
works employe, who became piqued
last November, left borne and took a
voom dowD town, and whose wife on
the following day shot and killed their
daughter. Lola, aged 16, ended his own
life last night. Harwell stubbed him
self to death, it being his second at
tempt at suicide.
i Fr. Ruppert Yields
i Life on Dog Trail
Nome.—Father F. J. Ruppert, head
of the Lourdes mission and its orphan
age, situated seventy-five miles from
here, was found dead on a dog trail,
forty miles from Nome, last night. He
> was known as the Santa Claus of the
Hot Springs orpi image.
Hugh Maithewson returned here
> Tuesday from Nenana, to which (joint
he accompanied bis brother Atex, who
is on his way to the Outside. Hugh
continued his journey to Flat on Wed
* nesday. _ __
Moody Green arrived early Tuesday
morning, rested a couple of hours, se
• cured a guitar, and then back to Me
» Qrath for the big doings that night.
shoot Dines, according to. the
police. Dines, however, is said
to be an admirer of Miss Purvi
ance. He has been twice di
vorced, although only 'M.
Los Angeles — Fearing annouaos
ments from censor boards throughout
the country banning her pictures,
Mabel Normand today issued an appeal
for “fair plav and a ciiance to show
that I am innocent of any wrong doing
in connection with the shooting of
Dines.”
IjOs Angeles. — "I am not ashamed to
say that I am most terrtbiv fond of
him,” Edna I'urviance. moving picture
actress, said ir^ reply to reports of her
engagement to‘Court.land S Dines.
Los Angeles.—Mabel Normand un
derwent an operation for appendicitis
this afternoon at ttie same hospital in
which Courtland Dines is fighting for
his life, his wound having develope 1
into pneumonia.
23 Dead, 100 Injured,
From Dust Explosion
in an Illinois Factory
Peoria. III.—Twenty-three are know®
to be dead and more than one hundred
injured as the re-nil of a dust explo
sion in the starch plant of the Corn
Products Company at Pevn, III., thu
morning.
Bullion Dollars for U.
S. Railroads in 1924
Chicago.—The Railway Age says the
rail ways of the country will spend one
billion dollars in permanent improve
ments aod equipments in 1924, provid
ed no legislation adverse to the rail
wavs is passed or seriously threatened
by Congress.
Burnside Resigns as
Agent of White Pass
Seattle.—J. L. Burnside. one of the
pioneers of the Alaskan transportation
service, resigned this afternoon as gen
eral agent of the White I’ass & Yukon
route, effective immeeiately, to accept
the agency of the Firemen’s Fuud, San
Francisco, iie still retains the agen
cies of Alaska Commercial companies,
tha Santa Ana Steamship Company, of
the KuskoWwtm line, and of W. J.
Krskine & Co., of Kodiak.
The Times has received several call
ings-dowu during the past week over
the statement in last week’s issue re
garding the lack of index signs on the
government trail leading out of Mc
Grath, the several authorities asserting
t hat at a point about six aod One-half
miles out, where the trails fork, are
large, well placed lodexds reading:
j "McGrath-Nenana to Big Rjver,”
"McGrath Nenana to Medfra,” and
"McGrath.” The Times takes pleasurh
in making this correction.
Bob Roberson returned last Dight
from a freighting trip to Tolstoi.
Ike Hayes has deft for McGrath a
couple of times during the past week.
Tony Indegard ews» a yesterday-, ar
rival from < >*[.»«"
U. S. Sells Plenty of
Arms to Mexico and
Situation Improves'
Washington.— Rifles, -amrnua
and airplanes, valued at one million j
dollars, from the surplus stocks bold in
army posts in the :ighth and Ninth
army corps areas, have been forwarded
to the Obregon government.
Secretary of Yar Weeks announced
the sale of five thousand rifles end five
million rounds of ammunition.
Mexico Oity. The government situ
ation has improved eighty per cent
within the past ten days. Pre^lent Ob
regon said today upon his return from
a week’s inspection at the front.
Telegraphic Ticks.
New Orleans.—The .city of Merita,
the capital of >'ucataa, with a popula
tin'! clone band red thousand, has been
taaen over by me re iels, the garrison
declaridg for Dels rfusrto, it was an
nounced today by the Mexican consul
general here.
Seattle.—The British1 ship Harold
Dollar and the Japanese ship Kvosei
Muru, both freighters, are disabled in
the Pacific, one thousand miles ofT the
Washington coast. The Empress of
India is rushing to their assistance.
London.—Curc.on has received a not:
from Washington containing suggested
amendments to the liquor treaty which
would give America the right of search
of vessels within an hour’s steaming of
the American shore.
New York.—The leviathan, queen
of the American met chant marine, in
bnood from Cherbourg, grounded on
Robins’ reef. New York harbor, today.
All available tugs have gone to her as
sistance.
Cleveland.— Hiram Johnson arrived
here this morning, aud in an address
tonight will outline tlio platform on
winch he hopes to win the republican
nomination for president
Seuttle.—Bert Jacobs, convicted of
holding up the Western Uuion ’tele
grapli Company. iD October, was sen
tenced today to ten years in the peni
tentiary.
I’asodena—William Jacobson was
shot and killed by a bandit here today
when he tried to protect his fiancee,
after the robber bad held them up.
New York.—William B. Corey in
tends to follow io the footsteps of the
late William Waldorf ;\stor and leave
America for good.
Cbieago.— The motion picture censor
boards of Kansas and Tennessee have
ordered barred all films io which Mav.
Normaod appears.
Seattle.—Federal infection of all
canned salmon was recommended to
day by tbe North west Salmon Can
nerieS.
Seattle.—Tbe Alassa mail steamer
Starr will sail Thursday or Friday to
lesume tbe Seward-Dutch Harbor ser
vice. _
Seattle.—Ilene Bradshaw, a cripple,
was run down and killed today by lio
unknown auto driver.
Harbin.—A mutiny of soviet Russian
troops is reported from Vlavidostok,
Nikolik and Khabarovsk.
Seattle. — Henry Vming, Skagit val
ley pioneer, was burned to death today
at his Utsaiady home.
Seattle.—Samuel A. Sutherland, for
mer Alaskan, died horn today.
Gold and Silver Pro
duction in 1923 De
clined in Value.
Washing! n. —Although the ;-.*»]c wju
stiver production in Ala ska declined in
value, ItRTnmeral wealth was increased
Iran*. 006,30 . n 1922 to *20,300,000
tn 1923, according to Alfred H. Brooks,
chief of Alaskan t>eologists. I'he pro
duction was as follows: Gold, $0,1 30,
009; silver, $*>00,0(10; coop r, .12..>10 090
coal, $600,000. 'J'he output of other
minerals dropped to $310,000.
Total value, of all minerals produced
since 1880, $318 000,000.
Want to Know About
That $100,000 Passed
to Former Sec. Fall
Washington. The Senate public
lands committee voted today to a*k
Edward si. McLean, Washington o b
lisher, for a sworn statement regarding j
■ the one hundred thousand dollars be)
loaned to Albert 3. Fall, former aere- ,
tary of the interior, whose financial af i
fairs have come under review in an in-;
vcstigatfon o' the T. Lot-c -
io the Senate.
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Washington Notes
Washington—A decision was reached !
at the shipping conference, held at the!
White House today, to place the otter- .
at ton and control f government owned
merchant tonnage in the hands of the i
Emergency Fleet Corporation, with i
Heigh C. Palmer, retired^rear admiral,
aa poesideni.
Washington.—Coolidge plans ulti- I
matelv, through necessary legislation,
to brings annul a one man management
of the Shipping Hoard, also to place
its control ia either the Department of
Commerce or Treasury Department.
Washington. -Jo'.iih. ibu’rrran of the
Serrate cornmPrc < committee soil ut»
thor of the merchant. marine act,, re
quested Coohdge tfiis aftornoon i-o im
mediately i-sno an executive order up
plvirijr the cua« wise laws to the Phil
ippines.
Washington.- Hepresen: utive Heed,
world war veteran, and member of the
iMtary affairs committee, declared to
day that . :)ii!i:lr<- ; reposed to use his
influence to bring an- it, the acceptance
of the Muscle K I.
Washing n d • bills extending
the benefits of • a ’ ssittioa or hospi'
talirution to rid war veterans has i
iieen intn : •; d n the Senate b.y
Walsh, of Ms- iciiusctta.
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Washington — Army ordnance ex
perts have developed a pun that hurls
n l.atXt pound armor-’ iercing projectile
a distance of twenty-three miles.
Washington. — Mrs. Harding arrived
today from Marion, Ohio, and expects
to pass the remainder o! the winter
here.
Washington. — Henry C. Hall became
chairman of the Interstate Commerce1
Commission on January 1.
Plymouth. American Ambassador
.Kellogg arrived today.
FORD NOT A
CANDIDATE
Says Country Safe With
Coolidge; An Inter
jection by Bryan.
Yje>.r<<it.— Henry Ford declarad today
that ho fools the country is “safe with
Cool id ye’’ tint! that he himself wili
never consider running against Coe -
idge oh any ticket.
Miami, Fla.—William J. Bryan de
clared today that Ford’s indorsement
of Coolidge will hurt Ford moat. Hav
ing climbed into the Coolidge band
wagon, Ford s action emphasizes the
deepening division between those wit.,
big incomes and those with small u
comes, Bryuo added.
One of Greatest Rum
Conspiracies Uncov
ered by Dry Officer*
New \ork.— federal authorities te
day declared they had uncovered oe&
Ok* rite greatest rum conspiracies sine?
prohibition went into effect when the,
arrested i obert Graham FolbergiLl. a
.-Englishman, and Eve others on a motor
boat off Fire island. F'othwgtil had
forty.two iLouf, ollars in his no*
| session, the result of the day’s collet
| lions. -__
Several ’Quake Shock*
Felt At Los Angele*
Los Angeles Jan. 3.—Several earth
[ : uak% shocks, some lasting lifteen sec
onds, were sustained here, at Pasadena,
,md other California eections, durinp
I last night. 1
Home.— Score.4 were injured and hun
dreds of homos cracked in earthquake
shocks which wrecked the district be
tween Monpotfo end isancostanao for 3E
hours, upio noon today. Fresh earth
quakes are reported along the Adriatic
coast, with manv injured.
50 Men on Dirigible
in Desperate Flight
! sris —The French dirigible Oix
rriuile today wHs still hovering over the
Tuuissan desert. arc;’ she grout airship,
after more than seven deys aloft, was
slowly moving further inla'irdr A,s*the
food supply must have'beeo exhausted
for*'some time, the fifty officers and
men aboard are m a desperate plight.
Superintendent Ross Kinney, of the
.Alaska I’oad Com r ssioa, traveling
with‘Bert Wilson wi >, the <k)i«missioc
Learn, left Sunday 1- Nenaoa. Mr.
Kinney is headed for < ts home in Se
attle fora few weeks’ visit.
f ouls Blackburn, of Blackburn &
k’ldridge, and wei! known mining op
erator, and Miss Id. Marsh, after a visit
of a couple of-days t:ore, returned to
McGrath yesterday.
Mike Thompson, with one of Johu
Heine's team- left Tuesday for the
Tolstoi.
Mail Carrier I’eter Petnosqui, with
he outgoing mail, arrived Tuesday,
departiug Wednesday fm McGrath.
Del Thompson returned Tuesda
from a trip to Fiat.