THE
VOL. V. NO. 13
T< NA ALASKA. SATUKUA^V, MARCH 28, 1925.
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PROGRAM
Launching "of Monster
Aircraft Carrier Sara
toga t)n April 7th.
Washington; March 24.'—Thej
launching of the monster aircraft
■ carrier Saratoga‘ift Camden on
April”? wilt mark'the itaitiation
of the Nav-v'De^ia^rt mentis pro
'gram to equip life Sbet ultimate'
ly with an* air wing tamposed of;
more than: 150 ‘bombing plames'
and their proper'4?otnplembnt of
combative; observation, 'torpedb
and other auxiliary ' aircraft.;
This air 30**1 ter i§*designed to'
operate as atroffensivs^ftrhi fleet. !
and will be composed of five car*
riers, Secretary of Navy-Wilbur
disclosed-today.
' Seattle, Mafcl*2§.k-Th& Navy
Department has '-requested Pro
lessor Pa Kk Kivdten.t ^rtrfeesorf
of engineering atJ'tfte University
-of Washington,*' to strbtait plans
of a propeller* on which :hb has
•' been •working for t?wb* years and ;
which it'is claimed will eliminate
> the'-nnwieldirress of the great j
dirigible •Shettiindinah' and "make'
t: landings simple and easy. Sci
^enthi's and engineers declare the i
inventiou ts going to revolution j
i*e air and sea navigation.
Chasi D. Hills May
' Succeed Weeks as
Secretary of War
' ' Washington, March 25.—Charles D.
Hills, former chairmaa of the repub
lican national'committee, ia slated to
■succeed Weeks, who is to retire as
"Secretary of War on June 1, according
to reports correct in Administration
circles tod^y. .
Jur^Says Death of A.
F**Mattice Accidental
Seattle; March 23.—A jury today re
turned a verdict that the death of Al
bert F. Matt ice was accidental and
awarded the deceased’s father and
beoeticiary. Dr. Menzo B. Mattice. of
SedroAVeolev, the full amount of the
130,OOC insurance policy, the payment
®f which had' been refused by the
Maryland Casualty Company on the
grounds that the younger doctor had
intentionally ended his own life.
Former Noted Beauty
Stabfc' Sfelf to Death
"'Seattle. 'March! 22:—-Grace Gale, (or
’■»er noted St.- Louis beauty, bat for
two decades' a resident of tbe Orient,
edibbed tberself to death aboard tbe
• liner President VJcK,inley, according to
a wireless received tonight
Manager L. B. Loomis, of the N. C.
Co„ Miss Helen Section, McGrath
■cfcool teacher, and Miss Grace Ander
■on, all of whom, traveling together,
left McGrath on March 15, arrived in
Nenana on March 22, according to ad
vices received here.
TRAPPER’S
SAD DEATH
Breaks His Leg, Shoots
His Five Dogs and
Then Suicides.
Seattle. March 15 —Oust Pe
torson, a trapper, killed his five
sled doss and then shot himself
dead in his cabin near Port Mol
ler, on January 10 Peterson
left a diary raying that he had
broken his leg and was unable
to do for himself through the
winter, according to George H.
Bertouxj fur buyer, who arrived
here today with news of the
tragedy. _
Telegraphic Ticks.
Boston. — Joseph Leiter, Chicago
multimillionaire gram operator, who
has a1 'summer home on the North
Shore, which was robbed by liquor
thieveS,'' wis indicted by the federal
grand jurj here Monday on three
counts charging violation of the Vol
stead act.
Seattle.—LA crufereuCe is oeing held
here by representatives of the United
States, Canada. Alaska and the states
lit Washington, Oregou and California
to deal with problem-, of ihe fisheries
industries common to be Cacitic
Northwest
Winnipeg. — Lieutenant Colonel A.
W. Molary Cleary, a member of the
Manitoba legislature, shot himself,
perhaps faially. Tuesday, on appearing
in court to answer a charge of having
embezzled funds of clients.
Dutch Harbor—The gasoline schooner
Daisy arrived Monday with the body of
Hugh Dennehv, unauager for the West
ern Livestock Company, of Portland,
Lrt'e.. who perished in a storm off Uua
laska island.
Vancouver.—Ross Watson, former
Seattle police detective, was charged
in the Nanaimo court <iay after
noon with compile . t, , i- Nanaimo
Bank robbery ant. a op lor trial.
New York.—Suit lias been instituted
against Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt fur
S255,000 taxes, alleged to be due from
the Morgan Mining Company, of which
she is tbe sole owner.
Rome.—Premier Mussolini, suffering
with a liver malady, is gravely ill, and
it is quite probable that a triumvirate
may he appointed to tuke over the
reins of government.
Seattle.—Told by odiuers that he was
uader arrebt oo a charge o( lusauity,
Dr. U. Stullafuid. dentist, stepped into
a bath room ot thel^alhouu Hotel and
shot nimseli to drain.
New York.—The uew direct cable
between New York an 1 Rome, Mon
day, was opened with exchange of
greetings between President Cuoltdge
and the king of Italy.
Loudon. — Death Monday claimed
Marquis Curio.. of Kedeiston, lord
president of the council and former for
eign secretary.
New York.—Mrs. Joseph Pulitxer,
Jr., was killed instantly in an auto ac
cident, Tuesday.
Wife of FOTffito&las
kan Held^p^iMtied
$2,000 '^sb^1«wek
Lo* Angeles, Mar<$h 2$.’—jrfJSr Ben
ier. wife of J. Robert Beud^r, £ forzaer
A lank&o, was held up in- the heart of,
;he Los Angela* residence district to
iav and r< bl*ed <*f' $2.500‘cash and,
jewel*. A« Mies Ploredce' Kubey, of,
Seattle. Mrs. Beoder dorrnjj the Amer
ican Legion oeVebration tbere'|u 1323
was voted tbs winner off the popularity
tod beauty contest.
U. S.-GANADA
BOUNDARY
Commissions4 Hopes to
Have Line jVfffrked
in 1926.
>
Seattle, March 25.—Jermane,
in a special dispatch from Wash
ington to the Times, says, in
part;
‘ The economy program, of the
government is being felt by -the
commission, headed by Lester
Jones, that is co operating with
a like commission in Canada for
the establishment- and perma
nent marking of the boundary
line between the two countries.
It has beets hi* plan %o have the
boundary marked and bis fail
report made by 1926. Congress,
however, is now spreading oat
funds that ordinarily woo id be
available at once, and has ar
ranged to carry ihe work along
for two or three years beyond
the end of 1926.”
Washington Notes
Washington.—i’remident Cnolidge, it
is stated, has directed Secretary of
State Kellogg to begin diplomatic ges
tures looking toward* a new naval lim
itation conference.
Washington.—The Harding-Coolidge
proposal for American entrance into
the world court will be taken up and
acted upon December 17. the Senate
voted by resolution Monday afternoon.
Washington. -Senator Hiram Joha
son and son, .Hiram, Jr., are planniag a
trip bv wav of water in a 90-foot boat
from. Key West to Sen Fraaeiseo.
Washington.—General Pershing re
turned here Monday from his South
American trip.
Tex Rickard Faces 2
Years’ Imprisonment
Tremon, March 23.—Tex Rickard,
fight promoter, was todav found guilty
in the federal court of the charge of
conspiracy to transport prise fight’ pic
tures from one state to another, tpe
violation of which <ls«r'prtmded a sen
tence of two years) imprikonmtfbt and a
heavy flee. The specific’ inflictment
against Hickart ehxtgfca him With in
terstate transportkttod'ef film* o3 the
Dempsey-Carueoiier fight.
t hit i nrrr'T nnrs.,n,—»
London.—Field Marshal frehcfc is a
victim of cancer of the biadder. His
condition is hope!ess.
SHOOTING
War Vcfc Shot and Per
haps Fatally Wound
K ed By Patrolman.
Seattle^. March 26.—William J. i
Bruso. n Shell shocked war vet
eran, was'shot and perhaps fa
tally wodhded today by Patrol- i
man Roll© Wilson. The patrol ;
man had been sent to disarm |
Mrs. Br«so. who was in her
back yard*’ with a loaded re
volver.
“Get away, or I’ll shoot you ”
tbe woman warned, as the officer
approached her.
A second later the officer was
confronted by the woman’s hus
baud, who came to her assist
ance. brandishing a heavy iron j
crowbar, Wilson said, in telling,
why he shot.!
Peter Mohrdock, Old
Timer, Dead in Tolstoi
Ophir, March 26—Ji>hn Krieger ar j
rived in Ophir oo the 24th from Tols
toi, bringing news of the death of Peter
Mohrdock at Madison creek, Tolstoi, j
on March 24.
Mr. Mohrdock was found lying un
conscious in front of his cabin by W.
fV Jnnufl cm the* IMth nf Mirrh
managed to get him into his cabio, and
worked over him for some time, and
after a-wbile ha trot word to Ed Eo
holm. Harry Madison and John
Krieger, liviag in the neighborhood,
but although they did ail they could to
restore .fce ae^er regained conscioas
□ess up to the time of his death.
It was thought that Mohrdock had
fallen into a shaft, about seven feet
deep, on which he was working at the
time, as his holy was badly bruised on
the right side and also on the right
arm.
Mohrdock was believed to have been
boro at Neah Bay, Wash., and at the
time of his death was about 65 gears of
age. He came to Dawsod in the early
days of that camp, and lived in Id it—
arod for aonae time. For the last six
years he dived in this camp, working
for Collins k. Hard, on Opbtr creek, as
■ engineer for part of the time, spending
bia winters in Tolstoi, prospecting. He
was£enecttt!y liked and respected by
everybody-in this camp. He mj thought
so have near relatives liviot in the
state of Washington.
Bob Robet son, with a six horse team,
and accompanied bv Del Thompson, re
cently completed the hauling of a hoist
from Ganes creek and a large tlredee
tumbler frore the Forks to the work
ings of the Fuskokwim Dredgvng Com
pany, Candle creek. Returning from
MeGratbon Tuesday, he brought up a
S' large load of freight and boree feed.'
' :'JdcVXAa;>nt, from Flat, w.th the
out£oib£- tna.l, and traveling over a
bear?*irtofiii-covered trail, arrived last
night, oontiuuiag today.
Frank J. Hart, after a winter on the
Oataide. spent mostly in San Fraocisco,
was a Tuesday arrival.
A1 Goalaw, Dan McGimy and Charlie
O'Ballnran, coming from the vicinity
■at Boxcar, ware Sunday arrivals
TRAGEDY,
ABERDEEN
Recreant Wife and Par
amour Meet Death
in Love Nest
Aberdeen, March 27.—Trail
ing his pretty runaway wife,
Freda, 30, and her companion,
Joe T.renze, 32, from Clear Lake,
Skagit county, through Seattle,
and finally to Aberdeen, Alexan
der Goyso, 60, formerly a Ger
man army officer, found and
killed them in their love nest
here today noon. Geyso then
sent three bullets into his own
heart.
Chris Nelson Home
Burned to Ground
Many TokofcB&cs were avrak&sed at
3:30 a. m. Friday to find the home of
Chris Nelsoo iD f ames. The large two
room cabin, which ras one of the best
in. town, was already past saving when
help arrived.
Mr. Nelson, who wae awakened by
the suffocating str.oke pouring into his
bedroom, with difficulty made his es
cape through a rear window.
The tire apparently started under
the floor in toe front part of the house,
doubtless from a spark thrown out by
the large '.9uter tio rapidly aid tne
flames spread that absolutely nothing
conldbe saved frorc the house.
Several good workers were on the
ground early—although quiie a fe«
others appeared later—atr.ocg then..
Bob Shivelv, Dick Stevens, fob Lov>
rie, Frank Larson, Dave Clough and a
few others, all of whom did their best,
although to no avail, to save the build
ing. Finding their efforts in this be
half fruitless, they turned their atten
tion to confining the flames to that
structure and to saving the Robert
Lowrie foundry on the left and The
Kusko Times building on the right
Fortunately, there was no wind at the
time, the Blames and smoke ascending
directly overhead. The fire, however,
was so hot that the flames would have
extended to the lumber structure
known as the Widmau building, just
this side o! Lowrie’s -shop, had not a
line of sheet iron plates been erect.
beiweeB the two, which is deeiareu
! have been the happy thought of Dav
Clough, The T mes mac herewith ex
presses grateful aeknovdedgeuent to
those who kept a weather eye on The
Times DUliaing, »du uarLiouiary to
■Messrs. Larson and Stevenson (or kind
services reudered.
Much sympathy is being expressed
for Chris Nelsoo, whose loss is a heavy
one—tools which perhaps could not be
replaced for less than $1,000, a vrioter'g
outfit, clothing, a valuable watch, and
money.
Chris is well known as a man always
ready to help anyone in need, and there
are few oldttmers who have not en
joyed his hospitality. His friends are
many, and. to see him tro ahead again,
they are manifesting their appreciation
in a moat fitting manner.
Chesser Brink, with Fay Bullock as
passenger, aod also bringing* a quan
tity of shortages, returned here Me*?
day from a trip to Fiat.