THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. II. NO. 94
McGRATH, ALASKA SAT' R! AY, DECEMBER Ifi, 1922.
PRICE 25 CENTS
TO TELL IT
TO HARDING
Ambassador Harvey Is
Called Home to Tell of
European Situation*
London* Dec. 15.—Ambassa
dor Harvey will return to Wash
ington December 23 to advise
and coafep with President Hard
in® reenrdang possible American
intervention* in Europe. The
ambassador will report directly
tOf<the President upon the gen
eral reparations and economic
situation.- He will tell Harding
of .the Anglo-French divergences
and confer on the subject of
American intervention, based on
tine outcome of the conference of
premiers, representing Britain,
FUance, Italy and Belgium,
which is to be resumed at Paris
on January 2^
Washington. —The State De
partment today confirmed the
an nouncement from London, that
Am bassador H&rvey had'beer*
called home “for consultation.’\
Department officials, however,
declined to make any explana
tion.
TONNAGE OF
WAR GRAFT
Agreement Is Sought
With Britain, France,
Italy and Japan.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Under
the navy bill as reported today
by the House appropriation com
mittee, the President would be
asked to open negotiations with
Britain, France, Italy and Japan
lor an agreement which would
limit in future the building of
all surface and submersible types
of war craft having a tonnage of
ten thousand or less and on all
classes of army and navy air
crafts. _
M. Clemenceau Sails;
Say$JEEiii~Will Return,
‘But* Only as a Ghost*
New York.-^M. Clemenceau, after a
number of addresses io this country
and conferences with Harding, Wilson
and others of national prominence, in
which hei. presented the cause of
France, sailed for borne today. Before
taking, departure he declared be would
vaturn, *'but only as a ghost.”
J. E. Beattie made the run to Candle
4nd returp on Thursday.
Says Germany Is Near
Collapse and Allies
Must Be Careful.
I,ondon. Dec. 14.—“The stand
ard of living for a generation
would be lowered if England
canceled reparations and allied
debts due her and simultaneous
ly paid the United States,” Pre
mier Bonar Law declared in the
House of Commons today. The
premier declared that Germany
is near a complete collapse and
that the allies must be careful
that their demands do not pre
cipitate a crash. Premier Law
urged the greatest caution so far
as occupation of the Ruhr was
concerned.
Billy McGowan and Mike O’Mailey,
well known Nixon minioif men, left
Big river Sunday over the trail to
K"bi. Mr. O’Malley in on his way to
Nenanaand Fairbanks, while Mr. Mc
Gowan, it is understood. will continue
his journey to the Outside.
W. J. Widman, with team of six, left
Sunday morning, headed for the coast
and the Outside. He will return over
the late trail.
Says France May Use
Free Hand Regard
ing Reparations.
Paris, Dec. 13.—Premier Poin
eaire, at the resumption of the
parliamentary deba’e on French
foreign policy, will announce
that the government retains the
right to use a free hand in seiz
ing security for Germany’s debt
but he will not specify what this
security will be. “We will be
very careful,” he said, “not to
cry what we are going to do
from the housetops,”
The Cabinet today approved
the attitude taken on the repara
tions question by Premier Poin
caire at the recent conference of
premiers at London, after hear
ing the report of M. Poincaitfe.
Uncle Sam Has Half
World’s Gold Supply
Washington.—'The Treasury Depart
ment announced this afternoon that
the United" State*-has four billion dol
lars ttored away in treasury vaults,
which is estimated to be one-halt of
the world’s susnly.
Geo. Carmack's Half
Breed Daughter Wins
First Victory in Suit
Seat tie —Gracie Safng, attractive
halfbreed Indian daughter of the late
George Carmack, precipitator of the
Klondike rush, won the first victory in
her fiaht for a share io Carmack’s
$100,000 estate today when the superior
judge removed Mrs. Margarite Car
mack, the discoverer's widow, as ad
ministratrix.
FRIGHT!
ACCIDENT
Little Sophia Dulak, 5;
Dies From Burns In
flicted in Explosion.
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| The five-year-old daughter of Ralph
Dulak came to a painful death at 2:30
o’clock, the result of having had her
whole body, with theexctption of her
face, burned by a gasoline explosion
about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The mother, who wa» busy about her
housework, was startled by a loud ex
plosion beside the house, where her
girls were playing, rushed out to find
little Sophia a mass of dames.
Her screams brought Simon Hill,
who lives In an adjoining cabin, to her
help, but before the flames were extin
guished the little girl’s clothing was
burned from her body.
Dr. W. F. Green, who was called at
once, pronounced the case hopeless,
and. beyond dressing the terribly
burned little body and making the
'child as comfortable as possible, was
able to do nothing.
No explanation is obtainable as to
the cause of the accident. The father
is away, and both the mother and
grandmother declare that there were
no matches within reach of the chil
dren It is possible that a spark from
i he chimnev ignited gasoline near the
five gallon tank, which had been leak
ing slightly.
A later investigation, made this af
ternoon. discloses the fact that the
tank was leaking and irr^a position to
caicb any spark that might fall from
the chimney and, further, that tne lit
tle ones had but just stepped from the
front door when the explosion took
place, the younger one, Martha, just
enough in advance of her sister to es
cape the force of the fire.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Tokyo.— Hirchiie, prince regent, is
seriously ill, suffering with measles.
Havana.—One hundred persons were
killed and many injured in a sugar
mill explosion near here, today.
Seattle.—F. B. Colby, 18, was killed
this morning, oeing the second victim
to die from collision of automobiles
and bobsleds.
Washington.—John Barton Payne
was todav reappointed by President
Harding as chairman of the American
Red Cross for another year.
Seattle.—The King county grand
j.ury this afternoon began an investiga
tion into the moral conditions of Se
attle under the administration of Mayor
Brown. ^
DEATH AT
HANDS OF
ASSASSIN
Nurtowicz, President of
Poland, Shot, After 5
Days in Office.
Paris, Dec. 16.—President Ga
briel Narutowicz of Poland was
assassinated this morning, ac
cording to advices from Warsaw.
The assassination occurred while
Narutowicz was visiting .the art
exhibition. He was killed by an
artist named Niewadomaki, who
fired three shots
Narutowicz took office Decern -
her 11th. Rioting marked his
inauguration. Twenty thousand
nationalists, who opposed his
election three times, threw mis
siles at him as he went to the
inauguration ceremonies, and
when he took the oath of office
the nationalists members of the
assembly absented themselves
from the ceremony.
Billy Case, from the Lower Nixou,
arrived yesterday afierooon, and is
scheduled to return home tomorrow.
TAKES SLAP
AT DRY LAW
But Senate Passes Nine
Million Appropriation
for Enforcement.
Washington, Dec. 13. — The
Senate this afternoon passed the
$115,000,000 treasury appropria
tion bill, the hrst of the annual
supply bills which passed the
House Saturday.
The appropriation of $9,000,
000 carried in the bill for the en
forcement of prohibition during
the next fiscal year was declared
by Broussard, in a speech in the
Senate, to be inadequate to make
the dry law effective even among
Government officials and “among
those who forced the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead
law upon us.”
7 Killed, 35 Injured,
Texas Train Accident
Houston, Ter.—Seven were killed
and thirty-five injured, many probably
fatally, when a Houston & Texaa pai
aenger train aide-swiped a ■ witch en
gine at Humble, near here, today.
Austin Horner. Candle. «•«.*«'-af
ternoon arrival