VOL. V. NO. 20
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925,
PRICE 25 CENTS
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*Why Are There Any
Monkeys Left?’ Asks
Biiiy Sunday.
Daytou, July In.—The state
rested its case against John T.
Scopes this afternoon, after the
testimony of lour witnesses had
been heard.
Former pupils of Scopes in
the-Rhea county high school
presented testimony to the effect
that Scopes had taught them a
theory of evolution as expound
ed in an official text book of the
state and that he had admitted
he could not teach this book
without violating the anti-evolu
tion teaching statute of the state.
fudge Ralston today denied
the motion of the defense to
quash the indictment against
Scopes. The decision upheld the
constitutionality of the Tennes
see anti-evolution law.
Counsel for the state made a
formal motion to exclude testi
mony of scientists from trial of
the case.
Billy Sunday Wires Bryan.
Billy Sunday, noted evangel
ist, wired W.J. Bryan, of coun
sel for prosecution, as follows:
“If we descend from monkeys,
why are there any monkeys left?
Put me down on the side of God,
Christ and the Bible?”
Dayton, July 36—Commendation from
Governor Peaks over tiie manner in
which Attorney General Stewart is
handling the prosecution of Scopes
came today in this telegram:
' “Jt is a poor cause that runs from
prayer. You are handling this case
like a veteran and I am proud of you.
Regards to Mr. Bryan.”
San Francisco.—Secretary of Navy
Wilbur, :i. an adore.—, here, declared
against the teaching of Darwinism to
children.
Basis of Criminal
Prosecution of Scopes
Dayton, Tenn.—A text book adopted
by the Stale in 1919 is furnishing the
basis ot tite criminal prosecution
against John T: Scopes, science teacher
and athletic director in the Dayton
high school, charged with violating
Tennessee s anti-evolution law.
“Civic Biology ’ is the name of the
book, and the author is George W.
Hunter. The eutire book- deals with
evolution, and toward the end its teach
ings are summed up as follows:
“We have now learned that animal
forms may be arranged so as to begin
with lite very simple one-celled forms
and culminate with a group which con
tains man himself.”
It was thin book which Scopes, as
well as most of tlie science teachers in
high schools of the state, continued to
use iu his classroom after passage of
the anti-evolution law, and it was on
this that the state based its case and
succeeded in having Scopes bound over
to the grand jury.
Carl Westberg, from Little creek,
«*• a Tuesday town visitor
Buys $5,000 Bonds,
Deposits Plenty ('ash,
Then Hangs Sett, Jail
Seattle, July 15.—Clifford Carmack,
! a carbodide coal miner, committed sui
j cide in the citv jail today, only a few
hours after he had paid *5,000 cash for
a batch of bonds and left several thou
sand dollars in a city bank. Carmack
had asked to be imprisoned to prevent
self-destruction.
Seattle, July 17. Testimony that
the body of Clifford ( it-umck was left
hanging in his cell at the city jail,
where he committed suicide Monday,
while jailers made a report on books in
the office and sent for a physician, was
introduced today at .icoroner’s in
quest.
Former Gov. Bone
Raps Bureaucracy
Seattle, July 15. — Addressing the
Young Men's Republican Club, former
Governor of Alaska Scott C. Bone de
clared that bureaucracy was the great
est curse of the government. The
present tendency of tin government is
all toward overniganization. Bone said,
lie contrasted the a. ministration of
Alaska’s ohl-age pension law, without,
cost to the Territory, with the func
tioning of federal bureaus, which he
; declared were much less efficient.
[Eleven Violent Deaths
Seattle and Vicinity
Seattle, July 14 --Week-end violent,
deaths in Seattle and vicinity, princi
pally the result of auto accidents „iui :
drowniugs numbered eleven. Includ
ed aiming these were Lhtrry Loren
Meyers, a University junior, and Them
dr,re Finks, whose fiance, Irene Mc
Grath, and Mabel Finks witness'd
i them swept to their u -atli over G aoite
Falls.__
Canadian Sentiment
Regarding Annexation
Washington, July 15.—A statement
that sentiment in fa or of annexation
to the United States is growing rapidly
in Canada, made bv a correspondent in
the London Spectator, just received
here, has aroused ke □ interest aunoog
high officials.
France, Spain Reach
Agreement, Morocco
-
Madrid, July 10,—France and Spain j
today signed an agreement for co-oper
ation in Morocco against the Abdnl
! Krints Riilian tribesmen, who refuse to
accept their authority.
Superintendent, Ross Kinney, of the
Alaska Road Commission, returned
here Monday, after having accom
panied Major L. E. Oliver and Robert
Sommers to Iditarod. Coming from
Flat, Mr. Kinney had as a traveling
Companion J. A. Denney, deputy col
lector of the internal revenue service,
who has been busy ever since his ar
rival iu giviug attention to the aiTairs
of his office in this section.
Coming up in a small power boat,
Frank Larson and Hilly .Case arrived
early Wednesday morning, bringing up
the McGrath mail.
Dolph Mospelt, from Candle, was a
yesterday town visitor
To Be Presented Those
Who Rushed Anti
toxin to Nome.
Seattle. uiy 17.— Eighteen j
gold medals will be presented toj
the drivers who, in the latter
part of January and early parti
of February, participated in the,
record breaking dash across
Alaska by log teams, bearing
antitoxin t > the diphtheria
stricken res lents of Nome.
The meda s are being awarded
by S. K. Millard & Co , of Phila
delphia. The names of those
who will receive medals are as
follows: Victor Annual, Meirs j
(lunnard, Willard J. Shannon, ;
Harry Pitka, Gunnar Kasson. j
Dan Green, Leonard Seppala. i
Tommy Fatsey, Charles Evans,
Johnny Fulgar. Charles Olson,
Titus Nikila, David Corning,
Edgar A. Kalland, Willie Me- |
Carthy, Harry IvanofT, Edgar i
iMeelar, Sam Josephs.
Telegraphic TicksJ
Seattle. -Chari.:; F. D. Berlden, of
Boston, wirs elected president of the
American Library Association at the
closing session of the convention here. *
many of whose delegates left Thursday |
morning for a tour to Alaska as passeu
gers of the steamship \ ukon.
Montreal.—Fifty British members of
Parliament, including Lady Astor, will
visit Canada and t m- ! 'oiled States this,
summer to attend the conference of the j
I liter parLnnjTentary nion, to hi; held j
in Ottawa and Washington.
Somerville, M. J -Richard V. Linds- j
berg, general counsel of the United i
States Steel Corporation, was found
dead in the woods near here today,
having been stricken with a stroke of
apoplexy while riding his horse.
Seattle—Mrs. Charles Uugene Banks,
authoress, and wh •. as Carrie Wyatt,
attained internatio a I theatrical fame
in the latter part of the last century, i
died at her home i re, Tuesday.
Washington. Freight revenues for
the first six months of 1935 were!
greater titan for any corresponding!
period in the history o? railroading in
the United States.
Cordova.—Having reached the sum
mit of Mount Logan, a party of six ad
venturers. headed by Captain A. H.
McCarthy, are now returning to the
coast.
Swampscott.—President Coolidge has
accepted the resignation of Paul Ben j
derson as second assistant postmaster!
general.
Seattle.—Rev. Kmil Friberg, of Se
attle, was elected president of the gen
era! Swedish Baptist conference for
1U2S. _
Lond on. -Kvacuaiion of Bie Ruhr
district by Fiencb troop* began Mon
day. .
Victoria, B. C.-—Field Marshal Haig
arrived here Monday.
7 Missionaries, in 50
Foot Power Boat, for
Alaska and Siberia
Seattle. July 10.—The Ariel, a fifty
f(K>j fiowerschooner, built from a motor
sailer, which formerly was part of the
equipment of the battleship Pennsyl
vania. with seven men who will engage
in missionary work among the natives
of Alaska and Siberia, left Seattle last
night. I’,ev. N. F. Heyer heads the
band. Also aboard the vessel are Carl
Henrickson and lii nest Behman, for
merly of the Gniversitv of Idaho, K.
Lehnsburg, Alfred Eklund and Victor
Carlson.
Relation" Tstwcen
Britain and Russia
Somewhat Strained
Ton don July ’.-Frank admissions
that the i 'ations between Britain and
the Russian soviet government have
arrived at a critical ctage were made
in the House of Commons today by
"oreign Minister Chamberlain.
B. of E. Workers on
Their Way North
Seattle, July 10.—Passengers on the
Victoria, sailing today for Nome, in
cluded George S. Sylvester, head of the
Point Barrow school: .). H. Wagner,
chief of the Alaska division of the Bu
• reau of Education, and Karl Forrest,
superintendent of the Western Alaska
district.
The Boxer sailed Monday for the
Arctic. .Included among the passen
gers are Ada Blackjack, of Wraogell
island fame, who is being returned to
her home by .ha gyvernment, and
j George Sylvester ; nd George Nerland,
reindeer operators.
Action to Prove Mrs,
White Was Murdered
i _
Astoria, July 1 . — Announcing- the
[receipt of additional evidence which
I he deemed highly important, Prosecut
! ing Attorney Erickson today said, re~
I gardless of what findings may be made
! bv the Portland chemist seeking traces
! of poison in conn*-.-lion with the death
I of Mrs. Crawford White, further ac
lion to prove the theory that the
woman was murdered will certainly be
taken. _
34 Deaths, Heat Wave
and Electric Storms
Chicago, July T.—The Middle Wes,
: sustained tbirtv-four deaths yesterday
as a result of electric storms and the
severe iieat wa e. The heaviest prop
erty loss was in Central Indiana.
Tumps to His Death
From Ninth Store
Seattle, July id. —John H. McIntosh,
4t>. manager of the Federated indus
tries of Washington, Jumped to his
death today from t he window of his
otlice on the ninth lloor of the Amor
iean Bank building.
The steamer Tana, Captain George
Green, arrived at McGrath last Satur
day night, completing its second round
trip to Bethel. The Tana brought ,up
a large amount of freight. Among the
passengers up were Mrs. R. W. Fid
geon and infant son. from AUiak, and
Miss GUen Fred, from Hethe*
NFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC
! Raffing V iolently at Fk
Yukon; 8 Deaths at
Bristol Bay«
Seattle, July 15.—With every
native in bed and some members
of the staff of the Episcopal hos
pital stricken, the villagfe of
J ort Yukon, on the Yukon river,
Alaska, is in the grip of an in
.luenza epidemic of a magnitude
never before reached, aocording
i to a telegram received here from
ffshop Jiowe, who said he had
chartered a boat and was leaving
! Dawson for the stricken com
i munity.
Juneau.—Eight natives are
; dead and the entire population.
; affected by an influenza epidemic
which swept the Indian fishing
' villages on Bristol Bay, the' Bu
reau of Fisheries representativee
in that district have reported tf?
Governor Parks.
Fort Yukon, July 17.—Four
deaths, all natives, occurred here
1 yesterday, due to the inlliKinza
| epidemic.
Wash!dcton, July 10.- -Coast {Ptar«f
, cutters waru ,***:*• ft I today to proceed
to the Bristol iiKv region of Ainsk*
. with physician*. medicines to light
the epidemic of infiueDsa among the
natives. Many deaths have been re
' ported.
I ’
E. L. Doheny Spars
Paying That $350,000
San Francisco, July lt>.—Edward L.
j Doheny appealed today to the circuit
court of appeals irom the order of tfcs
district court that he Day $850,000 as &
result of the government's successful
suit to cancel the Elk Hills oil leases.
With two Hoad Commission pack
| horses, Tom Shallow and Dan MeGioty
: left Thursday morning to improve? the
summer trai batoeen Ophir and Poor
man, a mission that will occupy about
three weeks. The work will consist of
cutting tout windfalls, freshening1 old
blades, and making general improve
ment of the trait.
Mrs. Reginald W. Fidgeon, wife of
the operator in charge of the local
radio station, and infant sod. who were
passengers from Akiak to McGrath oc
the Tana, left the latter'place yester
day on the \\ hi to , Lind boat, and are
due here almost any time.
Andy Peterson a well known‘old
timer, noted by his friends as a wan
derer, was among early week arrivals.
Mr. Peterson is ust from the KoyokiT
section, where lie spent the past'twi
years._
Doctors L. VV Fromm and H.' W.
Averill, dentists, of Nome, are report
ed to have crossed irom the Yukon to
the Kuskokwitn, vis the jfortags, a
few days ago.
Brian McDaid, who was a late las
Saturday arrival from Candle,-dtparte
| ed Sundav for Ophir on his way to ti.
| Yukon. He is headed for
j r;ver mining sect'oc