THE
TIME
VOL. VI.
NO. 9
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926.
PRICE 25 CENTft
THIS WILL
HELP SOME
$381,000,000 Tax Reduc
’ tion for This Cal
endar Year.
Washington, Feb. 19.—Agreement
on tax reduction, of $381,000,000 for
this calendar -year- was reached late
today ..between the Senate and House
v confrere* on the: revenue bill.
Increased reductions on surtax
■ rates went agreed to. The repeal of
the-capital stock tax -was accepted,
h but it’, was agreed to'increase the cor
l poratiotf'. tax to only- 12 1-2 per cent
^ for the remainder of; the year and to
18 per cent hereafter. From the pres
s' ent 18-1-2 per cent rate on cerpora
■ tion-taxes paid up to July 1 the rates
v will be G~l-;2 per cent, and from July
1 to December 1 the rate will be 6 3-4
. per cent.
Washington, Feb. 19.—The new tax
l xoductiofr bill became a law when
President Goolidge gave it his formal
approval, at 10 o’clock this morning.
The measure provides for a reduction
of SSST.OOCbOOO"- ir.. the amount of
taxfes* to be' piiick by the American peo
ple this •vear.
Washington, Feb. 25.—Although
the new. tnk bill somewhat exceeds
the reduction in revenue which the
Treasury etJpartment believed safe,
- Secreta*-;- Mellon .said today it was
4 generally satisfactory to the Admin
istration. As the bill now stands, the
Secrdt^r;, said, the government
shoulchlitive little serious diffiftulty in
meeting its financial needs.
Washington,- Feb.” 26.—President
1 Caol’dge expects the tax reduction
bill? to be sighed today, to result in a
'»■ "Treasury deficit-of one hundred mil
1 tioii a«l!ar*; ait thi end of the next
f fiscal year.
Mat.t^Vniighn," oi tha Alaska Road
' Commission force, was a Monday de
; ,.'pantur'e-for'Anchorage, on ;a business
"trip.
Olmstead, 21 Others
1 Guilty of Conspiracy
Seattle, Feb: 22.—The Olmstead
liquor case was given to the jury at
10 o’clock ast night.
Judge Neterer, in giving instruc
tions, volunteered that “My opinion is
that conspiracy has been established,
but you will not take this as binding
upon you.”
Seattle, Fob. 24«—Roy Olmstead,
former police lieutenant, and twenty
one others, including his attorney,
Jerry L. Finch, were -convicted in the
federal court of conspiracy to violate,
the national prohibition law.
L. N. Wison was a late last Satur
day arrival.
PROHIBITION
CONDITIONS
House Committee Will
Undertake inquiry
Alcoholic Traffic*
Washington, Feb. 2-J.-—The House
alcoholic liquor traffic committee vot
ed unanimously today to undertake
an inquiry into conditions under pro
hibition. The committee will meet
Monday to consider a' plan of pro
cedure. The members expect a thor
ough survey of all aspects of the pro
hibition situation.
Sec. Kellogg Warns
Against Rising Tide
Socialism, Communism
Philadelphia, Feb. 22.—Secretary
of State Kellogg, addressing students
of the University of Pennsylvania,
warned against a rising tide o fsocial
ism and communism throughout the
world. “No one will deny that there
are forces at work today in the world
of which the ultimate object is the
destruction of all such governments
as this,” Kellogg said.
Methodist Functionary Says “Vice
in Alaska Is Worst in the World”
Juneofu.—Acting “Governor Karl
TFitite, Commissioner ' of Education
LrStor D. Henderson, Mayor Connors,
Bishop Crimont of Juneau, Catholic
Bish'oyf .of Alaska, and pastors of the ;
local Presbyterian, Episcopal and I
' Cathdlic churches here, denied the I
charges made by Doctor Clarence j
True Wilson, secretary of the Meth-;
odist Christian Temperance Union!
and Board of Puhlic Morals, before i
the Senate committee hearings in j
Washington, that’“vice here in Alaska
was the- Worst in the world.”
Governor Thiele said: “Alaskans
are a law-abiding people with morals
as high as anywhere in thes world* as
everyone familiar with conditions here
knows. I know to my personal knowl
edge that IVilson’s attack is unjusti
fied and without foundation of facts.”
Commissioner Lester D. Henderson
said: “The statement that moral con
• ditions here are worse than in the
• greater part of the United States and
that Alaska officialdom is in league
v. with law violators is prompted either
by a desire to wilfully misrepresent
or ignorance.”
Bishop Crimont said: “I raise my
indignant protest against the slander
ous and stupid utterances reported in
the charges against Alaska official
dom. Conditions, morality and law
obedience are good or better than ex
isting elsewhere in the United States
and most of civilization.”
Similar statements were made by
Seward.—In a statement issued to
The Daily Gateway today by Mayor
L. V. Ray, which has heen sent to the
Associated Press service . in the
States, in answer to the attack being
made at Washington, D. €., as lo the
moral character of Alaska citizens,
the message intact is as follows:
“L. V. Ra>, three "times mayor of
Seward, president of the first Alaska
Senate, active in war work, and chair
man of the Red Gross, jurisdiction of
Seward-Siherian boundary, resents
the continued malicious slanders by
uninformed and ill-advised reformers
as to the characters of the citizens of
Alaska. Ray declares that the Hard
ing party and "the Cambrai congres
sional partty in 1923, Senator Jones,
Congressmen Hadley, Treadway, Free,
White and Senator Dill, all Seward
visitors, know law enforcement excel
lent. Surprised that any attention is
paid to malicious, vindictive gossip.
Assume that present iagitation is
based upon a desire to get friends
upon the Federal payroll. Doctor
Clarence True Wilson evidently ob
tained his information from habitual
liars. Dr. Wilson is invited to spend
two months in Seward and make a
personal investigation of the daily
lives and habits of our citizens, who
support three churches and pastors
thereof and who welcome misguided
strangers. He also refers to Mrs. W.
H. C. Goode and Mrs. Luther Taylor,
sf the Methodist church, who after a
personal investigation selected Sew
ard for the Jesse Lee Home site.
, “Reward.Oatewav.”
House Committee Ap~
proves Sutherland’s
Alaska Fisheries Bill
Washington, Feb. . 22.—'The House
merchant marine and fisheries com
mittee today approved the bill of
Alaska Delegate lJatv Sutherland to
give the Secretary of Commerce
power .over Alaska •'.fisheries. The
measure would authorize the Secre
tary of Commerce to sot ap.aVt fishing
areas i nthe waters of Alasksf, a d for
these are.as the Secretary cuU.d desig
nate closed seasons.
i
On the Nominations* of
• Heed, Ritchie and
* Shoup.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Chairman j
Cummins announced today; that near - j
ings on the nominations of 'Judges!
Reed and Ritchie, also the • nolhina- •
tions of White 'afid Shoup, will, oe re-i
opened on Alareh '10th or 'li tb^ .v hen
it is expected the nominees will be in
i Washington to reply to t.herr Critic.-.
I Tne charge that lilt* In pa i*t me*ni of
] Justice was withholding. x 'iivfcn'-r.ce
i from the committee wasc.-roadty by
i George Cain, representing ». .Cohn. AV
Frame.
James L. Galen, of Cordova,!* ap- j
peared yesterday to deny evidence!
presented .at the previous hearings ;
that he was connected with', a hoot-;
legging ring.
Telegraphic Ticks.
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Seattle, Feb. 11 .-eiCharginbi.-tnn.t
| Mrs. Margaret A; Cook, UOtf re: used
| to keep her promise to'• marry' him
| after he had given her many sums of
[ monye, Ole Bakker, Alaska fisherman
land broker, filed wsuit-^against- her to
I day for $1,23(1
Seattle, Feb. 25.—Captain PI A,
| Obert, Alaska master and pilot, is
I being sued for $25,000 by John Soder
man, navy yard electricitan’, who
j charges him with having alienated
' the affections of Mrs. Eva Obert.
I
Washington, Feb, 24.—'Chairman
I Cummins, of the Senate judiciary
j committee, announced today that the
I committee was averse to calling more
witnesses to testtify concerning law
enforcement in'Alaska.
Everett, Feb. 23.—Captain Roald
Amuadsen canceled his lecture en
gagement here, and left tonight for
Norway, via New York, to finish ar
rangements for his north pole flight.
Washington, Feb. 24.—The Doheny
oil land case in California, which
grew out of the Senate oil investiga
tion, was appealed < today to the
United States Supreme Court.
Washington, Feb. 24.—Donald H.
Stevenson, biological survey warden
of the Aleutian islands reservation,
with headquarters at Unaiaska, died
in this cityt today.
Washington, Feb. 23.—Bert E.
Ha resigned today as member of
ted'States Shipping Board,’his
resignation to become effective on
March 1.
Washington, Feb. 23.—President
Coolidge, on the birthday anniversary
of Washington, paid tribute to him
last night as the great example of
character.
Bremerton, Feb. 24.—The naval ;
transport Vega will be despatched to
Alaska this summer with supplies for
naval radio stations
BRIGHT FOR
FAIRBANKS
$10,000,000 for Dredg
ing Operations That
District This Year.
Seattle, Feb. 24.—On departing for
Fairbanks yesterday, Norman C.
Stines announced that he would be
succeeded as general manager of the
Fairbanks Exploration Company by
G. W. Metcalf, and that ten million
dollars will be spent in dredging the
company's properties in th( Fairbanks
district.
The Exploration Company is owned
by the United States Smelting and
Mining Company, which also is,: oper
ating extensively in the Nome dis
trict.
Amundsen Savs He’!!
Be First to Fwtd Land
in North Pole Region
Seattle, Feb. 22.—Captain Roald
Amundsen, Arctic explorer, on his ar
rival here last night, predicted that
he will be the first to find land be
tween Alaska and the North Pole. He
says he will claim the land for Nor
way, which, he says, will tag it “For
Salt: to the United States.”
Ik 000 I'acae i n(I Iianv*j
in Mexico; 18 Cases
- Reported at Yakutat
Mexico City, Feb. 24.—There are '
eighteen thousand cases of influenza
in this federal district, according to!
estimates returned here today.
Juneau, Feb. 25'.The cutter Unalga
sailed from here tonight with a phy-1
sician and medicines for Yakutat, j
from which place eighteen cases of
influenza are reported.
BOOTLEGGER KING ARRESTED.
New York, Fob. 24.—Emm -el H.j
Mannie Kessler, bootegger king of!
Broadway, was arrested today on a j
warrant charging him with defraud-1
ing the United States government out
of $1,5<U),000, due as -income tax for
the year 1022.
TRANSPORTATION OF MAILS
TO ALASKA RHINO DISCUSSED
Seattle, tFeb. 24.—Questions per
taining to the transportation of
mails here and in Alaska are being
discussed by postal officials in a series
of conferences with W. Irving Clover,
Second Assistant Postmaster General,
whilh began this morning.
Han* Erickson, afteer a visit of a
souple of days in town, and who was
>ne of those in attendance at the Pio
neer doings last Saturday night, left
Tuesday for Ganes.
John Adams, who went to Ganes on
Tuesday, returned here Thursday, and
ivill probably leave within the next
Pew days for Flat.
Waino Puntila returned Sunday to <
Victor gulch, ufter a short town Visit, 1
luring which he .attended the Pioneer
loings.
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Ikey Hayes was a Thursday depart
are for Ganes c reek, to join Bob <
RobersonV forces. f
W. J. Widman, after an overnight
visit, returned to McGrath on Wed- t
lesday. t
Tom Shallow and horse team left \
his morning for McGrath.
Del Thompson, with horse team, 1
eft Thursday for Ganes. f
Charlie Konietzky left Friday for a
isit at McGrplh. \
l
CALLED OFF
BY WILKINS
Snow Motors Are of No
Value for Freighting
Supplies to Barrow.
Fairbanks, Feb. 24.—The attempt
of Alexander Malcolm Smith to haul
supplies for the Wilkins Transpolar
Expedition to Point Barrow by snow
motors was called off by Captain
Gporge H. Wilkins, folowing his ar
rival here yesterday. The motors
have made only seventy miles -since
leaving Fairbanks.
PRESIDENT COOLIDEGE SUF
FERING WITH BAI) COI,I»
Washington, Feb. 22—Although hi*
condition was reported improved,
President Coolidge has canceled en
gagements for today, and remained
in his room nursing his cold.
Plymouth, N. H.—By drinking hot
ginger tea before retiring each night
President Coolidge could cure his cold
in no time, the father of Coolidge
said today.
MURDER OF WASHINGTON
STATE GAME WARDEN
Newport, Wash., Feb. 23.— Elward
Jarrish, deputy game warden, was
murdered at Camden, this county, last
Wednesday.
Newport, Feb. 24.—Roland Van
Blaricom, 23, and Everett Van Blari
com, 18, brothers, arrived here this
morning-, charged with the slaying of
Edward Jerrish, deputy game warden,
last Wednesday.
GERMANY'S APPLICATION
FOR MEMBERSHIP IN LEAGUE
Geneva, Feb. 24.—A call has been
issued for the Council of the League
of Notions to meet on March 8, when
the special assembly summoned to act
on Germany’s application for mem
bership in the League will open.
Scotty Auld was a Thursday de
parture for Flat, accompanying Char
lie Konig, who is acting as substitute
for Mail Carrier Charlie Ross, who
was taken suddenly with lumbago at
McGrath, and who was compelled to
lay over there for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mutehler and
Mrs. Thomas McLean, after a visit of
t couple of days here, particularly to
je in attendance at the Pioneer ball,
■eturned to their home at McGrath on
Monday. Also going down was Mrs,
W. H. Jones, for a visit of indefinite
luration with Mrs. Mutehler.
Dan S. McDonell, well known min
ng man, was a Monday arrival from
McGrath, after an absence of two
,-ears from these parts, spent mostly
n the state of Washington, lie left
1'uesday for Iditarod.
Charles Kimball, manager of the
"’lume Dredge Company, now in San
^rancisco, expects to leave that place
in March 27. headed for Takotna, ac
ording to late advices received here.
The Washington Birthday derbv,
un over the co .rse between Flat and
ditarod, was won by Ed De Hause
md Mary Twitchell. The time was
‘•8 minutes for the round trip.
Mrs. Victor Hill, who was among
he out-of-towners in attendance at
he Pioneer ball, returned to her home
n Victor gulch on Sunday, going over
vith Henry Martella.
Del Thompson, bringing up a large
oad of freight, returned Tuesday
rom a trip to McGrath.
Ed Nollette, after a short tewr
i:dt. returned Id Yankee VJejBrt*