THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. III. NO. 60
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 19-3.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Declare Themselves as
v Candidates for Presi
dential Nomination.
Omaha, Nov. »24.—Comment
mg on the statement made in
Chicago today by David L. Rock
well, of Ravenna, O., that friends
of William G. McAdoo intended
to nominate him as a democratic
candidate forttae'presidency, Mr
McAdoo said 'here today that
Mr, ^Rockwell had stated the sit
uation accurately.
Chicago, Nov. 24. — Senator
Hiram Johnson, of California,
formally announced todight that
be is a candidate for the presi
de-ntial office and that he will
seek nomination on a progres
sive republican platform. John
son made his decision known in
a statement issued after a oon
ference with his political friends
at the Drake Hotel.
AT JUNEAU
Asks That Panhandle
Section Be Made a
Territory.
Juneau, T2qv. 17.—A memorial
to Congress asking that South
eastern Alaska be .organized its
a lerritory, separate from the
rest of Alaska, was adopted yes
terday by the convention repre
senting the municipalities which
met here. The memorial, which
suggests the name of “South
Alaska” for the proposed terri
tory. will be' forwarded to Dele
gate Sutherland for submission
to Congress git the December ses
sion.
Italian View Regard
ing Debt to America
JR.om e, —-‘IT ire re is nuuhi.ng on Italy’s
conscience*hbut<3 we not nay America
onr debts,” Signor Schanzer, former
foreitrominister and minister of
finance, declared.today. “We.cnntrib
uted in blood, /America, in money.”
Seattle.-^-Returning from the football
game by autoibobile, Paul M. Cone, J.
Willis and Sayer J. Dutton reached
Seattle at 10 o'clock ’ast night, in 25
hours and 30 minutes from Berkeley:
Seattle.'—Col. Archibald O. Powell,
army engineer,1 who prepared the plans
and specifications for the Lake Wash
ington canal and locka, died Sunday
afternoon. _
Berkeley—California defeated Wash
ington 9 to 0 in Saturday afternoon’s
1 football game
GERMANY
ON VERGE
Not Able Much Longer
to Meet Her Public
Payrolls.
Berlin, Nov. 28.—Germany is
immediately confronted with
bankruptcy and will not much
longer be able to meet her pub
lic payrolls, Dr. George Gothe,
in the reichstag, declared today.
Ebert is reported to be on the
verge of resigning the presi
de-nc.y, having despaired of Ger
many’s chances unde, the pres
ent democratic system.
Paris, Nov. 24.—France will
remain on the Rhine not only
until every single clause of the
Versailles treaty is fulfilled, but
until she is solidly guaranteed
against aggression, Poincaire de
clared in a speech at Neuilly Sur
Seine, this afternoon.
Four Killed in Quarrel
Over 15-Year-()ld Girl
Kelliher, M inn.—.Leonard Fortune,
who shot four persons to death in a
quarrel over the affections of -Myrtle
Saunders, a 15 year-old ir 1 of this
place, was captured a Iw miles out of
the city tonight. Fortune, after his
capture, had a narrow escape Jr out
measures at the hands of an angry
mob. _
Rum-Smuggling Con
ference, U. S.-Canada
Ottawa.—The American delegates to
the international rum-smuggling con
ference between the United States and
Canada left for Washington today.
Both groups of delegates declined to
•skate what, if anything, had been ac
complished.__
Henrv Martella and Chester Brink,
with gold consignments, aDd aotiun
pattied by W'oP. •‘MoKsague and Ira
Wood, were Sunday arrivals from
Flat, the party leaving Tuesday for
McGrath, on their way to Neuaua,
from which point Messrs. McKeaguc
and Wood will continue their journey
to the Outside,
Aoton Iudegard was among Tues
day’s arrivals, after a business trip to
liuby. On hm way back he stopped to
do a little prospecting in the Cripple
section, in whtcti he savs a few of the
old-timers are fairlv busy.
Mike O’Malley, well-known tciniog
man of the Nixon section, was a Mon
day arrival, returned from a trip to
Cranes on Wednesday, and departed for
McGrath on Thursday.
Miss Grace Anderson and Miss Helen
."Bechon were Thursday arrivals from
McGrath, coming up with Manager L.
B. Loomis, o! the N. C., all of whom
were present at -the Takotna school
doings.at the Larson House, Thanks
giving evening
Walter Wood, Herb Ililey and Guy
La moot, from Fiat, who arrived Tues
day, got, away Wednesday,-headed for
the Outside.
John Mjklebust; from Ophir, spent
Thanksgiving, day here
Dr. Frederick Cook,
in Prison, Sees Rea
son to Be Thankful
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Fort Worth, Texas. -Dr. Frederick
Cook, of more or less fame as an Arctic
explorer, recently, cou vie ted of fraudu
lent practices as an oil promoter, and
his principal confederate, .H. J. Cook,
of Houston, were routed from their
steel cots Thanksgiving afternoon to
be informed that, at a depth of 1350
feet, an enormous geyser had com
menced spouting from oue of their oi’
properties.
“It means much to us,” Cook said.
•‘I’m tboukful this Thanksgiving dav,
doubly so because J aid oat get fifty
years instead of fourteen.”
TO RESCUE
Says German Civiliza
tion and People Must
Not Be Destroyed.
Rome', Nov. 27.—In a state
ment that the government can
not give its approval to any fur
ther occupation of German terri
tory,'Premier Mussolini, in the
^senate tonight, declared that
“One must have courage to say
that the German people cannot
> be destroyed. - They are a peo
ple wno have civilization,” the
premier continued, “and wbp
may tomorrow be an integral
part oY European civilization.”
Mussolini -described the league
of nations as “a Fra neo-British
pact,” in which Italy had ati in
ferior position. Italy, The said,
did not wish to withdraw from
the league', but it could not re
main a member n the inferior
position it holds today.
Washington Notes
Washington.—••] do not care to af
firm or deny anything in this article.”
This was the answer today of Forbes,
former director df-vhe veterans bureau,
and his counsel, James S. Fasby Smith,
to charges published rn the December
edition of Heart’s. International Maga
nine, which stated "that Forbes bad
been a desdrthr Iron: the United Slates
army.”
Washington.—President and Mrs.
Coolidge attended the Cortrgrfc’gktihbal
church on Thanksgiving day. lieturn
ing home, they had an old fashioned
turkey dinner alone. The pumpkin
pie, three fetft in diameter, was the
only gift accepted bv Cdbltdge.
Disastrous Typhoon
Sweeps Over Luzon
Manila.—Another‘disastrous typhoon
has swept over’Liu.bn and the Visayan
islands. -Hail and telegraphic com
munication is Suspended in Manila,
which is partly under water due to a
downpour. ■Doate are replacing uuotor
cars in several streets of the city.
Mail Clarrier Fr^d Lemon, with the
third mail from Nenaua, amounting to
500 pounds, arrived Thursday, -ifie' re
oorted a rather rough trail
17-TlitS
BIGAMIST
He Is Grabbed at Ju
neau on a Charge
of Forgery.
Juneau, Nov. '27.—-Harold A.
Steen, who is wanted at Port
land for forgery, is a seventeen j
times bigamist, Police Inspector
S wen ns. of Portland, who left,
tonight for the States with the
prisoner, declared
Bwenns stated that the records
disclose that Steen has married
nine times in Pacific coast states
and tire same number of times in
Atlantic seaboard states.
Telegraphic Ticks,
Paris.—A statement issued by the
French Foreign Ollice tonight shows
that the French government insists]
upon limitations to the expert repara
tions inquiry, which have been rejected j
by Secretary of State Hughes.
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’Dublin.- The first death from the
hunger strike under the Free Slate
regime took place in Newbridge in
ternment camp today, when Dennis
Barry, a native of Cork, succumbed to
bis self-inflicted last.
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Seattle.—Willis i.uck, 27, son or c.
Missouri Aimoe, attempted to -drown
himself in Lake Union this afternoon.
He told the police tiiat he had tied
from Kansas City, after Hooding that
piace with bad checks.
Shanghai.—Si■; bandits overtnrew
the ricksha of a messenger of the Tung
Yih Trust Company, in the business
district, Mtday, and escaped with one
half. million dollars in cash and ue
gotiisto'e bonds.
San Antonio.- !• li st Lieutenant Paul
Wagner, burned to death when
displace caught ie after a spectae
ular collision in the air with a plane
piloted by First Lieutenant Walter H.
] Peck.
Tampa, Mex.—Tiie business section
| of this city was destroyed by fire today,
with losses and damages estimated at
i three million dollars.
New York.—Thanksgivingday liquor
caused the death of three men and one
■woman and put seven oihe s in Beile
wue hosoitali.
■'""'t-os AnSeles. oeorge Sunday, real
estate dottier, son of Bidy Sunday, the
noted evangelic' attempted suicide by
‘asphyxiation Sunday afternoon
Olyrnpia. —Governor Hart made an- ]
nouncemeut today that he will rot be a
candidate for re election as governor of
Washington.
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Pittsburg.—‘Louis J. Tabor, Barnes- I
ville, Ohio, was elected master -of tiie
National Grange at its convention here.
New York.—George C. Taylor, pres
ident of the American Express Cem
pany, died iu Pelham, today.
Berlin. -The government of Premier
Von Knilling i-, now in complete con
trol in Munich.
Jackson. Calif.—Anthony OaraineUi
died last night,
TO ASSIST
AMUNDSEN
U. S. Navy May Assign
Big Dirigible as Re
lief Ship.
New York, Nov. 24. — The
Shenandoah, the navy’s biggest
dirigible, may be assigned as a
relief ship for the Arctic exped;
tion beaded by Atnu.ndeer. who,
it was announced iase night in.
Washington, will have the co-t
operation of the United States
navy hi his attempted flight to
the North I'ole.
. Lieat. .Ralph F. Davison, of
represent the navy, will be tne
navigator of one of three planes
to compose the expedition. In.
one of the other two planes wil
be AmunSsen and Lieut. Oscar
Omdahl, and in the third plane
Hammer himself probably will
lly with a companion yet to be
selected. Atoundseu and Oav
ison will be the navigators sof
the' party.
To Be Operated Soor
Between Skagway, Se
attle, Way Points,
J uneau, Nov. 26. —Jean Ve.no
plies,, of Brussels, manager ol
the Juaiita mine, on Bortlef s.
bay, announced tonight as he
was departing .or Paris and
Brussels that he will return here
in the spring with a five passen
ger aeroplane, owned by a com
pany amply financed. ''This plane,
following its arrival here, said
the promoter, will operate on
schedule between Seattle w-z*
tekr.gvray, making regular stops
at Ketchikan and Juneau.
Facing Death, Writes
Will On His Collar
Monterey, Cai.- Tearing o?T his eoi
iar while' lving under his Overturned
automobile, arid suffering from ifimries
which niter proved fa tail lifigo Put ter,t
today wrote hie will ori hris'cotiar. say
ing- also that he was responsible! for the
accident, in which his niece, Ernie
Vogele, was Also injured.
Will Not Accede to
Demand of French
Dondoe,—The • British government
will net aeced*3 Oo 'he demands of
France ‘to take punitive measures
against Oertnanv, and has notieed the
Britishsttnbassa-dor vn Paris to so in
form the council <n ambassadors.
Joe "rerris iefJ Wednesday for'Ochir
on his way to Cphir and possibly •>
Poor mao
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