' Orders Coffin, Tips Ser
vants. |Then Takes Life
Paris.v—-A'fter baying ordered her
own'coGo, 1 paid for funeral expenses,
settled her hotel bill and tipped the
- servants, Miss* Mary Alice Crumpton,
i purporting- to come from Chicago,
killed herself in a taxicab in the Bois
i de Boulogne, near Porte Dauphine,
'■ early this-morning. The woman, who
> was aboiA, ?*• years old, is said to have
f Bred three - revolver bullets into her
body in the region of the heart, and a
fourth bullet into her head.
Miss Crompton had been in Paris for
about a year, except for a month’s trip
to Genua, .Italy. She is said never to
have seemed to be in need of money.
Tbs hotel- keeper asserted today that
the woman spent considerable amounts
for expensive clothes, aDd that she was
subject to alternate moods of gaiety
and depressioni She had few friends
in Paris, of whom the most intimate
returned to- the United States some
months ago. There is some mail for
her from Superior and Washburn, Wis
consin, at the hotel where she stopped.
Priest Asks Prayers to
Free Rum Defendants
Weehawken, N. J.—Rev. Fr. George
Bennett asked his parishioners to
1 day to pray for the acquittal of the al
leged - conspirators of the notorious
> Wee-hawhen rum cases. Father Ben
> net is- th8 principal witness for the
state at the retrial of the case, which
■ was to open Monday.
The- ‘Tightiog Priest,” as he is
known, was largely responsible for the
-indictment of the twelve defendants.
• nine of whom are members of his par
i*h.
F‘'F6r the first time in a long while I
i*• am •going to ask you to do a favor,”
- -said Father Bennett to his audience.
"•The liberty of certain members of our
» parish is at present jeopardized. A
1 petition to cur Divine Lord in the sac
■ 1 ritide of the mass to give extraordinary
■- graces to those who desire them and
< can use them to better circumstances
into which they have been plunged,
« will help them wonderfully
•■Prayers will help. We are all
anxious for the same thing—liberty.
Manifest our desires ^to Almighty
< -Odd.”
The defendants include Harry E.
Stearns, police commissioner, and 11
? policemen.
i Higher Authority.
Walter Damrosch, the noted musi
< cian, said at a musicians’ banquet in
New York:
“We should be very careful about
taking liberties with the work of great
• composers. I sympathize in this mat-.
** ter with the ’cellist.
“A Beethoven symphony was being
i 'rehearsed, and the conductor, pointing
" to a dozen bars, said to the ’cellist:
>■“ ‘I want you to leave that out.’
‘■The ’cellist grunted, and on the
• evening of the concert he plaved the
• bars. The leader glared at him ter
ribly, and at the end of the concert
• roared:
“ ‘Why did you play that passage?
» Didn’t I tell you to leave it out?’
“ ‘Yes, you did,’ said the ’cellist, “but
• Beethoven told me to$leave it in.’ ”
, The World Is Kind.
Chaunoey M. Depew, hale and hearty
- at the age of 90, said at a dinner in
New York
“The world is kind to the aged. It
spares them all allusions to their years.
Let me tell you. by the way, that any
such allusion hurts old people horribly.
“But the world is kind. A child
once asked me:
“ ‘What do people mean, sir, when
• they tell a man he’s in the prime of
i life?’
“‘They mean,’ said I, ‘to spare the
‘•v old fellow’s feelings ’ ”
Yanks and Legionaires
The Arlington national cemetery is
the largest national cemetery in the
United States. It has an area of 408^
acres.
It has been estimated that when the
armistice of November 11. 1918, was
declared the war was costing the
United States $50,000,000 daily.
Of every hundred American soldiers
and sailors who took part in the world
war, two were killed or died ot disease
during the period of hostilities.
Contributions to the American Le
gion endowment fund for disabled men
and orphans of veterans can be deduct
ed in computing income tax returns.
A memorial is to be erected in Wash
ington to the heroes who died in the
aviation service of the army, navy and
marine corps during the world war.
Of the 14,476 officers in the United
States army, 3,026 are assigned to the
quartermaster corps, adjutant geneJaFs
department, finance department, med
ical corps, ana the other non-combatant
branches.
masquerading in woman's
garb and for several years workiug in
a dressmaking establishment, Paul
Grappe, a deserter from the French
army since 1914, recently gave himself
up to military authorities in Paris. He
was pardoned.
Out of 63 aviation records which are
listed as official, 47 are credited to the
United States. France ranks next,
with 14, and England and Italy are
credited with 1 each. Of the 47 Amer
ican records, 29 are held by the army
air service and 18 are credited to navy
fliers. Thirty-two of the American
records were made in land planes, and
15 in seacraft.
Crossing Atlantic
in a 45-Foot Boat
Copenhagen —Two Norwegians to
day started a trans-Atlantic voyage in
a vessel 45 feet in length and 15 feet
wide. The men are carrying a mes
sage from Norway to the Norwegians
in America. Their route will take
them to the Faroe islands, whence they
will touch Iceland and Nova Scotia.
Inquiry is made by Mrs. Anna Lav
ton. R. D. No. 3, Beaver Falls, Penn.,
concerning her brother, Robert Dens
more, who left the state of Washington
for Alaska in 1901 and has uot been
heard from since. Densmore was of
fair complexion, light hair, 5 feet 3
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview. Innoko River
inches in height, and had a iandy raus
tache. Any information concerning
this man should be forwarded to the
governor’s office, Juneau, for transmis
sion to Mrs. Layton.
-Father William E. Cash in, wb© t?,s
chaplain of SiDg Sing for i?, years) was
liked by all thu prisoners, but one day
a brutal-looking burglar refused to
shake hands with hire.
“No, no,’’ the burglar said, ‘‘I can’t
shake hands with you. You only preach
for money.”
“Verv good, my friend, h»7C it so,”
said Father Oashin. “I preach for
money. You rob for money. Let God
choose between us.”
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
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iditarod, Alaska,
Charles E. Taylor,
Fairbanks. Alaska.
Practice in all Courts.
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McGrath, Alaska
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’’"Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing ,
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
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The Handy Man
Are You Going to Build?
We have in stock lumber of all kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a few lines, .such
as Rustic and Shiptap, 4 and G-ineh Flooring, Win
dow and Door Casing, Window and Door Stopping.
Boat Lamber of all kinds.
And if you are going to build a sled, call on as. We have the
best himkory in Alaska.
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m
The Kusko
Times
$1 Per Month
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
About. ? miles long, extending from
No. 1 below discovery down toMhe
mouth of the creek,
Fay located all along for a distance
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty wrll prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of' ground is from 7
to 20 feet. 1 op is all black muck,
that can be scraped freely No rock
bigger than one's .fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1
per^square loot of bedrock,
Ditch on the ground, a miles long,
together with water rights. Ground
is pretty well cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 miles long. Also a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from
which water can be brought to
Yankee creek with a ditch less than
a mile long [4,900 feet], with a pres
sure or fall of 120 feet, being 1600
feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there
will be from 4 to 6 feet of dirt to
handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken
out. ;i
Prospecting work during the pasi
winter has resulted in finding values
that run up to $1 per square foot of
bedrock.
1 will either sell the ground or give
a lease on it If the prospect, is sat
isfactory to the buyer, b .cash pay
ment w ill be expected
For further information., terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna Alaska