PROPERTY OF
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The Alaska Agrieuifi^ege
and School of ftesljj
Times
VOL'. 1
1S&A2Z
McGRATH, ALASKA, APRIL 20. 1921.
PRICE 25 CBNTS
RECORDING PRECINCT TO
BE CREATED AT BETHEL
Probability That Wireless Station May Also Be
Established—Judge Bunnell and Asst. U. S.
Atty, Hill En Route to Lower Kuskokwim.
A new recordingprecinct is to be es
tablished at Bethel,, on the Lower
Kusknk wins, and in all probability a
wifeless station erected there during
the coming summer, according tO’ a
note from Judge Charles B. Bunnell to
The Kusko Times, an excerpt from
which says:
“Acting under an authorization from
the Attorney General, E. Coke Hill,
Assistant District Attorney, and myself
left Fairbanks on the oth to go to
Bethel. Mv purpose is to establish a
new recording precinct, taking in the
Lower Kuskokwim.. Bethel is to be
th3 headquarters. I expect a deputy
U. S. Marsha1, .will also, be stationed
there.
“When in Washington during the
winter I used mv best endeavors to
have wireless stations established in
the Kactishna, the Fortymile, the Koy
ukuk and at Bethel. Of course, I can
not say what will be dona< but I am
expecting there will be a station at
‘Bethel this summer. This is greatly
needed, and will be a great service to
the people of the Kuskokwim seo
tion.”
Judge Bunnell adds: “Mr. Hiil and
I have had a very good trip. We hope
to get to Bethel over the ice, but ex
pect to come up the river as far as
Crooked creek bv boat. We are sorry
not to be abls-to come to McGrath at
this time;’1
DOINGS OF
CONGRESS
Knox Introduces Reso
lution to End War
With Germany.
Washington. April 15.—Sen
ator Knox today introduced his
resolution declaring the war be
tween the United States and
Germany at an end-..1 The meas
ure provides for full reservation
of American rights under the
Versailles Treaty.
Senator Borah reintroduced a
resolution authorizing the Presi
dent to reopen negotiations with
Great Britain and Japan looking
to a reduction of naval building.
Senators - Borah and Johnson ex
pressed doubt regarding a treaty with
the League--covenant excluded, doubt
ing whether it eoald*be put into such
shape that iticouid be ratified.
Senator Kte'llogg, of Minnesota,
launched a fight against the Colombia
treaty, declaring that its ratification
would place a stain upon the fame of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Jones reintroduced the resolution for
an appropriation of twentv-five million
dollars for a Government transpacific
cable.
Cummings introduced a resolution
asking for congressional investigation
into the railroad situation.
Fish, of New York, introduced a
resolution requesting the President to
immediately withdraw troops from
Germany.
MESSAGE OF
PRESIDENT
Personally Delivered—
Major Portion De
voted to Peace.
Washington, April 14.—President
Harding, while personally delivering
his message of eigh*- thousand words at
a joint session of the two houses of
Congress,, announced that he would ap
prove a declarative resolution which
would end the state of war between
the United States and the Central
Powers, but that it would be useless to
declare a separate peace on this as
sumption alone, as it would be inade
quate, because the situation is so in
volved that any peace engagement by
the United States cannot iguore Old
World relationships and settlements
already effected, nor is it desirable to
do so in preserving our rights and con
tracting our future relationships.
I Among the recommendations wera
the readjustment of those internal
taxes which are unproductive and bur
densome, and for the instant an emer
gency tariff of a character unlerstood
by the people to be for the emergency
onlv.
The efficient operation of railways
also received the President’s attention,
as did the strengthening of laws gov
erning financial aid for the building of.,
good roads and the matter of a gen
erous, practical reward for the defend
ers of the United States during the
world wanf
President Harding said, in effect,
that it was the wish of'the Administra
tion to eliminate the burden of heavy
armament., but that it would be unsafe
to discard the agencies of defense until
defense is no longer needed and that
he would recommend adequate appro
priations for the army and navy.
The President took a firm stand re
garding the establishing of a national
budget system. He also said that while
no challenge to lawful business was in
tended, government approval did not
mean toleration of restraint of trade or
maintenance of prices through unnat
ural methods.
Regarding the merchant marine, he
said private monopolies tending to pre
vent the development of needed facili
ties should be prohibited and that gov
ernment-owned facilities, without un
duly interfering with private business,
should be made available and generally
useful.
The major portion of the message
was devoted to peace, the League of
Nations, and to the Government's for
eign policy.
Will Work for Mail
and Telephone Over
the Rainy Pass Route
Duke E. Stubbs, who left McGrath
for the Outside some weeks ago, in a
letter just received here from Anchor
age, says that he is going to do every
thing possible for the advancement of
the trail. He says:
“I favor the trail going from the
railway at Talkeetna, by way of the
Cache creek camp, instead of by way
of Susitna Station. It will be some 24
miles shorter, and the trail from
Cache creek will always be used local
ly. I am pulling for the mail that way
next winter, also the installing of a
telephone line from Happy river to
French Joe’s—being two roadhouses on
this side of the Pass to two roadhouses
on the other side. Most of the tripods
are snowed under and cannot be seen,
while the telephone wire can be seen,
no matter how thick the weather, and
can be heard at night when nothing
can be seen.
“The telephone Hoe wiil make every
body travel the same trail and leave a
hard bottom*. The lack of a hard bot
tom makes the dogs Sounder and then
give out, and leaves the outfit stuck.
With a hard bottom no one is likely to
be stuck.”
Mr. Stubbs is on his way East, and
will visit both New York and Wash
ington before returning North during
the season of navigation.
Mount Vesuvius Is In
Most Violent Eruption
Naples, April 14.—Mount Vesuvius
is in most violent eruption, more so
than at any time during the past fifteen
years, being accompanied by the loud
est internal rumblings.
American tourists are attracted by
fchejmajestie spectacle, but are unable
to approach because of the shower of
hot ashes and the movement of molten
lava,. _
Felix Boucher arrived yesterday
from Anchorage, to which place he
went some weeks ago to undergo an
operation, which was entirely suceess
inL
SESSION IS
HALF OVER
And the Legislature Has
Not Passed Measure of
General Importance.
Juneau, April 15.—In what was the
longest session of tha term, in which
the Getchell eight-hour bill came up
for consideration, Ilrown and Cochran
fought to amend so as to allow over
time work for four consecutive days in
the week, which failed. The bill then
passed to its second reading, having
been amended so as to include placer
mines and dredges.
A niemorial introduced by Elsnor
asks for the appointment of three addi
tional mining inspectors to assist oper -
ators and prospectors.
The legislative session is now half
over, and so far no measure of general
importance has been passed by the
legislature, no revenue bills intro
duced, and no appropriations framed.
WERE HIRED
RY WOMAN
Promised to Pay $5,000
for Killing Wealthy
New Yorker.
Buffalo, April 18.—Rov Harris, under
arrest here, confessed to the police to
day that he and William Dunkin had
been hired by a woman to kill Joseph
D. El well, a wealthy New Yorker,
which occurred last June.
Harris in his confession says that the
woman gave him fifty dollars before
the crime was committed, and four
hundred and fifty dollars after the
slaying. The balance of the five thou
sand dollars promised was never paid,
according to Harris.
Harris claims that Dunkin fired the
shot which killed Elwell. The police
say that there are a number of discrep
ancies in Harris’ confession.
Silver Strike in Mayo
District Shows Seven
Feet of Solid Galena
Dawson, April 14.—A new silver
strike is reported at Keno Hill, in the
Mayo district. On the Rico claim, be
longing to the Y"ukon Gold Company,
a ledge, said to be nine feet wide,
holding seven feet of solid galena, has
been uncovered,.
Herb Kearney arrived from Tacotna
Monday, bringing the mail from Ophir
with him, and returned to the up river
town yesterday.