VOL. VI. NO. >84
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TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1W2G
PITTMAN ON
WAY, NOME
! Says Statesmen of East
Know More of Bohe
mia Than Alaska.
^Seattle, Aug. ‘25.-^&enat(Jr Key Pitt
man, afeNevada, who arrived here to
• .. day,, an aroute to Alaska, in an address
i; here, declareddbat. Eastern, statesmen
. i are bette*. acquainted . with Bohemia
i thani are with Alaska, and that
the Oooijdge administration clings to
the notion entertained by Daniel Web
teiadhafr. the West was of no value,
.vki ;p..mir<.naiional policies are being
rmuiatdd. by a. group of New Eng
.and Republicans in the interest of
New Ehgland(manufacturers.
IcdSeattlA, Aug. 27.-^—Senator Key Pitt
.man, of N»vada, before departing yes
t -torday-ifor Nome,, of which; he is a
pioneerb'declared the pulp industry
’can naven’ be developed in Alaska as it
should until the laws are changed so
..!• that ssompaasiesacan get ’Govejmment
grants! of ar* bkuo acves, in
stead’ of being restricted to 16ft acres,
a as qt present
:• Slayer Gaines Goes
* to Murderers’ Cell
Seattle, Aug..i'i.—vvauace dairies,
convicted murderer of his daughter
•j Syhvis{,'rw£ts-taday' moved to the soli
•aryc !fceH which he will occupy until
the^datef oflrhks. ex'tcutioiu'It is the
-same cell-that. was once occupied by
two lather,.*! svsers^-Jumea^.Mahoney,
wife -murderery ind L. E_ Moseley,
who killed a patrolman. Both of these
’ men .paid'-the-death penalty.
? Seattle", Aug.' 22,-^Prosecuting At
1 Aorney-Colvin, through whose efforts
' ‘'d’Bob” .Gaines was convicted of the
; murder of his. daughter Sylvia, . an
nounced this afternoon that he trill
vigorously support the candidacy of
William A. Gaines for county com
missioner. Colvin admits that Wil
1 liam Gaines alone, as chairman of
i the Board of Commissioners, made
his appointment as prosecutor pos
sible.
SENATOR BORAH SPEAK
ING ON PROHIBITION
Augusta, Ga.—Senator 'William E.
Boarh, of Idaho, speaking in the his
tarici-Presbyterian Church, the scene
of Woodrow Wilson’s boyhood wor
ship,' said:
"Arguments for nullification of pro
hibition are practices which arc mak
ing a hell of Europe. Positive en
■r foreerrient of the amendment never
has been tried.”
“Bolshevism in Russia, Fascism in
Italy, military dictatorship in Poland,
and mitlification in the United States,
are whelps from the same kennels,
barking at the same thing—constitu
tional government. If the eighteenth
amendment was injudicious, a distri
bution ot power between State and
National Governments, the people can
i: take tfciotttf of the constitution by the
same process as hey wrote it in,”
Borah declared
' A. G. Johnson, local N. C. manager,
Jack Guinan and Bbb Roberson were
- vPsterdoy ci partures for down river,
i probably to McGrath.
Henry Peel, after a town visit of
several days, returned'Tuesday to the
mooring place of the Annabel, some
miles down the Takotna.
Mail Carrier Chris Nelson left Wed
nesday for McGrath, taking with him
the mail recently received via Ophir.
Mail Contractor Robert Lowrie re
turned here Tuesday from Ophir,
bringing the mail coming via Ophir.
Billy Lodge was a Thursday town
v visitor from Ganes.
Death Comes to Sen
ator Fernald, Maine
East Poland, Me., Aug. 24.—United
States Senator Bert H. Fernald died
at his home here yesterday afternoon.
Bert M. Fernald, Republican, was a,
Representative in the Maine Legisla
ture in 1897; was twice elected to the
Maine Senate; was governor of Maine
19Q9-.10; was elected to the United
States Senate in September, 1916, to
succeed the late Edwin C. Burleigh,
and was re-elected in September, 1918
and 1924. His term of office would
expire March 3, 1931.
Coal Mine Explosion
Takes Toll of 44 Lives
Clymer, Pa., Aug. 26.—An explosion
in the mine of the Clearfield Bitumi
inous Corporation, today, cost the
fives of forty-four persons. None of
bodies hae so far been recovered.
FOKKER, AIRPLANE BUILDER,
WILL BECOME AN AMERICAN
New York, Aug. 26.—A. G. H. Fok
ker, Dutch airplane manufacturer,
has applied for American citizenship.
Fokker said he intended to devote his
talents and ability toward making the
United States the leader in aviation.
DPHIR LANDING FIELD A
FINE ONE. SAYS BENNETT
Ther-Fairbanks airplane, 'Aviator A.
A. Bennett, landed at Takotna Field
about 6;30 last Saturday evening, re
maining only a tew minutes, when he
made flight to Ophir for an inspection
of the new field' at that place. Mr.
Bennett, speaking of the Ophir field,
praised it most highly, declaring it
one of the best in this section.
As a matter of record, let it be re
corded that Carl Lottsfeldt, A. R. C.
superintendent, was the first through
ticketed passenger to make a non-stop
flight between Takotna and Ophir, the
lime of said flight over being inside
of 8 mmtttes, while the returning
time, on Sunday, was about 15 min
utes.
Leaving on the plane on Monday
for Fairbanks were Thomas McKin
non, well known mining man, after a
visit here of several weeks, and Mrs.
W. H. Jones, who made the trip to
Fairbanks for the purpose of securing
medical treatment. The run to Fair
banks is understood to have been in a
little over three and one-half hours.
SEATTLE AUCTION FUR SALE.
Seattle, Aug. 19.—Mink moved rap
idly at the Seattle Fur Exchange auc
tion, w ithhigh $24.
Red fox was poor, best Alaskans
demanding $24.
Muskrats sold well, high $1.84.
White fox ran up to $54, with best
lots averaging $38.
Best cross fox brought $55. Alas- j
kan pale $20 to $22; darks $25 to $28.
Silvers went rapidly.
Lynx were only half sold.
Alberta marten were up to $20, with
coast skins $12 to $15.
Ermine all sold, the best bringing
$2.75.
Otter went rapidly.
Beaver brought $23 to $35.
Blue fox moved poorly.
The next sale will he held on Sep
tember 15.
Winnipeg Sale.
•Winnipeg, Aug. 19.—Average k>f of
whfte fox brought from $35 tb $38 in
auction, topping at $146. Silver fox
sold at $90 to $160. Beaver brought
up to $34, with small pelts going at
$10 to $16. Weasel topped at'.$2L75.
Mrs. Sid Paulson was a passenger
on the Max Simel boat to Cripple, re
ccently, on her way to visit Mr. Paul
son and to view the latter's: mining
operations. During her absence from
Of>hir the superintendency of the well
known Paulson hostelry is being given
every attention by 'Paul Heinrichs,
well-known and popular chef.
Joe Oates and family, after a visit
of a couple of days ift town, left Tues
day in the Oates craft for McGrath.
DEMPSEY,
TUNNEY
Advance Orders fcr Big
Match Reach Total
of $8,000,000.
New • York, Aug. 26.—Tex Rickard,
boxing promoter, announced today
that advance orders for tbe.Ltempsey
Tunnev match a tPhiladelphia had
reached the total of $8,000,000
Atlantic City, Aug. V.G.—Jack
Dempsey engaged jn his first,, open-air
work out in Gray Sound ice track yes
terday, driving punches, at. seven
shock absorbers, while 1,400 on id $1.10
each for the pleasure of watching
him.
NEW DICTATOR FOR GREECE.
Athens, Aug. 22.—Greece has an
other dictator. Theodore Pangales
has been overthrown, and General
Condylis, once a. corporal in the Gre
cian, army, has taken over the reins
of. government.
Telegraphic Ticks.
_
Mexico City, Aug. 26.—It is the in- ]
tention. of Catholics and Episcopal
chuech'fs, to petition the Mexican con
gress to amend the religious clause of
the. constitution, according ta an an
nouncement made today by Bishop
Diase, secretary of the Episcopals.
—
''Pittsburgh, Aug. 24.—Called in ac
tion in 1916, Fred HoffmaR, 42, re
turned home and greeted his mother,
85, and sister, both of whom fainted.
Wounded and gassed,--Hoffnaji wan
dered away to Australia after . the
armistice.
Washington, Aug. 25.—Admiral
Moffet, army air chief, stated today
that $12,000,000 of the funds appro
priated by Congress will be expended
this year to pur ehasethe of new
aerial planes.
Seattle, Aug. 20.—Thirty Alaska,
school teachers arc booked as passen
gers of the Alaska, sailing tomorrow,
and will attend the teachers’ institute
tn he. held j(t Ketchikan
Longview, Wash., Aug. 24.—J..T.
Itaftis, of Colville, today was elected
state commander of the American
Legion to succeed Frank N. Bracks, of
Bellingham.
Washington, Aug.'A'.—A flight to
be participated in by five army air
planes, around South America, is
being planned by the State and War
Departments,
Seattle* Aug- 24.—Secretary of
Commerce Hoover arrived today, and
will speak, tonight on .the Columbia
basin irrigation project.
SLAYER LEADS DKTCETIVES
TOLGRAVE OF MURDERED WIFE
Syracuse, N. Y.—Aggostino Izzo,
professor of music, led detectives to
the-grave-of his wife, where he knelt
and prayed forgiveness for “murder
which I innocently committed in self
defense.”
Izzo said that last Wednesday he
tapped a barrel of wine in his abase
ment. His wife, with a knife in her
hand, threatened to cut him if he did
not stop. H.e continued; **I grabbed
a hammer.and struck at her shoulder.
I massed it and hit her head.”
Izzo dressed his wife in her newest
clothes, packed her in a box three feet
square and sprinkled her with holy
water, surrounding the box with can
dles. The next day he hired a truck
man to haul the box. He dug the
grave himself.
Axel Almsdahl, who was a Monday
arrival from Ganes creek, left Tues
day for Opihir, on his way to the Out
side.
John Krieger was a Monday depart
ure for the Ganes dredge camp.
Death of Charles W,
Eliot, Famed Educator
Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 25.—Chai ka
Wilkin Eliot, professor emeritus o?
Harvard College, of which he became
president m 1858, rceognized.as tmf of
the foremost educators of his. lime,
and known for years as “Harvard’s
grand old man,” /lied here today.
. € BATTLE REG LSTRATIOfi S.
Seattle, Aug. 23.—One hundred ami
fourteen .thousand two hundred am!
eighty-eight have registered in Se
attle for the September 14 .primaries.
Takotna-McGrath Mail
Lying Bethel Postoffice
Hurrah,-hoys 1 Only about another
momh and the people of Takotna, Mc
Grath and other points hereabouts
wTU get- mail, that has been lying in
the Set net posroffioo since about July
7, on which date the mail -car/kr,
going from Russian Mission, on the
Yukon, arrived-at. Bethel, just a day
or two tdo late to forward up river on
the second trip of-ithe steamer Tana.
It,is not known whether the butch of
mail arriving at Bethel on tbat. date
is tile only one Which Jhns». arrived
there since, our» probably not.
All of this mail, with good Im.-k fav
oring it, will come up on.the next
Tana, wnich will probably leave1 Bethel
somewhere oetweeii Sept. 10-and Sept.
15, and arrive at Mcilrath about Sept,
iinth.
Just tbirjk of it! Hundreds of .peo
ple: here waiting for mail, and that
mail piled un and.kicking around in
the Bethel postoffice for over . two
months before opportunity arrives to
move it!
All tnis is the result of that won
derful system—what is known as the
“split system "r—m other words, a sys
tem which permits ’he dividing end
routing oj mail destined for Taketra
and McGratn, part of it to come by
way of Ophw. ami part ny Way of
Bethel, that is during the season of
navigatien.
The man Who conceived, devn.ed or
put. into effect .that. “woudtrrfuJ sys
tem” imposed rant discriaiatation
upon the people of" .McGrath and Ta
kotna.
The system .might have been,tor be,
beneficial were a boat at tee. lower
end to receive the mail upon it* ar
rival through thk Yukon Tiuskokwim
portage, thereby assuring continuous
movement of. mail. Rut that hoat is
never there ..at tb-- propitious rai
ment— it mayjiave been there, hut, .if
so, generally gets, away a day «» sev
eral days before the portage mail ar
rives. And then the mail is stacked
up in the .Bethel office to amait. the
arrival of. the Tana on her next trip
down river, which may Tie* month or
.possibly two months, varying, of
course, as to. the necessity for that
craft making tb trip.
This is ..one system that should be
thrown into the discard. I.t i-s. posi
tively of no benefit to the people of
this section.
And here is what Roy Southwofth,
editor of the Anchorage Times, a gen-'
tleman moat •conversant with Interior
mail caiidrlionsowho loses iw) oppor
tunity to appeal for betterment of
mail service, has to say, speaking,.of
course, of the .Innoka river route:
“Notwithstanding the fact that air
planes are flying frequently into he
| Kuskokwim - disirict from Fairbanks,
and will continue to operate on that
mate fairly regularly during the sum
mer, all of the mail to and from- that
I remote section of Alaska Will be rout
ed by the roundabout water course, re
quiring weeks to make deliveries. The
STuskokwim valley is not thickly pop
ulated, but it .does seem that the old
timers there .art entitled to. a- better
mail service than is provided them
during the summer months, particu
larly in view At the fact hhat there is.
a fairljr direct route from the railroad
to McGrdth, via Lake Minchumina.
Airplanes ..operating from Nan ana
would, hf couree, give the most satis
factory service, but the Lake Min
chumina- route would have the addi
tional advantage-of serving the Kan
tishna district, which occupies a posi
tion midway between the railroad and
the Kuskokwim.”
VALENTINO
PASSES ON
Famous Sheik of Movif
Pictures Succu mbs
to Operation.
New "Vork, A tig ,'123.—-Rudolph 'Val
entino, original sheik of the movies,
lied Monday in the-Holy Clinic hos
pital, following an operation for tyr
penilicitis,
New York. Aug. 25.— Five thousand
people rioted " oday in. frost -of an un
lertaking establishment to- sr-e the
[lead face of .Riltio^pK. Valemino. Ir
the mad rush three policemen were
hurled througn. Opiate glass1 windows,
arid it was same »time hefor» large
squads of police veto aide -to restore
order
Le.s Angeles, Aug. 23.—Pols Negri
whose engagement to^marry Rudolph
Valentino was- recently announced,
had a strcesRsmn o£ . isirainy, spells
when informed of .ValwrAno's deat h.
RUDOliPH v VLENTYNO
CEIVINC MtJRE NEWSPAPER
SPACE TTl AN 11R. C-AVdFLIOl
New Vorti, \«ijp,'*2c.—Ruiiotph Val
entino, deceased'mowing picture star,
fs receiving" more newspaper space
than Br.'Charier. tW. Eliot, fsm.ed ed
ucator,- who died Monday
In eighteen 'years the ■ sales. of Dr
Eliot’s books totaled $20,82 7,186. Val
entino, in ten, years, earned £2,100,006
representing salary and part of profit*,
sf producers, elver 125,040.000 per
ions are said be have viewed-ane- pic
tare alone of...which. Valeria took
the- leadmy, par.
SOM F- FORMER NrtkCSTia'i- >
A letter-non. a jownor vjw«r..inenr
S’omeite, now in rfeafitle,,Wi& friend ii
Some, contain a the following iftiorma
non concurinnf • ar-vesal early-day
Someitp.'.:
; Loui-t. 'Sfeaaie, forme prominent
justness men Nome, was suffering
from a series :«>' inrh: paralytic at
tacks.. . Mtu .Stsdie ;ere the
nwjiers of a pigeon ranck if. the Sat
reinando vaLey, a few .mites fron
Los Angthts, and were <do»r.er-a sp!en->
iid business.
Bbo Park, a pioneer; ousiness mat
y£ Nome, is also suffering from a mile
form of paralyti--., t>- creeping palsy
He and Mrs. Park live at.Rosewood, b
Los Angeles- suburb
Porter Gostotv- lawyer, . jc*rnalist
and former Nometow nsite .trustee, is
suffering from paralysis
Emmet -Jordan, Xcwstfer‘...r.uuiitec
States marshal, 4b gradually recover
mg from -tht /-effects®!- a stroke oi
l/amlysi;? which left -hi*n -prostrate fot
many months. TLe-tfarraer jnarsha
still -retains tw.s oldvimo. pep, and car.
be seen any day'talkmg to okl Alas
kans -and NsHneiteu orpthc .streets o?
in hotel lob bit.
b£ince< writing the abo*t *-.1 urina
tion reached Nome that .Louis Stadie
had diedA
Mrs. E. E. Lowrie, who underwent
operations Jit a Missoula, Moot.,, hos
pital, about three months- ago, is
somewhat improved, although far
from strong ..according to- advices re
cently received by Mr.. Lowrie. Mrs.
Lowrie is now visiting friends in Los
Angeles, where she is convalescing.
■ Sealed bids will-bo received at the
office of the Alaska Road Commission,
at Takotna, Alaska, until-6-n.Sm, Sep
tember 10th, covering theisaie of two
horses. One bay horse, THinifd Chub,
and one chestnut horse -named Dick.
Bids Will be acceptable lor each sep
arate horse, or for •ecrvei'ing noth,
C.r ibuLSttsieldt,
.V ofea'pt. AJ R. C.
Dan NichslsoiV after a short visit
in town, retiirnen to Little creek on
Sunday,
Dolph Mespelt, after a day in t&srn,
returned Friday to Canes dredge