VOL. 1. NO. 81
McGRATH, ALASKA, NOVEMBER *2. 1921.
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PRICE 25 CENTS
GOV. FRAZIER
OUSTED
Independents Win Gut
• in North Dakota
Recall.
Fargo, N. D.,‘ Oct.f80.-4-R. A. j
Nestor, independent candidate;
for governor in the^ reca[f elec-1
• tion, early •■'today continued to.
hold -his lead of 24,500 votes over j
Governor Frazier, the Non-Par-!
j tisan JLeaguei candidate. T-hej
• returns available were for about;
. one-third of -the precincts in the :
; State, and. were from independ j
■ ent strongholds, mostly in north- j
. ern cities.
Fargo, t -Oct.tf.31.—The Non
• Partisan League <concedes its |
defeat, j The entire independent
ticket having been elected, its
candidates will take office within
thirty days. • *
Telegraphic /ticks.
St. Liouis.—Arnreeting'Ofi tha Demo
. cratic National Committee will be held
j here tomorrow.
Seattle.—Mrs. H. L. Waughop, Se
. attle's pioneer school teacher, passed
. away at her home here, today.
Washington.—Ex-vPresident \Wilson
, is far from well, at present-suffering
Jrom digestive orders, Dr. Grayson an-:
nounced todav.
Seattle.—The Japanese delegation to
* the Washington disarmament confer
ence arrived here today aboard the
Kashima Maru.
Chicago.—The strike of six hundred
t trainmen on the International and
Great Northern railway., operating in
Texas, has been called off.
San Diego.—Lieut. Eric ft. Black
well was killed and Lieut. Daniel Tom
linson-had-both legs broken when their
.planes.eollided in air here, today.
;-Seattl3.—Because his wife and their
nine children left him and their home,
H. N. Honley, a ■ machinist, committed
suicide by asphyxiation,! this morning.
Seattle.—Leonard Seppala, Nome’s
famous dog team driver, arrived here
* today. He will leave in a few days for
a visit to his former home in Norway.
John O. Strand arrived yesterday
r from Nixon to attend to a few business
affairs. _
If James 'Burke arrived here today
i from Nixon, and will leave shortly for
< the Outside;
Fred Carlson, Ophir mining mao, ar
i rived here last night, and left < this at
i ternoon.
Ed Good came from and returned to
< Candle, this morning.
Peter McMullen and J.
. L. Heron Retained
as Deputies.
'Fairbanks, Oct. 31.—Gilbert
E. Stevens. recently appointed
by‘President Hardin" to be Mar
shal of the Fourth judicial divi
sion, will assume the duties of
his office tomorrow, November 1,
the duties of retiring Marshal L.
T. Erwin ceasing at midnight to
night.
Among those to be retained
will be M. O. Carlson, auditor in
thd Fairbanks office; Peter Mc
Mullen, deputy marshal at Mc
Grath, and' Johrfc.’.JP%Heron. dep
uty marshal at.-Bethel, both of
whom have been informed of
reappointment and instructed to
qualify at once.
PICKED UP
UNHARMED
Babe Lives Through
, Flood, After Drift
ing 12 Hours.
Vancouver, Nov. 1.—Sleeping
peacefully in its carriage, which
had caught in the wreckage of
its parents’ home in such a way
as to be held above the water,
the infant daughter of Frank
Broad wood, otBritannica Beach,
was picked , up, drifting in the
bay, today. *
The motherland another child
perished when their home was
washed into the bay by yester
day’s disastrous cloudburst.
Surplus Potatoes Cre
ates a New. Industry
□ Vancouver, B. C.—A new industry
has sprang into life here, due to the
fact that foreign legislation is holding
back the exportation of United States
and British Columbia potatoes. Un
able to find a market,. the growers of
British Columbia have combined and
are making the great potato surplus
surplus into starch.
Jack McDonald and Mr. Whitehead
arrived yesterday from Candle,-leaving
this morning for Anchorage.
Frank Maestrick left Monday .morn
ing for Nixon.
Purse of $200,000 for
Gibbons and Dempsey
Mraaeabolis.—Promoter Frank Me
'Cormiok has hung up a purse of two
hundred thousand dollars for a ten
round contest on Labor Day between
Gibbons and Dempsey, which colh
fighters r.re considering.
Fiek Bermesen. who was operated
upon by D*\ Green last week for intes
tinal troubles, is improvioguapidlv and
■hopes to he out again soon.
A SUMMER
MAIL ROUTE
Petition Asks for Ser
vice Over Lake Men
chumina Route.
Determined to improve the mail ser
vice to this section- during the summer
season, and realizing that this im
provement can come at .this time by
only , one route—that-by;wav of Lake
MeoCaumiou—a petition-seeking that
end has been circulated during the
past few days, the text of which is
given below. The *docal petition al
ready has about one hundred signa
tures. The petition will alsa be circu
lated at Gphir, Tacotna, Nixon and
Candle. The petition will carry the
signature of,yractically everyone with
in reach. The petition asks'for a four
months’ service over the route named,
two mails each, month, which means
eight mails during that period, com
pared-with two-mails during the past
summer.
/ following is the petition:
To Ron, Will Hays,
. ^Postmaster General U. S.,
Washington. D. C.:
Whereas, That under existing condi
tions we receive only two mails frem
the Outside during the summer season,
a period of over six months, and such
•service is wholly inadequate to the
•needsof this community; and >
Whereas, there being no money order
office in McGrath, nor none nearer
than forty miles, we are almost entire
ly without means of remitting money,
especially amounts of odd numbers.
This is-a serious handicap to this dis
trict, the population of which is in
creasing.
Now, therefore, we, the-undersigned,
-residents of the Kuskokwim, respect
fully petition you to establish a mail
service of twice a month during the
-raonthc of June, Julv, August and Sep
tember from Nenana up the Kaotisbna
river to and across Lake Mencbumioa
-to what is called the portage, and
across-the portage, a distanee of about
seven miles, to ihe North Fork of the
Kuskokwiimriver, and thence to Mc
Grath. With the exception of -the
-portage,- power boate can make the
trip the>entire distance. -This will
provide us with an efficient and re
liable summer -service.
Also that this office be designated a
money order-office, the lack of which is
felt by the entire community.
We pray that our petition be granted
An both instances.
A STRIKE
IMMINENT
Goal Miners and Oper
ators Are at Brea k
, , ing Point
Indianapolis. Nov.# 1.—A na •'
tion-wide strike of coal miners
seemed inevitable tonight if the
operators heed the injunction is
sued by B’ederUlJ udge Anderson,
which precipitated & check of
union dues.' The- heads of the
United Mine Workers this even
iag wired union officials to re
gard the. discon ti»u a nee of the
check off as breaking the exist
sing wage agreement.
Billy JoDes, Gos Rosen and Mike
Morgan, from Candle, arrived here
Monday evening, all <departing early
yesterday morning over the trail for
Anchorage.
CONTRACT
Str. Sfenr Will Carry
Mail'Between Seward
and Unalaska.
Washington, s -Kovi. I, — The
Postoffice Department this af
ternoon awarded a contract for
carrying mails between Seward
and Unalaska, *and during the
-summer months on to Bristol
Bay, to the San Juan .Fishing
.and1 Backing Company, Which
swill use the steel steamer Starr
iiti the service. The5 Starr has
accommodations for fifty-passe ri
ggers and 350 tons of freight.
?The new service will-be inaug
urated at once,' the -contract
being for four years at $78;€00
per year
Capt. VV. E. Geiger came down from
Jones creek yesterday afternoon. He
repents all tbe claim holders there as
hopeful and a number of holes are
neacing bedrock. > Captain Geiger will
make a trip to Tacotna. after which he
witi return to Jones ereea te continue
the »ork of prospecting his ground.
Capt Wallace Langley deft Seattla
yesterday for San Franciscor according
to a telegram received by Capt. George
Green. Capt. Langley will«prcceed al
most. immediately from ’Frieeo to Nova
Sootta, his old home, for a tehort visit,
Ho wand Langley haying already ar
riyed at the old fireside.
Ed Johnson arrived here-last night
from Nixon.