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WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II,
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1920.
NO. 250
HOLLAND REFUSES TO GIVE UP KAISER
RUSSIAN TROOPS ATTACK YANKEES IN SIBERIA
FORMER SHIPPING BOARD OFFICIAL INDICTED BY IURY
JACOBSON BACK
FROM FAR NORTH
Victor Jacobson, better known as
the “Scurvy Kid,” arrived in Ne
nana late yesterday afternoon with
a team of fifteen dogs and a sleigh
load of old ivory and curios which
he gathered during the past season
along the North Alaska and Si
berian coasts, where he was en
gaged in trading during the greater
part of the summer. He was ac
companied on the trip from Nome
by A1 Nostrum, also an oldtimer
of the Interior country, and they
were 60 days enroute.
Jacobson, who spent a large part
of last winter in the Government
hospital, with a broken leg, left for
the lower country in a small boat,
shortly after the opening of navi
gation, and upon arrival at Nome
signed on as a member of the crew
of the gas schooner Arctic, a mail
boat plying between St. Michael and
points in the far north, beyond
Deering. Later he transferred to
the trader Alaskan and crossed
over to the Siberian side, where he
did considerable trading with the
Russians at Anadir, East Cape,
Blubber Bay, and other points. He
was at Anadir when the news came
of the foundering of the Belvidere.
There are three Americans at
Anadir, he says, one of them being
Prof. Lampe, formerly a violinist
of Nome, who is now in charge of
a large trading post and doing well.
The Russians he met along the
coast were very friendly and hos
pitable and easy to trade with.
They do the trading with the na
tives of the interior and sell to the
trading schooners which visit the
coast.
Arrivals on the Siberian coast are
discouraged from going into the
interior, because of the unsettled
conditions resulting from an un
stable government.
Jacobson says he saw all kinds
of Rusian money on the coast, anil
that none of it has much value.
Eighty Siberian rubles, for instance,
have the value of one American
dollar; Kerensky rubles exchange
on the basis of about 38 for a
dollar; the Czar rubles 20 for a
dollar, and the Kolchak money has
no value at all. Money is very
plentiful at Anadir and the 200
people there seem to be very pros
perous—in real money. They like
gold, and have considerable of it.
The summer population of Anadir
is about double that of the winter.
Much of the ivory which Jacob
son obtained on the American coast
he took to Siberia to have it made
into novelties, the natives on the
Russian side being more skillful in
cutting. He says that many of the
old natives who formerly cut ivory
in the Nome district were killed off
by the flu epidemic.
Liquor on the Siberian side is
very plentiful, Jacobson says. All
kinds of booze are obtainable, from
lager beer to the best Scotch, there
apparently being no restrictions
against the traffic.
Jacobson plans to return to Ber
ALLIED DEMAND FOR KAISER
TURNED DOWN BY HOLLAND
ing sea in the spring, and says he
wili sail on a boat of his own dur
ing the coming summer.
i MILLIONAIRE RED
: 1$ 0U1 ON BUNDS;
! ADMITS BELIEFS
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—William B
Lloyd, millionaire parlor socialist,
who was indicted by the Cook coun
ty grand jury this week, on the
! charge of conspiring to overthrow
jthe Government, surrendered him
self to the Federal authorities yes
jterday anti was admitted to bail
j under bonds in the sum of $10,000.
Lloyd gave himself up as soon at
1 he learned of the action of the
jury.
j After his release from custody,
1 Lloyd permitted himself to bt; in
'terviewed by 'oral newspapermen,
and described himself as “reddest
! of reds.” No effort was made to
; conceal the fact that he is a social
list anti an ardent advocate of re
: forms of a very radical nature.
| Lloyd has engaged skillful law
jyers to light his case for him, and
'says he is not worrying about the
; outcome of the hearing.
SOCCER FOOTBALL FANS
ENJOYING LIVE SEASON
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Soccer football
|games will soon attract crowds of
j baseball proportions, according to
; Winton E. Barker, president of the
, St. Louis 'Soccer league, which is
.composed of four local aggregations
I which play Sunday games during
the season.
“Soccer football is still in its in
fancy in this country,” said Mr.
Barker. “It is gaining popularity
each season, and before long it will
be no uncommon sight to see a
crowd of 10,000 or more at some
of the important matches.” j
Mr. Barker said the cup games
for the championship of the United
States have done much to arouse
enthusiasm in St. Louis.
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CARLOS ZETINA SAYS
HE IS NOT CANDIDATE
MEXICO CITY.—Carlos Zetina, a
member of the senate, who some
time ago was proclaimed by his
friends as a presidential candidate, j
has written to the capital press that j
he is not a candidate.
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J THE HAGUE, Jan. 24.—The for-;
;mal Allied demand for the extradi
tion of the former emperor of Ger
many, who sought refuse in Hol
land when forced to surrender his
place as head of the defeated Ger
man nation, has been refused by the
j Holland government, according to
■ an official announcement made by
' representatives of the government
! at a late hour last night. The sur
! render of the kaiser was demanded
!
iwith a view to placing him on trial
; for acts committed during the war.
HOLLAND’S EXCUSE.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—-The reply of
jthe Holland government to the A1- 1
i —; i i . . i
lied note demanding the extradition
of the fanner kaiser says Holland
eannot be bound by the terms of y
treaty to which she is not now and
never has been a party. The Dutch
constitution and Holland’s honor,
the note continues, cannot let het
betray those who sought shelter, a?
the kaiser did, in Holland.
UP TO GERMANS.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—The London
Standard is authority for the state
mont that the official Holland note,
refusing to grant the Allied de
mand for the former kaiser, says
that extradition cannot be granted
unless the demand is made by the
German government.
SHIPYARD INQUIRY
SHOWING UP GRAFT
—
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—The Federal
j grand jury which is engaged in in
vestigating alleged grafts in con
nection with the construction of
merchant- ships for the United
States Shipping board during and
since the war, returned a true hill
today against Captain John F.
Blaine, formerly district manager
for the shipping board. The indict
ment. charges that Blaine received
| secret commissions from the Stew
ard Equipment company of New
; York, on sales made by the com
pany to the shipping board while
Blaine was district manager.
The charge alleges further that
the commissions aggregated $10,000.
the commissions having been paid
to him at various times and in
varying sums, which he turned over
to his mother-in-law as fast as he
received them. The money \va
later returned to him by his mother
in-law.
Blaine was placed under arrest
within a short time after the in
dictment was returned, and has
since been released on bonds in the
jsum of $10,000, pending his ar
jraignmcnt on Monday.
Others Coming.
I Walter Foster, special agent of
the department of justice, says thal
the indictment of other government
|officers and shipyard officials is com
ing, as a result of the investiga
tion now in progress. The grand
jury is not in session this after
noon, but will reconvene on Tues
day. A recess was called as a re
,sult of the departure of Bert
Schlinger for San Francisco on an
urgent mission in connection with
the probe.
Had Good Job.
i Blaine had charge of the Gov
ernment’s gigantic steel shipbuild
ing program in Washington and
Oregon. He was formerly assistant
manager in the employ of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship company,
and commanded the steamship Perm
sylvania on the Alaska run many
years ago. At one time he was
Federal inspector of hulls at Bos
ton. He refuses to say anything m
‘connection with his indictment.
AMERICANS ENGAGED
BY RUSSIAN TROOPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
Major-General Graves, who is ii
command of the American expedi
tionary forces in Siberia, has re
ported the loss of two of his mer
as the result of an engagemenl
with a Russian force under thi
command of General Semenoff. One
of the Americans was killed out
right and another died later of in
juries received during the fighting,
A third soldier was seriously wound
ed.
Five of the Russians, Graves re
ports, were killed by the Americans,
one was severely wounded, and 55
were captured, the prinsoners in
I eluding: one general, six other of*
1 fleers, and 48 men.
! Graves says that the American
detachment was attacked by the
Russians, the offensive operation bo
■ ing very much in the nature of a
surprise and entirely unprovoked.
STEEL CORPORATION IS
TO HAVE COAL RESERVE
, PITTSBURGH.—Not to be caught
napping if its coal supply is again
cut off by disturbances in the min
ing industry, the United States Steel
'corporation has under construction
at Clairton, near here, a huge con
crete basin which, when completed.
is to hold 400,000 tons of coal.
Here will be stored a reserve sup
ply for the operation of the by
product coke plant, but it was said i
that similar, though not as large, '
basins were to be established at i
some of the more important steel '
mills and blast furnaces.
| CHICAGO, Jan. 21. Reports to
| the contrary notwithstanding, the
influenza epidemic is on the in
crease in this city today and has '
been increasing steadily during the
past several days. Official reports
j show that new cases are developing
at the rate ol 2,000 daily, as
against 1,000 several days ago, and
the death rate is also higher now
than has been previously reported. I
One hundred and one deaths or- ,
i
curred yesterday, and the report
j states that, the death rate has been
j high throughout the epidemic.
IN NEW YORK NOW.
j NEW YORK, Jan. 21. On- ,
j thousand eases of IIu have devcl- 1
|oped in this city since yesterday, the ;
j total number id' cases now known i
I to the health authorities being t
2,001. i
REPUBLICANS OF
A NCI I OKA GK, Jan. 2'1. The An
choragc Republican club, incorpor
ated, has been organized here, with
the leading Republican businessmen
of Anchorage and vicinity affiliated
with th<- movement to advance the
interests of the party in Alaska.
Arthur Frame, well-known local
attorney, and former United States
commissioner at Fairbanks, is presi
dent; M. It. Lynch, lirst vice-presi
dent; Frank Cooper, second vice
president; J. E. Robarts, former
Fairbanksan, treasurer; L’ob Court
nay, another former Interiorite, sec
retary; I)r. BoByle, Ray Larson, and
7j. G. Loussac, trustees.
The club has unanimously en
dorsed Senator Dan Sutherland for
delegate to Congress, and Charles
E. Herron, publisher of the An
chorage Times, has been endorsed
for national committeeman.
There is a division of sentiment
regarding the endorsement of Her
ron, but a majority of the Anchor
age businessmen are giving him
their support.
ANCHORAGE TIMES.
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Reluctant .to impose additional
burdens upon the taxpayers of the
town, the board of trustees arrived
at the conclusion, at a special
meeting held last night, that the
L'nly way out of the tirehall mud
ille is to insist upon the employ
ment of an additional member of
the town fire department, to insure
efficient handling of the tire ap
paratus. The muddle referred to
lias resulted from the transfer of
Townsitc Manager Schmidt from
the townsite building to the tele
phone exchange, leaving Fire Chief
Nash alone in the (irehall and un
able to leave the building to test
hydrants and inspect stovepipes, an
inspection that is regarde.il as chiefly
responsible for the fact that few
fires have occurred in Ncnann.
The committee consisting of Trus
tees Waechter. Kosburg, and Smith,
appointed to consult with Engineer
in Charge Browne regarding the
irehall situation, reported that their
meeting had not been productive of
•esults satisfactory to them.
Mr. Browne, they said, had of
Trotl several suggestions as a way
>ut of the difficulty, and these were
'resented to the board. One of
hem was that an attempt be made
(i induce someone to move into
he townsite olliee, possibly a real
■state agent, or business of that
tind. For the use of the olliee, anil
leeping quarters, the occupant
could be willing, Mr. Browne
hought, to serve as a volunteer
ireman, taking care of the place
luring the absence of the lire chief
nd assisting with the apparatus in
ase of lire.
Mr. Browne also suggested the
rganination of n volunteer depart
lent, expressing the belief that the
oarrl would have little difficulty in
lling up the department in that
•ay.
Mr. Browne told the committee
hat the commission is losing money
n all of its townsites and is op
osed to additional expenditures that
ill be a further drain on commis
ion funds. He said that, under the
ircumstances, he could not consent
i the employment of another man
ur the firehall. One man, in his
pinion, ought to be able to run the
lace.
After the report of the cornmit
■e had been discussed at length
nd the various suggestions rejected
s unworkable and undesirable, the
lerk was instructed to write a let
_*r to Mr. Browne, insisting upon
le appointment of an assistant to
10 fire chief, with such additional
uties as might be imposed upon
im from time to time. There is
considerable part of the year, it
as pointed out, when more than
ne man is needed on the town pay
ill, and the added cost of making
ich employment steady, the year
round, seemed to the board to be
istified, under the circumstances,
> provide the town with efficient
re protection.