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THE NENANA NEWS
% VOLUME IV
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NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1922
NUMBER 390
SECRETARY FALL WILL GIVE UP PLACE
. DA UGHERTYIMPEA CHMENT IS ENDING IN FIASCO
HAYS WILL GIVE ARBUCKLE CHANCE. TO COME BACK
DAUGHERTY IMPEACHMENT
WILL END IN CLEARANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 21—
The house judiciary- committee has;
announced that the Daugherty im
^ peachment* hearing is practically
at an end and that the preparation
of the report of the committee will
be taken in hand as soon as the last
witness has been heard. It is con
sidered almost certain that the com- j
mittee will report that there is no
basis for the charges preferred a
gainst the attorney general.
In the absence of Representative
Keller, who has refused to attend |
^ the hearings lately through fear j
that he would be compelled to!
divulge the source of his informa
tion, the investigation has moved ,
slowly during the last several days, j
Representatives Woodruff, of Mi-1
chigan, and Johnson of South Dako-.
ta, were before the committee this j
week. Johnson said that his charge? 1
of last April, regarding war frauds
were directed solely at the war
department. W7oodruff said that he
was not ready to proceed with his
testimony, and both admitted that
^ Ifcere had been a decided change in
the situation since April. Asked by
the committee if he had been shad
owed by operatives of the depart-,
ment of justice, Woodruff replied
that not only had he been shadowed
but his mail had been interfered
with, his office entered during his
absence and documents removed.
He said the 'only evidence substan
tiating his belief was circumstar.
tial and that he did not care to
make it public.
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS
LIMITATION OF ARAMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 21—
The house provision suggesting
further naval disarament negotia
tions with the principal powers, will
be recommended to the senate for
adoption, under a decision reached
late yesterday afternoon by the ap
preciations • sub-committee which is
Jb considering the naval bill.
SALMON PACKERS TO URGE
MORE FISHING RESERVES
SEATTLE, Dec. 21—A number
of salmon packers, representing 36
plants in Southeastern Alaska, met
with the Chamber of Commerce
here yesterday and noted in favor
of the establishment of a salmon
reserve in that district, including
X all of the waters south of Prince
William sound and all territory not
placed in previous reserves.
A committee headed by C. H.
Black, was appointed to apprise
Secretary of Commerce Hoover of
the sentiment of the packers and
urge temporary regulations until
such time as a permanent reserve
is created.
CITY ASSESSOR IS NAMED:
WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE
Charles D. Leckie has been ap
pointed city assessor to prepare
the annual tax roll for the city of
Nenana, his proposal for doing the
work being $100 under that of
the only other applicant. Leckie
offered to do the work for $250
and the bid of B. Tunison was $350
V The appointemnt was made at a
special meeting of the city coun
cil last night and Mr. Leckie will
assume his duties at once. The
work is to be completed by the
first of March. 1923, after which
the council will decide upon the
levy
b George A, Parks, chief of the!
field division, general land office, j
conducted an auction sale of lots j
at Charcoal Point and the southeas
tern addition of Ketchikan recently.
The lots sold brought all the way
^ from $10 to $500 several pieces
of property being bought in by the
city of Ketchikan.
EFFORTS TO DEVELOP ALASKA
GET INTERIOR HEAD DISLIKED
BACHELORS ARE READY
FOR CHILDREN S XMAS
Final appeals of the Bachelors j
of Nenana for sufficient funds to {
insure the success of the annual i
Christmas celebration for the chil- i
dren of the community, having met i
with generous response, final ar
rangements are now being made for
the affair, and there is every reason
to believe it will be fully up to
standard of previous years.'notwith
standing the fact that there are j
more children sand fewer bachelors
to do the entertaining.
Negotiations are in progress with
Santa Claus today, to make sure
that ample presents are delivered at
the hall in time for the festivities,
and the children of Franklin K.
Lane school are engaged in the fir.- i
al rehearsals for the entertainment j
which will be their contribution ;
to the affair, which will be held at j
Union hall on Saturday night com-'
mencing at eight o’clock.
The school program will he as j
follows:
1. Solo “Little Lady Santa
Claus." Alice Neilson, 3rd Grade.
II. Songs “A Letter to Santa
Claus", “Merry Christmas." Sung
by the children of the primary
grades.
III. Songs. “Jolly Old St. Nicho
las”; “Oh! Come All Je Faithful.
Sung by entire school.
IV. Christmas Play “Sing A
Song of Sleepy Head.”
Cast of Characters
Scribe. Donald Fowler
Miss Question Mark ..Margaret Berg
Sleepy Head . Paul Lien
Captain Kidd . -Emmet Cavanaugh
Bluebeard . ... Robert Major
Sandman . Ralph Hardy
Sleep Head’s Mother. Haze! Teeland
Santa Claus Wilfred Stump
Old Woman . -Ethel Parsons;
Children of the Shoe—
Topsy .„. ..Anita Stoll
Little Miss Muffet, Dorothy Smith
Marjery Daw ...Nona Mellish
Orphan Annie _ Anna Keogh
Tom Tucker Everett Alexander
Jack Homer .Fred Clark
Little Boy Blue.Asa Martin
Piper's Tom Francis MeCulley
Baby Bunting Catherine Ghezzi
Cinderella .Ethel Ghezzi
Synopsis of Play
•‘Sing a Song of Sleepy Head” is
a little Christmas play for children.
Sleepy Head is jus: a little boy who
thinks “Some are just troublesome
things” and struggling over some
problems, falls asleep and dreams
the "queerest of dreams. Captain
Kidd, the villain bold. Blue Beard,
with his terrible “snickersnee”, Miss
Question Mark, with her endless list
of questions, the Old Woman and
the children who live in a shoe, and
Santa Claus figure in this dream
which is one “out of plum pudding
and (hwt mince pie.”
Of course the play- could not go
on were it not for the Scribe, who
comes before the curtain and an
nounces the Preface, Prologue and
after part.
V Closing songs by the entire
school. “Christmas Carol”. “Silent
Night, Holy Night,” and “Alaska,
My Alaska.”
Canrad Esperlan, captain of the
halibut boat Volunteer disappeared
mysteriously recently at Ketchikan.
He was last seen headed in the dir
ection of Hie dock and friends fear
that he fell into the water and was
drowned, although it is possible he
left for the fishing banks.
SEATTLE, Dec. 21—A specia
received today by the Seattle Time:
from its Washington correspondent
announces the intention of Secre
tary of the Interior Albert Fall t<
resign from the cabinet. The dis
patch says: “Unless the efforts oi
President Harding to dissuade hirr
are more effective than they hav<
been up to this time, Setretary Fal
will resign some time before til.
fourth of next March.
“Secretary Fall's chief reason foi
retiring from the cabinet is saic
to be the necessity to give greate:
attention to his own personal busi
ness. However, a potent conr.ribu
tion cause is dissatisfaction ovei
his inability to secure the establish
ment and carrying out of a policy o:
development for Alaska, resultinj
from divided opions in admini
tration circles.
“Announcement of the intentio:
of the secretary to resign. alth<
many times rumored and as man;
times denied, will come as unpleas
ant news to those who have thi
interests of Alaska at heart. Liki
the President Secretary Fal! entere;
upon his duties with the sincere de
;! sire and intention to establish a
policy for the making of real de
velopment in the Territory but, from
the day announcement was made by
President Harding of the secretary’s
desire to change the existing order
of bureau administration, persistent
propaganda has been working to
discredit and destroy every attempt
at reform. These attacks, in recent
months have been centered about the
1 secretary, but he would no: retire
| now. were he not convinced absol
! utely of the futility of continuing
,5as efforts to do something for Al
: aska in the face of the powerful
opposition that stands in the way.'
and were he not also impelled by
consideration for his own private
' j business affairs.
. Secretary Fall's successor will be
Carmi Thompson, of Ohio, persona!
friend of President Harding, who
was recently defeated in Ohio for
i governor. Although not a resident
■ of the far West. Thompson is fam
I iliar with the work of the interior
department. He was assistant sec
• retary under Secretaries Ballinger
I and Pinchot, and resigned to become
secretary to President Taft.”
FARMER LABOR DELEGATES
TO URGE DEFINITE STAND
Delegates of the Farmer Labor party
who attended the recent Conference
for Progressive Political Action at
Cleveland, will soon make a request
of the Farmer Labor national comm
ittee to define the future relations
of the party to the conference.
The delegates also will recom
mend that a national convention be
held early in the year for the pur
pose of planning for the presiden
tial campaign.
CAPTIVES ARE RELEASED
TIENTSIN, Dec. 21—A private
message received in this city this
morning announces that the last
two foreigners held captive by the
bandits of Hoonan province have
been released. Details have not
yet been received here.
STEAMER RAMMED-9 DIE
Coasting steamer Vintilis foundered
last night, after having been ram
med by the Norwegian freiter As
turus. off St. Nazaire.' The accident
resulted in the death of nine mem
bers of the crew of the Vintilis.
GREENE RESOLUTION SHELVED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 21
Republican leaders of the house
have decided to postpone further
consideration of the Greene resolu
tion until after the holiday l'ecess.
The resolution proposes the prohi
bition of the further issue of tax
exemption securities.
POLAND ELECTS PRESIDENT
WARSAW, Dec. 21—Etanislaus
president of Poland to succeed Dr.
Narutowich, who met death at the
hands of assassins.
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FIGHTING IN ITALY
TURIN, Dec. 21—Renewed con
flicts have occured here between the
Fascisti and Communists, resulting.
thus far in the death of ten per-;
sons, including two of the Fascisti.j
R. S. Donaldson came in from
Suntrana yesterday on a brief busi
ness trip. He reports that Captain
A. E. Lathrop and A. A. Shonbeck
who came over from Anchorage on
the last train, for a look over the
mine of the Healy River Coal
Corporation, have returned to the
coast.
TRAINMEN ARE CONVICTED
AS RESULT OF R. R. ROW
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21—Eight
union trainmen leaders, who were
, tried here on a charge of conspir
i acy to obstruct interstate commerce,
in connection with their activities
I last August during the shopmen’s
| strike, were found guilty by a jury
I yesterday, and they will be sentenc
' ed next week.
The specific charge against the
men was that they abandoned their
trains on the Arizona desert during
the strike.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ARE
MOVING TOWARD THE WEST
CHICAGO. Dec. 21—There is
another movement of footloose In
dustrial Workers in the direction
of 'the West, their objective being
San Pedron, where there is a strike
in progress. The movement is the
result of appeals received from head
quarters of the organization at Los
Angeles, the plan being to fill the
jails where there are already 142
under arrest.
DENVER OFFERS REWARD
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
DENVER, Dec. 21—The city of
Denver have offered a reward of
$10,000 for the capture of the ban
dits who made their escape this j
week wdth $200,000 in currency be
longing to the federal reserve bank.
Chief of police Williams, who is de
voting his entire time to the inves
tigation of the robbery, expresses
the belief that the bandits were
not professionals in the business.
He also believes that they are still
in Denver, and is very hopeful of
taking them into custody, in spite
of the fact that all eff 'rts thus far
have failed to yeild a .ue.
The police and county officers
are kept busy running down rumors
but appear to be making absolutely
no headway.
Photographs have been taken of
fingerprints found on the bloody
stock of a shotgun dropped by the
mint bandits, and these are being
forwarded to the chief of police of
prints of the men who recently
robbed the paymaster of that city
of $75,000.
Sidney Ridge is a recent arrival
from the Hot Springs district.
GALE HITS ALASKA GULF
R. R. CARS OVERBOARE
JUNEAU, Dec. 21—Two stee
baggage cars consigned to the Alas
ka Railroad were swept from thi
deck of the freight steamer Latouchi
during a gale while the steamer wa
enroute across the Gulf of Alaski
night before last. The accident oe
curred 60 miles west of Cape Spen
cer.
The steamer was uninjured by thi
storm and is reported to be proceed
ing to Seward.
The gasboat Urygve, carrying mai
between Petersburg and Kake, whici
was reported on Monday to be an
chored ai. Point McCartney, at thi
north end of Kuprenof island, wit)
a broken shaft, has disappeared am
ie is feared the craft is lost.
NEW JERSEY CITY TAKES
ACTION AGAINST KLA?
HARRISON'. X. J. Dec. -1 —Merr
bers of the city police force hav
been given instructions by the chie
of police to arrest any person ap
pearing within the city limits wit!
the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan
Such persons are to be taken be
fore physians for the purpose o
having their sanity determined.
The orders, which orginated ii
the council chambers, include th
unmasking of hooded individual
and their confinement in the eit;
jail for a period of ten days.
ARMENIAN ORPHANS WILL
MAKE PILGRIMAGE XMA!
JERUSALEM, Dec. 21—Christina
Day at Bethlehem will be marke<
this year by an unusual pilgrimag
of children to the church of thei
nativity. Five hundred Armenia!
boys and girls from the America!
Near East relief orphanage in Jer
usalem will march to Bethlehen
with gifts made by them in thei:
industrial sshools, which they wil
place in the grotto where, accordin:
to tradition, Christ was bom.
FINANCIER SAYS GERMAN
LOAN NOT POSSIBLE NOW
NEW YORK, Dec. 21—In a state
ment made before the Council ii
connection with the prospects for i
loan to Germany, , of Forgein Re
lations last night. Thomas W. La
mont, of the J. P. Morgan Company
declared that “the American peopl<
have no intention of making a loar
to Germany at this time becaus*
that country is not in any positioi
at present to inspire our peoph
with confidence to buy its bonds.’
He said, however, that German j
might eventually be able to arrange
a loan sufficient to “get over thf
hill.”
The statement of Lamont is re
garded as one of the most signifi
cant made on the question.
JAANUM MYSTERY GROWS
RACINE, WIS., Dec. 21—Racine
and Alaska officials have joined ir
an effort to solve the mystery sur
rounding the recent death of Mati
Jaanum, Fairbanks miner who came
to his end while enroute from the
North to his native land in Finland,
Advices from Fairbanks state that
Jaanum carried considerable money
when he started on his long journ
ey, but when he was found dead a
board the train he had only one
$20 bill and a few trinkets on his
person.
FATTY ARBUCKLE WILL
COME BACK IN MOVIES
1<0S ANGELES, Dei’. 21—-Fatty
Arbuekie, who was driven from the
screen by an indignant public, fol
, lowing the death of Virginia Rappe,
| w ill be permitted to return to pic
[ tures and given a chance to "come
back’’ according to announcements
t made by Will Hays, chief justice
of the supreme court of picturedohi.
|. Joseph Seaneck. producer is quoted
; as saying: “Roscoe will go to worst
| for me immediately. I will be glad
| to give him a chance.” Jesse Lasky
says: “We are sure Arbuekie will
prove worthy of trust.”
Hays has issued a statement in
: which he says: ".Arbuekie has gone
| straight since he was barred from
the films last April. He has pledge
ed his word that he will continue
j going straight.”
Women Object
i MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 21—The
Fifth District Federation of Women'
: Clubs has adopted a resolution de
manding complete oblivion, insofar
'' as the public is concerned, for Ar
i buckle.
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MINER FALLS DOWN SHAFT
ON LONELY DAWSON CLAIM
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11 DAWSON, Dee. 21—While at
| work on his elaim in Chief pulch.
! near the head of Eldorado creek,
■ j while going down to a twenty-foot
ladder in his -haft and fell to the
■ i bottom, breaking hi< arm and sever
i al ribs. He managed to drag him
• self to the surface and toiled the
- two and one-half miles to the near
’ est neighbor-, Robert Alcorn and
; Emil Guilmetter. who made a record
; mush to Dawson for aid. Nadeau
; was brought to the hospital and is
5 now on the road to recovery.
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MIKE O’MALLEY ARRIVES
FROM KUSKOKWIM REGION
; There is nothing the matter with
the new mail trail to the Kuskok
s wim district, in the opion of Mike
I j O’Malley, bruther of Tony O'Malley
!! of this city, who arrived from Dix
• j on Fork yesterday, having made
i i the journey over the new trail
. ! from Big river, near McGrath, to
. j Kobi station, m six and one-half
i ! days, with a team of five dogs.
• j The trail is a regular boulevard.
II he reports, and there is no. reason
•: why the mails should not move
I regularly and in good time during
j the remainder of the winter.
! Asked if he found it necessary
■ ! to “Siwash” along the way. Mr.
j O'Malley said he slept under cover
every night, but was compelled to
| make one rather long drive from
. Telida village to the foot of Lake
Minchumina, a distance of 62 mile-,
i He covered the distance without
; difficulty, however, the trail being
, i good all the way.
Conditions are rather quiet in
j the Ku-kokwim district this w inter,
j Mr. O’Malley reports. Placer oper
j ations, of course, are at a stand
J still and work on the quartz prop
. erties which the Treadwells are de
i veloping is confined this w'inter to
j getting out fuel and timbers for
j next summer. No work is being
j done in the way of mining and the
force has been reduced to ten men.
Mr. O’Malley has some plater
ground on Ruby creek, a short dis
tance below the Treadwell ine.
where he is engaged in min,'ig
his trip to N’enana is in the nature
of a vacation. He will spend the
holiday season with Mr. and Mr-.
Tony O’Malley and will return to
his camp shortly after the >irst of
the year, to prepare for next sum
mer’s work.
Mail Contractor Coke Hill was
met at Big river, where he was a
waiting the arrival of a dog team
from Ruby, it being his intention
to come through to Nenana as soon
as the dogs arrived.