WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1920.
NO. 27
MAY DAY IN STATES PASSES QUIETLY
REPORTS SAY TURKEY FACES SERIOUS PROBLEM
('• PROHIBITIONISTS CLAIM LOWDEN IS ONLY CANDIDATE
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CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1.—
The fear is expressed in Turkish of
ficial circles that the domain of the
sultan is on the verge of a serious
outbreak of some sort. This fear
has been accentuated by a series of
incidents which appear to have been
directed against the Turkish govern
ment during the past few days.
Valuable archives and a large sum
of money were destroyed today by
a fire of mysterious origin in the
war office building. When the fire
department attempted to get into
the building it was found that the
doors were fastened on the inside,
and by the time an entrance was
forced the interior of the structure
was in ruins.
Two Turkish gunboats have been
disabled mysteriously and several
ships carrying recruits to the sul
tan’s forces on the Asiatic side are
reported aground.
It has also been learned that of
the 13,000 Turkish officers ordered
to report to the war office only
7,000 have made their appearance
thus far.
BALANCE OF TRADE
FOR MARCH IS BIG
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—
The trade balance of the United
States against Europe shows an in
crease of $340,000,000 for the
month of March, but the trade bal
ance of South America against this
country shows a considerable in
crease for the same period.
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REDS FAIL TO RAID NATION;
MANY QUIT WORK IN EUROPE
According to reports received
from Fairbanks at noon today, there
is reason to believe the epidemic
jthere has about run its course and
that from now on there will be a
gradual decrease in the number of
cases under treatment. Up to noon
today only three new cases had de
veloped and several times that num
ber had been released by the doc
tors.
Twenty of the railroad Trorkere
who were under treatment in the
basement of the Catholic church
were discharged by Dr. Hall yester
day, and several of the Nordale pa
tients were released this morning.
The number of recoveries includes
Ben Hoerler, who was one of the
first taken ill and whose case was
considered serious for a time. Wa
terfront Brown and Tom Youle are
also out today, and Earl Foster,
of the Xews-Miner force, is working
again after a several-day layoff.
With the exception of one pneu
monia case at the Xordale, all the
patients are doing well today.
Business conditions, however, are
still very much upset, and no at
tempt is being made today to collect
or pay bills. Many of the stores
are still closed, and the others are
so shorthanded that there are none
to attend to collections.
TOLOVANA ORDERS
CHECK 10 TRAVEL
According to Sam Godfrey, who
has just arrived in Fairbanks from
the Tolovana district, all travel to
Brooks has been ordered stopped
and drastic measures will be taken
by the residents of the district to
enforce the quarantine which has
been established. There is no doc
tor in the Tolovana, and the people
there do not intend to let the Fair
banks epidemic reach them if there
is any chance to prevent it.
It has been reported at Brooks
that there is a Fairbanks man now
enroute to the diggings, and steps
have been taken to head him off.
Godfrey reports that water is now
running in some of the creeks of
the district and several operators
have commenced sluicing operations
already in order to make use of the
water before the supply is exhaust
ed, as it will be as soon as the snow
is gone.
Godfrey expects to spend about a
month in Fairbanks.
INnana, Wltr« Rail* and Bivars Meet
I WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—
The expected May day demonstations
and attacks on public officials in the
United Staes, for which the depari
i ment of justice had made elaborate
I preparations in the way of extra
jguards at state and federal build
ings and the distribution ot federal
'agents generally throughout the
; country, had failed to materialize
} up to a late hour this afternoon, and
state and federal officials >vho pre
i
dieted that the Reds of the country
would start something are breathing
easily in consequence.
: The only occurrences worthy of
I note are two strikes, one of them
, being a strike of tenants against
i profiteering landlords of Chicago,
, and the other a carpenters’ strike
in Philadelphia, where a demand
'has been made for more wages.
The Chicago strike invoWctl 10.
000 tenants, all of whom have re
fused to vacate their quarters in de
. fiance of the exacting landlords.
■ Some of them, however, will submit
; the rent question arbitration, while
others will force the landlords to
take legal action, trusting to the
courts to give them a square deal.
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CARPENTERS QUIT.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1. — Six
hundred carpenters at Camden, 300
at Cramp’s and 150 at Gloucester
have gone out on strike to enforce
a demand for an advance in wages,
| with the result that building opera
Itions at those places are consider
ably curtailed.
QUIET IN MONTANA.
HELENA, May 1.—I.abor condi
tions in Montana are undisturbed
today, no May day strikes having
been reported from any part of the
state.
CANADA DISTURBED.
TORONTO. May 1.—A general
tieup of the building trades is re
ported from Ottawa, including the
work on the new parliament build
ings which are under construction
there.
Union milk wagon drivers of this
city are idle today. London, On
tario, reports a strike among street
carmen, and 12,000 coal miners are
reported to have staged a strike at
Sydney, Nova Scotia, as a protest
against th'e Imprisonment of Winni
peg strike leaders.
CLASH IN PARIS.
PARIS, May 1.—Several persons
were wounded in this city this morn
ing in a clash between guards and
a crowd of 7,000 May day mani
festants. The situation otherwise is
not as serious as was expected. .
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STRIKE IN ENGLAND.
i LONDON, May 1.—It is estimated
that fully eight million workers are
celebrating May day in this coun
try, but there has been no suspen
sion of essential public utilities.
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AMUNDSEN PLANS
LONG VOYAGE ON
POLAR ICE PACK
LONDON, May 1.—Captain Roald
Amundsen, who is reported to have
returned recently to Anadir from
the polar regions, has not aban
doned his Arctic expedition, accord
ing to a story published today by
the London Times.
, The Times claims to have received
information from Christiania to the
effect that the explorer intends to:
enter the ice pack around Wrangell'
island, off the Northern coast of ’
Eastern Siberia, and drift with it
across the polar sea.
Amundsen has advised his repre
sentatives in Norway that he hopes,
to reach Nome in July or August,'
and will there prepare to invade the j
polar region, taking supplies suffi-'
cient to last five years.
NATIVES ARE KILLED
IN COLONIAL WRECK
BOMBAY, May 1. — The report
has reached this city of the death
of 150 natives, who were either'
killed outright or roasted as the'
result of being “wrecked near Del
hi.” Details of the disaster are
lacking.
Veaaaa, Alaska’s Interior Fael Depot ]
Ml BE SHIPPED
10IHE OUTSIDE
SEATTLE, May 1.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times is authority for the state
ment that 2,500 reindeer will be
driven from the Kuskokwim valley
to Broad Pass during the coming
summer for shipment to the States.
Superintendent W. T. Iopp will
have charge ol the transfer.
It is further announced that the
biological society will co-operate
with the interior department this
year in conducting scientific inves
tigations wth a view to the success
ful crossing of reindeer with cari
bou. It is considered probable that
reindeer and wild caribou will be
placed together in a held on one
of the Aleutian islands
CHAMPION SPRINTER
LOSES TO AMERICAN
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.—Eng
land’s best collegiate distance run
ner, Montague, was defeated here
today by Nightengale, of New
Hampshire, who covered three miles
at the University of Pennsylvania
relay carnival in record time. The
440-yard race was won by Watt, of
Cornell, in the record time of 54 1-5.
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10 KILLING FOUR
I OF THIRTY WIVES
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j LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 1.—
James R. Huirt, who has been un
der detention in this city for some
time on suspicion that he had more
wives than the law allowed, the au
thorities having gathered informa
tion indicating’ that the suspected
man engaged in at least thirty mat
rimonial ventures, with no record of
divorces, made a confession today,
admitting the murder of four pf
his numerous wives.
1 One of them, Bertha Goodrich,
he drowned in Lake Washington;
another, Anna Ludvigson, he drown
ed in the Idaho river; a third, Ida
Deloney, he killed with a hammer
at Long Beach, and Betty Prior he
killed in a similar manner at Olym
pia.
’ Huirt, who is still very weak as
a result of his attempt to commit
suicide shortly after his arrest, was
almost exhausted after he had ad
mitted the four murders, and could
not give any details. He admitted
marrying fifteen or twenty women,
and said he might have killed more'
than four of them.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—
Plans for full diplomatic representa-;
tion of Canada at Washington have
been placed before President Wilson
and are receiving the consideration ■
of the executive.
After the President has acted on
the matter, formal steps will be
taken at Ottawa to carry out the
plan.
FARMER TIES HERMAN
IN PORTLAND BATTLE
PORTLAND, Ore., May 1.—Frank
Farmer and Tony Herman boxed !
‘ ten round to a draw in this city
today.
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George Kennedy, although hardly
i recovered from an attack of ton
silitis which confined him to his
room in the firchall building a week
j or more, is keeping busy making
the rounds of the sick and assisting
in such other ways as he can. j
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Rational Fark. 1
AS BEST OF LOT
WESTERVILLE, Ohio. May 1.—.
Dr. P. A. Baker, superintendent oi
the Anti-Saloon league, claims that
Governor Lowden is the only presi
dential candidate to enter the race
for nomination thus far who is at
all acceptable to the prohibitionists
of the country, and he intimates
that Lowden will receive the dry
vote in case he is chosen as the
! standard-bearer of the Republican
party at the Chicago convention.
Baker, who made his views known
in an address delivered here last
night, went over the list of candi
dates and found fault with all of
them except Lowden and General
I Wood. Wood's name was not even
mentioned as a likely candidate.
Hhe criticized Harding, Hoover,
Johnson, Cox, and Edwards, declar
ing that none of them would be ac
ceptable.
NEW REPUBLIC IS
SCENEOF BARE
LONDON, May 1.— It is officially
reported here that the Bolsheviki
forces have occupied the city of
Baku, in the center of the import
ant Caspian oil fields.
Baku is a large city in the new
republic of Georgia, on the Caspian
sea, formerly a part of Russia. The
chief product of the region is pe
troleum, more than 500 oil wells
being in o[>eration there.
By CUSTOMS OFFICE
DOUGLAS, Ariz., May 1.—Sec
retary of State Colby has notified
the local bank that the United
States will permit the payment of
customs duties by Americans to the
de facto authorities of the new Son
ora government.
This action is regarded here as
recognition by the state department
of the belligerency of Sonora.
WOOD LEADS JOHNSON
IN NEW JERSEY VOTE
NEWARK, May 1. — Complete
figures give General Wood a lead
of 1,207 votes over Senator John
son in this state for the Presiden
tial nomination.
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