The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919
WHOLE NUMBER 269
ALLIES RECOGNIZE NEW POLISH STATE
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'DISORDERS REPORTED FROM HUNGARIAN CiTiES
RIOTS AT MUNICH ” HAVE ASSUMED SERIOUS ASPECT
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BAVARIAN C11Y
LONDON, Feb. 22.—Despatches
received in this city today indicate
that the trouble of the people of
Munich took a serious turn yester
day, when ten thousand workmen
marched to the center of the city.
Much street fighting is reported
with the mobs looting the shops and
indulging freely in lawless acts.
The conditions existir>* at pres
ent in Munich are reported to be
virtually those of civil war.
Minister of the Interior Auer, of
Bavaria, was desperately wounded
yesterday by an assassin, whose oct
is believed to be one revenge for
the killing of Kurt Eisner, the
Bavarian premier, the previous day.
The political partisans of Eisner are
bitterly opposed to Auer, who was
regarded as likely to displace the
former as premier of Bavaria.
Another Minister Shot
Minister of Justic Timm, of Ba
varia, was also shot, the shooting
taking place in the Landtag. His
wounds are of a very serious nature
and he is not expected to live.
The minister of social affairs un
der' Earlitner was also shot at and
badly wounded.
AUER SUCCUMBS
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 22—It is
reported in this city that Minister
of the Interior Auer, of Bavaria,
who was shot yesterday, died of
his wounds.
The report from Munich adds
that Herren Hoffman and Frauen
dorff, members of the Bavarian
cabinet, have also been wounded
by a uniformed man who was seen
taking pot shots at the cabinet min
isters from the gallery of the Diet.
The identity of the assassin is not
known at the present time.
Aboard the George Washington,
Feb. 22.—The steamer bearing
President Wilson and party home
from Europe was less than a thous
and miles from Boston last night
when a message to that effect was
wirelessed to the shore station.
The steamer is making seventeen
knots an hour and will arrive in
port on time.
The speech which the President
will deliver in Boston may be con
fined to one appropriate to the
occasion, in acknowledgement of the
welcoming ceremonies arranged in
his honor.
NAVAL POUT IS
IN GOOD HANDS
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 22—Ac
cording to a report received in this
city today, the government troops
occupied the German naval port of
Wilhelmshaven today without fight
ing fo’ it.
DEAIH PENALTY
NOW RESTORED
IN WASHiNGl ON
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 22—A
bill was introduced in the state
senate today which restores the
death penalty, provided the jury em
panelled to try murder cases, shall
return a separate verdict concern
ing the punishment of murder.
It is expected that the bill,, which
enlarges the powers of the jury in
murder cases, will be finally passed.
NAVY SECRETARY
PHONES WILSON
800 MILES Olil
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels trans
mitted telephonic greetings to Presi
dent Wilson, on board the steamer
George Washington, today.
The vessel at the time was about
800 miles out at sea and steaming
toward Boston. The telephone mess
age was transmitted by naval radio.
ROME, Feb. 22—King Emmanuel
of Italy has signed an edict grant
ing amnesty to soldiers and mem
bers of their families who have
been found guilty of political and
economic offences and sentenced by
the courts of law.
Treason and speculation during
the war is excluded from the terms
of the king’s amnesty.
DIPOMAT TALKS
NATIONS’ LEAGIE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—David
Jayne Hill, former United States
ambassador to Germany, speaking
to the Sons and Daughters of the
Revolution today, said that the
American participation in the pro
posed League of Nations ought to
be restricted.
The restriction is recommended
by the former diplomat so that
America may be enabled to avoid
entangling questions relating to
foreign states, and not be called
upon to relinquish her traditional
attitude toward purely American
questions.
IROORlHMD
FROM IRE
1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The
{war department announces officially,
jthat 74,313 officers and 1,164,518
I troops hae been released from the
United tSates army, to return to
civil life.
CLUB DISCUSSES
NENANA’S NEEDS
The regular weekly meeting of
the Nenana Commercial club was
held last night at the club chambers
in the Union Hall and was fairly
well attended.
R. S. McDonald, chairman of the
organization, called the meeting to
order shortly after X o’clock, and
the minutes of the previous meet
ing having been read and duly con
firmed, the business that called the
members together was proceeded
with.
There were no bills before the
meeting nor any applications for
membership. The club now has 95
members on its roster.
The secretary read the communi
cations received, which were as
follows: A letter from Delegate
Wickersham regarding the applica
tion of moneys derived from the
sale of lots in Nenana, for the im
provement of the town. The dele
gate promiesd to do all he can
to further the wishes of the club
in the matter.
A letter from the Anchorage
[Chamber of Commerce on the sub
! jeet of the transportation of the
mails, in which the chamber voiced
its strong objection to the handling
of the mail as freight, and asking
for the co-operation of the Nenana
Commercial club, with a view to
remedial measures being taken in
the matter.
Letters from the Westinghouse
people and the General Electric
company in regard to the operation
of the railroad and the use of
electric locomotives as the tractive
agent. These people gave interest
ing data and also sent pamphlets
dealing exhaustively with the sub
ject. Copies of the letters, together
with the pamphlets, were handed
to Mr. F. D. Browne, who is chair
man of the local central power plant
committee.
The road committee then report
ed that circulars were sent to the
miners of the Totatlanika and Kan-1
tishna regions for their signatures.!
The circulars dealt with the ques- j
tion of roads. A petition was also!
sent to the miners in the Totat
lanika region, at their request, for
their signatures, requesting that the
region be included within the bound
aries of the Nenana recording pre-'
cinct. A letter was sent to several
senators, representatives and heads
of departments in regard to the
question of roads and seconding the
move made by the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce along these lines.
The suggestiofi made by the Anchor-)
age Chamber of Commerce was to1
secure an appropriation for the pur-:
pose of building roads into the min
ing districts continguous to the rail
road; this appropriation to be hand
led by the Alaskan Engineering
commission and the immediate con
struction urged. The secretary re
ported that Major Waugh, the head
of the Alaska Road commission, and
Robert Sheldon, the chairman of
the Territorial Road commission,
had been addressed on the subject
of roads. A wire was received
from George Pennington, stating
that he had interviewed Major
Waugh, who stated that he would
accept Mr. F. D. Browne’s estimate:;
as to the probable cost of roads in
the district and would take action
after that.
The publicity committee hail noth
ing to report. Steps would be
taken at once to have a suitable
slide made at Tanana and shown
there at the picture show, boosting
die Broad Pass trail.
The committee on government
aid to prospectors had nothing to
report. The mines committee re
ported that samples received so far
had been duly ticketed and put
away in the mineral exhibit case.
The central power plant com
mittee had nothing to report. Mr.
Browne stated that he expected
A
.tfr. .1. A. Davis to arrive in Ne
uana shortly, and that, further par
ticulars will be gleaned after a visit
to the coal fields, which he intended
to make with Mr. Davis.
The Board ol' Public Works and
Charities, represented by W. 11.
Gilcher, reported that the name of
the organization had been changed
and that it is now known as the
Board of Associated Charities.
TPore was nothing new to report.
The joint commtitee appointed
to work in conjunction with the
Nenana club, regarding accommo
dations, had nothing to report.
The excursion committee reported
that the matter will be taken in
hand immediately and all arrange
ments will be completed for hold
ing the excursion on Satuday, the
first of March.
Under the head of unfinished
business, the discussion of develop
ment of the Interior’s mineral and
other resources was entered into
with a view of taking such steps
as will expedite matters and hasten
such development. A letter from
F. D. Browne, engineer in charge,
to Wm. C. Edes, chairman of the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
was read. The full text of the let
ter is ns follows:
Nenana, Feb. 20, 1010
"Mr. Wm. C. Edes, Chairman,
Alaskan Engineering Commission,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, I). S.
Dear Sir:
"In my annual report to you I
referred to wagon roads into several
of the mining districts as feeders
for the main line; these wagon
roads perhaps to be built with light
grades and camparatively light cur
vature that they might be readily
changed later on to more nearly
suit railroad grades.
“There is a continuous agitation
in this vicinity for the opening of
several of these mining districts,
fairly large placers having been
found in a number of places, and
everybody seems to be confident
that with the war ended, and cheap
er supplies and more labor in sight,
that this Interior country will de
velop quite rapidly along mining
as well as possibly agricultural
lines. It is beyond argument that
without these feeders the main line
of the government road through
Alaska will be a failure from a
finanical standpoint at least, and
it seems that now is the time to
agitate this very important matter,
and if possible start something in
the right direction. It is my in
tention in a few days to make a
trip to Broad Pass Summit to look
over the route through the Nenana
(Continued on Pi|» Jwo.)
POLISH NATION
IS RECOGNIZED
BY IHE ALLIES
PARIS, Feb. 22.—It is officially
announced that the Allied govern
ments have decided to recognize
the Polish nation.
A Polish economic council has
been named by the conference to
consider all economic measures of
a transitory nature which have any
bearing on Poland.
HUNGARIAN CITY
SCENE OF REVOLT
PARIS, Feb. 22.—According to
the reports received in this city
today, a communist revolt broke out
in Budapest, the capital of Hun
gary, on Thursday night. The lead
ers of the communists being mostly
Germans and Russians.
The insurgents are reported to
have stormed the offices of the
Socialist newspaper Nepzava and
also to have occupied the telegraph
office of the railway station.
President Karolvi, of the Hun
garian republic, has proclaimed mar
tial law, and government troops sent
to quell the disturbance, have re
taken the railway station, driving
the insurgents therefrom.
FRENCH PREMIER
FEELS FATIGUFD
—
PARIS, Reb 22.—It is announced|
that Premier Georges Glemenceau,
is somewhat fatigued today and, on '
the advice of his physicians, will j
receive no visitors.
HOUSE APPROVES i
NEW WHEAT BIlLi
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The
House passed the wheat guarantee
bill today and it will be sent im
mediately to the Senate for similar!
action by that body.
The wheat guarantee bill gives
the President authority to use the
existing agencies, or create new
ones, for the purpose of buying1
wheat and disposing of it at mar
ket rates.
BEAM PURCHAES
PIONEER HOTEL
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By a deal put through recently, t
Charles Beam becomes the owner
of the old Pioneer Hotel of Fair
banks, and wil take over the build
ing on Monday.
Mr. Beam will run it as a hotel,
with pool hall and cigar store at
tached. I
Venaaa—The gateway to HoKinley
Vatteaal Sack.
SERB DEMAND
FUEL PAYMENT;
DAMAGE GREAF
GENEVA, Switzerland. — Losses
sustained by Serbia during the war
are estimated by Milos Savcic,
member of the Central Committee
for Serbian Reconstruction here, to
aggregate 10,000,000,000 francs.
This is exclusive of the war ex
penses incurred by Serbia and of
the war loans which Serbia re
ceived from the Allies.
M. Savcic asserts that the present
value of the Serbian property would
be double what it was at the time
of its destruction of 20,000,000,000
francs.
“Serbia and Montenegro," de
clares M. Savcic, “have suffered
greater losses in lives, relatively
speaking, than any of the other
Allies. Serbia alone lost about
1520,000 men up to the arrival in
Confu in 1010. One-half of her
tax-paying citizens and one-third
of her population perished from
sickness, epidemic diseases and the
unprecedented savagery of the
enemy at the time of the invasion
of 1914, and during the three years
of domination of the Rulgars and
Austro-Magyars
“Our enemies sought not only
to destroy Serbia economically but.
to exterminate her people, so as to
rid themselves once and for all of
the barrier which blocks Germany’s
way from Berlin to Bagdad.
"The. restoration of Serbia will
require a certain amonut of time.
The enemy must return everything
he plundered from the Serbian
museums, libraries, universities,
churches and schools and whatever
has been destroyed must be re
placed. Germans, Austro-Magyars
and Bulgars must return the live
stock which they drove away and
pay for the timber, vineyards and
orchards which they cut down and
ruined. Agricultural implements
and industrial machinery must be
replaced in kind. The Allies must
supply us with food as quickly as
possible, likewise with textiles and
medical stores, all of which ure
completly lacking in Serbia. De
vastated towns and villages must
be rebuilt. Banks, loan societies
and savings banks must be supplied
with money so that economic enter
prise may be revived.”
Estimating the damages inflicted
upon Serbia, Mr. Saveic, who was
former Serbian minister of Public
Works, places the value of one
year’s harvest in Serbia at 1,000,
000,000 francs and adds that the
enemy siezed three harvests. The
invaders destroyed 130,000 horses,
6,000,000 sheep and goats, 2,000,
000 pigs, 1,300,000 cattle and more
than 8',000,000 poultry.
Manufactured goods U> the value
of 7fi'0.000,000 francs were carried
away or destroyed, ho says, Dam
Ages to private property such as
furniture, machinery, etc., he isti
mates at 400,000,000 francs. The
enepiy carried off from Serbia s il
ver Currency ^amounting to 30,000,
000’ francs and jewelry of about
the same value. Requisitions, en
forced subscriptions to enemy war
loans and damages sustained by
private financial concern; are esti
mated at 800,000(000 francs.