WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920.
NO. 26
. GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR MAY RIOTS
HOUSE COMMITTEE PRUNES ITEMS FOR ALASKA
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EARLY BOOKINGS INDICATE RECORD TOURIST TRAVEL
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SEATTLE, April 30.—Local rep-1
resentatives of steamship companies
operating in Alaska waters are au
*' ithority for the statement that the
coming season will witness an un
precedented tourist travel towar.l
the North, limited only by the abil- ]
ity of the companies to handle the
traffic. j
Early bookings of excursion par- ■
ties, the transportation men say..
indicate a record-breaking tourist
season, and it is stated that the
reservations are coming from widely
divergent points, which is regarded
as showine that Alaska is attracting
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attention throughout the entire
countrt'.
Most of the excursionists, as '
usual, will see the Alaska coast only,
but quite a number are booked for
the midnight sun excursion to Fort
Yukon, by way of Dawson, and
some will make the grand circle,
visiting Nenana and Fairbanks en- ’
route.
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Joe Fischer joined the ranks of<
the flu patients today, but will re
main at home under the care of
Mrs. Fischer.
Operators Morris and Taylor, of
the local signal corps station, are
helping out as nurses at the emer
gency hospital, and Private Fuelling ;
is on the sick list, leaving the office ;
in charge of Chief Operator Tom :
Mathews 2nd “Slim” Sanders.
The Fairbanks Commercial clubj
has received a message from Alfred .
H. Brooks, announcing that the Al
aska development committee will
meet in Seattle during the coming
month, and urging that a repre- i
ser.tative be sent from Fairbanks'
to attend the hearings to be held, j
It is probable that Superintendent
Snodgrass, of the Government ex- i
periment station, who is now en-j
route to the States, will be asked to
represent the Interior district.
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A Brower stage reached Fair
banks this morning—without mail. ,
The stages are now breaking in the
summer trail by way of Richardson, ,
and the next inbound mail will be ,
somewhat delayed in consequence.
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The Democrats of Fairbanks are
considerably peeved today as the
result of having learned that Stroll
er White withdrew his name, prior
to the primary election, as a can- i
didate for delegate to the national
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convention. The withdrawal of
White left six candidates for the
six places, and all of them were1
elected.
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There was quite a shower of rain :
at Fairbanks last night, and also:
along the Valdez trail, with maxi-jt
mum temperatures ranging from 55 t
at Salcha to 45 at Richardson. jr
BELIEVED REDS WILL START
TROUBLE IN U. S. TOMORROW
PARTY IN POWER
PUBLIC IS SORE
PITTSBURGH, April 30.—In a
statement made public in this city
today, William Jennings Bryan de
clares that the recent primary vote
is a mild warning that the Ameri
can public does not approve of the
attempt of the administration to
force the ratification of the peace
treaty without reservations.
Democratic senators, Bryan says,
should be governed accordingly, and
proceed to ratify the treaty with
such reservations as may be neces
sary to insure prompt action.
The support given Senator John
son, Bryan points out. and the de
feat of Hitchcock should be regard
ed "by the Democrats as a protest
against the refusal of the Demo
crats in the senate to permit the
ratification of the treaty with any
sort of reservations. It is also a
protest against the treaty in the
form in which it was presented to
the senate by President Wilson.
SPOKANE COUNCIL
WILE NOI SIR!
SPOKANE. April 30.—The local
building trades council has decided
against the proposal to strike on
May 1 as a protest against the
open shop.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.
—It is reported bv {he Japanese
'oreign office that Japanese guards
n the Nikolaevsk district, in East
;rn Siberia, were annihilated recent
y by Russians. In addition to the
nurder of the guards, several hun
Ired Japanese residents of the dis
rict, including- the Japanese con
sul, were massacred.
IEBELS ARE FIGHTING
TO CAPTURE MAZATLAN
AGUA PRIETA, April 30— It is
'eported here that rebel forces are
tow engaged in an attack on Ma
:atlan, the capture of which will ]
rive them control of the West coast
if Mexico.
Tom Hogan and Joe McClure,
rho were among the first to give
he flu high sign, are recovering
apidly at the Government hospital.
; WASHINGTON'. P. C., April 30
'—In anticipation of trouble .hru
out the country tomorrow in con
■ nection with May day demonstra
tions, the department of justice has
instructed federal agents to jro as
far as the law allows in breaking
up radical featherings.
The department is concentrating
its efforts to safeguard the lives of
■ federal and state officials who are
'alleged to have been marked for de
struction by the Reds tomorrow.
: Special agents will be on duty ev
erywhere where there is the least
| indication of trouble, and radicals
: generally are warned not to start
GENERAL STRIKE.
• PARIS. April 30.—According to
announcement made today by the
!heau of the miners’ organization,
mine employes throughout France
will continue their May day demon
stration into a general strike.
TRAINMEN WEARY.
BUFFALO. April 30. — Freight
handlers, switchmen and conductors,
who returned to work when it was
announced that their grievances
would receive prompt consideration
by the federal labor board appoint
eel by President Wilson, have gone
out on strike again. claiming dis
satisfaction over the delay of the
board in acting on their wage de
mands. The walkout has tied u;:
all the local railroad yards.
COURT IS LEGAL.
TITTSBURG. Kan.. April SO.—
District Judge Curran has handed
down a ruling in which he holds
that the new court of industrial re
lations is legally constituted.
The court has temporarily re
strained President Howatt and othei
mine union officials from calling *
strike of mine workers.
Some time ago. Howatt. who is
head of the Kansas' mine union
was sent to jail for contempt be
cause he refused to give testimony
before the court of industrial rela
tions, on the grounds that the court
was established to enslave labor
Immediately following the arrest ot
their president, the union miners oi
the state left their places individu
ally, as a protest against the action
of the court. Practically every mine
in the state was closed as a result
of the action of the miners. Or
ders were then issued by the court
commanding Howatt to ord«r the
men to return to work.
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DAWSON, April 30.—The Yukon
legislature adjourned on Wednesday
after an unusually busy session.
Among the bill passed was one pro
hibiting the sale of liquor a
beverage. Another bill requires
licenses for ncn-resident big game
hunters. A third bill forbids the
exportation of moose and caribou
hides by fur traders.
NEGRO BANDIT MAKES
BIG HAUL IN SOUTH
SAX DIEGO, April 30.—An un
identified negro bandit held up and
robbed a mail truck yesterday, with
in a block of the postoffice, and
escaped with thirty thousand dol
lars.
CHICAGO BARBERS ARE
BOOSTING PRICES TOO
CHICAGO, April 30. — Master
barbers of this city, representing
eleven unions, have announced that
the price of haircuts in their shops
in future will be six-bits a cut.
MANNING TO RETIRE
FROM MINE BUREAU
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.
—Van H. Manning, director of the
bureau of mines, has tendered his
resignation to his superior, to be
come effective June 30. He will
become director of research of the
American Petroleum institute. I
LAWMAKERS READY
10 CALL WAR OFF
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 3(>
—The senate committee on foreign
relations has reported a resolution
providing for the official termina
tion of the war between the United
States and the Central powers, Ger
many and Austria.
The resolution is a substitute for
the measure considered in the lower
house of Congress and which omit
ted Austria.
The action of the senate commit
tee was opposed by the Democratic
members.
DEMOCRATIC WARHORSE
DIED TODAY ON TRAIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.
—Colonel John T. McGraw, Demo
cratic national committeeman of
West Virginia during the past 25
years and a prominent national fig
ure politically, died on a train this
morning near Baltimore. He was
64 years of age.
The quarantine has been lifted at
the local office of the signal corps.
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| CUTTER ENROUTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.
i—The alleged activity of alien agi
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tators in the vicinity of Hyder,
Alaska, resulted this afternoon in
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the despatch of the coastguard cut
j ter Algonquin to the scene of dis
turbance. The cutter was quarter
ed at Port Townsend and sailed for
the North from that port.
Radical agitators have long been
| active in Alaska, according to com
■ plaints made to congressional com
jmittees recently by Gov. Riggs, who
announced at the time that he would
ask Congress later for authority to
establish a constabulary in Alaska
similar to the mounted police cf
Yukon territory and the Canadian
Northwest.
The Algonquin has a complement
of 71 and carries four three-inch
rifles and two machine guns.
YANKEES ARE DUE
OF RED LAND NOW
SAX FRANCISCO, April 30.—All
of the American soldiers who were
sent to Siberia to fight the Bolshe
viki of that country have returned
to the United States, according: to
information received in this city
yesterday, upon the arrival here of
the transport Gryat Northern.
The only Americans left in Si-'
beria are Red Cross workers and
the Stevens party of engineers. The
engineers expect to leave Siberia
not later than May first.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 30
—The names of Henry Jones Ford,
professor of politics at Princeton,
and James Duncan, of Quincy, for
mer vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, have been
sent to the senate by President Wil
son for confirmation as members of
the interstate commerce commission.
Ford was named to succeed Har
lan, whose term expired a year ago,
and Duncan will fill one of the two ,
new places on the board created by ,
the railroad act.
Tom Smith, proprietor of the i
Southern hotel, is registered at the 1
Cooney hotel, having moved into 1
the rival hostelry late this after- 1
noon—for medical treatment. .
Ills ARE CUE
IN SUNDRY Bill
SEATTLE, April 30.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer sends the disap
, pointing report today that numerous
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j Alaska items in the sundry civil
jbill have been shaved hv the house
iappropriations committee, the reduc
tions being part of the general pro
'gram of retrenchment. All of the
Pacific coast items fared similarly.
The eight million dollars request
ed by the interior department for
ithe completion of the Alaska Gov
ernment railroad has been cut to
[seven million, which includes a coal
cleaning plant for Matanuska cost
i >ng a quarter of a million.
The bill as presented by the com
mittee contains no appropriation at
all for the Cape' Spencer lighthouse
or the other specified aids to navi
gation. They may be established
later, however, in the discretion of
'the lighthouse committee, the cost
to be paid out of a lump appro
priation.
No particular appropriation is
recommended for a coast survey in
Alaska, but the amount of $280,
000 is authorized for general sur
veys, a reduction of $47,000. Med
ical relief in Alaska is to get $90,
000 instead of $125,000; education,
$275,000; reindeer. $6,400; build
ings on fur seal islands, $100,000;
fisheries service on islands, $38,000;
protection of seal fisheries, $14u,
000; game protection, $25,000; sup
pression of liquor traffic, $15,000;
care of Alaska insane, $115,000.
CLEVELAND, April In an
address delivered here today at the
international convention of cigar
rnakers, Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of La
bor, predicted that labor unrest
throughout the United States and
the world generally will soon be
quieted by a restoration of normal
:ondition.
AMERICA IS AWARDED
STANDARD OIL BOATS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April .‘{it.
— Eight Standard Oil tankers, for
merly under the German flag, have
seen awarded to the United States
temporarily.
PERSHING AT PANAMA
TO INSPECT MILITARY
PANAMA, April 30. — General
Pershing has arrived here on a tour
if inspection of troops and fortifi
■ations.
Fairbanks reports McBride lead
ng in the Territory today by near
\ seven hundred votes. Reed is a
ew votes ahead of Hazelet and
lustgard is several hundred ahead
f Finnigan.