WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. III.
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1920.
NO. 71
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OPENS TODAY
M’ADOO SAYS HE WILL ACCEPT IF NOMINATED
TWO THOUSAND PERISH WHEN STEAMSHIP FOUNDERS
wen
D1S1URBANCES IN
GENERAL PROIEST
ROME, June 28.—Reports of dis
orders in widely separated parts of
Italy are regarded here as giving
weight to the impression that there
is an organized movement for the
overthrow of social order through
out the country. This view is taken
by officials of the government not
withstanding the claim that disturb
ances are the result of unemploy
ment.
Telegraph lines have been cut by
the rioters railroads have been
blocked, and there is open resist
ance to the troops which have been
► ordered out to quell the disturb
ances. Many clashes have occurred
during the past two days between
the soldiers and disturbers, and
many deaths have resulted. The
mobs are armed with revolvers,
hand grenades and a variety of
other weapons, including rocks and
tlubs.
CROP OUTLOOK GOOD
IN NORTHWEST AREA
PORTLAND, June 28.—Reports
received in this city from the strain
producing sections of Washington.
Oregon and Idaho indicate that the
V wheat crop prospects at the present
time are about 100 percent norma).
Weather canditions are ideal for a
heavy yield and farmers throughout
those sections are jubilant over the
outlook for substantial harvest re
turns.
FIRE CHIEF SMOTHERS
IN CENTRALIA BLAZE
CENTRALIA, June 28. — Toni
Cunningham, chief of the local fire!
department, was smothered to death i
here Saturday when the Golden '
Krust bakery was destroyed by fire. |
The property loss is estimated at
$75,000.
MOOSE LODGE MEETING
WILL BE HELD TONIGHT
The regular monthly meeting of,
Nenana lodge, No. 1193, Loyal Or-!
der of Moose, will be held tonight)
at the home of the organization at ;
Fourth and B streets. Considerable;
business has accumulated since the I
last meeting of the lodge, and mem- j
bers are urged to be on hand to j
take part in the deliberations. The!
meeting will start at eight.
Visiting Moose are always wel- ]
come.
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The Fairbanks “regular” ball team i
cleaned up a scrub nine at the Fair
banks ball park yesterday after
noon, the score being 13 to 3.
The steamer Carl White reached
Fairbanks from the logjam on Sat
urday night and is billed to leave
the upper town on the return trip
tomorrow morning. She has two
passengers in sight.
Vsaaaa, Alaska’! Interior Pmel Bspot
COAST DELEGATES MAY URGE
NEW REFORM FOR TERRITORY
SW IS GRANTED
10 M10 SEGURA
Word was received at Fairbanks
on Saturday announcing another
stay of execution in the case of
Mailo Segura, Iditarod murderer,
who was to have been hanged at
Fairbanks on July tirst for the
killing of George Riley in the Idita
rod in 1918. The order postpones
the execution for a period of 90
days.
Segura was originally sentenced
by Judge Charles E. Bunnell to be
hanged on April 4, but his brother,
who is a resident of Butte, man
aged to get a stay of 90 days, and
it is understood the same influence
succeeded in securing the second
postponement.
In view of the fact that Murderer
Dempsey escaped the gallows easily
on the coast, through the interven
tion of President Wilson, many
Fairbanksans believe that Segura
also will get off eventually with a
life sentence.
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Mrs. Dave Fairburn, who arrive.!
from the Hot Springs country on
the steamer Yukon, was a passen
ger on today’s speeder for Fair
banks.
Special Disbursing Agent Frank
Doner went out to the steam-shovel
camp on Goldstream this afternoon.
Bob McLean has quit his position
with the Alaskan Engineering com
mission and will work during the j
remainder of the summer for!
Charles Gius, on Goldstream.
Dawson
Joe McClure was a
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bound passenger on the steamer
Yukon. He will have a look over,
that district, and may continue on k
to the coast.
Fred Struthers, manager for the
Waechter Bros, company, returned
to Fairbanks today after a several
day visit in Nenana.
A tumbling shaft belonging to
one of the dredges on Fairbanks
creek is at North Nenana awaiting
shipment to the Union Construction
company of San Francisco for re
pairs. It will be shipped down river
probably on the steamer Alaska.
Manager Joe Burns of the Col
iseum went to Fairbanks today on
business connected with Nenana’s i
popular showhouse. He will return |
on Wednesday.
Shop Clerk J. H. Miles, of the A.
E. C., has been confined to his room
during the past several days by ill
ness.
SAN FRANCISCO, -June 28.—
With perfect weather conditions
prevailing: and the great convention
hall crowded with delegates and
spectators, the Democratic national
convention began its deliberations at
noon today. The convention was
opened with a bugle call by a de
tachment of marines, followed by
the presentation of colors and sing
ing of “The Star-Spangled Banner."
The bugle call, which was substi
tuted for the old style gavel pound
ing, was the only departure from
the usual convention procedure.
The convention v*ts called to or
der by Vice-Chairman J. Bruce
Kremer of the Democratic national
committee, followed by the invoca
tion by Monsig-nor P. L. Ryan, after
which the convention call was read
by Secretary E. G. Hoffman of the
national committee.
Kremer then addressed the con
vention, outlining the work that lay
before the delegates. At the con
clusion of his address, he intro
duced Homer S. Cummins, chairman
of the national committee, as tem
porary chairman of the convention.
Upon taking the chair, Cummins
also addressed the convention at1
length, and then announced the va
rious committees, after which the
convention adjourned until tomor
row.
Hours before the time set for the j
opening. great crowds thronged
about the Auditorium, and by noon
every one of the 2,000 seats was'
occupied.
Alaskan Reform.
A committee of delegates repre
senting the Pacific coast and Rocky j
mountain states and territories will
ask the convention for support for1
a request for a senator and two
representatives each to represent
the territories of Alaska and Ha- j
waii in Congress.
M’Adoo Willing.
The campaign managers of Cox
and Palmer are engaged today in
striving to stem a fresh tide for
McAdoo for President, the revival:
of the McAdoo boom having result- j
ed from his announcement that he
will accept the nomination if it is
given to him.
There is considerable talk of Sec
retary Meredith for second place on
the ticket.
Jockeying for Place.
The campaign managers of the
various candidates are all busy to
day jockeying for advantage in the
early balloting and each is claiming
steadily increasing support.
Prohibition is manifestly the liv
est topic of the convention, ranking
even ahead of the choice of candi
dates. Bryan has very little to say
about the-permanent organization of
the convention, being too busy with
his dry plank. He is apparently in
terposing no active opposition to the i
administration program, though he [
is credited with favoring Senator j
Walsh for the chairmanship of the.
resolutions committee.
Meredith Not Candidate.
Secretary Meredith has announced
that he “is not in any sense a can-.
didate.” He did not say, however, j
whether the plans of the workers
with whom he has been active had ■
been canceled, nor did he refer ^0 j
the opening of joint headquarters
for himself and Gerard.
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Palmer Win*.
The national committee has seat-1
ed the Palmer delegates from i
Georgia.
At a caucus yesterday afternoon j
the Pennsylvania delegation, by a i
vote of 60 to 13. defeated an effort!
to put the delegation on record as j
favoring a wet plank.
Wilton Honored.
When the convention opened this j
noon, a demonstration lasting 45 i
minutes followed the unfurling of j
a huge American flag, disclosing a
portrait of President Wilson. Stan
dards were seized by the delegates,
and with a rolling chorus of “Hur
rah for Wilson!” the delegates join
ed in a procession such as usually;
follows when a candidate is placed
in nomination.
Vice-Chairman Kremer vainly
rapped for order, and was forced
finally to wait for the outburst to ^
subside of its own accord. It was
a tremendous demonstration, fol
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lowed by noisy outbursts on the (
part of Palmer supporters. ;
It is whispered about this after- 1
noon that Bryan has drafted a 1
League of Nations plank which the
administration forces will support.!
It is also rumored that Bryan ■will :
not make a fight for a government J
ownership of railroads plank. 1
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LONDON, June 28.—According
to information which has just reach
ed this city, two thousand prisoners
of war, including British, Austrian.
German, and Finnish soldiers, were
drowned recently in tne Neva river
as the result of the foundering of
the Bolsheviki steamer on which
they were being transported.
The news of the disaster came
to this city by way of Helsingfors,
but details are not yet available.
The Neva river flows from Lake
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Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland and s
is very wide in places, with reefs , (
and rapids at other places which
obstruct navigation. The river car
ries a tremendous volume of water, t
Electrical Foremen Steinmetz and
Murphy made a trip out the line
today, using the speeder as far as
the river. The former will instal
a switchboard in the new depot at
the end of steel, and will be absent
from town several days. The latter
will be back this evening.
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WIIH STOLEN ROLL
SEATTLE, June 28.—Mrs. Josie
Pearson, alias Pearce, who is ac
cused by John Setka of Ketchikan
Df appropriating $7,000 of his mon
ey on the promise of marriage, has
been taken into custody at Van
couver and will be brought to this
city for safe-keeping. She has
promised to return the money.
Setka conducts a lunch house at
Ketchikan and employed the Pear
son woman. He also fell in love
with her and gave her access to his
bank account, believing that she
would soon be his wife. Within t
short time afterward, however, both
woman and money were gone and
Setka appealed to the police for as
sistance to recover his savings.
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Assistant Superintendent John
Raap, of the T. V. R. R., has an
nounced excursion rates on creek
trains for the Fairbanks celebration.
A1 Hilty, well-known oldtime min
ing man of Cleary creel:, arv \ed in
S'enana on Sunday, having accom
panied Mrs. Hilty this far on the
deamer Yukon. He returned to
lie upper town this afternoon on
he speeder.
Marshal L. T. Erwin has advised
lis office at Fairbanks that he
■eaehed Portland safely with his
nsane charges on June 24. He is
low in San Francisco attending the
Democratic convention.
C. A. Schonacker, representative
if the Richmond Paper company,
irrived in Fairbanks yesterday from
he coast, by way of the Richardson
rail.
A Gibson stage reached Fairbanks
t 11 o'clock yesterday morning,
ust 36 hours from Chitina. The
ig came straight through without
elay and traveled night and day.
t brought first class mail.
Charles Thrift went out the line
outh of Nenana today, having re
overed sufficiently to return to
rork. He came to town some time
go to receive treatment for an at
ack of rheumatism.
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Chief Steward Jesse Brown went
o Fairbanks today on official busi
iess.
Mail advices reaceived from Idita
od recently tell of the serious in
ury of Alex Matheson, who is re
orted to have been taken to the
[ospital at Holy Cross with a badly
rushed arm. Details of the acci
ent are not known.
SEATTLE. June '28.—According
to figures made public by W. T.
Lopp, in charge of the Alaska cen
sus, Juneau still leads the Territory
in population, the returns received
from that city showing a total of
3,126. Ketchikan is a close second
with 2.461.
The total population of the sec
ond census district, exclusive of the
Aleutian and Seal islands, is 10,633,
including 2,957 natives, of whom
1,700 are full blood and 1,254
mixed.
Other Alaska districts reported
are: Cordova 1,687. Kennecott 904.
Copper River oil, Cook Inlet 502.
Kodiak Island 1,409, Cordova cor
poration 931. Chitina 150, Afognak
308. Charcoal Point 393.
! Senator Dan Sutherland, Repub
lican candidate for delegate to Cor.
!press from Alaska, and Representa
jtive K. B. Collins, Republican can
| didate for the territorial senate
jfrom this division, will address the
j people of Xenana tomorrow eve
jning. arrangements having been
'made for them to hold a public
imeeting at the Coliseum, commenc
jing at 8:110.
\ Both gentlemen spoke in Fair
; banks last week, at a largely at
tended meeting in the Auditorium,
and the impression created by them
| is said to have been very favorable.
And they have a lot to say to the
|people of Xenana and invite every
one to attend the Coliseum meeting.
The ladies are especially invited to
be there.
The meeting will he held under
the auspices of the Xenana Repub
lican club.
COMMITTEE INVITES
PUBLIC TO MEETING
There will be a special meeting
of the Fourth of July sports com
mittee at the Coliseum tonight,
called for the purpose of placing’
certain matters before those who
have contributed or who contem
plate contributing to the celebration
fund. And all contributors arc
urged to be on hand, as well as
others interested in the celebration
plans.
The meeting will start promptly
at nine o’clock.
Ed. Bartlett, who arrived in Fair
banks from Eagle creek last week,
returned to the Circle country ori
Saturday, accompanied by Mrs
Bartlett. He will spend the sum
mer on Eagle, where he is interest
ed in a scraper proposition.
Mrs. M. V. Tyler returned to
town from the end of steel on Sat
urday’s train.