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DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
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NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. 1919
WHOLE NUMBER 27S
FILIBUSTER FATAL TO SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
WILSON LEAVES FOR FRANCE TO FINISH WORK
EASTERN STATES REPORT MANY WORKERS JOBLESS
PRESIDENT LEFT
ON RE1URN TRIP
10 FRANCE TODAY
NEW YORK, Mar. 5.—President
Wilson sailed for France this morn
ing on the transport George Wash
ington, formerly a German liner.
In his speech at the Metropolitan
Opera House last night, to a vast
crowd that had assembled to hear
him and bid him Good speed, he
said that he did not intend to re
turn to the United States until
everything was over, ‘over there’.
The President’s departure was
marked by great simplicity; in
strong contrast to the huge and
enthusiastic send-off he received on
his first embarkation for France.
Jut a small crowd assembled on the
pier to bid him good-bye and he
waved them a farewell as the ship
pulled away from the dock.
A military band played the na
tional anthem of the United States,
A "The Star Spangled Banner" and
the shore batteries boomed in salute
as the George Washington gathered
way and the escorting flotilla of
destroyers took their positions on
the port and starboard bows of the
transport.
President Wilson spent last night
on the transport.
A
APPOINTMENTS OF
SEATTLE, Mar. 5.—The confirm
ations of the appoinments of Charles
E. Bunnell as district judge and
Rheinhart F. Roth, as district at
torney for the Fourth judicial divi-1
sion, are believed to have been held
up in the general filibuster before
the adjournment of Congress ves-j
terday.
It is believed that recess ap-'
pointments are likely to be madej
as in the cases of others.
08. CASSEIS IS
NOW IN MCE
Frank Clark, of Fairbanks, re
ceived a letter n the last mail from
Da. Cassels, now a major in the
army medical corps. The letter I
stated that the former Fairbanks
physician is now in charge of an ■
army hospital in Cannes, France,
and that he was likely to be sta
tioned in that country for some
time to come.
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 5.—Presi
dent Wilson gave Mitchell Palmer
a recess appointment as attorney
general of the United States, in suc
cession of Attorney General Greg
ory.
LANE'S BILL FOR
RECLAIM IS
LOSE IN SENATE
SEATTLE, Mar. 5.—The bill
fathered by Secretary of the In
terior Franklin K. Lane, which car
ried a large appropriation for re
clamation works, was lost in the
Senate filibuster.
The bill was mainly intended
for the purpose of giving employ
ment to returning soldiers on the
necessary government reclamation
works.
UNPLOYED MEN !
ARE INCREASING
IN THE STATES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5.—Unem- j
ployment is increasing in the New
England states, New York Penn-;
sylvania and New Jersey communi-j
ties. The unemployed in these
states number 365,400 at present.!
The state of Ohio alone contains j
over 110,000 unemployed.
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IN CONCLAVE AT
When the territorial legislature
convened at Juneau yesterday. Sen- j
ators Ronan and Sutherland were
the only absentees.
The work of organizing the upper
and low’er houses was then pro
ceeded with, after which an ad
journment was taken.
In the Senate, Senator Frawley
of Nome, was elected chairman;
Pete M. Reed, of Nome, was elected
secretary; and W. Grant Johnson,
of .Juneau, assistant secretary; T.
Canston, of Juneau, was elected
sergeant-at-arms.
In the House of Representatives,
E. J. (Stroller) White was elected
speaker; H. F. Morton, of Juneau,
‘chief clerk; and M. F. Johnson, of
Latouche, sergeant-at-arms.
Senator Dan Sutherland, of Ruby
is known to be on his fishing boat
at the halibut banks, and he is now
five days overdue.
If he had not arrived in Juneau
last night, a search party was to'
| have been sent out to look for him.
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E
ATI EMPIIO OPEN
Ay TO MOS
BERLIN, Mar. 5.—An official
staement issued today by the new
republican German government says
j that the Spartacans inaugurated a
movement to seize the town of
Moensburg, in East Prussia, and
open a route to Moscow, so that
they will be enabled to let the Bol
heviki armies come to their assist
ance.
A strong force of government
troops were despatched to Konigs
berg to head off the Spartacan
move.
IN
BILE NOT PASSED
WASHINGTON, Mar.
-William
Pigott, a member of the Seattle
, Chamber of Commerce, who is rep
j resenting ..Seattle at the governors’
1 and mayors’ conference, declared
; today that important legislation,
| carrying appropriations for reclam
' ation projects and for continuing
[the construction of the Alaska rail
iroad, has been held up by Congress,
1 because, like Nero, the Senate fid
dled while Rome burned.
STRIKERS WILL
VOTE THIS WEEK :
RETURN 10 WORK
SEATTLE, Mar. 5.—The Seattle
shipyard strikers will vote this week
on the question of returning to
work, and the result of the vote
will be announced on Saturday
It is predicted that the vote will
result in favor of a return t > work
and that the shipyards '.’ ll rejpe-i
for business on Monday.
The men will probably return to
work on the old schedule, pend
ing the outcome of the wage con
ferece, who will meet for the pur
pose of readjusting the wage sched
ule now in force.
The Aberdeen strikers have al
ready voted to return to work.
T
CUT IN SAXONY
BERLIN, Mar. 5.—After much
sanguinary street fighting between
the revolutionaries and the govern
ment forces, the latter occupied the'
town of Halle, in Saxony. Thirty
civilians were killed during the
fghting, the government troops also
losing many men.
M. H. Boulais was admitted to
the hospital this morning suffering
from varicose veins and will prob
ably be operated on later.
I
ALLIES REPULSE
BOLSHEVIK! IN
NORTH RUSSIA
ARCHANGEL, Mar. 5.—The Bol
sheviki forces launched a heavy in
fantry attack on Tuesday against
the Allied positions on the Yaga
river, near Kitzka. and were re
pulsed with heavy losses.
All along the Dvina river front,
the Bolsheviki are continuing their
artillery activity.
The Yaga river is a tributary of
the Dvina river, which flows thru
the province of Archangel and emp- ,
ties into the White Sea near the
town of Archangel.
PARIS, Mar. 5.—A Russian Jew
named Kneller fired two revolver
shots today into the Palais de Le
fysee, the residence of President
Poincare, of France. The bullets
fell harmlessly into the courtyard.
Kneller, who was placed under
arrest immediately after the firing,
said that he fired the shots by way
of a protest against the Allied in
tervention in Russia.
CLEMENCY LIVEN
CONVICIS UNDER
ESPIONAGE ACT
WASHINGTON, Mar 5—Presi
dent Wilson has granted executive
clemency in the case of fifty-three
cases of convictions under the j
espionage act.
He also granted full pardon to j
Frederick Krafft, secretary of the
New Jersey Socialist party.
ROME, Mar. 5.—A despatch re
ceived in this city today from Bel
grade Serbia, indicates that King
Peter of Serbia will soon retire in
favor of Prince Regent Alexander.
FAIRBANKS LAD EXPECTS
TO BE DISCHARGED SOON
George Hering, who joined the
naval forces of the country by
voluntary induction during the war,
was recently at Cristobal, Chile, on
board the tanker Montelite.
Writing to friends from Cristobal
George said that the vessel was on
her way to New York, by way of
th Panama canal and that he ex
pected to get his discharge on ar
rival at New York, and then, he I
says, he will hike home as fast as|
he can. J
OLD EMPLOYEES
10 GET
1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 5—Instruc
tions have been issued to command
ers of the naval stations in the
United States to give back their old
jobs to the men who had relin
quished them to enter the fighting
branch of the naval service.
Word w*as received late yester
day evening of the death of Mike
Hyland, of Nenana, at St. Joseph’s
hospital, Fairbanks last night. His
place of business was closed today
as a mark of respect to his memory.
He had been suffering for some
years with a cancerous growth,
medically termed sarcoma, which
was of such a nature as to be in
operable. He was well aware of
his condition, and when he left for
Fairbanks a few days ago, was in
a hopeless condition. Shortly’ after
reaching Fairbanks he came in for
an attack of pneumonia, which, in
connection with the disease he was
suffering from, hastened the end.
i ne late .uiKe nyiana was wen
anti favorably known in Interior
Alaska, and he counts a wide circle
of friends who will regret to hear
o fhis demise. He leaves behind
a wife and two children to mourn
his loss. They are now at St. Paul.
Minn.
Mr. Hyland came to the North in
the early days of the Klondike rush,
moving from Dawson to Cleary City
in 1905, where he conducted the
Pioneer hotel and saloon. From
Cleary he went to Chatanika, and
, for a time conducted the Pioneer
'hotel and saloon there. In 1912
he went Outside and on his return
he went to Ester City and engaged
in the saloon business in partner
ship with Sam Wilcox.
From Ester he returned to Chat
anika, where he bought the Grand
hotel and saloon and conducted it
until the dry law went into effect,
coming to Nenana shortly after
wards, where he opened in Paul
Lescure’s old place of business, a
pool room, cigar store and soft
drinks parlor, with rooms in con
nection.
When he left Nenana for Fair
banks last week, Mike Hyland was
a very sick man, and his end wfas
not far distant. It was thought
that he might not be able to sur
vive the journey.
FAIRBANKS LADY IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
Word was received from Fair
banks this afternoon that Mrs.
Adolph Landas, who was operated
on recently for knee trouble, is
lying seriously ill at St. Joseph’s
hospital.
Dr. de la Vergne was expected to
arrive at the upper town today to
consult with her physician.
Leo Rogge expects to return to
Fairbanks tc arrow.
ALLIED POWERS
PARIS, Mar. 5.—A despatch re
ceived in this city today from
Zurich, Switzerland, says that, at
a meeting: of the German cabinet,
held on Monday, which was attended
by ali the party leaders and tl e
shop owners, it was decided that
Germany could not submit to any
coercion from the Entente powers,
either in the armistice negotiations
or in the peace parlers proper
The demand made at the in->tai , •
of Marshal Foch, regarding the re
quisition for the German mercha it
fleet, was held to be absolutely
inaccentable.
A press campaign is to be star -
ed in all the newspapers through
out Germany against what is con
sidered to be the unreasoable de
mands of the Allies, in the urn is
tice as w'ell as at the preliminary
peace terms.
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 5.—Accord
ing to reports received in this city
today from Berlin, the strike move
ment is spreading rapidly through
out Germany and is giving the
government much concern.
As a result of the failure of
Congress to pass the Sundry Civil
bill, which carried the appropriation
for railroad purposes, Mesdames
Browne and Schmidt, who were
getting up the grand carnival which
was to have been held on Saturday
night, March 8, make announcement
that the function has been post
poned indefinitely.
The ladies also wish to thank all
those who had promised to con
tribute toward the program and
help in other ways to make the
affair a big success. They expect,
however, to be in a position to call
on them for help later on.
ALASKAN OFFICER IN
MILITARY HOSPITAL
A letter received by a friend in
Fairbanks on the last mail, from
Lieutenant Coleman, who is with
the Army of Occupation in German
territory, contains the news that he
is an inmate of the miltary hospital
at Trier, undergoing treatment for
blood poisoning in the leg.
He says that the nurse attending
him at the hospital is Miss Beulah
Fredericks, who was formerly con
nected with the Episcopalian mission
in Alaska, and was for some time
stationed at Chena and Fairbanks.
George Armstrong, former spe
cial agent of the General Land
office, is now a captain of infantry
and U stationed with a portion of
the Army of Occupaton in Trier.