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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOEMBER 29. 19!fc.
WHOLE
NUMBER 201
> HUNS CONSPIRE TO RESTORE KAISER
GOVERNOR COMMUTES TOM MOONETS SENTENCE
NAVY TO ESTABLISH AIRPLANE STATION AT SEWARD
* HUN REVOLUTION
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CRAFTY OFFICERS
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Officers of Ge-man Army Managing
Revolution to Cauie Ultimate
Collapse.
LONDON.—The Mail, in its com
ments on the German situation, says
that officers of the high command
are engineering the revolution in
Germany in such a way as to cause
its ultimate collapse, and the trium
phant return of the former kaiser
to power again.
Some of the former officers of
’ the German high command who are
taking an active part in the revolu
tion, have been recognized, in civi
lian clothes, in the streets of Berlin,
while others dressed as workingmen
are engaged in haranguing crowds
in different parts of the ctiy, en
couraging a revolutionary spirit.
These officers, the Mail * hinks,
will later abandon their disguises
and begin a counter revolutionary
movement with the restoration of
the former kaiser as the object in
IS DELAYED FOR
8RIDGE BUILDING
When work for the day ceased
on the evening of Wednesday last
the end of steel had reached bridge
17, which was only partly completed.
The work of laying steel is, con
sequently, not possible until the
bridge has been completed; and, in
the meantime, the steel gang, under i
Foreman Thomas E. Blakey, have;
been detailed on other work and
will be soon engaged until such time
as the work of laying track can
be resumed.
It is expected that bridge 17 will
be completed in three days more,
when the steel gang will resume
extending the railroad. Piledriver
No. 2 is driving the bridge and on
completion of the work will be sent
on ahead, skipping about three
bridges. She will then drive the
bridges ahead against the arrival of
steel.
The next three bridges after
bridge 17 will be driven by the
track-driver after the steel reaches
these. These are only short bridges
and the work of the steel gangs
will not be seriously interfered with
or delayed to amount to anything.
Every effort is being made to
complete the road to the coal fields
at Lignite as soon as possible, and
it is confidently expected that the
Nenana crossing at 43-mile will be;
reached by Christmas.
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AUSTRIAN LOSSES
; DURING THE WAR
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i The Dual Monarchy Hat Lott An
Enormout Number of Men
During the Great War.
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j LONDON.—According to a des
patch received in this city from
[Copenhagen today, Austria-Hungary
suffered total casualites during the
war amounting to four million men.
killed and wounded.
The despatch states further that
seventeen thousand officers and al
most eight hundred thousand men
were killed.
METHODS
CAUSE LOSS
Ruling of Comptroller of Treasury
May Render Invalid Several
Large Cc)itracts.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Comp
troller Warwick, of the treasury de
partment, in a recent ruling effect
ing orders given and contracts
entered into between the govern
ment of the United States and priv
ate corporations and individuals for
the supplying of material for war
purposes, said that war orders that
have not been signed by responsible
government contracting agents and
and contractor or contracting firm,
will not be considered as legally
executed.
This ruling renders doubtful, at
least, the validity of several govern-1
ment contracts, involving hundreds
of millions of dollars.
A large proportion of war orders
and contracts were let informally
by means of the telephone, tele
graph and by letter.
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WAY TO^ CAPITAL
Both Candidates For Alaska’s Seat
In Congress Claim to Have
Been Elected.
SEATTLE.—James Wickersham,
the Republican candidate; Charles
A. Sulzer, the Democratic candidate
to Congress, and Attorney General
George B. Grigsby are in Seattle:
and will leave for Washington, D. j
C. today.
Wickersham lays claim to have;
won the election by 44 votes, while |
Sulzer claims it by a plurality of i
32 votes.
.
No definite statement as to the;
standing of the two candidates is!
available, but the Fairbanks News
Miner states that according to fig
ures received there, Sulzer leads his;
opponent by 18 votes for the entire!
territory.
Russell S. Hildebrand, warehouse
foreman in the employ of the A. E. j
C. last winter, and later office man j
at the local telephone exchange, is j
now in the employ of the Whiton!
Hardware company, Seattle. Mrs.!
Hildebrand is in California. i
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DEMAND RETRIAL
OF MOONEY CASE
Commutation of Mooney’s Sentence
Will Not Affect Strike; New
Trial Demanded.
SAN FRANCISCO.—The commu
tation, by the governor of Cali
fornia, of the sentence passed on
Thomas Mooney, is the chief topic
of conversation in this city, more
especially among the members of
the various labor unions.
Some labor leaders say that the
commutation of the sentence will
have absolutely no effect on the
proposed strike which is to be called,
and that nothing short of a new
trial of Mooney will satisfy organ
ized labor throughout the States.
The trial and conviction of Thomas
Mooney created almost world-wide
interest, and labor unions through
out the United States clamored for
a new- trial on the gTound that
Mooney was convicted on perjured
evidence. Even President Wilson
interferred on Mooney’s behalf, and
requested Governor Stephens of
California, to use clemency in his
case to avert a big strike, which
would have seriously crippled our
war preparations.
FAIRBANKS YOUTH
FALLS IN BATTLE
Military Operation* On the Argonne
Forest Sector Claim Former
Alaskan.
SEATTLE.—It is reported hepe
that Lawrence Auten, who was for
merly a resident of Dawson, Fair
banks and Iditarod, and is well
known in the North country was
killed in action during the advance
of the Allies in the Argonne sector.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
MEETING TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the Ne- j
nana Commercial club will be held;
at 8 o’clock tonight at the Labor j
Union Hall, in the room downstairs j
next to the library.
All members are urged to be j
in attendance and take part in the ’
proceedings. Suggestions for the
betterment of conditions and for
the development of the resources of
this district, are invited and mem
bers who have any suggestions to
make along these lines are urged to
io so. Any suggestion tending to
wards the creation of permanent
industries are especially invited. J
All suggestions made will be thor- j
iughly gone into from every angle
»nd acted upon if feasible.
W. J. Hubbach, former chief ac- j
;ountant in the employ of the A. E.
2., now has a position in Seattle.
Paul Ringseth is numbered among ,
:he many Seattle shipyard builders.
DEPOSED KAISER
MAY RETURN ID
RECOVER CROWN
England
Kaiser;
Suspicious of the Former
Thinks He May Return
to the Throne.
LONDON.—The Mail, the leading
London newspaper, says that ac
cording to a neutral source of high
standing, the former German kaiser
is contemplating an early return to
Germany to claim the throne which
he never officially abdicated, and
counter revolutionary troubles are
; feared with his return.
The former empress is reported
to have arrived at Amerongen,
I where the former kaiser has been
' staying.
WARD DISKED
1 REMS ID HOME
In a brief telegraphic message,
received locally, the news is con
tained that Dick Ward, who had
been in training at the officers’
training camp at Camp Humphreys,.
Virginia, was released from further
military service on the 27th
Dick Ward held the position of
assistant engineer with the A. E. C.,
Fairbanks division, which he re
linquished to answer the call to
arms. He left Nenana with the
second contingent of registrants and
was inducted into the service as a
member of Co. B., 14th infantry, at
Fort Gibbon.
He went Outside with the com
pany and was for a short time!
stationed at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and i
on his selection /or commissioned
rank, was sent to Camp Humph- j
reys, Virginia, to enter the officers’;
training school.
With the signing of the armistice
and the demobilization of the coun
try’s forces, his discharge from the
service was given, and he is now
on ^he way home to his folks.
GERMANS GROW TOMATOES
ON ORDINARY SPUD PLANT
NEW YORK.—A tomato-potato
is the latest “wonder” of German
horiculture, according to German
newspapers received here. Accord
ing to their accounts, tomatoes and
potatoes have been raised on one
plant. On a strong branch of a
potato plant was grafted a shoot
of a tomato plant. After a process
of hardening which required one
month, the grafted plant was snt
out in the open. The two branches
then thrived as one.
From sixteen such plants it is
stated 42 pounds of tomatoes and
- pounds of potatoes were gathered, j
The plants require onlya rich loose j
warm soil, much sunshine and ordin- j
ary care. German papers say the j:
achievement is not astonishing, as j
the tomato and potato belong to j
the same plant species, that of 1
solanum.
Engineer Haslem was a city visi- 1
tor yesterday. He expects to return 1
to his station tomorrow. I
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MUUNtYS Lift
Sentence I& Commuted From Death
to Life Imprisonment for
Convicted Dynamiter.
SACRAMENTO—Governor Steph
| ens, of California, who had been
deluged with telegrams and letters
asking for executive clemency for
Thomas Mooney, who was convicted
and sentenced to death in connection
with the outrage in San Francisco
during the Preparedness Day parade,
has commuted the sentence from
hanging to life imprisonment. He
was to be hanged on December 13.
Mooney, when he was told of the
change in the sentence, reused to
accept the commuted sentence and
said that he prefers hanging to a
living death in the penitentiary at
San Quentin.
Mrs. Mooney, on hearing of the
commuting of sentence, stated that
the action taken by the governor
is tantamount to a confession that
her husband is not guilty of an
offense punishable *by hanging, and
thinks that the life sentence is not
deserved and should not be exacted.
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DITCHES BERLIN
Liberal Party In Control At Baden
Decided to Break With the
Party At Be-lin.
LONDON'.—The Liberal party in
control of the government in the
Grand Duchy of Baden has issued
a proclamation to the people de
manding that a complete breach
with Berlin be established imme
diately.
Those in power at Berlin have'
pursued a dictatorial policy in dtal’ng
with the governments established in
the various federel German states
after the signing of the armistice.
This atttitude is resented by those
in control in the federal states.
HAZ LETS TRAIN
JUAREZ, Mex.—Mexican papers
received here tell of a unique re- j
quest made upon Felix Diat, the'
rebel leader in the state of Vera
Cruz by President Carranza. An!
Argentine battleship arrived at Vera
Cruz to assist in observing the Mexi-'
can independence day. The sailors
and marines from the battleship
were invited to Mexico City. To
prevent the Diaz rebels from attack
ing the train, the Mexican paper
stated the president sent a request'1
to Diaz that the train carrying the
Argentine sailors be permitted to '
pass through rebel territory un- i
nolested. Diaz granted the request i
iccording to the newspaper account, i
lpon condition that no Mexican <
:roops were acting as escort on the I
rain. The train was not molested.
Thomas K. Blakey, foreman :n 1
iharge of the steel gang, came Into 1
own to spend Thanksgiving with 1
lis son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and ■'
sirs. Walker Blakey. Ji
ALLIES DECIDE
TO GEL WEB
FOR A HEARING
i Inter-Allied Conference to Be Held
In London to Discuss Demanding
I
Kaiser's Arrest.
| LONDOV.—The express, in dis
cussing at length the post-war situa
tion as between the Allies and Ger
many, says that the Allies have de
cided to demand of Holland the
| surrender of the former kaiser's
person so that he may be brought
to the bar of justice to answer for
the crimes committed by Germany
at his dictation.
; Premier Clemenceau, of France,
and Marshal Foch. commander in
chief of the Allied forces, are ex
pected to arrive in London on Sun
day to discuss the actual pio
cedure to be adopted in demanding
the surrender.
ALASKA ID" GET
NAVAL STATION
I
New Airplane Station 1* to Be
Established Soon By Government
At Seward.
SEATTLE.—The special corres
pondent for the Seattle P. I. at
Washington, D. C\, says that the
United States navy department
plans call for the establishment of
ninety naval aeroplane stations on
both the Atlantic and Pacific coast
of the United States.
Each station is to be fully equip
ped and guarded by strong fortifi
cations and manned by complete
garrisons. There will several aero
planes and dirigibles for scouting
and other purposes stationed at
each of the naval air stations, with
trained crews to properly operate
them.
The stations planned on the Pa
cific coast are to be at Seward.
Alaska; San Diego, Cal.; San Fran
cisco, Cql.; and possibly Port An
geles, Wash., at the entrance to
Puget Sound.
In naming Seward, the navy de
partment includes Alaska in the
great development plans for the
first time, and save for the marine
station at Sitka, this is the first
big naval move in which the terri
tory participates.
NEW CHINK PRESIDENT
MAN OF RARE QUALITY
PEKIN.—Hsu Shih-chang, China’s
tew president, is a man to whom
nost Chinese can look up to as an
ixperienced statesman of the Man
;hu days. Moreover he has great
iterary achievments which his
:ountrymen admire, and is a peace
naker to such an extent that even
he rump parliament functioning
it Canton may also elect hnr presi
lent. He has the added qualifica
ions of not being a military man.
It is not expected, however, that
le will hold office for any great
ength of time, certainly not for the
ull period of five years, and the
ice-president will then automatica
lly become president.