WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920.
NO. 81
PALMER ACCUSED OF CAMPAIGN GRAFT
CABINET PARTY TO SAIL FOR ALASKA TONIGHT
PROCEEDINGS STARTED TO HOLD SUFFRAGE ACT BACK
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10.—
Proceeding's asking that Secretary
of State Colby be enjoined from
issuing any proclamation declaring
the suffrage amendment ratified were
instituted in the District of Colum
bia supreme court yesterday by
Charles S. Fairchild of New York,
president of the American Consti
tutional league. Fairchild also seeks
to prevent Attorney General Palmer
from enforcing the amendment.
Justice Bailey has issued an order
requiring Colby and Palmer to show
cause, before July 13, why the pe
tition should not be granted.
The basis of the proceedings is
the claim that the ratification of the
amendment by the West Virginia
legislature is illegal, because it was
accomplished by fraud, and because
the proposed ratification by the
Tennessee legislature also will be
illegal, because the legislature lacks
authority under the state constitu
tion.
Thirty-five states thus far have
ratified the amendment and • one
more is needed for enforcement.
The Fairchild attack came as a
big surprise in suffrage circles.
POLITICIANS CONFER
WITH HARDING TODAY
MARION, Ohio, July 10.—Sena
tor Harding was in conference this
afternoon with General Leonard
Wood and Senator Cummins.
ME1GHAN TAKES OATH
AS CANADIAN PREMIER
OTTAWA, July 10. — Arthur
Meighan was sworn in today as
premier, succeeding- Borden, retired.
KENYON SAYS PALMER USED
PUBLIC MONEY IN CAMPAIGN
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WEALTHY SLACKER]
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10.— !
The war department received in-!
formation today to the effect that |
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy!
slacker, whose recent escape caused j
a big scandal in official circles, has •
been traced to the Northern part '
of the United States, where his ar- j
rest is expected within a short time.
Department officials claim that
every possible effort is being made
to capture the escape, reports to
the contrary notwithstanding.
OLD COAST MARINER
IS CALLED IN EAST
SEATTLE, July 10.—Capt. Fred
Herriman, oldtime Alaskan mariner,
died at Jacksonville, Florida, on
Wednesday, according to informa
tion just received in this city. He
was master of the sailing ship St.
;Paul on the famous run between
Seattle and Nome during the boom
days.
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DRILLING WILL START
SOON FOR ALASKA OIL
First actual work in the develop
ment of the Cold Bay oil fields will
be started immediately after the ar
rival of Captain J. J. Finnegan,
who left Juneau on the steamship
Alaska, bound for the oil district.
According to Captain Finnegan,
there is much necessary preliminary
work which must be done before it
will be possible for the actual drill
ing to be started. As soon as he
lands at Cold Bay he will begin
the erection of necessary buidings,
the building of roads and trails, and
other work necessary to the pene
tration of a new country, says the
Juneau Capital.
Captain Finnegan says the stan
dard rig which will be used for
drilling will not arrive before late
in July and it will take all the in
tervening time to prepare for its
transportation to the fields and to
erect quarters for the men.
One hundred thousand dollars is
available for the first well, said
Captain Finnegan, and more money
can be had if the fields show prom
ise. The great difficulty now in
prospecting new oil fields, according
to Finnegan, is the inability to get
supplies. It is only because the
men who are interested with him
are actual oil men and have sup
plies on hand that his company will
be able to operate this year. The
great shortage, he asserts, is in
casing, which cannot be purchased
on the open market.
Mrs. Charles Jones will leave Fair
banks for Holy Cross on the steam
er Tanana this evening. She will
join her husband, who is stationed
at Holy Cross this summer.
ST. LOUIS, July 10.—Chairman j
William S. Kenyon of the senate |
campaign investigation committee j
issued a public statement this morn-j
ing in which he declares that it is j
his intention to demand the repeal
of the appropriation granted by Con
gress to the department of justice
to light the high cost of living. The
demand will be made, Kenyon says,
on the ground that much of the
money was used primarily to boost
Attorney General Palmer for the
presidential nomination.
Continuing, the invesetigator says
that he is convinced very little of
the money has been used by the de
partment of justice for the purpose
for which it was appropriated. The
department, he declares, has made
no material showing: in its alleged
fight against the high cost of living,
while there is an abundance of evi
dence available to show that the de
partment organization was used ex
tensively for the benefit of the I
Palmer candidacy for the Democrat-!
ic nomination.
Expenses Paid
Members of the St. Louis Demo-,
cratic committee who have appeared .
before the investigators during the j
past two days testified that checks
signed by Edward F. Goltra, Demo- j
cratic national committeeman of.
Missouri, were distributed among
delegates to pay their expenses to
the Democratic state convention at
Joplin.
NEW PARTY STARTS
BUT REEFS APPEAR
CHICAGO, July 10.—The com
mittee of forty-eight assisted by
fraternal delegates representing half
a dozen liberal and radical organ'Va
tions, launched the long-awaited
third party movement here today in
a first national convention, attended
by between 500 and 300 delegates
from all sections of the country,
nearly all of them appearing with
LaFollette badges, indicating that
the Wisconsin senator will have lit
tle opposition as choice of the con
vention for the presidential nomin
ation.
The convention was called to or
der by Allen McCurdy, acting as
temporary chairman. In his open
ing address, the chairman condemn
ed both the Republican and the
Democratic platforms.
The opening of the convention
was delayed considerably by pre
convention conferences between rep
resentatives of the committee of
forty-eight and the Labor party,
the Non-Partisan league, the Single
jTax party, the Triple Alliance of
the Northwest and several other or
ganizations. Each group has some
pet plank and the task of harmon
izing all of the elements threatens
to become complicated.
The single taxers have announced
an unequivocal and bitter stand
against socialistic and paternalistic
policies, and they are demanding a
single tax plank. They are also
attempting too combine with the
National Labor party, which will
meet here in annual convention on
Sunday.
The difficulties of the forty-eight
ers with the Labor party are acute
where they touch the railroad prob
lem. Both stand for government
ownership, but they differ as to the
amount of “democratic manage
ment” which would attach if the
systems were to be taken over by
the Government.
The non-partisan representatives
announce that they are attending
the convention in a personal capaci
ty only. The Labor party insists
that the word “Labor” must be pre
served in any name adopted by the
convention.
In the mail referendum taken by
the committee of forty-eight, prior
to the convention, Senator LaFol
lette appeared to be the popular
choice for President among those
voting.
VILLA THREATENS ACTION
EL PASO, Tex., July 10.—Gen-;
eral Francisco Villa has sent word
that the rejection of his terms by
the government would cause him to
start a new reign of terror in
Northern Mexico.
The threat from Villa comes some
what in the nature of a surprise,
as it was understood here that the
new Mexican regime and the bandit
leader had reached an agreement.
A report was received from Mexico
City yesterday in which the office
of the secretary of war announced
that the terms of the armistice be
tween Villa and the government had
been agreed to and that a settle
ment of all differences was in pros
pect.
BRITISH ADMIRAL IS
SUMMONED BY REAPER
LONDON, July 10.—Admiral Sir
John Arbuthnot Fisher, former first
lord of the admiralty, died here to
day.
Manana, the Gateway to McKinley
Kattonal Park.
There is considerable talk in Fair-'
banks of arranging a big celebra- j
tion in honor of the arrival of the
four army airplanes which are ex
pected within the next week or ten
days. Steps have already been
taken to have the Fort Gibbon ball
team come up river for the occa
sion, and an invitation probably
also will be extended to the Nenana
team to play a three-cornered series,
which will form the feature of the
celebration, aside from the air
planes.
The plans have not yet taken
definite shape, but it is expected
that committees will be named with
in the next day or two to make
the necessary arrangements.
An auto race probably will be one
of the attractions.
JACK JOHNSON EAGER
TO RETURN TO STATES
LOS ANGELES, July 10.—Jack
Johnson, former prizering champion,
has telephoned to local federal of
ficials from Tia Juana, announcing
his willingness to give himself up,
provided he is granted certain privi
leges. He is anxious to return to
the United States, but does not
fancy going to jail.
NEW CUP IS OFFERED
TO NOME DOG RACERS
John Borden, the Chicago sports
man who founded the Nome annual
Marathon distance dog race, will
provide a new cup to take the place
of the massive silver trophy hung
up by him in 1916 as the chief
prize in the great canine speed test
bearing his name, which has been
the main instrument in perpetuating
the dog racing sport in the Nome
section. The recent victory by F.
M. Ayer made him the owner of
the original trophy and the annual
Marathon race would have become
a memory, says the Nome Nugget,
but for the generosity and fine
sporting spirit displayed by the noted
Chicagoan in voluntarily agreeing to
provide a new cup.
Following the recent contest, Mr.
Borden wired the Nome Kennel club
as follows:
“Chicago, April 29, 1920.
“W. C. McGuire, Nome.
“Please extend my congratula
tions to Fred Ayer on winning the
Marathon cup and tell the Nome
Kennel club that I will replace the
cup. “JOHN BORDEN.”
CELEBRATION BILLS.
All persons having bills against
the Fourth of July Celebration com
mittee are requested to present them
to Chairman T. J. McCrosky before
Monday night.
PAYNE 10 START
SEATTLE, July 10.—The Daniels
Payne party, including Alfred H.
Brooks and Governor Thomas Riggs,
Jr., will sail for Alaska sometime
today aboard six destroyers. The
party probably will reach Juneau
about Tuesday, where Governor
Riggs will be dropped and a short
stay made, after which the flotilla,
will proceed to Seward, from which
point the members of the party will
proceed hy rail to Anchorage and
the Matanuska coal fields for the
purpose of inspecting the develop
ment work which is now in progress
there under the direction of the
navy department. It is the plan to
make a thorough investigation of
the coal fields and conditions gen
erally along the line of the Govern
ment railroad.
Returning to Anchorage, the par
ty will rejoin the fleet of destroyers
and be taken hy them to the bat
tleship Idaho, which will await them
outside the harbor. The return voy
age to Seattle will he made aboard
the Idaho, by way of the outside
route, the plan being to be back
here not later than July 2f>.
i Admiral Rodman will remain in
ithe North for some time, with the
[destroyers, which will engage in pa
itrol duty for a month, covering the
^Alaska coast to the peninsula.
The investigations conducted by
Secretaries Payne and Daniels will
'cover the manner of handling coal
'for the navy; also the possibilities
[of opening the lieids through com
imercial leases. The development of
|Alaska fisheries as a source of food
^also will receive attention,
i The officers commanding the de
stroyers will be made thoroughly
[familiar with Northern navigation
during their stay in Alaskan waters.
I
Admiral Rodman, who spent four
years in Alaska in connection with
r
ithe coast and boundary surveys, is
.very much interested in the Teni
;tory and the plans of the two sec
retaries.
I The fact that the two secretaries
.have become a part of a joint move
ment for the improvement of con
ditions in Alaska is regarded here
as of greatest importance to the
i Territory, and much is expected to
| result from the trip.
I The battleship New Mexico, on
[which Secretary Daniels made the
| voyage from San Francisco to Seat
j tie, arrived here yesterday after
inoon and participated in the dedica
tion of Sand Point flying field, after
[which Secretary Daniels inspected
'the Bremerton navy yard.
Henana. Where Belle end River* Meet
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