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NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920.
NO. 104
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ENGLAND WILL ACCEPT SOVIET’S REPLY
- FOREIGN STRIKERS DRIVEN FROM ILLINOIS TOWN
STREETCAR STRIKE TAKES SERIOUS TURN AT DENVER
II HIE KILLED
IN DENVER RIOTS;
CARS DESTROYED
DENVER, Aug. 6.—Disorders re
sulting from clashes between street
car strikers and strikebreakers have
necessitated the enlargement of the
local police force by the addition
of citizen-volunteers, six hundred
citizens having responded to the call
of the mayor this morning for spe
cials.
There was considerable rioting
last night and the fear is expressed
that there will be another outbreak
today. The disturbances resulted in
the death of two persons, and ‘14
were injured. Eight cars were
wrecked by the strikers and sym
pathizers and the plant of the Den
ver Post was also attacked and par
tially wrecked by the rioters.
The traction company has threat
ened to attempt to resume business
under the protection of armored
cars.
EMMET WARD DIES
IN AUTO SMAS1P
Emmet Ward, well-known former
employe of the Northern Commer
cial company at Fairbanks, met
death this week in an automobile
accident in Eastern Canada, accord
ing to telegraphic advices received
by George Preston, manager of the
company’s Fairbanks store. The
fatal accident occurred in a small
town in the province of Quebec.
Ward left Fairbanks on one of
the first boats this season, intending
to locate in Eastern Canada, after
a residence of twenty years in the
North. He was to have become
manager of a pulp mill owned by
relatives of Mrs. Ward, and was
getting acquainted with the country
when his new career was cut short
by death.
The telegram stated that the body
was to be buried in Grand Rapids.
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RUSSIANS INSIST ON TERMS
IN REPLY TO BRITISH NOTE
HARDING AT WORK
MAKING UP FORMS
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MARION, Aug. 6.—For the bene
fit of a number of movie men, Sen
ator Harding went to his news-!
paper office today, threw aside his
coat, rolled up his sleeves and made
up the first page of his newspaper,:
showing a familiarity with the work
that astonished those who witnessed
the performance.
The senator is a veteran news
paperman and understands the work
in all departments, from devil to
editor-in-chief. For several years
Mrs. Harding assisted her husband,
as manager of the circulation de
partment.
ALASKA WILL LEAVE
FAIRBANKS AT NINE
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The steamer Alaska is scheduled
to leave Fairbanks for Dawson at
nine o’clock tonight, making connec
tions at the Yukon port for the Out
side. The steamer reached the up-j
per town early last evening, no dif
ficulty having been experienced in
navigating Chena slough.
The steamer should reach Nenana
at an early hour tomorrow morn-1
ing, and will pick up several passen
gers here for the outward voyage,
the list of reservations including:
Edgar Brooker and Walter Stott,
Nenana boys, who are going Outside
to school; Mrs. Ike P. Taylor and
j little son, who will spend the winter
jin the States; Miss Nunevillar, also
bound for the States, and Miss Ma
bel Pick, who is returning to her
mission work at Tanana.
Among those who will take pass
age from Fairbanks are: Miss Edna j
Lewis, sister of Mrs. Ike P. Taylor,;
who is going Outside to school; Mrs. j
Alex Simson, and Claude Gordon. '
SASKATCHEWAN SWEPT
BY ANOTHER CYCLONE
REGINA, Aug. 6.—The Esteven
district was swept by another cy
clone yesterday, the second within
ja few days. One building was blown
'down and communication has been
I interrupted. No loss of life has been
reported.
An incoming mail stage rep<
from Hogan’s this morning.
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LONDON, Aug. 6.—Replying to
the British note ordering a stop to
the Russian advance through Poland,
the Soviet government has inform
ed England, through Delegate Leo
Kameneff, that Russia will insist
upon an armistice with Poland be
fore relinquishing any advantages
gained in the offensive operations.
The armistice terms, the Russian
note points out, include reasonable
guarantees that the armistice period
will not be used by Poland to pre
pare for further hostile acts.
It is understood that the British
cabinet has decided to accept the
soviet reply, although it is regard
ed as not wholly satisfactory.
WELL ARMED.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 6.—
It is estimated by American mili
tary authorities that Soviet Russia
has sufficient munitions for five
years of warfare on the scale at ]
present being conducted against Po- j
land. Virtually all of the stocks '
on hand are supplies which were'
furnished by the Allies to the old
Russian regime.
RUMANIA READY.
PARIS, Aug. 6.—It is reported
here that Rumania has begun the
concentration of forces in Bessara
bia, but il is not known here wheth
er the move is for the purpose of
relieving the pressure against Po
land or to force the withdrawal of
Soviet troops now on Rumanian
soil.
TURKS ACTIVE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 6—
The Turkish Nationalists are open
ing a new offensive against the
Greeks northeast of Brussa.
YANKS ON JOB.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.—
Commandants of the First, Third
and Fourth naval districts have been
instructed to order reservists, so de
siring, to active duty. They are
to serve on a flotilla of destroyers
scheduled to leave for Turkish wa
ters at an early date to augment
the American forces already there.
AIRPLANES ARE DELAYED
PRINCE GEORGE, Aug. 6.—The i
four army planes constituting the j
Alaska squadron, which arrived here I
several days ago from Edmonton,
will be unable to get away for sev
eral days, according to announce
ment made today by Commander
Street.
The Street plane was damaged,
considerably while making a landing
here, and it has been impossible to
make repairs locally. Repair parts
are being rushed from San Fran
cisco, and as soon as they arrive,
the damaged plane will be made
ready to resume the flight to Nome.
Captain Street expects to be able
to hop to Hazelton on Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.—C. D.
Hillman, of Pasadena, former Se
attle real estate dealer, who was
indicted on a charge of grand lar
ceny and conspiracy in connection
with the alleged swindling of Ed
ward Wineman, entered a plea of
not guilty when arraigned here yes
terday, following which the case was
continued until September.
Hillman is said to have obtained
the sum of $900,000 from Wineman
on fake transactions.
MILL IS DESTROYED
BY MYSTERIOUS FIRE
ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 6.—
Fire of unknown origin practically
wrecked the mill of the Grays Har
bor Commercial company at Cos
mopolis yesterday, the loss being
estimated at $150,000.
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Miss Vanda Coffee, who had
charge of the Koyukuk school dur
ing the 'past season, arrived in Fair
banks on the steamer Alaska and
will become associated with Max
Manger, Fairbanks photographer.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.—
Orders have been prepared by war
department officials providing for
the abolition of the six army de
partments, and the creation, in their
stead, of nine corps, as provided for*
in the army reorganization act, ap
proved during the last session of
Congress.
The order awaits the signature of
Secretary of War Baker.
TOUR OF ROOSEVELT
WILL COMMENCE SOON
NEW YORK, Auk. 6—It is an
nounced that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
speaking tour in the West will begin
at Chicago on August 11 and end
at Indianapolis about the first of
September. He will speak at Se
attle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Port
land.
Dr. J. A. Sutherland, who left
Nenana early yesterday morning, on
his return to Fairbanks from the
Kantishna, reached the upper town
last evening.
EXPLORER LEAVES
NOME EOR ARC! 1C
NOME,. Aug. 6.—Explorer Am
undsen sailed from this port at ten
o’clock this morning in a new at
tempt to reach the north pole. He
plans to drift north with the polar
ice, and is confident of reaching the
jpole. He is taking supplies for a
; stay of five years in the polar re
gions.
I Amundsen arrived here several
: days ago aboard the tug Genevieve,
I from Sledge island, where his vessel,
the Maud, was stormbound for ten
days. All members of the party
are in good health.
FEDERAL CAPTAIN
| KILLED BY REBELS
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6.—Captain
L. L. Sepeda, commander of the
Mexican federal armed yacht Tecu
jte, which is on patrol duty in
Lower California waters, is report
ed to have been killed yesterday on
.the streets of Ensenada. Cantu |
[soldiers are said to have fired a j
volley into the back of the captain,
killing him instantly.
AMERICAN ATHLETES
ON WAY TO ANTWERP
ANTWERP, Oct. 6.—The trans-1
port Princess Matonkia arrived at j
the river Scheldt today with the
American Olympic team aboard, and
will dock at Antwerp tomorrow.
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Deputy Marshal Ed Heppenstall,
of the Koyukuk district, made the i
trip to Fairbanks on the steamer |
Alaska, accompanied by Mrs. Hep-1
penstall. He had an indigent old
timer in charge, taken into custody
in the Koyukuk on the charge of
vagrancy, the only way in which in
digents can be assisted by the Gov
ernment in Alaska.
Chester Hamilton, agent of the
A. Y. N. company at Tanana, came
up river on the steamer Alaska.
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Harry Phillips returned from
Fairbanks today.
The road gang which has been
making repairs to the creek roads
tributary to Fairbanks has complet
ed that work and is now awaiting
the arrival of Colonel Steese before
commencing on the new farmers’
road which is to circle Birch hill,
connecting all the farms in that lo
cality.
FOREIGNERS ARE
F1CED EO QUIT;
HOMES WRECKED
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Auk. 6.
—There has been a Keneral exodus
of foreigners from this city as the
result of attacks directed against
them during the past couple of days
by citizen-mobs. It is estimated
that fully 5,000 have left town.
The city was in an uproar prac
tically all of last night, the rioting
resulting in the death of several
persons and the injury of scores
of others. The homes of about fifty
of the foreigners were burned.
Comparative quiet prevails today
as a result of the arrival of militia,
but feeling is still running high and
further disorders are expected. The
streets are being patrolled by troops
and announcement has been made
that any further attempts to molest
foreign residents will be resisted.
CLOSED BI STRIKE
FERNIE, B. C., Aug. (!.—The
Coal Creek mines have been close.1
by a strike, the miners having re
fused to work today because of al
leged discrimination of the United
Mine Workers against two former
members of the One Big Union.
The strikers declare that they
will not return to work until the
two men in question are accepted as
members by the United Mine work
ers.
Colonel Steesc, chairman of the
Alaska Road commission, and R. J.
Sommers, member of the Territorial
Road commission, who returned this
week from a trip to the Kantishna,
left for Fairbanks this afternoon
and will return to the coast by way
of the Richardson trail. They made
a trip out the line yesterday to
have a look at the railroad con
struction work in the canyon.
Walter Fisher, Coldstream mining
man, came down from Fairbanks on
today's train.
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