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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919.
NO. 126
FIVE MILLION SQUANDERED ON SPRUCE
. FOOD PRICES fAKE FURTHER TUMBLE IN STATES
VESSELSOF PACIFIC FLEET TO COME NORTH NEXT YEAR
SENATOR WARNS
COLLEAGUES 10
PAUSE ON BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.—
Senator LaFollette, «f Wisconsin,
cautioned his colleagues in the sen
ate this morning against making
undue haste in the consideration of
the pending oil land leasing bill. He
called attention to the fact that the
measure now before the senate dif
fers radically from the bill favor
ably reported toward the end of the
last session of Congress, and sug
^.geeted that there might be a reason
for presenting the bill in a different
form during this session.
The senator criticised the mem
bers of the public lands committee
because of their failure to give navy
officials a hearing on the bill, to
which Senator Thomas. Democrat, of
Colorado, replied that the depart
* ment of justice and the navy de
partment had employed meddling
and usurping practices in interfer
ing with the powers and work of the
interior department.
FITZGERALD IS
ELECTED MAYOR
OF SPIRIT CITY
SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—Following
the retirement yesterday of Mayor
Ole Hanson, the council elected C.
B. Fitzgerald, a member of the
council, to succeed to the mayor
^ alty.
In a statement issued today, Han
son declares that he needs a rest
and is planning a fishing trip which
will take him away from the city I
for a considerable time.
^ When asked regarding the report1
that he will become a candidate for i
the Republican nomination for vice
president, Hanson said that he had
no political plans for the future.
There was practically no opposi-j
tion gtpong the counc-iimen to the
^ election of Fitzgerald.
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AT RUSSIAN PORT
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ARCHANGEL, Aug. 29. — The
manitor Glow Worm was sunk here
yesterday as a result of the de
struction of an ammunition barge
by an explosion. The monitor was
standing close by the barge when i
the explosion occurred, and went to
the bottom almost immediately, car- :
rying many members of the crew to i
their death.
Twenty are known to have lost
their lives and forty are still miss
-ng. Of those rescued, a consider
able number are seriously injured.
Hec&sa—The Gateway to
Iittoul Part.
McKinley
GOVERNMENT SWINDLED
BY SPRUCE DIRECTORS
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TOWN LAID OUT
FOR NEWCOMERS
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Confident that mining activities
I now in progress and contemplated
i in the Kantishna country soon will
: attract a considerable number of
j people to that district, the oldtimers
| there have laid out a townsite on
Moose creek, at the mouth of Eu
reka, where locations for business
' places and cabins can be secured for
j a nominal sum. The property is
I owned by the Quigleys, but the lots
are being handled by Commissioner
C. Herbert Wilson, as agent, who
is now in Nenana for the purpose
of gathering a stock of goods to
jgether for shipment to the new
town before the close of naviga
tion.
The new town, which has been
j named Kantishna. is in the midst
jof the present activities in that dis
trict, the location being such as to
make certain close proximity to fu
ture operations, insuring the per
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■manency of the location. In fact.
;it is claimed by those who know
that the location is the most cen
:tral that could have been selected.
The townsite is 30 miles from
! Roosevelt, the station on the river
where supplies for the camp are
landed during the summer. There
is a good connecting pack-trail be
tween the two places, which eventu
ally, the Kantishnaites hope, will be
improved so as to permit the use
jof wagons.
By the winter route, the new
town is about 70 miles from the
I Government railroad, by way of the
’ Singleton roadhouse.
1 Commissioner Wilson, who also is
postmaster for the district now, hav
ing received his appointment a short
time ago, has estblished his head
quarters at Kantishna and will
transact all official business there in'
! future. Later in the season, he will
open a store and trading post.
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PARIS, Aug. 29.—Reports con
tinue to reach this city from Buda
pest relative to the seizure of prop
erty by the Rumanian troops occu
pying Hungarian territory. The in
ivaders are helping themselves to all
.sorts of property which can be easi
ly carrtaf^away or converted into
'money, and there is no effort, ap
| parently, on the part of the Ru
manian authorities to put a stop to
| the depredations.
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PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 29.—The
congressional spruce investigation
committee, which came to the Pa
cific coast from Washington to as
certain the manner in which Gov
ernment funds were expended dur
ing the war, forwarded a long tele
gram to Secretary of War Baker
' today, informing that official of the
discovery of a leakage of $5,000,
j000. The money, the investigators
claim, was squandered by the men
.directing the production of airplane
spruce on the Pacific coast. Much
of the money, the report states, was
converted to the prospective uses of
the Milwaukee railway.
| The committeemen express the
hope that they will find a way to
■recover some of the money from
those responsible for the Waste. *
SOLDIERS HIRED OUT.
SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—During the
Shearing: of the congressional spruce
investigation committee in this city
yesterday, former County Commis
! sioner Carrigan told the investiga
tors that former Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo had used his in
fluence to swing the Olympic pen
| insula spruce contract to the Seims
I Cary people.
Carrigan also charged that Gen
] eral Bryce P. Disque, who had
charge of the work for the Gov
ernment, sold American soldiers into
peonage to the contractors, who did
not produce a foot of spruce for
*the Government.
General Disque was particularly
active in the formation of the Loyal
iLftwW Lumbermen,
an organization antagonistic to the
International Union of Timberwork
ers.
WARSHIPS COMING
NORTH NEXT YEAR
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SEATTLE, Aug. 29. — Wireless
advices received in this city today
from the battleship New York, on
which Secretary Daniels is return
ing to the Pacific coast from Hono
lulu, state that plans have been
perfected for a visit to Alaska by
the vessels under the command of
Admiral Rodman. The voyage
North will be made next summer.
It was the intention of Secretary
Daniels to have the fleet visit Alas
ka this year, but the program was
abandoned on account of the late
ness of the season, and that a num
ber of the vessels must be dry
docked to undergo needed repairs
and for refitting
The New York will join the fleet
at Monterey on Sunday.
PRICES STILL GOING DOWN
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—There was
a further lowering of prices in this
city today, the greatest drop being
in the price of hogs, which were
sold at S4.50 per hundred this aft
ernoon. A further decline is pre
dicted for tomorrow.
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FOOD ON HAND.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 29—
; The department of apiculture ha?
published a report in which it is
shown that there were 64,740,17:1
pounds of frozen fish in storage on
August 15, the amount on the same
date last year being 82,0000,000
pounds.
Nine million pounds of mild cured
salmon are in storage this year, as
against five million pounds last year
on the same date.
COPENHAGEN', Aug. 29.—Ac- j
cording to advices received in this
! city yesterday, three members of
the British mission to Lithuania
I were recently arrested by the Ger
. mans and taken to Mitau. where
(they were held until vigorous pro
test on the part of the mission at
Riga secured their release.
The dispatches do not state the
reasons assigned for the arrests.
DEMPSEY 10 LIVE
IN MICHIGAN CITY
DETROIT, Aug. 29. — Champion
Jack Dempsey has announced that
he will make his home in this city
in the future. He has acquired a
desirable residence location here and
plans to build a house on the prop
erty in the spring.
It is the intention of the cham
pion to spend the winter on his
ranch in Texas.
leuu, Wbcra Kalla and Ktrers Waal
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HELP INTERIOR
CONSERVE FISH
j The protest forwarded to Gover
nor Riggs by the local Commercial
club, calling attention to the fact
that the operations of the Carlisle
cannery near the mouth of the Yu
kon river are working a hardship
on the people of Interior Alaska,
and seeking the prohibition of fur
ther commercial fishing on the Y'u
^Von-, is beginning to get results.
,That is, the matter has been taken
up by the governor of the territory
and formally presented by him to
representatives of the bureau of
| fisheries. That action was taken
several days ago, according to a
message received from Juneau early
in the week in reply to the protest
sent by the club.
Another encouraging message was
received from the territorial capital
today, from G. F. Cramer, the gov
ernor's secretary, in which it is
stated the bureau of fisheries has a
representative in the Interior inves
tigating conditions,
i Officers of the club are highly
pleased with the results obtained
thus far, and firmly believe that co
operation on the part of the people
of Interior Alaska will result in the
speedy withdrawal of permits for
commercial fishing in Interior wa
ters.
The telegram received by Secre
tary Diven today reads as follows:
‘"Bureau of fisheries advises they 1
have agent investigating fishing in '
Yukon. The law provides no com
mercial fishing, except for local re- i
quirements, after August 31.”
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WASHINGTON, 0 C.. Aug. 29.—
President Wilson will address the j
people of thirty cities during his
absence from the capita! next month '
That is the number included in the
itinerary, but it is probable that
he will accept invitations to visit
additional cities if the time at his:
disposal will permit.
Starting at Columbus next week,
he will speak in practically every j
large city enroute, between Colum- |
bus and the Pacific coast. He plans ■
to return to Washington Septem
ber 30th.
The President will address the
people of Seattle on September 13th,
and go to Tacoma the day following.
NO CHANCE FOR
PEACE TREATY
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 29.—
I In an interview published in this
city today, Senator Sherman, Re
publican. of this state, ventured the
prediction that the present session
of Congress would come to an end
without reaching an agreement on
the peace treaty and the League of
| Nations covenant The Republican
'members of the senate, he said, will
jnot consent to the ratification of
|the treaty in its present form, and
jhe considers it doubtful if the res
jervations finally agreed upon by the
^Republicans will prove acceptable to
j the other members.
The only solution of the prob
lem, in the opinion of Sherman, is
ito submit the issue to the voter*,
and he predicts that such action will
,be taken during the coming year.
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OUT OF EUROPE
j WASHINGTON, P. C., Aug. 29.—
! Senator Hirom Johnson, Republican,
of California, believes that the time
jhas come to bring all American sol
diers home. In a speech made on
the floor of the senate yesterday,
Johnson urged the immediate return
'of American fighting men to their
| native land. It is time, he said,
for this country to get out of the
J whole mess over there in Europe
and "be just America again.”
Johnson declared that the Ameri
can boys who were sent to Russia
jwere compelled to fight an unde
clared and undisclosed war.
Wood Kicks, Also.
i Senator Wood, Republican, of
Indiana, objected to the despatch
|of American troops to police Silesia.
He argued on the floor of the sen
pate that Americans have no busi
ness over there and should be
brought home at the earliest oppor
tunity.
10 HANDLE SPIES
PARIS, Aug. 29.—Pierre Lenoir,
who was convicted last May on the
charge of having dealings with the
enemy, was sentenced today to a
term of life imprisonment.
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