WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. fl.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NKNANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920.
NO. 302
RIGGS URGING CONTROL OVER SHIPPING
MEXICAN BANDITS WIPE OUT FARM SETTLEMENT
LAWSON ARRESTED CHARGE OF IGNORING STOCK LAW
THOMAS UN
MAKES UP
BOSTON, March 25.—Thomas W.
Lawson, local broker and author,
was placed under arrest in this city
today on the charge of violating the
state law regarding the filing of in
formation regarding issues of stock.
Lawson recently promoted silver
ctock advertised as “silver’s great
est gamble of the age.’’ His stock
advanced from a few cents to $9 a
tfhare and heavy sales were record
ed.
The arrest was made in connec
tion with Attorney-General Allen’s
crusade against promoters and brok
ers engaged in exploiting silver
stocks.
When informed that a warrant
had been issued for his arrest, Law
son gave himself up to the authori
ties and was almost immediately re
leased on bail. He gave his occupa
tion as farmer and author.
CENSUS FIGURES SHOW
DAVENPORT IS GROWING
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.
—Figures made public today by the
census bureau show a gain of 13,
000 in the population of Daven
port. Iowa, since the last census,
the total number of residents at
present being 56,727.
CARPPENTIER TO MEET
EDDIE HAGEN TONIGHT
NEW YORK, March 25.—Georges
Carpentier will meet Eddie Hagen
in an exhibition bout in this city
tonight. Hagen is captain of the
Yale boxing team and was formerly
middleweight champion of the Am
erican expeditionary forces.
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RIGGS SAYS SHIPPING TRUST !
IS RETARDING DEVELOPMENT
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 25.—
Paul Little, 11-year-old son of E. R.
Little, local capitalist, is missing,
kidnaped by a man who has in
formed the distracted father that
the boy will be restored upon the
payment of a $25,000 ransom.
The father has announced through
the press and otherwise that he will
gladly pay the ransom or meet any
other demands made for the restor
ation of his son, but the kidnaper
has maintained an ‘unbroken silence
since the first letter was sent, in
forming the father that the boy
would be killed if he failed to pay
the ransom. There were no in
structions, however, as to the man
ner of payment, and the father
-does not know how to get the mon
ey into the kidnaper’s hands.
; As a final inducement, Little an
nounced today that no attempt
: would be made to arrest the kid
naper if he would take the money
jand restore the stolen boy.
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Undertaker H. H. Ross returned
to Fairbanks from Brooks on Tues
day’s train, having: with him the
body of the late Dan McCarthy,
which will be prepared for shipment
to the States on the first outgoing
boat. .
Advices received from Fairbanks
; this afternoon state that the con
dition of John Vachon is very crit
ical and it is considered doubhful if
he can survive the day. A G. Va
chon, a brother, is now enroute up
;the river from Tanana and probablv
will reach Fairbanks tomorrow, bul
it is feared he will be too late to
'see his brother alive.
; Mail advices just received in Fair
banks confirm the earlier telegraphic
■ report, published exclusively in The
■ Nenana New’s, of the death of Franl
| Nolan, Dawson oldtimer.
Mike Cooney arrived at the Can
i yon roadhouse this morning frorr
| the coast end of the Broad Pas;
i trail.
A fire originating in a clothe:
i closet in the Tom Marquam resi
I dence, Fairbanks, caused consider
!able damage last night to clothing
and other valuables stored in the
closet, including a hand-worked ta
iblecloth. The fire department ar
rived on the scene in time to save
the house.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.
—In statements made before the
senate commerce committee today,
urging the enactment of legislation
giving Alaska officials greater con
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trol over Northern shipping, Gov
ernor Thomas Riggs, Jr,, chairman,
and R. M. Semmes, transportation
expert of the Alaska Shipping board,
declared that inadequate transporta
tion service and high shipping rates
are retarding the development of
Alaska.
Governor Riggs informed the law
makers that the production of placer
gold in the Territory has been cur
tailed as a result of the high rates
charged on the Alaska river lines
jand on the ocean lines between Se
attle and Alaska.
Semmes declared that the private
■arriers in Northern waters are try- J
ng to build an absolute monopoly, j
rhe companies, he said, do just as j
;hey please in the matter of rates;
md service. The Government has.
10 regulations and the Territory is j
f>owerless, with the result that the !
whole mail contract system has been ■,
destroyed. The mail is moved when- j
ever ships are available, the carriers 1
having refused to enter into a con-j
tract for the transportation of mail j
at fixed intervals.
The Governor and Semmes were j
accompanied to Washington by Mau
rice D. Leehy, special counsel of
the Territorial Shipping board, and
the object of their trip across the
continent was to take up with Con
gress the transportation problem in
the North.
VILLA MASSACRES
MEXICAN FARMERS
EL PASO, Tex., March 25.—An I
entire Mexican farm settlement, i
numbering more than fifty men,'
women, and children, was wiped out 1
by Bandit Leader Villa and a gang!
of his followers on March !•!, ac-i
1 cording to advices just received in
' . .
this city. The settlement, which
was located near Santa Barbara, i
State of Chihuahua, was raided by !
the bandits and the farmers defend- J
ed their homes against the attack, j
holding the bandits off until their j
supply of ammunition was exhaust- j
ed. Twenty-five of the survivors j
then gave themselves up, and per- j
CABLE MAKING MONEY
FOR U. S. government!
1 SEATTLE.—Money has been made
for the Government by the Seattle- i
i Alaska cable and wireless system
I
the only telegraphic system oper ;
ated by the Government, according j
to advices received here from Wash- ,
ington. The cable system last year j
turned about $138,000 into the :
treasury and, in addition, carried
about $300,000 worth of official
'business free.
INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS
SCHEDULED FOR COAST
VANCOUVER, B. C. — Business
j men of the United States, Great j
Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the :
' Orient and Canada will be asked to
• attend sessions of the British Co- j
1 lumbia Industrial congress, to be
i held here in June. At least 2,000
delegates are expected.
A. B. Funk, local member of the
petit jury, who came down on
Tuesday to attend to some business
! matters, will return to the upper
I
Itown tomorrow. The jurymen we»v
i excused on Monday, to report again
i
ion Saturday.
haps would have escaped with their
lives had not one young farmer,
crazed by grief over the murder of
his family, rushed at Villa and tried
to wrest a gun from the leader’s
hands.
Infuriated, Villa shot the young
man in his tracks, and then ordered
the execution of the others, not one
of those who surrendered being
spared. The number included sev
eral women and children.
Before leaving the place, the ban
dits set fire to the homes of the
massacred settlers, and left the bod
ies of the victims scattered about
the place where they had fallen.
WINNIPEG DOCTORS AID
IN LIQUOR DISTRIBUTION
WINNIPEG, Man.—Winnipeg doc
tors issued more than half a million
prescriptions for liquor, permitting
the holders to secure 156,719 gal
lons of liquor, (luring 1919, accord
ing to J. N. Mac-Lean, administra
tor of the Manitoba temperance act.
Plans to introduce amendments
which would prevent wholesale traf
fic in liquor are under way, Mr.
MacLean said.
CLAIMED HE WAS BORN
OF ROYAL PARENTAGE
LONDON.—Referring to a New
York dispatch printed here to the
effect that William Fitzherbert, wh >
died at Brooklyn, claimed to be a
great-grandson of King George IV
by his marriage with Mrs. Fitzher
bert, and as much entitled to large
estates, the Daily News says:
“Whatever the facts about the
marriage, there is no doubt that
Mrs. Fitzherbert believed herself to
be lawfully married to George IV.
It has always been understood that
she died childless.”
Kenr.na. t''«c Oatewa-v to McKinley
Rational Park.
MERCHANTS TURN
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CHARLESTON, N. C., March 25.
—Sixty business men of this city
turned longshoremen today to pre
vent the loss of shipments from
Baltimore, which were sent to
Charleston on the freighter Lake
Clear. The. vessel arrived in port
in the midst of a longshoremen’s
strike and it was impossible to se
cure men to take care of the 600
ton cargo.
The freighter remained in port,
until orders were received to re
turn to Baltimore with the cargo
intact. Then the business men got
.together and decided to do the un
loading themselves. The amateurs
included many well-known business
men of the city, and their appear
ance in overalls attracted a large
crowd to the waterfront to watch
the unloading.
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Report® coming from the Tolo
vana country indicate that thdVe i«
a quiet stampede on to Mike Hess
creek, where very encouraging pros
pects have been found.
Charles Carlson and Fred Swan
berg, tunnel men, are recent ar
rivals at the end of steel, having
come in from Seattle to engage in
station work in the canyon district.
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Mrs. Kmma Ringstrom of Brooks
will arrive in Nenana from Fair
banks on tomorrow’s train.
James McIntosh. Brooks oldtimer,
who arrived in Fairbanks this week
from a winter in the States, says
Alaska looks very good to him after
what he saw on the Outside. Con
ditions, he reports, are decidedly
bad, prices are sky high, the cli
mates he encountered were bad, and
the flu epidemic was everywhere he
went, from Seattle to Texas. Texas,
he says, has the worst climate of
them all, a condition that is hardly
offset by the big money in circula
tion.
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Both Sheldon and Brower, the
former with sixteen passengers and
the latter with five, were at the
Taylor fox farm last night, and
should reach Fairbanks tomorrow
i night.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Quigley, well
known oldtimers of the Kantishna
, district, arrived in town last night
;and report a very bad trail between
;the railroad and the diggings.
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FEDERAL TRADE
WASHINGTON, I). C.. March 25.
—The house judiciary committee
has given its approval to the reso
lution directing the federal trade
commission to conduct an immed
ate inquiry for the purpose of as
certaining the cause of the recent
advance in the price of fuel oil,
gasoline, kerosene, and other pe
troleum products.
In urging the adoption of a fa
vorable report on the measure, Rep
resentative L. C. Dyer, Republican,
of Missouri, declared that the ma
nipulation of oil prices is in the
hands of two powerful capitalist
combines.
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! A recent issue of the Cordova
Times tells of the recovery of two
packages of currency which were
stolen some, time ago from a >hip
ment of express matter entrusted
to the Brower stage line. The theft
I was kept secret in an effort to
trace the robbery, but no headway
was made by those engaged in th-*
search, and the money probably
never would have been recovered
had not Harry Cleveland discovered
the stolen packages concealed in a
leather pocket on an old sleigh
which he purchased from the N. C.
company. The thief evidently had
hidden the money in the pocket,
expecting to return later and re
cover it.
1 Cleveland turned the money over
to Brower and received a reward
of $200 for his trouble. The stolen
packages each contained $2,200.
Mrs. Clara Allred, proprietor of
the popular Canyon roadhouse,
eight miles south of the end of
steel, arrived in N'enana last evening
on a brief business trip.
Agust Peterson, head of the Healy
River Coal corporation, came in
from the mine last evening and will
go to Fairbanks tomorrow to meet
Krnest Peterson and Tom McKin
non, now enroutc over the trail to
Fairbanks.
The Browne cottage at the end
of steel is rapidly nearing comple
tion and will soon be ready for oc
cupancy, according to arrivals i.<
town from the canyon. The cot
tage occupies a sheltered spot on
the hill overlooking the busy rail
road camp at Canyon City.
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Maximum fi above R
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