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ALASKA SET THE PACE FOR VICTORY
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Volume Two member of associatfd press NENANA, ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919. Number 41
SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS STARTS TODAY
GERMANS INSIST TREATY TERMS ARE TOO HARSH
' PADEREWSKI ENROUTE TO PARIS SEEKING ALLIED AID
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HUNS CONTINUE
PARIS, May 19.—Reports reach-,
ing this city from Berlin continue
to assert that Germany cannot ac
cept the peace terms which have
been submitted by the Allied pow
ers. President Ebert is reported to
have declared, in a speech made
yesterday, that his government
could not sign the treaty in its
present form. I
Count Rantzau, head of the Ger-:
man delegaton, whose departure
from Versailles on Saturday was
heralded as a withdrawal of the
German delegates at the peace con
^ ference. returned to the French city
today. He spent Sunday at Spa, in !
conference with representatives of
the German government.
When Rantzau left Versailles on :
Saturday, it was reported that he
might not return, because of differ- i
ences among the German delegates.
« TIME EXTENSION
FOR INCOME TAX
According to information receiv
ed at the local signal corps sta
tion today, Alaskans have been
granted an extension of time until ■
June 15 to make returns on their
income taxes. Under the law, the
returns from Alaska should have
reached Tacoma by the first of
March. Owing to the delay of
Congress in passing the amended!
% income tax bill, it was impossible
to attend to the distribution of j
blanks sufficiently early to insure;
returns on time. Particularly was
this true in the case of Alaska. ;
hence the extension.
The extension means that there
is still time to make returns, if
the matter is attended to prompt
ly; also that those who failed to
make returns by the first of March
will not be subject to a penalty,
provided they do not delay be
yond June 15.
FARMERS BANK MOVES
TO NEW QUARTERS
On Saturday evening, at the
close of business for the day,
Harry St. George and Wallace
Cathcart, who own and operate the
Farmers Bank, at Fairbanks, writh
several others assisting them, moved
the fixtures, etc. from the old Red
Cross building, which they had oc
cupied since the big fire, to the
new’ building across the street, on
the exact spot where the burned
building stood.
The fixtures were moved and the
transfer made in good shape, and
the Farmers bank opened for busi
ness this morning at the same old
stand. The new building is an
exact replica of the original, which
was totally destroyed in the re
cent big fire.
»! TEMPERATURE *
* As reported by the government
* observation station, Nenana H
* _— *!
* Sunday, May 18.
W Maximum .61 above
Minimum . 41 above
H Monday, May 19. P
* Maximum . 61 above
Minimum .38 above *
*? Forecast: Unsettled tomorrow. *t
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PADEREWSKI WILE
PARIS. May 19.-—Premier Pade
rewski, of Poland, is enroute t
Paris to confer with the Alliei
peacemakers on matters of grea
importance to Poland, and it i
hoped that the conference will b>
able to straighten out the tangle ii
which the Polish people find them
selves. It is considered probabh
that the crisis will be adjusted ii
such a manner as to insure the re
tention of Paderewski as premier.
The premier is expected here 01
Thursday.
segurTcaseTo
BE HEARD TODAY
IN APPEAL C0UR1
In the circuit court of appeal
at San Francisco, the case of Mail'
Segura will be heard today. Th
condemned man will be represent
ed by Attorney Leroy Tozier.
Mailo Segura is at present con
fined in the Fairbanks federal bas
tile, under sentence of death fo
the murder, on May 5, 1918, o
George Riley, in the boiler-hous
on the Riley & Marston claim, oi
Otter creek, Iditarod mining dis
trict.
Segura was brought to trial be
fore Judge Bunnell at a sessioi
of the district court held at Idita
rod in July. 1918. The trial laste
from July 8th to July 18th and re
suited in a verdict of guilty a
charged being returned by th
jury.
The sentence of death by hang
ing was pronounced by Judge Bun
nell on July 18th, the time of ex
ecution being fixed for a day ii
October. 1918.
A stay of execution was granto.
later, pending an appeal of th
case.
BILLY LYNN MS
GRADE CONTRACI
W. J. < Billy > Lynn, who fo:
some time past, had opened am
operated a coal mine near old 35
mile, was awarded a big gradinj
contract on the Nenana-Fairbank
line.
He is leaving today on th<
steamer Shusana with some of hi:
crew for Fairbanks, to commenci
operations on his contract. Yes
terday he despatched Joe Clark am
a team of horses which he hire<
from the A. E. C. to work on hi:
contract. The team will trave
by way of the right of way.
Lynn’s contract extends fron
station No. 21284 ,to 21420, a dis
tance of 13,600 feet, the majo
portion of which consists of :
through cut. He will use the stean
shovel to get through the cut, us
ing the materia! taken out of thi
cut for the fill beyond.
The stretch of right of way h
will grade is within the limits of th,
division under the supervision o
Resident Engineer Hawley W
Sterling, near camp 449, and 1
more easily reached from Fair
banks. Pete Anderson, Victor Nick
Harry Owen and Fred I^a Plant wil
accompany Mr. Lynn on the Shu
sana today.
CONGRESS
MESSAGE
WASHINGTON'. D. C„ May 19.
■ (Wireless)—Pursuant to the ca:
I of President Wilson, cabled fror
: Paris several weeks ago, the Sixty
: sixth Congress convened today i;
• extraordinary session for the con
i sideration of many measures o
vital importance to the nation. Th
■ Republicans have a majority o
i thirty-nine votes in the house an
• two in the senate, sufficient for th
control of both branches, but sut
i ject, nevertheless, to the restrain
ing influence of the President’s vetc
The Republicans lack the necessar
two-thirds to override a veto.
The Republicans are busy oi
ganizing today, both branches bein
occupied with this work. Tomoi
ALASKAN FORESTS
GET NEW MANAGE!
PORTLAND, Ore., May 19.—t
. H. Flory, assistant district foreste:
has been elevated to the positio
. of superintendent of Alaskan foi
. ests, succeeding Superinte tder
- Weigle, who will become supervise
r of Snoqualmie forest. The new st
? perintendent will assume his dutie
i in the North on July first.
1
FIRST BOAT OF
: SEASON ARRIVES;
BOUND 10 RUB]
The A. Y. N. company’s steame
i Tanana, under the command o
Captain George Green, arrived i
I port about 7 o’clock last night an
■ sailed again for Ruby and Dawso
before midnight. J. A. Fairborr
! general agent of the company a
; Fairbanks is acting as purser on th
| steamer Tanana and will so con
jtinue until R. B. McCorkle, th
>i regular purser, joins the boat. H
' is now on his way down river oi
the steamer Washburn, and wil
| probably join the Tanana at Tanan;
on her arrival there from Rub;,
■i The boat landed 14 tons o
I: freight, most of which was con
■ j signed to the N. C. Co., som
•! registered mail and the followin;
! | passengers: George Hunter am
Miss Alice Warner.
■ Her other passengers were:
For Whitehorse—H. Bainbridge
For Circle—James Muir.
For Tanana—F. B. Hall,
j She took away from this por
lj about ten tons of freight, th
’through mails and the followin.
II passengers:
For Seattle—H. F. Faulkner, B
I M. Toboff and George Zelik.
For Dawson—W. Houston am
another.
For Ruby—George Bojanich.
II For Tanana—C. S. Crider.
i She had the Canadian barg
Stewart in tow from Fairbank
and, it is understood, will take tw<
jmore barges in tow at Tolovan;
. if that river is clear of ice am
i the barges are free. Several barge
I of the A. Y. N. company winterei
I in the Tolovana river.
, j C. S. Crider, represnting the ex
I press companies doing business h
Alaska, left for Tanana on th'
steamer Tanana last night.
CONVENES;
TOMORROW
-trow thev will have read to them
. 1
1 the President’s Paris message,
' which was cabled to Secretary Tu
: mnlty last week.
In addition to the consideration
f of important appropriation and re
i construction measures, it is expect
• ed the Republicans will devote a
1 ; large share of their time, during
^ the session, to the investigation of
■ ‘ war activities as conducted by the
-' Democrats. Charges of great ex
■ travagance and mismanagement
•’;have been made against the admin
istration, in connection wtih the
- war work, and it is regarded as
: certain that numerous inquiries will
- be conducted.
_
j According to advices received
. this morning by Agent J. II. Scott,
1 ! of the A. V. N’. company, the steam
‘ er M. L. Washburn left Portymile
^ I this morning and may be expected
: to arrive in Nenana on or about
=! the 24th of this month.
The steamer Seattle No with
, a large number of employees of
the Carlisle Packing company and
| some freight for that concern, is
i reported to be a few hours behind
i the Washburn. She will go direct
j to the south mouth of the Yukon,
where she will land her passengers
pand make delivery of the freight
I on board. She will then proceed
I to Kotlik, at the mouth of the
j Yukon, and bring up the first per
ishable freight coming into the
j. country via St. Michael.
| The Washburn has a load of pass
j j engers for the Interior ami also
t! some freight which came in over
i Lake Lebarge.
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CABLE IS DOWN;
‘ A break has occurred again in the
' telegraph cable, between Valde: and
! Sitka, and as a consequence, tele
r graphic messages, detailing import
* ant events, will not be received
until perhaps late this evening
The cable broke on Saturday
| evening, and it is expected that
the repair ship has been sent to
remedy the defect, but no definite
t news of this has been rece'ved
locally.
It is particularly disappointing
at this time, as the special session
of Congress meets today and almost
everyone in Xenana is intereste 1
in the happenings at Washington.
The first press message received
in Xenana today by way of the
Bremerton-Valdez naval radio route,
came in late this afternoon. The
message was brief and will be found
elsewhere in these columns. More
news is expected later—too late to
be published in this issue of the
Xenana Xrews.
George Hunter, manager of M.
A. Pinska’s store in Fairbanks, ar
rived in Xenana on the steamer
Tanana yesterday on a business
trip. He will be in town for a
few days.
10 BE EXAMINE!
SEATTLE, May li>.— Ruth Garr
son, 18-year-old Seattle girl, \vh
was committed recently to Wall
Walla for the murder of Mrs. Grac
Storrs, has been delivered to th
I officials of the state penitentiar
and now occupies a room in th
insane ward of the institution. SI
is being closely watched and wi
soon be examined by state alienis
to determine her sanity.
It is regarded as certain here thi
an effort will be made in the net
: future to secure the girls relea;
; on the grounds of recovery fro
, her supposed mental collapse.
E. E. Durgin of Fairbanks, wl
i was arrested by the city authoritii
(last Saturday, shortly after beir
caught in the act of rifling tl
postoffice box rented by the Fir
National bank, was formally take
up on a warrant issued by the di
trict judge, on a complaint swor
to by Fire Chief Henry Gohres.
He was arraigned before U. i
Commissioner Reed Heilig and wi
be given an opportunity to erte
his plea tomorrow.
None of the parties concerne
has made any definite sfatemer
regarding the alleged crime, but
, is reported that the accused ma
had at least one letter eontainin
money on his person at :he tim
he was first taken .nto custod;
which he is alleged to have a>
;stracted from the F:rst N'r.'.i »n;
s bank postoffice box.
After his arraignmen" before th
commissioner, he was giver an <>;
1 portunity to secure bondsmen, an
;he was released from custody iat
Saturday evening on bonds furnisl
ed by Tom Youle and another ;-er
tleman of Fairbanks.
bHvJK I LUUKI StiSIUN
TO BE HELD AT TANANj
Frank B. Hall, deputy clerk o
the district court of the Fourt
division, was a passenger on th
steamer Tanana yesterday, boun
for Tanana.
He is going there in advance o
the court party for the purpose o
making arrangements for holdin
a short term of court there. Th
term is called for the purpose o
hearing petitions for naturalizatio
only. No cases will be heard a
this session.
Mr. Hall stated that the cour
party will probably leave Fairbank
for Tanana on the steamer Wash
burn, and thought that Judge Bur
nell will get away from Fairbank
ahead of the court party if possibb
At the conclusion of the sessio
at Tanana, the court party will g
on to the Iditarod district and hoi
a term of court there, as customar
every year, returning to Fairbank
during the late summer. Mr. Ha!
could not definitely say whethe
or not a term of court will b
held at Ruby this summer.
Jim Fairborn, general agent o
the A. Y. X. Co. at Fairbanks
passed through Xenana yesterda
on the steamer Tanana, on whic!
boat he is acting as purser tern
porarily.
i LONDON —It will be :mp.' -iblo!
to cripple Germany without to s. me
' extent crippling British .-ade. 'has.
S. Addis, director of the Bank of
U England, told the Institute of Bait
ers recently. "To secure the maxi*
mum indemnity for tile minimum
Jof injury to the trade of the c >un
trv," he said, "it would be neces
r
sary to afford Germany fiee access
to raw material and freedom to
n 1 u
arrange her own mo t oi prying
■'the indentr.. .y. This " > ■' I be for
a moderate . mount wed within her
taxable capacity and on such terms
as to keep alive in th*- debtor th
hope of redemption w.tnin • a rea
'£o.i able time.
"A crippled Germane could not
pay a penal indemnity, and to sup
pose that in crippling a nation you
) thereby _ain a guarantee of con
tinuous peace is chimerical. The
only guarantee of peace is this,
having beaten the enemy, you
should be ready' to tight him again
0 whenever he likes.
“The idea of Germanv being able
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to pav. under anv circumstances,
e
the amount of $120,000,000,000, at
which the expenditure of the Allie-'
was estimated, should be dismissed
as impracticable."
FAIRBANKS BAIL
Yesterday afternoon, at the Fair
banks park, teams composed of
.. "Has Beens" and "Newcomers' en
_ traced in a friendly came of base
■ ball, in the presence of quite ;t
e large gathering of fans.
. | The lineup of the teams was a<
follows:
Has Beens—Parks, catcher: Fuw
ler, pitcher; Vic Brown, 1st base;
Cathcart, 2nd base; Bidwell, short
^ stop; Noziglia, 3rd base; Peagues
Buckley and Kern, outfield; an I
f Millet, utility.
.] Newcomers—McLaughlin, catcher
r. Mills, pitcher; Burglin, 1st base;
| Bellerby, 2nd base; Lynch, short
stop; Geis, 3rd base; Boardman,
f Stack and Bartlett, outfield,
f In the game played on a previoa
, occasion by these two teams th«
5 Newcomers gave the Has Beens a
f severe drubbing, and the latter
1 went into the game yesterday de
» termined to get even, as a result
of which quite an exciting game
t ensued; tlje game ending in a vic~
5 tory for the Has Beens with a
. score of 12 to 4.
The previous game, played on
s Saturday, May 3, was won by the
Newcomers with a score of I! to 2.
1 LAUNCH VICTORY SAILED
FOR FAIRBANKS TODAY
1 _
: The launch Victory, with Fred
s Douse at the wheel, sailed for Fair
! banks this morning at 9 o’clock.
She took away the mail and Joe
• Wood. Alex Fowler, Robert E.
Burns, Wm. Muir, Dr. Kenison.
Harry Agoff and Pete Frtoff as
passengers for the upper town.
—
• Frank B. Hall was a through
i passenger on the steamer Tanana
- last night. He is the advance*
, guard of the court party.