WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920.
NO. 254
CONGRESS URGED TO ASSIST SUFFERERS
GERIG SA YS MANY MEN WILL BE HIRED OUTSIDE
HUGHES SAYS NEXT BIG WAR WILL BE ON PACIFIC SIDE
MONTESANO, Jan. 29.—Up tc
last night five men and one womar
—Mrs. Emily Patterson, of Aber
deen—had been accepted as tem
porary jurors for the wobbly hear
ing, subject to peremptory chal
lenge later on. Mrs. Patterson was
challenged for cause by the do
fense, and admitted that she had
an unalterable prejudice against In
dustrial Workers, but maintained
that she could render a fair and
impartial verdict. She said that sht
held the opinion that the I. W. W.
preached violence. She admitted;
also, that she had a son in the serv
ice during the war.
Unofficial Juries.
By permission of the court, .there
will be two extra juries in attend
ance at the trial, without official
standing. One of them will be sent
I to court by the American Le* n,
selected from various posts through
out the countr>% and the other will
represent Seattle labor organiza
tions. Each will be composed of
twelve men, and at the conclusion
of the trial they will render their
verdict in much the same manner as
a rf^umr jury.
Insists On Change.
Almost every Hay since the com
mencement of the hearing. Attorney
Vandeveer has renewed his fight for
a change of venue, on the grounds
that a fair trial cannot be had here.
The difficulty of obtaining jurors is
used by him as an argument in sup
port of his request.
Elmer Smith, one of the defend
ants, will appear as his own counsel.
He is a lawyer by profession.
Timothy Martin, one of the ven
iremen, was excused yesterday when
he informed the court that he op
posed capital punishment.
The taking of testimony, it was
thought earlier in the week, would
start about the first of February,
but the difficulty' in obtaining jurors
probably will delay proceedings be
yond that date.
POUND MING IS
GOING DOWN SLOWLY
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NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A new
iow level mark was reached by the
English pound sterling yesterday in
local financial circles, the quotation
being $3.53Vi. The German mark
alsc^ has dropped in exchange valto
during the week, the new price be
ing 1.05 cents. French francs ar"
quoted at thirteen for a dollar.
The normal value of the pound is
$4.68; the German mark, before the
war, was worth 23 cents, and the
franc had a value in pre-war days
of 19 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sweeney will
return to Nenana from Fairbanks
on tomorrow’s train. Mr. Sweeney
was a inember of the petit jury
which was excused this week by
Judge Bunnell.
PRESIDENT SCORES CONGRESS
FOR FAILURE TO EXTEND AID
IN SEA1TLE FOR
CITY ELECTION
j SEATTLE, Jan. 29. — Registra
tions for the approaching municipal
election have broken all previous j
records, and interest in the cam-1
paign is growing keener daily. The !
.total registration is 99,183.
• The principal contest thus far
developed is between Fitzgerald,
and Duncan, candidates for the may-,
oralty. Fitzgerald now holds the'
! position, having been elected by!
!th<- council at the time of th^r<
jtirement of Mayor Ole Ilanson, ana'
he is seeking re-election. In a cam~
! paign speech made this week, Fitz-'
!gerald declared that Duncan, dur
ing the general strike last sprinir,
'threatened to shut off the city light
and power and block the operation
' tempted to stop war work.
In a speech made in reply. Dm
can made a general denial of th
charges.
DISABLED VESSEL
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j HALIFAX, X. S., Jan. 29.—Th
disabled transport Powhatan reach
(ed port today in tow of two Ameri
i can tugs. Upon the arrival of th
'vessel, three men were removed t
a hospital to receive treatment fo
illness which developed after th
Powhatan had become disabled.
An inquiry will be conducted a
•Xew York for the purpose of ascer
| taining the cause of the trouble ex
perienced by the Powhatan.
STREETCAR ffl
TACOMA, Jan. 29.—Hearings ar>
being held in this city by the citj
council on the application of th<
Tacoma Railway & Power company
for permission to advance fares t<
ten cents. The hearings begat
Tuesday night and the fight prom
ises to be a long one and bitterlj
contested on both sides. The pres
ent streetcar fare to points withir
the city limits is seven cents.
Anchorage dairymen recently ad
vanced the price of milk to 3f
cents a quart by the single quart
Families taking milk regularly paj,
27% cents a quart, and restaurant
pay $1 to $1.10 per gallon.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—
President .Wilson expresses keen
disappointment over the failure of
Congress to make funds available
for the use of the administration
in extending relief to th° impover
ished people of Poland, Austria, and
Armenia. It is unthinkable, he
wrote this week, in a letter ad
dressed to Secretary of the Treasury
Glass, that Congress should with
hold assistance from a stricken peo
Jple. The President said further
i that he regretted to learn that the
i lawmaker:- are still dallying over
! the request, made some time ago,
for authority to extend a loan.
The President has requested Glass
i to make another appeal to Congress
j for authority to make a loan of
I $150,000,000 for the purpose of re
lieving the desperate food situation
in the countries named, wnere suf
fering is said to have reached an
acute stage.
RAILROAD WORKERS
TO BE HIRED SOON
SEATTLE, Jan. 29. — William
Gerig, assistant engineer of the Al
oskan Engineering commission, who
is in this city enroute to Anchorage
from a visit of several weeks in
the East, announces that between
three and four thousand men will
be hired in this city in March to
work on the Government railroad in
j Alaska. The work, he says, will
.begin early in the spring and con
tinue until late in the fall.
Gerig predicts that the laying of
rails will be completed during the
j fall of next year and that the rail
; road will be in operation a year j
j later—late in 1922.
PREMIER PREDICTS
PACIFIC WAR NEXT
LONDON, Jan. 2i>.—In an ad
. dress delivered at Melbourne re
cently. W. A. Hughes, Australian
i premier, is quoted as having de
clared that the next prreat war prob
? ably would break out on the Pa
'cific. Australia, he said warning
Iv, is hedged about by nations with
a lust for the great island con
tinent, and should remain constant
ly on the alert for trouble, pre
pared for any emergency.
' SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—Mr,:.
. Isabelle Cleary Barnette has been
granted a divorce from Captain E.
T. Barnette, former Fairbanks bank
er, who left the. North several years
! njro, after the failure of his bank.
Mrs. Barnette is (riven the custody
of her two daughters. Barnett is
in Los Angeles at the present time,
and has interests in Mexico.
Mrs. Barnette is a sister of Frank
' Cleary, formerly of Nenana. At
1 the time of the bank failure she
'owned the property fronting on
> Turner street, Fairbanks, opposite
the postoflfice and the N. C. power
plant, and this was turned over to
the receiver to help liquidate the
obligations of her husband’s bank.
The children at that time had $10.
1000 held in trust for them in Los
i Angeles, and probably still have the
S OtrustforthemnLeiioOldhnOs
money.
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| Abe Stein, former Fairbanks
businessman, was in Ketchikan short-,
jly before the holidays.
TACOMA, Jan. 29.—A report has
reached this city to the effect that
Joe Riley, notorious counterfeiter,
has made his escape from McNeils
island, where he was serving time,
having been sent up from Portland
iast year for a five-year stay in the
penitentiary.
W. H. True, also a counterfeiter,
left the island with Riley, the men
making their way to the mainland
during the night and escaping in a
heavy fog.
HARRY WILLIAMS HAS
BEEN GIVEN RELEASE
Harry Williams, Shaw creek min
er, who has been a patient in the
Fairbanks hospital during the past
several months, receiving treatment
for a broken leg, was discharged
from the institution yesterday. Ho
is still on crutches, but it is said
the cast has been removed and that
the break is entirely healed.
The broken leg is about an
eighth of an inch shorter than the
good leg.
HONOLULU, T. H.—Seven thou
rand live hundred plantation work
ers on the Island of Oahu have ■'one
out on strike as a result of the re
fusal of the plantation owners to
grant a demand for increased wages.
The Strikers are mostly Japanese
and Filipino workers.
The planters declare that they
have no intention of granting; the in
crease demanded, and preparations
are being' made by both sides for a
finish fight on the wage question.
Fives f, th^ big sugar plantation
on the island are tied up as a result
of the walkout.
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WASHINGTON, I). C., Jan. ^9._
According to reports received from
several states, the in 11 lien/.a epi
demic is spreading- steadily in sev
eral sections of the country. The
spread of the tisease has been slow
thus far and fairly well confined to
certain areas, but there is a gradu
al -widening of boundaries and a
daily increase in the number >f
cases reported.
PRIVATE BURIALS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.
Public funerals of flu victims have
been prohibited by the local health
authorities, with a view to checking
the further spread of the epidemic
in that manner.
BIG SMOKE EAGER
10 MEET DEMPSEY
i MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—Jack
Johnson, who left the United State'
to escape trial on a charge of vio
lating the white slave act, has an
nounced that it is his intention to
return to the States to face the
charges, in order that he may have
an opportunity to meet Jack Demp- ‘
, sev in the ring before the champion
goes to Europe to meet Georges
, Carpentier.
i Johnson is confident he can de
feat the white title-holder.
The Central cafe, in Seattle,
which was held up this week and
robbed of $5,500, is not owned by
Alex Capewell, former Fairbanks j
and Ruby restaurant man. The,
place owned by Capewell is known
as the Fairbanks cafe.
LONDON, Jai
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; orators in England are puzzled over
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j mysterious signals which disturbed
| the Marconi stations here and it
| New York this week. Sir Fran!.
'Drayton, royal astronomer, t.> whom
(an appeal was made Tor an c\
Jplanation of the mysterious signal-,
j admitted that it might be possible
j the disturbances were wave signals
.from some other planet. Ail efforts
jto obtain the
| was, failed.
message, if -uieh it
NOTHING TO IT.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Dr. E. F.
Anderson, chief engineer of the Ra
dio Corporation of America, scouts
the Drayton suggestion that the mys
terious wireless signals were sent
from another planet. He says the
disturbances very likely were caused
by some earthly station.
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SEATTLE. L»n. !>.-— Linemen in
the employ of the Postal Telegraph
company went out on strike today
in an effort to enforce their de
mand for a 75 percent wage in
crease.
Information regarding the number
of men on strike is somewhat ditti
cult to obtain today. Representa
tives of the strikers claim that 1.500
men have responded to the call, and
it is claimed by company officials
that very few men have quit thus
far.
The service has not yet been af
fected materially by the walkout.
LONDON, Jan. 29.—According to
information received in this city,
the former kaiser of Germany is
not anxious to return to the father
land. A letter from the exile,
which was published in a German
newspaper recently, stated that he
had no desire to return to the land
over which he once ruled. He is
contented, he says, in his new Hol
land home.
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