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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1922
NUMBER 204
PAY CUT ORDER MAY RESULT IN STRIKE
TARIFF SIDETRACKED TO CONSIDER ARMY BILL
LANDIS OFFERED CHANCE TO TRY WAR FRAUD CASES
DAUGHERTY IS PAVING WAY
FOR TRIAL OF WAR GRAFTERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3—
Attorney General Daugherty has an
nounced that he will ask Judge Lan
dis and former governor McGovern,
df Wisconsin, to aid the department
of justice in the prosecution of war
fraud cases, for which a large sum
has been asked from Congress.
The cases, the attorney general
says, are now being prepared for
trial and their prosecution presents
the greatest undertaking ever con
fronting the department of justice.
Daugherty says that he approached
Landis recently and is “convinced
that he looks upon the proposition
favorably”.
ROWBOAT TIPS—SEVEN DROWN
CLEELUM. Wn., June 3—Seven
men were drowned in the Cleelum
riv£r yesterday as the result of the
capsizing of a rowboat in which
they were crossing the river.
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Hugh S. O’Neill, of the railroad
forces, is a patient at the local hos
pital as the result of being hit on
the jaw by a spud, during the pro
gress of pile driving at the bridge
site near the Mission. It is feared
by Dr. Carmichael that the man's
skull has been fractured.
Electrician Joe Laferrie is undei
the care of Dr. A. B. Carmichael
at the local hospital, as the resull
of an injury to one of his feet. Ar
X-Ray examination showed one ol
the small bones to be fractured.
Special Agent Billy Butler, o!
the Alaska Railroad, arrived from
the south yesterday afternoon on £
railroad speeder.
Tom Smith, proprietor ot tn<
Southern Hotel, has booked passage
on the steamer Teddy H., for Ho
Springs, on his annual pilgrimage
to the sourdough health resort. I
is the intention of Mr. Smith t<
make a trip to the States later ii
the summer.
John H. Kelly, representative o
the old Northern Commercial Co.
who arrived from Fairbanks sever
al days ago, will leave for the low
er river aboard the steamer Tedd;
H. Mr. Kelly expects to go to Daw
son and possibly Mayo before re
turning to his headquarters in Fair
banks.
Harry Abercrombie went to Fair
banks today to get Tom Hickey
whom he will take to the railroac
hospital at Anchorage. Hickey re
cently sustained an injury to hi
spine as the result of a fall fron
the bluff on the north side of thi
Tanana river.
R. S. Donaldson, manager of th
Healy River Coal Corporation, cam'
down from Fairbanks yesterday am
returned to his headquarters a
Healy Fork this afternoon.
There will be a regular meetini
of Nenana Igloo, No. 17, Pioneer
of Alaska, at Union hall, on Monda;
evening. It will be the first meetini
in a month and all members are re
quested to be present.
Captain C. S. Ward, of the Ala=
ka Road Commission, who arrive
from the coast several days ago, wi.
take passage on the steamer Tedd
H. for the lower river. He is er
route to Nome.
There will be a Fourth of Jul
meeting at the Coliseum tomorrow
afternoon at four o’clock. Everyon
is urged to be there.
H. P. Karstens came down fror
Fairbanks on the steamer Teddy H
to meet Mrs. Karstens and son, an
he probably will return with thei
to the upper town.
TRAINMEN TO TAKE STRIKE
VOTE WHEN RAILROADS ACT
BORAH ACCUSES AMERICA
OF GOING BACK ON PROMISE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3—
Declaring that the recent Washing
ton Arms conference placed the ban
of public condemnation upon gas
i warfare. Senator Borah yesterday
| charged, on the floor of the senate,
that representatives of the United
States and six other nations recent
ly conferred at Washington with a
view to extending gas warfare, thus
“practically destroying the work of
the Arms conference”.
STEAMER BREAKS CRANKSHAFT
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3—The
steamer Rainier, with a crew of 29
aboard, broke her crankshaft and
was taken in tow yesterday by a
vessel which responded to the S. O.
S. Vessels are also searching for the
gas schooner Mae Hymen, with a
crew of twelve, which has been miss
ing since Monday. It is believed the
schooner overturned and that the
members of the crew will be found
in the ship’s small boats.
MRS. BESTOR DIES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, June 3—Mrs. C. C.
Bestor, grand daughter of William
Hunter who was author of the treaty
for the purchase of Alaska, died in
this city yesterday, after a long ill
ness. She is survived by a husband,
who is connected with the Alaska
bureau of education, and by foul
daughters.
SEATTLE PIONEER PASSES
SEATTLE, June 3—Mrs. Mar>
Ann Wert, aged eighty-six year?
a pioneer resident of Seattle, died
here yesterday. Mrs. F. S. Fowler
of Skagway, is a daughter of th«
, deceased.
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DIAZ TO HEAD REBEL FORCES
NEW ORLEANS, June 3—Genera
Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz
will return to Mexico shortly tc
‘•assume the leadership of a revolu
tion”, according to announcemenl
made here yesterday by the warrior’
confidential secretary.
OFFICIAL MUST ANSWER
j CHICAGO, June 3—Formal com
j plaint has been made in Federa
■; Judge Carpenter against Federal At
• Itorney Charles C. Clyde, regarding
the conduct of his office.
ALLIES PUT ON THE SCREWS
lj BERLIN, June 3—The inter-Al
• lied commission has declared martia
! law throughout Kattowitz. Gleiwitz
> i Hyndenberg and Rybnik. and th.<
newspapers of Silesia have beer
| censored, according to reports re
t ceived in this city.
PUBLIC MEETING IS CALLED
TO PREPARE FOR FOURTF
A public meeting will be held a
i the Coliseum theater tomorrow af
ternoon, at four o’clock, under th<
• j auspices of the City Council, fo:
I the purpose of discussing plans fo:
| the celebration of Fourth of Jul;
" | in Nenana.
j The meeting will be open ti
' i all citizens and the business men o
‘ | the city are especially urged to at
“; tend in order that the action takei
| at the meeting may be representa
| tive.
^ i The object of the council, in call
a t ing the meeting, is to give oppor
tunity for the organization of ;
j regular celebration committee, t
j have full charge of the celebration
, The meeting will be called t
i order promptly at four, and it i
i urged that everyone be there ii
time.
CHICO, Texas, June 3—A men
acing phase of the railway situa
tion, with a nation-wide strike easily
within the bounds of possibility, has 1
been made acute by informal but
well founded reports that the cut
in the wages of railroad shop craft
workers, expected to be announced
next week by the Railroad Labor
board, will reach a total of fifty
million dollars annually.
B. M. Jewell, head of the railway
employes department of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, declared
today that the reductions probably
would result in a strike vote being
taken, following the conference to
be held next Tuesday by union
chieftans, in which eleven unions
will take part.
TIMBER BURNS IN YUKON
DAWSON, June 3—Much fine
timer has been destroyed in this dis
trict by forest fires during the last
few days. The weather is unusually
hot and the country as dry as tinder,
which accounts for the general
spread of the fires. The Dominion!
telegraph line is threatened at a j
number of places and it is almost ■
certain that communication will be I
cut before the fires are under con- ‘
trol.
GEORGE CARMACK IS ILL
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 3—!
George Carmack, discoverer of gold j
on Bonanza creek, in the Klondike, i
and one of the best known pros- •
pectors in Canada, is seriously ill ;
here of pneumonia.
POINCARE WARNS DEPUTIES
WAR CLAIMS ARE IN DANGER
PARIS, June 3—Premier Poin
care startled the chamber of depu
ties yesterday by announcing that
"dangerous attempts” are being
made around the reparations com-:
mission, in an effort to manipulate
the question of international loans
in such a manner as further to cut
down the claims of France against
Germany.
STEAMER NENANA WILL GO
INTO COMMISSION SHORTLY
The new steamer Nenana, built j
at Nenana and owned, jointly by ]
William Sherwin and Jack Bailey,',
was launched several days ago and j
is now undergoing final preparations j
for sendee. A commodious barge,
also built on local ways, has also
been launched and will be ready
for sendee by the time the steamer
is ready for her trial trip.
The Nenana will be a free lance
in the freight and passenger busi
ness on the Tanana river and its
tributaries, and will make voyages
when and where demand calls.
J. Fred Struthers, Alaska manager
.of the Waechter Bros. Co., came
j down from Fairbanks yesterday to
: see that the new cold storage barge
j makes a safe get-away for the lower
i Yukon. He is registered at the
; Southern.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Van Orsdel
| got away for the Kantishna country
; yesterday in the power boat Kan-,
•! tishna. A new engine was installed
■ | in the launch recently and the voy
• agers expect to reach Glacier in re
• cord time.
The News has received a wire
> j from Delegate Dan Sutherland in
1 which he says: “The Senate today
■ increased the Alaska road appropria
i tion from four hundred twenty-five
- thousand to five hundred thousand”.
He refers to the appropriation for
- the Alaska Road Commission, which
- is now under consideration as part
i of the general war department an
> nual appropriation.
> The waterfront is caving badly
s j just below the foot of A street,
i j close to the place where repairs
(were made a year ago.
PASSENGERS ARRESTED
BALTIMORE, June 3—When the
steamer Columbia docked here yes
terday, from San Francisco, George
tL Broadhurst. the noted playwright
and J. B. Simon, of San Francisco,
were detained by the police as the
result of an alleged murderous as
sault by Simon upon the playwright
while the steamer was on the high
seas. Details of the encounter have
not been made public, but the case
is to be aired in district court in a
day or two.
FILM STAR DENIES CHARGES
LOS ANGELES, June 3—Herbert
Rawlinson, film actor, has made
formal denial of the charges filed
against him by Mrs. Ethel Clark, of
New York, to the effect that he as
saulted her daughter Dorothy, in
October. 1920. The girl at first de
nied her mother’s charges but is
said to have admitted their truth
later.
ANSWERS WITH REVOLVER
SPOKANE, June 3—Lee Campbel
shot and piobably fatally wounded
his wife here today because sht
entered to secure a divorce frorr
him. He also took a shot at his
father-in-law, but missed him, and
then turned the gun on himself
with fatal results.
STEAMER TEDDY H. HERE;
TO SAIL TOMORROW NOOb
The powerful steamer Teddy H
arrived from Fairbanks yesterday
with the Waechter Bros. Company’!
new cold storage barge in tow, anc
is now taking on cargo for a trij
down the Yukon and up the Koyu
kuk rivers. The barge will be loadec
here with a cargo of meat and wil
be towed to Holy Ccoss, where i'
will await a tow to the Iditaro.
district.
The two barges belonging to th«
steamer are being loaded with i
general cargo for Koyukuk rivei
points, and points on the Tanan;
and Yukon rivers.
Captain Andy Livingston, formerl;
of the White Pass service, is ii
command of the Teddy H-. with Ton
Cullen and Waldo Finger as en
gineers, and M. Helmic, purser.
In view of the high stage of w-ate
in the Interior rivers, it is expect
ed that the steamer will make i
quick trip to the Koyukuk Upon re
turn to N'enana, the steamer wil
take on another cargo for the Koyu
kuk and such other freight as ma;
be offering for Tanana and Yukoi
river points.
The Teddy H. is scheduled to sai
from Nenana tomorrow at noon.
The launch Leow Victor, with twi
barges in tow, under command o
Dave Mutchler, sailed for the Idit
arod district last night with consid
able freight and a number of pas
sengers. Mutchler will operate th
boat between Iditarod and Hoi;
Cross during the summer, carryin]
freight and passengers.
M. J. Cooney will endeavor to ar
range a ball game for Sunday at Ne
nana, if the Fairbanks team can b
I induced to make the trip.
HOOVER FIXES OPERATORS;
NOW AFTER THE DEALERS
i WASHINGTON, I). C., June 3
Having obtained an agreement
among coal operators producing 80
per cent of the bituminous coal in
the country, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover is now turning his atten
tion to the wholesale and retail
i dealers, with a view to securing to
the public the benefits of the price
agreements.
1 Under the terms of the agreement
, with the operators, the maximum
price of coal, for the duration of
the strike, will be held at $3.50 per
ton.
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FIRES THREATEN TOWN
SEATTLE, June 3—Fire fighters
are making a desperate effort to
save the town of Kerriston, near
Cedar Falls, which is surrounded by
. forest fires. A shift in the wind may
save the town, but otherwise the
situation looks very serious. The
women and children of the little
town took refuge on a raft which
they moved to the middle of a small
lake, but they were later brought
to Seattle by special train.
KLANSMAN CONVICTED
BAKERSFIELD. June 3—William
Pickens, a member of the Ku Klux
Klan, was convicted here yesterday
on a charge of assaulting and rob
bing Clyde Rickey, taxicab driver.
It was alleged at the hearing that
the members of the executive com
mittee of the klan discussed the
tarring and feathering of Ricked for
alleged evasion of the law.
MORE TROOPS FOR BELFAST
j LONDON'. June 3—The British
regiment which returned from Dub
i lin in February, embarked for Bei
fast yesterday, to be held in readi
ness for military action should the
situation become serious in that
part of Ireland.
PLANE BURNS—TWO CREMATED
EL PASO, June 3—Ben Jenkins,
lieutenant in the reserve corps, and
Sergeant Arthur Juengling, of the
Twelfth Observation squadron, were
burned to death yesterday when
their plane crashed into a mountain.
R. R. MAN TO OPPOSE MILLER
i| SEATTLE, June 3—H. A. Moore,
a railroad engineer, has formally
announced his candidacy for tha Re
i publican nomination for representa
i tive to Congress, to succeed Repre
■ sentative John F. Miller, in the First
Washington district He was a can
• didate two years ago but withdrew
• late in the campaign, just before
i the primary election.
I FRANK SLAV1N ILL
VICTORIA. B. C., June 3—Frank
• Slavin, former heavyweight cham
i pion boxer of the world, is serious
ly ill in this city. He lost the title
1 to Peter Jackson and, during the
late war, fought with the Canadian
forces overseas.
f A deal is pending for the sale
- of the Cooney Hotel by M. J. Coon
ey to Gus and Pearl Rogstadius, ex
- perienced hotel people from the
i coast. Mr. Cooney is now in Fair
r banks arranging minor details in
r connection with the transfer of the
property.
Walter Teeland, graduate of the
- Franklin K. Lane school, has accept
; ed a position with the W. A. Cog
| hill establishment.
SENATE LAYS TARIFF ASIDE
TO CONSIDER BILL FOR ARMY
WASHINGTON, D (... June X—
Temporarily laying aside the tariff
bill, the senate yesterday took up
the consideration of the army ap
propriation bill, and it is expected
the measure will be passed within
a few days.
The bill, as reported by the senate
committee, provides for an appro
priation of a million and a half for
the repair and replacement of the
Alaska military cable, an increase
from $140,000 as approved by the
house.
The increase in the cable item was
asked by the war department be
cause of tbe danger of a break in
the present cable, with the cutting
off of communication with the terri
tory. The amendment was approved
by the senate without a record vote.
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Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Vint, accom
panied by Mrs. Vint's mother, Mrs.
Viola McNinch, have left Anchor
age for San Francisco where Mr.
Vint has been offered a good posi
tion. He was chief draftsman in
the Anchorage offices of the Alaska
> Railroad.
Major L. P. Hornberger, head of
the Lake & Export Corporation, of
Huntington, \Y. Ya., who came to
Alaska several weeks ago to make
an investigation of the Government
coal properties in the Matanuska
district, with a view to taking the
mines over on a leasing proposition,
returned to the States several days
ago without disclosing the results of
his investigation.
Dr. H. Foster Bain, director of
the bureau of mines, with head
i quarters at Washington. D C . ar
, rived at Anchorage recently en
route to the Matanuska district,
where he will investigate the the
coal situation in the Chickaloon
: field. It is possible that he will
come to the Interior later and on
the return trip to the States, he
will have a look at the Bering coal
; field.
E. E. Dilley, former oldrimer of
the Interior, left Anchorage for the
States on a recent boat.
The Prince Rupert News says it
' is possible the Grand Trunk railway
will inaugurate a daily transeont:
Ihental service this month.
j Former Governor Thos. Riggs, Jr ,
, has presented the Alaska Historical
Library and Museum with a number
of Alaska curios collected by him
'while he'was a member of the In
Iternational boundary survey.
I The Nenana Syncopated Orchestra
will give another one of those pop
ular dances tonight. Starts at ten.
Unless fresh negotiations are ini
j tiated by either the Alaska Road
Commission or the Pioneer Mining
i Company, the Seward Peninsula rail
i road, at Nome, will not be acquired
! by the Territory, according to a
, statement made recently by Karl
Theile, of the territorial road com
; mission. The plan to purchase the
. road for $20,000 was approved by
; the territorial board, but the mining
i company refused to accept that
amount.
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Lonnie McIntosh, former chief of
police at Ketchikan, has been ap
pointed by John B. Marshall to be
one of his assistants for prohibition
enforcement in the territory of Alas
ka. The commission is such that it
will take McIntosh about the terri
tory.
There will be a good time at
Union hall tonight. Don't miss it.