WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1919.
NO. 140
SENATORS START DEBATE ON TREATY
GALVESTON IN PATH OF TERRIFIC GULF STORM
GERMAN PRISONERS DIG WAY TO LIBERTY IN STATES
The Bucyrus steam shovel, which
supplied the gravel for surfacing
work north from the Nenana river
up to the time of the suspension of
that work a short time ago, will
resume operations tomorrow morn
ing at the same place, loading
gravel for distribution along the
grade south of the river, where all
of the surfacing work south of
Nenana is to be concentrated, under
Foreman Louis Lee. In order to
secure a sufficient force for the
work, it was necessary to close the
dragline camp and transfer the
members of Surfacing Gang No. 1
to the camp at the Crossing, from
which point they will work south,
toward the end of steel, until such
time as a new camp is established
beyond the river.
It will take about two weeks, it
is estimated, to put the track, be
tween the Crossing and the end ot
steel, in shape for heavy traffic, so
that coal shipments from the Burns
mine may be expected in town about
the first of October, and thence
forth regularly throughout the win
ter.
The work of extending the track
south from the Burns mine will be
taken in hand as soon as the grade
between the river and the end of
steel has been put in condition for
traffic. Considerable new grade is
now ready beyond the end of steel,
and it is expected that the work of
extending the track south will pro
ceed rapidly, once it is started.
The steel for the extension will
be brought across the Tanana liver
from Camp 415, five and one-half
miles of it, and lighter rails will be
substituted on the Nenana-Fairbanks
line until such time as regulation
rails can be shipped in from the
States, which probably will be next
season.
As explained in the statement is
sued by Chairman Mears, the ex
tension of the main track to Mile
360 will make it possible to estab
lish an active construction camp at
the foot of the Nenana canyon,
which will be in rail communication
with the material and store depots
at Nenana during the winter months.
It will also make possible the de
velopment of coal ledges in that
locality which were recently located
by Robert Burns and associates,
with a view to supplying the local
market with a higher grade of fuel
than is now obtainable.
This coal land has just been sur
veyed by Woodbury Abbey so as to
make possible the accjuisition of a
leasing unit of sufficient extent to
justify development.
The new work taken in hand by
the Commission has stimulated the
demand for labor, and men are
being put to work as fast as they
apply for employment. And when
the new camp is established near
the canyon, and supplies landed
there, ready for use, it will be pos
sible to give employment to as many
SENATE DEBATE STARTS
ON GERMAN PEACE PACT
experienced men on rock cuts and
tunnels as are available in this sec
I tion of the country.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.
—The state department is in re
ceipt of advices from Mexico City
advising that three detachment of
Mexican cavalry have started in pur
suit of the ten bandits who captured
Dr. J. H. Smith, an American doc
tor, and three others, and are now
j holding them for a ransom of $<!,
! 000. The captives were taken from
■a train near Tampico,
j Officials of the department are
I awaiting developments, ready to ad
vise the despatch of another Ameri
can expedition across the border
j should such action be deemed ad
ivisable to insure the punishment of
| the bandits.
| The Mexican situation, it is un
jderstood, has reached an acute stage
| as a result of this latest outrage,
land developments of an unusual
character may be expected unless
the bandits are speedily apprehend
REPORTERS DEMAND
INCREASE IN WAGES
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 15.—
Three of the afternoon dailies of
'this city are issuing under difficul
jties this afternoon, as a result of
!a strike anions the news writers,
who have combined in a demand for
increased pay. The news writers
are organized and promise a stub
born tight.
Editors, cubs and other members
of the staffs are doubling up on
their work in an effort to get along
without the reporters.
Mrs.. P. J. Rickert, wife of the
well-known Fairbanks farmer, re
turned from the States yesterday,
arriving at Fairbanks on the Kar
stens stage.
Territorial Superintendent of Ed
ucation L. D. Henderson is a pass
enger on the steamer Yukon, en
route to Nenana and Fairbanks to
investigate school conditions.
It is reported from Fairbanks
that Ben Hoerler has disposed of
his water business in the upper
town and is coming to Nenana to
live as soon as his wife returns
from the States.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.
—The members of the upper house
of Congress took up the formal
consideration of the German peace
treaty and the League of Nations
covenant this morning, the treaty
being the first really big document,
of its kind ever discussed openly
in the United States senate. Sen
ator Henry Cabot Ixulge, one of the
chief opponents of the document,
called for the treaty, thereby open
ing the question to debate, and pre
cipitating what promises to be a
long-drawn-out and bitterly-contest
ed battle.
Senator Andrieus A. Jones, Dem
ocrat, of New Mexico, was the first
to get recognition, and he opened
the light by declaring that the cov
enant would fail if the senate adopt
. #
ed the reservations recommended
by the foreign relations committee.
He denounced, in the strongest
terms at his command, those sena
tors whose insidious declamations
had poisoned tho public mind rela
itive to the purpose and aims of the
'treaty and the League of Nations
covenant.
Minority Report.
Senator Porter J. McCumber, the
only Republican member of the
foreign relations committee who op
posed the action of the majority,
submitted a minority report of the
committee this morning, in which it
was urged that all of the proposed
amendments to the treaty, recom
mennded by the majority, be re
jected. The amendments were
branded as selfish and immoral,
seeking to isolate America and cause
jher to abandon her allies. The
[amendments, the report charged,
were voiced in a discourteous, over
bearing manner, and the amendment
to Article 10 was intended to take
America out of the league. The
amendment relative to Shantung,
the report claimed, would kick
Japan out of the league entirely
and probably lose Shantung to
j China forever.
GALVESTON SUFFERS
AS RESULT OF GALE
!
HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 15.—The
Texas coast, from the northern envl
|
jof Mustang island to the Louisiana
j boundary, was swept by a terrific
'gale yesterday, with a loss of mill
lions in property damage and a con
i
'sidcrable number of lives. The
istrip of coast from Mustang island
(to Brownsville was untouched by
the storm.
Port Aransas, on the northern end
jof Mustang island, was completely
j demolished by the wind, with a loss
of several lives. Scarcely a build
ing was left standing after the hur
ricane had passed, and scores of
boats along the coast in that locali
ty were dashed upon the beach and
broken into bits.
A report from Corpus Christi
says the wind attained a velocity of
i fifty miles an hour there, resulting
| in a considerable amount of dam
i
I age.
Galveston was almost in the di
rect path of the hurricane, the force
of the storm being such there as
to demolish a number of building
and cause havoc among the boats
in the harbor. The full extent of
the damage in that quarter has not
yet been ascertained, but it is
known to have been heavy.
HUN
ESCAPE
SALT LAKK, Utah, Sept. 15.—
Seveteen alie'n enemy prisoners, whc
were held in custody at Fort Doug
las, are reported to have madt
their escape from the prison camf
by means of a tunnel which extend
ed eighty feet beyond the wire en
tanglements surrounding the place.
Several months, it is believed, wert
required to dig the tunnel and dis
pose of the dirt taken from the
long drift, not a trace of the dirt
being in evidence anywhere insidt
the wires. The tunnel was dug al
a depth of six feet beneath thf
surface of the ground, and was ol
ample dimensions to enable a mar
to crawl through easily.
The police claim to have cap
tured several of the escapes, an<i
. they are now being held for identi
! Mention by prison camp officials.
CITED FOR BRAVERY,
SOLDIER IS UNABLE TO
RECALL HEROIC ACT
MERCER, Fa.—Cited for bravery
in action and unable to recall the
act which his commanding officer
thought worth while reporting, is
the odd position in which N. Eu
gene Sampson, of New Wilmington,
Pa., finds himself. Sergeant Samp
son, of Battery D, 323d field ar
tillery, according to the citation,
volunteered for a mission of im
portance while his command was
under fire in the Argonne. The
mission was executed successfully,
says the citation, but Sergeant
Sampson explains that he was so
busy helping to push back the tier
mans that he cannot recall the in
cident.
SHELDON MAKES
1 RECORD DRIVING
BRIDGE AI43
Foreman Sid Sheldon and the
j members of his piledriving crew
| made a record in replacing the
Nenana river bridge, which was
taken out by high water last spring,
the worn having been completed in
nearly a week’s less time than was
estimated. The work of driving
| piles was started on September ">th,
and on Saturday night the bridge
was ready for traffic.
The bridge was not completely
wrecked by the freshet of last
spring, but it was necessary to re
place about thirty bents, and this
work was done by Foreman Sheldon
and his men at the rate of three
bents a day.
From the Crossing, the driver will
be moved south to a point about
halfway between the river and the
Burns mine, where piles for a nine
bent bridge will be driven. And
still farther south, close to the
mine, there is a three-bent bridge
to be replaced before rail com
munication between town and the
end of steel can be restored.
After that the piledriver proba
bly will be put to work on the new
structures that will he needed on
the extension of the main line be
tween the present end of steel and
the canyon.
MANY WRECKS LOCATED
ALONG FRENCH COAST
HAVRE, France. — Twenty-six
wrecks have been located at the
bottom of the sea off Havre, six of
which were due to torpedoes, elev
en destroyed by mines, and nine the
result of ordinary disasters of the
sea. Two French vessels are locat
ing; wrecks all along; the coast.
Mrs. Fern Johnson returned to
Fairbanks from the Outside yester
day, having made the trip over the
trail on a Gibson mail stage.
Rody Connors went out to the
Crossing this morning, having been
transferred from the Nenana-Fair
banks line.
George Kennedy and Sid Sheldon
made a flying trip to town yester
day. Kennedy returned to the
Crossing this morning to get steam
up in the Bucyrus shovel.
Kenans, Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
PRESIDENT HAS
GREAT TIME IN
CITY OF SPIRIT
PORTLAND, Sept. 15. — Presi
dent Wilson is loud in his praise of
Seattle,, as a result of the splendid
reception given him there, and the
appearance of prosperity and indus
trial development which was in evi
dence on every hand. Newspaper
men who are with the presidential
party declare that the crowds on
Second avenue on Saturday had
more the appearance of a New York
throng. The reception given the
President was one of the most en
thusiastic ever recorded in the
West, and even the great Arena was
not large enough to hold the crowd.
Hundreds who were compelled to
stand outside shouted enthusiastical
ly, “We want Wilson!” to which
some of the radicals replied, “We
want justice!”
• The President is scheduled to ad
dress the pen,*’i of this city tonight,
and there is the assurance that a
great crowd will be on hand to
hear him.
I According to information received
in Nenana this morning, Dan Mc
Carthy is 1 yinji at death’s door at.
Brooks, as the result of a bullet
{wound inflicted by his wife, who is
reported to have shot her husband
late yesterday evening. Details of
the shooting were unobtainable, but
{it is understood that Dan is in a
critical condition.
“Young” Dan McCarthy is one
of the most widely known men in
Interior Alaska and was a promi
nent figure in the early days of
Fairbanks, in which district he was
interested with his father in one of
the rich claims on Farbanks creek.
OBRECON IS AMBITIOUS
TO LAND MEXICAN SEAT
j NOGALES, Ari/.., Sept. 15.—Ac
cording to an announcement made
here on Saturday, General Obregon
will be a candidate for the presi
1 dency of Mexico next year.
STANDARD OIL PLANT
IS DAMACED BY FIRE
I NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The big
Standard Oil plant, covering many
acres, on Newton creek, in Long
Island City, was practically wrecked
[Saturday by fire.
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