WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
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VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919.
NO. 224
COURT FREES HOWAT WHEN MEN QUIT
• TROTSKY PLANNING SPRING ATTACK ON POLAND
- GERMANS AGAIN DELAYING FINAL TREATY EXCHANGE
REPUBLICANS ID
OFFER CASH Fi
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NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—Chairman
Hays of the Republican national
committee has announced the accept
ance of an offer of $10,000, made
by TYuxton Beals, former American j
minister to Persia, to be awarded j
by the committee in the form of j
prizes for the best Republican plat-!
form submitted by Republican men j
and women of the nation.
The chairman also announces that
the contest will be opened immedi
|| ateiy and will continue until March,
during which time the committee
doubtless will receive hundreds of
platform suggestions, the most ac
ceptable of which, it is understood,
will be adopted. The only stipula
tion governing the contest is that
those submitting platforms must be i
under 25 years of age.
It is believed the members of the
national committee will act a3
judges, but this detail of the con
test has not yet been definitely de- ]
eided.
OREGON TEAM WILE
PASADENA, Dec. 23.—If hard
work and secrecy regarding; signals
will win for them, the members of
the Oregon football team have an
excellent chance to carry off the
honors in the forthcoming match
with Harvard, scheduled to take
place in this city on New Year's day.
The team is practicing twice daily,
secretly, behind high walls, where
none may observe the plays with
which the webfooters hope to de
feat the Easterners.
GOVERNOR HART PUTS
SKIDS UNDER HELPER
SEATTLE, Dec. 23. — Governor
Hart has removed Harvey J. Ross
as adjutant-general, and it is be
lieved Maurice Thompson is slated
for the place. Thompson formerly
served the state in that capacity.
TURKEY IN PORTLAND
IS SOMEWHAT COSTLY
PORTLAND, Dec. 23.-—Christmas
turkeys are quoted today at from
62 ti to 65 cents a pound.
The price in Nenana today is 75
cents a pound.
Pete Jepson, former Ruby mer
chant, is planning to locate in the
Portland Canal district in the spring.
He has visited the district and 'be
lieves it has a bright future.
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COAL MINERS LEAVE WORKS;
FORCE RELEASE OF LEADER
A! PLACE OF BIRTH
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LACLEDE, Mo., Dec. 23. — A
'great reception has been arranged
I for General John J. Pershing, who
is enroute to this place to spend
Christmas. He was born here 59
years ago.
The governor of Missouri, the
mayor of Laclede and the members
of the Pershing family will eat
turkey together, and the general
later will address the townspeople
from his porch.
i The town is gaily decorated in
i honor of the distinguished visitor.
i DOLLARS ARE SENT
TO HELP EXCHANGE
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.—Ar
rangements have been completed for
the shipment, on Christmas day, of
! three million silver dollars to China,
for the purpose of stabilizing ex
change in that remote’land.
Shipments aggregating twelve
millions already have been forward
ed to China.
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Assistant Superintendent John
Raap, of the T. V. R. R.. arrived in
N'enana today, accompanied by Mrs.
Raap. They are the guests of En
gineer in Charge and Mrs. Fred’k
D. Browne.
The Fairbanks fire department
was called out three times yester
day, but the fires, in each instance,
resulted in small damage only. The
first run was made to the cabin of
Charles Thrift, on Cushman street,
where a burning roof was quickly
.extinguished. Another burning roof
called the department to the boiler
room of the Fairbanks Beverage
company, and an overheated stove
pipe summoned the fire-fighters to
the home of Mrs. Ruth Wilson.
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Deputy Marshal James Hagan has
received a card from George Harris,
well-known former Alaskan restau
rant man, who writes that he is now
taking in the sights of London.
Buckingham palace impressed him as
being a pretty fine cabin. He ex
pects to return to the States in tha
spring.
Joe Green, former cook in the
employ of the Alaskan Engineering
commission at Camp 415, is now lo
cated in the Portland Canal dis
trict, where he is said to have ac
quired some promising quartz prop
(erty.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23—Alex
ander Howat, Kansas state president
of the United Mine Workers, who
was remanded to jail yesterday on
contempt proceedings, was released
today when if was made known to
Judge Anderson that seventeen coal
mines in Kansas had been closed by
union miners as a protest against
the court’s prosecution of Howat.
More than a thousand miners re
fused to go to work this morning,
and there was reason to believe that
serious complications would result if
the Government insisted on holding
Howat in custody.
The only demand made upon
Howat by the court was that he
send a wire to Kansas, ordering
the strikers to return to their places,
■which he has since done.
Howat was sent to jail because of
his alleged failure to obey the in
junction issued by Judge Anderson,
The court claiming that the union
[president used his influence to pre
vent the miners of Kansas from re
turning to work after the strike had
'been called off by the Government.
It is believed that Howat’s re
lease will have the effect of restor
ing normal conditions throughout
: the Kansas fields.
GERMANS DELAYING
TREATY EXCHANGE
PARIS, Dec. 23.—The final rati
fication of peace, through the for
mal exchange of treaties between
the Allies and Germany, which
seemed near at hand yesterday, is
less promising today. In fact, mem
bers of the supreme council regard
it as impossible to make the ex
change before Christmas.
The delay is oceassioned by the
German delegates, who have an
nounced that it will be necessary to
return to Berlin for a conference
on the latest Allied communication.
Yesterday it was supposed that all
the details had been settled and that
the Germans would attach their sig
natures within the next day or two.
READY FOR KAISER.
LONDON, Dec. 23.—Crown of
ficers are conferring today with of
ficials of the French and Belgian
governments relative to the prose
cution of the former kaiser. It is
reported that the case has been
made out and the indictment framed
and that there remain only a few
details to arrange before the com
mencement of the proceedings.
TROTSKY PLANNING
SPRING OFFENSIVE
GENEVA, Dec. 23.—According to
advices received in this city from
Soviet Russia. Leon Trotsky is mak
ing plans for a great Bolsheviki of
fensive against Poland in the spring.
The recruiting of soldiers for the
campaign is already in progress and
it is said that Trotsky expects to
have a formidable force in readniess
when the time comes to strike at
Poland.
The report? state that the new
army will consist largely of Chinese
troops who are enthusiastic Bolshe
viki. Fully 8,000 Chinamen are
being added to the army daily, and
eventually they will be used by
Trotsky in an attempted invasion of
Western Europe.
Trotsky believes that the Boishe
viki movement has obtained a firm
footing in China and that a revolu
tion is imminent in that country.
TOM MARSHALL READY
TO QUIT WASHINGTON
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23—Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall has
announced that he will not be a
candidate for the presidency, and
neither will he be the running mate
of the Democratic party’s standard
bearer. He says he is “fed up” on ;
the senate, after seven years as
presiding officer.
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CLEMENCEAU MAY GET
ELEVATION IN FRANCE
PARIS, 23.—The belief is gen
era! in the chamber of deputies that
Premier Clemenceau will be elected ,
the next president of France. i
FIRWOOD CREW SAFE;
TO LAND AT BALBOA
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 23.—Ad
vices received in this city state
that the members of the crew of
the burned Bellingham Fisheries
company steamship Firwood are
aboard the Admiral Wainwright and
are to be landed at Balboa, upon
the arrival of the rescue ship ar.
that port.
The Firwood was recently in the
Alaska fisheries service.
Mail Carrier Carl White is au
thority for the statement that the
Joslin road crew, engaged in work
on the Happy trail, will not be
through for at least three weeks.
AITKEN KUSKOKWIM
PROPERTY IS RICH
According to a special dispatch
received by The News from the ^
wireless operator at McGrath, in i
the Kuskokwim district, the Aitkeni
I quartz properties on Nixon fork are
■ showing up big values.
The granite and lime ledge, in
which the values have been found,
|has been traced for a distance of
four miles. The vein shows a width
; of fifty feet on ten or more claims,
and a crosscut in one of the pros
| pect shafts, at a depth of GO feet,
! shows a vein width of 25 feet, with
lvalues ranging from $100 to $500
| per ton in gold.
i Aitken has two shifts of 20 men
^each at work and expects to have
more than a thousand tons of ore
| ready for shipment on the first wa
fer. G. E. Beraud, formerly of Ne
jnana, is employed as assayer and
ibookkeeper bv Aitken and will do
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no assaying for other claim owners,
j Aitken has refused an offer of
$75,000 a claim for his property
and it is believed that he is anxious
to acquire additional ground.
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, Christmas will be observed in all
■departments of the Alaskan Engi
neering' commission where a suspen
sion of work is possible. Many of
■the men along the line are planning
to spend the holiday in town.
I A If Ekeiand, of The Portland, had
the misfortune yesterday to gash
one of his legs severely, the cut re
quiring several stitches. He is too
busy, however, to lay off.
Little Irene Sherman, former Ne
nana girl, who was disfigured about
the face by a fire which nearly
caused her death, is reported to
have been considerably improved i.i
appearance by an operation recently
performed in Seattle.
Lenore Zwicker, six-year-old Fai-r
banks girl, was severely bitten by
a dog yesterday, one cut in the fact
requiring sewing. The dog was one
of a team belonging to George the
Greek and was later killed by the
Fairbanks chief of police.
CANADIAN STEAMSHIP
HAS TROUBLE ON WAY
, NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 23.—The
Canadian steamship Princess May,
which was reported in a sinking
: condition late yesterday afternoon, j
has made repairs and is again pro- j
ceeding on her voyage, unaided. The j
vessel is enroute to New York.
Kenana—The Gateway to McKinley 1
National Park. 1
BANDITS GIVING
SEATTLE POLICE
SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—-Everything
possihle is being done by the police
of this city in an effort to prevent
an invasion of the city by the ban
dit or bandits who have been oper
ating ir. nearby towns during the
past several days, and with such
success as to elude the many offi
cials who are on their trail. Special
watch is being kept on the southern
gateways.
The bandits are reported to have
robbed an Olympia dry goods store
of $1,500 and killed E. P. Schultz,
a citizen who pursued them. Later
[they robbed a Tacoma drug store,
and followed that up with an at
tack on a Tacoma-Puyallup stage,
[wounding one of the passengers.
Still later they engaged in a re
volver duel with a Puyallup officer,
after which they disappeared.
T.-ouble at Home.
, The safe of the Columbia Lumber
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; company, two blocks west of the
Seattle police station, was cracked
by yeggmen several nights ago and
the sum of $500 extracted. The
police learned of the theft four
hours later, by which time the rob
bers had made good their escape,
and they are still at large.
CANADA REMOVES
RESIRICilONS OF
OTTAWA, Dec. Although no
proclamation has been issued mak
ing formal announcement of the
termination of hostilities in Europe,
Canada is, to all intents and pur
poses, again on a peace basis, with
practically .all of the war-time re
strictions removed. War conditions
really ceased to exist long ago.
Restrictions have been removed
from racetrack betting, on importa
tion and manufacture and on inter
provincial trade in liquor, although
the provincial prohibition restric
tions are not affected.
MAY IMPORT I-IQUOR.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 23.- -
As a result of the removal of war
time restrictions, British Columbia
will again be permitted to import
liquor from points outside the prov
nce, for private use. The public
sale of liquor, however, is banned.
Vision tests recently made in the
Cordova schools revealed 11 cases of
defective eyes among the school
children. This number represents
approximately 10 percent of the
total enrollment. While all cases
are not serious, the tests showed
clearly the need for attention to this
matter.
ParentrTeacher associations have
recently been organized at Peters
burg and Juneau.