BUY A VICTORY BOND — THERE’S A REASON
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME TWO
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919.
NUMBER 31
CHINA EAGER TO SIT AT PEACE TABLE
WILLARD TO MEET DEMPSEY AT TOLEDO IN JULY
EXPLORER BOOSTS DEVELOPMENT OF ARCTIC REGION
ADMITTANCE 10
PEACE CONGRESS
PARIS, May 6. — The Chinese
delegation to the interallied peace
conference has asked President Wil
son to intercede with the powers
on their behalf to have them ad
mitted to the meeting when the
peace treaty will be formally pre
sented to the Germans tomorrow.
China is not among the thirteen
states privileged to attend at the
presentation of the peace treaty to
the Germans.
FIRE DESTROYS
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 6.—A
six-story apartment house was de
stroyed by fire in this city today.
Seven of the inmates were killed
and about a dozen others were in
jured.
Four of the upper floors of the
house fell to the basement.
Stem DiliG|
PLACE Will CLOSE
NEW YORK, May 6.—Sherry's,
which has been for the past twenty
years one of New Y'ork’s most
famous dining places, will be closed
to the public within a fortnight, in
view of the coming prohibition.
Louis Sherry, the proprietor of
the place, plans on going into the
catering business again.
ITALIAN AFFAIR
NOT SETTLED YET
PARIS, May 6—No compromise
has been arranged as yet relative
to the Italian claims to the city of
Fiume and the Dalmatian coast.
The Italian peace delegates are
returning to Paris to demonstrate
that they are still loyal to the
Allied cause.
German newspapers, in comment
ing on the Italian question and the
recent action taken by the Italian
delegates in returning to Italy, de
clare that the Italians have broken
off relations with the Allies.
MEN PREVENTS
ATLANTIC FUGHT
NEW YORK, May 6—The naval
aviators who had planned to start
on their long flight across the At
lantic ocean today were obliged to
postpone it, owing to the bad
weather prevailing.
Henut—The Gateway to McKinley
JTational Park.
ENGLAND 10 GIVE
WARM RECEP1I0N
10 GENJPERSHING
I LONDON, May 6.—It is report
ed in this city that General Per
shing will visit London on Empire
day, May 24th, to review a brigade
of American troops ere they em
bark for the United States.
The Daily Mail, in commenting
• on the forthcoming visit of the
American general, says, “It will be
; England’s pride and privilege to
' give the warmest British welcome
to the men who fought at Chateau
■ Thierry, and who broke the Ger
man line in the Argonne sector.”
The article in the Mail con
cludes: “We shall never forget the
I part America played during the
' darkest hours of the war ”
ISOLATION will
: E0LL0W REFUSAL
| 10 SIGN TREATY
PAP-IS, May 6.—The Council of
'Foreign Ministers is now consider
ing the complete economic isola
jton of Germany' in the event of
] her refusal to accept the terms im
1 posed byr the Allied powers and sign
| the final peace treaty.
The government at Berlin has
announced that the delegates of
j the German peace commission will
; be recalled if more delays are ex
perienced at Versailles, and that
they would be held in Berlin until
• such time as the Alies are ready
for a conference.
VOLUNTEERS SI
NEW YORK, May 6.—An army
transport carrying a thousand men,
who had volunteered to relieve an
equal number of their comrades of
the Army of Occupation, sailed to
day. bound for Europe.
It is expected that forty-nine
thousand more men will be sent
later for the relief of an equal
number of overseas troops who wish
to return to the United States.
TREATY* TO
BE RELEASED SOON
PARIS, May 6.—It is expected
that a 10,000-word digest of the
final peace treaty with Germany
will be released for publication on
Thursday morning.
Ben Peterson, a Koyukuk miner,
arrived in Nenana yesterday from
the far north mining camp. He
will probably settle in this district.
| VANCOUVER, B C., May 6.—
One thousand Canadian sold-'ers ar
| rived here today from Vladivostok,
and it is expected that the next
i
two transports will bring back the
remainder of the Canadian Expeji
i tionary Forces.
STEFANSSON TELLS
I PARLIAMENT ABOUT
j ARCTIC REGIONS
OTTAWA, Ont., May 6.—Stef
j ansson, the Arctic explorer, ad
| dressed both houses of the Canadi
| an parliament today in regard to
plans for the conversion of Can
ada’s Arctic regions into a great
wrooi, milk and meat producing
area.
He proposed the introduction of
a large herd of reindeer into Arctic
■ Canana, and also presented plans
for the domestication of the musk
ox, which are found in large herds
on the Arctic slope, and are easily
tameable.
He said that the Arctic regions
.will be able, if properly developed
along the lines suggested by him,
to help solve future shortages.
He told of the successful intro
duction of the reindeer into Alaska
and predicted that, some day, Arc
tic Alaska will support several mill
. ion reindeer.
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ARMY FLIERS TO
CROSS SIERRAS
NEW YORK, May 6.—Army avi
ators will leave Sacramento tomor
I row in a trial flight to Ogden,
Utah. The route they will follow
will take their planes over the
(Sierra Nevada mountains.
FMffiANKUE
SIIJOLDING
According to a telephone message
received from the upper town this
afternoon, the official breakup has
not occurred there yet, although
the event is looked for momentarily.
There would appear to have been
no appreciable change in the level
of the water in the slough today,
and the temperature is said to be
the same as was indicated yester
day, with about the same weather
conditions.
The ice above and below the
big cake on which the flag is fixed
has broken and vanished, and the
stream of water flowing on the
Garden Island side of the slough
is reported to be a little greater in
volume today.
Wenana—The Gateway to XcXinley
national Park.
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SEATLE, May 6.—Captain Fred j
Warner replaces Captain O'Brien,
the veteran master of the steamship '
Victoria, and will command that
vessel when she leaves this port for
Nome, the first week in June.
WILLARO-DEMPSEY
BOM CONIES! ;
AI TOLEDO, OHIO
NEW YORK, May 6.—Tex Rick
ard, the famous fight promoter, an
nounced ioday that the Willard
Dempsey fight will be held on the
Fourth of July at Toledo, Ohio.
The pugilists will enter the ring
at three o'clock in the afternoon
and will box ten rounds.
Unless a knockout is scored, and
if the bout goes the limit, the
referee will award the decision on
points.
TOLEDO, Ohio, May 6—Plans
are being made here to build an
arena capable of seating 50,000,
people, for the Willard-Dempsey
fight.
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SEATTLE, May 6.—A letter re
ceived in this city recently from
London, England, says %that Joe
Boyle, formerly of Dawson, Y. T.,
and who latterly fought with a Can
adian contingent raised in the Yu
kon Territory, of which he was
made colonel, has been created a
Rumanian duke.
He is to be one of the Rumanian
delegates at the peace conference,
the letter adds.
VICTORY DRIVE
NEARING FINISH
WASHINGTON, D. C , May 6—
It is believed that the subscriptions
to the Victory Loan will pass the
two billion mark tonight.
The figures up to this morning
had reached one billion nine hun
dred million.
The entire loan is but four and i
one-half billion dollars, and there
are but four days left ere the cam
paign closes.
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TEMPERATURE
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenana
Maximum .63 above
Minimum .37 above
Forecast: Unsettled tomorrow.
FAMOUS WARSHIPS
MAY BE BROUGH!
WASHINGTON, D C., May 6.—
The navy department has under
consideration a plan for bringing
the famous old wooden warships
Constellation and Hartford to
Washington, where they will be set
in concrete foundations in Potomac
park.
The Constellation is a wooden
22-gun sailing sloop, and was built
at Gosport, Pa., in 1854. She dis
places 1970 tons and carried a
complement of 188 men when in
service. She is now used as a hulk
at Newport, R. I.
The Hartford is a wooden, ship
rigged cruiser, and was built at
Boston, Mass., in 1858. She dis
places 2790 tons and carried a
complement of 244 men when in
service. She is now used as a re
ceiving ship at the League Island
navy yard.
RESERVE LANDS
OPEN FOR ENIRY
AFTER JULY 9
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6 —
Nearly three hundred thousand
acres of land, which had been re
served and withdrawn! from entry
by presidential proclamation, form
ing part of the Chugach National
forest, has now been restored.
After July 9th, the above men
tioned lands will be open for home
stead entry, settlement or other dis
position.
After July 16th, 1919, two non
contiguous areas w'ill be withdrawn
from entry and will be reserved by
the government. One of these lies
along the Knik and Turnagain
arms, and the other along Cook
inlet, Kaichimak bay.
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Mills HOLD IIP
BANK OPUS
OVERLOOK BONDS
WASHOUGAL, Wash., May 6_
Two masked men forced the cashier
and two women clerks of the Clarke
County bank to hold up their hands
today, and escaped with seven
thousand dolllars in cash.
They overlooked fifty thousand
dollars in Victory Bonds lying on
the counter. A posse is out looking
for the robbers, and it is expected
that they will be apprehended later.
CAPTAIN ZUG IS DUE
IN FAIRBANKS SOON
John H. Joslin, foreman in the
‘mploy of the Federal Alaska Road
Commission, at the Fairbanks end
^f the Valdez trail, reecived a wire
yesterday from Captain John Zug,
stating that he had left Juneau that
lay for Fairbanks, via Whitehorse.
NAIIONAL IM
CONVEN1ION10
| BE HELD TONIGHT
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CHICAGO, May 6—The National
Industrial Workers of the World
convention will be opened in this
city tonight.
A. S Embree, secretary of the
miners' branch of the 1. W. W., will
be the president of the convention.
During the late war, Embree's
union endeavored to close all the
copper mines working for the gov
ernment, but failed signally.
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! TRIAL CONTINUES
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SEATTLE, May 6.—The coroner
who held the preliminary inquest
and the clerks of the tea room
i where Ruth Garrison administered
the poison to her victim, Mrs.
Storrs, testified at the trial today.
Ruth Garrison wept during the
testimony of the coroner.
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ALOIS HUBER 10
GET NEW TRIAL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.—The
circuit court of appeals, in review
ing the case against Alois Huber,
of Alaska, in appeal proceedings;
has granted him a new trial.
Huber was convicted of man
slaughtering Matt Schernthaner at
Flat City, in the Iditarod district, in
1 it 17.
Huber pleaded self defense dur
ing his first trial. A mining dis
pute started the trouble which cul
minated in the death of Schern
thanei.
Attorney Louis K. Pratt, who de
fended Huber at his trial at Idita
rod, was also notified by wire from
San Francisco that the judgment in
,the Huber case had been reversed
by the circuit court of appeals.
It would appear that the man
j was convicted and sentenced to a
I term of five years at McNeils Island
for the alleged crime, but was re
leased on a $10,000 bail bond pend
ing the hearing of his appeal
Huber’s supposed victim, Sehern
thauer, was shot dead in the cabin
of the accused in the course of a
scuffle, and the only witness to the
killing, a man named William Crib
bee, ^ould not testify accurately as
to just what happened. The cabin
was said to have been in darkness
when the scuffle and death of
Schernthauer occurred. The cabin
is situated on Mary creek, a tribu
tary of New York creek, in the
Kuskokwim country.
It is expected that Huber’s trial
will commence soon.
Jack Singleton, of the Lignite
roadhouse, arrived in town on the
train last night, on business. He
t will probably remain in town for a
| few’ days.