WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL- H.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1919.
NO. 182
GOVERNMENT TRYING TO END STRIKE
JONES PREDICTS BIG YANKEE FLEET NEXT YEAR
' ADMINISTRATION LEADERS TRY TO GET VOTE ON PACT
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LEADERS READY
FUR FIH VOTE
ON PEACE PACI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3.—
It is reported in official circles to
day that administration leaders plan
to propose that a final vot^*on the
peace treaty be taken this week, in
an effort to dispose of the ratifica
tion question before the end of the
present session.
It is understood that the leaders
anticipate considerable difficulty get
t ting action on the treaty, with pos
^ sibly a deadlock, in which event
the question will be laid over until
the regular December session of
Congress.
CADETS THRILLED
* ON VISIT TO THE
ITALIAN FRONT
MOUNT GRAPPA, Italy.—Cadets
of the graduating class of the Unit
ed States military academy at West
Point, who are visiting battlefields
of the world war. had four days of
thrills in their visit to the Italian
front, when they were taken to the
summits of Mount Sabatino, Mount
Grappa, and Mount St. Michael, a
series of positions in the Italian
Alps which were scenes of mountain
fighting by the Italian army in the
war.
Mount Grappa is approximately
6.000 feet high, is a solid rock pro
jecting into space^ in gigantic pro
portions and almost perpendicular
on its sides. The ascent is made by
a series of winding roads made on
the western side in a switchback
formation. There are 39 switch
backs, each approximately 200 yards
in length, curving at each end in a
breath-taking curve.
The engineering work staggers the
imagination. The bare mountain
would have convinced one of the
impossibility of the ascent by road,
but the army engineers accomplish
ed the task, constructing the roads
in such a way that a garrison of
two army corps could be kept in
full operation during the entire war
with supplies of ammunition, food,
and equipment.
"That surely was a' great ride.”
said one of the West Point cadets
to The Associated Press correspond
ent. "It took my breath away a
number of times on the way up,
and my heart was in my mouth
many times. I was ready set for a
big jump in case that Italian chauf
feur started backing up. It was
no place to linger on when there
was danger.”
From the summit of Mount Grap
pa the field of the operations of
the Italians and Austrians could be
seen for eighty kilometers. The
movements of the armies during
the military operations of the war
were explained by general staff tac
ticians who had participated in the
OPERATORS REFUSE TO BEND;
VERY FEW MINES OPERATING!
j ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3.—The com
meneement of the week finds ver>
few coal mines in operation, prac
tically none of the strikers having
evidenced a desire to return tc
work, and the operators firmly se1
against the demands made by the
men.
In a statement issued this morn
ingr, the operators' scale committee
announced that the mine owner
had no plans for the termination ol
the strike and no terms to offei
except those which had been reject
ed by the miners. The operators
however, according to the commit
teemen. are anxious to open nego
tiations with the strikers, provide
they will return to their place:
I pending a settlement of the differ
ences.
COAL GETTING SHORT.
BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 3.—Acting
| on orders issued by the Govern
ment. the railroads have seized al
coal enroute to this city, and loca
dealers, in consequence, are receiv
ing no fuel to supply the demand:
of their customers. The situatior
is already assuming a serious aspec-'
here.
SITTING TIGHT.
CHICAGO. Nov. 3.—Things an
at a standstill throughout the Illi
nois coal districts. The strikins
[miners are not returning to work,
and there has been no attempt on
i the part of the operators to resume
mining in unionized districts.
MAY RETAIN M’ADOO.
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 3.—There
j is a report in circulation here to
the effect that the union leaders are
i thinking of asking William G. Mc
Adoo. former secretary of the in
terior, to appear for them at the
hearing on Saturday, when an at
| tempt will be made to dissolve the
! injunction issued by Federal Judge
Anderson.
MORE TROOPS MOVING.
EL PASO, Tex.. Nov. 3.—Troops
jhave been ordered to entrain for
'Colfax, New Mexico, to be ready
ifor strike duty in that district.
GOVERNMENT .BUSY.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 3.—
Continued pressure is being brought
to bear on officials of the United
Mine Workers in an effort to get
them to call the strike off. Assur
ances have been given the leaders
that both President Wilson and At
torney General Palmer stand ready
to attempt an adjustment of differ
ences as soon as the strike order
has been rescinded. President Lew
is of the United Mine Workers has
been informed of the Government’s
attitude by Samuel Gompers.
BREAK REPORTED.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 3.—
The first break in the ranks of the
strikers is reported from Northern
West Virginia, where fifteen union
mines are said to h3\e resumed op
> erations.
NOT IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PITTSBURG. Nov. 3.—The union
ized mines of Centra! and Western
Pennsylvania are not attempting to
resume operations.
NON-UNIONISTS BUSY
CHARLESTON. W. Va., Nov 3 —
Over three hundred non-union West
Virginia mines are operating today,
unaffected by the strike.
ROCKEFELLER USING TROOPS.
DENY ER. Colo.. Nov. 3. — The
Southern mines of the Colorado
:Fuel «S- Iron company, of which
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., is the guid
ing hand, are operating today un
der the protection of soldiers.
SCHEDULES CURTAILED
WASHINGTON, D. C , Nov. 3.—
Passenger train schedules have been
; somewhat upset as a result of cur
tailment orders issued 1-y the rail
road administration on account of
the coal strike. The roads, it is
I
estimated, have enough coal on hand j
to operate freight trains for several!
weeks.
The railroads have seized a con
siderable quantity of coai at the
seaboard, where it was awaiting
shipment abroad.
AGAINST COMBINATION.
WASHINGTON', 0. C . Nov 3.
Attorney General Pahner has in- 1
formed coal miners who pr* tested j
against the Anderson injunction that ;
the Government is ready to do any- :
thing in its power to facilitate an 1
I inquiry into the merits of the c oal .
|controversy. In the meantime, he;
says, the law must be enforced, |
and the miners were given to on- 1
derstand that the Government would
not tolerate combinations to stop
: production.
It is understood no attempt will
be made bv the Government to set
i
tie the wage controversy until the |
men return to their jobs.
TOWNS ARE DARK.
DES MOINES, la.. Nov. :!.—A
number of small Iowa towns are
feeling the coal strike. Newton is
dark, and the schools, theaters, and
lodges of Indianola have been closed.
The electric light company is still
doing business, but all lights are
turned off at 10:30 as a means cf
conserving the coal supply on hand.
engagements.
The chief of the conducting par
ty was Major Stabili. who had led
a battalion of bersaglieri (Italian
soldiers typified by the flowing
plumes I in an attack on Mount
Sabatino, another steep, dangerous
rock more than 2.000 feet high. Of
a battalion of more than 1,000 men.
Major Stabili had but 95 left when
his unit took possession of the crag.
The scaling of the mountain was
made in just 47 minutes after the
battalion left their first-line trenches.
Mount Sabatino, with Mount St.
Michael, was the key to Gorizia and
controlled operations for 15 miles in
either direction.
DAVIS IS VERY ILL
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Frank Davis, who was reported
ill last week at his fish camp seven
miles below Chena. was taken to
the hospital at Fairbanks on Satur
day. The doctor in attendance re
ports that the sick man has a se
vere attack of pneumonia and that
his condition is serious.
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* Minimum . 8 above *t
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It Minimum .10 above *t
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RAILS ARE JOINED
ON FAIRBANKS END
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The laying of steel on the Xe
nana-Fairbanks narrow gauge rail
road, which has been progressing
steadily throughout the past season.'
was completed at a late hour this
afternoon, with the closing of the
gap between the two towns. The
last spike was driven at 4:20
this afternoon, without ceremony,
and with no one present other than 1
the members of the NTenana and
Fairbanks steel gangs, Superintend
ent of Construction W. L. Packer,
and a few others, who chanced along
as the gap was closed.
The gap wras somewhat more than
a mile in length yesterday morning
when the Xenana steel gang re
sumed tracklaying after an absence
of several days from the end of i
steel. Foreman Dunn and his men '
had 3,300 feet of track to lay from
the Xenana end when they went to
work yesterday morning, and by
night they had laid approximately
2,600 feet, which is considered an
exceptional showing, especially in
view of the fact that the gang
worked without tracklaying equip
ment. By 10:30 this morning the
remaining 700 feet had been laid,
and the gang was sent across the
gap to assist the Fairbanks gang,
which still had considerably more
than 1,000 feet to lay of the 3,200-i
foot stretch remaining on that end
yesterday morning.
In order to close the gap, it was "
necessary to use every pound of *
•teel in the division, from the light- st'
?st to the heaviest. Had any more
seen required to make the connec
:ion it would have been necessary
:o tear up sidings or a portion of
he Chena line.
While it is possible now to run '
hrough trains between Garden Is
and and Camp 415, it is probable
hat the first Fairbanks train will I
lot be sent down to the Nenana end •
intil Friday. Tomorrow’s trains ;
jrobably will connect at Camp 449. 1
vhere the passengers and mail will
>e transferred. But, commencing
"riday, through traffic will be es-!
ablished and maintained on a regu
ar twice-a-week schedule through
>ut the winter, or until such time
is the traffic warrants three trains
>r more a week.
Trains will leave Fairbanks, un
ier the through schedule, on Tues-1
iay and Friday mornings at seven
j’clock, arriving at Camp 415 about
loon, or a little before, and return
ng during the afternoon, leaving
^amp 415 at one o’clock. The run
t is expected, will be made in
ibout five hours, each way.
The fare between Camp 415 and;
harden Island, each way, will be
13.75, which includes the war tax,
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at there would be a special rate
r round-trippers, but he finds that
e regulations do not permit of a
duetion.
Passengers arriving at Camp 415
11 be able to cross the river, after
e freezeup, on the Blankfield
ige, which will meet all trains for
it purpose.
ID TEMPER NOT GROUND
FOR DIVORCE, SAYS JUDGE
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LONDON.—“Bad temper is not
ground for separation—if it were,
If the people in the world would j
separated at the present time,”!
ilared Magistrate Lankester in the
ames court when a woman ap- J
ed for a writ of separation, from j
r hubsand, declaring he had ‘‘an j
ful temper.”
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1T1MATE BUMPER WHEAT
CROP FOR WASHINGTON
SPOKANE.—Private estimates of .
ishington’s 1919 wheat crop have •
ed the total at 55,250,000 bush- j
or about 10,000,000 bushels!
>re than ever produced in the;
ite. The estimated value is well!
er *100,000,000.
The yield in Spokane, Walla j
alia, and Lincoln counties will'
abablv be of bumper size. Whit
in country, with the largest acre
e, is listed as producing 12,000,
0 bushels.
aaaa—Tbs (Htsnr to McXlnlsj
Vatteaal JP*rk.
WASHINGTON. D. Nov. 3.—
Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Wash
ington, has introduced a bill in the
upper house of Congress proposing
alternative plans for the establish
ment of a permanent shipping poli
cy. He is enthusiastic over the
prospect for American shipping and
predicts that vessels flying the Am
erican flag will almost equal Great
Britain’s mercantile fleet by the end
of next year.
The American fleet, by the end
of 1920, he says, will have an aggre
gate tonnage of eighteen mil'ions.
great part of which will be under
Government ownership.
TRY NEW TRAIL
OVER THE PASS
The new Broad Pass trail, which
was surveyed and built by the So'
er est party during the summer,
working north from the end of steel
in the Anchorage division, will be
given a practical test within the
next few weeks by Hutch Blank
tield, if investigations, which he will
make on the outward journey on
foot, encourage the belief that
freight can be hauled across the
gap advantageously with horses.
Blankfield. who has made many
trips over the Kairbunks-Chitir.a
trail, some of them when that route
presented many obstacles, says the
Broad Pass trail, if it an be used
at all for freighting, will greatIv
lessen the cost of landing supplies
in Interior Alaska during the winter
months, because of th" saving in
trail distance. The distance between
ends of .steel on the Broad Pass
route is approximately CM miles,
with an easy grade all the way.
The distance between Fairbanks and
ehitina. by way of the Richardson
trail, is 319 miles, with a bad sum
mit and a wind-swept, glaeiered
dream to negotiate.
Blankfield left for the o»a-t Sat
urday morning, taking tile train to
the end of steel, from which point
le will mush across country to the
end of steel in the Anchorage divi
sion. And. if the trail looks sufti
•iently encouraging, he will come
sack within a few weeks with sev
eral sleighloads of meat and other
supplies for the Tavern cafe. Oth
erwise, he will return by way of
the Richardson trail.
During the absence of Blankfield,
his business here is in charge of
Earl Brown, who will continue to
handle all kinds of express and
transfer work. He also carries the
mail between the river and the
jostoflire, and, after the river
freezes, he will maintain a regular
iervice between town and the end
if steel at Camp 415, carrying
nail, express and passengers.