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VOL. II. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920.
NO. 249
UNIFORMS WILL BE WORN AT HEARINGS
TRAINMEN WANT_ DEFINITE ANS WER TO DEMANDS
SfeATtLE AUTHORITIES TAKE MORE REDS INTO CAMP
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10 CLEAN OP CITY
SEATTLE, Jan. 23.—The number
of radicals at the immigration der
tention station in this city is in
creasing steadily, as a result of the
determined effort that is being made
by local and federal authorities to
round up all the dangerous agita
tors in the city.
Ten alleged members of the union
of Russian workers were taken into
custody yesterday, making a total
of 43 held at the station, where
they are awaiting the outcome of
deportation proceedings.
Investigations and raids will con
tinue, the authorities declare, until
Bolshevism and other forms of for
eign agitation have been stamped
out completely.
BOARD OF TROSTEES
WILL MEET TONIGHT
There will be a special meeting
of the board of trustees of the town
of Nenana tonight at the townsite
office for the purpose of hearing the
report of the committee of three ap
pointed at the last meeting to
consult with Engineer in Charge
Browne relative to the transfer of
the townsite office from the fire
department building to the railroad
reserve.
The committee met with Mr.
Browne this morning and will have
a report ready for submission to the
board tonight.
The meeting will commence at
9:30.
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EX-SERVICE MEN TO ATTEND
WOBBLY TRIALS IN UNIFORM
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WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 23.—The
newspapers of this city, which were
compelled to suspend publication be
cause of their inability to secure
paper upon which to print their is
sues, have made arrangements for
ja new supply of newsprint and an
| nounce that they will be able to
resume publication tomorrow.
It is believed that paper ship
ments will come regularly hereafter
and no fruther suspensions are an
ticipated.
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
IN JUNEAU DIVISION IS
VERY SATISFACTORY
List of contributions made
several towns and camps
First Judicial division to the
|vclt Memoral fund:
Ketchikan .
; Wrangell
i Petersburg .
Juneau
Thane
Douglas .
Haines
Skagway
Sitka .
by the
of the
Roosc
Honah
Tenakee
$ 28.00
231.3ft
39.00
183.50
' 5.00
23.05
24.50
45.50
84.65
5.00
3.50
j Total . 673.05
; “As chairman for the First divi
i
jsion,” said J. R. Willis to a repre
sentative of the Juneau Empire re
cently, "I feel that we have made
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a creditable showing as a whole,
and wish, on behalf of the associa
tion, to sincerely thank those who
assisted in the work. Subscribers
to the fund will receive a member
ship certificate in due time, but
owing to the great delay incident to
gathering in all reports and the fact
that final report must be made
(through George C. TIazelett, of Cor
jdova, Territorial chairman, it may
'be some time before certificates are
j received.”
Dr. and Mrs. R. It. Myers, who
went to Fairbanks on Tuesday’s
■ train, intending to return to Ne
| nana later and go to the coast by
[way of Broad Pass, have been per
\ suaded to go out by way of the
j Fairbanks-Chitina trail, according to
information received from the up
per town today. They expect to get
away within the next few days.
j Seven sacks of first class and 58
! sacks of second class mail reached
! Fairbanks Wednesday evening, and
|Nenana’s portion of the shipment
Jcame down on today’s train. The
i second class matter consisted large
ly of packages.
Con Anderson came down from
Fairbanks on today’s train.
TACOMA, Jan. 23. — A special
dispatch to the Tacoma Ledger says
that Centralia ex-service men are
planning to attend, in uniform, the
trials of the Centralia VVobblies,
which will commence soon at Monte
sano. The soldiers wired to Con
gressman Albert Johnson to ascer
tain if they could wear their uni
forms at the hearing, and his reply
to them was that that they might do
so by wearing the red chevron.
Eleven men, said to be members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, are facing trial at Monte
sano on charges of first degree
murder in connection with the kill
ing of Warren O. Grimm, one of
four men who were shot to death
in an Armistice day parade at Cen
tralia on November 11, 1919.
The victims of the shooting- were
all Centralia residents and former
| service men: Grimm, a lieutenant
land former University of Washing
ton football star; Ernest Dale Hub
ibard, shoe dealer; Arthur MeEl
' fresh, druggist, and lien Casagran
da, bootblack.
In the prisoner’s dock of the
i superior court when the ease was
opened w-ere Elmer Smith. Britr
J Smith, Ray Becker, Bert Falkener,
'James Mclnerney, Bert Bland, Mike
Sheehan, Eugene Barnett, Loren
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I Roberts, John l.amb, and 0. C. <
j Bland. They pleaded not guilty at
IChehalis and were granted a change
^ of venue to Montesano.
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I In the investigation many eye
| witnesses said the first shooting was
begun without warning or provoca
tion by those inside the 1. W. W.
| hall. Some said the firing began
j from the hall after u single shot
Ifrom the Avalon hotel, opposite the
{hall.
| At the coroner’s inquest, Dr.
: Frank Bickford, t’entralia physician
and former service man, who was
; marching in the parade, testified
; that the shooting began only after
j the marchers started to rush the
{hall.
I Wesley Everetts, said to have
■been an 1. W. W. organizer and the
slayer of Hubbard, was spirited
away from the jail in the night fol
lowing the shooting, the electric
lights of the town having been cut
off. He was taken by a mob to a
i bridge over the Chehalis river,
i where he was hanged,
j Several service men who were
'wounded by shots have completely
recovered.
Twenty-four men, rounded up
after the shooting, were charged
with criminal activities, but several
[of these have since been released.
TRAINMEN WILL ASK
HINES ABOUT WAGES
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CLEVELAND, Jan. 2d.- Officials
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen are authority for the
statement that it is their- intention
to call on Railway Director Hines
on Tuesday of the purpose of seek
ing his definite answer to their re
cent demand for a wage increase of
40 percent. Their further action
will depend upon the answer given
them.
COLLEGE GIRLS OBJECT
TO CLOSE-UP DANCING
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—When young
women freshmen of Washington
university, numbering 150, were
questioned recently whether they
favored cheek-to-cheek dancing, they
overwhelmingly decided it was in
sanitary and should be barred. One
hundred and forty-five of them de
cided that it gave the deadly germ
a chance to do its worst, but there
were live who voted along the line*
that they didn’t care whether the
germ worked or struck, it was “all
the same to them.”
United States Marshal L. T. Er
win has wired his office from Ketchi
kan stating that he is a passenger
on the same steamer with his chief
deputy, Joe Miller, Mr. and Mrs,
R. L. Vining and a number of
other Fairbanksans. The steamer is
due at Seattle tomorrow.
! Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Sweeney went
to Fairbanks this afternoon, where
Mr. Sweeney will attend court, be
ing a member of the petit jury.
^ Court will convene on Tuesday.
■RACEHORSE BREEDER
I WILL QUIT THE GAME
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j LEXINGTGON, Ky. — John E.
■Madden, probably the most exten
sive breeder of thoroughbred race
horses in America, will retire as a
i breeder this month, when he will
sell at Hamburg Place stock farm,
here, one hundred brood mares and
j twenty-five yearlings.
Among the mares to be sold are
| daughters of Imported Starshoot,
Rocksand, Hanover, three of the
leading strains of producing blood
in the country. Others include
mares by Ogden, Plaudit, Sir Dixon,
Ormondale, both American and Brit
|ish i blood being well represented.
jThe yearlings are by the winning
I sires of the day, including several
by Imported Starshoot, Ormondale,
Ogden, Sir John Johnson, and
George Smith.
Willis Nicley, formerly of Ne
nana, who went to Seattle recently
to make preparations to enter the
University of Washington, will take
the fisheries course.
ITsaaaa, Wkm mails sad mlvsrs Ksst
Lieut.-Col. John C. (Jotwals, of
the regular army, at present at
tached to the office of the chief of
engineers at Washington, has been
appointed to succeed Major Waugh
as head of the Alaska Road com
mission, and will assume his duties!
as directing officers immediately, ae- j
cording to information received this j
week at Fairbanks from the na-1
tional capital.
Major Waugh, however, will con
tinue to look after the work, having
been retained by the commission as!
a civilian His headquarters will j
be in Alaska and his duties will be
much the same as they were before j
the change was made. Captain John
Zug, who has had charge of the i
work in the Interior and who went
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to Fort Liscum recently to receive
his discharge from the army, also,
will continue to wo^k for the com !
mission, but hereafter as a civ-1
ilian. He probably will return to
the Interior soon to make prepara
tions for next season’c activities.
HUNS SELL CROSSES,
THEN ASK FOR MORE;
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BBERLIN. Many returned Her
man prisoners are applying to the
military department for new Iron
Crosses, saying the originals were
taken from them by the Entente./
Not a single prisoner, so far as is
known, has admitted that he often :
and gladly sold his Iron Cross to 1
the American soldiers or took a bag
of tobacco for it with enthusiasm.
The German government demands,
proof that the crosses were actually ;
taken.
PEORIA CLUB OFFICIALS
SEEKING NEW MANAGER
PEORIA, III.—Officials of the Pc
oria club of the Three-1 league are
negotiating for a new manager to
succeed Jimmy Hamilton, who will 1
pilot the Joplin, Mo., club of the
Western league next season. “Bill”
Jackson, who formerly led the Pc- I
oria team, probably will be selected
from the list of applicants. Jack- 1
son managed the Omaha club of the 1
Western league last season.
The Seward Land corporation has
been organized in New York city, '
with a capital stock of $20,000, to
take over the larger part of the
Seward holdings of John E. Bal
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laine and the holdings of John A.
:
Noble. Erich Lucas, of the Harri
> I
man National Bank of Seward, is
tbe corporation’s agent.
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Examiner of Accounts Barndollar (
went to Fairbanks on this after- (
noon’s train on official business.
Manana, Alaska's Interior rail Depot1
REPUBLICANS OF
LOWER HOUSE CUE
WASHINGTON. I). t\, Jan. >3.—
rruc to the prediction of House
-.eader Mondell, the Republicans of
he lower chamber of Congress
ire keeping appropriations within
>ounds, and there is reason to be
ieve that their record for saving
luring the present session will
sclipse the economies of the spe
•ial session, when the country was
laved nearly a billion dollars thru
he watchfulness of Republican lead
*rs. The house today passed a
lorkless rivers and harbors bill, oar
•ying appropriations aggregating
>nly $11,400,000, the smallest ap
iropriation for rivers and harbors
n many years.
HORSES SMOTHERED
IN WEST/ORK FIRE
According to information received
n Fairbanks this week, four horses
telonging to Charles Stadleman
were recently suffocated by the
;moke from a smoldering blanket
n a stable at West Fork, in the
I'olovana district. A fifth horse, also
jelonging to Stadleman, was nearly
‘mothered and is still in a serious
•ondition.
A horse blanket, which was placed
tear the stove to dry, caught fire
luring the night and filled the barn
with smoke, but did not set lire to
he building. When discovered, the
'our horses were dead and the
•barred blanket was about ready
o burst into flames.
Stadleman has been engaged in
inuling freight from West Fork to
Srooks for Billy Mahan.
iVOMEN’S CO-OPERATION
IS URGED FOR LEAGUE
LONDON. "The suceess of the
,eague of Nations idea it depend
ent upon the intelligent co-opera
ion of the women,” says Miss A.
lelen Ward in an article in '1 he
-eugue, a periodical.
The writer suggests ‘.he organisat
ion of a Woman’s Bureau of the
^eague of Nations and that the
women should be appointed for their
reneral fitness for the purpose of
he league, rather than merely as
ixperts in what are known as “worn
*n’s interests.”
Fisheries Inspector Cal Townsend
s a visitor in Nenana, having come
lown from Fairbanks on today’s
rain.
TEMPERATURE «
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenana
■ Friday, January 23. *
Maximum .8 below **
Minimum .45 below *
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