WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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VOL. 11. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919.
NO. 133
HOUSE READY TO VOTE ON ROAD BILL
PRESIDENT WARNS AMERICANS AGAINST CLIQUE
■ RENO OFFERS SIXTY THOUSAND EOR RING CONTEST
HUNS MUSI PAY
FOR AIM ON
ALUED SOLDIER
COLOGNE, Sept, 6.—The town of
Euskirchen, 20 miles southeast of
this city, has been fined the sum
of 500,000 marks as the result of
a clash which occurred there be
tween Germans and British troops,
resulting in the injury of a British
soldier.
The disturbance, which is de
scribed in the official reports as a
serious affair, is said to have been
started by the Germans, a man
named Kupper being the instigator
and a leader in the attack made
upon the British soldiers.
Kupper has been sentenced to
death for the part he took in the
outbreak, and others concerned in
the disturbances will be imprisoned
for various periods, according to
the gravity of their offenses.
GOTHAM OBSERVES
ANNIVERSARY DAY
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Exercises
•were held in this city today in
honor of the 152d anniversary of
the birth of Lafayette, which hap
pens also to be the fifth anniver
sary of the Battle of the Marne.
Ambassador Jusserand, of France,
was the principal speaker.
A message from the Prince of
Wales was read, in which assurance
was given that England never would
forget how Frenchmen and Britons
stood together in the Marne strug
gle. Greetings also were received
from Secretary of State Lansing,
President Poincare, General Per
shing, and Major-General Wood.
TACOMA PRINTERS
1 STOP NEWSPAPERS
TACOMA, Sept. 6.—The news
papers of this city made no at
tempt today to publish, owing to a
strike among the printers, who in
sist upon an increase in the scale
of wages. The trouble had hecn
brewing for several months, the
strike being the result of the ina
bility of the employers and em
ployes to reach an agreement.
A wage agreement between Ta
coma publishers and the Typograph
ical union, entered into over nine
years ago, by the terms of which
printers received $5 per day, ex
pired last December, since which
time the union men have been try
ing to get a new contract signed,
raising the scale to a parity with
that of other Northwestern cities.
The printers asked fog $7 for day
work and $7.50 for night work,
which the publishers were reluctant
to grant, notwithstanding the fact
that Seattle and Portland get that
scale for a seven-hour day.
RAILWAY APPROPRIATION
MAY BE PASSED TONIGHT
RENO IS EAGER
TO STAGE BOUT;
RENO, Nev., Sept. 6. — Local
sporting men, through the Reno
Athletic club, are endeavoring to
arrange a match between Champion
Jack Dempsey and Willie Meehan,
1 the San Francisco aspirant for
championship honors. A formal of
ifer has been wired Dempsey, guar
anteeing a purse of $60,000 for his
: appearance here sometime after the
| first of the year. The plan is to
have the men go 25 rounds.
Meehan and Dempsey have met
•in the ring several time, and the
right of the former to try for the
championship is based on the claim
ithat he already has won two deci
Isions over Dempsey, the battles hav
ing been fought before Dempsey
,won his title by defeating Willard,
j Nothing has been heard here a?
• yet regarding the champion's plans.
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THEATERS REOPEN
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A settle
ment has been reached between the
| striking actors of this city and local
| theatrical managements and many
of the theaters, which have been
| dark during the past several days,
are reopening today.
: The terms of the settlement have
I not been made public, but it is un
derstood the strikers gained their
point, securing a promise that their
| association would be given recogni
tion.
OIDTIMER SUCCUMBS
AI LOCAL HOSPITAL
Marion B. Carey, well-known old
timer of Interior Alaska, who en
tered the Government hospital on
July 30, passed away at that in
stitution late this afternoon, follow
ing a critical illness covering a con
siderable period.
j The deceased was a resident of
■the Circle district before moving to
Fairbanks, where he lived for a
number of years b^ore coming to
Nenana to enter the employ of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
He is survived by a wife and two
daughters, the wife now being a
resident of Fairbanks. One of the
daughters, Eva, is Government
school teacher at Circle.
No arrangements have as yet
been made for the funeral.
SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—A special
dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer,
received from Washington at an
early hour today, says the members
of the lower house of Congress ex
pected to vote on the Curry $17,
000,000 Alaska railroad appropria
tion bill before the close of today’s
session. Up to the time the mess
age was sent, no opposition had
appeared.
Delegate Grigsby, who ha? been
waiting at the capital for the vote
to be taken, is ready to leave for
Alaska as soon as action has been
taken, to take testimony in connec
tion with the contest filed by Judge
Wickersham. The forty days al
lotted to the delegate, in which to
gather his evidence, began yester
day, which leaves him very little
time to cover the territory.
MANY HEAR WILSON
TALK IN MISSOURI
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 6.— ;
The arrival of President Wilson in j
this city, on his way to the Pacific I
coast, was the occasion of a most j
enthusiastic demonstration, the city;
being in holiday attire in honor of
the distinguished visitor, and every
citizen eager to hear what the Presi
dent had to say about the League
of Nations.
Almost immediately after his ar
rival, the President addressed an •
audience of 15,000 persons, every
one of whom carried a small Ameri
can flag. When the President an
peared on the platform, the cheer-;
ing lasted fully two minutes, and
there were frequent outburst of
applause throughout the address, j
Several thousand were unable to1
get within sound of the President's .
voice.
President Wilson appealed to the
audience to support the peace treaty
as the charter for a new order of
world affairs. He said the Ameri
can people had been misled regard
ing the treaty by men who look at
it with the jaundiced eyes of those j
| who have private interests of their
|own.
Thirty-four men, he continued,
:are in control of Russia's affairs.
! They represent only themselves and i
have a closer monopoly of power
at Moscow than existed at Potsdam!
| before the war, and the men in 1
control are more cruel than a czar,
controlling absolutely the destinies
of Russia.
• “If we don’t want little groups
, of selfish men to plot the future of]
Europeans, we must see that little j
] groups of selfish men do not plot5
America's future.” The war, he
said, was won by the American
.spirit reflected in the treaty, and
: America realizes what the gallant,
boys fought for.
In conclusion, the President said!
, he had the greatest respect for the !
American senate, but had come out j
West to fight for a cause greater i
than the senate, and “I intend to5
fight for that cause until I die.”
The President will speak at Des •
Moines tonight, writing his speech
aboard the train.
BELGIAN INTEGRITY SAFE
LONDON ,Sept. 6.—The Evening
Standard claims to have learned, on
the highest authority, that England j
and America have agreed to guaran-1.
tee Belgium against any future Ger-j
man aggression.
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SORE AT PRESIDENT
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 6.—Gov
ernor Louis F. Hart is considerably
put out because of the failure ofj
someone to advise him regarding,
the plans and movements of Presi
dent Wilson, who is scheduled to
reach Seattle on September 14.
In a statement made in this city
today, the governor said that he
had not been invited to meet the
President, had not been officially
notified of the President’s coming,
and, in fact, doesn’t know what the
President’s mission is.
Peeved is the word.
WONT TAKE CHANCE; ,
AMERICANS BARRED j
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LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 6.—Because '
of their refusal to enter Mexico at j
their own risk, many Americans
have been stopped from entering
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the Tampico section of Mexico, ac- 1
cording to advices received here dur- !
■I
ing the past week. (
Permission to enter the district (
is withheld from those citizens of |
the United States who decline to ji
waive the responsibility of the Mex- l
ican government for any bodily i
harm that might befall them on the l
Mexican side of the line.
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KILLS HOPES OF
GENEVA, Sept. 6.—Advices re- i
ceived in this city this morning ;
state that the people of Vienna are !
very much disappointed over the j
peace terms imposed upon Austria
by the Allies. The dispatches say I
that great surprise and indignation \
followed the announcement of the ^
terms in the Austrian capital, and ,
the prediction is made that the ,
ministry will collapse in consequence
of the severity of the peace provi
1
sions. |
It is freely admitted by the mon- i
archists, who entertained hopes of j
restoring the Hapsburgs to power,
that it will be impossible, under the i
terms as finally decided upon, to car- ,
ry out their plans. The pact, they j
consider, kills any hope of the re- i
turn of a Hapsburg.
A report . from Paris says the :
Austrians probably will decide to- i
morrow to accept the terms.
ENGLAND REPORTS
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LONDON, Sept. 6.—The indus- j
trial situation in this country is i
said to be far less grave now than
was the case a few months ago,
when labor conditions throughout
the British Isies were very unset
tled, with many industries iole as a
result of labor troubles.
There have been no strikes of
magnitude since the settlement of (
the Yorkshire trouble. There is. :
however, danger of a strike among ,
the tramway workers, who are
threatening a national strike as a
means of securing an increase in
their wages.
FAIRBANKS LADIES ARE
GOING INTO KANT1SHN A
Mrs. L. E. Robertson and Mrs. j
Ruth Wilson, of Fairbanks, are pass- '
engers on the steamer Shusana, en- j
route to the Kantishna country to
spend several weeks in McKinley
National park, hunting and enjoy-!,
ing life generally.
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ELECTORS WILL
NAME DIRECTOR
ML BOARD
In accordance with a call issued
by the N'enana school board, an
election will take place in N'enana
on Monday for the purpose of choos
ing a director to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of George
W. Pennington as a member of the
board.
Up to last night, the limit fixed
for filing the names of candidates,
only one name had been entered
by Clerk John H. Scott, the candi
date being Fred Major, who was
prevailed upon several weeks ago to
enter the race. Accordingly, his
will be the only name appearing on
the official ballot.
The election will take place at
the fire hall, the official polling place
of the town, the hours for voting
being between eight a. m. and seven
p. m.
The judges of election, selected
by the board, will be Mrs. M. .1.
Sweeney, Mrs. J. R. Bowen, and one
yet to be named.
All citizens, men and women,
may exercise the franchise at this
election, provided they have resided
within the territory one year and
within the district 30 days.
TREA1Y OFFERS
PRO i EC! ION TO
FRASER SALMON
NEW WESTMINSTER, B C,
Sept. 6.—A copy of the interna
tional fisheries treaty between Can
ada and the United States, which
was signed at Washington several
days ago, has been received here
and shows that it was designed to
rehabilitate the Fraser river salmon
fisheries. It affects all British Co
lumbia fisheries, and especially those
of the Fraser river.
The treaty provides for a closed
season of 12 days each year and
for the regulation of traps anil
purse seines.
DRY ENFORCEMENT
LAWS ARE PASSED
WASHINGTON. D. C , Sept. 6.—
The measure providing for the en
forcement of prohibition, which was
approved by the lower house of
Congress some time ago, was passed
by the senate today, but in such
form as to necessitate reference to
a conference committee. Several
amendments were attached to the
bill by the senate.
Mrs. Jack Spencer is a patient at
the Government hospital, and proD
ably will continue under the care
of Dr. M. E. Smith for a period
of several weeks.