The Nenana News
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Nenana, Alaska, Jan, 13, 1917.
With practically all the crowned
heads of Europe at war, it should
be an easy matter for President
Wilson to win the Nobel peace
prize this year.
That benefit idea is a good one.
A worthier cause could not have
been presented, and it is to be
hoped that the people will unite in
making a success of the undertak
ing- , _
The ‘‘peace leak” investigation,
which has ended about as abruptly
as it started, seems to indicate
that there was just a little bluff on
the part of Thomas Lawson, and
considerable weakness on the part
of congress.
Harry K. Thaw has set the
public mind at rest regarding his
mental condition. If there was a
doubt before, this latest escapade
as reported in the dispatches from
Philadelphia has removed it, and
the public doubtless will welcome
the news now that the erratic young
man has been returned to Mattea
wan, where he can do no further
harm. Even Thaw appears to
have become convinced that he is
not safe to be at large.
If there is any truth to the re
port that John W. Troy is a candi
date for the governorship of Alaska
the Nenana News will welcome
the opportunity to assist him to
land the place. As editor of the
Juneau Empire, Mr. Troy has
done as much tor the Democratic
party in Alaska as any other one
man, and the splendid showing
made by the Democratic candidate
at the late election, was due, in
part at least, to the consistent cam
paign carried on through the edit
ial columns of the Juneau news
paper. _
Most encouraging reports are
coming in from the Upper Nenana.
Not reports of discoveries, but re
ports of active prospecting which
may result any day in the finding
of good pay in a district which is
directly tributary to Nenana. A
I lot of prospecting is in progress
; and the work is being done by men
who understand the prospecting
game thoroughly. They may not
! succeed in finding the pay this
winter; there are not enough men
in the hills to complete the work
in a single season; but the gold is
j there and it will require consider
jable dodging to avoid discovery
' before the warm weather of spring
drives the prospectors from their
work.
Shippers of Interior Alaska will
welcome the advent of the new
transportation company which has
been organized by the people of
Fairbanks. It is a step that they
should have taken years ago, but
sufficient time will elapse before
the completion of the railroad to
enable those behind the enterprise
to realize handsomely on their in
vestment, providing the affairs of
the concern are handled properly
and no mishaps occur on the river.
The saving on freightage charges
alone each season will amount to
$50,000, and there should be, in
addition, a substantial profit on
the investment. If it has the fa
cilities to handle all the freight
offered, the new company should
receive the support of every inde
pendent shipper in the Interior,
for it is certain that rates will not
! be lowered until there is a rival
! company on the river.
Dispatches received from the
national capital during the week
j indicate that there is a disposition
! on the part of congress to dispose
of the liquor question in Alaska
once and for all during the present
| session. A bill has been intro
| duced and is now before the house
committee on territories, which, if
passed, will make the territory
j “bone dry,” and it is the opinion
1 of Chairman Houston that the com
mittee will render a favorable re
port on the measure within a few
j days. That means quick passage
by the house, at least, for it can
not be argued now, by those op
posing the measure, that Alaskans
do not want prohibition.
The vote on the wet and dry
question which was taken through
out the Territory in November
I doubtless will be regarded by con
gress as a true expression of sen
timent among Alaskans, regardless
of the question which has been
raised regarding the right of the
territorial legislature to issue a
; call for a referendum.
And it is worthy of note, in this
connection, that the introduction
j of the prohibition bill has been re
ceived in the North with less show
of resentment than was evidenced
when an earlier attempt was made
by the national lawmakers to put
the territory in the dry list. It is
as if Alaskans had spoken their
minds on the question and cared
little how soon Prohibition came
! or by what route.
PROGRESS OF THE BIG STRUGGLE IN EUROPE
MONDAY
Rome: Only minor activities are re
ported along the Italian front.
Berlin: U-boats have sunk eleven ships,
mostly French and Italian colliers, dur
ing the past eleven days.
Loudon: The war office announces the
failure of the German forces in their rec
ent desperate attempts to retake the po
sitions they lost along the Ancre.
Berlin: Ambassador Gerard was ban
queted by offiicials of the German gov
ernment upon his return from Washing
ton. He was referred to as the “peace
dove.”
Petrograd: The war office announces
that the Russian forces have begun a
new offensive on the Rumanian fiont,
and are also on the aggressive in Galicia
and the North,
Pans: M. Diomede, former Greek
minister of finance, in an interview grant
ed the Temps today, said that “the royal
army of Greece is only awaiting orders
from Germany to attack the Allies.”
Vancouver, B. C.: It became known
here today definitely that the over-seas
soldier vote on the prohibition question
has settled beyond a doubt the fact that
the measure has carried, to become ef
fective July 1st of this year.
Berlin: In an order to the army and
navy the kaiser tells of having proposed
peace to the Entente allies and of how
his overtures had been refused; and calls
upon his men “to become as steel” and
to continue the war to a successful en
forcement of a permanent peace.
TUESDAY
Washington: The state department is
interrogating Ambassador Gerard regard
ing his utterances upon the occasion of
the banquet tendered him recently in
Berlin. The international situation is
too delicate to promote the least misun
derstanding.
Ottawa: Blondin has been appointed
postmaster general of Canada.
Ottawa: Governor Black’s Yukoners
are scheduled to leave for England in a
few days.
New York: Twenty-five million dol
lars in gold arrived in this city today
from Great Britain.
London: Economic difficulties are ruj|
mored to be hampering the Austrian
military organization, the dwindling food
supply rapidly approaching a crisis.
WEDNESDAY
London: Information received at the
war office indicates that the Teutonic
armies have been thrown back at several
points along the Moldavian front. Ber
lin admits that her lines have been pierced
on that front.
London: The British forces in Suez
are rumored to be preparing a drive
through Palestine, with the object of
joining the Russian army in the South
ern Caucasus and by cutting the Bagdad
railroad put to an end the German dream
of an Eastern Empire.
Rome: The Pope is said to be in full
sympathy with the recent peace note of
President Wilson.
THURSDAY
Petrograd: The Russian war office an
nounces important gains along the Dvina
river, and Berlin acknowledges reverses
in that section.
New York; Reports in well-informed
shipping circles indicate that a British
cruiser has sunk a German commerce
raider in mid-Atlantic during the week.
Copenhagen: The Russians are re
ported to be preparing a great offensive
in the Riga sector. The troops are re
ported to be well supplied with munitions
and backed by large reserves. Near Mi
tau and south of the Riga artillery fire
has constantly increased on both sides
during the past few days and is becoming
extremely violent. The weather is frosty
and clear and the country is covered with
snow.
FRIDAY
Petrograd: Details of the death of the
monk Rasputin, close friend of the czar,
are very meager, blit it is known that his
death occurred in the house of Franz Yns
upoff here, where it is claimed he was
given a pistol and told to kill himsell.
Instead of doing so he turned it on the
priests who had been set as a guard over
him, and they shot aud killed him.
New London, Conn.: The Deutsch
land is reported to be due to arrive here
the first part of next week.
London: The Entente reply to the
Wilson peace note is said to contain more
specific terms of peace than had been an
ticipated, but that its general tone is
of a guarded nature.
London: Dispatches from Geneva in
dicate that any attempt of the Germans
to invade Southern France through the
Swiss Alps will be resisted by tile Swiss
government by force of arms.
London: Greece is reported to have
accepted the latest, and purported to be
the most drastic ultimatum of the Allies.
King Constantine lias already turned over
six batteries of mountain guns to the
Allies.
London: The Indian division of the
i British forces in the Palestine'yesterday
! captured the frontier town of Rafa, and
also stormed and captured over a thous
and yards of enemy trenches northeast
of Kut-el-amara.
Petrograd: The Russian forces which
are on the aggressive in .the region ol
| Lake Babit, are officially reported tc
■ have penetrated the Teutonic lines or
' the west bank of the Riga on more tliai
I
1 a mile of front, between the Trial marsh
: es and the river Aa.
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San Francisco: Former German con
sul-general Bopp, together with four ol
the men on trial with him in this city,
have been found guilty by the jury of all
the charges of which they have been ac
cused by the government.
Berlin: The war departmentannonnc
es that the Russians have succeeded in
recapturing the island of Glauzon from
■ the Teutonic forces, having made the at
; tack in the midst of a raging blizzard.
Berlin: The war department announc
i es that Russiau and Rumanian prisoners
| to the number of 5,000, with 99 officers,
, have been captured in the region of Fok
i shani, near the Puna river.
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Glenwood Springs, Col : Col. Wm. F.
Cody is reported as sinking slowly and
his death is expected hourly.
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Olympia, Wn; The Washington legis
lature is in session in this city with Guy
Kelly of Tacoma as Speaker.
Los Angeles: George Thompson, ed
: itor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, died in
this city last night of heart disease.
Wrangell; John Tinlavson, aged 112
years, died in this city Sunday. He was
one of the pioneer explorers of Alaska.
Seattle: Dick Dawson, pioneer Alaska
miner and saloon man, is in a critical
condition with cancer of the throat in
this city.
DuBois, Penn.: Coal operators have
granted a wage increase approximating
fd.600,000, which will affect the pav of
10,700 miners.
i New Orleans: No information regard
ing the movements of British vessels at
i Gulf ports is now permitted to he tnavJe
i piblic, because of the activity of German
I undersea l>oats.
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| Pittsburg: The cash for the payroll of
the Placuss Glass company was stolen by
aiito bandits this morning, while being
taken from the bank to the office of the
i company in an automobile. Ten thous
and dollars was secured.
Philadelphia: Bessie Colbert, sister of
Maizie Colbert, the artist’s model who
was found murdered in her apartments
• last week, told a detective yesterday that
I an intimate of Maizie’s had threatened to
I choke her as a result of a misunderstand
ing over a ring. The clue thus furnished
! has caused the police search to be extend
ed to Chicago, and the abandoning of
the theory that the suicide of Bernard
; Lewis could be in any way involved in
! the case.
Washington: Joseph Tumulty, private
secretary to the President, and Secretary
of State Lansing have notified the House
investigating committee that they desire
; to appear before that body in connection
! with the investigation now being conduct
ed to ascertain the facts of the alleged
: leaks in the diplomatic department and
I the participation of members of congress
j in recent stock manipulations as the re
! suit of the leaks. The committee has
| issued subpoenaes for seven newspaper
I men on New York financial papers; two
1 managers of telegraph companies in
j Washington, Thomas Lawson, Bernard
j Baruch, and Charles Sabin, president of
the Guaranty Trust company of New
: York All will appear before the com
i mittee tomorrow.
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