WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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Volume Two member of associatfd press
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919.
Number 89
NORRIS TELLS OF SECRET PROMISE
WAR VETERANS COME NORTH TO STOP PIRATES
ALLIES WLL_ ASK GERMANY TO PRODUCE OFFENDERS
VETERANS WILL
GUARD FISH ON
ALASKAN COAST
SEATTLE, July 15.—Six husky
•world war veterans sailed for the
North today on the steamer Admiral
Evans to act as special guards at
Funter Bay fish traps, where pi
rates have been very active during
the past several weeks. Among the ’
veterans is Joseph King, champion •
heavyweight of the expeditionary ]
forces, who won the Croix de Guerre j
while fighting the Germans.
y The employment of special guards j
is becoming general among the fish-1
ing companies operating in Alaska |
waters, as a result of the increased i
activities of pirates along the coast.
The policing facilities of the gov- i
ernment are not sufficient to pro-;
tect the fish traps, and the theft of
fish at isolated points is increasing
^at an alarming rate.
NOME, July 15.—The schooner
Casca, with the members of the
Northern Mining: eompnav on board,
arrived here late yesterday, just 42
days from the States. Prepara
tions are being made to get away
today for Anadir bay, from which
point the expedition will begin an
extensive exploration of Arctic- Si
* beria for gold.
The expedition has 25 members,
many of whom are oldtimers of the
North and familiar with the condi
tions which will be encountered on
the other side of Bering strait. They
f have a large and complete outfit
and are prepared for a long stay.
The strait is still heavily blocked
with ice, the floes extending far to
the south of St. Lawrence island.
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ROME, July 15.—Strike disorders
of a serious character are reported
from various parts of Italy, the dis
< patches indicating that rioting was
very general yesterday, the authori
ties at some places being scarcely
able to cope, with the situation.
The disorders reported from Lu
cero resulted in the death of eight
persons and the wounding of 30
others. Many of the disturbers were
thrown into prison. Two anarchists
were killed near Genoa, following
an outbreak of hostilities there.
, Less serious clashes between strik
I ers and local authorities occurred at
many other points, much of the
trouble being attributed to the high
cost of food.
TOMA WILL
HAVE BIG YIELD
IF RAIN COMES
The output of the Tolovana dis
trict for 1919 promises to be equal
ly as large as it was last year, ac
cording to recent arrivals in Ne
nana from that locality. And if
water conditions are favorable the
yield will be greater than ever be
fore.
Notwithstanding the fact that
copious rains have fallen over a
wide section of country, including
the N’enana district, the creeks of
the Tolovana thus far have been
little benefited, with the result that
summer operations are being con
siderably retarded. The water has
not been sufficient, in fact, to per
mit of the washing up of numerous
dumps which were taken out during
the past winter. The gold is there,
but it cannot be recovered until rain
comes to fill the sluice-boxes.
Shortage of water, however, is
not an unusual feature of the sum
mer mining sea^m in. that district.
There is generally a shortage of
water, but some seasons the short
age is acute, leaving many of the
dumps unsluiced at the end of the
summer.
In spite of this handicap, which
renders mining more than usually
hazardous, the Tolovana leads the
Interior camps in annual yield, and
those familiar with conditions are
convinced that the camp still has
many years of prosperity ahead.of
it.
A ditch of sufficient size to in
sure water for a considerable por
tion of the district throughout the
summer will be constructed soon, it
is believed, in which event mining
activities will be greatly stimulated.
NEW YORK, July 15.—Having
failed to bring about an amicable
settlement of the marine strike
which has tied up the vessels of the
American merchant marine, the ship
ping board announces that drastic
measures will now be employed to
bring the strikers to their knees,
i It is reported today that it is the
intention of the board to man the
! idle ships with crews borrowed from
the navy for that purpose.
! The strike started last Friday and
'involves marine engineers, oilers and
firemen. The men are demanding
iai* increase in wages.
MAIL AT FAIRBANKS.
First class mail reached Fair
banks last night from the States and
Nenana’s share of it probably will
be sent down river on one of the
launches leaving the upper town to
morrow.
PRESIDENT MAY
NOT APPEAR AT
TREATY CONFAB
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.—
Information received at administra
tion headquarters today encourages
the belief that President Wilson will
not be given an opportunity to ap
pear before the senate foreign rela
tions committee during the consid
eration, by that body, of the peace
treaty. A majority of the members
of tie committee, it is understood,
are hostile to the proposal to invite
the President to the hearing, and
are also opposed to a conference
with the President at ‘the White
House.
The committee will ask the Presi
dent, however, to furnish them with
all documents considered by the
American commissioners at Ver
sailles.
Should the committee decide not
to invite the President to the hear
ing, it is probable that he will take
advantage of the opportunity to
start earlier on his speaking tour
ALLIES 10 ASK
AI0 OF BOCHES
10 GET KAISER
BERLIN, July 15.—The Tageblatt
is authority for the statement that
it is the intention of the Allies to
ask the German government to de
mand of Holland the surrender of
the former kaiser, after which the
kaiser is to be turned over to the
Allies for trial.
The same procedure, it is claimed,
will be followed in the case of the
German statesmen and others who
fled to neutral countries following
the suspension of hostilities and the
collapse of the German fighting ma
chine.
The Tageblatt says that the Allies
Will ask for the surrender of 157
persons, some of whom are still in
Germany.
COURT OVERRULES
LIQUOR DEMURRER
PITTSBURG. July 15 —The first
round of the wet-dry legal encoun
ter, ■ which is being staged in this
city before the district court, went
'against the liquor interests, when
the court handed down a decision
! overruling the demurrers to the in
dictments charging the brewers with
^violation of the war-time prohibition
law through the sale of beer con
jtaining two and three-quarters per
cent alcohol.
j Having failed in their efforts to
^have the indictments dismissed, the
brewers, it is believed, will now be
compelled to stand trial without fur
ther preliminaries.
' OF PEACE PLAN
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., July
15.—While testifying today during '
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the progress of his million-dollar
libei suit against the Chicago Trib
une, Henry Ford reaffirmed his be
lief that professional soldiers are
murderers, not excepting Grant or
Pershing. He admitted, however, that
war is sometimes necessary to insure ;
peace, and declared that if the late
war does not result in a league of i
nations, he will favor another war
to clean up the situation and bring
about universal peace.
Ford admitted, in answer to other
questions put by the counsel for
the Tribune, that he knows very lit-,
tie about history, but considered
it • bunk” growing out of tradition.
He informed the court, further,
that he has no use for music or
other forms of art. i
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SECOND COMING
FROM OVERSEAS
AT EARLY DATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.—
Announcement has been made by
officials of the war department that
the Second division of regulars has
been assigned for early return to
this country from France.
With the departure of this divi
sion from France, the United States
will have only two divisions left on
active duty overseas—the First and
Third.
The homeward movement of Am
erican troops out of Brest continues
with great regularity and it is ex
pected that the present month will
see as many departures as were re
corded during the month of June,
which set the pace for troop move
ment out of France.
EXPLOSION FATAL
TO U. S. SWEEPER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.—
Official announcement has been made
tby the navy department of the loss
of the American mine sweeper Rich
ard Buckley, which is reported to
have been destroyed by an explosion
:resulting from a collision with a
mine in the North sea.
The explosion caused the death of
(One officer and six enlisted men, and
two other officers were seriously in
jured.
ANYOX IS COMING WITH
EXPLOSIVES FOR ROAD
SEATTLE, July 15.—The steamer
Anyox sailed for Anchorage today
with 100 tons of explosives for the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
There is much complaint among
the fishermen of the Tanana and
Yukon rivers because of the scarcity
of salmon this season, which they
attribute to the operation of the
Carlisle cannery near the mouth of
the Yukon. The fish were later
than usual in making their appear
ance, and now that the run has
started, a decided scarcity of fish is
noted, especially fish of the larger
sizes.
That there will be a shortage of
salmon throughout the Interior coun
try this season is predicted by near
ly all of the local fishermen, who
declare that the cannery eventually
will kill off practically all the Yukon
salmon, causing great hardship
among the natives and leaving the
towns along the rivers almost wholly
dependent upon grayling and white
fish for variation of diet during the
summer.
Some of the salmon caught near
Nenana during the past several days
show unmistakable signs of having
been delayed enroute by the nets of
the Carlisle fishermen at the mouth
of the Y'ukon. The net marks are
plainly visible.
The scarcity of which local fish
ermen complain has not yet been
noticed by the general public, there
being ample fish for present con
sumption needs. The shortage, if
such it proves to be, will affect the
cured product and the winter sup
ply of salmon bellies.
At the prevailing prices, a 50-cent
salmon, fresh from the water, will
provide two meals for a family of
fu'n nr three nercnrs
A committee of three has been
appointed by the Tanana Valley Ag
ricultural association, to be known
as a market committee, whose duty
it will be to study existing market
conditions and to keep posted on
tariff rates to other Alaska points,
so as to facilitate the sale of Fair
banks grown products. The com
mittee is composed of Louis F. Joy,
George W. Dana, and Mrs. M. A.
Brandt.
The appointment of this commit
tee is part of the plan to dispose
of Interior grown vegetables through
the holding association which re
cently acquired the' Hale warehouse
for use as a clearing station.
ITALIAN CHAMBER VOTES
CONFIDENCE IN NITTIO
ROME, July 15. — The Italian
chamber of deputies today voted
confidence in the N'ittio government.
PEACE GRENADE
IN HOI SPEECH
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15 —
In a further discussion of the peace
treaty, which took place in the sen
ate this morning. Senator George
IW. Norris, Republican, of Nebraska,
made the charge that Japan had se
cretly secured pledges from England,
France, Italy, and Russia, in 1917,
that the Chinese Shan-Tung penin
isula would be turned over to Japan
jat the conclusion of the war, in ex
change for Japan's assistance in the
Pacific against the Germans.
Norris produced alleged copies of
diplomatic correspondence embodv
I ing the promises of England and
France, which, he declared, ex
1 plained the pressure which had re
sulted in the transfer of Shan-Tung
j to Japan by the peace treaty.
In conclusion, the senator said
• that the senate’s ratification of the
j treaty, containing that transfer,
1 would write the blackest page in
the nation’s history.
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SEATTLE DEATH
SEATTLE, July 13.—Suspecting
foul play in connection with the
death, last May, of F. A. Dowsey,
a secret service agent, the federal
authorities have exhumed the body
and an inquest was started today.
The authorities believe :ha' LK.’vscv,
who was sent here to investigate
suspected fraud operations in connec
tion with war contracts, was mur
dered.
In a statement made public today,
District Manager Frick of the Emer
gency Fleet corporation declared
that the government investigations
thus far conducted had failed to
uncover any frauds in connection
with the shipping board activities
here.
The commencement of the in
quest has caused considerable ex
citement in local shipping circles
and the case is being followed
closely.
PERSHING TO CELEBRATE
PEACE DAY IN ENGLAND
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LONDON', July 15.—General Per
shing has arrived in this city from
France to participate in the peace
celebration, for which England is
making great preparations. Lord
Churchill and a number of dis
tinguished officers met Pershing at
the station with a guard of honor.
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