Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
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VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29. 1921
NUMBER 75
BETTER TIMES DUE SOON IS PREDICTION
RAILROADS OF COUNTRY PLAN GREAT MERGER
LLOYD GEORGE SENDS FINAL NOTE TO IRISH LEADERS
RAILWAYS PLAN COMBINE
TO UNITE MAJOR SYSTEMS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 29—
The Interstate Commerce Commis- j
sion has announced tentative plans
for the consolidation of all of the j
major railroads of the country into |
nineteen systems, and the public is
notified that hearings will be held j
in the near future for the purpose
of considering the project. Such a
consolidation as is proposed, is per- j
mitted under the provisions of the
new transportation act.
The proposed combination, it is
explained, will retain competitive ar-,
rangements between transportation1
lines, giving most sections of the
country access to two or more great
routes. The principle followed, is
the hitching of the weaker and less
profitable roads to their more pros
perous competitors.
SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES
TO GIVE NEWBERRY PLACE
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept. 29—
The senate committee on privileges
and elections, to which was referred '
the Ford-Newberry election contest,;
has cleared Newberry of all charges j
of corruption and, in its report to
the senate, recommends that the
senator be given his seat.
The Democratic minority, in its
report, asserts that Newberry was j
elected by “corrupt and illegal j
methods and practices” and recom-!
mends that he be unseated.
The case now goes to the senate 1
for final action, which may take
several weeks.
TRAINMEN SMUGGLE IT
SEATTLE. Sept. 29—Federal dry-j
agents who are engaged in investi- j
gation of booze smuggling, say they ,
have discovered secret compartments
in railway coaches used between
British Columbia and this city. The
compartments were built into the
cars, the agents declare, for the
purpose of storing liquor.
MAYO ORE SHIPMENTS WILL
HELP CAMPS ALONG YUKON
In the opinion of J. A. Fairborn,
Fairbanks agent of the White Pass
Route, the development of the Mayo
galena deposits will prove a great
benefit to shippers along the Yukon
river, below Dawson. Mr. Fairborn,
who was in Xenana this week look
ing after the transfer of late ship
ments of freight to Fairbanks, says
that the White Pass will be called
upon next summer to haul about
30,000 tons of ore from the Mayo
district to St. Michael, for re-ship
ment from that point to American
smelters Outside. The shipment of
this ore will give the company aI
“back haul” which they have not
had heretofore, and will materially
reduce the cost of operations, thus
enabling the company to quote low
er freight rates on supplies hauled
from St. Michael up the Yukon. Mr.
Fairborn has not been authorized to
discuss the rate question and does
not know what the rates will be
next season, but he points out that
the White Pass will have consider-,
able cargo space available for the,
upriver haul and that shippers will;
undoubtedly be encouraged to make
the most possible use of it.
Mr. Fairborn thinks it possible
that both the steamers Yukon and
Alaska, which were built a number;
of years ago especially for the Daw
son-Fairbanks run. will be placed on
the Mayo-St. Michael run next sum-1
mer as ore carriers. He bases his
opinion on the fact that the Gov- ;
eminent railroad will be completed
earl}- next year and in a position to j
handle all freight for Tanana Valley
points, thus compelling the White
Pass to confine its activities very j
largely, if not entirely, to the Yukon;
river, leaving the Tanana river to'
independent boats of small type, j
Speaking of the Mayo district, Mr.
Fairborn informed The News that
all of the options held in that camp
by the Guggenheims and the Tread
well interests have been taken up t
as the result of investigations which
have demonstrated the stability ofj
the ore bodies, which have large ex
tent and high values. The showing
is such, in fact, Mr. Fairborn be- i
lieves. that *he White Pass railroad j
eventually vs'll be extended into the'
district from Whitehorse to handle j
the big ore shipments. t
M'. Fairborn will leave Fairbanks,
during the early part of the winter j
and considers it doubtful if he willi
return. ovine to the likelihood of j
the wiihdr *-a’ of he boat of the |
company '.on the Tanana n ?r. i
He does not know w" ere ; e will je j
-Etim ed next uramer, but says it
wrill not s”T'OTise Vm to find him-j
self at Jit j wht t navigation op-j
ens next sprat;, or at -tr e othe-j
outpost of the company, far removed i
from the bright lights.
UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE
HAS PROGRAM NEARLY READY
WIFE APPEALS TO GARDNER
TO GO BACK TO THE ISLAND
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29—Mrs.
Dolly Gardner, wife of the notorious
mail bandit escape, has written her
husband a letter, through the Bul
letin, advising him to return to the
penitentiary to “prove to President
Harding that you have ended your
criminal career.”
In The Hands Of His Friends
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 29—In
the opinion of United States Marshal
James B. Holdhan, friends of Roy
Gardner have given him shelter and
enabled him to elude the many offi
cers who are searching for him in
the state of Washington. He says
'we are going to do our utmost to
locate him.”
Many On HU Trail
TACOMA. Sept. 29—Police, postal
al officials and special agents of the
railroads are engaged in an attempt
to pick up the trail of a man be
lieved to be Gardner, who robbed a
garage near Chehalis. and disap
peared in an automobile which was
stolen at Raymond.
The police at Raymond believe
that the bandit was in that place
and hi support of their belief, point
out that the proprietor of a local
lodging house where a man answer
ing Gardner’s description was shelt
ered, has disappeared. It is believed
by the police that this lodging house
proprietor took Gardner’s letter to
the San Francisco Bulletin.
SANTA FE TRAIN ROBBED;
LARGE REWARD OFFERED
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 29—Six
masked men. heavily armed, board
ed a Santa Fe train early this morn
ing’, 12 miles north of this city, and
forced the mail clerks to throw out
four pouches of mail, after which
the bandits disappeared in the dark
ness.
The amount of loot obtained has
not been made public, but that it;
was considerable is indicated by the
fact that a reward of $30,000 has
been offered for the apprehension of
the bandits.
OIL BARONS DEMAND VICTORY
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 29—The
oil operators of the Maricopa district I
cannot accept the “peace without :
victory offer” of the strikers, if:
the workers insist on Government
mediation, according to announce
ment made yesterday by A. L. Weil,
to whom the offer was addressed, i
Weil has sent a telegram to the
strikers, rejecting their proposal.
ONLY TWO DIED ON DIVER
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 29—!
Rear Admiral Herman Stickney, com
mander of the Pacific fleet, has in- j
formed the navy department that
only two deaths resulted from the
'inking of the submarine at San
Pedro. The victims were Dreffen and .
Spaulsberg.
SHRINERS TO AID CHILDREN
ATLANTA, Sept. 29—Announce
ment has been made here of plans i
for the establishment of free hospi
tals for the treatment of crippled
tthildren, the enterprise to entail a
?ost of two million dollars, the
money to be supplied by the Shrin
?rs.
ANTS CAUSE DEATH
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29—Thos.
Chaplin, who was partly devoured
by ants while unconscious, died in
a local hosipita! last night. The ants
ate part of the tongue and stripped
bits of skin from the body, from
neck to toes.
AGED MEXICAN PASSES
EL PASO, Sept. 29—Juan Flores,
Mexican, aged 115 years, died here
today. He is survived by a wife,
ag?d 102 years, and a son, aged 80.
JESS TO MEET CHAMPION
NEW YCRK, Sept. 29—Promoter
N-x Rickard l._s sent a contract to
less Willard for a return match with
“’•ami n Ja,k Dempsey, on some
late between June 15 and July 5,
1922. n be b ;h+ ..ill tal e place '.i
.he Un.,ed States, Canada or Mex
co, fo • a purse of un-named size.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept. 29—
Progress made by the Unemploy
ment Conference yesterday and to
day encourages the belief that the
emergency relief program will be
completed earlier than was expected
at the commencement of the session.
Conferees report that the work is
taking form rapidly, with committee
reports shaping so fast that it is
believed most of them will be ready
for consideration by the conference
by the end of this week.
Government Is Blamed
Luther Steward, president of the:
National Federation of Federal Em
ployes. declared, in a statement be-:
fore the conference yesterday, that
‘the federal Government, in its 1
PLANS BEING FORMULATED
TO PAY OFF DEPOSITORS
SEATTLE. Sept. 29—A committee
of state bankers, appointed to devise
ways and means for the liquidation
of the affairs of the defunct Scandi
navian American bank of this city,
has announced plans for the estab
lishment of two new banks, which
will purchase the assets and take
over the liabilities of the defunct in
stitution. Members of the State Bank
Depositors' Gvaranty Fund have al- 1
ready pledged t» million and a quart
er to help carry out the plan.
The new banks, when established,
will pay the smaller depositors, hav
ing S100 or less, ir. full, and the
larger depositors will get 60 per
cent. The remainder will be paid as
soon as the assets of the old bank i
can be realized upon.
TALESMEN ARE EXCUSED
TWIN FALLS, Sept. 29—Forty
talesmen, summoned under a special j
venire, in the trial of Mrs. Lydia
Southard, were excused today when i
the court learned that they had been j
summoned by Sheriff Sherman, who
signed the complaint against the de-.
fendant.
HOPES FOR THE BEST
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept. 29—
The senate has adopted a resolution 1
expressing the hope that “the fullest
measure of good will attend the
disarmament conference”.
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JOE WILSON RIVER VICTIM;
WAS DROWNED LAST FRIDAY
Agent J. H. Scott, of the local;
office of the White Pass Route, has
been informed by wire of the death
of Joe Wilson, fuel agent of the
company, and Frank Dumontier, en
gineer and machinist, also in the
employ of the transportation com
pany. The wire states that the two
men were drowned in the Yukon
river at some point above Daw’son.
but does not explain how the fatal
accident occurred.
Joe Wilson was one of the most
widely known and popular employes
of the company in Alaska. He was
an oldtime resident of Dawson and
had been long in the service of the
company as fuel agent, with head
quarters at Whitehorse. He was in
Xenana only a short time ago, on
an official trip along the river. He
is survived by a wife and two
children.
Dumontier also had been in the
employ of the company for a num
ber of years and was well known.
along the upper river.
Miss Elsie Jassmann has accepted]
a position as cashier and bookkeeper]
at the Tavern Cafe, having assumed j
her new duties this week.
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capacity of employer, has been a
contributing cause to the present
unemployment situation, where it
should have been an alleviating
agency.”
Better Times In Sight
NEW YORK, Sept. 29—Charles
E. Bedford, president of the Vacuum
Oil Company, and John Wanamaker.
both notable figures in the industrial
and commercial world, predict the
speedy return of prosperity in the
United States, with plenty of work
for all. Wanamaker is quoted as
saying that “the business revival of
a week will be expanded into busi
ness revival of years and years.”
Bedford predicts that normal con
ditions will be restored by spring.
VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR
PREPARING FOR THE END
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 29—The
annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic opened in
this city on Monday, with a large
number of grizzled veterans in at
tendance. Commander in Chief Wm.
Ketcham, of Indianapolis, delivered
his opening address on Tuesday,
at the opening of the first business
session. Toe first day of the gather
ing was taken up with regimental
reunions.
With a realization that the mem
bers of the organization are growing
old and rapidly fewer in number, it
is planned to introduce a resolution
at the present session, providing for
the preparation of the last will and
testament of the G. A. R.. for the
purpose of making disposition of the
oiganization's properties.
PILICHER HEADS G. A R.
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 29—Lewis
S. Pilicher. of Brooklyn, has been
elected commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, suc
ceeding William A. Ketcham, of
this city.
WINTER MAIL SCHEDULE
WILL START ON SATURDAY
The first mail of the season to be
dispatched for the Outside by way
of the Government railroad and
Broad Pass, will leave N'enana on
Saturday morning:, on the regular
train to Healy, and thereafter there
will be two mails a week to and
from the coast throughout the win
ter. with the promise of a perma
nent arrangement with the Alaskan
Engineering Commission upon the
expiration of the present winter
contract.
Mail will be received at the local
postoffiee up to 7:3t> Saturday morn
ing, at which time the pouches will
be closed and sent to the depot.
The weight limits will be same as
last winter, beginning with 1.600
pounds and increasing to 4.800
pounds during the month of Nov
ember. with the usual restrictions
as regards parcel post matter.
The last mail of the summer, by
Bray of Chitina, left Chitina yester
iay morning for Fairbanks, and the
last inbound mail, by way of the
river, will be brought up river from
ranana on the launch Sibilla. The
last outgoing mail, by way of the
•iver, was dispatched yesterday on
:he steamer Alaska, and the last
Richardson trail mail left Fairbanks
eesterday morning.
Deputy Marshal William Butler, of
flealy, who is at work «et present
>n the Fairbanks mail robbery case,
•ame in from the end of steel last
light and left for Fairbanks today, j
Ask the Moose
what the
J. J. Davis Class
means
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MAHONEY TO MAKE EFFORT
TO UPSET STATE’S CLAIMS
SEATTLE, Sept. 29—When the
state had rested its case against
James Mahoney yesterday morning,
counsel for the defense, in outlin
ing the plans for proving the in
nocence of Mahoney, declared that
they were prepared to prove that
Mrs. Mahoney was seen alive after
April 16. the date on which the
murder is alleged to have taken
place. The attorneys also declared
that they would prove that the body
found in the trunk in Lake Union
was not that of Mrs. Mahoney.
Documents Forged
One of the last witnesses placed
on the stand by the prosecution was
a handwriting expert, who testified
that documents purporting to have
been signed by Mrs. Mahoney, giv
ing her husband power of attorney
to conduct her affairs and entrance
to her safe deposit vault, were
forgeries.
CHICAGO JUDGE PLACES BAN
ON MEMBERS OF KU KLUX
CHICAGO, Sept. 29—Judge Davis
ha* announced that members of the
Ku Klux Klan will net be permitted
to serve on juries in his court dur
ing the trial of the case in which a
colored woman is suing the city for
damages for the death of her hus
band, who was killed during the
race riots in this citv a few months
ago.
The judge declares that he intends
to see that the plaintiff secures an
impartial hearing.
CANADIAN LIQUOR WAS USED
AT PARTY AT ST. FRANCIS
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 29—An
nouncement was made today by
Prohibition agents that the liquor
consumed at the Arbuckle party at
the St. Francis hotel, came from
Canada. They say they have traced
the liquor as far as Vancouver, and
a further investigation is planned.
Mutt Have Strong Cate
Police Judge Lazarus has handed
down a decision holding Roscoe
Arbuckle to answer to the charge
of manslaughter. In commenting on
the action of the judge. District At
torney Brady says that Lazarus
“plainly stated that more evidence
should be required in this case than
any other for the reason that the
defendant is an imnortant celebrity.”
Brady contends that the evidence
clearly indicates murder.
GOVERNOR OF IOWA APPEALS
FOR AID FOR UNEMPLOYED
DES MOINES. Sept. 29—Govern
or Kendall has issued a proclamation
in which he urgently appeals to the
people of Iowa to exert every pos
sible effort to relieve the unemploy
ment situation in this state.
The governor sets forth in his ap
peal that there are fify thousand
men with families in this state who
are without the ordinary means of
subsistence.
CONDEMNED NEGROES MAKE
APPEAL TO ESCAPE DEATH
LITTLE ROCK. Sept. 29—The
habeas corpus proceedings which
were instituted in behalf of six,
Elaine. Arkansas, negroes, under
sentence of death on the charge of
murder in connection with the riot
ing of two years ago, were dismiss
ed by the federal district court yes
terday, after a brief hearing.
Counsel for the condemned men
nas announced that an appeal will
he taken to the supreme court.
FOREIGN SAILORS CANNED
NEW YORK. Sept. 29—'wo h n
Ired alien members of the crew of j
:he Shipping Board steamer George j
Washington, the largest passenger
.•e=ce! operating under the Ameri-1
:an flag, have Leer, discharged, pu_*- j
mmt to the new policy of the Ship- 1
-irg Board to emr’oy on! Ameri-,
tan crews on its ships. Simi’ r at )
don '"ill be taken with regard t
he rthei shit" under the contro.!
>* the board j
Gene Ell’s L a recent arrival in
own- from Fairbanks.
FINAL NOTE TELLS IRELAND
MUST REMAIN EMPIRE UNIT
LONDON', Sept. 29—P remier
! Lloyd George, replying to the last
| note received from President De
I valera, repeats his invitation to the
I Sinn Fein to attend a conference
with the British cabinet on October
! 11.
I The note, which is considered tha
1 final word of the government, de
i dares that the government cannot
j alter its fundamental position that
! Ireland cannot be allowed to separ
1 ate from the Empire. If the iu
I citation to the conference is ac
■ eepted, the Sinn Fein delegates
must attend as representatives of a
| sisterhood of the British dominions.
WORK OF PARK SURVEYORS
IS ENDED FOR THE SEASON
With the coming of winter a mere
matter of days, and the sailing of
the last boat of the season, the work
of surveying and marking the bound
aries of the Mount McKinley Nation
al Park, under the direction of l'.
S. Cadastral Engineer Woodbury
Abbey, has been brought to a close
for the season. From the time the
survey party took the field to the
day of closing the work, 87 miles of
boundary line were established and
marked, a wagon road from Healy
to the ba«e camp at Pinto Creek,
a distance of approximately 20
miles, was established, as well as
several pack trails as nearly parallel
to the line of survey as possible, and
a lot of reconnaissance work done
for the purpose of shortening the
distances to be traversed by the
wagon and pack train in hauling
supplies and equipment to the dis
tant temporary survey camps.
Five members of the party left
yesterday morning on the steamer
Alaska, enroute to the States. Wood
bury Abbey, Hank A. Keil, Al Wig
and. Bob Toussaint and Ed Garnet
will leave shortly for Wasilla to
survey several sections of land on
which homesteads have been located
in that region.
The work of surveying the bound
aries of the Park was begun at the
summit of a hill lying between the
main Toklat River and Clearwater
Creek. From this point the line
runs South 6 degTees 20 minutes
West, for a distance of 19 miles,
to Boundary Creek; thence South
Oo degrees lur a ui.-iance ui
20 miles to the east bank of the
McKinley Rjver, passing Wonder
Lake approximately a mile and a
half at its southern end. At this
point the work was halted to enable
the party to return to the point of
beginning-, on the hill between the
Toklat and Clearwater
From this point the line was car
ried in an easterly direction for a
distance of 40 miles, to a point on
the 149th Meridian located on the
high ridge approximately four and
a half miles southwest of Healy,
the northwest corner of the Park;
thence following the Meridian in a
southerly direction for a distance of
eight miles, to a point within a few
miles of the Government railroad
crossing at Riley Creek, where the
work for the season was brought to
a close with the coming of cold
weather. When the work of survey
ing is resumed next season the East
boundary. along the 149th Meridian,
will be continued in a southerly di
rection for a distance of IT mile
and thence in a westerly direction
to Mt. Russell: and from the east
bank of the McKinley River the line
will be run west for a distance of
40 miles and thence south for a
distance of 30 miles to Mt. Russell.
It is to be regretted that this im
portant work was not taken in hand
earlier in the season jvhen necessary
supplies and equipment could have
been hauled and cached at con
venient points along the survey line
Owing to the very limited transpor
tation facilities at the disposal of the
chief of the party, coupled with the
difficulty of getting over a country
devoid of trails, a few of the iron
posts usually used for marking lim
its of all Public Land Surveys, could
not be hauled and set. Stone cairns
having a five foot bast and from
'our to five high, were erected io
mark fhe j oints wt ere the usual
posts will be set later. A small pack
train served the needs of the party
n the field, handling al of the bag
rage, camp equipment, supplies and
Feed for the horses from the main
supply camp on Pinto Creek, estab
ished shortly after the arrival of
ih" party at Healy.
" he hauling necessarily had to be
eb -ed, -he p 'ck train traveling a
Ik-ruce of ovtr 10b miles in land
ng s lppii 'S and feed to the cam?
tear Wonder I-ake.
Tom McK. .nc., -vc in ‘own this
iceeli o his V ;* to Fairbanks from
;he Tolovana district.