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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1920.
NO. 273
EMPIRE STATE G. O. P. DEMANDS ACTION
Irish raiders a ttack police with grenades
WHITE TROOPS DESERT AS BOLSHEVIKI TAKE OUTPOST
EXPLORER PEARY,
POLE CONQUEROR,
PAYS IICOSIS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.—
Robert Edwin Peary, discoverer of
the North Pole, who had been en
gaged in a losing fight against
death during the past two years,
succumbed today, a victim of per
nicious anaemia. He submitted to
35 blood transfusions within two
years in his heroic struggle for life,
but he grew steadily weaker and
K his death today was not unex
pected.
The deceased was born in Penn
sylvania in 185G. He planted the
American flag at the North Pole on
April 6, 1909, and two years later
was promoted to the rank of rear
admiral, U. S. U., by special act of
Congress, in recognition of his Arc
tic achievements.
Until he became too ill to do so,
Peary took an active interest in
aeronautics, having recently become
vice-president of a St. Louis air
plane company. He was president
of the Aerial League of America at
the time of his death.
He will be buried with full naval
honors.
A sketch of the life of the noted
explorer appears elsewhere in this
issue.
^ VETERAN IS CALLED
FROM MAIL SERVICE
SEATTLE, Feb. 20.—Robert F.
McCullough, an employe of the rail
way mail service since 1866 and a
veteran of the Civil war, died here
today, aged 74 years. The deceased
joined the railway mail service at
the time of its organization.
Kenana. the SttmT to McKinley
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NEW YORK REPUBLICANS ARE
URGING DISPOSAL OF PEACE
NEW YORK SALES i
According to information received \
at Fairbanks yesterday, fur sales j
held in New York this week show a
substantial increase in the value of
some furs since last fall. Some of
the highest prices received were as
follows: Blue fox, $270; cross, $242:
silver, $720, silver pelts having
shown an advance of 25 percent
since last fall; red, $71.
| Sales of muskrat skins showed
an advance of 60 percent; white fox,
110 percent; cross fox, about the
'same as last fall, ahd blue fox 10
[percent lower than last fall.
All of the lower grade skins
showed a 20 percent increase.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—William
Welch Adams, American mine su
perintendent, who was taken cap
tive by Mexican bandits in the state
of Zacatecas several days ago, has
been released, according to informa
tion which reached this city today.
It is not known here whether or
not the ransom of $25,000 demand
ed by the bandits was paid to them,
nor is it stated how Adams came to
be released. It is believed, how
ever, that Mexican troops compelled
the kidnapers to set him at liberty.
COLD WAVE SWEEPING
ACROSS MONTANA NOW
HELENA, Feb. 20. —Unusually
cold weather for this season of the
year derails throughout Montana
today, reports indicating that the
cold wave is general. Local ther
mometers register ten above zero.
COPRA PRICE SOARING
FOR WESTERN SAMOA
APIA, British Samoa.—Producers
are receiving 8 cents a pound foi
their copra in Western Samoa. This
is a record price.
In American Samoa, however, un
der government contracts with Johi
Rothschild & Co., of San Francisco
only 4 cents is paid.
PORT ANGELES AWAITS
RESULTS OF DRILL1NC
PORT ANGELES, Wn.—Oil feve;
has struck Sequim, a town nea:
here. Every resident, it is said, i
watching closely the work of a crev
which is drilling for oil near thi
town.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20.—The plat
form adopted this week by the New
York state Republican convention
contains a demand for the immedi
ate ratification of the peace treaty,
with certain of the proposed sen
ate reservations retained. Among
the reservations favored is the one
retaining1 for the United States the
right to withdraw from the League
of Nations at any time, upon giving
proper notice to the other members
of the league. The platform also
declares against Article X, and de
mands protection for the Monroe
Doctrine, in letter and spirit. The
convention believes that the right to
make war should be reserved to
Congress.
Referring to ’he labor clauses ol
the treaty, the convention points
out that they constitute a net, (
spread by international socialism for.
the purpose of drawing America into
difficulties. Article X, in the opin
ion of those responsible for the plat- j
form, would embroil America in in- ,
ternational wars, and the league is
attacked because the covenant at
tempts the substitution of discussion
for law for the settlement of inter
national disputes.
ARCHANGEL 1$ CAPTURED
LONDON, Feb. 20.—Wireless ad
vices received ;n this city today
from the Bolsheviki headquarters at
.Moscow announce the capture of
Archangel by the Lenine-Trotsky
forces.
Details of the occupation are 'ack
mgr, but it is evident that little ef
fort was made to cheek the advance
of the Bolsheviki army, the dis
patches stating that many of the
White army defending: the city de
serted to the Bolsheviki when the
opportunity presented itself.
RAIDS IN IRELAND
BECOMING SERIOUS
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! WEST KERRY, Ireland, Feb. 20.
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—-The local police barracks was the
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scene today of a pitched battle be
tween armed raiders and members
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! of the police force, the engagement
I lasting fully three hours and result
ing in the serious injury of one po
liceman and three of the raiders,
j The raiders attacked the barracks
with hand grenades, rifles and re
volvers and shooting was indulged
in with utmost abandon. The po
: lice, however, finally repulsed the
raiders after three of them had
been carried away wounded.
In retiring from the barracks,
under fire, the raiders threw trees
across the road and dug trenches at
several points to check the approach
of military automobiles, which were
ordered to the scene. One end of
the barracks was wrecked by a
bomb.
POLICE USE TANK.
DUBLIN, Feb. 20.—Following a
series of street fights between civ
ilians and police, soldiers were des
patched to Graton street with a
battle tank and two armored cars,
with which a successful raid was
executed. Several of the disturbers
were placed under arrest.
One constable was killed during
the fighting earlier in the day.
GERMANS PREPARE
10 CONDUCT CASES
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: LONDON, Feb. 20.—Preparations
are being1 rushed in Germany for
ithe trial of those Gemjans whom
-;the Allies -have indicated as being
i guilty of violating the rules of in
ternational warfare. Representa
11 tives are to be sent <to England and
. J France to gather evidence against
i the alleged offenders, whose trial
the Allies have turned over to the
German government.
Mike Kelly, who came in from
■ the Kantishna country this week,
• left for Fairbanks on today’s train,
s He is enroute to the Tolovana to
r look after some business matters.
■ He expects to be back in Nenana
| within a few weeks.
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COLLARS TO ROUT
STOCKTON. Cal., Feb. 20.—Fif
teen members of the high school
teaching staff of this city are wear
ing corduroy trousers as part of a
plan to reduce the high cost of
living.
Their example has been followed
by many other residents of the city
whose professions usually are asso
ciated with white collars, corduroys
being now very much in evidence
throughout the community.
J. G. K. Toussaint, timekeeper ai
the end of steel, who has been ir
Fairbanks on business during the
past week, returned to Nenana or
today’s train and will leave for hu
station tomorrow morning.
CANADIAN MS
TO GET HEFliGEES
ACROSS PACIFIC
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 20.—
Announcement is made in this city
today that the Biue Funnel liners
Tyndareus and Protesileus are to be
despatched to the other side of the
Pacific at an early date to rescue
100,000 Czecho-Slovak and Russian
refugees who are awaiting an op
portunity to leave Siberia and North
ern China, where the Bolsheviki ar
mies have crushed all opposition to
their advance eastward toward the
Pacific.
The refugees will be landed here
and transferred to Canadian Pacific
trains, which will take them to the
Eastern coast of Canada enroute to
their home lands.
VESSEL CRIPPLED;
PARIS, Feb. 20.—According to
information received in this city
today, the steamship Danube barely
escaped foundering in the Black sea
this week as the result of encoun
tering a stray mine near the en
trance to the Bosphorus. The ves
sel was badly crippled, but man
aged to reach Constantinople be
■fore going to the bottom,
j Thirteen of those on board the
steamship were killed by the ex
' plosion.
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ENGLISH FAMILIES TO
I EMIGRATE TO CANADA
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VANCOUVER, B. C.—Hundreds
.of English families of the middle
|class will emigrate to Canada, and
[especially to British Columbia, with
jin the next few years, and a large
•influx may be expected before the
Send of this year, in the opinion of
James Findlay, former mayor of
! Vancouver, who recently returned
!here after four years war work
abroad.
! Englishmen who formerly main
' tained a high standard of living on
pre-war incomes, now find those
incomes insufficient for their needs,
and are turning their eyes toward
; Canada as a land of broader oppor
tunities, Mr. Findlay asserted. These
conditions apply especially to the
1 middle class, made up mainly of
:business and professional men, he
said.
Sylvester Howell went to Fair
banks today to witness the presenta
tion of “Rio Grande" in the uppei
town tomorrow night. He missec
I the show in Nenana.
SECRETARY URGES
FARMERS 10 HELP
GATHER RE1URNS
WASHINGTON, 1). Fob. 20.
Secretary Houston of the depart
ment of agriculture has issued an
appeal to the farmers of the nation
to assist the census enumerators in
gathering accurate data regarding
farms and farming details. The
farmers are urged to co-operate
more fully with the census bureau,
their reluctance to assist thus far
having resulted in much delay in
gathering the desired information
and difficulty in taking the farm
census.
This feature of the census work,
!the appeal points out, has become
ia matter of serious concern, but is
not altogether the result of failure
on the [iart of farmers to co-oper
ate. Unfavorable weather condi
tions have helped to hold the work
back.
Farmers are urged to give the
census enumerators not only such
■ information as may be asked for
! directly, but also such other in
formation as may suggest itself,
'especially with regard to farms that
imay have been overlooked. ,
SEWER PIPE tun
BURNS 11SEA1TLE
i SEATTLE, Feb. 20.—The sewer
pipe plant of the Denny-Renton
Olay & Coal company, near George
town, was destroyed by (ire today,
with an estimated loss of $80,000.
j The tire started in the drykiln
and had such a start when discov
ered that it was impossible to cheek
the flames. Nearby buildings were
: saved with difficulty.
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HUM FARMER GEES
DECEM ON OKI
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; TACOMA, Feb. 20.- Frank Fann
er, local heavyweight, won a de
cision over Young Heitor, of Brem
erton, in a six-round boxing match
which took place in this city last
night before a large crowd of fight
fans. The fight was a good one,
but Farmer showed his superiority
early in the contest and the decision
in his favor was heartily approved
by the audience.
Resident Engineer and Mrs. J. J.
Kestly and little son Jerry returned
. from Fairbanks today, enroute back
to their headquarters out the line.
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Minimum .31 above
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