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The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
. THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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VOLUME ONE member of associated press nenana. alaska. Wednesday, February f* i9is whole number 272
CHINA DEPORTS UNPOPULAR GERMANS
GREEKS HAVE BOLSHEVIST DISTURBERS ON RUN
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DEMOCRATS NAME NEW MAN TO DIRECT CAMPAIGN •
BROWNE PM
* LEFT ON TRAIN
F. D. Browne, engineer in charge,
Herbert K. Ward, supervising en
gineer, William Sborgia and Dorwin
Browne left on the train this morn
ing for the end of steel, enroute
to the Broad Pass summit and the
Lignite and Healy river sections.
Two dog teams and the supplies
of the party also went out on the
train. The dog teams will be “navi
gated" over the trails which the
party will traverse by William Sbor
gia and Dorwin Browne.
Mr Browne is making the trip
to study conditions in regard to
extenson of the road toward Broad
Pass, with the possible improvement
of the existing trail, and also to
look into the coal possibilities in
the Lignite and Healy fields.
The party will probably return to
the Crossing in about a week from
today, and if nothing prevents, it
is Mr. Browne's intention to make
a trip into the Kantishna country
for reeonnaisanee purposes, with the
building of a railroad to serve the
district as the ultimate object in
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view.
william Sborgia will act as guide,
and as he is well acquainted with
the district will also take the party
to the mining centers where infor
mation in regard to tonnage for the
railroad will be gathered.
The party is taking a light camp
ing outfit, plenty of dog feed and
* some grub. Dorwin Browne and
Sborgia will be. relied on to keep
the party in fresh meat, which task,
in a country abounding in moose,
caribou and mountain sheep, will
not be a very difficult one.
The entire trip, Mr. Browne
thought, will consume about three
weeks.
WPS LOSE MEN
VLADIVOSTOCK. Feb. 26—In a
sharp engagement with the Bolshe
viki forces, east of Blagoveschensk,
in Eastern Siberia, the Japanese lost
two officers and eighten men killed
and twenty wounded.
The Bolsheviki force which tack
led the Japanse troops is estimated
to be about three thousand strong.
Blagovestchensk is the capital of
the Amur province and is one of the
most important cities in Eastern
Siberia.
SUTER
THE
On the train leaving for the end
of steel this morning, Mayor Suter,
of Fairbanks, accompanied by Robert
E. Bums, left for the purpose of
taking a look at the Bums coal
mine.
It is expected that Mr. Suter will
remain at the mine for a day or
VISITING
BURNS MINE
two.
j COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26.—Ac
cording to despatches received ii
this city today, fresh revolts oc
cured yesterday at Mannheim, anc
the Spartacans succeeded in gaining
possession of the post office, whicl
they still occupy.
The reports state that the major
ity of the Independent Socialist:
ha .-e agreed to rescind the proclama
(tion of the soviet if the governmen'
would abolish martial law, and tha'
the Communists have agreed U
abandon the public buildings hek
by them and surrender their arm:
to the government forces if thej
are promised immunity.
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ALLIED MISSION
WILL ARBITRATE
WARSAW. Feb. 26.—Under the
^auspices of a special inter-Alliec
mission to Poland, the Czecho
Slovak troops are evacuating th<
Tschen mining district, which is >
dispute between the Poles and the
C zecho-Siovaks.
The commander of the Czecho
slovak forces in Silesia has offeree
to fix a neutral zone to prevenl
possible clashes between the twe
nations.
BERLIN', Feb. 26.—According to
despatches received in this city to
i day, the Spartaeans and other radi
1 cal Socialists have launched a move
ment for the overthrow of the gov
ernment of Saxony, where the new
, Diet will assemble.
A general strike has been pro
claimed in Saxony and the railroad
to Halle, one of the pricipal junc
tion points has been cut.
The town of Plauen and other in
dustrial centers have also been
seized by the Spartaeans.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Homei
! S. Cummins has been elected chair
; man of the National Democratic
| committee, which recently voted foi
a complete reorganization of the
party for the purpose of conducting
an aggressive campaign of election
in 1920.
Two vice chairmen from the
Western states have also beer
j named.
i C. Stevens and Mai Altman were
passengers on the train this morning
j for the end of steel, enroute tc
{the coast.
LONDON, Feb. 26.—A Reuter's
News agency despatch received in
this city today, states that four ships
have been chartered for a voyage
I from China to Europe and that
1 these ships will be used for the pur
i pose of taking all the Germans in
China back to Germany. Only a
few German missionaries are to
be left in China.
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There are about twenty-five hun
i dred Germans residing In various
' parts of China, most of them being
j in business.
GERMANY PROTESTS
• PARIS. Feb. 26.—The German
armistice delegates at Spa entered
a strong protest against the deport
ation of Germans from China; also
against the sending of two shiploads
of Germans from China to Australia
during last month.
The German armistice delegates
learned today chat the Allies were
making preparations to send the
' Germans in China direct to their
homes in Germany and Austria.
LONDON, Feb. 26..— Captain
Guest, of the British army, told the
House of Commons today that the
three thosuand British soldiers who
have been unaccounted for so far
as prisoners of war, are not ex
pected to be found alive.
IMPORTANT BILL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The
, House today adopted the conference
reports on the rivers and harbors
bill, which will now be sent to the
Senate for similar action.
The rivers and harbors bill carries
an appropriation of thirty-three
! million dollars.
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ENGINEER CREEK WILL
BE A BIG PRODUCER
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Hughes & Evans, who have some
rich mining ground on the upper
iend of Engineer creek, report that
j they are well satisfied with their
winter prospecting and state that
; Engineer creek will have a bigger
gold production during the coming
summer than that of last season.
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CAL TOWNSEND IS
<RETURNING NORTH
i Fur Warden Cal Townsend, who
; went to Seattle on business recently.
' arrived back in Cordova on the
steamer Alameda.
Mr. Townsend, who is accompanied
j by his daughter, expects to leave
the coast town for Fairbanks in
a few days with George Parks, of
the land office, and Alex Hanot, the
j Pedro creek miner.
GREEKS 0PERA1E
WITH IHE ALLIES
FROM BLACK SEA
ATHENS, Greece. Feb. 26.—The
Greek troops which form part of the
Allied force of French and Ru
manian troops, advanced against the
Bolsheviki today, pursuing them
along the Dneister river to Fort
Omad and the town of Tiraspel,
fifty-three miles north of Odessa,
The retreating Bolsheviki forces
! are reported to have abandoned
many dead and wounded as well
asa large a.uantity of guns and
ammuntion.
ARMY OF OCCUPATION
ADOPTS NEW INSIGNIA
With the American Army of Oc
cupation.—A blue circular *>atch
with a superimposed red circle con
taining- in white the letter “A” has
been adopted as the insignia of the
Third American army, with head
quarters at Coblenz. All officers
and enlisted men of the army of
occupation, as the Third army is
known, are entitled to wear the
insignia on the left sleeve.
SlfmNG
FATAL TO POLICE
RAHWAY, N J., Feb. 26
Patrolmen James Lynch and Jacob
Krause were shot dead when they
made an attempt to arrest a number
of men engaged in a street fight
today.
< One of the prisoners taken from
a barricaded house confessed to hav
ing fired the fatal shots.
PEASAfir REVOLTS
OCCUR IN BADEN
BERLIN, Feb. 26.—Despatches
received in this city today from
Manrheim, the capital of the Duchy
of Baden, indicate that peasant re
volts have occurred in various parts
of the country as a result of the
friction between the Workmen’s
councils and the peasants
GUS PETERSON PLANNING
TO WORK ON LARGE SCALE
Arrivals in Fairbanks from the
Goldstream district say that Gus
Peterson is laying plans for mining
on a large scale on 18 Goldstream
during the coming summer.
The ground is about 60 feet to
bedrock and Gus Peterson is figur
ing on using undergroud scrapers.
If these appliances are found to
be unsatisfactory, he will revert
to the usual mining methods.
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* TEMPERATURE *
* As reported by the government *
* observation station, Nenana *
It -— «t
I ..Wednesday, February 26
I Maximum ......18 above *
* Minimum ._. 9 beowl *
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RUSSIA FINANCES
HUNGARIAN RIOIS
BASEL, Feb. 26.—According to
reports received in this city today,
seventy-six communists have been
arrested at Budapest on charges of
inciting rebellion against the Hun
garian government.
The men were put through an ex
amination by the govemmenet offi
cials and some of them admitted,
during the examination, that money
to establish an anti-republican gov
ernment came from Russia. *
The total expenses for the past
month of the anti-republicans reach
ed the large sum of three hundred
thousand crowns.
HI GOVERNMENT
10 BUY FOREIGN
BERLIN. Feb. 26—The govern
ment of the new German republic
will soon require al! holders of
foreign securities to turn them in
to the government, for use in the
payment of food importations, ac
cording to the Neu Berliner Zie
tung.
The government, the paper adds,
will buy the securities from the
holders on the basis of current
quotations.
ALLIES RECOVER
PORES ON BALTIC
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26.—Re
ports received in this city today
chroncile the recapture of the ports
of Libau and Windau from the Bol
sheviki.
The Bolsheviki forces had cap
tured and occupied these two ports
last month.
Libau and Windau are important
Baltic ports in the government of
Courland. The inhabitants of this
province are mostly Germans.
STRIKE REPORTED ”
FROM BARCELONA
MADRID, Feb. 26.—According to,
reports received this morning from
Barcelona, the strike situation in
that city would appear to be aggra
vated.
Barcelona is the principal seaport i
of Spain on the Mediterranean, and
is the capital of the province of
the same name.
JURY TO BE DRAWN <
NEXT FRIDAY MORNING
At the district court in Fairbanks, ‘
the drawing for the grand and petit j
juries will be held on Friday, Feb-!
ruary 28.
A term of court will go into j
session some time after the juries!
have been drawn. 1
HOWARD GURUS
SIILL IN FRANCE
Lieutenant Howard P. Curt's, for
mer chief storekeeper of the A. E. C.
at Xenana, is now with the quarter
masters Corps and is stationed at
Brest, France. He is in charge
of all the warehouses of th- depot
quartermaster, and says that *t is
some job.
He says that there was a race >o
Berlin on between the eight bare
ports, and at the time of • toig
(Dec. 18) Brest was in the lea l :n
sending supplies, the freight from
Brest arriving at Berlin ahead of
time.
He says that they are handling
SOME freight and that in three shifts
he put away 5500 tons of clothing
and that day after day more freight
is handled in a single day than
comes into the Tanana valley in a
Right out.-ide of the city of Brest,
he say- is Cerap Pontnazen, the iarg
est rest camp in the world. It is
built to handle 100,000 men a
month; there are also two other
camps nearby which draw their sup
plies from Brest, viz: Camp Bongen.
of 10,000 men, and Casement Fort
ress of 5000 men; and dishing out
supplies to these camps, he says, is
quite some job.
He says that there are quite a
few Alaskans in Brest, in the serv
ice. Former Lieutenant Asa L
Singleton, who was stationed in
Fairbanks in 1912, is now colonel
and chief of staff; Jack Barker,
forme special agent of the General
Land’office, had just been promoted
to major and is to be assigned to
the base at Brest; Jack Kerper,
former office engineer of the A.
E. C., is now the adjutant of the
318th regiment of engineers; Bob
Ingersoll (the gangplank kid) anj
Jack Hayes, former Nenanaites were
at Brest recently.
Curtis had just moved into
quarters at the Officerc’ club and
given up his uptown quarters to
Barker, he says, when the order
went into effect requiring officers
to vacate their rooms in the three
leading hotels, in view- of the ar
rival of President-Wilson and party.
There was a scramble for accommo
dations then, he says, and officers
of all ranks, from colonels down,
were begging to be taken in as a
bunkie.
There is much work to do, he
says, and nothing was known at the
time of writing regarding demobiliz
ation.
MRS. PETE ANDERSON
IN FROM KANTISHNA
Mrs. Pete Anderson, coming into
town on a busines trip, arrived with
her husbands dog team. Anderson
returned to his camp in Glacier City
with a load of supplies and will
return to Nenana for another load
in a few days.
Pete Anderson was the first man
to make the ascent of Mount Mc
Kinley. He reached the top of the
mountain in May 1910 and planted
the American flag there.
Mrs. Anderson expects to return
to her homfc in Glacier on her hus
band's next trip in.