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The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1919
WHOLE
NUMBER 296
WICK STARTS FIGHT ON LANE
* COMMISSION COMING TO SIZE UP COAL
BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY NOT SURE OF" PEACE
* GERMANY WILL
BERLIN', Mar. 26.—Doctor Shef
fer, the German minister of finance,
addressing a great crowd of people
who had assembled in front of the
chancellor’s palace in this city to
hear him last Sunday, said in part:
"I take solemn oath that the govern
ment will not surrender one inch
of German territory, either east or
west.”
LONDON, Mar. 26.—Viscount
Milner, the British colonial secre
tary, in a statement made to the
British House of Lords today, said
that the army and navy estimate
could not be reduced at the present
time, as the country was still far
from well established in peaceful
relations with the late enemies.
DANCINC ACADEMY
SESSION ON TONIGHT
Mrs. Belle Campbell's dancing:
academy will hold a session to
night at the Union Hall, imme
diatly after the picture show.
New beginners are requested to
be ait the hall about half an hour
before the usual closing time of the
show at the Coliseum.,
PREMIER KIWI
REPORTED KILLED
BERNE, Switzerland, Mar. 26.—
According: to an unconfirmed rumor
which reached this city today, Pre
mier Karolyi ,of the Hungarian
cabinet, has been assasinated.
AMERICAN FLEET
IK TAGUS RIVER
LISBON, Portugal. Mar. 26.—
An American squadron of thirty
nine warships arrived yesterday and
anchored in the Tagus.
There are now a total of eighty
four American naval vessels in the
Tagus.
HONS MAY TRY
SOU SYSTEM
BERLIN. Mar. 26.—The German
government will soon submit to the
National Assembly a proposal for
the incorporation of the Soviet sys
tems in the German constitution.
The effect of the measure, if duly
adopted, will be to establish the
three chamber system.
A Burgess auto arrived ;n town
this afternoon from Fairbanks with
a shipment of second class mail
and parcels post. There were no
passengers aboard.
NAVAL COMMISSION
COMING TO ALASKA
W ASHINGTON, Mar. 26.—It wa*
officially announced by the navy de
partment today that a naval com
mission, composed of three nava
officers and two civilians, one oi
whom will be a mining engineei
and the other a geologist, will be
sent to Alaska for the purpose ol
studying conditions and formulating
a plan for the development, of the
Matanuska coal fields.
The labors of the commission wil
be in the nature of preliminar;
investigation, as the department ii
determined to center its efforts oi
this field for a supply of fuel fo:
the navy.
The commission will leave Brem
erton Navy Yard on April first am
will come North to Anchorage a
soon thereafter as possible.
Sumner Smith, superintendent o
mining operation in the Matanuski
region, and Theodore Chapin, i
geologist for the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, will be the civiliai
members of the commission. Th
names of the naval officers who wil
be the other members of the com
mission are not known at present
An appropriation of one mililoi
dollars was made available b;
Congress to be expended under th
direction of the secretary of th
j navy for the purpose of developing
the mining and transportation of
coal for the use of the United States
navy. It is expected that this ap
propriation will come up for con
(sideration again by the new Con
gress.
In order that some of the naval
appropriation may be devoted to
, work in connection with the de
velopment of coal in the Xenana
fields, efforts were made by the Ne
i ana Commercial club to get further
i information concerning this; wires
• being despatched to Governor Riggs
and Secretary Redfield.
Frederick D. Browne also en
I deavored to glean some informa
i tion about this appropriation, and a
reply to his telegram to Chairman
: Edes regarding the money, was to
l the effect that none of it would be
i available until after a naval com
■ mittee, which had not at that time
i been appointed, had investigated
: and reported their findings.
I It is quite probable, however, that
- the navy department will confine
. their efforts to the Matanuslta field
1 and will apply the money to the de
l velopmewt of that field and to the
i enlargement and improvement of
»[ shipping facilities at Anchorage.
CONFERENCE 10
HURRY TREA1Y
PARIS, Mar. 26.—President Wil
son and Premiers Lloyd George of
England. Clemenceau of Franee, and
Orlando of Italy, held a meeting
today in President Wilson’s study in
his Paris residence, for the purpose
of clearing up great questions, that
were obstructing the completion of
the peace treaty.
Diferences of opinion among the
premiers of the various Allied coun
tries and of the peace delegates
were discussed frankly.
The reparations to be made by
Germany, and the Hungarian up
heaval were also gone into very
thoroughly.
It is expected that asf a result of
the conference, the driving up of
the final peace treaty and its sig
nature by the Central Powers will
soon be an accomplished fact.
com mine sew
HALF ME AHEAD
The progress made by the steel
tcang: on the main line, south of
Xenana brought them to within half
a mile of the Burns coal mine, near
Lignite, last night. Steel is now
being laid at the rate of about
900 feet a day, and at this rate, it
is expected that the line to the mine
pit will be completed by the end
of the week.
From the main line a spur track
of approximately 1000 feet, will
have to be built to the tipple at
the mouth of the mine shaft. The
grade for this purpose has been
completed and it therefore only re
mains to connect it up with the
steel.
All arrangements for the unload
tng of the coal at the Xenana yards
have been made and it is expected
that shipments will be rushed to
Xenana as rapidly as possible. I
Burns & Co. have had a con
siderable start and should find no
difficulty in loading up all the cars
the government could send them,
for some time to come, at least.
It is expected that after things I
get into working shape and the sur
plus coal hauled away, about three
carloads of coal a day will be
brought in from the Burns mine,
until the full quantity contracted
for has been supplied.
BIILY SUNDAY SAYS
HELL IS FOR RENT
NEW YORK —Rev. “Billy” Sun
day, on learning of the ratification
by 38 states of the federal prohi
bition amendment said: “The lain
of tears is over. The slums will
soon be a memory, we w il turi
our prisons into factories, our jails
into storehouses and corn cribs,
men will walk upright. No-v women
will smile, children will !au.;h, Iteil
!will be for rerst.”
WICKERSHAM SEEKING
RETIREMENT OF LANE
AS RAILROAD’S HEAD
SEATTLE, Mar. 26.—In a des
patch received today by the Seattle
Post Intelligencer from it’s special
correspondent at Washington, D C.,
the news is contained that former
Delegate Wickersham has sent Sec
retaary of the Interior Frar'-lin K.
Lane a voluminous le*ter, which, in
substance, is virtually a demand
upon the secretary of the interior
to withdraw firm the management
of the government railroad now be
ing built from the coast to ,he In
terior of Alaska. ,
Wickersham says *hat Secretary
Lane’s administration of the affairs
of the Alaska railroad has been a
dismal failure through incorapet
ence and petty political partisanship
on the part of his appointees, whom
he also charged with waste and mis
use of the funds provided for rail
road construction purposes.
The levying of what he terms un
just freight and passenger rates on
completed portions of the line is
scathingly denounced, and he also
openly charges that Secretary Lane
assisted the Guggenheims in im
posing unreasonable charges against
the Alaska shipper.
Referring to Governor Riggs, for
mer member of the Alaskan Engin
eering commission, Wickersham said
that he was no railroad man and
that his appointment as member of
the Commission was not made or.
ing to his ability as a railroad
builder, but that social and political
reasons weighed in his selection for
the office for which he was other
wise unfitted.
Elaborate terminals, he says, have
been built at Xenana with but only
three miles of main line completed
during the past four years. Part
of the line built out of Xenana
toward the coal fields, which cost
much money to complete, had to bt
abandoned, on account of floods,
which, he thinks, the engineers
could have foreseen and guarded
against.
The first instalment of the Wick
ersham letter takes up four columns
••{ the Seattle P.-I.
y FORMED
10 SELL COPPER
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26.—The
United Metal Selling company has
been formed by the producers for
the purpose of offering for sale
one hundred millions of tons of
copper, now held by the government,
at market prices
An allowance is to be made to
the company for selling the copper.
Completing a quick round trip
from Nenana to Moose creek, in the
Kantishna country, Deputy Marshal
James Hagen, Billy Butler, whose
dog team was used to make the trip,
and bringing Gus Nelson, the al
leged insane man, arrived in town
this afternoon.
They were accompanied by Louis
Finke and Fred Hussellman, each
driving his own dog team.
The trip to the Kantishna was
commenced last Saturday morning
and was made for the purpose of
taking into custody an insane pris
oner, Gus Nelson, on a warrant
sworn to by William Taylor. Finke
and Husselman were taking care
of the insane man pending the ar
rival of the marshal. They are in
Nenana as witnesses.
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St Minimum .4 below It
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CAIRO, Mar. 26.—It is officalh
reported that during the recent dis
turbances in Egypt and especiall>
around Cairo, it is estimated that
two -thousand houses in various vil
lages were sacked.
Innumerable soldiers and civilians
were also killed during the disorders
throughout Egypt.
America’s premier ace, Capt. Ed
warjl V. Richenbach, is of German
descent. Another illustration of tht
foolishness of Germany’s feeling oi
security on account of there being
so much German blood in this
country
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26. — A
message to the White House from
the American peace delegates at
Paris received this morning, stated
that greater progress towards peace
is being made than appears on the
surface.
The message gives no details of
the peace progress made so far.
JAP ROYALTY HELPING
SALVATION ARMY WORK
TOKIO.—The emperor and em
press will give So00 annually to the
Japanese Salvation Army for the
next ten years, it is annouced.
RUSSIAN SITUATION
ISIUNSATISFACTORY
LONDON, Mar. 26—In the course
of a lengthy speech on the situation
in Russia, delivered in the House
of Commons, Secretary of War
Churchill said that, for the past
two or three months events in the
Ukraine country . have progressed
very rapidly and that the results
have been extremely disastrous for
the French troops.
These troops, he said, entered
the Ukraine country from the south
by way of Odessa and succeeded in
penetrating some distance from the
coast. They were then confronted
with superior forces and also en
countered hositlity from the people
and were compelled to fall back to
their base, which they did slowly,
fighting a continuous rearguard ac
i tion until they reached the cover
of the heavy batteries of Odessa.
The British and French forces
have now combined and are stoutly
t defending the city of Odessa against
the violent attacks of the Bolshe
viki.
The Bolsheviki, who are very
numerous in the Ukraine country,
greatly outnumber the Allied force
there; they are now threatening to
invade Rumania.
IN NORTH RUSSIA
WITH THE ALLIES, Mar. 26.—
The Bolsheviki forces are intrench
ing and reinforcing both the in
fantry and artillery sections of their
army, in anticipation of an attack
which they expect the Allied troops
to make shortly at Bolshav Ozera.
Yesterday the Americans and the
British forces attacked from the
west side of this village, but were
unable to make any impression be
cause of the strong Bolsheviki de
fense.
Quiet is reported from other
sectors of the northern front, but
developments are expected.