IILS AND RIVERS MEET
ANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1920.
NO. 235
MEXICO URGED TO PUNISH MURDERERS
QUAKE FOLLOWED BY FLOODS IN MEXICAN STATE
COAL MINERS RATIFY ACTION OF PRESIDENT TOM LEWIS
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CUMMINS SAYS
COMMITTEE WILL !
BACK PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, I>. C„ Jan. 7.—j
It is generally believed in Demo- I
cratic circles that the peace treaty
and League of Nations proposition
will become an issue in the forth- ‘
coming campaign and that the Dem- .
oerats will make the race for the
presidency with the treaty as the !
principal plank in their platform.
A resolution endorsing the stand
I
of President Wilson on the treaty
question will be laid before the
Democratic national committee when
that body meets tomorrow, and. in
asmuch as the resolution has the
backing of committee officials, it is
believed that it will be adopted.
In a statement made today. Chair
man Cummins said: “We are behind
President Wilson in this matter and
the resolution will leave no doubt
about our position.”
SINN FEIN LEADER
IS TAKEN IN RAID
DUBLIN. Ireland. Jan. 7.—Mich
ael Staines. Sinn Fein member of
the Irish parliament, was placed un
der arrest today, following' a raid
on the Sinn Fein headquarters in
the parliament buildings.
The raid wa> conducted by Brit
ish soldiers, a number of whom were
sent in search of Staines.
BILLY WRIGHT WINS
PROM EVERETT SPAR
SEATTLE. Jan. 7.- Billy Wright,
of this city, won the Pacific coast
welterweight championship from
Travie Davis, of Everett, in a six
round ring contest which tool; place
in this city last night, the fight
being one of the most largely at
tended and most spirited bouts wit
nessed here in many months.
The decision of the referee met
with general approval.
AMERICAN WARSHIPS
CANNOT FIND CREWS
OLD POINT COMFORT, Jan. 7.
—The main body of the Atlantic
fleet left Hampton Read? today for
Guantanamo for winter maneuvers.
Admiral Henry Wilson commanding;.
The fleet includes seven dread
naughts, thirty-five cruisers and a
number of submarines.
More vessels would have been
despatched to Cuban waters for the
annual practice, but men were not
available to fill out the crews. The
shortage kept several of the larger
vessels at home, and only 35 of
ANOTHER YANKEE IS KILLED;
WARNING NOTE DESPATCHED
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10 RUN FISHING
VICTORIA, B. C., -Jan. 7.—Will
iam Rloane, provincial minister of
mines and commissioner of fisheries,
is advocating that the Dominion
government take over all Canadian
fisheries in Pacific toast waters, as
a mean? of giving protection to the
fish and eliminating needless com
petition.
The chief object of the plan, as
explained by Sloane in a public
statement made here w!it#! :s~ rtf
reduce the cost of fish to the pub
lic. which cannot be done, he main
tains. so long as the fishing is done
by private companies and individu
als.
Government fishing, the commis
sioner contends, will have a ten
dency to reduce of the waste which
enters largely into the regulation
of prices under existing conditions.
AERIAL SQUADRON
10 PATROL COAST
SEATTLE, .lan. 7.—There is a
report in circulation 'in this city to
the effect that the 91st areo squad
ron. famous for its work on the
Western front during the war. will
be assigned to duty on Puget sound
during the coming summer, where it
will be engaged in patrol work.
The squadron is now stationed at
Mather field, near Sacramento. Cali
fornia.
VANCOUVER DEFEATS
SEATTLE AT HOCKEY
VANCOUVER. B C.. Jan. 7 —
The Seattle hockey team was de
feated here last night by the local
aggregation, the score being 4 to 1.
the 110 destroyer* had enough men
to enable them to participate in the
maneuvers.
Naval recruiting has suffered a
great setback since the end of the
world war. in spite of the efforts of
the navy department to attract men
to the sere-ice. Inducements of all
kinds are being offered and it is
the hope of Secretary Daniels soon
to be able to announce a substan
tial increase in pay, which he be
lieves will help considerably to solve
the recruiting problem.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—t
The state department has been of
ficially advised of the murder of
Gabriel Porter, an American cit
izen, who is reported to have been
shot and killed by a Mexican fed
eral army officer on December 21.
The information comes from the,
American consul at Tampico and is
considered authentic.
Punishment Asked.
Officials of the state department
have forwarded a formal request to
the Mexican federal government,
urging the punishment of the men
responsible for the murder of Am
ericans in Mexico recently, the list
of victims including F. J. Roney,
Earl Bowers, and other American
oil men who have been slain in the
Tampico district. Bowers was in the
employ qf the International Petrole
um company and was murdered by
Mexicans within one mile of Pale
Bianco, near Port Lobo?.
WILL JOIN VILLA.
EAGLE PASS. Tex_, Jan. 7.—
There is an unconfirmed report in
circulation in the border country to
the effect that General Alberto
Guajaro, formerly of the Huerta
army, has crossed the Rio Grande
into Mexico with the intention of
joining Villa. He has a large num
ber of followers with him. and guns
and ammunition sufficient for a cam
paign of considerable magnitude.
VILLA SURROUNDED
GALVESTON'. Tex., Jar.. 7.—The
Mexican consul-general of this city
has been advised that Genera! Villa
has been surrounded on the desert
by Mexican federal troops and that
his capture is imminent. The place
where the bandit leader bac been
trapped is between the state* of
Chihuahua and Coahuila.
MINERS BACK TOM LEWIS
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 7.—The
action of the international officers
of the United Mine Workers of
America in accepting the coal strike
settlement terms proposed by the
Government, was ratified today by
the special convention of the or
ganization called for the purpose
of considering the temporary agree
ment under which the -triker- re
cently returned to work.
There was considerable opposition
XL W YORK. Jar.. 7.—The big
French liner La Touraine. which
arrived in port yesterday from the
European side of the Atlantic, ’•e
j it- having encountered the worst
st "•jr ever experienced by that ves
sel For many hours luth a the
trip it v.a- considered doubtful if
the craft would weather the gaie.
When the vessel arrived here,
several lifeboats were missing from
the port side, and the deck showed
signs of having been severely bat
tered by mighty waves.
Seven hundred passengers made
the voyage across on the La Tou
raine.
SHIPBUILDER INJURED
BY SPEEDY AUTOMOBILE
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—C. J. Erick
son, president of the Seattle-North
Pacific Shipbuilding company, was
knocked down and seriously injured
by an automobile in this city this
morning. It is believed that he will
recover.
Vaasa*—The Gateway to MeKlcley
VaUoaal Task.
to the ratification, "out President
Tom L. Lewis made a strong appeal
to the delegates for favorable ac
tion and finally prevailed upon them
to give their endorsement to the
action taken.
Lewis reminded the miner- that
the settlement is only temporary and
expressed the belief that a m 're
satisfactory agreement will result
from the investigation now in prog
ress by the special commission an
WASHINGTON. I). Jan 7 -
A federal warrant ha> been issued
for the arrest of Ludwig Martens,
self-styled ambassador to the United
States from Soviet Russia, and it is
expected that he will be taken into
custody before night.
Martens, officials of the depart
ment of justice believe, is the real
leader of the communist party in
America. Martens’ chief of staff is
alreadv in custody, and both men,
it is believed, will be deported.
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J. R. Fowle, of the Fairbanks j
Clothing- company, returned to his '
headquarters in Fairbanks on yes
terday’s train. He expects to be in j
Nenana again next week.
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PRISONER DONS
FEMALE ATTIRE;
MAKES ESCAPE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.—Vir
gil Tolliver, a federal prisoner con
ned in the disciplinary barracks at
Alcatraz island, escaped from the
island yesterday in a novel manner
and is still at large, in spite of the
fact that scores of soldiers and ev
ery policeman in the city are search
ing for him.
Tolliver secured a woman's dress
and other apparel in some mysteri
oxjs iirerr>TVcf. and -rts a fe
male, passed the guards without
question, boarded a government tug
at the island dock and made a suc
cessful getaway when he reached
the mainland.
Tolliver's escape is the more re
markable because of the vigilance
maintained by .he military authori
ties usually on the island, very few
prisoners having escaped from the
place.
10 ARRANGE PEACE
STOCKHOLM. Jan. T In spit
of his failure.? heretofore to mer
est the Allied ven.mt.1.'.- in his
leace verturo i en *n en
Statred in another effort to make
peace, and, with that en i ir, view.
sending- Coionei Tailente. li'iti-C
representative in the Baltics, t ■
London with a new Bolshevik! offer.
It is understood that I.enine offer.
to truarantee the abolition ter
rorism and revolutionary tribunal
in Soviet Russia, hopir.tr thus to «e
cure a hearing.
H. K Carlysle. timber crui-er. re
turned to Fairbanks yesterday from
a trip to the Circle district.
THOUSANDS KILLED
BY MEXICAN QUAKE
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7. —Report
received in this city from various
parts of the state of Vera Cruz in
dicate that Sunday's earthquake wac
much more serious than first ap
peared. Scores of towns and vil
lages were wrecked and thousands
of persons, it is feared, lost their
lives in the ruins of their homes and
in the floods which followed the
seismic disturbance. A large section
of the state is still inundated, ren
dering the work of relief extremely,
CARPENTIER HAS
ACCEPTED OFFER
OF LARGE PURSE
PARIS. Jan. 7. Manager de<
Camps, who is representing Georges
Carpentier in the negotiations for
a championship match with Cham
pion Jack Dempsey, is authority for
jthe statement that the French cham
[pion has accepted the offer of James
|Coffroth of a $400,000 purse for a
j fight under his management. The
'details have r.ot yet been arranged,
'but it is generally believed that the
; two men will be able to get t ■
jgether without difficulty.
Manager des Camps says that he
I wants an even break in the negotia
tions. claiming that Carpentier is a
!big a drawing card as the American
i fighter. He also says that Carper.
jtier prefers to fight fifteen or twen
jty rounds instead of forty-five a
i.-uggesled by CoiTroth. He argue
'that neither men is worthy of the
championship if he cannot settle the
question in fifte-n rounds.
TIA JUANA GETS IT
LOS AXGFI.ES, Jan. 7. — Ja.x
Kearn-. manager for Jack Dempsec .
-ays that Carpentier'- ac.«-ptarn v of
.the Coffroth offer mean.- that ttie
; big battle *•:! be staged at Tia
Juana. the Mexican resort near San
Diego.
FIGHT IN JULY.
I.Os AN'fJKI.KS. Jar.. 7 B '.n
■ Demp~e> an ; n.~ manager, Ju‘-a
Kearns. -ay ’hey are well pleased
a ah l at pent.er', acceptance of ti
f.'offroth offer. They expect to :i>
duee the f renihmat, how* ver, to
take a pamhler’s chance on tie
i par=e money tnsteon of ir.si-ttn:*
•jpce an equal divi-ion of the mo.,
ey. win " r lose. Dempsey warts
fdOh.UOo • • jo to the wir ■ or at.
S 100,0(10 * the loser He will .-or.
-ent to a 15-round limit.
Both Dempsey an I his manager
w'it • t h< fiyht to tar.e J u: v
fourth.
SONS OF THE KAISER
ASK TO BE DIVORCED
PARIS, Jan 7 Prh Auttu-t
and Prince Joachim, sons "r th<*
former Kaiser, have instituted d.
vorce proceedings attain-: their re
rpective wives
slow and difficult. Several town
are reported to have been who by
wrecked by the flood waters
Another result of the quake is
noted in the oil fields, where nu
merous wells are now -pouting pe
troleum.
Owinir to the flooded condition of
the country, it is impossible to es
timate the damage done, and it
probably will be several weeks be
fore the full details of the disaster
art known here.