Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1921
NUMBER 85
■ FORMER EMPEROR SEEKS PEACE IN DEATH
RAILROAD WORKERS LINING UP AGAINST STRIKE
ADMIRAL SAYS JAPAN READY TO REDUCE HER NAVY
WMtSHAL STEVENS IS HOME;
M’CROSKEY IS CHIEF DEPUTY
United States Marsha.] Gilbert B.
Stevens, whose appointment was con
firmed by the senate several weeks
ago in spite of opposition of the
most vigorous character, backed
chiefly by opposing candidates for
the marshalship and their supporters,
arrived in Nenana on yesterday’s
train from the south, ready to as
sume his official duties as marshal
of the Fourth division. He expects
to take over the office on Tuesday
and will leave for Fairbanks to
morrow for that purpose.
Questioned this afternoon by a j
representative of The News relative j
to appointments to be made, Marshal.
Stevens said that he had made only
one selection thus far and that the
other appointments would be de-1
ferred until after he had taken over j
his official duties and sized up the
situation generally. He does not i
propose to be stampeded into mak- !
ing appointments and when he does!
select his assistants they will be j
picked carefully, solely with a view1
to efficient service.
The single selection made by the
marshal is that of T. J. McCroskey,
for several years past a member of j
the Alaskan Engineering Commission j
forces, who will be chief deputy j
under the incoming administration.:
Mr. McCroskey has been in charge
of the A. E. C. store at Healy forj
some time past and is rated among j
the most competent men in the
service of the railroad organization.
Marshal Stevens does not deny
that he has received many applica
tions for positions. They began com
ing to him before he left the East
and have increased steadily in vol
ume since then. But he is not giv
ing any consideration to any of
them at present.
Marshal Stevens declares that
Cecil H. Clegg will be confirmed as
judge, in spite of the efforts of
those who are opposing him. It may
take a little time to win the con
firmation but that he will win event
ually appears to be the concensus
of opinion at Washington.
National Committeeman McBride
is still trying to land the appoint
ment as collector of customs at the
territorial capital, but Marshal Stev
ens thinks Garfield has the inside
t track.
The whereabouts of Tom Marquam
is unknown to Marshal Stevens. He
had not seen him for some time be
fore he left Washington and, upon
his arrival on the coast, he heard
that Marquam was in Southern Cal
ifornia preparing additional charges
against Clegg.
While in Washington the new
marshal set in motion a movement
for the appointment of an Alaskan
as assistant to the attorney general,
to give his attention to territorial
affairs, and he was told at Ketchi
kan that O. P. Hubbard had been
selected for the place.
Marshal Stevens says Alaskans,
generally speaking, do not stand
1 very well at Washington in conse
quence of the several political bat
tles that have been staged there
during the past several months. He
says the territory has been hurt
to a considerable extent and that
the only remedy for the unfortunate
situation is for the people of the
North to get together.
Asked about plans for the devel
opment of Alaska, the marshal said
that the administration and members
of Congress are too busy at present
to give much thought to the terri
tory. But the appropriation of four
million dollars for the completion
of the Government railroad, he was
told, has been reported favorably by
the committee and doubtless will re
ceival the approval of Congress in
due time. The marshal says also
that it is the intention of President
Harding to make that Alaska tfip
next summer. The President told
him that himself and it is the be
lief of Marshal Stevens that the ter
LITTLE ENTENT ISSUES WARNING
TO HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT
ritory will benefit greatly from such
a visit.
While waiting for his confirmation,
the marshal spent considerable time
in Ohio and was assured that he
could get all the backing he wanted
for a dragline mining proposition,
providing he is able to demonstrate
the practicability of such an enter
prise, and he believe* he can. He
has already taken steps to organize
a company and expects to have a
small drag working within the near
future. Marshal Stevens does not
intend to quit the mining game al
together just because he has been j
appointed to office.
Conditions are bad in the States, j
the marshal says—particularly so in
the East on account of congested j
population. He saw idle men wher
ever he went and in Nebraska and
elsewhere in that section of the j
country crops cannot be moved ow- j
ing to the excessive railroad charges.
Corn is cheaper than coal in Ne-1
braska.
At the time the marshal left the
East, it seemed certain that the
railroad employes throughout the j
luuhli y
threat to strike, but he believes the
lowering of freight rates, as plan
ned by the interstate commerce
commission, will have the effect of
preventing a general walkout.
In a number of cities in Ohio the
railroads are laying off their old
employes and hiring boys and young
men at materially reduced wages.
One of the outfits -which had adopted
that method of cutting wages, put
a high barbed wire fence about the
works to keep union men at a safe
distance after they had been fired.
Marshal Stevens was accompanied
on the trip North by Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Webster. Mrs. Webster is a
niece of the marshal and she and
her husband are having their first
look at Alaska.
NEW CANADIAN STEAMER
TO ENTER ALASKA FIELD
A new Canadian Pacific steamer!
for the Vancouver-Skagway run was
launched at Vancouver on August
29. It was named the Princess
Louise in honor of the first Cana
dian Pacific steamer operated on the
Pacific coast, and is entirely a Brit- ;
ish Columbia product. She will be j
the queen of the coastfise fleet in
tonnage and second in length, the j
Princess Charlotte being longer. She
is of steel, 4200 gross tons, 330 feet
long over all, 317 B. P., -with a
beam of 48 feet, and a depth of 18.6
feet. She will be an economical
fuel consumer, having a single
screw, and engines of 4500 h. p., and
she will make about 17.5 knots. Her
specifications call for 16 knots but
it is expected she will exceed them,
as she has been built with very fine
lines. Her furnaces are arranged
to bum oil but are easily converted
for coal burning.
The Louise will be luxurious in
all her appointments. She will have
rooms for 300 passengers, including
44 seconds, and a cargo space for
600 tons. There will be hot and
j cold water in all the staterooms and
the lighting will be exceptionally I
' fine. A dance floor and a sun par
. lor are attractive features.
The Louise will come north next
: spring to take the place of the
| Princess Royal and the coast cities
' of Southeastern Alaska will be as
sured of service by a boat that is
second to none on the Pacific coast.
C. T. Spencer is a recent arrival
j in Nenana.
BUDAPEST, Oct. 27—Former ]
Emperor Charles, who returned to j
this city last week, accompanied by •
his wife, tried to kill himself after ■
returning: to his apartments from
Church on Sunday. He was pre-;
vented by his wife.
The question of Charles' future,
place of residence is giving the Allies
considerable worry. They do not in- i
tend that he shall remain here and |
it is understood that Switzerland
does not him to return to that home ;
for exiled monarchs. The Allies
want him placed where he cannot j
escape again.
The Hungarian government will j
act as it did on the occasion of the j
former visit of Charles, on which oc-,
casion he attempted to re-establish.
himself on the throne. Measures ■
will be taken to expel him from |
Hungarian territory.
Martial law was proclaimed in
Hungary upon the arrival of the
former emperor and his supporting
troops.
Surrender Demanded
LONDON, Oct. 27—The “Little
Entente”, including Rumania, Jugo
slavia and Czechoslovia, have joined :
in an ultimatum to Hungary de-'
manding the surrender of Charles,
the demobilization of the Hungaiian
army and reparation sufficient to
defray the expense incurred by the
Little Entente in mobilizing forces
incident to the return of the form
er emperor.
Advices received from Vienna say
that unless Hungary makes satis
factory answer within two days, the
Entente troops will enter Hungary
TWENTY-FOUR OLDTIMERS
ENTERED HOME IN 1920
For the fiscal year ending June
30, 1921, twenty-four persons were j
admitted to the Pioneers' Home at
Sitka, six were discharged, 14 died,
and 13 women and 8.1 men were o.i j
the pension roll during the year ae- i
cording to a report made to Gover-;
nor S. C. Bone by R. W. De Armond
secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Plans for improvement of the j
home also have been announced by j
Gov. Bone. These include re-ar- j
rangement of the heating system, j
the present plant having been con- j
demned as a source of much waste.,
and greatly increasing the cost of |
the Home.
In the installation of a new heat
ing plant the trustees will use as
much of the piping and radiation as
possible. The institution is at pres
ent heated with a 60-horsepower
boiler. It is desired to cut off some
of the buildings entirely, install a
Pacific boiler of special size under
the main building and install a
smaller one under the residence of
the superintendent.
Loekie MacKinnon, who recently
inspected the home, said there was
little complaint among the inmates
and that the institution was a spier,- j
did one.
BRUMFIELD CAN’T REMEMBER
ROSEBURG. Oct. 27—Dr. Brum-j
field, who attempted to commit j
suicide several days ago by cutting1
his throat, and who is still in a
critical condition, at first denied
that he knew anything about the
incision in his throat, but later ad
mitted that he may have inflicted the
injury with gold taken from his ■
teeth.
FUNDING THE R. R. DEBTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27—
The senate interstate commerce com-1
mittee has submitted a favorable re
port on the administration bill for j
the funding the $500,000,000 rail-!
road debts.
SKAGWAY SCHOOL RANKS
FIRST IN TESTS OF WORK
In the tests given the graduating
classes of ’21 in the seven high
schools of the Territory, Skagway,;
with two pupils in the class won i
first place and Wrangell, also having
a class of two, won second place.
According to the School Bulletin,
published bv the Territorial Com
missioner's office, Wrangell was an
easy winnei until :t came to the
Standard Silent Reading tests in
both of which the class fell to sev
enth place. Wrangell tied with Skag
way for first place in two arithmetic
tests and the grammar test; took
first place in the third arithmetic
test, in history, and in the Trabue
Language Scale and made a very
fine showing. The rank of the sev
en schools in the tests is as follows:
Skagway, two in class, 1; Wrangell,
two pupils, 2; Fairbanks, three pu
pils, 3; Anchorage. 5 pupils, 4; Ju
neau, eleven pupils, 5; Ketchikan,
six pupils, 6; and Douglas, four pu
pils, 7. All the test papers were
granded in the commissioner’s of
fice to asure unanimity in grading
and tabulation.
AMERICAN CONSUL STABBED
IN MEXICO LAST MONDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27—
The state department has been ad
vised that Lloyd Burlingham, Ameri
can consul, was ^ssaulted and stab
bed by an unidentified assailant at
Salinas Cruz on Monday night. The
injuries are not serious.
STAGG TO BE RELEASED
OLYMPIA. Oct. 27—Acting Gov
ernor Coyle has granted an uncon
ditional pardon to George Stagg.
former Tacoma newspaperman who
was convicted a year ago on the
charge of kidnaping his own child
and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
Mrs. Cascaden arrived in town
on today’s train, having just re-1
turned from the States.
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Ask the Moose
what the
J. J. Davis Class
means
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CHURCHES WILL UNITE
DETROIT, Oct. 27—Definite plans
for the uniting of the Methodist
Episcopal churches of the North and 1
South will be made immediately i
preceding to world conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church, to
be held here next month. The con
ference will start on November 14. i
RAILROAD HEADS CONFER;
OUTCOME IS STILL IN DOUET i
CHICAGO, Oct. 27--The executive
chairmen of the railfK'd brother-,
hoods iftnt in corferenc? with mem
bers of the Railroad Labor Board
yesterday, at the request of the
board, and there was much dis-1
cussion relative to the railroad
strike situation.
Ben W. Hooper, public member
of the board, and W. T. McMeamin,
labor member, were in attendance
at the meeting, and after the con
ference Hooper announced that he
had “vague possibility of settlement"
in mind.
Clerks Will Not Strike
The Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express
and Station Employes, with a com
bined membership of 350,000, have
joined the unions which have voted
not to strike, bringing the total
number of railroad workers opposed
to the strike to more than three
fourths of the nation’s total
FIGHTING MONDELL SEEKS
EXPULSION OF COLLEAGUE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27
Representative Mondell, Republican
leader in the lower house of Con
gress, has introduced a resolution
providing for the expulsion of Rep
resentative Blanton, Democrat, of
Texas, for the publication in the
Congressional Record, as part of
an extension of his remarks, an
affidavit relating to a row in the
Government printing office. Mondel!
characterizes the affidavit as obcene
and unfit for publication or trans
mission through the mails.
EXCESS PRIFITS TAX TO GO;
DEATH WARRANT IS SIGNED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 27—
Without the formality of a record
vote, the senate yesterday agreed
on the repeal of the excess profits
tax, effective December 31.
The senators rejected the Reed
amendment to the tax bill proposing
the retention of the excess profits
tax at approximates half the present
rates.
The present income tax rate of
four per cent on the first five thous
and of income, and eight per cent
on all oevr that amount, has been ap
proved by the senate.
JEWELRY SALESMAN VICTIM
OF LOS ANGELES ROBBERY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27—Sam
Hurwitz, a jewelry salesman, was
held up by two bandits yesterday
and robbed of jewelry valued at
$60,000.
Hurwitz had the jewelry in an
automobile, moving it from one store
to another for exhibition.
CONFEDERATES GATHER
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 27—The
fast dwindling band of those wrho
marched to defeat under the Stars
and Bars in the war of the rebellion
are gathered here for their annua!
reunion under the auspices of the j
Confederate Veterans Association.
JAPAN READY TO REDUCE
ARMAMENT IF OTHERS DO
VICTORIA. B C.. Oct. 27—Ac
cording to wireless advices received
here from the steamship Kashfma
Maru, which is enroute from Japan
with the Japanese delegated to the
armament conference, the Japanese
government is ready to cut down
its navy if the powers reach an
understanding at the forthcoming
conference. The announcement to
that effect was made by Admiral
Kato, in conversation with passen
gers on board the ship.
FAIRBANKS NOTES *t
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The wood famine, prevailing in
Fairbanks since the commencement
of cold weather, was udievea yes
terday by the arrival of a carload
of fuel.
L. L. Welsh has been discharged
from the hospital.
A1 Hilty is a visitor in town from
Cleary.
George Preston and John A.
Clark have made application to the
council for an exclusive franchise
for furnishing Fairbanks with light
and water.
Engineer in Charge Fred'k I).
Browne, who arrived in town from
Healy on Tuesday, reports that the
railroad work is moving along satis
factorily and that the gap should
be closed by the first of the year.
No through rates will be quoted by
the Commission until communication
is established between Xenana and
Seward.
The forming of an ice jam below
town has resulted in a considerable
rise in the level of the slough. The
steamer Pioneer is under water again
as a result of the rise.
The court has signed ari order
authorizing the sale of town property
upon which taxes have not been paid
for the year 1920.
Jurymen Kramer and Wilde have
been excused for the balance of the
court term.
The case of Mike Ercig vs Alois
Sagen has been set for March 20;
the case of Mike Ercig vs James
Gerard for March 21; the case of
L. E. Ward vs Fowler & Morris reset
for November 16; U. S. vs Peter
Yachno, November 16.
The city council has passed *ti
ordinance making it a misdemeano"
to keep dangerous dogs within the
city limits.
The new Frankhouser cafe, the
Dewdrop Inn, has opened its doors
to the public and is a most inviting
place.
Henry Woodcock, well known old
timer who went Outside on one of
the last boats, is reported to have
died soon after his arrival in the
States. He was a member of the
Pioneers and the G. A. R.
THE ARCTIC OPENED TODAY
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
The Arctic Pool Hall and Room
ing House, one of the pioneer es
tablisbments of Nenana, which ha^
been closed during the past several
months, reopened its doors to the
public today under the management
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Colling.
The main floor of the building has
been remodeled and the entire budd
ing renoavted, with the result that
it presents a most attractive appear
ance.
It is the intention of’ the new
management to conduct a first clase
establishment, with roomy and in
viting quarters for amusement seek
ers and comfortable rooms for lodg
ers. The pool room is stocked with
fresh cigars and tobacco, candies
and the other things found in a
first class place of that character.
Jack Singleton has returned to
Healy from a business trip to An
chorage.