, WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919.
NO. 132
.NEED OF COALING STATIONS URGENT
SENA TOR SHERMAN RESENTS WILSON’S A TTITUDE
BODY OF ANCHORAGE WOMAN DISCOVERED IN WELL
RICHMOND SAKS
INTERIOR GOLD
V YIELD $G,Z5O,00C
DAWSON, Sept. 5.—In a state
ment made in this city today, Vol
ney Richmond, superintendent o:
^ the Northern Commercial company
places this year’s output of gold o:
the Interior country, including hot!
Yukon and Central Alaska, at si:
and a quarter millions. The Norm
district, he estimates, will produci
!, at>out a quarter of a million.
Of the Alaska districts mention
ed, Fairbanks is given first placi
with an output of $800,000. Idita
rod comes second with $750,000
and the Tolovana third, with $700,
000. Other districts mentioned are
Kuskokwim, $250,000; Circle, $225,
000; Ruby, $125,000; Koyukuk
^ $100,000; Marshall, $75,000; Ho
Springs, $60,000; Ophir, $50,000
Rampart, $25,000; Chandlar, $20,
000.
The output of the Klondike i
estimated at $2,000,000, and tha
of the Tanana valley at $1,500,000
AT SLAV CAPITA!
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 5.—Accord
ing to information received in thi
city today, cholera and dysenter;
have made their appearance amonj
the starving residents of Petrograd
and conditions are rapidly assum
ing a very critical stage.
The reports state that publii
meetings are being held throughou
the city for the purpose of teach
ing elementary precautions neces
eary to prevent the further spreai
of disease.
The food shortage is said to b
acute, threatening the death o
many by starvation.
BY TROTSKY REDS
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 5.
When the Bolsheviki soldiers evaeu
ated the city of Yekaterinoslav, the;
left many dead behind them, re
ports received in this city statin,
that fully 1,000 residents of th
town were executed before th
troops departed. Atrocities of th
most revolting character were com
mitted.
CAPTURE OF KIEV BY
DENEKINE CONFIRMEI
LONDON, Sept. 5.—The occupa
tion of Kiev by the Denikine forces
as reported in dispatches receivei
in this city earlier in the week, i
confirmed in advices which reachei
the British foreign office today. Th
city was taken after two days o
hard fighting.
NAVAL COMMISSION
EAGER TO START WORK
COAST WORKERS
CONCENTRATE ON
TURNAGAIN ill
Work on the coast end of th<
Government railroad is being con
centrated on that section of th<
i road, between Seward and Anchor
■ age, which was a source of mucl
• trouble to the Alaskan Engineerinj
commission during the past winter
’ according to Colonel Mears, in i
j statement made to a represents
Jtive of The Nesvs during the visi
1 of the chairman in Nenana earl;
‘ | this week. A determined effort i
' jto be made to put the road in sucl
j shape that traffic will not be inter
jrupted during the coming winter
j Work on the main line extensio;
| north of Talkeetna was discor
itinued some time ago, said Colone
j Mears, and no work is being don
'Iat present on the wagon road, whicl
jwas started at Indian river and ex
' ] tended several miles toward Broa.
51 Pass. Road building operations weri
’ [suspended the day Colonel Mear
- | and the members of his part;
' j reached the road camp.
’ | There is a splendid trail, how
jever, the colonel says, between th<
r | end of the wagon road and the in
: terior end of the railroad, such a
’ to insure rapid progress betweei
' the ends of steel during the c-omins
' winter. The trail was found ii
excellent condition when the part?
'■ passed over it, and it should provi
still better for winter travel.
Colonel Mears and his compan
ions made the trip across countr?
on horseback, and the colonel’:
horse now awaits him at the enc
of steel to take him back over th‘
, same route. They encountered n<
! difficulties, and there is reason t<
believe that the Broad Pass trai
will prove popular with traveler:
■ during the coming winter, provide!
there is not a recurrence of roa<
• troubles on the Seward-Anchoragi
- ; line. The distance between ends o:
i
: steel at the present time is betweei
; 125 and 130 miles.
! BIG DRUG SEIZURE
MADE IN NEW YOR*
i
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Eight mei
- have been placed under arrest ii
, this city by the federal authoritie
1 as the result of the seizure b;
s revenue officers of drugs valued a
1 $100,000. The seizure is the larg
: est ever made in this district,
f The men arrested are believed t(
belong to a national organization.
SEATTLE, Sept. 5.—A special
dispatch from Washington to the
Post-Intelligencer says that the
members of the naval commission
sent to Alaska to investigate naval
coaling possibilities of the territory
and Assistant Secretary of the Navj
i Franklin Roosevelt are making ev
ery effort to obtain from the trea
sury that million-dollar appropria
tion for coal development. Failing
jin that, it is the intention of Roose
velt to go to Congress with a re
. quest for another appropriation oi
a similar amount, to enable ths
navy department to begin work im
mediately on the coal bases it is
' proposed to establish at Seward ant
i Anchorage.
Report I* Withheld.
The special says that, notwith
standing the fact that the investi
gating committee returned to Wash
ington some time ago, their report
is still held confidential, and it is
not known how soon it will be re
leased for publication. It is un
derstood, however, that a recom
mendation is made for the imme
diate establishment of coaling sta
l ' .
jtions, and on a more pretentious
(scale than previously considered, for
jthe reason that the Alaska coast
(parallels the route to the Orient,
where the American Asiatic fleet is
being enlarged.
SHERMAN ATTACKS
COLUMBUS SPEECH
11 WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.
The Columbus address of Preside
|. Wilson was made the object
■ violent attack today on the flo
' of the senate, when Senator Shi
man, Republican, of Illinois, c
li , . ,
nounced, m the strongest terms, th
■ portion of the President’s speech
which he declared that an intern
tional labor conference, provided f
in the League of Nations covenai
would be held at the national ca]
nt
af
or
r
e
at
in
a
ar
it*
li
tal in October, regardless of the
action taken by the senate on the
question of ratification.
The declaration, protested the Il
linois senator, indicated a contemp
tuous disregard for law. Officials,
he pointed out, had been impeached
for less flagrant violations. The
President, he declared, had yoked
himself with the revolutionaries,
and in conclusion, he asked if the
American people had begun to elect
kings instead of presidents.
PRICE REACTION STARTS
—
,| WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5—
i In its review of business conditions
for the month of August, the Fed
. | eral Reserve board announces a re
. 1 action from the high price level of
I : earlier summer. This reaction, the
! i ~ '
report says, has already set in, both
clothing and food prices being now
on the decline.
Labor conditions, the report points
out, continue unsettled throughout
the country.
: REDED RESIGNS
FROM THE CABINET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.—
William Cox Redfield, who has been
a member of President Wilson’s
cabinet since the commencement of
the present Democratic administia
jtion, as head of the department of
| commerce, tendered his resignation
j to the President today, to take ef
, ; feet on the first of November. The
^ i resignation has been accepted.
CALIFORNIAN CAPTURES
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
FOREST HILLS, Sept. 5.—John
son, of California, captured the turf
;j court tennis title here today by
winning the national singles, defeat
ing William Tilden, former cham
i pion. Johnson took three straight
sets.
CHICAGO, Sept. 5.—Resolutions
endorsing the soviet were adopted
at today’s session of the radical
Socialist convention, which is en
gaged in launching a Bolsheviki
movement in this country.
The convention was addressed by
several of the Russian delegates and
they were enthusiastically applaud
ed as they told of the progress
made in Russia, and compared the
Russian revolution with that of the
early Americans against England.
M. V. Tyler took passage on the
steamer Carl White last night for
the logjam, where he will spend
several days at the Dickinson es
tablishment
Venuia—The Gateway to McKlnlo*
■attsul Park.
ELECTION QUIZ
AT UPPER TOWN
The examination of soldier-voters,
in connection with the Wickersham
election contest, which was conduct
ed at Fairbanks last evening, is said
to have been productive of evidence
which will not strengthen the case
of the contesting former delegate.
And it failed absolutely to produce
any information that would tend to
show how the witnesses voted at the
last November election.
The two men examined were Ser
'geant Durwood Hocker, cashier at
the Fairbanks office of the signal
corps, and John E. Pegues, former
ly connected with the office, but
I now on furlough to the reserves.
i Both are now, and have been for
i
a number of years, residents of the
upper town, and both are married
and pay taxes.
The examination was conducted
by Morten E. Stevens and Henry
. T. Ray, representing Wickersham,
and John A. Clark, representing
Delegate Grigsby. The examination
.consumed over three hours and, as
already stated, developed facts
Which will prove damaging to Wick
ersham, in all probability.
When an attempt was made to
make Hocker tell how he voted, the
balloon went up. Hocker told the
questioning attorney plainly that he
would not answer the question, and
when asked why, be replied substan
tially that it was none of the at
torney’s business. He did not say
it in those words, but that un
doubtedly is the way it was intend
ed, and both he and Pegues got
by with it. The Wickersham attor
ney could not compel them to tell
how they voted, and the secret will
be theirs until it is decided by the
elections committee that the vote
of a soldier at the election in ques
tion was not legal. Should such a
ruling be made, Wickersham then
can come back for the desired in
formation, and get it.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 5.—Four
bandits are reported to have been
taken into custody by Carranza
troops and are being held pending
an investigation of their move
ments. It is believed by the au
thorities that the captives were re
sponsible for the death of John W.
Correl, of Oklahoma.
1
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 5. — The
mystery surrounding the disappear
ance last month of Margaret Lavor,
was solved yesterday when the body
of the missing woman was found
at the bottom of an old well, care
cully concealed beneath a false bot
tom, heaped over with old rubbish.
The discovery proves the correctness
of the murder theory advanced by
local officers at the time of the
disappearance, and which led subse
quently to the arrest of a man
named Dempsey, at Seward.
The well w’here the body was
found yesterday had been previous
ly visited by searchers, without find
ing any trace of the woman. Yes
terday, however, the actions of a
i dog at the top of the well attract
| ed attention, and finally led to a
! more thorough investigation, with
I the above result.
| The officers believe that the mur
jder was committed fully seven
blocks from the place where the
body was found, and it is also be
[lieved now that more than one was
|concerned in the deed. The eon
iviction is firm that Dempsey had
an accomplice.
i It will be recalled that Dempsey
'shot the arresting officer. Marshal
Ike Evans, and escaped into the
woods about a mile out of Seward.
The search for the body of the
|
missing woman began on August
25th.
10 TURN DEFEATS
PARIS, Sept. 5. — Paderewski,
Poland’s new leader, who has just
arrived from that war-torn country,
says that the Germans are now bat
tling in the East in the hope of
gaining there the victory lost in the
West.
German agents, the great pianist
says, are endeavoring to induce the
Bolsheviki to overrun Poland.
PARIS, Sept. 5.—Georges Gaston
Queson, the man who betrayed
Edith Cavell to the Germans, will
pay the extreme penalty for his
dastardly act, according to the de
cision reached by the court-martial
before which he was tried and con
victed.
The traitor will be executed by
the French military authorities.
Emil Hartwick, formerly a mem
ber of the Tavern staff, is reported
to have acquired an interest in the
Arcade cafe, at Juneau.
Kaaaaa, Wban Kalla and Klvara Mart