WHERE- RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. 111.
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NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920.
NO. 97
DEMOCRATS ROW OVER NEW CHAIRMAN
ARMY PLANES MA Y REACH FAIRBANKS THURSDA Y
RESOLUTE TO BE RETIRED AS YANKEE CUP DEFENDER
WICK Will QUIT
POLITICAL GAME;
TO OPEN OFFICE
SEATTLE, July 29.—James Wick
ersham, who is now in this city en
route to Alaska, for which place
he will sail the latter part of the
week, announces that it is his in
tention to withdraw from politics
and devote his entire time to the
practice of law. He will open of
fices in Alaska in the near future,
regardless of the outcome of his
contest for the delegateship.
Mr. Wickersham has not yet de
cided where he will locate in the
North, but says that it will not be
in Fairbanks, his former home,
where he still has property inter
ests. He is inclined to believe that
he will pick one of the coast towns.
He will look the field over on his
present trip and may establish an
office before the end of the present
summer.
There is very little that can be
said about the contest, he says, be
yond what has already been said.
He is still confident of winning, but
is not particularly enthusiastic over
the prospect of representing the
Territory during the brief time that
will remain after the contest has
finally been decided during the com
ing winter.
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Tanana, at Fairbanks.
Yukon, up Tolovana, 6 a. m.
Reliance, at Holycross.
Kotlik, up Holycross, 3:30 p. m.,
28th.
Louise, with five barges, up Kot
lik, 4:15 a. m., 28th.
Seattle No. 3, arrived Nulato 9
a. m.
Alaska, up Fortvmile, 10:15 p.
m., 28th.
Jacobs, up Gibbon for White
horse, 11:30 p. m., 26th.
The steamer Carl White reached
Fairbanks last night and will re
main there until Saturday.
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WILSON OBJECTS TO CHOICE
OF SOURDOUGH AS CHAIRMAN
DISTRIBUTERS OF,
KANSAS CITY ARE
BACK ON WAGONS
KANSAS CITY, July 29.—The
strike of milk distributing compa
nes, which was staged by a dozen
of the leading concerns of this city
as a means of forcing the city to
eliminate certain objectionable fea
tures of a new grading ordinance,
was terminated abruptly today by
the municipal authorities, following
the arrest of several company offi
cials on the charge of conspiring to
injure the public health.
The refusal to permit deliveries
of milk to the 12,000 customers of
the striking distributers caused con
siderable distress in many families
and there probably would have been
grave consequences among the chil
dren of the city had the strike been
permitted to continue. The matter
was put squarely up to the authori
ties of the city, who, in turn, ap
pealed to the court for relief, with
the result that the dealers were
forced to resume deliveries.
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J. Harmon Caskey, former Fair
banks newspaperman, is reported to
have secured an option on the only
newspaper in Ranger, Texas, with a
view to locating in that city.
An incoming mail stage was
scheduled -to leave Chitina today for
the Interior.
The team of horses recently dis
carded by the Fairbanks fire depart
ment, following the installation of
an auto truck, was sold at auction
yesterday to Jimmy Cane for $130.
Cane was the only bidder, but there
was a big crowd on hand to watch
! the proceedings.
Mrs. Ike P. Taylor and baby were
returning passengers on today’s gas
car from Fairbanks.
Miss Nunevillar, member of the
nursing staff at the Government
hospital, returned to Nenana today
jfrom Fairbanks, where she made a
! brief visit.
Theo. Johnson returned to Fair
banks today after a brief business
visit in Nenana.
Fred Johnston came down from
the Government experiment farm
today to meet the steamer Yukon,
on which, it is believed, there are
several head of cattle for the farm.
Two stages are due at Fairbanks
today frcm Ch:*ina. They are bring
ing seven passengers, but no mail.
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SEATTLE, July 29.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer is authority for
the statement that the Democratic
organization is considerably upset as
a result of the selection of George
White of Ohio as chairman of the
national committee, the choice be
iing particularly displeasing to Pres
j ident Wilson.
Alaska, the Klondike, and the
.Government railroad all figure in
| the row, the correspondent says,
j White, it will be recalled, is a sour
: dough of the North, having mined
Ion Bonanza creek in the early
I Klondike days and remained in the
[Klondike for three years.
| When the Alaska railroad bill was
[before Congress in 1914, White took
| a vigorous stand against the mea
sure, on the grounds that private
j capital should be permitted to de
velop Alaska. He made such a
noise at Washington that President
Wilson summoned him to the White
House and told him where to get
off, but White refused to be quieted ;
and continued his fight against the
bili, adding considerably to the dif
ficulty of securing its final passage.
And in November, 191S, White
openly criticised the President for j
his appeal for the election of Demo
crats only.
When White was named chairman
j of the national committee, the Presi
! dent sent for Homer I?. Cummings,
and as a result of the conference,
which took place on Monday, Cum
mings will go into the campaign as I
spokesman for the President.
White, who is five times a million
aire, backed the Cox pre-convention
campaign. He is a graduate of
Princeton, class of ’95, and three
years after leaving college he joined
the rush to Dawson.
EDMONTON, July 29.—Captain
Street and the members of his Alas
ka flight party, who arrived here
on Tuesday and who planned to hop
to _ Jasper today, have postponed
their departure until tomorrow
i morning at nine o’clock,
j An inspection of the planes yes
jterday disclosed the need of numer
; ous minor repairs and it \vas im
possible to make them in time to
resume the flight today. One of
the machines was discovered with a
leaking gasoline tank.
When the planes leave here to
j morrow it is believed they will be
able to reach Fairbanks without fur
ther delays for repairs. At Fair
banks they will undergo another
minute inspection and may remain
there a day or two preparing for
the last leg of the flight to Ruby
and Nome.
Should there be no further de
lays, the planes will reach Jasper,
200 miles from here, early tomor
row; they will reach Prince George,
200 miles, on Saturday; Hazelton,
220 miles, on Sunday; Wrangell,
210 miles, on Monday; Whitehorse,
,300 miles, on Tuesday; Dawson, 250
! miles, on Wednesday, and Fair
: banks, 275 miles, on Thursday.
The steamer Yukon, which is due
[at Nenana during the night or early
; tomorrow from Dawson, will make
an effort to reach Fairbanks with
;her barges, according to informa
tion received from the upper town
today.
A mail stage left Fairbanks for
the coast at^one o’clock today. The
only outgoing passenger was Mrs.
R. H. Stevens of Juneau, who came
,to the Interior several weeks ago »n
the interests of the “Book of Knowl
edge.”
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LONDON, July 29.—The govern
ments of France, Italy, and Great
Britain are in complete accord re
garding the negotiations with the
Russian Soviet government, in spite
of statements to the contrary, de- •
dared Premier Lloyd George in a
statement made in the house of
commons this afternoon. The state
ment was made in reply to ques
tions concerning the Boulogne con-!
ference.
The premier severely criticised
those newspapers which published
“sensational and inaccurate” reports
concerning the negotiations.
MONSTER PETRIFIED
FISH FOUND IN UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY.—A monster
petrified fish, about fifty feet in
length, has been discovered encased
in the rocks in Garfield county,
Utah, about 70 miles east of Pan
guitch, by Sheraff James Goulding
of Garfield county and T. W. Smith
of Salt Lake, who have been pros
pecting in that section.
Four years ago, at practically the
same spot, the fossil remains of a
giant lizard were found. Goulding
and Smith have offered their find to
the University of Utah.
According to a telegram received j
in Nenana today from Carlstad,
Minn., Knut Koland, former local
freighter and contractor, is about j
to return to Interior Alaska and
will bring a bride with him.
There will be a meeting of the
Nenana Republican club on next,
Tuesday evening for the purpose of j
discussing organization plans sug
gested by National Committeeman
J. C. McBride.
Henana, the Sataway to McKinley
national Park.
NEW YORK, July 28.—(Delay
ed)—Three all-metal monoplanes are
being equipped on Long Island for
a flight to San Francisco, carrying
the first bag of mail ever shipped
from the Atlantic direct to the Pa
cific by airplane. The machines are
expected to get away on the trans
continental flight tomorrow and will
cross the country by easy stages,
to give opportunity for mapping a
regular aerial mail service which is
to be inaugurated by the postof
fice department, beginning Septem
ber first.
On the return flight from the Pa
cific the planes will make an effort
to cross the continent with only one
stop, the city selected for that dis
tinction being Omaha.
The monoplanes represent the last
word in airplanes and they will be
piloted across the continent by men
selected from among a large num
ber of experienced airmen.
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Jack Bellerby is in receipt of a
telegram from his son Russell, in
which the young man states that
he successfully passed his physical
examination at Bremerton. He is
enroute to the naval academy at1
Annapolis, having left Fairbanks on j
July 15.
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Mrs. Lowella Rosburg returned to
town last night fron) the Canyon
roadhouse, where she had been vis- ;
iting with Mrs. Clara Allred.
Engineer in Charge Fred’k D. \
Browne arrived in town last night!
from his headquarters at the end ,
of steeL
According to information teceived
at Fairbanks today, United States
Marshal L. T. Erwin is at Atlanta,:
Georgia, at present. He will go j
from there to Washington before
starting on the return trip to Alas
ka. ,
Commissioner Reed Heilig, of
Fairbanks, has been advised of the
safe arrival of Mrs. Heilig and the i
children at Seattle. They made the
trip from Fairbanks to Seattle in 11
days, losing only two days enroute.
The steamer Tanana, which was
sent to Fairbanks with a heavy
cargo of freight, was forced to
leave a barge below Leah bar and
is now engaged in lightering the
freight to the upper town. The
steamer is having considerable boil
er trouble.
NEW YORK, July 29.—The Am
erican cup defender Resolute, which
defeated Sir Thomas Lipton’s Sham
rock IV this week in the tinal race
of the series for the America’s cup,
probably will not sail another race,
according to announcement made
here today. It is the intention to
dismantle the victorious craft at the
Hrerreshoff yards, but it is not
jknown what further plans the own
; ers have.
Although there is great elation
'among yachtsmen over the outcome
of the race, there is to be no spe
cial celebration here in honor of
the victory. Captain Adams and
the members of his crew are being
I highly praised on all sides. The
lerew was made up of 22 Norwe
gians, two Swedes, and one Dane,
!all of them being American citizens.
j' Sir Thomas Lipton declares that
i he will have a new racer ready for
.the 1922 contest.
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PALMER TO LOSE
! ASSISTANT AMES
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.—
Judge C. B. Ames, assistant to the
'attorney-general since June, 1919,
jhas tendered his resignation, to take
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jeffect at the end of next month.
! Judge Ames, it will be recalled,
jwas in charge of the Government's
:case in the coal strike injunction
proceedings.
It has not been indicated who
will be appointed to fill the vacancy.
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