The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut
THE NENANA
Route -- Saves Mushers Miles and Money
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 262
FOUNDATION LAID FOR PEACE LEAGUE
WESTERN STORMS ARE INTERRUPTING TRAFFIC
SAN FIRANCISCO WORK El'S MAY VOTE TO STRIKE
INDIAN SCOUTS
DID GREAT WORK
ON WEST FRONT
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.— Chief
Strongheart, of the Yakima, Wash
ington Indian reservation, arrived
in this city today on his way to the
reservation, from the battlefields of
France.
The chief stated that eighteen
thousand Indians served with the
colors during the war, most of them
acting as scouts for the United
States army.
He cited an instance where five
Indian scouts did such effective
work that it enabled the Americans
to capture thirteen thousand pris
oners.
■ OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 14.—Gov
ernor Lister, of Washington, turned
over his office to Lieutenant-Gover
nor Hart yesterday and left imme
diately for the Western Washington
, hospital at Seilaeoom, where he will
be under the personal care of Major
Keller, the superintendent of the
. hospital..
Major Keller resigned his commis
sion as major jn the Army Medical
corps recently to take over the duties
, of- superintendent of the state hos
pital.
Major Keller told Governor Lis
ter that he was facing death and
that he must quit his office or die
soon, and that there was no other
alternative but. to, give up his job
temporarily and take a course of
rest and treatment in the hospital. ]
Governor Lister, although in poor
health, had consistently refused to
slacken work; his worries of office
being greatly increased recently by
the shipyards and other strikes in
Seattle and elsewhere in the state.
mHONSlEilE
COMMISSION MEI
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PARIS, Feb. 14.—A commission!
of the Inter-Allied peace conference |
met yesterday for the purpose of
• hearing the report of the committee j
appointed some time ago to prepare!
the draft of a constitution for the
Society of Nations. It is hoped that
a final adjustment will be reached j
immediately.
If the draft is accepted, the en
tire plan may be submitted to a [
plenary session of the peace confer
ence, to be held today.
NOME QUARANTINE
REPORTED REMOVED
According to private advices re
ceived front' the lower river and
Seward Peninsula country, the
Nome quarantine was raised last
Wednesday, and all mail that had
been held up was allowed to go
through.
MILITARY COMMANDER
TREATS YANKEES WELL
SOUTHAMPTON1, Eng.—Colonel
Swalm, the American consul here,
has presented to General Balfour,
! military commander of the South
ampton docks, a pair of handsome
sword-handle candlesticks on be
half of the American troops who
have passed through this port on
their way to France or to camps
'in England. General Balfour, the
consul said, had been uniformly
courteous and kind.
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ALASKA VESSEL
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.—The
, wrecked hull of a large sailing ves
i sel, which is believed to have been
j the bark Hellen W. Almyfi has been
i discovered by a fishing trawler
seven and one-half miles south-east
j of Point Reyes.
The Helen W. Almy foundered
during a storm in May 1897, with
the loss of fifty persons- The bark
at the time, was bound for Alaska
with passengers going into the Klon
dike during the days of the big
gold rush.
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| TALKING SHE
‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.—
I Three thousand electrical workers
! and ten thousand : telephone oper
j ators are taking a referendum vote
on a strike for the purpose bf fore-.
| ing Postmaster General Burleson to
| recognize their unions.
! The vote for a wage increase will
i also be canvassed at a meetinp to
'be held next Friday, February 21.
M’MAHQN LOSES
As the result of an accident that
happened this afternoon at the dock,
Janrns D. McMahon had the mis
fortune to have one of his -horses
killed.
! A team of two horses driven by
' Frank Sapar, pulled into the dock
near the White Pass office for a
-
j load. The horses took fright at
; something or other and started back
| inp the sled towards the river.
Frank Saper did his utmost to
stop them, but could not, and the
sleiph went over the dock onto the
frozen river below, dragging the
horses with it.
One of the animals landed on its
head was killed, but his mate ap
pears to have not suffered much
by the experience.
Frank managed to get clear be
fore the sleigh went over the dock.
L. W. Hill returned from a brief
visit to Fairbanks yesterday. He
came back on the anto stage.
' Tke Souf befo tike wak"—planta
tion songs.
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EXECUIIVE BODY
OF THE LEAGUE
IS NOW FORMED
i PARIS, Feb. 14.—The executive
council of the League of Nations
' as outlined in the covenant read
j by President Wilson today, will con
: sist of representatives of the United
| States, England France, Italy Japan
land four other countries.
The council will meet when nec
i
| essary, and at least once a year.
At any other period when any
i|uestion affecting the world’s peace
has got to be dealt with, the. coun
cil will be called together.
1 PARIS, Feb. 14.—The commis
I sion on international labor has adopt
j ed the articles of the British draft.
| The articles referred to deal with
j the establishment of an international
! office.
According to the ar/icles adopted
! by the commission on international
labor, the duties of the proposed
international office will include the
collection and distribution of infor
mation on all subjects that in any
way relate to industrial life. The
office will also issue a journal pe
riodically.
WEIMAR, Germany, Feb. 14.— i
President Frederieh Ebert, of the
new German republic, in an inter
view accorded the representative of
the. press this morning, said that
I the government of Germany was j
now arranging the details for a
complete demobilization and disarm
ament of its land and s^a forces
VIOLENT STORM; I
WIRES ARE DOWN
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 14.—A
storni of great violence broke out
las tnight and is continuing undi
minished in intensity. It is at its
worst in Central Nebraska, and tele
graph wires are down in every di
rection.
A regular gale of wind is still
blowing and the work of repairing
the lines is rendered very difficult
on this account and the added fact
that it is also snowing heavily.
On account of the storm the tele
graph service from the East is of an
intermittent nature, and press re
ports are likely to be curtailed.
DENVER, Col., Feb. 14.—All .
trains from the East have been’ an-.
nulled owing to the weather con- j
ditions.
The conditions in the storm area
| which is fifty miles wide, are still
unchanged.
I PHASE OF
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PARIS, Feb. 14.—The plenary
session of the Inter-Allied peace
conference, which was held today, is
likely to mark the end of the first
bin phase of the work which needs
to be done before the formation
of a League of Nations can be
an accomplished fact.
The decisions arrived at as the
result of the first day’s session are
recognized as the foundation for the
settlement of ull questions to follow.
The conference will probably pre
pare a mass of material rotating to
the work for the league and then
adjourn. This, it is thought, will
be about dune first.
REVENUE BILE IS
SENT TO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The
'Senate has apporved of and taken
final action on the War Revenue
bill, which now goes to the Presi
dent for his signature.
RATES TO ORIENT
AGAIN REDUCED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The
Federal Shipping Hoard has made a
further cut in freight rates from the
Pacific coast to the Orient.
The new rates, which go into ef
fect March 1, are twelve dollars per
short ton to the Orient, and twelty
fivo dollars per short ton to Vladi
vostoek.
LEGA1 ION IS NOT
AM i f K.uIS
LONDON, Feb. 14.—The Ru
manian legation in this city has had
no official intimation of the re
ported revolutonary outbreaks in
Rumania.
It had, however, been known, for
some time past, that both German
and Russian Bolsheviki emissaries
had been in the country ' and that
they are making strenuous efforts
to start anarchy in that country.
INQUIRY IS MADE FOR
CHARLES DANA HALL
The governor’s office wired to
tht* marshal’s office at Fairbanks,
requesting all possible information
regarding Charles Dana Hall. The
mother of the missing man having
asked the -governor to help locate
him.
Charles Dana Hall has lice 1 miss
ing since last June, and up ti date
no trace of him has been found
He was inducted into the Eervice
with the first draft from the Fair
banks district, but failed to show
up, and nothing has been heard of
him since that time.
'jews ask president
I TO SAVE PALESTINE
j MEXICO CITY. — Jewish resi
i dents of the capital recently cabled
a request to President Wilson that
he present at the peace conference
| their demands for a free and inde
I pendent Palestine as homeland for
i the Jews. They also included a
j request that he use his influence
• to prevent pogroms that have oc
curred in the old provinces of
j Austria-Hungary.
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PARIS, Feb. 14.—It is under
stood that Frame, in givng her sup
| port and adherence to the Soeety of
! Nations, at the plenary session of
I the Inter-Allied peace conference
being held here today, will make
; certain reservations.
| What the nature of the reserva
tions will be are not known at the
present time.
Oft DOME GREEK
I According to advices received
I over the phone from Fairbanks this
i afternoon, Tom Quirk, who owns
some mining property on Dome
j creek, came in town today and
j stated that good pay had been fount!
I by the laymen working on his
I ground on Dome.
| Seven pans taken off the dump
| are reported to have yielded $7.25
in gold.
'pioneers call off
THEIR SPECIAL MEETING
I The special meeting of the Ne
I nana Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, that
was called for tonight, notification
i of which appeared in yesterday's
i issue of the Nows, has now been
1 called off.
i It was decided that the matter
I for the settlement of which the
special meeting had been called, can
! be attended to at the regular meet
I ing of the igloo, which will be held
'on next Monday night.
JUDGMENT IS WITHHELD
IN HABEAS CORPUS CASE
Judge Bunnell reviewed the pre
sentment in the habeas corpus pro
ceedings instituted to obtain the re
| lease of Ed Lund, who had beenj
i convicted some time ago of sedition,
I in the commissioner's court at Ne
[ nana. The -judge has taken the
j matter under ' advisement and will
I render a decision in a few days.
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•t observation station, Nenana
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It Friday, February 14
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It Minimum .14 b'-low, *t
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 14.—Ac
cording: to advices received in this
city today from reliable sources, the
Urogram of the new German govern
ment, which is practically in effect
now, provides for equal suffrage
rights for men and women, the im
provement of the educational sys
tem of the country, a democratic
conscription law for the establish
merit of a peoples’ army, rationing
at the maximum prices on food and
neees: ities, the care of the wounded
and the families of those who have
been killed in the war, the socializa
tion of all coal and iron mines, and
large additions to the income taxes.
BUTTE, Fob. 14—The strike situ
ation here shows signs of improv
ing ami it is just possible that a
settlement will be arrived at and
normal conditions restored in a
[short time.
j The striking machinists held a
■ meeting at which it was decided to
.call the strike, so far as they were
concerned, off; and the men were
! ordered to return to work.
1 The carpenters also held a meet
ing and refused to endorse the
I strike.
| Major Genera! Morrison, com
' mander of the Western department,
; who arrived recently to personally
■take command of the troops sta
tioned here, is making an exhaustive
inquiry into the strike situation.
RADICALS FAIL
STM MOVEMENT
GENERAL STRIKE
Seattle, Feb. 14.—A special des
patch to the Times from Washington
says that conference was called by
the radicals among the metal work
jers in Philadelphia yesterday, and
efforts were made to start a move
ment for a general strike in all of
the country's shipyards. In spite
of the strenuous endeavors of the
radicals, the conference came to an
end without attaining the object for
which it was called.
International officers of the un
ions who were present at the con
ference explained the existing con
ditions in the shipbuilding indus
tres, with the result that the radi
cals were defeated. '.
The failure of the general sym
pathetic strike at Seattle had a very
material effect on the decision ar
rived at by the conference.
William Cruikshank arrived ia
town from the Lyn.. coal mine