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DAILY NEWS
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919,
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PARIS PRESS QUESTIONS LEAGUE PLAN
GERMAN FOREIGN SECRETARY TO RESIST ORDER
PRESIDENT WILSON LEFT BREST FOR HOME TODAY
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LEAGUE NATIONS
IS RIDICULED BY
FRENCH PAPERS
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PARIS, Feb. 15.—Not very en
thusiastic over the shape the pro
posed League of Nations has taken,
The Figaro, a leading Paris news
paper, says that a mystic society
has now became a league of five
of the great powers which beat
Germany and that they now pro
pose to consolidate both victory and
peace.
The Echo de Paris, another lead
ing journal, says that the twentv
six articles proposed for adoption
by the League of Nations, brings no
security to France; and that unless
and until they are changed, the
French people can sacrifice noth
ing of their means of defense to
the league.
ORGANIZED BANOS
INFEST HAMBURG
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15—Accord
ing to reports received in this city
today, panic has been caused at
Hamburg as a result of the depre
dations of an organized band of
robbers.
Reports received from the city
of Berlin indicate that organized
bands of robbers, heavily armed,
traveling in automobiles, are pillag
ing the merchants, residences and
stores, and that the police are ap
parently helpless.
ebertcWly
HISTORY GIVEN
BERLIN, Feb. 15.—Frau Luise
Ebert, the wife of the first presi
dent of the German republic, is a
comely lady of medium height and
rather slenderly built.
She has always done her own
household duties, including the fam
ily cooking, and has always been
her own dressmaker. Frau Ebert
is 45 years of age.
Their eldest son, Frederich, Jr., is
in newspaper work. Their second
son has just been dicharged from
the army, he is twenty years old.
Their only daughter, Fraulein
Amelia, aged nineteen, has been,
until recently, a clerk in one of the
big Berlin stores.
Two sons of President Ebert were
killed during the recent war; one
of them fell in battle in Macedonia,
and the other on the Western front.
The official residence of Presi
dent Ebert has not been decided yet.
FAIRBANKSANS CONTRACT
FLU IN THE STATES
Writing to a friend in Fairbanks,
Mrs. Jack Heath, formerly of Fair
banks, says that she has had an
attack of the flu and was just re
covering from its effects.
Her son Bobby, who is with Rev.
Betticher in New York, also had the
flu recently, she says, but he has
got over it now.
TAFT IS PLEASED
HELENA, Mont., Feb. 15.—For
mer President William H. Taft said
that he was well pleased with the
formation of the Society of Nations
along the lines outlined at the peace
conference.
C0NS1I1UTI0N OF
NATIONS LEAGUE
I WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The
Senate of the United States has
ordered that the proposed consti
tution of the League of Nations,
together with the address delivered
by President Wilson regarding the
league, be printed and filed as a
Congressional record.
Nenan Igloo No. 17, Pioneers of
Alaska, will hold its semi-monthly
; meeting at the Union Hall on Mon
day evennig Feburary 17. The
meeting; will be called to order
' at 8 o’clock sharp.
! At this meeting delegates will be
elected to attend the session of the
grand igloo, which will be con
i vened at Fairbanks on March 1.
Other matters of great importance
I to the order will also be up for dis
| cussion, and all members of the
j igloo are urged to be in attendance.
! After the regular business has
■been transacted, a soi.:al session
wil lbe held and a lunch served.
Members of other igloos are al
ways welcome to the business meet
ing and the social session.
FINE TRIP REPORTED
OVER BROAD PASS TRAIL
J. C. Van Orsdel received a tele
gram from Mrs. Van Orsdel this
morning, telling of her arrival at
Anchorage on Wednesday, Febru
ary 12th.
The brief telegram also contains
the information that the travelers
had a delightful trip over the Broad
Pass trail.
Mrs. Van Orsdel expects to leave
1 for Seattle on the steamer Alameda,
! sailing from Seward next Tuesday,
! February 18th. Mr. and Mrs. W.
! A. Ryan are also taking this boat.
Mrs. Van Orsdel, with Mr. and
Mrs. Ellenson, went out with Mike
! Cooney’s dog stage and made ex
cellent time to Talkeetna, where
they were held up until a train
left for Anchorage. There is only
one train a week out of Talkeetna.
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UN1UST PEACE
OBIECIMBEE
10 CHANEILOR
WEIMAR, Germany, Feb. 15 —
Chancellor Seheidemann, of the new
German government, in a speech
before the German National Assem
bly, told the people that if an un
just peace is forced on German j
by the Allies, seventy milln 1 people
would never forgive or forget those
who will be responsible for imposing
unjust terms.
He stated that Austria or any
other people who may wish to be
come part of the newly formed
German republic, should be allowed
to do so.
DEPUIY MARSHAL
.luneau advices state that Deputy
U. S. Marshal Clyde Calhoun was
shot and instantly killed by an In
dian named Peter Johnson, and that
Johnson was later killed by a mem
ber of the posse sent to round up
the native.
JUDGE BUNNELL UPHOLDS
NENANA COMMISSIONER
In his decision in the habeas
corpus proceedings instituted in the
district court at Fairbanks, on be
half of Ed Lund, who was convicted
in the commissioner’s court of Ne
nana on the charge of sedition, and
who was sentenced to a jail term
and a fine of $1000, Judge Bunnell
upheld the verdict of Commissioner
McDonald of Nenana, and Lund was
required to pay the full penalty
imposed by the sentence.
He was released on payment of
the sum of $970, of the $1000 fine
imposed, the sum of $30 being
waived as he had served fifteen
days in jail against the fine.
eiG SUM MED
TO AID FARMERS
SALT LAKE CITY.—The state
board of land commissioners of Utah
has advanced a total of $1,972,023
to 544 Utah farmers during the last
two years, according to the bi-ennial
report of Arthur Kuhn, secretary
of the board. The report’s figures
show this to be an average loan
of $3,625 on each farm. Increase
in the interest account income dur
ing the second year of the bi-en
nium is shown to be $43,950.88
over the second year of the previous
biennium.
After detailing the mass of busi
ness transacted by the board a num
ber of recommendations are made
for legislative action, much of which
affects the asle and lease of state
owned lands. The report will be
submitted by the governor to the
legislature during its present session.
Nenana minstrel* on St. Patrick’s
MILE I, W. W.
FACE CHARGES OF
SERIOUS NATURE
SEATTLE, Feb. 15.—A total of
fifty-two I. W. W.'s are held by the
Seattle authorities, pending trial on
various charges.
Of the above, seven of them are
held on the serious charge of
criminal anarchy in connection with
the recent strike, and eight more
warrants of arrest on similar charg
es remain unserved. Ten of the
rank and file of the 1. W. \V. have
been released.
A movement is reported to be
on foot, among the shipyard strikers
to make a direct appeal to Presi
dent Wilson, asking him to settle
the strike.
BERNE, Feb. 15.—According to
reports received in this city today
from reliable German sources, Ger
man foreign secretary von Broek
dorf frantr.au, of the new German
republic, said that Germany would
continue to resist Allied attempts
I to force Germany to demobilize all
her military forces.
| HAPPY CREEK SHOWING
SIGNS OF GOOD PAY
Advices received from Fairbanks
over the phone, indicate that Happy
creek, in the Fairbanks district, may
develop into a producer of some
magnitude in the near future.
Cosgrove & Morgan, working in
partnership, as well as McLeod &
McCrorrie, are reported to have
struck good pay and enough of it
to warrant mining at a profit under
the adverse conditions existing.
White Bros, and William Grant
are said to have taken a lease on
some grouml on Happy creek and
will work it this summer. It looks
like a prosperous season for Happy
creek.
SURPRISE PARTY FOR
VALENTINE ANDERSON
Miss Valentine Anderson, one of
the popular members of Nenana’s
younger set, attained her ’steenth
birthday yesterday, and Mrs. Nor
vin Smith gave a delightful surprise
party in honor of the event, at her
home last night.
At the party, which commenced
i about eight-thirty a merry time
| was spent in playing various games,
! at the conclusion of which a supper
j was served. The party broke up
| at midnight.
j Those present to shower their
'felicitations on Valentine were
Margaret Southworth, Vera, Muriel
and Jean Russell, Geraldine Patter
son, La Rue Carter, Norman Russell,
. Si Calderhead, Walter Scott, Ken
1 neth McLean, Melville Cooney and
Sam Ivey.
| Her school chums presented Val
entine Anderson with a suitable
token of their esteem as a birthday
gift.
DECORATIONS FOR
GALLANT YANKEES
ARCHANGEL.—Four officers ami
ten enlisted men of the American
forces operating in the Murmansk
region, Northern Russia, have been
decorated for gallantry in action.
TRAIN SERVICE
DENVER, Feb. 15.—The blizzard
which was raging for the past two
days over sections of Kansas and
Nebraska, doing considerable dam
age to property and tying up rail
and telegraphic communications, has
abated considerably, and a partial
train service with the Eastern states
w’as possible today.
So far only a few of the delayed
trains have arrived from the East.
ALLIES ASK FOR
LONG RANGE GUN
COBLENZ, Feb. 15.—The Allied
commission, now at Spa, has de
manded the surrender of one o' tie
German long range guns which was
used to bombard Paris.
Very little was known ty the
Allies concerning the fate of these
monster weapons tver since the
signing of the armistice
MISS JANE ANDERSON
LEAVING WEDNESDAY
Miss Jane Anderson, who relin
quishes her position as assistant to
the special disbursing agent of the
A. E. C. on this division, to accept
a position in the governor’s office
at Juneau, expects to leave for
Fairbanks tomorrow morning to
visit her folks, who live in the upper
town.
Miss Anderson expects to return
on Tuesday and will leave on the
train on Wednesday morning for
the end of steel, and from thence
with Smith’s dog stage over the
Broad Pass trail, to catch the steam
er Admiral Farragut, which is
scheduled to sail from Seward on
March 1.
"MONK” MURPHY IS
VERY MUCH ALIVE
Some time ago a rumor was cur
rent in Fairbanks and Nenana to
the effect that “Monk” Murphy, one
of the boys of Fairbanks’ first draft
quota, had died of the flu at Camp
Dodge, Iowa. Not being able to
run down the rumor, some of his
friends wrote to his parents, who
are now Outside, asking for details.
Writing to Mrs. Tom Foster, of
Fairbanks recently, “Monk’s” mother
says that the report of her son’s
death was greatly exaggerated, as
he only was sick from the flu, but
that now he is very much alive and
expects to get his discharge from
the army in a very short time.
WILSON ON WAY
BACK 10 STATES
LEAVES FRANCE
PARIS, Feb. 15—President Wil
son, with Mrs. Wilson and party,
left this city last night for Brest,
where they will embark on the
transport George Washington an 1
sail for America.
The departure of the President
from Paris was very quiet, and was
without any semblance of the dem
onstration accorded him on his ar
rival, although there was every evi
dence of official cordiality.
TRANSPORT SAILS
BRKST, Feb. 15—The transport
George Washington, with President
Wilson and party on board and
under the escort of an American
battleship, sailed at 11 o'clock this
morning for America.
The President expects to arrive in
Boston February 25, where he will
make a speech which will probably
cover the work done by the peae ■
conference.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The
war department announced today
that 1,174,545 officers and men in
the army of the United States, have
been demobilzed up to yesterday.
A million and one-half men have
also been assigned for demobiliza
tion as fast as possible.
PROBLEM FACING
PEACE CONGRESS
PARIS. Feb. 1!>.—The next big
problem which will come before the
peace conference, it is believed, will
be the readjustment of the world’s
financial and economic relations.
Three organizations have been
created to deal with these subpects
and these will be ready to present
some conclusions at the next meet
ing of the peace conference.
| These organizations are known
as the economic council, the econo
mic drafting commission, and the
finanical drafting commissioij.
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PRESTON ADJUSTER FOR
THE “PIRATE SHIP”
George Preston, acting manager
of the Northern Commercial Co.’s
Fairbanks store,' has been appointed
to adjust the losses sustained by
J. O. Ellis, the “Pirate”, in the re
cent fire, by having to move his
stock out and in.
ADJUSTER EXPECTED
FROM SEATTLE SOON
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! According bo advices received over
' the phone from Fairbanks this after
noon, an adjuster is expected to ar
I rive there shortly from Seattle, for
the purpose of adjusting the losses
I from the recent fire.