WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920.
NO. 287
SENATE IS INTERESTED IN DEVELOPMENT
STORM SAVES MILWAUKEE TRAIN FROM BANDITS
COAL MINERS WILL INSIST UPON SATISFACTORY WAGE
SMS SAYS NAVY
WASHINGTON, D. March
—In a statement made today before
the senate investigation committee
which is inquiring into naval ae
tivites during the war, Admiral Sims
declared that the failure of the navy
department to act promptly on rec
ommendations and to place the na
tion's entire naval resources at the
disposal of the Allies within six
months after the United States en
tered the war, prolonged the strug
gle at least four months, and un
necessarily jeopardized the outcome
of the war. What this delay meant
to the nations involved was made
plain by Sims when he stated that
the war cost 3,000 lives and one
hundred millions in money every
day.
The admiral said the navy entered
the war in 1918 and admitted that
it functioned magnificently.
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10 MEET TONIGHT
There will be a regular meeting
of the N'enana Republican club in
the Union building tonight, com
mencing at 9:30, and considerable
business, it is understood, will be
brought up for consideration.
All members of the organization
are urged to attend the meeting.
COAL TRUCK ARRIVES
FROM FAIRBANKS CAMP
Gus Conradt, who will undertake
the delivery of coal at North Ne
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WASHINGTON, O. C., March 9. ;
—lha< members of Congress are
interested in Alaska was indicated
today when the senate adopted a
lesoluiion calling upon the secre
tary of the interior to submit a
report informing the lawmakers what
steps, if any, have been taken by
the department and the Alaskan
Engineering commission to develop
traffic and population alone: the Gov
ernment railroad now under con
struction in the Northern territory.
Money Requested.
Hearings are being: held this week
before the house appropriations
committee on the interior depart
ment's request for an appropria
tion of eight million dollars with
which to complete the railroad, that
sum representing the remainder of
the amount authorized by Congress
last year for railroad construction.
J. L. McPherson, special repre
isentative of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, and Colonel F.
'Mears, chairman, are both in Wash
ington for the purpose of supplying
the lawmakers with such informu
i tion as may be requested by them
■ regarding railroad work and the
Territory in general.
nana for the Broad Pa's Coal &
Development company, arrived from
Fairbanks today with a Sauer truck
and will begin hauling across the
Tanana river at an early date.
The machine will be operated by
Fred Parker, who accompanied Con
radt from the upper town. Another
truck will be put on the run within
a short time.
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Dorwin Browne was among the
out-of-town visitors in Nenana on
Saturday for the Masonic dance.
Peter Nilsen was a member of
the committee responsible for the
attractive decorations at the Mason
ic dance. His name was omitted
when the list of members was pub
lished yesterday.
Lieut. Cherry is a recent arrival
in Fairbanks, having arrived there
from the coast on a tour of inspec
tion of the signal corps stations
south of Fairbanks. He will confer
with Lieut. Besse during his stay
in Fairbanks, and may later make a
trip to Gibbon with Lieut. Besse.
Fred N'ichols, roadhouse man. who
recently delivered an emergency con
signment of mail at Fairbanks, left
the upper town this morning on the
return trip to his establishment,
known as Paxson. He is taking a
considerable quantity of supplies for
a number of places enroute.
Reports from points along the
Fairbanks-Chitina trail state that a
severe earthquake was felt last eve
ning. The shock was very pro
nounced at Hogans and other places
in that locality.
O. P. Gaustad. Tolovana tram op
erator. who went Outside early in
the winter, is reported to have left
San Francisco enroute home.
Two mail stages reached Fair
banks this morning, one having a
considerable quantity of second class
matter and the other a small con
signment of letters.
Andy McKenzie, who returned to
Xenana several days ago from the
Totatlanika district, to which locali
ty he is reported to have stampeded
in search of oil, left for Fairbanks
today. He plans to return to Xe
nana in a week or so.
Gust Peterson, head of the Healy
River Coal corporation, went to
Fairbanks today on business.
COAL COMMISSION
WARNED BY UNION
INDIANAPOLIS, March 9.—That
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
I
ca will refuse to accept the find
ings of the coal commission appoint
ed by President Wilson if the wage
question is not adjusted in a man
ner satisfactory to the coal minors,
was made evident today in a public
statement issued by officials of the
union organization.
The statement infers that the find
ings of the commission must pro
vide for a substantial increase in the
wage scale and improved working
| conditions. The statement is not
jan open declaration, but the mean
ing is apparent, and the presump
tion is that the coal miners’ strike
will be resumed if the terms sug
gested by the commission are not
entirely satisfactory.
The miners will teel that full jus
tice has not been done, the state
ment says, if the commission fails
to recommend an advance in wages,
particularly in view of the fact that
the Government has failed to keep
i its promise to reduce the cost of
i living.
WRECK IS AVERTED
BY DELAY ENROUTE
SEATTLE, March 9.—The Cedar
mountain woods are being searched
today for five armed men who made
what is believed to have been an
attempt to wreck the Olympian
Overland, fast Chicago, Milwaukee
<& St. Paul train. Several sheriffs
and a score of deputies are engaged
in the hunt.
The engine crew of a freight
train, which was running on the
Olympian's schedule, reported, upon
arrival at Tacoma, that four men
had been observed standing near the
track, fully armed, while a fifth
member of the ciuintet hurriedly re
moved torpedoes from the track
when the identity of the freight
train was discovered.
Railroad officials believe the tor
pedoes were intended for the pass
enger train, which luckily had been
delayed four hours by storms.
CASHIER KILLED.
' KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 9.—
Four bandits made an unsuccessful
attempt today to hold up a bank in
the residence section of this city.
They entered the bank fully armed,
and when Cashier Glenn Shockey re
fused to turn over the bank’s cash
to them, he was shot and killed by
the robbers.
The shooting attracted the atten
tion of persons outside the building
and the bandits were compelled to
take flight empty-handed.
WOMAN GAGGED.
EVERETT. March 9.—Mrs. Daisy
P. Fellner, wife of a Seattle cook
i anil the mother of two children,
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was found at an earlv hour this
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morning near the edge of town,
bound and gagged. The woman is
unable to recall what took place, all
that she remembers being that she
was struck by an automobile or a
streetcar in Seattle and later placed
in an auto. The incident occurred
while she was on her way home
from a movie "heater.
BAGNALLS MURDER.
SEATTLE, March 9.—The police
who are investigating the murder
of Bagnalls, local clerk, whose body
was found several days ago in the
woods near Kent, have learned that
the murdered man was last seen
with a man who was trying to sell
a blue “bug” to Bagnalls. It was
known that Bagnalls wanted to buy
a car, and the police are of the
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opinion that the owner of the bug
in question murdered him to abtain
a first payment on the car. Th11
police are now looking for the bug
and its owner.
POSTMASTER DEAD.
SEATTLE, March 9. — Gerhard
Erickson, postmaster at Bothell for
more than a score of years and
former member of the legislature,
died in this city yesterday afternoon.
Captain John Taylor, former mem
ber of the Seattle council, also died
yesterday.
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BODY FOUND.
SEATTLE, March 9—The body
of Daniel Murphy, former saloon
keeper, and father of Harry Mur
phy, the cartoonist, was found in
the water near the Coleman dock
yesterday. There are no marks of
violence, and the belief in police
circles is that the dead man com
mitted suicide. It is known that he
feared a fatal illness.
MARINER DEAD.
OAKLAND. Cal., March 9.—Cap
tain W. Wallace, one of the oldest
sea captains on the Pacific coast,
died here this week. He command
ed, during his long career, nearly
every ship plying between Puget
Sound and San Francisco.
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Joe Fischer, local manager of the
Fairbanks Clothing company, went
to Fairbanks this afternoon on a
brief business visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burns were up
bound passengers on today’s train
for Fairbanks. They will be absent
several days.
Frank Ropers, Tanana freighter,
who recently brought the Howe!!
teams to N'enana, left for the lower
river today. He took the train to
Dunbar's, and will mush the re
maining distance to the mouth of
the Tanana river.
Dan Leech, superintendent of con
struction, returned. to the end of
steel yesterday after a brief vi.-it
in town.
Resident Engineer Huston Mills
returned to his station at the end
of ,-teel yesterday morning. He came
in to attend the Masonic dance.
Resident Engineer and Mrs. .1. f.
Kestly and son Jerry were outgoing
passengers on yesterday’s train, re
turning to their home in the canyon.
Walter Scott, who arrived from
the States on Saturday, left for thy
Tolovana today to make ready for
the opening of navigation.
Mrs. George W. Woods returned
to Nenana today from a visit of
several days in the upper town.
Andrew Norland returned to Fair
banks today after a stay of several
days in Nenana on matters of busi
ness and pleasure.
Andrew Loken of Nenana, Oscar
Saunders and Bennett Bailey were
admitted to citizenship at a natur
alization hearing held before Judge
Bunnell, at Fairbanks, last evening
FAIRBANKS JURY
FREES EO OLSON
The trial of Eu Olson, on the
charge of manufacturing and selling
booze, which occupied the time of
Commissioner Reed Heilig, at Fair
banks, on Saturday and Monday,
terminated in an acquittal last eve
ning, the jury being out only long
enough to take a vote. It was the
hardest fought case of the kind
ever tried at Fairbanks, and inci
dentally furnished much amusement
for the big crowd of spectators
constantly in attendance. One of
the spectators, who arrived in Xe
nana today, says he had to leave
the courtroom toward the end of
the trial, for fear that he would be
eited for contempt for laughing.
Both United States Attorney Roth,
who directed the prosecution, and
his assistant. E. Coke Hill, were
called to the stand yesterday and
subjected to a rigorous cross-exam
ination by Attorney Marquam, for
the defense. About the only evi
dence of the manufacture of booze
was the plan of a still said to have
been manufactured by the Samson
Hardware company. The manufac
ture of such an apparatus was ad
mitted, but the witnesses did not
know for whom it was made- N'eith
er was it known who provided the
money for making the still, al
though the makers admitted having
been paid. The money was handed
to them in an envelope.
fivery effort to connect Olson with
the still, or with the booze alloyed
to have been made, failed, as is
indicated by tin verdict returned
by the jury.
It is reported, however, that tlv
authorities are not through with th“
case, and that other arrests will
follow shortly.
The recently-drawn federal vt'and
jury convened at Fairbanks this
morning and, after selecting a fore
man and taking the oath, sett • I
down to business this afternoon. !’.
J. Rickert, Fairbanks rancher, wa
selected foreman.
The presence of non-resident jury
men and numerous witnesses gives
Fairbanks quite a lively appearance,
remindin'* oldtimers much of the
earlier days of the town. The pop
ulation will be still furthef increased
before the end of the present week
by the arrival of members of th ■
petit jury.
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