The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME ONE
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 258
SEATTLE SYMPATHY STRIKE IS FAILURE
JAPS OFFER RUSSIA HELP TO KILL BOLSHEVISM
TACOMA AGITATORS TALK OF CONTROL BY LABOR
JAPS MAY HELP
(Associated Press)
VLADIVOSTOCK, Feb. 10.—Re
ports received in this city today
from Omsk, indicate that the Rus
sian government at Omsk has about
decided to accept an offer made by
Japan, to settle the Bolsheviki diffi
culty.
The Japanese government has
offered to provide troops, arms and
money for the purpose of putting
down the Bolsheviki.
This action, the report states, is
taken by the Russian government
at Omsk, in view of the reports
received recently that the Allies
contemplating withdrawing their
forces from Siberia.
Coupled with this withdrawal of
forces by the Allies, the Russian
government fear that the confer
ence to be held at Princes Island,
to which the Bolsheviki have been
invited to send delegates, will re
sult in the recognition of the Bol
sheviki as a government, by the
Allied powers.
In return for services rendered,
the government of Japan is to re
•eive an iron and coal concession
in the Amur district.
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(Associated Press)
DENVER, Colo., Feb. 10.—A
strike has been called here by the
stationery engineers, who are de
manding higher pay.
As a result of this strike all the
schools in the city have been
obliged to close.
WOMEN SUFFRAGE
DEFEATED AGAIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The
woman suffrage amendment bill,!
which was brought up in the Senate
today, was again defeated.
MISS JANE ANDERSON
VISITS DISTANT CAMPS!
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Miss Jane Anderson, who is out
the line on business, left the camp I
at the Crossing this morning with!
a dog team for Lignite, traveling!
along the railroad right of way. j
She will visit the A. E. C. camps,!
the Bunrs mine and the contractors’
camps lying beyond the Crossing.
The return trip to the Crossing will
be made by way of the river trail.
Miss Anderson is accompanied by
Mrs. J. J. Kestly. Both ladies will
return to Nenana on the train
coming in Wednesday night.
James J. Bogan, one of the Demo-1
crats elected to the legislature from
Nome, is in the army doing his bit
for his country. He grew to man
hood at Nome, graduated from the
Nome High school, and when war
came registered and went to the
front.
BERLIN SCENE OF
SPARTACAN RIOI
(Associa t ed 1 *ress>
ZURICH, Feb. 10.—According to
reports received in this city today,
Spartacan disorders occurred again
in Berlin.
On Saturday night there was
some heavy street fighting, and the
soldiers and sailors had to fight
their way to Alexander Platz, suf
fering some casualties.
The total casualties during Sat
urday’s fighting is placed at eight
killed and forty wounded. A very
strict censorship is being main
tained by the German government
and news of the disorders is not
allowed to leak out. They are with
holding particulars of Saturday’s
fighting.
MANY MORMONS
ATTEND SERIES
(Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10.—
Memorial services for the late Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt were held
in the Mormon church in this city
yesterday.
It is estimated that ten thousand
people attended the memorial serv
ices, which were conducted accord
ing to the rites of the Mormon
faith and were very impressive.
Appropriate hymns were rend
ered by a large choir of selected
singers.
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
SERVICES HELD YESTERDAY
A very largely attended memorial
service, in memory of the late Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt, was held
by Fairbanksans yesterday after
noon at Thorne’s theater. Tho
service opened by the singing of the
national anthem of the United
States, “The Star Spangled Banner”
by the Liberty chorus, in which the
entire audience also joined. The
order of service was as follows:
Invocation .Rev. H. H. Lumpkin
Hymn “Abide with Me” :.' .
Liberty Chorus I
Address . Judge Bunnell
Vocal Solo.Dr. Aline Bradley j
Address.Miss Henrietta Myrick1
Vocal Solo .Mrs. J. H. Caskey !
assisted'by chorus composed of
Judge Bunnell, E. H. Mack, H.
H. Lumpkin and Stantley Hess, j
Address .Cecil H. Clegg |
Hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee”
. Libery Chorus
Address .John A. Clark
Hymn, “America”.by Liberty
Chorus and audience.
FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL FUND
INCREASED BY TAG SALE
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According to a report received
over the phone today from Fair
banks, the tag sale in aid of St.
Joseph’s hospital netted the sub
stantial sum of $449.50. The only
expense attached to the sale of the
tags was 50 cents for pins and |
$7.60 for cutting the tags.
The money har already been turn
'd over to the committee looking
after the affairs of the hospital.
SEATTLE STRIKE
IS BREAKING UP
Associated l’^ss
sse.a u LiU, E eb. io.—The gen
eral strike committee held a pro
tracted meeting last night as a re
sult of which they have issued
orders calling off the general strike.
All the striking workmen have
been ordered to return to work at
noon tomorrow.
This order only refers to the
sympathetic strike and not to the
striking shipyard workers.
In issuing the order which calls
off the sympathetic strike, the gen
eral strike committee has requested
all the unions whose members have
already returned to work, to walk
out again, and return to work to
morrow with the rest of the men.
Tihs action has been taken by
| the committee for the purpose of
demonstrating the solidarity of
labor.
Police Make Raid
The police yesterday raided the
offices of the International Weekly,
which is an I. W. W. publication,
where, it is charged, pamphlets en
titled Kussia in wmcn lioisnevism
is advocated, were printed in large
number, as were also other publi
cations of a revolutionary character.
Aron Kislerman, the editor of the
International Weekly, has been
placed under arrest and is being
held in lieu of $1000 bail.
Mass Meeting Prevented.
The 1. W. W 's attempted to hold
a mass meeting this afternoon, but
the police prevented them from do
ing so.
Strike Breaking Up
Disintegration of the general
strike will be continued. If the
general strike committee, which
held a meeting, had failed to call
off (he strike, union men predicted
lhat the strike would end anyway,
as the street car men and team
sters, who held the key to the situa
tion, are back at work today.
Barbers, theatrical men, jitney
drivers and newsboys also returned
•to work today.
The longshoremen and the cooks
ami waiters voted to stay out.
(Associated f*ros«)
j TACOMA, Feb. 10—Following!
the action taken by the Central I
Labor Council at a meeting held j
here last night, all the labor unions!
which joined in the sympathetic
strike resumed work at eight o’clock i
this morning.
COSSACKS FORM UNION
TO MAKE RUSSIA SAFE
VLADIVOSTOK.—A union of!
Cossack troops is being formed, in- j
eluding Orenburg, Ural, Siberian,!
Transbaikal and Irkutsk Cossacks, i
the purpose being to “maintain in- j
ternal peace and promote public!
welfare.’’ The chief aim of the!
union is said to be the “formation!
of a stable government, responsible |
to a popular representative body
which shall be properely elected.”
SHIPYARDS WERE BUSY
WHEN ARMISTICE CAME
LONDON.—More than 6,000,000
tons of shipping was under con
struction in the world’s shipbuilding
yards on September 30, 1918, ac
cording to reports received by
Lloyd’s Register. The total is given
as 2,144 vessels with an aggregate
tonnage of 6,371,388.
Ketchikan contributed 1,500 mem-i
bers to the Red Cross Christmas
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STRIKE IS ENDED
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Associates! I' ms h
COLOGNE, Feb. 10.—The strike
of the professionals and officials,
vhieh was called recently at Dussel
dbrf, ended today and the strikers
have resumed duties.
Most of the points demanded by
the people were conceded by the I
Spartacans before the strike was
called off, and the delegates to the |
B mrgeoise who were imprisoned
btj the Spartacans weer released.
NrvTURALIZATION MILL
WILL GRIND TONIGHT
In the district courtroom at
Fairbanks, a night session will be j
held, commencing at seven o’clock
tonight for the purpose of hearing
final naturalization petitions.
The applicants are Ole Johnson
Wolden, of Olnes; Mancel Antonio
Bettincourt, of Fairbanks; Mathew
Fitcbett Love, of Fairbanks; Carl
Philip Anderson, of Fairbanks; Uno
Svensk, of Richardson; John Mon
tan of Nenana; Mike Jankovich, of!
Fairbanks; James Sizeland, of Ne-1
lana; James Atwood, of Livengood;
Charles Brian Sweeney, of Fair
banks; Samuel Cote, of Tolovana
Ingwald Anderson, of Miller House; i
ind Leo Raymond Saulnier, of
ranana.
rANANA CLUB HAS
NEW QUARTERS NOW
Advices received this afternoon
from Fairbanks indicate that the
ranana club will in future be lo
oted in the premises over the office
’ormerly occupied by the Whitely
PFoodward company, at the corner
>f Second avenue and Turner
itreet.
The Tanana club lost everything'
t possesed in the fire, and it is a
luestion of entire rehabilitation
vith the membership now.
A big shipment of mail arrived
>n the -auto this afternoon.
Associated l*r«*s.s
CHICAGO, Feb. JO.—A special
train passed through this city last
night enroute to the Atlantic coast
On board the train, under heavy
guard, there were fifty-four 1. W.
VV.’s who, on reaching the coast
will be deported by the immigra
tion officials as undesirables.
Forty three of these men are
from Seattle, one from Denver, and
five from this city.
The immigration offeers say that
these men have been rounded up
during the past year.
PAH! SHIFT IS
BUTTE DISTRICT
( Assnt i ;i t i'll I'! t
BUTTK, Feb. l(i. The mines in
this district are running with part
shifts only as the result of the
strike of the men against the de
crease of a dollar a day in the wage
scale.
The soldiers are guarding all the
mines and parts of the city and are
very effectually preventing the I.
W. W.’s from forcibly keeping the
miners from returning to work.
The military have made many
arrests among the agitators.
JOHN W. IROY IS
NAMED COLLECTOR
Associated
WASHINGTON, Fob. 10—Presi
dent Wilson today nominated John
W. Troy, of Juneau, to bo collector
of customs, with headquarters at
Juneau.
Jle succeeds the lute John F.
Pugh, who lost his life when the
Princess Sophia wont down.
DANIEL GREEN ARRIVES IN
FAIRBANKS FROM OUTSIDE
Danny Green, a brother of Cap
tain George Green, of the steamer
Reliance and the late Captain Jack
Green of the steamer Yukon, who
lost his life in the Sophia disaster,
arrived in Fairbanks over the trail
with his dog team and Mrs. Vance
as a passenger. He was obliged
to spend ten days in quarantine at
the Rapids roadhouse.
His wife also arrived in Fair
banks from Hot Springs, to meet
her husband. The Greens are in
business at Hot Springs, and it is
sxpected that they will leave the
upper town for their station in a
lay or two.
SYMPATHETIC MESSAGE
FROM GOVERNOR RIGGS
Mayor Eddie Suter, of Fairbanks,
received a telegraphic message late
Saturday evening from Governor
Riggs, who desires to extend his
sympathy to those who have suffer
ed losses as a result of the recent
fire. i
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LABOR IS UHGtD
AvsociattMl Pros.**
TACOMA, Fob 10.— At a meet
invv of the Soldiers, Sailors and
| Workingmen’s Council, held in this
city last night, it was openly ad
vocated that labor take possession
of all the country’s industries.
The people were warned, how
ever, that in taking possession of
the country’s industries, none but
lawful methods must be resorted
to; and that a divergence from a
I strict compliance of the laws in this
matter would inevitably result in
[ bloodshed.
Twenty-five hundred people, rep
I rosontative of all classes of labor,
were present at the meeting.
Associated Proas
PORTLAND, Ore*., Feb. 10. —The
police made a raid on the head
1 quarters of the local I. W. W. and
I seized a considerable quantity of
'papers and literature pertaining to
their activities.
The action of the police followed
closely on a parade held by the
Industrials, during which their lead
ers urged a general strike in spm
path.v with the Seattle ’Inkers.
I The paraders also carried banners
i which advocated a strike.
K. Brandt, a prominent Port
land agitator, was placed under
|arrest. Brandt carried a pnrticu
! larlv stronedv worded banner
AMERICAN OFFICERS
OCCUPY GERMAN CLUB
With the Army of Occupation in
Germany.—One of the finest offi
cers’ clubs in Germany has been
taken over by the Americans in
Coblenz and is to be used for the
same purpose that the building
served the German army. The club
building stands on the edge of the
Moselle river, just a few hundred
yards from where the Moselle emp
ties in to the Rhine.' When the
American officers took over the club
they found all the upholstered fur
niture in perfect condition and the
building ready for immediate oc
cupancy from the kitchen to the
top floor bedrooms.
MEXICAN INDIANS ARE
VICTIMS OF EPIDEMIC
MEXICO CITY—Ravages of
Spanish influenza among the poor
charcoal burners who live in the
mountains surrounding the capital
are said to be responsible for the
tinprecedented price which that com
modity is bringing. In the lust
month charcoal, which is generally
used for cooking purposes, has in
creased about 300 per cent in cost.
The municipality has made arrange
ments to buy this product in quan
tities and retail it at reduced fig
ures One paper in the capital
states that almost 90 per cent of
the Indians who supplied Mexico
City with the ivel were victims of
the scourge.