The Broad Pass Route Is Jhe Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 284
YANKF.F3 OPPOSE BRITISH CABLE ACTS
LANSING SOUNDS WARNING OF BOLSHEVIK CRISIS
5,000,000 SUCCUMB TO FLU EPIDEMIC IN BRITISH INDIA
II. S. PROTESTS
- ENGLANDS CLAIM
10 OH CABLE
PARIS.—The American peace
delegates today lodged a strong pro
^ test against the claim made by the
British, to the telegraph cables
seized during the war.
In substantiation of their claim
to the ownership of the disputed
cables, the British advance the
theory that they are entitled to them
as prizes of war, seized by her war
ships in both the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans.
The American peace delegates, in
their note of protest, state that
England cut the cables unlawfully.
JOE BOYLE MAY
> BE MADE COUNT
BY RUMANIANS
SEATTLE. Mar 12.—The Post
Intelligencer is giving prominence
to an article in which the statement
is made that the queen of Rumania
had written to the father of Joe
Boyle, at Dawson, telling him of
the part played by his son in coming
to the help of Rumania in time of
stress.
It is rumored that Joe Boyle, who
is now a colonel of a Canadian
regiment composed of men from the
Yukon Territory, may be made a
Rumanian count.
ALLIES REPULSED
> IN NORTH RUSSIA
ARCHANGEL, Mar. 12.—Greatly
outnumbered by the Bolsheviki
forces, the Americans and the Allies
holding positions on the Vaga river
were defeated today, in a heavy
infantry attack and were forced to
fall back from the village of Vis
ta vaka.
I The Bolsheviki troops almost de
stroyed the entire villige, which is
situated on the Vaga river.
The Vaga river is a tributary of
the Dwina river, which flows north
ward through the province of Arch
angel. Another river also named
Dwina empties into the Gulf of
Riga.
Not a piano can be played in
Portugal on Good Friady; not a bell
can toll; no church organ can play;
every band and orchestra must be
stilled. The day- is one of absolute
penitential silence.
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AMMUNITION IS SENT
TO MEXICAN REBELS
MEXICO CITY.—General Cesar
Lopez de Lara, commander of mili
tary operations in the oil regions,
has notified the war department
that he has received news that
10,000,000 cartridges have been
shipped from New York for the use
of the rebels in the Tampico dis.
trict. Charges frequently have been
made, notably by Luis Cabrera, that
rebels with arms and ammunition,
foreign oil companies are keeping
alive the rebellious movement in the
petroleum district and supplying the
deaihIentence
NOW RESTORED
IN WASHINGTON
OLYMPIA, Mar. 12—The bill
for the restoration of capital punish
ment in the state of Washington
passed both houses of the state
legislature, and it is expected that
the acting governor will sign it
today.
The last legal hanging in the state
took place on February 25, 1911.
10 VISIf STATES
PARIS, Mar. 12.—According to a
despatch which was received in this
city today, the queen of Rumania
is contemplating paying a visit to
the United States.
It is expected that she will com
mence her journey to the States
within the next few. days.
iSTHIl Wj
MELBORUNE, Australia, Mar. 12]
—The heaviest rainfall experienced
during a period covered by the past
fifty years, flooded the city and!
the nearby sections.
Hundreds of homes were de-,
stroyed by »the waters and many j
people were rendered homeless.
NENANAITE WAS
I
The remains of the late Mike j
Hyland, proprietor of the Railroad
cigar store of Nenana, who died in!
St. Joseph’s hospital, Tuesday,'
March 4th, were laid at rest in the
Fairbanks cemetery this morning.
The funeral services were held at
the Roman Catholic church. Father
Monroe officiating. A large number
of the friends of the deceased fol
lowed the remains to the last rest
place
The pallbearers were Tom Cullen, j
John O’Connor, John Clignioni, Ed j
Hall, Andy McKenzie and Ed Gay- i
nor.
■ntu. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
HUN DELEGATION
TO MEET ALLIES
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 12.—Des
patches received in this city today
indicate that the German delegates
will start for Brussels on Thursday
to meet the representatives of the
Allied nations.
The meeting has been called for
the purpose of discussing the ques
tion of food for Germany. At this
meeting the German delegates will
learn the Allies’ decision concern
ing the turning over of the German
mercantile fleet to the Allies and
the conditions under which a food
supply' will be given Germany in re
turn for the surrendered fleet.
BRITISH INDIA DAS
FLU SlATISItOS
LONDON, Mar. 12.—An official
statement issued today places the
number of deaths in British India
proper, from the flu epidemic, at
five million, during 1918.
There were also a million addi
tional deaths in the states tributary
to British India.
FREE NAVIGATION
IS RECOMMENDED
ON RIVER RHINE
PARIS, Mar. 12.—One of the
committees recently appointed to
study economic conditions and re
port their findings to the Inter
Allied Peace Conference, have recom
mended that navigation on the
Rhine be open to all nations.
The committee also suggests that
the Kiel Canal be continued under
German ownership, but that it be
owned by the Allies during the peace
negotiations.
SEATTLE, Mar. 12—The Sixty
third regiment of artillery, which
was formerly a Washington guard
regiment, and had been on active
service in France, is expected to ar
rive in this city today.
A great welcome has been pre
pared for the returning soldiers, and
all Seattle will turn out to do them
honor when they detrain.
FAIRBANKS RANCHER
IS VICTIM OF FIRE
Word was received in Fairbanks
yesterday of a fire at the Court
ney ranch, situated a few miles out
of town on the Chena slough.
The fire destroyed his chicken
house and he lost all but one rooster
and seven hens of the large stock
he possessed.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Re
ports received by the state depart
ment today indicate that human flesh
had been sold to the famine stricken
population of Moscow by Chinese
soldiers. These soldiers were later
arrested by the authorities.
Typhoid and small pox are re
ported to be raging in both Petro
grad and Moscow, and four thous
and is said to be the daily death
toll.
The Swiss, Danish, Swedish. Dutch
and British embassies in these towns
have been looted.
OUSTED a
LONDON". Mar. 12.—According to
a report received in this city today,
the German government troops,
greatly. reinforced, compelled the
Spartacans to evacuate the Berlin
police headquarters and the post
office, which they Jield strongly.
The report states further that the
Spartacans intend to establish an
independent state in Brunswick, as
a refuge for the radicals who are
driven out from other German cities.
LEGISLATORS ARE
BUSY AT JUNEAU
litl JEW BILLS
In the Territoral Senate today
Senator Dan Sutherland, of Kuby,
introduced the following bills for
passage and adoption in due form:
1. A bill to abolish the Terri
torial Bureau of Publicity.
2. A bill to suspend the bounty
on eagles.
3. A bill to establish a home for
pioneer women of Alaska.
4 A bill providing for a change
of venue for court trials, upon a
petition of either party stating that
the court is prejudiced.
In the Territorial House of Rep
resentatives, Representiative Geo.
W. Pennington introduced a bill to
provide drastic punishment for Bol
shevism in Alaska.
The Territorial Bureau of Pub
licity was created by the last legis
lature and E. J. (Stroller) White,
owner and publisher of the Doug’as
Island News, was placed in charge
of the bureau. His appointment to i
this position was one of the first
appointments made by Governor
Riggs.
PRINCE NOW FREEMAN
LONDON.—The prince of Wales '
is expected shortly to become a
Freeman of the City of London. He
became entitled to this on his com
ing of age. but the ceremony had,
to be postponed owing to the prince’s;
military duties at the front.
OBLIGATORY SERVICE
IN CUBA IS STOPPED
HAVANA, Cuba. — Obligatory
military service, always bitterly op
posed by the majority of Cuban
citizens of all classes and ages, is
now a thing of the past in this
republic.
A bill passed by Congress repeals
the military sendee law which made
military sendee compulsory on the
part of all male citizens of ages
21 to 28, inclusive and does away
with the office of provost general.
The measure also grants amnesty
to all Cubans of military age who
fraudulently evaded military service,
as well as to their accomplices.
The monthly wage of the line
soldier is fixed at $30.
FRENCH ABiNOON
PLAN IB SECURE
T
PARIS, Mar. 12.—The French
government has abandoned, for the
present, the hopes they had enter
tained of inducing1 her allies to se
cure her war debt.
The British and American dele
gates, it is understood, informed the
French government that their re
spective peoples would be slow to
endorse the plan outlined for secur
ing the debt.
FORMER MISER
SEEKS A CHANGE
GENEVA.—According to a re
port received in this city today, the
former German kaiser has expressed
a wish to go to the Riveria or
Egypt for a change on account of
his health.
The report adds that he may soon
apply to the Allies for permision
to do so.
BERLIN FIGHIING
IS VERV FURIOUS
LONDON, Mar. 12.—According to
reports received in this city today,
the fighting in the streets of Berlin
is being continued with great fury.
Witnesses say that both the Spar
tacans and the government troops
acted like so many wild beasts and
that women also participated in the
cruelties inflicted on both sides.
The loss from pillaging in Ber
lin is estimated at fifty million
marks.
MINING ACTIVITY IN
ESTER MINING DISTRICT
Sherard, Lily & Co., who have
taken a lay on the Sagan Fraction,
on St. Patrick creek, are reported
to be erecting a large boiler house
'and making other preparations for
mining on a. large scale this season
Bodin & Co., working on the
same creek, with a gang of twenty
men, have taken out a big dump
which they will sluice as soon as the
water runs.
I
LANSING SAYS
ALLIES SHOULD
FEED GERMANY
i _
PARIS, Mar. Id.—Secretary > i'
i State Robert Lansing, addressing
j the Inter-Allied Peace Conference,
in conclave assembled, this morning-,
, declared that a world cm is had been
. reached and that it was imperative
that the Allied nations feed Ger
! many and also give that country
, an opportunity to sell her products
j in the markets of the world.
This action, he said, must be
] taken at once if the danger of a
Bolsheviki invasion of Germany is
! to be avoided.
It must be made manifest, he
i continued, that the Allied powers
| are not taking this action out of
j pity for Germany, but that ,n doing
: so they are actuated by an earnest
j desire to stop the spread of Bol
shevism in Germany and as a means
! of press ing the future peace of
^the world.
LONDON, Mar. 12—The suprem ■
council of the Inter-Allied Peai
Conference, which is holding- its
meetings in Paris, came to decision
today to restrict the personnel of
the Germany navy to fifteen thous
and officers and men.
The military conditions include
the giving of guarantees by Ger
many that no tanks would be built
and no poisonous gas manufactured
in future, and that all war material
on hand be turned over to the
Allies to be destroyed,
i These terms will be made part
i of the peace treaty which Germany
! will be invited to sign and ratify,
ere peace is restored again.
POLAND PLANS
PARIS, Mar. 12.—According to
despatches received in this city to
day. the Polish National Assembly
has approved a law bearing on the
military establishment of that coun
try.
The new law provides for the
calling to the military service of the
country of the classes from 1891
to 1896 inclusive. The enforcement
of this law is expected to give
Poland an army of six hundred
thousand men.
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CARIBOU PLENTIFUL IN
LITTLE DELTA COUNTRY
Recent arrivals in Fairbanks from
the coast and elsewThere over the
Chitina trail bring the report of
the presence of a large number of
caribou in the country surrounding
the Little Delta.
Indians in that vicinity, they say,
state that the herd seen recently
numbered about five thousand.