where: rails and rivers meet
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. II.
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919.
NO. 146
. MANY STEEL WORKERS ARE OUT TODAY
. KOLCHAK QUITS POST IN FA VOR OF DENEKINE
DANIELS WILL ASK CONGRESS FOR MONEY FOR PACIFIC
LAUNCH ARRIVES .
FROM KJWHNU;
MlilNl
The Moody launch, with George
Moody at the wheel, arrived from
the Kantishna last night and will
etart on the return trip tomorrow,
with another load of suplies. Moody
went into the Kantishna several
weeks ago, accompanying the steam
er Shusana and the Moore launch,
all loaded with supplies for the
Aitken outfit and others of the Kan
* tishna district.
Moody reports the water very low
in the Kantishna river now, and
while it is still possible for launches
tc make the trip to Roosevelt, he is
not so sure about steamer naviga
tion. The Shusana is now making i
a second voyage to Roosevelt, hav
^ ing left the mouth of the Tolovana
river several days ago, and it is the
belief of Moody that considerable
difficulty will be experienced in nav
igating the shallow stream.
The passengers arriving on the
Moody launch were Ed Brooker, ‘
Jack Tobin and several others.
Brooker was picked up below the
Campbell place, where he was stalled
on the McGonagal launch. Moody
was also accompanied by his son.
Bertram, who is on his way back
to Fairbanks to attend school.
The trail from Roosevelt to Kan
tishna City is now in bad condition.
Moody reports, the first fifteen miles
out from the river being almost im
passable, owing to the wet condi
tion of the ground. Very little
more freighting can be done before
the freezeup, it is feared, but after
the snow comes the trail probably
will afford an excellent means of
transportation.
. There had been no snow at Roose
velt up to the time Moody left, but
he ran into a snowstorm on the way
out. On the return trip the launch
^ will have about 25 tons of general
freight.
The steamer Alaska, which left
Dawson Saturday morning for Ne
nana and upper Tanana river points,
has 428 tons of freight for Nenana
and 120 tons for Fairbanks, in ad
dition to which there is a small
consignment of second class mail.
The steamer left Dawson with
only two passengers for Fairbanks
and none for Nenana. Mrs. John
Howie and Miss U. Clark are booked
for the upper town.
According to the present plan,
there will be only one more sailing
from Dawson, the steamer Yukon,
scheduled to start down river on
Thursday, being the last boat billed
out this season.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Lilledale have
returned to Nenana for the winter,
after an absence of several weeks
in Fairbanks.
MANY STEEL WORKERS STRIKE;
OTHERS WAITING FOR ANSWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 22.
—A new transpacific cable is needed
to handle the increased business
with the Orient, according to H. G.
Eldridge, chief of the Far Eastern
bureau of the department of com
merce.
In a statement made today before
the senate committee on foreign
commerce, Eldridge declared that
American trade with the Orient
would be greatly retarded if com
pelled much longer to depend en
tirely upon the cable now in use.
The business, he said, has already
far outgrown the cable, and the
need of an additional cable is grow
ing more apparent steadily.
The addition to the service, as
estimated byT the bureau chief, will
cost the Government at least twenty
five million dollars.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 22.—j
Baseball is deserving of the sup-1
port of the churches, according to
Rev. Frederick McMillan, of this |
.city, who declared, in a sermon de
livered here yesterday, that the
| church should encourage and sup
iport the great national game in ev
jery way possible. The church should
be glad of the opportunity to stim
ulate interest in baseball, he ar-'
I
igued, because of the fact that it
affords healthful exercise to multi
tudes.
The enthusiastic divine has writ-'
ten a prayer in which he implores
the Almighty to give the Reds keen
eyes and grant them many runs, in1
order that they may win the forth-,
coming World series, which will start
here on October first. i
Xanana, Wim Kalla and mtrer* Meat
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TEMPERATURE
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenana
•e
n
Sunday, September 21.
Maximum ._..43 above
Minimum .33 above
Monday, September 22.
Maximum .44 above
Minimum .23 above
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Representa
tives of the iron and steel workers
ire authority for the statement that
275,000 employes of plants in vari
ous sections of the country went
iut on strike this morning in re
sponse to the call for a general
svalkout. The strikers represent a
:onsiderable proportion of the In
dustry, affecting, directly and indi
rectly, fully half a million workers.
The steel workers at Pueblo, Colo
rado; Wheeling, West Virginia, and
Voungstown, Ohio, were the first
to respond to the call, about fifteen
thousand failing to report for work
this morning. The number increas
ed steadily during the day in all
parts of the country, but the plants
are still working for the most part,
and many of the smaller outfits are
operating as usual. Sixteen mills
of the American Steel. & Wire com
pany were unable to start up this
morning, but in the Gary district,
at Lorraine, Ohio; Birmingham, Ala
bama; in the Schuylkill valley, and
in the Harrisburg district there was
only partial response to the strike
call.
Former Soldiers on Job.
The Pueblo plant is being guard
ed by former soldiers, who have
[been employed by the steel makers!
| to protect their properties in case I
there should be hostile demonstra
tions on the part of the strikers.
Special guards also have been placed
,on duty at a number of other
I plants.
—
CLASH OCCURS.
! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 22.—
!There was a mixup here today be-,
tween the state troops and a crowd
of strikers and others who gathered
jin the street and refused to dis
perse when ordered by the soldiers
to move on. Several shots were
exchanged and clubs were freely:
I
used by the guards with .good effect.
A number of the men were placed
under arrest.
AWAITING ANSWER.
BETHLEHEM. Pa., Sept. 22.—
; Delegates representing all of the
i unions to which the 35,000 em-'
jployes of the Bethlehem Steel com
ipany belong have decided against
i striking at present. Action has been
deferred pending a conference with
jthe management of the company.
The men are hopeful that Charles
M. Schwab will give favorable con
sideration to their demands, failing
! which the Bethlehem workers prob
lably will join the strike movement
KOLCHAK QUITS HIS POST
LONDON, Sept. 22.—It is author
itatively reported here that General
Kolchak has resigned at chief ruler
of the Omsk government, having
turned over the responsibilities of |
his uncertain office to General Den
ekine, leader of the Anti-Bolsheviki
forces, who are reported to have
succeeded in forcing the Hed army
to abandon Kursk.
RODMAN WELCOMES
PRINK OF WALES
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 22.—
The Prince of Wales and Admiral
Hugh Rodman met in this city to
day, upon the arrival of the future
sovereign of Great Britain, who is
touring Canada. The Yankee ad
miral was first to grip the hand of
the prince as the latter stepped
from the train at the depot.
The prince was given a royal re
ception here.
BOLSHEVIKI PRERPARE
TO LEAVE PETROGRAD
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 22. — Ad
vices reaching this city state that
the Bolsheviki are preparing to
evacuate Petrograd—again.
Jack Bellerby is in receipt of a
telegram from his son, Russell, in
Fairbanks, stating that he can take
his examination in the upper town
for admission to the naval academy
at Annapolis, to which he was re
cently appointed by Delegate Grigs
by.
HALLOWELL PLEASED;
SEES NO OBSTACLES
SEATTLE. Sept. 22. —John W. I
Hallowell, » assistant to Secretary
Lane, and Dr. Alfred Brooks, who
went to Alaska to have a look at
the Government railroad and inves
tigate conditions generally, have re
turned to this city from the North, j
and report a very satisfactory out- j
ling.
In an interview appearing in one |
of the papers, Mr. Hallowell said j
that he had been very favorably
■ impressed by the Northland and the
railway enterprise, and could see no
! obstacles in the way of the early
completion of the project.
j Mr. and Mrs. Gasser, of the Gov
ernment experiment station at Ram
part, were Fairbanks-bound passen
jgers on the Tanana.
The Northern Commercial compa
ny has a gang of men at work in
Fairbanks taking up the steam mains
!on Second avenue, east of Cushman.
jThe company will not furnish steam
jin that part of town this winter.
NEW DOCKS FOR
PACIFIC FLEET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 22.
—The stationing of war vessels in
the Pacific will necessitate the ex
penditure of large sums for the
imptovement of harbor facilities, ac
cording to officials of the navy de
partment.
Secretary Daniels, it is under- 1
!
stood, will ask Congress, at an eariy I
date, to appropriate funds to en- i
able him to carry out an elaborate j
program of work along the Pacific
coast, cHiefly in San Francisco bay1
and Puget sound, between which
two places the cruisers and dread i
naughts of the new fleet will be'
equally divided.
The secretary will have additional !
drydoek. navy yard and shipbuilding
facilities, if Congress will allow him
the money necessary to carry on
the work.
RESCUED AFIER
DAYS OF TRIAL
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 22.—A dozen
survivors of the reeent hurricane,
who escaped from their vessel in a
small boat, to be cast upon a lonely
and inhospitable island, were brought
to this place today by a submarine
chaser which was sent out after the
storm in search of shipwrecked mar
iners.
The survivors were found hud
dled in a small lighthouse on the
north elbow of a small island in
Florida straits, where they were
without food. None of them had
tasted food or water for eleven
days and all were on the verge of
starvation when found.
The waves, they said, had swept
over the island, carrying away ev
erything movable, including live
stock and stores of all kinds.
OF HEARING ADDRESS
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 22.— ;
Several thousand people have gath
ered at the depot here, in the hope
that President Wilson will stop long i
enough to make a speech, when he,
passes through enroute East.
Kerui—The Gateway to McKinley
Hatiacal Park. *
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BACK TOMORROW
The steamer Tanana reached port
from the lower river shortly after
midnight Saturday night, and. after
discharging cargo here, proceeded up
river to Chena, where the remainder
of the freight was unloaded, the
water in Chena slough being too
low to enable the boat to reach Fair
banks. The steamer will start down
river again early tomorrow morn
ing, but it is not known here what
the plans are. It is possible, how
ever, that the Tanana will meet the
Seattle No. 3, which started up
river from Gibbon this morning with
considerable freight, including 327
tons for the Commission.
The following passengers disem
barked at Nenana: Alex Gurson, B.
F. Knight, R. Tyler, Mason Hyde.
A. Seaholm. Mr. and Mrs. W. A
ICoghill, Rev. W. A. Thomas, Mrs.
T O'Learv, Cleo Wardel. Wm. Ford.
i
Mike Trehle. Harry White, S. Wil
son. Mr. Xoble.
The passengers in transit to Fair
banks included: Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Gasser, M. Sickinger. Dr. D. C.
Farker, Mrs. Ben Hoerler and child,
George Hering, Muriel Hering, Xed
Hyman, 1. Surronomi, John Olson,
Joe Carlson, A. Wehner, S. C.
iWoratz, X. Larsen. Wm. Burne, M.
Bloom.
The passengers boarding the boat
here for Fairbanks were: Ed Lund.
Mrs. Mary Smith. Mrs. Washburn.
W. R. Taylor, E. R. Babcock, Mrs.
Ike P. Taylor, D. McRae, William
Pillor.
MOOSE ARE SCARCE
IN KANTISHNA NOW
Arrivals from the Kantishna re
port a scarcity of game this fall,
due to the activities of native hunt
ers in that district. There are no
moose at all along the river, be
tween the mouth of the stream and
Roosevelt, and not many close to
the diggings, a very unusual con
dition for that section of the coun
try.
Instead of shooting game from
the doorstep, as they used to do in
the olcf days, the miners of the Kan
ishna are compelled now, to mush
long distances in search of meat.
Upon arrival at Roosevelt recently
to join Mace Farrar, and Ed Brook
er, who are developing a galena
ledge, George Herington made a
trip up Birch creek in search of
moose, hoping to secure the win
ter’s supply of meat before start
ing work. He was accompanied by
Tom Cook.
As in all other sections, how
I
ever, birds are more plentiful in
:the Kantishna this fall than for
several years past, and will help ma
terially to solve the meat problem.
Mrs. Ike P. Taylor and baby left
for Fairbanks on the Tanana Sat
urday night, where they will visit
with relatives.