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1. he Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATFD PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918.
WHOLE
NUMBER 203
. BAKER SEEKS AID FOR ALASKA ROADS
BELGIANS REPA Y HUNS FOR INSUL TS SUFFERED
ALASKANS COMING BACK TO SPEED DEVELOPMENT
< FRENCH PREPARE i
10 GREET WILSON I
ON GRAND SCALE
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Celebration On a Magnificent Scale
♦ Is Planned For President
Wilson's Coming.
PARIS.—The French government j
is planning: a series of elaborate j
entertainments in honor of Presi-1
dent Wilson’s visit to France which |
include state dinners, official calls, j
and probably a gala night at the
opera.
President Poincaire of France and
other high French officials will meet
the President on his arrival at the
f port of disembarkation on Saturday.
A great many establisments have
requested that the day be designated
as a holiday in honor of the arrival
of the American President.
It is expected that the celebra
tion which is being planned by the
officals will be on a larger and
grander scale than any celebration
ever held in this city.
, DELEGATE RACE
IS VERY CLOSE
Unprecedented Contest Will Prob'
ably Be Settled in Washington
This Year.
SEATTLE.—The P.-I. says that
the Wickersham-Sulzer situation is
unprecedented in the history of the
United States and that it is quite
probable that the contest, this year,
will be settled at Washington.
Never before have two congress
men twice contested the same office
in succession.
ON BIG BRIDGE
AI THE CROSSING
Piledriver No. 2, which had been
engaged in driving the bridges ahead
of steel, and which wp.s sent on to
Nenana Crossing at 43-mile recently,
commenced the driving of piles to
replace those taken out at the break
up last spring.
There are three bents of the
trestle approaches to this bridge on
each side of the river to be re
placed, as well as three of the main
piers in the middle of the river,
and these will be replaced as rapidly
as possible.
It is expected that the bridge
will be completed and ready for
the rails shorlty after the steel
reaches the river bank
As soon as the necessary pi.ing j
work has been completed, the big
trusses will be sent out on the
train and placed in position.
In a flameless incandescent gas
burner of European invention the
gas is forced into a porous disk
within which it burns.
War Department Estimates Include
Large Sum lor Maintenance
of Alaska Roads.
SEATTLE.—It is reported that
the war department has included
the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars in their annual estimate for
the building and maintenance of
roads in Alaska.
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General Dupont Arrives In Berlin
to Take Care of Release of
French Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord-j
ing to a despatch received today,'
General Dupont of the French
army, has arrived in Berlin and es
tablished headquarters at the old
French embassy building.
He is in Berlin for the purpose of i
arranging for the transportation and j
repatriation of French soldiers who
are held as prisoners of war in Ger
many.
CONFERENCE 1
President Calls Conference Aboard
to Discusss Formation of
League of Nations.
Aboard the George Washington.—'
President Wilson Secretary of State .
Lansing and the other members of!
the American peace delegation held!
a long conference on board the
ship today.
It is understood that they dis
cussed fully the procedure to be
adopted in setting about the forma
tion of a league of nations. British
Premier Lloyd George’s • platform
was also discussed at great length.
President Wilson attended the re
ligious services held on board and
sat among the enlisted men of the
ship. \
YANKEE TROOPS
OCCUPY GOBIENZ
AMSTERDAM.—Advices received ^
this morning from reliable sources;
state that a detachment of Ameri
can troops forming the vanguard of
the advancing army of occupation
will reach and occupy Coblenz to
day.
Horsehair auto tires have been
invented by a French mechanic.
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IN GERMAN COY!
Same Rules As Ge-mans Imposed
In Brussels Are Now In Force
In Aix-laChapelle.
ADC-LA-CHAPELLE. This large
j German city is not enthusiastic
j over its occupation by the troops
I of the Allied powers, and the yoke
of martial law, which has been es
tablished here would appear to be
particularly galling to the inhabi
tants of the ctiy.
The entire population were shock
| ed beyond measure when the Bel
| gian troops who entered the city
! and occupied it, ordered all civilians
| to leave the sidewalks and uncover
j whenever a Belgian officer ap
j proached.
These rules are exactly the same
| as those imposed on the population
i of Brussels when the Germans were
; in occupation of that city.
MAIL 10 ARRIVE
TOMORROW NIGHT
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Information received over the
phone from Fairbanks today indi
cates that Roy Lund left the upper
town this morning with the mail
and should arrive at Quarantine
Camp No. 1 tomorrow night. He is
bringing only second class Outside
mail and first class local mail.
Postmaster McDonald announces
that the mail will be closed for des
patch by Roy Lund’s stage at 3
o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The
mail arriving from Fairbanks will
be distributed in the boxes by 9
p. m., tomorrow.
Intimation has also been received
that the Thelin stage is expected
to leave Fairbanks on Wednesday
morning, December 11, and it is
expected Lhat he will bring first
class mail.
ROADHOUSES CLOSED
IN KOYUKUK COUNTRY'
Recent arrivals from the Koyukuk
country say that there is very little
travel by white men on the trail
between Betties and Wiseman, and
on the trail south of Betties, and in
consequence the roadhouses are do
ing no business whatever.
Several of the roadhouses between
Betties and Wiseman are reported
to have closed down, owing to the
lack of support and such as are run
ning are owned by men who have
homesteaded and are compelled by
law to remain on their homestead so
that they can establish proof of resi
dence when the time comes to prove
up on the land and obtain a patent.
The very poor transportation fa
cilities in the Koyukuk country and
the consequent difficulty in obtain
ing grub, especially where the re
motely situated roadhouses were con
cerned, made the running of these
places dependent, to a very large
measure, on the game obtainable in
the country for the meat supply, the
succulent rabbit being invariably
found on the bill of fare of a
Koyukuk roadhouse. it
GERMAN EDITOR
SAYS KAISER IS j
NO! RESPONSIBLE
Famous Socialist Editor Blames the
German Military Party For
Starting the War.
LONDON^—Maximilian Harden,
one of the leading Socialists of Ger
many and editor of the the Socialist
paper Vorwaerts, says that the1
Allies have a false impression of
the kaiser.
The kaiser, he says, had no per
sonal part in starting the war, but
was the tool of the powerful mili
tary party, who believed him to be
a coward when the moment for the
declaration of war came.
The militarists, he declares, were
afraid that the kaisr would refuse
to sign the declaration of war when j
it was presented to him.
Hardn says that the kaiser missed j
his vocation. He thinks that the j
former German monarch, by reason
of his fondness for being in the
limelight, ought to have been a
cabaret or show manager.
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ARE DISCHARGED!
LEAVE FOR NORTH
Special Train Pull* Out for Seattle j
With Northbound Alaskan*
From Camp Lewis.
CAMP LEWIS.—Only Alaskans j
who have been inducted and who j
have entered the service were among'
the troops demobilized. The men t
from other parts of the country
will be demobilized and allowed to!
go to their homes soon.
A special train left Camp Lewis
today with five hundred Alaskans
aboard bound for Seattle, where!
they will take ship for Alaska.
deateTsentence j
AMONG SOLDIERS
NOT VERY HEAVY!
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Provost
Marshal General Crowder announced
today that not a single member of
the American Expeditionary Force
has been put to death, since the
beginning of the war, on account
of the commission of an offense of
a purely military nature, and that
very few death sentences have been
imposed during the war.
Of the offenses committed by the
troops, one enlisted man was con
victed of being a spy, and seven
hundred and seventy-three have been
convicted on the charge of sleeping
at their posts.
Of European invention is a clip
to hold a pen on a writer’s finger
without using a penholder.
WOUNDED TROOPS i
ARRIVED TODAYS
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Army Transport Disembarks Large
Number of Wounded Americans
From Europe.
NEW YORK.— Sixteen hundred
wounded American soldiers arriving
on a transport from the battlefields
of Europe were disembarked here
today.
They were immediately placed in
military hospitals, where they will'
be cared for until they are thor-j
oughly cured of their wounds and
fit to be discharged.
PROSPERITY FOR j
AMERICA COMING
IN WORLD TRADEj
Big American Merchant Marine
Built Up During War Should
Be Maintained Forever.
BOSTON—In an address delivered
before the Southern Commercial
Congress, which met here today,1
Speaker Champ Clark said that the
future prosperity of the United |
States rests, in a large measure, on
the incoming foreign trade.
Yc entered the great war, he
said, mainly for the freedom of the
seas, and President Wilson can be I
depended upon to secure that free-!
dom at the forthcoming peace con
ference to be held at Versailles. j
Concluding his remarks, he said,
that the immense American mer-1
chant marine, which we built up
during the progress of the war,
should be maintained forever.
Andrew Zaboff and Paul Agoff,
who are prospecting on Shushana
creek in the Kantishna country, ar
rived in town last night by dog
team. The ground they are work
ing on is about 8 miles above the
Knight roadhouse, on the Toklat
The men state that they have found
good prospects.
The journey to town was neces
sitated because Zaboff was suffer
ing from an ulcerated tooth which
had been getting worse since it fir.-t,
manifested itself. They expect to
leave in a few days with a good
stock of supplies and have arranged
to get another dog team for haul
ing the load to the place where they
are working.
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10 RHINE CITY
Id QUELL RIQIS
AI-LA-CHAPELLE. - A large de
tachment of British troops have
been hurried to Cologne to main
tain order. They are expected to
arrive today.
The Socialist element were re
ported to be rioting in the city and
a hurry call for troops to quell the
disturbance was sent to the Allies
with the result that British detach
ment was instantly despatched.
The nature or seriousness of the
trouble is unknown.
COLOGNE PAPER
INVITES WILSON
AMSTERDAM. — The Cologne
newspaper Volks Zeitung, on be
half of the people of the Rhine city,
invites President Wilson to visit
Cologne.
The paper also makes the sug
gestion that representatives of the
German foreign ministry meet Presi
dent Wilson at Cologne.
AUIHOiY FOR
UIANS10 ALOES
Secretary of Treasury Requests
Legislation to Make Loans
to Allies Possible.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of the Treasury MeAdoo asked Con
gress today to authorize loans, after
the formal declaration of peace, to
America’s allies if order that the
people in the devastated areas may
be fed during the period of re
construction.
It is estimated that a billon and
a half dollars in war bonds, already
authorized, is now available for
loaning; but loans cannot be con
tinued after peace has been de
dared without legislative authority.
Tomorow night, at Moose Hall
immediately after the business meet
ing, which is scheduled to commence
at 8 p. m., sharp, a diversified pro
gram will be put on and the Moose
smoker will be on .
All efforts to obtain a line on
the program proved unavailing, as
the entertainment committee, of
which Alf Eckland is the head, ab
solutely refused to divulge any of
it. This attitude is taken as a
great many pleasant surprises in
the entertainent line will be sprung
at the appointed time.
Visiting Moose are cordially in
vited to attend the meeting and the
smoker.