WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920.
NO. 29.?
CIVIL WAR SWEEPING GERMANY TODAY
HALLOW ELL QUITS POST TO WORK WITH HOOVER
LABOR JURY RETURNS WOBBLY VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY
CASH IS SEEN
FROM UNCLE SAM;
OFFICE HELD OP
SEATTLE, March 16. — R. E.
Stafford, cashier at the internal rev
enue office, in the postoffice build
ing, was held up this morning by
two masked men and the office
robbed of currency to the value of
$20,000.
Stafford was alone in the office at
the time the roobery took place.
He had arrived ahead of the other
employes and had just opened the
vault when the robbers made their
appearance. He was taken com
pletely by surprise by the armed
visitors and could make no resist
ance, as the men backed him into
the vault and kept him there while
they filled their pockets with cur
rency.
The large amount of money on
hand is accounted for by the ex
planation that there was a rush of
income taxpayers last night, with no
opportunity to take the money to
the bank for safe-keeping.
The robbers have escaped.
COM PREPARES
10 HUE ON ESTER
Gus Conradt, okltime mining man
of the Fairbanks district, who was
recently in Nenana to make prep
arations for the delivery of coal at
North Nenana, under contract, for
the Broad Pass Coal & Development
company, is in Fairbanks at present
{retting ready to begin mining op
erations on a large scale on the
Jesson fraction on Ester creek, at
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RIVAL FACTIONS OF GERMANY |
ARE INVOLVED IN ROW TODAY;
SEATTLE, March 16.—The Asso
ciated Press summary of the Ger
man situation states that civil war
is in progress today throughout a
large part of Germany, as a result
of the refusal of the Ebert govern
ment to negotiate with the revolu
tionists, headed by von Kapp. Ebert
is reported to have demanded the
unconditional surrender of the rev
olutionist leaders, and von Kapp has
threatened the execution of the
I leaders and pickets of the general
1 strike which is gripping Berlin it
:they interfere in any way with any,
| of the vital public services. The
1 strike was called bv Ebert and his
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' followers.
H1NDENBURG OPPOSES.
, COPENHAGEN, March 16.—Ac
j cording to advices received in this
jcity, General von Hindenburg has'
(declared his opposition to the revo- ;
; lution now in progress in Germany '
land will not give the movement his i
support.
PROTECTING PRINCE.
THE HAGUE, March 16. — A
Dutch torpedo boat has arrived at j
Wieringen island for the purpose of j
guarding the former German crown
prince. The government fears that j
he may make an attempt to return ‘
to Germany.
MANY ARE KILLED.
COPENHAGEN, March 16. —
Fighting Hamburg is reported to
have resulted today in the death of j
thirty persons, including a number |
of women and children. The fight-!
ing was between the German Baltic t
troops, supporting von Kapp, and,
citizen guards. Fifteen were killed
and many injured at Staglizm, in
Berlin’s southeast outskirts, and
four were killed and six wounded
at Charlottenburg, another Berlin
suburb.
It is also reported here that .t .
soviet republic has been proclaimed j
in Bavaria.
the mouth of Eva.
A large quantity of wood—400
cards it is stated—has been deliv
ered on the claim, and as soon as
the water runs a considesable force
of men will be put to work moving
the pay gravel.
BEGGS SAYS HYDER
IS SHY ON HOTELS
Strangers going to Hyder should
be prepared to- camp out in the
snow, in the opinion of Con Beggs,
former resident of Nenana. who
was in Ketchikan several weeks ago,
direct from the new diggings, where
he spent the fall and winter. There
is little accommodation available in
the town at the present time, he
says, and should a couple of dozen
people arrive there at the same time,
I some of them would not be able to
i secure beds to sleep in.
| Mr. Beggs said that he had not
ibeen up to the mines for several
j months, and therefore could not
| give any first-hand information re
garding the camp. He was in the
j hospital in Ketchikan last fall, and
, on his return to Hyder took life
easy getting his strength back.
Snow is about four feet deep at
Hyder. and is reported to be con
siderably deeper up the river. It
is said that the snow will not be off
at the Premier mine until about the
first of July.
i The whole country within miles
.of Hyder has been staked, many of
the stakes being covered by the
jsnow. In many instances the pros
pectors knew nothing of the forma
i
lions which they were staking, sim
, ply placing a stake in the snow in
The hope that they might sell to a
i newcomer before the snow went
again.
ELEVATOR OPERATOR '
ACCUMULATES STAKE
j SAN FRANCISCO—Charles Pe
terson, an elevator operator, who
committed suicide here recently, left
to relatives in San Francisco and
in Sweden an estate of $40,000, the
accumulation of a lifetime of thrift.
Telegraph service was interrupted
j today as a result of a break in the
iline south of Fairbanks.
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HALLOWELL RESIGNS
TO GO WITH HOOVER
SEATTLE, March 16—The Wash
ington correspondent ol' the ScuUS*
Times reports that John W. Hal
lowed, assistant to the secretary of
the interior, has tendered his resig
nation to the acting head of the de
partment and announces it as his
intention to join Herbert Hoover in
American Relief Association work.
Hallowed was with Hoover in Eu
rope previous to his appointment
by Secretary Lane as an attache
of the interior department with spe
cial jurisdiction over Alaskan af
fairs.
The work of Hallowell, it is un
derstood, will be assumed by First
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
A. T. Vogelsang, and the fear is
expressed that Alaska will not re
ceive the same amount of attention
from him as it did from Hallowell,
because of his many other duties.
Voerelsanp: is at present acting sec
retary.
That Voprelsanyr is interested in
the North is indicated, however, in
a letter written by him to the sen
ate, in which he unres the develop
ment of the country tributary to
the Government railroad.
JAPS ARE OBJECTING
TO CHINESE BOYCOTT
TOKIO.—A Peking dispatch to
the Nichi-Nichi says that the sec
retary of the Japanese legation in j
Peking has filed a protest with the
Chinese authorities on account of
the decision of the national assem-:
bly with regard to the continuation ’
of the boycott of Japanese goods.
GERMANY LIFTS BAN
ON POPULAR BEVERAGE
BERLIN.—The national economic !
minister has abolished the order of.
March 31, 1915, which prohibited
the use of alcohol in the manufac
ture of schnapps, and Germany is!
again to have it cheap and popular
beverage. The prohibition of im
port of liquor remains in force.
DISCHARGED OFFICERS
ACCEPT LOWLY POSTS
LONDON.—Discharged army of
ficers are still having difficulty in
many cases in. finding employment.
At Croydon the other day a briga
dier-general was among the appli
cants for the post of secretary to
the Croydon pensions committee.
The position pays only £350. The
place was given to a lieutenant-col
onel who had served in the army
i
30 years.
Augusit Peterson was an incoming
passenger on today’s train from
Fairbanks. He was called to the
'upper town on business.
LABOR IN SCOTLAND
GAINING IN POWER
EDINBURGH.—The progress of
labor in Scotland is illustrated by
the fact that local governing bodies
now include 700 labor and socialist
members. In the latest Scottish
elections, labor gained 45 seats in
on the county councils, 154 on the
town councils, and 1500 on the par
ish councils.
WASHINGTON CITIES
TO BE HEADQUARTERS
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Seven
Washington cities — Seattle, Spo
kane, Bellingham, Tacoma, Everett,
Yakima, and Aberdeen—have been
named headquarters for field agents
who are to take the national census
of manufactures, mines, quarries,
oil, and gas well, according to word
received here.
OWNERSHIP OF VESSEL
UNSETTLED BY DEFEAT
HONOLULU, T. H.—Captain E.
Yanovsky of the Russian Volunteer
Fleet freight steamer Omsk, here
for water enroute from New York
to Vladivostok, said he is in a
quandary as to who owns his craft,
now that the Kolchak government
is no more.
“The Omsk is owned by the Rus
sian government—the Kolchak gov
ernment,” explained the captain,
“but her home port is Archangel,
North Russia.”
The vessel is carrying about 6,000
tons of car>ro to Vladivostok, in
cluding Red Cross stores, machinery,
foodstuffs, but no munitions.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March l(i.
' — The war department has been of
ficially advised of the destruction
of the American barracks at Vladi
vostok, reported to have been burn-:
i
ed to the "round on March <i.
In addition to the destruction of
the buildings. the fire is reported 1
to have caused the death of two
soldiers and two others are missing.
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PERSONAL
Leith Russell, timekeeper at the
Haslem camp, arrived in town from
the canyon last evening and went
to Fairbanks today for the St. Pat-j
rock’s day celebration.
The nine Fairbanks school boys;
who were suspended yesterday be
cause of their refusal to sign an
agreement to behave themselves,
called their strike off during 'he
afternoon and returned to their
studies. They have given the school
board their promise to be good boys
in future.
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First class mail is due at Fair
banks this afternoon. The shipment
also includes some second class mat
ter.
j Resident Engineers Howard Has
lem, Huston D. Mills and Roy
i Hershberger will represent the rail
road forces at the Fairbanks Tom
bola. They were passengers on this
afternoon’s train for the upper
town.
. The Fairbanks chief of police is
making inqiury for Morris Morino
and W. H. Rose.
i The Fairbanks train was over an
hour late today, owing to drifts en
countered in Coldstream valley.
Alex Kerr came down from Fair
banks today and will be here sev
eral days.
LABURIIY SAYS
III WAS FARCE,
STATE IS SCORED
MONTESAXO. March 16.—The
unofficial jury composed of labor
representatives, which occupied .»
place in the courtroom throughout
the trial of the Centralia wobblies.
made known its verdict this morn
ing, showing the jurors unanimous
ly in favor of acquittal.
The jurors declare that the trail,
as conducted by the state, was not
a fair one, and the prosecution is
scored for bringing federal troops to
the city.
The verdict declares that Grimm
participated in the alleged raid on
the wobbly hall, and it is contended
.that the wobblies had a right to
shoot in defense of their hall.
SCORES VERDICT.
' MONTESAXO, March 10.—The
prosecuting attorney who has’direct
ed the prosecution of the Centralia
wobblies declares that the ‘verdict
is a travesty on justice, and he an
nounces that he will continue to
prosecute the men until proper con
victions have been procured.
Judge Wilson received two threat
ening' letters while the trial was in
progress, but he has refused to di
vulge the contents of the missives.
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ST. PAUL, March 16. It ex
claimed at the headquarters of (ien
eral Leonard Wood that the ueo
eral ha? carried every Minnesota
county in the Republican presiden
tial preferential primary, outdis
tancing every other candidate by a
substantial margin of votes.
It is also claimed that Wood del
egates will have full control of th •
state convention, which will he held
on Saturday.
Sentiment in favor of the gen
eral is growing steadily throughout
the country, managers of his cam
paign declare, and the result of the
Minnesota primary, in their opin
ion, will have a big influence in
other sections of the country.
JEWELRY IS STOLEN
FROM SEATTLE STORE
SEATTLE, March 15.- -Diamonds
and ornaments to the value of $2,
store Sunday night by robbers who
broke into the building.
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