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Volume Two member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1919.
Number 53
AUSTRIA REDUCED BY TREATY TERMS
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN HAS MISHAP ENROUTE
. SENATOR IOHNSON ATTACKS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
AUSTRIA MUST PAY
HEAVILY FOR ACTS
ST. GERMAIN, France, June 2.
—The completed portion of the
Austrian treaty was presented to the
Austro-Hungarian delegates today,
following which certain of the terms
which have been definitely decided
upon were released for publication.
The clauses relating to the military
and to the financial reparation to
be demanded, will be completed as
soon as possible and handed to the
delegates at a later date.
The treaty follows the same gen
eral outline as that presented to
Germany, and in addition requests
that Austria recognize the inde
pendence of Hungary and Czecho
slovakia and the new Serbian
Croatian and Slovanian states. Aft
er Austria has complied with the
terms of the treaty, she will have
left a population of about six mill
i ion people and about five thousand
square miles of territory.
Austria must accept the League
of Nations covenant and the Allied
labor program, must demobilize her
entire naval and aerial forces and
permit the Allies to try Austrian
war leaders.
The treaty says that a republican
government has replaced the former
Vienna monarchy.
To Captain C. F. Griffiths, the
^ well-known mining man, and asso
ciates belong the distinction of be
ing the first mining men from the
interior of Alaska to come through
Broad pass during the winter with
horses, says a recent issue of the
Anchorage Times. The trin was
made through the pass without mis
hap and the horses landed safely
at Talkeetna.
k. Captain Griffiths and associates
will work during the coming sea
son on their mining property lo
cated on Bird creek, in the Cache
Creek district. The supplies were
ordered in Seattle by Captain Grif
^ fiths while still at Nenana, ana his
plans called for their delivery at
Talkeetna at the time of his ar
rival here from Broad pass. He
arrived with his horses the day the
train arrived at Talkeetna from
Anchorage, and just in time to
take the supplies across the Susitna
river. He expected to be on the
property by May 10 and to at once
begin the work of hydraulic min
ing.
That Cache creek is rapidly com
ing into prominence is evidenced
by the fact that its possibilities
f have attracted the attention of
Captain Griffiths and his associ
ates, all of whom are well-known
mining men from the Interior.
With the captain are Arthur Paul,
successful placer miner from the
Dawson country; Frank McGibney,
a successful operator in the Mar
^ shall country, and E. S. Smith and
Charles Davidson, both well known
in the Interior.
Captain Griffiths is a booster for
good roads, and says that with the
expenditure of $50,000 on the Tal
keetna-Cache creek road, the Cache
creek mining district will become
the best placer diggings in the In
terior of Alaska. In connection
^ with his placer holdings he owns
considerable quartz property, and
he says that with the completion
of a winter road he will begin the
transporting of ore from the dig
gings to Talkeetna. He expects ti
haul ore out and supplies back in
with the use of his stock.
WIDOW ASTOR TAKES
LORD FOR HUSBAND
LONDON, June 2.—Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, first wife of multi
millionaire Astor, was married in
this city today to Lord Ribblesdale.
Mrs. Astor was an American girl.
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SEATTLE, JUNE 2.—Wireless
advices received in this city last
night reported the grounding in
Wrangell narrows of the steamship
Northwestern, enroute from this
city to Alaska with two hundred
passengers. The vessel ploughed its
way fifty feet into the sand and
was but slightly damaged. It was
floated at high tide and resumed
its voyage for the North this morn
ing, headed for Juneau.
Wireless distress calls were re
; sponded to by the steamships Princess
Mary, Jefferson and City of Seattle,
and the passengers of the North
western were transferred to the last
named vessel. The three vessels
stood by until it was ascertained
that the Northwestern was not
j seriously damaged.
VILLA ATTACKING
FEDERAL FORCES
JUAREZ, June 1.—According to
(advices received in this city today,
| the rebel forces under Francisco
! Villa and General Angeles attacked
| the federal troops at Chihuahua
yesterday in an effort to take pos
j session of that city. The fighting
: progressed all day yesterday and
i was still in progress today, when
! the report of the encounter was
despatched to this city. The oppos
i ing forces appear to be evenly
: matched and it is impossible to
J forecast the outcome.
The reports state that very few
I foreign residents are left in the
' zone of hostilities, the majority of
: them having departed for safer ter
rain at the first sign of approaching
battle.
LAUNCH FROM LOGJAM
I ARRIVED AND SAILED
The launch Eclipse, with George
I Black at the wheel, arrived in Ne
! nana Saturday evening with Frank
Harvey and an Indian as passengers
for Nenana. She sailed for Fair
; banks very early on Sunday morn
i ing.
Black stated that he had word
that there were many people in
; Fairbanks who wished to come to
Nenana to work on the railroad,
and he expected to make a trip
down today with a load of pass
engers.
JUNEAU EMPIRE
SAYS COAST IS
WITH GRIGSBY
JUNEAU, June 2.—Jones is not
endorsed by organized labor. Grigs
by’s big vote in Southeastern Alaska
will be from the miners and work
ingmen, just as was Sulzer’s. Jones
is being urged by Wickershamites be
cause they think his election would
improve Wickersham’s chance for (
contest.
Grigsby’s record in eight-hour bill'
was satisfactory to Dunn and Pen-!
nington, authors of the measure. j
Both agreed that his decis#n on
first bill was correct and gladly
changed the measure to meet his j
objections. Both Dunn and Pen-:
nington are for Grigsby in the pres- j
ent election. Dunn, who has been
at Sitka Hot Springs since the ad-1
journment of the legislature, has
just left for the Interior, and be
for his departure, declared that
Grigsby had made an excellent at
torney general, that his position on
labor questions is sound and that
he should be elected delegate.
Judge Jennings denies that he
refused to excuse Jones from jury
service in order to conduct his cam
paign. The judge declares that
Jones has not asked to be excused,
reports to the contrary notwith
standing.
Juneau Daily Empire.
LOSE STANDING
PALL MALL, Tenn., June 2.—
Second Elder Alvin York will not
lose his standing in the Church of
Christ because of his activities on
the firing line in France. Pastor
Pile set all fears at rest at yester- j
day’s service, one of the most I
largely attended in the history of
the church, when he welcomed*
America’s greatest fighting man'
back into the fold, explaining that |
York had merely done his duty as a
soldier when he killed German foes,
and should be honored by the church
as he was by his country. It had
been previously reported that Yorkj
would be excommunicated because j
he had killed a score or more of 1
Germans during his stay in France, I
thus violating his oath as a 1 elder, j
The church was filled with moun-j
taineers who came miles to welcome
the returned hero.
SOLDIERS SUFFER
IN TRAIN WRECK
LINCOLN, Neb., June 2.—Fifty
American soldiers, enroute to San
Francisco from the Atlantic sea
board, were more or less seriously
injured today as the result of the
derailment of the train on which
they were making the journey
across the continent. The accident
was caused by a washout near
Omaha. The ~ whole train was
plunged over bn embankment and
practically all the cars were badly
smashed, but not a single death re
j suited.
EIGHTY DIE IN
FRENCH MOVIE
THEATER FIRE
YALEXCE-SUR-RHONE, France,
June 2.—The destruction of a great
moving picture theater in this city
last night by fire, caused the death
of eighty women and children and
the injury of more than one hun
dred others.
There were over four thousand
spectators in the show house when
the fire started, and despite the ef
forts of many cool headed persons
in the audience to prevent it, there
was a mad rush for the exits and
many of those who lost their lives
were crushed by the panic-stricken
crowd. Many of the injured were
unable to get out of the theater
and perished in the flames.
The fire started in the operator’s
cabinet and spread rapidly to the
rest of the building, but it is be
lieved that everyone in the theater
could have been saved but for the
panic.
The bodies of fifty-three women
and children were removed from
the ruins of the theater today, and
many of them, in addition to being
charred, give mute evidence of the
terrible rush for the exits. Some
of the bodies are crushed and
trampled beyond resemblance to a
human being.
WORKERS QUIT;
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—
President Konenkaman, of the Com
mercial Telegraphers union, is au
thority for the statement that the
Atlanta telegraphers’ strike, which
was called for today, is purely a
local affair, and does not affect
other sections of the country in
the least.
It had been reported here that
a nation-wide strike had been called
by the Commercial telegraphers and
that the Atlanta walkout was the
starter of a general suspension of
activities among the unionists. It
is known that there has been some
discussion regarding a national
strike, but no date has been set as
yet for the walkout.
OPPOSED TO MOVE
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 2.—
Although a canvass of the labor
vote on the proposal to call a gen
eral strike has not been completed,
a sufficient number of votes have
been counted to warrant the pre
diction that Vancouver labor will
not walk out in sympathy with the
Winnipeg strike, which began last
month. It is expected that local
union officials will announce the re
sult of the vote before the end of
the day and that the announcement
will be to the effect that Vancouver
unionists have voted against the
strike proposition.
Should the vote be favorable, a
general strike probably will be called
tomorrow.
JOHNSON DENOUNCES
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—
The fight against the League of
Nations, which was started by the
Republicans in the upper house of
Congress soon after the convening
of Congress, was resumed today in
the . senate by Senator Hiram John
son of California, leader of the
Progressive wing of the party. John
son occupied the floor a consider
able part of the day, bitterly assail
ing the league and the peace con
ference for its failure to heed sug
gestions coming from this country.
The league was denounced by the
Californian as a combination of
armed forces in a gigantic war
trust. The Paris conference, he
said, dared not amend the league
so that declarations of war in the
future would be decided by a vote
of the people instead of by rulers.
The league had strapped to it every
idealistic purpose it had ever had
and it rivets chains of tyranny upon
millions of peoples.
The senator pointed to the Shan
tung decision as one example of the
unfairness of the league framers.
RATE INCREASE
BY GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—
| The supreme court of the United
I States has handed down a decision
upholding the action of the railroad
administration in increasng freight
and passenger rates last June. The
telephone and telegraph rates, which
were ordered by Postmaster-General
Burleson last January, were also
upheld by the jurists, the decision
stating that the federal government
had supreme and conclusive powers
in the administration of the rail
roads and w’ire lines.
ROMANCE, France, June 2—The
nine thousand American victims of
the Argonne fighting, who are buried
here, were fittingly honored on
Memorial Day, French and Ameri
can soldiers collaborating in the
elaborate ceremonies which were ar
ranged for the occasion.
General Pershing was the prin
cipal speaker of the day. He said,
in part: “Farewell, bear comrades.
Here under the clear skies, on green
hillsides and amid French flowering
fields, in the quiet hush of peace,
we leave you forever, in God’s
keeping. We are proud they died
so nobly.”
Ten thousand troops participated
in the ceremonies.
TOLOVANA MAIL BOAT
ARRIVED SATURDAY
Carl White’s new steamer Brooks,
with the Helen M and a large
poling boat in tow, arrived in Ne
nana late on Saturday night, bound
for Fairbanks.
She had the Tolovana mail on
board and two passengers for the
upper town, for which place she
sailed yesterday morning at a very
early hour.
* TEMPERATURE «
■t As reported by the government H
H observation station, Nenana H
•t Sunday, June 1 •?
* Maximum .73 above *t
•t Minimum .50 above *?
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•I Monday, June 2 It
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•t Minimum .51 above *t
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VOTE TOMORROW
! FOR DELEGATE
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j The special election, called for
| the purpose of selecting a suc
cessor to the late Charles A. P'ulzer
las delegate to Congress from Alas
! ka, will be held tomorrow through
| out Alaska, in accordance with a
! special call issued by the governor
|and under the regulations of the
jold delegate election law, in force
j prior to the adoption of the Aus
tralian ballot.
| There are two candidates for the
j place—George IT Grigsby, Demo
! eratic candidate, and J. L. Jones.
1 Labor candidate. Grigsby is at
| present serving the territory in the
i capacity of attorney general, to
j which office he was elected last No
vember by an overwhelming vote.
(Jones is a resident of Ketchikan,
j He is a carpenter and formerly
jheld a position as principal of the
l Ketchikan school.
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j Voters of Nenana precinct will
I cast their ballots at the firehall.
(The Xenana precinct includes the
[town of Xenana and the railroad
I camps on the north side of the
| Tanana river. The camps along the
railroad south of Xenana are in
cluded in 35-Mile precinct, the poll
ing place for which will be the
railroad section house at 35-Mile.
Only citizens of the United States
are entitled to vote, and they must
have resided in the territory a full
year prior to the election, and in
the precinct thirty days. The noils
will be open from eight o’clock
tomorrow morning until seven in
the evening.
Both the Democrats and those
conducting the campaign for the
Labor candidate have increased
their activities during the past
couple of days, with a view to
swelling the vote for the respective
candidates, and public interest in
the election, in consequence, has
been considerably increased It h
feared, however, that the readjust
ment of railroad forces during the
past several days will make it dif
ficult, if not impossible, for many
of the workers to reach the polls,
and there is the prospect, on that
account, that the vote will be light
er than was expected earlier *in the
campaign.
LADIES TO MEET
TOMORROW AFTERNOON
The regular monthly meeting of
the Ladies’ Aid society will be held
tomorrow afternoon at the home of
Mrs. J. R. Bowen, on upper Second *
street. The hour set for the meet
ing is 2:30 and all ladies interested
in the work of the society are cor- j
dially invited to be present. /