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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAR. 13, 1923
NUMBER 424
FRENCH THREATEN DEATH AS REPRISAL
GERMAN OFFICIALS WILL DIE IF RIOTS CONTINUE
DELEGATE COMING NORTH TO MAKE FISHERIES FIGHT
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STORM HITS MIDDLE WEST;
MUCH DAMAGE IS REPORTED
CHICAGO, Mar. 13—With tele
phone communication partially re
stored, the cities of the Middle West
states have begun a check of the
damage resulting from the storm
of Sunday. The storm was accom
panied by heavy rains, snow and
high winds. The damage is believed
to be especially heavy in Iowa but
communication is still cut in that
direction and only meager detail?
k can be obtained.
The roof of a school house was
torn off by the storm at South
Portsmouth, Kentucky, resulting in
the death of one ooy and the in
jury of several others.
Two deaths in this city are at
tributed indirectly to the storm. One
man fell dead in Milwaukee from
heart trouble due to physical ex
haustion, and two men were injured
€in a rear end collision between
two Southern Railway trains, at
Paulsky, Tenn_, due indirectly to
the storm.
Train schedules have been very
much upset in Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin, Kentucky, Missouri and
Tennessee.
Kentucky Hard Hit
RICHMOND, Ky., Mar. 13—Three
persons were killed here on Sun
day and two others fatally injured
as the result of the cyclone which
swept this district. Scores were in
jured, some seriously. The full force
of the storm swept small sections of
Madison and Fayette counties.
Score Killed In Tennewee
JACKSON, Tenn., Mar. 13—The
^ storm caused twenty deaths and
seventy-five are reported to have
received injuries near Winston, 12
miles south of this city. A number
of the dead and injured are negroes.
About fifty dwellings were razed
by the storm. Reports are meager
GERMANS ARE ACCUSED
OF BREAKING DRY . AW
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LONDON, Mar. 13—Wholesale
rum running into the United States
by a fleet of four or five ships
registered under the Panama flag
is being financed by a prominent
German magnate, according to in
formation obtained in responsible
American quarters. The fleet is be
ing operated chiefly from the United
States end by a former German
captain of a Hamburg American
liner.
WRANGELL DEFEATED
OLYMPIA, Mar. 13—The Wran
gell basketball team was defeated
here last night by the Olympia
High School team, the score being
44 to 19.
FREE AT LAST
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 13—A final
decree of divorce against Rudolph
Valentino has been entered in the
superior court.
Sam Dublin returned from the
Koyukuk this week and will leave
for the States tonight. He reports
plenty of food supplies along the
Koyukuk to last the various com
munities until navigation opens. Mr.
Dubin brought a fine collection
of furs with him from the north
** ern camp.
Andy Roth returned to town this
morning from Healy.
FRENCH FORCES ARE INCREASED
TO CHECK GERMAN RESISTENCE
MAYO LUMBERMAN REPORTS
OUTLOOK GOOD FOR 1923
Sam McCormick, Ben Volkman,
Father Rivet, Howard Sutherland
Jack Case and J# Jones arrived at
Dawson recently from Mayo and re
port having had a hard trip owing
to unfavorable trail conditions.
Eight inches of snow fell in one
night at McQuestion and it was a
mater of breaking the trail prac
tically all the way to the Klondike.
McCormick carried the mail from
Mayo to Dawson. Jack Case was the
road pilot and trail breaker on the
trip and Ben Volkman showed what
he could do in the way of cooking
first class short orders for hungry
men.
i Mr. Volkman had a sawmill on
I Duncan creek and he reports that
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i the yard is pretty well cleaned up
i now. He had a good season and
I looks for business to keep on im
proving. He has a crew of some ten
i
men engaged in cutting logs for,
the mill. The logs are handy, the
. farthest haul being about two and a
half miles distant from the mill.
“Erickson and McKay are shipp
ing ore from the Shamrock claim to
Mayo,” Mr. Volkman told the Daw
J son News. “They are on a good lead
and are quite satisfied with their
I prospects. I should say there are ab
, out 3,000 tons now stacked on the
docks at Mayo and there are 1,000
,:ons of ore at the foot of the hill_
Keno City is a busy spot. Counting
: the men working in the mines and
(the boys prospecting in the neigh-,
borhood, I should say that there are
3,000 people or more in the vicinity
i of Keno Citv.
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A man named Hall, who was
working for the Treadwell Yukon
Company, was taken down with
pneumonia and was removed to the
hospital at Mayo by Dr. Chipman. I
understand he was rather low when |
we pulled out, but ■•e may have im-.
proved since. Barney Brennan was
still a patient, but is getting on well
also in the hospital. Dan Steeres is.
and Findley Galbraith is making
good headway.
“Although the trail was pretty
hard we had a good time coming in. |
The boys were all of the right
sort of mushers and sampers. Fa
ther Rivet is on old timer in the'
North and on the trail. He got a
round everywhere and missed noth-'
ing in the silver camp. He is well
stocked with information concerning:
the district.
Mr. Volkman says that there are
about seventy-five men employed in
the Werneche camp, and about fifty
working for the Keno Hill, Limited.
The two mines are keeping busy
getting out the ore, and Greenfield
& Pickering’s teams and the cater
pillar are getting it away as fast
as possible.
R. L. Morris was among this
'morning’s arrivals from the coast.
He is from Juneau.
L. Shulman, fur buyer, arrived
from the coast on this morning train
RECKLINGHAUSEN', Mar. 13
Eight Germans are dead as the re
sult of clashes with French soldiers
in various parts of Recklinghausen,
and one French soldier and three
Germans were injured in a riot
which occurred at Dortmund yester
day^ As a result of the disorders a
state of seize has been proclaimed
by the French military authorities,
covering the entire Recklinghausen
distric* Additional troops have been
sent to maintain order.
Excitement is running high at
Ruhr and further trouble is feared.
One of the Germans who was
killed here had boasted to friends
recently that he was preparing to
kill a French officer, according to
information obtained by the French
authorities.
French Will Carry On
BRUSSELS, Mar. 13—Evacuation
of German territory recently occu- j
pied will be gradual and the opera
tion will be carried out only when
Germany fulfills her reparations ob
ligations, according to a communique
issued yesterday after a meeting of
French and Belgian premiers.
French Warn Germans
ESSEX, Mar. 13—German police
at Recklinghausen district have been
warned by General Laignelot that if
any more French soldiers are as
sassinated or ambushed, the bur
gomaster of Boer, who is held as a
hostage by the French, together
with four other town officials will
be shot immediately as a measure
of retaliation.
MONDELL SAYS GOVERNMENT
SAVED MONEY LAST YEAR
WASHINGTON, D C., Mar. 13—
A law and a half a day during' the
624 days the lawmakers were in
session was the record of the Sixty
Seventh Congress, according to a
statement made yesterday by Frank
Mondell, retiring Republican leader
of the house of representatives and
a staunch supporter of the admin
istration. He has had the statement
inserted in the Congressional Re
cord.
One hundred and forty-four bills
of various kinds which were passed
by the house, failed to pass the
senate, and Mondell declares that
“it might be in order in the house
to discuss the rules or lack of rules
in the senate under which it is
possible for a minority to prevent
acton on highly important legisla
tion which has received the approv
al of the house."
The statement says under the
Fordney tariff law both imports and 1
exports have increased and, “as a
result of good business management”
the country’s gross debt has been
reduced from $26,594,267,878 on
August 31, 1919, to $22,716,338.
730 on February 28, 1923. “In
three years we have reduced the na
tional debt as much as it was re
duced between the close of the
Civil War and the beginning of the ]
World War. The nation, during the1
last fiscal year, met all expenditures'
from its revenues and had a balance 1
of nearly three hundred million dol- j
lars.”
CHURCHMAN CRITICALLY ILL
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 13—The Right
Reverend Daniel S. Tuttle, aged 86
years, presiding bishop of the Episco
pal church in the United States, is
seriously ill here, his condition be
ing described as critical.
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R. H. Nichols, railroad agent at
McKinley Park, returned from Fair
banks yesterday and left for his
station on a freight train.
Councilman Tom Smith went to
Fairbanks this afternoon on a brief
business trip.
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John Montana came in from Kobi
this morning.
MOTHER OF MURDERED GIRL
GIVES DAMAGING EVIDENCE
VANCOUVER, Wash., Mar. 13—;
Mrs. Paul N'osko, mother of Anna.1
informed the officers yesterday for
the first time that she was attacked
a year ago by George Whitfield, ’
who is now in jail charged with
the murder of the 11-year-old An
na. whose mutilated body was dis- i
covered' last week.
The mother says she believes the
crime was committed by Whitfield
in revenge. The accused youth is
still held in solitary confinement
but the officers have abandoned
their efforts to break down his de
nial of guilt.
ENGLAND CONDUCTS RAID;
VICTIMS SENT TO IRELAND
DUBLIN, Mar. 13—Nearly three1
hundred prisoners who were taken j
in extensive week-end raids con- j
ducted in England and Scotland, i
have been landed here from Britich
warships.
Among those arrested were thirty ;
women, and all have been placed in
jail, where they are being held un
der heavy guard. •
NEW FAIRBANKS PAPER
ENTERS WEEKLY FIELD
The Fairbanks Alaskan, newest
paper in Alaska, made its initial
appearance in Fairbanks on Sunday,
having entered the newpaper field
of the upper town as a weekly, four
columns in size at present, but
with an ambition to grow as rap
idly as conditions will permit. The
publisher of the new paper is James
Feaster, well known and highly res
pected resident of Fairbanks, whose
name appears at the masthead as
editor, and his first effort in that
capacity is commendable. He has
high ideals and a sincere desire to
be of service to the community
about him.
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W. R. Taylor, president of the!
Mt. McKinley Gold Placers, Ins.,!
made a trip to Kobi yesterday and j
returned today. He left for Fair
banks this afternoon on a brief
business trip.
NORTHWESTERN BRINGING
LARGE LIST THIS TRIP
The steamer Northwestern which
is due at Seward tomorrow left
Seattle with the following passen
gers booked for Seward and Interior
points:
Mrs. E. Kromer, Mrs. W. Coy, C.
E. Combs, H. S. Little, J. S. Clarkin
E. J. Spencer, A. VanAntwerp and
wife, A. B. Luce and w-ife, L. W.
Moomaw and wife, Miss L. Van
damme, Mrs G. Ballot, Mrs. G.
Muleahy, Miss C. A. Reece, Miss Z.
Salladay. Miss E. B. Weybrecht, G.
Murdock. Gus Rundren, D. S. Davis
A. W. Erickson, C. Donovan, L.
Fulk. A Johnson, E. Frovick. W.
Crosby, J. Lee, Mrs. H. Cargill,
Mrs. Frank, W. J. Widman, Paul
Denhart. Neil Muleahy, H. Riley,
P. Laplant, J. F. Wood, Ed Johnson
A. W. Moore, George Mutchler,
Frank Campbell, P. A. Page, A1
, Daly and wife, N. Kristinson, H. H.
Malcolm, Austin Carey. J. J. Mc
Kinnon and wnfe, James Neville, W.
H. Toms, Mrs. A. G., Jawson. Ka
therine Seeley, A. B. Clarke, Ole
Anderson, W_ C. Miller. E. Krogh,
A. Enholm, I. Black, J. B. Glein,
John Noreen, L. Markin, O. Bjorn,
A. Carlson, C. Graham Anna
Kranklin, Lucille Newman, M. Mil
ler, C# F. Townsend. H. H. Brown
well and wife, Miss V. Wellman,
Miss Eva Gordon, William Dill and
wife, George E. Lewis, R. K. John
son, William Briston and wife, Dr.
W. A. Rystrom, E. M. Wheaton,
Nils Anderson, J. S. Osmund and
wife, Mrs. A_ Horner, Mrs. F. Gra
ham, J. A. Strind, E. J. Miller,
Howard Webster, J. W. Statin, E.
B. Frank, A. Weigon, P. D. Lippert
and wife, G_ N. Burnett, Jack
Brown, W. C. Ingram, R. Vernon
and wife, C. H. Carlson, J. Gallo,
A. C. Bergman, H. Johnson, K.
McLain, Leo Coppa, Nellie Stroupe,
Miss E. D. Lund and ten steerage
FOSTER ADVOCATES FORCE
ST. JOSEPH, Mar. 13—William
Z. Foster, of Chicago, has issued a
statement in which he deliberately
advocates that sabotage and other
unlawful methods be employed to
bring about industrial and political
reforms.
SENATOR ILL AT MAYO
ROCHESTER, Minn., Mar. 13—
United States Senator Nicholson, of
Colorado, is seriously ill at the
Mayo hospital. He is confined to his
bed and no one is allowed to see I
him.
■yVilliam Gerig and F. A. Hansen,
of the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission, left for the coast yester- j
day after a visit of several days
in the Interior, during which time
they outlined the work for the
coming season.
Capt. J. J. Donovan, U. S. Com-1
missioner at Healy, returned from
Fairbanks today, enroute to his!
post in the Canyon district.
TERRITORIAL LAWMAKERS
WAITING FOR SUTHERLAND
JUNEAU, Mar. 13—Delegate Dan
| Sutherland, who is enroute to Jun
! eau from Washington, is said to
j have expressed a desire to address
; the legislators on the question of
J fisheries reservations, which he is
| opposing vigorously. He is due here
| on March 18.
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1* Not Afraid Of O’Malley
SEATTLE, Mar. 13—Delegate
; Sutherland arrived here yesterday
ion his way to Alaska where, he de
clares, he will continue his fight
j against the granting of exclusive
J fishing rights “to the bitter end.”
j The delegate reiterated his former
statements to the effect that the
bureau of fisheries, through its new
regulations, had virtually turned the
salmon industry over to the fish
trust.
The delegate will sail for the
North tomorrow, headed for Juneau,
where, he says, he will marshal the
forces in Alaska opposed to the
action of the bureau and will carry
the fight from Ketchikan (o Nome.
“The people’s right to fish in Alaska
has been abrogated. That right is
! just as sacred to the people of the
j Territory as any other constitutional
| right. The ruling means that the
jfutuhe generations of Alaska will
have no right to the fisheries of
' the Territory. All competit >n is
virtually destroyed.”
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Delegate Sutherland will speak at
the Labor Temple today under the
auspices of the Seacrafts L'nion.
Women To Have Chance
JUNEAU. Mar. 13—To carry out
the will of the women of the Ter
ritory. as expressed at the polls last
November, Senator Brown, of Xom*
introduced a bill today providing for
the drawing of jurors without re
gard to sex. In effect, however, the
measure does not require compul
sory service by women as they are
allowed to claim exemption on at
count of sex if they desire.
The flood of bills continues in
I the senate, eleven having been in
troduced today, bringing the total to
, date to 63, of which only one ha
| been approved at the end of the
first week. That was passed by the
| senate yesterday, providing for the
; dedication of a four-rod strip along
all sections lines for highway pur
poses.
Representative Daly has intro
duced a house memorial requesting
the rivers and harbors board to
authorize a survey of the Yukon
kuskokwim portage without calling
for the usual preliminary hearing.
Representative Roos, of Fairbanks
has introduced a bill amending the
! children’s guardian act, making it
in effect, a mothers’ pension act.
| Sheppard has introduced a bill
! increasing the Pioneer pension to
$30 monthly for both men ami
women; Aldrich introduced a bill
in the senate providing for the estab
lishment of a home for Pioneer
women at Skagway, and appropriat
ing $20,000 for that purpose, in
troduced at the request of the
Women’s club of Skagway. Foster
introduced a bill in the house ro
viding for a literacy test for voters,
] eliminating those unable to read
' the constitution or write the English
language