WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOC1ATFX) PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919
NO. 137
JOHNSON GIVEN OVATION IN CHICAGO
. PRESIDENT SA YS TREA TY BASED ON HAPPINESS
SENATE COMMITTEE STARTS HEARING ON CURRY BILL
STATE TROOPS
TURN GUNS UN
’ m CROWD
BOSTON, Sept. 11.—This city is
under the protection of state troops i
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today, the soldiers having been
^ called out to do the work of the
striking policemen. Partial order
has been restored, but not without
considerable fighting and the loss of
several lives, one of the victims be
ing Miss Margaret Walsh, who died
a this morning as the result of a
bullet wound, received when the
soldiers opened fire upon a crowd
of rioters.
Several clashes occurred during
the night between the troops and
mobs, but the city is comparatively
quiet today, and stores which were
closed during the disturbances are
♦ beginning to reopen. Many of the
shops were practically wrecked ear
lier in the week and goods valued
at many thousands of dollars were
carried off by the rioters.
Four rioters have been killed and
a score injured since the arrival of
. the soldiers.
WARSHIPS NEARING
PUGET SOUND PORT
TATOOSH, Sept. 11.—The Pacifie
fleet, which is enroute up the coast
to Puget Sound, under the command
of Admiral Hugh Rodman, passed
Cape Flattery early today, and was
due at Port Angeles at noon and at
Victoria tonight.
The fleet will come to anchor in
Elliott bay, in front of Seattle, to
morrow, where it will be joined by
Secretary Daniels.
CYCLONE CLAIMS FIVE
ON SOUTHERN SHORES
HAVANA, Sept. 11.—Five per
sons are known to have lost their
lives last night as the result of a
cyclone which swept the Florida
coast, causing the waters of the
gulf to rush inland in the form of
a tidal wave. The property damage
was very heavy.
»enana, Alaata'a Interior Fuel Depot
ANTI-LEAGUE SPEAKERS
SAY TREATY IS FIZZLE
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1HIP WAS COSILY ;
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.
—President Wilson was very ex-;
travagant during the time he was!
abroad, in the opinion of Senator
George W. Norris, Republican, of
Nebraska, who called attention, in I
an address delivered on the floor of ,
the senate vesterdav, to the fact
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that the President’s stay in France
had cost the people of the United
States a very large amount.
To use the words of the senator,
the President “spent money like a i
drunken sailor.” One of ^ the ex-i
travaganees charged was the em-'
ployment of high-priced chefs, who
were taken from the Biltmore hotel;
to prepare the meals for the presi-j
dential party during their stay in |
the French capital.
CHAMPIONS TO PLAY
9 GAMES THIS YEAR
CINCINNATI, Sept. 11. — The!
world’s series this vear will consist
of nine games instead of seven as
heretofore, according to announce
ment made today by the big league
management.
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MEXICAN LIQUOR
IS BEING SMUGGLED
OVER THE BORDER
EL PASO, Tex.—Tequila is be
ing accepted as a substitute for
American whisky on this border and
Mexicans are said by officers to be
doing a wholesale business in smug
gling this Mexican drink to the
American side and selling it to Am
ericans. Drinkers say they prefer
tequila to any but the better grades
of American-made liquor. Recently
a fishing party of prominent El
Pasoans were arrested because they
had tequila in their possession.
COMMITTEE STARTS
RAILROAD HEARINGS
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—A special
dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer
from Washington announces the
commencement of hearings on the
Curry $17,000,000 Alaska railroad
bill, before the senate committee on
territories. Senator Harry S. New,
of Indiana, who is strongly sup
porting the measure, is authority
for the statement that the senate
hearings will not be protracted, be
cause of the fact that many of the
senators attended the house commit
tee hearings and evidence submitted
to that committee will be considered
during the senate hearings.
The dispatch says that it is gen
erally conceded at Washington that:
the bill will be favorably reported.,
with a request for early considera
tion.
Yal Diebold returned to Nenana
yesterday afternoon from the To
tatlanika country, where he looked
over a number of placer properties, j
He may return to Fairbanks to-,
! morrow.
I CHICAGO, Sept. 11. — Senator]
;Hiram Johnson, of California, was,
! given a tremendous ovation by the
i people of this city last night, on
the occasion of his appearance here
in opposition to the League of Na
tions. The Auditorium theater,
where Johnson, Senator Borah, and
IMedill McCormack answered the ar
iguments of President Wilson in
i support of the league, was packed
jto overflowing, thousands blocking
I the street in front of the theater,
; unable to get inside.
The speaking was preceded by a
i big parade, led by soldiers, some
i of whom carried banners demand
ing that American troops be re
turned from Siberia. Cheers of
."Johnson for President” were fre
quent and loud-voiced.
Can't Agree.
j The reservation demanding the
unconditional right to withdraw
.from the League of Nations, decid
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jed upon by the majority members I
of the senate foreign relations com
i
mittee, explained Senator Borah, re
j suited from the fact that no two
i of the men who wrote the treaty1
can agree on what it means. There
are bound to be disagreements and
misunderstandings among the na
tions composing the league, he said,
and those members of the senate.
who are unwilling to accept the
treaty in the form in which it was
'
presented to them by the President,
are “trying to find some means of
withdrawal from the league after
we get in.”
Complications are sure to arise,
the senator said, and when that
time comes, the United States must
be free to act, unrestrained by con
ditions and regulations imposed by
! foreign diplomats. The treaty, in
its present form, was characterized!
as un-American and impossible of
1 acceptance without reservation and
1 amendment.
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MEXICANS BLOW UP TRAIN
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i WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.
1—The state department is investi
gating reports received from Mexi
co yesterday to the effect that three
Americans have been captured by
Bandits and are now being held in
captivity.
The bandits also are reported to
have dynamited a train between
San Luis Potosi and Tampico, the
captive Americans being among the
passengers on board when the train
was wrecked.
Details of the outrage are lacking,
ibut the reports are considered suf
ficiently reliable to warrant a thor
j ough investigation.
B0LSHE1I TAKE
TWELVE THOUSAND
LONDON, Sept. 11.—Wireless ad
vices which have reached this city
from the Bolsheviki headquarters in
Russia announce the capture of 12,
000 Kolchak soldiers, as the result
of encounters during the past sev
eral days.
The Kolchaks, the reports claim,
have suffered heavy reverses at sev
eral points.
KANSAS BALL PLAYER
MAKES NEW RECORD FOR
CONSECUTIVE HITTING
WICHITA, Kan.—A new world’s
record for consecutive hitting has
been made by Joe Wilhoit, center
fielder on the Wichita club, in the
■ Western league. He hit safely in
j 46 consecutive games. Jack Ness,
of the Oakland club of the Pacific
Coast league, in 1915, set the rec
ord by hitting consecutively in 45
games. Wilhoit was a member of
the New York Giants last year.
“Joe” O’Connor came in on yes
terday’s train from his headquarters
at Lignite.
FOOD RIOTS FATAL
to 10 in nm
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Rioting in
Silesia, resulting from scarcity of
food and abnormally high prices,
caused the death of ten persons
on Tuesday and the injury of aj
number of others, according to of-:
ficial advices received in this city. :
Troops were employed to quell
the disturbances, the soldiers having
found it necessary to use machine
guns and grenades against the riot
ers before order was restored.
PRIDE STRIKING TRAIT
OF RUMANIAN PEOPLE;
BUCHAREST.—Red Cross Field
workers here have noticed that one
of the most striking traits in the ;
Rumanian people is their sense of
pride. With all the misery and j
poverty of the poor, they never
beg. They are always content with
what the Americans give them.
At the distribution centers there
is never complaint, protest or clam
or. Probably no people on earth
endure hunger and suffering with
more resignation and patience than
do the Rumanians.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.
I At the request of Delegate Grigsby,
the bill permitting the town of Pe
tersburg to bond itself for the sum
of $75,000, for city improvements,
has been placed on the unanimous
consent calendar for Monday.
Ketchikan, Also.
The house committee on terri
tories has favorably reported a bill
permitting Ketchikan to issue bonds
in the sum of $100,000 for the con
struction of school buildings.
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LONDON, Sept. 11.—According
| to reports received in this city to
!dav, Allied soldiers have intervened
i
at Fiume in an effort to restore
| order among the rioting Italian and
Jugo-Slav troops, who have been
fighting among themselves during
the past several weeks,
j Many of the Italian soldiers have
• been killed since the commencement
of the trouble, and feeling against
them is still running high.
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, GERMAN TROOPS LEAVE
LITHUANIAN TERRITORY
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—That portion
of Lithuania south of the Memel
, river is reported to have been evacu
ated by German troops, announce
ment to that effect having been
made here today.
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Sergeant George S. Barnett and
Miss Jessie Frey were married at
Eagle recently by Commissioner
Hillard. The bride is a recent ar
rival from Illinois.
DELAYED PEACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.
—The minority report of the senate
'foreign relations committee, which
iwas made public today, points out
; that the rejection of the pending
j peace treaty or its adoption with
amendments would mean the sac-n
otice by America of important con
, cessions obtained from Germany.
Senator Hitchcock, who prepared
the report for the minority members
i of the committee, urged the speedy
ratification of the treaty without
j amendments. He said that the ma
jority committeemen were endeavor
ing to destroy the league, which has
already stood the test of world
criticism. He said further that the
Republican members of the commit
| tee had shown themselves to be out
| of harmony with the majority or
the members of the senate.
WILSON IRYING
10 KEEP PEACE
AMONG WORKERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11
—The president of the board of
j commissioners of the District of
Columbia is in receipt of a message
.from President Wilson, in which the
executive requests that action
against the Washington union po
| licemen be postponed until after
the proposed industrial conference
to be held in this city within a
few weeks.
The members of the police force
have been ordered to surrender
their affiliation with the union or
retire from the service.
The President also has wired
Samuel Gompers. president of the
!American Federation of Labor, ure
' ing that the proposed strike of steel
'workers be postponed until after the
t conference.
Dr. Lake, of the local Government
hospital staff, left for Fairbanks this
morning on a brief business visit.
WILSON SAYS TREATY
BASED ON HAPPINESS
BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 11.—In
an address delivered before a treat
| crowd here today, President Wilson
declared that the question of rp.tiii
cation of the peace treaty by the
United States senate was the ques
tion of whether or not the United
[ States would' fulfill its pledges to
its people and world right.
The treaty, he explained, is the
first international treaty based upon
the happiness of the average people
of the world, and he characterized
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it as a “people’s treaty.”
“1 venture the prediction,” said
the President toward the close of
i his speech, “that it will not be
jfound wise for parliaments or Con
egress to attempt to alter the
I treaty.”
The President was introduced by
Mayor Mains, who raised a storm
!of applause when he announced that
j“Wilson is the same man who went
overseas and did the major portion
of the work of untangling the
world’s troubles.”