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THE NENA NA
The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 252
ALL SEATTLE UNIONS TO JOIN STRIKE
CONGRESSMEN AGREE ON PUBLIC LAND POLICY
SALVATION ARMY REMEMBERS SOLDIERS OF ALASKA
CONFERENCE 10
ABOLISH DIVERS
AS WAR BOAIS
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LONDON. Feb. 3—In a lengthy
article pertaining to events trans
piring at the Inter-Allied peace j
conference, the Mail says that the
peace congress will probably decide'
on abolishing the use of submarines !
in naval warfare.
It is reported that the delegates
to the peaec congress are over
whelmingly in favor of abolishing
submarines outright, as ships of
war.
The proposed league of nations,
the report says, will attempt to work
out a scheme to gradually curtail
the armament of the nations to a
point decided on as necessary for
purposes of defense. It is hoped
to arrange the disarmament so that
the financial savings gained thereby
will pay the interest on the world’s
debt.
ROYAUSTSIOSE
TO REPUBLICANS
MADRID, Spain, Feb. 3.—Ac
cording to reports received in this
city today, the Portuguese Repub-1
Mean army inflicted a defeat on the
Monarchist forces today; the latter
losing fifty in killed and about two
hundred in wounded.
The reports add that the Mon
archist forces have been forced to
retire and that they may fall back
on Oporto. !
ANCHORAGE HOSPITAL
TO HAVE GARDEN
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ANCHORAGE.—Orders have just
been mailed to the States for an
assortment of vegetable seeds that
in the spring will be planted in
an unoccupied block of ground ad
joining the site of the hospital of
the Alaskan Engineering commis- j
sion in Anchorage. The plot of I
ground, which is the federal govern
ment’s property, is expected to yield
enough garden truck to supply the
hospital for a year.
Plows and harrows turned over'
and broke up the soil of the tract |
and it was fertilized last fall. It:
will be plowed and harrowed again
in the spring, and then planted.
The work of preparing and plant
ing the ground is in charge of the
maintenance of way department of
the government railroad.
The schooner Fannie Dutard of
the Bering Codfishing fleet, re
cently arrived at Honolulu with her
foremast gone and several butts
started. i I
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UKRAINtA 10 WAR
AGAINST RUMANIA!
LONDON, Feb. 3.—According to
a report received in this city today,
Ukrania is hastily mobilizing her
forces preparatory to attacking
Rumania.
The report adds that the Ru
manian army has already been
mobilized and is ready to meet any
hostile move.
LANDS OPENED
10 LOCATION IN
WEST AND NORTH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—With
the reaching of a final agreement
by the House and Senate conferees,
on the oil leasing bill, long existing
controversies in Congress over the
policy looking to the opening and
development of oil, gas and coal
lands in the Western states and
Alaska, have now been adjusted.
Under the provisions of the oil!
leasing bill, it is estimated that over j
fifty million acres of public lands
containing oil, gas, coal and phos-1
phate sodium will be thrown open j
to entry.
Many of these lands will be
opened to prospecting under the
leasing patent system.
BREAKMAN MEETS
John Nordby, who is employed
as a brakeman on the Tanana Val
ley railroad at Fairbanks, had the
misfortune to tret two of the fintrers
of his left hand crushed between
the buffers of two cars, last Sat
urday evening.
Nordby was admitted to the St.
Joseph’s hospital for treatment, and
the surgeons thing that he will lose
the two fingers injured. These are
the third and fourth fingers.
RED CROSS MEETING
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Mrs. F. D. Browne, chairman of
the local Red Cross branch, an-1
nounces that the regular sewing bee J
of the Red Cross, hitherto held on |
Friday afternoons, will be held on \
Wednesday afternoon, at 1.30 o’-1
clock, at the old Nenana Club rooms,
in the Bowen building.
As the work of stitching the gar- j
ments for Belgian relief is a very j
urgeent one, Mrs. Browne intends
to devote more time than hereto-!
fore for this laudable purpose. An
nouncement will be made, later on,
regarding the dates of meeting de
cided on.
All those who are interested in
the work are urged to attend the
meeting on Wednesday.
The freezing of the pipe which
supplies the Seward electric light
plant with power, recently caused
that city to be in darkness while
the frozen line was being thawed.
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GENERAL STRIKE
IS 10 COMINCE
FEBRUARY SIXTH
SEATTLE, Feb. 3.—The labor
unions claim that every Seattle
union man will join the general
walkout at ten o’clock on Thursday
morning.
As the street car men have also i
voted to strike, it is quite possible
that Seattleitets will be forced to
walk.
The city newspapers may also
suspend publication, as the Typo
graphical Union has voted to strike
on Thursday.
The longshoremen voted to join
the general strike in defiance of
the orders issued by the inter
national president of the union not
to strike, and they will walk out
with the rest of the workers.
A meeting of the Nenana Ad
visory Board was held at the office j
of the townsite manager last Sat-'
urday evening.
In the absence of the chairman |
of the board, M. J. Cooney, the1
purpose for which the meeting was j
called wus stated by Townsite Man-;
ager Carl Schmidt, which was to!
consider the matter of saving power
in lighting the streets.
The other members of the board,1
Messrs Rothenburg, Tyler, Davis and
Joseph, were present.
It was stated that on moonlight
nights power was wasted, there be
ing many nights when no lights'
were needed. Further, the power
plant had recently turned live steam
into the water mains to insure them
against freezing. This is done be
tween 1 and 5 a. m., when the load
is light, and will be at no additional
cost to the townsite provided that
the lights may be turned off during
this time to equalize the expendi
ture of power.
The board made the following
recommendation to the townsite
manager in the matter:
‘•Recommended that the street
electric lights be turned off during
bright moonlight, except that for
approximately the next two months
they should always be on from dark
to 11 p. m., when many people are
on the *treetsj^ and that they be
turned off every night from 12:30
a. m-, to 5 a. m.
FIRST CLASS MAIL
REACHED FAIRBANKS
Advices received from Fairbanks
this afternoon state that a big first
class mail reached the upper town
from the Outside yesterday evening.
It is expected that Nenana’s
share of it will be brought here
on the automobile leaving Fairbanks
tomorrow morning.
■ntu, lluta’i Interior mol Sopot
Motional pork.
AT COAL FIELDS
NEW YORK, Feb. U.—The offi
cers of the Salvation Army an
nounced today that they have issued
a call for volunteers to go to Alaska
as soon as navigation opens, to,
carry cheer and hospitality to the
American soldiers who are guarding
Matanuska coal fields.
The announcement contained the
statement that tht» troops guarding
the Matanuska fields, enlisted be
fore the first draft call came, as
they were eager to fight in France,
but that they are now stationed
in one of the most desolate God
forsaken regions in the world. The
hardest thing the men must bear, I
the announcement stated, was the!
thought that they are forgotten by
the people hack home. They have
also been overlooked and Ignored j
by the various welfare organizations |
of the country, and sweaters and j
nurses have not been sent to them. :
DISPOSITION OF
COAL FIELDS 10
BE ARBITRATED
PARIS, Feb. 3.—An Allied com- ]
mision goes to Holland on Saturday |
and will probably hold their meet-'
ings at the Peace Palace at The
Hague.
The purpose of the commission is
to adjust the controversy between
the Poles and the Czecho-Slovaks
regarding the Teschen coal fields,1
the ownership of which is now in 1
dispute.
■ A truce has been arranged be-j
.ween the Poles and the Czecho- *
Slovaks, pending a settlement of
the dispute.
The coal fields are in and around
the town of Teschenin, Silesia, in ter
ritory claimed by the Poles as being
within the limits of the ancient
Polish kingdom.
NATIVES OF ALASKA
ARE PROMISED MUSEUM
NOME.—Alaska may soon have a
native museum to which all natives
jtf the territory, Eskimos, Aleuts,!
Thlinkits, and others will contribute
relics of past years. Relics, it is
said, are buried in old village sites
along the north coast.
* According to The Eskimo, a native
school paper issued here, Governor,
Thomas Riggs Jr., of Alaska, rej
cently promised the natives of the
territory he would establish a mu
st .m soon.
/Alaska natives, it it said, have
considerable inherent veneration
for their forefathers and therefore
desire to keep the relics in the
ngrth. In past years hundreds of
relics have been sold as curios and
taken Outside.
Ross Hartman, son of the for
mer postmaster of Dawson, was
killed in France recently while ■
serving with the Canadian forces. 1
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COLLISION FATAL
10 YANK TROOPS
American soldiers were instantly j
killed and about thirty of them were j
injured when a troop train, con
veying American soldiers to Brest,
collided with two German loco
motives at Montiernamy
The American troops were home
ward bound and were on their way
to Brest to board the transport for
passage to the United States.
SOLDIERS HAVING
CALLS AT HOI
GET OUT EARLY:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The war j
department has authorized General
Pershing to taday to send home to
the States, for immediate discharge,;
drafted and enlisted men who i
present convincing evidence of sick-^
ness or other distress in their fami
lies.
It is expected that this order]
when put into effect, will release i
a great many men and permit them
to return to civil life once more.
KIEV IS CAPTURED j
BY THE BOLSHEVIK:
WARSAW, Feb3.—According to:
Associated Press despatches received;
in this city today, the city of Kiev
has been captured by the Bolshe- j
viki. A portion of the Kiev Karri-;
son have joined the Bolsheviki who
are marching westward.
Kiev or Kief is a large Russian1
city and is the capital of the prov-1
ince of the same name. The area j
of the province is 19,6!M square
miles, and according to the last cen
sus had a population of nearly four
million. Large crops of all kinds
of grain are raised in Kiev, and
much attention is paid, especially in
the South, both to the rearing of
cattle and the dairy. Sugar, to
bacco, spirits and beer are manu
factured, and there is a large ex
port of grain, cattle, honey, wax;
and tobacco.
LADIES’ AID TO MEET
TOMORROW AFTERNOON:
The Ladies’ Aid Society will hold!
their regular meeting tomorow after-1
noon at the home of Mrs. Carl,
Schmidt, on the top floor of John-j
son’s store, on Front Street, between I
C and D streets.
The meeting has been called for
two o'clock in the afternoon and all
members are urged to attend.
O. B. Smith, general superinten
dent of the Granby Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Company of
Anyox, accompanied by E. E.
Campbell, superintendent of Any
ox, and Dr. Acheson, is making a
tour of the towns of Southeastern
Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Rail
road Director General Hines, who
succeeded William G. McAdoo, tes
tifying today before the Senate
Interstate Commerce commission,
said that he did not believe in gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
He believed, he said (hat the rail
roads of the country should he
merged in the organizations of a
few big railroad companies, and
that these companies should be sub
ject to government supervision.
LONDON, Feb. II.—It is reported
that a great many troops are needed
to preserve order among the strik
ing workmen along the Clyde, es
pecially in the neighborhood of the
big shipbuilding yards.
The curtailment of fuel supplies
as a result of the strike in Belfast,
is said to be causing much suffering
among the people. For the past
eight days candles have been used
in Belfast for lighting.
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MEXICO CITY.—Infinite
noyance to every resident and an
appreciable loss to business houses
has resulted from the virtual dis
appearance from circulation of sil
ver coins. These comprise half peso
pieces and those of twenty and ten
centavos. The constantly increas
ing; price of silver has given specu
la tors a chance Jo. make enormous
profits by cornering the silver coins
for sale as bullion. When the
shortage became noticeable, the cap
ital press printed stories on the dis
appearnce of the coins. An imme
diate rush to hoard what coins re
mained then began.
Persons without change are un
able to make small purchases as
many merchants will decline to sell
if they are forced to give silver
change for a ten or twenty peso
gold piece. The government, to
relieve the situation, is rushing pre
parations to mint a new gold coin
worth two and a half pesos.
PROSPECTORS OFF TO
BONN1FIELD COUNTRY
Bill Hines, Billy Hartwick an<l
Roy McQueen left Fairbanks this
morning for Gold King creek, in
the Bonnifield country, where the
men have mining interests.
They had three very big dog
teams and are taking out a large
outfit intending to do extensive
work on their claims.
Skagway has been keeping her
detention camp for flu suspects
fairly full for the past several
weeks.