where: rails and rivers meet
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920.
NO. 256
DEMOCRATS EAGER TO RESUME DEBATE
EPIDEMIC ABA TING IN EAST, BUT NOT IN WEST
NAVAL EXPERTS WILL PROBE TRANSPORT MYSTERY
M'PHEU WILL
HIP StCRETARY
GET ROAD FUNDS
SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—A special
Washington dispatch to the Post-In
telligencer announces the arrival of
J. L. McPherson, manager of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, Governor Thomas
Riggs, and Maurice D. Lee'ny, “lead
ing Alaska's annual invasion of the
national capital.”
McPherson was summoned to
Washington by Secretary Lane to
assist in the preparation of data in
support of the department’s request
for funds sufficient to complete the
Alaska railroad. McPherson has
been requested to represent the de
partment at the hearings which will
be held by the appropriations com
mittees of Congress.
McPherson went to Washington
on a similar mission last year, and
the arguments presented by him
were largely responsible for the ac
tion of Congress in authorizing the
appropriation of the $17,000,000 re
quested by the department, and for
the appropriation later of half that
amount to continue the work. An
effort will be made to have the re
mainder of the amount authorized
appropriated before the end of the
present fiscal year.
MEXICAN SCIENTISTS
WILL SEARCH FOR OIL
MEXICO CITY—A scientific ex
pedition, headed by Leon Salinas,
sub-secretary of commerce and in
dustry. expects to leave soon for
Lower California to investigate that
state as a field for petroleum de
velopment.
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DEMOCRATS TO RESUME FIGHT
WASHINGTON', D. C., Jan. 31.—
The house ways and means commit
tee has agreed to recommend the
passage of legislation, submitted by
‘the administration, authorizing new
Government loans, aggregating fifty
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million dollars, for the purchase of
[food supplies for Poland, Austria.
| and Armenia.
' Secretary of the Treasury Glass
urged the committeemen to author
ize loans aggregating one hundred
'and twenty-five millions, but was
! unable to convince them of the ne
cessity of ^recommending the ex
i penditure of that amount at this
time.
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ON ALASKA SIDE
IS HUGER RUMOR
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Hiph-prade ore is reported to
have been found in the New Alaska,
one of the properties now in pro
| cess of development in the Portland
'Canal district, on the Alaska side
jof the boundary, nine miles from
Hyder.
“It has been reported on good
! but unofficial authority,” t>avs a re
Icent issue of the Hyder Alaska
j Miner, “that ore has been struck
I in the crosscut tunnel on the New
Alaska and that it is of excep
tionally pood quality. The man who
pave the information said that the
contractors who are doinp the work
refused to talk about it, but that
jhe was certain his statement wras
correct. The tunnel has been driv
en somethinp over 60 feet, he said,
the contract beinp for 100 feet.”
Charles F. Caldwell, of Van
! couver, has the property under
bond, and was expected to arrive at
• Hyder late in December,
j “Openinp up the New Alaska,”
concludes the article in the Hyder
i paper, “adds materially to the
known extent of the hiph prade ore
zone. The property is only nine
! miles from Hyder and on the Alas
ka side of the line.”
Joe Dalton returned to the Kan
jtishna this morninp, after a stay of
: several weeks in Nenana and Fair
banks.
Louie Pietsch, who came up from
| Gibbon several days apo, expects to
j start back down river in the morn
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 31.—
In a statement made on the floor |
of the senate this afternoon. Sen-1
ator Walsh, speaking for Senator i
Hitchcock, informed his colleagues
of his intention to move, on Febru
ary 10, to resume the considera
tion of the peace treaty and the
jLeague of Nations proposition.
The announcement of Senator
i Walsh came as the result of the
! failure of the compromise plans,
jupon which the Republican and
| Democratic leaders have been work
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ing during the past several weeks. I
It is understood to be the intention
of the Democrats to try to force
the issue, but Senator Lodge and
others of the opposition have inti
mated that concessions must be
made by the administration before
either the treaty or the league
proposition will receive considera
tion. The Republicans will insist,
he says, upon the suggested reserva
tions affecting the Monroe Doctrine
and Article X of the league cov
enant.
NEW YORK REPORTS
CASES DECREASING
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—There ha.
been a material decrease in the
number of new flu cases in this city
during the past 24 hours, according
to a statement issued this after
noon by the health authorities. The
i report also states that the number
of deaths is decreasing also. Four
thousand eight hundred and ninety
j five new cases have developed since
: yesterday, with a total of 123 deaths
! in the same period.
INCREASE IN WEST.
| SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—State Health
; Commissioner Anderson issued a
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statement this afternoon in which
he declares that the influenza epi
demic in this state is on the in
crease. The disease, he says, how
ever, is of a mild type.
The statement urges common
sense methods and precautions, sucli
as keeping the body in condition to
resist the disease. The health board
is insisting that all restaurants ster
ilize their dishes and utensils.
NURSES WANTED.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. .31.—Naval
surgeons have issued an appeal,
through the newspapers, for addi
tional nurses to care for flu pa
tients. The statement says that
San Diego, Mare Island and local
hospitals are. short-handed and un
able to cope with the situation re
sulting from the rapid spread ,jf
the epidemic.
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j BUENOS AIRES.—-German immi
grants have been pouring into Ar
geina on every ship coming; from
Holland. One ship brought 400 of,
Teutonic nationality.
Land allotments have been made
to these immigrants in sections of .
the territory of Misiones, a strip of
fertile country in Northeastern Ar-1
gentina between Paraguay and the
state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, j
There has long been a German col
ony in Rio Grande do Sul, and re-1
cently Paraguay announced allot
ments for cultivation by German i
immigrants.
! The arriving colonists are chiefly1
applying themselves to the cultiva
tion of yerba mate, the plant from
which is brewed the famous South;
American drink resembling tea. It.
is reported that the Misiones col
j onists are being given provisional |
permits to occupy lots of 123 acres
each.
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j MEXICO CITY.—Dr. Idehio Ma
guchi, Japanese bacteriologist, is ex-1
pected here shortly to make a study
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of the yellow fever. Much of his |
work will be in the state of Yuca
PIONEERS 10 NAME
DELEGATES MONDAY
Seven delegates to represent the
local igloo at the annual session of
the grand igloo, Pioneers of Alaska,
will be elected at the regular meet
ing of Xenana igloo, to be held at
Union hall on Monday evening. The
grand igloo meeting will convene at
Anchorage on March 8.
Other matters of business also
will be given consideration at the
meeting, and at the conclusion of
the regular session the oldtimers
will enjoy a smoker which has been
arranged by the entertainment com
mittee. There will be a short pro
gram and plenty of smokes and
eats.
Visiting Pioneers are always wel
come at the meetings of the local
igloo.
Mrs. Harry Karstens and little
son Eugene, who arrived from Fair
banks on yesterday’s train, will
spend several day in Nenana as the
guests of Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith.
The train leaving for the end of
steel this morning carried about
thirty passengers, most of whom
were' bound for Canyon City, a
number for the Kantishna, and some
for the coast.
SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.—Ru
mors of investigation and probable
; prosecutions are afloat today in con
i sequence of the abandonment of her
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; voyage by the giant transport Mount
I Vernon, which was despatched from
! this port for Vladivostok to rescue
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j Europeans who have been fighting
1 the Bolsheviki in Siberia. The ves
sel developed leaks when some dis
j tanee out at sea, and is now en
i route lack to port for repairs.
! Upon arrival here, the Mount
• Vernon will be examined by me
jchanica! experts from the Mare
Island navy yard.
j The reports received here today
• state that the iirerooms of the ship
; were flooded with fresh water from
• a mysterious source.
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MADE FIRS! MASK
10 COMBAT GASES
PITTSBURGH. — It is claimed
that the first gas mask based upon
; the use of charcoal for the absorp
tion of highly poisonous gases from
the atmosphere, the principle which
in actual practice was so valuable
to the armies in the world war, was
made by the late Mrs. J. B. Garner,
of Pittsburgh. This statement is
made at the Mellon Institute of
Research here.
j Mrs. Garner, the wife of the di
rector of research of an important
• natural gas company here, became
interested in the experiments her
husband was conducting in connec
tion with the gases which at that
: time, early in 1915. had appeared
on the battlefields of Europe. When
the principle, was once, established,
the institute declared, Mrs. Garner
designed and made a dozen gas
maska of the canister type, and in
‘June, 1915, they were handed over
to the representatives in America
of the British government. They
were sent to England, and from this
first design other gas masks were
. made.
' When the United States entered
, the war, full details of the experi
mental work and all apparatus that
;had been employed were supplied to
ithe Government. Mrs. Garner,
: whose husband is a fellow of the
I Mellon Institute of Research, died a
J year ago.
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| Wennsa—Tli» McKlnlnjr
1 National Hit
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The committee appointed by th *
Xenana Commercial club to prepare
a statement of approximate weight.-*
of bridge material and cost of de
livery at Xenana by the water route,
for use by the club in connection
with its campaign for the immedi
ate construction of railroad bridges
at Xenana crossing and at Xenana,
submitted an outline report at the
regular weekly melting of the club
last night, and Secretary Diven will
embody the report in a letter which
i is to be forwarded to J. L. MePher
| son, Secretary Lane, and others
| whom the club will ask to help in
hastening bridge construction. Chair
man Mears also will got a copy >i'
the letter.
K S. McDonald, who reported for
the committee, submitted figures
showing th*- approximate weight of
the proposed Xenana river bridge
to be 1,671 tons, and that of the
Tanana river bridge to be 5,2 52
tons, a total shipping weight of
approximately 6,923--tons, the ship
ment of which by way of the Yukon
and Tanana rivers would cost not
more than $158.100 mure than has
; been estimated by the commission
tfor shipment to Seward or Anchor
age and thence u> Xenana by way
of the Government railroad.
Accompanying the figures was the
following explanatory statement,
prepared by Mr. McDonald:
. To offset against additional cost
of $138,460 incurred by -hipping
by the water route is the fact that
this charge is a fixed one, whereas
the base cost charge used by tin*
A.K. C. in computation must neces
sarily be more or less uncertain,
owing to possibility of accident, de
lays otherwise caused or a larger
cost of operating railroad than is
contemplated trt tnis time; the obvi
ation of a very large overhead ex
pense that must be incurred if the
Alaskan Engineering commission is
continued in being for two years
longer than would be necessary :f
the bridges were completed simul
taneously with the tracklaying; tin
revenue that would be derived from
the railroad as a completed project,
and the fact that the benefits to
the Interior contemplated when the
project was authorized would be
available two years earlier than if
the bridge 'construction awaits the
completion of the tracklaying. It
does not appear to be good business
to delay the completion of a $50,
000,000 undertaking for the savin*
of less than $70,000 a year.
Vanana—Tha Oatawsv to McKinley
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