Buy Your Outfit in Nenana--Save Time, Money, Trouble
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA, TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1922
NUMBER 383
EXTRA SESSION ENDS; REGULAR BEGINS
HARDING SUBMITS BIG BUDGETFORCOMINGYEAR
ALASKA ITEMS PRUNED BY WASHINGTON GUARDIANS
KACHEMAK BAY DISTRICT
LOOKING UP SAYS WHORF
W. G. Whorf, is very optimistic in
kis statements published recently in
the Seward Gateway, concerning the
future of the Kachemak Bay dis
trict. Mr. Whorf first came to Sel
^ dovia in 1894, and has resided there
since that date. He is heavily inter
ested in numerous development pro
jects there, among which are the de
velopment of large coal lands. Mr.
Whorf recently took over 2,000 a
cres of coal lands in that vicinity,
and states that he can put coal in
the bunkers on the beach at fifty
cents per ton. His product is a
p heavy lignite with about 48 per cent
of fixed carbon and only 18 per
cent ash. Wharfage facilities are un
usually good, vessels of any tonn
age finding sufficient water to get
to the proposed wharf.
Mr. 'Whorf states that there are
about fifty ranchers in the vicinity
of Kachemak Bay and that all kinds
of root crops and grains can be
raised there in abundance Cattle
are also raised in abundance, graz
ing being unusually good, bat there
is little market for the ranchers'
product.
Mr. Whorf believes that with the
development of the oil fields Seldo
via will secure its share of the pa
tronage. as prices there are as low
as at any other place in the divi
sion. notwithstanding higher freight
rates.
With the large coal deposits a
waiting development, and the high
prices of fuel to the westward, it
is bat a question of time until these
mines will furnish the coast of the
westward district with cheap and
abundant fuel.
STEAMER TO BE REPAIRED
Contract for repairs to the steam
er Ketchican, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, which was badly dam
aged recently when she struck an
iceberg in Icy Strait and was beach
ed in Pinta Cove, Southeastern Al
aska. has been awarded to the
Oregon Boiler Works at Seattle.
Repairs to the ship will cost about
> $40,000. A survey showed that the
damage sustained when the ship
struck the iceberg was slight com
pared with the damage to the hull
when the ship heavily laden with
canned salmon, herring and cop
per ore. was beached. Fifty plates
will have to be removed from the
vessel's bottom. Of these 35 will
be placed back in the hull after
they have been straigtened. Near
ly the entire bottom of the Keti
* ikan was damaged when she was
beached in Pinta cove.
LOW PRICED AUTOS FEATURE
OF LONDON SHOW
LONDON. Dec. 5.—The motor
exhibition which opened here this
week is the largest ever held in
the British Isles or the Continent.
Not only is every make of car
manufactured in England exhibi
ted, but the foremost makes of
the United States. France, Italy
and Spain also are on view.
Space for the exhibit was sold
out several weeks ago and to meet
the demand additional space was
obtained which was, however, not
sufficient.
A feature of the show is the
^ especially designed bodies for all
classes of cars, from the famous
workshops of FYance and Italy.
The exhibit is drawing larger
crowds than usual owing to the
recent cut in the prices of cars
and gasoline, and the appearance
of many medium priced cars on
the market.
Bert Currier has returned to
Cache after a brief visit in town.
Miss Pearl Peterson, -who arrived
from the States on Friday, left
for her home in Fairbanks today,
•after a visit.
*
LAWMAKERS BEGIN LONG TERM
AFTER TEN MINUTE INTERVAL
DAUGHERTY MAKES REPLY
TO CHARGES OF KELLER
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 5—
Attorney General Daugherty has
made formal to the charges filed
with the house judiciary committee
! by Representative Keller, seeking his
| impeachment. The reply was present
ed to the committee when it met
today, and a summary of the reply,
prepared by the department of Jus
eice, was given to the newspapers.
The published statement declared,
I with particular reference to Keller’s
demand for access to department
j documents, that the demand for im
| peachment was backed by “certain
; radical leaders seeking to serve no
tice upon every future attorney
; general that if he dares to enforce
j the laws of the United States a
! gainst such organizations, he does sc
' under penalty”. The attempted im
1 peachment, he declared, was joined
i in a move of these” profiteers anc
j grafters and so-called war defraud
i ers” who sought by “unscrupulous
j means” to gain knowledge of "what
| those charged with bringing them
! to justice have secured as the result
! of most painstaking, faithful, earn
1 est efforts” on the par. of the at
I tomey general and those associates
i with him.
WINTER WEATHER SWEEPS
STATE OF MIDDLE WES1
CHICAGO. Dec. 5—Winter mads
! its first determined onslaught ol
j the season today, spreading a trail
I of zero temperatures throughout
j the Northwest and plains states
with drops in temperatures extend
| iDg as far south as Texas.
At Helena, Montana, the temper
iature dropped to 18 below zero
I that being the coldest recorded ir
j the country. Southern and Rocky
: Mountain states have been warned
to prepare for a cold snap, with
| drops in temperature ranging from
) 15 to 20 degrees.
Lower temperatures have beer
-accompanied by flurries of snow
SULTAN FINDS MECCA
LONDON. Dec . 5—Mohammec
VI, former Turkish sultan, is re
\ ported to have accepted an invita
' lion of King Mussien. sovereign
faedjaz. to live in Mecca.
—
IRISH FREE STATE BILL
PASSES HOUSE OF LORDS
LONDON, Dec. 5—Without point
or ceremony the Irish Fhee Stat<
| will come into being after roidnigh'
; tonight, as a result of the forma
approval of the free state bill jj
the house of lords, followed by 2
special order in cour
News form Whitehorse. Yukon, r
that the newspaper at that placi
which has not appeared since earli
this year, will be rejuvenated at ai
early date by Frank (“Skajr”
Doree, now of Skagway but who wa
, employed in the office of the Whit:
j horse paper for several years previ
1 ous to eighteen months ago. Th<
1 Whitehorse Star was established 2
years ago and was as a daily fo:
.several years and when Yukon Ter
iritory was in bloom. From 190<
until its suspension last January i
appeared as a weekly and was al
ways a profitable business until thi
last year of its life.
Attorney R_ F. Roth came dow
from Fairbanks today on a brie
business visit.
| WASHINGTON. D. C1., Dec. 5—
1 The extra session of Congress, called
i by President Harding chiefly for the
consideration of the administration
: of ship subsidy legislation, came to
: an end yesterday and, after an in
! terra! of only ten minutes, the regu
i lar winter session was convened.
The opening hours of the new
; session were marked by the trans
I mission, by President Harding, of the
! annual federal budget, in connection
j with which the President frank!;.
' told the lawmakers that whether
there be any material reduction in
; Government expenditures and taxes
! in future years would depend largely
: upon whether there was to be cur
: tailment or expansion of liberal aid
in lines of research, improvement
and development. He placed the
estimated Government outlay for
1924 at S3.180,064.323. which is a
! decrease of abo-ut five hundred mil*
I lion as compared with the estimates
! for the present fiscal year
Tie President called the attention
| of the lawmakers to the fact that
i about two>-thirds of the amount of
’ the budget was on account of fixed
! charges, such as public debt, national
defense, pensions. World War al
lowances and federal aid. There is
left about a billion dollars in charges
i subject to administrative control,
j against which the retrenchment
policy of the Government ha? been
directed. While expressing the belief
i that some further reductions un
doubtedly would result from reorgan
ization of Government establishments
on a more scientific basis, the Presi
dent said that this alone would not
effect such a material cut in operat
ing costs as would justify an ex
pression of hope for a considerable
lessening of expenditures in coming
years.
Taking up the question of federal
aid, the President said this is a
rapidly broadening field of expend
iture and that there are questions
as to how far the Government should
participate in additional requests not
pertaining to norma! functions or
operation of governmental ousiness.
Al**ka Items Cut
The budget bureau has allowed
the Signal Corps $750,000 o replace
a worn out section of the Alaska
cable between Seattle : nd Sika, just
half the estimated cost; and the
usual $140,000 for the maintenance
of the cable and telegraph system,
is allowed for education of natives
Education of natives. $355,000. or
■ $5,000 less than last year..
Medical relief. $90,000.
Reindeer work. $61,500.
Relief indigent natives. $20,000.
Rureau of fisheries. $70,000.
Agricultural stations. $70,000.
Alaska mails, cut from S230.000
Ito $155,000. reduction being due to
use of Alaska Railroad.
OFFICERS ARE NOMINATED
BY NEANA IGLOO NO. 17
With a large number of members
in attendance. Nenana Igloo. No. 17,
Pioneers of Alaska held a regular
^ meeting at Union hall last night
land considerable business <~f mp
ortance was transacted, the routine
; of business including the >rai?:a
' tion of officers for the ensuing
tear. Plans also were d’stu sed, as
I'
! they are at all meetings nowadays,
; for the entertainment of the g'ar.d
igloo, which will meet in annual
J session in Nenana next March.
Those placed in nomination last
j night for the various offices were
as follows:
President. R. C. Morij=.
F'irst Vice President, R. G. outh
worth.
I Second Vice President, Harry Davis
’ and Frank Robinson.
Secretary. Alfred J. Ghezzi.
; Theasurer, Joe O’Connor.
, Historian John H. Day.
Chaplain. E. A. Williams.
Sergeant at Arms, Willian Bourke.
; Doorkeeper, Anthony LeTray.
! Trustee for one year, J. M. Burrows,
j Trustee for three years, C’nas. O.
i Swanson.
Two scows, one carrying a donkey
i engine and the other a bunk and
! mess house owned by the Seims &
! Carlson Company, road contractors,
l were lost off Point Lena in a heavy
storm which swept that section re
cently, while being towed from Tee
Harbor to Auk Bay. Each scow
was in tow of a gasboat. coming
into Auk Bay, from Lena Cove,
Tee Harbor, where they had been
stationed while the crew was at
work on the road there.
While the steamer Medon was at
Valdez recently th^ wireless oper
ator caught a lecture which was
being delivered at Stanford Uni
versity, and also a concert being
broadcasted from San Francisco.
’ Several local residents listened in
r and both the lecture and concert
were distinctly heard.
AMERICA BUYING YEAST
IN SCOTLAND
LONDON. Dec. 5.—A deal is re
ported to have been completed be
tween a party of American capit
alists and the Distiller's Company,
of Edinbough, whereby the Amer
icans will obtain control of the
yeast output of the distillery, which
has a monopoly of the product.
Since the advent of prohibition
in America efforts to produce
yeast by other methods than the
use of alcohol have not been al
together successful, resulting in a
large yeast export trade from Scot
land.
KATALLA OIL FIELD ACTIVE
OIL DRILLING IN PROGRESS
Among the arrivals in Cordova
from Katalla were representatives
of three oil companies operating in
that section, and they all bring
most encouraging news of the work
being done to develop that oil field,
says the Cordova Tiroes of recent
date.
J. H. Brown, one of the drillers
for the Chilkat Oil Company was
on his way to Los Angeles, where he
will spend the winter. He reports
that well No. 21 has been drilled by
that company to a depth of 1350
feet, with most satisfactory results,
and will be continue ’ for another
; 300 or 400 feet in the hope of strik
; ing one of the biggest producers in
' that section. •
J. J. Gayer, manager of the Alas
ka Coal Oil Company, a Portland
concern, and his driller, J. E. Ci^b
tree were on their way to the
States, work having been suspended
I for the winter, but will be resumed
early in the spring. They have drill
ed about 150 feet and struck a
showing of oil at 27 and 50 feet.
C. P. Leindfors, of the Alaskam
ber Company, reports that a large
amount of preliminary work has
been done in order to get the pro
perty in shape to begin drilling
; next season.
r
BELGIUM SENATOR AVER3
COUNTRYMEN APPRECIATE
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. CAL.
Dec. 5—Belgium has not forgotten
the sacrifices Americans made for
Belgian refugees during the war.
Senator Albert LeJune. of Belgium,
declared here yesterday in an ad
dress at the unveiling of the statue
“isis", which was presented to Sec
retary Hoover by the people of Bel
gium as an expression of their grat
itude for his “splendid service and
devotion.”
Senator LeJune journeyed five
thousand miles to speak at the
ceremonies. He praised the work
of Hoover as head of the American
Commission for Belgian Relief,
which had chargeof the mighty task
of feeding nine and one-half million
Belgian and French refugees.
CLARA PHILLIPS MAKES
ESCAPE FROM LOCKUP
LOS 4-N'GELES, Dec- 5 —Mrs.
Clara Phillips, recently convicted
on a charge of killing Mrs. Mead
ows, and sentenced to a term of ten
years to life, made her escape from
the woman’s section of the county
jail at an early hour this morning
and is still at liberty. Aided by
severa 1 steel saws, enough bars
were removed from the cell window
to permit the woman to crawl thru,
and she had been gone several hours
\ before her escape was discovered.
| It is believed she was aided by
j other inmates.
The sheriff has spread a dragnet
' through Southern California and
border authorities have been warned
that the escaped may try to reach
Mexico. Posses are scouring the
country near the city.
—
TRAINING SCHOOL GIRLS
TAKE CHARGE OF MATRON
OLYMPIA. Dec. 5—Seventeen
girl inmates of the training school
at Grand Mound, overpowered the
matron last night and ‘ •ok posses
sion of the institution. The coup
was evidently well planned in ad
vance as the girls cut the telephone
wires conected with the institua
tion, making it impossible to notify
the authorities in nearby towns.
OUTPUT OF MAYO REGION
WILL SHOW BIG INCREASE
Private letter? received at Daw
son state that the Treadwell Yukon
Company had seventy men at work
at the time on its Keno Hill silver
propereies, and was planning to put
on 100 soon. TJjhe Keno Hill, Limit
ed, had on about fifty men. Both
companies were getting out ore
steadily, and the lodes were reports
ed continuing wride and high grade.
It is expected the two companies
will mine two or three times as
much ore as wras gotten out on Keno
Hill last winter, and that individuals
who plan to take out ore this win
ter at McKay, Erickson and Bou
vette, on the Shamrock, where they
took out twelve tons of silver nug
gets or float in the summer assay
ing 200 to 300 ounces in silver.
The Privy Council has confirmed
the heirs of Allen L. Smith, of Phil
adelphia, as possessors of the Engin
eering Group of mines in the Atlin
district and has sent a cable to this
effect to London. It is asserted that
Alexander wrongfully staked the
claims.
NATIVES PRODUCING COAL
FOR USE IN FAR NORTH
—
According to E. J. Ward, B urea a
i of Education teacher at Wainwright,
• w'ho returned to Nome recently on
the cutter Bear, coal of the highest
quality is found in quantities within
six miles of Wainwright. down tne
inlet.
At the present time the Nome
Nugget was told, the coal is min
ed by a native co-operative store.
! which is under the supervision of
i the Bureau of Education.
The natives supply sacks, mine
‘ and deliver the coal to the village
i at 75 cents per sack, twenty sacks
j to the ton. Three mines are opera
; ting and mining has been in prog
! ’-ess for the last thirty years. Most
; of the coal is mined from the sur
] face, as the veins outcrop all along
I the inlet. As the puper stratas are
i removed the coal becomes of higher
grade, and with scientific methods
i employed there is no doubt this
j field will become one of the larg
i es: producers of the Se rd Pen
insula.
T.ias year 3,000 sacks were mined,
1.000 of which were used by the bu
| reau for its local school. 200 tons
were shipped to Point Barrow on
the schooner Holmes. As the Boxer
| has been acquired by the bureau
I it is planned to take supplies north
and return with coal cargoes for
points along the coast. Nome can
I well take advantage of this field
j and overcome the present high cost
| of fuel.
The Wainwright inlet is barred by
a sand bar which prevents boats of
! more than three or four feet draft
I entering. Down the inlet where the
j coal is found within fifty feet of the
•shore, skin boats load the fuel and
! paddle to the village.
According to Mr. Ward, as the de
| mand for the coal increases the
I present cost of 75 cents a sack can
1 readily be reduced to 50 cents per
| sack, making the commercial pos
sibilities much more feasible.
BELGIUM PEOPLE ACCLAIM
COURAGE OF THEIR QUEEN
BRUSSELS, Dec. 5.—Elizabeth,
Queen of the Belgians, whose com
I age is well known, has just given
another example of her fearlessnes
which has invoiked the admiration
of her people.
Her Majesty recently visited the
■ mining districe of Limburg, and
while there expressed a wish to
go down into one of the mines
Several officials protested, stating
i that some parts of the mine were
flooded and that there was a cer
tain danger in making the descent
Tag Queen persisted, and dressea
i in a miner’s outfit and a leather
| cap, she went down to a depth of
about 3,000 feet. The party ex
j plortd a large section of the mine
j before returning to the surface
When Her Majesty reappeared
' safely at the top the crowd as
j sembled, gave her an enthusiastic
greeting.
TIGER VISITS HARDING
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 5—For
mer Premier Clemenceau paid hi
respeets to President Harding today
while a small crowd of admirers
gathers outside the White House an
cheered the “Tiger” as he stepped
from (his auto. He plans to call on
Woodrow Wilson tomorrow.
R. S. Donaldson, who arrived
from Suntrana on Saturday, will
return to the mine tonight. He re
ports that the Healy River Coal
Corporation now has about forty
men employed and that the sus
pension of mining operations at
the Evans Jones mine has com
pelled his company to put on ex
tra shifts to meet demands for
Suntrana coal. The Suntrana pay
roll last month was approximately
$8,000.