The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME TWO MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919. NUMBER 2
BOLSHEVIKI EFFORT FAILS IN GERMANY
BURLESON SEEKING AID TO RETORE EFFICIENCY
JONES WANTS AIRPLANES GIVEN TRIAL IN ALASKA
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WASHINGTON', Apr. 2.—Post
masters and businessmen from dif
ferent parts of the country are hold
i
ing a convention here for the pur
pose of devising: some means of in
creasing the efficiency of the postal
department of the country.
Postmaster General Burleson, in
his address to the covention, said
that the war and high paid war
work took thousands of trained
postal employees, whose places had
to be filled from the ranks of the
untrained men, and that in this
manner the previous high standards
of efficiency of the department had
been very considerably lowered.
He declared that the postal sys
tems of the other belligerent coun
tries broke down to some extent
* for practically the same reasons as
he advanced to account for the de
ficiency of our own system.
He also stated that the postoffice
department sold eighty per cent of
the War Savings Stamps.
SLAVS DETHRONE
LONDON, Apr. 2.—In an article
appearing in the AgTam. a Jugo
slav newspaper, an account is pub
lished of the deposing of the king
of Serbia, of the Karageorgevieh
dynasty, and the proclamation of a
republic in Serbia.
Both of these acts were performed
at Belgrade, the capital of Serbia,
which now becomes part of Jugo
Slavia.
EQUIPMENT SENT
mm TANANA
The last of the narraw-gauge roll
ing stock was taken across the
’X Tanana river this afternoon, and
the necessary overhauling of all of
the narrow gauge equipment will be
commenced immediately so that it
will be ready for service at an
instant’s notice.
The very last thing to be taken
across was the passenger coach, pur
chased last summer from the White
p- Pass & Yukon Route. It is a very
comfortably fitted coast and will, in
all probability, be used to haul the
first load of passengers to Fairbanks
over the government road. The
coach will be scraped and repainted
a dark green, to be in keeping with
the rest of the government rolling
stock.
A The Brown hoist was used in mov
ing the coach from where it lay
to the waterfront, on reaching which
the Brownie picked up the coach
* again, bodily and deposited it with
out a jar on the rails on the ice
and dinkey engine No. 6 hooked o:
and hauled it away to the round
house on the other side of the river
'TEXAS GETS HANGAR
AS RESULT OF BLOV
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FORT BLISS, Tex —An ill wim
! blew Fort Bliss a new steel hanga
| for the flying field. When Majo
j Albert D. Smith landed here on th'
i last leg but one of his flight fron
I Washington to San Diego recently
j two of his planes were wTecked b;
a windstorm, which drove them inti
each other after breaking the tether
which held them on the flying field
Major Smith recommended that i
steel hangar be erected here and th'
war department approved the re
commendation.
PARIS, Apr. 2.—Associated Pres
despatches received by the Frencl
foreign office today state that th'
Bolsheviki movement in German;
and Austria has resulted in a miser
able failure, alid that nothing worii
while has been accomplished as ye:
The much talked of Vienna rail
road strike, which was engineers
: by the Bolsheviki, came to an en>
a few hours after it was called.
It is believed that diplomat!'
relations between the Allied power
and Hungary, which had been brokei
off as a result of the recent revolu
tionary movement in that country
will be resumed in a few days.
GIAN! TMNSPORT
IN »H TROOPS
NEW VOPJC. Apr. 2—The Unitei
States army transport Leviathan
formerly the German liner Vader
land, the largest steamship in thi
world, arrived in port and docket
| safely today.
j She carried twelve thousand, fivi
i hundred troops, who are returninj
home from Europe for demobiliza
HIGH FUEL COSTS
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The passenger tariff which be
came effective on boats operate<
by the Pacific Alaska Steamshi]
company (the Admiral Line) 01
] March 20, boosts the first clas
fare, Seattle to Cordova, to $62
with an eight per ct'it war ta:
in addition. The new intermediati
fare is $57.50, and steerage $37
The new rates represent an in
crease of $9.50, $7.50 and $7 re
spectively.
The company also will inereas
freight rates $1 per ton on all com
modities except lumber, which wil
be increased $2 per thousand feel
The reason given by the com
i Pany for jumping up the rates i
the fact that the cost of fuel oi
has advanced from 87 cents t
$1.85 per barrel, and as this is
considerable item in the cost o
operating boats it is asserted t
be necessary to increase the tarifl
PROHIBITION IS
IN THE BALANCE
CHICAGO,, Apr. 2—At the muni- j
. cipal election held in this city yes- j
} terday, the votes on the question of
. prohibition showed that the wets
had polled 391,000 votes as against
( only 144,000 votes polled by the
drys, thereby giving the wets a
sweeping victory.
The leaders of the so-called
Personal Liberty party, composed
mostly of the brewers and liquor
; interests, in a statement made for
j publication, said that the vote of
, yesterday marks the beginning of a
campaign, instituted by those who
stood for the personal liberty of a
' DISPOSIIION OF ~
RHINE VALLEY iS
BEING DISCUSSED
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PARIS. Apr. 2.-—President Wil
I son, who had been conferring with
[ Premiers Orlando, Clemenceau and
Lloyd George regulary recently, has
: again called a conference with the
i premiers.
i The purpose of today's conference
■ is to consider the questions of re
, paration to be made by Germany
and the disposition of the valley of
the Rhine.
It is understood that these im
portant subjects will occupy the
conference about three days more.
UTAH WILL PROTECT
GAME IN PRESERVES
SALT LAKE CITY.—R. H. Sid
doway, stat fish and game commis
sioner, has prepared measures foi
presentation to the present Utah
legislature asking that five ex
tensive game presrves be namec
and set aside as such in this state
Commissioner Siddoway’s plans pro
vide for the establishment of wild
game preserves in the Cache na
tional forest; the Strawberry water
shed; Fish Lake national forest
Dixie national forest and the Ophii
range.
Cache national forest is a haunt
of deer, elk and grouse, according
to Mr. Siddoway, who also intends
to ask the legislature for a numbel
of changes in the existing gamf
laws.
TWO ALIENS DESIRE
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
At the office of the clerk of tl
court in Fairbanks today, L. I
Thimme and H. P. Pearson took o;
their intention papers for natural!
ation later on.
Mr. Thimme was born in Berl:
Germany, and emigrated to tl
United States in 1885. Mr. Pearsc
is a native of Sweden and came 1
the United States in 1910.
BROWER TAKES FEW
OUTWARD PASSENGERS
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>1 The Brower stage which left Fair
11 banks this morning took away Cap
f | tain Alex Allen, Leo Wittenburg.
> Charles M. Lockhart and Alex Sim
son as passengers for the States.
citizen under the rights conferred
on him by the Constitution, to re
pudiate national prohibition.
There will be no letup, they said,
in this protest, until the people had
their full freedom restored to them.
The Anti-Saloon League also is
sued a statement which was to the
effect that they made no fight
against the activities of the Personal
Liberty party and that the result of
the voting did not surpise them,.
They characterized the efforts of
the Chicago wets, to terrorize Con
gress as being a very little short
of sedition.
MEXICO CITY.—Chief of Staff
Salvador Gomez, of Mexico, posi
tively denied today that the Japan
ese had bought any lands in Lower
Califonia.
He stated that the Mexican gov
ernment had not authorized the sale
or lease of lands of any great ex
tent, to foreigners.
Considerable progress has already
been made with the work in con
nection with the building of a dock
across the Tanana river, near camp
415.
All of the piling for the dock
proper, as well as to protect the
river bank both above and below
the proposed dock has been driven,
and the work of decking and put
ting up the structure -will be com
menced soon and rushed to com
pletion.
The dock will be 200 feet in
length and will be equipped with
a stiff-leg derrick and powerful
hoisting engine, capable of hand
ling very heavy weights. The river
bank for a distance of 150 feet
above and 50 feet below the dock
will be protected against erosion
and the action of the ice. Piling
for this purpose has already been
driven and the necessary riprap
ping with gravel filling will be
placed in position in a short time.
The old corrugated powder
house, which had been erected
along the main line, about two
miles south of town, has been dis
mantled and sent across the river.
This will be erected on the dock
there to serve as a warehouse for
the present.
Rails and other construction ma
terial and supplies which will be re
ceived this summer, for use on the
N'enana-Fairbanks branch, will be
landed at the new dock, the steam
boats and barges docking there for
this purpose.
'fort bliss now has
NEW RECREATION INN
FORT BLISS, Tex.—Gary Owen
Inn is the newest addition to the
fort's welfare centers. It was built
by the Knights of Columbus as a
recreation center for the Seventh
! cavalry, and was named after the
i regiment's famous war song which,
I the troopers claim, was sung by
; Custer's men during their last stand
at the Little Big Horn, when they
were massacred by the Indians.
FOR IHE NORTH
SEATTLE, Apr. 2—A despatch to
the Seattle P. I. from its special
correspondent at Washington, D. C..
says that Senator Wesley L. Jones,
of Washington, in a letter to Post
master Genera! Burleson, said that
he hoped the postmaster genera!
would not overlook Alaska when the
time came for experiments to be
made in the establishment of air
mail routes.
The senator -aid that when th •
Senate had the postoffice appropria
tion bill under consideration, it in
cluded an item of eight hundred
thousand dollars which was to be
used in conducting airplane experi
ments, and that he caused an
amendment to be inserted in the bill
of appropriations to the effect that
some of this money could be used
in Alaska.
He said that the establishment of
an air mail service would mean that
the airships will be able to carry
mail to many an Alaskan town
which now has no mail service of
any kind. There are several naval
airplanes at Seattle, he said, which
are available for the proposed serv
ice, which he suggested should be
between Seattle, Ketchikan, Juneau,
Sitka and Skagway.
SPUD COMPLEIEO
10 BURNS MINE
The spur track leading from the
siding near the end of steel to the
Burns mine, for a distance of about
100 feet, was finished today to the
mine pit.
Some surfacing and fixing up is
necessary on the spur, as well as the
siding to render the road fit for
heavy traffic and it is expected that
this work will be finished soon.
When this is done empty cars wrill
be sent to the mine and its product
will be hauled to Nenana as fast
, as the A. E. C. can get it.
It is expected that the actual
hauling of the coal from the Burns
mine w'ill be commenced Friday.
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GAMBLING 1$
ON INCREASE
IN OLD BERLIN
BERLIN', Apr. 2.—Gambling in
all its various branches has increased
to a very considerable extent in
Berlin since the signing of the
armistice.
The residents are openly indulg
ing in cards and even roulette regu
larly.
In certain parts of the city some
of the streets are lined with gam
bling tables set up edge to edge,
and these are constantly occupied
during day and night. The police
appear to be powerless to prevent
gambling, which is being carried on
with impunity and in full view,
no pretense being made by the
gamblers to keep under cover.
Gambling clubs have sprung ur>
like mushrooms all over the city
and they are all doing a roaring
business.
In the former aristocratic section
of Berlin;' a great' many gambling
places have been established. These
are most luxuriously fitted up.
PE1R0GRAD HAS
LONDON, Apr. 2.—According to
the reports received in this city to
day, the Menshiviki, in conjunction
with the Social Revolutionists, start
ed a serious railroad strike in the
neighborhood of Petrograd.
The reports received earlier in
the day indicated that the revolution
against the Bolsheviki in Petrograd
had started.
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RICHMOND, Va., Apr. Low
temperatures and frost are reported
to have done incalculable damage
to the crops in many of the southern
states.
The frost has virtually killed the
peach crop in Virginia
ALASKA STEAMSHIP DATES
FOR SPRING ANNOUNCED
The Alaska Steamship company
has advertised the following sail
ings from Seattle:
April 1—Alameda, for Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Seward, Latouehe, Uyak, Marz
hovia Bay. Due in Cordova April 5
Apr S—Northwestern, for Ketch
ikan, Junean, Cordova. Due in
Cordova April 13.
April 16.—Alaska, for Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, La
touche, Seward, Anchorage. Due
in Cordova April 21.
May 1—Northwestern, for Cor
dova, Valdez. Latouehe, Seward,
Anchorage, Henderson Bay. Due
in Cordova May 4.
The cost of construction of the
College of Agriculture at Fairbanks
was $56,273 68.
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