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DAILY~NEWS
WHOLE NUMBER 257
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918.
LANE ASKS FUNDS TO FINISH ROAD
SEATTLE STRIKERS FORCE MAYOR TO RUN CARS
INDUSTRIALS TRYING TO START TROUBLE IN OREGON
CONGRESS REQUESTED
TO AID ALASKA ROAD
WASHINGTON, D. C.-"Secretary of the In
terior Lane today asked Congress for an appropriation
of $13,800,000 to complete the Government Railroad
in Alaska within the next year. It is the intention of
the Secretary to rush the work of construction as soon
as the needed funds are made available.
(Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 8.—Official an
nouncement is made that the So
ciety of Nations expects to finish
the work it had undertaken, at to
day’s session.
After a lengthy meeting held last
night, the committee appointed to
draft a constitution for the Society
of Nations announced that it had
completed two-thirds of the pro
jected draft.
The question of paramount im
portance before this committee was
that concerning the positive func
tions of the proposed league of
nations, and on this question the
committee was of one accord.
10COMA SIRIKE
MIGHT END SOON
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Associated Press.
TACOMA, Feb. 8.—The striking
street car men returned to work
today and street car service on all
city lines has been resumed un
molested.
The barbershops and restaurants
which were closed yesterday have'
been opened today.
The lonshoremen will hold a meet-'
ing tonight and the reconsideration1
of their strike vote will be dis
cussed.
The shipyard workers are still
out on strike..
BRITISH DEPORT
AIL B0LSHE1I
< Associated Press}
LONDON, Feb. 8.—According to
articles appearing in the newspapers
of the country, the government is
taking steps to deport all undesir
able aliens who are believed to be
emissaries of the Bolsheviki.
Several of them have already
been deported.
I
(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Avia- i
tion experts of the United States
navy have laid plans for a flight
across the Atlantic ocean.
They believe the plan is a feasible
one and it is expected that it will
be put into effect almost imme
diately.
The details of the proposed flight
have not been made public, but it
is believed that the naval flyers
have perfected a special type of
high powered flying machine and!
that the trip will be from a point
on the Atlantic coast to the coast
of Ireland. The points of departure
and arrival are unknown at the
present time. i
BUIfE DISH?
WORK SUSPENDED
(Associated Press)
BUTTE, Feb. 8.—Following the
plans outlined and adopted at a
mass meeting of the I. W. W.’s
held in this city last night, hundreds
of the striking mine workers, some
of whom were armed, turned back
all of the men who started out to
work in the mines and plants this
morning.
As a result of this action by the
striking miners, the whole mining
district has suspended operations.
RUINS OF FIRE TO
BE CLEANED UP LATER
The mass of ruins left by the
recent fire at Fairbanks is now,
coated with a thick crust of ice,1
and it has been decided that no
attempt at cleaning up the mess
will be made, until spring.
It was ‘rumored in town this
morning that a proposal is enter
tained in Fairbanks to build a
road from first to Second avenue,
at about the middle of the de-j
stroyed block which will afford .
better fire protection when the
block is rebuilt.
Miss Jane Anderson and Mrs. J.
Kestly went out to the end of
track on the train this morning.
They will probably return tonight.
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(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The
Federal Reserve Board has sub
mitted its report for the past year,
and has expressed therein, its will
ingness to undertake the develop
ment of an international gold ex
change fund.
This fund, as outlined by the
Federal Resreve Board is for the
purpose of facilitating financial
transactions between nations, with
out making an actual shipment of
gold.
Gold is to be deposited in trust,
in a government bank, to guarantee
the national exchange obligations.
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YOUTHFUL HAWAIIAN
MARATHON SWIMMER
j HONOLUL.—Sam Kanca, 16
year-old Hawaiian boy, qualified as
a marathon deep sea swimmer a
few weeks ago in a vain dash for
freedom from the Industrial School
Attendants from the school en
countered the boy on the Waialua
beach and began to close in on him
when he astonished them by strip
, ping, plunging into and diving thru
a pounding surf and striking out in
Jthe general direction of China. The j
guards set out in pursuit in a Jap
anese sampan and overtook and
captured Kanca six miles off shore,
when he was still going strong, ap-'
parently fresh and untired.
BICKFORD LEAVES
FOR THE STATES
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J. B. Bickford, former chief clerk
of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission, with headquarters at Fair
banks, left the upper town this
morning on Ed Bartlett’s stage, en
route to San Francisco.
Mr. Bickford resigned his position ;
with the A. E. C. recently, and goes
out to join Mrs. Bickford, who
went Outside on the last boat last
summer.
Seward has reorganized its Cham
ber of Commerce, with twenty
boosters enrolled as members, and
they will contribute monthly to a 1
fund for publicity purposes.
RlOiS REPORTED
! SALVADOR, Feb. 8.—It is re
| ported that serious rioting has oc
j cured in Tegucigalpa, the capital
j of the republic of Honduras, today.
Minister of the Interior Majia, of
' the Honduras cabinet, is reported to
i have been killed by the rioters.
The despatches do not assign any
i reason for the existence of unrest
j in the republic of Honduras.
—
(Associated Prfiss)
! WASHINGTON, Feh 8.—The
| United States battleship Kansas,
convoying five transports laden with
I homeward bound troops, sailed from
France today.
On board the transports forming
the convoy there are 8,500 officers
and men of the United States army
returning home from active service.
Included among the returning sol
diers are one hundred members of (
the 16th Engineers, which formed
part of the 91st army division.
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THREATEN STRIKE
Associated Tress
! XEW YORK, Feb. 8.—All union
bricklayers and hoisting engineers,
employed in the various cities, and
engaged on contracts held by the
members of the Local Building
Trades Employer’s Association, will
be called out on strike on Monday.
This action has been taken for
the purpose of enforcing the de
mands made by the carpenters for
a dollar a day increase, and follows
the lockout declared by the emp
ployers, who refused to accede to
the request made by the carpenters.
GERIMSEMBLY
HEAD IS ELECTED
Associated Press
WEIMER, Feb. 8—Carl Kautsky,
the under secretary of the state in
the Eebert cabinet, has been un-1
animously elected president of the
German National Assembly, which !
is to hold its meeting in this city, j
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—General
March, chief of staff of the Ameri
can army, said that demobilization
in the United States is now on the
home stretch.
Up to yesterday 67,030 officers
and 1,033,812 men were actually
discharged from the American army.
URGED 10 STRIKE
(Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 8.—In
dustrial Workers of the World in
this city are busy distributing hand
bills among the workingmen, urging
upon them to start a general strike
in sympathy with the strikers in
Seattle.
One of the I. W. W.’s has been
arrested and it is expected that
many more will be arrested later
for violations of the law in their
efforts to sow discord among the
Portland workers.
ENGLISH RAW
S1BIKE SETTEEO
(Associated Press)
LOXDOX, Feb- 8.—Announce-,
ment is made that the railway strike
which tied up traffic for some time
has now been settled, the dispute
! between employer and employee
j being satisfactorily arbitrated.
I It is also announced that regular
| train service will be resumed soon.
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A telegram received yesterday
evening by F. D. Browne from An
chorage contains the news that A.
J. Hewitt, former chief accountant
of this division of the A. E. C. had
reached Deadhorse on Thursday
afternoon, February 6.
Deadhorse is twenty miles be
yond Talkeetna, the end of steel
on the coast division of the govern
ment railroad.
Mr. Hewitt left Nenana on the
train leaving on the morning cf
Saturday, February 1, and spent
the night at the A. E. C. camp
at 43-mile (Nenana Crossing). He
left the Crossing with Charlie
Smith’s dog team at 9:30 a. m. on
Sunday, February 2, and has made
good time in reaching Deadhorse
in four and one-half days. ,
The twenty-mile stretch between.
Deadhorse and Talkeetna is said to
be good trail by parties that pre-.
ceded Hewitt; the Pennington party .
negotiating tlie distance in three
and one-half hours. j
ISEAITLE MAYOR
111 ESTABLISH
JIINET SERVICE
Associated Pr«.sa
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.—Mayor Han
I son, of Seattle, has issued orders
for the running of a jitney bus
service to all parts of the city. The
| mayor also stated that he will run
j the city cars on private owned
lines if they do not soon resume
street car service.
So far, the strike committee has
taken no action on the mayor’s de
mand that the sympathetic strike
be called off at eight o’clock this
morning.
late last night the strike com
mittee held a somewhat protracted
meeting, but failed to reach any
definite agreement, and it is ex
pected that the committee will re
sume its meeting today.
Mayor Hanson also stated that
he had.ordered all union exemption
signs on motor trucks used for
freighting and passenger service,
removed; and that he will operate
them without the consent of any
labor union.
The city is virtually under mar
tial law now and it is thought that
the military will take full control
of the situation if a radical change
does not take place soon.
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.—Announce
ment was made this morning by
the city officials that the municipal
street cars will be started running
immediately.
The privately owned street car
lines are still undecided regarding
the operation of the cars owned
by them.
It is reported that a fe.v (f tl e
restaurants have reopened for busi
ness today.
FAIRBANKSANS MOVE
TO NEW QUARTERS
According to the reports re
ceived over the phone this after
noon, some of the Fairbanks mer
| chants who have been driven out
by the recent fire have already ar
; ranged to move to new quarters, in
which they will reopen.
J. R. Fowle, of the Fairbanks
Clothing Co., has rented the War
Board office, next door to the First
National Bank, and will move there
in a few days.
Julius Hodfman expects to open
his barbershop in the lobby of the
Fairview hotel
Newton and Evans, of the Eagle
Barbershop, moved into the old
stand occupied by Evans on Turner
street, opposite the back entrance
to the postoffice.
The Model Cafe is preparing to
open in the Nordale Cafe quarters.
A Juneau Italian by the name of
Leonard Louis was arrested with a
suitcase full of whisky as he was
about to board the ferryboat at the
capital city. He was fined $200
and costs amounting to $14. Leon
ard said he bought the liquor from
a man he met on the street for $84
and intended to use it for his own
consumption this winter.
Fairbanks and Nenana, the Twin
Cities of Interior Alaska