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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1920.
NO. 267
WILSON CONFERS WITH R. R. WORKERS
SENA TOR IS TRYING TO PREVENT SALE OF SHIPS
BOLSI IF.VIKI DISCOVER RICH GOLD FIELDS IN THE URALS
APPLICANTS FOR
OIL GRANTS WILL
HAVE 10 HUSTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Post^Intelligencer says that steps are
being taken at the national capital
to arrange for the simultaneous an
nouncement in all parts of the coun
try of the signing of the new oil,
gas, and coal land leasing bill, un
der the terms of which locations
may be made on Government land
This action is to be taken so as
to give all prospective lessees an
equal chance to file on desirable
lands. The President wants the race
to be a fair one.
The correspondent explains that
the bill provides that, before an ap
plication for the lease of any par
ticular area may be filed, the ap
plicant must locate the land in a
reasonably compact form in accord
ance with the legal subdivisions of
public land surveys, if the land be
surveyed; or in an approximately
square or rectangular tract if the
land is unsurveyed. The length of
the tract shall not exceed two and
one-half times its width.
The applicant must erect a monu
ment not less than four feet high
at a conspicuous place thereon, and
shall post a written notice on or
near the monument, stating that the
application for permit shall be made
within thirty days after posting no
tice. The notice must contain the
applicant’s name, the description of
the land claimed, and other neces
sary data. The claimant must have
witnesses and be able to prove that
the notice was posted by him after
the signing of the bill by the Presi
dent. The claimant must show also
that he was first on the land.
The dispatch says that thousands
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PRESIDENT STATES POSITION
ON QUESTION OF HIGHER PAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.—
A delegation of trainmen was re
ceived by President Wilson at the
White House this afternoon for the
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purpose of presenting demands for
increased wages and learning the at
titude of the executive on the ques
tions at issue. The conference.
Which was the first one held outside
the sickroom, lasted just fifteen
minutes, but in that brief time the
[President heard the arguments of
the railroad workers and made clear
his unalterable decision relative to
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;their demands. The President was
seated in a wheel chair.
| The President made it clear to
jthe delegation that the policy of
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'of prospective locators are waiting.
. in all parts of the States and in
Alaska, for the President to sign
the bill, and announcement that the
bill has been signed will be fol
| lowed, it is expected, by a wild rush
:for locations. Priority will be given
! to first filers.
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Mike Karee arrived in town from
Fairbanks today.
] Corporal Fitzwilliams, who is di
, rectink repair work along the tele
graph line between Gibbon and Fair
banks, arrived in town on today’s
j train. He reports that Operator
; Morris, of the local station, who
j went out the trail with a horse and
.sleigh, is having an awful time on
| account of the deep snow. Morris
(intended to meet Fitzwilliams and
i bring him to town, but Fitz refused
to ride.
| Captain Wybcgt is the cause of an
; awful row down on the Rio Grande.
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| Assayer Paul Hopkins came down
from Fairbanks on today’s train on
'official business.
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Mrs. Thelin is among the Fair
j banks arrivals in town today, hav
i ing come down on the train this
i morning.
! Joe Fischer returned to town to
, day f rom a several-day visit in
Fairbanks.
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; C. N. Banks is in from his saw
mill on Goldstream today.
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Leo Rogge came down from Fair
! banks today and will be here sev
' eral days.
i The Pioneer ladies of Fairbanks
j were hostesses at a largely attended
dance last night, at Eagle hall. Mrs.
Joe Smith and T. W. Dunn carried
off the prizes. Mrs. M. E. Smith,
Mrs. Oie and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
E. Burns were among the Nenana
ites present.
Mrs. Alf Ekeland is confined to
her home by a severe cold.
the Government is based on justice
to all interests, but what was said
further than that has not yet been !
made public. It is understood, how-1
ever, that the decision of the Presi-'
jdent contains a certain proposal i
I which the trainmen have promised
to consider. It is believed the wage
demand, as presented by the delega
tion, was turned down.
Secretary Tumulty, who was pres- |
ent during the conference, warned ■
the President that a wage increase i
at this time would mean higher >
freight rates, which, in turn, would j
cause a further increase in the co«t i
of living.
The delegation received by the j
President was composed of three i
•epresentatives of the railroad broth-.
■rhoods, representing a combined1
■nembership of two million em-1
ployes.
OPEN HEADQUARTERS.
DETROIT, Mich., Fob. 13.—The'
Maintenance of Way brotherhood j
fias opened strike headquarters in
fifteen cities throughout the coun- .
try and preparations are now in :
progress for the strike which has ’
been called for next Tuesday to en-1
force a demand for increased wages. I
PRESIDENT IMPROVED.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 13.— I
The President is greatly improved j
in health and is taking more of a j
SENATOR PROTESTS;
WANTS SALE STOPT
' WASHINGTON", P. C., Feb. 13.—
’Senator Henrv F. Ashurst, Demo
i
jcrat, of Arizona, has introduced a
(resolution directing the United
States Shipping board not to carry
out its . plan to sell thirty former
German liners, which the board had
arranged to dispose of on Monday
at public auction, the i lan oeing
to knock the ships down to the In
ternational Mercantile Marine for
#28,000,000.
! Ashurst declares that the ships
(had a value of $154,000,000 before
;the war, and are now worth easily
I $300,000,000. In the opinion of
jthe senator, the auction should not
be held until the public has been
given due notice of the proposed
sale, and his resolution provides
that the sale must first be adver
tised for a period of three months.
Ashurst charges that the shipping
board is trying to sell the ships un
der a secret agreement with Eng
land.
WANTS INJUNCTION.
WASHINGTON', D. C.. Feb. 13.—
Acting in the capacity of a private
citizen and taxpayer. Senator As
hurst has petitioned for an injunc
tion restraining the United States
Shipping board from selling the
ships in question.
RUSSIANS REPORT
NEW GOLD STRIKE
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’ BERLIN, Feb. 13.—According: to i
information received in this city
from Moscow, two rich gold fields
have been discovered in the Ural
mountains, from which district the
anti-Bolsheviki forces were recently!
driven by the Lenine-Trotsky armies,
j One of the fields, it is stated, is1
‘ 30 miles north of Ekaterinburg, and j
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LANE ASKS SOUR
! TO PAY FLU BILLS
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j WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.— ;
Secretary of the Interior Lane has |
requested Congress to appropriate
the sum of $80,000 to reimburse
the Alaska territorial government
for moneys expended during the flu !
epidemic a year ago.
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Several property owners were
busily engaged today in clearing the
snow from their walks. ,
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is so rich, according to Bolsheviki
engineeers, that its development by
modern methods will increase the
gold output of Russia 60 percent ’
within two years. The great diffi
culty in the way of development is
lack of proper machinery and the
remoteness of the district from
transportation.
The Fairbanks News-Miner has ■
adopted the slogan, “Boost for a
Bonus on Gold, That We May Open
Our Mines again,” and all business
men and others of the upper dis
trict are urged to make use of the
slogan in their correspondence with
Outsiders.
The gold bonus agitation in Alas
ka originated with Commissioner R.
S. McDonald, and at his suggestion
hand in conducting: the business of i
his office than at any time since he
became ill. It is considered prob
able that he will preside at the
next meeting: of the cabinet.
Secretary Tumulty says he never
saw the President looking better.
Word From Hine*.
Prior to the meeting with the
railroad representatives. President
Wilson received a note from Direc
tor Hines, outlining his dealings with
the brotherhoods and explaining the
demands of the trainmen. The note
also stated that the unions had ex
pressed a willingness to leave the
settlement of the dispute to the
President.
was taken up by the Nenana Com
mercial club more than a year ago.
The matter later was referred to
the American Mining congress, which
is now making a fight to have the
Government recognize the necessity
of coming to the relief of the gold
mining industry.
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Bob Toussaint went to Fairbanks
torlay. to be absent several days.
George Hutchinson and Julius An
derson, Fairbanks visitors, returned
yesterday afternoon from the end
of steel, where they had a look at
the railroad work now in progress
south of Nenana, and at the coal
mines operating in that locality.
They plan to return to the upper
town on Tuesday.
Mist Belie Lawton, an American
beauty—you’ll say she is when you
see her in “Rio Grande."
Mrs. M. E. Smith returned to
Nenana today after a visit of several
days in Fairbanks, where she was
the guest of Mrs. Harry Karstens.
FORMER OFFICERS ARE
REALLY WORKING NOW
VIENNA.—Forty officers of the
old Austrian army, ranging in rank
from lieutenant to lieutenant-col
onel, have gone to work in wood
chopping camps at 40 crowns a day.
One major remarked that it was
better than starving.
LUMBERJACKS SEKKING
JOBS ALONG THE COAST
ABERDEEN, Wn.—Approximate
ly 6,000 men returned to work in
logging and lumber camps of the
Grays Harbor section after the re
cent holiday shutdown.
Many lumberjacks have flocked
here from the upper Columbia River
logging district, where heavy snows
closed the" camps. This has resulted
in a temporary surplus of labor
here.
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■The RtUva; to MoKlaley
mtnsl Park.
REDS MAKE HAUL
OF WAR SUPPLIES
LONDON, Feb. 13.—Vast quail
titles of war materials and food
supplies fell into the hands of the
Boisheviki as a result of the cap
ture of the city of Odessa, accord
injr to information received at The
British war office this week.
In addition to the stores of pro
visions and other supplies, the Reds
are reported to have captured three
opposition jjenerals, two hundred
| other officers and three thousand
[soldiers. They also took four ar
l morcd trains and one hundred guns
iof modem type.
Armenians Killed.
! The Armenian delegation is au
thority for the statement that 2,000
■Armenians have been killed in cold
; blood recently in Asia Minor by the
nationalists.
.COMMERCIAL CLUB
10 MEET 10NIGHT
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There will bo a regular meeting
of the Nenana Commercial club in
'the Union building this evening,
commencing at eight o'clock There
iare a number of matters awaiting
!consideration and several committees
which may have reports ready for
the action of the club.
| All members of the organization
'are urged to be on hand.
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MISSIONARY PASSES
AT CANADIAN CAPITAL
, OTTWA. Feb. 13.— Rev. Herbert
Girling, missionary, with headquar
ters at Coronation gulf, who came
here to confer with the royal com
mission which is investigating the
possibilities of the development of
domestic herds of reindeer and
muskoxen, died yesterday. He had
spent many years among the Eski
mos and was well acquainted with
Arctic life and conditions.
SKI CHAMPION MAKES
NEW CANADIAN RECORD
REVELSTOKE, B. C„ Feb. 13.
Nels Nelson, Canadian amateur ski
champion, retained his title in con
tests which were held here -this
week, by jumping a distance of 18-1
feet. Xnders Haugen won the pro
fessional event with a jump of 2Un
feet.
A shipment of Second class mail
is due at Fairbanks late today or
early tomorrow'. It was reported
from Salcha this morning.
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