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VOLUME IV
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEB. 10. 1923
NUMBER 412
GERMAN MINISTERS BARRED FROM RUHR
. SEATTLE CHAMBER SUPPORTS FISHERIES BUREAU
NOME JUDGE HAS CURE FOR ILLS OF THE TERRITORY
NOME JUDGE POINTS WAY
TO SAVE LIFE OF NORTH
SEATTLE. Feb. 10—In a state-;
Blent made before the Alaska com- '
mittee of the Seattle Chamber of j
Commerce this week, Judge George !
Schofield, of Nome declared that j
the 38 governmental boards, with j
co-ordination and each intent upon ,
doing business through a mass of i
regulations oppress Alaska and make j
it impossible to accomplish things
in a business-like and efficient way.
The judge urged the following j
steps, as a source of Alaska relief:!
1. Abolition of the multiplicity of ■
government boards.
2. Appointment of a western man
as secretary of the Interior.
3. Abolition of the present assess- j
ment work law and substitution of
a provision requiring that claim
owners pay $20 annually into the
federal treasury.
4. Abrogation of the present con- j
tract between the Government and j
the Fouke Fur Company.
5. Protection for American trad
ers doing business in Siberia.
6. Federal survey of Northwest
ern Alaska.
7. Development of Alaska’s great
peat deposits.
8. Fish survey in Bering sea.
9. Establishment of a clearing
house in Seattle where Alaskans
with worth-while mining proposi- ]
tions could present them to men in
terested in financing.
10. Better lights for Alaska coast. I
Senator Heckman, of Ketchikan
told the committee that something
must be done immediately if the
salmon industry of Southeastern
Alaska is to be saved. He declared
that, as a canneryman, he realized
that unless the closed, season is
made effective immediately, his can
neries would have no fish to can.
S1K1 COMING BACK
j PARIS. Feb. 10—Battling Siki,
discredited Singelese boxer, will be
restored to good standing in the
boxing game ’and reinstated with
all his titles when the French box
ing commission celebrates its twen
tieth anniversary on Monday. The
plans of the commission are announ
ced by Siki’s attorney.
JUDGE KNAPP PASSES
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10
Judge Martin A. Knapp, aged 79
years of the circuit court of appeals
died here this morning, following
an operation. He was asigned to the
fourth judicial circuit.
PROF. ROENTGEN DEAD
^ BERLIN. Feb. 10—Prof. William
Conrad Roentgen, discoverer of the
Roentgen rays, now known as the
X-Ray died today at Muich.
TIME EXTENDED
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 10—
The commissioner of internal re
venue has announced an extension
until June 15, as the final date for
filing tax returns of domestic cor
portion for the calendar year 1922.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
ANNOUNCES SUMMER PROGRAM
The Alaska Steamship Co, in an
nouncing their schedule for the
coming season, will have the pas
senger ships Northwestern, Alameda
and Alaska on the Southwestern
Alaska run. The S. S. Alaska is the
ship now under construction and her
first sailing from Seattle will be
on June 9th. The S. S. Alaska will
make Anchorage a port of call, the
same as the Alameda and is a ship
especially constructed for tourist
traffic.
The Alameda sailing from Seattle
March 17th, is scheduled to call at
Anchorage, establishing the first
direct service for the year 1923.
Nenana Moose will meet in re
gular session at their hall on Fourth
street Monday night.
GERMANS CONTINUE PROGRAM
BLOCKING PLANS OF INVADERS
MINISTER SAYS DRY SQUAD
HAS ALASKA ON THE WAGON j
SEATTLE. Feb. 10—Rev. Dr. R.
V. Mathews, former local preacher
who is drawing pay from the Gov
ernment as assistant prohibition
i commissioner has just returned to
i this city from Alaska, where he
spent several weeks investigating
j the work of the enforcement organ
! ization. He says enforcement is wor
I king good in Alaska, “better perhaps
: north of Ketchikan than south of it”
'He said he found that rum smug-j
j glers of the North Pacific, as from
I the Bahamas, carry also silk, nar
! eotics. diamonds and aliens. Dr..
| Mathews will leave for Chicago to
! day.
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BOXER IS KILLED
NEW YORK.. FEB. 10—Antonio
Perrainao, a boxer who collapsed
during a bout at Brooklyn this
week with Johnny Clinton, died
yesterday. No charges have been
preferred against Clinton.
McNARY UNDER BAN
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10
Members of the senate banking com
mittee considering the nomination
of James McNary to be comptroller
of currency, went to the White
House yesterday with the apparent
intention of telling President' Hard
ling frankly of the difficulties in the
; way of confirmation.
IRISH RAIDERS TAKE TOWN
, BELFAST, FEB. 10—Fifty raid
' ers invaded the town of Belturbet
this week, bombed the bank and
teacher of the Gaelic school, killed
a store clerk and wounded one
other person.
BANKERS WHITEWASHED
SEATTLE. Feb. 10—The last re
! maining indictments against J. E.
j Chilberg and J. F. Lane, in connec
I tion with the failure of the Scan
dinavian American Bank of Seattle
were dismissed this week in the Sup
erior court when Prosecutor Doug
las declared that he had no evidence
I to warrant continuation of the pro
| ceedings.
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SENATE PASSES ARMY BILL
WASHINGTON', D. C. Feb. 10—
| The war, department appropriation
i bill was approved by the senate this
! week and is now in the hands of the
conference committee for final con
sideration and revision. As approved
by the senate the bill carries a to
tal of $340,523,000.
SHIPPING BILL UP
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10—
The administration shipping bill has
i been called up again in the senate
j by Chairman Jones, of the com
i merce committee, who announced
| that he would not permit the mea
! sure to be put aside except by a
i vote of the senate.
BODY AWAITING DISPOSITION
j The body of George Wallin, who
died from injuries received in a fall
from the Tanana bridge February
i 1 at Nenana. was .shipped to Anch
: orage and is now at Williams’
! Undertaking parlors, . awaiting in
j ;t ructions from relatives outside,
| as to disposition.
Marshal Bert Stevens, who took
a number of prisoners to the States
j several weeks ago, returned to Al
I aska on the steamer .Alameda and
! should arrive from the coast on
the Tuesday train.
PARIS. Feb, 10—Members of t’.ie
German cabinet have been barred
from the Ruhr district by the
French and Belgium military auth
orities. Premier Poincare and For
eign Minister Jasper, of Belgium,
held a conference this week and
drafted a brief note setting forth
their reasons for excluding the
German ministers, and this has been
delivered to the German embassies
at Paris and Brussels.
French U*e Tanks
DUSSELDORF-, Feb. 10—French
troop? with the aid of tanks, broke j
up a demonstration at Recklinhau- i
sen yesterday. The crowds were dis- !
persed without resort to rifles, not I
a shot being fired.
Generally speaking, the Ruhr sit
uation remains unchanged. German
resistace is more staunch than ever,
with agents from Berlin canvassing
the Ruhr villages and towns urging i
workers to resist by striking. The
French military authorities have
arrested and jailed many members
the police who refused to salute
the French officers.
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DESTROYER DAMAGED
LONDON, Feb. 10—A dispatch
from Constantinople says the French
cruiser Ernest Renana collided with
an American destroyer in Turkish
waters this week. The American
boat is reported to have been con
siderably damaged but the cruiser
escaped damage.
WANT MEXICO RECOGNIZED
AUSTIN Texas, Feb. 10—The;
state 'senate has adopted the bouse i
concurrent resolution requesting the :
federal government to take steps,
looking to the recognition of the .
Mexican government. The resolu- j
tion expresses confidence in the O
bregon regime.
CROWDER IS HONORED
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 10
Major General Enoch H. Crowder
has beer, nominated by President
Harding to be ambassador to Cuba.
REBELS REJECT PEACE
LONDON, Feb. 10—Irish rebels
have declined to enter into peace
negotiations, according to advices
received from Dublin.
TWO AIRMEN CRASH
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 10—Lieut.
Harry J. Martin and Sergeant Wal
ter F. Grodecki were instantly killed
this morning at Kelly field when
their plane crashed and burned.
RAILROAD WORKER KILLED
ON WAY FROM THE COAST
Nick Kastrisas. a subject of
Greece, who left Anc-horape on the
regular passenger train on Thurs
day, enroute to Caswell to work
on the section, fell or jumped
from the train shortly before reach
ing Caswell and receivevd injuries
from which he died later while
being brought to the Nenana hos
pital for treatment.
An inquest was held in Nenana
yesterday at the office of C >mm;s
sioner C. D. Leckie and the verdict
was that the deceased died from
injuries received as the result of
“stepping or falling from the train”
The body was shipped back to An
chorage last night, to a cousin of
the deceased. The body of Kastri
sas was not run over by the train,
but was knocked about considerably
with the result that the back and
several ribs were broken, and there
were a number of cuts.
The deceased has a wife and sev
eral children in the old country .
DYER LAID AT REST
Under the auspices of Igloo No.
15, Pioneers of Alaska, funeral ser
vices for the late James Dyer were
held at Williams’ Undertaking par
lors at Anchorage this week. Burial
took place in the Anchorage cem
etery.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hagen and
baby returned to Nenana yesterday
from a visit of several days in
i Fairbanks.
LEAPS FROM WINDOW
NEW YORK, Feb. 10—Mrs.
Louise Harlshorne Leeds., wife of
Harry.H. Leeds, prominent clubman
and brother of the late William B.
Known as the Tinplate King, killed
herself this morning by leaping
from a window on the fifth ,floor:
of her apartment. She had been ill j
for some time at a sanitarium. "She
was a sister-in-law of Princess An
astasia. of Greece.
ROME APPROVES TREATY
ROME. Feb. 10—The chamber
of deputies took a secret ballot ]
yesterday and approved the Wash
ington arms treaties which had been
previously informally indorsed.
FOX FARMERS ORGANIZED
TO MARKET FUR PRODUCT
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SEATTLE, Feb. 10—Captain A.
B. Somerville, of Petersburg, who
arrived from the North yesterday,
reports the formation of the South
eastern Fox Farmers association,
to market their own product from
Ketchikan.
The captain says “the Blue Fox!
farmers of Alaska have felt for a;
long time that they were not get
ting a square deal. Blue fox farm
ing will be one of Che principal in
dustries of Alaska in a few years.
There is more than $100,000 in
vested in animals on the many is
lands of Southeastern Alaska.”
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PERSONAL
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Deputy Marsha) Andy Webster,1
of Tanana, came down from Fair-1
banks today enroute to Tanana on j
an argent mission. He must be back
in Fairbanks by February 20.
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Mrs. Dietrich came Iown from
Fairbanks yesterday and left for
the Sta'es last night.
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Fred Kling and Sam Kambeloff
left for the Canyon district this
week to work for the Mt. McKinley
Bituminous Coal Corporation.
Jack Mayne came in from Healy i
yesterday.
Red Rogers went to Healy last (
night and will return to Men ana to-;
night. *
J. L. Sherman was among yes- (
terday’s guests at the Southern ■
• hotel.
A freight train was sent to
Fairbanks today.
Mrs. T. Hanson went to Fair
banks yesterday.
William Gaspar was a visitor in
town this week from Suntrana.
Special Officer Seneff came down
* from Fairbanks today.
DISTILLERS VIOLATE LAW
Escape with easy terms
NEW YORK, Feb. 10—Morgan,
Willaim, Rene and Montago Lamon
tagne wealthy distillers and import
ers who were indicted recently after
a grand jury investigation, entered
amended pleas of guilty this week
to the charge of the illegal sale of
30.000 gallons of liquor.
Montagne escaped with a sentence
of two months in jail and a fine
of $2,000 and each of his brothers
drew four months and fines of
$2,000.
FORD SUPPORT SCORES
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10—
Declaring there was not hope of
securing the necessary votes so long
as “adherents of the Ford proposal”
opposed him. Senator Norris with
drew his amendment to the army
bill providing for the appropriation
of two million dollars for the com
pletion of nitrate plant Number
One at Muscle Shoals.
HOUSE APPROVEVS DEBT PLAN
WASHINGTON. I). C. Feb. 10—
By almost an unanimons vote, the
house this week approved the Bri
tish debt settlement agreement, and
the measure has been passed on to
the senate for final approval.
GRAVE TO BE OPENED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10—
The war department has telegraphed
the quartermaster general at New
York authorization to open the
grave of James Jones. American
seaman. wThose casket is reported to
contain the crown jewels of Russia.
LINCOLN IS HONORED
WASHINGTON. D. 0. Feb. 10 —
To Hodgenville, Kentucky, the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln, goes the
honor of being: the first postoffice
to sell the new three-cent stamp
bearing: the portrait of Lincoln,
while Springfield, Illinois, the home
of Lincoln at the time he was
elected President, and his burial
place, will be the first ponoffiee
to sell the new one dollar stamps
showing a view of the Lincoln
Memorial. The new stamps will be
placed on sale on the birthday of
the martyred President.
1924 BATTLE STARTS
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 10—
The People Legislative Service, un
der whose auspices the recent con
erence of “Progressives” was held
and the “Progressive bloc” organ
ized. has made public a letter writ
ten by Senator Hiram Johnson, of
California, in which he attacks the
Republican presidential nomination
machinery and its past operations.
TURNAGAIN ARM OPEN
Power boats are plying between
the shores of Tumagain Arm, is the
report brought to Anchorage by
Pete Kripoprivich of Hope, who op
erates a tie camp in Chat vicinity.
Recent heavy winds and remarkably
mild weather is the reason given
for the arm being free of ice at
this time of the year.'Mr. Kripop
rivich has a contract for 30,000 ties
of which he has about 5,000 cut now
He has twelve tie cutters on the
job at the present time.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Erickson own
| ers of the Montana House which
was destroyed by fire recently, left
jfor the coast last night in search
of a new location.
SEATTLE CHAMBER BACKS
FEDERAL FISH POLICIES
SEATTLE, Feb. 10—The Seattia
Chamber of Commerce has tele
graphed resolutions to Secretary of
Commerce Hoover, commending
“the far-sighted policy of creating
fisheries reservations in the .Terri
j tory of Alaska.” The resolution
particularly commended the work
of the secretary of commerce and
the bureau of fisheries” in the re
| gulations already adopted for the
, administration of reservations here
tofore created.”
The resolution says the chamber
; believes sucih regulations tend to
perpetuate for the use of the people
i of Alaska and the nation the val
i uable food fish supply: and that
! it further believes that in the
promulgation of regulations limit
ing the catch and pack of salmon,
the secretary of commerce and com
missioner of fisheries have endeav
ored to adjust equitably and limit
j the catch with the sole purpose in
view of perpetuating the industrj
The resolutions ask that reserv -
ation be extended over the remain
i ing waters of Alaska at the expir
' ation of the present fishing season,
las the visible salmon supply “im
| paratively demands such action."
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, NEW COAL PROPERTY HAS
SHOWING OF HIGH GRADE
1 The coal property recently ac
quired by the ML McKinley Bit
uminous Coal Corporation, on the
Alaska Railroad at Mile 341, prom
ises to become a heavy producer
of high grade fuel in the near
future, according to officials of the
I corporation, who made a trip to
' the property during the week. The
• company has expended several thou
j sand dollars in prospecting work on
the several seams lately and those
j interested are very enthusiastic ov
| er the outlook. The claim contain
, 2,560 acres and includes a numbe:
j of seams of high grade coal.
Development work during the
| last sixty days has been concen
! trated on one seam. A prospect
! tunnel has been driven 85 feet on
the vein and. a* the face, shou
nine feet of very high grade steam
coal. The seam at that point pro
! bably is much thicker as no walls
were shown. The vein has been
proven by prospecting to extend
the full width of the claim and »
conservative estimate of the amout
of coal in this one seam would bc
two and one-half million tons. The
coal has been carefully assayed and
many practical tests made. These
are said to show the quality to be
[superior to any coal thus far di<
I covered in Interior Alaska, being
1 very high in carbon, low in mois
i ture and ash, and suitable for any
i purpose requiring an exceptionally
: high grade fuel.
The company has decidedd to be
gin the actual work at once and
. has a small crew at work driving
j a working tunnel near the railroad
!A spur will be put in. coal bunkers
j built, mess and bunkhouse erected
j and everything put in shape for the
I permanent working of the mine.
The location of the property is
i ideal for economical mining of coal,
j being close to the railroad, with
1 many acres of the finest mining
j timbers close at hand, and an ah
; undance of spring water available,
j The seam is verticle nd the only
j coal that will be shoveled is that
J which will have to be moved in
1 driving the tunnel.
At present all of the stock in
: the corporation is owed by local
busiess men, and those who visit
ed the property this week are en
thusiastic over the outlook.
Mrs. J. Orr was registered at the
Southern hotel yesterday.
There will be a regular meeting
j of the City Council on Tuesday
night.