Interior AlasKa Must Have Low Freight Rates
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VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENAN.A ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1922.
NUMBER 171
BURNSIDE REFUTES GERIG’S STATEMENT
HOOVER STOPS COMMERCIAL FISHING ON YUKON
LOCATION OF ALASKA ARMY POSTS TO BE CHANGED
ARMY REDUCTION ALTERS
PLANS FOR ALASKA POSTS
SEATTLE. March 18.—A special
despatch from Washington, D. C..
received in this city today says that
because of impending reductions in
the size of the army and also for
more economic working, the general
staff is preparing to make changes
in the army stations in Alaska.
It is indicated that the army posts
at Fort Liscum and Fort Gibbon
will be abandoned, the post at St.
Michael retained and a detachment
be maintained at Nenana until sucn
time as the railroad bridge across
the Tanana river has been complet
ed, when the troops will be moved
to Anchorage where a larger force
than heretofore will be maintained.
KENNEDY MURDER CASE
IS IN HANDS OF JURY
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LOS ANGELES. March 17.—The j
case against Mrs. Madelvnne Oben
cbain, who is jointly indicted with
Arthur C. Burch for the murder of
J. Belton Kennedy a young broker
of L03 Angeles, was given to the
jury at noon today. Jealousy is j
attributed to be the motive for the
!
crime.
JURY MAY DISAGREE
LOS ANGELES, March 18.—The
jury which took the case at noon
yesterday is still deliberating, ard
it was reported this morning that
the jurymen were di 'iied three to
nine.
Late last night they ask'd to have
the transcripts of certain portions
of the testimony submitted during
the trial, to aid them in reaching
a verdict.
(Note.—A brief resume of this
notable case will be found else
where in these columns.—Ed.)
PROHIBITION AGENTS
STAGE BIG OFFENSIVE
DENVER, March 18.—Scores of
prohibition agents, federal marshals,
and state rangers began today what
the prohibition enforcement officers
decided was the biggest liquor ra:d
in history.
The raid took in all of the west
side hotels, rooming houses, barber
shops and cigar stores, all of which
were visited and thorolv overhauled
by the raiders.
SOLON WARNS CONGRESS
ARMY CUT TOO DRASTIC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 16—
Sounding a solemn warning to con
gress that “false economy is the
poorest kind” Chairman Kahn of the
house military committee declared
today that the reduction of the
army strength of 1,150,000 would
be “altogether too drastic at this
time.”
INVESTIGATIONS INTO
ARMY FRAUDS OPENED
LOS ANGELEsTMarch 18.—The
federal grand jury opened its inves
tigations into the alleged conspiracy
to defraud the war department
wholesale by manipulating bidding
for army good at auctions.
Several prominent civilians and
two army officers are involved in
the scandals, the federal agents have
a complete case as a result of the
confessions of the parties involved.
U. S. TO BE REIMBURSED FOR
THE WATCH ON THE RHINE
Senators Lodge, Underwood and
Borah declared in the senate today
that the United States should in
sist upon the payment of its bill
from the reparation payment made
to the allies by Germany recently,
for keeping American soldiers in
Germany.
Senator Underwood also urged the
appointment of an American rep
resentative on the reparations com
mission.
FREIGHT RATES TO INTERIOR
CAUSES LIVELY CONTROVERSY
SEATTLE, March 18.—Quoting a;
statement which he attributed to j
William Gerig, assistant chief en- j
gineer of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, J. L. Burnside, freight
traffic manager of the White Pass
and Yukon route made a statement
yesterday denying absolutely that
the new freight rates to inter >r
Alaska will make the reductions:
claimed for them by the government
rate maker.
Mr. Burnside said, in part. “I
note Gerig said ‘as an example of
what the new tariff means tc Al
aska, consider the rate on groceries
at present, if you ship a carload of
groceries from Seattle or Tacoma to
Nenana or Fairbanks by way of the
mouth of the Yukon or the Skag
way gateway, the water and rail
rates will total seventy dollars per
ton. This cargo is on a weight or
measurement option which means
that the steamship companies will
charge by whichever basis is most
profitable to them.’
“I have at no time,” Burnside
continued, “during: the last twenty
years, known cargo to move from
San Francisco, Tacoma or Seattle,
on any other basis than strictly
weight, and the rates were at no
time assessed on a measurement
basis.
“Mr. Gerig should prove my state
ment false or true. He says furth
er ‘The new tariff is on a weight
basis exclusively and the cost to
the shipper is cut fifty per cent
under the old tariff rate.’
“Gerig is making a great talk
about a reduction of freight rates
but he does not explain how this is
done. He hasn’t explained that con
gress appropriated one million six
hundred and sixty-two thousand dol-.
lars to take care of this year’s oper-!
ating deficit on the government rail
road.
“Had the government given us
sixty-two-thousand dollars we wonld
have carried all of the Fairbanks
and Xenana freight now moving, at
less rates than the railroad pro
poses to charge, and the government
would still have one million six hun
dred thousand dollars which could be
applied to some useful purpose.
“What about the poor taxpayers
who are digging up millions to save
a few shippers.”
NEW EXPRESS RATES
SEATTLE, March 18.—A reduc
tion of nearly one-half in the exist
ing express rate between Seattle and
Fairbanks and other interior Alaska
points has been effected by an
agreement entered into between the
American Railway Express company
and the Alaskan government rail
road.
Under the terms of this agree
ment which becomes effective May
15th, the first class express rate be
tween Seattle and Fairbanks via
Seward or Anchorage has been fix
td at eleven dollars and sixty cents
per hundred pounds.
The expres rate agreement was
signed yesterday at Washington, D
j C., by Colonel Frederick Mears, rep
resenting the Alaskan government
railroad, and G. C. Taylor, presi
1 dent of the American Railway Ex
' press company.
Advices telling of the agreement
was received here this morning by
; William Gerig, assistant chief en
I gineer of the Alaska railroad.
The new all year express rate of
: $11.60 per hundred pounds com
pares favorably with express rates
I ruling in the States, being prac
| tically the same as the rate between
! Chicago and Seattle.
The tariff agreement provides for
< thru rates from all points in the
j United States to all points on the
Alaska railroad, and express offices
will be opened at the various sta
; tions along the road this spring.
The new tariff sheets will be
1 published immediately.
HOOVER DECIDES AGAINST
CANNERIES ON THE YUKON
FORD BREAKS SILENCE
REGARDING SHOALS PLANT
DETROIT, Mar. 17.—Declaring
that “if it is the last thing I shall
do in this world I will exert every
influence to keep the hands of Wall
Street off the Muscle Shoals” Henry
Ford today broke the silence he had
maintained regarding his recent of
fer to the government for purchas
ing the plant on Muscle Shoals.
TRAINS COLLIDE
BUTTE, March IS. — The west
bound Northern Pacific North Coast
limited collided today with a Butte
Billings local near Welsh.
The fireman was killed and sev
eral persons injured. A special
train with doctors and nurses left
here for the scene of the accident.
LATER—According to later ad
vices received from the scene of
the train wreck only a few were
injured, none of them very seri
ously. The body of an unknown
tramp was found in the -wreckage.
FORMER OFFICIAL
KILLS HIMSELF
SPOKANE, March IS.—Oscar L.
Cain former federal district attorney
of Eastern Washington committed
suicide today.
No reason has as yet been assign
ed for his rash act.
AMUNDSEN TO RESUME
ARCTIC EXPLORATION
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Mar. 18.
: —Captain Raoul Amundsen left
here today for New York en route
I to Seattle.
He is planning on leaving Seat
i tie early in June to resume his in
terrupted Arctic exploration.
INCOME TAX PAYMENT
TIME IS EXTENDED
SEATTLE. March 18.—The In
ternal Revenue Commissioner has
granted an extension of time to May
15th for filing income tax returns
i by taxpayers resident in Alaska and
Hawaii
PHILADELPHIA, March 17.—
The long controversy between the
Alaskan Indians and the big salmon
fisheries’ interests, relative to the j
establishing of salmon canneries on
the Yukon ar.d other rivers in the t
Territory of Alaska, was decided
finally by Herbert Hoover, secretary j
of commerce today, in favor of the .
Alaskan Indians.
This final decision was telegraph-,
ed this morning to Bishop Rowe by
Secretary Hoover, the biship and the
entire mission having supported and
assisted the Alaskan Indians in their
demands that the Carlisle Packing,
company’s cannery at the mouth of,
the Yukon be abolished on the.
ground that it was cutting off the ,
main source of the natives’ food
supply.
Similar conditions obtained on the
other Alaskan streams where the
operation of canneries was also vig
orously opposed.
In announcing the receipt of Sec
retary Hoover’s telegram, Bishop
Rowe stated that the bureau of fish- j
OLD HULKS RECONSTRUCTED
FOR ALASKA FISHING TRADE
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Mar. 13.
—Many ships are being made ready
at the various shipyards in the bay,
for the Alaskan fishing trade which
has developed greatly in recent
times and reached very considerable
proportions.
Among the vessels being refitted
for the trade is the old steamer City
of Sydney, the once-famous trans
pacific liner flying the pennant
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.,
and which was later junked. She
has now been refitted as a barken
, tine.
The Alaska Packers' Association
j Has also purchased the ships Ara
j paboe and the Sewall which had
I just been towed to the coast from
1 the east.
FIRE FATAL TO
THREE
PEOPLE
DETROIT, Mich., Mar. 17.—Two'
| children were burned to death and
[ the mother seriously injured when
j a fire destroyed their home today.
eries two years ago promulgated
regulations under which no commer
cial fishing would be permitted on
the Yukon and other Alaskan riv
ers after September 1st, 1921, and
that the salmon packing companies
had appealed for relief against
these laws to the department of
commerce.
In conclusion Bishop Rowe said
that “Secretary Hoover’s decision is
that the regulations shall stand, He
has done a wise and humane act,
it is upon the fishing in these Al
askan rivers that the natives depend
on for food for themselves and their
dogs. This commercial fishing has
been going on wholesale and the
result is that the natives have been
hard pushed to secure food; I know*
of instances where children were
starving and where the Indians had
to kill their dogs on whom they
place so much dependence for travel
ing and hauling in meat from their
hunts, because they had no foor
for them.”
NEW KING CROWNED IN
LAND OF THE PHAROAHS
CARIO, Egypt, Mar. 18.—Sultan
Ahmend Pasha was proclaimed King
of Egypt today amid the firing of
salutes in Cario and every other
city in Egypt that could support
a battery of artillery and with the
usual pomp and ceremonies attend
ing such affairs in the Far East
and the Old World.
Field Marshal Allenby, commander
in chief of the British forces in
Egypt with his staff officers called
at the palace and congratulated the
king whom he addressed as “Your
Majesty.”
COAL OPERATORS MAKE
STATEMENT TO MINERS
NEW YORK, March 18.—Anthra
cite coal operators notified the min
ers today that a deflation in the
cost of production of qoal has made
imperative a readjustment of wages
as the first necessary step in re
ducing the cost of coal to the con
sumer, thereby insuring the continu
ed stability of the coal industry.
MIXED BOUT BETWEEN
STRANGLER AND DEMPSY
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Mar. 18.—
Billy Sandow, manager for Strangler
Lewis, the world’s champion heavy
weight wrestler, posted five thous
and dollars today, in connection with
the challenge issued to Jack Demp
sey for a mixed match to be stag
ed anywhere in the United States,
the date to be decided later on
Lewis challenged Dempsey to a
finished fight, Dempsey being elig
ible to enter the ring with bare
fists and either hit or wTestle, while
Lewis must confine his efforts strict
ly to wTestling. No holds barred.
Kearns, Dempsey’s manager, stat
ed that Dempsey would be ready to
meet Lewis either in straight wrest
ling or in a mixed bout. “Lewis
couldn’t throw Dempsey in the first
twenty minutes of straight wrest
ling,” he said.
NO MIXED WRESTLING
NEW YORK, Mar. 18.—No mixed
wrestling bout such is purposed by
the Dempsey-Lewis match makers
will be allowed in the State of New
York, according to the state scre
tary of the atheletic commission,
who declared today that it was a
purely circus stunt.
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE TO
HELP JOBLESS VETERANS
INDIANAPOLIS, March 18.—The
United States Chamber of Com
merce has requested all local cham
bers to cooperate with the Ameri
can Legion in obtaining employ
ment for jobless veterans.
A letter containing the above in
formation was received at the Le
gion headquarters today.
ALASKAN MURDERER IS
PAROLED FOR BEHAVIOR
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Mar. 18.
—Boriss Rokocevich, a Bulgarian,
who was sentenced from Alaska to
serve a term of twenty-five years
; for murder, was parolled today aft
ter having served twelve years. The
parole was granted in recognition
of his good behavior while in jail.
FORMER SERVICE MAN IS
FOR SOLDIER BONUS BILL
WASHINGTON', D. C., Mar. IS.—
Congressman Lineberger of Cali
fornia, a former serviceman began
the circulation of a petition for a
conference of Republican members
of the house next Monday for the
purpose of considering compromise
bonus bill.
The petition received a number
of signatures within a very short
time.
Fifty signatures were necessary
owing to the fact that the petition
called for a conference and action
i taken then would not be binding on
: the members when the measure
1 came up before the house.
| Congressman Lineberger is very
much disappointed with the present
i form of the bill and in a speech in
the house counselled a vote on tho
| sales tax proposal.
—
BILL AS FINALLY REVISED
1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 18.—
i The compromise bonus bill, as fin
! ally revised was reintroduced in the
| house by Chairman Fordney of
.Michigan, who submitted a majority
j report from the ways and means
; committee, claiming the following
j advantages for the bill.
First: No new taxation or issu
i ance of new securities required,
i Second: It provides the means for
: obtaining aid for needy veterans. -
j Third: The amounts required aft
er July next year, will be small, and
car, be provided without a derange
ment of the financial system.
Fourth: It tends to promote sav
ing habits among the veterans.
Fifth: It protects the veteran and
his family from misfortune in th<
future.
Sixth: It will create a class of
home builders, and will greatly in
crease the mass of property in thu
country.
JAPANESE CONSUL’S
DISARMAMENT VIEWS
SEATTLE, March 18. — Hiro.se
[ Saito who is the Japanese Consul
I here, and had been secretary of the
Japanese delegation at the recen’
| arms conference, in an address de
! livered at the Rotary club today dt
i clared that ’’unless there is mental
j disarmament, the scrapping of i
I few warships will be of no avail"
■ for the preservation of peace in th ■
j Pacific or elsewhere in the world
l The mental disarmament referre 1
to, he declared, required that the
United States lift the present bar'
against Japanese immigration to the
States.
PREDICTED UNITED MINE
WORKERS FAVOR STRIKE
1 INDIANAPOLIS^ March 18—
Counting of the strike ballots wa
begun in the international headquar
ters of the United Mine Workers in
this city today.
Union officials predicted it would
show that a large majority were in
i favor of a strike on April first
But announced that the result of
;the ballot would be published only
in a percentage.
IRISH TROUBLES
NOT YET ENDED
j BELFAST, Irland, March 17—
j Twelve were hurt in this city today
| when daylight bombing took place
GALWAY ISLAND, March 17.—
Two members of the Royal Irish
Constabulary were killed today by
masked men.
KU KLUX KLANSMEN
DONATE TO CHURCH
SPOKANE, Wash., March 17.—
Two members of the Ku Klux Klan
entered a tent during the progree
of an Evangelist meeting toda>
handed the preacher a package con
taining fifty dollars and departed.