WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
• Volume Two member of associated press
NENANA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1919.
Number 99
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS RAILROAD
CONGRESSMEN READY TO START ROAD CLEANUP
PACIFIC FLEET PASSES THROUGH CANAL SAFELY
CLUB WILL IRT
■ TO DIVERT MAIL
TO BROAD PASS
An effort is to be made by the I
Xenana Commercial club to induce j
the postoffice department to route i
* Interior Alaska mail during the com
ing winter by way of the new Broad ■
Pass trail, which is now approach-1
ing the Interior rapidly from the
end of steel in the Anchorage divi
sion of the government railroad.
The advantage of using the new
trail as a mail route was brought
to the attention of the club at a
meeting held last night, and while
* it is recognized that considerable
difficulty may be experienced ir,
persuading a slow-moving depart
ment to consent to such a change
on short notice, the advantages,
both to the government and to In
terior Alaska, are such as to make
the effort worth while.
^ A committee consisting of Robert
Joseph Diven, Fred’k D. Browne, j
and R. G. Southworth was appoint-1
td to investigate the proposition
and to take such action as might be
deemed advisable to bring about the
desired result.
The Secrest party, sent out from
Anchorage by the Alaskan Engi
neering commission to locate the
^ government railroad from Indian
river to Xenana canyon, has con
structed a good road from the end
of the grade at Indian river to a
point about twenty miles north, and
^ it is the intention of the party to
complete the road to the end of
steel south of Xenana before the
freezeup. That will insure a rapid
means of communication between
ends of steel during the coming
^ winter, over a splendid winter trail.
The distance between railheads, by
the time the wagon road is com
pleted, probably will not be more
than one hundred miles.
The use of the Xenana-Anehor
age highway in the manner sug
* gested by the club will insure in
creased tonnage for the government
railroad, lessen the time required
for hauling mails to Interior Alas
ka. and facilitate the delivery of
mails in districts adjacent to the
railroad which are now without
^ service. The Broad Pass trail also
has the advantage of being free
from difficult summits and deep
drifts.
The department necessarily must
route the Interior mail via Broad
Pass eventually, and, in the opinion
of the club, the change can be made
profitable for the government by
taking advantage of the short haul
immediately.
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M’PHERSON SUCCESSFUL;
COMMITTEE FAVORABLE
SMUGGLERS ARE
10 BE STOPPED
BY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26 —
The smuggling of arms and ammuni
tion into Mexico for the use of ban
dit forces and troops opposing the
Carranza government is to be stop
ped by the American authorities if
it is possible to do so, according to
a statement issued today by officials
of the federal government. Efforts
to put a stop to the traffic, which
has assumed huge proportions, will
be redoubled within the immediate
future.
A proclamation issued by the
President, dated July 12 and made
public today, restores the control of
munition shipments to the state de
partment.
The government is permitting
shipments of arms to Carranza for
use against the Mexican rebels.
BERLIN, July 26.—Serious trou
I ble is reported to have occurred at
; Strassburg, capital of Alsace, be
I tween civilians and the French
| troops which are occupying the city.
! Details of the trouble have not yet
■reached this city, but the reports
indicate that many people were in
volved in the fighting and that a
i number of deaths resulted.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
approved the plans for one of the
I largest dirigible hangars in the
| world, which the navy department
will erect immediately on the shores
, of Lake Hurst, New Jersey.
! The hangar will be used for the
; housing of the big dirigible which
j the navy department will acquire
1 abroad next year.
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FISHER OFFERS PRIZE
FOR LONGEST DRIVE
Joe Fisher, of the Fairbanks
Clothing company, will give a prize
of a hat, a silk shirt or a pair of
shoes to the player making the
longest drive during the ball series.
Ituu, W'lere Kalla and Klvan Maei
I SEATTLE, July 26.—A Washing
ton special to the Post-Intelligencer,
which reached this city today from
| the national capital, conveys the
welcome news of successful results
obtained before the house commit
tee on territories by J. L. McPher
son, Alaska’s special representative,
who was retained by the department
of the interior to assist in securing
appropriations from Congress for
jthe government railroad in Alaska.
The special says that, as a result
j of three days’ work before the com
mittee by Mr. McPherson, it is now
i expected that the committee wrill
give its approval to the request of
Secretary Lane for an appropria
tion of seventeen million dollars for
|the completion of the Alaska rail
road.
Johnson Won Over.
The dispatch states further that
Representative Albert Johnson, of
Washington, who has severely criti
cised the work of the Alaskan En
gineering commission, has endorsed
the arguments advanced by McPher
son and will give his support, it is
believed, to the special appropria
tion bill.
May Let Ede» Go.
Several members of the house
committee on territories, before
whom was discussed this week the
special railroad appropriation bill, i
have expressed the belief that the
time has come for a reorganization
of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission, against which there has
been much complaint since the com-<
mencement of railroad construction
in Alaska. Chairman Edes is the
only remaining member of the com
mission.
FLEET IN PACIFIC;
CANAL IS PRAISED
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—
There is great elation in official cir
cles in this city over the splendid
performance of the Panama canal,
under the strain of accommodating
the largest vessels of the American
navy. According to advices received
in this city today from the flagship
New Mexico, four dreadnaughts of
the new Pacific fleet were lifted
through the Gatun locks yesterday,
that being the first attempt to ne
gotiate the waterway with such a
fleet, and it is the opinion of of
ficials of the navy that the canal
has amply proved its value for naval
purposes.
Twenty destroyers went through
| the canal on Thursday, and upon
'the arrival of the larger vessels at
| the Pacific end of the canal, the
'voyage of the fleet was resumed.
The fleet is scheduled to leave
Panama on Sunday for the North.
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ACCIDENT ENROUTE.
ABOARD THE NEW MEXICO,
July 26.—The only accident to oc
cur thus far to mar the pleasure
of the voyage of the Pacific fleet
was an explosion today aboard the
naval tender Melville, which is at
tached to the fleet. The explosion
caused the death of six men and
the injury of others. The ship’s
boiler exploded.
The Melville was the first large
naval vessel to cross the Atlantic
after America entered the war. Up
on arrival at Queenstown, on that
voyage, the vessel became the flag
ship of Admiral Sims.
MARINE STRIKE IS ENDED
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NEW YORK. July 26. — The
strike of 40,000 marine workers,
which has demoralized shipping in
Atlantic and Gulf ports during the
past three weeks, came to an end
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today and the men are busily en
gaged now in stowing away the car
goes which litter the piers.
It will take several weeks, of day
and night work, it is believed, to
catch up with the work.
BULGARIAN DELEGATION
HAS ARRIVED AT PARIS
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PARIS, July 26.—The members
• of the Bulgarian peace delegation
have arrived in this city to con
clude the peace negotiations be
tween Bulgaria and the Allies.
Mrs. P. S. Whitney, wife of the i
Fairbanks dentist, has wired her
husband from Seattle, advising him
: that she will leave for the North on j
| the steamship Alameda. 1
PROFESSOR IS ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF FINLAND
HELSINGFORS, July 26. — The
Finnish diet has elected Prof. K. J.
Stahlberg president of the repub
lic of Finland.
M. V. Tyler, who went out the
Nenana-Fairbanks line several days
ago to take views of the railroad
work for the Alaskan Engineering
commission, plans to visit Fairbanks
before returning to Xenana.
HOUSE LEADERS
URGING RECESS
OF FIVE WEEKS
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 26—
The majority leaders of the lower
house of Congress will try to ar
range with Republican senate lead
ers to agree upon a recess of five
weeks for th£ house, beginning next
week. Their proposal is that the
house members continue their com
mittee investigations and hearings,
but dispense with the regular order
of business until the senate has dis
posed of the peace treaty and the
League of Nations.
The belief is general that the
members of the senate will not lend
their support to the proposal.
STRIKERS LOSE
WASHINGTON, D. C , July 26.—
The strike of American aerial mail
carriers, which has the distinction
of being the first of the kind re
corded in any part of the world,
will go down in history with the
further distinguishing mark of hav
ing been one of the shortest strikes
in America! labor annals. The
striking aviators, who tied up the
service because of the refusal of
the postoffice department to rein
state two pilots who had been dis
charged, returned to their places
today without having gained their
point. The six aviators who were
dismissed yesterday, because of their
refusal to go out with the mail,
have been reinstated, but the two
pilots for whom the strike was
called will not get their places
back.
PACIFIC STEAMERS
MIX IN COLLISION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—The
steamers Frank H. Buck and Brad
ford have reported their return to
this port as the result of a col
lision during the night. Both ves
sels were damaged, but they are
making their way slowly to port
without assistance, and no difficul
ties are anticipated.
Both ships will undergo extensive
repairs here.
OPENING GAME
WILL START AT
The first meeting of the season
between Fairbanks ami Xenana
baseball player? will take place at
the school grounds this evening, the
match being the first of • a three
game series for the championship of
Interior Alaska. The opposing
teams are made up of the best play
ers in the two towns, and there *is
reason to believe that the games
jwill be closely contested. That is
the opinion of local “dopesters," at
[any rate, and additional assurance
of a good exhibition lies in the fact
that both teams are confident of
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winning the series. «
The game tonight will start at
7 o'clock, and the second game will
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| WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 26.—
Secretary of War Baker appeared
’before the senate military committee
Today for the purpose of urging the
authorization of an officers’ corps of
18,000 men, in connection with the
regular army.
Genera! March, chief of staff, has
informed the committee that the
work of demobilization is progress
ing rapidly, being at this time con
siderably ahead of schedule. The
army, he says, is now down to half
a million.
j AUGUSTA, Me., July 26.—The
American bombing plane which is
making a flight around the rim of
the United States for the purpose
t of gathering information for the
government, reached this city safe
ly from Washington, and is prepar
ing to start on the second leg of
the journey.
The next stop will be made at
j Cleveland, a distance by the aerial
route of 660 miles from this city.
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COUNCIL BELIEVES
' PARIS, July 26.—The supreme
j council is said to consider a force
■ of 150,000 men necessary for the
j occupation of the left bank of the
, river Rhine, as a precaution against
j hostile activities on the part of the
j Germans.
i The council also has under con
| siueration a proposal to place troops
| in Silesia while the elections are in
| progress in that country.