The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919
WHOLE NUMBER 273
BRITISH WORKERS INSIST ON REFORMS
GERMAN MONARCHIS TS WANT PO WER RES TGRED
REPUBLICANS PREPARE TO TAKE CHARGE IN HOUSE
OF GOVERNMENT
LONDON, Feb. 27—An industrial
parliament, composed of the repre
sentatives of employers, workers
and government officials, assembled
together at Westminister today.
There were eight hundred dele
gates present at the meeting, repre
senting over ten million workers.
.James Henry Thomas, general
secretary of the National Union of
Railwaymen, speaking for and on
behalf of the miners, railwaymen
and trasport workers, said that
labor was determined to shorten the
hours of work and to have a share
in determining conditions of man
agement. The workmen are also
strong for and take a firm stand
on state ownership of the mines
and railroads.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Presi
dent Wilson has nominated A. Mit
chell Palmer, alien property cus
todian, to be attorney general of
the United States. He succeeds
Attorney General Gregory, who re
quested to be relieved of his duties.
The new attorney general will
probably take his oath of office
and assume duties on March 4.
No intimation . is made as to who
will succeed Palmer as alien prop
erty custodian.
MEEKLY ERKIN
SERVICEJTARTEO
Commencing on Monday, March
3, and until further notice, a train
will run out to the end of steel,
starting from the foot of A street,
at 8 a m., three times a week, viz:
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sa
urdays, when freight, mail and
passenegrs will be taken to points
on the line south of town and as
far as the end of steel,
The Commission officials may
run extra trains as required, but
these will not be for the public.
The tri-weekly service, it is thought,
will meet all the demands of the
public.
OLNES MAN STRIKES
A RICH PAY STREAK
According to reports received
over the telephone this afternoon
from Fairbanks, the people of Olnes
are very optimistic regarding the
future of lower Dome creek on
account of the fact that Emil Dorf
ner is reported to have struck a
rich paystreak on the creek.
The pay is said to have been
found by Dorfner on 13 below
Dome creek and he is reported to
be installing a large plant on the
ground for the purpose of mining
extensively during the coming
summer.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Presi
dent Wilson has nominated J. I).
Clements, a prominent lawyer of
Helena, Montana, to be district at
torney of the Second judicial divi
sion of Alaska, with headquarters
at Nome.
FORMAL WELCOME
10 PRESIDENT IS
VERY IMPRESSIVE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The
I city formally welcomed President
Wilson home today. A big- parade,
headed by the President, went down
Pennslyvania avenue, cheered by
, countless thousands of people,
j The President marched directly
, behind the marine band, shoulder
; ing a big American flap:.
i
: Before the start, escorted by a
'committee of citizens, the President
, reviewed the troops who were to
form the parade, drawn up in col
umn before the White House.
Just before the start of the
parade, an army captive sausage
balloon broke away from her moor
ings and went sailing away in space
before the stiff wind blowing at the
time. The balloon landed safely
nine miles away, but without the
pilot. It is thought that the pilot
made a parachute descent before
the balloon landed.
FAIRBANKS SETTLES
THE FUMIGATION BILL
—
j At a meeting of the Fairbanks
city council, held Tuesday night, a
bill amounting to $487.50, present
ed by Undertaker Ross,-was ordered
! paid, the bill was for fumigating
the mails.
An attempt will be made to in
duce the territory to share part of
l this expense oh the ground that
1 mails for other parts of Alaska
j passed through Fairbanks and were
| fumigated.
Some time ago Governor Riggs
i refused to entertain the proposition
l of paying for fumigating mails on
| the strength of the statement made
! by the surgeon general of the army
that it was not possible to transmit
the influenza bacilli through the
mails.
GEORGE WILSON FILES
HOMESTEAD APPLICATION
George W* Wilson filed his appli
cation yesterday afternoon at the
Fairbanks Land office for a home
stead claim in the Big Chena Hot
Springs district.
j The homestead embraces about
i 300 acres of land on which Wilson
has lived for the past seven years.
! Australia was discovered by the
: Netherlander in 1606, its coasts
' surveyed by their navigators from
11618 to 1627, and the name of New
Holland bestowed on it by order of
the states general in 1665. It was
not until more than a century later,
in 1770, that Captain Cook and
'others landed at Botany Bay and
’ named the country New South
V ales.
[FRENCH OPPOSED !
10 SINKING OF
GERMAN VESSELS
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PARIS, Feb. 27—The Matin, one
of the leading papers of Paris, in
an article devoted to the question
; of the surrendered German fleet
and its final disposal, says that the
\ French peace delegates very firmly
oppose the suggestion made that the
; ships be sunk.
The surrendered fleet is at pres
! ent in the Firth of Forth, closely
guarded by an Allied naval force.
SAXONHIECTS
BASEL, Switzerland. Feb. 27.—
According to reportts received in
this city today, the newly elected
chamber of deputies of the free
state of Saxony, has elected Julius
Frashdorn, the majority Socialist
leader, to be the first president
of the new. free state.
I
WILSON 10 TALK
10 NEW YORKERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Presi
dent Wilson has accepted an invita-(
(tion to speek at New York on Tues-.
i day night, on the eve of his sailing
; for France to attend the peace con
ference.
Former President Taft will also
be. one of the speakers at the meet- ^
ing, which is being held under the
auspices of the various societies
who are advocating the formation
, of a /league of nations.
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i LOAN BAN REMOVED
LONDON.—The government ban
'on fresh borrowings of capital has
i been removed so far as local au
! thorities are concerned. These can
now submit proposals to the Local,
Government Board for the raising!
of loans to carry out public utility
improvements which have been de
, layed by war restrictions.
NEW STREET TO BE
BUILT IN FAIRBANKS
L —
1 At the last meeting of the Fair- j
I banks city council it was decided
■ to acquire the property known as
the Fraction, and build a road thru
from First to Second avenue. i
1 Xhe price fixed for the property j
by the owner, Billy Kramer, is
$2,000. The city qf Fairbanks will
pay half of the price asked, the
balance is t^ be raised by subscrip
tion among the people.
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PARIS, Feb. 27.—Premier oi
France, Georges Clemenceau, whc
was shot at and wounded recently
has now almost quite recovercc
from his wounds.
He resumed his official tasks to
day, apparently none the worse foi
the experience.
GET 0EG0EAII0N;
FIRST OF KIND
WASHINGTON,- Feb. 27.—The
first woman to win the American
distinguished service medal is Mist
Beatrice McDonald, of the Reserve
Nurse corps.
Miss McDonald was serious!)
wounded while on duty at a Brit
ish casualty station during a Ger
man night raid.
Secretary of War Baker has in
vited Miss McDonald to the wai
department, where she will receive
the decoration with formal cere
monies.
LONDON. Feb. 27.—The Copen
hagen correspondent of the Londo"
Mail, in a despatch to his papei
quotes the former kaiser as having
said that Count Broekdorff, the Ger
man foreign minister, stated thal
Germany will soon repent having
overthrown the monarchy.
The ex-kaiser also said that then
were still some good patriots ir
Germany who would not allow thi
country to become bankrupt.
MAIL LEFT NENANA
ON STAGE THIS MORIS
Thelin’s stage pulled out this
morning for Fairbanks with th<
mail and some freight.
He will leave Fairbanks on his
return trip about Monday or- Tucs
day of next week.
UNCLE SAM FOLLOWS
MEN WITH PAY CHECKS
SAN JUAN.—Though some Port
Ricans who were employed during
the war in a government picric acic
plant at Little Rock, Ar., left then
without first collecting wages dm
them and came to San Juan, thej
have failed to dodge the govern
ment paymaster. A cable frorr
Washington recently informed Cap
tain J. N. Parrott that amount!
still due the men will be paid then
by Captain Barr, the disbursing
officer for Porto Rico.
PROSPEROUS YEAR
HONOLULU.—Stocks ■ in whicl
there is active trading on the Hono
lulu stock exchange paid, durinf
1918, $9,674,527-62 in dividends.
i 10 RULE AGAIN
1 LONDON, Feb. 27.—The Berlin
j correspondent of the London Mail
! says that the monarchists of Ger
many are planning on striking an
[early blow :it the newly formed
, German republic. The old officer
! class of Germans are gradually get
jting hold of the whip handle and
they are very active in furthering
| the monarchial cause.
A secret meeting, held at Char
i lottenburg, February 16, was at
tended by thirty officers,
i Each one of them pledged his life
land property to the cause and also
I undertook to enlist the aid of
others against the present republi
can government.
, The government has been fully
j warned of the intended move by the
monarchists.
TRACE FOUND Of
MICCIMP
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1 PORT ORCHARD, Ore., Feb. 27
A piece of flotsam, bearing the
name of the steamer George Loomis,
j was picked up on the beach yester
■ day.
j This is believed to be the first
! definite indication of the fate of
ithe oil tanker George Loomis, which
j disappeared mysteriously several
‘ months ago.
, The flotsam found on the beach
is said to be a piece of the ship’s
cabin.
FORCE SENT TO
RESTORE ORDER
AMONG SAXONS
I _
j BERLIN, Feb. 27— The govern
ment of the new republic of Sax
ony has despatched an ample force
| of soldiers to Halle to maintain
order.
j The commander of the troops
! sent into Halle has received his
{orders to use the sternest measures
.j possible in quelling the disorders.
! The reports received in Berlin
this morning indicate that there is
some danger of the spread of the
Spartacan troubles to Leipsig, one
■ of the most important towns in
Saxony. The troops sent to thal
state are thought to be ample t,c
protect Leipsig also.
i Talking machines are not new
In 1264 Friar Bacon made a brazev
head which spoke. Ea^ly in the Iasi
1 centry ’ an automaton was shown ir
London which pronounced sentences
.with fair distinctness; and in Augusl
1870, Faber’s talking machine was
exhibited in London.
Judas is still burned in effigy, oi
i hanked, on every Good Friday oi
• Holy Saturday in Portugal. Mexico
; Spain, and wherever Portuguen
j blood prevails. .
TO IKE PLANS
WASHINGTON, I). C.—The Re
publican members of the House
of Representatives will hold a con
ference tonight, at which a candi
date for election as speaker of the
next House will be nominated.
1 The Republicans have two hun
dred and forty-two members in the
next House of Representatives.
j WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Presi
dent Wilson has nominated Norman
Ilapgood, of New York, to be min
ister of Denmark.
Minister Hapgood succeeds Maur
ice Egan, who has resigned ids post,
owing to ill health.
RERUN, Feb. 27.—The funeral
of Kurt Eisner, the late premier
, of Bavaria, who was assassinated
by Lieutenant Count Arco Valdey,
i last Friday, took place yesterday
| at Munich.
I Imposing ceremonies and demon
|strations marked the funeral, which
is, deserribed as the most imposing
funeral ever held in the Bavarian
capital.
THE 80LSHEVIKI
i
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 27.—Accord
‘ irig to reports received in this city
' today, the Esthonian forces, who
pi,.
had been heavily engaged in battle
with the forces of the Bolsheviki
hear Narva, Pskov, Volmar and
Salisbury, claim to have repulsed
the latter after some very severe
fighting.
The Bolsheviki retired with heavy
losses, with the Esthonians in close
pursuit.
INFANTRY CAPTAIN SENDS
GREETINGS FROM FRANCE
i ' Amonir the many letters and
cards received in Nenana on the
last mail, was one from Captain
G. A. Pande, commanding Company
K, 36th Infantry, now stationed in
>a military encampment near Dun
kirk, France.
j The missive, which was a belated
! Christmas card, was addressed to
i Mrs. Bagley, of the A. E. C. hos
j pital, who is Captain Pande’s sister.
Captain Pande’s regiment is now
■ resting after the strenuous times
1 preceding the signing of the armis
! tice, awaiting orders to embark for
| the States.