BUY A VICTORY BOND — THERE’S A REASON
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME TWO
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATFD PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919.
NUMBER 2T>
ITALIAN DELEGATES MAY COME BACK
JAPANESE CITY SWEPT BY FLAMES; LOSS GREAT
• NENANA DELEGATION FAVORS GRIGSBY CANDIDACY
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POLICE BELIEVE
BOLSHEVIK SENT
BOMB J MAYOR
SEATTLE, Ap- 29.—The police,
who are conducting a close investi
gation regarding the receipt of a
bomb through the ma'ls at the office
g of Mayor Hanson yesterday, be
lieve that the Bolsheviki were re
sponsible for it
Mayor Hanson was aware of the
fact that the radicals were plotting
against his life, in revenge for the
stand he took in the recent strikes.
The police watched the mayor
closely before he left the city for
Colorado, on a speaking tour on be
half of the Victory Loan.
CALLS IT COWARDLY ACT
PUEBLO. Colo.. Apr. 29.—Mayor
Hanson, of Seattle, speaking here
today on behalf of the Victory
Loan, stated that he knew that
union labor had nothing to do with
+ the sending of the bomb to him
yesterday. He referred to the epi-.
sode ms an act of cowardice, per
petrated by agitators.
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SIMPLE SERVICE
HI FUNERAL OF
CHAS. A. SULZER
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ELIZABETH, X. J., Apr, 29.—
With simple funeral services, the
body of the late Charles A. Sulzer
was committed to its last resting
place in the cemetery in this city
yesterday.
The funeral was largely attended
by the friends of the delegate-elect
from Alaska, among whom were
many senators, representatives and
high government officials.
QUARANTINE NOW
ESTABLISHED AT
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Dr. J. A Sutherland received a ■
telegram today from Governor
Riggs, stating that fifteen cases of
influenza had occurred at Cordova
and that there were no funds avail-'
able in the territorial treasury for
quarantine purposes for the Interior.
Dr. Sutherland, who is also assist
ant commissioner of health for the
territory, took the matter up With
the Fairbanks city council, and a
wire was sent o the territorial legis
lature, urging that body to make a
special appropriation to meet the
quarantine needs of Interior Alaska.
A quarantine station was estab
lished today at the Rapids road
house, with Tom Flanagan, the pro
prietor of the roadhouse in charge.
Hjalmar Nordale. of Fairbanks,
has been transferred from Camp
Grant, 111., to Fort Lawton. He will
probably be sent to Fort Gibbon j
in the summer to be discharged.
PRESS OF PARIS
RIDICULE LEAGUE
PARIS, Apr. 29.—The covenant
of the League of Nations, which has
now been made public, has aroused
but very little enthusiasm among the
French people, judging from scant
importance attached to its publi
cation by the press in general.
The Loeuvre, a newspaper which
had always supported President
Wilson, commenting very briefly on
it, says that the covenant is some
what disappointing.
A prominent writer in the Echo
de Paris, speaking on behalf of the
Nationalists, says that the League
of Nations is dead before its birth.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 29—The
first campaign literature issued by
the Republican party suggests Sen
ator Hiram Johnson, of California,
and Governor Lowden. of Illinois, as
possible candidates for president.
YOKOHAMA, Apr. 29—The most
disastrous fire known in the history
of the land visited the city of Yoko
hama today and ere it was gotten
under control, sixty entire blocks
were practically wiped out.
The fire was confined to the Jap
anse residence portion, where most
of the houses are built of bamboo
and other light material, which
quickly went up in snjoke.
The property loss is estimated at
seven million dollars. Thousands
of the people have been rendered
homeless. Two people were killed
and about thirty , injured in the
scramble to get out of range of
the flames.
LABOR DISTRIBUTION
FAULTY IN ENGLAND
LONDON.—Unemployment in Eng
land is greatest where a few months
ago industrial activity was most pro
nounced, in the munition centers,
according to an official of the labor
ministry.
In Birmingham, where thousands
of men. women and girls were em
ployed in the munition factories dur
ing the war. unemployment was 362
per 10,000, while in London it was
only 188, and for the entire country
170.
Of the unemployment policies held
throughout the country, 61 per cent
are in the hands of women, while
only 10.1 per cent are held by for
mer soldiers and sailors.
Andy Dieringer, the hustling livery
and transfer man of Valdez, has
added another truck to his fleet of
Ford autos This is the fourth, with
two five-passenger care.
DAWSON, Apr 29.—The river
ice is breaking: rapidly here and it
is expected that the river will be
open for navigation in about ten
days.
Mail Carier Percy de Wolfe broke
through the ice on Saturday, be
tween Dawson and Eagle. He sank
twice, but managed to scramble on
the ice and save himself with diffi
culty. His team of two horses were
drowned, but he managed to rescue
the mail.
The creeks are running full, and
mining operations will soon be in
full swing. Hvdraulicing started
last Friday.
ENIERS RAIS
SEATTLE. Apr. 29.—Wm. D.
Gilbert, who formerly held commis
sioned rank as major in the 16th
army division, enlisted today as a
non-commissioned officer in the
Sigma! Corps for service in Alaska.
Sergeant Gilbert, as he will be
known henceforth, previously served
seventeen years in the army.
FAIRBANKS OEMS
NAME DELEGATES
TO CONVENTION
According to a report received
from Fairbanks this afternoon, a
caucus of the Democrats of the
upper town was held yesterday even
ing at the Fairbanks city hall, at
which the delegates to the Demo
cratic convention which is to be held
at Juneau on May 2nd, were chosen.
The delegates were also instructed
to cast their votes in favor of
Luther C. Hess for delegate to con
gress on the Democratic ticket.
The delegates selected were A J.
Nordale, Luther C. Hess, Axel Cari
sten, John A. McIntosh, P. L. Le
Heureauz, L. T. Erwin, Chas. Mc
Dermott, A. L. Wilbur, J. O. Ellis,
H. Claude Kelly, George Poppell,
John A Clark, M. E. Manson, Andy
McKensie, Bob Sheldon, J P. Norris,
Jack O’Gara and T. H. Deal.
The delegates to the convention
selected from the outlying districts
were J. P. Schoesser from Fox,
Robert Staples from Gilmore, H. A.
Curier from Ester, William O’Leary
and Frank Conley from Chatanika,
and W. T. Bums from Little Eldo
rado.
MISS ETHEL MORRISON'S
OPERATION SUCCESSFUL
Little Miss Ethel Morrison, who
was operated on yesterday for ap
pendicitis, is reported to be doing
very well today. The operation was
very successful, and it is expected
that she will mend rapidly
YANKEE FORCES
10 BE RETIRED
FROM ARCHANGEL
ARCHANGEL, Apr. 29.—The
American forces are being gradually
withdrawn from the North Russian
front and. it is expected, that they
will leave the country when the
harbor opens and navigation is made
possible again.
The American forces are being re
placed by new Russian troops who,
schooled by the Americans and Brit
ishers, and with the aid of the Allied
artillery, on Saturday last attacked
and dispersed the Bolsheviki in
fantry.
HON DELEGATES
AT VERSAILLES
VERSAILLES, Apr. 2,9,—Eighty
seven German peace commissioners
arrived in this city today for the
purpose of attending the peace con
gress of all the powers.
They will remain in the city until
the final peace treaty is signed.
10 HAVE PERISHED
Inquiries made regarding the
whereabouts of Edward Lahato, a
trapper, by Game Warden Steve j
Foster recently, have been unavail
ing and from the accounts of the
Indians in the neighborhood of
where the man was last seen, he may
have perished.
Lahato, who claimed to be a Finn,
but is believed to be a German,
trapped a year ago last winter in
the Circle country, selling his catch
later at Tanana for a sum a little
in excess of $300.
He was seen last summer by Mr.
Foster, who was returning from a
trip to the Lake Minchumina coun
try. Lahato was in a canoe and on
his way up the Kantishna river.
He stated at the time that he was
going to Tacotna.
The man was reported to be
slightly demented by Indians and
others. He had no camping out
fit or grub, but lived on the game
he slaughtered on the way up the
Kantishna.
At McKinley river he puiV'hased
15 pounds of sugar, 30 pounds of
flour and a can of dried onions
from Tommy Cook. At that time
his outfit consisted of two rifles
and a lynx parka only.
He is said to have built himself
a little leanto of moss, which was
seen by the Birch creek Indians last
November. He had no stove or
bedding at the time.
Indians from the Minchumina and
the Birch creek districts trapped all
around him, but no trace ‘of the
man has been found since that
time. The Indians say that he must
have perished. They named him the
"Grass eater.”
LIGHTWEIGHTS 10
FIGHHONIGHT
NEWARK, N. J., Apr. 29.—Benny
Leonard, the holder of the light
weight championship and Willie
Ritchie, the former lightweight cham
pion, will fight an eight-round battle
here tonight. The title is not in
volved in the fight arranged.
Ritchie was given the newspapet
decision over Leonard in a four
round bout which the lads fought
at San Francisco in February.
NATIONS’ LEAGUE
MAY MEET FIRS!
PARIS. Apr. 29.—A proposal has
been made by those closely con
nected with the League of Nations
that the first meeting of the league
will be held at Washington, D. C .
this year.
If the proposal goes through and
the league actually meets at Wash
ington, President Wilson will doubt
lessly be asked to be the first presi
dent of the league.
MANY CASES OF
FEU REPORTED AT
CORDOVA AGAIN
A telephone message was received
last night by Dr. David More from
Dr. J. A. Sutherland, of Fairbanks,
who is territorial assistant commis
sioner of health, to the effect that
sixteen cases of flu had made their
appearance in Cordova in the last
few days.
Dr. Sutherland also stated that
owing to the fact that there was
no money available for the purpose
no quarantine against the coast town
had been established, although such
steps were contemplated just as
soon as funds to carry it out could
be secured from the territorial
treasury.
Dr. More will await further de
velopments ere taking any action
in the matter as health officer of the
Nenana district It is expected,
however, that the local authorities
will keep a sharp lookout against
the introduction of the disease into
this district.
The closing of the Broad Pass
trail leaves fewer avenues of en
trance to be guarded and these will
be well taken care of.
TUESDAY BRIDGE CLUB
AT THE MOYER HOME
The Tuesday Bridge club will
meet at the usual hour this even
ing at Mrs. Leroy Moyer’s resi
dence, on Second and B streets.
Play will commence promptly it
8 o’clock and all members are urged
to be present on time.
Those unable to attend are re
quested to send a substitute in
their place.
ITALIAN PLACE
DELEGATES MAY
RESUME DUTIES
Associated Press Summary. Apr.
2ft.—There are ample indications
that the Italian peace delegates will
probably return to Paris soon and
resume their places at the peace
table.
The Italian parliament meets in
Rome today, and if it approves of
the stand taken by Premier Orlando
and the course he has pursued in
the Adriatic imbroglio, it is prob
able that the Paris diplomatic battle
will be resumed.
Ambassador Pajre, before leaving
Rome for Paris, called on Premier
Orlando and the two had a friendly
conversation. Mr. Page said that
he regretted the situation that had
arisen over the Fiume dispute and
said that he believed that the situa
tion had been aggravated by Italian
, newspaper criticism, based on a
. wrong interpretation of President
Wilson’s attitude.
REP. CONFERENCE
10 DECIDE ABOUT
NATIONS’ LEAGUE
Washington. Apr in*.—Sena
tor Lodge of Massachusettes, chair
man of the Senate Committee of
Foregin Relations, telegraphed to
all Republican senators today, ask
ing them to withhold public ex
pressions regarding the League of
Nations until such time as the Re
publican conference decides on tha
attitude to be adopted.
The Republican conference is to
be convened soon, but the exact
date has not been fixed as yet
MOOSE MEETING
. EARLY TONIGHT
The regular semi-monthly meet
ing of Nenana Lodge No. 1193
Loyal Order of Moose will be held
tonight at Moose Hall, on Fourth
and B streets.
The meeting will be called to
order at 7 o’clock, instead of 8, as
usual, owing to the large volume
of business to be transacted.
The regular meeting will be fol
lowed by a jolly smoker. All visit
ing Moose are cordially invited to
attend both the buisiness meeting and
the smoker.
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