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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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VOLUME ONE member of associated press
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NENANA. \LA3KA.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15.
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1919
WHOLE NUMBER 237
BRITISH DELEGATE DISCUSSES LEAGUE
WILSON MAKING SURVEY OF GERMAN DAMAGE
BERLIN RIOTERS DIRECTED BY WARSAW MANAGERS
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Actual Personal Damage Suffered
In France and Belgium Is to
Be Ascertained.
* (A wsooisi too Press)
PARIS, Jan. 15.—Two hundred
officers of the United States army
, will probably conduct a survey to
give President Wilson an estimate
of the actual personal damage
France and Belgium suffered dur
ing the war at the hands of the
- Germans.
President Wilson is planning on
using this estimate when the peace
conference comes to the discussion
of indemnities.
Observers believe that the actual
damage done will be so great that
the Allies will be more concerned
with Germany’s ability to pay it,
than with the possibility of exact
ing further indemnities and war
costs.
President Wilson believes that
the damages ought to be restricted
to restitution, reparations and re
storations and should be extended
to the financial punishment of the
German people.
Bolshevikis Get Busy In Mexico
and Events Appear to Be
Shaping or Trouble.
(Assoc luted T'ress)
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 15.—Hand
bills, in the Spanish language, signed
by the Mexican Bolshevikis, have
been distributed broadcast.
The hand bills state that Presi
dent Carranza, Francisco Villa- Felix
Diaz, Esteben Canyu, governor of
Lower California, and all other
leaders and rich men in Mexico
must be killed.
French Will Use Large Number of
German Prisoners In Woirk of
Reconstruction.
Associated J***«iss
PARIS, Jan. 15—The French cab
inet has decided to recommend the
use of two hundred thousand Ger
man prisoners of war, in the recon
struction work in the liberated dis
tricts.
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Xanana, Where Xrlls and mtvere Meet
national Park.
CHINESE VOLUNTEER
DIES FOR DEMOCRACY
| POCATELLO, Idaho.—Sam Soo
Hoo, who bore the distinction of be
ing the only Chinese from the state
j of Idaho to join the American
forces, is dead from wounds re
ceived in action Sam Soo Hoo
is thought to be the first Chinese
from the Northwest to make the su-!
preme sacrifice.
i He volunteered in July, 1917,
and left for Camp Lewis with a
! contingent of Bannock, Idaho draft
ees. His father is said to be a
resident of Portland. Ore.
, Greece Presents Claim for Te-ritory
to Peace Conference, Along
President Wilson's Lines.
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fAssociatcil Pross)
i PARIS, Jan. IB.—The Associated
1 Press reports indicate today that
the government of Greece asks the
peace conference that Northern
| Epirus and Thra'ce with the excep
| lion of the city of Constantinople,
1 be annexed to Greece proper.
The Greek government also says
that there are 120,000 Greeks in
Epirus.
Annexation of the territory men
tioned is claimed in accordance
with a portion <lf President Wil
son’s peace principles, which have
been accepted as a basis for con
cluding peace.
Article 11 of the American peace
. principles as laid down by Presi
!(len Wilson is as follows:
“Rumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should be evacuated, occu] ied
territories restored. Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea;
and the relations of the several Bal
kan states to one another deter
mined by friendly counsel along
historically established lines of al
legiance and nationality; and inter-’
national guarantees of the political
and economic independence and ter
ritorial integrity of the several
Balkan states should be entered
into.” ,
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HONOLULU GAMBLERS
BEING ROUNDED UP
HONOLULU.—Action by local
authorities to break up the gam
bling ring which, it is charged has
flourished among the Orientals ^
here has resulted in the indictment
of eleven Japanese, Chinese and j
Hawaiians. Vigorous action is
pledged to end gambling in Hono
; lulu.
FAIRBANKSANS TRY TO
HELP THE HOSPITAL
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Mrs. John Rapp, of Fairbanks, is
selling tickets for the raffle of a
gold brooch, the proceeds of the
raffle to go towards payirfr off the
indebtedness of the St. Joseph’s hos
pital. I
The brooch has been donated, but
the party donating it does not wish
any p\blicity, and it is therefore
kept secret.
Reports from the upper town in
; dicate that other plans are under
way for the relief of the hospital, j
The total indebtedness of the hos-'
pital is said to be about forty
thousand dollars. j
CORDOVA. — Salmon returned
this year for the first time, in full
numbers to some of the Alaska
waters which were putted with lava
and ashes by the eruption in 1912
of Mount Katmai, said to be one
of the world's greatest volcanoes.
After the big eruption and its
attendant disturbances, salmon dis
appeared from the nearby streams
for several seasons- Gradually they
returned. By next year, it is
thought here, nearly all of the
streams affected will be alive with
fish again.
At Afognak, which lies on Afog
nak Island, across Shelikoff Straits
from Mount Katmai, the Bureau of
Fisheries of the department of
commerce has a station. This year
the bureau reported a successful
collection of salmon eggs was mail''
at the close of the spawning season,
the total amounting to close to
f> 1.681,000.
“This catch constitutes the larg
est take of the sockeye species
since the Katmai eruption and
seems to indicate the complete re
covery of these waters from the
disastrous effects of the eruption”
reads a bureau statement.
Fishermen arriving here from
the waters near Katmai said the
Indians this year were catching sal
mon in streams from which they
were driven six years ago by the
big “smoke pot” as the volcano is
known on the nearby islands.
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Conservatives Win In Organizing
National Labor Congress For
Mooney Defense.
AssfK'Intofl PnM,°
CHICAGO, Jan. 15—The conscr
ative element defeated the radicals
two to one in organizing a national
labor congress, which was held in
this city today, to consider plans
for the defense of Thomas Mooney,
the convicted dynamif.er.
Dr. Nolan, codefendant with
Mooney, was named chairman of the
labor congress.
WOMEN OF SKAGWAY
ARE TAKING CHARGE
SKAGWAY.—Women are con
ducting four of Skagway’s business
concerns. War and work work has
drawn a large number of Skagway
men to the south.
A Skagway restaurant and hotel,
known by hundreds of tourists who
have passed through here- is being
conducted by a woman. Her sis
ters in trade are managing cloth
ing stores, two of them handling
men’s furnishings.
ADULTERER FINED
TWO HUNDRED BONES
The marshal’s ofice at Fairbanks
received advices from Iditarod to
the effect that Albert Haynes, of
Aniak, was convicted of adultery at
Aniak and was fined $200.
He was unable to pay the fine
and has elected to serve it out in
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IX * HON, Jan. 15.—According to
reports received in this city from
Lisbon today, revolutionists at San
tarem. a town lying t( the north
east of Lisbon, having refused to
surrender to the government troops,
the latter surrounded the town and
have commenced a bombardment.
CORDOVA HOME GUARD
TO CONTINUE ACTIVE
CORDOVA.—Now that the war
is nifjr, Alaska’s Home Guard,
which came into being during the
European conflict, is working to
maks'r'he organization permanent.
Tn Cor,leva the local company has
named) i . mmittee toward that end
arm Av iar action has been gen
eralfe 'followed where there are
• iorSe' lard companies.
The general hope prevails among
the gi ^ "d that territorial or fed
eral government support will be
forthcoming to place the guard o
the je footing as the national
guard in the States. It is proposed
to have officers commissioned by
the governor and to have sufficient
ammunition to permit a regular
target practice- The various guard
companies havj worked hard since
their fora/ntion and are said by
high degree of proficiney in mili
their officers to have reached a
tary drill.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 15.—
General Leonard Wood, command
ing at Camp Funston, has been
assigned to the command of the
Central Department, with head
quarters at Chicago.
ALASKANS RETURNING;
COAST MINES RE-OPEN
JUNEAU.—Men are already re
turning North to man the Alaska in
dustries which they left crippled
when they dropped their work and
hastened to the States in answer
to the calls of war and war work.
Officials are confident that by
spring the sunshine of promise will
again brighten the path of this al
most manless territory.
Here in Juneau enough men have
returned to enable the Alaska Gas
tineau Mining corporation to add
another shift to its big gold stamp
mill at Thane, near here. For
nearly a year the mills have been
operated but eight hours a day on
account of the labor shortage. By
spring the company expects to be
running twenty-four hours again.
Enough men will be here early
in the year, it is believed, to re
open the Jualian mine, a property
near Juneau which has not been
operated since 1917. A Belgian
syndicate which owns the mine has
cabled that it will put a full force
at work within a few months.
Towns in Southwestern Alaska
hard hit by the rush southward
last year, are preparing for the
tide of immigration which they
think will set North again in the
spring.
ALASKA MAY HAVE
TANK BARGE SERVICE
CORDOVA.—Construction of 3
tank barges to carry oil from Ka
talla to Cordova, if built and put
into operation next summer as plan
ned. will mark the first tank barge!
line to be established in Alaska.
Specifications of the barges that
are planned by an oil company
call for tank capacity of 600 bar-,
l'el • each. It is proposed to build
the barges either of wood and steel ;
or concrete, with decks for use in
carrying freight.
Up to the present a small launch ,
has been utilized in carrying oil ,
supplies to Cordova from Katalla.
Occasional Outbursts, Which Are
Easily Put Down, Now Mark
the Spartacan’s Campaign.
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BERLIN, Jan. 15. The Asso- i
ciated Press announce that the long 1
week of unrest and strife, culmin- ;
iiting in much bloodshed- hits now i
ended in Berlin.
The scattered Spartacans, who \
are mostly youths, fire occasionally \
from house tops and make feeble .
spasmodic efforts to revive the ,
reign of terror. ]
The attempts made so far to re
sumo the strife have been im m
nificant.
It is believed that two hundred
were killed and about a thousand
wounded during the fighting, most
of whom were Bolshevikis.
Documents taken from captured
Spartacan strongholds show that
the uprising was directed from
Moscow.
Property losses during the week
of bloodshed and rapine will run
into tons of millions of marks.
Dr. Liebknecht’s sister, it is re
ported, has been placed under ar- |
rest.
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YANKEES GET CHANCE
TO BUY HUN SHARES
HONOLULU—Stock in Hawaiian 1
sugar companies totaling 60,262
shares and having a par value of 1
$2,487,000 and a market value of '■
$4,500,000 will be sold at auction 1
here early this year under instruc- 1
tions received from A. Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of enemy alien 1
property. The securities involved '
now are held by enemy aliens. i
This sale will make the Hawaiian
sugar industry “100 per cent Amer
ican.” The recent organization of
H. Hackfield & Co., under the
name of the American Factors, Ltd.
which involved the sale of all prop
erty owned by enemy aliens, having
taken that immensely wealthy and
influential concern entirely out of
the hands of German subjects. 1
Americans who purchased shares
in The American Factors, Ltd.,
made a profitable investment. The
stock sold at $150 and now is
quoted on the Honolulu stock ex- ;
change at $225.
SOME NERVE
HONOLULU.—Since the signing
of the armistice fourteen German
subjects residing in the territory
have applied for American citizen
ship.
International Force on Land and
Sea Is Not Feasible Says
British Diplomat.
f Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 15.—The Associ
ited Press says that Lord Robert
lecil, who has been assigned by
he British government, to repre
sent England’s ideas regarding the
-oague of Nations, said that he be
ieved, that a League of Nations
ihould consist of an improved asso
■iation of nations, established for
hi' purpose of providing safeguards
or peace- and securing better eo
iperation among the nations of the
■arth.
He said that the basis of such a
eague should be an agreement
imong nations, by which each one
linds itself to see that all warlike
lisputes are presented to the
eague’s tribunal for consideration,
ind to the use of force to ac■
omplish the object, of necessary.
Quarrels among the nations are
0 remain under consideration of
he league for a specifc time and
1 further time to elapse after a de
■ision has been reached by the
eague, before the contending coun
ries are allowed to fight it out.
Uoral force to be the ultimate
actor employed to prevent war
Lord Cecil said that he did not
hink the establishment of an inter
lational army or navy was feasible.
Unpopular Grand Duchf** Abdicate*
In Favor of Her Si*ter, Who
Mounts Throne.
LUXEMBURG, Jan. 15.— l’nncess
charlotte, a sister of Grand Duchess
Harie of Luxemburg, has been
•hosen to rule over Luxemburg in
uecesion to the unpopular pro-Ger
nan grand duchess, by the Chamber
if Deputies of the duchy.
Grand Duchess Marie formally ab
licated under pressure of ihe people,
vho strongly objected to he1' Ger
nan leanings.
ROOSEVELT FUNDS
'olonel, Before Death Donated
La~g Sum In Aid of Village*
Near Where Son Fell.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Colonel
Roosevelt, shortly before his death,
isked the Red Cross to donate
16,900 of its share of the Nobel
leace prize money received from
lim, towards the reconstruction and
lid of the French village near where
lis son Quentin lies buried.
Xanana—The Ontuway to XoXinloy
National Pa.'k.