WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. II.
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1919.
NO. 199
OPERATORS RESENT WAGE SUGGESTION
MINING CONGRESS ADVOCATES BONUS ON GOLD
PRESIDENT S SECRETARY DENIES RELATIONS STRAINED
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CHICAGO. Nov. 22. — Approxi
mately one thousand delegates, rep
resently various farmers' organiza
tions and the Non-Partisan leag i?,
y. are gathered in convention in this
city for the purpose of selecting a
candidate for President of the Unit
ed States, in opposition to the Dem
ocrats and the Republicans. The
convention was called by the Na
tional Labor party, with which the
* farmers and the Non-Partisan
leaguers have been invited to affili
ate.
The convention was called to or
der by John Fitzpatrick, president
of the Chicago committee, who in
formed the delegates that the con
vention would attack both the old
4 political parties, the Democrats first,
because of their unfriendly attitude
toward labor.
The convention, he said, also
would consider a resolution urging
the recognition of the Russian so
viet government by the United
y States.
Factions Clash.
Prior to the convening of the con
vention. the conservative and radi
cal factions of the American Fed
eration of Labor clashed during a
committee meeting, and further
♦ trouble is expected before the close
of the convention.
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COLLEGE ELEVENS ARE
DRIVING AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 22.—The
Oregon “Aggies" are at battle with
the Washington State college foot
ball eleven here this afternoon, with
the visitors favorites.
HARVARD DEFEATS YALE
IN ONE-SIDED MATCH
HARVARD STADIUM. Nov. 22
—The Harvard football eleven de
feated Yale in a one-sided game
here this afternoon, the final score
being 10 to 3. Harvard's strong
offensive and defensive tactics won'
for them.
Braden’s 53-yard goal hick gave
Yale their three points. Harvard
made 10 during the first half.
The game was witnessed by 50,
000 people. i
SECRETARY WILSON URGING
BARONS TO INCREASE WAGES
1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.- -
Secretary of Labor Wilson and the
bituminous operators, who are in
conference in this city for the pur
pose of negotiating: a satisfactory
wage agreement with the coal min
ers, are at outs today in conse
quence of the attitude assumed by
the secretary in favor of an ad
vance in wages beyond that offered
by the operators earlier in the week.
It is understood Wrilson proposed
that the miners be paid an increase
of 27 cents per ton instead of 15
j cents, for diggers, and $1.58 ad
vance to day laborers.
Commenting on the secretary’s
proposal, T. T. Brewster, chairman
of the operators’ committee, de
clared this afternoon that such a
proposition only served to widen the
breach between the operators and
the striking coal miners. President
Lewis of the United Mine Workers
had no comment to make.
CONFERENCE STOPS.
It was announced this afternoon
jthat the coal operators had decided
to terminate the conference tem
porarily, pending a meeting with
■Fuel Administrator Garfield on
Monday.
MORE SHUTDOWNS.
CHICAGO, N'ov. 22.—Additional
’shutdowns of industrial plants, main
! ly in the Central West, are in pros
pect for the fourth week of the
nation-wide coal miners’ strike. Sev
enteen hundred carloads of coal
have been received here for the
juse of public utilities and indis
! pensible industries only.
CURTAILING.
SEATTLE. N'ov. 21.—Communi
ties having a week’s supply of coal
on hand are not to be given addi
tional fuel, according to an order
which was issued today.
MINE RESUMES.
SEATTLE. N’ov. 22.—The first
. big coal mine to resume operations
in this state has started at Bayne,
King county, under the protection
of soldiers from Camp Lewis.
MILWAUKEE JUDGE
SAYS LAW IS 0. K.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 22.—Judge
Geiger, of the Wisconsin circuit
; court, has handed down a decision
in which he holds that the war
time prohibition enforcement la .v
is constitutional. The decision was
rendered in an injunction case, the
court ruling that certain premises
shall not be occupied by a local
liquor company for the sale of
liquor.
There is now pending a civil ac
tion against the company, and the
injunction holds good until the civil
case has'been tried.
DIFFERENT OPINION.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22. — Federal
Judge Pollock yesterday granted a
temporary injunction against the en
forcement of the prohibition ■ -
forcement law, the ruling being ;n
effect a lifting of the ban on the
sale of beer in this state.
CUSTOMS INSPECTORS
FORM TRADE UNION
SAN FRANCISCO.—Customs in
spectors at this port have formed
a trade union, known as the Cus
toms Inspectors’ association, with a
charter membership of 3 00.
An incoming mail stage was re
ported at Mc-Callum’s this morning.
The rig has a consignment of sec
ond class mail for Interior Alaska.
TUMULTY REFUTES
STORY OF BREACH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.—
Secretary Tumulty has issued a
statement in which he declares that
there is no truth in the story, n
general circulation in the capital
today, that a breach has occurred
between President Wilson and Sen
ator Hitchcock, who directed the
senate fight for the ratification of
the peace treaty without reserva
tions.
Tumulty says that Hitchcock led
the treaty fight in a masterly man
ner, satisfactory to all friends of
the administration,
i Senator Hitchcock also issued a
statement today, but he made m
reference to the reported break in
his relations with the President. He
says he is confident a compromise
can be worked out by which a rati
fication of the treaty can be secured
during the coming session.
IKE CAMPAIGN
FOP PRESIDENCY!
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I LONDON. Nov. 22.—The British ;
j foreign office is in receipt of ad
: vices from the Dalmatian coast in
dicating that the latest d’Annunzo
j venture has reached a ciimax. It
[is now understood that he intends
'to annex Dalmatia and launch an
attack aeainst Montenegro, where
| the Jugo-Slavs are now concentrat
ing their forces with a view to of
fering stubborn resistance to the
further encroachment of the poet
' patriot of Italy.
The reports state that there is a
republican undercurrent among the
[followers of d’Annunzio which may
take the form a revolution against
' the Italian monarchy, the object be
ing to establish d’Annunzio at "he
head of a new Italian republic as
president.
NO ROOM IN CAR:
GIRL RIDES ON ROOF
WITH MEDICINES;
CRAIOVA, Rumania.—Riding on
the roof of a boxcar through 150
mile* of Rumanian mountains, ifi-s
Georgia Watts, of Lexington, Kv.
carried a consignment of much
needed medicines and surgical sup
plies from Bucharest to the Ameri
can Red Cross hospital here.
The outbreak of a sudden epi
demic of typhus demanded the im
mediate receipt of certain supplies
which could only be obtained from
the American warehouses in Bucha
rest. Miss Watts offered to make
the trip. There was not an inch
of space left in any of the freight
cars. Miss Watts, who had care
fully packed her supplies in small,
cases with an eye to some such:
contingency, obtained the consent!
of the station-master, the crates of!
medicines were tied to the roof of
a boxcar, and Mi^s Watts .mounted :
to a place beside them, where she.
clung as the train climbed tortu-!
ously up a crooked mountain trail, j
across many bridges and through [
jnumerous tunnels. She arrived safej
and sound at her destination with!
'her precious freight.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 22.—As was
predicted at the time Victor Berger
was denied the right to occupy a
seat in the house of representa
tives because of his conviction on
the charge of violating the espionage
act, the Socialist leader of Wis
consin has entered the race for re
election to CongTess. with the other
parties fused in an effort to defeat
him.
Berger is campaigning on a plat-'
form urging a repre-entative gov
ernment, opposing militarism and
imperialism. opposing prohibition,
against the espionage act, again-t
meddling in the internal affairs of
any foreign country. He advocate?
freedom of speech and the freedom
of the press, and advocates com-*
peiling profiteers to pay the cost of
the war.
GERMANS START
TROUBLE IN ISLANDS;
MAY BE DEPORTED
SYDNEY, Australia. —Anti-Brit
ish demonstrations and actions by
Germans in the little Pacific king
dom of Tonga have aroused a feel
ing that all the Germans in the
group should be deported. Recently
the British representative at Va-.au
was insulted and assaulted by a
German, and an appeal to the local
police for redress was futile. By
supplying liquor to the natives and
advancing credit to them, the Ger
mans, it is said, have won the sup- j
port of most of the native chiefs.
The British in Vavau have peti
tioned the New Zealand government
for the deportation of the German j
who assaulted their representative,!
and of all other Germans in the
archipelago. Tonga is the last Pacific'
island kingdom, but it is also a
British protectorate. Before the !
war, Germans were quite active |
there.
Abe McCord, former Fairbanksan,
now has a position as train an
nouncer at the Seattle railway sta
tion.
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DENIKiNE CAPTURES
MANY RED SOLDIERS
STOCKHOLM. Nov. 22.—Advices
received from Helsingfors todd.v
state that General Denikine claims
to have broken the Bolsheviki line
between the Ural mounting and
Tambov.
The righting in that area, it is
reported, has resulted in the anni
hilation of 50,000 Bolshevik soldiers
during the past several days. The
defeat is said to be one of the
worst setbacks suffered by the Bol
sheviki during the past sevefal
months.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY
HAS BIG RICE CROP
SACRAMENTO, Cal. — The first
shipment of Sacramento valley rise.
11,000 sacks, brought 0 cents a
pound, one cent above the figure
predicted earlier this season. This
year's yield in the valley, it is es
timated, will be 4.40O.00O sacks.
ceeding that of last year by ne
million sacks.
TEMPERATURE
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenara
Saturday, November 22.
Maximum 21 below
Minimum .31 below
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PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 22.—The
jCIarerront Tavern, a well-known
| roadhouse on the Lincoln highway.
!about twelve miles distant from this
I city, was the scene last night of a
j daring holdup, in which two of *h*
: guests of the resort lost their live;
I The robbery was committed by three
| masked highwaymen, and it is pre
jsumed by the authorities that the
'murdered men were shot while at
tempting to resist the attempt to
[relieve them of their valuables. The
j murdered men were Newton Bu’
Sgess, state highway commissioner,
and a rancher named Perringer. -a
.arrival from Pendleton. The two
men were dining in a private room
at the time of the holdup, which
was staged shortly after midnight.
Several Arrested.
Five persons are being held by
the authorities in connection with
the f'iaremont shooting, two of the
suspects being women, who are be
lieved to have been decoys for the
highwaymen.
The city of Portland has offer.- 1
a reward of $1,000 for the appre
hen.-ion of the murderers.
ANOTHER VOLCANO !S
NOW ON THE RAMPAGE
HONOLULU, Nov. ■> 2._Aecore •
ingto reports received in this city
from Hilo, the nearby volcano. Kil
auea. is at present showing the
greatest signs of activity recorded
in ten years, and an eruption i- ex
pected momentarily. Mauna Ism
quiet now.
NEW MAN APPOINTED
TO WATCH SHIPPMENTS
VICTORIA, B. Nov "2.- V/.
G. Gaunce, of Victoria. has been
appointed controller of British Co
lumbia coal exports. All shipments
of coal for Alaska and the States
must be licensed by him.
Ed Wolcott, court stenographer,
who i.s au,v * i, the i.e - on a \ a
cation, reports that he is spending
a very enjoyable outing on hi
prune ranch near Fresno, Califor
nia. He will return North in time
to be pre-ent when the winter term
of court opens.
CONVENTION URGES
PAYMENT OF BONUS
ST. I.OUIS, Nov. 22.—It has been
recommended by the annual con
vention of the American Mining
congress, which adjourned this aft
ernoon. following one of the most
important sessions in the history
of the organization, that gold pro
ducers be given a bonus of S10 for
every ounce of gold used for pur
poses other than that of coin mak
ing, the bonus to be derived from
•in excise of $10 on each ounce of
gold used for manufacturing pur
poses.
The convention also adopted a
resolution urging increased produc
tion as a means of reducing the
cost of living, and drastic laws to
end radicalism and labor troubles.
The convention was attended by
hundreds of prominent mining men
from all sections of the United
States.