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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAR. 15, 1923
NUMBER 425
FRENCH PUT HOSTAGES IN ENGINE CABS
DELEGATE TELL SEATTLE FISHERMEN OF MENACE
CALLAHAN OPPOSES MEASURE TO REGULATE VOTING
TAX ROLL IS COMPLETED;
RATE TO BE FIXED SOON
The city tax roll for the year
1923, which was prepared by Asses
sor C. D. Leckie. was turned over
to the council at the regular meet
ing on Tuesday night, and it was
decided by the aldermen to meet
in special session next Tuesday for
the purpose of reviewing the work
of the assessor and fixing the
amount of the tax levy. The pro
perty values, as shown by the roll,
are somewhat under those of last
year, while the demands upon the
city treasury during the coming
fiscal year will be greater by a con
siderable amount than was the case
last year, owing to the fact that
the council will have to provide
funds for the maintenance of the
Franklin K Lane school. The school
was maintained last year on funds
which had accumulated in the school
board treasury prior to the incor
poration of the city.
It is the opinion of several of
of the councilmen that rt will be
necessary to increase the tax levy
to meet the additional demands up
on the treasury but it is their de
sire to avoid such action if possible.
It is expected the school budget
will be ready for presentation to the
council at the next meeting, in the
absence of which it is impossible
to estimate the probable cost of
running the city during the year.
The council has kept well with
in its revenues during the last year
and the present board will retire
next month leaving a substantial
balance in the treasury, aside from
the earnings of the public utilities
held in reserve to carry the
department over lean periods and
to meet possible demands for re
pairs.
The finance committee reported
having reached an agreement with
Manager Donaldson, of the Healy
River Coal Corporation, for the set
tlement of all claims against the
city for service rendered by the
corporation during the time it was
in control of the utilities for the
sum of $600, and the agreement
was ratified by the council.
The city was authorized to loan
the School Board the sum of $1,000
until such time as school funds can
be received from the territorial
treasury.
In preparation for the coming
municipal election, to be held on
April 3, the council appointed the
following judges and clerks to offi
ciate at the fire hall, where the
ballots will be cast; James Lavin,
Mrs. R. W. Calderhead, Theo.
Thompson. Parke L. Stump, and
Mrs. John Wahlgren, with Mrs. W.
H. Gilcher as alternate.
It was reported to the council
that Clerk B. Tunnison of the
School Board, has announced his
intention of retiring from the board
on the first of April, which will
necessitate the election of two can
didates instead of one, as previous
ly announced
Superintendent of Public Utili
ties Henshaw was directed to com
municate with the Alaskan Engin
eering Commission relative to tak
ing up local meter receipts and
transferring them to the city in
order that delays may be avoided in
handling surrendered receipts. Un
. der the present arrangement it is
GERMANS DON FRENCH COLORS;
CONSPIRE TO START UPRISINGS
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necessary to apply to the Anchorage
office of the commission for money
paid on deposit for meters.
Superintendent Hensbaw reported
that the city had been put to the
expense of several hundred dollars
! in thawing the water main in the
| alley back of the Southern hotel. \
| An effort is being made to charge
I the amount to the commission on
I the ground that the lowering of
| the main under the depot was in
directly responsible for the trouble
FIRE DESTROYS FARMHOUSE;
ADDS TO MURDER MYSTERY
VANCOUVER. Wash., Mar. 15—
The farmhouse of John Tuke. on
whose place the mutilated body of
Anna Nosko was found several days
ago, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day evening and the authorities ex
press the belief the house was set
on fire. A crowd of several hundred
was about the burning building but no
effort was made to put out the fire.
Additional guards have been de
tailed to duty at the county jail
where George Whitfield, accused of
the murder of the Nosko girl, is
being held pending further investi
gation of the case.
SEATTLE LANDS LAST OF GANG
WHO MADE BOGUS CURRENCY
1 SEATTLE, Mar. 15—With the ar
i rest here this week of Paul Dimm
who, the police say, has confessed
to the charge of counterfeiting,
the local authorities believe they
have rounded up the last of the
gang who recently flooded the coast
with counterfeit $20 bills.
Dimm is said to have led the
officers to a houseboat on Lake
Washington where the bogus plates
were found. Dimm also told the
police the gang made more than
$18,000 bogus currency during the
time they were operating. Three
other members of the gang are un
der arrest in San Francisco.
YOUTHS ADMIT CRIME
VICTORIA. Mar. 15—Ronald
! Smith, aged 17 years, and Herbert
Burton, aged 16, have confessed to
| the police that they killed Lional
Lorenz, aged 20 years, employed as
j a bank clerk. The murder was com
mitted while Lorenz was handing
I over twenty-five cents to the two
youths during a holdup.
TENNESSEE HARD HIT
NASHVILLE, Mar. 15—With a
,known death toll of thirty and up
wards of one hundred persons in
jured, Tennessee is slowly recover
ing from the effects of the storm
: which swept the state eaviy this
| week. The storm was one of the
| worst ever experienced in Tennesse
: and caused property losses aggre
gating millions of dollars. The gale
reached a velocity of SO miles an
hour
C. R. Huncbelt is a guest at the
Cooney hotel, having arrived from
| San Francisco on the last train.
ESSEX. Mar. 15—Sixteen thou
sand miners employed in three gov
ernment mines in the Reckling
hausen district, went out on strike
yesterday in protest against the oc
cupation of the state coke plant,
near Westerhold, by French troops.
Hostage* Ride In Engines
ESSEN, Mar. 15—German host
ages for the first time have been
placed in the cabs of locomotives
as the result of sabotage operations
in the effort of the Germans to
interrupt railroad traffic. Most of
the hostages are burgomasters and
other municipal officials.
Germans Are Shot
DUSSELDORF. Mar. 15—Three
Germans were shot and killed today
by French sentries as the result of
an attempt to break into a machin
ery warehouse at Recklinghausen.
The Germans disregarded the usual
challenges, evidently believing the
French soldiers would not shoot.
Trickery Suspected
PARIS. Mar. 15—French officials
advices from the Ruhr district de
clare that German Nationalists,
wearing French uniforms and pos
ing as French soldiers, have been
committing robberies and other out
rages, with their own countrymen
as victims. The object of this action
as interureted here, is to excite the
German public against the French
troops occupying German territory
and to stiffen German resilience.
The report is being investigated bv
the French authorities
CALLAHAN OPPOSES
REFORM VOTE BILL
JUNEAU. Mar. 15—Interest in
the Foster literacy test deepened
yesterday when the house committee
brought in an adverse report, signed
by Representatives Dan Callahan
and Decker. Representative Shep
pard. the third member of the com
mittee, refused to sign the report,
and made a strong recommendation
for the passage of the bill. He de
clared the bill offered the only
means of remedying the evil of
mass voting among the illiterate
Indians at territorial elections,
■whose number he placed at a thous
and. These Indians he pointed out,
control the balance of voting pow
er and “having but a vague know
ledge of our institutions and gov
ernment, lend themselves readily to
the machinations of political charl
atans.’' He called the attention of
the lawmakers to the delegate con
tests in which Sulzer and Wicker
sham were involved and in both of
which the point of difference was
the question of the legality of the
Indian votes.
The bill was made a special or
der of business for Friday morn
ing.
Governor Bone asked the legis
lature for a deficiency appropriation
of $4,500 for the Pioneer’s home.
Representative Ross has introduc
ed a memorial asking that fifteen
per cent of the Alaska fund be al
loted for use in caring for indi
gents, instead of the ten per cent
now available, and the reversion of
such money at the end of the fis
cal year instead of quarterly.
Representative Grant has intro
duced a memorial asking for the es
tablishment by the bureau of edu
cation of an Indian training school
at Wrangell.
War Starts On Administration
Open warfare on the administra
tion was declared this week when
Aldrich introduced Senate Bill 64,
entitled'“An act to reorganize the
executive department of Alaska to
the extent that the same is within
the jurisdiction of the legislature,
and to revise the laws relative
thereto.” The bill, if passed, will
strip the governor arid secretary
of all their duties in connection
with the administration of terri
torial affairs bestowed upon those
officials by former legislatures
The bill provides for the popu
lar election of a territorial comp
troller and treasurer and dividing
between them and the attorney gen
eral the owers now held by the gov
ernor and the secretary. The same
three officers form a territorial
control board and perform the dut
ies of all existing commissions and
boards including the territorial road
commission.
The bill fixes the salaries of the
comptroller and attorney general
at $6,000 a year and that of the
treasurer at $5,000. Pending the
election of a comptroller by pop
lar vote at the 1924 election, the
office is to be filled by appointment
by a joint vote of the legislature.
Treasurer Walstein Smith has been
renominated for the four year term
beginning last January, and his
name is now before the senate for
confirmation. Attorney John A.
Clark of Fairbanks has been nomin
ated commissioner for uniform leg
islation, and the recess appointments
of Robert L. Lavery, Morton E.
Stevens and Robert Bloom, all of
Fairbanks, as members of the board
of trustees of the Alaska Agricul
tural College and School of Mines,
also have been sent to the senate
for approval.
BLOW KILLS BOXER
TACOMA, Mar. 15—Fred Powers,
boxer, known professionally at Fred
die McQue, died here yesterday
from hemorrhage of the brain, re
sulting from a blow received during
a bout here earlier in the week with
Jimmie Smith, who has been exoner
atted by the policee.
WOOD PULP PRODUCTION
SHOWS GAIN FOR YEAR
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WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 15—
One hundred and twenty-seven pulp
mills, producing 72 percent of the ,
wood pulp produced in the United
States, report an increased produc-1
tion from 2,062,773 tons two years
ago, to 2.437.530 tons during the
last year.
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CHINA SEEKS ABROGATION
OF TREATY WITH JAPANESE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 15—;
The state department has been ad
vised that the latest move of the'
Chinese government in an effort to
abrogate the famous twenty-one de-.
mands of the treaty of 1915 with:
Japan has led Japan to inform;
China that such a proposal is eon- j
trary to accepted international prac- (
tices and will “fail to contribute to j
the advancement of friendship be
tween the two countries.”
The Japanese note to China flatly 1
rejects the Chinese demands.
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FRENCH AIRMEN WILL VISIT
ALASKA ON WORLD FLIGHT
PARIS, Mar. 15—The globe-en-■
circling flight in which five French |
aviators have arranged to participate
and which was to have started today,
has been postponed until the first of
April.
The aviators will start from Nice,
going first to India, thence to Japan
and then across to Nome. From
Nome they will fly along the Pacific
coast and thence back to Nice by
way pf Chili, Argentine and Brazil.
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WILSON FIRST TO DONATE
TO AMERICAN LEGION FUND
INDIANAPOLIS. Mar. 15—Wood
row W'ilson has the distinction of be
ing among the first to contribute
to the American Legion’s hundred
thousand dollar endowment fund
which will be used for the penman- 1
ent decoration of the graves of
American soldiers who are buried
in France and other parts of Europe
PRESIDENT AT MIAMI
MIAMI, Mar. 15—President and
Mrs. Harding and the remainder of
their party arrived here yesterday
and will spend several days here, af- j
ter which they will start on the re-!
turn trip to St. Augustine.
FAMOUS SURGEON PASSES
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15—Dr G.i
Frank Lyndston, famous surgeon,'
physician and author, died here yes- i
terday, a victim of pneumonia. He!
was one of the first to discover the!
possibilities of gland transplanting.
STORM KILLS TWO
BAINBRIDGE. Ga , Mar 15
Two persons were killed and several
buildings demolished here this week I
by a violent windstorm.
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George Mutchler, of the Iditarod
district, was among those returning
North on the Northwestern.
DELEGATE DAN DENOUNCES
REGULATIONS OF BUREAU
SEATTLE, Mar. 15—Speaking
at a meeting of independent fisher
men, at the Labor temple in this*
city this week. Delegate Dan Suth
erland declared that the Alaska fish
reservations, formulated by execu
tive order, will destrop the industry
He denounced that regulation which
permits the operation of fish traps
in rivers, and prohibits seines in
the ocean.
Publisher Defends Bureau
Miller Freeman, publisher of the
Pacific Fisherman, when inter
viewed on the fisherie question, de
nounced the view.-, of Delegate Suth
erland, saying “The fisheries of A
laska and the Pacific coast have
ben the football of politicians too
long. If every man who wanted to
fish in Alaska were allowed to run
wild, the industry would be destroy
ed within five years.”
WOMAN GIVEN LONG TERM
FOR KILLING HER BETRAYER
NEW YORK. Mar. 15—Mr-.
Paulette Saludes. who was convicted
in this city on a charge of murder,
was sentenced yesterday to a term
of from twenty years to life in the
women’s prison at Auburn.
The woman was charged with the
murder of Oscar M Martelliere,
who, she alleged in her defense,
first betrayed her and then aban
doned.
BILL BRENNAN IN HOSPITAL
AS RESULT OF LATE FIGHT
NEW YORK. Mar. 15—Bill Bren
nan, Chicago heavyweight, who wa
knocked out on Monday during a
ring battle with Luis Firpo, was tak
en to the Jewish Memorial hospital
yesterday for treatment. It is be
lieved he has concussion of the brain
as the hesult of the teriflic blow
which laid him out in the ring. The
blow was delivered at the base of
the skull and Brennan was dazed
for some time afterward. He com
plained of pains in the head amt
his condition finally became =o bad
he was taken to the hospital.
HARDING PAYS HIS TAX
COLUMBIA. Mar. 15—The first
full year income tax return ever
filed by a President of the United
States was received yesterday a: the
local interna! revenue office from
President Harding.
EXECUTIONS CONTINUE
DUBLIN, Mar. 15—Several ex
ecutions have taken place here thr
week and several at Cork, the vic
tims being Republicans who were ac
cused of carrying arms.
IOWA BONUS ACT VALID
DES MOINES, Mar 15—The su
preme court has rendered a aecisi >n
upholding the validity if ’lie state
bonus act which provides for pay
ments at the rate of fifty cents for
each day of service.
BISHOP NEAR DEATH
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 15—All hope for
the recovery of Bishop Tuttle, of
the Episcopal church has been aban
doned. The patient is sinking stead
ily.
O. M. Grant left for the Kan
tishna yesterday.