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“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
WAR-CHANGED APPETITES
War-time food conservation cam
have changed the appetites of the
people. Hundreds of tons of fish
and game, once deemed unfit as
food, are being consumed each
month throughout the Dominion.
Whale and flatfish seem to lead
as sea foods, while beaver and other
fur-bearing animals, hitherto un-!
thought of as table delicacies, like-1
wise are given prominent places in
the food lists.
Whale meat, which failed to win!
recognition until last summer, is
being sold by the ton from Van-;
couver to Halifax. The Dominion I
Food Board’s success in the cam
paign to market Pacific flatfish is
indicated by the official estimate
that 3,500,000 pounds have been
consumed in six months. Fisher
men formerly threw away this fish.
Until 1918 trappers retained only
the pelts of beavers. The Minne
sota campaign in behalf of beaver
flesh us a food attracted attention
in Manitoba and hotels in that prov
ince added beaver meat to their
cnickens "went wild over beaver”
and resulting experiments indicated
that a diet of beaver meat improved
the egg-laying qualities of hens in
cold weather. i ,
Wild rice that grows in abund
ance in the Northern Lake districts
also was ignored until American and
Canadian commission men in East
ern cities began making steady de
mands for it. Canadian people
started eating it after it had gained
popularity in hotels.
Odd outfits resembling sail boats
have been constructed to thresh the
fields.
paigns in the Canadian Northwest
S
discoveied that
MEXICAN REFORMS
!
Numerous proposed radical con
stitutional reforms, some of them
adding to the powers of the chief
executive, are among the most im
portant matters before the Mexican
congress. The formation of a na
tional bank of Mexico, to be the
center of a new currency system
and take over the old banks also
is being discussed by the Council
of Ministers and may be sent to the
legislature for decision.
Among the constitutional reforms
to be decided is a project to revise
Article 27 of the cor^titution in
such a way as will gfve the presi
dent authority to take over and ad
minister, in the national interests,
any private industry when strikes
or any other means result in the
interruption of its service to the
detriment of the public interest.
The proposed reform is directed
principally at wire, rail, postal and
maritime systems.
Other proposed laws to define
Article 17 now before congress in
clude the nationalization of oil lands,
a matter that has been of vital in
terest to foreign corporations as a
result of presidential decrees issued
in July and August, 1918, embody
ing the same £'ms.
Four hundred and tw > thousand,
five hundred and six dry tons of
Colorado ore were treated in the
plarts of the Aemrican Smelting &
Refining company during the last
yee .i-cording to a statement from
Ma. ager R. \ Raynolds, of the Du
rang \ Colorado plant. This brought
12*',927 ounces of gold; 5,238,218
ounces of silver; 54,131,063 pounds
of lead, and 5,350,094 pounds of
copper. This brought a total of
$13,055,581 to Colorado mining men.
In spite of possibility of decreased
prices for ores, the outlook for min
ing in the future is considered
bright by mining men. Manufact
urers of mining tools are returning
to this business instead of war work
and the release of many mine ex
perts from army service is expected
to bring new mining activities.
BRING THEM NORTH
Yukon and Alaska have an oppor
tunity this year to get a vast share
of the world tourist traffic, be
lieves the Dawson News. They
should go after it, and start now
Europe eventually will be the goal
for the world tourist traffic of the
generation. Everyone will want to
see the historic battlefields.
But the European field, points o it
the Dawson pap'f^-, will be no place
to visit this year, and possibly not
for /several seasons. Europe is yet
chaotic, v It is in want. It needs
food and it needs housing accommo
dations. Atlantic tonnage will h.:
occupied for'.a long time adjusting
the situation in Europe, bringing
back troops and carrying emigrants
from congested European fields to
the western world, and taking the
much needeil supplies to Europe.
Atlantic, steamers also are not <n
condition for giving the comfort
able service the opulent sight-seer
wants.
On the Pacific it is different..
Ocean travel is more normal. Mo->t
of the Alaskan liners have ample
accommodations for the usual nor
thern traffic and for handling tour
ists and no doubt a few more ships
will be available this season than
for some time. Further, when com
ing North the tourist does not ex
pect the unusually luxurious apart
ments he demands on the Atlantic
route. However, he gets in the j
all desirable. •
Yukon and Alaska will be a Mecca
this year for the peo le who want
to sret into northern fields of ex
ploitation. They also should be
made the Mecca for those who want
just to come and revel in the glories
of the midnight sun. The trans
portation people are the first bene
factors from the tourist traffic.
They should be busy now on the
campaign for next season. The
people on the routes auxiliary to
the main coast line also share the
benefits.
Let all awaken to this hour of
opportunity. Run up the flag, Sig
nal the tourists. Turn them North.
MADE IN ALASKA
While digging through frozen
gravel on Horseshoe creek, in the
Kobuk country, prospectors unearth
. ed the skeleton of what is claimed
to be a prehistoric mosquito. The
1 skeleton was about the size of an
eagle of our day, but conformed
i to the Alaskan mosquito of today
in general appearance. The bones
were all dug up and the insect has
i been reconstructed and will be sent
: Outside in the spring to a museum.
There is no doubt but that a flock
of these prehistoric mosquitos, re
marks the Douglas Island News,
, could make life miserable even for
, the mammoth animals that roamed
the country in prehistoric days.
HAILED AS IDO
LONDON-—The story of a colonel
of Australian infantry who was
wounded in the Gallipoli campaign
and sent back to Australia, but who
concealed his rank and re-enlisted
as a private to serve with the Aus
tralians in France, has added to the
esteem in which Australians are hejd
in London. Colonel Charles Mel
ville Macnaughten, the hero of the
story, is hailed as a man of gallantry
and grit.
He w:as the son of Sir Melville
Macnaughten, chief of the criminal
investigation department of Scot
land Yard, says the Daily Mail, and
was practicing law in Australia when
the war began. He was a major
in command of the first brigade
which landed at Anzac Cove, on
Gallipoli Peninsula. Within two
days he was wounded three times.
After recovery in England he re
turned to Gallipoli and led his bat
talion in their immortal charge at
Lone Pine.
After the evacuation of Gallipoli
he served for a time in Egypt, and
was sent from there to England,
suffering from wounds and fever.
Surgeons refused him permission to
return to active service, and he was
sent to Australia as second in com
mand of an Australian training
camp.
One day he slippel away from
the camp and joined a replacement
battalion in Queensland under the
name of Charles Melville, and soon
if ter ward was back in England
training on Salisbury Plain as Priv
ite Melville. He was quickly pro- (
noted to be corporal and one day,
.vas asked by his commanding offi-.
•er “Corporal, do you think you
■ould drill this campany?” Having
•ommanded a brigade, the corporal f
put the company through its paces ■
like the veteran he was.
Back in France again he was.
recognized by officers who had
known him in Gallipoli as the daring
and brilliant soldier they had called i
“fighting Mac.” General Birdwood,:
with whom he had served at Lone j
Pine, sent for him and gave him a
commission. Not long afterwards;
Colonel Macnaughten was again sent •
as an invalid to England, where he'
was summoned to .the Buckingham
Palace to receive 1*rom the king a:
decoration as a Companion of the ■
Order of St. Michael and St. George |
which had been conferred upon him I
accvmi yt'tun uciuu* iiu mn
lantry at Gallipoli. While serving
in the ranks in France as “Corporal
Melville” he had been personally
congratulated hy the commanding
general for valor at Messines Ridge.
Macnaughten’s fighting days are
: now over and he is compelled to
, recognize this fact for, as one of his
■ men put it, “he- is riddled like a
j colander and it is only his fighting
spirit which keeps him alive.”
WORKERS OF MEXICO
STRIKE FOR MOONEY
MEXICO CITY.—After the death j
sentence against Thomas Mooney'
in the San Francisco bomb outrage
• case had been commuted by the
governor of California, proteats
were formulated and one strike was
j undertaken inTiMexico to protest
, against the decision of the court in
, the Mooney case. The Regional
! Labor Union of the capital, and
'.similar bodies in Tamaulipas sent
; protests to the California court and,
in Tampico, several thousand mem
bers of workers’ organizations that
are similar to the I. W. W., went
; out on a strike for twelve hours as
a protest
BIG MAIL ARRIVED AT
j FAIRBANKS YESTERDAY
According to a telephone message
recived from Fairbanks this after
noon, a big mail, consisting of
second class ma 1 matter and par
cels post matter, reached the upper
town yesterday afternoon.
As the mails are not being fumi
-’V
gated any more, ifc.ia expected that
Nenana’s share of it will be sent
on the first stage leaving Fairbanks.
LUNDBORG IN TOWN
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Albeit Lundborg, who has a con
tract to supply material for the
use of the A. E. C. on the Nenana
Fairbanks line, arrived In town from
his camp last night on business.
He expects to return to his camp
tomorrow. , ,
Mr. Lunborg is getting out tele
graph and telephone poles, ties,
caps, stringers and bfidge material.
His contract extends from Station
20460 to 20670, and covers a wide
area- He has established three
camps in the neighborhood of
Standard creek.
The material turned out by Mr.
Lundborg is being taken over by
the A. E. C. and is being distributed
along the right of way for use this
spring as soon as construction work
begins.
A new pulp mill is being erected
in Southeastern Alaska in Beaver
Cove, says the Prince Rupert News.
One of the five units intended is
now being erected at a cost of
nearly a million dollars, and later
on others will be added.
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
Shop in Portland Building
Now Open for Business with
Full Line of Requisites
WANT ADS
FOR SALE.—Tent 10x12, four-foot
wall, with floor and walls boarded
up. Yukon stove and table. Lock
and key to door, $20. Inquire at
Rust House.
FOR SALE—A new 7mm Mauser
rifle with 40 rounds of ammu
|
nition, $50; also a 12-gauge Rem-;
ington automatic shot gun, almost ■
new, $40. Inquire at News office.1
FOR RENT—Good log cabin, in
quire of Mrs. Nicley.
FOR RENT—-Large front room,
suitable for club rooms or parties,
by night, week or month. Inquire i
of Mrs. Nicley.
WANTED TO BUY—A three or
four-room house. Must be
reasonable. Inquire News office.
FOR SALE—Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long, in good shape. Malamutes
and huskies form the team. Ar
rived in Nenana recently from |
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit- |
Apply George Hanoff, Cooney
Hotel.
FOR SALE—Wall folding bed;
single spring; new lumber frame;
has silkoline curtain. Suitable
for one-room cabin, provides
shelf room, economizes space; is
more sightly than ordinary bed.
Price $12. Inquire Mrs. D’Orsay’s
Tailor Shop, Third and A streets.
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Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wage* at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted” in tbe spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE i
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott. j
ALASKA PUBLICITY I
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Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel
Green Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
Wool Blankets and Comforters
A Full Line of Miner** and Trapper** Supple*
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERS
COLBS AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
' ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
assassswaws
NICELY HOUSE .
With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS «
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
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OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—At
The News Office.
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Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
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Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W. .T.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
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Flower, J. H.
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Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
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Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher. W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H,
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S. .
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. \V.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
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Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodor^
Toussaint, J G. K
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Verhaeghe, Cyriela
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Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
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