THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.....-.Editor »pd Manager
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this paper and also all the local news published herein. _
OFFICIAL DENIAL.
At a recent meeting of the terri
torial canvassing board, Governor
Thomas Riggs. Jr., for the board,
made a statement for the record,
denying the truth of the charge
made by Judge Wickersham in his
contest complaint that the canvas
sing board, which canvassed the re
turns from the election held Novem
ber 5, 1918, was composed wholly of
Democrats and that it “purposely
delayed the collection of official re
turns and the canvass thereof from
month to month until April 16,
1919, whereupon, learning that their
candidate, Charles A. Sulzer, was
then dead, they finally and hurried
ly concluded the canvass and com
pilation and issued a certificate of
election in the name of said Sulzer,
knowing him to be then deceased.'
Governor Riggs' statement showed
that one of the members of the
canvassing board. Acting Collector
of Customs Charles D. Garfield, was
a Republican, and that the election
returns were canvassed as fast as
they were received; that Governor
Riggs and Territorial Secretary Da
vidson each, by wire and otherwise,
tried to hurry the returns from the
various election precincts, wiring to
Nome in order to get them to dis
regard the quarantine regulations
there in effect in order to get the
mail forwarded with the election
returns. It also showed that the
final returns were received at Ju
neau April 15, 1919, and that a
meeting of the canvassing board to
convene the next day was called on
that day, before the board knew
that Mr. Sulzer had passed away.
The statement of Governor Riggs
was assented to by Surveyor Genera!
Davidson, who was present at all
the meetings of the canvassing
board and was familiar with the
facts.
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HIGH PRICES.
With enough food on the seas
and already delivered by the Ameri
can Relief administration to supply
European needs until the European
harvests begin to be garnered in
August, the peoples of Europe may
be counted upon henceforth in great
measure to take care of themselves.
This means, points out the Ta
coma News Tribune, that hundreds
of thousands of tons of American
food will remain each month in the
United States, vastly increasing the
supply for home markets. Will thi;
mean lower prices? Will it mean
to thousands of struggling families
a ray of hope in their eternal fight
to make income equal outgo?
* The hard fact is that in all proba
bility it will not. The adverse signs
in this direction are furnished bj
the administration itself. Consum
ers in the United States have no1
yet gotten over their shock of ?
few days since at the news that
fifty million pounds of bacon an:
one hundred million cans of beef
surplus supplies of the war depart
ment—were to be sent out of th<
country and sold in Europe—be
cause the packers so advised' Th
authorities have since tried to ex
plain that the bacon and beef ar<
in unlabeled i tins that would loo!
strange to American purchasers, a:
argument no doubt advanced by the
packers.
Why should it be the meat pack
ers who have first call upon the ear
of the government when it is a
question of putting on the market
surplus food stocks that might af
fect prices? The American consum
er is becoming dazed by what ap
pears to be his government’s theory
of reconstruction. So far that the
ory seems to be that the country
will plunge to economic ruin unless
those who have profited by war are
guaranteed continuation or even in
crease of their profits.
The millions who have carried the
heaviest burdens of war are now
counted on to take still heavier
loads in order that various groups
specially favored by war—whether
capitalists or wage-earners—may not
have to come down a hand's breadth
from their high horses.
Government control during war
has left meat packers, coal mag
nates, great industrial interests in
the East and a few war-favored
classes of labor with apparent pow
er to dictate government policies in
the name of “reconstruction."
So far Americans who have done
their utmost for their country dur
ing the war. who are now trying to
meet post-war cost of living with
pre-war incomes and losing ground
in the struggle, have seen little -n
this so-called reconstruction that
considers them or their needs.
To them reconstruction is protect*
ine those who have profited by war
and ignoring those who have paid
for it. And the administration itself
is chiefly responsible for this new.
SALMON IN EUROPE.
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American salmon will find a great
market :n European countries, ac
cording to “The Stars and Stripes,
the official organ of the American
expeditionary forces in Europe.
‘•American salmon,” says a recent
issue of the soldier paper, “is get
ting to be so popular in Europe
that the Q. M. C. cannot begin-to
fill all the orders it is receiving
from the different governments here
abouts. Belgium is the latest ad
dict to the fish habit. She has just
relieved the A. E. F. of 3,000,000
pounds and has requested us to let
her know when we have more to
spare. So universal has become the
appetite for salmon, and such huge
quantities of it are being produced
in America, that it is being largely
employed in the feeding of the
devastated areas of France, Belgium
Poland, Russia and the enemy coun
tries, and has come to be called
j ‘Bolshevik medicine.’ ”
Drought Broken.
Two Jews were on a journey or
a hot summer day. “Have you any
thing with you, Matthias?” askec
one.
“Yes, a bottle of wine. Wha
have you, Moses?”
“Dried tongue.”
“Good! We’ll divide our provi
sions.”
Matthias produced his wine am
' It was divided. Then he asked hi:
fellow traveler to bring out hi
, provisions.
! “I?” said Moses.
“Why, yes, the dry tongue yoi
said you had.”
• | “I haven’t got one now,” was th
“cool reply.—Boston Transcript.
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Alaska! Empire in the Making:
Up where the North begins.
Where opportunity’s day is breaking.
Up where the North begins.
Where snow-capped peaks pierce the
blue of the sky
And low-hung clouds on their bos
oms lie,
Rocked by the ice-wind's lullaby—
Up where the North begins.
Mighty glaciers centuries old:
Up where the North begins;
Silently sleep in the sunlight's gold.
Up where the North begins.
Rivers and lakes that are clear and
deep.
Filled with finny tribe that keep
The sportsman from getting a wink
of sleep.
Up where the North begins.
Deep in the heart of earth frozen
and cold.
Up where the North begins.
Lie heaped up stores of copper and
gold;
Up where the North begins.
Vegetables, larger in growth, I ween.
Than any Chechaco ever has seen;
Bright flowers cover the valley’s
green.
Up where the North begins.
High upon barren mountain and hill,
Up where the North begins.
The moose and caribou roam at will;
Up where the North begins.
And bald-faced grizzlies live and
keep
An eye on the fleet-foot mountain
sheep
That in rocky cliffs their vigils keep,
Up where the North begins.
The souls of men are staunch and,
true.
Up where the North begins.
And give a hearty greeting to you.
Up where the North begins.
The wandering guest by the fireside
knows
That kind of a welcome in this land
goes.
And the spirit of brotherly kindness
grows
Up where the North begins.
The earth like a gleaming crystal is
hung.
Up where the North begins,
And pictures at night on the sky
are flung,
Up where the North begins.
Where brilliant stars softly caress
The regal mountains’ snow-white
breast.
And silence wraps the world to rest,
Up where the North begins.
HATTIE BELLE ERWIN.
(Mrs. L. T. Erwin.)
MINISTER PLANS
TO DIVIDE LAND
OMSK, Siberia.—The American
.system of settling farmers upon gov
ernment land by distributing it
among them either free or a: nom
inal cost, has inspired M. Petroff, the
minister of agriculture of the All
Russian, or anti-Bolshevik, govern
ment, to formulate a similar plan
for dividing Russian land among
the peasants.
The minister told The Associated
Press correspondent that he was
convinced that this plan would be
most advantageous and that the de
velopment of the land must be left
'exclusively to the peasants. Small
landholders, he said, must have a
ichance to extend their possessions
of land on their merits as farmers.
Minister Petroff declared that any
program of rebuilding the Russian
nation must satisfy the demands of
the farmers, and that the only
[feasible way of doing this was by
lease and purchase.
The project he has drawn up pro
vides for a special set fund to buy
up land and distribute it among
the peasants, both those now abso
l lutely without land and those who
have at present an inadequate area
A Proper Start.
I
> “So your husband refused to buj
you an automobile?”
“Not exactly refused; he said 1
i j ought first to become familiar wit’r
| machinery in general, so he bough'
;1 me a sewing-machine.” — Bostor
i Transcript.
WANT ADS
FOUND—Nugget beauty pin. Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paying for this adv.
FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut
wood. Five dollars per cord;
good timber. A. G. Vachon, Tan
ana. k8-16
FOR SALE—My entire holdings,
consisting of Lot 6, Block 10,
three-room log house, finely fin
ished and partially furnished, to- j
gether with provisions and wood.j
Also my half interest in Nenana
Steam Laundry- A bargain, if j
taken before August first. Must:
go Outside on urgent business is
reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara
Allred, Nenana, Alaska.
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FOR SALE — Showcase, 5V4 fee*;
long. Practically new. Cheap. ]
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
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Seattle No. 3, up Marshall. 8 p. ;
m., 14th.
Washburn, up Holy Cross, 16th. (
Nasutlin, up Selkirk, 8:30 a. m.,
16th.
Davis, at Kotlik. waiting for tide j
last night.
Victoria, arrived at St. Michael.1
16th.
Alaska, upbound for Fairbanks.
Jacobs, at Eagle.
Yukon, up Fort Yukon 10 p. m.,
16 th.
BISHOP COMES INSIDE
ON ANNUAL INSPECTION
Among the passengers on the
steamer Alaska, enroute to Fair
banks, was Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble
Rowe, D D., Bishop of Alaska, who
is making the rounds of the mis
sions under his charge in Central
Alaska. Much of this journeying
this summer, as in past seasons, will
be done in company with Archbishop
Hudson Stuck, in the mission launch
Pelican.
Next year will mark the twenty
fifth year in which the bishop has
been traveling through Alaska in
connection with his church work.
Three times he has refused to be
transferred to other missionary
fields.
Bishop Rowe plans to return to
the States next fall in time to at
tend the Triennial General conven
tion of his church, which meets at
Detroit for three weeks.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased fro®
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office ,
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
i A street on Wednesdays and Satur
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At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
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