THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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MR. BURLESON’S DEFENSE.
In employing a press agent Mr.
Burleson has adopted a custom which
has become general in Washington.
In former times statesmen were con
tent to leave the advertisement of
their virtues to volunteer friends in
the press. But virtue is so common
at Washington nowadays that, left
to itself, it would be no more no
ticed than a buttercup in a flower
show. It must be painted or gilded
or bronzed. We presume that as a
careful man the postmaster general
pays his publicity promoter out of
his own pocket, for the appropria
tion bill makes no mention of any
sum of money for the encourage
ment of puffery. In any case the
artist earns his wages. He will shine
even in the noble fraternity which
includes such distinguished names as
George Creel and the late “Jumbo”
Davis. He draws an affecting pic
ture of a modest, self-sacrificing pub
lic official who sees his duty with
austere eyes and goes ahead to per
form it regardless of the cost to
himself. He discovers in him quali
ties of gentleness and restraint we
never suspected, and calls upon the
public to pity a great statesman in
danger of destruction by the claws
of a ravening press.
But at the risk of being consid
ered cold-hearted, says Collier’s
Weekly, we must insist that Mr.
Burleson’s personal characteristics
have not the weight of a two-cent
stamp in* the controversy which is
raging about the postoffice depart
ment. It makes no difference wheth
er the “general” is or is not head
strong, arbitrary, egotistical, little
informed; whether he did or did not
coin money out of the sweat of
convict labor; whether he is a good
leader for the Democratic party or
a fatally bad one. He is called to
the bar to defend himself solely as
administrator of the department of
the government which is nearest to
the daily life of the public. The
charges against him are that under
his administration the postal service
has deteriorated and has become in
efficient and slovenly; that it has
been used tyrannically; that the
poorest-paid and most competent em
ployees have been illtreated while
the higher officials have been en
couraged in the belief that they are
outside the law and beyond control
by public opinion, and that in gen
eral the department has become a
mere bureaucratic nest, incompetent,
extravagant, and arbitrary. These ^
are the principal counts of the in
dictment. Through his publicity pro
moter Mr. Burleson answers by tell
ing what a pleasant man he is in
his daily life and how cruelly his
manners have been misjudged. But
the plea will hardly satisfy the pub
lic, which has suffered from the
scandalous failure of the department
to respond to the test of war times.
Soldiers and others whose mail is
not delivered promptly, if at all, and
who receive their telegrams twenty
four hours after filing, are apt to
be dissatisfied. Unfortunately for
Mr. Burleson, they have come to the.
conclusion that under his adminis
tration the department has not been
operated to satisfy the public, but
to please the officials in control.
The attempt of the postmaster
general to prove that he is attacked
because of his advocacy of the out
rageous zoning system of confisca
tory postal taxes is about as foolish
a performance as could be imagined.
The public outburst was bound to
come, for impatience has been seeih
i ing among all who have had rela
tions with the postoffice department
since the President took Mr. Burle
son out of the political discard to
make him postmaster general. But
the immediate cause of the concrete
demand for his removal was the
refusal of the telegraph officials to
transmit a message from the New
York World offering to other news
papers an article in which Mr.
Burleson was criticized. The World
suffers not one cent's worth of ui n- i
age from the zone system. It op-!
posed this reactionary measure, but!
with no great display of zeal, as a
matter of public policy. Its opposi-1
tion to Mr. Burleson as postmaster1
general was based upon the general
complaint of mismanagement. Then '
suddenly, through the stupidity of ‘
the telegraph officials, it saw' the:
true meaning of the whole policy of i
the department. If some jack-in- j
office, encouraged by the malevolence j
of a sore politician, has the right5
to sit in judgment on the opinions'
of newspapers and deny to publish- j
ers the use of the mails and the j
telegraph, then the end of the free- i
dom of the press is clearly in sight'
The newspapers are making a fight1
for self-preservation. They did net ■
think of the other acts of Burleson j
and his followers in Congress as j
aimed at them, although their Wash- j
ington correspondents could have
told them how eagerly groups of
politicians at the capital had seized i
on ‘‘military necessity” as an excuse 1
for withholding. and suppressing j
news, for terrifying weak publishers ;
with the implied threat of holding j
up their publications in the mails1
and for inaugurating a permanent
system of supervision of the press
by bureaucrats who hate and fear it.
The harsh treatment of The Public, I
The Nation, and the Metropolitan
Magazine, the adoption of the un- (
just postal taxation by zones, the
abuse of the arbitrary powers con
ferred for war purposes, were not
isolated occurrences, but part of a
genera! pattern of repression and
control that eventually would have
destroyed a franchise much more
valuable to the newspapers than any
asset they carry on their books. The
World incident brought the news
paper publishers to a realization of
the truth that they must fight not
for the rights of others, which might
not excite them, but actually for
self-preservation. It was a lucky
thing for the public that Mr. Burle
son’s officious understrappers sup
pressed the World telegram. For if
| the conspiracy at Washington had
gone on unchecked, and its pur
poses had become imbedded in the
laws and the practices of the depart
ments, it would takes another Wilkes
to dislodge it. And Wilkeses are
| scarce.
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Seattle No. 3 — Down Kwiguk
i slough, 1:30 a. m., 20th.
Washburn — Down Holy Cross,
noon, 22d.
Jacobs—Scheduled to leave Fort
Gibbon for Whitehorse, 25th.
Davis—At Fort Gibbon; leaves
for St. Michael in day or two.
Alaska-:—Up Tolovana river, work
ing on barges, 1:30 a. m.
Kotlik—Up Marshall. 22d.
Tanana—Down Ft. Yukon, 10:30
p. m., 22d. '
Yukon and Casca — Up Circle,
11:30 p. m„ 22d.
IGOVERNMENI
FARM WILL GEL '
HEROOF YAKS
Superintendent Snodgrass, of the
j government experiment farm near
I Ester siding, has been noUfied/*hy
Professor Georgeson, who is in
! charge of all experiment stations
J in Alaska under the department
of agriculture, that a small h«'rd of
| yak will be shipped to the station
, near Ester this season.
These animals were secured from
the Canadian station at lianff, B. C.
| They were ■ originally brought there
•from Thibet, where they are in use
j in much the same way as domestic
| cattle are used in other lands.
Superintendent Snodgrass stated
that sometime next season, efforts
will be made to cross the yak with
| Galloway cattle.
Yak is the native name of the
•wild ox of the mountainous regions
of Thibet. The yak is about the
jSize of the common ox, to which
it has a general resemblance, but it
is covered with a thick coat of long,
silky hair, hanging dowm like the
fleece of a sheep, completely fc
vesting the tail and forming a
lengthy fringe along the shoulders,
flanks and thighs. This fringe was
apparently developed as a protection
to the animal in its Alpine haunts,
as the long hair forms a sort of mat
which defends the body from the ef
fects of the cold when the animal
is reposing in the snow.
The domesticated yak is of great
importance to the natives of Thibet,
where it is employed as a beast of
burden, but never for tillage or
draught. The milk of the yak is
very rich and yields excellent butter:
the flesh is of the finest quality,
that of the calves being far superior
to ordinary veal.
The hair is spun into ropes and
made into coverings for tents, and
the soft fur of the hump and withes
is woven into a fine strong
NOTICE OF MARSHAL SALE
No. 2390
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division.
Thomas McKinnon, Plaintiff, vs.
David Ward, Emil Morvan, Albert
Verhonic, ' Mrs. Anna Golding,
Robert Deacon, F. B. Walker,
and Pete Jensen, defendants.
By virtue of a decree of fore
closure of mortagage lien and order
of sale of the property herein de
scribed, entered in the above en
titled cause on December 23rd.
1918, wherein Thomas McKinnon
obtained judgment and decree
against David Ward, foreclosing the
mortgage therein described, as well
as all of the interest of the other
defendants herein in said property,
and a special execution issued here
in on the 2nd day of June, 1919,
I am commanded to sell as the prop
erty of defendant Ward the follow
ing property, to-wit: All interest
of said Ward in that certain lease
upon the Novekaket Association
placer mining claim, on Long creek,
j executed by N. P. Johnson and
others; also one 40 h. p. boiler; one
double cylinder American hoist,
pumping plant and all machinery
'used in connection with said mining
ground, by said Ward and asso
ciates; also an undivided three
eighths (%) interest in and to the
Keystone Association placer mining
claim on Long creek; also creek
placer mining claim known as No.
8 below discovery on Long creek,
' all in the Nulato Precinct, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that on
Thursday, the 31st day of July,
11919, at eleven o’clock, forenoon of
said day, in front of the front door
of the Postoffice in the town of
Ruby, Nulato Precinct, Alaska, I
will, in obedience to said decree,
order of sale and special execution,
sell the above described property,
| or so much thereof as may be neces
i sary to satisfy plaintiff’s lien for
| $2400.60 and interest, cost and in
terest, to the highest and best bid
der for cash.
L. T. ERWIN,
U. S. Marshal, 4th Division, Alaska.
By M. O. Carlson, Deputy.
First publication, June 9.
Last publication, July 7.
Day of publication, Monday.
WANT ADS
COMPLETELY FURNISHED Home
for sale, with greenhouse and
garden. Bargain. Present owner
compelled to leave Nenana. In
quire J. H. Flower, at N. C. store.
] 100-EGG INCUBATOR, practically
new, with brooder, for sale cheap.
Inquire Tolovana Trading Co.
: BRAND NEW FISH WHEEL for
! sale cheap. Set up, ready to
catch salmon. In good working
i order. For particulars innuir? at
News 'office. k!4
Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
the News Office.
The members of the geological
survey party, headed by Stephen R.
Capps, who arrived in Nenana on
the steamer Alaska last week, direct
from Washington, D. C., were south
bound passengers on the govern
ment train leaving town on Saturday
night, equipped for the summer’s
work in the field. * They brought
a complete outfit into the country
with them, and secured twelve pack j
horses in Nenana, which were ship- j
ped out on the train Saturday, The
party was reported at the Crossing
yesterday.
As stated in these columns re
cently, it is not the intention of the
party to return to Nenana. When
the work outlined has been finished,
the range will be crossed at Muldrow
glacier and a direct route followed
to the end of steel on the coast
division, by way of the west fork of
the Chulitna river. The party will
then proceed to the coast, over the
government railroad, from which
point departure will be made for
the States.
F-e«h garden teedi, ju*t arrived.
Fowler & Morris.
W. R. Taylor, the Kantishna min
ing man, who has been in the Lig
nite country the past week or more,
mushed into town yesterday and left
for Fairbanks this morning on the
launch Victory.
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NOTICE
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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 from
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
A street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second »nd Fourth Tuesdays
At S P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
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