THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under 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 and Manager
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A STEP FORWARD
While the people of the various
sections of Alaska long have been
aware of the serious handicap of
excessive steamship tolls, we believe
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce has earned the distinction
of being first in the field, among
the civic organizations of the terri
tory. with a remedy for existing
conditions. And the members of
that body have asked for, and should
receive the hearty co-operation of
every commercial club and chamber
of commerce in Alaska.
The Anchorage chamber w’as
moved to protest by the very un
satisfactory mail service now pro
vided the coast towns by the post
office department, all mails, under
the present arrangement, being car
ried at irregular intervals as
“freight”. There are no contracts
and no schedules. The mails come
and go whenever there is a boat
available and, as has frequently
happened in the Interior in past
seasons, the steamers very often
move in “flocks”, causing long in
tervals between sailings.
“The carrying of mail as freight”,
complains the chamber, in a resolu
tion of protest, addressed to the
postofice department, “entails delay
at the points of receiving and de
livering mail, amounting, in some
instances, to as much as thirty-six
hours, at a single point. . . . The
large increase in the rates of trans
portation, of both freight and pass
engers, since the beginning of the
war, coupled with the difficulties
of communication by mail, entailed
by the delays above mentioned, has
imposed unusual burdens on all
lines of business in the territory
of Alaska, and has made the con
duct of business between different
points in Alaska, and between Alas
kan and the States, uncertain <ind
unreliable, as well as increasing
greatly the danger of loss by theft
and carelessness.”1
The resolution calls attention to
the splendid showing made by Alas
kans throughout the war, both at
home and in the service, and sug
gests that “if the carrying of Alaska
mails by freight is the result of war
conditions, it may be truly said that
Alaska is being penalized as a re
sult of the conspicuous service
rendered by the people of the terri
tory in the winning of the war."
In conclusion, the resolution urges
that the proper government agen
cies be induced to place in opera
tion, at the earliest possible date,
a line of steamers to be operated
by the government between the
States and Alaska ports, as a neces
sary adjunct to the government
railroad, and as a means of supple
menting and improving water trans
portation conditions in the territory.
The Nenana Daily News is al
ready on record as favoring such a
step as a means of lessening the
burdens of Alaskans and stimulating
development in all sections of the
tewitory. The News regards the
establishment of a line of steamers,
government owned and operated, as
a r-ost important link in the chain
of ..overnment aids necessary to
mr re A’aska's future with the pres
ent and we sincerely believe the op
portunity to get behind the move
ment launched by Anchorage should
be welcomed and embraced by the
people of Nen'r.a and every other
trvn in Interior Alaska without
loss of time.
COST OF THE WAR
The New York Sun estimates the
1 total casualities of the war at 27,
! 875,000, of which dead alone num
ber perhaps 10,000,000.
The Sun distributes the casualties
among the various countries in the
war as follows:
| Russia, 7,000,000; France, 4,000,
000; Britain, 2,900,000; Italy, 1,
000,000; Belgium, 350,000; Ru
mania, 200,000; United States, 75,
000; Germany, 6,900,000; Austria,
4,500,000; Turkey, 750,000; Bul
garia, 200,000.
The Sun estimates that the war
cost $249,000,000,000; divided as
follows: Russia, $30,000,000,000;
Britain, $52,000,000,000; France,
$42,000,000,000; United States,
$40,000,000,000; Italy, $12,000,000,
000; Rumania, $3,000,000,000; and
Serbia, $3,000,000,000; Germany,
$45,000,000,000; Austria, $25,000,
000,000; Turkey, $5,000,000,000;
and Bulgaria, $2,000,000,000.
The Anchorage Times says that
it belives in prohibition, but sug
gests that there is such a thing as
too much prohibition, especially
when a community is visited by an
epidemic of “flu”. “While not in
any sense an advocate of strong
drink when employed merely for
pleasure”, argues the coast paper,
“and admitting the evils of the
drink habit, yet we are inclined to
the view, and it has been impressed
very strongly upon us during the
grip epidemic, that certain liquors
should be allowed in case of sick
ness, upon a physician’s certificate.
In short, we are persuaded that the
Alaska prohibition law is altogether
too prohibitory, in the sense that
it does not allow the use of any
liquors for medicinal purposes.”
SIBERIANS OCCUPY
THE RAILROAD CARS
TOKIO.—Many refugees are liv
ing and raising poultry or keeping
cows in trains in Siberia, accord
ng to Shinryo Tanaka, a councillor
in the Japanese Railway Board, who
has been traveling in Siberia on an
investigation of railroads. He said:
“As one travels westward in Si
beria, train refugees are found in
greater numbers. They have con
verted railway compartments into
quite comfortable houses which are
provided with all the necessary
household requisites. Although the
rolling stock is by no means plenti
ful, the authorities are not so heart
less as to drive away these poor
people from ,their newly occupied
abodes and they are allowed to live
in the trains.
“Every station swarms with dirty
ragged beggars. They invade pass
enger trains and sometimes they
follow their intended victims over
several stations until their solici
tations are satisfied.”
LOS ANGELES—“Woodrow Wil
son Boulevard” is the name of the
road connecting Laurel Canyon
with the Boy Scouts camp, in the
Hollywood section, and will be
known by it in the future.
Land for a sixty-foot boulevard
was recently granted the city by
Mrs. Harry T. Smith, providing the
highway was named in honor of the
President. The donation with the
i stipulation was accepted.
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KOLANDS STAGE
[EFT THIS MORN
A Koland stage got away at eight
o’clock sharp this morning from
the Portland with the outgoing mail
and some freight. There were
no passengers.
Koland annountes that he has ar
ranged to procure a lighter and
more comfortable rig than the one
he is now using and expects to
make the trip through to Fairbanks
in one day.
He will have horses stationed at
Dunbars and the Ohio roadhouses,
and by means of these relay teams
anticipates no difficulty in making
the journey in a day, laying over at
each terminal one day.
The Portland will be his Nenana
headquarters and arrangements for
passage and freight can be made
there. The stage will leave the
Portland sharp at 7 a. m. and will
arrive at the Ohio in time for
lunch, resuming the journey imme
diately after lunch and arriving
at Fairbanks in the evening.
Every comfort and convenience
for the passengers will be provided
in the way of robes and footwarm
ers, and each passenger will be al
lowed to carry a suitcase or a roll
of bedding. Due announcement of t
the through service will be made j
later.
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JAPANESE COMMISSION
WILL EXPLOIT SIBERIA
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TOKIO.—The Japanese Economic
Relief Commission for Siberia, head
ed by Barop Megata, intends to or-;
ganize joint enterprises with Rus-'
sian and Japanese capitalists on a
plan similar to the Sino-Japanese t
Commercial Corporation. Its ob-1
ject wil be to obtain mining and;
forest concessions from the Rus- •
sian authorities and exploit the ;
natural resources of Siberia. The
shares of the concern will be sub
scribed by Russians, the Manchuria
Railway, the Eastern Asia Industry!
Company ,the Sino-Japanese Com
mercial Corporation and other al-'
lied interests.
The Loonomic Commission has
further plans for giving material:
assistance to the development of i
Siberia, but the details are not an
nounced.
NEW MEMBERS JOIN
RED CROSS IN DRIVE ■
That a considerable measure of!
success attended the efforts of the'
Red Cross in the recent drive for j
membership, known as the Christ-1
mas Roll Call, is shown by the re
sults obtained.
Three hundred and twenty new
members were added to the list of
Red Cross members, and five hund
red and twenty dollars were col
lected in membership fees.
Taking: into consideration the fact
that the drive occurred within a
brief space of time, with practically
no previous notice, the reults ob
tained are very satisfactory.
Not a Tight Fit
Equipment was being issued to
the recruits. On the prevous day
they had received shoes and as the
men came up the officer asked
each how his shoes fitted. One
man said: “Why sir, I can do a
right about face without moving
my shoes.”
William Sborgia, the Kantishna
mining man, left Fairbanks this
morning with his dog team and ex
pects to arrive here sometime to
night- He will probably leave for
the Kantishna shortly after his ar
rival here.
Billy Buttler, who brought Messrs
Joseph and Walle from Fairbanks
with his dog team, will probably
leave for Fairbanks tomorrow. He
made the trip down the trail to the
quarantine camp in eleven hours’
traveling time.
English chemists have made a
synthetic turpentine at what is said
to be one-third the cost of the
genuine American article.
FOR RENT.—Small one room cabin
on First and B streets. Apply
at News office.
GOLD STANDARD
10 BE RESTORED
LONDON.—Conditions necessary
to the maintenance of an effective
Sold standard should be restored
without delay after the terms of
peace are signed, reports a com
mittee headed by Lord Northcliffe
which was appointed to consider
currency and foreign exchange prob
lems after the war. The committee
said:
“Unless the machinery which long
experience has shown to be the only
effective remedy for an adverse
balance of trade and an undue
growth of credit is once more
brought into play, there will be
grave danger of a progressive credit
expansion which will result in a
foreign drain of gold menacing the
convertibility of our issue and so
jeopardizing the international trade
position of the country.”
To maintain the gold standard
the committee recommended cessa
tion of government borrowing as
soon as possible, establishment of
an adequate sinking fund out of the
revenues and the raising of the
Bank of England discount rates.
WOMEN COPPERS GET
WAGE RECOGNITION
LOS ANGELES —Sex is no
longer a matter for differention in
salaries, so far as the Los Angeles
police department is concerned.
The city council has adopted a
suggestion to that effect and re
quested the city attorney to frame
an ordinance providing that here
after women officers will receive
the same pay as do men for similar
work.
At present, Los Angles police
women are receiving from $85 to
$95 a month; male officers re
ceive as much as $115.
The council also has approved
a plan by which all officers will
receive $120 a month after four
years of service.
Senator J. R. Heckman, of Ketch
ikan, has resigned as uperintendent
of the Alaska Packers’ association
cannery at Loring and as the recog
nized representative of that com
pany in Southeastern Alaska, after
being with the company f< r 25
years. He will devote 1 is v. hole
attention to his personal business
at Ketchikan.
NOTICE
The management of the Coliseum
announce that all soldiers of the
Commission guards who have hith
erto been admitted to the pic
ture shows on payment of the war
tax only, will, in future, be given
a special rate to all picture shows.
The rate charged the men in the
U. S. service, including the Signal
j Corps, will be twenty-five cents
i for all shows and will include war
tax, with the exception of special
: shows where more than fifty cents
; is charged for admission.
For these shows they will be ad
, mitted for one-half of the price
| charged for general admission, with
| twenty-five cents extra for reserved
seats.
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TOMORROW NIGHT
Tomorrow night, New Year’s Eve,
the grand masque ball which was
advertised in these columns before,
will be held at the Union Hall.
The Coliseum orchestra has been
engaged to supply the music, and
dancing will commence immediately
after the picture show.
As stated previously, only those
who are masked will be allowed on
the floor until the time for un
masking at midnight.
The price of admission is one
dollar for gentlemen, the ladies be
ing admitted free.
A rollicking good time is in store
for all and every arrangement has
been made for the comfort and con
venience of those who will attend.
r.s. McDonald
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