RED CROSS CARNIVAL
MAKES GOOD SHOWING
The Red Cross carnival, which was
arranged by the j dies of the Red
Cross of Xenana for the benefit of
the yarn fund, started up yesterday
in spite of the hight water, and the
sales for the day aggregated a very
sutstant'i 1 sum, the gross receipts
being §521.55. Of this amount
there were donations to the yarn
fund of §10.80.
The receipts represented money
taken in by the bowling alleys, the
shooting gallery, the sale of soft
drinks and ice cream and the sale
of merchandise belonging to various
merchants, which v/ s disposed of on
a commission basis- It is expected
that 60 per cent of the amount
taken in will represent the*yarn fund
receipts.
The carnival will be in progress
again this evening, the closing hour
having been set for eleven o’clock.
NEW RULERS SELECTED
BY TEUTON MONARCHS
LON’DOX. May 15.—One of the
matters attended to by the emperor-;
of German and Austria-Hungary, at
their recent meeting at the German
great h | dquarters, was the selection
of monarehs to rule over Courland.
Poland and Lithuania.
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The water in Chena slough whan at
its. highest stage this week, reached
the floor of the Samson Hardware
company, opposite Fairbanks, and
v* s just level with the tt y of th"
piling on the F irbanks side of th
slough. The only damage done was
the loss of some of the piling which
protected the bank at the radio
station.
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IIMIMIIII UllIII lIBlill ■—H ■ II
TONIGHT
Paramount
Piet ograph
A MAGAZINE ON THE SCREEN
A One-Reel Educational Film
Keeping Up With
the Joneses, and
Seeing America
First
CARTOON COMEDY AND SCENIC
Triangle Komedy Presents
WILLIAM COLLIER IX
NEVER AO AIN
In A Screaming Two-Act Triangle
Komedy
Genera! Admission 25 Reserved 50
Show Starts at 8 O’Clock
Orders for Reserved Seats Received
By Phone.
CIRCUIT COURT
REVERSES VERDICT
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13— The
circuit ocurt has reversed the de
cision rendered by the district ocurt
of Butte, which awarded damages to
the extent of ten miliion dollars to
a mineral com;/ ny for alleged in
fringementso of a patent by the
Butte & Superior Mining company,
of which D. C. Jaekiing is a per
sonal stockholder. The suit alleged
an extraction of metal from ore
by a certain floatation process,
which was an infringement.
BOILERS ARE FLOODED:
TOWN WITHOUT LIGHTS
The flooding of the Commission
boiler house late Monday afternoon
neeessi , ted the closing down of the
power plant, and the town has been
without lights and power since that
time. The shut-down worked a con
siderable hardship upon the business
houses, none of which were equipped
with auxiliary lighting systems. As
a consequence, there was a general
scramble for ) mps and the night was
well advanced before some of the
tore/ were lighted.
The suspension of the power ser
vice worked a double hardship on
the Coliseum and the News office.
The Coliseum was dark only one
night, however, having reopened last
night, with the aid of a gas engine.
The News was unable to issue yes
ter | v and is .able to get out today
only through the medium of man
power, hitched to the typesetting
machine. The paper is necessarily
limited in size, but the principal
news of the day is covered.
Superintendent Jack Ronan, of the
Commission Light and Power de
partment, is of the opinion that the
water will have dropped sufficient!'
by tomorow morning to permit of
a rekindling of the fires in the
boilers, in which event the juice
will be turned on a") in tomorrow
morning. This will depend entirely
, upon the action of th • water, how
ever. and no promises are being
made.
Winning Numbers
The winning numbers in the Sim
| son May potlach were drawn o"
(Saturday evening, in the prc!c-nce
of a large crowd of ini ‘rested pur
; chasers, the majority of whom held
! tickets in the potlach. The winner
! of the first prize. $75 in cash, had
not been loo,- ted up to a late hour
j this afternoon, but the winners of
| the other two prizes have made their
I identity known. .
Ticket No. 51-39 wins the first
■ prize, and if this ticket is not pre
; sented within ten days of the date
| of the drawing, Ticket No. 4891 will
get the money. After the lanse of
another ten days, if no award has
been made in the meantime, the
money will go to the holder of
Ticket No. 6884.
The second prize, $50 in mer
i chandise, was won by Dan Kodrf -
self, the holder of Ticket No. 402.
Ticket No. 4650 won third prize,
. S25 in merchandise, held by N. J.
| Julian.
iCE STILL HOLDING
AT TOLOVANA STATION
Advices received from the Tolo
vana telegraph station shortly after
noon today stated th| t the ice was
still holding at that place, with the
water rising hapidly. At the time
the report was sent, the water was
within 30 feet of the station.
The Tolovana jam, it is believed
here, is very largely responsible for
the high water in Nenana, and if
tl'i t is the case, there will be no
material lowering in the water level
here until the jam at , Tolovana
gives way.
ERITiSH COMPLETE
WORK ON ZEEBRUGGE
LONDON, ally 15.—The bottling
up of the German submarine base
at Zeebrugge has been made com
plete by the activities of British air
men. who. made , raid on the base
and scored a direct hit by bombing
and sinking a German dredge be
tween two obselete cruisers that had
formerly been sunk in the channel.
Photographs taken by the British
airmen show basins of the canal
crowded with German craft of all
descriptions.
BOIL THE WATER
Dr Malcolm E. Smith, health
officer of the town of Nenan, has
issued instructions to the public fo
boil all water used for drinking pur
poses. The general flooding of the
town has contaminated all wells in
the flooded 1 rea, and the use of
this water, unless boiled, undoubt
edly would result in much sickness.
Dr. Smith directs that the boiling
process be continued until it has
been definitely determined that no
further danger exi-'ts.
The high water in Noyes slough
is reported to have V ken out the
Ester bridge on Monday, interrupt
ing traffic between Fairbanks and
Ester creek.
A. F. Herpick, until recently in
the employ of the Fairbanks post
office. is now in the employ of the
Dexter Horton bank, at S / ttle. Mr.
Herpick held a position in one of
the Fairbanks banks in the early
days.
PRESIDENT OBJECTS TO ^
TO AIRCRAFT PROBE
Washington. D. C., May 15.—In
a letter adressed to Senator Martin,
Democratic leader of the senate, #
President Wilson declared that he
would regard the passage of the
Chamberlain bill, calling for an in
vestigation of aircraft industries and
other war ; ctivities, as a direct vote
of lack of confidence in theadmini- N
stration, and an attempt on the part
of congress, to take over the con
duct of the war. he said that he
did not object to an aircraft investi
gation, but ttj t he seriously ob
jected to an investigation into gen
eral conditions of the war.
A consignment of second class
mail reached Fairbanks on Monday
and a consignment of first class is
enroute and should reach town be
for the end of the week.
BR1DGEWORK STARTS /
ON STANDARD CREEK
Camp 102, consisting of engineer
ing party and piledriver crew under
the supervision of Engineer Hawley
W. Sterling, working on the N'enana
Fairlf nks line, have moved camp to
Standard creek and are now en
gaged in driving piles for Bridge 67,
which will span Standard creek at
this point. This bridge will be 492
feet long, requiring 42 bents of five
piles each, with a space of 12 feet
intervening between bents. 4
The waters of Goldstream are re
ported to be bi eking up and thereby
holding the waters of Standard
creek. The country in the neighbor
hood of the camp is, in consequence,
flooded to a depth of about three
feet. The camp, as well as the
! store recently established there are,
i at present, well out of reach of the
flood waters, no darrj ge of any kind
has resulted so far and the progress
j of the work in this section of the
right of way have not been inter
fered with in any way from this
cause
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
—
The person who spread the report
that the Montana Rooming House
was not safe on account of its
foundations, is a liar.
\ (Signed) MRS. HEX’RY BAATZ
vStr. Shusana
LEAVES FAIRBANKS FOR
NENANA AND WAY POINTS
ON OR ABOUT MAY 21
For Rates Wire
STEIN & SON
^ Agents for Independent Steamers
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