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.
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WHO KILLED IT?
A number of misinformed person!
are spreading the statement tha
the eight hour bill, recently defeatec
in the territorial senate, was beater
by Democratic opposition, a state
ment at wide variance with the
facts, says the Valdez Miner. The
bill was framed and submitted U
George Grigsby, attorney general
on a question of constitutionality
Mr. Grigsby stated that the bill a:
framed was unconstitutional, ami
with members of the labor unions
revised the bill so that it would
stand the test of the courts, and
it was again presented to the legis
lature. When it appeared before
the senate it was killed by the votes
of Senator Ronan, Senator Hess
Senator Frawlev and Senator Heck
man. Senator Ronan objected to
the overtime proviso; Senator Heck
man voted against it because it in
corporated the fisheries and can
neries; and the other objectors gave
cogent reasons why the eight hour ^
bill should not be passed. Repre
sentative Patterson and a largo
majortity of the Democrats were for
the bill and Attorney General Grigs
I by worked hard to have the bill
! in such shape that no loopholes could
be found for reversal by the courts. !
Its defeat was due solely to ' the
: action of the senators above named
as a perusal of the record will show.
It is eminently unfair to lay the
i failure to the attorney general, who
was in favor of it, or to the Demo
cratic members who also believed
that a bill safeguarding labor should
be passed at this legislature. While!
these wild stories do no actual harm !
when told to persons familiar with ]
the facts, they may prejudice men |
| against representatives actually in |
favor of the bill, and work harm j
by these means.
ISLAND OF PAPEETE
HAS REMARKABLE
FREAK OF NA1URE
PAPEETE. Island of Tahiti.—One
of the most remarkable of the
curious freaks of nature to be seen
here is the clean, round tunnel
which pierces through and through
a high peak rising from the island
of Moorea, where the French gun
boat Kersaint lies a hopeless wreck
on its shores.
The island of Moorea is consid
ered one of the most picturesque
and beautiful islands of the South
Pacific. Its interior presents every
form of mountain mass conceivable
—cones, cathedral spires, truncated
pyramids, needles, battlemented
cliffs, which look like titanic forti
fications and the lofty peak, so
curiously pierced.
This hole, according to native
legends, was the work of an ancient
hero, O Pai, who having fashioned
a marvelous spear, pointed with tne
bones of evil spirits who had slain
his father and whom he had sought
out and slain, stood on the shore
of Tahiti and cast it toward the
setting sun.
The spear pierced the mountain
in Moorea and continued its flight
to the island of Huahine (sixty
miles to the westward) whither O Pai,
wading through the sea, followed o
perform other feats of strength
and valor.
Moorea is an old volcano. Its
crater is one of the largest in the
world. One side of this crater,
breaking down in some past age,
has given entrance to the sea, thus
forming two deep bays on either
side of the central cone.
These bays, flanked as they are
by lofty mountains clothed to their
summits with tropical verdure; ver
dure which seems to cascade in
, masses from the high cliffs to the
water’s edge, are of surpassing
beauty. At nightfall, when the col
ors fade and the weird peaks are
seen as dark shadows against the
stars and night flying “upoa,” with
their uncanny wail, glide unseen
overhead, these bays are as ghostly
as the spectral landscapes of Gus
tave Dore. If natives are to be be
lieved, many ghostly happenings are
enacted here.
Xecasa. Alaska's Interior rue: Depot
MINERS FIGHT MEX
BANOITS; FORCED
TO ABANDON GOLD
GRASS VALLEY. Cal.—“Some
where in Mexico” $12,000 in gollj
bullion is buried, its whereabouts j
known only to J. A. Mathis, for- j
merly a miner of Plumas county,
north of here, and two companions I
1 who aided in secreting it. Mathis j
recently arrived here after an ab- J
I sence of two years. He is going |
i back to find the gold, which was
| buried because the men valued their'
j lives more than the precious ore.!
; the weight of which impeded their j
, progress when chased by Mexican'
j bandits.
Describing the flight, Mathis said :
“Two of us slept, while the third '
j stood guard. Before daylight the,
t guard awakened us to hear the;
| hoofbeats of approaching horses.1
Soon three horsemen rode through,
the chapparal and we could dis- ■
ti.oguish the high, pointed hats of
the bandits. We wasted no time
in challenging, but immediately
opened fire. Two of the men fell
from their horses. The third tried
to escape, but he tumbled headlong
before he had gone far.
“We tried to catch the horses,
but without success; so after strip
ping the bodies of all arms and am
munition, we started again for the
I coast. Valuing our lives more than
j the heavy bullion just then, we de
! cided to leave it behind, and it war.
; buried in the sand and secret mark
| ings noted.
j “We reached the coast after a
I toilsome journey and in a nearly
; famished condition.”
. Division of Alaska into two terri
. tories is being advocated by the
; citizens of Ketchikan if other towns
; favor the plan. The projectors of
the enterprise claim that the pan
: handle of the territory is compelled
j to furnish practically all the taxes
to maintain the territorial govern
ment, and as the legislators from
other divisions have not seen fit to
take this into consideration in dol
ing out the appropriations, the
Ketchikanners believe that steps
should be taken to remedy condi
.• tions.
Birth Announcement Cards at the
News Office.
I
ALASKA COAST
IS VERY BUSY
Thai business is booming along
the Alaska coast is the report of
J. J. Clausen, we}l-known oldtimer,
who was in Xenana yesterday on
his way back to Fairbanks from a
winter in the States. Conditions
are good in all the towns visited by
him on his way North, due to the
activities of the fishing industry and
to the revival of mining. Ketchi
kan, he says, is the livest town he
saw, but Juneau also is experi
encing somewhat of a boom and
there are prospects of even greater
activity there in a mining way.
There is a movement on foot
among the coast fishermen, sort of
a co-operative scheme, which prom
ises to improve conditions among
the men actually engaged in fishing
and to put much of the money
which now goes into the pockets of
the companies, into genera! circula
tion. This movement, Clausen says,
is the result of the very unsatis
factory selling conditions obtaining
along the coast, the individual fish
ermen being at all times at the
mercy of the companies, who fix
the prices and accept catches when
it suits their convenience to do so.
The plan of the fishermen is to
form a co-operative selling agency,
with cold storage facilities for hold
ing fish in case of an oversupply at
any time. In this manner it is be
lieved that the market can be regu
lated so that all the fish caught
can be disposed of at a price that
will insure a more equal division
of profits.
Clausen tells of an instance which
shows the injustice of the present
conditions. The owner of a large
fishing boat recently put into Ketch
ikan with a good catch, the work
of several days with a crew of sev
eral men, and the best offer re
ceived from Ketchikan buyers was
$75 for the entire catch, which fwas
hardly enough to pay the cost of
feeding the crew during the cruise.
It was a case of accepting the
amount offered or having the catch
spoil on the boat.
In case the proposed association
is formed, sales not only will be
made along the coast, but shipments
probably also will be made direct
to the States, cutting out the middle
men and materially bettering con
ditions among the men who do the
fishing.
Clausen reports, like others re
cently returned from the States,
that conditions on the Outside have
the appearance of being very pros
perous. There is a lot of money
in circulation in Seattle, he says.
Good wages are the rule and those
who are established in business ap
pear to be prospering. At the time
he went out last fall, Clausen says
it was somewhat of a job to find
a room and on more than one oc
casion during the winter he was
compelled to roam the streets until
a late hour before he could locate
sleeping quarters.
At the time Clausen left the
States there had been no decline ir
prices and no one appeared to be
anticipating a reduction in the cosl
of living. But he firmly believe:
that a day of readjustment is or
the way and that when it come:
Alaska will benefit tremendouslv
through lowered costs of mining ma
terial and general supplies and in
creased population.
BOIL YOUR DRINKING WATER
The U. S. government school a1
Akhiok, In Olga bay, Kodiak island
recently closed a very successfu
year of work among the natives
Forty pupils are enrolled, who con
tributed over $200 to the Red Cross
during the war. Akhiok native vil
lage has a population of 128.
Prof. Robert F. Griggs, directoi
of the Katmai Exploring expeditior
for the National Geographic societv
recently delivered a lecture at Kod
iak on the volcano and showed pic
tures taken from the Valley of Ter
Thousand Smokes. The hall was
crowded to the doors.
Bridge Score Cards at the New!
Office.
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 W HEEL for
! sale cheap. Set up, ready to
catch salmon. In good working
order. For particulars incuir? at
News office. k!4
Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
; the News Office.
1
10 MAKE REPAIRS
In order that needed repairs
may be made to certain of the steam
pipes leading from the Commission
power house, the plant will be closed
down on Sunday, from eight in the
morning until sometime late in the
afternoon, probably between five
and six.
Superintendent of Electric Power
Service Ronan desires the public to
know of this interruption in the
service beforehand, so that arrange
ments may be made to do without
electric current on Sunday without
inconvenience.
F-e»h garden seed*, ju»t arrived.
Fowler Sc Morria.
FAIRABANKS DOCTORS SAY
BEEF IS NOT AFFECTED
For the purpose of verifying their
opinions regarding the illness of
Postmaster T. H. Deal and for the
additional purpose of setting at rest
the public mind regarding the con
dition of a shipment of frozen meat
recently received from Dawson, Drs.
J. A. Sutherland and H. J. McCal
lum yesterday examined the sus
pected shipment, and report that
they found the meat in first class
condition.
The doctors also now announce
that the illness of the postmaster
was not caused by ptomaine poison
ing.
The meat in question was in cold
storage at Dawson throughout the
winter and the refrigerator barge
containing it was towed to Fair
banks early this spring by the steam
er Tanana.
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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 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 ind Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
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