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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SHARKS AND SHOES.
Verging, as we seem to be, to
ward the day of the $20 shoe, there
comes talk of skinning the shark
and using his hide as a remedial
agent in this prospectively distress-'
ing situation.
We have long suspected that there
was a shark in the shoe business,
remarks the Juneau Dispatch, but
that is not the shark to be skinned.
He may not exist. We are not
quite sure of it. And if he does
exist, we have hopes that the skin
ning of the other shark, known to
the scientist as the elasmo-branch
fish of the order of salachii, will
help to put him out of business.
At all events, as an item of in
dustrial news, the tentative propo- j
sition of manufacturing shoes out of i
shark skins is an interesting one.
Stories of fabulous hide prices are
going the rounds. Green calf skins j
are climbing toward a dollar a:
pound. Horse hides in the whole
sale market are bringing $15 and
up, and, generally speaking, we see
the foundation laid for the $20
shoe, whether propagandic or eco
nomic we know not.
A shark to the rescue is a wel
come slogan, provided the shark will
do the business. And if not the
shark, the skin of any dogfish will .
do as well, or possibly the skin of ,
the common seal or porpoise may
do even better. How well suited
the texture of these marine hides
may he for the manufacture of shoe
leather is yet to be determined, but
with the price of shoes soaring to
ward $20 we are not disposed to be
fussy.
THE ALASKA RAILROAD AND
CHEAPER COAL.
It is predicted that if Congress,
during this session, will make the
necessary appropriation, the Alaska
railroad will be completed in the
autumn of 1922. For the Pacific
coast generally, and particularly for
the Pacific Northwest, this is an im
portant prediction, if true.
The potential benefits to follow
the completion and result from the
operation of the Alaska railroad,
says the Portland Telegram, are
hardly clear to the mind of any
except those who are familiar with
the Alaska country that the railroad
traverses; but that cheaper coal for
the Pacific coast is to be one of
those benefits and the most imme
diately to be expected goes without
question.
We shall need that coal here in
Oregon. We shall need it in large
bulk here on the Columbia river.
The local consumption will be but
a small percentage of our need, for
w'e are now in the process of port
building and commerce getting and
we must soon be in the process of
industrial development that wall be
accelerated in great degree by cheap
coal.
Is it not good business for Colum
bia river port, industrial and com
mercial interests to take a practical
look at the Alaska situation as it
will develop on the completion of
this railroad? Why should we not
begin to consider in a business way
how we are going to bring that
1 coal, or the share of it we will
[need, to the Columbia river, so that
I we will not be at a disadvantage in
| the matter of transportation costs
; with respect to other points that will
i use the Alaska coal?
While it is true that the eongres- '
jsional appropriation has ben made,
jand while, generally, the time pre
dicted for the completion of such
projects is understated, and may be
. so in this case, yet we must know
in the very nature of things that at
the longest it will be but a few I
years before the road will be built j
and the wealth it unlocks to the ;
coast and the rest of the country ;
will be available for those who may |
be prepared to go and get it.
We might look forward and we j
probably may find it profitable to
do that very thing, to the establish
ment of barge lines for the hand- i
ling of coal betw-een Alaska tide-!
water and this port. Two years, or j
let us say three years, are not long |
in passing, and meanwhile we can j
only gain by a practical study of
what the opening of the Alaska ’
railroad is going to mean to us,
and especially in this matter of coal. |
If the benfits, or any portion of 1
them, are to be ours, it will be so ,
only by our reaching after them.
We had best begin to consider how
that may be done as soon as they
.are available.
WILSON SIGNS BILL; :
NOMINATESPERSHING'
SEATTLE, Sept. 4. —According
to a wire received in this city yes-!
t terday from Secretary Tumulty, the
Pacific fleet will be reviewed in
Puget Sound by President Wilson
on September 13. As was the case
when the fleet was reviewed at San
Francisco by Secretary Daniels, the
old battleship Oregon wall be used
as the review ship, both the Presi- j
dent and the naval secretary occu
pying positions on the Oregon’s
bridge.
President Wilson will address the
people of Seattle on the night of
September 14.
VICTORY COMING DOWN
WITH MAIL SHIPMENT
The Douse launch Victory left
Fairbanks for Nenana at 1 o’clock
this afternoon, with a number of
passengers and a shipment of first
class Outside mail which reached
Fairbanks night before last.
The passengers include R. L. Vin
ing, William Taylor, Knut Koland
I and several others.
The durability of wood in favor
able circumstances is almost in
credible. Pieces of wood, wooden
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caskets and wooden articles have
been taken from Egyptian cata
combs constructed 2,000 or 3,000
| years before the Christian era.
The great artesian basin of Aus
tralia measures 569,000 square miles
| in extent, and is said to be the
larpest known in the world, com
prising 376,000 square miles in
Queensland, 90,000 in South Aus
tralia, 83,000 in New South Wales,
i and 20,000 in the Northern terri
tory.
EL PASO. — Motoring through
j Northern Mexico is no pleasure
!jaunt under present conditions, an
J American business man with large
j interests in Mexico declared" upon
| his return here recently after being
J held up by Villa’s men, arrested,
thrown into jail, and finally released
on bond by the Carranza govern
ment officials.
j Starting from El Paso with an
jother American in a roadster, the
'American was held up by Villa’s
j men near San Lorenzo. They es
caped by speeding their car and
j driving through the Villa lines. This
j occurred after Villa had been driven !
from Juarez by American troops,
, but, the American said, the men he
i encountered had been left behind
!
ito guard Villa’s wounded and had,
, not learned what had happened at
! J uarc...
Reaching Chihuahua City, the
American said, he was threatened!
by the Carranza officials because of
a business transaction he had had :
with a Mexican who had made false J
representations to the officials. Aft
er hiding from the police and escap
ing twice, he was finally arrested at
Santa Rosalia, placed in jail there,
and, upon his return to Chihuahua
City, was again arrested. He was
forced to deposit a heavy bond for !
his release pending a hearing of the ,
charges against him. He said these
were only trumped up against him, j
since he had them investigated by a
civil court and his claims upheld. j
On his trip through the North, i
during which he was away more
than a month and covered more
than 2,200 miles in his automobile, !
the American said, he found condi- !
tions very chaotic. He said com
manders of federal forces were mak- ;
ing forced loans and seizing prop- j
erty.
STEAMER CARL WHITE
ENROUTE DOWN RIVER
The steamer Carl White was
scheduled to leave Fairbanks for
the Tolovana river at 11 o’clock
this morning, and should reach Ne
nana about six. The boat has con
siderable freight for the Tolovana 1
and the week’s accumulation of mail j
for that district.
The passengers include Mrs. M. ,
F. Hall, for Nenana, and the fol-1
lowing for the Tolovana: Hildas
Bey, Miss Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. !
George Bachner, and Mrs. Tom Dick- j
inson.
Mrs. Hall, wife of Dr. M. F. Hall, l
S will arrive in Xenana this afternoon1
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from Fairbanks and will visit here
until the doctor is ready to return
■to the upper town.
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Board of School Directors
Nenana Public School
Xenana, August 29, 1919.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
j _
! Complying with the laws of Alas
' ka, notice is hereby given that a
special election will be held in the
town of Nenana,
Monday, September 8, 1919,
ifor the purpose of electing one
| school director to fill the vacancy
! caused by the resignation of Mr.
j George W. Pennington,
i The names of candidates must be
| in the hands of the Clerk of the
School Board not later than Friday,
; September 5.
The polling place will be located
in the Fire Hall, adjoining the
jTownsite Office. Polls will be open
,from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. on the
day and date of election.
J. H. SCOTT,
Clerk of School Board.
Approved:
ROBERT JOSEPH DIVEN,
President.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the traiD 4
for any point on the line south of
i 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
Duilding, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, an<J_ can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
IA street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 a. m.
On and after juiy loth the freight
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