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-PITIABLE TALE OF
„ TYK HORRORS
ID BY MSI
TOKIO.—In a letter from Omsl
Siberia, Miss Charlotte Boardma
Ropers, of New York city, who wa
on the Western front when th
Kolchak armies recently evacuate
a number of cities, writes a pitia
ble story of the horrors of typhu
^which she personally observed as
nurse of the American Red Cross
She says:
“I have spent 24 hours in hel
Our train was stalled at the railwa
station of Petropavlovsk, Far Wesl
em Siberia, and somewhere to tb
* west of us the Red armies wer
coming on.
“To the right of us, left of us
rear of us, were typhus feve
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MRS. BERT JOHNSON
Proprietress
. Skof House
That’s the Place
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
SOUTHERN HOTEL
BUILDING
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trains, boxcars, passenger-car:,
twenty-five, thirty, even thirty-five
cars to a train, and all loaded witn
men from the front and from the
evacuated hospitals, with hundreds
thousands of patients dying of the
■ dread disease.
■ : ‘‘No nurses waited on them, no
• doctors administered medicines to
stimulate the action of their weak
ened hearts. They lay on rough
5 board shelves erected around the
5 sides and ends of the cars, or on
; the floor where even cattlemen
1 would have placed straw if animals
. were to be carried. Xo sanitary
s conveniences were supplied; the pa
• tients’ clothes were stained with
filth and blood; their feet caked
with mud and manure; their bodies
alive with little gray typhus lice—
f the plague of Siberia.
.! “Cheek bones protruded through
- their yellow skin, eyes eunken into
. ' their sockets, hands like birds' claws
stretched out with cups for water,
, i they lay all day in the sweltering
r heat
“We tried to look away, but all
t day long we heard them moan or
J call for their sanitary attendants.
I “Our trip from Omsk to the ex
3 treme front and back again at a
; time when the Siberian government
j armies were falling back before the
g Reds has revealed in all its pitiful
I ness the tremendous need of Russian
3 hospitals, sanitary trains, and dress
• ing stations for every kind of sup
| ply
g “Although the American Red
- Cross has been sending train after
, train to Western Siberia, so vast is
the need that many more trains
are necessary to meet even the most
primal necessities. Yet those of us
■ who have seen the immediate im
provements in hospitals and sanitar;.
trains where American Red Cross
supplies have come in are immense
ly encouraged, knowing that everj
pound of absorbent cotton, ever}
ounce of drugs, every yard oi
Pi gauze, can be used in Western Si
- beria to save a life.”
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| Miners and Prospectors! 1
| NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS [
According to a recently issued Court Order by =
| Judge Cha.\ E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- |
E cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- |
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts.
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be =
| enabled by this change to do their recording and f
^ | transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
* | easy reach of their mining activities. I
I | NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. 1
| R. S. McDonald, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. I
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LONDON.—After ten months of
trial, the higher authorities of the
metropolitan police have decided
that women police officers have
made good, and the 100 now on
duty will be retained. They must
be of good education, possessing
tact, kindliness, and a sympathetic
nature, willing to work seven hours
a day for $10 a week, and be ready
at all times for duty.
The force was recruited from the
patrol workers of the National Un
ion of Women Workers employed by
the commissioner in 1916 to aid in
the protection of the city. They
did excellent work, but last Novem
ber it was felt that the pressing
need for them had passed, and they
were disbanded.
The cessation of hostilities, how
ever. brought thousands of young
officers from the fighting front to
London, and the fear that an orgy
of dissipation might follow the rig
ors of fife in the trenches induced
the police to retain 100 picked
women for duty in the night life
sections.
Their work was preventive in a
large measure, particular attention
being devoted to young girls who
might be attracted to such places.
So well did they carry out the plan
that their permanent worth has now
been recognized.
These police women may be seen
any night in the West End, cover
ing regular beats near the theaters
and hotels in pairs, dressed in navy
blue, with a business-like cap and
regulation whistle. They work un
der the direction of a woman chief
who makes her headquarters in Scot
land Yard. If a woman is accosted
by some man who does not know
her, she can cause his arrest by
appealing to the woman officer, and
it frequently happens that arrest;
are made without complaint.
All woman applicants for the
force are trained for eight weeks
in the regular duties of a policeman,
but they are not sworn in as con
stables, and they are liable only
for such duty as the commissioner
may direct.
“AH our women are most care
fully chosen,” said their chief, Mrs.
Stanley, “but we have no place for
the ‘prude’ or the ‘prowl’.”
Fur Coats, Robes and Caps Reno
vated or made. Cleaning and press
ing Suits a Specialty.
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Henana. Alaska's Interior Tnel Depot
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OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
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The Nenana News
Si.— it i
Almost simultaneously with the
receipt of the news of the passage
by Congress of Alaska’s six million
dollar railroad appropriation bill,
an order was issued yesterday by
Fred’k D. Browne, engineer in
charge, directing the curtailment of
construction activities south of Ne
nana. involving a material reduc
tion in the number of men em
ployed.
Frost conditions, Mr. Browne in
formed a representative of The
News this afternoon, have become
such as to necessitate the closing
down of the dragline excavator,
which means that there will be no
more gravel available for the sur
facing gang which has been em
ployed along the line south of the
Crossing, under Foreman Louis Lee.
Mr. Browne says it is a matter of
regret to him that it is necessary
to make a reduction in forces at
this time, but he expresses the hope
that it will be possible to absorb
a number of the men in other lines
of work which can be continued
regardless of weather conditions.
A little later on, too. he says, con
tracts will be awarded for rock
work in the canyon, furnishing win
ter employment for a considerable
number of men. The number of
contracts will be limited only by
the amount of material and equip
ment available for the work. This
work probably will be started as
soon as the track has reached th“
canyon, so as to permit of the de
livery of supplies and the establish
ment of a camp at that point. The
contracts cannot be awarded now
because of the lack of funds from
J the last appropriation, but official
| notification of the appropriation of
additional funds probably will be
received within a short time, after
which Mr. Browne will be free to
:go ahead with the rock work, as
already outlined.
Under the rearrangement of
forces, as necessitated by the cur
tailment of work. Surfacing Gang
Xo. 1, which has been working along
the grade south of the Crossing,
and which numbered 94 men last
week, will be reduced to 24 men,
and the gang henceforth will be
known as Track Gang Xo. 1. The
curtailment also means a reduction
in the number of train crews oper
ating south of town, eliminating
the work trains and leaving only
the regular train, which will con
tinue to make two runs a week to
the end of steel, and such addi
tional trips as may be necessary
from time to time. This train will
be in charge of Conductor Hogan
and Engineer Pete Gallagher.
The track gang, under Foreman
Lee, will resume tracklaying oper
ations beyond Dry creek as soon as
the bridge is completed, using the
Brown hoist. There are three miles
;of track to be laid beyond Dry
creek, which will take the steel to
the canyon and end construction in
that direction for the winter.
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; Morris.
Flashlights and fresh batteries just
received. All sizes. Anderson Bros.
& Nerland.
Birth Announcement Cards at the
News Office.
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WINTER AT FIREHALL;
APPARATUS ON SLEDS ,
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Winter has made its appearance
at the fireball in the form of run
ners for the chemical and hose
carts, which are equinped with
wheels for summer use The change;
was necessitated by the heavy fall
of snow of the past couple of days,
which has the appearance of hav
ing come to stay for the winter.
The local department is better
equipped for work this winter than
at any previous time since the
founding of the town, as the result
of the receipt of an additional 500
feet of regulation hose on one of
the last boats.
and Equipment, Cooking Utensils.
Anderson Bros. & Nerland.
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