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DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918.
WHOLE NUMBER 219
, BIRD WILL
SEND SUPPLIES
THRU HOLLAND ^
(Associated Press)
BRUSSELS—According to the re- i
ports received in this city today, :
£ England has notified the govern- ]
ment of the Netherlands that sup
plies intended for the use of the
British army of occupation in Ger
man territory will be sent through
the Dutch province of Limburg and
by way of the Scheldt river.
. BOCHE WARSHIPS
HI 10 BE SUNK
WASHINGTON, D. C—President
Wilson will oppose any proposals
made for the sinking of the sur
rendered German warships.
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HUN1S RETURN
GAME IS SCARCE
Everest Fitzwater and Ernest I.
Foster, of the A. E. C. clerical staff,
returned yesterday afternoon after
a week spent in the hills in quest
of game- They both had a very en
joyable outing and have benefitted
greatly by the trip, but, principally
owing to the extreme cold weather
encountered while they were so
journing in the game country, their
hunting was renedered impossible
and they were forced to return
empty handed.
They traveled by dog team, and
from Lignite struck across country
to the Middle river section where
ordinarily, plenty of game can be J
secured. They had very bad luck, j
however, as far as the weather was
concerned, and were not able to
stir out of camp. The increasing
cold made a trip to the outskirts of
civilization imperative, and a day
or two’s hunting was lost thereby.
The cold would appear to have
forced the game to cover, as they
did not see as many as they should
have seen. Some mountain sheep
were sighted at a great distance in
the high altitude, but none were en
countered within rifle range.
NoSltl
GO OUT MM
There will be no train out from!
Nenana tomorrow, Christmas Eve,1
and the work train, stationed out
the line at the end of steel, will
come in tomorrow evening, bring
ing in the men from the line for
the Christmas celebration in town.
The train will stop at all of the
camps on the way in, so that every
body who wishes to may come in
for Christmas.
This train will remain in town
until late on the night of the 25th,
when it will probably leave shortly j
after midnight so that the men will |
be enabled to resume duties on the
morning of the f'Uh.
A i Eagle may not oe J Me to
reach the su~. But, thro g'.i i w>.r
ful telescopes, it haa been s. n to
fly, with apparent ease, from o to
40 thouc?nd feet above sf t L. ..
No human being could long liv - it
that height, owing to the ^refac
tion of the air.
Banana, Wbara BaUa and JUrara Kaat
ims roe
polar regions:
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NEW YORK.—Captain Bartlett,
who at one time commanded I’eary s
ship the Roosevelt, and later was
Stefansson’s navigator, has been ap
pointed to take charge of an air
plane expedition which will start out
in June next to explore and survey
the North Polar regions.
Admiral Robert Peary conceived
the plan, and the Aero club of
j America are financing it.
The plans call for the establish
ment of a base of supplies by ships
at Etah, from which place small
seaplanes can fly to Cape Columbia
! and establish a base there. Large
j seaplanes will then fly across the
j North Pole to Cape Cheluyskin in
[ Siberia.
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TOWN TAKES ON
CHRISTMAS LOOK;
WINDOWS DECKED
The Christmas spirit, as well as
the Christmas look is daily mani
festing itself in our town and sev
eral business houses are dceorating
their windows most attractively with
just the things that will be in gen
eral demand all through the festive
season.
Within the next two days the de
corations will be further embellished
when the finishing touches will be
put on by way of welcome to good
old Santa Claus one more.
Within these stores, Christmas
i shopping is on in full swing, where
| the wise are shopping early an get
; ting their presents as well as the
j good things in the way of Christmas
cheer.
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WRITE LETTERS !
TO SANTA MIS
Due to delay, caused by storms
on the trail, Santa Claus has
wirelessed from the North Pole to
day to the News office asking thatj
the News notify all of his children
to write him a letter tonight, telling!
him just what they want him to
bring them for Christmas.
As Santa Claus is a very busy
man, and has a long way to travel
i with his many reindeer tomorrow
night, he will not have time to in
quire of every little boy and girl
what they wish. So that Old Santa
will know what to leave them he
wants them to write him a personal
letter and put it in his mail box at
the News office, where he will get
it as soon as he drives in
They must be sure to have them
in his mail box by tomorrow evening
so they will not be overlooked.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J Coutts enter
tained at a dinner party last night
at their residence on First and B
streets. The guests were Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Ryan and Mr. G. H. i
Gamble.
Where Noah built the Ark iB now
defi tely settled as at Si jruppak,
a . ity about 45 miles south of
Nippur, modern Fara, a ruin in1
Southern Babylonia.
Albert Lunt’borg, veil knew con
tractor, arrived from his camp on
O' -tream today. He will probabl:
<pe- l Gn.istmas in to-vn.
■eaana—loo gateway to McKialoy
VatMaal Vary.
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SUPREME COURT j
FAVORS PRESS:
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The su
preme court of the United States
has sustained the injunctions grant-1
ed to the Associated Press to stop (
the International News Service from
pirating news.
Justice Pitney, who delivered the
opinion, referring to the charge
made by the International News
Service, that the Associated Press
was guilty of the same practices as
they have been charged with, said
that there was nothing in the pro
ceedings that put the Associated
Press in the position of having un
clean hands.
Justice Brandeis, in dissent, said
that he believed that the opinion
rendered by the court had laid down
a dangerous principle which might
result in a denial to a great number
of people of news that only the
board of directors of the Associated
Press secures and publishes He.said
that half of the news published in
various parts of the states and terri
tories is dependent on other than
Associated Press sources.
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AIRPLANE MAIL FLYER
MEETS SNOWSTORM
7 000 FEET ALOFT
The air mail between Washington
and New York got its first touch
of winter flying when Ed Gardner
left New York in a cold rain, and
flew 40 minutes through a snow
storm at an altitude of 7,000 feet,
says a statement issued oy tne post
office department early in Nov
ember. The snow was so dense
that he could not see the ends of
the wings of the machine. He suf
fered no inconveniences save the
chill.
The air mail service has made
all preparations to combat the ele
ments for winter flying. Electric
ally heated clothing has been order
ed, and individual heating plants
for each plane have been installed.
These plants keep the motors warm
in the hangars over night through
the coldest weather, and will en
able an immediate start regardless
of the degree of cold. Arrange
| ments have also been completed to
[ keep a well-packed landing and tak
! ing-off area in the snow, and equip
1 ment has been devised for control
of the plane on sleet and ice on
the ground
On the New York-Chicago route,
i construtcion has begun on a $15,000
hangar at Chicago, donated by the
busines men of that city, and hang
ars are already in course of con
struction at Cleveland and Bryan,
Ohio. Work on the hangars at
Clarion, Bellfonte, and Lehighton,
Pa., will be begun next weeK. ah
the airplanes on the New York
Chicago route will be equipped with
wireless and everything that can
be done to insure a perfect daily
service between the cities on the air
mail, regardless of weather condi
tions, has been provided for.
91 ST DIVISION
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(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—It is offi
cially reported today that the Nine
ity-fi*|t Division, which is composed
I of Alaskans and other Westerners,
I is stationed at Denterghen, Belgium
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, The Smiths no longer own the
New York city directory. Up to
th s year there were more Smiths
j id the directory than any other
name: *6 and one-half columns of
| the’i. tut now it is Cohen that
{flies ti banne., with 49 and one-half
jeolumns.
LIMIT PLACED ON
SEATTLE.—A special message to j
the Post Intelligencer says that Sec- ’
retary of Commerce Redfield has
limited the commercial fishing on
the Yukon river to thirty thousand
cases of salmon per year, and has
absolutely prohibited commercial
fishing on the Yukon river above,
1 the mouth of Clear river, near
Andreafsky.
' The secretary’s rulings are a
1 Seattle on November 20th.
direct result of the hearings held at
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Along the new trail recently fin-'
ished by Mike Cooney and his gang
of men, from Lignite roadhouse to
the Broad Pass summit, there is
ample room and opportunity for the
establishment of two other road
houses, in addition to those already
existing. The opening of these
roadhouses will greatly facilitate
travel and will enable the distance
from railroad to railroad to be
covered in a shorter time than re
quired now.
The new roadhouses which will
add considerably to the value of
the trail by reducing the distance
between existing roadhouses, can be
established at a suitable spot mid
way between the Riley creek and
Jack river roadhouses, a distance of
about twenty miles; and betweeni
Jack river and the Summit, also
about twenty miles distant.
The great distance between the
existing roadhouses on the Broad
Pass trail makes it difficult for a1
slow traveler to more than cover
the distance between any two road
houses in one day, and it is quite.
a strain to make the distance for in
stance from Riley creek roadhouse
to the Broad Pass summit roadhouse
which is approximately 40 miles, es
pecially in bad weather.
The establishing of two road
houses at the points indicated would
make it easy for a traveler to make
thirty miles a day in comparative
comfort and be sure of a warm
shelter for himself and his animals
at the end of the day’s journey, j
The country in the neighborhood of
the projected roadhouses is said to
be ideal for prospecting, and the
j revenue derived from the roadhouse
will, it is thought, amount to quite
a grubstake.
Mr. Cooney, who returned re
cently from the country described
above, is in possesion of valuable in
formation regarding the opening of
the roadhouses and will gladly give
all the information at his disposal
to those who care to take up the
proposition. Mr. Cooney says that
he talked to the roadhousemen now
operating on the Broad Pass trail
with reference to the opening up of
j these new houses and states that
I they would welcome such houses, as
! it will make increased travel possible
| and bring more trade than hereto
! fore to their houses.
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The blond race only exisits be
cause of the sharp cotrast between
night and day temperatures and be
cause of the cold of the winter
and the heat of the summer. If we'
had too much heat, or if the nights j
were shorter, the direct rays of
the sun would convert us all into
brunettes. Hence the blond races
of the North and the darker races
of the tropics.
Wanaaa. When Balia aa4 lire* Mm*
FEEDING HUNGRY
QUESTION SOWED
Associated Press
PARIS.—President Wilson’s con
ferences which will he held today
and tomorrow will, it is thought,
virtually complete the preliminaries,
before his departure for England1
and will probably complete the prin
cipal part of the ground work for
starting the peace conference.
The most pressing question, that!
of sending food to the starving people j
in the liberated countries has been, |
according to President \\ ilson, about I
solved. The President believes that j
America will be called upon to j
handle most of this work through
Food Administrator Hoover.
M. J. Cooney, who was in charge
of the work of building a trail to
connect the ends of steel of the
coast division and the Interior divi
sion, has returned to town, having
' completed the work and connected up
the trail near the roadhouse at the
Broad Pass summit with the trail
cut by the men from the coast end
of it.
There is now a good, well detined
trail through from Lignite to Tal
keetna, and there is no danger of
the traveler getting lost, as has hap
pended occasionally heretolore. me
trail is staked all the way through
and, as stated in these columns some
time ago, where the trail leads
through country bare of timber,
tripods have been erected to mark
the trail and guide the traveler.
The distance from the end jf
steel at this end to Talkeetna, where
the end of steel of the coast' division
has now reached, is approximately
: 150 miles, anil of this distance the
gang under Mike Cooney has con
structed 68 miles of trail, from Lig
nite roadhouse to connect with the
trail built last fall by the men from
the Anchorage division, who finished
up to the Summit roadhouse, which
is about six miles below the pass
on the Susitna slope.
The old trail followed the river
to a considerable extent, traversing
some places which were not con
sidered very safe and other places
| which were subject to frequent
! overflows. These objectionable
, features have been eliminated and
! the unsafe places along the river
avoided. The present trail traverses
j only about twenty-five miles of
'river, viz: about 13 miles on the
j Nenana river, 7 miles on Jack river
and 5 on the Cantwell, where nc
danger from overflows or any other
cause exists.
The trail beyond Lignite and up
to the pass has an easy gradient arid
■ a team of five dogs hauling a 500
! pound load recently made the up-h:ll
pull with scarcely an effort.
The distance between roadhouses
is approximately from 18 to 20
miles, and placards have been
placed at intervals along the trail
to inform the traveler just how far
he is from a roadhouse.
C. H Calhoun arrived in town
on Saturday evening, traveling by
dog team.
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X As reported by the gov^rnme :t X
X observation station, Ner-v a X
X Sunday, December 22 X
X Maximum ......35 abovs X
X Minimum .24 abo^e X
X Mor.Jay, December 23 X
X Maximum .36 ab o X
X Minimum .22 above X
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KAISERS PIANS
FOR CHRISTMAS
ARE FRUSIRA1ED
(Associated Press»
LONDON.—According to reports
receoved in this city today, the
former kaiser had planned on cele
brating Christmas this year will all
the traditional splendor of the days
when he was boss, as far as cir
I cumstances would permit
Religious services were to have
been held as in times past on Christ
I mas Eve. and in the absence of for
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! mer Court Chaplain Dr. Ernest von
Dryander, the kaiser, himself, was to
deliver the sermon.
A request made by the former
kaiser to the government at Berlin
to permit the forcer court chaplain
to come to him from Berlin was
refused.
It is reported that many others
have refused the kaiser’s Christmas
invitation, and that his Christmas
audience will consist of his personal
staff and the servants.
BY CZtCHO HEAD
PARIS.—Professor Masark, who
has been selected as the first presi
dent of the new Czecho-Slovak re
public, entered Prague today and
was received very enthusiastically
by the popuhfnce.
DUE THIS EVENING
The "Dago Kid”, who was at one
time a partner of the Malamute Kid,
left Fairbanks this morning with the
Christmas m,ail for N'enana. He
was specially selected for this serv
ice by Townsite Manager Joseph,
who also arranged for the Christmas
mail shipment.
The ‘'Dago Kid” is driving a
team of 11 dogs which, he says, is
the fastest dog team in the world,
and expects to reach quarantine
camp at four o’clock this afternoon.
He reported from the Ohio road
house at noon and will arrive on
scheduled time, it is believed. The
mails for despatch on the “Dago
Kid’s” team closed at the postoffice
and were despatched at three o’clock
this afternoon.
KOIANDS STAGE
LEFTJYESTERDAY
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With the mail for the Outside
and Fairbanks and with only a lone
passenger, whose name could not
be obtainable, a Koland stage pulled
out sharp at eight o’clock yesterday
morning.
The stage, which will arrive in
Fairbanks tomorrow, expects to leave
the upper town on Deemcber 26th
with a consignment of mail for Ne
nana, arriving here on the 29th.
The world is a solemn fa> we
are in it, passing through it, let us
try to understand it, let us grapple
with its mysteries, let us think much
of its responsibilities, let us ponder
■ the thoughts of the enquiring m: Is
of past ages, let us prize all the
light e have from man—from God,
1 so that we may be g>'Hed aright
|am d i*s perils and chancing ex
periences.-—Kev. Dr. Alexander Reed