The Nenana News
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Nenana, Alaska, Oct. 21, 1916.
Conditions will be good in Ne
nana this winter. This is not an
idle statement inspired by a de
stre to inflate the spirits of Nena
na business men or to prevent the
departure of the few who -are
planning to spend the winter in
other districts. As a matter of
fact, the spirits of our merchants
do not need inflating and there arc
not a sufficient number of persons
contemplating departure to bother
about. The great majority of
those who are here now will re
main throughout the winter, and
there is the assurance that the
present number of residents of
the town will be increased con
siderably by arrivals from other
camps long before the ice goes
out in the spring.
Nenana is a good town to live
in now and it will be better be
for it is w’orse, better at least
than any nearby camp where the
opportunities for earning money
are no more numerous than they
are here, and where the opportun
ities for getting rid of it quickly
are without limit. Most Nenana
ites, wTe believe, realize this and
will remain here where they can
live cheaply and safely and keep
in close touch with the railroad
work. Not everyone will have
employment, perhaps, but there
wTill be work for many during the
winter, and as spring approaches,
the demand for labor will increase
at a rate so rapid that the Com
mission wall find difficult)’ in fill
ing the places as they are created,
View’ed from ever/ aspect, the
outlook for the winter is good—
certainly better than in any ether
district in Interior Alaska.
Nenanaites have reason to con
gratulate themselves upon the fact
that they are about to be supplied
with electricity furnished by a
government-owned and operated
power plant. The manner in
which the Engineering Commis
sion is installing the plant insures
the best possible results. The
equipment is the best obtainable.;
the system of lighting will be
thoroughly modern in every res
pect. and the service will be such
as to give consumers little, if any.
cause to complain.
All that the Commission desires
is that the public co-operate in
that as in all other enterprises
which have been undertaken by
the government in and about Ne
nana. And it can be said safely
in advance that Nenanaites will
welcome the opportunity to assist
in making a success of the power
plant. It is something all Inte
rior Alaskans have been wishing
they might have and the people
of Nenana will not be slow in
voicing their appreciation and
otherwise giving their support to
the undertaking.
The notice posted this week by
the townsite manager relating to
dogs and other animals within the
limits of the town, raises again
that oft-debated question of canine
rights. There is the probability,
however, that less serious objec
tion will be offered by Nenana
dog owners than by those who
championed the cause of the stur
dy little beast of burden in the
older towns of the territory when
the first attempts were made to
regulate the dog nuisance. There
was a time when it wras thought
by many that dogs were entitled
to more privileges than humans
because of the part they had taken
in the development of the country.
But that time has passed. Expe
rience has demonstrated the value
of regulations to keep the dog
within his proper confines, and
while it is not disputed that dogs
are still, and probably always will
be of value to the territory, it is
generally recognized now that
certain restraints are necessary
to insure the safety of the public
and to provide better care for the
dogs.
Kierulff is Daddy
Advices which have just reached Kena
na tell of the birth of a baby in the
Kierulff family, the little one having' ar
rived at Phoenix. Arizona, on July 23.
Both father and mother are well known
in interior Alaska, the former having
been attached to one of the survev par
ties which was sent into Alaska bv the
government several vears ago. Mrs.
Kierulff was Miss Hazel Deiser, of Fair’
banks, before her marriage.
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PROGRESS OF THE BIG STRUGGLE IN EUROPE
MONDAY
BERLIN: An official statement issued
i today by the German Army Headquar
ters Staff says that tne Germans gained
a portion of the woods near Ablaincourt,
south of the Somme, and took 4(10 pris
oners. Despatches trom I’aris are to
the effect that in a counter attack the
French recaptured all the ground lost.
The Reichstag committee has refused
i to sanction anv new proceedings being
taken regardfng the recent courtmartial
of Karl Liebknecht. The Committe,
though, recommended that the Reich
stag demand to see a report of the pro
ceedings of the courtmartial before fi
nally sanctioning the sentence imposed
by that tribunal.
Military critics say that one million,
eight hundred thousand men of the al
lied armies were practically annihilated
in three months fighting on tne Somme
! front. The Russian losses were over a
| million.
Dr. Davis, a socialist member of the
j Reiachstag, during a debate told the
House that unrestricted submarine war
j fare would by no means hasten the ad
; vent of peace but would. Instead, further
| prolong the war. Count vor Reventlow
I also warned Germany that submarine
| attacks along the Atlantic coast would
have no deciding effect on the situation
BERLIN: The war office states tlial
lone hundred Allied and German airships
! are engaged in a battle over the Mausei
| river gun works. Nine Allied and si>
i German planes destroyed. Five wen
i killed. The plant was not damaged.
NEW YORK: The stemship Bovic re
: ports l>eing chased by a German sub
i marine which abandoned the chase am
i went in pursuit of a Danish steamer.
HEREIN: The Germans have taker
sevtral positions around Ablaincourt.
' The German Admiralty announce thal
' the French transport Gallia was sunk
! on Oct. 4 and that a thousand perished.
j PEKIN: Japan and Russia have join
; ed in a protest against granting any rail
i way concessions to Americans.
MONTREAL: It is reported that the
Alien liner Sicillian. bound for Liver
pool, was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger
man submarine. The officials of the
couipanv place no credit in the rumor.
BAYONNE, X. J.: Four thousand
more employees of the Standard Oil
plant in this city, increasing the num
ber now out to 15,000, struck todav.
VIENNA: The Austrians have driven
the Italians from the upper Mariso into
the mountains it is officially claimed,
all the Italian attacks being repulsed.
BERLIN: A dispatch from Athens
puotes the King of Greece as saying:
| “I prefer to lose my throne rather than
' endanger Greece. I am convinced that
in filteen days Rumania will exist no
longer and if Greece went into the war
after the conquest of that country the
entire German forces would be directed
• against her and she would share the
! same fate ot Servia and Rumania.”
ROME: Official reports receiver! in
- this city say that oil the third day of the
1 l«ttle on the Carso plateau the Italians
were advancing along an eight-mile
j front.
TUESDAY
_.
SOFIA: It is officially reported thal
the concentrated attack of the Servians
on Monastir was a failure.
LONDON: The Teutons are attempt
■ ing a wedge movement to penetrate the
Russo-Rumanian forces on the western
i frontier of Rumania. " Reports from Pe
trograd indicate strong Teuton attacks
! south of Bukowina, thus indicating more
of Yon Hindenberg’s strategy.
PARIS; Norman, the American avia
tor in the service of the French, wound
| ed recently in battle, has died.
LONDON: An official dispatch says
the British have penetrated the Bui gar
! ian positions at tlie village of Burauk, ]
I Macedonia.
PARIS: The French have been gener :
I ally victorious in the drives made
i against them by the Germans in their ef
: forts to check their progress on the
| Somme front. It is officially stated Lliat
I the Serbians have been checked in their
! drive against Monastir on the Macedon
I ian front.
ATHENS: King Constantine, in an
J eloquent address to the remnants of the
I Greek Naval force in review before him,
] expressed his sorrow for what had oc
curred and lauded them for their loy
alty.
BERLIN: Official announcement 1ms
been made that 53 British and 21 French !
airships were destroyed during Sep
tember.
LONDON: The Teutons have broken
through the Gunes pass and are now in
vading Koumania. According to dis
j patches from Berlin severe fighting is in
i progress, the Rumanians gaining ground
i by directing stiff counter attacks.
I LONDON: Powerful German attacks |
| were launched against the British to re- j
i gain ground near Baupaume liave been
j repulsed, the fighting around the Schw
aben redoubt overlooking Grandcourt
and the Thtepval road being exception
alls- violent. The British and French
are endeavoring to throw a ring around
Bapaume. The dispatch also states that
it is impossible for the Germans to re
tain the batteries in the redoubt.
LONDON: The Austrians have lost
28,0t)0 men in the last two days of fight
ing on the Sarzo plateau. A dispatch
from Rome today says the Ixittle still
continues with undiminislied vigor.
PARIS : A violent artillery duel is in
progress north of the Somme river. The
French have penetrated several of the
enemy’s positions..
VIENNA: An official dispatch says
that the Italian offensive lietween the
] Adriatic and the heights south of Gor
j zia has been definitely checked by the
i Austrians. The dispatch states that
i 300,000 men were used by the Italians
j in this offensive.
WEDNESDAY
PETROGRAD: An official dispatch
says that following fierce artillery en
gagements the Austro-Germans began a
series of counter attacks ill the country
southeast of Lemberg.
BERLIN: An official dispatch says
that the Russians were crushingly de
feated in their attack upon Lemberg, the
Teuton counter attacks resulting in the
rapture of a mile and a half of trenches
and 2,000 prisoners.
LONDON: A thousand French and
Italian soldiers and marines have landed
i at the Hellenes and the Piraeus for pa
! trol duty.
ROME: Correspondence received here
' reveal the fact that a new species of
j vessel, with double the speed of the j
fastest Iireadnaught, and calculated to
create a revolution in naval warfare, has
just l»een launches!. The Italian Naval
authorities, hitherto silent regarding
I the new type of naval arehitecture, pro
| claim the lact that in naval warfare
thev will be as great a bong to the navy
as the British tanks are to the army.
PARIS: There have been sixty-five
aeroplane engagements in the Somme
i sector since Monday, resulting in a loss
: to the Germans of five machines. Amer
i ican aviator Norman, while participating
' in one of them, was wounded in the 1
j head and has since died, as mentioned j
in a former dispatch, in the Vosges hos- j
pital. The Cross of the Legion of Hon
or was bestowed upon Norman previous
■ to his death.
PARIS: The French Academy of Med
icine is authority for the statement that
the experiments conducted m an efforf
to obtain a cure for gas gangrene led to
the discovery of the gas so largely em
ployed by the Germans in the manufac
ture ol their gas bombs.
LONDON; The British steamer Welsh
Prince lias been submarined.
PETROGRAI): Great artillery prepa
rations are now being made by the Teu
tons who are vigorously attacking the
Russians southeast of Halocz and
launching assaults north ot Koryntza.
LONDON: Three hundred Belgians,
employed in making munitions of war in
Belgium for the German government
have been sent to Germany. Twelve
others were shot.
PARIS: An official dispatch says that
violent night attacks characterize the
fighting now in progress north ami
south of the Somme.
BERLIN: A semi-official dispatch
claims that damage estimated at ten mil
lion dollars was done in a Zeppelin raid
on the British isles last night. A Lon
don statement, based on the testimony
of eve witnesses, says that 401) soldiers
were killed in the barracks at Grimsby.
Two warships and a hundred large
buildings were damaged.
THURSDAY
LONDON; Drenching rains are ham
pering the manoeuvres of both the Ger
mans and the Allies in the Somme
region.
BERLIN: It is officially claimed that
all the French and British attacks in
the western theatre of war during the
past twenty-four hours have been re
pulsed.
PKTROGRAD: Violent fighting still
continues in Galicia and on the Volhv
nia front. Fierce battles are raging m
[ the Carpathian range notwithstanding
j the blinding snow storms. A strong
force of Turks have been completely
routed in Turkish Armenia,
SALONIKA: It is officially claimed
that the Serbians are meeting with suc
cess east of Monastir and have gained a
most important objective for which they
were striving.
LONDON: The Rumanians are suc
cessfully withstanding all the - .v..rt:
attacks directed against tin v Yon
I Falkenliayn. On the Trans . \s:.:
j der all attempts by the ■ -.•ruiaii- to
drive a wedge into the Rusm. :: u.
forces have proved unsuccessful and all
connteT attacks have met the same f=e.
PARIS: An official dispatch says that
the Bulgarians in the Lake Doiran sec
tor, in order to relieve the enormous
pressure brought to bear upon their
flank by the Allies have begun launching
a series of powerful attacks in that
neighborhood.
ATHENS, Fearing an anti-allied at
tack the French marines have abandon
ed the grounds surrounding the Munici
pal theatre where they were encamped
and have moved to the Palace gardens.
Intense feeling pervades the situation
and martial law has virtually been de
clared.
NORFOLK: The British sterner North
Pacific received a wireless from a Brit
ish cruiser that a German submaiine
had been sunk east of Nantucket.
ROME: The Hungarian Munition
Works at Pnnta Salvores have been bom
barded by a fleet of Italian and French
hydroplanes.
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