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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MR. SULZER, DELEGATE
i
Running on a progressive plat
form in which he pledged himself
to work for many reforms and leg
islative enactments for the better
ment of the Territory of Alaska,
Chas. A. Sulzer was elected Del
egate to Congress in 1916. He took
office on April 3, 1917- Shortly!
thereafter Mr. Wickersham, who was ;
his opponent in 1916, filed a con- j
test in the House of Representa
tives, alleging that he had right- j
fully been elected as Delegate to
Congress, and asking that Mr. Sul-!
zer be' unseated and that he, Wick
ersham, be recognized as the rep
resentative of Alaska.
Mr. Wickersham has not succeed
ed in having Mr. Sulzer unseated,
nor is it likely that he will suc
ceed. Mr. Sulzer is still Delegate
and is working hard, as he has ever
since taking office, in the interests i
of the Territor_v. The elections j
committee has made no report to j
the House of Representatives, and
there is no knowing when any re
port will be made, nor what it will
be. Erroneous reports have been 1
circulated throughout the Territory
by Mr. Wickersham and his follow
ers that he had been seated as Dele- ■
gate. These reports are false.
Mr. Sulzer and his friends con
sider that the most important work
undertaken by the Delegate is his
Home Rule Bill, whereby he hopes
to have extended to Alaska the
same rights and privileges of home
rule that were given to all the other
territories of the United States. By
this bill, which is now pending be
fore Congress the people of Alaska
are given full powers to legislate
for themselves.
It is a matter of interest to note
that Mr. Wickersham’s Home Rule
bill, passed when he was Delegate
to Congress, gives the Territory
practically no powers. His friends
argued at first that that bill was
but the beginning, that he had done
well to secure its passage, and that
it would be followed by another
more liberal bill. That these fol
lowers were either badly fooled
themselves, or trying to deceive
the public, is shown by a state
ment made by Mr. Wickersham him-!
self when he appeared before the
Elections Committee of the House
of Representatives.
In that statement, Mr. Wicker
sham said that his Home Rule bill
was drawn as it was in order that
. the people of Alaska “might not
destroy themselves.” He showed
thereby conclusively that he does >
not consider the people of Alaska
capable of handling their own af
fairs.
No question outside of securing, i
equipping and feeding the great
American army is receiving greater
consideration today by governmental
leaders than that of keeping up the ]
gold output of the United States. I
And it is a matter of pride and
gratification to Alaskans to know
that Mr. Sulzer was the leader in
the campaign to secure such assist
ance for the gold mining industry
that it might continue to exist.
Another important step was then
taken. Mr. Sulzer asked all the
Congressmen from the gold mining
sections of the country to meet in
formally to discuss ways and means
of helping the gold miners- Pursu
ant to this call some twenty or
more representatives met in the
office of Congressman Taylor, of
Colorado. An organization was
:hen formed to work in the interests
>f t|e gold miners, with Congress
nan Taylor as chairman and Mr.
Sulzer as secretary. This com
nittee have been actively engaged
n an endeavor to have the govern
nent give a bonus on all new gold
oroduction in the United States,
ind many conferences have been
leld and much progress made. The
question has been taken up by the
various states and mining organi
sations and by some of the Allied
?uuntries, and it confidently felt
shat in the near future a substan
:ial help will be rendered the gold
wining industry by having the Gov
ernment absorb the great difference
n the cost of production owing to
she war conditions.
FARMS FOR SOLDIERS
Secretary Lane announces that
the preparation of a program look
ing to providing farms fo»- returned
solders has been given into the hands
>f A. P. Davis, director and chief
engineer of the Reclamation Service,
ivho will have general charge of
the work, and with whom will be
associated Eiwood Mead, H. T. Cory
and Frank W. Hanna.
Mr. Mead was formerly in charge
of the land settlement work of the
state of California. Mr. Cory is
the engineer who had charge of
closing the Salton Sea for the
Southern Pacific, and Mr. Hanna
is one of the most prominent en
gineers of the West- Mr. Wey
worth, chief of construction for the
Reclamation Service stationed at
Denver, will-report on possible irri
gation projects Mr. Cory on the
swamp and cut-over lands of the
South, and Mr. Hanna on the
swamp and cut-over lam’ of the
North.
“We can have a job at good pay
for every soldier who returns from
France,” said Secretary Lane, “if
Congress will give us the financial
support needed. And while at work
the soldier can make a home foi
himself for which he can pay the
government in 40 years’ time. This
plan has received the indorsement
of so large a percentage of Con
gress and the press of the country
that it appears to be a probable
program; it certainly is a practic
able one. We have but $200,00C
now for preliminary surveys and re
ports, but this will be increased un
doubtedly by the incoming Con
gress. There is enough waste ant
undeveloped lanel in this country te
give every soldier a farm, but ol
course no such program is con
templated, because all would nol
want farms.”
IT. S. i'uu.J Ailminisu-atiou.
J!st ez do buckwheat cal:o got
f p over on his face, I'.r'er Dacon
rtu’ dance 'roun* en say, sezoc:—
“Or.c good tu’n desarves en auth
or.” sezee.—Moanin' vdat ef do
f- jer boys go en do de fljrhtin* for
us, do leas’ we alls bin do is tor
,-vi’ 'em all de wh at—en cat
buckwheat instid. Co’n meal, rye
en barley l'lour fer us will he’p a
i lot too.
IIMBERMEN CUT
FRENCH FORESTS
TO SAVE CARGO
TOURS, Central France.—Timber
• cutting for the use of the American
army is proceeding on a vast scale
: in some of the great forest regions
of France, as well as in Switzerland
and Spain. The cutting of a tree
in France has been, in peace times,
(little short of a felony, and no tree
] could be removed until vigorous
I sapling was ready to take its place,
j But the stern requirements of war
; have compelled a change in this con
servation of the forests, and the
French are yielding the trees they
; have so long safeguarded,
i Great as the sacrifice is, it has
; been recognized as a war measure,
•' since the bringing over from Amer
ica of the vast amount of lumber
required for construction purposes
would be practically impossible, or
if undertaken would stop the trans
port of troops So the forests are
going, and for the first time solid
stone construction is giving place
to the lighter and much more rapid
wood construction.
Besides the gathering of this huge
stock of material, requiring thous
ands of foresters, there is the work
of building the hospitals, docks, bar
racks, etc. The vastness of these
building operations can be judged
from the one item of building hos
pitals.
Hospitals are built on the basis
of beds for 10 per cent of the
strength of troops, so that with an
army of a million men the hospital
provision must be for 100,000 beds;
and with an army of two million
men, the actual estimate for hospi
tals is 200,(|)0 beds. As there are
as many attendants as wounded
occupying beds, this makes require
ments for 400,000 or the size of a
great metropolis, in the one item
of hospitals.
Several 10,000 bed hospitals are
under w’ay, and two 20,000 bed hos
pitals are being provided. One of
these 20,000 bed establishments,
with its 20,000 attendants, makes a
large village of itself, of 40,000
people, with their own electric light,
water and sewer systems, and all
the organization of a large muni
cipality.
The building of warehouses, docks
etc., is on the same gigantic scale
as hospitals. At three different
points there is an average construc
tion of three warehouses put up
each day, and each 500 by 50 feet
in dimensions. Ten miles of docks
is about keeping pace now with the
requirements of an army of two
million men, but with a prospective
army much greater than this, thirty
miles of docks is the minimum re
quirement. Much of the barracks
and trench construction is rush work
which will have to be completed be
fore winter.
These are some of the outstand
ing features of this huge work of
army construction carried on by the
engineers, far exceeding the work
of the Panama canal or any Tiber
engineering operation tne United
States has ever before un;lerta))jfcn
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NEWS OFFICE
ON ENEMY SOIL
British Airforce Headquarters In
France.—The observer settled him
self beside the pilot in tiie bifr
bombing machine. On eith - siue
the engines roared The signal was
given and the machine moved for
ward, turned into the wind, and
rushed across the grass into the
night.
It climbed swiftly in wide circles.
Below could be seen the dim coun
tryside where a few scattered lights
i twinkled. Far to the right lay a
' winding river showing the course
for the first stage of the two hun
dred mile journey to the German
town which formed the night’s ob
jective.
In front of the two airmen in
the cockpit glowed the phosphor
escent dials of the recording instru
ments. Soon they registered a
sufficient height for the machine
to turn toward the fighting line,
up and down which great white star
shells were rising, to hang suspended
for a few moments before fading
out into darkness.
The wing lights were switched
off, the lines were crossed and
friendly territory was left behind.
Far ahead the glare of many blast
furnaces could be seen, and above
them the long white fingers of Ger
man searchlights sweeping restlessly
! to and fro.
The machine flew on steadily,
however, upseathed by the fierce
barage of, shells which burst thickly
far below it. Soon the barrier of
defense was passed, and for a long
time the airmen flew over mile upon
mile of enemy territory over dimly
lit towns and sleeping fields and
villages. They had been flying over
German territory for more than two
hours when they saw ahead of them
on the river the lights of another
bijr city. This was their objective
and at once the machine swept
around towards it.
The observer, lying face down,
opened the sliding door in the floor
of the machine. The pilot steered
the machine around by the observer’:
directions so that it might follow
the railway, and so find surely the,
great railway juction that was to
be the target for his bombs. Two
searchlights had now sprung up, and
here and there in the sky burst a
l'ew random shells.
The big city, twinkling with hun
dreds of carefully shaded lights, lay
spread now below the observer’s
peep-hole. The fore-and-aft bar of
the bomb-sight drew near the sta
tion, and touched it. The observer’s
hand reached out to the bomb-re
lease lever at his side. He pushed
the lever hand over, drew it back,
and pushed it over again and again.
Below he could see for a moment,
the fat cylinders spinning down
towards the railway junction.
He climed up beside the pilot,
and told him to turn. The search
lights erratically swept to and fro.
with every suggestion of panic, fear
or lack of skill. The airmen, sweep
ing round, started on the long
homeward journey.
The observer was looking down
intently to the black triangle mass
of the railway junction, with its
crowded sidings. A great spurt of
red flame leapt up at its edge, as
the first bomb exploded. Then an
: other followed it, right in the junc
tion. Then another, and yet an
other. The fifth caused a tremend
ous explosion followed by blinding
i white flames—acres of it- Clearly
: an ammunition train had been hit.
I Then the others burst, one after
another, leaving the railway junc
I tion shrouded in moonlit smoke
, through which the red light of a
! growing fife glared dully.
! -
j 1,185,000 tons of sugar will be
! saved the first year if each of us
, uses one ounce less each day. This
j will keep sugar plentiful and cheap.
SWE SUGAR
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'NFLUENZA WAS CAUSE OF
MRS. M’GIBNEY’S DEATH
Frank McGibney, of this city,
who had been recently working on
a grading contract on the Nenana
hairbanks line, received n telegram
yesterday from Mrs. Hill, of Van
couver, B. C., a sister of his late
wife, informing him that the cause
jof his wife’s death was pneumonia,
brought on by an attack of influenza.
[ She succumbed to the disease on
; October 17th, after an illness of
! only five days.
Florence McGibney, the 13-ycar
: old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mc
i Gibney, was also down with the
malady and is reported to be con
valescing.
The sender of the telegram, Mrs.
; Hill, had been in the hospital suffer
j ing from an attack of influenza,
I but has now been enabled to leave
that institution.
The late Mrs. McGibney came to
I the North with her parents when
i she was only 11 years old, settling
at Juneau in 1897, moving later
I to Dvea and Dawson. She married
i
j Frank McGibney in 1904, and came
! to Fairbanks for a while, w'here
J her daughter Florence was born.
She is said to be the first white
I girl born in Fairbanks. Mrs. Me
I Gibney lived almost continuously in
the North ever since 1897, making
a few trips Outside for a brief spell
| She came to Nenana with her hus
\ band a year ago last spring.
She is survived by her husband
i Frank McGibney, who is a Nenana
j resident, and her daughter Florence,
i who is attending school at Van
! couver, B. C.
NOTICE
A little brown basket was lost
! from the tea room at the Union Hall,
j Finder please return to Nenana
| News office.
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SUGAR MUST BE
A teaspoonful meat
rothird, \bu say; Net a.
heaping teaspoanM
saved, each meal for
170 days for each of the
loo.o'oo.ooo persons
in the United States
nukes a pile as bijl as the
Wjolworth building Beneath
to supply tlw entire armed
forces u» the nation.
! War is an ugly thing, but a Ger
man peace is uglier—•
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FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
WANTED Reliable party to rent
or manage Central Lodging House.
Inquire on premises. 0-21
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con
nections. Inquire Waechter Bros.
Market.
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