VOLUME I
NENANA. ALASKA. APRIL 28. 1917.
NUMBER 32
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GRADING STARTED
Business Streets Of Town
Will Be Put In First
Class Condition
Grailin'; work on A street was started
this afternoon. It is understood that the
contract was awarded to Sylvester Howell.
“FLAMING SWORD”
SUNDAY FEATURE
The five-reel Metro feature, "The Flam
ing Sword,” is announced as the attrac
tion at the Coliseum Sunday evening.
The story deals with the career of a
young and profligate college graduate,
who after dissipating his fortune, tires of
the shams of so-called society and re
solves to end his life. He drifts to sea,
in a small boat and is cast ashore on a j
lonely and barren reef, the only inhabit-1
of which are an old lighthouse tender
and his daughter. The stranger’s exper
iences in the new environment show very
vividlv how the dross of artificially can
be cast out and the finer and nobler qual- j
ities of true manhood developed by the
searching flame of a pure love, and the
picture comes to an end to the utmost j
satisfaction of all concerned. The usual
feature prices will prevail.
OATMEAL CLUB GETS
GOOD START IN LIFE
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At a preliminary meeting held several j
nites ago at the Rust place the Oatmeal j
club, one of the newest of Nenana's social
organizations, was successfully launched
upon a career which gives every promise
of success. The club is indebted to Cliff
Starritt, the cartoonist, for its inspiration
and name, for it was thru his portrayal
of “Polly and Her Pals” that the idea of
the club was born. On one of his expe
ditions Polly’s Pa endeavored to make a
string of nialamutes mush by telling them
to “oatmeal,” aud as hiking, or mushing
is the main idea of the club the members
were quick to see the novelty and possi
bilities of the name. A considerable de
gree of interest has already been aroused
and many new members are about to be
taken into the club. The officers an
nounce that the degree team is rounding
into shape rapidly, and some very clever
work may be expected of it at future
initiatory ceremonies. The club proposes
to stage a number of excursions and pic
nics this summer, besides other stunts of
a novel character. The club motto is:
“If you like to musli join the oatmeal
club.”
JOE ROBERTS TO
ENLARGE BUILDING
Work of moving the Roberts building,
at Second and A streets, is progressing
rapidlv and as soon as completed carpen
ters will commence the construction of
the new building which is to occupy the
corner. The present building will be in
corporated in the new structure, and is
being moved to the rear end of the lot
merely to facilitate construction. The
entire first floor of the new building will
be occupied by the Tavern cafe, and will
provide ample space for the accommoda
tion of the increasing volume of business
which that institution is enjoying. The
second floor will be fitted up by Mr.
Roberts as a thorolv modern rooming
house, and will provide a goodly number
of comfortable rooms. The local carpen
ter contracting firm of Gulliford, Catch
pole & Koon has charge of the work.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Religious services will be held in the
Marshal's office Sunday afternoon at four
oclock and the public is invited to attend.
Rev. W. A. Thomas.
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TRINIDAD, COLORADO: An explosion in the Victoria-American
Coal Company's Mine No. 2 at Hastings, near here, at ten o'clock this
morning, which has entombed one hundred and ten miners, is declared
to have been the work of Austrian secret agents. First reports attrib
uted the explosion to combustion of a coal gas pocket, but an investiga
tion conducted by the aid of oxygen helmets has disclosed conclusive
evidence that bombs had been placed with a view to most effectually
crippling the operation of the mine with the least danger to the men.
This fact gained greater significance thru the fact that the Victoria
American company has a contract to furnish the Russian government
with the entire product of their mines. All known spies had been under
surveillance but several strangers were seen around the mine shortly
before the explosion who have since disappeard. They were Austrians
land are being traced by secret service agents.
SELECTIVE DRAFT
BILL WILL PASS
- WASHINGTON: By a vote of nearly three to one the House voted down all volunteer amendments
to the Selective Conscription bill this morning. Discussion of the bill in the Senate is practically finished
and a motion has passed both branches to take a final vote on the measure before adjournment this af
ternoon and its passage is now conceded by all parties interested.
ARMY OF TWO MILLION
IN NEXT TWO YEARS
WASHINGTON: Assured of the passage of the selective draft bill, the War Department is going
ahead with preparations which will in the next two years provide a trained arm/ of two million men.
GERMANS SUFFER APPALLING
LOSSES IN BATTLES OF AISNE
PARIS: According to an official estimate issued by the War Office this morning two hundred and
thirty-five thousand Germans have been either killed, wounded or taken prisoner during the recent fight
ing along the Aisne river.
SOLDIERS WILL HAVE TO GET '
ALONG WITHOUT BOOZE NOW
WASHINGTON: On the first vote on the army bill this morning the Senate adopted the amendment
to make it unlawful to sell or give whiskey, wines, liquor or beer to an officer or enlisted man in uniform
nor to one who is koown to be a member of the United States army.
Nearly Forty Charter Mem
bers Organize New
Association
The first annual meeting of the N« lia
na Athletic association was heM .it 7 p.
m.. April 19, 1917. Mr. G. I\ Cramer
was elected president and Mr. S. II. I’cr
: liam secretary-treasurer, it being decided
that these were to he the only officers.
The initiation fee was fixed at jo.00 and
the annual dues at $10.00. It was voted
that the president should appoint a com
mittee to draft a constitution and by
laws and playiiut rules and regulations,
these to he submitted to the association
for approval at a meeting to he held in
tile near future.
Charter members to the number of 39
were accepted at the first meeting.
Work on the courts has already been
started, and as soon as the ground is
thawed sufficiently the foundation will he
laid and tile wooden playing floor placed
in position. The courts will be located
on Main street a short distance aboye the
residence of Tlios. Riggs, Jr.
COLISEUM HAS
1 SPECIAL ATTRACTION
| The management of the Coliseum the
ater announces that they have been for
tunate in securing tor the show tilts
evening a film which is sure to be of par
ticuiar interest to tile general puone ot
Nenana, the name of the film being the
“All-Alaska pictorial.” The film vivid
ly portray^ all phases of placer mining aa
t it is conducted in Alaska, and in addition
shows some very good scenes of winter
sports in Fairbanks, skating on Chena
slough and a very spectacular port:aval
of the spring break-upat Fairbanks when
the ice took the bridge out there. A
'• good drama and a crackerjack cartoon
comedy complete the bill.
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Personal Mention j
lid Baring arrived in Xenana Sunday
from Wiseman on the Upper Kovukuk.
He sats the northern camp is a dead one.
t Jack Dalton, Jr., son of the first man
j to take coal out of the Matanuska coal
fields, reached town Wednesday from
Seward, traveling by way of Iditarod and
Ruby.
S. G. Ward, representing the Western
| Electric Mfg. company, arrived in town
1 from Seattle Wednesday. He says the
trail from Chitina to Fairbanks is in bud
shape.
! The Malamute Kid who left the nppef
I town several days ago with a load of ex
' press, is reported to have found the trail
in such shape that he will not attempt to
get thru. He is at Kat-’em-uo Frank’s
'and will stay there until the l>oats run.
; Ike Mitcliim, well known oldtinier, has
purchased the heavy draft team recently
I brought to town by Herman Andersrii
'and will engage in a general transferaud
' express delivery business. lie states that
he is now ready to attend to the require
| ments of the public in those lines.
Roy Lamb savs that it's lots more
pleasant holding down a sack ot oats on
the way to Mile 20 than it is watching
the trail from the back of a critter with
a spinal structure like tile Sawtooth range
of mountains, and w hich critter persisted
: in stepping in every hole and str.ilbling
' over every hummock in sight. Ro\met
: tip with a team out the road a spell 'Ami
as his conscience was bothering him for
riding a horse so hard—he said it was—
he 'lowed he’d ride on a sack of oats the
‘ rest of the way. It was only a couple of
miles, but although he claims to have
ridden all the way he maintains that he
didn’t feel like walking that remaining
two miles.