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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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WICKERSHAM, THE FIGHTER
Upon one thing it safely can be
said that Alaskans are agreed. Fre
quent demonstrations, as judge, dele
gate and politician, during the past
dozen years, have supplied con
vincing evidence of the fact that
James Wickersham is a fighter.
The greater part of his time, since
he first journeyed to Washington
as Alaska’s delegate to congress,
has been devoted to fighting some
thing or somebody, and not a few
of his admirers have continued to
east their votes for him, year after
year, because of the punch that was
ever ready of delivery. It was
enough for them to know that Wick
ersham could fight. They admired
him and voted for him because of
his aggressiveness, disregarding
motives and the risks of ill advised
and excessive fighting. The noise
of the fray, when Wickersham start
ed something, had a way of dim
ming issues and camouflaging per
sonal attacks.
While it is possible that some of
this fighting has been well intended,
the News is of the opinion that
there has been entirely too much of
it- Attacks directed against ad
ministration officials and heads of
departments have resulted, in years
gone by, in the withholding of funds
which should have been made avail
able for development purposes in
Alaska: ten years of personaly con
ducted war on the Guggenheims
finds them more strongly entrench
ed than ever in Alaska. Col. Rich
ardson. engaged for an equally long
period in defensive warfare opposed
hv the delegate from Alaska, has
retired from the fray with honor,
and the major portion of territorial
road building continues to be done
under the direction of the Alaska
Road commission, of which CoT.
Richardson was directing bead dur
ing h's long term of service in the
North. And Thomas Riggs. Jr.,
against whom Wickersham started
a fight while Riggs was still a
member of the Alaskan Engineering
commission. ha? emerged from the
battle as governor of the territory.
Throughout all his campaigns Wick
ersham has maintained his reputa
tion as a fighter, but he has failed
to get results—failures which have
seemed to intensify his lust for
battle rather than to dismay him.
Alaskans have shown that they ad
mire a fighter, but they are only
human—there is a limit to their ad
miration. And the time has come
for Wickersham to show them that
his fighting is worth while.
The reasonableness of the latest
Wickersham attack, directed against
Secretary Lane and the Alaskan
Engineering commission is not ap
parent, and it will be hard to con
vince Alaskans that any good will
come of it. In fact, we very much
doubt if it is /intended to result in
benefit to the territory. It has
more the appearance of a personal
attack on the governor and we are
forced to the belief that our fight
ing former delegate would not hesi
tate to upset the whole railroad or»
ganization if, by so doing, he could
discredit or embarrass the chief
executive of the territory. He
would stop the work or railroad
building at a time when Alaskans
are striving to recover from the ill
effects of the war, for no other
reason than to call attention to
alleged mistakes and mismanage
ment of one who is no longer identi-!
fied with railroad construction The
fact that the work is now proceed
ing’ smoothly and economically, with
only a short stretch of road to be
completed, apparently is lost sight
of entirely.
Alaskans, we fee! safe in saying,
have had about all the fighting they
want. They are eager now to settle
down to the business of developing
Alaska and they need assistance and
co-operation, and the improved
transportation facilities which the
early completion of the government
railroad will provide. If Wicker
sham will bend his energies along
those lines, he will be doing Alas
kans and the territory a real service.
Fighting the governor will not speed
ievelopment, and Wickersham fail
ed long ago, to wrest Alaska from
the grip of private transportation
monopolies. It was this failure, that
forced Alaskans to appeal to Con
gress for the construction of a gov
ernment owned and operated rail
road which would put a stop to '
iver trasportation profiteering. 1
\nci now that the work is fairly
.mder way, we do not want it handi- *
rapped by uuwarranted opposition.
WHAT’S THE ANSWER?
That the present Alaskan mail
■ervice. remarks the Valdez Miner,
s a constant source of wonderment
.o Alaskans, who have been used
.o slow mails in the old stampede
lavs of ninety-eight is well known
:o a majority of Outsiders who have
teard the prolonged roar that has
rone up over the pinch-penny
methods of the postoffice depart
ment under the management of the
present postmaster general, but oc
casionally an incident happens that
causes the residents of Valdez to
wonder if they are living in the age
of steam and electricity.
A letter was received January 14
at Fort Liscum by Pvt. Walter
Carlson which had been mailed at
Hollywood, Washington, September
30. The letter had been over three
months on the way. The old ponv
express would have beaten this time
bv two months at least.
Several times the mails have
come in from a week to three
weeks late, but three months is
going a little too strong for the
average citizen.
JAPAN IS PREPARING
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
TOKIO-—The ministry of edu
cation has prepared a plan for the
extension of higher education to
cover the next six years and to
cost about $22,000,000. Part of
this expense has been provided by
a gift of $5,000,000 from the em
peror.
It is intended to establish 33
new and high technical schools and
to raise all the higher schools to
the grade of colleges. This would
provide for the teaching of thous
ands of students who cannot now
be accepted by the government
colleges, several of which now have
desk rooms for only 15 per cent
of the students applying for ad
mission.
Frank H. Foster, an attorney of
(ordova, took advantage of a tech
nicality of the law and recently
staked a piece of ground at that
nlace that had been overlooked.
The ground is occupied by several
houses and is worth something over
$10,000
J. C. VAN ORSDEL
WILL LEAVE ON
IP 10 SIA1ES
Joseph C. Van Orsdel, U S. com
missioner and claim owner of the
Kantishna district, who has been
residing in Nenana for several
months past, proposes leaving1 for
Fairbanks tomorrow morning, en
route to the States.
He is going Outside on business
connected with some mining claims
in which he is interested in the
Kantishna mining district, and ex
pects to be back in Nenana again
on one of the first boats in the
-pring, if not sooner.
Mr. Van Orsdel had intended
traveling over the Broad Pass trail
to the coast, but owing to the un
certainty of the steamer movements
from Anchorage and Seward, and
the fact that he is rather pressed
for time, he has decided to take the
trail to Chitina.
UTAH WOLF CAUSING
RIOT AMONG HERDERS
SALT LAKE CITY.—One lone
ivolf in San Juan county, Utah, ha;
played so much havoc with live
stock in the southwestern part of
the state that a reward of one
housand dollars has just been
offered for his hide. Efforts to
rap the predatory beast have prov
ed unsuccessful ever since the ex
)erieneed stock raisers became
horoughly acquainted with his
nethods and learned to their own
satisfaction that one animal was
■esponsible for all of the depreda
ions.
The wolf in question has been
een. It has been shot at numerous
imes, but it has the cunning of a
ox and the sneaking ways of a
oycte, and poison and traps are
varily overlooked. The reward of
>1,000 is for the wolf, dead or
dive. The reward was posted by
he livestock association of San
Luan county and notice has been
nailed to the state livesock board
Things are beginning to happen I
o the Boche of which he never:
Ireamed, and which are outside his i
province and that of the peace con
rress to ameliorate. The Norwegian j
sailors’ Union has just voted not'
o carry goods into Germany until;
hat country pays .$4,000,000 to1
he families of murdered fellow i
workers sunk in the North Sea by i
:ubmarines.
So-called whiskey “bootlegged”
nto Cordova contains deadly poison I
ind residents will be paying high |
for it no matter what the price,!
Rays an announcement issued by'
Dr. W. J. Caswell, city physician.
Dr. Caswell recently analyzed some
of the whiskey. He said it con
tained enough poison to prove dis
asterous to any person who may
drink it.
C. W. Ask & Sons have pur
chased the B. M. Behrends store
building at Skagway, and the groc
ery store in the future will be in
that building.
MEMBERSHIP LIST
AMERICAN SLAV SUED
Of NENAaNA
Johseph Kern
Alik G. Hanaeff
John A. Ketooroky
Geo. Tuts
Andrew Smith
John Sablak
Alik Medoff
Paul Popovich
Alik Adoff
Gass Gussoff
Bill Timoff
Sam Batagoff
Geo. Malkievich
Geo. Zelik
Alik Kalisoff
Tom Saroff
Dan Hanoff
Alik Agoff
Alik Azoff
GERMAN BOATS USED
BY YANKS ON RHINE
COBLENZ.—Six tuff boats and
twelve other craft have been re
quisitioned by the American Third
Army to patrol the Rhine river in
the area occupied by the Ameri
cans. A lieutenant and from eight
to fifteen United States marines
have been placed on each boat but
the German operating crews have
been retained. The patrol boats
flying the American flag dart up
and down the river all day directing
the traffic.
The Bering River Coal company
which is developing a group of coal
claims on Caribou mountain has
raised 11,000.000 for the purpose
of proceeding with the work The
Columbia Trust company of New
York is named as trustee and the
mortgage it holds for a million
dollars will be filed in the Katalla
recording district as soon as it can
lip sent by mail.
WS.S.
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Alasican Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tiekets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
Pudding, Alaskan Engineering com-1
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
A street on Mondays, Wednesdays j
and Saturdays, at 7 a. m.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on \
the coast division.
From Xenana to
No. Mdes
Xenana Crossing (by rail)
Lignite .
Riley Creek
Jack River
Broad Pass
Sullivan's
Indian River
Dead Horse
Talkeetna
Summit
4.1
52
to;
.90 I
110
128
.162
182
.202
The distances
mate.
given are approx;
Don’t Leave
Men wanting employment can i
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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Browne, F. D.
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Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
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Coghill, VV. A.
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Hill. I,. W.
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Gray, E. B.
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Lehr, Q. F.
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Myers, R R
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Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S
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Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm
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Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, I. A.
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Scott, J. H.
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Stone, A. J.
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Smith, Chas.
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Taylor, FYank
Tunison, B.
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Tyler, M. V.
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Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.