THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana,. Alaska,
for en;ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth. .Editor and Mi
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LEADING OFFICIALS ARE
NOW UNDER ARREST
TUSCON, Ariz., May 15.—Twen
ty-one of the leading mine company
officials and employees and business
men of Warren district, were ar
rested at Bisbee on indictments re
turned by the federal gran1 jury
which i st week completed investi
gations of the deportation last July
of nearly twelve hundred alleged
Industrial Workers of the World.
ROYALTY IN GERMAN HANDS
LONDON, May 15.—An Amster
d, m report states that the dowager
empress of Russia and the gand
dukes Nickolaivetch, Alexanders and
Michealovitch are in the hands of
the Germans.
Seventeen per cent more of the
Alaskan insane committed to Mora
ingside regain their sanity than do
persons committed to the asylum
from other states. Out of the total
number of Alaskans committeed yi
the sanitarium in the past fourteen
years, 315 have been dischn\yuJ and
160 have died at the asylum. Of
the 315 discharged 42 escaped and
were not recaptured.
ITALIAN MINISTERS
QUIT THEIR POSTS
ROME, May 16.—Twto members
of the Italian cabinet have tendered
their resignations.
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WARSHIPS OF GERMANY
CONCENTRATE AT KIEL
LONDON, May 16.—According to
reports received by the war office,
the entire German fleet is being
concentrated at Kiel.
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
MAIL VIA AEROPLANE
Washington, D. C., May 15.—
I Nineteen letters and packages which
I were sent to President Wilson via
the first aeropost delivery from New
York, reached the White House late
yesterday afternoon. The establish
ment of the aero mail service marks
an epoch in postal history in the
United States, and promises rapid
• development and expansion through
| out the country.
Anchorage has again gone on the
warpath against the “poor innocent
1 canine” which dearly loves to clutter
up Alaskan streets and ' make a gen
eral nuisance of himself. The dog
catcher at Anchorage, after a long
and arduous winter engaged in play
ing with the canines took a two
weeks vacation and the citizens be
came so loud and insistent in their
cries against the dogs that he had
to go back to work.
Anchorage has been very busy the
past year firing in petitions for a
public building and showing the de
partment of justice the apparent
need of such a structure there to
transact all their judicial business
instead of having to go to Valde2
as has formerly been the case.
Information received from Fair
banks is to the effect that the Kar
stens launch will be the first oi
the mosquito fleet to make the trip
to Nenana. Karstens expects to
start down river on Saturday.
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERIES
DRV GOODS
COMPLETE LINE LOWEST PRICES
COOINEV MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA *.ALASKA
TOLOVANA REPORT
SAYS ICE JAMMED
River Opened For a Short Time
Yesterday Afternoon, But Is
Blocked Again.
Advices received from the tele
graph station at Tolovana today in
dicate that there are two ice jams
down the river, one about a mile
below the station and one somewhere
between Tolovana and Nenana.
The jam which was reported yes
terday, at a point a short distance
from the Tolovana station, broke
late yesterday afternoon, releasing
a large quantity of ice, but not suf
ficient to indicate that the river is
j clear all the way between Tolovana
! and Nenana.
MAIL DUE AT FAIRBANKS
A consignment of first class mai
is scheduled to reach Fairbanks late
| this afternoon or tonight. A con
signment of second class mail ha;
| already reached the upper town dur
| ing the past several days and Ne
i nana’s portion will be forwaided or
the first boat leaving for down river
UNION MEETING TOMORROW
The regular weekly meeting of thi
j Xenana Labor union will be held to
morrow night at 7:30. Members ar;
reminded of the fact that the meet
| ing night was recently changed fr'on
Saturday to Friday night.
FULL SIZE TOMORROW
_
With the Commission power plan
again working, the News will re
' appear in its usual size tomorrow
j The paper could not be made large
; today because no power was avail
able until after noon.
DELEGATION OF LABOR
RECEIVED BY MONARCf
LOXDOX, May 16.—The Ameri
| can delegation of labor, which wa
sent to Europe to investigate labo
conditions and to bring about
| closer unity between the working
men of the two continents, were re
ceived by King George today,
j President William Short, of th
Washington state delegation, is
member of the commission.
J. P. Parkin reecntly was the sue
i cessful bidder in submitting charge
| for erecting a relief station on th
: Circle trail at the eighty-mile post
1 which is at the head of the Me
manus river. The sum awarded wa
! $275. The establishment of thi
j cabin will mean much to the mush
i ers who have been obliged to cam
out or make an extended trip.
The salmon cannery located a
Goose Bay on the west shore of Knr
i arm will be torn down and the ma
I chinery transferred to the company’
other canneries on Icy Straits
George Forrest, of Juneau, recent!
said that according to his and other’
beliefs, the fishing industry will thi
year receive the greatest wave o
prosperity in its exisitence. Thre
sawmills and one cannery will b
built during the early spring at Saw
mill Bay, opposite Latouche.
Morris Newman, popular agent o
the Northern Commercial compan;
at Chena, has been assigned to
similar position t McGrath, in th
Kuskokwim district, and will leav
, for his new post on an early boal
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WATER RECEDES;
PLANT RESUMES
POWER SERVICE
Electric Current Supplied Consumers
Today, After Shutdown of
Seventy Hours.
The first serious shutdown of the
! power plant of the Alaskan Engin
eering commission, which left the
town without electric current for
nearly seventy hours, came to an
end shortly after noon today, and
no further interruptions are antici
pated. The flood waters, which still
cover a large part of the govern
ment reserve, had receded suffici
ciently by midnight last night to en
able the firement to rekindle the
fires under the boilers, and the
seven o’clock whistle announced the
fact that the steam generating part
of the plant, at least was ready to
resume buisness. Early this after
noon one of the big engines was
started and sufficient “juice” is be
ing supplied to light the town and
furnish town consumers with power.
Probably by tomorrow the entire
plant will again be in commission,
supplying power for the government
j sawmill, the machine shops and other
; departments which use motors.
BOIL THE WATER
Dr- Malcolm E. Smith, health
officer of the town of Nenan, has
issued instructions to the public to
- boil all water used for drinking pur
. | poses. The general flooding of the
. : town has contaminated all wells in
■ Jd?,^f!£9fia£L-i-rea, and the use of
. this water, unless boiled, undoubt
edly would result in much sickness.
Dr. Smith directs that the boiling
process be continued until it has
i beeh definitely determined that no
further danger exists.
i Walter Johnson, who will be re
s' membered in connection with his
> setting up several dredges in Nome
- is now building a shipyard at Oak
• J land, California. Before building it,
however, he secured a contract from
? ; the government for twelve ships,
i i He encountered some difficulty in
j getting a shipyard site in Oakland.
fisheries' bureau'
TO HEAR OBJECTC S
SEATTLE, May 16. The bur .u
of fisheries will conduct a hea i itp
here on Friday, at which time t re
application of Alaska fishing ii : r
ests for permission to establish a
cannery on the lower Yukon v. ill
be considered. The people of Fair
banks have made vigorous pr, t st
against the establishment of the ^
cannery, on the grounds that thi .tl
mon of the Yukon are nece ry
to sustain life along the upper : cr
and on tributaries.
NOTED SPORTSMAN PASSES
TO THE GREAT BEYO ID
BEALIEU, France, May 1 ~ —
James Gordon Bennet, propriet r of
the New York Herald and a noted
sportsman, died here today, fol'. w
ing a brief illness. Mr. Bennet was
unconcious for two days prior t •
his death. ^
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