THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for emry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March ■>, 18«.).
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.-.Editor and Manager
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STICK
“Laborers should stick to their
jobs in Alaska. Aside from the
shipbuilding centers in the States
everything is quiet. Business is as
good in Seward as it is in hundreds
of towns right in the Pacific North
west.” This was the advice and
information given by Harry Ells
worth, who returned to Seward re
cently, after a visit in the States
for several weeks.
“We visited Portland, Spokane,
Seattle, and other places in the.
Northwest,” said Mr. Ellsworth, “and ,
as I say, it is quiet with the ex-j
ception of the shipbuilding centers- j
Thousands of men are flocking to i
Tacoma. Portland and Seattle. Ev-1
ery morning thousands of men re- i
port for labor at the shipyards and j
possibly one or two dozen are drawn j
and then only for a couple of days’ I
work, at the longest two weeks. At j
Spokane, laborers have gone to the;
coast and the farmers are callingj
for help in the fields. As I see
it, nothing aside from war industries ‘
is booming. Living is also high,,
hotel rooms being scarce and apart -
men houses are filled.”
According to government reports
there are about 100,000 head of
reindeer in the territory at the pres
ent time. There are 73 herds in
the territory, of which 33 are lo
cated in the northwest district, which
extends from the southeastern point
of Seward peninsula to Point Bar
row and includes St. Lawrence is
land. The total number of deer
located on Seward peninsula and St.
Lawrence island is 26,347, while
the number in the entire northwest
district was 50,379. Of this num
ber 30,830 belong to the Eskimos.
The number of Eskimo deer owners
is placed at 1,074, out of a total
approximate population of 5,000
natives.
In a letter received from Capt.
J. S. Quist. of the Signal Reserve
Corps in France by C. J Porter, of
Juneau, General Pershing is quoted
as saying: “We will be in Heaven,
Hell or Hoboken by Xmas.”
Capt. J. J. Finnegan, acting ad
jutant general for Alaska, in an in
terview given out during his recent
visit to Cordova, made the state
ment that ten per cent of the popu
lation of Alaska have either been
drafted or have volunteered for
service in the army. If this pro
portion was maintained throughout
the United States, with its popula
tion of over a hundred million, the
army would have ten million men
in it.
A comparison between the food
administrator’s list published at
Portland and the official list pub
lished at Juneau is very flattering
to the Alaska administration, says
the Alaska Daily Empire.
In the Portland list eggs are
placed at a maximum selling price
of 55 cents. Juneau is 65 cents a
dozen. Butter is placed at 60 cents
while Juneau merchants are allowed
65 cents. Cheese price is identical
at 35 cents at Portland and Juneau.
Granulated sugar is placed at max
imum price of 9 cents at Portland,
and Juneau merchants are allowed
a maximum price of 10 cents.
Taking the entire list from Port
land and cheeking with the Juneau
list with freight added, the only
difference is on bulky commodities.
USED By HUNS
Behind the Franco-American Lines
—Priceless tapestries, paintings, fur- ’
niture of the Louis XIV period, j
grand pianos and rich portiers found ,
by the Hun in Chateau Thierry were :
carried away by him 1.1 his retreat:
and used to furnish dugouts.
Following the German retreat,
American units inspecting the enemy
dugouts for concealed boches found
the elaborately furnished subter
ranean apartments. The care and
design of the furniture varied with
the rank of the officer, it was dis
covered. At one of the quarters—
that of a German general—the sides
of the dugout were lined first with
lumber looted from the town and
over the lumber were placed em
broidered portiers. To prevent dust
from falling from the roof, which
had been first protected by corru
gated sheetiron, several artistic
tapestries had been attached.
The grand piano was found in
the headquarters of a regiment. K
was thought by the Americans that
here the regimental staff reveled
over their first successes and the
use of German artists to play the
instrument was resorted to. Finely
carved tables and chairs were found
in profusion in this rendezvous.
Other dugouts were furnished also
in alaborate style varying in de
cree with the rank of the occupant.
Beds from Chateau Thierry took
up much of the space in some of
the higher officers’ quarters. Down
under twenty to thirty feet of earth
could be found handsome bedroom
suites. In some eases, due to the
haste wh».h the retreating Huns
were forced to exercise, the beds
had not been used since they hak
been made in the morning and wc-re
ready for occupancy. Models of
comfort, they were mute evidence
that the retreat of the Germans had
been a hasty one.
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MAKE YOUR WANES KNOWN
through the
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
If you want to either hire or be
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
ALLIED Anns
REST IN LONDON
AWAY FROM WAD
LONDON.—The American soldier
on his first visit to London from
some of the numerous camps around
England, often asks why there seems
to be so many aviators strolling
around the city streets, apparently
without a care in the world. It is
evident that many of them are vet
eran flyers, for they wear ribbons
and decorations which could have
only been won by great valor on
the field.
Most of these men, the American
learns, are “on leave”. London is
a great “rest camp” for aviators.
After a long period of war flying
in France, they flock back to Lon
don to rest their nerves, until the
medical officers pass them for re
turn to duty.
Two to four weeks is the average
period they spend in this city. They
naturally look forward to these pe
riods of leave with great pleasure,
but by the time their three or four
weeks are up they are beginning to
be anxious to get back into the at
mosphere of gasoline.
Any day one can see dozens of
them arriving at a certain London
station. Their faces reflect pleas
urable anticipation of their holiday.
“I can have a rest now” they are
saying to themselves. “No five
o’clock calls in the morning. No
roar of engines in my ears all day.
No more dodging shell-bursts over
Belgian swamps. I can forget the
war.”
So they settle down for a day
or so. For a week it is delightful.
Then the queer indefinable longing
of the air service, like the sailor’s
longing for the sea, begins to grip
them. They find themselves watch
ing the weather as they used to do
in France. “Good flying day,” or
“Bad flying day,” is their first
[ thougtht when they look out of the
i window in the morning.
Every air communique brings a
curious pricking to their heart, as
they read it at their breakfast table
in the hotel. They read of some
particular exploit and think, “That
sounds like our squadron up to its
tricks again.”
They meet friends newly arrived
on leave in London, and drag them
I off to some secluded spot where
I they can get the latest news of the
squadron, hear the latest aerodrome
i stories, and become, for a little time
: part of “the show” again.
The drone of an engine over Lon
j don sounds like a trumpet in their
ears. High above Trafalgar Square
, they see a machine flashing gaily
| in the sunlight, and they long to be
j in it.
At last they can hide the truth
I from themselves no more. They
cultivate an air of robustness and
j a straight poise, so that the medical
| officer will pass them for service
i again. They are eager to get back.
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*! MARINE NEWS
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Sarah—Up Kotlik 9:30 p. m., 23
Davis—At Gibbon.
Julia B.—Up Koyukuk 9:45 a. m.
| Seattle 3—Up Koyukuk 9:30 a. m.
Washburn—Down Marshal 3 a. m
| to meet Sarah.
1 Jacobs—At Gibbon.
Alaska—Up Louden 9 a. m.
Tanana—Up Gibbon 9 a. m. 26
' Reliance—Up Nen.tna 10:30 dats
i Dawson—Due Yukon 8 ,a. m
:down bound.
Yukon—Down Eagle yesterday.
Shusana—Leaves Chena 3 p. m
! for Nenana.
One of Alaska’s newest fishinj
centers is Galovin Bay in the Sew
ard Peninsula country. Jafet Linde
berg, the mining man, and J- J
Cole, the banker, are heavily inter
ested in fishing there.
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AUSTRIANS BEG
FROM TRAVELERS
Austrians in the capital city ofj
Vienna recently surrounded a train '
on which a party of Rumanians was
travelling to France and begged j
piteously for bread, according to i
the Rumanians who ha\-e now ar-1
rived here.
The party asking for food gath-1
ered about the train in the Hitzing i
quarter of Vienna, where some of
the most well-to-do people of Vienna i
live, said Captain R. Rosetti, of the
Rumanian army. They told the Ru-1
manians that turnips, beets and po
tatoes constitute almost the only j
food of a large part of the popula
tion of Austria.
There were more than 300 men, '
women and children in the party
that surrounded the train, said Cap
tain Rossetti, and almost everyone
expressed horror at the continuance
of the war and bitterly reproached
Germany for the desperate plight in
which they found themselves.
Their faces were pinched. and;
i
pale and showed unmistakably that
they had borne intense privations
and suffering. Several among the
number declared there must soon 1
be a widespread revolution in Aus-,
tria if steps were not taken to feed
the population.
Captain Rossetti offered one of
those who sought help 10 crowns.
The money was declined on the
ground that no food could be bought
with it. The Austrian who in peace
times, was a prosperous storekeeper
pleaded for bread for his children,
whom he said had nothing to eat,
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE
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United States of America, Fourth
District of Alaska, ss:—
Public notice is hereby given. that
[ by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
I (or execution) issued out of the Dis
' trict Court of the United States for
the 4th District of Alaska on a judg
j ment rendered in said court, on the
I 26th day of June, A. D. 1918, in favor
I of Kuskokwim Commercial Co., a
j corporation, and against Thomas
| Robin, I have, on this 22nd day of
J August, A. D. 1918, levied upon
i the following described real estate,
situated in the precinct of Innoko.
and Territory of Alaska, to wit:
All the right, title and interest
of the defendant Thomas Robin in
and to that certain mining claim
! known as the “Bonanza Association”
j on Little Creek, in Innoko Pre
(cinct, 4th Division of Alaska, and
; all of the right, title and interest
; of the defendant in and to claim
j Number one below on Little Creek,
■ aforesaid in Innoko precinct, 4th
! Division of Alaska; and that I will,
I accordingly, offer said real estate
| for sale, at public vendue to the
I highest and best bidder, for cash,
j on the 4th day of November, A. D.,
! 1918, at 10 o’clock A. M.. at Front
i door of the Marshal's Office, at
j Flat City, Alaska,
i Dated, Flat City, Alaska, August
j 22nd, 1918.
L. T. ERWIN
U. S. Marshal, Fourth Dis
trict of Alaska.
By G. G. GERAGHTY,
Deputy.
|CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
| First publication Sept. 13. Last
publication Oct. 18.
or three weeks except turnips and
>eets.
The German colonel in charge of
he train, was so annoyed at the
ries of the hungry crowd, that he
rave orders to have the train moved
orward at once to another part of
he city.
All passengers on the train had
:o submit to a rigid search by the
\ustrian authorities and no one was
lermitted to carry a single scrap
if paper. Madame Titelescu, and
several other women passengers,
were temporarily deprived of all
;heir clothing, and a minute exam
nation made of their persons for
:he purpose of detecting any secret
nformation they might be carrying
from Rumania to France.
Captain A. E. Lathrop will intro
iuce an innovation in connection
with his new Empress theater build-1
in at Cordova, that can be found
in no other Alaskan town. It is a
sidewalk of glass in a steel frame,
which rests on a concrete base.
Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
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SIMSON’S
Union Hall Club Rooms
HALL FOR RENT
See Erick Nelson for Terms
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE—At a great war sacri
fice. 43-Mile Roadhouse, fully
equipped. Apply at Fowler <&
Morris.
FOR SALE.—-Dining room table,
small rug, child’-i bed, and various
cooking utensils. Apply to Mrs
C. H. Hall, Commission cottage.
FOR RENT—Cabin, furnished or
unfurnished. Apply at Carter
House.
LOST—Large red baseball sweater
with grey stripes on arm Finder
please return to News office.
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FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of N'enana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson's.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson's.
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2 % h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—-Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
good condition. Inquire News
office.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
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