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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BROKEN PROMISES.
The failure of our territorial le,
sslature to provide the workers c
Alaska with an eight-hour la'
should stand as a mark of discrea
against those members who cor
tributed to that failure. Alaskan
are not concerned in the whys an
wherefores of the failure. It i
enough for them to know that th
legislature was in session for tw
months, and at the end of tha
time was unable to report tha
Northern labor had been provide*
with a law protecting worker
against excessive hours of labor
And this in spite of the fact tha
the people of Alaska, by an over
whelming majority, have voted it
favor of an eight-hour day.
The eight-hour question shouk
be made an issue at the next elec
tion, and only those candidates whc
pledge themselves to stand by la
bor should receive support at th<
polls. There is no reason whj
Alaska should be years behind ths
rest of the world in the matter oi
working conditions Men who iaboi
in this country are entitled to good
pay and reasonable hours, and it is
the duty of the territorial legis
lature to enact laws which will pre
vent a continuation of conditions
which the voters of the territory
have declared undesirable. Members
of the late legislature Who failed
to do their duty' in this regard
should not be returned to office.
By their action, they have demon
strated that they have small regard
for the wishes of the voters, as ex
pressed at the polls two years ago
and as small regard for pledges
made during the campaign of lass
fall, when the votes of worker
were eagerly sought.
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
A variety of explanations hav<
been offered for the failure of th<
Sixty-fifth Congress to appropriate
money for the continuation of worl
on the Alaska railroad. The public
of course, generally speaking, know
that Senator LaFollette and h.s fill
bustering colleagues prevented ine
passage of the bill containing th■
railroad appropriation, together wit!
other important measures, but then
are those who like to believe tha
Wickersham did it with his little
letter; or that it was the Guggen
heims, or the White Pass or som.
other interests opposed to govern
ment ownership. And now ocme:
the editor of the Fairbanks News
Miner with the charge that the Ne
nana Commercial club caused the
failure of the appropriation by in
forming members of Congress o
the importance of continuing thi
work without interruption.
■“Give a few people a little brief
self-made authority arid a littli
lucky success” says the Fairbanki
paper, in its issue of April 28, “anc
they will start out, ears back anc
tail up, hellbent for destruction
and carry the whole blamed countrj
along with them.
"That's what Nenar.a has dons
to herself and the Interior,” hi
says, “with her chamber of com
merce and her self assurance anc
greed for speedy and profstabl.
game—brought the whole destruc
tion of government potlach dowr
about her ears, to the cost of the
Interior of Alaska in general, be
tween the Interior and the coast.
“Last fall,” continues the in
spired article, “the Nenana Cham
ber of Commerce went mad with
a new-thought that they had to de
- dare themselves to a slow acting
f Congress and Congress would drop
v all other work until money enough
t had been voted Xenana and make
- each and every lot-owner or oecu
s pier there rich. They were begged
i with and pleaded with to keep their
5 mouth shut and let well enough
; aione, but they were crazy to “go",
> and they besieged every Congress
t man or “higher-up” with telegrams
i taunting them with Xenana having
1 “busted" herself in buying Liberty
; Bonds and War Savings certificates;
. with all and sundry being at Xe
: nana only because the government
■ begged them to come; with the sole
i ^ty of the government being to
keep Xenanaites on the government
pat-roll. And. at the finish of Con-'
cress, they got jus: what they were
warned they would get—no appro
priations, and an investigation as to 1
what they did with previous appro
priations.
“NOW. they are handed some
thing else again—MORE THAX
, HALF OF THAT WHICH THEY;
ALREADY HAD is being taken'
away from them, and Interior Alas-1
ka railroad work in the InteriorI
hurt just that much.
“For, Commissioner Edes has
wired Engineer Browne that 55 per
cent of the money last fall allotted
to X'enana from appropriations on
hand has been taken away from
Xenana to pay obligations of the
Anchorage end of the railroad, j
“Thus endeth Xenana’s ill-advised
attempt to rush the government of;
the United States. It was fore-!
doomed when it started. It ended
in disaster today, and it hurts not
Xenana alone but the entire In
terior.
“Advices from Xenana today by
wire tel! us that 150 men were laid
off Saturday as a result of this
order of Edes, and more will be
laid off from day to day. They
have no funds there for expenditure
until new appropriations are passed,
and while there is a chance that
a Republican Congres will give them
the balance of $4,000,000 yet re
maining from the original appro
priations that they may have the
more fault to find in expenditures
on the government enterprise when
they hold their investigation this
summer, there isn’t a chance of
getting a cent more until after the
investigation and report is in, if
1 then—and a long chance of even
getting the remaining $4,000,000 at
■ the extra session.”
Alaskans should worry about tl
receipt of bombs in their mail. Tl
postoffice department has made tl
country practically bombproof t
' injecting into our mail service
, very generous portion of t.me b
] tween points of dispatch and poir.
; of delivery. An Alaska-bound bora
would age itself out of busine:
long before reaching an intends
' victim in this country.
The strangest thing about th
awarding of ice pool money is tha
none of the winners thus far ir
terviewed attributes his success t
a dream or hunch of any sort.
M. V. Tyler went out on tl
train this morning to the Burr
coal mine and will take seven
views of the mining operatior
there. He will return to town o
Wednesday evening.
FLOATING MS
SOURCE OF NISI
CONSTANTINOPLE. — Floatin
mines in the Dardanelles and Se
of Marmora still constitute grea
danger to navigation. Several ship
have been lost since the armistic
through mine explosions. The armis
tice required Turkey "to indicate al
mines, but it has not been possib!
in all cases to give their exact posi
tion. Minesweepers have been a
work for some time, but naval au
i thorities say it will be many month
, before vessels can proceed througl
the straits with safety. No navi
i gation is permitted at night. Oi
| passenger vessels lifeboat drills an
held regularly, just as in days whei
j submarines menaced the seas.
Even in the broad stretches o:
the Aegean Sea the greatest pre
'cautions are taken against floating
mines. In certain areas passenger:
are required to wear life preservers
and narrow lanes of travel have
been marked out for pilots to follow
But it is in the Black Sea thal
the greatest danger exists. Not onlv
are there numerous floating mines
there, but extensive unmarked mine
fields laid indiscriminately by the
Germans. Russians and Bolshevik!
They are a constant menace to
shipping. The steamer bearing the
American Red Cross Mission to
Rumania narrowly missed a floating
mine while proceeding to Constanza.
Often these mines are carried down
by the swift current in the Bos
phorous Straits to the Sea of Mar
mora, where they are an ever-pres
ent danger to the hundreds of naval
and merchant vessels.
Naval authorities say it will be
several years before the waters of
Europe are entirely free of float
ing mines. Many of the German
mines destroyed by Allied trawlers
were found to have been moored by
rope. When the rope rotted the
mines broke from their anchorages
and drifted in cany cases to the
main line of steamer travel.
A TRIBUTE
With the pasing of Mrs. Margaret
Nicely, proprietress of the Nicely
and Belmont Hotels, we lose a
citizen of intrepid spirit, daring,
and sterling character, industrious
and conscientious in a marked de
gree. While always attending to
her own affairs, she was never too
busy to bestow a kind word or to
aid those who sought her assistance
in their distress.
Perhaps her strongest attribute
was in that she never spoke ill of
anyone, but readily found some
thing good to say, instead.
She leaves one son, Willis Nicely,
a soldier with honorable discharge,
to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Nicely, formerly Miss Mar
garet Henry, was born near Min
neapolis, Minn. As a young woman
she taught school in North Dakota.
Later, in Seattle, she was employed
as saleswoman at the Rialto store,
and there met and married the
bookkeper, Mr. J. W. Nicely.
Since coming to Alaska, she has
engaged in various enterprises, and,
like her sisters, was a successful
hotelkeeper. She leaves four sisters:
Mrs. Mitchell, Vancouver, B. C.;
Mrs. Long, Mrs. Small, Mrs. Wis
molek, all of Seattle. Her son
Willis was born in the spring of
1896.
Father Munroe held mass for Mrs.
Nicely at the Garden Island Catho
lic church, Fairbanks, at 10 a. m.,
April 3rd. The funeral took place
at 2 p. m. from the Nicely parlor,
in Xenana, under direction of the
Pioneers of Alaska, and was at
tended by a large number of friends.
As all that was mortal of the de
ceased was carried through the
doors to the beginning of her last
journey, the whistle blew, marking
the going out of the ice, the be
ginning of summer. It marked the
beginning of summer and was in
a significant sense the beginning
of fairer days for the spirit of
Mrs. Nicely.
“After life’s fitful fever she
sleeps well.”
A FRIEND.
THE NEWS OFFICE
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
» On Monday morning, Mike Ere eg
i Ole Fisher and Harry Williams ol
t Fairbanks went out to Isabel creek
5 and staked considerable ground.
? Isabel creek heads up into Birch
. hill, emptying into the flats near
1 Fairbanks. The creek was named
> after the wife of Captain Barnette
. and was staked extensively in the
; early days of the camp, in the
. winter of 1907-08.
s Ben Estby and Mike Erceg sunk
i several prospect holes on the creek.
but found the diggings deep and
i wet, and consequently abandoned
■ operations there, and the creek has
: been open to location for a num
ber of years.
The success of the Howell drill
on Steele creek had a gr|it deal to
do with the restaking of claims on
Isabel creek.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
; tickets 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
ouilding, Alaskan Engineering com
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 Wednesdays and Satur
days at 7 a. m.
The regular train formerly leav
ing on Monday has been discon
tinued until further notice.
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NICELY HOUSE
With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Rates By the Week or Month
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BRITISH GROCERS ARE
PILING UP WEALTI
LONDON'.—According to Arthu
■T. Giles, secretary of the Britis
Grocers' Federation, profits of th
British grocery trade increase
about $45,000,000 a year durin
the war.
“The food controller," Mr. Gile
said, “has been the grocers* rea
friend for the last four or fiv
, years, in enabling them to dispos
of all their surplus stock, much o
which the public would not lool
at prior to the war.
"That is one of the good thing
the war has accomplished. It ha
been a veritable spring cleaning fo:
the grocers.
“A further great asset was th'
registration of customers, whicl
insured the grocer a trade withou
his having to work it up by hi
own personality."
Prospectors and Contractors!
Now is the time to have that tar
paulin, tent or bag made for th<
seasons outfit... Bed and hat net
a-e now readv. at small cost a
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WANT ADS.
FOR SALE—A Singer sewing ma
chine. Inquire at. Coghill’s.
LOST—Nugget chain. Liberal re- *
5 ward for return to News office.
> Gold Commisioner George P.
> Mackenzie of Dawson recently re
f turned to the interior metropolis
. from Ottawa, where he had a long
conversation with Colonel Colling
haw, a young aviator, regarding the
possibilities of establishing airplanes
along the Yukon. He stated that
the distinguished aviator gave him
every encouragement and believed
the plan most feasible.
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggrer., Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Breaker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Coutts, \V. T.
Calderhead, H. W
Campbell, X. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, I; J.
Douse, Fred
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm
Ghezzi, Alfred
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Head, £. A.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. “ *
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter I
Joseph, H. B.
Kolar.d, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L
Lund. E. E
Lehr, Q, F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
1 Myers, R R.
Moore, Frank B
McDonald, R S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O'Keefe, Earry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfv, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan. W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry X.
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott. J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, George.A.
South'vorth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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