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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WICKERSHAM EXPLAINS
In a telegram sent to the Anchor
'age Times on February 16. Delegate
iVickersham blames Secretary Lani
for getting the Alaska railroad ap
propriation into trouble during the
late session of Congress. '‘There is
trouble about the Alaska railroad
appropriation up to the origina'
authorization of $35,000,000,” he
wired, “which will allow something
over $4,000,000 for the next year’s
work. The trouble begins by Sec
reary Lane asking for about $9,000.
00(i more than the raiiroad act calls
for. The second section of that act
provides that the cost of the work
authorized by the act shall not ex
ceed $35,000,000, and in accept
ing the authority granted by this
act, the president shall not obligate
the United States to expend more
than that sum. No appropriation
can be made for the additional sum
in excess of $35,000,000 unless Con
gress shall pass a new authorization
act and remove the limit. Some time
ago I introduced a bill and House
joint resolution removing the limit,
but fear it may be too late in the
session. It ought to have been
done months ago. but no one knew
what Lane intended to ask for. in
excess of the original estimate, until
last week Am doing the best I
can in the last few days of Con
gress, but am not hopeful of re
sults, though I will do everything
possible.”
BOLSHEVISM IN DEPORTATION
The fifty-four I. W. W. and Bol
shevik agitators who are being rail
roaded across the country for de
portation are of course aliens dealt
with under the immigration laws of
the United States, says the New
York World.
These law? exclude from entry
into this country all '‘Anarchists oi
persons who believe in or advocate
the overthrow by force or violence
of the government of the United
States or of all government or al:
forms of law.” The aliens now ir
process of deportation who got intc
the country under false pretenses
but who, once here, have been re
vealing their true character in overl
acts at Seattle and other places ir
the Far West.
Most of these squirming gentry
are recent arrivals from Russia anc
Finland. They will be sent bad
whence they came. They will b<
forced to enjoy the consequence:
of their own doctrines of “scientific*
lawlessness and murder wheTe thos<
consequences have been most per
fected. The others will be sen'
wherever they came from.
It will be with the utmost satis
faction that the great mass of th<
people of the United States observi
this example of forced emigration.
i Ley will be reminded that new re
strictions upon immigration are o
less importance than old restriction:
rigorously enforced. The crae %
brained ministers of anarchy of ou:
own hatching will be dealt with ir
[other ways under laws duly pro
vided also for their eases. But the
missionaries of Leninism and Trotz
kvism had better remain at home
and stew there in their own juiee
NEW NOME ATTOREY
Judge J. D. Clements, of Helena
i Mont., who was recently appointed
i United States attorney for the Nom<'
division, is 69 years of age, a good
lawyer and was an able judge. He
I is strong and vigorous and very
j popular at Helena. He was born
in Ohio, and reared in Newton. Iowa,
where he studied law and was ad
; mitted to the bar in 1873 when he
was serving as a court stenographer.
He visited Montana several times be
fore he located in Helena perman
ently in 1886.
Judge Clements was elected pro
bate judge in 1887 on the Demo
cratic ticket. In 1896 he was the
Democratic nominee for justice of
the supreme court. He served on
the bench for two terms as judge
: of the district court with headquart
ers at Helena. For the last two
years he has engaged in probate
practice.
Judge Clements is married, the
father of several sons and one
daughter, all grown.
MERIT RECOGNIZED
One of the first workers of a
war service organization to be offi
cially recognized as a member of a
fighting unit is Martin V. Merle,
of San Francisco, a playwright and
a Knights of Columbus secretary
who was attached to the 27th Aero
squadron for four months during
the fighting at Chateau Thierry.
Saint Mihial and the Meuse-Argonnp
district.
Mr. Merle has received an official
communication from the officers and
men of the 27th Aero squadron as
notification that he has been given
the right to wear the squadron in
signia. He originated the schema
of dropping Knights of Columbus
cigarettes from airplanes over the
first line trenches which was adopt
ed with much success.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
1 the coast division.
From Nenana to No. Miles
Nenana Crossing (by rail). .43
Lignite .52
Riley Creek 70
•Jack River . 90
Broad Pass Summit. 110
Sullivan’s
128
Indian River .162
Dead Horse . 182
Talkeetna .202
The distances given are approxi
mate.
A commercial club has been or
ganized at Craig.
The first cleanup of the “Free
Gold Mine” at Port Wells was $9,
000.
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COONEY STAGE LINE
Nenana -TalKeetna
QUICK TRIP BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
Reservations at Cooney Hotel
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WASHINGTON.—With hostilities
at an end, the government is now
laying the basis for one of the
greater of its peace time tasks—
the decennial inventory of the United
States, its people, lands, industry,
and livestock that is called the
census. Secretary of Commerce
Redfield recently signed the order
that transferred one of the largest
of the temporary war buildings put
up in Washington, that formerly
housed the army's department of
aereonautics, to Director of the
Census Rogers and his staff.
Actually, the government began
the job some months ago, assembling
its plans and forces By law. the
beginning of the census period of
1920 is July 1, 1919, though it will
not be until a year from April that
the enumerators will be set at work.
It is then that every individual in
America, or some one acting for
the individual, will be asked the
series of questions that must be
answered.
There will be 29 of these ques
tions in the 1920 census, according
to the present design of Director
Roger's dummy cards, which now are
being given exhaustive study of
statisticians. The more complex
questionnaires that go to industrial
establishments, schools, farms, and
every other permanent institution
of the country are likewise in the
development ?tage. undergoing criti
cal examination in the light of ex
perience the government has gained
in conducting 12 inventories of he
kind.
Chiefly the bureau is engaged in
preparing for the classification and
tabulation of the vast quantity of
materia! which will be assemb'ed
The 1920 census tabulation will be
for the first time almost completely
a machine operation conducted by
means of devices useful only to the
census bureau of the United States
which have been invented and are
now being built by men in its em
ploy. Electric machines will first
transfer the written information on
coming in on the enumerator’s sheets
to cards not by writing, but by
punching holes at proper points.
Then the punched cards will be
handed in their millions to another
battery of machines, the tabulators
are an amazing product of human
ingenuity. E. M. Boiteaux. who de
vised them, has been with the census
bureau for 18 years, and is now sup
erintending the construction of 25
machines, the operation of which
he will direct.
These tabulators, working with
smooth and silent perfection, take
in 400 cards a minute, count them,
reject all that are imperfect oi im
promerly punched in any fashion
and take off the totals of punch
marks, assembling the final result
in printed figures on handy sheets.
One of them recently in eight hou-s
handled 150,000 cards, compiling
information that would represent the
population statistics of a vary siz
able American city. Their experi
mental use was commenced after
the 1910 census, but Mr. Boitea
has since devoted much of his time
to their improvement and to the
the extension of their abilities.
The machines resemble in outward
aspect a piece of office furniture.
Cards go into a metalic magazine at
their top. travel a few inches on
metal guides, come out neatly
stacked with the mistakes of the
punching machines. The printed
records of the 18 or 20 totals that
the punch marks indicate come out
from another slot, and the instru
ment stands ready to repeat.
With these machines, there is a
practical assurance that the publi
cations of the census, usually com
ing out a long time after the enum
eration, may be more quickly at
hand to guide the estimates of gov
ernmental and industrial leaders, and
generally guide and demonstrate the
progress of national civilization.
They are being produced largely by
the work of youthful apprentices
from Washington schools, which
have vocational courses.
EL
mi’’IN MEXICO
JUAREZ. Mex.—Another name
has been enrolled on the American
consular register in this “port of
missing men." Cashier T. J Stafford,
of an El Paso bank, disappeared
early in January and nothing has
been heard from him since. His ac
counts were in order at the bank,
and no reason is known for his dis
appearance.
After searching the mountains
and plains near El Paso, the search
was continued to Juarez and the
country south of here wthout suc
cess. Stafford’s name is only one
of fifty registered with the Ameri
can consulate here as having crossed
to Mexico and disappeared.
Some were executed by various
revolutionarv chiefs, including Fran
cisco Villa Others were killed dur
ing the fighting in the Mexican
towns; still others died fighting witn
the rebels on the battlefields which
lot the north, while many disap
peared after crossing the border
without leaving a clew to their
whereabouts.
Fifty citizens were added to the
oopulation of Valdez on two boats
i short time ago.
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W.S.S.
"fBULSOTHOS SUMPS
uiumnrm
VKITED' STATES
GOVERNMENT
YOU
CAN
BUY
WAR
SAVINGS
STAMPS
NOW
»ewta. Thin M*Um ItlTgri 1U«I
WANT ADS
FOR SALE.—One pair of well
matched, higrh grade silver fox
skins. Simson’s.
The sun on longer days will make
you feel, like throwing away your
old hat and suit. Certainly those
old «pots do not improve your ap
pearance, but fa*- a trifling sum you
can have them pressed, mended and
cleaned at Mrs. D'Orsay’s Tailor
Shop, Third and A streets.
NOTICE
Anyone cutting wood or timber
or. Acre Tract No. 88 hereafter will
be prosecuted according to law.
RICHARD H. KNIGHT.
FAIRBANKS MERCHANT
IS RETURNING NORTH
E. A. Suter. of Fairbanks, re
ceived a wire yesterday from Peter
Vaehon. intimating that he will
leave Seattle March 27th for Fair
banks.
His family, who are at present
in Seattle, will not come in with
him, but may follow later.
There were 16 marriages, 41
births and 26 deaths in Fairbanks
last year.
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
pudding, 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 Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted" in tbe spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau AUilu.
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COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
NICELY HOUSE
With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Ratet By the Week or Month
MRS. NICELY, Proprietr...
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D
Bresnahan, E D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen. J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball. I. R.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W I
Calderhead, R. W
Campbell, .V. j
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R J
Douse. Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, 'j. H
Foster. Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray. E. B. ;
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C. -n -i
Irvine, A. J. U *
Johnson, A. G.
Jones. Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers. R R.
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald. R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C. ■' t
Nash, Martin
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.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Car!
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith. Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southworth. 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.