THE NENANA NEWS
Application ma de October 30; 1916, at the l’ostoffice at Nenana, Alaska, lor
entry as second-class mail matter under the act ot March 2, 1879, by The Xe
nana Printing Company.
Published Weekly by The Nenana Printing Company
DAY OK PUBLICATION SATURDAY EDITED BY R. G. SOUTHWORTH. j
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Nenana, Alaska, March l7, 1917
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While the people of Nenana are
naturally concerned chiefly with
the railroad appropriation, the fail
ure of congress to provide funds
for the repair and Construction of
wagon roads in Alaska is a matter
of grave concern throughout the
entire Territory. For if there are
not sufficient funds to carry on that
work during the .coming season
the development of the country will
be greatly retarded. New districts
which are in need of transportation
facilities will be able to make little
progress without roads, ‘'and the
older districts will receive serious
setbacks as a result of the inability
of the Alaska Road commission to
make needed repairs to roads al
ready constructed. It is possible
for the work of several years to be
undone in a single season if funds
are not available for emergency
work during the spring and sum
mer months.
There is too much uncertainty
regarding Alaska appropriations.
The federal government long ago
entered upon S policy of aiding the
development ft Alaska by building
post roads, but it has required con
tinual effort on the part of North
eners to induce congress to appro
priate sufficient funds from year
to year to enable the road commis
ion to accomplish results. In fact
there never has been a time since
! the commencement of road build
ing in Alaska that the amount of
the road appropriation has been
large enough to meet the require
ments of the several divisions.
The road commission has been
seriously handicapped and the
j work of building roads and trails
: necessarily has been more cxpens
! ive than would have been the case
had more money been available at
| any one time.
! The great war promises to re
I suit in some good after all. If
the overtnrow of the Russian au
! tocracy will relieve the people of
that great country of even a few
of the restrictions which havebur
| dened their lives these many years
I they will have been amply repaid
i for the sacrifices they have made
j dnring the present struggle.
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It takes all kind of people to
make a world. If it were not so
it would be impossible for any
moving picture corporation to offer
I Charlie Chaplin a salary of a mil
lion a year, while scores of stars
possessing real talent are compel
led to struggle along with pay
checks of far less robust propor
tions.
WOOD RIVER MILL
TO START PLANER
Arrivals from the Upper Tanana are
authority for the statement that prepara
tions are being made at the Wood River
Sawmill to start the big planer in a few
days. It is the intention of Mr. Johnson
and his partners to dress a large part of
the lumber which was sawed last fall
and which has been Seasoning all winter.
The sawmill will not resume operations
until some time later in the spring.
STEIN TO ERECT
LARGE BUILDING
Among the improvements planned for
upper A street during the early spring is
the erection of a two-story frame building
on the Stein property, at the corner of
Third street. The building will be '50
by 80 feet and a part ot the first floor will
be occupied by the business which is con
ducted by Isador and Mark Stein. The
remainder probably will be leased.
Foundation timbers already have been
hauled to the property and actual con
struction work will start within a few
weeks.
TEDDY ANDERSON
UP FOR GAMBLING
Advices received from Brooks during
the week announced the arrest and con
, -friction of Teddy Anderson, Tolovana
saloon man, on the charge of gambling.
Jle \vas fiued the sum of $100
DEEMES LEAVING
FOR LOWER RIVER
First Class Private Frank T. Deemes,
of the local signal corns station, will de
part for the lower river within a few days
to join a line construction party, which
will work up-river ironi Tolovana. The
party will consist of seven men, includ
ing Corporal Bell, who will superintend
the work.
A man is now enroute from Gibbon to
relieve Private Deemes.
DURGIN TO WORK
FOR COMMISSION
Earl E. Durgin, sourdough printer of
Fairbanks, arrived from the upper town
the latter part of last week to accept a
position in the timekeeper’s office of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
COONEY BUILDING
READY FOR SPRING
Expensive improvements have been
made at the Cooney house during the!
past few days, carpenters having been en- ,
gaged in finishing the interior work up |
stairs, which could not be done last fall j
because of the shortage of material, j
Further improvements are planned when
additional needed material is available. I
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Seattle parties have requested that a |
shipment of 35 tons of ore from the Port j
Chatham chrome iron deposits be shipped j
outside for a test. The ore will be sentI
out iu the spring.
PROGRESS OF THE BIG STRUGGLE IN EUROPE *
- MONDAY ]
London: It is officially reported that
the Belgian relief ship Storstad has been
submarined.
London: Reports from Berlin state
that the kaiser intends to stand firm on
his submarine policy.
Washington: Increased vigilance is
in evidence in the guarding of the Amer
ican fleet from submarines. All build
ings at the capital are closed to visitors,
and are guarded by cordons of police, a
triple guard being maintained around the
White Mouse.
Washington: The first tabulated sta
tistics of the several belligerents, from
official and authentic sources, show that
more than ten million men have been
killed, wounded or reported missing
since the beginning of the war. Of this
number, 441,200 are officially reported to
be dead.
London: The French and British fore
es made an advance of three miles last
night in the region of Graiuiconrt, on
the Western front. 1 he losses sustained
by the Allied forces were very slight,
while the Teutonic forces suffered heavi
ly in loss of prisoners, besides losing a
large number of machine guns
Philadelphia: Federal agents declared
this morning that the arrest of Air. and
Mrs. Adelbert K. Fischer, which occur
red in this city this morning, has un
earthed an extensive plot among German
conspirators to dynamite the navy yard
in this city.
Washington: It is the opinion of na
val authorities that within six days Ger
man submarines will be reported at all
points along the Atlantic seaboard and ill
the Gulf of Mexico, ready to pounce on
American shipping which attempts to
leave port. The reason for this deduc
tion is the sudden cessation of submarine
activity in the English zone.
Washington: The government began
yesterday*the actual preparations to artn
all merchantmen under American regis- |
try against Germany’s ruthless submarine
campaign. President Wilson says that
the United States is ready for real action
at any moment Germany attacks one of
her armed merchantmen. The orders to
all gun crews are to the effect that the
sight of a periscope without warning en
titles the United States to use any means
possible to protect American lives and
ships.
TUESDAY
Berlin.: Nine British aeroplanes were
shot down yesterday, and seven more
this morning, in the Ancre district.
Tokio: China lias definitely severed
diplomatic relations with Germany, be
cause of the latter’s submarine campaign.
Berlin: The war department announc
ed officially this morning that a British
attack south of Arras last night was re
pulsed,
London: The Duchess of Connaught
is reported to be very near to death, and
is sinking rapidly. Pneumonia is said to
be the cause.
Washington: Germany’s reply to the
.arming of merchantmen is momentarily
expected, and it is persistently rumored
that her reply will be an open declaration
of war.
Washington: State department offic
ials are in receipt of authentic informa
tion to the effect that 60 German U-boats
have been sunk or captured in tne Fn
glish barred zone from January 1 to Feb
ruary 15.
Washington: A cable from Queens
town received this morning states that
the Cunard liner Folio was sunk off
Waterford by a submarine. She carried
no passengers, and the survivors of the
crew, including an American, ship's doc
tor, were landed safely at Dungarron.
Rome: Intense enthusiasm has been
aroused thruout France thru the alleged
visions of a 20-year-old French girl in a
convent in Paris. She claims to have
received spiritual messages in the name
of Joan d’Arc, stating that a new leader
is about to appear who will lead the
French army lo victory.
Washington: The entire Atlantic sea
board is being patrolled by submarine
chasers, a new lorm of ocean-going hyd
roplane 110 feet long and having a speed
of 3.5 knots an hour. They are equipped
with wireless and mount rapid firing
guns m the bow and machine guns in the
stern. It is estimated that there are 200
in the patrol service now.
Havana: Ambassador Gerard ami partv
arrived in this citv this morning. Gerard
refuses to make any statement before he
confers with President Wilson. Members
of his party declare that Germany is on
the verge of bankruptcy and also faces
starvation. Mortality among infantsand
aged people is increasing rapidly, be
cause of insufficient food, and the gov
ernment is on the point of being forced
to confiscate private property cr repudi
ate her war debts, and this is taken to
indicate that Germany is virtually at its
last ditch.
WEDNESDAY
Pans: Two violent counter attacks by
the Germans at Butte de Hesml were re
pulsed this morning and resulted 111 a
sweeping victory fur the French forces.
London: Bagdad was abandoned by
the Turkish forces late yesterday, after
tliev had sacked the city. They left a
*arge amount of ammunition behbrff
them
London: Official reports from the
Western front stale that the Germans are
j evacuating Batipaume, and the British
i forces will have occupied the town be
: fore nightfall.
| Washington: The Chinese government
1 seized 60 German merchant vessels which
have been interned in Sliangai harbor,
placed the crews ashore under guard and
| placed guards on the vessels.
| Berlin: It is regarded as certain that
! a protest will be filed with the Swiss am
; bassador regarding the treatment accord
ed the Bernsiorff party at Halifax. It is
! claimed that men and women both weie
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stripped and searched, even their toes
being examined.
New York: To avoid a seamens' strike
shipping companies are offering a bonus
ot fiitv percent on wages, and insuring
the lives of all men on their boats against
accident or death in the war zone.
Washington: The federal shipping
board has issued a call to all builders of
wooden ships to attend a conference in
this city to devise means to construct a
great fleet of wooden ships for trans-At
lantic commerce.
New York: According to dispatches *
received in this city this morning from
Consul Stephens at Plymouth, England,
the White Star liner Algonquin, an
American steamer, was torpedoed off
that port last night without warning by
a German U-boat, The Algonquin was
loaded with foodstuffs. All the crew was
landed safely at Plymouth, altho they
were refused assistance by the crew of
the submarine.
THURSDAY
London: The Duchess of Connaught
died m this city last night.
Amsterdam; Count von Bernstorff and
i liis party are reported to have arrived
; in Berlin.
Washington: President Wilson will
; present all facts of the submarine issue
to congress when it convenes next month.
Washington: A German spy made his
i escape from the federal authorities here ^
| today when they forced their wav into
! his apartments to arrest him.
I London: Indirect information luisjust
| been received that the British steamship
Sagamore, which sailed from Boston to
Liverpool February 20, lias been sunk.
London: It was officially announced
this morning that the Britisli forces have
invested Bagdad and have pursued the
retreating Turkish army thirty miles to
the north of that city.
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