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Nenana, Alaska. Novt 4. 1916.
What is to be expected in Ne
nana in a business way during the
next few years was made perfect
ly clear by Commissioner Riggs
at the meeting of business men
held during the week. It was a
plain, sensible talk, intended to
acquaint Nenanaites with condi
tions present and future as view
ed by one whose position and long
residence in the North qualify him
to speak with authority. It was
a talk that should set at rest all
thought of attempting to make of
Nenana a larger towm than local
conditions warrant.
The town will grow naturally
and rapidly during the coming
summer-more rapidly than has
been its growth to date—but. as
was pointed out by Mr. Riggs,
there is a limit beyond which we
should not go if we are to enjoy
that prosperity which has been
made possible by a friendly ad
ministration at Washington.
There is the possibility that
gold in paying quantities will be
found on some of the streams
tributary to Nenana—for the pros
pector is busy in that region—and
that smelters will be erected here
sometime to treat the ores from
the Kantishna. Bonni field and
Broad Pass districts: but for the
present our prosperity depends
very largely upon the amount of
money expended locally by the
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
And when that support is with
drawn. as it will be to a large ex
tent at the end of two or three
years, there is the danger that we
will discover that there are too
many of us in business. Mr. Riggs
realises, probably more than any
other man in Nenana. that such a
danger exists and his warning is
given at this time with the object
of protecting those who have al
ready invested money in Neuana
property and stocks of merchan
dise.
While we do not pretend to
know a great deal about the Pres
idential situation in ihe States,
we w'ili wager a year's subscrip
tion against a meal at Weber s
roadhouse that Hughes did not
make more than a thousand votes
when he accused President Wil
son of selling out to the working
men of the country.
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There is the probability that
there will be at least one unoccu
pied building in Nenana this wint
er. We refer to the new jail for
which there appears to be little
use at present.
Zenana stands greatly in need
of cabins. Had there been more
of them this winter there would
have been much less travel in the
direction of Fairbanks.
| What's the matter with inviting
that freight rate examiner to the
Interior? Cordova only marks
the commencement of our trans
| portation troubles.
It is something to know that
there is no one in Nenana mean
enough to lake the job of dog
catcher.
—
Cheer up i Within a very few
davs the suspense will be over.
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Fosters Now Occupy
Oid Office Building
Ernest I. Foster; of the commissary
jdepartment, and family, have moved
, into the main portion of the old office
; building for the winter. The part of
i the building which was formerly occa
| copied by G. Fenton Cramer and his of
■ fice force has been transformed into
! comfortable living quarters for the
Misses Laura Lewis and Jane Anderson
who were recently transferred from the
j Fairbanks office of the Engineering
; commission.
One Room left. Heated and Fur*
uished. New York Slock. Inquire
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Unscrupulous Politicians
! NEW YORK- President Wilson, in
| an address delivered at Long Branch
charged his opponents with l-eing de
void of any scruple in taking advantage
of anything pertaining to their interests
in the political campaign which, with
out donbt, is a crisis affecting all the
peoples of the civilized world.
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PROGRESS OF IKE BIG STRUGGLE IN EUROPE
MON DA\
NEW YORK; A Berlin wireless to
Savville says that a thousand Ruman
ians. the first detachment of prisoners
made by the Turkish armv in the
neighborhood ol Dobru-ija, F..:\« • .0
in Constantinople.
LONDON: German submarines fcave
sunlt nine Norwegian vessels within the
past twenty four hours. A dispatch re
ceived here todar says that the cam
paign is directed against Norwegian
shipping as a protest to Norway for re
fusing submarines admission to her
waters.
BALTIMORE: The German subma
rine Deutschland is expected to arrive
here at any moment.
VIENNA: An official dispatch says
that Dr. Ernest von Koerber, Minister
of Finance, has accepted the Austrian
Premiership.
COPENHAGEN: The socialist partv
in the new German Reichstag have
pledged their support to the new Ger
man war loan, fifty-seven to fifteen.
LONDON- The Vienna Evening News
announces that Dr. Von Koerber, minis
ter oi Finance, has been appointed to
the vacant office caused bv the assassi
nation cf the late Premier, Stuergkh.
The Austro-Germans are making no
table advances and have commenced
the invasion of Rumania from the
north. The Bulgarians are r.ov, occupy
ing the town of Hirsova, on the Danube.
BERLIN: An < fficiai communication
•r.st issued savs that a fleet of German
submarines attacked a number of Brit
ish vessels in the English Channel be
tween Folkestone and Boulogne and
sunk or damaged eleven outpost steam
ers and three destroyers. The German
flotilla returned to its base without loss.
LONDON: Newspapers are beginning
to predict an early break between Nor
way and Germany. Relations between
the two countries are severely strained.
MEXICO C1TV: Thousands cheered
Carranza in an all-night demonstration.
He is expected to announce his candi
dacy today.
LONDON: The steamship Marina, fly
ing ’.he British flag, with two Ameri
cans among her crew, has been sunk by
a German submarine.
LONDON: According to a Berlin dis
patch Capt. Boelkc, the famous German
aviator, came into coliision with another
aeroplane during an aerial engagement
and was killed. At Amsterdam, Friday,
Capt. Boelke distinguished himself by
shooting down his fifth aeroplane.
BERLIN: The city is wild with ex
citement due to the arrival of Von Hin
der] burg on his first visit to the metropo
lis since the commencement of the war.
Elaborate plans on a most gigantic
scale were inaugurated for his reception
and while here he is the honored gutst
of the Kaiser.
WASHINGTON: Consul Frost in a
cablegram from Queenstown says that
be has received private information that
the horse transport Marina wa
without warning bv he gun file of a
German submarine Oct. 28,. orte hun
dred miles west of Cape Fear. Thirty
four out of a crew numbering 104 were
rescued. Boats Nos. I and 5 have not
yet shown up. The crew of the Mari
na are said to be composed of Bntish
Americans. Consul Frost is now routing
affidavits irom the survivors to Wash
ington.
TUESDAY
PARIS: Official dispatches say thal
the Germans penetrated the French po
sitions at the La Maisonette farm. A
series of powerful attacks were directed
against the farm, and although many oi
them failed, they were in the end suc
cessful.
BERLIN: The Rumanian army has
been put under Franco-Russian leader
j ship according to newspaper articles ir
this city.
STOCKHOLM: All the Buchares:
newspapers arriving here lament the de
feat of the Russo-Rumanians in th«
Dobrudja, which they designate as de- .
cisive. I
RMRLIN; An offi :-i1 ri-Npatch says;
t’.m the steamer Lar.< till was torpedoed j
mil sunk by the German submarine j
U 30. The crew were rescued.
V \>1 JIN** V* T: e German "ire
.• :’.i- veil at Sayville has i
rii removed fur “the good of the
service.”
SALONIKA: An ofh rial dispatch say« ’
that tile Svrbmis . .':vv ceil yesterday at
the bend of the Cermi r.ver ami captur
ed several Efulgman trenches.
ATHENS; Machrist coa, leader of
over one thousand K lyalist reservists
throughout Grtece has been arrested
bv the French authorities.
HEREIN: In n interview had with
. Von Hindeubnrg, the famous German
general said; The 1 reuch show great te- t
nacitvof purpose, and in their fighting'
this trait is responsible for the useless
sacrifice of many Ever- which will, if
continn le pra to the ex‘.er
, mination of her armies. T! is fate the
'French nation is courting, and it is
owing, ah ve a'l else, to he influence of
! the Lriiish.” Regarding Rumania’s en
tering the war. the Marshal went on to
sav: ‘‘The- advent of Rumania's joining
the war on the side of the Allies brought
. the Germans out • • trench fighting as
I the Rumanian retreats go to show. A
j dav of reckoning with the Rumanians
•will scon heat hand.” Discussing the
war situation i:t general the Field Mar
i shal continued; "The ierruion of the
war is pi 1 nt nuance de
fends more or lets ur> n th.e numbers
: brought against us with whom we have
to contend. Prophesying when or w hen
it will end i- idle. Big liat'.Ies may be
fought in the future that will hurry
matters to a conclusion and until such
occur the solution of the problem is
mere conjecture. ”
CONSTANTINOPLE: The trend of
Norway's protest ag.dnst harbersng bel
ligerent submarines in her waters indi
cates a big chance that she may soon be
participating in the conflict.
PARIS; An official dispa’ch from
' Bucharest sacs that the Rumanians have
started au offensive against Von Falken
'haynandin the first engagement took
; 5.C*00 prisoners, raptured two batteries
of howitzers and six field and thirty
machine guns.
WEDNESDAY
LONDON; American Consul Frost at
1 Queenstown reports that six Americans
lost their lives on the British steamer
i Marina when sunk by a German subma
' rine and fifty-one Americans saved. The
i names of those kiik-u are two by the
name of Brown, two named Thomas,
one Robertson, and one named Middle
ton. Two men, named respectively
Miller and Davis, were injured.
PETROGRAD; The Russians are
sweeping all before them ia the Bitlis
;region.
PARIS; The British hospital ship
Galena was sunk off Havre Sunday
morning. Several of he crew, doctors
t her illed or
injured.
LONDON; Fifty-two more A the
survivors of the Marina have landed on
the Irish coast. The American Consul 's
report today says that there are only
now thirteen missing. Not less than
thirtv-siz .American horse tenders were
on board. The survivors state that the
Manna foundered within ten minutes
after she was struck.
PARIS: An official dispatch from the
Macedonian front says that the Serbians
are making phenomenal progress during
the past twenty-lour hours and are now
occupying Singiri.
BERLIN: An official dispatch from
the Somme front says that severe fight
ing during the night resulted slightly in
favor of the Germans.
LONDON: Reports have reached
here that the Portuguese have captured
the town of Newa'.a in German East
Africa, together with a larg number of
guns and other war material. Other
items in this dispatch, but devoid of de
tails say that the Greek government
lias registered a protest against the in
discriminate sinking of ship* by Ger
many: that notwithstanding the bad
weather on the Somme front the British
and French are sec-sawing with the
Germans for the ownership of a few
coveted trenches, and that a battle has
taken place in Abyssinia in which the
rebels got the best of the forces sent
against them and took the brother of
the late emperor prisoner.
LONDON: An official dispatch says
that the British looses during October
numbered 108,257 men: 1.4S7 officers
were killed: 2.S28 men were wounded,
and 4,039 missing. The Official Cas
ualty List this afternoon reads 23,000
men killed.
BERLIN: Charges are being freely
made bv all the newspapers that Nor
way's action in barring submarines from
her waters constitutes a breath of neu
trality on hsr part and she cannot be
classed as other than an hostile nation.
BERLIN: It has been officially an
nounced here that the submarine L 53
lias returned to her base safely.
PETROGRAD: Amid violent snow
storms the Rumanians, who are now on
the offensive, have driven the Germans
from Vulcan Pass and the entire left
wing of the Rumanian army are engag
ed in following up their success by pur
suing the Teutons who are continuing
to retreat before them in the valley of
the Jihl
NEW LONDON: The German mer
j chant submarine Deutschland, with a
cargo of chemicals, arrived here this
morning. Capt. Koenig said that her
i start was delayed at Bremen bv colliding
| with a vessel necessitating a detention of
' ten davs for repairs. She left Bremen
| October 10. and nothing of special inter
est transpired on the voyage. The ma
chinist of tile Deutschland savs that the
-u'. murine Bremen instead of being cap
ture i was wrecked t sea. The Deutsch
land. Las a complement of 25 men.
THURSDAY
WASHINGTON: The Postal authori
ties here are opening negotiations with
the Deutschland to carry the mail to
| Germany.
; PETROGRAD: An official dispatch
' says that the Germans have been launch
ing attacks against the Russians for for
ty-eight hours in the region surround
ing the Baltic and Pinsk marshes.
BERLIN: A wireless received at Say*
j ville says that on the Western front
many strong attacks of the British have
j been repulsed.
BERLIN; Reports from Stockholm
say that extensive rioting is going on in
' Moscow, Kiev and other towns in the
' Volga district. Crow ds stormed and emp
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