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The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1*, 1918.
WHOLE NUMBER 173
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DUAL MONARCHY TO DISBAND ARMIES
TURKISH MINISTER SEEKS TERMS FROM ALLIES
ALLIED ARMIES ROUT
HUNS AT ALL POINTS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In the re
port made to the war department to
day, General Pershing says that
heavy fighting has taken place on
the Verdun sector of the battlefront,
the American forces being called
upon to meet several powerful Ger
man counter attacks delivered on
the positions held by our forces to
the east of the Meuse.
Counters Repulsed
General Pershing’s report states
that these counter attacks were re
pulsed everywhere successfully, ex
cept in the Bellue region. Here
the Germans attacked in great force
and with much vigor and though re
pulsed three different times, came
on again and forced a partial re-,
tirement of our forces. They, how
ever, paid very dearly in killed for
the slight advantage gained, and it
is not thought that they will be
able to hold the positions gained
for any great length of time.
Progress Made
The American forces operating to
the west of the Meuse have been
able to continue their advance de
spite the determined resistance of
the enemy.
BATTLE RAGING
PARIS.—According to reports re
trieved in this city today, a severe
battle with heavy fighting all the
way through is raging between
Valenciennes and the Meuse, w’here
the Germans are very strongly re
sisting the advance of the Allies.
The Allies are continuing to press
forward in spite of this resistance
and are fighting their way literally
inch by inch.
Priioners Captured.
In the task of driving the enemy
back on the Meuse and the resulting
fighting during the last four days,
in addition to the vast amount of
material, and supplies used up by
the enemy in their futile attempts
to hold back the advancing Allies,
the Allies have captured about fif
teen hundred prisoners, two hundred
big guns and a large quantity of
war material.
YANKS MAINTAIN GAINS
WITH THE AMERICANS.—The
gains made by the Americans in
yesterday’s fighting were maintained
by our boys today, in spite of violent
enemy opposition and several coun
ter attacks.
Hun Artillery Active
The German artillery is harrassing
the front and rear of the advancing
American line in places. The Ameri
can artillery is replying vigorously
to the German fire and an intensive
artillery duel is in progress, during
which no infantry action is possible.
YANKS STRENTHEN HOLD
On the extreme left of the line
the Americans have strengthened
their hold on the high ground in
the southern part of the Bourgogne
wood.
BELGIAN OPERATIONS
LONDON.—According to official
reports received by the war office
:oday, military operations in Bel
gium continue to develop favorably j
to the Allies. In the face of des
perate resistance the French troops
have succeeded in capturing the
town of Zulte, while the British
troops have captured the villages
of Ingoyheim and Ooptheim. Both
the French and British forces are
now advancing toward the Scheldt
river.
GERMANS DESPERATE
LONDON.—It is reported that the
Germans in desperation, are using
raw troops from the east to fill up
the gaps caused by her losses on the
Western front.
COAL Iff IS i
BEING BUILT AT
POWERPLANT NOW
With the possibility of the early
arrival of carloads of coal from the
Lynn mine, and the more general
use of coal in the Commission power
plant and the locomotives in the
near future, a commencement has
been made with the construction of
a capacious coal bunker behind the
Commission power plant, to store the
fuel in.
A gang of men were put on yes
terday to tear down the woodshed
at the back of the power plant and
the ground is now being prepared
for the foundations of the bunkers.
There will be an elevated track
leading to the bunker to permit
of the cars being dumpd direct to
the bunker. The plans and speci
fications of the bunkers were not
available this morning, but it is
thought the bunker will have a
capacity of not less than 100 tons
ENlOYiriTY
AT NENANA CLUB
The first of a series of card
parties to be given at the Nenana
' club during the winter season, took
l place last night and was well at
! tended. Games of auction bridge,
1 solo and pan were played until ?.
late hour, after which those assem
bled indulged in a Irttle dancing.
Those who were unable to attend
certainly missed a splendid time.
1 These card parties are got up
for the purpose of bringing Nenana
^ ites together during the winter
i season and give them an opportunity
| to have a good time. The parties
will be held at 8:30 p. m., every
Friday and it is hoped that the
members of the Nenana club will
not fail to attend and bring their
• lady friends along.
IURKS10 MAKE
0FFER 0F PEACE
LONDON.—A Daily Mail despatch
says that the Turkish minister to
Switzerland handed both the French
and British ministers notes contain
ing an offer of peace from the
Ottoman government.
The despatch states further that
the Turkish offer virtually amounts
to an unconditional surrender.
AXEL RUNNING
PASSES AWAY
Axel Running, who sustained
serious internal injuries last Tues
day while engaged in loading a
heavy case of machinery, passed
away at half past eight o’clock this
morning at the Commission hospital.
The surgeons took a very grave
view of the case after a thorough
examination had been made and the
extent of the injuries sustained had
been ascertained and did not hold
out any hopes of his recovery
Everything possible was done for
him, but he was too badly injured
to respond to the treatment.
The deceased was a member of the
Fairbanks Igoo of Pioneers of
Alaska and is also a member of
other fraternal organizations, and it
is likely that some one or all of
the orders he is a member of will
take in hand the arrangements foi
the funeral.
The late Axel Running came tc
the North in the early clays of the
Klondike rush, and has remained ir
the North almost continually evei
since. He is well and favorably
known both in the Dawson countrj
and in the Tanana valley, and his
numerous friends will J>e greatlj
shocked to hear of his death.
He came to Nenana from Fair
banks, where he had been for man;
years, this summer, where he workeci
in the sawmills, only recently enter
ing the service of the Alaskan En
gineering commission as a car re
pairer. He leaves behind a wife
and young daughter who are Ne
nana residents, to mourn his loss, anc
they have the entire sympathy o1
the community and his friends.
IIITOStt
TOMORROW MORN
WASHINGTON, D- C.—At twe
o’clock tomorrow morning the clock;
of the nation will be turned bad
one hour. All trains throughout thi
country are to remain motionles;
for one hour beginning at two o’clocl
in the morning.
The clocks in the naval observator;
in this city will be stopped for om
hour to let the sun catch up.
Carlton D. Ross is now out of thi
hospital and expects to be able t<
resume duties on Monday.
AUSTRIAN ENVOYS ■
LEFT ON MISSION
ZURICH, Switzerland.—Accord- ^
ing to reports appearing in the
Vienna newspapers, Prince Frederich
Lobowitz and Baron Naderhenry,
Austrian representatives of the
strongest anti-German tendencies,
left Vienna today for Switzerland.
They are said to be charged, by
the Austro-Hungarian government,
with a mission about which no de
tails have been made public.
i RIGID MEASURES
! 10 BE TAKEN TO
! STOP INFLUENZA
Engineer in Charge Will Act In
Concert With Governor to
Prevent Spread of Disease
Mr. Browne, engineer in charge,
received the following telegram from
Governor Riggs this morning:
“Upon first indication of presence
of influenza other than proilsrly
isolated imported cases, advise clos
ing schools, churches, pool halls and
all places of public meeting. The
territory is now remarkably free
of the disease, owing to prompt
quarantine measures, and every
effort should be made to keep the
disease out. All eases diagnosed as
such should be immediately reported
to me by wire. The symptoms are
as follows: Sudden feeling of sick
ness and weakness, pains in eyes,
ears, head and back and there may
be soreness all over, many patients
feel dizzy, some vomit, most patients
complain of feeling chilly, which
is accompanied by fever with tem
perature from 100 to 104, in most
cases pulse remains relatively slow:
patient in appearance looks sick
his eyes and the inner side of the
eyelids may be slightly bloodshot oi
congested. There may be running
from nose or some cough; signs may
! not be marked but patient looks and
: feels very sick. Ordinarily the fevei
lasts from three to four days and
the patient recovers. When death
occurs it is usually the result of
complications.”
Mr. Browne is issuing a special
circular today for the guidance oi
the employees of the Alaskan En
I gineering commission, and he told
the News representative that with
i the co-operation of Dr. David More
! who is the health officer for th*
town of Nenana, he will immediately
, put into effect such measures as
. will effectually prevent the intro
1 duction of the disease in Nenan
in accordance with the plans oi
, Governor Riggs.
It should be the duty of every
i Nenanaite to keep a sharp lookou’
, for any signs of the epidemic ant
,: report it promptly to Mr. Brown*
I or Dr. More, and thereby preven'
the necessity for the issuance of ar
■ order that will close up practically
> the entire business section of th<
town.
LYNN CANAL STORM
FATAL TO STEAMER;
LOSS OF LIFE HEAVY
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Private ad- j
vices state that the Canadian Pa- ^
cific Steamship company's Princess j
Sophia, which grounded on Vander-.
bilt reef in the Lynn Canal last
Thursday, foundered with all on
board. There were said to be three
hundred people all told on board.
LATER
VICTORIA B. C — The Canadian!
Wireless service received the follow- ;
ing message from Juneau this after- |
noon: “ Sofia driven across reef
last night, no survivors; seventy
I five in crew, two hundred and sixty
1 eight passengers; everything possible
! was done; terrible weather pre
vailed.
On receipt of the above message
the News immediately despatched a
wire to Skagway for the passenger
i list of the Princess Sophia, but ow
j ing to an interruption in the mili
tary cable between Juneau and
Sitka, no answer to the message can
possibly be received until repairs
are made.
According to meager details re
| ceived from Victoria. B. C. prior
j to the cable interruption, the C. P.
I R- steamer Princess Sophia, for the
I past two days has been clinging
j tenaciously to the Vanderbilt reef,
on which she struck, although she
had been subjected to a bad pound
ing in the stiff northerly breeze
Captain Locke, the commander of
j the vessel, notified headquarters
| that the wind prevailing made it im
I
j PARIS.—According: ‘o a report
; received today from Zurich, the dual
monarchy will soon capitulate and
i throw itself on the mercy of the
Allies.
. The czecho-Slovaks are masters of
the situation. At Prague, the
Slovaks are reported to have come
to a decision to rename the town
of Strassville to Wilsonville, in
honor of our President.
The report adds that anarchy
reigns in the ancient Danubian
monarchy of Hungary and peace at
any price is very popular at Vienna
and Budapest.
Absolutely no notice is taken in
; Austria of the decisions arrived at
1 in Berlin, regarding the peace pro
: gram and it looks as if Austria
i Hungary is going to act inde
i pendently of her ally.
Emmet Ward, of the N. C. com
pany, who was removed to the hos
: pital suffering from appendicitis,
will probably leave the hospital to
■ day. The doctors in attendance
> have decided that an operation is
not necessary in his case.
possible to transfer anyone from
the stranded ship to the boats stand
ing by. He expressed no fears for
their safety. The vessel was badly
exposed from the north, the wind
sweeping down Lynn Canal with the
force o fa hurricane; from the south
the vessel was protected by Sentinel
Island and other small islands.
The Princess Sophia crashed on
the rocks on the Vanderbilt reef
during a heavy snow squall at three
o’clock on Thursday morning, while
on her way south from Skagwav,
where she took aboard on Wednes
day night two hundred and sixty
eight passengers, composed almost
entirely of Alaskans who had reach
ed Whitehorse from the Interior
points of Alaska at the close of
navigation on the river.
The vessel held fast soon after
she struck, and it was at first thought
that she would be released at high
tide, which occurs at four o’clock.
All efforts, however, failed to move
her. and as she hung perilously on
the reef, a fresh northerly wind
sprang up Lynn Canal, causing the
ship to pound badly.
It is feared that there were
many Nenanaites on board the Prin
cess Sophia and every effort is be
ing made to ascertain the names
of the passengers embarking on the
ill-fated ship at Skagway. The fol
lowing boys of the Signal Corps aro
known to have been on board the
steamer: A. W. McQueen, I. Labrie,
G. W. Gamble, T. E. Sanford and
George Hendricks.
BASEL, Switzerland.—According:
to articles published in the Vienna
newspapers, the Austro-Hungarian
government are making preparations
for the demobilization of the army.
It is reported that two infantry
regiments doing garrison duty at
Karlowitz have revolted. Karlowitz
is a village in Croatia, Stovana,
Hungary.
LONDON/—-According to reports
received from Copenhagen, Vienna
newspapers are publishing what pur
ports to be an official statement to
the effect that preparations are be
ing made for the demobilization of
fhe1 Austro-Hungarian army.
EXCEPTION IS TAKEN
TO PRESIDENT’S APPEAL
WILMINGTON, Del.—Chairman
Hays of the Republican National
Committee, takes exception to Presi
dent Wilson’s appeal for a Demo
cratic congress and says that in spite
of the widely heraled intent to keep
politics out of the war, President
Wilson, by his many acts is keeping
politics in it.
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