THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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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.
Hub of Alaska —_Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-pubii
cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in
this paper and also all the local news published herein.
The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce has sent a telegram to Pres
ident Harding urging the appoint
ment of a western man who will
work for the constructive develop
ment of Alaska, as secretary of the
Interior. At the same, time the
Chamber asked Tacoma. Portland.
San Francisco ar.ci Los Angeles to
join in the movement for the ap
pointment of a western man. Wires
to various Alaska commercial bodies
brought replies asking the Chamber
to take kadc^hip ;n the effort to
get a secretary of the Interior who
wijl work for the development of
the territory. The telegram to Pres
ident Harding, among other things
says: “It is our settled conviction,
after consultation with the people
of Alaska and a study of the entire
question by our Alaska committee,
that the federal government should,
commence the active development
of Alaska now. that steps be taken
to open up territory; that suitable
roads and trails and other means
of transportation be provided for
general development and as feeders
to the government railway and that
at present mineral laws of the ter
ritory be not disturbed.*’
The first oil well in the United
States was brought in sixty-three
years ago. by Col. Edwin L. Drake
near Titusville, Pa. It was only six
ty nine feet deep, but it marked the
beginning cf an epoch the impor
tance of which has only begun to
be realized. The demand for oil
created by the development of the
combustion engine cas so stimulat
ed the growth of the industry that
there are today, according to es
timates by the American Petrol
* um institute, abort 275,000 pro
ducing wells in America. Produc
tion has increased from the negli
gible quantity obtained :n 1850
from Colonel Drake's well, to an
• utput last year of 460,039,000 bar
rels in this country alone.
The cost per capita of schools in
incorporated towns and school dis
tricts in the Territory last year was
$97.31. and 'of schools outside of
such towns and 1 d.-Tict s was $103.
14 according to a latemeru made
by Commissioner of Education L.
D. Henderson. For the school year
1920-21 the per capita cost of
maintaining the former schools was
$105.84 and of the latter $108.34.
The Juneau public schools showed
the highest enrollment and a per
capita cots of $39.49, well below
the average cost. The cost per pu
pil of maintaining t'v Nome school.
was $250.55. the highest of all
schools, while Sitka showed the low
est per capita cost with $58.26
Urgently reeommendieg that Al
aska be admitted to fall sisterhood
in the United States of America.
Chief Forester Greeley, in his an
nual report, declares that the sol
ution of the Alaskan problem is
local self-government.
CAN THEY PAY?
Former German territories in Af
rica were distributed «mocg the al
lies as “mandates’* under a para
graph contained in the covenant of
the league of nations. The countries
that got them are supposed to look
after them in the interest of the
native populations, but really they
have become colonies of those coun
tries. and their wealth is at the dis
posal of their new owners. The
German colonies in Africa had an
area of 930,000 square miles about
four and a half times as large as
the old German Empire in Europe.
There were four of them: German
East Africa, German Southwest Af
rica. the Kameruns, and Togoland.
German East Africa is now cal
led Tanganyika Territory and has
an area of about 365,000 square
miles, all but 20,000 of which, is
; now cantrolled by Great Britain,
j and the rest by Belgium. German
! Southwest Africa is 322,000 spuar_
miles in extent and was given en
tirely to Great Britain. The Kam
eruns has been translated into En
frlish and is now called the Camer
oons. It has an area of 191,000
square miles, 158.000 of which went
; to France, and the rest to Great
Britain. Togoland has an area of
33,700 square miles, about one
third of which went to Great Bri
tain and the rest to France. About
four-fifths of that African land is
now British, and about one-fifth
French. All the colonies are much
the same in natural resources and
have a population of eight million
natives and about 23,000 whites.
The British debt to the United
States amounts to about $4,700,
. 000,000 and the French debt e
quals $3,800,000,000. ‘"Our govern
ment is being urged all the time”
to cancel a part or all of those debt
on the ground that their payment
would place an awful burden on the
British and French people, who
might, indeed, never be able to pay
them. In everything that the Bri
tish and French representatives have
I said about their debts and their
ability to meet them they have been
! very careful never to mention the
rich African spoils they grabbed
from Germany in the war. They
want to get the very best terms
they can from the United States
before there is anything said about
the wealth that is going to come
out of Africa and flow into their
treasuries.
•‘But the people in this country
ought to be alive to all facts. We
have heard so much about the ex
treme poverty of those countries,
that we are apt to overlook the
tremendous extent of their new Af
rican possessions, and to forge: to
credit them with the great wealth
that is going to come from those
new territories in the years before
us. Every estimate of their value
based on what is already known
about them and on the history of
the development of similar areas
in other parts of the world, indi
cates that enough can easily be
realized from them to pay the
British ar.d French debt.-."
The highest per capita cost of
the United States Postal Service is
in Alaska where the Government
spends #200.000 per year for over
land mail service to serve 38,000
white men.
GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA
MAY TAKE FALL'S POST
T.-at President Harding is con
sidering Gov. Thomas E. Campbell,
of Arizona, as the successor to Se
cretary A. B. Fall of the Depart
ment of the Interior, is indicated in
advices received at Juneau recently
from reliable sources. Press dispat
ches received previously by the Em
pire said that Gov. Campbell’s name
had been presented to the President.
A telegram received from An
drew Beaumont, Jr., Republican Na
tional Committeeman for Arizona,
said that Arizona executive is be
ing considered by the President Gov.
Campbell is a close personal friend
of Judge Peter D. Overfield former
ly on the Federal bench in the
Fourth Division with headquarters
at Fairbanks. Judge Overfield is
now Chairman of the Republican
State Committee of Arizona which
has officially endorsed Gov. Camp
bell to succeed Secretary Fall.
Smokey, famouse Nome Vnder,
who is being taken Outside h-.- c -n
ator-elect Fred Ayer to spend his
remaining years in ease and comfort
in a warm climate, had the distinc
tion of being cared for while in
Juneau by Surveyor General Karl
Thiele.
ROAD COMMISSION MEMBER
HONORED WITH D. S. MEDAL
Award of «the Distinguished Ser
vice Medal was made to Col. J. C.
Gotwals by the War Department on
December 15 last, for conspicuous
services rendered by him in France
| during- the World War. according to
official notification received at Jun
eau recently. The medal has been
forwarded to the Commanding Gen
eral, Ninth Corps Area, Presidio.
San Francisco, for presentation to
Colonel Gotwals.
The citation recommended to ac
company the D. S. M. declared:
. “Major John C Gotwals, formerly
Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of En
gineers for exceptionally meritorious
and conspicuous service in the cre
ation, equipment, training and fight
ing of the Searchlight Units (56th
Engineers | of the American Expedi
tionary Forces. After demonstrating
his creative ability in developing
while a member of the Board of En
gineer Troops numerous item? of en
gineer equipment needed in the
World War. he served in France
from August 20, 1917. to November
15, 1918, in command of the 56th
Engineers successively with the Bri
tish army in the Somme ‘Defen
sive. the French army in the Somme
Defensive and the Aisne Offensive
and with the First and Second
American armies in the St. Mihiel
and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. The
conspicuous success of the co-opera
tion of the searchlights and pursuit
planes in combatting enemy nigh:
bombers was due largely to his ev
ceptional ingenuity, initiative ?n 1
tireless vigilance.” The citation also
mentions service as member of the
Board of Engineers Command of the
Searchlight Troops, director of Anti
Aircraft Searchlight School at Lan
gres, in charge of Searchlight O.
C. E.. G. H. Q.. in charge of evacua
tion of Second Army and Advance
Sections S. O. S. Areas, in charge
of Base Section No. 2.
While Colonel Gotwals is natur
ally gratified at the decoration, he
told a repeser.tative of the Juneau
Empire his principal pleasure is "in
the recognition of the services per
formed by the regiment carrying out
all the searchlight work of the A.
E F.. and also with British and
French forces, which were of really
significant value in combatting night
bombing activities of the German
forces.” He went over in August:
1917. as captain in command of a
company of 170 engineer troops.
Of that number 120 were retained
as the nucleus for the Searchlight
Troops which were merged into the
56th Engineers numbering 2.500
men.
His duties given briefly -without
attempting to go into detail includ
ed: At the Front with the First and
Second American Armies and French
and British forces, directing the op
erations of Searchlight Troops from
the 56th Engineers and developing
coordination of pursuit planes ani
searchlights in bringing down en
emy night bombing machines, and
commanding the 56th Engineers: at
G. H. Q., American Expeditionary
Forces, in charge of Searchlight sec
tion: at Army Schools director of
the anti aircraft searchlight school:
in the Service of Supply, in charge
of all the matters pertaining to
searchlight supply and experimental
directing the searchlight depot and
machines at Gieves the advance
searchlight depot at Ft. Du Mont
Valerien; directing the American
section with American Air Service
for searchlight training at Chateau
Dun: advising in all directions from
the A. E. F. to he War Department
at home with reference to search
light material and personnel: ad
vising the Chief of Engineers' of
fice in the United States with refer
ence to searchlight experimentation
Colonel Gotwals was recommende '
for the D. S. M. while in France and
again in the United States. The
Board of Decoration turned down
the recommendations under an es
tablished rule that the medal would
not be awarded to officers under1
the rank of Colonel. In lieu he was
given a certificate for meritorious j
service. Recommendations were re- !
newed again last year and the board :
reversed its former action. Break- '
ing the above mentioned rule, how-!
ever, does not violate any precedent
said Colonel Gotwals, as it has been
done on former occasions in a few
instances.
A sudden descent was made re
cently at Juneau by U. S. Marsha1
Beaumont and a number of his dep
uties on the Arctic soft (?) drint
when two bottles of liquor were
found. Brown was arrested and re
leased on bail until he appeared
before U. S. Commissioner Paine
and through his attorney, Henr<
Roden, pleaded guilty. He as fine-*
$750 and remanded to the federa’
bastile 10 days. District Attorney
A. G. Shoup at once took steps tr
have the Arctic closed as a nuisance
PREST AIRPLANE SALVAGED
BY OLDTIMER FROM EAGLE
The airplane in which Charles C.
Prest attempted tg make the flight
from the east to Siberia last sum
mer, and which came down in the
niggerheads between Eagle and
Nome has been salvaged by a party
headed by United States Marshal
Clarence Dudney, according to word
received at Dawson recently. The
plane is now seventy miles from
Eagle and the brush is being clear
ed ahead of it so as to permit its
being drawn across the tundra. The
plane, which was uninjured when
it landed was left by Prest at the
spot where he came down. Letters
from Prest received by freinds at
Dawson state that the plucky avia
tor will be north attain this year,
determined t.< mat" the flight ac
ross Alaska and the Yukon in 1923
Charles Bressler, who was taken !
to McGrath recently form Tacotna
for medical treatment, and whose
physical .illness has caused derange
ment of the mind, was adjudged in
sane by a jur.- before Commissioner
W. F. Green. The unfortunate man
was ordered placed in the care of
Thomas McLean, special deputy
marshal . until such time as his
health will permit of his removal
to Mt. Tabor sanatorium. The jury
trying the case was composed of
the following: Dan Sprague, .lames
Downey. Dave Clough. W. T Yan
derpool. Bert Eldridge and L. B.
Loomis.
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to connect with ships sailing South. Unless there is an unusual de
lay in Train Service, the ships will always wait tor the train if
necessary.
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J. H. FLICKINGER, A. H. McDONALD,
Agent. Seward. Alaska Agent. Anchorage
A. A. SMONBECK
ANCHORAGE
LIME, PLASTER. CEMENT, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
COAL OIL GASOLINE LUBRICATING OILS GREASES
MAY and GRAIN
HERMAN ANDERSON'S
MODERN RESIDENCE
FOR SALE
Ha- the following rooms:
j 1 Entrance Vestibule.
1 Large Living room, 16X26.
i 3 Berrooms (each has clothes cio
1 Lartre Kt.hon, white enamel,
wit: break;,..- m ok, -eating six
' person -.
1 Bathro m. finishe ’ in white e
: ;*me.. with bath tub, wash basin
and lavatory.
1 Good well, with clear water ail
the year.
! 1 Kohler & Campbell piano.
1 Edison Gold Modal Phonograph.
A houseful of A 1 oak furniture.
1 Dustproof warehouse, 45X45.
The basement of the house can be
used for warm storage. Capacity ov
er 50 tons.
For further information see Her
man Anderson.
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NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
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DOG BARNS
Trappers Traders
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Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alulu Building
NEW YORK
127 W. 27th Street
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MY LOSS—YOUR GAIN
No use loving and keeping mer
chandise. It s for sale. If one price
won-; sell it. cut to bedrock. That's
what I'm doing What is left ,s
New ciean stock—Woolen and cot
iten hosiery. Leather fleece lined
mitts, all wool mitts, and gloves,
beads, handkerchiefs, fancy dress
combs, middy Ties, coat buttons
i corsets 24—28 sizes. Ribbons as
j sorted. Any price is better than
paying stoiage. My loss your gain.
, ^ ou don t want winter goods in
■summer time. Thats why I am cut
ting to cost on whats left.
MRS. DORSAY.
William A. Hesse
MINING ENGINEER
Li. S MINERAL SURVEYOR
BQX 1035, FAIRBANKS
Andy's Express
— A T —
Seward
Will Give Your
BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT
Careful Attention
MEETS ALL TRAINS
AND BOATS
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Xenana as
follows:
S .00 p. ra.. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning arrives Xenana 6:45 a
m., same days.
1:3o p. m.. Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika
Arrives Xenana 12:30 p. m.. Tues
day and Friday.
Pullman sleeper charges: Lower
berth, $4.50; upper berth, $3.50
Tickets entitle holders to privi
leges Observation car.
D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embeimer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
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Alfred J. Ghezzi Joe O’Connor
Secretary. President.