THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth...._.Editor and Manager
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this paper and also all the local news published herein.
JT WASN'T COLLINS
The News is glad that Repre
sentative Collins has been able to
make satisfactory explanation of
the failure of the Fairbanks school
of mines bill to pass during the late
session of the territorial legislature.
The charge was made by a Fair
banks paper, following the close of
the session, that Collins had fallen
asleep on the job, down at Juneau,
thereby contributing to the defeat
of a measure of great importance
to the Fourth division.
Mr. Collins has given a very lucid
explanation of the whole transaction
involving the school of mines bill
and shows that he was very wide
awake from start to finish of the
session. According to his version.
Representative Xordale, a Fair
banks Democrat, first jeopardized
the bill by incurring the displeasure
of the Nome delegation; followed,
at the tail end of the session, when
the passage of the bill was certain,
by a blunder on the part of Ne
nana’s representative, also a Demo-1
crat who, as one of the Juneau
papers expressed it,‘‘ f;ddled while
Rome burned.”
The News is glad that Mr. Collins
has returned with proof of his
devotion and close attention to home
interests because it is clear that
he has been misrepresented. It will
help to put him right among the
voters of the Fairbanks district who
hold him responsible for the defeat
of the bill. ,
But, while we are glad for Mr.
Collins, we are very sorry to hear
it said that our own representative
helped to defeat the measure, and
sincerely hope that Mr. Pennington
will be able to show' that he, too,
has been wrongfully accused. We
would much prefer to believe that
representatives of other divisions
than the Fourth were responsible
for the loss of the school of m’.nes
appropriation.
INDEPENDENT ALASKA
Reports coming from the Outside
indicate that we need not look for
much, if any, reduction in the
prices of foodstuffs in Alaska dur
ing the coming summer. Many
items, it is said, will show marked
advances over present prices.
Nothing that we can say or do,
in so far as the imported goods
are concerned, will help the situa
tion. We can buy the goods, if we
have the price, or we can do jvith
out. There is no remedy for the
situation, locally. The trouble is
with Outside conditions and Out
side markets.
While the war was in progress,
we were urged by the food ad
ministration to plant war gardens,
that the burden of supplying Alas
kans with Outside products might
be lightened. The suggestion was
followed with more profit to war
gardeners than benefit to the na
tion and was well worth whilei on
that account, even though not par
ticularly helpful to the govern
ment. It demonstrated to families
not already aware of the value
of home gardens, that the cost of
living might be greatly reduced
and the home table made more at
tractive through the use of home
grown products. The profits, in
savings, began when the first crop*
were harvested, and lasted until the
cellars were emptied, late in the
winter, of the last of the vege
tables.
If it was worth while to plant
gardens during war times, it 's
doub'y worth while now, with food
prices Roaring and wages anchored
seeur$4y at a pre-war level. There
is no section of the United States
where one may live so cheaply as
m Alaska, jf one chooses to do so
Our territory, and particularly the
Interior country, is a natural store
house of foodstuffs, with streams
full of fish, forests alive with
game. meadows and marshes aglow
with berries, and the soil ready
to produce vegetables and garden
truck in almost endless variety.
Where can you equal it? Where
can you find such an array of
weapons for combatting the high
cost of living? Alaska offers an
independence that is not attainable
elsewhere and it is the fault of
Alaskans themselves if they permit
rising prices to cause them serious
inconvenience.
WYOMING CITY
CLAIMS OLDEST
WOMAN VOTER
LARAMIE, Wyo.—This city not
only claims the oldest woman voter
in the United States, but also lays
claim to having had the first woman
voter and first woman court bailiff.
Mrs. Nancy Wilhelmina Brown,
recently made “mother of the con
vention” of the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association et
St. Louis, is the wife of Judge
Melville C. Brown of Laramie coun
ty's police court. She is the oldest
voter in the association.
Mrs. Brown was not old enough
to vote when woman suffrage in
Wyoming became a fact, but she
begain visiting the voting booths
in 1874 and has been voting at
every election since.
"Grandma” Swain of Laramie
was the first woman voter in the
L'nited States as far as the records
show. She cast her vote while on
her way to market to buy groceries.
Mrs. Nathan Stark, now of Fort
Morgan, Colo., reached the polls in
Cheyenne shortly after “Grandma"
i Swain had voted.
The late Mrs. Martha Atkinson,
mother of John M. Symons of
Laramie was the first woman court
bailiff. Mrs. Stephen Boyd, first
school teacher in Laramie county,
I now dead, was a member of the
first grand jury to be composed
!of
women.
CH1TINA TRAIL IS IN
VERY BAD CONDITION
Mr. Taylor, manager of the
Brower stage line, who returned
to Fairbanks recently from a trip
out the Chitina trail, reports that
the trail is in fearful condition.
He stated that in the neighbor
hood of Jarvis creek, at a point
about two miles beyond McCarty
and near Beals cache, the condition
| of the trail is such as to be im
possible for cars to negotiate, and
he thinks that horses will have to
be used at these places to get the
passengers, mail and freight over.
NEW BRITISH FIELD GUN
TO BE BEST OF ITS KIND
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LONDON.—A British field gun.
* which was tested to some extent
during the closing stages of the
war, has now been perfected tc
! such a point that it is said to be
j considered the best of its kind in
the world. It is claimed that the
new gun will fire the 18 1-2 pound
shell used in the ordinary quick
firer a greater distance and with
more rapidity than has ever been
attained with a field-gun before.
The range increase is said to be
i more than 3,000 yards over the
old field-gun and the new weapon
, can discharge twenty-eight rounds
i a minute.
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The A. Y. X. company’s steamer
Washburn, under the command of
'Captain Miles Lemley, arrived .in
port at 9 o'clock last night from
Lower La barge with about twel.e
tons of perishables and general
freight consigned to local mer
chants. She also had about fifteen
tons of freight consigned to mer
chants in Fairbanks. Included in
the freight landed at Xenana were
a few tons of locomotive and
Erown hoist repair parts left over
at Dawson from last year's ship
ment.
The passengers disembarking here
were W. F. Scott. E. P. Allard, J.
Bellerby. C. D. McAuley, R. W.
Calderhead and Mrs Mary Schmidt.
Those in transit, bound for Fair
banks were Ed Erickson, Captain
John Zug, A. Walsh, E. B. Collins.
Yolney Richmond. J. A. Fairborn.
M. Hollbrock, A. Aarons. J. Dixon.
F. Johnson, C. Anderson, C. A.
Livingston and W. H Hunter.
The vessel sailed for Fairbanks
at midnight She took on board j
about twenty tons of freight and!
Mrs. R. R. Myers. H. B. Joseph.;
George Hunter. Chas. E. Lambert, j
Miss Alice Warner and Miss Louise j
Lohr as passengers.
The mail landed here from the
boat consisted of a small shipment j
of local mail.
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Genuine Buhach at Fowler &
COBLENZ. — Information from
unoccupied German territory reach
ing American intelligence officers
of the army of occupation is to
the effect that the morale of old
German regiments now in their de
pots in various parts of Germany
is exceedingly low. Almost ever>
newspaper from the smaller towns
on the other side of the bridghead
where troops are garrisoned report
one or more cases of robbery of
the battalian funds and theft of
army horses or other evidences of
I dishonesty. Reports indicate that
the thefts are by soldiers them
selves, due to the low morale among
the troops. Several cases of steal
ing by temporary commissioned
; officers have also been reported.
At a recent meeting of the Sol
diers’ Council of the Fourth Ger
man corps at Magdeburg, it was
charged that a corps fund of 58.000
marks, originally paid in comm is •
Isions from civilians to whom the
; corps farmed out Belgian civilians,
had decreased to 25,000 marks and
that the difference had gone to
staff officers, under guise of re
imbursement for expenses.
MARINE BULLETIN
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| Tanana—Up Gibbon for Dawson,
' 2:30 a. m., date,
j Seattle 3—Down Xulato 4 p. m.,
! the 23rd.
Washburn—Up Xenana 11:30 p.
jm., 23rd.
! Siwash—At Fairbanks.
Senator—Sails from Seattle for
JXome, June 1.
Victoria—Sails from Seattle for
jXome, June 3.
Mail Launch Betty—Up Kokrine
12 p. m., 23rd.
Alice (Frank Kerns)—Down
Koyukuk 10 a. m., 23rd.
Carl White—Up Tolovana river
9 p. m., 23rd.
O'Farrell—Down Tolovana 5 p.
jm., 23rd.
jCANDLE CREEK MINER
VISITING FAIRBANKS
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Thomas Aiken, who is operating
a gasoline dredge on Candle creek,
in the upper Kuskokwim country,
was a passenger on the steamer
Washburn, bound for Fairbanks.
He is paying the upper town a
business visit, and also expects to
;meet and renew old acquaintances
there.
His dredge on Candle creek re
cently sustained a breakdown, and
the heavy part of it which had to
be replaced ere work could be un
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DANCING ACADEMY
SOCIAL DANCE
Sat. May 24
UNION MALL
Afrs. Belle Campbell - Director
dertaken was procured in Seattle
recently and shipped to Anchorage,
from which point it was freighted
safely over the last snows of the
season.
The new part has now been in
stalled and the dredge will work all
through the summer season.
Mr. Aiken will go on to Candl"
creek after he has concluded the
business which takes him to Fair
banks.
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PERSONAL
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Volney P^ichmona, superintend
ent of the Northern Commercial
company, was a passenger on the
steamer Washburn, bound for Fair
banks. He will be back in N'enana
on the return trip of the steamer
on Monday.
Walter Scott, cashier in the local
office of the A. Y. N\ company, re
turned to N'enana on the Wash
burn for the season. He stated
that he was very glad to be back
North.
Jack Bellerby, wharfinf^r of the
A. Y. N. company, resumed his
duties for the season yesterday,
shortly after his arrival on the
Washburn.
Frank Cook, formerly of the
Wells Fargo staff at Fairbanks, and
latterly agent of the A. Y. N. com
pany at Ruby, has been appointed
agent for the A. Y. N. at Dike
man. The Ruby office will be closed
this season.
George Hunter, manager of the
M. A. Pinska store. Fairbanks,
who had been visiting in Nenana
for the past few days, left for the
upper town on the steamer Wash
burn.
Mrs. R. R. Myers left for Fair
banks last night on the Wash
bum. She will reside in Fairbanks
until the return to Xenana of her
! husband, Dr. Myers, sometime in
i Julv.
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H. B. Joseph, chief accountant
j of the A. E. C. of this division, left
I for Fairbanks on the steamer Wash
1 burn last night on some business
(connected with his office. He will
be away for about a week.
i In the Probate Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
Xenana Precinct.
] In the matter of the Estate of
i Michael Hyland Deceased.
No. 7—Pr.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed ex
ecutor of the last will and testament
of the above named decedent, and
all persons having claims against
said decedent are directed to pre
sent them, with the proper vouchers,
1 to the undersigned, at Xenana,
Alaska, which place is hereby desig
nated as the place where the busi
ness of said estate is to be trans
acted, within six months from the
date of the first publication of this
j notice.
.Xenana, Alaska, April 19, 1919.
thomas McLaughlin,
Executor of the last will and
testament of Michael Hyland,
deceased.
JOHN A. CLARK,
Attorney for Executor.
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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
building, 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 Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 a. m.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second »nd Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
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