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THE NENANA
The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press nenana, alaska, Friday, September 20, 1918.
WHOLE NUMBER 143
FALL OF ST. QUENTIN IMMINENT
313,000 YANKEES SENT OVER IN AUGUST
. ALLIES PLANNING BIG OFFENSIVE IN MACEDONIA
CORDON TIGHTENS
ABOUT ST. QUENTIN
LONDON.—Field Marshal Haig’s
t investment of the town of St. Quen
tin is drawing a spirited reply from
the German big guns mounted on
the emplacements around the city.
They are thundering away inces
santly but have, so far, failed to
make much of an impression on
the British forces, who are gradually
flanking the big German base.
ADVANCE CONTINUES
LONDON.—According to reports
received today, ten towns were
taken and six thousand prisoners
were captured by he British troops
in their drive from the northeast
on St. Quentin.
F-ench Support British
The right flank of the British
advance on St. Quentin from the
northwest was supported by the
French troops and the entire line
was advanced for a distance of a
mile and a third on a six mile front.
THE BERLIN REPORT
BERLIN.—The Germans are now
counter attacking against the British
in their advance on St. Quentin,
who, they admit, have entered some
of the German positions between
Hargicourt and the Omignon rivulet.
BRITISH ATTACK
LONDON—Reports received today
from British field headquarters in
dicate that the British forces ad
vancing on St. Quentin from the
northwest, commenced a heavy at
tack against the German positions
guarding the approaches to he big
base in this direction. Heavy fight
ing is in progress and the British
are pressing the Germans hard.
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ATTACKS REPULSED
PARIS.—The French war office
announced this afternoon that the
French troops repulsed a series of j
vicious counter attacks delivered by j
the enmy on the positions northeast
of Nancy. The French troops were
able to hold and maintain all of
their gains.
ON MACEDONIAN FRONT
PARIS.—According to reports re
ceived by the French war office
today from the Macedonian front,
the Allied advance has penetrated
four miles farther. They have also
taken four thousand prisoners, in
cluding a colonel, who was in com
mand of a section of the opposing
line.
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BELGIANS REJECT
SEPARATE PEACE
PARIS.-^The government of Bel
gium, after a consultation with rep
resentatives of the Allied powers,
has decided to refuse to enter into
a separate peace on any terms with
the Central powers and will continue
to fight with all the forces at their
command until the enemy has been
completely conquered.
All of the available Belgian troops
are now on the battle line and are
assisting the Allies in their onward
march into German territory.
Premier Clemencau, of France,
commenting on the attempt of the
Germans to offer inducements to
Belgium for the purpose of enter
ing into separate peace with them,
an dthe action ofthe Belgian govern
ment in the matter, said that the
Allies must keep on fighting until
Germany understands fully that no
compromise is possible between crime
and right.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
IS RESUMED TODAY
The break in the telegraph line
reported previously, has now been
repaired and press messages began
to arrive in Nenana a a late hour
this afternoon.
The resumption of business over
the line, howeveiy was too late to
give the Nenana News a complete
service.
Albert Lundborg, who has a large
grading contract on the Nenana
Fairbanks branch line, came into
towp on business today.
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GOES 10 BRITAIN1
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—
Solicitor General John W. Davis,!
has been appointed United States (
ambassador to the court of St. James
at London.
Ambassador Davis will sail for
England to assume his new duties
in a few days.
JACK HANSON IS
WINNER OF SET
Jack Hansen, timekeeper at Camp
15 on the D line, was the lucky
holder of Ticket No. 338, which won
the set of silver donated by Mrs.
Henry Baatz for the benefit of the
Red Cross yarn fund, and which was
raffled recently.
Jack will now probably go to
housekeeping, or he may change his
mind and make other disposition
of the set of silver.
ARIZONA INFANTRY
ON THE WATER WAGON
CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego.—
The 158th Infantry, formerly the
First Arizona Infantry, lays claim
to the right to call itself the “<jry
est” regiment in the army. The
men base this claim on the fact
that the entire commissioned person
nel of the regiment, soon after be
ing mustered into federal service,
took an oath to drink no intoxicants
until the present war is ended.
MANY SOLDIERS
REACHED FRANCE
DURING AUGUST
WASHINIGTON.—In a statement
?iven to newspapermen this morn
ing General March announced, foi
the first time, that during the month
of August the number of Americans
in France was increased by 313,00C
new soldiers from the trailing camps
in the United States. The move
ment of troops across the Atlantic
throughout the month was uninter
rupted by accidents of delays inci
dent to the operaitons of Germar
U-boats. The outward flow of man
power to strengthen the fightin*
forces of the Allied armies is mar
velously steady in its operation anc
the number of men sent across the
ocean is limited only by the trans
portation facilities available.
ENGLAND PLEASED
OVER GAINS MADE
LONDON.—Replying to a tele
gram of congratulation sent by Pre
mier Lloyd George, which said tha
the victory of the Americans on thi
St. Mihiel salient of the battle lini
had done more to bring him out o
a sick bed than any medical treat
men he had received; General Persh
ing wired that it will be the en
deavor of the American army unde:
his command to supply the premie:
with occasional doses of the sarm
kind of medicine as he needed fron
now on until final victory has beei
attained.
The steamer Shusana, under th
command of Captain Smythe, arrivei
in port last night from Chena
where she had delivered a consign
ment of railroad steel and othe
material.
She will go alongside the dock to
night and take on another load o
steel, etc., for Chena, and will prob
ably get away some time tonight.
Captain Smythe stated that th
barge of steel and other supplie
which was sunk recently when in to^
of the steamer Shusana near “Eat
em-up Frank’s place, and which wa
entirely submerged, is now almos
awash and that part of her carg
is visible above water. A furthe
fall in the water level on the Tanan
river is expected and he thinks tha
most of the freight can be salve
then.
It is not known whether salvag
operations will be undertaken befor
the freezeup.
Charles Lynn, The Tolovan mir
ing man, left for Fairbanks thi
morning on the launch Peerless. H
expects to return to his claim o
Livengood creek on the next trip c
the Carl White launch.
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MACEDONIA WILL
BE THEATER OF
BID OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON, D C—According
to information received in this city
today, after months of inactivity
except for an occasional brush with
the enemy, major operations have
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been commenced on the Macedonia
front and these, so far have been
i successful.
The object of these operations is
to cut off Turkey from the Central
powers, crush Bulgaria and free
Serbia. Rumania and the Jugo-Slav
people from Austrian rule.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In ex
plaining a little misunderstanding
regarding the working of the new
man power bill, General March, chief
of staff of the American army, de
clared to the House Military Com
. mittee this afternoon, that the war
, departmeat planned to call to he
, colors, by July first of next year,
■ an additional force of two million
seven hundred thousand men to fur
ther strengthen the American army
of liberation.
CLERICAL FORCE
S. N. Beatty, timekeeper and
storekeeper at Camp 385, has been
appointed line auditor, to succeed
I Frank T. Doner, who has been pro
moted special disbursing agent.
Harry C. Lowe, timekeeper at
Camp 400, succeeds Beatty at Camp
385. No appointment has been made
as yet to fill the vacancy caused
j, by Harry Lowe’s promotion, but it
is expected that a man will be ap
pointed in a day or two. The ap
pointments of Messrs Beatty and
Lowe go into effect on Monday,
September 23.
M. D. McCambridge, timekeeper
at Camp 373, will be relieved from
t duty to answer the call to the colors
on the 27th, he will be succeeded by
Joe Roberts, who is at present acting
^ as timekeeper at the twenty-mile
t camp on the old line.
I A. C. Ellenson, property clerk and
Mrs. Ellenson, stenographer and sec
retary to the engineer in charge,
will also relinquish their posiions
and will go Outsde on the next up
bo.und boat. No appontments have
- as yet been made 'to fill the vacan
s cies caused by their departure.
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Mrs. Katherine Sholseth has gone
into residence in the Gleason house
on Second street, between C and D.
STEEL WILL REACH
CROSSING THIS FALL
Frederick D. Browne, engineer in
charge of this division, went out on
the line on a tour of inspection yes
terday, and stated this morning that!
he was highly pleased with the prog
ress made so far and the arrange
ments made under his direction for
the continuance of the construction
work.
Mr. Browne was accompanied on
his trip by Mrs. Browne, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Ryan, Miss Lucille Diven
and Dr. More, who were interested
spectators of the different phases
of railroad construction in progress
on the D line.
Up to yesterday the steel had
reached Station No. 18725, a distance
of approximately eleven miles and in
accordance with the plans mapped
out, was moving ahead rapidly. For
the past few days on an average
j of 1400 feet of track was laid daily
on the partly completed grade, and
it is expected that the work of ex
tending the road will move ahead
much* faster when the completed
grade, which is now only a short
distance ahead of the steel, has
been reached
Mr. Browne told a News repre
senative that he considered the
amount of tracklaying and other
work being done on the D line very
satisfactory and said he was sure
that a very substantial increase in
the distance covered daily will re
sult immediately after the steel gang
reaches the grade completed under
contract.
With the grade completed in every
detail, with good material and the
I equipment and facilities now avail
able for the extension of the track,
Mr. Browne thought that a distance
of half a mile per working day
would be a fair estimate, on con
servative lines, of the distance the
men could cover.
j There only remains approximately
I ten miles of the D line to be cov
i ered by the steel before the old
grade at the through cut near Bart
lett’s old camp is reached, and at
the rate of progress that will be
made, this portion of the line will
soon be completed.
The grade on the old line has
been completed and connected up as
far as Nenana Crossing at 43 mile,
and provided the labor supply holds
out, Mr. Browne thinks that the
tracks will reach the N'enana Cross
ing at 43-mile sometime in November
and that the river will be crossed
and the rails laid well towards Lig
nite before very severe winter
weather, which will make a cessation
of the work necessary, is encount
ered.
Mr. Browne intends that the work
of tracklaying and surfacing shall
continue at least until Station No.
17433 has been reached. This sta
tion is approximately ten miles be
yond the Nenana Crossing and is
in the neighborhood of the coal
mine which R. E. Burns & Co. ex
pect to open up.
After the rails have reached Sta
tion No. 17433 the building of a
spur approximately a thousand feet
in length, from this point to the
| tipple at the mouth of the mine, will
be taken in hand and an ample sup
' ply of fuel for the use of the Com
mission will be assured.
The labor supply is the important
factor in this scheme, and it is
thought that many of the. grading
contractors who will have completed
their allotted work, will be available
for the tracklaying and surfacing
work.
Mr. Browne stated definitely that
1 he expected to reach the Burns coal
mine and have the spur in working
shape to haul coal to N'enana some
time in December, perhaps towards
the latter part of the month, much
depending on the labor available.
This means that the tracklaying and
surfacing gangs, at least will find
employment for some time to come.
A considerable force will also be
used in constructing the bridge
across the Nenana river at 43-mile.
This structure suffered considerable
damage at the last breakup, but
several of the piers were undamaged
and some of the damaged bents and
piers will be strengthened and re
paired, and new piers necessary for
the completion of the structure will
be driven.
A trip out the line as far as the
Nenana Crossing and to within easy
distance of the Lignite country is a
winter possibility, as it is thought
that a train service admitting of
such a trip, will be established.
i ISLAND OF FORMOSA
SWEPT BY TYPHOON
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j TAIHOKU, Formosa.—Fifty people
I have been killed and about 3,300
houses destroyed in a typhoon which
swept over the Japanese Island of
Formosa. The storm destroyed tele
I graph and telephone communication.
The sugar plantations were only
slightly affected.
Jake Herschy, owner of the Lucky
Strike, at the head of Palmer Can
yon on Turnagain Arm, who lost
the pay ore two years ago through
a fault, has again located it by
crosscutting, and repjrts the ledge
wider and richer than ever. H's
one-stamp mill is pounding away on
rock that is said to be plating over
$300 per ton and a r.cw mill will be
installed in the near future.
REBEL LEADER ACTIVE
IN BORDER COUNTRY
GUADALAJARA, Mexico.—After
several months of inactivity brought
j about by the vigorous campaign
! wajjed against him by government
| troops, the rebel leader in Michoa
j can, Jose Inez Chavez Garcia, again
| is attacking and pillaging small towns
and ranches in the adjoining state.
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J. L. Wilson, the Alaskan mining
! operator, against whom Mrs Ella
| Heim of Oakland, California won a
: judgment for a share in six million
dollars, mined under a grubsrake
agreement was denied a new trial
by the Superior Court at San F'-an
j cisco: Litigation over this mine has
| been pending over a period of seven
| years.
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