THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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.
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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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NEW SEWARD REFORMER
Seward, where most of the op
position encountered by the Alaskan
Engineering Commission has origin
ated, has produced a new obstruc
tionist in the person of Thomac
B. Drayton, who is now engaged
in the attempt to form an associa
tion “the chief purpose of which
is to promote the building of the
proposed government railroad from
Seward to Fairbanks”—by taking
the work out of the hands of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
The Drayton organization—The
Alaska Association, as its founder
styles it—will seek the removal of
Chairman Edes and the men actu
ally in charge under his alleged
direction “for the reasons that
these men are incompetent to build
the road, and are also unwilling
to complete it so long as public
monies are available for salaries,
expense accounts and other charges
in which they are interested.” The
preliminary work, as pointed out
in the prospectus, will be two-fold
—to houseclean and simultaneously
effect an immediate prosecution of
the railroad project.
It is not the intention of the
association to “assail a band of
daring looters, a combination of
bold grafters, but mearly to effect
the quiet dismissal of a collection
of unfortunate men whose incapac
ity has brought misfortune upon
us and jeopardized our interests.”
The prospectus, which appeared
mysteriously among the residents
of the coast country recently, con
tains a strong appeal for member
ship. “We want your membership,”
the typewritten letter reads, “active
or passive—and all that you are
able to contribute of brains, in
fluence and experience; and we will
also want a dollar of your money
now and then.”
The sole object of the Seward
agitator, we are inclined to suspect,
is to destroy an organization which
has been developed to a high degree
of efficiency, to tear down a smooth
ly working machine upon which the
government has expended much
time and money, and offering noth
ing in its place—not even a con
struction suggestion. The proposi
tion is absurd, the freak scheme
of a man who has missed too many
boats. It may reflect the sentiment
of a certain Seward elmer.t, but
■outside of Seward it will be rated
at its real worth. Alaskans are
tired of that sort of propoganda,
of which there has been altogether
too much for the good of the terri
tory. It disturbs conditions locally,
creates doubt at Washington and
discourages emigration to Alaska.
It keeps Northerners constantly on
the defensive, preventing aggressive
developoment and hampering those
engaged in public work.
The N'ews gives publicity to the
Drayton propoganda in order that
Interior Alaskans may know of this
latest move to interfere with the
government railroad enterprise, and
in order that Outside readers of
the News may know' that Dray
ton’s Alaska Association, of Seward,
the John E. Ballaine propoganda,
also of Seward, the Wickersham at
tack on Secretary Lane, and other
similar efforts w'hich have been
given wide publicity in the States
lately, do not reflect the views of
Alaskans honestly interested in
Alaska development.
All of the road work now in
progress under the direction of the
Alaska Road Commission must be
paid for out of funds left over
from last year’s appropriation and
for that reason is restricted to such
work as is absolutely necessary.
The failure of the Sixty-fifth Con
gress to pass the army appropria
tion bill is responsible for the em
barrasing position in which the fed
eral commission finds itself and will
prevent the starting of any new
work until such time as the present
CongTess provides additional funds.
Anchorage boasts of enjoying
better weather than prevails in any
: section of Alaska—which proves
that the editor of the coast paper
knows little of climatic conditions
I in the Tanana valley. The Interior
: excels in amount of sunshine, the
i snowfall is not excessive, destructive
| winds are unknown and summer
rains come in moderation, sufficient
for the needs of the country, but
seldom over-abundant. Anchorage
may head the list of coast districts,
.but Tanana valley holds the record
; for the territory.
BIG (M RESERVE
ANCHORAGE. — Sufficient coal
reserve deposits have been blocked
out at the mine operated by the
Alaskan Engineering Commission at
Eska, 58 miles northeast of here,
to insure the commission an ade
quate fuel supply for several years,
; Sumner S. Smith, in charge of the
commission’s coal department, re
ports. The output, he says, is suf
ficient to afford not only an ample
supply of fuel for construction and
operation of the government rail
i road, but also a surplus large
enough to protect against inter
rupted traffic and mine accidents.
Six different beds of coal of vary
ing thickness are under exploration
i at Eska. The room and pillar
method of mining has been adopted
as most suitable to conditions en
■ countered.
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MISS LILLIAN HILL IS
IN TEXAS OIL FIELDS
Miss Lillian Hill, formerly of
| Fairbanks, is now located at Ran
ger, Texas, in the heart of the re
cently discovered oil fields. In a
newsy letter to a friend in Fair
banks, Miss Hill says that the town
j is crowded with people and that
1 everyone has money.
Rents in Ranger, she says, are
jvery high. Room rent is as much
as $40 a month, and hotels charge
$4 a night for a room, while ice
water is selling at five cents a
! glass.
Work has started, she says, on
: a new railroad to connect Ranger
with the main line, and a new
depot is also being built.
Miss Hill, who has a position
with the First National bank there,
' says the place is a regular frontier
: town with all the attributes of such
towns, and in her opinion, Fairbanks
and Dawson in the early days were
: not on a par with Ranger, as she
i finds it.
UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION
IN ENGLAND IS SERIOUS
—
MANCHESTER, Eng. — Unern
ployment in Lancanshire continues
to increase and the outlook in the
cotton manufacturing districts is
regarded as grave. At Preston there
are now more than 11,000 persons
drawing the government out-of
: work donation, and about half of
i them are in the cotton trade.
Large numbers of miners, includ
ing many demobilized soldiers, are
out of work.
Despite a considerable demand
for domestic servants, women de
cline to accept such empoyment be
cause they consider the work too
trying. The domestic servant, they
further say, is not treated with
■ the respect to which she is en
I titled.
ASSEMBLE AT
ENGLISH CAMP
WIXHESTER, Eng.—Mora Hill,
one of the huge military reserva
tions on the heights- overlooking
this picturesque old city, is again
an American camp. During the
war it was the principal assembly
ground in England for American
legions on the way to the war.
Now it is the clearing station«,for
thousands of battle-wrorn Americans
who are on their way home. They
are the men who fought with the
British forces.
All the far-flung armies of -the
empire are contributing to this
assemblage. The Americans are
coming chiefly from France and
the occoupation forces in Germany,
but large numbers are making long
er journeys. Some have served in
Palestine, some in Egypt, some- in
South Africa and others in India.
Many are still in the East and
others are with the British forces
in various parts of Russia. It is
reckoned that it will be sixw or
eight months before all can be
brought to England.
Meantime, as fast as the Ameri
cans arrive in this country they
are sent to Winchester and put
through the process of demobiliza
tion and repatriation. Other camps
here are being used to comb out
Colonials who served with the Eng
lish instead of with their own
armies.
The majority of the Americans
who joined the British forces en
listed in Canada. Most of these
are to be sent back, not to the!
point of enlistment, but to their ;
homes in the States, a stipulation
that was generally insisted upon
by Ameriacns when they volunteered
their services.
Repatriation machinery turns
slowly and there are often con
siderable delays, as it frequently j
happens that a soldier arrives at j
the camp weeks before his papers
filter through the devious chan
nels in which they move. It is only
by his papers that a man’s identity
can be officially established. Great
care is exercised in this matter ]
for, in the British army, there
have been instances of soldiers ex
changing names and identification
disks.
ii an American serving with a
British regiment wished to remain
in England and a British comrade
wanted to go to America, it w-ould
be easy enough, it was pointed out
to the correspondent, for them to
swap names and disks, and if the
real Tommy was well coached and
did not drop too many of his “h’s”,
the scheme might succeed.
After repatriation, the Ameri
can; are sent home as soon as trans
ports can be provided at South
ampton, which is only a dozen
miles away. Special sailings are
arranged for the soldiers who are
taking wives back with them.
One husky Michigan lad now at
the camp missed his chance to get
away with the last shipload of un
married men by making a sudden
entry into the matrimonial state.
A day or two before his transport
was to sail he was spending the
afternoon with an American girl
he had met in Winchester. She
was from Patterson, N. J., and ho
called her “Jersey.”
“Well, this is good-bye,” he said
as he was about to return to camp
Thinking of home dimmed the
girl’s eyes. “Gee, I wish I was
going too,” she exclaimed.
“You mean that, Kid,” said the
big Middle Westerner.
“I sure do,” she replied.
Touched by her tears, he made
a quick decision. “All right, come
along with me," he said, seizing
her arm. He knew where a special
license could be obtained, and u
few hours later they were man and
wife.
In telling the correspondent of
his romance ,the soldier remarked:
“I wouldn’t leave a dog on this
side of that good old Statue of
Liberty.” He meant no disrespect
to his bride.
A special canteen for these home
ward bound soldiers has been es
tablished at Morn Hill by th§
American Red Cross.
A year ago Wilhelm announced
that there would “be no soft peace,”
and the more he thinks about it
the more firmly convinced he be
comes that he was a real prophet —
Chicago Tribune. ,
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IN THE BALKANS
ARE DECORATED
XISH. Serbia.—Fourteen Ameri
can women doctors are now in the
Balkans, assisting the American Red
Cross in its work of caring for the
sick and destitute. These doctors
are from the American Women’s
hospital in New York and are lo
cated in Serbia, Montenegro, and
Albania. Six are in Serbia, where
the destitution and sickness are
greatest. Some of the fourteen
have received decorations or have
been cited for conspicuous service
among the soldiers and refugees.
They are: Dr. Marjorie Burnham,
Ashtabula, Ohio; Dr. Mary H. El
liot, New York; Dr. Harriet M.
Gervais, Dorchester, Mass.; Dr. Al
berta M. Greene, Judith Bay, Mont.;
Dr. Lulu Peters, New York; Dr.
Marion C. Stevens, Reading, Mass.;
Dr. Regina Flood Keyes, Buffalo;
Dr. Flood, Elmira, N. Y.; Dr. Cath
erine M. Cook, Washington, Pa.
Dr. Catherine M. Cook of Wash
ington, Pa., and Dr. Dora E. Bow
man of Kansas City, Mo., are as
sisting the American Red Cross
doctors in Montenegro; Dr. Nell G.
. Bartram of Huntington, Pa.;
Dr. Mary J. Hyndman of Philadel
phia, and Dr. Sarah E. Foulks of
Burlington, N. J., are doing similar
work in Albania.
At the first call for help from
Greece. Dr. Keyes came to Yodena,
near the Greek-Serbian frontier,
where she set up a hospital. She
was given a handful of medical
supplies intended for Syria. The
ship which was to supply her hos
pital never reached Greece. It fell
a victim to a German submarine.
With the crippled condition of
transport through Serbia, it was
impossible for the American Red
Cross to get her the necessary
equipment. She had no operating
table, no sterilizers, no beds, no
stoves, nothing except her small kif
of surgical instruments and a few
pounds of medicines. A carpenter
built an operating table of old dry
goods cases. Dr. Keyes borrowed
some iron beds from an abandoned
military hospital. Old gasoline cans
were made into stoves, stove-pipes,
dishes, kettles, sterilizers and every
thing needed to aid in an emer
gency.
With the nondescript furnishings
and with the aid of Dr. Mabel
Flood of Elmira. N. Y., and two
American nurses. Dr. Keyes opened
the first American hospital in
Northern Greece.
When the French and Serbians
began their memorable attack on
the Bulgarians, which culminated
in the collapse of Bulgaria, Dr.
Keyes was asked by the French
army authorities to accompany their
troops as regimental surgeon. The
plucky American physician served
throughout the attack, treating
hundreds of wounded officers and
soldiers. Her work drew forth the
warmest expressions of praise and
thanks from the French and Serbi
an commands. Dr. Keyes is now
stationed at Monastir, Serbia, and
is lending effective aid to the Am
erican Red Cross in caring for the
sick and wounded soldiers who are
returning to their homes from Aus
tria and Germany.
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