THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1. 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entrv as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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THE CANADIAN PLAN
Preliminary measures have been
-aken by the Dominion Repatriation
committee for carrying out the
broad plan of assisting returned
soldiers and their dependents, which
may involve a government expendi
ture cf $100,000,000.
Loans totaling more than $1,500,
000 have already been granted a
thousand or more returned soldiers,
while 800 others have made en
tries on government land under the
soldier settlement act, Ottawa has
officially announced.
The government's program as pre
pared thus far would allow a re
turned soldier a free grant of a
quarter section, on homeatead con
ditions, in addition to his ordinary
hornestead right. This privilege is
extended under the soldier settle
ment act. The government has sus
pended entry by others than sol
diers on all remaining homestead
lands in the western provinces with
in fifteen miles of railway trans
portation.
A soldier is eligible to a maxi
mum loan of $2,500 for purchase
of livestock, erection of buildings
end other improvements when he
goes on the land. The loan, which
must be repaid in twenty annual
installments, is given in the form
of refunds for expenditures. In
terest of five per cent is charged.
An additional $1000 may be ad
vanced as the land is improved.
The government is co-operating
with the Soldier Settlement Board
to acquire suitable lands now held
uncultivated by private owners.
Government officials say that at the
coming session of parliament legis
lation will be sought for obtaining
great tracts of such land to be re
sold to soldiers at cost.
Plans for other reconstruction
work are going forward rapidly.
Officials at Ottawa have informed
mayors of leading cities in Mani
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta that
the government is ready to give
each province $1,000,000 for road
work provided the provinces make
this appropriation the minor por
tion of a good roads fund. The
government will not pay more than
forty per cent of the highway ex
penditures in any province.
FOOLISH PROCEEDURE
If news dispatches are correct in
stating that John E. Bai’.aine, the
townsite promoter at Seward, is in
Washington vigorously opposing the
work of the Alaskan Engineering
commission and the appropriation
for completing the railway it ap
pears a most senseless and foolish
proceeding says t,he Valdez Miner
While Seward has not benefited as
much from the building of the rail
way as other towns to the westward,
the fact still remains that it must
he the ultimate benefactor, as '.1!
traffic during the winter months
must pass directily through the city.
Mr. Ballaine’s opposition to the
Commission from persona! motives
bids fair to do much damage to
Seward unless he can be restrained.
The Commission has performed
wonderful work and should be
praised instead of censured. The
money spent is in the nature of
a gift from the gods and if the
appropriation is killed or the work
goes into the hands of private
parties irreparable damage will be
done. Every inducement should be
offered to capital coming: to Alaska
j whether it be government capita
or private capital. We hope that
Mr. Ballaine has been misquoted.
DEDEAGATCH. Bulgaria. — The
extreme difficulty of transport thru
Serbia, and the ruinious condition of
the country's railways as a result
tif wanton destruction wrought by
Bulgarians and Austrians in their
forced retreat, is strikingly shown
by the fact that the American Red
Cross, in order to get relief supplies
to the Nish section, has had to route
its shipments by rail east from
Saloniki to Dedeagatch. then north
to Adrianople. then west to Sofia
and finally across the Bulgarian
border to Pirot. a total distance of
more that eight hundred miles.
The regular railroad route north
from Saloniki to Nish is only about
275 miles and can be traveled in
ordinary circumstances in twenty
four hours. Red Cross ‘ supplies
have taken ten days to reach their
estimation.
From Uskub to Belgrade, nearly
three hundred miles, the railroad
at points is wholly destroyed and
dozens of bridges and tunnels are
in ruins. It is estimated that the
work of reconstruction will require
more than a year.
Two hundred and nineteen three
ton motor trucks, on a recent trip
to Nish arrived with only thirty tons
of supplies.
The Allied military authorities
have ceased trying to reach nor
thern Serbia from Saloniki and the
south, and are sending people and
supplies by ship to Fiume, on the
Adriatic. The food and clothing
situation in Northern Serbia is very
acute. Ordinary peasants' working
dress is said to cost twelve hundred
francs and a cake of soap thirty
francs. The American Red Cross
is sending large quantities of food
clothing and medical supplies soutfr
through Fiume.
Don't forget to cast your vot;
at the school elections tomorrow
It is every important that you do
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SERBIAN PRIES!
RELATES HORROR
Of BULGAR WAR
PIROT. Serbia. — Confirmatory
evidence of the slaughter of Ser
bian priests by Bulgarians during
the war, was given to a representa
tive of the Associated Press recently
by the Rev. Miliya Yontschitch,
pastor of one of the churches here
who personally witnessed the mas
sacre of twenty of his colleagues
and one Serbian officer. All, he
says, were shot and many were
burned alive.
Father \ ontschitch escaped a simi
lar fate only by feigning death
after he had been shot. He ex
hibited to the Associated Press cor
respondent two bullet wounds in his
left shoulder. Another priest, the
Rev. Thomas Popoviteh, of Pirot,
escaped by fleeing across the moun
tain road.
The murder of the priests took
place November 25, 1915, in the
village of Kremaencia. about thirty
five miles east of Nish, according
tothe story of Father Yonschitch.
which follows:
Father Yontschitch in company
with twenty-two other Serbian
priests was taken by Bulgarians
from Pirot to Nish where thev were
thrown into a cell and forced to
live for five days without food
or water. After his release he and
his companions, who included Tasa
Gorgevitch. of the Serbian army,
were marched by their captors for
thirteen hours to Bela Palanka,
thirty miles east of Nish, an armed
guard walking behind each.
About two hours walk from Bela
Palanka, the priests came to a halt
and ware ordered to turn off the
road into a very small valley to the
right. It was after midnight and
half a moon gave the only illumina
tion to the lonely mountain roads
and valleys. The priests had not
gone far when the guards shot them
in their backs.
Father Yontschitch dragged him
self in the darkness behind a large
rock whence he could see the whole
scene of murder being enacted by
the Bulgars.
He saw his colleagues dragged,
some dead, some half alive, to
pyres which had been prepared for
them, and their bodies thrown to
'he flames.
many oi tne men. said Father
'• ontschitch, were still alive when
the Bulgars saturated their bodies
with gasoline and set them afire.'
Flames spread about them and they,
pleaded piteously for mercy but
their pleas were met with sneers,
.ifter the flames had spent them
selves, said Father Yontschitch, the
charred bodies of twenty-one vic
tims were thrown into two holes.
Arms, legs, heads, he said, were
left protruding, exposed to the rav
ages of dogs and wolves that invest
Ihe mountains in the neighborhood
The Bulgars left the scene be
fore daybreak. Father Yontschitch
made his way on foot to the village
of Ponor, and eventualy to Pirot,
h s home. From that time, twenty
one months he concealed himself
from the Bulgars under the floor of
the house. He lived almost like a
rat, food being lowered to him thru
a hole in the floor. The Associated
Press correspondent visited this
p ace and saw the wretched con
demns under which Yontschitch
lived. When the priest emerged
from his self-imposed confinement,
his appearance had so changed that
his friends failed to recognize him.
He was later seized by the Bulgars
and sent to a prison camp at Eski
Hjuma near the Rumanian frontier,
where for three months his only
food was a slice of bread and a
few pieces of leek each day. When
the war ceased. Father Yontschitch
and 150 other Serbian priests were
returned home.
To confirm the priest’s story, the
correspondent visited the spot where
the victims of the massacre were
b iried. The place is obscured on
all sides by mountains. Many bones,
skulls, and parts of the priests’
vestments being scattered about in
confusion. The correspondent found
near the bones a number of emtpy
cartridges of Bulgarian manufac
ture. Little candles had been placed
ir, the ground by local peasants
who came each day to say prayers
over the graves after the Bulgarian
evacuation.
An international investigating
commission is expected soon to ex
amine the scene.
The Petersburg Packing company
has purchased the Puget Sound
passenger packet Virginia II from
the West Pass Transportation com
pany for $10,000. The Virginia
was built six years ago. The boat
is powered with gasoline engines
and is 77 feet 1 inch long and 15
feet 5 inches wide, with a depth
of 6 feet 4 inches. It will be con
verted into a fish carrier to be used
in conjunction with their cannerv
at Petersburg.
School elections tomorrow. Poll
ing place at the fire hall. Time
from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m.
Prospectors and Contractors!
Now is the t'me to have that tar
paulin, tent or bag made for the
seasons outfit. Bed and hat nets
i -e now re-J-- -» small --st at
MRS. DORSAY'S TAILOR SHOP,
Third and A Streets.
Board of School Directors
Nenana Public School
Xenana March 1, 1919
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
Complying with the laws of Alas
ka. notice is hereby given that the
regular annual election will be held
n the town of Xenana.
Tuesday, April 1st, 1919.
F"or the purpose of electing one
!chool director, to serve one year,
■° Cill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mrs. Jeannette Ellen
;on. and two directors to serve two
.rears to fill the vacancies caused
3y the expiration of terms of Mrs.
E. L. Sweeney and Mr. George
tV. Pennington.
The names of candidates must be
n the hands of the Clerk of the
school Board not later than March
12, 1919.
The polling place will be located
n the fire hall, adjoining the town
dte office. Polls will be open from
3 a. m. until 7 p. m. on the day
»nd date of election.
J. H. SCOTT
Clerk of School Board.
^ nproved:
MRS. E. L. SWEEXEY,
President.
Department of the interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
. Passengers leaving on the train
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
Budding, 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 tif
A street on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays, at 7 a. m.
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