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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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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DEVILS TO THE LAST
German deviltry seemed to know
no bounds in the last days of the
fighting on the British front after
the Ilindcnburg line had been shat
tered, declares an Associated Press
correspondent, who was with the
Anglo-American forces when the
German tide was turned. They at
tached grenades to the bodies of
dead Huns left behind in the Ger
man retreat, so that when the
bodies were lifted the grenades ex
ploded, killing or wounding the
bearers.
Near the town of LeCateau, a
number of Australian stretcher
bearers were killed by these gren
ades in attempting to remove some
German dead from the field in front
of an American machine-gun posi
tion. Thereafter no Australian
would put a hand on a dead Ger
man. In some cases the bodies
were dragged to their burial places
by means of a long rope which al
lowed the stretcher-bearers to keep
out of range of any exploding hand
grenades.
The Americans, on the other hand
hit upon the plan of making the
German prisoners bury their own
dead. In one instance a Boche pris
oner was summarily shot because
he refused to remove the body of
one of his dead companions. An
examination of the body later led
to the discovery that it was mined.
The German was aware of the fact
and refused to touch it.
In one small town evacuated by
the Germans, many of the beds were
found to be mined. An American
officer, tired and worn by a long
and hard fighting sought rest on a
lounge in a room previously occu
pied by a German officer. The
lounge blew up and he was in
stantly killed.
Another officer picked up a pair
of field glasses left by the Germans
and was adjusting the focus when
the glasses exploded in his hands
and blew away a part of his face.
The Huns had become adept in
the nefarious business of making
infernal machines, mines and time
fuses, and there was scarcely an
area where the electrical and en
gineering experts of the Allies did
not find some new form of their
fiendish ingenuity.
RURAL TUBERCULOSIS
Doubt that tuberculosis is a “city
disease” was presented to the Amer
ican Public Health Association con
vention at Chicago last month by
Dr. Burton R. Rogers of New York.
He said the secretary of the Indiana
State Board of Health had written
him that out of a total population
of 13,000 in Crawford county, In
! diana, 2,000 had died of tubercul
osis within ten years.
“Can such a record be even par
alleled in the worsha ‘lung block’ in
the worst city in America?” asked
the speaker. “Investigation in other
states might reveal even worse con
ditions.”
Dr. Rogers explained that Craw
ford county has 304 square miles
and that the 13,000 residents are
scattered on 1,801 farms and in 21
towns and villages; the largest urban
i center containing less than 1,200
inhabitants. He added:
“It is doubtful if there is a three
story tenement in the county, and
if every house is not at least ten
feet from every other house and if
| every living and sleeping room has
not one or more outside windows
I These are certainly not city eon
l ditions."
! It is rumored, says the Douglas
| Island News, that several prominent
; citizens of Gastineau Channel are
I putting off that attack of flu until
the government boat with the doc
tors, nurses and ten cases of bonded
i whiskey arrive there.
You are unlucky now-a-days, says
1 the Alaska Pioneer (Ketchikan) if
j your are looking for a house or a va
i cant rooms in Ketchikan. There
“aint no such thing.” This would
indicate that the First City has no
closed season, and that it is a good
place to give the “once over” if you
are looking for a place to locate in
Alaska.
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LAST RESTING PLACE
OF RALEIGH DISCUSSED
LONDON. Newspapers here havt
been engaged in a controversy as tc
the location of the burial place of
Sir Walter Raleigh in connection
with the celebration of the flOOtli
anniversary of his birth. Biog
raphers of Raleigh supposed that
after his execution, the body was
buried in the chancel of St. Mar
garets. The Times, however, sug
gests that his body was placed then
for a short time only and that Sil
Raleigh really was buried at Bed
dington in Surrey, where the widow
desired that he should rest. Raleigh1!
head was embalmed and cherishec
by his v. .do'.V in a “red leatherr
bagge” to the day of her death
The nead \ as afterward interred ii
the church at West Horsley, ir
Surrey.
CHAitIPION BILL1ARDIST
OFFERS HOPPE A MATCH
CF’CAGO—August Kieckhefer
of C.iier.go, world’s three cushior
bill!. .champion, has challenger
Willie ’oppe to play a three cushior
match 'or •, ' 000 or $5,000, eithei
at Madisoi. Square Garden, New
York, or the Coliseum, Chicago.
I
Kieckhefer is willing to donate
the receipts to the Red Cross- He
also will give Hoppe three months
in which to practice.
Kieckhefer is playing at the top
, of his game, having successfully
defended his honor five times. He
recentl played two championship
matches within two weeks.
HUDSON S BAY BOAT
IS FARTHEST NORTH
I Farther north than any other
steamer line on the North American
continent lies the route traveled
regularly during the summer by the
stern wheel steamer McKenzie River,
a light draft boat which plys a
: stretch of the Arctic Ocean between
Ilerschel Island and Fort McPher
son, a Canadian outpost at the mouth
of the Mackenzie river. The boat
. belongs to the Hudson Bay company.
More than five thousand tons «f
| rolling stock for the Alaska rail
i road will be shipped to Seward from
1 Balboa during the early part of this
year. The Coastwise Shipping &
| Barge Co., of Seattle, has the eon
i tract to move the equipment.
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Ifennna, Alaska's Interior Tuel Depot
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WESTERNERS DO
HEAVY FIGHTING
WIN WAR HONORS
CAMP LEWIS.—The great West
always will feel that it had its share
in the victory of 1918, for its heart
went with the 91st division when
that organization, drawn from the
states of Washington, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Ne
vada, and the territory of Alaska,
went overseas to engage in the final
and decisive combat of the world
conflict for freedom and democracy.
When the men of the 91st, who
participated in some of the bloodiest
encounters that marked the final
collapse of Germany's military
power, come back in triumph they
will present a spectacle strikingly in
contrast to their appearance as raw j
recruits a little more than a year,
ago when they first assembled at
Camp Lewis. They were the first
of the selective draft.
Flushed though they may be w:th
the glory of achievement and the
plaudits of multiudes, the men prob-1
ably never will forget those first j
days at the great cantonment euv’y!
in October, 1917, when with the j
carpenters still at work on many of
the barracks that stretched in seem- j
ingly interminable lines, they entered j
the barren buildings that were :o I
be their homes for months during |
the period of training.
For weeks the men, who camel
from offices, shops, ranches, farms
and stores—fresh from the com- j
forts of home—went uncomplaining
through the rigorous drills and set-!
ting-up exercises wearing their civi-J
lian clothes and lacking the stimulus j
of uniform and military acoutre-1
ments. The officers, mostly from j
San Francisco Presido training camp, j
comparatively new to military life |
themselves, whipped into shape the]
hetrogeneous though sturdy material j
they found.
The 91st probably showed as dis-!
tinctly as any other organization I
in Uncle Sam's gTeat “melting pot”
army the striking social contrasts
that were meregd into the fighting!
machine. To it came millionaires
and laborers, artists and shoe shin
ers, cowpunchers and actors, mer
chants and policeman, preachers and
pugilists, lawyers and farmers, cooks
and carpenters, and many others of
diverse occupations all called from
their accustomed pursuits to fit
themselves for the great battle.
News gatherers found many a
thrill in those days in discovering
some “movie” magnate obscurely
learning how to “right about face”,
some millionaire, off in a remote
corner of the camp going through
the daily routine, his identity un
suspected by his companions, a
world champion wrestler, many for
mer champion boxers, actors, grand
opera singers, stage managers and
other entertainers were among the
men drawn from more ordinary
walks of life who helned nrnvide '
amusement for the men in the gath-|
ering arranged by the War Camp
Community secretary.
As the weeks and months passed,
however, all were welded into a solid
fighting unit, each individual grimly
intent on the business of war—the
spirt that dominated the American
army and turned the tide of the
fight to the overwhelming victory
of November, 1918.
KENTUCKY PUTS BAN
ON GOLF LINK WAGERS
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Wagers on
golf games on links in Louisville’s
public parks has been prohibited by
the Board of Park Commissioners.
It had come to the notice of the'
board that there was much gambling j
on games and strokes, and “that I
some people were making a living j
on the links.” This is said to be |
the first time in Kentucky that offi-j
eial cognizance of gambling in golf j
had been taken. t
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This world would be a happy place, j
There’d be a smile on every face;i
If we were all as good as we
Expect all other folks to be.
Great Britain and Ireland con
sume 30,000,000 rabbits as food
annually.
PLAN AUTLINEQ
FOB PEACE EDA
SAX FRANCISCO.—“Australia
will solve its industrial problems by
the adoption of a new social code
that every worthy citizen is entitled
to a minimum standard of comfort
bearing some relation to the total
wealth production of the community,
but above that minimum full play
will be given to individual enter
prise, initiative and intelligence.”
This is the conclusion of the Hon.
George Keeby, member of the Aus
tralian coalition government, and
writer and lecturer on economic
problems, who recently began here
a four months inquiry into plans for
reconstruction in the United States.
Australia, he said, has no fear of
revolutionary disorders. The only
dangerous element being a small
minority although very active. The
problem of maintaining comfortable
standards of living without pater
nalism, is being met, he said, with a
great educational movement to seek
ing to create mutual lines of respect
by which enterprise may be con
ducted.
Mr. Beeby noted that the rail
roads and other great utilities have
since the beginning been government
owned in Australia, but predicted
that the extension of government
operation to ordinary industry as
the result of the war would not
remain permanent.
“The only state in Australia which
is at present under a labor govern
ment recently attempted to reduce
the cost of meat to consumers by
starting government ranches and
butcher shops,” he said. “For some
time the supposed benefits of this,
scheme were lauded as a triumph of,
‘tate socialism, but when the propo- j
dtion was analyzed after two years
of operation it was perfectly clear
that the reduction on price was neg-,
ligible and that the enterprise was
run on unsound business lines which 1
might, particualrly during a dry 1
■spell, involve the whole state in a
heavy loss.
“The idea of state control of food ;
. I
supplies is rapidly giving way to
agitation of voluntary co-operation |
among primary producers. The pro
ducer now seeks to eliminate inter
mediate profits and is trying to
get nearer the consumer, looking to
co-operation as against state assist
ance as his media.”
The same applies to manufactur
ing industries, Mr. Beeby said.
“Efforts are being made”, he
continued, “to provide definite and
permant lines of communication be
tween the employer and the work
man. Schemes for the creation of
industrial councils, shop committees
and boards of conciliation, mutual
proposals for better shop conditions
and creating a healthier social life
are receiving unusual prominence.
“Out of it all I believe Australia
vi 11 cieveiup vii
iffect rather than that of state
iocialism, but this will be achieved
>y definite co-operation between
smployers and their workmen.
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g GROCERS
The second of the two locomotives
received last summer, the setting; up
of which was commenced some time
ago, has been finished in every de-1
tail and is now ready to go into
commission, this is known as loco
motive No. 239.
The big locomotive was subject
to a test by hydraulic pressure and
was found to be tight in every way
She was removed from the machine
shop this morning and is now in the
enginehouse ready to go out on the ^
line if need be. j
The switch engine, No. 5„ which:
had also been sent to the machine j
shop for repairs, has been fixed up1
and is ready to resume duties at1
any time. This engine was also
sent to the enginehouse this morning.
Engine No. 270, now doing duty I
on the line, will be brought into the;
machine shop to be thoroughly over
hauled and her place on the line!
will probably be taken by the new
engine, No. 239.
PROMINENT JAP PASSES
TOKIO.—Buei Nakana, president
of the city council of Tokio, who
with Baron Shibusawa headed the
Japanese mission to the United
States in 1909, is dead. He was for
a long time president of the Tokio
Chamber of Commerce and a leading
figure in the Japanese business
world. The mission with which he
went to the United'States nine years
ago was received in many American
cities and proved an important step
in promoting business relations be
tween Japan and the United States.
The public schools of Ketchikan j
were closed 27 days on account of |
the “flu”. The hours have been:
lengthened in order to give the1
pupils a chance to catch up with
their work.
Ifnana, Intarlor Pu«l P«pot
WANT ADS
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
LOS1—A Grey Husky Dog, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Coghill’s store.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY^Nonh
Star—-Mike’s Place. For rent,
ready for business—on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc-j
Donald
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Gentlemen’s Suits cleaned and
pressed, Fur Coats lined and reno
vated; Ladies’s Suits and Dresses
renovated at the Tailor Shop on
Upper A street, near Third.
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