JUST RECEIVED
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Pajamas and Nightshirts
For Ladies and Men, in Flannel and
Cambric, to Fit Everybody.
THESE ARE CONSIDERED THE BEST MAKE.
SLIPPERS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
BATHROBES UNDERWEAR
ALL KINDS, FOR EVERYBODY
Blankets, Pillows, Sheets, Bedspreads, in
White and Colors. Towels and Toweling.
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Over-the-Ice Eggs
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| HYDER, May 7.—The revenue
cutter Algonquin, which was des
j patched from Port Townsend sev
eral days ago to quiet alleged agi
tators along Portland canal, arrived
, here today and the officers were
much surprised to find order pre
vailing and conditions generally nor
mal.
Washington had been advised that
conditions had been disturbed by
radical activities.
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We A.-e Overstocked With
BEDS. SPRINGS, MATTRESSES
Sash, Doors, Building Material of All Kinds
HARDWARE, GRANITEWARE. ETC.
Will Be Sold at
Bedrock Prices Until Further Notice
Middle Fork Roadhouse
16 Miles South of Summit
JACOBSON, DAHL & MITCHELL
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS ON TRAIL
KENNEL ROOM FOR 75 DOGS I
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A Drink I
A Card Game or |
A Came of Pool |
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THE PORTLAND!
STATIONERY CANDY
NENANA SITUATION
IS UNDER CONTROL
Much has happened in Nenana,
since The Nenana News last made
its appearance on the streets, a'
■ week ago today. A week ago the j
influenza epidemic was almost at its
height, with nearly everyone in town
ill and many patients under treat
ments from various camps along the
railroad, north and south of Ne
nana. The situation had reached
a serious stage, with an insuffi
cient number of nurses available to
[give the sick proper care and at
tention. The Government hospital, |
jthe Cooney hotel, the Southern ho-1
j tel and the three commission dormi
tories were filled to capacity with
| patients, and cases were still de
veloping at an alarming rate. On
j Thursday the situation was even
| more grave, and on Friday condi-1
itions had reached such an alarming
■stage, chiefly through lack of nurses,
; that a committee of citizens got
| into communication with Assistant
Territorial Health Officer J. A. Suth
erland, of Fairbanks, with a view
to securing aid from the upper town.
j which by that time had partially
; recovered from the epidemic. The
• result was that a special train wsa i
despatched almost immediately from
i Fairbanks with Dr. M. F. Hall,
Druggist Frank R. Clark and a
dozen volunteer nurses under the
leadership of E. B. Collins. They
•arrived in Nenana on Friday eve
ining and began immediately the
■ work of reorganizing the town’s
j shattered nursing forces.
| Dr. Hall, who looks after the
medical and surgical work of the
jAlaskan Engineering commission ini
jthe Fairbanks district, made the:
rounds of the various hospitals with
i Dr. M. E. Smith on Saturday. Drug-,
(gist Clark rendered such assistance;
jus he could at the Government hos-i
jpital, and Saturday found the Fair
banks nurses scattered over the
I town, in general charge of that end
iof the work. And it is freely ad *
jmitted by Nenanaites that their com
ing and the business-like manner in j
iwhich they took hold of things gave;
; new hope to patients, to worn-out'
j nurses and to the public generally.'
i Their arrival found the town on i
(the verge of panic.
Dr. Hall returned to the upper!
jtown by special train on Saturday
'evening:, accompanied by Druggist;
;Clark. Both had important work
j awaiting them at home, and Dr.:
Hall found, during his brief stay
here, that all that could be done in .
the way of medical attendance was .
i being done by Dr. Smith and that ,
the situation, from that angle, wasij
| well in hand.
The peak of the epidemic was.
! reached on Thursday, when there' |
were nearly 220 cases under treat-, |
. ment. Cases continued to develop
after that time, but they grew less'
|daily and the number of patients
| discharged from the various hos-|i
(pitals grew greater, until today,:
there are considerably less than 100 . j
'under treatment. ,,
■ The epidemic would have passed j,
.without serious consequences, in all-]
! probability, but for the develop-:(
Iment of a number of pneumonia',
[cases, due in large measure to the ‘.
| failure of patients to obey instruc- j
tions and to lack of an adequate
nursing organization. At no time;
since the commencement of the j
epidemic have there been sufficient!;
nurses available; very few of those;
who served and are still serving in j
that capacity had had previous ex
perience in the sickroom, and not
many were able to stay with the
|work for more than a day or two, j'
owing to illness, a fact that ren-j,
dered doubly difficult the work of |
handling the situation. Within a.;
very few days after the s-tart of the j
epidemic, the original organization )
of nurses and directors was dis- ’ i
rupted and the burdeq of responsi- i]
bility was shifted from shoulder to |;
shoulder, until finally it rested en-! ]
tirely upon Dr. Smith and General'i
Storekeeper Robert S. Donaldson,
both of whom have been tireless in
their work and ready at all times
to assume any new' responsibility
that came their way, never com
plaining; and never disheartened.
In the absence of Mr. Browne,
who left for the end of steel soon
after the influenza made its appear
ance in Nenana, Mr. Donaldson has
had general charge of the situation,
co-operating with the epidemic com
mittee so long as the members of
the committee were able to act, and
then with other citizens of the
town who stepped into the breach
and assisted until they too were
taken ill. And when there were
none left to help in directing af
fairs, he shouldered the entire work
alone, doing everything from fur
nishing nurses and supplies for the
various hospitals to preparing bodies
for burial and burying them. The
town, as well as the Alaskan En
gineering commission, is very fortu
nate that such a man as Mr. Don
aldson was available in the emer
gency.
One of the most striking changes
in the appearance of Nenana during
the past week is the number of men
on the streets. A week ago today
the streets were practically desert
ed, nearly everyone in town at that
time being either in bed or en
gaged in nursing. Today the pool
halls are filled with convalescents,
and the more venturesome, among
them spend considerable of their
time on the streets—some of them
too much for their own good.
Nearly all of them have the flu
.ough and go about for the most
part bundled in fur coats—a rare
sijght in Alaska in the middle of
May.
The restaurant situation has been
for several days and is still some
what acute, owing to the fact that
several of the eating places are
closed and help is not available for
the two that are open. Most of the
work is being done by volunteers
and convalescents. The other busi
ness places about town, which were
.dosed by the flu, are open again
md business is beginning to take
an normal proportions.
Out the Line.
Reports from out the line, to the
outh of Nenana, indicate that the
iu situation at the end of steel and
it the Kestly camp is well in hand,
rhere are 80 cases all told and
here have been no deaths thus far,
ilthough some of the patients are
eriously ill. Dr. T. O. Lake is in
•harge at the Kestly camp and Su
lerintendent of Construction Dan |
-cedi is looking after the sick at }
lealy, where a large bunkhouse has j
icon turned into an emergency hos- I
lital.
Indiana Sick.
Less encouraRinR reports come
'rom the Indian village above Ne
lana, where nearly all of the na
ives are ill and so situate<l that
t is impossible to Rive them the
are that patients in town are re- i
eivinff. Sergeant FieldinR, of th~
oral detachment of Ruards, has Ren
tal charRe of the situation there
ind is renderinR all the aid posgi
>le.
Thirty-five of the vilhiRers, who
lad miRrated to the hills before
he outbreak of the epidemic, were
'ound camped near the railroad
‘ome distance south of town several
lays aRO, all of them ill. A special
rain was sent out as soon as the
natter had been reported in town,
ind all of the sufferers were brouRht
n and taken to their cabins in the
nllaRe. Sixteen of the natives have
lied thus far, not includinR one
lative woman who died several days'
iro in one of the town hospitals.
Doctor Coming.
In response to a request wired to
Chairman Mears this week by En
gineer in Charpe Browne, Dr. E.
A. Spauldinp has been directed to
lasten to Nenana to render such
tssistance to Dr. Smith as he can
Cut the High Cost of Living,
Beautify Your Homos, and
Make Money!
By securing our NEW FLOWER AND GARDEN
SEEDS, which we have placed on display today, in
which we carry a large assortment of PRETTY
VINES and BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. Price—
2 Pkgs. for 25c
We also have in stock
MIXED LAWN GRASS AND WHITE CLOVER
SEED. Price—
$1.50 and $2 per lb.
We have ordered ONION SETS for our Custom
ers, and expect to have them on display in a few days.
Northern Commercial Co.
ALASKA’S LARGEST OUTFITTERS
in the present emergency. Dr.
Spaulding was to have left Mile 269
this morning, accompanied by his
wife, who formerly was a trained
nurse, and they will arrive here
within the next few days, by way
of the Broad Pass trail. Dr. Spaul
ding is an oldtime Fairbanksan,
having moved from the upper town
to the Iditarod country a number
of years ago, and thence to the
coast. At present he is stationed
at one of the camps north of An
chorage.
Fairbanks Volunteers.
The volunteer nurses who came j
to the assistance of Nenana from j
Fairbanks, and to whom Nenanaites •
are deeply grateful, are part of the j
very efficient nursing organization ■
which carried Fairbanks through the i
epidemic with a remarkably low rate
of mortality. They learned all that
there was to learn about the flu a
year ago, when the coast towns of
Alaska were visited by the epidemic.
And when the disease finally made
its appearance in the Interior, they
were prepared to cope with the situ
ation in a manner that reflects cred
it on the Fairbanks Red Cross, un
der the auspices of which organiza
tion the flu campaign was conducted.
The volunteers are: E. B. Collins,
R. M. Brown, F. C. Irons, George
Tree, Albert Lundborg, William Mc
Glone, John Cyre, R. Tyler, Erick
Eiehel, W. R. Christopher, James
Muir.
OVER-THE-ICE EGGS, $1.50 per
dozen, at Fowler & Morris.
GENERAL OUTFITTING
Groceries, Men’s Clothing
QUALITY GOODS
JOHNSON’S STORE Front Street
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
HEATING AND PLUMBING
STOVES OF ALL KINDS MADE TO ORDER
SHEET METAL WORK A SPECIALTY.
PAUL PALFY, Proprietor. MARKET STREET
THE NEW RAILROAD
CIGARS ANI) TOBACCOS
POOL ANI) PAN
SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME
BARBER SHOP AND BATHS
ROOMS IN CONNECTION.
BILLY THOMAS
YOU’LL FIND HIM AT
The Terminal
IF HE IS IN TOWN. SOONER OR LATER THEY ALL DROP
IN AND JOIN THE BUNCH.
POOL AND CARD TABLES
COLD DRINKS SMOKERS’ SUPPLIES
CANDIES
‘Clean, Warn, Comfortable Rooms
JOE O’CONNOR
MARTIN NASH