THE NENANA NEWS
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NENANA, ALASKA SAT., NOV. 3, 1917
HELP YOURSELF
Finally the inevitable is coming
to pass. The coal resources of
Alaska are attracting the attention
of coal regions in other parts of our
country. Note what the Adver
tiser, a newspaper printed at Hunt
ington, W. Va., says:
“With the object of quiet- ,ing
the industrial development of Alas
ka, that is expected to follow the
building of the goverpment railway
there, Uncle Sam’s bureau of mines
has recently made a number of tests
to ascertain the quality of the min
eral resources there with encourag
ing results. A quantity of lignite
a type of lov.'-grade coai that does
not stand transportation because of
its tendency to dry up and blow
away, was shipped in water-tight
sacks to the bureau from the Ne
nana field with the purpose of find
ing out whether it could be manu
factured into briquettes and made
available for shipment.
‘ According to a report made to
Van H. Manning, director of the
bureau of mines, this lignite was not
only briquetted successfully, but it
was found to contain in this form
nearly double the heating and steam
ing value of the original lignite.”
Here is a wonderful and large
field for development by the Ne
nana Commercial club and the peo
ple of the town of Nenana. Let
them start something now along this
line. There should be one or more
concerns making and handling this
coal, by and under the above method
during the year 1918. Let us be
come aroused and alive to our own
interests. Start today, not like
the Spaniards, “manana” and this
will prepare the way and be a base,
as it were, for other industries, such
as an iron foundry, machine and
boiler shops, cement chimneys, tiling
and building brick and paper pulp.
The raw material is, so to speak,
at Nenana’s back door. Let us
make use of the manifold blessings
that nature has so lavishly given us.
These will attract other manufact
ures in different trade and com
merce lines and all mean for Ne
nana an ever widening and growing
dinner-bucket brigade, without which
there never has and never will be
town or surrounding country de
velopment.
Start talking, writing, correspond
ing and advertising generally con
cerning the above subjects and the
unexcelled present and future busi
ness and material opportunities that
Nenana and the adjacent district is
able to present Inform Outsiders
who and where we are and what we
honestly believe our district capable
of producing. Let us not delude
ourselves that the railroad, and that
alone will make Nenana. Admit
that it can and will work wonders
toward great and gratifying develop
ment, still a cold fact looks us in
the face and whispers, “unless you
bestir and arouse from any possible
lethargic sleep into which you may
have fallen, this outside help will
avail little.” Let virility show is
self in our every word and action on
behalf of Nenana and surrounding
territory Be optimistic. Wherev
er you are, talk, write, eat and sleep
Nenana and her tributary great min
ing districts—Broad Pass, Lignite
creek, Bonnifield, Kantishna—togeth
er with the thousands of acres of
farming lands. And don't overlook
the fact that Nenana is the gateway
for the oncoming great tourist travel
to and from that wonderland of the
North American continent, Mount
McKinley National park, and that
Nenana is pr;..ties y the head of
navigatic , where rail and the great
Pacific ocean ua’Th meet.
AN END TO P.OEBERY
Something iik two weeks ago the
-farmers of Matanuska valley desired
t. hip to the Seattle market fifteen
0, more tons of turnips, rutabaga
and petrowskis, the latter being a
Poland turnip. The farmers’ asso
C-; tio-1 sought for rates from both
steamship companies. The Alaska
Steamship company and the Admiral
line quoted a rate of something mort
than $30 per ton from Anchorage
to Seattle. Of course this rate did
not include haulage from Matanuska
i to Anchorage, a distance of 36.5
i miles, nor did it include any wharf
j age charge. The rate was prohib
I itive. In despair, the farmers appeal
| ed to t^e Engineering commission
j with the result that arrangements
! were at once made whereby the gov
! ornmcnt transport Crook was placed
| at the service of the farmers and a
! rate of §7 per ton quoted, from
! farm to market, including wharfage
| charges. At this rate the turnips
■ could compete in the markets of the
I States. Reports state that the
' steamship companies submitted to
the arrangement gracefully. And
I why not? Compare these rates,
j One over $30 a ton and the other
; $7 a ton. On the one hand, the
privately owned steamships have for
i the past twenty years, robbed the
: people of Alaska of everything but
■ their names. It was a sorry day
1 for them, this Matanuska incident.
It sounds the knell of all future ex
tortionate, excessive and unreason
able rate charges on the coast of
Alaska. The coast people will never
let go of that $7 rate, including the
I rail haul and wharfage. The steam
' er Crook belongs to the people, like
’ wise the railroad and wharf. And
1 the people of the whole of the Unit
ed States and the government are
hoping and praying for the full de
velopment of Alaska in all lines of
• endeavor. Think you it can be done
with such extortionate rates?
Splendid and law-abiding, as the
Alaskans are, they have stood for
this peon system,- hoping for the
dawn of justice. They have paid
for fare and freight more than one
half of all the gold taken out of the
hills and valleys of Alaska. But
the hour has struck and with the
help of that great friend of the
Northland, President Wilson, we can
see approaching a mighty change
in this rate matter, and all in the
interest of the people—the men and
women who are developing Alaska.
OIL IN ALASKA
Falcon Joslin, Pioneer Alaskan
railroader and well known to all old
timers of the North, has been in the
Katalla district for some time look
ing after his numerous oil interests
there. He is reported as saying:
that the oil industry in Alaska is in
a very unsatisfactory condition, on
account of the inability to secure
title to the oil lands, thus prevent
ing capital from entering the fields
and developing the industry.
Mr. Joslin has just completed the
sinking of his ninth oil well and is
even now drillng another one. He
is quoted as saying that he is un
able to supply the demand for his
refined product and could sell ten
times as much as he produces, if he
could get the oil. He cites the
fact of several fish canneries being
handicapped during the past season
on account of oil shortage, and next
year conditions will be even worse.
He has a small refinery at Katalla
that is being operated in connection
with the oil wells now producing,
and which is worked to capacity.
The oil is of a very high grade and
when refined seventy per cent of it
passes into gasoline and distillate.
Moreover, the heavier oils and lub
ricants from the crude product are
all wasted for the reason ‘that it will
not pay to erect a plant to save
them, until the time when there is
a larger production of crude oil.
CLUB MEETING
There will an importan t meeting
of the Nenana Commercial club at
the office of Commissioner Robert E.
Burns on Sunday afternoon, at 3
o’clock and a full attendance of the
members of t]|e organization is de
sired.
AHLBURG SELLS OUT
Frank Ahlburg, proprietor of the
Tanana Bottling works, of Fairbanks
has disposed of the business to the
Barthel Brewing company and has
left for the Outside.
ELSEWHERE IN ALASKA
“This talk of inefficiency on the
part of those constructing the gov
ernment railroad, is all bosh" de
clared Red Cross Organizer Robert
, Scott recently to a representative
of the Juneau Empire. “I visited
with those fellows.” he continued,
“and carefully inspected the work
which is being done and found that
they are doing all in their power to
build a railroad that will be a cred
it to the government. That sec
tion of the country has wonderful
! possibilities which will be developed
as soon as the railroad is complet
ed. and then a large population will
undoubtedly will settle there."
Nine new co-operative weather bu
reau stations were created by M. B.
Summers, meteorologist of the weath
er bureau division of the depart
ment of agriculture during his recent
visit of four and a half months in
the territory, during which time he
visited all sections of the North.
If machinery can be secured for
1918 there is every indication that
at least three pulp and paper mills
will be under construction in the
Tongass forest reserve. The mills
will represent an investment 'f
three million dollars or more, and
two of them may be located on
astinau channel, where the Treadwell
and Alaska Gastir.au companies
have a surplus of power.
A Mexican who was fined $10 for
drunkenness at Juneau last June and
who skipped out of town after hav
ing been released on a promise to
raise the money to pay his fine, re
cently walked into the office of the
city clerk, after an absence of sever
al months, and paid his debt to the
city. He announced that he ])ad
left town to secure work in a can
nery.
J. H. Russell, who is interested
in a grading contract out the line
south of Nenana, has been in town
several days on business. He ex
pects to make a trip to -Fairbanks
in the near future, his contract being
nearly completed.
The women of Fairbanks are try
ing to raise the sum of $600 for the
endowment of a bed in the Ameri
can hospital at Neuily, F'rance.
Panl J. Rickert, pioneer Fair
banks farmer, is enroute to the Out
side. During his absence he will
visit the national capital to advocate
certain changes in the land laws, ap
plicable to homesteading in Alaska.
• Amsterdam—Count von Hertling
has informed King Ludwig, of Bavar
ia, that it is his intention to accept
the chancellorship of the empire,
offered to him several days ago by
the kaiser.
< Alaska parties are now seeking
capital to develop the pulp industry
; at Sitka and Warm Springs bay,
where there is ample water power.
Spiel river also may be the location
of a paper mill, if the desired cap
ita! is forthcoming.
Robert Scott, organizer for the
American Red Cross, who has been
securing memberships over on the
coast of Alaska, expresses himself
as being well pleased with the way
in which Northerners are taking
hold of the work.
The Juneau chapter of the Red
Cross, assisted by the Thane branch,
recently shipped eight boxes of sup
plies to headquarters for distribu
tion through the fegular channels.
—
The War Eagle mine, on the Kus
kulana river, owned by the Chitina
Kuskulana Copper company, is being
developed by driving two tunnels,
! one on the west end of the War
Eagle, and one on the east end of
, the Calcite claim. A force of 45
men is employed on the work.
Jack Baird, former resident of the
Fairbanks district and later in busi
ness at Iditarod, is now in the coast
section of Alaska, where he is con
sidering a fish canning proposition.
, Returns from 37 registration dis
tricts in Southeastern Alaska, out
side of incorporated towns, show that
: 1,248 persons were registered under
the conscription act.
Captain A. E. Wadhams, w]|0 for
many years war general manager of
the Kasaan cannery of the German
interests, has completed arrange
ments for the construction of a can
nery for the Linderberger interests
i in Tenakee inlet, where the Robert
son cannery is now located.
Jack Cronin, erstwhile chef at
Brooker’s cafe, has left on an ex
tended hunting trip to the sheep
hills.
Berlin—Herr von Waldo, food ad
ministrator of Germany, is reported
1 to have resigned.
___
Seattle—Silver is quoted at 88%
on the market today
Paul Borak and Billy Himes, who
'came down from Fairbanks last
} week, left for Middle river on Thurs
; day to spend the winter prospecting.
Miss Liverson has been confined
1 to her room during the past couple
of days by a slight attack of illness.
Dutch Blankfield underwent an op
eration at the Commission hospital
this week and reports indicate that
he is mending rapidly.
EPISCOPAL MISSION SCHOOL
By John C. Murphy
For some time, we had in mind,
a visit to the St. Marks Mission
school, situated about one-half mile
from the town of Nenana. Our first
call was on the Superintendent of
the Mission proper, Miss Alice
Wrigj|t, who appeared to me as one
whose soul and mind were wrapped
in her great work and responsibil
ities. The Mission and school has
been established for the education
and upbringing of the native child
ren, under the support and direction
of the Episcopal church.
It is primarily a boarding mission
school, but native day pupils are ac
cepted. Acceptance age, range
from 7 to 16 years of both sexes,
and they gather in, from hundreds
of miles of surrounding country.
All the common school branches are
taught, as well as, usefulness in
several lines of domestic work, all
of which in the end, must spell for
good American citizenship. The
scholastic year begins in September
and continues until the latter part
of May.
; I next visited the school proper,
which was in session. Here I had
the pleasure of meeting the Prin
cipal, Miss Irna Dayton, to whom
I made known my purpose in calling,
and then spent several pleasurable
and interesting hours. Once or
twice, I caught myself in a remini
scent mood. I was back again, as
a teacher, in Iowa school rooms, with
great responsibilities resting upon
me, as very similar ones, rest upon
this good teacher and other born
and real teachers throughout our
land I gave marked attention to the
various class readings,- enunciations
and pronunciations,. The public
school branches are all taught, as
well as, to say it in a homely way,
what is necessary and will make, a
/rood man and woman for life’s
work. It was a pleasurable sur
prise, to note responses of pupils,
to the Principal’s questions. Class
readings were very good. To note,
generally, the personal appearance
of pupils in dress and otherwise and
their excellent manners anil behav
ior. The discipline impressed me.
Not harsh, rasping, nagging or loud,
but low-voic"'’ atient and firm
combined with a mother!-- kindness.
Such traits have and ever will,
characterize the real, true and suc
cessful teacher, whether found in
the kindergarten or the university.
The boarding school enrollment at
present consists of 2G pupils, 13
boys and 13 girls. Of course the
village day pupils increases this en
rollment. i’Jie school, as now con
ducted, would be an honor and
credit to any community. Miss
Dayton appealed to mo, as thoroughly
panoplied. She has a valued ex
perience as teacher, from the pri
mary up and including the eighth
grade, in the public schools of Chi
cago. Her Alma Mater, is the Uni
versity of Chicago. S]|e has the
respect and love of her pupils, and
is making an enviable teacher re
cord. St. Marks Mission, as well
as, the town of Nenana, may con
gratulate itself, in having secured
the services of this energetic, effi
cient, and experienced young woman
teacher. The Episcopal church is
doing great work, in this and simi
lar vineyards of Alaska, on behalf
of country, truth and God.
BRITISH MAKE GAINS
London—The war office has is
sued a statement in which announce
ment is made of further British suc
cesses on the Flanders front, as the
result of minor operations directed
against the German positions to the 1
north ami west of Pass Chendaele
and southeast of Poeltrapelle.
GERMAN PLANES DOWNED
Paris—The war office announces
that ten German fighting planes
were shot down yesterday or forced
to land in a damaged condition.
- |
Seattle—-The striking telephone
operators are still out and the ser
vice is very seriously crippled. The
company has a lot of green hands
working in an effort to give the
downtown district telephone service.
-L_...
Rio de Janeiro—The president of
Brazil has issued a proclamation in
which he calls upon the people of
the republic to increase the pro
ducts of the country in order that
Brazil may become the granary for
the Allies.
The Tanana Valley railroad was l
sold under the hammer at Fairbanks ,
on Thursday, to satisfy a mortgage,
the property having been bid in by
Attorney A. R. Heilig. acting for
Benjamin Allen, president of the
Columbia Trust company. The sale 1
price was $200,000. The object of 1
the foreclosure proceedings was to ;
clear the title to the property so that i
it can be turned over to the Alaskan
Engineering commission.
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Winter time?
Yes. You can play it
soon.
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ELECTRIC PUMPS
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FORCE PUMPS
PITCHER PUMPS
WELL POINTS
Lang and Toledo
RANGES
JUST ARRIVED
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
NENANA BEANERY
Cold Lunches, Hot Tamales
Chile Beans
SERVED 10 A. M. TO 2 A. M.
Tom Monag'on
THE SK9F HOUSE
Market Street at Second
Comfortable Rooms Spring Beds
Clean Bunks
EVERYTHING NEW and CLEA\
Wm. H. Smith
ATTORNEY AT LAW
r.oTAKV wr.Mt
Chas. Zielke, who spends his sum
mers mining on Moose creek, arrived
in tow'n this week from |,is claim,
bringing with him a fat poke of
dust as evidence that he and his
partner spent a busy season on the
creek.
Ben Bloomberg, a miner working
in the Twenty-Mile country, fell to
the bottom of a 50-foot shaft this
week and was quite seriousl, injur
ed. Sam Godfrey dispatched an
auto to the scene of the accident
this morning to bring the injured
man to town and Dr. McCollum
went along to provide such tempor
ary relief as might be possible.
Advices received from Seattle an
nounce the death, in that city, of
Leo Wile, well known former nv.rch- *
ant of Fairbanks, where he was in
business many yews prior to the
sale of his stock last, summer, when
he was compelled to retire on ac
count of ill health. I be dispatches
state that he died on Thursday in a
Seattle hospital. The eceaso l was
a brother of Albert Wile, of this
city.
FOR SALE
Plain uin 1 Fancy Doors
W inflows and Window Frames
All Sizes
The lowest prices in town.
Table Let’s, Transoms
.Moulding of all kinds
Door and Window Stops
Sash Stock for Store Fronts ^
The above entire stock is com
posed of Outside seasoned
Lumber
Rock laced ornamented Pressed
Steel.
House Lining in any quantily
One Tent. g'Oxtu ft. »
Linoleum and lings.
Carpet by the yard
Two upholstered couches at a
bargain
Cash Register and Show Cases
Oraniteware. Glassware ami
(’rockery
Aluminum Percolators, Sg,..'>0
l>bankets, (Juills ami Pillows
Eiderdown (Quills
Sheets, Pillow slips. Spreads.
and Towels of all kinds.
Scrim and Cretonnes. Lace
SIMSON’S r
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
United States of America, Fourth
Division, District of Alaska, s.
Public notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
(or execution), dated September 15, f
A. D., 1017, issued out of the Dis
trict Court, of the United States
for the Fourth Division, District of
Alaska on a judgment rendered in
said Court, on the 27th. day of Aug
ust, A. D., 1917, in favor of Lucy
Tony Herrold and against Robert
Herrold, I have, on this 11th. day
of October, A. D., 1917, levied up
on the following described real es
tate, situated in the Town of Tana
na and Territory of Alaska, to wit:
All the right, title, interest, property
possession claim and demand whatso
ever of the said Robert Herrold,
the same being his undivided one
half of that certain lot or parcel of ^
land situate in the Town of Tana
na, aforesaid and being thirty-three
feet front on Front street and ex
tending northerly two hundred and
ten feet to Second street; the
said lot being bounded on the east
by the property of Joseph Anicich,
on the south by Front street, on the
west by Bemis avenue and on the
north by Second street; together
with the two-story building on said
lot, facing Front street and known
as Pinkiert’s Store, the log cache
immediately in rear of s^id store
and the one-story building facing
Second street, used as a residence.
All said buildings being on said lot
above described. Together with all
and singular the hereditaments and
appurtenances thereto belonging or -J
in anywise appertaining, and that I
will, accordingly, olfer said real es
tate for sale, at public vendue to «
the highest and best bidder, for cash,
on the 12th. day of November, A. D.
1917, at one o’clock, P. M., of said
day at said premises on the north
east corner of Front street and Bem
is avenue in said Town of Tanana.
Dated at Tanana, Alaska, October
11th., A. D., 1917
L. T. Erwin, »
U. S. Marshal *
Fourth Division, District of Alas
ka. By C. L. Vawtcr, Deputy.
E. Coke Hill, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
Date of First Publication, Octob
er 20, 1917.