THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for encry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska.
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The three most pressing ALaskan
needs in the opinion of the Juneau
Empire, are (1) a wider measure of
self-government, (2) the utiliza
tion of the natural resources of the
Territory and (3) the preservation
of our fisheries. There are many
other needs, but most or all of them
depend upon these.
Interesting speculation in regard
to the possible next move of the C.
P. R. is going on all over the west,
says the Prince Rupert News. No one
seems to know anything but there
are plenty of people who pretend
to have inside information.
Persistent rumors indicate tha: the
C. P. R. is active in connection with
another railway no’th of the Grand
Trunk Pacific will tap the Peace
River agricultures! rtesi, the Ground
Hog coal areas and the fine coun
try round the head waters of the
Naas River. The Peace River Record
tells of survey parties going through
and suggest that Naas Bay will be
the Pacific Terminus of the line.
There is no doubt but the country
to the north of us will be opened up
before long and it is likely it will
be done under private auspices rath
er than br the National system. The
C. P. R. took over the old Macken
zie & Mann charter to build from
Peace River to Stewart, but the ter
minals are never very definitely
fixed in a charter and are usually
subject to change before finally de
ciding on the location and many diff
erent factors will determine the
route. What we say, what Stewart
says, or what the people along the
route say has little 'influence. The
project is so stupendous that minor
consideration have to be swept aside
and the general usefulness of the
line considered.
NO ADVICE NEEDED
“America knows its own business
best, can judge for itself whether or
not it will join the League of Nation
and this without any advice from
European countries.” Gabriel Han
otaux. former French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, said recently to The
Associated Press.
There is no doubt in my mind that
that :he United States will eventual
ly cooperate more closely in Europe
an affairs, but whether this takes
shape in the form of joining the
League is a matter for Americans to
decide,” Mr. Hanotauz continued.
‘‘America is well able to look after
its own affairs, and it is my impres
sion that no blame can be directed
against Washington from Europe be
cause of failure of the American
senate to ratify the pact of the
League of Nations.
“For the present it behooves us
to try and settle our own muddled
situation before attempting to give
advice to America," Mr. Hanotaux
concluded. j
CANADA S IMMIGRATION GROWS
OTTAWA, (By Mail1)—immigra
)
cent during the first four months
of 1923 as compared with the same ,
period a year ago according to fig- I
ures compiled by the Department of
Immigration and Colonization.
Up to May 1, the figures show,
22, 140 immigrants entered the Do- J
minion to take up permanent homes.
WOMEN OF TURKEY MAY
SOON CAST OFF FETTERS
CONSTANTINOPLE. June 10—Tur
kish women seem destined soon to
enjoy the same freedom and privi
leges as women in the United States.
Mustapha Kernel has promised them
the vote and they are now beginning
to shake off the fetters which have
kept them to domestic bondage since
time immemoral. A great ■women’s
political congress will be held here
shortly, and a countrywide suffrage
movement inaugerated. Women pos
sessing diplomas of higher or secon
dary education may appoint dele
gates.
One of the leaders of the new
movement says the object of the
Turkish women is to obtain the vote
peacefully within two years. Mean
while, the firststep in this direction
was won recently when the women
elected a Turkish women teacher on
the council of preliminary education
Women voters appeared at the eleea
tora! assembly in greater numbers
than the men and some interpre
ted as showing modern enlightened
Turkish women's keenness in social
matters.
Mrs Mark Bristol, the American
High Commissioner, is active in
Turkish social and civie societies and
has given the Moslem women leaders
much useful counsel based upon 'the
experience of American women in
political and puplic life.
Ninety percent of Turkish women
are illiterate. Their education ex
tends little beyor.d a memorization
of parts of the Koran (Turkish
Brble) and a certain acquaintance
with household and maternal duties.
Their husbands regard them as
merely convenient mediums to ad
minister to their needs and pleas
ures.
ENGLAND TO PLANT MILLIONS
OF FISH IN NORTH SEA BANK'
LONDON', July 21—The Doggei
Bank is to be re-placed, announce:
the English press, indulging in it.
ancient and honorable weakness foi
punning. Since the famous N'ortl
sea fishing grounds were disturbed
by the bombardments and mine ex
plosives of the war. only half-sizec
catches have rewarded the efforts oi
trawlers. To remedy the shortage
eighty million plaice, the most re
marketable of fish, will be transport
ed from continental fishing ground
where the breed is best.
A system of closed fishing
grounds for the Dogger Bank, sue*
as exist in all English rivers, alsc
is proposed, with “No Fishing” sign
theoretically posted around a bell
of water 300 miles long off the
Dutch and Danish coasts. Steair
trawlers and motor vessels of more
than 50 horsepower will not be al
lowed within that area.
Neil Vawter, the first United
States Marshal in the second Ju
dicial District of Alaska, and foi
many years thereafter connected
with the Department of Justice in
other parts of Alaska, and Mrs.
Vawter are now residing, at 575
6th Avenue, Los Angeles. Mr. Vaw
ter made a strike in oil in the
Santa Fe Springs oil fields near
Los Angeles, which placed him in
very comfortable circumstances.
A. P. CORRESPONDENTS
WRITE ABOUT VOYAGE
Arrival of Presidential Party at Ketchikan
Everybody in Ketchikan believes
there is something to the stories a- j
bout “Harding weather.” It was a
bright clear day when President
Harding arrived here on his Alaskan
tour and such days are few and far
between in the Territory’s southern
most port where no less an auth
ority than Admiral Rodman asserts
that “it rains 360 days every year
and drizzles the other five.” This
portion of the coast really has about
thirteen fee: of rain annually.
From the time it was definitely
announced at Washington that the
President was planning to visit Alas
ka the people of Ketchikan began
hoping and almost praying that the
sun would shine on Mr. Harding
when he stepped ashore. And sure
enough it did, and members of the
Presidential party and some of the
people here ascribe it to “Harding
weather.”
The phrase. “Harding weather”,
grew out of the 1920 campaign, dur
ing which not a drop of rain fell in
Marion on any of the days that
Mr. Harding received visiting dele
gations on his “front porch.” Also
it never rained during any of his
campaign trips. The phrase gained
further basis during the recent
transcontinental trip which was
marked by fair weather except for
the day in Tacoma and even then
there was only a light drizzle which '
did not operate to interfere with
the chief.
All of the members of the Presi
dential party arrived here enthu
siastic about the beauty of the
Inside Passage from Tacoma or
Seattle to Ketchikan, more than five
nundred miles of which are through
Canadian waters. The marine trans
port Henderson, on which the party
traveled, and the Corry and Hull,
the destroyer escort, wound in and
out among half-submerged moun
tains, sometimes near at hand and
at other times, when the channel
widened, only dimly visible in the
distance. Many of the peaks were
covered with snow, which ever has
been a welcome sight to members of
the party who remember the hot
weather that prevailed in the East
and Middle West at the start of
the journey.
The tree-clad slopes of the moun
tains rise from the water’s edge so
that in places where the channels
narrow the Henderson seemed to
be sailing along between solid -walls
i 01 green, Submergence of the moan
j tains acted to make bays and inlets
of what -were formerly valleys,
i and these bays and inlets greatly
resemble the fields of Norway.
The United States Navy band.
, regularly stationed in Washington
1 but detailed to the Henderson dur
ing the Alaskan trip, endeavored
during the voyage from Tacoma to
give its daily concerts as much “lo
cal color” as possible and eminent
ly succeeded according to members
of the Presidential party. The con
cert the first night out began with
j Sousa’s march. “Nobles of the Mystic
j Shrine” in recognition of the Pres
| ident’s membership in the Shrine,
i Another number on the same pro
J gram was the march, “Call Me
; Henry,” composed by Charles Ben
I ter the leader, and dedicated to
Henry Lansburgh, former potentate
of the Washington, D. C. temple of
the Shrine.
Mrs. Harding’s favorite “The Bnd
of a Perfect Day,” was played at
| almost every concert, and “Beau
i tiful Ohio” was frequently heard.
The “land-lubber” members of
j the party, as is always the case,
j were all confused until they learn
| ed the difference between port and
! starboard and the meaning of such
terms as “fore and aft, stern and
bow”. Naval officers and the more
sea-wLse members of the party had
a good laugh on hearing one of the
Secret Serive men say that his
quarters were “on the right hand
side of the boat near the tail end.”
The song, “Iowa,” most popular
of any piece of music played at
the recent Shrine convention in
Washington, D. C., has been intro
duced by President Harding’s party
in almost every state traversed
since it left Washington and today
was carried into this Alaskan city
for the first time by some of the
singing members of the Presiden
tial group. It was applauded by the
people of Ketchikan who heard it
and probably it will be passed along
the Alaskan trails to the Far North
On the evening of the first day
aboard the naval transport Hen
derson enroute from Tacoma, Wash
ington, to Alaska, the United States
navy band, temporarily stationed
on the Henderson, was requested to
play “Iowa”. The bandmaster was
unable to comply. He had not the
music nor had he heard the song,
and there was gloom aplenty for
the time being. But he was not long
unprepared. At the concert on the
following morning, the thirty mu
sicians had the music before them
and have not failed to play the air
at any succeeding concert.
This was how the music was writ
ten and the orchestration of it made
possible. Bandmaster Charles Benter
heard bursts of the song ringing
from one of the cabins that night,
attention was caught by the word
"Iowa”. Soon he had some of his
improvisors about him and all were
listening outside the door. Below
decks they went and began playing,
putting what they had heard of the
song into notes of their various in
struments. Then the other musicians
appeared in the morning, each was
handed his part of the song and the
request of the evening before was
automatically discharged. Little de
tails like playing the chorus again
and again with a total absence of
verses—in the same manner the
musicians had hearci the cabin ser
enaders—made no difference in the
applause the President’s party thun
dered out when the band concluded
its first playing of “Iowa”
The musicians of the navy are
not the only ingenuous branch. The
second day out from Tacoma was
quite cold, and the chill winds
sweeping down from the sncw-top
ped mountains were most uncomfor
table for a correspondent for a
New York newspaper who brought
with b.m only the lightest of sum
mer suits. A search of the ship was
made for a heavier suit but he was
of stout build and none could be
found. Finally the ship’s sailmaker
volunteered to make him a suit of
navy serge. Buttons were obtained
from an old suit found on the ship
and clippings from sail canvas were
used for shoulder padding.
Every possible effort was made
by navy authorities on the Hender
son to provide for the comfort of
President and Mrs. Harding as well
as other members of the party ac
companying them to Alaska. Due
to the thoughtfulness of one officer
the chief executive and the first
lady were spared the necessity of
climbing the ladders when they left
the transport for the smaller boats
to go ashore at Metlakatla.
The ships carpenter was instruc
ted to build a platform with rail
ing surrounding it and enclosed with
canvas. This was attached by cables
to the crane which wings t^e smal'
boats from the docks into the wat
er. and thus an elevator was made.
The cage or platform dropped from
the top deck on which the Pres
ident and Mrs. Harding have their
cabins to the water’s surface where
they stepped from it into the small
boat and on returning to the Hen
derson found the lift waiting to
place them again on the deck more
than thirty feet above the water.
“Why this is as warm as it is
Alaska Steamship Co.
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ALASKA .. July 21st
ALAMEDA .July 28th
NORTHWESTERN . Aug. 4th
Ship, in .bore schedule call at Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau,
Cbrdora, Valdez, LaTouche and Seward, both north and southbound
S. S. ALASKA is not goinr to make Anchorage a Port of Jail
ALAMEDA also makes Vnchorage a port of call
Ship, in above .chedule marked ** connect with SS STARR
at Seward for the We.tward.
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OVER THE TRAIL
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Operating a First Class Stage Service over the Famous
RICHARDSON HIGHWAY
Between Fairbanks, Chitina, Valdez and Way Points
E. H. Mack Co., Agt, FAIRBANKS R, E. Sheldon, Supt.
in Washington” were Mrs. Harding’s
firt words on Alaskan soil, spoken
just after she had stepped ashore at
Metlakatla.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Probate Court, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Division. Nenana
Precinct.
In the matter of the State of
Nels P. Rasmussen, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Chas E. Bergman, the Admin
istrator of the Estate of Nels P.
Rasmussen, Deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and
filed in said Court, his final ac
count of his admtnstration of said
Estate; and that Wednesday, the
fifteenth day of August. 1923, at
two o’clock, P. M.. at the court
room of said Court, at Nenana,
Alaska, has been duly appointed by
Probate Judge of said Court for
the settlement of said account, at
which time and place any person
interested in said Estate may appear
and file exceptions in writing to
the said account, and contest the
same.
Dated this 8th day of June, 1923
CHAS E. BERGMAN
Administrator of the Estate of Nels
P. Rasmussen, Deceased.
Date of first publication, June 9th
1923.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Team of horses,
with harness; 3 sets bob sleighs;
wagon; household furniture. In
quire Chas E. Bergman.
MINING GROUND FOR SALE—
Group of three claims (placer) on
Glacier Creek, Kantishna district.
Nos. 17,18 and 19. (No. 17 worked
out.) Shallow ground, from six
inches to five feet to bedrock.
Coarse gold. Automatic dam, boxes,
tools, complete camp outfit. For
furthers particulars inquire at New9
Office.
TWO STRAY DOGS have come to
my place down the river. If own
ers want them they must be taken
away immediately or arrangements
made for board. One is large black
and other small red dog.
JOHN KOWALSKY
(J. C. Martin of the United States
Geological Survey was in Juneau
recently bound for Cold Bay. where
| "dll investigate and report on
the oil situation and the results of
: development there. He will spend
; several months in the Territory. He
has made geological surveys of and
reports on many sections of Alaska.
The last one, two years ago, was
devoted largely to the Koyukuk
country.
BILL OF SALE blanks for sale
at The News Office.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Nenana as
follows:
11.35 p. m. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points
Returning arrives Nenana 11:20
a. m. same days.
5:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika.
Arrives Nenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
‘•Trains both north and south
bound stop over night at Curry
where excellent hotel facilities are
available for the public.
River steamers leave Nenana ev
ery Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. for
points down river to Holy Cross and
Connecting with gas launch at lat
ter point for St. Michael. Arrive Ne
nana every Monday or Tuesday.”
"——-II
D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenaaa — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
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Pioneers of Alaska
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FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Allred J. Ghezzi R. C. Morria.
Secretary. Preaideat.