THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail mat^'T, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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NATIVE SCHOOLS IN ALASKA.
It was 43 years ago that the first
school for natives was established in
Alaska, recalls the Petersburg Re
port. There were no white children
here then. The first school was
opened at Wrangell in 1877. One i
year later a home for girls was!
opened at the same place, which in j
1880 had thirty inmates, the school:
having an average of sixty.
At Sitka a school was opened in
April, 1882, and kept open with
varying success until April, 1890 '
One of the naval officers stationed
at Sitka introduced upon his own !
initiative a system of compulsory
education, appointing a regular tru-,
ant officer; each child was labeled. !
and if found on the streets during i
school hours, was arrested, and the
head of the house to which the child
belonged was fined or imprisoned.
This extraordinary and arbitrary
measure worked so effectively that
the average attendance was suddenly
forced up to 230 and 250, one day
reaching 271, a result highly grati
fying to the Presbyterian teacher,
whatever objections the public had
to his modus operandi on constitu
tional grounds. This school was for
Indian children exclusively, a school
for the Creole children of Sitka hav
ing been opened the previous year.
RAILROAD TO KUSKOKWIM.
It is just about time, believes the
Seatatle Alaska Dispatch, to begin
agitation having for its purpose the
building of a branch line railroad,
leading out from the trunk line rail
way system in Alaska, to the Kus
kokwim country, with the terminus
at McGrath, on the Kuskokwim
river, or some other convenient
point. According to present indica
tions, the trunk line system, leading
from Seward to Nenana. will be
entirely completed by the fall of
1922.
To build a branch line into the
Kuskokwim valley, continues Editor
Shaw, with a complete railroad or
ganization and equipment available
for the purpose on the ground,
would not be a difficult undertak
ing, and would not be prohibitive
as to cost. Roughly speaking, such
a line could be constructed for
about $15,000,000, an insignificant
sum as compared to the big results
that would be obtained by the open
ing of the great resources of the
Kuskokwim valley.
The material benefits that would
flow from the building of this
branch line would far outweigh the
financial expenditure incident to it5
construction. Such a line would
open to settlement and development
a vast region, known to be rich in
mineral and other resources. The
minerals of the upper Kuskokwim
valley are of large extent. There
are low-grade placer fields, gold
quartz veins, silver and lead, quick'
silver, and valuable minerals anc
metals of commercial importance
that can only be developed by rai
transportation, so remote are thej
from water or other means of in
gress and egress. Just recently The
Alaska Dispatch published the new!
of a big discovery of gold quarts
on Nixon creek, in that region. The
richness of the veins, exposed on the
surface, justifies a belief that they
will make pood producinp mines,
when developed.
Given railway lines from the
Southern coast of Alaska to the Yu
kon river and the Kuskokwim river,
with branch lines leadinp out to the .
various mininp camps and settle-j
ments alonp these routes, Alaskaj
will be fairly well equipped in the
matter of rail transportation. But
until this Kuskokwim branch is built,
an important part of the Territory
will remain, as now, wholly unde
veloped.
Hence, The Alasaka Dispatch
takes this occasion to urpe Alas
kans, and especially those livinp or
interested in the Kuskokwim valley,
to pet busy and bepin to boost for
this proposed railroad line. Two
years apo, the writer of these lines
took up this matter with Secretary
of the Interior Lane. The secretary
assured us that he would be plad
to recommend the building of this
important branch line, when the
trunk line railroad was completed.
Much to the regret of all Alaskans,
the able secretary of the interior
has retired from office, so we shall
have to educate the new secretary
as to Alaska’s needs and necessities.
TIDE STILL RUNNING.
That the tide of American life is
still running toward sanity, says the
Seattle Union Record of recent date,
was shown in yesterday's Union Rec
ord, where, side by side, were re
ported the words of Henry E. Jack
son. of the United States Depart
ment of Education, and Chaplain
Francis P. Duffy, of the G9th New
j York regiment.
Mr. Jackson said, at the Broad
way high school and at the Uni
versity of Washington, that the
| only cure for ultra-radicalism is free
i speech. The schoolhouses should be
opened for free speech—with no
limit but the sky and individual re
; sponsibility.
' Chaplain Duffy scored the poli
ticians who were trying to turn the
| American Legion into an organiza
tion of strike-breakers, and he said
jthat “no body of men, be they high
;or low, have any right to interfere
with the lawful appeal of any group
; of citizens either to better their
| own conditions or to help other
peopje struggling for liberty.”
J The politicians are already taking
note of the way the tide is running,
and are getting their boats ready
and their lamps trimmed to take
advantage of it.
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REMEDIES AND REMEDIES.
j Remedies innumerable have beer
' proposed to help the exchange situ
ation, the high cost of living, the
distressing conditions in Europe
Many of these are helpful to a cer
tain extent, comments the Alasks
(Juneau) Daily Empire, but most
of them merely are adventitious
aids. There is just one thing that
can really help the world in this
critical period, and that is the will
ingness and determination of peoples
to work and produce. Adequate
What / Stand For
1 am a candidate for National Committeeman of the Republi
can Party to be elected April 27th, and I stand for the following
principles:
I am not a politician and never ran for office before. 1 belong
to no political machine or combine and am under obligations to no
clique or faction.
I am opposed to machine domination in Alaska and if you elect
me I will take my orders from the people and nobody else.
While my home is in Anchorage, where I received the unani
mous indorsement of the Anchorage Republican Club, composed of
over one hundred fifty members, I will work for the entire Terri
tory of Alaska first, last and all the time.
If you elect me I will do my utmost to see that each locality
or division shall name the officers of that locality or division, and 1
will fight bitterly the appointment of anyone outside of Alaska
to an Alaska office.
Alaska has been my home for 23 years, winter and summer,
and I feel sure I know what Alaska needs.
The time has come to put an end to outside dictation in our
affairs and I believe what Alaska needs is more firesides and fewer
carpet-baggers.
The only way to rid Alaska of machine politicians is to vote
against them. People of Alaska, I am making this fight for you
and I want your help. You deliver the votes and I will deliver
the goods.
J. E. CI-IOVIIN.
production alone can reduce the
high cost of living; it alone can
enable the world to feed and clothe
itself. Extravagance, reckless ex
penditure, is inviting hardship and
distress for the future. Agriculture
and industry must speed up if the
world is to pull ttirough the present
crisis without danger of serious in
jury. Here in America we must
labor with hand and heart and
brain to the end that we may hold
our place of security and prosperi
ty among the nations. Labor, not
legislation, is the key which must
unlock the doors of obstruction.
Our own problems are grave, and
will become more and more acute
unless we listen to the voice of
sanity and profit by the lessons of
world experience which have been
written into the history of nations.
Work! Produce! is the imperative
economic demand of the hour.
Loans, credits, wage increases can
settle nothing definitely.
So far as Europe is concerned,
her destiny depends upon her re
alization of the necessity to get to
work. She must work and work
hard. She must live within her in
come. She must wait upon produc
tion. She must content herself with
actual necessities.
The world must bend to increase
its production. This Government
cannot and will not, as the secre
tary of the treasury has said, go
on in its efforts to aid the other
: governments by lending more of the
I people’s money for that purpose. It
|has reached the limit dictated by
i prudence.
The solution of the world’s prob
lems depends upon the adequate pro
duction of the things needed by the
world.
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in Every Respect
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II JOHN KETOOROKY
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WANT ADS
WANTED—Middle-aped man to do
outside work at roadhouse on
Broad Pass trail. Inquire at News
office.
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BUNCH OF SEVEN KEYS found.
Owner can recover by calling’ at
News office and paying for adv.
THE DWYER HOME FOR SALE, j
Terms reasonable. tf I
FOUND—Bunch of keys. Inquire!
at Central Cafe.
FOR RENT—-Suite of three rooms, |
suitable for light housekeeping,;
with heat and light and hot and j
cold water in connection. Also:
' office rooms, at The Arctic.
j FOR SALE—Two-room house, part- j
Iv furnished, with lot. Desirable,
1 locality. Inquire News office. tf i
FOR RENT—Cascade laundry'- Fully ,
J equipped and with established in-J
i come. No ca^h required. Inquire
i at Arctic.
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Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAYS
OF MONTH, AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Frank Rourke, Martin Nash,
Secretary. President.
A. W. Heimburger and Jack
!
j Smith, traveling under the tirm name
; of the Hammer-Smith Rat company,
left for Fairbanks this afternoon,
enroute to the Beaver country,
where they will snare muskrats.
They have a big supply of snare
wire, salt and an outfit of grub suf
ficient to last them well into the
summer.
Pat Lynch, who has a tie con
tract in the Goldstream valley, came
to town today to arrange for the
hauling of his ties. He is a guest
at the Cooney.
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STOVES and RANGES
NEW PERFECTION
AND
FLORENCE OIL STOVES
FOWLER & MORRIS
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, We Strive to Please
EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
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Proprietor
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
NENANA HOUSE
Large Barn -In Connection -Dog Kennels
MRS. A. B. EASTERLY, Proprietress.
Dr. J. R. 80WEN
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Prices Most Reasonable
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building.
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time befare
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m , and fr*n«
Camp 415 (North Nenana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
lp.m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m ;
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m
arrive Fairbanks, 5:3# p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
owr. arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North aad are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for fun made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment If our price does not suit you. the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us. •
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA