THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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SMOKING ALASKA.
Volcanic peaks in the far south
western corner of Alaska are in
eruption this summer evidently for
the benefit of a party of scientists
sent by the National Geographic
society to study Mount Katmai, the
greatest of Alaska’s smoking moun
tains, and its “Valley of Ten Thou-!
sand Smokes.”
Persons arriving at Juneau re-1
cently from the volcanic country to ;
the westward brought word that'
Shishaldin peak, on Unimak island,!
in the Aleutian chain, was in erup
tion recently. They also reported
it was believed Mount Bavloff. on j
the Southwestern Alaska mainland, •
also had spouted, as the snow about
the summit was coal black.
When the party of scientists left;
Anchorage, on their way to the Kat
mai country, they said they believed
there was little likelihood of an |
eruption this summer, and declared
they were centain there was abso
lutely no danger attached to the in
vestigation. Katmai’s last big “blow
off” was in June, 1912.
The party of 26 scientists is
headed by Prof. Robert A. Griggs,
of the University of Ohio, and some
are from Carnegie institute. They
are planning to make observations
of the botanical, biological and geo
logical effects of the 1912 eruption.
In 1913, Prof. Griggs headed a
party of scientists to Katmai, and
returned with the announcement
that the crater was the largest on
the globe, and that near Katmai lay
a great valley whose floor was dot
ted with thousands of mouths vom
iting gray vapory gas and smoke.
This valley Prof. Griggs named
“The Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes.” Instead of ten thousand,
it is said there are literally millions
of smoking vents.
Congress recently set aside “The
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes"
as national property, and it is be
lieved that Some day it will be a
second Yellowstone geyser field.
Steaming springs, it is said, will
eventually take the place of the
present smoking vents.
Prof. Griggs and his party ex
pect to remain in the Katmai dis
trict until the middle of September.
Until they return, nothing prob
ably will be heard from them, as
there is no direct means of com
munication.
Moving pictures of the smoking
mountain and valley are to be
brought back by the party.
THE HEART OF THE WORLD.
Twice in this American speeches,
says the New York Sun, President
Wilson has used a phrase indicating
that the people of this globe are,
in the aggregate, afflicted with
strange cardiac fragility. In one
of them, in pleading for his League
of Nations, he exclaimed:
“Dare we reject it and break the
heart of the world?”
As we understand Mr. Wilson and
his covenant, this tragedy will oc
cur under any or all of the follow
ing circumstances:
Unless the United States agrees to
use its soldiers and money to an
unlimied extent to “preserve against
external aggression the territorial
integrity and existing political in
] dependence of all members of the
j league”—including the British Em
ipire with her Ireland and her In
dia, Japan with her Korea, etc.
' Unless the United States agrees
1 that every tribal war in Africa shall
become a matter of concern t-o it.
Unless the United States agrees
to let Europe, which does not un
1 dersand the western hemisphere, act
I as the arbiter in any dispute we
1 mav have with Mexico.
Unless the United States agrees
| to contribute an indefinite amount
I of money for the expenses of the
] League of Nations and the league’s
multifarious activities.
Unless the United States admits
that the Monroe Doctrine is “a re
gional understanding.”
Unless the United States surrend
: ers its war-making powers and aban
j dons its Constitution.
| Assuming—and we do not believe
i it for a minute—that the heart of
the world will break if all these
things are not done, we could have
but one answer:
Let it break’.
This Shantung settlement, con
tinues the New York paper, is an
open exploitation of a helpless peo
ple for the benefit of a strong peo
ple; it is a denial of the principle of
self-determination; it is a shameless
over-riding of the “inalienable rights
of nationality.” It is a concession
to Japan of the privilege of both
conquest and annexation. It is a
barefaced compromise with a spoils
man who has demanded his price for
continuing solidarity with the allied
and associated powers and has re
ceived it purely and simply because
he is strong and occupies a strat
egic position.
furthermore, Japan has obtained
its sop with the assent of the Ameri
can representatives at Paris, though
that assent is a betrayal of every
moral and written engagement
Washington ever made with Pekin,
and though it is an ironic sneer at
every guarantee and pledge in the
League of Nations covenant. Mr.
Wilson has, in fact, sacrificed the
principles of the league covenant—
high, worthy principles—in order to
gain Japan’s outward, hollow ad
herence to it. What wonder that
the President prefaces his eulogy
with an emphatic conditional and
palpitates in anxiety lest his one
ewe lamb of idealism come into the
world stillborn. For who knows bet
ter than he the poisonous nature of
the artificial respiration which has
been administered to it?
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at MARINE BULLETIN K
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Alaska, up Hot Springs, 5 a. m.
Carl White, up Tolovana river,
11 a. m., 5th.
Washburn, down Louden, mid
night.
Selkirk, up Carmacks, 2 a. m., 5th.
Casca, down Hootalinqua, 9:30 a.
m., 5th.
Nasutlin and Hazel B, up Stew
art, 5th.
Louise at Marshall, 7 p. m. last
night, having engine trouble.
Kelly and Tanana, at Chena.
Yukon, up Rampart, 5 a. m., 5th.
Jacobs, up Chena for Fairbanks,
8:30 a. m.
ROAD PAYROLLS
The weekly force report of the
i Alaskan Engineering commission
for this division for the period end
uing August 30 shows a total of 634
employes, 206 stationmen and 43
stationmen’s laborers, as against 642
; payroll workers, 212 stationmen and
42 stationmen’s laborers the pre
vious week. A total of 64 horses
were in use during the period un
der review,
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1 The distribution of labor was as
follows:
iCamp 1, general . 51
Camp 1, electric . 11
Camp 1, corral . 7
Camp 1, construction . 53
Camp 1, store . 22
Camp 1, hospital . 12
Camp T, townsite . 1
Section 1 . 8
Sections 2 and 3 . 10
Section 4 --- 7
:
Section 5 . 8
Surfacing 1 . 82
; Surfacing 2 ...-. 80
Track 2 . 50
Camp 363 . 10
Camp 415 . 30
Camp 423 . 14
Camp 432 . 19
Camp 440 . 13
Camp 449 . 69
iCamp 454 . 13
Wagon road south . 12
Nenana total .584
i Fairbanks office . 6
jT. V. R. R. 41
i Total for division .634
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D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
BRICE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
11:45—The children’s hour.
The evening subject will be:
“Autumn Leaves.”
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
Special music
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
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j CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday school will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
; ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
Subject: “Man.”.
Board of School Directors
Nenana Public School
Nenana, August 29, 1919.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
| Complying with the laws of Alas
Ika. notice is hereby given that a
[special election will be held in the
| town of Nenana,
! Monday, September 8, 1919,
Jfor the purpose of electing one
[school director to fill the vacancy
[caused by the resignation of Mr.
George W. Pennington.
| The names of candidates must be
jin the hands of the Clerk of the
I School Board not later than Friday.
September 5.
The polling place will be located
in the Fire Hall, adjoining the
Townsite Office. Polls will be open
from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. on the
day and date of election.
J. H. SCOTT,
Clerk of School Board.
Approved:
ROBERT JOSEPH DIVEN,
President. .
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WANT ADS
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FOR SALE OR RENT — Montana
| Rooming House. No reasonable
offer refused. Apply on premises.
FOR SALE—Furnished house, four
rooms, with summer kitchen, at
tic, large basement and winter
cellar for vegetables. Heated by
furnace. Winter supply of veg
etables. Full corner lot. One of
the most desirable parts of town,
j Inquire at News office.
BUNCH~'oF'~KEYS~found~~ Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paying for this adver
I tisement.
.FOR SALE — Showcase, obi feet
• long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
SINGLETON’S
ROADHOUSE and STORE
Outfits for Prospectors, Trapper*
and Hunters.
Goods Delivered to AU Points in
Lignite District.
FIRST-CLASS ROADHOUSE
ACCOMMODATIONS
TWO NAMES ARE ADDED
TO CLUB MEMBERSHIP
The names of Harry Abercrom
bie and -J. E. McIntosh have been
added to the membership roll of
the Nenana Commercial club, the
. name of the former having been
presented to the club several meet
ings ago, and that of the chief ac
■ countant having been acted upon at
the regular meeting of the organ
ization last night.
i The membership of the club con
tinues large, despite the loss of a
, number of members during the
summer. There are a number, how
ever, who are somewhat in arrears
jin their dues, and an effort is now
being made to get these collections
in, the money being much needed to
carry on the work of the club.
New Puritam and Premium Hams
and Bacon. Fowler St Morris.
WILLIAMS TAKEN BACK
TO UP-TOWN HOSPITAL
Harry Williams, the Shaw creetc
miner who was brought to N'enana
several days ago by Dr. M. F.
Hall, for treatment at the Govern
ment hospital, was taken back to
Fairbanks today by Dr. J. A. Suth
erland, who made the trip down
river to get him.
MRS. CASKEY GOING OUT;
FRIENDS GIVE HER PARTY
—
The home of Mrs. R. L. Vining
in Fairbanks was the scene of a
farewell party yesterday afternoon,
the affair being in honor of Mrs.
J. H. Caskey, wife of the owner of
:the Citizen. There were two tables
| of bridge.
Mrs. Caskey will leape for Chitina
on Monday, on the first stage of
her journey to the States.
DOG OWNERS, NOTICE!
Owing to the scarcity of fish and
the increased cost of other dog
feed, it will be necessary for me to
| advance the monthly rate for feed
ing dogs from $4 to $7. Those hav
ing dogs at my place below Nenana
are hereby notified that I will r.ot
i continue to feed dogs at the old rate
■after September 10. The dogs must
, be either taken away by that date
or left where they are with the un-:
dersanding that the board there
after will be at the rate of $7 per
month per dog. NELS STOL. *
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Muffled.
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“They tell me Jimson is over his
ears in debt.”
“Yes; so much so that he can’t
hear the doorbell when his creditors !
call.”—Exchange.
Kenaaa. W>er» Kails and Kivers Kset
JUST UNPACKED
NEW STOCK
Raincoats and Slickers
FOWLER & MORRIS
GENERAL MERCHANTS
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
BLANKFIELD EXPRESS
Clean Dry Wood for Sale
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL
Hauling of All Kind*
RESIDENCE PHONE
i
WARNING.
Any boys found in my boat or
tampering with it in any way will
; be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. ALBERT FORTIER.
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lenaaa. Alaska'* Interior Pnel Depot
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second aBd Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alasltan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train *
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the j
ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
i A street on Wednesdays and Satur
idays at 8 a. m. •
; On and after july 15th the freight
i on the North side of the river at
jCamp 415 dock will be shipped out
■Tuesday and Friday of each week,
(leaving at 8 a. m., until further
j notice.
Dr, J. R. 80WEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
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BUILDING
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transportation charges prepaid. Ship by Insured Parcel Post or
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