THE NENANA NEWS
Application made October 30, 1916, at the Postoffice at Nenana, Alaska, tor
entry as second-class mail matter under the act ot March 2, 1879, by The Ne
nana Printing Company. . ..
Published Weekly -by The Nenana Printing Company
Day of Publication Saturday Edited by R. G. Southworth.
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“Nenana, the Sparkplug of
Alaska.” Can you beat it?
It is something to have the
president of the First National
hank refer to Nenana as the
“town worth while.”
The performance of Major
Mitchell, who has been cross
ing the German lines in France
with his aeroplane during the
past two weeks, mention of
which was contained in the
dispatches from the war zone
received on Thursday, is of
particular interest to Alas
kans for the reason that the
officer is an oldrime Northen
er.
Major Mitchell, or as Lieut.
Mitchell, .as he was known
here, was statioued at Eagle
in th<* early days, where he
was in charge o: the telegraph
station there. In 11*02 and 11H)3
he superintended the work of
running the telegraph line l»e
tween Ketchurr.stock and Fort
Gibbon, his headquarters then
being at North Fork. He was
in the Fairbanks district at
the time gold was found there
and staked a number of claims.
Lieut. Loghry, nov in charge
of the Fairbanks station, was
Lieut. Mitchell's Ursi sergeant
at the Eagl° station.
The school question is of
greater importance to the town
of Nenana than the residents
appear to realize. It is one of
the really important matters
which should receive the con
sideration of all residents int
erested in the growth and de
velopment of the town, and
of those particularly who have
their money invested here and
whose prosperity is dependent
directly or indirectly upon the
prosperity of the town.
The future of Nenana de
pends very largely upon the
number of women and children
residents, and in turn the num
ber of women and children res
idents depends upon a school.
Without a school we will be
very largely without families,
while a good school not only
will be the means of making
permanent residents of the
' families already here, but it
also will induce other families
to take up their residence here.
Every town needs families and
the need of Nenana in this re
spect is especially urgent—
more urgent with the arrival
of each new family.
Within a few weeks the peo
ple of Nenana will be given
the opportunity to decide as
[to whether or not we are to
| have a school, and it is to be
hoped that by that time every
resident will have given the
question very careful study and
be prepared to vote intelligent
ly.
The plan of those who have
interested themselves in the
matter is to incorporate a dis
trict embracing all the desir
able land contiguous to Xena
na, with a total area not ex
ceeding forty square miles .A
part of this proposed district
outside of Xenana already has
been occupied by homesteaders
and, as the valley develops,
will form a steadily increasing
source of income to the district
and permit a proportionately
wider distribution of mainten
ance charges, so that the town,
in later years, will be called
upon to bear only a part of
the burden of the upkeep de
manded by the Territory.
A petition, requesting the
court to call a special election,
has been circulated and will
be forwarded to Judge Bun
uell immediately. When the
order calling an election is is
sued, notices announcing the
fact must be posted for a per
iod of thirty days, after which
providing a majority of the
citizen-residents favor the es
tablishment of a school, the
work of organizing the district
can proceed without further
delay. In the meantime it is
probable that an allotment of
town lot money can lx* secured
from the ("hairman of the Alas
kan Engineering commission
sufficient to construct a school
house. In this event, the build
ing will be ready by tbe time
the organization of the district
has been perfected and other
arrangements completed.
lender one of the laws en
acted by the late legislature,
the burden of maintaining such
a school as it is proposed to
establish here will be borne by
the Territory to the extent of
75 per cent of the cost of main
tenance, providing that the
I amount does not exceed the
jsum of #15,000 annually. The
lainount required of the district
may lx* raised by levying taxes
not to exceed one per centum.
Another law enacted during
the late session provides a uni
form sctirnd system in the Ter
ritory and creates a territorial
lx>ard of education and a com
missioner of education who
shall have supervision of all
matters pertaining to the pub
lic schools. *
LOCAL AND WORLD NEWS IN A CONDENSED FORM
Monday'* Bulletin
The Commission office at
Anchorage is making inquiry
for Anton Mangen.
Seattle—The barge Barra
Costa sailed for Seward today
with a cargo of 1 ,<>00 tons of
rails for the Alaskan Engin
eering commission
Mrs. E. L. Morrison,an ar
rival on yesterday's boat from
the Outside, is a daughter of
Mrs. Persons, of this city and
will make Xenana her future
home.
The number of employes of
the Anchorage division on the
5th of last month , was 3,050,
which includes 1,404 station
men and laborers.
Seattle—The federal grand
jury has returned the first lot
of indictments against those
who failtHl to register. Many
more indictments are expect
ed within the next few days.
London—The Canadians on
the Western front have enter
ed the village of Lacoulotte. in
Northern France. The Ger
mans have withdrawn in this
sector along a front nearly
two miles long.
Seattle -Figures made pub
lic today show that the state
of Washington has given over
a million and a half to the
Red Gross since thecommence
ment of the war. Tin1 is be
ing swelled steadily by local
contributions.
The first sale of lots within
the townsite of Wasilla was
held on .Tune 20. The regula
tions governing the sale speci
fied that no lot should be sold
for less than twenty-five dol
lars no bid exceeding that a
mount could be accepted un
less made in multiples ot five
dollars.
The Outside mail arriving
yesterday brought copies of a
resolution recently adopted
by the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce urging the Post
master General to give favor
able consideration to the re
quest of Delegate Sulsser that
a graduated parcel post zone
rate be established in Alaska
for the benefit of Northerners
Corp L. W. Kcanlan and
Corp. Thos. Mathews are re
cent arrivals in Xenana, hav
ing come to relieve Corp. W.
FI. Dheas and Operator A. V.
Tyler, who have •sen ordered
Outside. Corp. Scanlan, who
is the new operator in charge
of the local signal corps office
comes direct from Haines and
Corp. Mathews is from Fort
Gibbon.
Washington—In a formal ad
dress delivered last night be
fore over 400 of the larg
est coal operators of the na
^ion. Secretary of the Interior
'Lane told the fuel barons that
if they were patriots they
would reduce the price of coal.
| Otherwise, it would become
necessary for the government
to reduce prices for them.
! Tuesday’s Bulletin
The 1’. S. Geodetic Survey
steamer Patterson struck an-1
uncharted rock recently off j
the west coast of (’hiclmgott is
| land but escaped serious in
I jury.
. French Port—The first de
tachment of American troops
landed on French soil today
amid the wildest enthusiasm, j
They are part of Hi Pershing;
regulars and will proceed im
mediately to the tiring lines
where they are being eagerly
awaited by the allied troops
at the front. The voyage a
cross the Atlantic was with
out incident.
Over fifteen hundred per
sons attended a baseball game
recently at Anchorage.
Tin* post office at Anchorage
is kept open evenings for the
purpose of receiving enlist
ments.
Owing to the high cost of
cyanide, the Martin mine, in
the Willow creek district, is
to he partially closed down
this season.
Fairbanks—Frank Ah limit;,
who is just back from the
Outside, reports having seen
Frank Montgomery just after
the former Northern actor k
had signed a contract with a
Los Angeles moving picture
company for $500 a week
New York—The Curtis Aer
oplane company has been a
warded a contract by the gov
G,oUs eiify
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