THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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PREPARED FOR ACTION
When the congress of the United
States is convened in extra session
this spring to consider weighty ques
tions v'lich should have been dis
posed of by the Sixtv-fifth congress,
many of the seats will be occupied
by new members, for the most part
unfamiliar with the measures which
will require their immediate atten
tion. Bills which failed of passage
during the late session because of
the pernicious activity of Senator
LaFollette, of Wisconsin, and his
arch conspirator, Sherman, of Illi
nois, must be reveiwed again in de
tail and a lot of questions will be
asked before final action is taken.
Among the many requests for
funds which will be presented, will*'
be that of the secretary -of the In
terior for sufficient money to com-'
plete the government railroad In'
Alaska The secretary appreciates'
the importance of securing prompt
action on this matter, and Alaskans
have the assurance that the request'
for funds will be accompanied by a
very complete explanation, covering
work already done, work contem
plated and the bearing that the com
pleted project will have upon the de
velopment of Interior Alaska's re
sources, inis assurance is contained
in the announcement, made some
time ago, that J. L. McPherson has
been assigned to the task of prepar
ing data for the enlightenment of
congressmen unfamiliar with the
Northland.
Mr. McPherson is an oldtime
Alaskan and, as manager of the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, his time, for a
iiumber of years past, has been de
voted almost exclusively to a study
of Alaskan conditions and needs and
to the encouragement of development
and constructive legislation. He
knows Alaska as few men know the
territory, and he realizes that the
Interior country's greatest need at
this time is a betterment of trans
portation facilities.
Mr. McPherson spent several
months in Alaska last summer, in
quiring into the special needs of the
various districts, and he mushed
from one end of the railroad to the
other for the purpose of gathering
first hand information regarding
the progress of the government en
terprise. Having had considerable
experience in railroad work, Man
ager McPherson will be able to pre
sent this information in a manner
that will materially assist Secretary'
Lane in securing funds for the com
pletion of the railroad.
With the necessary’ funds avail
able, Mr. McPherson believes the
work could be pushed to completion
within two years, and from an
economic standpoint, he says, the
work should be continued without
interruption. The added cost of
the project, he explained in a re
cent statement published in the
Seattle Times, is due to a marked
increase in the cost of labor, ma
terials and supplies. Labor costs, he
say’s, have advanced fifty per cen1
over the estimate of 1914, and ma
terials and supplies have jumped
from fifty to seventy-five per cent.
Overhead and operating costs arc
increasing yearly and now average
approximately $100,000 a month,
which, he points out, is a strong
argument in favor of rushing the
work to completion.
For a number of years, in the
opinion of Mr. McPherson, the rail
road must depend almost entirely
upon through traffic. For the de
velopment of local traffic, he* says,
it will be necessary to build wagon
roads and branch lines of the rail
road into districts which cannot be
developed under existing conditions.
If mistakes have been made by
the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion, Mr. McPherson is not adver
tising the fact. His trip overland,
along the right of way, from Ne
nana to the coast, has convinced
him that the work is progressing
satisfactorily now, and he appre
ciates the fact that Alaskan condi
tions demand that the work con
tinue without interruption. He is
interested only in seeing that
Alaska is given the opportunity to
develop. He knows what the terri
tory has done in the past, in the
way of contributing to the wealth
of the nation, and he believes that
the future has greater things in
store. He is an optimist of the first
water, charged with a thorough
knowledge of Alaska, and primed
with the Seattle spirit, a combina
tion which should prove invaluable
to the secretary of the interior in
prevailing upon the new congress
to assume a friendly attitude to
ward Alaska.
HELMETS AND GAS MASKS
ARE PUT AWAY BY YANKS
COBLENZ. — American soldiers
doing duty with the Army of Occu
pation finally have been allowed to
discard their steel helmets and gas
masks. All through the march
across Rhenish Prussia and during
the early weeks of patrolling of the
ttnine and tbe Loblenz bridgehead!
the troops were kept in fighting
trim at all times. But a recent
order says helmets and gas masks
should be stored b\* each company
“in such a manner as to facilitate
their prompt ..issue at a moment s
notice should the occasion demand
them.”
MEXICO FEARS SLUMP
IN MINING ACTIVITIES
MEXICO CITY—Fearing that the
mining crisis now threatening Mex
ico will result in the closing of
mines in various parts of the coun
, try and idleness for thousands of
miners, representatives of this trade
will meet soon in Mexico City to
consider remedies for presentation
to the government. The great de-1
crease, since the ending of the war. i
of the prices obtained for metals j
mined in Mexico, has, it is claimed. I
made it impossible for many com
panies in Mexico to operate at a
1 profit and there is imminent danger
1 that the workings will be closed I
' until metal prices rise.
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■ ESTATE OF SENATOR
NEARLY ALL IN UTAH
i SALT LAKE CITY'.—The estate1
left by the late Thomas Kerns, for
- mer United States senator, who died
t suddenly here last fall, is valued
- at approximately $2,046,000. ac
1 cording to an appraisal just filed
• in the district court here. A little
* more than one-half of the estate
■ is in bonds of the Salt Lake Route
, railroad, the remainder comprising
r various mining investments.
‘ A feature of the Kern’s estate
is the fact that most of it is in
s Utah, where the late senator made
- his fortune.
CAPE 10 CIO
, 1 SERVICE IS
! NOW UNDER WAY
. -
LONDON".—Actual construction
work already has been begun in
connection with the projected Cape
to Cairo Air Service, the British
Air Ministry announces. Aero
j dromes are being: set up every 600
miles, the present non-stop limit,
from one end of Africa to the
! other, the principal ones being
j built at Cairo, Khartoum, and two
in German East Africa, at Kampla
and Ujiji.
The route then passes into Rhod
esia, and along the course of the
railway to the Cape Long before
the famous Cape to Cairo railway
is in operation it is confidently
expected that airplanes will be cov
ering the route on regular schedules.
The distance is 5,200 miles.
After establishing this service,
plan of the Air ministry is to hand
: it over as a going enterprise to a
British commercial company.
The Air ministry is acting as a
pioneer in various undertakings am!
' according to one of its officials, its
position to commercial flying will
be analogous to that of the British
admiralty and merchant marine
service. A “Lloyd's Aircraft Reg
ister” is expected to make its ap
pearance in the near future. Al
lready wireless stations on the Con
! tinent signal the passage, apparent
: condition, origin, nationality, cargo
and destination of passing aircraft.
“England.” sad the official, “if
. only on account of empire com
munication, has more to ask of
1 other powers in the way of flying
rights than she has to grant. Air
travel will not be, in the main, over
the sea. That is too circuitous.”
Commercial signal codes are be-,
' ing considered at the ministry, also
the question of air police.
ALL FOREIGNERS MUST
REGISTER-' IN GERMANY
; BERLIN—Foreigners resident or
! staying temporarily in Berlin have
been ordered again to report to the
poliee.
When the revolution broke out
the rigid rules concerning regis
tration of aliens were summarily.
1 wiped out along with other police
l regulations for which Berlin was
famous. The new freedom thus ac-'
, corded visitors proved expensive
for Germanv, as it opened her fron
l . . . _ .1
uers to a promiscuous innux oi
foreigners, especially Russians who
showed themselves to be skillful
in eluding the police dragnet which
was thrown out in connection with
the widespread Bolsheviki agitation.
Besides foreign political agitators,
criminal elements from all parts of
j Germany were attracted to Berlin
by the disorders which made the
capital a lucrative field for their
| operations. The ten weeks’ ad
ministration of former Chief of
Police Eichhorn served to wreck
almost completely the efficient
; police organization for which Berlin
was well known. The work of re
habilitating the system is proceeding
slowly, but with determination.
AMERICAN SUV SOCIETY
Of NENANA
Johseph Kern
Alik G. Hanaeff
John A. Ketooroky
Geo. Tuts
Andrew Smith
John Sablak
Alik Medoff
Paul Popovich
Alik Adoff
Goss Gussoff
Bill Timoff
Sam Batagoff
Geo. Malkievich
Geo. Zelik
Alik Kalisoff
Tom Saroff
Dan Hanoff
Alik Agoff
Alik Azoff
Paul Agusaroff
I JEWS ENTHUSED
OVER FUTURE OF
! NEW PALESTINE
JERUSALEM.—A call to a Con
stituent Assembly of Palestine Jewry
approved by the British government
in April 1918, has been sent out by
| the Zionist Commission in Palestine,
it was announced here recently.
All Jews of both sexes who have
reached their twentieth year are
entitled to vote and all who have
reached their twenty-fourth year art
eligible for election. One of the
| other qualifications necessary for
candidates is that they will be able
to read, write and speak Hebrew
The Provisional Constituent As
sembly elected Dr. Chaim Weizmann
and Mr. Nahum Soklow, the Zionist
leaders, to represent them at the
Peace Conference.
It instructed its delegates to urge
“That the powers should nominate
Great Britain as their representa
tive of trustee and should confer
on it the government of Palestine
with a view to aiding the Jewish
people in building its commonwealth.
“That an executive council should
! be nominated by Great Britain in
agreement with the World Zionist
Organization representing the entire
Jewish people.”
There has been great activity
amongst the Jews of Palestine
since General Allenbv freed it from
the Turk. Efforts are being con
centrated on procuring argicultural
machinery, the purchase of live
stock, and development of credit
facilities, while the American Zion
ist Medical Unit in establishing hos
pitals and medical aid stations in
the colonies. Everyone seems in
spired with the hope that a splendid
era of prosperity, of big agricul
tural, industrial and commercial
enterprises are about to open out.
A society of Jewish engineers has
been recently started which is work
ing in conjunction with societies
of Zionist engineers in Russia and
the .United States.
BIG YPRES SHOOTERS
RECEIVED BY YANKS
COBLENZ.—One of the big 24
j centimeter German guns which in
1917 fired upon Ypres day after
day, was turned over to the Ameri
cans recently by the German De
Uvering commission. The Ypres gun
with four others, all mounted upon
railroad trucks, eventually may be
isent to the United States as part
of the war material which has been
[taken charge of by the American
[ Army of Occupation
S' When the five railroad guns ar
! rived in Coblenz from unoccupied
^-Germany they were in charge of
j Lieutenant Rudolph Gogarten. of
the German army, who told mem
| bers of the United States Receiving
[‘commission that he had been in
command of the crew which man
j'ned one of the guns of the ship
ment during the time that it was
; firing upon Ypres two years ago.
Kenaoa—The Gateway to McKinley
Vatjlna] Farit.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Vic
trola No. 10 with fifty records;
Singer sewing machine; all prac
tically new. Inquire News office.
Military drill in the Juneau
; schools, this year required of sev
! enth and eighth grade boys, is re
i reiving enthusiastic support The
: boys are now drilling with dummy
guns, and are becoming familiar
1 with increasingly intricate manoeuv
i ers. They are considering plans for
j securing uniforms before the mili
tary and gymnastic exhibition to be
i held in the high school gymnasium
; in the spring.
DISTANCE TABLE
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
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Talkeetna is the end of steel on
1 the coast division.
From N'enana to No. Miles
Xenana Crossing (byrail).43
i Lignite ..52
Riley Creek 70
Jack River . 90
j Broad Pass Summit . 110
1 Sullivan's . 128
Indian River . 162
Dead Horse . 182
Talkeetna . 202
The distances given are approxi
mate.
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STAMPS
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Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred. Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W T.
Calderhead, It. VV.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R J.
Bouse, Fred
Bavis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
funk, A B.
Finlayson. K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. fj
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q, F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R.
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin. G. S
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O'Keefe, Larrv
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H,
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southv/orth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.