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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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A MODERN NAVY.
Advancement of naval armament
from Spanish-American war days to
the present is shown in the weight
of a broadside fired from the old
battleship Oregon, the largest at
the time of the Spanish-American.
war, and from vessels of the Penn-!
sylvania type of the new Pacific ]
fleet.
The Oregon could fire a broadside
of steel projectiles weighing 5,660
pounds. A broadside from the Penn
sylvania type with its 14-inch guns
would weigh 17,500 pounds.
Future American dreadnaughts
and battle cruisers are to mount
16-inch guns. Each projectile will
weight 2,100 pounds, compared with
the 14-inch shells of the Pennsyl
vania The broadside from the fu
ture battleships will wTeigh a total
of 25,200 pounds—more than four
times the size of an Oregon broad- J
side.
The new ships will be the beari- j
est-armed ships in the world. The,
16-inch guns were developing dar
ing 3018 and proved satisfactory in
every respect.
The largest guns on the Atlantic
fleet in its cruise of 1907-1907
around the world were 12-inch. Th“
greatest number of these on any
single ship was four, against the
batteries of twelve 14-inch guns on
the more powerful dreadnaughts of
Admiral Hugh Rodman's new Pa
cific fleet. The 12-inch gun had a
maximum effective range of 10,000
yards, against the 22,000-yard Rod
man guns. The fleet of ten years
ago, naval officers say, would be
helpless against even a small part
of the Pacific fleet. The Atlantic
fleet, when it made its famous trip,
was considered the greatest fleet
ever brought together.
Admiral Robley D. Evans com
manded the Atlantic fleet until it
reached San Francisco. All his ves
sels burned coal, as did the Oregon
of Spanish-American war days. Ad
miral Rodman’s flagship, the New
Mexico, is electrically propelled, and
most of his vessels are oil-burners,
thus materially increasing their
cruising radius over any previous
American fleet.
STILL FIGHTING.
It is estimated that there are
four million destitute persons in
Poland, including two million moth
ers and children. For five years the
struggling armies of Russia and
the Central Powers swept back and
forth over the country. Thousands
of houses and other buildings were
destroyed.
Now that peace has settled upon
the rest of the world, Poland is still
engaged in frontier warfare. From
the Baltic to the Carpathians, on a
front three times the length of the
former Western one, the Poles are
mobilized. Even women and girls
are performing military sendee, not
as their French and American sis
ters did in hospitals and ambulances,
but on the firing line with rifles in
their hands.
Despite these conditions, the new
Polish government is making a de
termined effort to care for its civ
ilians, with the assistance of Allied
relief agencies. The American Red
Cross has already sent to Poland a
dozen trainloads of supplies, cloth
ing, medicines, and children's food.
What this has meant to the new
republic is summed up in the state
ment of a Polish government offi
cial, who told the Red Cross work
ers: j
ou are saving a race which has
struggled for independence for hun
dreds of years, and are winning;
their everlasting gratitude and'
friendship.”
TURKISH ATROCITIES.
Charges that Turkish officials1
decimated the- Greek population \
along the Black sea coast, 250,000!
men, women and children living be
tween Sinope and Ordou, without
the shedding of blood, but by “par
boiling” the victims in Turkish baths
and turning them out half-clad to
die of pneumonia or other ills in
the snow of an Anatolian winter,
are made in a letter from Dr.
George E. White, representative of
the American Committee for Relief
in the Near East, made public re- j
cently in New York.
Sinope was the birthplace of the!
philosopher Diogenes, Dr. White re
calls, and Ordou is just beyond!
Cape Jason, which is still preserved
in memory of the Argonauts and |
the Golden Fleece. The letter, writ- j
ten to Professor J. P. Xenides, sec-1
retary of the New York Greek Re- j
lief Committee, described the new J
method of ridding the land of its I
inhabitants, which, it said, was some-;
what different from that employed
by the Turks against the Armen:-;
a ns.
The worst of the crimes laid to;
the Turks, according to Dr. White, j
were committed in the winters of
1916 and 1917, when orders were
issued for the deportation of the:
Greeks along the Black sea coast.
The people, he wrote, were crowded
into the steam-rooms of the baths
in Chorum under the pretense of
“sanitary regulations.” and after be
ing tortured for hours, were turned
out of doors into snow almost knee
deep, and without lodging or food.
Their garments, which had been
taken from them for fumigation,
were lost, ruined or stolen. Most
of the victims, ill-clad and shiver
ing, contracted tuberculosis and oth
er pulmonary diseases and “died in
swarms” on the way to exile, the
letter declared.
Dr. White said that in the prov
ince of Barfa, where there were
more than 29,000 village Greeks,
now less than 13,000 survive, and
every Greek settlement has been
burned. The number of orphans,
including some Armenian and Turk
ish children, in the entire district,
it was said, aggregated 60,000. Since
the armistice, the doctor wrote,
many of the deportees have been
returning to their ruined homes.
In Preferred Class.
A prominent physician, upon
opening the door of his consulting
room, asked:
“Who ha3 been waiting longest?”
“I have,'’ spoke up a man with
a stentorian voice. “I’m your tail
or. I delivered your clothes four
weeks ago.”
Word has been received at the
local office of the American-Yukon
! Navigation company that ample
I shipping facilities are available now
for the handling of all freight of
fered at Seattle and other coast
points for Northern delivery. In
other words, Alaskan shippers may
order goods now with the assurance
■ that there will be no difficulty in
I getting cargo space to points on
(the Alaska coast.
It was not known here officially
!that any shortage of ocean boats
.existed, but it is assumed from the
message received that a congestion
| of freight was threatened, possibly
owing to late shipments of railroad
materia! and supplies, which only
recently have started coming North
in quantities.
It would appear that the coast
steamship companies have secured
additional vessels for the Northern
run and are now preparing to take
care of any business that may de
velop.
There has been considarable com
plaint along the coast regarding
passenger accommodations, since the
commencement of the season. Ev
ery boat leaving Seattle has been
sold out, some of the earlier boats
for months in advance of the sailing
date, with the result that travelers
have been put to much inconven
ience and extra expense to reach
Alaska.. The infrequency of sail
ings also has interfered consider
ably with the despatch of mails to
and from Alaska.
Coast papers attribute the In
creased activity of the steamship
companies to the fact that the ter
ritory has threatened to invade the
transportation field, and to the fur
ther fact that Alaska transportation
lines have been placed under the
jurisdiction of the Interstate Com
merce commission. It is significant,
at any rate, that the announcement
of improved service follows closely
on the heels of an order from
Washington, summoning the heads
of Northern steamship companies to
a conference at the national capi
tal.
OLD COLORADO MINER
STAKES SILVER CLAIM
FOUND 46 YEARS AGO
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New—After visiting
mining camp in the
TONOPAH,
nearly every
world. C. H. Gann, of Pueblo, Colo
rado, has returned to Nevada and
staked a silver claim he discovered
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46 years ago near Belmont.
In 1873, Mr. Gann, then a miner
at Belmont, discovered what he be
llieved to be a promising ledge. He
[made mental note of the spot and
| returned to Belmont, intending to
stake the claim soon afterward.
I Instead, he left Belmont and visited
. practically all the mining camps in
'the world, intending to return some
; day to his discovery,
j Mr. Gann, despite his long ab
sence, went at once to the ledge
j upon arriving in Nevada.
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Yes, Chances the Pitch.
Sarah, the little daughter of a
[clergyman, was asked if her papa
;ever preached the same sermon
twice. After considering a moment,
she answered:
“Yes, I think he does; but I think
he hollers in different places.”
Renana, When mails and Rivers Meet
WOMAN’S STATEMENT
WILL HELP NENANA
“I hated cooking because whatever
I ate gave me sour stomach and a
bloated feeling. I drank hot water
and olive oil by the gallon. Nothing
helped until I tried simple buck
thorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed
in Adler-i-ka.” Because it flushes
the ENTIRE bowel tract completely
Adler-i-ka relieves ANY CASE sour
stomach, gas or constipation and
prevents appendicitis. The INSTANT
action is surprising. A. D. Thomp
son, druggist.
WANT ADS
(WANTED—Pair of 8-power field
I glasses. Inquire Pete Jensen, at
Johnson's Store.
' lSst^cjultps^tugget” NECK
CHAIN. Reward for return to
George Sarantis at The Terminal.
FOR SALE — Showcase, 514 feet
long.' Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
Neighborly.
Mrs. Wilson wanted to get Mrs.
■Johnson's cook away from her so
I badly that she actually went to
Mrs. Johnson's house when she was
i
| away and offered the cook more
: money. The next time they met at
a big dinner Mrs. Johnson didn’t
[notice her.
“'Mrs. Johnson, you know Mrs.
Wilson, do you not?" said the lady
who sat between them.
“No. I believe not," said Mrs.
Johnson, “but I understand that she
calls on my cook."—New York Am
erican.
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Countryman: Looky 'ere, Mister,
yer three-minute corf-cure ain't i
done me a bit o' good.
Quack: Ain’t it? Well, I reckon ;
yours ain't a three-minute cough.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second ind Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
j tickets before entering the train.
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 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
(A street on Wednesdays and Satur
! days at 8 p. m.
j On and after july 15th the freight
] on the North side of the river at
Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
; Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 7 a. m.. until further
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