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”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska.
R. G. Southworth .Editor and Manager
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A LESSON IN HISTORY
Many, many years ago on the site ,
of what is now the city of Lcadville !
— way back in the early seventies,1
there was a great placer stampede!
and gold rush. Earlier in the sixties l
there was a great gold rush to Mon
tana—Alder creek, the richest dig
ging the world ever knew with;
an equal era. In '49 Sutter's mill j
drew men from the uttermost ends!
of the earth.
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Today the city of Lcadville sends '
the smoke of a hundred smelting;
furnaces through long channels so j
that the precious contents of even'
the fumes of the furnaces may be
saved.
Today Butte and Helana stand as
mounments to that band of Alder
gulch pioneers.
Sacramento, San Francisco and:
a hundred cities of mountain, hill:
and plain mark the result of the
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placer production of Sutters mill, j
What would have happened to!
these localities if the good old j
American spirit of presistence had1
not prevailed.
Those places soon gave out. But
the men who dug in them kept ever-1
lastingly at it and turned the very
disadvantages of nature to their ac
count. They found new methods
of mining, they discovered new
ores, they wrested the secrets of
Mother N’ature from her very bosom
and built great commonwealths on
the ruins of their placer camps.
Shall Alaskan’s be lacking in this
great American spirit; ur snail
we overcome the difficulties that
beset us?
Shall \ve say that Fairbanks'
1 lacer diggings are exhausted when
we know thai in California ground
having less values would be counted
bonanzas?
No—never! We must devis<; the
means and the method to restore
placer production. We must de
velop her hard rock mines. We
must turn Xenana's coal deposits
into the power that -will revive
Fairbanks and bring to life a hun
dred other fields of production.
Fairbanks is not dead—Nenana is
not sleeping. We are going into
partnership—the Nenana-Fairbanks
partnership, that will make the won
der twins of the world the Butte
and Helana of Alaska—the Seattle
Tacoma of Alaska; the San Fran
eisco-Los Augeles of Alaska.
We can do it if we will bury
petty jealousies and give ourselves
whole-heartedly as one soul to tin
effort.
TO MUCH BOLSHEVIKI
A winter of starvation is a safe
prediction for Russia, writes a cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
Indications, he says, are that it will
be one of the worst winters the
Russian people have experienced in
ail their history
All summer the food situation in
Russia, particularly in Moscow, Pet
ror/bd and other large cities became
steadily more and more acute. In
the latter part of August, before
the writer left Moscow, bread, or
that mixture of straw, oat husks
and other ingredients of unkown
origin which Moscow inhabitants are
induced to accept as bread, had al
most entirely disappeared, and cer
tain city districts had nut received
the usual allowance for nearly a
week.
The government had classified the
population into categories, whereby
working men and government em
ployees received a larger allowance,'
while professionals and well-to-do
people get the smallest, which in
Moscow amounts to one-sixteenth of
a pound. In Petrograd the bour
geots or middle class fared poorly
on an allowance of three herring's
a day .
The shortage of bread is largely
due to the government's short-sight
ed policy in fixing a low price for
grain which did not even cover the
farmer’s expenditure let alone a
profit. The peasants refused to
comply w;th the decree to turn over
all grain in excess of a certain ar
bitrarily fixed amount to the food
committee, and when the latter were
reinforced by a detachment of armed
“bread crusaders”, the peasants gaht
ered from several villages and
offered resistance, frequently put
ting the crusaders to flight.
But even if the government price
were much higher the peasants would
not willingly exchange their grain
for worthless money of which they
seem to have much and which has
no practical value to them. They
want manufactured goods w.hich the
government is unable to furnish, as
most of the factories are idle, for
lack of fuel and raw material, and
also because the Bolsheviki need the
workmen to fight on the numerous
fronts.
Nenara—Tlie Gateway to McKinley
National Park.
SAVING THE ARMENIANS
The British government is de
termined that tin- vroi g suffered
by the Armenians at the hands of
the Turks shall be righted and their
recurrence made impossible, writ.?.
I.ord Robert Cecil, the parliament
ary under secretary of state for
foreign affairs to Viscount Bryce.
Four points mentioned by Lord
Cecil as the charter of the Armen
ian’s right to liberation at the hands
i of the Allies are:
"The refusal of th • Vrmenians as ;
a nation in the fall of 1 <» 14 to
work for the cause of Turkey and
her allies, although offers of auto
i nomy were made if thny actively
assisted Turkey in the war.
"Partly on account of this cour
ageous zeal, the Ottoman Armenians
were systematically murdered by the
Turkish government in 1915, two
thirds of the population being ex
terminated by most coldblooded and
fiendish methods.—700,990 men.
women and children being killed.
“From the beginning of the war
that half of the Armenian nation
under Russian sovereignty organized
volunteer corps and l ore the brunt
of some of the heaviest fighting
in Caucasia under their leader An
dranik.
“These same Armenian torn-: af
ter the Russian breakdown took over
the Caucasian front and for five
months held up the Turkish ml ,-ance
and thus rendered important service
to the British in .Mesopotamia.’’
Lord Robert Cecil adds that Ar
menians fought valientlv in Syria
and took part in the Palestine cam
paign.
Second elas mail srriver today in
Fairbanks.
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ery cold weather is being ex
i tparienced in Fairbanks today, the
temper;.ture has dropped o 12 be-!
low zero.
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Nenana—The Gateway to McKinley
1 national Park.
ROADHOUSES ON
BROAD PASS TRAIL
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For the benefit of those who may i
desire to travel to the States or
the coast b way of the Broad Pass
trail, the News takes much pleasure j
in publishing the following list of
roadhouses with the approximate
distance between them and a few
notes regarding trail conditions: j
Nenana to Lignite roadhous 52 miles
Lignite to Riley creek IS milesj
Riley creek to Jack river 20 miles |
Jack river to Summit 20 miles
Broad Pass to Middle Fork
Chulitna (Sullivans) 18 miles:
Middle Fork to Indian river 34 miles!
Indian river to Deadhorse 20 miles!
Deadhorse to Talkeetna 20 miles j
The above list has been compiled
from information gathered from
those who have made the trip to
the coast from Nenana and some
of whom have returned to Nenana
over the Broad Pass trail, and is
accurate, the distances given are
approximate and are as nearly cor
rect as it is possible to obtain.
From the Broad Pass (Summit
roadhouse) to Sullivan’s roadhouse:
on the Middle Fork of the Chulitna
river there are two trails, one of
iwhich is on the river ice and is said
to be a trifle shorted than the other.
Owing to the frequent overflows
encountered, the river trail is not
recommended by travelers, most of
whom state that the difference in
the distance between the river and
land trails is very slight, perhaps
a mile at most.
The Pass itself begins about seven
miles from the Jack river roadhouse,
a gentle slope leading up to it. It
is thirteen miles long and about i
eight miles wide, the Broad Pass
roadhouse is situated just over the
pass.
The trail all the way through
is said to be Rood in the winter and
it is thought that the distance be
tween the ends of steel should be
covered in about a week's time.
There is said to be scattering
timber on the trail, JacK river and
the country adjacent to the middle
fork of the Chulitna river having
more timber than elsewhere along
the trail. Sufficient wood however,
can always be obtained anywhere
along the traii to make a campfire
with in case of a breakdown or hav
ing to “siwash” it from any cause.
The roadhouses are said to be
comfortably fitted up and good
meals can always be had. They
always have a supply of fresh wild :
meat moose caribou and mountain
sheep being frequent on the bills
of fare.
On the Bread Pass the trail
crosses three small lakes, the larg
est of which is about a miie and a
half long. The trees along the trail
have been blazed to mark the way
and where there are no trees, tri
pods have been set up so that the
traveler may not lose his vay.
Mike Cooney and a gang of men
are now building a trail to the end
of steel on the coast division, and
from accounts received to date, the
intending traveler will find a very
good trail all the way from Lignite
ito Talkeetna, which is said to be
the end of steel for the coast divi
i sion.
IRoll of Ibonor
The following boys inducted
into the service of the country
from the Xenana district have
given up their lives in their
country’s cause, being called
by death at Camp Dodge, Iowa,
and Overseas:
Harold Raymond Anderson
Michael Saroff
Michael Edward Meagher
John Edward Nye
Nicholas Gustiff
Alex Zabcft'
Joseph Gustafson
Royal Robert Douse
Frank Karry
CHOP SUEY
Chicken Noodles
at the
Northern Cafe
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r.s. McDonald
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NEWS OFFICE
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Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butsed** in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Jun.au AUtka.
•Announcement is made that a
meetinu of the original quarantine
committee will be held at the town
site office at 7:30 p. m., on Thrus
day, December 12th, for the con
sideration of sundry important mat
ters, especially ways and means.
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Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
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If e nan a. Wliere Rails and Rivers Meet
WANT ADS
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FOR SALK—-New lineoleum ma
hopany phonopraph, child's bed,
and Persian cat. Inquire of Mrs.
Mellish.
1 LOST —Bunch of Keys; five flat
Yale keys and two round keys.
Kinder please return to News
Office. Reward.
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onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald.
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