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THE NENANA DAIL Y 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.
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OPENING OF SIBERIA.
Persistent reports are coming from
Britain and other countries of tne
prospective immediate understanding
between the Russian and the Allied
countries, says the Dawson News,
whereby trade and other relations'
will be established. Should such
arrangements be consummated soon,
tt may not be long until Siberia and j
the Northland of Alaska, Yukon 1
and other portions of this continent i
find much in common. With sim-!
ilar resources and climate, and lving ■
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practically contiguous to each other, ;
these countries may in time estab- '•
lish connections which will be of'
great importance.
For years promoters o-f railway'
schemes for the connection of Eu- i
ropean centers with the big centers
of this continent have dreamed of a
railway line running athwart the
Yukon and Alaska and linking the
two hemispheres by means of a tun
nel or ferry at or near Bering
straits. If those sifraits could be ■
linked by rail, the lines radiating
from that point practically would
make it the keystone of the con
tinents. The rails could be led
eastward to any point in Asia, Africa
or Europe, and westward to any
point in North America and South
America. Allowing, of course, for
the southerly trend of the rail lines
after leaving the straits, they might
be expected logically to pass thru ;
Yukon, via Dawson, thus putting!
this cityr on the world belt-line. ;
Delobel and other promoters had'
details of this project planned years j
ago. It may yet be realized.
At the same time, aerial, radio!
and similar routes might be expect
ed along the same course.
It does not require much imagina
tion to picture all the development
which might be expected, to follow
in the wake of such a world-girdling
trunk-line" • of communication. The
throwing open of Russia and Si
beria to friendly relations with the
rest of the world will revive much
speculation on these old projects.
Dawson, after all, is not far from!
Siberia. It is but the matter of a|
few days’ journey down the Yukon;
river and across Bering sea to Si
beria in summer.
Sihowo ic n »-> ntVi r'onufla in nron
and natural resources. These two
great Northlands may be counted
on in time to sustain a great share
of the world’s population and to
bring vast wealth to their inhab
itants. The province of Vologda,
in Northern Russia, lying as far
north as the territory between Daw
son and Whitehorse, long has sus
tained a population of 1,500,000
people. Greater development may
even come to this region. Canada
an^ Siberia have the same hardy
climate and similar physical prob
lems to meet. Waifcch them grow.
* OUR OWN INFLATION ALSO.
There has been published by Hen
ry Holt & Co. a booklet of much
current interest in relation to the
world’s monetary and exchange
troubles growing out of the great
war. It is a reprint of the famous
Bullion Report of 1810 to the house
of commons, together with Professor
Sumner’s chapter on the subject in
his “History of American Curren
cy,” with an introduction by Stuy
vesant Fish, comments the New
York World.
Strange as they may have been
at that time, most of the principles
laid down in the Bullion Report
have since been well learned, and I
above all, the one which affirms that !
when gold is at a premium in paper !
the paper is redundant and depreci
ated, and the premium measures the
depreciation. So with Europe’s pa
per money today and Europe’s ex
changes with the few remaining gold
standard countries.
"Vet of great significance in this
connection is the remark of the
English Professor Cannan, quoted
by Mr. Fish in his recent address
before the New York Economic club:
“When the scales at last fall
from the eyes of the people of Eu
rope, groaning under the rise of
prices, they will no longer cry to
their governmen/ts, ‘Hang the profit
eers!’ but ‘Burn your paper money,
and go on burning it till it will buy
as much gold as it used to do’.”
But is America above learning
anything along this line also? Nom
inally we have no gold premium.
Nominally we are not inflated, and
the great lessons of the Bullion Re
port have no present application
here. We never nowadays see any
gold or gold certificates in circula
tion, it is true, but the Reserve
Bank reports tell us week by week
that circulating notes are little more
than double the amount of gold
actually on hand back of them.
It seems to be commonly forgot
ten that we use checks or credit
bank deposits in place of banknotes
more than any other people, and
these are a liability against the gold
reserves as much as circulating
notes. What, then, is this total
relative liability? President James
S. Alexander of the National Bank
of Commerce has lately reckoned
it up. Our percentage of gold “to
other money and checkable depos
its” is only about 11.5 instead of
the about 50 percent appearing in
Lhe bank reports of gold to circu
lating notes.
That is no* greatly alarming. The !
same percentage before the war was
around 18 percent. But it is not a
situation to crow about. It is not
a situation for Congress to loaf
over. It calls imperatively first of
all for drastic reductions in war
inflated Government expenditure.
Women’* Hosiery, all kinds, re
markably cheap. Fowler & Morris.
POLISH OFFICER TO BE SHOT
FOR STEALING SMALL SUM
WARSAW.—Lieutenant Stanislaw
Zebrowski, of the Polish army, tried
by court martial and found guilty
on a charge of having misappropri
ated 10,000 marks belonging to his
regiment, has been sentenced to be
shot. At the present rate of ex
change, 10,000 marks is the equiva
lent of about $63 in American mon
ey. The prosecution contended at
the hearing that Zebrowski had lost
the money betting on horse races.
WOMEN VOTERS
FEWER THAN MEN
IN UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ballot
cast by women in the coming1 presi- 1
dential election will fall short of the
potential men’s vote by over 2,<500,
000, provided the suffrage amend
ment is ratified and state registra
tion laws are enacted in time to
permit wometr all over the country
to participate, according to esti
mates by the National Woman's
party.
With the 1910 census as a basis,
the Woman’s party estimates the |
number of men eligible to vote at
29,577,690, and the possible women
voters at 26,883,566. In 1916, how
ever, the actual vote cast for all
presidential candidates was 18,528,
743, omitting ballots thrown out for ;
cause, which leaves over 11,000,000
possible voters unregistered. If as
large a proportion of the men voters
remain indifferent in the coming
election, women political leaders j
here say that the eagerness of worn- '
en to exercise their newly acquired j
privilege may more than offset the I
disparity in numbers between the
sexes.
In five of the states, moreover,
women of voting age outnumber the
men. Massachusetts has the great
est preponderance of women “vot
ers,” with 58,264 more women than
men. North Carolina is next with
a women’s majorit yof 15,288, and
South Carolina, with 10,307, is third. |
In Rhode Island, women of voting j
age outnumber the men by 3,196.
and in Maryland by 1,292.
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Awnings, Tarps and Nets made to
Drder. Suits cleaned and pressed, at
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
WARSAW.—Warsaw is humming
with war activity and is crowded to
its very doors with hordes of pov
erty-stricken refugees from the
areas for which the Poles and the
Bolsheviki are fighting. Travelers
say it is the most crowded city i:i I
Eastern Europe. The population is
estimated to have increased from
880,000 to 1,300,000 since the world
war began.
Everywhere there are officers and
soldiers. Military automobiles, trac
tors and various other vehicles of
war traverse the streets all day and
most of the night. The cafe life is
as bright and gay as ever, but the
restaurants and theaters close at 10
p. m. to save food, light and labor, j
The refugees from the war-striven j
areas began streaming into the city
about a year ago, and have been
coming ever since, hoping to find
food and places to sleep. The prob
lem of providing for them has baf
fled the city officials.
In the poorer districts, base
ments, which for generations were
used for storage purposes, have
been used for refugees' sleeping
quarters. In instances 15 to 20 per
sons, and even more, * sleep on a
basement floor, on straw. Others
have found shelter ii>. stables or in
buildings intended for schools. Many
of these refugees are women with
children, who have come out of the
East virtually without funds. Dur
ing the day these people are partly
| supplied with food by the munici
pality or some of the welfare or
ganizations. Many exist only by
begging.
Warsaw’s tenements, always
crowded as New York’s East Side
has been for years, are jammed with
humanity as never before, and dur
ing the severe winter weather, when '
WANT ADS
GOOD COOK WANTED for camp
out of town. Good wages. For
further particulars call at News
office.
BARN^FOr"1rENT—Cheapl 'Inquire
News office.
LOST—Nugget brooch. Suitable re
ward for return to Dr. M. E. Smith.
BARN ToR^RENT^SecolXanT^
Three double stalls. Pump in
barn. Inquire at News.
BUNCH~"oF SEVEN KEYS found?
Owner can recover by calling at
News office and paying for adv.
TIIE^DWYER^TlOME^FOR SALK
Terms reasonable. tf
FOR RENT—Suite of three rooms,
suitable for light housekeeping,
with heat and light and hot and
cold water in connection. Also
office rooms, at The Arctic.
FOR SALE—Two-room house, part
ly furnished, with lot. Desirable
locality. Inquire News office. tf
FOR RENT—Cascade laundry. Fully
equipped and with established in
come. No cash required. Inquire
at Arctic.
there was an epidemic of influenza
here, old men and women and chil
dren died by the hundreds every day
in this land of the poor.
City officials sep no relief in sight
jntil warmer weather comes, when
they hope the people will gradually
jegin leaving for the country to
vork on farms.
Over-the-Ice Eggs—15 days from
Seattle-at Johnson’s Store-$1.50
>er dozen. k'20
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE.
A quarantine is hereby establish
?d in favor of Brooks and Liven
rood and against all outlying com
nunities and all persons are for
lidden to travel to or from said
places.
J. A. SUTHERLAND,
Assistant Territorial Health Com
missioner.
lfenana, Alaska's Interior Fnel Bepot
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Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains.
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 Commission, or
at Camp 415 (Nprth Nenana)'.
Tickets will be on sale at \ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufiicient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
Camp 415 (North Nenana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7 :#0 a. m.:
arrive North Nenana. 11 :30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m :
arrive Fairbanks, 5:3# p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
Daring the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
’operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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