The Nenana News
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Nenana, Alaska, Nov, IS, 1916.
The completion of the govern
ment electric light and power
plant while the towrn is still in its
infancy is a big step forward for
Nenana and may be regarded as
an evidence of sincere interest in
the development of the town on
the part of Commissioner Riggs.
No other town in Alaska at the
age of six months could boast of
such a plant, and even Anchorage,
a year older than Nenana, and
tha center of greater railroad ac
tivity, is still dependant upon gas
oline and kerosene for its lights—
the commissioners at the other
end of the railroad not yet having
provided the town with electricity.
At this rate, when Nenana is a
year older, it should be the fore
most town in the territory, and
we know that it is the desire of
Mr. Riggs to provide us with
everything possible in the way of
public uitlities as rapidly as the
funds at his disposal will permit.
The town of Nenana has recei
ved some very undesirable adver
tising lately through the columns
of the Fairbanks press—the more
undesirable because the advertis
ing in question was not founded
on fact. We refer to the state
ment said to have been made by a
driver in the employ of the Palmer
stage line which appeared in one
of the Fairbanks newspapers re
cently and which reflects serious
ly upon the sobriety of Nenanaites.
‘"From Nenana today there ar
rived in Fairbanks a stage driver,”
the article reads, “who says that
five or six drunks. can be seen on
the streets (of Nenana) any day.”
The driver is also quoted as say
ing that he could have taken or
ders in Nenana for about six hun
dred gallons of liquor but that he
refused to haul it,
As a matter of fact, five or six.
or any other number of drunks,
cannot be seen on the streets of
Nenana any day, and we question
if the Palmer driver ever saw
that many intoxicated persons
here, unless it was on the day that
a boatload of Fairbanks excursion
ists visited the town during the
past summer.
It would be difficult to find a
more sober town than Nenana and
as was shown conclusively by the
vote on the wet and dry question,
the great majority of residents
would not have it otherwise,
i -
The importance of meeting a
national issue appeals somewhat
more strongly to Mr. Bryan, as
publicity agent for the Prohibi
tionists than it did while he was
Secretary of State.
Those who came to Nenana ex
pecting to find the climate severe
are being very agreeably disap
pointed,
Don't kick because you are not
making money as fast as you ex
pected to. Give a little of your
sympathy to poor old man Hughes,
He gave up a soft life job to run
' for the Presidency and now he
1 has not even the chance to secure
a reappointment.
If the official count favors Wil
! son in other States as it has in
! California and elsewhere, Hughes
would not make a very good show
ing in a recount.
Delegate Wickershams denun
ciation of the Wilson administra
tion at the commencement of the
late campaign undoubtedly turned
many votes to Sulzer. And it will
prove a serious handicap to him if
he is re-elected.
The Calhoun mail team arrived from
Chena on schedule time yesterday after
noon, with first and second class mail
matter from the Outside. The outgoing
mail was despatched this morning. As
usual the post office was kept open last
eveningluntil eight o’clock.
The large two-story building next to
the New York block, and which will be
occupied by the Nenana Trading comp
any’s store and pool room, will be ready
for occupancy within a few days. In
fact part of the stock has already been
moved into the building, but there is
some work yet to be done m the way of
interior finishing before the new pilace
will 've open for business.
The soft weather of the past week
has caused a considerable rise in the
Tanana river and several open places
have made their appearance in the ice.
The Nenana yver is open for several
miles.
NORTH STAR RESTAURANT
MIKE’S PLACE
The Best There is in the Eating Line Always on Tap
Open Day and Night
!
PROGRESS OF THE BIG STRUGGLE IN EUROPE
MONDAY
Poonnan—Sulzer, 21; Wickersliam, 19;
Grigsby, 21; Cobb, 19; Schofield. 11;
McGowan, 1; McCabe, 3: Sutherland,42;
j Dry, 36: Wet, 11.
| Nome -Delegate Wickersliam received
i a substantial plurality in this precinct,
1 the final returns giving him more than
300 more than Sulzer. The vote was
as follows: Wickersliam, 788; Sulzer, 564;
Grigsby, 969; Schofield, 247. It is lie
lieved here that the Marshall City re
turns will decide the delegate content.
ED PASO: The government customs
guards at Juarez, vvhc were formerly sol
diers under Villa’s banner, were dis
armed and removed from duty today be
cause of a plot discovered wherein the
soldiers and customs guards were on the
verge of mutinying in lavor of Villa.
Other circumstances connected with
the plot reveal the fact that the Carran
za soldiers, recently arrived from Chihua
hua city, were about to join the suspect
ed mutineers.
PKTROGR.AD: The Russians in their
southward sweep along the right bank
of the Danube have captured and now
occupy several important villages.
BERDIN; Two more allied aeroplanes
have been brought to earth on the
Somme front by German sharpshooters.
ED PASO: The civilian population
are fleeing from Chihuahua city tearing
an attack from Villa who has been rein
forced by 3,400 men from Zacatecas who
are now nearing the Torreon railroad
centre.
DONDON: The issue in the Dobrudja,
where the reorganized Russo-Rumanian
forces are attempting to regain possess
ion of Constanza and the Cernavoda
railway lines seems again to hang in the
balance. The Russo-Rumanian troops
are advancing from the north upon Mac
kensen’s left flank at Tcliernavoda, and
the other entente armies are close to the
town and spread out a distance of twelve
miles to and along the bridge and via
duct that spans the Danube and on the
extensive marshes west of the main
stream. In a preliminary battle, led by
Gen. Sarkoff, north of Constanza, to ob
tain possession of a strategical position,
the German-Bnlgarian cavalry were
driven back totheir main line. Macken
sen’s forces are menacing Bucharest,
DONDON; It is officially reported
that a thousand yards of trenches were
captured by the British from the Ger
mans on the Somme front last night.
Two members of the lower house of1
Parliament, Thomas and McDonald,
spoke at the peace meeting held at Car
dif yesterday afternoon together with
several members of the South Wales
Miner's Association. The meeting
broke up in a wild not atid several
were seriously injured.
BERDIN: An official dispatch annonn
ces that the German forces are having
great success in Galicia and have pene
trated the Russian positions on the Nar
yavok river, after violent fighting. Sev
eral Rumanian positions were captured
at the point of the bayonet and 500
Russo-Rumapians taken prisoners.
BERDIN; An official dispatch says that
in a portion of Northern France occu
pied by the Germans nine of the inhab
itants were killed in an aerial raid by i
the allies.
TUESDAY
!
WASHINGTON; Secret Service agents I
have arrested Dr. Carl Graves, self- I
styled International spy, for attempting ,
to blackmail the Countess Von Bern- ]
storff. Besides the charges of blackmail I
Graves is charged with stealing over1
3,100 letters and papers in transit from
Germany to von Bernstorff.
LONDON; An official report from the
Somme says that the British are attack
ing the Germans who are entrenched on
the south and north of the Ancre river.
Many prisoners have been taken by the
British the last few days.
Laredo, Tex.: Near Contreras, in liie
I State of Morelos, a train was held lip by
followers of Zapata and an indiscrimin
ate massacre of a hundred women and
; children took place.
PETROGRAI): Violent engagements
are taking place in every section of the
Rumanian theatre of war and l>oth sides
i are claiming successes. Advices from
| Bucharest indicate that the Russo-Ru
manians have a little the advantage.
BERLIN; The German artillery have
repulsed several strong British and
I French attacks made on the Somme front
trenches last night. The Russians and
| Rumanians have been shelling Cerna
I voda, now held by Mackenscn, but so
] far have done very little damage.
WASHINGTON; An immense crowd
greeted the President upon his arrival
here last night after an absence of two
months. The subject of the recent sub
marine activities will be taken up dt
once,
PARIS: Two encircling movements
of the Allies on the Somme front direct
ed against Baupaume are slowlv prog
ressing, notwithstanding the stubborn
1 resistance of the Germans.
SOFIA: On the western bank of the
Danube, opposite Ctrnavoda, the Russo*
Rumanians have been compelled* to
j evacuate their positions by the Bulgar
I inns.
BUCHAREST: The bombardment of
Constanza by the Russian fleet is going
on and the Bulgarian shore batteries
have been silenced. Several large res
ervoirs of benzine were exploded by
bursting shells from the Russian ves
i sels causing immense loss of life.
PETROGRAD: Official reports reach
ing here state that the Russians have oc
j cupied Ghisderechti Topal, near Hirso
va, on the south side of the Danube.
After a series of desperate counter at
tacks the Russo-Rnnianiaus have suc
ceeded in winning back much of the
ground they lost in the neighborhood of
Baranoyi telly.
BERLIN; The German War Office an
nounces that, notwithstanding the stub
' **■1 ■
| born resistance of our troops, the British
succeeded in gaining the Reaumont,
Hamel and St. Pierre villages anil
caused us important losses.
WEDNESDAY
PARIS: The Germans are renewing
their attacks in the Champagne district
i in order to divert the pressure exercised
against the Germans on the Somme and
Verdun fronts. So far all the attacks
have been repulsed by the breach.
i LONDON: The Ilritish, according to
an official dispatch received at the War
Office last night, gained positions on
the Somme front that will enable them
to hold tile city of Miramount entirely at
their mercy. Five thousand Germans
were made p-isoners and a stretch of
country, seven miles wide, almost reach
: ing to the hamlet of Heaumont, fell into
the hands of the Ilritish. The Germans
were taken completely bv surprise and
the mist and darkness of early morning,
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