THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April lt 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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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth. Editor »pd Manager
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A movement to premit the sale of
horse meat in butcher shops through
out Canada has received the in
dorsement of all leading live stock
organizations in the Calgary section
of Canada and soon will be formally
placed before the Dominion govern
ment in the form of a recommenda
tion, according to the Alberta Horse
Cattle, Sheep and Swine Breeders’
Association.
Horse meat, sold under the same
regulations as obtain in • various
European countries would result in
a great economic saving, the asso
ciation says, adding that “thousands
of light horses that have ceased to
be of economic value consume large
quantities of feed annually.”
Figures dealing with the sale of
horse meat in Europe were made
public. They showed that one-sixth
of the 600,000 families in Paris eat
horse flesh, and that Germany, as
far back as 1909, used 79,000,000 j
pounds of horse meat annually. In
1909, Germany also consumed 6,990
dogs, the figures showed.
The American Red Cross ware
house in Pari^. at 90 Rue du Chemin
Vert, is located on the scene of a
good part of the action in Victor
Hugo’s novel “Les Miserables”. The
author gives the street its full name,
now discarded, of “rue du Chemin
' Vert St. Antoine”. It was up this
: “long and narrow street”, that Jean
Valjean and the child Fantine turned
when pursued by the police.
At the end of this street is Bicpus,
where Jean Valjean took refuge in
a convent. At the other end is the
Place des oges, where Victor Hugo
' lived while writing “Les Miserables”
THE ARCTIC
Cigars =- Tobaccos — Candies
Soft Drinks — Pool
Furnished Rooms For Rent
HARRY DAVIS
FRANK TAYLOR
Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE
■maMna
LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
1 Fresh Ranch Eggs Fresh Milk
a
The Tavern
W. F. RODIGKEIT, Pr®p.
TRY SOME FRESH GREENS WITH ONE OF
OUR DINNER ORDERS
If It Is On the Market You Will Find It Here
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GROCERS
WAR IS GIVING
WOMEN OPENING
ON COASI WORK
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ANCHORAGE.—War, with its ^
consequent effect of drawing young
men to the colors, is resulting in the :
rapid increase in the number of
women employees in the officer of
the Goverment railroad. And with
the constant addition of feminine
workers, the problem of housing
them had to be given consideration
by officials of the Alaskan Engin- j
eering commission.
Four large two-story buildings,
partitioned into rooms for either one
or two tenants, have been in uso
for bachelor quarters for men ever 1
since the Commission began the con-!
struction of the Government rail- j
road. Until very recently, no hous-'
ing provision was necessary for
women employees because there were!
only a few of them and practically
all of these lived at home with rela- j
tives. Of late, however, so many |
women, who have been engaged as
clerks or stenographers to take the1
places of men in the offices of the
Commission, either have come from
the States or have experienced the
breaking up of their homes here
because their men folks joined the
army that the question of suitable
quarters for women workers de
mantled an answe"
Accordingly, the Commission has
just turned over to women employes
the large dwelling house formerly
occupied by Colonel Frederick Mears,
who was a member of the Commis
sion for the Anchorage division and
who is now in France in command
of the Thirty-first Regiment of En
gineers, United States army.
Soon after the dwelling was
vacated by Colonel Mears last winter
it was occupied as bachelor quarters
by a number of young men em
ployed by the Commission. With
one or two exceptions, all of these
either have gone or are going to
the war.
The young women who have now
taken the dwelling are chaperoned
by Mrs. C. G. Jones, whose husband
is a captain with the Thirty-First
engineers. Captain Jones, before he
joined the army, was roadmaster on
the Government railway. He was
known from one end of the line to
other as ‘‘Hurry Up" Jones.
NOTICE
Xenana townsite lots will be
offered for sale at the townsite
office at 11 a. m.. October 26th.
28th and 29th. 1918, at public auc
tion.
Anyone desiring a particular lot
put up for sale please notify the
Townsite Manager on or before the
dates named.
H. B. JOSEPH,
Townsite Manager.
Food means first of all Wheat... The
next two months will tell.
CROOKS. JAILED
IN FRANCE FOR
CLEVER JOBBING
PARIS.—How an American white
pearl worth $14,400 was treated
with a chemical, given leirporarily i
the rosy hue of an Orion.al pearl i
and then sold for $.12,000 has been ]
disclosed here. For doing this. Bar-]
booza, a pearl broker, and \ anna, j
a Hindoo, were fined and sentenced
to imprisonment for faking By use !
of chemicals they endeavored to in- j
crease the value of the pearls four'
fold.
This ms;' dears up the u ysierv j
which has existed in the Paris mar-!
ket for five years, since a dealer
in precious stones first learned that
“manipulated pearls” were being
sold here.
Varma, who is a lapidary claimed
in court that he possessed a method
of improving American pearls and
that he had been promised a share
in all the profits derived in treating
the one which led to his detection,
if it were sold for more than $21,
600. He was at work at it when
it was seized by the police. The
evidence showed that Varma has used
on the pearl acetate of amyl and col
lodion.
A pearl expert, Reinach, told the I
judge that Varma had given the
pearl the rosy tint of the Oriental
pearl by glazing it with chemicals
but that the glazing disappeared
when the pearl was placed in alcohol.
Varma was sentenced to six months
in prison and to pay a fine of
$1,000, while Barboza was sentenced
for three months and to pay a fine
of 100. In its judgment the court
stated that sea pearls from the
Orient are very luminous and at
tain high prices, while fresh water
pearls, called American, are less
fine, generally white and of lower
value. The pearl treated by Varma,
the court added, has been offered
to leading Paris and American jewel
houses which had failed to detect
the deception he had practiced. The
court declared that Varma’s treat
ment added no value to the pearl
and that it had only temporary
effect which disappeared if the pearl
were rubbed or placed in alcohol.
Mrs. E. T. Barnette was granted
a divorce from her husband Cap
tain Barnette recently at San Fran
cisco. The divorce action was
brought on the strength of two let
ters written to a woman by the
name of Dorothy Fullen, of New
York and Mexico, with whom Cap
tain Barnette appeared to be on in
timate terms.
Jim O’Neil, who was formerly em
ployed in Fairbanks by John Moe
is now a street car conductor in
San Francisco.
A Sheldon-Gibson auto left for
the coast this morning with four
passengers.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
NEW CONSIGNMENT
Green Tomatoes
Fresh Parsnips
Fresh Carrots
Fresh Beets
Fresh Celery
Outside Potatoes
Native Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
California Onions
Cabbage
FRESH EGGS
Apples Pears Oranges Lemons
Graqe Froit Grapes
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
Bn FORCED
10 SUIT POKE
AMSTERDAM. The experience
of an Austrian banker with Bolshe
vik methods, when he made a busi
ness trip to East Russia recently, is
the talk of the Vienna bourse, ad
vices received here state.
The banker was arrested and in
terned. Disguiesed as a peasant,
he escaped with 10,000 rubles in his
possession. He fell in with a com
pany of Bolsheviki who, despite his
protests, took and divided the con
tents of his pockets.
"Share and share alike is the rule
here," they explained, handing him
back his "share", which was only
a tenth of his capital.
Soon, though, his fortunes took
a turn for the better. He fell in
with another band which added to
its ranks a ragged individual from
whose pockets 100,000 rubles was
extracted. This sum was pooled and
carefully divided and the banker re
ceived a fat share. Eventually he
returned to Vienna with 20.000
roubles.
WANT ADS
\\ ANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Urge tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
! PIANOS—For Rent and Sale. Sim
i son’s.
WANTED - Reliable party to rent
or manage Central Lodging House.
Inquire on premises. 0-21
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con
nections. Inquire Waechter Bros.
Market.
“There are two sides to com
munism,” he now says.
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CENTRAL RESTAURANT
FIRST CLASS QUICK SERVICE
HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
KETOOROKY & CO.
(BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JOHN)
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Air Tight Heaters
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JEWELER
ENGRAVER