THE NENANA DAILY 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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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.......Editor and Manager
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LEADER WANTED
To George Harvey’s Weekly, Mr.
Arthur E. Woodin, a citizen of
Columbus, 0., writes to suggest that
the millions of Americans who fol
lowed Roosevelt must now devote
their minds and hearts to the dis
covery of the man who will succeed
him in that essential progressive
leadership. “’The writer believes,”
says Mr. Wooden, “that there :s
no man so suited by breadth of
mind, sympathy, and experience and
sincerity of soul to measure up to
the needs of America as the Hon.
Albert J. Beveridge, former senator
from Indiana.”
The Progressive party is gone,
but the progressive group remains.
That group is a powerful entity in
the Republican party. It had but
lately its distinct influence in the
recent rule reforms in senate and
house. It has an even more dis
tinct and powerful place in the real
popular strength of Republicanism
throughout the country.
Who shall lead it? Who shall
be the man to whom the progressive
group will turn as the leader to take
up the burden which Roosevelt has
laid down forever?
Logic, inspiration, sentiment, fact
—all these forces point to Mr. Bev
eridge. The citizen from Ohio has
made a suggestion which, we believe,
will thoroughly justify itself before
will thoroughly justify itself be
fore the republic.—Rocky Mountain
News.
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FACTS AND PRESUMPTIONS
A speaker before the Association!
of Commerce in Chicago suggested!
that Japan’s insistence on the right
of immigration to this country might
make the League of Nations a men
ace to the United States.
“It is not possible,” he said, “for
this question to be settled diplo
matically.” He added that attempts
to do so had failed.
“But where would Japan be,” in
terrupted an auditor, “if the League
if Nations decided against her?”
“All the other nations would be
with Great Britain and the L:nited
states,” added another. “That’s
us: the virtue of the League of
Nations.”
If the United States could count
■n the perpetual support of Great
3ritain and the other nations; if
he League of Nations decides
igainst Japan now and forever: if
;very other decision made by the
League of Nations favors the United
states—then, in fact, believes the
rhicago Tribune, there is no danger
:o the United States in the League
>f Nations.
But where has anybody any right
:o assume that all o.uestions will be
.ettled in our favor with the aid of
Britain and France?
Who has informed us that Great
Britain will always side with the
United States in dispute?
Are we to enter a league of na
:ions with the idea that no judg
ment can be against us?
We presume that Great Britain
will favor us. It is a presumption
and not a fact. We presume what
we like. We may not like the facts.
What if Great Britain does not
side with the L’nited States in this
or any other question which Japan
ir any other nation submits to the
League of Nations?
J. H. Groves, who returned tj
Fairbanks yesterday from the Big
Chena country, brought word of
the suicide of Andy Bertoiina, a
Big Chena miner, on June 1.
Andy Bertoiina, in partnership
with Joe Chesna, was working a
claim on Shamrock creek.
While Mr. Groves was at their
camp last Sunday, Archie McIntyre,
who lives in that neighborhood,
came over and got Joe Chesna to
go with him to see about a big
ditch which the men had contem
plated constructing, leaving Grove
and Andy Bertoiina in camp.
At about five o’clock the same
evening, hearing the men returning
through the brush, Groves and Andy
walked out to meet them. After
meeting the returning men. Grove*
turned back to come to camp with
them, but Andy kept on going. He
reached a nearby cache, from which
he took a Mannlicher rifle, with
which he started off into the woods.
Groves asked him where he was
going and he said: “Good-bye, Mr.
Groves, I no come back. I no hurt
you—I kill myself.”
He is reported to have said that
he wished he had an American gun
instead of a German gun.
Mr. Groves said that they con
sidered it useless to follow the man
as he was armed. In a few minutes
they heard two shots, and the three
of them went in the direction of
jthe shots and found Andy dead,
j with his chest almost blow n off
The body was buried on the spot
where it was found,
j Some time ago, while in a very
! depressed mood, Andy Bcrtolina
1 prepared several boards which he
told his partner, Chesna, were for
| his coffin. He also seietced a site
j for his grave and expressed the
| wish that he might be buried there.
Both of his wishes were fulfilled
by his partner.
Andy Bertolina was recently ex
amined at Fairbanks for his sanity
jand was released. He was a middle
aged Italian and came to Alaska
about eight years ago and worked
for the past five years in partner
ship with Chesna in the B:g C hena
country. He is said to have two
(brothers and a sister m Italy. He
(has no relations in Alaska
Heimberger’s Cascade Laundry has
just been renovated. Has sanitary
. baths and furnishings. Shampooing
and electric drying a specialty.
Terms reasonable.
—
IKERPER IS PROMOTED
TO CAPTAIN OVERSEAS
The many friends of Jack Ker
per, former member of the engin
eering staff of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission at Nenana,
.will be glad to know that he has
been elevated to a captaincy of the
American Expeditionary forces over
seas.
The news of the promotion is
contained in a letter from Major
Howard P. Curtis, who writes of
a recent meeting with Jack at the
great American port at Brest, where
Curtis is stationed.
Genuine Buhach at Fcwler &
Morris.
JACKIES SHOW.
FORMER ALLIES
HOW TO FIGHT
In war or out of it, American
Jackies are always ready for a fight
and it is a matter of record that
they usually come home with the
bacon. It has been said of them
that a very large proportion of
their number were pugs before they
joined the service and that those
who were not masters of the art
of self defense at the time of en
listment, have found it to their
advantage to acquire expert knowl
edge of ring tactics since becoming
a part of that branch of Uncle
Sam's service. Whether or not that
is true, the News cannot say, but it
is a well known fact that Jackies
would about as soon fight as eat,
and usually the lifting of the smoke
of battle finds them masters of the
situation.
A recent shore encounter at
Brest, in which the Yankees were
compelled to defend themselves
aginst the combined sailor forces
of British and French warships at
anchor in the harbor, was no ex
ception to the rule. In a letter
received recently by Harry Shaw
from Major Howard P. Curtis, the
former general storekeeper tells
something of the mixup, stating
that the Yankees not only held
their own against great odds, but
actually forced the Franco-British
ers to seek refuge on board their
respective vessles.
All of the sailors, it seems, had
been enjoying life at Brest and
were in a hilarious mood when the
Britishers broke up the friendly
party by assaulting some of the
Americans. Immediately there fol
lowed a general mix-up, the French
sailors joining forces with the Brit
ish in what appears to have been
an attempt to run the Yankees out
of town. Curtis says the fight
was a good one while it lasted, and
ended in complete victory for the
Yankees.
Nothing came of the fistic en
counter beyond the suspension of
the shore leave privilege during the
remainder of the time the war ves
sels remained in port. But the
battle was still the main topic of
conversation at Brest at the time
Curtis wrote his letter, and the
Yankees were regarded very much
in the light of heroes for the splen
did manner in which they conduct
ed their defensive operations.
The former storekeeper says that
his work is less arduous now than
during the war period and the
months immediately following the
signing of the armistice. His pres
ent duties consist chiefly of look
ing after the requirements of Am
erican vessels leaving Brest. He
has a launch at his disposal and is
beginning to get some enjoyment
out of life at the inhospitable
French port.
There is some talk. Curtis says,
of abandoning Brest at an early
date, but it is not yet known what
will be done with the great build
ings erected by the American war
department. Unless some satisfac
tory arrangements can be made witn
the French government, for taking
the buildings over as they stand,
it will be up to the war department
to raze all the costly structures, of
which there are a great many.
When Brest was taken over by the
Americans for the use of the army,
it was provided in the terms of
occupation that the site should be
restored after the war to the con
dition in which the Americans i
found it. The present plan is to *
abolish the base in August.
The outward flow of American !
troops from Brest continues with
out interruption, Curtis says, the!
monthly departures aggregating an-!
proximately 125,000, which means {
that Brest continues to be a very I
lively place, notwithstanding the
cessation of hostilities many months '
ago. |
Mean Brute
"How did your wife get ptomaine
poisoning?” asked Mr. Naybor.
"I think she must have swallowed
some of her own words when she
was bawling me out,” replied Mr.
Gabb.
WANT ADS
BRAND NEW FISH WHEEL for
sale ’ cheap. S^t up, ready to
catch salmon. In good working
order. For particulars lncuir-3 at
News office. kl4
FOR SALE—Rack for sheet music.
Mrs. Emil Hartwick, First street,
near C, after 1:30 in the after
noon.
FOR SALE—Corona typewriter with
case complete, almost new and
and in good working order, price.
?30. Apply at Nenana News office.
FOR SALE—Household furniture,
dining room set, White sewing
machine, bedstead, etc. Apply
Mrs. Leroy Moyer, Second and B.
WANTED — Camp cook, man or
woman, for grading camp on Lit
tle Goldstream, about ten miles
from Nenana. Apply to Jim
Dzukoff, Cooney Hotel.
FOR SALE—Team of young horses,
weight about thirty hundred.
Guaranteed to work single or
double, wheelers or leaders, and
perfectly gentle. Yachon, Tnlo
vana. k21
Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
the News Office.
NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT
IN NENANA
There has never been anything in
S'er.ana with the INSTANT action
)f simple buckthorn bark, glycerine,
?tc.. as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE
SPOONFUL flushes the ENTIRE
Dowel tract so completely it relieves j
\NY CASE sour stomach, gas or con
stipation and prevents appendicitis.
Phe INSTANT, pleasant action of
\dler-i-ka surprises both doctors and
patients. A. D. Thompson, druggist.
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MARINE BULLETIN
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Washburn—At Holy Cross.
Seattle 3.—Between Kotlik and
St. Michael, last report.
Nita—Down Marshall 2 p. m., 8th.
Kelley—At Nenana.
Eclipse—Up Tolovana for Fair
banks 4:30 p. m.. 9th.
Mail west at Louden.
Sibilla—LTp Gibbon for Dawson
10:50 a. m., 9th.
Devane—Down Marshall 2 p. m., I
9 th.
Townsend—Down Marshall 9 p.
m., 8th.
Casca and Alaska—Scheduled to j
leave Whitehorse tonight.
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
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.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193 *
L. 0. 0. M.
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FOURTH AND B STREETS
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At 8 P. M.
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