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.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth....Editor and Manager
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NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH
The Railway and Marine News,
published in Seattle, takes^t'ne Sew
ard and the Anchorage newspapers
to task for what it asserts is an
unjust antagonism to the private
steamship lines operating between
Seattle and Alaskan ports. The
Seattle publication. explains the
Anchorage Times, is, as its name
implies, devoted to the interests of
the railway and marine world, and
in defending the steamship com
panies, it is but serving the inter
ests which support it. Alaska news
papers are not thus circumscribed
in their views. They are at liberty
to devote their columns to efforts
in behalf of Alaska, and it would be
surprising, indeed, if they did not,
upon occasion, disagree with the
policies inaugurated by the steam
ship lines. The companies are quasi
public, in that they derive their
support from the public. There
would be no steamship lines if there
were no freight and passenger!
traffic. And this traffic is supplied
by the people of Alaska.
The Times says that it is not
among those newspapers that con
tinually howl against big corporations
or strong companies. We take the
view—the sober, sensible view, we
think—that what Alaska needs is
capital for the development of its
resources. We would not even ob
ject if the Southern Pacific Rail
way company got a slice of the
Matanuska coal fields and put a
big gang of miners at work in de
velopment of the coal measures.
The S. P. company, or the Gug
genheim-Morgan crowd don’t fright
en us a bit. Let them dump their
money into Alaska, thus giving em
money into Alaska, thus giving
plenty of employment to our idle
men. No individual or small com
pany can do anything with some
of our big mining propositions. It
takes plenty of capital, and we have
no patience with the policy that
seeks to scare capital away from
Alaska.
The way we loolt at it, the
stronger the steamship line the bet
ter the boats and service. We dis
tinctly recall the day when we
used to have to travel from the Out
side on floating coffins. We have
very decent boats on the run now.
But because these steamship lines
are strong and powerful financially,
and operate a very decent line of
boats, the fact does not render them
immune from criticism, if it may
be deemed to the interests of the
people to do so.
RED CROSS TO THE RESCUE
To meet the great need of cloth
ing throughout the Balkan states,
the American Red Cross Commis
sion to the Balkans is sending to
Serbia, Rumania, Montenegro and
Albania millions of yards of cloth,
thousands of sewing machines, large
quantities of thread, needles and
buttons and hundreds of tons of
old clothing. These things will be
apportioned among the countries ac
cording to the extent of destitution.
The commission is also shipping
large amounts of food to various
points in the Balkans which have
suffered from the German occupa
tion.
“If anyone in the Balkans goes
unclad or unfed,” said Lieutenant
Colonel Henry W. Anderson, director
of Red Cross activities in the Near
East, “it will be only because we
lack the transportation facilities to
reach the remoter interior sections.
We'have gathered up millions of
pieces of clothing and thousands
of tons of food from every nook
and corner of Europe and will rush
them to those sections of the Bal
kan states which are most in need.
“We have taken over the surplus
stocks of relief supplies held by
the American Red Cross Commis
sion to Italy. We have also had
diverted to our use, for distribution
in the Balkan Pen insula,large quan
tities of material intended for use
in France and other coutnries during
the war. One of the orinripal items
is condensed* milk, of which we
are shipping more than three million
cans. This doubtless will save
thousands of starving children.”
HERE'S HOPING
In an interview with the corre
spondent of the Anchorage Times,
Delegate Wickersham declared re
cently at Juneau that his contro
versy with Secretary of the Interior
Cane will not retard in the least
construction work on the Alaska
railroad project, and that an appro
priation for the project will be made
at the extra session of the congress
soon to be called by the president.
The delegate says he has the assur
ance from influential senators and
representatives on the Republican
side that they will heartily support
the railway appropriation. Wick
ersham says his attacks on Lane
are not personal. He justifies his
position by the inadequate showing
made by the railroad commission
and says his attacks may lead to
a change in personnel.
Speedy resumption of work on
the government railway, and the
cil^npletion in the near future of the
Seward end of the road, is of vital
importance to every citizen of the
Third division, believes the Valdez
Miner. If the work is allowed to
drag along, warns the coast paper,
it will discourage immigration to
the North, and will cause many per
sons already here to lose their in
vestments. The railroad benefits
every town in the Third division and
all should work unceasingly to bring
pressure upon congress to hasten
the appropriation.
The action of the employees of
the Alaskan railroad in taking only
part of their wages until the first
of July shows, says the Douglas
Island News, that the men have the
interests of the country at heart.
If they are willing to take a chance
on the country, some of those per
sons who are being paid to repre
sent the territory at Washington
should at least quit knocking and
do a little work for their money.
Neaana—The Gateway to lrcXinljy
National Park.
QUARTZ MILL RESUMES
GRINDING ON EVA CREEK
Advices received today indicate
that the quartz mill on Eva creek,
owned and operated by John
Mihcely, Dave Thomas and Frank
Hazel, is now ready to commence
operations and that actual opera
tions will be commenced tonight.
The owners of the mill are said
to have about 300 tons of their own
ore to put througji.
VOLUNTEERS OF
RUSSIA MAKING
GOOB PROGRESS
LONDON*.—The volunteers army
of General Denikine which success
fully has resisted the Bolsheviki
forces in Southern Russia, began
with only 400 men, but numbers
today more than 100,000, says a
traveler who has just returned from
Odessa. In the beginning it had
no arms with which to equip its re
cruits and often had to maintain
its existence by capturing arms and
ammunition from the Bolsheviki.
“When Russia was torn by poli
tical strife in the winter of 1917,”
said the traveler,” a group of men
including General Alexieff arrived at
N'ovotcherkask, on the river Don.
They were filled with shame," said
the traveler, “because of their
army’s desertion of the Allies and
they determined to form a new army
to reinstate Russia.”
“Thanks largely,” he continued,
“to the patriotism and statesman
like qualities of its leader, the Vol
unteer army at an early stage ac
quired the momentum of a con
structive, political force. It’s ir'"te
‘United Russia,' owing to
plicity was powerful enough to make
itself heard and accepted above the
din of political confusion, end it
rallied to the army not only tin
officers and soldiers who wer? st;’I
willing to fight for a common Rus
sian fatherland, but also the spokes
men of all moderate political parties,
and seemed to be guided by a pro
tecting head. It started without
any arms, munitions, transport or
sanitary arrangements. A recruit on
joining came bare-handed, and the
army had absolutely nothing to give
him. But he was promised that:
within a few days a detachment
would make a sortie on the enemy
and capture Bolshevik arms and
munitions. By the end of the week !
they would be able to supply a
day’s draft of 210 men with arms.
“You cannot find a parallel for
that in any fighting that has been
done during the war. Yet that
band which has grown into an army
obtained all its arms .munitions and
transport for a period of twelve
months in that way. Time and
again we have had the alarming
news that munitions had been ex-'
hausted and that the men would
have to trust to the sword to pro- j
cure fresh supplies. By a brilliant |
cavalry action, a few hundred Bol- j
sheviki would be rounded off and s
our ever-growing army supplied:
with shot and shell ”
FRISCO IS SEEKING
BIG DENTAL MEET
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SAN* FRANCISCO. —Invitations
to everv dental association of the
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west to postpone their meetings for;
1920 and convene at a monster
convention in San Francisco, have1
been extended by the California
State Dental Association. The Gol
den Jubilee of the California asso
ciation will be held in San Fran
cisco during the summer of 1920
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the organization.
Dental leaders of the world will
be present at the convention and
deicer a series of lectures on every
phase of dental science. The fea
ture of the program will he the
history of dentistry in California
during the past fifty years and
“The TTse of Gold” will b- the main
topic of discussion ir. c mpliance
with the scheme of the “Golden
Jubilee.” Metalurgists and chem
ists from many parts of the United
States will explain to the meetings
the process of gold fr >m the ore
to its present highly specialized
stages of preparation for dentistry.
I The associations which have thus
far accepted the invitation art from
Washington, Oregon, British Colum
bia, Utah, and the Dental A oar ria
tion of Southern California.
SPRING IS RENOVATING TIME!
Add to the life of a suit or hst
improve your appearance at small
expense, by taking your work to
MRS. D'ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
GERMAN CAPTAIN
HOES IN WOODS
SYDNEY, Australia. — Konrad
Detzler, a German army engineer
who had been hiding in the New
Guinea jungle for four years or
since the beginning of the war, has
come back to civilization and now
is in an internment camp in Aus
tralia. Detzler’s story is on a par
with other romantic incidents of the
war as it affected the South Sea.
Detzler holds a captain’s commis
sion. When the war began he was
surveying a boundary line between
the then Kaiser Wilhelmland, or
German New Guinea, and Papua, or
British New Guinea. He decamped
into the bush. This was a risky act, j
for the bushmen prefer human flesh
above all other kinds. When an j
Australian force occupied Kaiser'
Wilhelmland, Detzler was overlooked.
For more than four years Detzler
lived in the bush near Mismis. He
had a shotgun but it was not long
before he ran out of cartridges
Thereafter he lived on yams, taro
and kau (a variety of sweet potato)
in common with the natives, and
upon birds and animals which he
caught by means of snares.
Several times the Australians
searched for him but Detzler man
aged to elude them. He might have
stayed indefinitely in the jungle,
but missionaries told the Papuans
of the armistice and they in turn
told him. Thereupon he surrendered
to the nearest Australian officer.
While living throughout the war at
Mismis, Detzler wore only a lava
lava (native kilt) The result is that
tie is almost as brown as a Papuan.
He now wears a German uniform.
MANY WELLS PRODUCE
MUCH OIL IN OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY.—Oil produc-’
:ion in Oklahoma in 1918 averaged!
104,650 barrels a day with a daily,
tommercial value of $500,000 based i
>n present prices, according to the
•eport of the State Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission. The re-i
wrt gives the first oil production
total announced by any state for
1918. The Tulsa district still leads
n oil production, with a daily aver
ige for the year of 66,000 barrels,
the report states.
The report says the state also
produced for commercial purposes
16,377,645,561 cubic feet of natural
tas in 1918 and “muddled in” or
conserved for future use, 32,780,
536,000 cubic feet. In natural gas
production, the Blackwell Garber
district led with a total of more
than 27,000,000,000 feet in 1913.
There are now 23,561 wells in
Oklahoma producing oil or gas, the
commission reported.
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Ifenana, Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
ACADEMY DANCE
IDMOHW NIGHT
A social dance, (riven under the
auspices of the Nenana Dancing
Academy, under the direction of
Mrs. Belle Campbell, will be held
tomorrow night at the Union Hall.
Dancing will commence at about
9:30 o’clock, and will be continued
as long as those attending have a
mind to dance. All arrangements
for the comfort and enjoyment of
the patrons of the dance have been
made, and a good time is assured
all those who will attend.
The price of admission will be
one dollar for gentlemen, the ladies
being admitted free.
Miss Liverson, former nurse in
the Xenana hospital, and at present
located in Seattle, may come N'orth
again.
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Coutts, '.V. ,T.
Calderhead, I{. w.
Campbell, X. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Boner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H. --
Head, E. A.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. f.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R.
Moore, Frank B.
McDonald, R S
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Mash, Martin
O'Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry X.
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, George A.
Southv/orth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodors
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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