THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en.ry as second class mail matter, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska.
R. G. Southworth — — — Editor and Manager
Mrs. R. G. Southworth — — —_Circulation Manager
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WHY GERMANY CAN PAY
Enormous and still increasing
profits, compared with those made
in 1914, are being made in the
German coal, iron, machinery, tex
tile paper, glass and electrical in
dustries, according to an article
which recently appeared in the
Duesseldorf Lokal Zeitung.
The paper quotes the reports of
numerous companies, among them
■being one manufacturing copper
and brass tubing and plate, at
Duisburg, which paid a dividend of
24 per cent and a bonus of 20 per
cent. Its shares which were quoted
in Berlin at 157 at the end of 1919,
are now 630.
A 12 per cent dividend declared
by the Kammgarn Spinning Works
of Duesseldorf was only ten per
cent of the profits earned, says the
German newspaper. In the ten years
previous, this company had regular
ly declared a dividend of only eight
per cent.
A similar compaity declared in
1920 a dividend of 20 per cent, as
compared with one of 11 per cent I
in the three preceding years.
The writer of the article points J
out that but for the evidence of*
such figures Germany could more
effectively have resisted the de-.
niands of her opponents that she
make full reparation to the Allies.
SOMETHING IS NEEDED
It may be t’ue. as claimed by
Colonel Jones in his statement be
fore the hoete committee on ter-1
ritories this week, that conditions
in Alaska can be improved without
recourse to a development hoard
such as has been proposed by Con-,
gressman Curry; but the fact re
mains that conditions have not been
improved under the present system
of bureaucratic control. Heads of
bureaus, perhaps, are more active
now than they were once, but it
is only since the Curry plans be
came known that they bestirred
themselves—spurred into action, it
would appear, by fear of loss of
authority. And should the Curry
bill fail of passage, what assurance
have we that bureau chiefs will
not lose their interest so rudely
awakened?
The Alaska fisheries, which Col.
Jones says should not be entrusted
to the ■ supervision of the proposed
development board, have been looted
by Outsiders under bureau rule,
without thought of future supply,
without adequate rettirns in revenues
to the federal government and with
out consideration for the interests
of Alaskans.
Nothing was done by bureau
chiefs to encourage the use of
Alaska timber for wood pulp until
agitation had become general for
relief from repressive restrictions
imposed by those in authority, and
the bureau system is failing now to
insure American investors bhie op
portunity to realize on their invest
ments in machinery and mill equip
ment.
The head of the Biological Sur
vey, having jurisdiction over the
Teindeer herds and wild game of
Alaska, visited the territory last
summer for the first time since I
•eeeiving his appointment as chief
nany years ago. The reindeer in
iustry has made headway, it is
;rue, but th/e enterprise of private
>wners in the Nome district has
seen very largely responsible for
•ecent developments Little else was
:o have ^i-een expected under the
system . of long-range supervision.
The creation of a development
ward might not improve these and
>ther bureau conditions which need
Ixing, but it could scarcely do less
for the territory than has been
»ccomplished under the present
system. It would be in the nature
3f an experiment, as Colonel Jones
suggests, but not more so than the
kind of administration which has
been imposed upon Alaska in the
past. Alaskans are ready to take
a chance.
GOLD DISCOVERIES EXCITE
INTEREST IN OLD SCOTLAND
GLASGOW, May 12—Rumors of
frold discoveries in Scotland are re
newed, but, while interest in the
finds is growing:, there have been
no stampedes thus far to the spots
where the discoveries are reported
to have been made.
That the precious metal is to be
found in this country has from time
to time been shown by discoveries
in Kildonan, Sutherlandshire and
Lanarkshire, but the quantity sel
dom has been equal to the cost
of extracting it.
Gold thus far been found in al
luvial deposits but the miners be
lieve that a gold-bearing reef ex
ists in the country, as pieces of
quartz containing gold have been
picked up at different times.
In past centurieft, notably the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth, gold was
found in Lanarkshire sufficient to
make crowns for monarchs, and
bowls, sometimes empty, sometimes
filled with coins minted from the
same source, were presented to
foreign and friendly sovereigns.
There was a rush to Kildonan in
the Sixties of the last century and
some hundreds of prospectors flood
ed the district.
The present gold rumors come
chiefly from the Lowther Hills, in
Lanarkshire, where for centuries
lead mining has been the occupation
of the villagers of Wanlockhead and
Leadhills. In ancient times the dis
trict was known as “God’s Treasure
House’’ because considerable gold
was discovered there.
For some months a wage dispute
has made the miners idle and they
have spent their time in the bums
and hollows searching for gold,
washing the soil in wooden troughs
and occasionally finding gold in
small quantities.
MT. RAINIER WINS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12—
The National Geographic Board has
voted unanimously to retain the
. name of Mount Rainier, instead of
I giving Washington’s celebrated and
long-disputed peak the name of
Lincoln. The proposal to change had
been under consideration for some
time.
ROUGHNECK TICKET WINS
RECORD NENANA ICE POOL
A combination of guessers, styling !
themselves the “Roughtnecks” were
awarded the big Nenana ice pool
yesterday, and each member of the
lucky group is richer today by
$650 than he was before the ice
moved. The amount of the pool
was $6,500 net.
Arrangements for recording the
movement of the ice, made by the
ice pool committee, consisting of
E. J. Cronin, Martin Nash, A. St. J. ;
McAuley and Alf Ekeland, worked
with remarkable smoothness, the
wire attached to the official flag
having stopped the clock in the
Commission powerhouse automatical
ly, and started the big whistle blow- 1
ing—which was particularly fortun
ate in view of the fact that the
breakup found most residents of the
town in bed. The William Taylor
chronometer was used for recording
the time, enabling the committee to
determine the exact second of ice
movement. The official time, as thus '
recorded, was 6:42:39 A. M., May
11.
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The guess of the Roughneck
Combination was 7:10, just 22
minutes off the mark. .The next'
closest tickets were those marked
by the Terminal Combination and'
Dave Patterson, each guessing 7:17.
The closest Fairbanks guess was1
that of Charley Thompson and Dr.
H. L. Hedger, with a 9:17 ticket,
and the C. E. Keen Combination
and George A. Hunter came next
in the upper town with 4:35.
Andy Johnson, of Nenana had a
ticket marked 4:31 A. M. and on
the Anchorage end of the Govern
ment railroad, the Hurricane Club
was closest to the mark with 10:05.
The members of the lucky Ne
nana combination were: Martin
Nash, John Frainey, B. Tunison, J.
K. Callbreath, Alex Fowler, Frank
Glass, Ben Allen, Will Sherwin and
Albert Barraletti.
Fourteen tickets were disqualified
because of failure to mark either
A. M., or P. M. Seventeen tickets
were without names and 17 guessers
were off on the month. One guesser
picked November for the ice to
move and two indicated that it
would move on April 31. Another
guessed that the breakup would oc
cur during the ninteenth hour of
May ninth, the ticket being marked
19:29 A. M. There were 26 guesses
recorded for May 11, at 11:11 A.
M.
The official list, on which are re
corded all the guesses turned into
the committee, are available for
reference, in case there should be
a request to see them. General
Storekeeper E. J. Cronin has one
of them and the other is in the safe
at the postoffice.
It is probable that the pool
next year will be decided byseconds.
to eliminate the possibility of a
[split pool. This can be done easily
! with the use of the chronometer
and should add greatly to the inter
est of guessing.
ARE PARLORS NECESSARY?
MOOTED ENGLISH QUESTION
LONDON, May 12—-The question
whether a parlor is a necessary
part of a workingman’s house has
caused heated argument among a
number of the local councils or
ganized to promote building of
such homes in the industrial centers
of England.
Many women members of these
councils argue that the working
man’s daughters need parlors in
which to receive their callers dur
ing the courting period. Those op
posed declare that the workingman’s
“best room” is little more than a
“cemetery for wax flowers.”
The Sporting Season Is Here, Boys!
AH the best sizes and brands of
fly hooks, salmon eggs, fish lines,
leaders, fish poles. King salmon net?,
grayling and whitefish nets, corks,
sinkers. Ammunition and guns just
arriver at Anderson Bros, ft Nor
land’s.
The News’ job printing department
is one of the most complete in tbs
North, equipped to turn out all
kinds of printing at moderate prices,
ENGLAND TO TRY AGAIN
TO SALVE LOST TREASURE
LONDON, May 12—Another at
tempt is to be made this summer i
by the Admiralty to recover the re
mainder of the bullion lost when
the armed liner Laurentic was mined
and sunk off the north coast of
Ireland in 1917.
The salvage vessel, Racer, to
gether with the Canadian drifter i
No. 1, will undertake the salvage
work for the fourth summer.
The Laurentic went down in 20
fathoms (120 feetd of water, four
miles off the coast of Donegal, car
rying gold bars to the value of be
tween 10 and 15 million dollars.
Four years of pounding by At
lantic gales has reduced the wreck
to a shapeless mass and each year
the work has been more difficult.
Last summer the divers found that
about 250 tons of hull and deck
plates had settled on the strong
room, where the gold was stored,
breaking it in. The result was that
only about $25,000 was recovered,
compared with a million and a
quarter the previous year.
After the winter storms the
divers expect to find the wreckage
covered with gravel and silt, which
has to be cleared away with pumps.
Then the steel plates and girders
must be cut away.
The Racer is now equipped, in
addition to every possible contriv
ance for aiding divers, with a “re
compression chamber”. A diver can
reach the bottom in half a minute
but after prolonged immersion at
20 fathoms below the surface, half
an hour has to be allowed for rais
ing him because, if brought up too
quickley, he is likely to collapse.
The great pressure at 20 fathoms
saturates the system with nitrogen
gas but in the recompression cham
ber the nitrogen can be eliminated
gradually.
Mayor Joe O’Connor and other
members of the town council have
requested The News to remind
property owners that cleanup time
has arrived and that all are ex
pected to put their premises in
order for summer inspection. Mem
bers of toe board are setting the
example and all others are expected
to follow suit.
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Air propelled, light draft boats
! carry the mail on rivers in Colom
bia.
MOTORBOAT FOR SALE
I Herman Anderson has decided to
sell his fast motorboat, the Ankle
: Deep. This is the fastest boat in
i Alaska and is in first class running
I condition. 40 H. P. Roberts engine
with knuckle joint and shoe made of
! pick steel. Will float over 15 inches
water. Will sell complete outfit,
with two propellers for $700. It's
worth double the money. See Ander
son Bros. & Nerland.
:the sun at meridian now—
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i Makes the spots and frayed places
on your clothing show up. Remedy
j these little defects by bringing your
j suits and coats to be pressed, mend
! ed and cleaned; your underwear re
; inforced at
HARRIET D’ORSAY’S
TAILOR SHOP
| Third and A Phone 32 Green
. Phone or call at Third street, near A
Nenana, Alaska
Fine Stock Staple and Fancy Gro
ceries. Fowler & Morris.
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
REAL ESTATE
RENTALS LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE
FIRE INSURANCE
Only the most reliable companies
Safety Deposit Boxes
For Rent.
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF
OUTFITTING
Groceries and Provisions
Clothing:, Hardware, Notions
FOWLER & MORRIS
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NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
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Alameda . May 10
Northwestern . May 20
Alameda, southbound, calls at
LoTouche, Valdez, Cordova, Juneau,
Ketchikan. Northwestern, same ports.
Coast Train Schedule
Train leaves Gold Creek for
Anchorage on Sunday and Thurs
day at 1:00 P. M.
Train leaves Deadhorse for An
chorage on Tuesday and Friday.
Train leaves Anchorage for Sew
ard on Wednesday and Saturday at
9:00 A. M.
Train leaves Chickaloon for An
chorage, via Eska on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at 7:30
A. M.
Nenana Train Schedule
Trains leave Nenana for the end
of steel four times a week—on
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE CHEAP—Best garden in
Nenana. Six acres, with four un
der cultivation; well manured,
plowed and ready to plant. Also
2-room house, good cellar, good
water, electric lights. Barn and
shed; three tons hay, ten sacks
of oats; horse and wagon, plow,
harrow, cultivator, shovel plow:
two tons seed potatoes; all kinds
of tools. Must go Outside.
William Smyth
FOR SALE OR RENT—The Nenana
Rooming House. Good opportunity
for man and wife. For further
particulars, inquire on premises.
Life insurance is the safest sys
tem of finance ever devised. Banks
break, stocks, bonds and real estate
depreciate, but legal reserve life in
surance companies always meel
every obligation in full. Life insur
ance is founded on a scientific basis;
its investments are restricted by law;
it is thoroughly supervised, and
must maintain at all times an ade
quate reserve for each policy. Sec
R. S. McDonald, New York Life
Insurance Company agent.
COAL
From Healy River Coal Mine
will save you from one--third to
one-half on your fuel bill.
2-ton lots, a ton 8.50
Special rates on carload lots
Deliveries, Tutsdays and Fridays
Order from
Dr. J. R. Bowen, Agt
Bowen Bldg. Phone 54 Green
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Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST MONDAY EACH MONTH
AT 8:00 P. M.
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Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Frank Rourke Geo. S. Smith
Secretary. Pies,dent.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
I Schedule of trains, subject to
I change without notice:
j LEAVE NEXANA for Healy on
| Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
| Saturday at 8 a. m. #
! Returning leaves Healy at 1 p. m.
j LEAVE FAIRBANKS for Nenana
| on Tuesday and Friday at 8 a. m.
Returning leaves Nenana at 1:30
p. m.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND,
Secretary Dictator.
Billy Ford put his launch, the
Dan Patch, into the water this after
noon, the first boat of the season
to be launched.