THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enxry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1819.
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A MATTER OF UNREST
In a statement given to the press
of Anchorage recently, Chairman
Wm. C. Edes, of the Alaskan En
gineering commission, said that the
feeling of unrest obtaining in various
sections of Alaska, is equally notice
able in the States. This feeling
seems to be universal, the railroad
builder informed the residents of
Anchorage, very largely due, in his
opinion to the war situation.
* ‘‘Except in communities where war
munitions and other war commodi
ties are manufactured,” he contin
ued. “wages in the States are normal.
It is true that on rush orders and
important government war work
extra large wages are paid, but this
is offset by the high cost of living
and the uncertainty of the 'uration
of the work.
“Fields have ever seemed greenest
far away and until the country
reaches a normal basis we must
expect this continual milling around.
Alaska is being very well treated
during this trying period, and I con
sider the people here in far better
circumstances than the people in
the States.
“The wages paid common labor
in Alaska is in excess to the work
of a similar nature in the States.
For instance, I personally looked into
the matter of railroad wages and
found the laborers on the Northern
Pacific, St. Paul and other Western
roads are getting only 27% to 30
cents and hour, while we are paying
this same class of labor 50 cents an
hour and upward. I think you will
find the same proportion in other
work, except, as I said before, in
rush war orders. _ Naturally all war
work has the preference- and -all
loyal citizens should cheerfully ac
quiesce to this ruling.” -
Mr. Edes stated _further that at
a recent conference in Seattle be
tween representatives of the Alaskan
Engineering commission and railroad
and other contractors, it was agreed
that no additional men would be
taken from the work in Alaska and
the proselyting of the past- has been
definitely stopped. The chairman
also expressed the belief that a num
ber of men formerly employed by
the government in Alaska would re
turn to the North at an early date.
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PARIS IN WAR TIME
Paris is of course not the old
“gay Paree” of peace time, but it
has suffered surprisingly little from
■ the war when other cities and coun
tries are considered, says a corres
pondent of The Associated Press,
Pretty nearly everything one needs
! to live is still available, though in
restricted and reduced measure.
Probably no one but Parisians
themselves have been able to keep
; track of the decrees and regulations
i governing food and other consump
; tion. Americans may be interested
' to know just how their allies in the
great capital—and many countrymen'
—are faring these days. Here is a
list of the restrictions:
Meat may not be purchased or
eaten on three days in the week,
Wednesday Thursday and Friday.
Not more than 200 grams (two-fifths
of a pound) may be purchased ofl
Tuesday so there can be no hoarding,
and not more than 100 grams may
be served in a restaurant on Tues
day.
Bread is limited to 300 grams,;
(three-fifths of a pound) daily for
all people between the ages of 13
and 60. An additional allowance of
100 grams a day is made to manual
laborers and women in delicate
health. Persons over 60 receive but
200 grams daily .
Flour, pastry and cakes—would-be 1
purchasers of flour are entitled to
half the amount of flour allowed to
them in bread form, i. e. 150 grams
a day, if they are willing to go
without bread entirely. Pastry and
I cakes are forbidden.
Sugar is limited to one pound per
month, and half a pound to persons
: over 60.
Coal for families of one, two or
three persons, 120 kilos (of 2.20
poundsj monthly; families of four
or five persons, 150 kilos; of six
jor more persons, 180 kilos.
The gas consumption likewise has
been considerably cut down, so that
he who in 1913 used two cubic
meters a day may now only use 1.4
meters. Similarly- with electricity. ’
Petrol, otherwise kerosene, and
gasoline for illumination, are per-1
mitted in the following quantities:
two quarts a month to persons who
have no gas in their homes; five
quarts a month for those who cook
exclusively with kerosene.
* i
A quantity of wet goods, approxi- i
; mately 100 gallons of the very best
! booze was located by the U. S. mar
1 shal's office at Nome. It w-as con-!
i
• fiscated and locked up.
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SIMSON’S
NATION PLANNING
GRANTS DF LAND
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WASHINGTON, D. C—When the
oldier of 1865 laid down his arms
0 take up a civil occupation, he
urned westward to a match.ess pub
ic domain which he helped to de
-elop into the world's richest farms
ind cities. The government was
ible to point the way to a method
>y which the returned soldier was
ible to turn his talents for a liveli
lood, and the government now is
aying the ground work to have
imilar land available when the war
mds and the millions of American
ioldiers return to civil life.
While the vast domain that await
ed the civil war veteran can not
)e duplicated for those who return
'rom the European battlefields, there
ire millions of acres which can be
nade available with proper legisla- j
don and subsequent development,
ind which, according to the present
dans, will be offered to the return
ng soldier with ample time to pay
For the cost of development if he
iesires to accept it.
Congress will be asked for legis
ation to make this land available,
iccording to the present plans of
secretary Lane and congressional
eaders.
Secretary Lane has announced <
hat it will be the policy of the de-1
lartment of the interior to ask for!
egislation by which arid lands of;
ihe West cut over land of the North-1
ivest, and swamp lands in the Middle!
West and South, can be reclaimed!
ind the soldier given a preferred;
status in its allotment. Bills are
now before Congress on that sub
ject, and the plan now is to weld
into an administration bill a measure
unbracing Secretary Lane’s ideas,
the legislation to be patterned after
1 bill now before the House Public
Lands Committee by Representative
bmith of Idaho.
The amount of swamp and cut-;
over lands is extensive, reports from
the department of the interior indi-!
Late, but just how extensive is not !
known. It is estimated that approxi
mately 60,000,000 acres of swamp
and overflow land can be made ]
available for farming. Some if it
has passed into private ownership.
It lies chiefly in Florida, in the states !
along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,;
in the Mississippi delta and in Miss- \
ouri, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota.
Wisconsin and California.
It is estimated that of the cut
over and logged off land there is
approximately 200,000,000 acres
suitable for agricultural develop
ment. A larger percentage of this
land is now in private ownership,
and it is shown that failure to de
velop it is due largely to inade
quate methods of approach , says
Secretary Lane. Unless a n .*w pol- ■
icy of developent is worked out in
co-operation between the United
States, the states and the individual
owners, a greater part of it will re
main unsettled and uncultivated
The land lies chiefly in Washington,
and Oregon, Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas.
Other than planning, the develop
ment should be by the returning
soldier, according to Secretary Lane’s
views.
“The dam or the irrigation pro
ject should be built by him,”, Mr.
Lane says. “The canals, the ditches,
the .breaking of the land and the
building of the houses, should, un
der proper direction, be his occu
pation. He should be allowed to
make his own home, cared for while
he is doing it, and given an interest
in the land for which he can pay
through a long period of years, per
haps thirty of forty years.
“So that the soldier on his re
turn would have an opportunity to
make a home for himself, to build
a home with money which we would
advance and which he would repay,
and for the payment we would have
an abundant security.”
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
LAND IN IRELAND !
CAN NO! BE IDLE
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British Government May Place Idle
Farms In Hands of Those
Who Will Use Soil.
DUBLIN—Irish farmers have been
startled by a proposal made by the
Reconstruction Committee that the
government purchase some of the
Irish farms which are not being cul
tivated and sell them to competent
cultivators or employ skillful and
progressive farmers to cultivate
them. Sir Horace Plunkett, a mem
ber of a sub-committee, has report
ed that some Irish farms are occu
pied by incompetent or incapable
men who will not improve their
methods under instruction or if pun
ished by penalities. The land de
teriorates and is wasted for sev-;
eral years while the occupant grows j
poorer and poorer and generally is
crushed out by his creditors.
MISS DIVEN ACCEPTS POST
IN TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
To fill the vacancy in the ranks
of the local telephone girls caused
by the departure of Miss Thora
Slippern, who left for the States
on the steamer Tanana yeesterday, j
Miss Lucille Diven, daughter of
Robert Joseph Diven, was selected
for the position.
Miss Diven assumed her new
duties this morning, going on shift
from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. for the j
present. The shifts are changed j
periodically, so that the girls will I
alternate on the “dog watch” or!
graveyard shift from 12 midnight |
to 8 a. m.
CARGO WILL BE SALVED
FROM BARGE AT LOW WATER
The steamer Shusana arrived in 1
Nenana Saturday from Fairbanks, !
whither she had gone immediately
following the sinking of the barge
load of railroad material which she
had in tow, opposite “eat-em-up” \
Frank’s place.
There is said to be about from 3 '
to 6 feet of water covering the t
barge at the present time, making
salvage operations quite impossible. !
It is expected, however, that as soon ■
as the water goes down this fall,!
the entire cargo will be salved.
The master of the steamer Shu- i
sana thinks that the barge must :
have struck a submerged snag which
evidently tore a big hole in her, as
she sank in a very few minutes.
He thinks that salvage operations
can be successfully conducted this
fall or winter. At the time she sank
she had on board 320 fifty-pound j
rails, 640 angle bars, 37 kegs of
track spikes, 3 kegs of track bolts,
'ii> wheelbarrows, (knocked down),
2 drums, containing 110 gallons each
of gasoline. 12 kegs of machine
bolts, 1 package of lanterns and a
sack of paper bags.
The drums of gasoline are said to
have floated off the barge and been
picked up.
LAUNCH GALATEA
IN FROM TOLOVANA1
The launch Galatea, with George |
Moody at the wheel, arrived on Sat
urday evening from the Tolovana
country; she had no passengers from
the Tolovana, but picked up Miss \
Wright and eight Indians from an,
encampment about twelve miles be- j
low town and brought them here.
The Galatea is employed in j
freighting supplies from the mouth!
of the Tolovana river to the log jam ;
and it is expected that she will re- j
turn thither in a day or two.
Before returning to the Tolovana 1
country George Moody will under
take salvage operations near the
mission in an attempt to raise a
small scow which was used last sea- j
son, with the Galatea for freighting
and which was sunk when the ice
went out. The only other member
of the crew, besides Skipper Moody,
is Bertram Moody, who acts as mate,
deckhand and cook.
It is better to eat a corn dodger
than to be one.
WANT ADS
•"OR SALE—Enameled double bed,
cotton layer laid mattress, spring
Lang cook stove, wood or coal,
also heater and baker, wheel
barrow, shot-gun, 16 bore, with
shells; axes, wedges, saws, sledge,
Peavy, carpenter tools, etc; all
best quality and cheap. Inquire
at yellow tent, opposite Commis
sion sawmill.
FOR SALE. CHEAP—Large tanl
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons i:
leaving for the Outsdie soon ant
offers shop, fixtures and busines:
in cleaning and pressing clothes
for sale. N'o reasonable offer re
fused- Shop is on A street, neai
blacksmith shop.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence
four rooms furnished. See Slipper;
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, Iaunc!
Bunny, with 2% h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquiri
of J. A. Slippern.
Cut out non-essentials—wi are ii
a race with a swift antagonist ant
need no handicap.
GERMAN GOODS SLOW
TO REACH RUSSIANS
PETROGRAD—Three months af
j ter the signing of the treaty of
j Brest-Litovsk, the only German
goods which had made their appear
ance on Russian markets in any ap
preciable quantities were chemicals.
A few specimens of German tin
1 ware and cutlery were to be found
jin Petrograd stores in June.
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I We’ll substitute corn for wheat
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