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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ALASKA.
Alaska is still steadily forging
ahead, says the McCarthy Weekly
N'ews. and everyone is doing his or
her share towards the development
of the country.
No complaints have been made
regarding the annual assessment
work to be performed this year; in
fact, the majority of the miners
are in favor of it and some have
already left for their fields of oper
ation.
At the present time, Governor
Riggs and many other able men are
working ir. Washington for the good
of the Territory, and if one-half
of their recommendations are acted
upon, Alaska will surely have its
chance to be recognized.
A PLEASANT CIRCUMSTANCE.
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One of the pleasing circumstances
in connection with the present po-'
litical situation in Alaska, comments :
the Alaska (Juneaui Daily Empire/
Democratic, is the unanimity with
which Democrats throughout the
Territory are supporting Democratic ;
National Committeeman Thomas J. :
Donohoe for re-elected. There was
not a dissenting vote, so far as
known, in the demand which went
up from all four of the Alaska
judicial and legislative divisions for
bis re-election.
Mr. Donohoe has well earned this
approving testimonial of his conduct
of an important office—particuiariv
important in Alaska, where govern
ment comes mostly from Washing
ton, while his party is in control of
national affairs. Mr. Donohoe has
been fair, progressive, deferent to ,
public sentiment in the various sec
tions of the Territory, democratic'
to the uttermost, co-operative, cour
ageous, capable, and sane. During
all the troublous times he has never
lost his head, and never failed to
lead.
While he has gone as far as the
public welfare would allow to keep
all the elements of his political
party working together in harmoni
ous co-operation, he has not hesi
tated to break with and help to cast
out those who would rule or ruin,
who would create class controver
sies, who would delay developing
progress in the Territory. Mr. Dono
hoe has been a real party leader,
yet a thoughtful and patriotic cit
izen, with Alaska’s good in mind
all the time. It is pleasing to know
that he will have no opposition for
re-election.
CERTAINTY OF LIVINC.
“In our educational system, op
portunity vanishes when a pupil
reaches the thinking period,” de
clared Judge Richard Winsor, presi
dent of the Seattle school board,
before the Workers’ College forum,!
recently, in a speech excoriating the
modem educational system as a
part of the elaborate machinery de
signed for the control of the public
mind.
“Education should be continu
ous,” said Judge Winsor, “and nev
er for the purpose of making the
children useful to profiteers. It is
our duty to see that the affairs of
'government are put into the hands
‘.of the people, for the sooner you
jput the lickspittles of capital out
of power the sooner the people will
be free."
“The modern world is demanding
certainty of living, rather than equal
opportunity," added the school
board head. “There is too much
welfare peddling by the special in
terests for the purpose of keeping
the people quiet The profiteers
know nothing bout the people, for
they are completely out of touch
with them."
DRY COSTS.
Senator Warren announced in the
United States senate recently that it
will cost $50,000,000 a year to keep
the United States dry—or approxi
mately so. This will not, he said,
mean an apporpriation for this year
and next, but for every year until
the taste for intoxicating liquor is
eradicated from the race. It is
burdensome now. he pointed out,
and of doubtful value to those mod
erates who have developed need for
stimulant, but there is little doubt
that future generations will praise
those who bore the burden and suf
fered the crucifixion of appetite an!
longing for old joys and stimulants.
FUTURE OF SILVER.
Use of the silver standard ip.
Oriental countries, coupled with the
enormous commercial expansion now
in progress between the West and
the East, indicates that there is an
immense shortage of silver to meet
the demands of trade, reports the
American Chamber of Commerce in
London.
One result of this shortage, says
the American chamber, is that Am
erican and Mexican silver mines
may look forward confidently to an
era of unprecedented prosperity for
many years to come. Silver, it is
understood, must also be found to
back over thirty billion dollars'
worth of paper money issues float
ing in Europe today, in addition to
which America’s increasing volume
of trade with India and China calls
for almost unlimited supplies of the
metal.
The United States and Mexico
furnish nearly three-fourths of the
world’s yearly output of silver, the
larger portion coming from the
Uniteed States. As the price of
the white metal advances it has be
come profitable to most countries
to convert minted silver into bullion.
Small “change” continues to dis
appear on the European continent
with remarkable rapidity, postage
stamps largely replacing the former
silver coin of small value.
The United States is said to be
the one country in position today to
buy silver for coinage without de
basing its standard coins.
Those Girl*.
Mayme: “I have so many callers j
pestering the life out of me I hard
ly know what to do with them all.
Grayce: Why, how long have you
been a telephone operator?—Balti
more American.
Imm tlte Oatoway to aKcKlnler
Wattoaal Park.
CHINKS EMPLOYED
AS EXECUTIONERS
BY SLAV LEADER!
AMSTERDAM.—A corresponded
. of the Handelsblad. who recent!;
returned from a trir> in Soviet Rus
1 isia, gives the following account o
'his investigations of the activitie:
' of the Chinese employed there b;
ithe Bolsheviki as executioners:
j “Such horrible stories were bein»
I told in Europe about these Chines*
Ithat I thought it worth my while t<
| learn more about them. As a joke
I asked every one who asked m)
j opinion of the Bolsheviki to shov
!me some 'real man-killing Chinese,
jbut I was told that they couldn’1
produce any just now, because the)
I had all gone to the Denikine front
| “I was told the Chinese, if com
manded by their own officers, wer.
excellent soldiers, but they ran like
i hares if their officers were killed.
: Executions are now very rare in
! Moscow, but last August, when thou
sands of ‘counter-revolutionaries'
'were slaughtered, it was carried out
jbv the Chinese because the authori
! ties feared the Russian soldiers
[would refuse to do the work,
i “The Chinese do this work in
differently—like they do all other
work they are ordered to perform.
They are blind, conscienceless tools
in the hands of the men who feed
them and pay them, and who raised
them from the position of coolie in
which they came to Russia to the
rank of soldier of the guards.
“If the ‘Boltsjak.’ his name for
Bolshevik, orders something, the
Chinese does it, and he does it in
his typically practical way. He first
makes the victim dig his own grave,
and then shoots him with his re
volver. He is not cruel about it,
just practical.
“When Boltsjak says kill, then he
kills with an unperturbed face. And
when Boltsjak says, ‘You may stop
now,’ with the same cool face he
lets his victim go."
The correspondent, after some
weeks in Russia, left when he was
refuseed permission to make inves
tigations freely as he pleased.
SURF IS COMPLETING
EMDEN’S DESTRUCTION
SYDNEY, Australia.—The hulk of
the German raiding cruiser Emden
in the Cocos islands in the Indian
ocean is reported to have been de
molished by the surf. The Emden
was beached after being defeated
by the Australian cruiser Sydney in
November, 1914. Some of the Em
den’s guns were salved by the au
thorities and one is a trophy in a
public place in Sydney.
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COBLENZ IS CROWDED;
WIVES UNDER BAN NOW
AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS,
Cozlenz, Germany.—No more Am
erican officers are to be permitted
to bring: their wives from America
to the Rhine, until living: conditions '
improve in Coblenz, it was snnounc-1
ed recently in a war department1
cable from Washington. Coblenz is ■
one of the most crowded cities of
Europe, being headquarters of the
Allied Rhineland Commission in
addition to the seat of command of
the 15,000 United States troops sta- I
tioned in the bridgehead area.
It is estimated that there are ap
proximately 200 American officers
with their wives in Coblenz, many
officers having also brought over
their children and servants. In nu
merous cases an American family
and a German family are quartered
in the same house or apartment,
using the same kitchen. There is
scarcely a German family in Cob-:
lenz which has not one or more
Allied soldiers or members of the
Rhineland commission billeted in |
their home. <
Henan*, the Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Seer* tar? Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Biiiidinv.
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at ;.ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at S a. m., and from
Camp 415 (North Nenana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m :
arrive Fairbanks, 5:3# p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers anil Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
Daring the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA