THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice st Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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AS OTHERS SEE US
“The government railway com
pleted will be the biggest aid to
progress that Alaska has ever
known," declares Frederick J. Has
kin. well-known writer, in an article
which appeared in a number of Out
side papers. “It will lay open
coveted resources that have hither
to been inaccessible. The railway
in full operation means convenience
and prosperity to Alaska, and it
spells the same things to the United
States in slightly smaller letters
Furs, coal, gold and lumber are a
few of the products which can be
sent to the United States in greater
quantities. Alaskan coal fields, prop
erly developed, will be of great
value to the west.
"Anchorage is a single product
of what industrial development is
doing for the great Northwest.
When the government railway was
planned Anchorage was not even a
name. Today it is a thriving town
of several thousand inhabitants, as
progressive a community as any
Western town of its ize. The Alas
kan town has electric lighting, a
modem fire department, hospitals
and schools—in short, all the neces
sities and conveniences of its coun
terpart towns in ttoe United States.
“Alaskan progress has always
been erratic. Rumors -of gold or
coal in an unexploited region, or
any ether project for making big
money, have almost invariably re
sulted in new communities, crude
but vigorous. Where the promise
of wealth is fulfilled a camp becomes
a village, a town, often a city, in
rapid succession. Where luck is
bad, the settlement usually con
tinues to exist anyway. There :s
scarcely an Alaskan town that does
not owe its origin to some man's
gamble with nature.
“As Alaska grows it will become
not only a mining and fishing
district, but ar. agricuitual land as
well. Its dairy and truck farms
which are now a side line should
in time make Alaska independent
of the United States for a large
part of its agricultural supplies.
The climate and soil of Alaska are
better suited to farming than is
generally supposed. Lands now un
der cultivation are yielding good
crops
“Alaska is now the army's big
coal yard on the western coast
This is in spite of the fact tha:
the coal deposits have scarcely been
tapped. Mining coal in the north
western peninsula has been an ex
pensive proposition attended b>
many difficulties in the way ol
transportation, machinery, and la
bor, with lack of transportation a!
ways the big drawback. It is close
to impossible to gather a group ol
human beings who will live an*
work miles from a railway or city
And it is an equally Hereulear
task to transport machinery anr
mine products without a railway oi
navigable river close at hand.
“It is true that Alaska has s
number of small strips of railway
but none of these shortens the dis
tance across the country as th<
Government railway does. And a
that the big railway joins only thi
south with the central part. Alas
ka w-oulcl have fared worse than sh
has if it toad not been for her net
work of rivers and her ragged coas
with its many bays.
“The far Northwest is calling ti
many of the soldiers recently bad
from France. Secretary Lane ha;
received thousands of inquiries from
ex-soldiers regardin'* employment
in Alaska, especially on the rail
road. Some of these men will get
to Alaska, but on the whole the
Department of the Interior follows
the policy that labor already in
Alaska should be employed before
extra men are imported from the
United States. The United States
government does not, as is popu
larly believed, pay the transporta
tion of settlers or laborers from the
United States to Alaska."
BOLSHEVIK DECEPTION
An instance of the deception
the Bolshevik government is forced
to practice in order to secure re
inforcements for its army is con
tained in infomation just *eceived
in London.
A proclamation was issued at
Petros rad ordering a trial mobiliza
tion of the ‘‘First Town Section”
for two days to test its state of
preparedness. It was stated that
the men of the reserve would be
permitted to return to their work
after two days. When the reservists
assembled they were told that * as
Petrograd as unsuitable for manoeu
ver purposes they would be taken
a short distance out of town. Un
suspectingly the men climbed into
box cars, whose doors were then
locked, and the men were sent as
reinforcements to the Western front.
There they remain, although the
Bolshevik officers naively complain
that these reinfocements have not
been of much fighting value.
Desertions from the Bolshevik
ranks and disobedience of orders
retiorted on the increase in North
Russia, also a lack of training among
officers and men and deficiency of
arms and material In the Ural
district riots are reported to have
occurred owing to the difference of
pay between troops at the front
and those remaining behind the
lines.
Anti-Bolshevik sentiment is said
jto be so pronounced among some
of the regiments garrisoning Petro
grad that the authorities are afraid
to take action against disaffected
units or to, send them to the front
Sir William Crisswell, chairman
of the London shipbuilding firm o1
William Gray and company, has in
augurated at the plant a profit-shar
ing plan in the hope of bringing
the workers and the company closei
together. It differs from manj
other profit sharing plans in tha:
' the total profits accuring from tht
operation of the business .shall b<
divided once each year—80 per ceni
to the company and 20 per cent t<
the employees.
Included in the plan are all oi
the 4,000 employees, over 21 year:
of age. The amount which eacl
employe is to receive will be fig
ured on the annual income exelusivi
of overtime, and wilful loss of timi
to the extent of more than 12 day
a year will be disqualification fo
a share in the profits of that year
Allowance will be made for illnes
and recognized holidays, and timi
lost by reason of a lockout, or gen
eral or district strike is not to b
a bar to participation in the plan
Ernest Pearson, fromeily ot th
clerical staff of the A. E. C., i
> reported to be studying civil engir
: eering in Seattle.
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OMSK. Siberia.—Exciting- adven
tures have fallen the iot of Mrs
Carl C. Compton, of Chicago, who.
with American womanly pluck, hai
accompanied her husband in many
months of humanitarian relief work
among the Armenians, and later
during the most exciting moments
of the Bolshevik revolution. They
had never left Illinois before com
ing to the Caucasus for the Com
mittee on Armenian Relief. Now
Mr. Compton is in charge of the
American Young Men’s Christian
Association work at Omsk.
They were first stationed at Al
exandropol, Caucasus, then in the
hands of the Russians, and were oc
cupied with industrial relief work.
Positions were found for refugees
as they arrived, fleeing from Tur
key. They estimated that they and
other members of the corps dis
tributed clothing for 15.000 Ar
menian orphans, whose parents had
been massacred by the Turks. Help
was furnished to about 60.000 refu
gees.
Then, suddenly, the Russian rev
olution developed. The Bolsheviki
abandoned the battle front and the
Turkish army' advanced. It was
feared that the Germans would
come down the Black sea and seize
the line from Batum to Tiflis. The
American consul advised all the
Americans to leave at once, and a
special train conveying sixty for
eigners finally arrived at Baku on
the Caspian sea. There they were
caught in a battle between Bol
sheviki and Armenians on one side
and Tartars on the other. The
street in which they lived was dom
inated by Tartars, who sprayed the
roadway with machine-gun bullets.
For three days they did not dare
leave the house, and had only bread
to live on Eventually, by paying a
high price, they were able to char
ter a special steamer for Astrak
han, which is situated at the mouth
of the Volga. “We had to sleep
on the deck throughout the whole
trip.” said Mrs. Compton. “The
crew and the families of the crew
slept in the cabins, and refused to
give them up.
“We waited for two weeks for
the ice to break up in the Volga
and then we went up to Samara.
The others went on to Vladivostok.
The Bolsheviki were in possession
of Samara then, but we were able
to carry on general relief. Thou
sands of refugees came through and
we started a soup kitchen at the
station. Later, maternity and gen
eral hospitals were organized.
1 “We had rather an exciting time
at Samara w'hen the Czechs came
j in. We lived not far from the
river between the Bolshevik bar
; racks and the principal Bolshevik
dub of the city. The place drew
most of the shell-fire from the Czecl
army. Bullets came through oui
i windows and our rooms became
'filled with ^jyiek dust from the ex
ploding shells. The Bolshevik sol
,diers lay flat upon the club rooi
and fired down on the Czech sol
diers, so we had a very good view
i of the fighting- From my window
I could have touched the BolsheviJ
troops with my hand.
“We were awfully glad to ge
■ down into the cellar. There was i
slit in the wall and we could se<
the end of the battle. Finally w.
; heard the Czechs cheering, and saw
■ people running from the houses
. all making the sign of the cross
j The Czechs had won. Every bod;
i put on their best eiothes and pa
.! raded in the streets with band:
, Collections were taken up for th
. Czechs, who were hailed as heroe
. and deliverers.
“When the Bolsheviki had th
i city we could see them lying in th
; streets. They were always chew
. ing sunflower seeds.”
«, Mr. Compton said he had neve
. seen any Bolsheviki atrocities, bu
j he had seen proclamations issue
;; by the Bolsheviki declaring the
>’would butcher the people if the
- captured the city. He said tha
1 once a Bolshevik broke into a
American’s room, but had immedi
ately apologized, adding that Amer
i ica was the only friend Russia
had.
Mr. Compton also said that Rus
sian officers told him that nine
tenths of the people became Bol
sheviki because they didnt' have
enough to live on. and because they
thought anything would be better
than their present condition.
keliyTnIed
CIERKJF COURT
Clerk of the Court Joe Clark,
who is now in the States on fur
lough. wired his resignation to
Judge Bunnell today. The resigna
tion is to go into effect May 6th.
Judge Bunnell has appointed H.
Claude Kelly to succeed Joe Clark.
Mr Kelly will assume the duties of
his new office on the morning of
May 7th.
Advices to friends in Fairbanks
indicate that Clark has entered into
a business proposition at Montrose.
Colorado, where the Clarks will
make their future home.
ENGLAND TO START
SHIPPING REFORMS
LONDON.—Because claims for
goods damaged in transit now peak
ing before the Railway Clearing
House amount to $5,000,000. the
railroads have inaugurated a cam
paign to teach people how to pack
goods for shipment. Pictoral ap
peals have been issued urging the
public to make sure that packages
are propertlv packed and addressed.
At one London depot a dozen
railroad men were seriously hurt in
one year through the collapse of
poorly packed freight, while less
serious accidents are reported al
most daily from the same cause
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STOCKHOLM—The Turkish min
ister in Stockholm has asked the
American minister. Inf N’elson Mor
ris, to transmit to the American
mission in Paris a protest against
the prohibition of moslems and
Turkish subjects from returning to
European Turkey.
The Turkish minister asserted
that the Allied commissioners in
Constantinople recently issued an
order to thtft effect.
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred. Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Broun, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne. F. D.
Bresnahan, E. B.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
Bali, r. B.
Brown, Erie
Contis, VC. T.
Caiderhead, It. W.
Campbell, X. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Boner, Frank
Diven, It J.
Bouse, Fred
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H. ' *
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wa.
Ghezzi, Alfred
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H. ‘ *
Head, E. A.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. \V.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. " *
Johnson, A G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter I
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
McBor.ald, P. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Barks, 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, Lipma.n
Scott, J. H.
Sellanaer, C. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, George A.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cvriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.