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Sergeant Dayton, commanding the
detachment of U. S. guards doing
guard duty in Xenana, received a
wire from Captain Joseph Spauld,
wire from Captain Joseph Spauld
ing, commanding the post at Fort
Gibbon, inquiring whether a force
of six men with two non-commis
sioned officers would suffice for
a month, at least.
Sergeant Dayton replied that it
could be so arranged and it is
I
i expected that the force in Nenan
at present will be reduced soot
It is thought that the demobilizatio
| plans have necessitated the chang
indicated and that the Alaskans i
the service will soon be released.
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The Cascade Laundry has plent
of hot soft water at all times. Ne'
bath rooms, fully equipped and sar
itary, with special rooms for ladiei
. You get -ebate with $2.50 laundry
which applies on bath, or pay 50
per bath.
The lanuch Peerless arrived i
Xenana at four o’clock this aftei
, noon with eight passengers an
one sack of mail on board froi
F airbanks.
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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Like Success
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Right
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Outfitters of the North
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ij Work of Subsistence
Branch of Army Told
I .Of In Official History
\ WASHINGTON.—“Soldiers who
5 fought against Spain in 1898 lost
$ in weight on an average 22 pounds
• each; the average American soldier
* at the end of the fighting in 1918
■ weighed twelve pounds more than
i he did when the selective service
-; act or his own volition brought him
i into the army/’
, Thus the success
army’s subsistence branch
by
in
■ he
the
r great war is epitomized in chapters
r of the official war “material” his
• tory just made public by the war
• department.
> The food problem of an army
c of 3,700,000 Americans is visual
ized in the history by considering
the force as a single man and the
1 entire war period as one dinner
’ hour. Articles comprised in the
army ration assumed these tre
mendous totals:
t Roast beef 800,000,000 pounds;
bacon 150,000,000 pounds; flour
(bread) 1,000,000,000 pounds; but
ter 17,500,000; oleomargarine 11,
000,000; baked beans 150,000,000
pounds; potatoes 487.000,000 pounds;
onions 40,000,000 pounds; corn,
beans, and peas 150,000,000 cans;
tomatoes 190,000,000 cans; prunes,
peaches and apples (for dessert)
107,000,000 cans; sugar 350.000,vQj
pounds; coffee 75,000,000 pounds;
evaporated milk 200,000,000 cans.
The bill for this “meal” amounted
to $727,000,000 to December 1,
1918, the per capita cost having risen
from 4 cents in 1897 to 4S in 1918.
At the time of the armistice,
American soldiers in France were
consuming 9,000,000 pouno- of food
daily. Moving this stupendous quan
tity over the 3,000-mile line of com
munication was the principal ob
stacle to be overcome. This and
necessity for conserving cargo space
led directly in the latter months
to the shipment of dehydrated vege
tables to the American expeditionary
force.
“The problems were solved only
by the assistance of the \merican
; food industry,” the report says, and
while instances were found of food ;
specifications being violated, these
are declared to have been very
few and in most instanc“- not in
tentional.
The emergency ration of the \
American soldiers, designed to bo
used only in cases of extremity, was
perfected during the war io consist,
of 3 cakes of beef, prepared .vith
a bread compound of ground cooked
wheat, each cake weighing 3 ounces;',
three 1-ounce cakes of chocolate;
three-fourth ounces fine salt and 1!
dram black pepper.
A special ration was designed for
the use of invalid soldiers, including
potted chicken, fried eggs, pud
dings, etc.
Importance attached to the supplv
of fresh coffee for the men is
) evidenced by the decision to ship
t j the bean in the green form and have
it roasted near the front. This
I* led to the invention of portable
roasters capable of handling several
tons a day.
' “Noting that tobacco has estab
j lished its claim to a recognized
I< place in the soldier’s life,” the re
port says probably 95 per cent of
( the American expeditionary force
i used the weed in one form or an
j other. Monthly shipments averaged
20,000,000 cigars and 425,000,000
cigarettes.
The soldier’s sweet tooth was sat
isfied by a monthly shipment of
300,000 pounds of candy during the
early part of the war, but this
was increased in November, 1918, to
1,373,300 pounds, and in the follow
ing month the war department made
candy a part of the regulation
issue, 1 Vx pounds being issued to
each man every month. A close
companion in popularity was chew- j
ing gum, more than 3,000,000 pack
ages a month being consumed.
More than half of the Victory
Loan would be required to pay %or
the clothing and uniform equipage'
of the American army. One chap- 1
tory of the events which led the I
government finally to take over the j
i domestic wool clip and to com- 1
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mandeer the output of practically
every factory.
Interesting statistics are given of
economies effected by change in
design. For instance, elimination of
lacings and eyelets in trousers saved
$17,000,000, and redesigning of the
coat cut the cost of these garments
$5,000,000. Expert cutting reduced
the consumption of cloth 23-100 of
a yard and saved 2,300,000 yards on
the total order. Cotton textiles pro
duced for the army would furnish
a strip 3 feet wide and of sufficient
length to wrap IS layers around the
equator.
Innovations resulting from short
ages in material included the sub
stitution of American dyes for the
German product and the use of
vegetable “ivory” in button making.
The activities of the quartermaster
corps (afterwards taken over largely
by the bureau of purchase, storage
and supply), included also the fur
nishing of hats, shoes, boots, fuel,
0(il, paints, tools, harness and harness
equipment and even music. Prom
inent composers volunteered for the
work of selecting a “balanced ra
tion” of jazz and more restrained
orchestrations for the army bands.
To give the American aviator the
surest fuel possible the department
took over every drop of "257 degree
fighting naptha" and confined its
use to the service plane; actually
on the front.
Conservation of shipping space re
sulted in the revolutionizing of pack
ing methods. Clothing was com
pressed into bales, shoes shipped in
bags and trucks were dissembled and
crated. The New York baling plant,
according to the report, saved the
government $55,000,000 in tonnage
expenditures.
Geo. M. Arbuckle, publisher of
the Iditarod Pioneer until the sus
pension of that paper over a year
ago, is among the incoming pass
engers on the Alaska.
Knut Koland, railroad contractor
is in town on a brief business visit.
SUPERSTITIOUS TALE
ABOUT DEAD BANDIT
FOOLS MEXICAN INDIANS
CUAUTLA, Mexico.—Legends al
ready are beginning to spring up
among the superstitious and ignor
ant Indians of this state regarding
Emiliano Zapata, the rebel chief
who met death near here on April
30. In an attempt to preserve the
bandit’s body as long as possible in
order to rive the greatest number
of his former followers a chance to
tee it, it was packed in :ce, in the
absence of embalming fluids. The
ice burst the sides and top of the
flimsy coffin and gave rise to su
perstitious tales that the “Attila of
the South,” as Zapata was called,
was not really dead, but had burst
his coffin and escaped.
HOME OF FAMOUS
AUTHOR REOPENED
AS AUTHORS’ CENTER
PARIS.—The home of the fam
ous French author. Honore de Bal
zac, in the P.ue Raynouard at Passy,
was reopened recently as an artists'
center. The house, which is sur
rounded by an old-world garden,
r.ad been sadly neglected, but has
row been restored to present the
ippearance it had in Balzac’s time,
with its vestibule painted blue and
the original oak carvings and dark
red tapestries decorating the apart
nent where Balzac wrote his mas
terpieces.
On the table stands the big china
toffee-pot from which the author
was wont to refresh himself, for
Balzac was a mighty drinker of
•offee. Old woodcuts and origina"
minting proofs adorn the walls. In
he garden the vine that Balzac
ended still grows, and his beloved
ilacs havf been replanted there.
In one room there is still th
rapdoor through which Balzac used
o disappear when importunate
Teditors called.
Birth Announcement Card* at the
lews Office.
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OLDIIIRS ARE
A party of oldtimers, compose!
of Tom Blaylock, Charles McGoni
gal, A1 Copeland and J. F. Zimmer
man were in Xenana yesterday, en
route to the Kantishna country t:
put in a season of prospecting
They have three pack horses witi
them, and took on a considerabh
cargo of supplies here. They ari
making the trip in the McGoniga
power scow, which recently lande'
the Aitken outfit in the Kantishna
and left Xenana for the destinatioi
at an early hour this morning.
Blaylock and Copeland will dis
embark on the upper reaches o:
the Kantishna river, from whicl
point they will transport their out
fit over the hills to the McKinle;
region, where they will do thei:
prospecting.
Zimmerman will quit the boa
at a point lower down the river
it being his intention to put in thi
summer in the Kantishna countr;
proper—in the “old diggings,” a
he expresses it. He has a pad
horse and supplies sufficient to las
four months, and at the end of tha
time he will come back for a nev
outfit or abandon the search foi
gold in that region.
The region which will be invadec
by Copeland and Blaylock is littli
known, although it is regardec
favorably by numerous oldtimer
who have been in that part o!
Alaska. The district, as describe!
by Copeland, lies between Mt. Me
kinley and the headwaters of th<
Kuskokwim, and is a large and in
hospitable territory, but one whicl
is regarded as full of promise b\
Copeland and his companion.
SOCIAL DANCE
Sat* May 14
UNION MALL
Airs. Belle Campbell - Oirecfor
ALASKA MAIL REACHES
SEATTLE IN BIG HEAP
i
Some notion of the inefficent
1 mail service now provided Alaska
by the postoffice department may be
1 gathered from the report received
‘; from Seattle yesterday. In this re
^fport it is stated that the mails which
’ | left Fairbanks on May 11, 14, 18,
1 ; and 21 all reached Seattle on the
, same steamer, arriving there on
'June 9. The consignments were de
layed at Cordova, where they prob
i ably were compelled to await the ar
t rival of a south-bound boat.
BANDIT'S LIFE SAVED
BY RUNAWAY HORSE
MARFA, Texas.—A runaway cav
. airy horse saved “Chico” Cano’s
; life during a raid across the Rio
i Grande by the Eighth cavalry re
|eently. Cano, who is known through
[ out the Big Bend district as a des
perate charcter, was in command of
a band of Mexicans who raided an
American ranch, drove off a herd
i of cattle to Mexico. The cavalry
gave chase, forded the Rio Grande
and located the bandits in their
; camp while they were cooking sup
| per. Captain Leonard Matlack, com
manding the troop, ordered his men
' to dismount and surround the camp.
Recognizing “Chico" Cano, Captain
\ Matlack was about to fire on him
| when one of the cavalry horses
stampeded and Cano escaped with a
I bullet in his leg.
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