THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Xenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Published ever}- afternoon except Sunday, by the Xenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Xenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth....Editor and Manager
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NO PAPER TOMORROW
Taking advantage of the inter
rupted cable service and the fact
that Congress probably will not be
in session tomorrow, the News will
.ioin with the Alaskan Engineering
Commission and numerous business
houses of the town in the observ
ance of Memorial Day. which prom
ises this year to be more generally
observed throughout the United
States than ever before in the his
tory of the nation.
Perhaps by Saturday, when the
next issue of the News will appear,
repairs to the cable will have been
completed, and normal communica
tion with the Outside restored.
BOOMING MEXICO
Those who speculate upon the re
adjustment of industrial condition?
and the reabsorption of the soldier?
into civil life are wont to reflect
that after the civil war the soldiers
were readily readapted to working
conditions.
They do not consider, however,
points out the Chicago Tribune, that
after the civil war there were thous
ands of acres of open land, fit for
immediate tilling and homemaking.
And they fail to,see that the coun
try is now pretty well occupied, at
least to the exclusion of boundless
opportunities such as offered in 1866.
Another thing, says the Chicago
paper, we are hearing a good many
complaints from the soldiers abroad
in effect that they consider them
selves slighted in some degree in
that prohibition has beers made
effective in their absence. It fol
lows that at least two things will
excite their mental processes—the
desire for employment and some
inquiry into what has happened to
their one time personl freedom of
action.
Mexico is a broad and fruitful
country, filled with opportunities
for making money easily, offering
a most salubrious climate and, by
some stretch of figure, only a stone’s
throw from the old homestead. It
require? only that Mexico effect
some sort of stability so that a man’s
labor and his investments find reas
onable protection and there appears
forthwith an alluring prospect for
the vigorous youth of the pioneer
type of mind.
Once more: we need hardly dwell
upon the statement that Mexico has
not gone dry and is not likely to
go dry—unless, of course, it should,
by some unlooked for co-operation
of prohibitionists and Monroe doc
trinists, yield to such American in
fluences as might penetrate and
stabilize the country and also erase
the present frontier. Thus Mexico
offers to the pioneering youth the
measure of liberty he seeks vainly
in the United States.
If Mexico could be stable it is
conceivable that emigration might
offer advantages to those who con
sider themselves in need of labor
and liberty.
EUROPEAN AIR PLANS
Elaborate plans for international
air services are now being worked
out by the French government and
it is probable that some of them
will be inaugurated soon after the
peace conference has finished work
and promulgated its decisions for
the control of aviation. In addition
France will establish air routes
which will be entirely within her
own boundaries and therefore under
her control alone.
One of the most pretentious
schemes is that for a service which
will run London-Paris-Marseilles
Rome - Naples - Brindise- Constantin
ople, Another line will be estab
lished between Paris and Morocco,
I and Paris and -'laaria probably will
; be linked up.
There are at present two services
out of Paris, one to London and
the other to Lille and Brussels. The
former is at the moment for mili
tary business only, but plans have
been laid for a service that will
benefit the general public. So far
there is no intention to make this
a passenger service but the feasi
bility is being discussed of sending
telegrams and special delivery let
ters between the two capitals by air.
It takes only about three hours for
the trip so that a telegram could
be delivered quicker in this man
ner than by wire. It is probable
that a charge of perhaps three
francs would be made for the carry
ing of letters.
The line between Paris and Brus
sels is for passengers and an air
plane is making one trip a week
each way. The fare is about three
hundred francs. This sendee is a
private enterprise run by one of
the big airplane firms, although it
is government controlled.
Two other firms are about to
start similar sendees with the per
mission of the government. In view
of this it is probable that no regu
lar government sendee will be es
tablished, although of course, mili
tary airplanes are carrying supplies
and despatches to the front daily.
The time required to fly to Brus
sels from Paris is about two hours
and a half.
10 BE PROTECTED
FORT V UKON—“Blond Eskimos"
discovered by Yilhjalmur Stefansson,
the explorer, in the far northern
Arctic, will be left in their uncivilized
aboriginal state, according to Leo
TV ittenburg, a trader and whaler
who stopped on his “mush” from
the Arctic ocean to the States.
The Canadian government, Mr.
Wittenberg said, has forbidden all
; white people from the outside world
to trade, trap or even visit in the
section of V ictoria Land, where the
strange white race lives. Even mis
sionaries cannot go into the country,
he asserted.
Canada’s orders are being en
forced by the constables of the
Rova! Northwest Mounted Police
I from the police station at Herschel
Island, an Arctic post at the mouth
of the MacKenzie river.
W ittenberg said he went among
the “blond Eskimos” a year after
Stefansson’s discovery and estab
! lished a post, where he engaged in
trading, whaling and trapping. He
• remained there, he asserted, until
‘Canadian authorities requested him
to leave.
Wittenberg’s description of the
strang race coincides with that given
by Stefansson. They have blue
eyes, light hair and European fea
tures in general, he said. Authori
ties believe the tribe descended
from early Greenlanders.
Reports brought out of the North
I about a year ago by W. J. Bower,
j one of Stefansson’s companions, said
the “blond eskimos” used bows and
arrows, dressed in skins, used flints
for making fires and knew absolutely
nothing of the great outside world
lying far to the south.
Tests by a Swiss city of the rela
tive efficiency of arc and metallic
filament incandescent lamps for
street lighting were decided in favor
of the latter, chiefly because more
agreeable to the eyes.
FORMER CHIP
REUS WITH
SAX FRANCISCO—The personal
friends of Willie Ritchie, former
lightweight boxing champion of the
world, believe he will abide by his
announced intention of retiring from
the ring> for all time. With his
final bow to pugilism, the curtain
will come down on a fighter wnc
was considered one of the gamest
that the ring has known.
There are many who have watch
ed the ring career of Ritchie who
deem him in a class with Battling
Nelson in the matter of standirg
up to, and taking punishment with
out a whimper. His last battle with
Bennie Leonard, when he continued
fighting while reeling from the ef
fects of the champion’s blows, more
than made good the claims cf game
ness made for him.
A notable instance of Ritchie's
gameness was displayed in hi-- cham
pionship fight against .loo Rivers
in this city on July 4, 1913. when
the latter made an attempt to take
the title from the then champion.
For the first five or six rounds
Rivers outfought and outboxed
Ritchie to such an extent that the
crowd was looking to see Ritchie
take the final count at any moment.
Ritchie continued to fight back un
der merciless punishment and finally
succeeded in landing a couple of
stiff punches that slowed up Rive’-?.
The tide then suddenly turned and
in the eleventh round River* was
prostrate.
Ritchie is comfortably fixed in
the matter of worldly goods. Be
sides a handsome cash bal mce in
the bank, he owns a coup! i of apart
ment houses here which return h m
a good income. He never has dis
sipated and does not use tobacco
in any form. His one frivolity,
which has been the cause of much
good-natured banter on the part of
his friends, has been his fondness
for dancing, which he indulges >n
whenever the opportunity occurs
Prior to becoming champion,
Ritchie worked in a garage and is
an expert mechanician. He con
sidered at one time going int i the
automobile business and it would
not be a surprise if, eventually, he
entered into this line of work.
HAS AMUSING SIDE
SALONIKA.—Some of the more
amusing “human interest’’ incidents
of the activities of the American
Red Cross nurses and field workers
during the repatriation of Greeks
deported into Bulgaria during the
war are related by Lieutenant A. S.
Bedell, in charge of the American
Red Cross relief stations in Mace
donia and Bulgaria.
“We came into Bulgaria on a
German freight car.” says Lieuten
ant Bedell in his report. “This Red
Cross car was the first car of the
first train that ran from Serres to
Salonika after the armistice and it
was with the Red Cross from the
time we entered Bulgaria until we
returned to Greece.
“On the trip out of Bulgaria we
had one iron bed and two camp cots.
One Red Cross man slept on a crate
of biscuit tins, the bed being de
mountable to furnish five chairs by
day. The Red Cross man turned
over frequently in the night, bring
ing discord from the tins, but de
spite our protests at his noisy mode
of sleeping, he declared he had a
‘rattling good bed.’
“Firewood was obtainable along
the route and we were able to use
our woodstove after cutting a hole
in the side of the car for the stove
pipe. Liquid food proved our only
difficutly. It was impossible to boil
even half an inch of water on the
stove when the car was in motion.
We had a real American coffee
grinder. The coffee beans were put
in a clean sock and one of the
men to the the tune of ‘Yankee
Doodle’ would crush the beans with
a hammer.
“When chicken was ■wanted for
dinner one of the party would go
. out with a half cup of sugar in
hand, wander about the village until
he saw a ‘likely’ chicken, which he
.would thereupon seize. The native
weman who made the most outcry
was presumed to be the owner and
.usually was glad to accept the half
ctrp cf sugar in exchange. Our
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DANCING ACADEMY
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Sat. May 31
UNION MALL
Mr?. Belle Campbell - Director
much maligned ration of ‘bully
1 beef’ proved to be acceptable also.
‘'Bartering was the order of the
j day at all stations. A slice of bread
would obtain three shines, fill a
large water jar or attract a carriage
of supplies. During our last after
inoon in Dedegatch. on the Aegean
' Sea, we had the use of a horse
and wagon all afternoon, in order
to return borrowed furniture, for
; the payment of one tin of ‘bully
, beef.’
“The fame of American Red
Cross relief stations spread through
out Bulgaria to such an extent that
; other Red Cross workers and Brit
ish and French officers, including
two Fench generals, sought us out
in passing to secure a canteen of
'hot tea or to replenish depleted
rations.”
CRIPPLED PIANIST
GIVES A RECITAL
—
LOS ANGELES.—Arthur F. Ful
ler, who has been so crippled for
: nineteen years that he must lie on
| his back, gave a piano recital here
| recently before a large audience.
Mr. Fuller, whose bodily ailments
keep him close at home and to whom
i traveling is an impossibility, de
; dares the inspiration of music gives
: him physical strength to play a re
j cital, which he gives while lying
j at full length before the instru
i ment.
BROTHER DUTTON
REFUSES REWARD FOR
WORK AMONG LEPERS
HONOLULU. — Brother Joseph
Dutton, who succeeded Father Dam
' ien, the martyr, at the leper settle
ment on Molokai, has refused to ac
cept a pension from the territory
land a bill in the legislature to give
him $50 a month for life has been
tabled at his request. Brother
Dutton said he was in good health
and wanted no reward for his work
among the lepers. He has not been
• off the island of Molokai for 33
years and has contributed $10,000
of his own money for relief work.
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Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office ia
in the employment office, on the *
ground floor of the genera! office
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mission.
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time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
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