THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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SUICIDES IN UTAH
In the matter of suicides, Utah
in 1915, had the lowest rate of any
state in the union, according: to sta
tisetics of the state health office.
The percentage was 12.7 per 100,
000 of population Even this record
was bettered in 1916 and 1917, when
the number per 100,000 population
was 11.8 and 10, respectively.
Credit for this low suicide rate
is given in a large degree to the
''block-teacher” system of the Mor
mon church. Utah’s population is
largely Mormon and visits by these
"teachers” has been found an im
portant factor in preventing actions
due to lonesomeness and lack of
advisors
In each ecclesiastical ward of the
church are both ward teachers and
Relief Society teachers. "Blocks.”
approximiatng from six to twelve
homes within a ward, are visited
regularly by these teachers, both
men and women. Families are given
counsel in both religious, business
and family affairs when they desire
it. In this way, according to the
authorities of the church, these per
sons of a morose disposition are
cheered, young mothers are advised
and numerous other matters taken
up that have proved of benefit Vo
all. In the advising of young
mothers, according to church statis
tics, it is claimed that the death
rate among young children is re
markably low among these who ac
cept counsel, the records showing
that an i average of only one in 21
babies under one year of age die
annually.
VTftne the “teachers” are prin
cipally for the purpose of visit
ing and counseling members of the
church, the help is offered to Gen
tiles if they wish it. No one, in
cluding church members need be
visited if they do not wish it.
PROHIBITION IN HAWAII
Nation-wide prohibition will bring
no new problems to Hawaii, for the
entire territory has been “bone dry”
by act of congress since midnight
of August 20, 1918. Conditions
have already been fully readjusted
to meet the new regime and the
liquor business in the islands has
been entirely liquidated.
On the island of Oahu, the United
States army maintains one of its
largest garrisons and Oahu was
made dry by presidential proclama
tion, as a war measure, on April
10, 1918. The act of congress,
bringing prohibition to the entire
territory provided for a plebiscite
of the question at any regular elec
tion within two years after the
close of the war. Hopes of the anti
prohibitionists that Hawaii would
vote liquor back were blasted by
ratification of the prohibition amend
ment to the federal constitution.
The liquor trade in Hawaii dated
back to the arrival of the first
traders and whalers, w'ho began to
visit the islands early in the last
century, following close upon the
discovery of the group by Captain
Cook in 1778, and it was firmly en
trenched when the first missionaries
arrived from Boston in 1820.
Hawaii had its first experience
with prohibition over 80 years ago,
when King Kamehameha. Ill in 1838
issued a decree forbidding the im
portation of any liquor except light
wines. What effect, if any, this
edict had is not recorded in history
but it apparently soon became a
dead law.
When Honolulu and the island of
Oahu became dry a year ago by
presidential proclamation; one brew
ery and 401 liquor selling establish
ments—saloons. wholesale houses and
hotel and club bars—were closed and
approximately 300 men lost their
positions. Readjustment was rapid,
however, and the commercial life of
the city scarcely felt the change.
GOATS TO THE RESCUE
Goats are to be given a thorough
trial by the government as forest
fire preventers, according to an
nouncement by R. H. Charlton, sup
ervisor of the Angeles National
Forest. Four hundred goats are to
be turned loose along the fire
breaks in the San Bernardino moun
tains this summer.
The owner of the goats, W. H.
Moore, of Tucson, Ariz., wlil be al
lowed to graze the goats for a nom
inal sum. They are to be tried out
between Cajon Pass and Oak Glenn
and if the supply of weeds and
grasses proves insufficient for the
goat appetite, the herd will be gven
a wider opportunity.
There is no young timber in the
section in which the goats will be
allowed to graze, said Mr. Charlton,
and consequently it is felt that they
can do no harm If by keeping
the fire breaks clean of the under
growth that frequently causes fires
they prevent a single blaze in the
dry season, the experiment will have
been fully justified in his opinion.
Mr. Charlton three years ago in
troduced some goats into the re
serve, but they were not herded, he
said, and wandered away one by
one. One by one they met death,
until practically all are gone. The
1919 herd is to be carefully guarded.
WAR SERVCE CLUB
IS AIDING FAMILIES
SALT LAKE CITY—The activi
ties of the War Service Club of the
Oregon Short Line railroad which
was organized in July. 1918, in
cluded giving aid to families of
stricken soldiers to the sending out
of Christmas presents to every for
mer Short Line employe in the serv
ice who could be located.
There were 1383 Short Line em
ployees m the military service, and
of that number but 25 had returned
to their former positions with the
road at a recent census of the
club Close to $20,000 was given
by road employes who remained
behind toward making lighter the
burdens of families left behind.
Twenty casualties had been re
ported to the club up to March 10.
Of this number eight had been
killed in action, seven wounded and
five died of disease. The corres
pondence department is an import
ant branch of the club and every
Short Line man has received letters
even if he had no relatives to write
to him.
FUR EXCHANGE SALES
BRING OVER MILLION
ST LOUIS, Apr. 29—The first
day’s sales of the spring auction at
the International Fur Exchange held
here today, brought the substantial
sum of one million and fifty-two
thousand dollars.
Alaska seal --skins advanced in
price thirty per cent since last
October.
[ NEW LAW ENACTED
BY LEGISLATURE
ABOUT ELECTION
Advices received from Fairbanks
today indicate that the territorial
legislature has passed a special elec
tion law which provides for a special
election to be held on thirty days’
notice being given of same by the
governor of the territorv.
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Wickersham’s supporters in the
senate tried to tack on an amend
ment calling for a sixty day notice,
but failed and the bill was passed
by both houses as originally written
by an unanimous vote.
The bill also provides and legal
izes telegraphic notice from the
governor to the clerks of court, and
from the clerks to the various U.
S. commissioners.
Provision is made in the bill that
one day’s local legal notice in in
corporated towns and one day's
posting by the commissioners is
sufficient. Telegraphic election re
turns are also legalized. The Aus
tralian ballot will not apply.
It is considered almost a cer
tainty that the special election will
be held June 3rd.
GREEKS EXPLAIN
YANKEE ARRESTS
SALOXIKI.— Premier Yenizelos
and General Paraskevopoulos, com
mander in chief of the Greek army,
have offered regrets and apologies
to George Horton, the American
counsel genera! here, for the un
warranted arrest of Dr. John Henry
House, of Ohio, superintendent of
the American Missionary school;
Rev. Wiliam C. Cooper, of Illinois,
and Rev. William Paine Clark, pro
fessors in the institution.
The charges on which the arrests
were made were entered by a Bul
garian informer, and the arrests
were by order of a subordinate
military official. As soon as the
matter was taken to the attention
of the authorities by Mr. Horton, the
accused were released, and an in
vestigasttion ordered by General Par
askevopulous proved the charges,
which had been characterized by
Horton as “ridiculous and fantastic’’
to be absolutely baseless.
The Rev. Mr. Cooper was charged
with transmuting information to'
the Germans through Mrs. Cooper’s
surer who was then resident of
Switzerland, and with obtaining em
ployment for a Bulgarian woman
I as cook in an American consulate,
in order that she might steal papers
|o fimportance and take them to
him at the school.
The informant also declared that
he had overheard Dr. House sav
he had positive information that
Macedonia was to be given to Bul
garia when the peace treaty was
| signed. When this information was
given to the Greek authorities they
! ordered the arrest of all persons
with Bulgarian affiliations.
WANT ALASKANS FIRST
ON ALASKAN PAYROLLS
JUNEAU.—“Alaskans First in
Alaskan Industries" is the slogan
initiated some time aeo by the Ju
; neau Labor Union, supported by a
committeee of business men and the
Alaska Publicity Bureau. Man
agers of the fishing companies
have been notified of the move
ment and asked to give preference
in employment to home labor, of
which there is said to be an ample
supply for present needs.
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CHENA RIVER REPORTED
TO BE RISING SLOWUJf
According to a message from
Fairbanks this afternoon, the Chena
river is said to have risen two inches
since .yesterday. Some water is
flowing over the ice in the neighbor
hood of the Nordale and Fairview
' hotels and the slough is open in
j several places.
Oldtimers say that the ice is good
for ten days to come (and they
1 may be right at that).
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TEAMS LID UP
With the promise of warmer and
more settled weather from now on,
baseball players are expected to take
the field and commence playin'? the
national jrame within the next few
days in Nenana.
Just as soon as a sufficient num
ber of players turn out, a meeting
is to be held, probably an informal
one at the grounds first, for the
purpose of organizing for the
season. A regular meeting will be
called later on, at which teams will
be lined up and arrangements com
pleted for a series of matches with
Fairbanks and probably Brooks.
The necessary baseball materials
in the way of suits, hats, masks,
mitts, etc, belonging to the Nenana
Athletic Association are available
for use—there are enough of suits
for two full teams—and there is a
lot of good material for the forma
tion of two or more teams. The
military guard and the Signal Corps
boys ought to be able to muster
up a good team or two.'*and lively
games may be looked forward to
when the season is on in full
swing.
HENDERSON RETAINS
PLACE AS EDUCATOR
L. D. Henderson has been unani
mously reappointed commissioner of
education for the territory of Alas
ka. The Board of Education, which
reappointed Mr Henderson, is com
posed of Governor Riggs, ex-officio'
member and president of the board.
Senators Sutherland, Heckman,Sund- j
back and Ronan. Under the law
the senior senators are members of |
the board,. Mr. Henderson’s new j
term of office will begin the first
of May.
Mr. Henderson has been commis
sioner of education for two years.
He was appointed by the Board of
Education shortly after it wal; or
ganized, and is the first incumbent
His administration has been very
successful.
MARSHAL’S GUARD IS
DOWN WITH THE FLU
A telegram was received this
morning by Marshal L. T. Erwin
from Deputy Marshal Bob Tull, who
is on his way to the States with
prisoners, that Martin Knuppe, one
of the guards who left Fairbanks
with the party had contracted an
attack of influenza at Cordova
and was unable to proceed farther.
Neil McCall, who had been in
town on business during the past
week, returned to his camp on Eva
creek on Saturday.
NEWS RECEIVED OF
MORIEY RIVER STRIKE
The following telegram was re
ceived on Saturday night by Tom
Burns of X'enana, a well known
mining man, from Charles R.
Settlemier, editor of the Dawson
News:
•'X'ew strike made by Miller and
McLean, former Dawsonites, on Bor
den and Paide creeks, tributaries
of Morley river, tributary of Teslin
Lake, east side, fifteen miles south
Teslin post, sixty-five miles east of
line; driven out by water before
reaching bedrock, but had as high
as thirty-five cent pans, coarse gold;
summer proposition, open cut. Dis-1
coverers forced stake before com- j
pleting prospecting, by Indians cross
ing country, beginning stake. Grub
can be had at Teslin post, or taken
up Teslin all summer. Saw ietter
from one of discoverers, who says
uncertain outlook until bedrock is
leached.”
Mr. Burns is a mining man of
wide experience and knows the
country in the neighborhood of the
strike. He thinks well of it, and in
all probability will go into the Teslin
country as soon as the rivers are
open for navigation.
The ferry boat Ghent, plying be
tween Douglas and Juneau, recently
had engine trouble and went ashore
in a Taku gale on Douglas Island,
near the old sawmill. A small boat
was lined back and forth from the
boat to the beach, and all the pass
engers were safely landed. A small
hole was punched in the boat, but
otherwise she was undamaged.
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announced the Opening of
the Fifth Bond Selling Cam
paign and Local Patriots are now
Actively Engaged in Disposing of
VICTORY BONDS
YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED
to Insure the Success of the Drive.
Your Dollars May Put Nenana Over
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE—A Singer sewing ma>
chine. Inquire at Coghill’s.
LOST—Nugget chain. Liberal re
ward for return to News office.
fOR RENT—Small one-room partly
furnished frame cabin, on First
and B streets. Aplly at Chezzi’s.
Prospectors and Contractors!
Now is the time to have that tar
paulin, tent or hag made for the
seasons outfit... Bed and hat nets
a-e now readv. at small cost at
MRS. D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP,
Third and A Streets.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
Ball, I B.
Brown, Erie
Coutts, \V. T.
Calderhead, It. w.
Campbell, X. J. '
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven. P, J.
Douse, Fred
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson, K A. '
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wa.
Ghezsi, Alfred
Gray, E. B. - ,
Gilcher, W. H. 1
Dead, E. A.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Isabel, L. C. - •
Irvine, A. J. “ *
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank '
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter 1
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
McDonald, R. s.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
'J *.eeie, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Paify, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, George A.
Southn-orth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.