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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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FATE OF KITCHENER j
Lord Kitchener and his staff did ^
not even reach the deck of the
British cruiser Hampshire after she
struck a mine off the coast of
Scotland one stormy night in June, i
lIMG, according to a warrant officer
who has just told the story of the
sinking to a correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian.
Questions concerning the sinking
of the Hampshire have been asked
in parliament because of the per
sistent rumor that the vessel had
been sunk by a submarine and Lord
Kitchener had been carried off a
prisoner to Germany. No detailed
I
statement, however, has even been
officially given out. The name of
the officer who now tells the story
has not been disclosed.
Four days after the Jutland
battle, according to the officer, the
Hampshire took Lord Kitchener
aboard on June 5, and set out with
about 800 persons on board in “the
foulest weather known in that
region.” She was escorted by two
destroyers who were unable to face
the storm and returned to port
Everything on board the Hampshire
was lashed down, and only one
hatchway was left open.
About eight o’clock in the even
ing the ship was shaken by a ter
rific explosion and the crew scram
bled for the deck. Officers quickly
took their posts, but their orders
could not be heard because of
the raging storm and the terrific
sound of escaping steam. Imme
diately after the explosion there
was another and all lights went out,
which added to the confusion.
The officer, with a companion,
cut the lashings of a life raft, it
being: impossible to launch the boats
in the terrific sea, and the raft
was slipped over the side. It turned
upside down, but finally righted
and he with others found themselves
afloat. Almost immediately the
ship went down, not more than five
minutes after the first explosion.
The officer did not see Lord Kitch
ener on deck, and it is his opinion
that as only one hatchway was
open, the only men who reached
the deck were those who went that
way. Although much confused, he
recalls trying to open a number of
other hatchways while trying to
reach the deck, but found them
all battened down.
The raft drifted with the gale
for five houis, during which time
many of the men were washed from
the raft, while others died and
rolled into the net in the center.
The raft was then tossed through
an opening in a rocky reef and
beached on an island.
The officer scoffed at the sug
gestion that Lord Kitchener had
been save ' and was quite sure the
Hampshire had been mined and not
torpedoed.
THE FLU IN RUSSIA
The Mur-tan coast, the Kola Pen
insula, and th entire district of the
White Sea coast have suffered
heavily from 1 influenza, reports
at. Associated Press correspondent,
writing from Archangel. In the
region of Onega and Kem, the
populat e, n of entire Villages and
counties are i 1 with the disease.
Along iue shore of the White Sea
there nly three or four sani
trry or hs,>cnrary points and in
m.'ny cates th„ 1 are without medi
cines.
i
! In the country of Nimensk there
are houses where the entire family
has died and the houses are empty
and closed. The peasants are bury
ing their dead without coffins, no
one being available to make them.
A writer in the Archangel news
paper says: “The streets of the
villlages of the seacoast make an
awful impression. Everybody is ill.
Children are crying and the cattle
are lowing terribly, nobody being
there to feed them.”
Archangel also has suffered con
siderably from the epidemic. There
were at one time two thousand
cases there. A sanitary commis
sion was formed, with power to
exercise summary judgment against
violators of laws of health.
THE GOLD BONUS
“A subsidy for the production of
gold appears to us to be funda
mentally unsound,” reports the Brit
ish Gold Production committee, con
sisting of Lorde Inchcape, Sir
Thomas Elliott, Sir Charles Addies
and W. H. N Gaschen.
Early last year a committee called
the Gold Producers committee ad
vised the chancellor of the ex
chequer that unless the gold pro
dusing industry was helped, the al
ready diminishing supply of gold
must suffer and that the main
tenance of the present gold stand
ard of value might be met by a
special grant of some kind.
The Gold Production committee,
as quoted above, does not approve
of a subsidy, and further says the
gold production of the British Em
pire rose steadily from £51,000,000
in 1910 to £59,000,000 in 1917.
Although there has been a decline
since, it is regarded as due to
natural causes and decreased labor
efficiency causd by the war.
“Don’t spoil the boys when they
come back,” was the plea of Russell
C. Lowell, of the Federal Board for
Vocational Education, in an ad
dress delivered at Philadelphia re
cently.
Mr. Lowell said he thought that
some of those who had been maimed
in the war were spoiled for the
future by being feted too much and
adored as heroes when they reached
their own home towns. He cited
! several cases where young men had
practically refused to undertake to
learn new trades after being un
fitted by their wounds for continu
ing at their old trade, because, they
said, they did not need to work
now.
j After a time, Mr. Lowell de
, dared, a man tires of such idleness
and false honor, and he either be
comes mentally sick and despondent
or gets quite crooked in his methods
and begins preying upon people in
stead of trying to earn a living.
Mr. Lowel stated that one of the
chief difficulties the Federal edu
: rational system is encountering is
that of getting hold of the maimed
men when they have returned to
this country. They filter back to
their own districts, and unless
promptly taught to start life anew
' arc apt to reach a mental stage
where it is difficult to get them
: to overcome the real difficulties
' which exist in the re-education in
trades.
All things come to him who waits,
, including poor vision—uhless he
' cares for his eyes in time. We fit
you with goggles—light, medium,
and dark amber, 50c to $1.25; Wm.
Taylor, jeweler.
r
! “By the time the peace treaty
is signed we shall be talking across
the Atlantic by wireless,” says God
frey Isaacs, managing director of
the Marconi Wirless Telegraph com
pany, in an interview. “One day
in the not far distant future,” he
adds, “I think we shall walk about
with wirelss telephones attached »o
our bodies and we shall be able,
standing say in Picadily Circus, to
call a friend who is flying some
where. Or we may have an in
vitation by wireless telephony from
a friend flying in France to join
him at dinner in the evening.
“Wireless telephony has been very
largely used in war for communi
cation between airplanes and head
quarters and for artillery work. But
there is no reason why it should
not be available over very much
longer distances.
“It will not be very long before
1 one will be able to sit at one’s desk
in London and speak to New York
practically instantaneously. Equal
facilities will be available for com
municating with Paris, Rome, Mos
cow or Amsterdam. In my view
it will be as easy to speak to Syd
ney or Melbourne or to New Zea
land. .
“Long distance wireless telephony
will apply also to ships at sea and
to airplanes and airships.”
Fairbanks and Nenana, the Twin
Cities of Interior Alaska
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT
For the week ending February 15
there were 280 employees on the
pay rolls of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, showing an increase
of 12 employees as against the
number employed during the pre
ceeding week. There were also 117
stationmen or contractors, and 43
stationmen laborers, showing an in
crease of 16 stationmen and 7 sta-1
tionmen laborers for the period
under review.
The forces of the A. E. commis-:
sion were distributed as follows: I
41
Camp 1, general .
Camp 1, electric. 9
Camp 1, corral .:.13
Camp 1, construction .61
Camp 1, store .20
Hospital .12
Townsite . 2
Surfacing camp . 9
Tracklaying camp .37
Section No. 1 . 5
Section No. 4. 5
Camp 373 .34
Camp 415 . 3
Camp 440 . 6
Camp 449 . 6
1 Nenana total .264
Fairbanks office . 3
Tanana Valley R. R.13
Camp 454 . 9
Fairbanks total.’...
Total for division
.25
289
DAYS ARE NOW GROWING
LONGER RAPIDLY!
The following is a table of sun-1
light for Nenana:
Dec. 23 .3 hours, 3 minutes1
,Jan. 1.3 hours, 52 minutes
| Jan. 15.4 hours, 57 minutes
Jan. 24.5 hours, 37 minutes
jJan. 31.6 hours, 45 minutes
i Feb. 15.8 hours, 18 minutes
j March 1.9 hours, 5 minutes
I March 21.12 hours
On March 21 the vernal equinox
I is reached ahd it marks the be
ginning of spring. On this day the
i length of the day and the night are
equal.
From this date and until the 21st
day. of June the days grow longer
and the nights shorter, and in this
latitude there is no night on the
21st of June.
From June 21st the nights grow
longer and the days shorter until
September 21, when the autumal
equinox is reached. Then day
and night are equal in duration of
time, and the date also marks the
beginning of autumn. From this
date on the nights continue to grow
longer and the days shorter until
the shortest day of the year, Dec
21st is reached.
WATER SUPPLY FOR
CAMP ACROSS RIVER
—
i A contract has been awarded to
Ed McGqnnell for the digging of a
well near camp 415, and operations
have already been started.
The well is to be a large one and
capable of supplying the needs of
the camp and of' the locomotives
A pump will be installed just as
soon as the well has been completed
and a proper water system will be
established.
Camp 415 will be division head
quarters for the Nenana-Fairbanks
line, probably until the bridge across
the Tanana has been built.
The roundhouse and blacksmith
shop now in course of erection at
camp 415 will soon be completed
and the rolling stock that will be
used on the Nenana-Fairbanks line
will then be sent across the river.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
I
From Nenana to No. Miles
Nenana Crossing (by rail).43
Lignite .52
Riley Creek .70
Jack River .90
Broad Pass Summit. 110
Sullivan’s . 128
Indian River .162
Dead Horse .182
Talkeetna .202
The distances given are approxi
mate.
The big thing is coming, the 17th
)f Ireland.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE.—Tent 10x12, four-foot
wall, with floor and walls boarded
up. Yukon stove and table. Lock
and key to door, $20. Inquire at
Rust House.
FOR SALE—A new 7mm Mauser
rifle with 40 rounds of ammu
nition, $50; also a 12-gauge Rem
ington automatic shot gun, almost
new, $40. Inquire at News office.
FOR RENT—Good log cabin, in
quire of Mrs. Nicley.
FOR RENT—Large front room,
suitable for club rooms or parties,
by night, week or month. Inquire
of Mrs. Nicley.
WANTED TO BUY—A three or
four-room house. Must be
reasonable. Inquire News office.
FOR SALE—Sled and 13 dogs with
harness complete. Sled 12 feet
long, in good shape. Malamutes
and huskies form the team. Ar
rived in Nenana recently from
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit
Apply George Hanoff, Cooney
Hotel.
FOR SALE—Wall folding bed;
single spring; new lumber frame;
has silkoline curtain. Suitable
for one-room cabin, provides
shelf room, economizes space; is
more sightly than ordinary bed.
Price $12. Inquire Mrs. D’Orsay’s
Tailor Shop, Third and A streets.
Nenana minstrels on St. Patrick’s
Day.
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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MACKINAW SHIRTS, COATS and PANTS
Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel
Creen Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
Wool Blankets and Comforters
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Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight tieaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
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Tanana Sheet Metal Works
NICELY HOUSE
With Belmont In Connection
POOL CANDIES CIGARS
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WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
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Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
i Lehr, Q. F.
r Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
ii Miles, J. H.
i McDonald, R. S.
i< ' Martin, G. S.
r Morris, R. C. ~ t
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry
j O’Keefe, Larry
, Parks, S. E.
, Pennington, G. W.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy ,
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
l Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
> Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, 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.
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