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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04
COAST NATIVES
REFUTE CHARGES
Of SMELLY DIET

An Indignation meeting was held
in the Indian village at Juneau re-
Gently when the report got around
that it had been stated by Attorney
r. E. Robertson, in the course of
public address, that the Indians
use as a staple article of food a
fish meal put up by the Alaska Fish
Sailing & By-Products company at
Killisnoo.
A committee of Indians was
formed to demand of Mr.. Robertson
that he retract his statements or
make other amends for what was
declared "a deep insult to the Alas
ka natives" says the Juneau Dis
patch.
Jack Williams, leader in the In
dian village, persuaded the COM
mittee that they should keep cool
and simply explain through the press
that the statement of the attorney
is not true.
"The product of the company
mentioned is guano, a fertilizer that
| it not and never has been used as
a food by the natives" said Mr..
Williams. "In fact, this guano
smells so rank that the Indians will
not even use it as fertilizer, prefer
ing to use seaweed for their gar
dens."
The Indians assert that very little
herring oil is used as food, either.
'The company uses mud shark
and other fish in its manufacture
that the natives do not use for OIL"
said Mr.. Williams, land for that
reason they prefer to make for
themselves what herring oil they
use"
"The natives live on almost the
same food as the white man and buy
the best in the market" stated Mr..
Williams. "They use far more seal
oil than herring OF, anyway, as it
is better for general use and keeps
better"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04
NO HOPE FOR HOPE +?

Elmer McNemee is the hope of
the conscriptive draft in the village
of Hope, Alaska. Mr.. McNemee is
not only the hope of the Hope draft
board but he is the entire and sole
citizen Of Hope subject to the con-
scriptive draft law. As long as he
remained in Hope the exemption
board at that place had a subject
upon whom to deliberate and cogi-
tate. but now that he is in Anchor
age, the board over there is without
material upon which to work.
Mr.. McNemee is an employee of
the Alaskan Engineering commits
sion at Anchorage, but makes his
home at Hope, where he is inter-
ested in several mining claims.
When the exemption board, which
was appointed for Hope, began its
sessions, it was discovered that Mr..
McNemee was the only person in
the vicinity eligible to the draft
law.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04

made a noise on opening, l left it
open the third night and remained
fully dressed. Bright and early,
again came the ghost rat-a-tat; out
l rushed. A raven would dig clans
on the beach and fly to the roof
to crack the shells and eat his break
fast-previously the noise of the
opening door had scared him away
this was the spook of the cabin"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04

time was principally taken up with
matters connected with the Alaskan
Engineering commission.
William c. Edes, chairman of the
Alaskan Engineering commission, is
now in Washington. He will return
to Anchorage about June.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04
ANCHORAGE SCHOOL BOARD
MAKES FINANCIAL REPORT

! Expenditures for the Anchorage
school district for the quarter be-
ginning November l and ending on
February % amounts to S7,386.71,
according to the report of Mrs. Ar
thur G. Thompson, secretary and
treasurer of the educational board.
/ Three-foruths of this amount, or
S5,540.O4, will be refunded to the
Anchorage school treasury from the
territorial treasury
Salaries for the four months to-
tailed s5,352.5O school supplies cost
S416.73 and fuel amounted to
S94195.
There were other OUTLAWS of small
Ter amounts. .:.-
The detailed report will be mailed
to the territorial superintendent Of
education by Mrs. Thompson, and
is as follows:
Salaries for November. $4,000
Salaries for December $4,000
Salaries for January. 1,347.5O
Salaries for February. 1,3s5.OO
School Supplies ...-,-... 416,73
School Furniture. 77.OO
Repairs and Improvements 357.16
Water, light and phone. 241.37
Fuel Observation-Disclosures. 941.95
Total ---.---.,,-,-,..,-----.....$7,386.71
Territorial refund, three-quarters
of $7,386.71, will be $5,54O.04.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04

Better than money, because they
earn money Buy WAR-SAVlNGS
STAMP TODAY!
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-04

Total ..-.......-.........$7 ,386.71
Territorial refund, three-quarters
of $7,386.71, will be $5,54O.04.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Editor in Retirement.

A Georgian editor, who retired some
years ago, has recently been review
ing that part of his career which has
been free from the labors of the news
paper office.
He finds, in contrasting it with a pc
riod of similar length prior to his
abandonment of the lead pencil and
the shears, that the change has been
great, indeed. Residing in his own
comfortable, if humble, home, nothing
has been asked of him while taking
his w~ell-earned rest except to chop
and bring in all the firewood, supply
the house with water from the spring,
start the kitchen fire every morning,
feed the hogs, the chickens, and the
COW; milk and churn, plant and weed
the garden, and attend to miscellane.
Gus chores.
1t is worth while, he evidently
thinks, to work hard as an editor for
a few years in order to enjoy the
luxury of retirement later on.-
Christian Science Monitor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
By BERTRAND w. SINCLAIR

if tried. And l have Il little too much
pride-strange as it may seem to you
to try, so long as he is chained hand
and foot to your chariot. But you're
making him suffer. And 1 care enough
to want him to live all his days hap
PLY. He is a man, and there are so
few of them, real men. If you can
make him happy, I'd compel you to do
so, If 1 had the power. You couldn't
understand that kind of a love. Oh,
l could choke you for your stupid dis
loyalty. / could do almost anything
that would spur you to action. l can't
rid myself of the hopeless, reckless
mood he is in. There are SO few of his
kind, the patient, strong, loyal, square
dealing men, with a woman's tender
ness and a lions courage. Any woman
should be proud and glad to be his
mate, to mother his children. And
you"
She threw out her hands with q sud
den, despairing gesture. The blue
eyes grew misty, and she hid her face
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
CHAPTER XVIII.
Home Again.

Twelve months works many a
change on n changing frontier. Hazel
found this so. When she came to plan
her route she found the G. T. P. bridg-
ing the last gap in a transcontinental
system, it's trains w~estbound already
within striking distance Of Fort
George. She could board q sleeping
car at Granville and detrain within a
hundred miles of the ancient trading
post-with a fast river boat to carry
her the remaining distance.
Fort George doomed up a jumbled
area of houses and tents, log buildings,
frame structures yellow in their new
ness, strangers to paint as yet. On
every hand others stood in varying
stages of erection. Folks hurried
about the sturdy beginning of a fu-
ture greatness. And as she left the
boat and followed a new-laid walk
of planks toward a hotel, Jake Lauer
stepped out of a store, squarely into
her path.
His round face lit up with a smile
of recognition. And Hazel, fresh from
the long and lonesome journey, was
equally glad to set eyes IN a familiar,
a genuinely friendly face.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
CHAPTER xvIl-contlnued


anyway, here It Is: You got the
essentials. up to a certain point. from
Brooks. But he didn't tell 1t all-his
kind e does. not by a long shot.
They, the four Of them. 1t seems, held
a meeting as soon as l shipped ont
that gold and put through that stock
selling scheme. That was Legitimate.
l couldn't restrain them from that. be-
ing a hopeless minority of one. Their
chief object, however, was to let two
or three friends in on the ground floor
Of a good thing: also, they wanted
each a good bundle of that stock while
1t was cheap-hguring that with the
prospects I had opened up 1t would
sell high SO they had It on the mar
ket, and In addition had everything
framed up to reorganize with a CAPT.
~talization of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. This all cut and
dried before l got there. Now, as 1t
originally stood. the five Of us would
each have made a small fortune on
these Klappan claims. They're good.
But with a quarter of a million In out
standing stock-well, 1t would be all
right for the fellow with a big block.
But you can see where l would get
of with a fve-thousand-dollar inter-
est. To be sure, a certain proportion
of the money derived from the sale Of
this stock should be mine. But II goes
into the treasury. and they had IT. ar
ranged to keep 1t in the treasury, as a
fund for operations, with them doing
the operating. They had already indi-
Gated their bent by voting an annual
stipend of ten thousand and six thou
sand dollars to Lorimer and Brooks
as president and secretary respective
~. Me, they proposed to quiet with a
managers wage of a mere five thou
sand a year-after 1 got on the ground
and began to get my back up.
But they capped the climax with
what I must cold-bloodedly character
TIE as the baldest attempt at a dirty
fraud | ever encountered. And they
had the gall TO try and make me a
party to II. To make this clear you
must understand that /, on behalf of
the company and acting as the com
pany's agent. grubstaked Whitley Lewis
and four others to go in and stake
those claims. l was empowered to
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
CLIPPER SHIPS COME BACK
Many Vessels That Had Been Consid-
cred Obsolete Are Gladly Be-
ing Made of Use.

War has not touched a finer pinnacle
of romantic thought than the staying
of the doom of the old sailing ships.
The arrogant steam competitors have
been swept from the sea by the thou
sands since the war began. The old
square riggers and multiple-masted
schooners are again coming iHto their
own. Formerly they were too Slow for
most transatlantic freight traffic.
Many of them were gathering barna-
cles at the empty wharves of Gecadent
shipping centers when the submarine
warfare began. Now they are scrap
ed and painted and fitted with new
white canvas and sen out to foil the
U-boats of the Hun. Tonnage has be-
come so important that ships that
were virtually in the 'boneyard," as a
sailor would say, have been refitted.
The sailing ship is cheaper to operate
than a steamer and has hung on dog
gedly, despite the rapid increase in
steam-propelled bottoms. The wal has
accentuated the Importance of sailing
ships. The veterans of the forties and
fifties are again coming into their own.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
PUT UNDER WAR DISCIPLINE
Mothers Ingenious Scheme to Secure
Respectful Attention From Her
Small Boy.

There are small boys who are not
very prompt to mind their mothers
or who do not give their elders a re-
spectful amount of attention when re-
ceiving orders. Yet some of them can
be disciplined according TO the meth
DDS used by an alert mother to whom
the war gave the idea.
No longer is she simply mother; she
is, indeed, a person of far more impor-
lance to her militant young son-she's
Captain Mother! Her imaginative boy
is Private Billie, and, as he prides him
self upon being a good soldier, you
can guess that few of the captains or
ders + ignored. Consequently, not
only Billie's obedience is a thing to
be proud of, but his comprehension
and remembrance of orders given are
greatly improved, for the captain has
told him that he must stand at atten.
ton and salute when his name is spok-
en- by a superior officer and that &c
orders will be given until Private Bill.
lies eyes are fastened upon the cap
tain's with undivided interest.
At the end of the week the private's
record is reviewed, not only by the
captain but by the family army's
chief of staff-father. If the record
is approved the captain threads a lit
lie metal button upon a ribbon, and
behold! Private Billie receives a deco
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Ali the Comforts of Home.

All the c~onyeniences of a seagoing
pleasure yacht have been provided for
in a one-ton truck which started on a
journey from Boston to Seattle a few
weeks ago. Immediately back of the
drivers seat is a steel framework sup
porting three spring beds, one above
the other. To the ear of the beds the
body of the car takes on the aspect Of
a kitchen and dining room combined.
On one side is a gas stove, a set Of
drawers, a sink and a cupboard. On
the opposite side is a bureau with
eight drawers, and an icebox with a
capacity for so pounds of ice.-Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19

~Thst Was When ! Smashed Him."
arrange with these FIVE men that If the
claims made a decent showing each
should receive five thousand dollars in
stock for assigning their claims to the
company, and should have employment
at top wages while the claims were
operated.
They surely earned It. You know
what the North is in the dead of win
ter. They bucked their way through
a hell Of frost and snow and staked
the claims. II ever men were entitled
to what was due them, they were
And not one of them suffered over
his bargain, even though they were
taking out weekly as much gold as
they were TO get for their full share.
They'd given their word, and they
were white men. They took me for a
white man also. They took my word
that they would get what was coming
to them, and ave me In the company's
name clear title to every claim. I put
those titles IN record in Hazelton, and
came home.
"Lorimer and Brooks deliberately
proposed to withhold that stock, to de-
fraud these men. to steal-oh, / can't
ind words strong enough. Brooks
said to me. with a grin: The prop
erty's In the company's name-let the
roughnecks sweat a while. They've
got no comeback. anyway
That was when / smashed him. Do
you blame me7 I'd taken over those
fellows claims In good faith. Gould
/ go back there and face those men and
say: Boys, the company's got your
claims. and they won't pay for them
DO you think for a minute I'd let a
bunch OF ~lily-hngered crooks put any
thing like that over on simple. square
dealing fellows who were too honest
TO protect their own interests from
sharp practice7 A quartette Of soft.
bodied mongrels who sat in uphol.
stored Office chairs while these others
wallowed through six feet of snow for
three weeks. living on bacon ant
beans, to grab a Dot Of gold for them
II makes my fist double up when
think about II.
"And / wouldn't be put of or placat
ed by n chance to fatten my own banl
roll. I didn't care II l broke the Free
Gold Mining company and myself like
wise. A dollar doesn't terrify nor ye
fascinate mel hope II never will. Ant
while. perhaps, Il was not what the,
would call good form for me to los
my temper and 90 at them with m,
fists, / was fighting mad when 1 thor
oughly sensed their dirty project. Any
way. Il helped bring them to time
When you take a man of that type an
Gun him around with you two hand
he's apt to listen serious to what yo'
gay. And they listened when l toll
them In dead earnest next day tina
Whitley Lewis and his partners mus
have what was due them, or I'd wrec
the bunch Of them If 1t took ten year
and every dollar I had to do 1t. An
1 could have put them on the tramI
too-tbey'd already dipped their hr
gers In where they couldn't stand lit
gntion. I'm sure of that-Or the
would never have come through whic
they did.
But I'm sorry I ever got mixed Il
with them. I'm going to sell my stoc
ana advise Lewis and the others to d
the same while we can get full valu
Tor Il. LOrlmer and that bunch wi
manipulate the outfit to death, no ma
tee how tbs mine produces.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19

picture of her man stood on the man
tel. She took it down and stared at it
with a tremulous smile.
"Oh, Billy-boy, Billy-boy, I wish you
knew" she whispered. But 1 was
coming, anyway, Bill"
That evening, stirring about her
preparations for the journey, she
paused, and wondered why, for the
first time since Bill left, she felt so
utterly It peace.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19

in her palms. Before that passionate
staring, uncertain. In a second Vesta
lifted her head defiantly.
Il had no notion Of breaking out like
this when 1 came up" she said quiet
ly. 81 was going to be very adroit. 1
intended to give you a friendly boost
along the right road, if I could. But
it has all been bubbling inside me for
a long time. You perhaps think it very
unwomanly-but 1 don't care much
what you think. My little heartache
is incidental, one of the things life
deals us whether we will or not. But
if you care in the least for your hus-
band, for Gods sake make some eff
fort, some sacrifice of your own petty
little desires, to make his road a little
pleasanter, a little less gray than it
must be now. You'll be well repaid
if you are the kind hat must always
be paid in full. Don't be a stiff-necked
idiot. That's all / wanted to say.
GoodbyI !"
She was at the door when she fin
] lSllGu. 1lG ClICh VI Inc ClOSluS SdlCA
stirred Hazel to speech and action.
"Vesta, Vesta!" she cried, and ran
out into the corridor.
But Vesta Lorimer neither needed
nor halted. And Hazel went back to
her room, quivering. Sometimes the
truth is bitter and stirs to wrath. And
mingled with other emotions was a
dull non0 of fOoIn1Icu-fhn 6rCf cho
had yer known. For Vesta Lorimer
was beautiful beyond most women
and she had but given ample evidence
of the bigness of her soul. With
shamed tears creeping to her eyes, Ha-
eel wondered if she could love even Bill
so intensely that she would drive an.
other woman to his arms that he might
win happiness.
But n thing stood out clear above
that painful meeting. She was done
fighting against the darkness that
seemed to surround her since Bill
went away. Slowly but steadily il
had been forced upon her that much
which she deemed desirable, even nee.
essary, was of little weight in the bal
duCe Will Hill. LAY anu nlSHl Sill
longed for him, for his CHEEKY voice
the whimsical good humor of him, his
kiss and his smile. Individually Vests
Lorimer was right to term her a stiff
necked, selfish fool. But if all foil
were saturated with the essence Of
wisdom-well, there was but one thins
to be done. Silly pride had to go by
the board. If to face gayly a lant
she dreaded were the price of easing
his heartache-and her own-tha'
price she would pay, and pay with
grace but lately learned.
She lay down on the lounge again
The old pains were back. And as sh,
endured, a sudden startling though
flashed across her mind. A possibil
ity?-yes. She hurried to dress, Won
dering why it had not before occurre,
to her, and, phoning up a taxi, rolle'
downtown to the office of Doctor Hart
An hour or so later she returned. !
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Goinu Some.

$50 you think you love herr" smiled
the cynical friend.
Il know l love her!" swore the in
fatuated youth.
"Are you sure you love her as much
as you think you do?'
"Say, I'm sure of more than that. |
love her as much as she thinks / do %
And, of course, as one thing leads to
another, that height of affection story
reminds us of the conversation be-
tween two fellows who were talking
about a third fellow who was by the
way of being a s%pendthrift One fell
low said:
bill lives beyond his income,
doesn't he?"
ELVES beyond his income? Why. Bill
lives beyond the income he wishes he
had Exchange.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Win the War by Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops

Work i'm Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada
COOPERATIVE FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSARY
TO WIN THE RATTLE FOR LIBERTY
The Food Controllers of the United States and Canada are asking for
greater food production. Scarcely 100. 600, 600 bushels of wheat are avail
able to be sent to the allies overseas before the crop harvest Upon the
efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply.
Every Available TiIahls Acre Must Contribute; Every Available
Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist
Western Canada has a enormous acreage to be seeded, utman power
is short, and an appeal to the United States allies is for more lei for seed
ing operation.
Ganada's Wheat Production Last Year was 225, 00C, 600 Bushels; the
Demand From Canada Alone for 1918 Is 400, 000, 900 Bushels
To secure this she must have assistance. She has the land but needs
the men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can
effectively help, to do farm work this year. 1t wants the land in the United
States developed first of course; but it also wants ito help Canada. When
ever we find a man we ar spare to Canada fields after ours are supplied,
we want to direct him there.
Apply to or Employment Service, and We will tell gu where you can best sGve
the combined interests.
Western Canadas help will be required not later than May sh. Wages to com-
petent help, $4,000 a month and up, board and lodging.
Those who respond to this appeal will gets warm welcome, good wages, good
bozrda and find comfortable homes. They will geta rate of one cnta mile from Canadian
Boundary points to destination and return.
For particulars as to routes and places where employment may be had apply to.
U. s. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
War and the Weather.

The Almighty makes the weather,
not man, and if the weather doesn't
suit US, we have to wait. The farm
er knows what a days rain will do in
the way of upsetting plans. One can't
pillow in the mud and a cutting of hay
or wheat may be damaged OF ruined
by one nights downpour.
The war department, too, is up
against the weather in France. Three
inches rainfall may make the country
impossible for half a million men and
horses and motortrucks and ruin the
chances Of victory or bring defeat.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19

l can't. I'm not gifted with your blind
egOtism. Whatever you are, that Bill
of yours loves you, and if you care
anything for him, you should be with
him. l would, if l were lucky enough
to stand in your shoes. I'd go with
him down into hell itself gladly if he
wanted me to"
"Oh" Hazel gasped. "Are you
clean mad?'
Shocked to death, aren't your
Vesta fleered. "You can't understand,
can you? L love him-yes. I'm not
ashamed to own it. I'm no sentimen-
tai prude to throw up my hands in hor-
rOr at a perfectly natural emotion.
But he is not for me. 1 dare say
couldn't give him an added heartbeat
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Be a Flohter and Buy a Bond.

It is time that we all realize the
country is at war. The railroads found
themselves relieved of the management
of their properties overnight. Prices
have been set for food and steel anc
coal. The draft is in full operation. Ii
is no longer a question of patriotism
in supporting the government; it is 6
matter of absolute necessity.
If the soldiers refuse to fight, the
war is lost. The man who refuses tt
buy bonds in this great crisis Is in {
class with the soldier who refuses tt
fight.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
He'd Better Saw 1t.

The latest kind of war soup with
which we have had anything to do per-
sonaIly is made of one potato, one
onion, n pinch of salt and a vast vol
ume of water, but under such circum-
stances a mar who tries to be pleas
ant and cheerful around the house can
always say: Well, this is good and hot.
Ohio State SnuSnaI.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-19
Eorsook Medicine for Literature.

Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dra-
matist, at the age of twenty was a
medical student at the University OF
Christiania. Before receiving his de
gree a play from his pen was produced
at the National theater, with such sue
cess that Ibsen concluded he would dc
better in the realm of literature thai
in that of medicine.