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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16
CH|CALOON COAL
BEING DEVELOPED

The Chickaloon Coal company that
is developing its coal properties at
Chickaloon is making great progress
and has one of the best equipped
mines in Alaska, according to Joseph
Laubner, an Anchorage resident who
recently spent ten days looking over
the coal mines at Chickaloon and
Eska creek.
All tunnels and shafts on the
Chlckaloon property and all buildings
are lighted by electricity. The ma
chinery used in the operation of the
mine is also operated by electricity.
There are at this time about twenty
men employed by the company and
as the weather becomes more favor
able for development work, additional
men will be AIDED to the force.
The coal mines operated by the
Alaskan Engineering commission both
at Eska creek and Chickaloon are be-
ing developed rapidly and the living
conditions at the Commissions mines
are exceptionally good.
Mr.. LAUDER is representing capital
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

U. S. Commissioner for the
Nenana recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
(SEAL) R. S.McDONALD.
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ELSEWHERE IN ALASKA

w. H. Rogers, mediator and con-
cilliator of the department of labor,
and j. Grant, of the Locomotive
Brotherhood in Seattle, will represent
the Cordova train and engine men
in the arbitration of their dispute
with the Copper River railroad, hav-
ing left Seattle recently enroute to
Cordova. The trainmen of the Cop
per River railway have asked for
more wages, and the matter has been
put up to the board of arbitration.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

The Pinnacle Rock Canning COM
pany at Cordova has started its new
clam cannery plant. All machinery
has been installed and comfortable
quarters fitted up for the crew.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16
ORDER AND
NOTICE. Of PRIMARY
ELECTION
To Be Held on
TUESDAY, APRIL 80, 1918.

TUESDAY, APRIL 80, 1918.
In the office of the United States
Commissioner at Nenana, Alaska,
Fourth Division.
Now, on this day, pursuant to
Chapter 4S, Session Laws of Alaska,
approved May 3, 1917, entitled, can
Act to provide for the holding of
primary elections in the Territory
of Alaska, to fix the time and man
ner of holding the same, to prescribe
the qualifications of candidates to
be nominated at such elections, and
to designate the manner of filing
and authenticating their candidacy
and for other purposes" and in con-
formity Herewith.
1t is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to
be held on April 80, 1918, all of
the territory in the recording district
known as the Nenana Recording Dis
trict, outside of incorporated towns.
is hereby divided into voting pre-
cincts, in each of which a polling
place is hereby specified.
Said voting precincts are described
and bounded as follows:
The Nenana Voting Precinct, en-
bracing all that portion of the Ne
mana Recording Precinct lying North
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile $50 on the Govern
ment Railway.
Polling Place Fire Hall, in Town
of Nenana.
The 35-mile Voting Precinct, en-
bracing all that portion of the Ne
mana Recording Precinct lying South
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile 3S9 on the Government
Railway.
Polling Place Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission Store at 35-mile.
Polling places open from 8 a. m. to
7 p. m.
Notice is hereby given that
primary election will be held on
Tuesday, April 80, 1918, for the
purpose of nominating candidates of
the various political parties in Alaska
for the following offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Rep
from the Territory of
Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska
Four members of the House of
of the Territory of
Alaska;
One Road Commissioner for Road
District No. 4.
Inc SAID election Will be held IN |
the voting precincts above named
and and the polling places therein |
specified. The said polling places
will be open between the hours of |
eight o'clock A. NJ and seven o'clock |
P. M. of said day.
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, February |
25, 1918.
R. S. MCDONALD.
U. S. Commissioner for the |
Nenana recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of |
. Alaska
A I \ l. 4 L
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ASKS
BOYS AND GIRLS
START GARDENS

President Wilson has written Sec
rotary Lane, of the interior depart.
ment, expressing the hope that "every
school will have a regiment in the
volunteer war-garden army"-the
army of school children that, it is
hoped, may raise this year product
amounting to S5nO,OO0,0O0.
Every boy and girl who really
sees what the home garden may
mean," writes the president, twill
l am sure, enter into the purpose
with high spirits, because I am sure
they would all like to feel that they
are in fact fighting in France by
joining the home-garden army"
In his letter which follows, the
president approves the design of
Secretary Lane to arouse the school
children of the United States to "as
real and patriotic an effort as the
building of ships or the firing of a
cannon"
President Wilson's Letter. 49,.
"My dear Mr.. Secretary sin
cerely hope that you may be sue
cessful through the Bureau of Edu-
cation in arousing the interes. of
teachers and children in the schools
of the United States in the cultiva-
ton of home gardens. Every boy
and girl who really sees what the
home garden may mean will, | an
sure, enter into the purpose with
high spirits, because l am sure they
would all like to feel that they are
in fact fighting in France by Join
ing the home-garden army. They
know that America has undertaken
to send meat and flour and wheat
and other foods for the support Of
the soldiers who are doing the fight
ing, for the men and women who are
the munitions, and for the
boys and girls of Western Europe,
and that we must also feed our
selves while we are carrying on this
war. The movement to establish
gardens, therefore, and to ave the
children work in them, is Just as
real and patriotic an effort as the
of ships or the firing of
cannon. | hope that this spring
every school will have regiment
n the volunteer war-garden army.
CORDIALLY and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON,.
Hon Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior.
Army of 100000 Gardeners.
1t is Secretary Lanes idea, that is
'eing worked out through Commits
Toner Claxton, of the Bureau of
to have 100000 ',oys
md girls of the schools in every
ity, town and village in the country,
aptained by 10000 teachers. pro-
luce as nearly as possible III If the
vegetables, small fruits and IS fer
heir home consumption.
To the extent that each district IS
BILE to supply itself with these fooo
the railways will be re-
leved of the burden of transporting
hem, and the allies of the United
states in Europe and our own sol
iers on the battle front will set
hat much more food of which they
re in need. -.... -. /
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The Lighthouse Canning company
of Cordova has begun the erection
of a two-story warehouse 4Ox7O feet
near the city dock. Sixty-five men
and women will be employed in the
cannery, all of whom will be Cor
dovans.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

William Peters, construction en-
glneer. and Thomas Peters, dredge-
master, are enroute to the Kusko-
kwim, where the Union Construction
company, of San Francisco, will build
dredge on Candle creek. They are
accompanied by a crew of six men.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

The city of Cordova has followed
the exampe Of Valdez and appro-
priated $500 to build a float for
small boats. Cordova is working
hard for the Ellamar and upper
Sound trade, now controlled by Val
DEE.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

DR.. E. S. Reedy, formerly chief
surgeon of the government hospital
at Anchorage, is now first lieutenant
at the Vancouver barracks, in Wash
ington.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-16

There were $50 employees on the
payrolls of Seward division at the
close of the period ending March 9.
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IN the States and will make favor
able report to his principals regard
ing geenral conditions in the Matan-
uska coal fields.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05

With the French Army in Cham
nagne.-Detachmen of engineers
from General Gouraud's army in ex-
ploring the region from which the
Germans have been driven in this sec
for have discovered in many villages
evidence of the method by which the
destruction of dwellings, churches and
other public buildings was organized.
The region along the Retourne
abounds with indications of willful de-
yastation of villages that were never
within range of artillery, but were
found RACED. In others where houses
were still erect they were mined for
slow destruction, while the purely
military installations, such as barracks
built by the Germans for their own
troops, were left intact.
Orders for the burning of Junville,
a large village in the Valley of the
Retourne, arrived on the day of evacu-
alton. The people pleaded with the of
ficers TO spare their homes, but the
torch was put to every house. The
village was one vast brazier when the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05
BOUND TO HAVE BALL GAME
Chaplain TraveIs Sixty Miles at
Night to Get Necessary
Supplies.

Paris.-To obtain baseball supplies
for the soldiers in his. brigade, Rev.
Father William Munster of Pittsburgh,
Pa, chaplain and athletic director OF
an artillery regiment, rode 60 miles on
a motorcycle at night recently.
divisional baseball championship
was slated to be settled when Father
Munster discovered that the truck
containing the balls, bats and other
equipment was on the missing list.
AS the division was going to a
sector where it would be too busy for
any baseball games for while, Fa-
ther Muster was determined that the
championship should be settled. With
out saying a word to any of the sol
diers he jumped on the motorcycle and
rode to q Knights of Columbus club
90 miles away, where he secured the
equipment for the game.
Before the war Father Munster was
at St Masy's Of the Mount church,
Pittsburgh.
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HUN CHEMICAL RULE ENDS
America Soon to Be Independent OF
World for Products, Says Chair
man Baruch.i

Washington. independent
of the world for mineral and chemical
products heretofore obtained mostly
from Germany, is in prospect, accord
ing to Chairman .Baruch of the war in
dustries board.
Experts headed by Charles III. Mac
Dowell, chief Of the chemical division
of the board, Mr.. Baruch said, are
meeting with success in the develop
ment of new processes of manufacture
or standardizing present processes. At
the same time they are fostering the
use of German formulate for obtaining
in America soluble potash, analine
dyes, optical glass and chemical APP
paratus, fine and pharmaceutical chem
icals and clay for graphite crucibles.
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THRILLING RAID
OVER HUN TOWN

London.-American bombing squad
rons are now bombinAthe Rhine val
ley along with the British. The Yank
pilots and observers, like their breth-
rem of the royal air force, enter into
this sport with the same spirit that
has made them famous on the baseball
diamond or football gridiron of their
own American colleges.
A young American aviator has just
told CT a trip over the German lines
and back behind into German territory.
The formation in which the American
airmen flew consisted of IL big bomb
ing machines, each of which carried
1000 pounds of high explosives, three
machine guns and three men.
"After / had tried the guns on my
machine, checked the bombs, made
sure everything was ship-shape, and
put a couple of little bombs into a
small bag beside me, I started my en-
CINE. The big motors growled away,
waiting for the starting flash. Soon
the signal came and we were off.
'For twenty minutes we climbed. un-
til the earth was just black blot. An
other twenty-five minutes and we were
over the trenches, with the searcherS
cropping about in the mistS below us.
The big guns crashed away cont-nu-
ously, and we could see the explosions
from where we scared high above
them. No sooner had we crossed the
lines than the Germans started firing
at us with their anti-aircraft guns.
Once a German searchlight got right
on us with its beam of light. We fired
a couple of rounds of machine-gun
fire at the Germans who were manning
the searchlight, and it went out.
"Far below us we could see the
lights of a locomotive. Finally we
reached our objective. According to
plan, we throttled our motors and
glided toward the earth to get nearer
our target. 1t seemed curiously quiet.
Then suddenly the earth seemed to
open below us. Seventeen searchlights
f, were turned on us by the Germans,
and their shafts Of light swept all
about us. The anti-aircraft guns
made a wall ahead of us. The high
explosive shells burst on every side
of us, and the green-f1re balls swayed
and spiraled as they tried to set us on
fire. The American machines went
straight on, with never a waver or
turn. There were so many crashes
that thought more than once that we
were hit. We kept straight on.
Amid Binding Rays.
Suddenly one of the German
searchlights got us and the rest of the
seventeen threw around us with sud.
denness that made their concentra-
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PRISONERS ARE
BADLY TREATED

London.-A corporal In the Lincoln
shires, who was taken prisoner III
April. 1917, and who succeeded in es-
Gaming from the Huns clutches III
June, 1918, has given a very interesting
account of his experiences. He is
man of the highest character and his
story is, therefore, worthy of credence.
He was captured April IL, 1917, near
Algicourt, and was at first taken 10
the German headquarters. behind the
line. He was questioned, but refused
to give any information. He was
then sent to working party behind
the German lines at place called
Maretz.% and was employed on ration
dump. The party was about 10 kiio-
meters from the line; they could see
the British shells bursting mile or so
away, but the corporal never heard OF
any casualties among the prisoners.
There was a commandment in charge
of the camp, and the second In COM
mand was feldwebel. Both these Of
ficials treated the prisoners very badly.
The first day that they were in camp
the commandant came, and the field
webel shouted "Achtung." The men
did not know what he meant and did
not therefore spring to attention, as
they should have done. The field
webel thereupon struck them with a
whip. The sentries also treated them
very badly.
Picks Up Food-Shot.
When the prisoners were returning
from work the Frenchwomen used to
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ton feel like a blow. We free our
machine guns until the tips of the
weapons got red and the glow be-
gan to creep up the barrels. The
whole seventeen beams were on us, al
though we plunged and side-slipped
about in desperate way. We let go
the bombs when we were right over
the mark. The antiaircraft shells
were getting even closer than ever
and the machine was hit time and
again, though not in vital spot. Why
we were not literally blown out or
the air do not know. After we were
well over the mark and had dropped
all our bombs we discovered one 25O-
pound bomb which had caught fast
in the rack and failed to drop when
released.
'We went home at high speed.
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throw them food and other things. The
men knew that it was forbidden to
step out of the ranks to pick these
things up, but they were so hungry
that they often broke the rules. The
corporal saw man shot by a sentry
for stepping out Of the ranks in this
way. He was killed instantly, the bull
let passed right through him, went
through another mans pocket and
blew the finger, or two fingers, off q
third man. There were two other men
shot in the same way; the corporal
saw them both brought into the lager.
The prisoners got no food from Eng
land while they were on this working
party, and they were not allowed to
write home.
Toward the end Of May, 1917, the
corporal was transferred to Minister
IL, In Germany, and a week later he
was sent on to Minden, where he re-
manned six weeks.
The treatment at Minden was not
bad, and in this respect 1t differed
from the food, which was very, bad
indeed. A five-pound loaf of black
bread was divided among 13 men; this
was their bread ration for the day.
They had coffee in the morning and
thin, watery kind of soup at noon.
Once a week they had fish and a small
quantity of potatoes. At 6 80 in the
evening they had what they called
sandstone" 1t was just like eating
sand. Sometimes they had ground
maize, and one night out of three they
had coffee.
Works in Munition Factory.
From Minden the corporal went on
a working party to Harrington, where
he remained three weeks. He was
working in munition factory, unload
ing iron and coal, but the prisoners
had nothing to do with the machinery.
There were ten Englishmen in the
working party, A Russians and four
Frenchmen. The treatment was not
good, and the work was very hard.
At the beginning the guards over
the prisoners were soldiers, but during
the last four months that the corporal
was in Germany they had been re-
placed by elderly civilians. The guards
told the prisoners that there had been
riots in Berlin just after Christmas,
1917, and several people had been shot.
The guards said that all the best men
had gone and that it was shameful to
| think of the kind of men that they
were using in the army.
AS has already been said, this cor
poral is particularly intelligent man.
| He is quite ready to admit good treat
ment when good treatment has been
given to him, and he has contented
himself with giving the bare facts OF
| the case without comment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05
BURN FRENCH HOMES

French entered it. Mont st. Remy
shared the same fate.
At Melville, where villager I'M
plored that his home might be spared,
an officer replied:
81 know it is an ignoble task, but
such are our orders
Chatelet, Alincourt, Bignicourt and
ille-Sur-Retourne were partly saved
because the French troops pressed the
Germans there so closely that the sap
pers left behind to do the work were
surprised. Some of these men fled be-
fore they could set off the mines which
had been prepared. Others were cap
tured.
1t has been necessary from French
sappers and miners to explore the cell
lar of every house remaining intact in
this region. Under most of them
mines have been found. Mouths Of
wells were so mined that explosions
would fill them with rock and earth.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05

steel for the ships. No plant was
found in the country capable of max
ing monster anchor chains; and were
such established, no official plant ex-
lists that is able to make the exacting
tests required by insurance and other
authorities. y Supplies of copper were,
and are. scanty. And the plants for
making many kinds of equipment and
general ships gear had to bee built.
Sixteen yards are building p YES
sells of 1000 tons and upward. SWe-
dish yards are on a small scale. The
Gotta, perhaps the biggest in the coun-
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catarrh cannot BE Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is q local disease, greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is composed OF some of the best tonics
known, combined with some OF the best
Of the mgr edients in HALLS CATARE.H
MEDICINE is what produces such won
derful results in catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
r. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo. y.
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. ohio Profiteers swatted.

Steubenville, O.-Banded together
to swat the prOfiteer in foodstuffs. hun
dreds of mill men here have placed or
ders for potatoes, canned goods and
other staples by the carload.
They will sell the eatables from the
car at retail prices, which, they claim,
will be far below those asked by local
wholesalers and retailers.
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try, is building only five big vessels,
and little 450-ton steamer. How
ever, these are the biggest contempt
raneous constructions. One is the bat
tleship Victoria, which is now being fit
ted out, as is the motor liner Tisnaren,
9,400 tons, built for the Transatlantic
company This yard is building two
more 9,400-ton vessels for the Johnson
line, and an 5000 ton motor vessel for
the Swedish Mexican line. After these
vessels there is only 6,500-ton ship
and one of 5000 tons before one comes
down into the 1000 and 1,000-ton class
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05

We crossed our own trench lines at
about 5000 feet up, saw some famil-
lar landmarks, headed for our own
airdrome, fired our signal and got
the answer. A few minutes later we
had landed. A glance over the ma
chine saw two big tears in the side
Of the fuselage and many holes in
the wings.
"But we had done a splendid bit OF
bombing, and such damage as our ma
chine had suffered was by no means
difficult to repair"
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SHIP BUILDING IN SWEDEN
Small Nation is Turning Out vessels
to the Extreme Limit OF Her
Capacity.

Sweden is very busy building ships.
She would be even buster were the pro-
curing of materials a less difficult
problem. 1t was found, for instance,
that no works in the country was
adapted to the construction OF large
steamship boilers. There was seri-
ous lack of rolling mills for making
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05
Speeder Fined ST a Mile

Portland, Ore. H. Myer, driver
of a hearse, was fined $40 for speeding
by Judge Rossman. Witnesses swore
that Myer drove his automobile hearse
at 40 miles an hour, and the Judge
assessed a dollar per mile in speed.
Myer was hurrying home from fu-
neral.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05

stern measures to stop the practice. In
conjunction with the military police at
Camp Funston, all cars whose drivers
could noe show a receipt for the last
months tax were prevented from en-
tering the cantonment. One man from
Ogden spent most of the night seeking
a collector in order to pay his tax and
get home.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-05
KIDNEY TROUBLE OFTEN
CAUSES SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blad-
der and kidneys seem to be disordGed,
90 to your nearest drug store and get a
bottle of DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. 1t
is a physicians prescription for ailments
of the kidneys and bladder.
It has stood the test of years and has
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This preparation so very effective, has
been placed on sale everywhere. Get
bottle, medium or large size, at your near
est druggist.
However, if yoY wish first to test this
preparation send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for sample
bottle. When writing be sure and men
ton this paper.-Adv.
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Important Discovery.

Uncle Abner-I see in the papers
that a new kind of patent medicine has
Jest been put on the market that will
cure everything.
Aunt Rachel-Well! And both OF
Jed Larkin's boys is goin' to medical
college. 1t seems that when lots OF
folks go to fittin' themselves for pro-
fession something happens to make
that profession improbable.