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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-06-20
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IDITAROD NOTES


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Recent advices received from the
Iditarod country indicate that the
prospects for the gold output is
good and it is stated by those in
position to know that in spite of the
lateness of the season the gold pro-
duced this summer will probably be
a little in excess of the amount
taken out last season.
All of the outfits that were run
ming last year are again operating,
and in most cases with an increased
crew of men.
On Flat creek the Guggenheim
dredge is working full b>ast and they
are enjoying about 100 rcen, which
is slightly in excess of the labor
employed by them last season.
Johnny Beaton and Donnelly, on
one below discovery on Otter creek,
are working their dredge and employ
a force of about As men.
The Riley Investment Co., for
merly known as Riley & Marston,
but latterly controlled by the late
George Riley, is working full crew
of men. and few more than they
employed last season. Captain 81
Attwell is manager of this concern
now since the death of George Riley.
Claude Baker, of the Merchants and
Miners bank, and Major Albrecht, of
the same institution are the direct
ors. The major also looks after the
accounting and clerical end of the
Riley interests.
Mrs. Riley, wife of the murdered
man, is expected to arrive on one
of the first boats and will probably
stay in during the summer. Reports
indicate that she had already started
for Alaska when news of the death
of her husband was received.
The story of the killing, as told
! by a recent arrival from that camp
indicates that George Riley was taker
unawares and at a time when he
was doing some repair work unde,
, the boiler in his machine shop or
Otter and was in a prone position
on his back When found by sons
of his men he was lying on his side
with three bullet wounds, any one OF
which was enough to have caused
death.
The shooting was done by Monte
negrin by the name of Milo Sigello
who had contract, in partnership
with two others, for the supply Of
a quantity of wood to the Riley con
Germ.
1t would appear that Sigello want
ed Riley to settle with him separately
but Riley demurred to this and tolc
! Sigello that he must have his two
partners with him before any settle
ment could be made, and the refusa
seems to have angered the man much
There were some men with Riley a
the time of the conversation with
Sigello, who went away in a temper
1t is surmised that he afterwards
returned to the boiler house wher
he knew Riley would be alone ant
seems to have taken him unawares
as stated before. The gun, a bi,
Colts As, was found a little wa,
from the trail where Sigello had ap
parently thrown it away He wa
arrested shortly after the finding O
the dead body of Riley, His tria
will come up as soon as the cour
party gets down to Iditarod.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-06-20

Foods that may be substituted for
sugar are raisins, maple syrup, corn
syrup. sorghum and molasses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

tary services with the '.Y' during the flood tide of wars grim havoc, add lustre and credit to a carrier already crowned with success and honor.
 When l had exhausted my "ques- tionnaire'' concerning the trophies and trinkets which MT. Burr showed me- he resumed the trend of thought suggested by his story of the dough- boy, which brough us to a closer un- 'derstanding of the "personal' touch which this great world war has as sumed.
 Enough has happened" said MT. Burr. Sufficient crimes have been committed, American blood let and American lives sacrificed to cause us to look upon this war as 8 personal, instead of an i'm personal matter; as a passion, instead of pastime. Conditions in France have not. been exaggerated. Our soldiers have seen, and, seeing them, they are fired with the zeal of crusaders. Through the eyes of others over here we get glimpse, shudder and then forget Touch the mutilated hand of French child see little children carry gas masks and the memory stays. An illustrated paper gives the mind an idea of ruined house; walk into one, see the paintings slashed, the panels broken, children's playthings dolls and baby trunks-wantonly de- stroyed; ground to pieces under muddy boots, and you carry away a photograph on your heart. A motion picture film flashes a charge over the top amid the glory and pomp of war as it used to be and our blood runs riot. See Amer ican boys charge through dense woods, lie wounded for hours in muddy fields. bury them in foreign lands, where only the wild poppies mark their graves, and your blood runs red and stiffensi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

of these army trucks under thelr own
 power inaugurated by the quartermas-
 ter's department. Many thousands of
 these trucks have been moved by con-
 voys in this manner; many more will
 travel over this route on their way
 to the fighting front. Each truck
 carried a load, thus not only relieving
 the railroad of carrying the truck it.
 self, but freeing additional tonnage
 for other purposes. and greatly expedit- ing the delivery of the material car
 ried. Perhaps the most important point
 gained is the valuable training received by these military truck drivers, whose experience on this side will be of great
 service to them when it comes to driv-
 ing the same trucks over the war zone roads of France. Our roads here are joined to those of France by the bridge of ships" and this branch of highways transport Is thus continued on the other side.
 Surveys early in the year of lines all ready in operation in the state of Mary land demonstrated the enormous utility of this service to the farmer, and the great increase in the food supply re- sulting therefrom which was brought into the cities of Washington and Balti- more. Many tons of food are daily car ried into these cities from the surround ling agricultural regions by this med ium.
 Consisting essentially of regular transportation facilities to and from the city markets, rural motor express | is established by some enterprising farm i CT of the community, with the aim of getting his own produce to the market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
New Era in Transportation
Roy D. Chapin, Chairman Highwa,

Roy D. Chapin, Chairman HlgnWays
 Transport Committee, Council of Ma
 tional Defense, in Leslfe's
 During the tremendous freight con gestion of the past winter the hlgh- ways first came into prominence as a practical freight carrying medium. War supplies were being held up for lack of shipping facilities-factories lacked raw materials for the manufac- ture of these supplies-terminals were glutted with freight, and embargoes were increasing in the attempt to re- lieve the congestion Relief through additional facilities was imperative and part of the overload was thrown upon the highways, and the part of the bur den the highways have been able to carry has been increasing at an enor- nous rate.
 This has brought about a new era in short-haul transportation-a step for ward in the movement to make our highways of real utilitarian use and a vital part of the national life. Rapidly short-haul and intercity truck lines, op- erating on a regular schedule for the delivery of freight have been estab- lished. A vast tonnage of freight, much of it war supplies. is now moving over our highways to points of delivery. An ! idea as to how much this movement i has grown in the past year might well be shown by the fact that the trans portation of freight over a short route 1 in Maryland has increased 4So per cent during the past year.
 | Much of the increased transportation on the highways has been occasioned l by government work and hauling by government trucks. The first system atic and direct use of the highways
 on large scale by the government 1 took place last November. A route was
 laid out by the highways transport committee from points of inland man. ufacture of army trucks in the middle !west to the seaboard, and the delivery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

situation by undercutting and making shelves no larger than their bodies. IT. Win Cobb used to refer to an upper in sleeper as the upper shelf of Mir. Pullman's perambulating pantry. He should describe one of these shelves. They use pieces of shelter tents to cover them with and during their idle mo- ments write various inscriptions with chalk rock, in which this portion of France abounds. l recall one with the words written on it: Stage entrance, no admittance. This is not the Jefferson, so keep out-you!' The Germans when they attacked a few days later obeyed the instructions and kept out. N
 Following a heavy days fighting, one of the first sergeants who used to romp around Redwood field with an Auburn complain again about the weight or size of Uncle Sam's pack but will be glad to carry everything he puts on me- at the same time showing me where bull lets or shrapnel had struck his steel helmet, his gas mask, his cartridge belt and his side arms.
 Another boy assisted in burying his own brother. When We tried to sym pathize with him he said to me, It is awfully hard, but it cannot be helped, and I expect to make many German pay for it. The brother who lived never missed a duty or failed in responsi- bility. Still another boy in the front line trenches, when German airplane came over and started flying low. coolly and deliberately shot the machine down With his rifle; while another Alabama boy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
President Has No Soft Job

From LeSlieS
 Moving! It is a difficult task to be President of the United States at any time. It is hardest of all to be Presi- dent in time of war, for that is time that tries mems souls. Even one skill fully trained in the science of war and in the activities of business would find it an almost unbearable burden to be President during such a time 9 s this For one untrained in military art task is most difficult. Such ruler must depend upon advisers. In the se- lection of these he must display his sagacity and wisdom. Ill-chosen ad- visers mean costly blunders. Things are moving slowly but surely. Expert- ence is the best teacher The Presi- dent is doing the best he can. More than that cannot be asked of anyone. He has made mistakes and does not deny it. Better to make mistakes than to make nothing. Those who do noth- ing are the only ones on earth that never make mistakes They never make anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIoPHILE

t'THE WHITE FLAME OF FRANCE" By Maude Radford Warren. Small,
 Maynard & Co.,, publishers, Boston.
 The front line trenches at Rheims dur ing a bombardment when the shells were whistling over. two Zeppelin raids in London, the heroic services of devoted actors and actresses when they played for the soldiers of Verdun, the irony of the mad slaughter, the indestructibilty of human courage and ideals, the spirit and soul of suffering France, the real meaning of the war-all these things are interpreted in this remarkable book by novelist with brilliant record in the art of writing. who spent more than half a year lover there.'
 Mrs. Warren saw England in war time, experienced air raids, and found a spy: she crossed to Paris, and finally got to the front; she interviewed repa- triates from the north of France; she saw and talked to the heroine of Ger bevillers, Sister Julie, the head of the almshouse, who gave the full, tragic his tory of the black days that destroyed that little town and who played so he- roic part in saving the almshouse and its inmates.
 The book is a series of little autobi- ographies of poignant tragedies, none more so than those of the uncomprehend- ing children.
 She writes of the faces of the French soldiers In the Care Du Nord:
 T thought I had already realized the war, that my imagination and sympathy had been full sounded. But there was that in the faces and the souls of those men that leaped all barriers, was out spoken and clear in meaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

more fertile lands. Nor is this pres
 sure of population upon subsistence re- stricted to more primitive days but IS clearly seen in the great struggle that now threatens to engulf our modern civilization For is it not true that ln- sular England, fearing to have her food supply cut off, has been forced to main tain a great navy for it's protection and to insist that Germany shall limit it's naval programme to the ratio of l2 to 16
 With the growth of trade and com merce, however, the direct pressure or population upon subsistence has ceased 1 to play quite so important part among | the economic causes of war For, with | their rise the control of the trade routes soon become such fruitful source or
 wealth and power that nations were Will l ing to accept the gauge of battle to se- 1 cure or retain control of these routes, | and so we had what are sometimes caileo trade wars in which the struggle was Inc longer directly for fertile lands, pu.
 for advantages in trade and commerce. l The author then elucidates fully the subject, giving valuable suggestions as
 to 'The Economic Basis for An Endur- | ing Peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

Half hearted support of our boys, said MT. Burr, "is not sufficient; 1t should be whole hearted, every-minuted and determined. I do not mean that we should quit our business; rather we should make our business work for our country Neither should we be blue, down-hearted or long faced about st. Here We might emulate the wonderful spirit of the boys. A few true inci- dents slightly illustrate it. One day we met the detail carrying their chow through a downpour of rain from the kitchen to the front, distance of two miles, everything drenched, including the French hard tack, which, in water, swells like a sponge. Everybody happy% we yelled Came the response, Sure, this rain will make much bread of the hard tack.
 "Another instance' MT. Burr contin- ued, twas that of mule-sknner com ing back after an all night effort to drive his ration wagon to the boys at the front and who, on being asked how he felt, replied: Fine; my mules are tired and poor and 1 am hungry? No one would think that big portion ot the night he had been lodging shells.
 And. again. he said, "one of our boys on a raid into the German trenches one night brought back with him Ger man sign. On his return to his own trench someone translated it as being an instruction in German to place one man here.' He at once wrote out sign in English reading, One good man from Alabama has been here went back over No Mans Land and placed it where he had taken the German sign.
 "The trenches are not very commoo- ious and have not many convenlences, MT. Burr said "Our boys improve the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
Enough Has Happened Sufficient Crimes Hpe Been ConmHted America
 Blood Enough American Des HdDe Been
 70 Us Look Upon This War Personal MdHer
BURR

understand conditions as they are. Not for the purpose of disheartening us but rather in order that our just passions may be aroused. our determination may become more fixed, and give our un- divided attention to the winning Of the war. Many lives will be saved if with full realization of the true condi- lions the American people will loyal 1y support the programme of the gov ernment, which means the massing or men and resources in such great pre- ponderance during the coming year as to be able to overwhelm the central allies. Recent reports are encouraging but we should not be too optimistic and above all we should have some of the person I took a letter written to his parents, whom it can never reach be- cause their address was not given, and from which 1 give to you in his own words this monderful message:
 American E. F., July 24, 1913.
 "Dear Parents: Just few words to let you know I am feeling fine I hope this finds you as we'll as it leaves me I am sitting on my canteen be- side my shelter tent writing this. am sorry I can't write you letters more often than I do, but it is the next thing to impossible to do. I write you just as often as can and even it can't write often my thoughts turn far across the sea when my time Is to myself. There is not day to my self but what I wonder how the dear ones I left behind are getting on. But don't worry over me, for l am enjoy ing the best of health and my spirits are light. We have travelled all over France. We rode for most of the way at first but now are using shanks horses and carrying the government is- sue It Is some hard work, but if that will help me get the Kaiser I won't say word'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

A DOUGHBOY waded into one 66 M of the icy-cold creeks of
 A blood-stained France; as
 he was carefully entering the cold water a big German shell struck the stream nearby him and COW cred him with an icy shower. The doughboy yelled out. looking dazed and puzzled for a minute: Here! you are getting too damned personal; do that again and I'll come over there after youp
 With this illustration our own be- loved Borden Burr recently returned from somewhere in France" where for the past few months he has been actively engaged in the Young Mems Christian association work, told the story of the attitude of our American boys toward this frightful world war now raging.
 MT. Burr sat in his office besieged by callers-newspaper people, frlenus and acquaintances-everybody asking for 8 word with him about his won derful trip; I waited my turn and then decided that I'd let everybody else have their "say so" and take what was 1aft. if is often the case. you know, that the best is saved for the last, ana if vou think about the story that MT. Rurr has told me as I do, you'll say that the old aphorism certainly holuS its own in this instance
 MT. Burr showed me innumerabie trinkets, souveniers and things that he had picked up lover there" on his
 A 1a LNrnr card souvenirs-"Nannette and Rim tin-tin"-two gay little French dolls in gay little Parisienne costumes supposed to bring "bon chance"-sort of a mascot" as it were; there was a cap of gray with a touch of glitter ing bright red and shiny gold adorn- ment-the cap of German soldier taken by Mir. Burr from German prisoner, and this was used as re- ceptable for all sorts of little odds and ends-a dairy written by a German soldier-up to about the middle CT April-postcards, a purse, a valued picture of mother, wife sweetheart an epaulet cut from the shoulder of a dead German officer, bearing the number of the 377th regiment-one Of Germany's crack regiments, you know "a worn. faded little folder contain. ing some German coins-a1 sorts Of things reminiscent of his wonderful visit and his marvellous experience in No Mans Land.
 Birmingham Is genuinely and sim cerely proud of our own Mir. Borden Burr-and we grow prouder of him every day as we hear of the valiant work he accomplished when he was lover there;" always honored and re- epected for his splendid ability, his nobility of character and his high aims and purposes in life, his volun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
RECIPE TODARKEN
 GRAY HAIR
A Cincinnati Barber Tells How to Make a Remedy for
 Gray Hair

Mr. Frank Harbaugh of Cinc......,,s, O., who has been a barber for more than 40 years, recently made the fol- lowing statement:
 Anyone can prepare simple mix trre at home, at very little cost. that will darken gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. To half pint of water add one ounce bay rum. small box of Barbo Compound and one- fourth ounce glycerine. These ingred- ients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice week until the desired shade is obtained This will make a gray hafred person look 20 years younger. It does not color the scalp, is not sticky or greasy and does not rub off"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

sight to see some of these brave fellows lying for hours in the woods, wet and muddy, with only flrst-aid dressings, awaiting their turn on the litter over the almost impossible roads to the first aid stations, and then at the tirst-aid station in an old French farmhouse, so crowded within that a large number could not be admitted, and had to he lain outside in the courtyard in the heavy rain Through this station my memorandum shows that $40 passed on one day Picture if you can-S4O men within one "A hours being hit by shrap- nel or by machine guns or being gassed
 awaiting sometimes for hours for the ambulances to carry them to ther revacua- tion hospital. Many of these had to be assembled on the field with no pro- lection from the weather except their blankets and the ministration that Drs. Jordan and Dabney so bravely gave them. and there await for several hours their turn to the frst-aid station. These boys suffered and many of them groaheo with. pain. but not one did I see who lost his spirit nor who complalneo at his fate One platoon. just before Deins carried into the front line, recelVeo direct hit from a German shell and nve of the brave fellows were instantly killed and several wounded. The boys closed in and went ahead; and the next morn ing this same company, after assisting ID
 driving the German machine guns ou' of the woods, went forward with cap tured German machine guns and ammi-
 hilton which they used against the Toe.
 "I may be accused of having depicted too dark a picture" MT. Burr observed. "The interesting, happy lives or the boys, when not engaged in actual hght- ing, would make much more interest, ing reading, but when one looks around America and sees how prosperous we are, how happy and contented, now far away from war we seem. IL IS my opinion that we should endeavor to look upon the serious side and really
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

badly wounded and suffering intensely, smiled and sent the message back telling the boys to hold out to the last
 "One sergeant, calling his men to fall in a few minutes before an attack was to be made by them, announced: The parade begins at 5 o'clock; we will soon show in Germany The illusion is bet ter understood when you know that the Rainbow division is referred to as the circus, because it has been moved 50 often and into so many parts of the front For three days these boys, with poor equipment, marched through the snow. At night they slept with their shoes on, after placing straw in them and burning out the straw. One fellow, trudging along with pack almost as heavy as he was, remarked, I am all in, but would wear my legs off right up at the hips before would fall out* Only IA of the entire regiment fell out during this march. A northern regiment, composed of men inured to the rigorous climate, lost over 200.
 E "The boys become accustomed to the shrieking of the shells and learned by their noise to estimate fairly accurately whether they will strike in dangerous proximity" MT. Burr said. For this reason the shells are not nearly so frightful or uncertain as an air raid When 8 Hun plane comes over an out fit it seems to every man in the outtlt as if he was the personal mark at whom personal aim were being taken. One of the boys, under conditions like this one night. realizing the futility of running, watched the machine above as it circled around in the moonlight and relieved his feelings by crying out: MT Man., please 1don't lay none of those hard boiled eggs around here!' r&ese boys, light hearted, happy and high-spirited, in their billets and on their hikes, stood uncomplainingly and without losing their spirits, as severe fighting and as heavy casualties as probably have occurred dur inrr tha mar It was a heart-rending
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

and at the same time rendering regu-
 lar shipping service to his neighbors. The ultimate achievement of this move- ment will thus make every farmers gate his shipping platform. Regular and dependable transportation-a thing he has never had before--is now being furnished to him in much the same way that the city man has his street cars, his railways and his other transporta-
 ton service which operates to his door.