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The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
ALL FOR HICKMAN.

Ali Interior Alaska and the coast towns l visited are for J. E. Heckman for national committee man, as nearly as l could learn from all the Republicans l talked with" said o. P. Gaustad, former senator of the Fourth judicial diTi- sion, to a representative Of the Ketchikan Chronicle recently. during brief stop in the First citS, en- route to Los Angeles on hurried business mission.
 There is no question that he will be elected by an overwhelming ma iority. and I doubt even if anyone will run against him. Other can didates have been mentioned, bu7 their candidacy Is net suca as seems likely to unite all wings of the party a would that ot Senator Hickman.
 Senator GauStad made the criy over the trail from Nenana to Ar chorage. following the route of tht new Government railroad.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
Dr. ]. R. BOWEN DENTIST
 Price. Most Reasonable THE BOWEN BUILDING
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Alaskan Engineering Commission
 Fairbanks Division.
Circular No. l3l.

Nenana, Dec. 31. 1919. TO ALL CONCERNED:
 A new position of Road Master has been established for the North ern Division. and Mir. W. L. Packer will be assigned 10 this work. with all former duties, up 10 end of steel, that he formerly supervised. Be yond the end of steel, Southerly, a Superintendent of Construction will take charge of the grading, contrac- tors. etc. This Superintendent is enroute from Anchorage and will arrive on or about the 10th of January.
 All trainmen. mechanics, carpen- .ters. etc. formerly reporting to MT. Packer. will do so in future. FRED'K D. BROWNE, Engineer in Charge.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
Department of the Intersn- Alaskan Engineering Commissie.
NOTICE

Passengers are required to pur- chase tickets before entering trains.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the General Office Building, Alaskan Engineering Commission, or a. Camp 4l5 North Nenana).
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of A street on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m, and from Camp 4l5 North Nenana), for Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, a: l p. m.
 The following IS the schedule be tween North Nenana and Fairbanks. subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at TOO a. m. i; arrive North Nenana, II: 30 a. m.
 Leave North Nenana l :0O D. m :, arrive Fairbanks, 5:3O p. m.
 No tickets will be sold crossing the river. Those intending to tray ei to Fairbanks must make their own arrangements for reaching North Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Engineer in Charge

h. the Probate Court for Nenana
 Precinct. Fourth Judicial Division,
 Territory of Alaska. h me Matter of the Estate of T. F.
 Murphy, Deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has teen appointed ad- ministratrix of the above entitled estate and all persons having claims against said estate are directed to present them to the undersigned at Nenana, Alaska, (which place is hereby designated as the place where the business of said estate will be transacted), within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice.
 Nenana. Alaska, Dec. 9th, 1919.
 MRS. MATTHEW SWEENEY, Administratrix.
 Date of first publication, Dec. 10, |1sle.
 Date of last publication, Jan. T, 1923.
 Day of publication, Wednesday.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

Clerk of Court and Mrs. H. Claude Kelly are among the pass engers on the Moose excursion.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
PREPARING FOR SPRING.

With six million dollars immedi ately available for the Alaskan En- gineering commission. Major (. E. Dole, purchasing agent for the com mission. began his buying prepara tions for the 1920 season with q rush upon his return to Seattle re- gently from Anchorage. where he took part in the conference called by Chairman Maars for the purpose of reorganizing the commission forces. He set his staff to work preparing calls for bids on two big steel bridges. three aerial ramway systems, and 1000 tons of ham, bacon, groceries, oats. hay. and oth- CT provisions needed in building the Governments railroad in the North.
 Tn addition, 1000 tons of TO- pound standard steel rails. with the accompanying fittings. angles. bolts, and spikes, are being shipped from Gary, Indiana, to Seattle, for the railroad construction work in the North. The order will arrive in Seattle at the rate of 1000 tons a week. The steel is to be delivered under an old contract
 Also, says the Seattle Sunday Times of December T, Major Dole is arranging to have four standard locomotives and 15O fatcars shipped from the Canal Zone to Alaska early in January. The equipment is owned by the Government.
 These preparations pave the way to another great year of construc- tion work on the Governments AL aska railroad.
 One of the bridges is to span
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

Susitna river at Mile 264, and the other will be built across Hurricane gulch at Mile 2s4. The Susitna contract will call for a bridge with a clear span of 504 feet, while the Hurricane gulch bridge will have 3 span of 3s4 feet. The bids will call for the manufacture. delivery, and erection of the bridges. Their cost will run into hundreds of thou sands of dollars.
 Aerial tramways are to be used over the Susitna and Hurricane gulch for handling equipment, ma terials and supplies until the two bridges are completed. The Susitna bridge is to be delivered by next August. while the Hurricane gulch bridge must be delivered by Janu- ary, 1921.
 Aerial tramways are to be used over the Nenana river at Mile 370.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
PERSONAL
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Leo Rogge. well-known mining man of the Fairbanks district, Is among the out-of-town visitors in iNenana, having arrived on yester- days train.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ALASKAN ENGINEERING
 COMMISSION

Office of the Townsite Manager
 Nenana. Alaska, Dec. ?, 1919. Notice of Delinquency in the Pay mert of Assessments on the Fol- lowing Lots, Nenana Townsi.e:
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
OF THE INTERIOR Alaskan Engineering Commission
 Nenana, Alaska.
Nenana, Dec. 30, 1919.

Nenana, Dec. 30, 1919. TO ALL CONCERNED:
 A Special Train is to be run from Fairbanks to North Nenana. leaving Fairbanks Wednesday, December s1st, at 80 p. m., and returning from North Nenana Thursday after noon at time to be determined later.
 Passes will not be accepted in either direction under any consider ation on these trains.
 FRED'K D. BROWNE,
 Engineer in Charge.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31
Fresh Groceries, Fancy and Sta pie Fowler & Morris

Henry A. Slater has completed the assessment of Cordova for 1919. which shows valuation of S1,39S.- 445, Of which amount s1,0S5,595 js for real estate and S3l2.S50 for personal property.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

J, A. Davis, head of the bureau of mines station at Fairbanks. writes from New York that he and Mrs. Davis will return to the Interior about the first of March, probably by way of Broad Pass. the short cut route.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

If the above assessments together with 10 per cent. penalty are not paid on or before January l, 1920, the. lots will be reported for for feiture, and title revert to the Gov ernment according to Circulars Nos. 45S and 554.
 CARL SCHMIDT, kJ-2 Tewnsite Manager.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

Pat O'Connor and Cal Franklin, who spent the Christmas holiday in Fairbanks. returned to Brooks yes terday. travelling by dog team.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

Mir. and Mrs. C. Harry Woodward rive here this afternoon.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-31

!. 4. Slippern did not return to Nenana on yesterdays train as re
 ported. but he will be home today on the Moose special
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
Education, Not Medication.
(NCW York Sun)

Within the last few years the Units ed States has made commendable pro- gTeSs in the conservation of health in some districts. The public has been taught in considerable sections of the country, for example, that epidemics of typhoid fever are avoidable. Sci ence has reduced the danger of diph- theria. The mortality among infants has been brought down and is falling steadily But in spite of these bene- ficial accomplishments many prob lems remain to be discussed hy the health commissioners now in conven- tion in Saratoga.
 Education. not medication, should be the motto of the country in it's at tempt to prevent disease. A man or woman or child kept in health is much better off than a man or woman or child SnatChed from death by the phy- sicians skill. Acute disease and chronic invalidism lay a heavy tax on the people. Unhappily all diseases cannot be avoided in our present inn perfect state of knowledge. The Span ish influenza was notSkept out of this country. though We had ample warn ing of it's prevalence abroad. Prob ably it could not have been kept out by any practicable quarantine, but had the public known from the be- ginning how best to minimize it's ray ages many useful lives might have been spared. Recently the announce ment was made that studies carried on during the period of it's prevalence had increased the ability of science to fight pneumonia a fearful enemy of man kind.
 lo I founded the more alarming prediction of worldwide pe5tilenCe to follow the establishmc of peace, if is un- doubtedly a fact that the dis sorganiza- ton resulting from war will cause outbreaks of diseas SC in Europe against the introduction of which the United States must carefully guard itself. This guardianship should begin in Europe be maintained at our ports of entry, extend to every hamlet in the country. Ignorance is the chief ally of disease, and by dispeling ignorance we can best protect ourselves. Only men and women ignorant Of the Dur- poses of health officers oppose their work and put obstacles in thetr way, and such ignorant men and women do not always dwell in unpretentious quarters of town. If such ignorance exacted it's penalty only from the ig- norant the case would be pitiful enough, but actually it menaces the whole community in which it exists
 When the individuals composing the population are brought generally 10 an understanding, of the personal obliga- tions which rest on them in the mat ter of disease prevention the most ur- gent vict ory for public health will have been won. and it is to be won through the eyes and ears rather than through the mouths of those who must learn it.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
\ Base Attack On An American
Institution.
(NcW York Sum

NtNCN l OEh sum
 The gentleman who a few days ago remonstratcd at paying ten cents for a bottle of pop at the ball games has an added cause of grievance; pop ~nas gone up to fifteen cents and the sfze of the bottle is one-third of what it was in the good old days of Here ye arc, d nickel a shot"
 This matter may appear on fits face insignificant. Pop, it is asserted. is not necessity. Ask the patriotic bleacher fan, nobly and gallantly sup porting the national game on a yi4et summer day, if 1t is not necessary. to his proper defence of a great Anfefi- can institution.
 But the worst is not yet: inside, fn- formation is to the effect that before the season is over pop will be twen- ty-five. cents bottle. That price would make it almost prohibitive eX- cept in the exclusive circles of the grand stand.
 How, we ask how is the wicked, re- fractory, and stubbornly partial um@ bought up and paid by the opposing team, to be brought to a realization of the enormity Of his crime in mak- ing rotten decisions against the Giants or Yankees if the bleachers are to be, deprived in this manner of their pop bottles?
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
25 YEARS AGO
From the Herald of that Date)
Thursday, July 1g, 1891.


 The inspector of buildings sent dn a communication stating that A. J. Sloper, Charles Stanley and Charles Andrews had erected houses without complying with the provisions of the city ordinance and the matter was re-
 Petition was received from A. j.. Sloper to connect his house with the sewer on Vine street.
 The sixteen inch water main on West Main near Washington street, burst this morning and washed out all the macadam leaving hole through which the water poured in torrents. The water flooded down as far as Arch street. When the water was shut off a hole big enough for a man to get through was found in the pipe.
 There is a reward of $500 up for the arrest and conviction of the one who Is causing all the fires in this city,,
 H. D. Humphrey\and family are at Madison for the summer.
 Mrs. F. E. Corbin and family are at the shore for the months of July and August.
 Firebugs were frightened away from Patrick kennedy's barn last evening before they had chance to fire it.
 P. S. MCMahoh was fined $25 and costs for ha I beer in his possession. He took an appeal
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19

sible for the ice investment to other wise remain a commercial possibility then the time has come in the inter estS of all when it should be so recog nized and the community should pre- pare itself to become the ice man.
 There is nothing startling in this view of common responsibilities. It has been taken before, notably in the case of the public school system and in the regulation of the public health. It still remains true that the best gov erned state is the least governed, but it never was true of any form of gov ernment that license takes the place of liberty. The conspicuous abuses against which society rage5 draw their inspiration from an arrogant misint terpretation of liberty as license; q false insistencc upon the obscured and misleading slogan that "busi- ness is business.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
National Happenings.

Pullman works lack over 1000 hands with which to start up.
 Americans are charged by NiCara guans with melting Indians to riot. The cruiser Columbia ordered out to quell riot
 Japan not offended-China dis claims all intentions of expressing Corea-Agrced to withdraw troops as soon as Japan agreed to do the same United States to act as peacemaker.
 Soldiers fire on another in Chica- go. Said to be over a girl. Involved whole regiment.
 Debs refuses all offers of ball pre- ferring to stay in jail.
 The White Caps attack whole fam ily in Indiana, and give them severe beating.
 General CoxcN's army to move on the capital from the West.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19

on bricks made of that product abroad.
 IhlS mineral has unapproached re- sistance 10 heat. When utilized in the llnlnG Of furnaces in which molten masses arc poured it neither melts nor fuses nor amalgamates with the metal, however hot. This makes it invalu- able in several trades, but chiefly in the making of steel copper and 1E4A m their various comm, ercial fornff4 Without masnesite those essen J commodities could not have been fNfa nished by the United States in the quantities required in the war. Up to that time four American refractory plants producing maSnesite bricks were obtaining 35O,OOO tons of the ore a year, mostly from Austria with a little from Greece. This supply was suddenly shut off.
 In this country California alone was known to have magnesite deposits Their annual yield was ten thousand tons. The government called for the development of these mines and the discovery of others. Private capital responded. When the war need ceased moro than thirty mines in California and three in the State of Washington, T, 900, had shipped to the four refrac- tories in the East 1000 tons of the indispensable ore and had enough in sight to keep up the pace for years to come.
 Steel production fell off. Refractory operators, awaiting the resumption of foreign ore shipments, began to cur tail their orders. In consequence the Western mines were shut doWn-to re- main closed forever. their owners say, if magnestc, as before the war, is to come in duty free. The cost of Amer ican ore delivered at an Atlantic port was then S16.25 a ton, against $4S.5 for the Western product, $16.07 of the latter cost being the freight rate from Washington State to Phladel- phia. Imported ore must come from an enemy country to it's profit, and wit resultant employment of it's la bor through American money to the de- struCtion of an American industry built up and maintained by American labor
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
THE PIiACTICING pIPEHS AT
 FINS.

Oh, the Practicing Pipers at Fins, Twas a dull ripping day when we met them.
 We were waiting a call at the hrat crack of day,
 When beside our brown billet they started to play Can we ever forgive or forget them :? The sduealing. appealing to ban dylcgged "Jock." Set our nerves all on edge by the disCOrdant shock Oh, the practicing Pipers at Fins The kitten-like women of Hades, Melody varies in fancy and theme, But the Tank understands not the Highlander's scream lis uncouth, like the dress of these ladies.
 From the moaning and groaning kom morning till night" Said the Yankee. "no wonder these devils can fight" Oh, the Practicing Piper at Fins The music torrential and bitter 'Tis no piping of Pan by the woodland and rush The harmonious note of the eve- ning's hush lis the song of the bayonets a-glt- ter.
 Iris dreaming and screaming of conquest and blood Victorious passion let loose like 8 hoOd' Oh. the Practicing Pipers at Fins The music of stern consolation. The high Strident strains of miIi- tant mon
 With the crash and the cadence recurring again. The Purpose--tne Soul of a nation. In battle, the rattle of rifle fire there
 Is lost in the shriek of wild Highland air. Oh. the Practicing Pipers at Fins The call of the wounded and dy- Tho song of the Scotchman until his last breath,
 Of Irritation with Life, and of banter with Death The wall Of the fatherless crying. For hiking, or striking the heart into flame.
 Iris the music to follow to Death or to Fame.
 WILLIAM V. V. STEPHENS. 11th Engineers, l.. $. A., in New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
OUTING FUND

The following subscriptions have been obtained for the benefit of the "Nacation House, a country retreat for New Britain people who might not otherwise get a chance to leave the city. The home is under the man agement of the City Mission which de- tcrmines who may go. Everything at the home is free and your suhscrip- tions will maintain it. Send any money you might wish to give to the 'Outing Fund.-" care of The Herald.
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New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
WHAT ABOUT CONFERENCES

When Moses wrote his precepts on khe tablets of stone he posted them that all might see. We can visualize the curiosity of the people of Israel who gathered from all lands to read what their prophet had ordained. There were many who diverged from the leaders teachings; there were many who had other ideas of the uni verse and of human actions; there were many-there are still-Who be- lieved that idealism was the motive behind the act, that his rules could never be observed. Still, Moses, though divinely led. had the right idea and his teachings are observed to this day. His followers spread the doc his points. We do not hear much from those who opposed, though there were doubtless many, led by a desire for power and a tendency 70 disagree, who sought to upset the words of the leader. The malcon- tents have disappeared in the nists
 of obscurity; the precepts stand today
 as guiding light for those who
 would attain praiseworthy life.
 They are not all lived up to, though
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
EuSincSS Is Business.


tNew Haven Journal Courier.)
 Whatever view the committee ap- pointed by Mayor f'itzGeraId, and their able counsel, present for the contcmp plation of the public in con- nection with the ice question, the public is sure 10 awake 10 a new ap- excuse. so familiar to the ears of all, that 'busincss is, business" is offered as a cure all Business is business but buiness is not and never has been in sound morals the art of arbitrarily sha king the public until every penny drops out of it's pocket We are apt to iHd ourselves impressed by the fact that society, can no longer afford, for it's own social protection. to per- init the strong to play upon the weak at will; to awake to the fact that social order and progress depend upon a due consideration of the weak by the strong.
 Thesc conclusions arc clearly "a part of the evolution of society. They run counter to certain hard and cold principles of human conduct as the science of political economy lays them down. but they are in harmony with the enlightened ~view of social obligations upon thap recognition of which depends orderly and peaceful progress. There can be no orderly and peaceful progress when a large section of society remains restless and dscontented, not because it is their nature to be so, but because thought less conditions make them SO The disappearance from Connecticut of cattle on a thousand hills that were raised for homo consumption was not due to natural causes. They disap- peared because the business of rais- ing them was deliberately destroyed by a combined business power too big to resist. We have yet to learn whether the control of the ice busi- ness by a powerful business combin- ation in this state was managed with- in the law or not. but we need no additional testimony to convince HIS that, if such a power exists, it should be taken away. It sins against moral justice. If it should transpire that conditions over which business inter- osts have no control make it impos-
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
City Financial Worries.
(Watcrbury Republican,

One of the democratic candidates for mayor announces that the city IS approaching a financial crisis.
 This is no new discovery.
 The financial crisis is biennial.
 It is discovered about two months before the fall primaries in alternate vcars-the very years in which there is maNoralty election. It approaches it's real crucial stage between the primaries and the day of election
 After election it subsidies so rapidly that it is completely forgotten, espe- ciallv when the taxpayers storm the city hall to ask the board of works when sidewalks and sewers arc to be laid on What'sthis street and why Thatother street Ahas not been ac- cepted.
 We should worry about our city's finances after, instead of just before election.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
The Case of MagnCsite.
(NeWu. Y ork Herald)

TO fit tariff taxes to the nursery of infant industries born Of wars need is the duty of congress. One of these new enterprises would seem to de- mand their special study. It has some disting gushing features. Some of these were brought out in recent hearings before the house committee on ways and means on the request that a duty of three-quarters of a cent a pound he put on magn esite ore and an ad valorem duty of s25 be laid