New Arrivals
SUITS
HATS
SHIRTS
SHOES
UNDERWEAR
NEW GOODS ARRIVING ON EVERY BOAT
SIMSOIN’S
The Home of Hart Sehaffner & Marx Clothes.
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TOWN MAY TAKE
STEPS TO NAME '
ALDERMEN SOON
The matter of choosing a board
of aldermen to govern the affairs
of the town of Xenana, as pro
vided for in the home rule law
enacted during the recent session
of the legislature, will be brought
to the attention of Xenananes at
an early date, according to the
members of the local advisory
board, whose terms will expire at j
about the time the new law be
comes effective.
In response to a telegram of
inquiry regarding the new law.
Townsite Manager Carl Schmidt has
been informed by Governor Riggs
that the home rule bill received i
final approval on May 3, and be
comes effective ninety days after
that date, or on August 3. The
law was printed in full in the issue
of The Xenana Xews of June 18.
Townsite Manager Schmidt will
attend the meeting of the Com
mercial club tonight for the pur
pose of explaining the law and
ascertaining the views of the mem
bers regarding compliance with it.
The new law applies only to,
those towns along the government
railroad which are under the jur
isdiction of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, and the trustees
elected may make laws, collect
taxes, and otherwise regulate the
affaire of the town, so long as they
do nothing in conflict with the
commission’s regulations for town
management.
The advisory board elected by
the voters of Xenana last year acts
merely in an advisory capacity,
without authority to do any of tho
things enumerated in the new law.
It is. in reality, a committee of
citizens appointed by the people to *
confer with the townsite manage- j
ment regarding town affairs.
The Cascade Laundry has plenty
of hot soft water at all times. New
bath rooms, fully equipped and san
itary, with special rooms for ladies.
You get -ebate with $2.50 laundry,
which applies on bath, or pay 50c
per bath.
SCANDLAND TO LEAVE
FOR YUKON SATURDAY
Sergt. L. W. Scandland, who has'
been in charge of the local signal j
corps station during the past iwo
years, will leave Xenana on the1
steamer Tanana on Saturday to i
assume charge of the station at
Ft. Yukon.
The local station was turned ever j
yesterday to Thos. M. Mathew s, j
who has been with the Xenana
office for a considerable time ar.d
who was in line for the promotion, j
Lloyd R. Eckerson, who v.-is at
tached to the local station las", j
year, is now enroute up the ri\er
to take Mathew’s place at the key
board. He is a passenger on the '■
Tanana.
Sergt. Scandland has made many j
friends during the time he has been !
in Xenana and the efficient manner j
in which he has conducted the office
has firmly established him in the
esteem of the community.
EXPERIMENTS ARE MADE
TO EXTRACT VALUES
FROM BLACK SAND
The bureau of mines at Fair-'
banks is now conducting expert-1
ments with a view to extracting j
gold from the black sand residue1
of the cleanups.
In a recent test conducted at the
bureau of mines station, 99'- of
the gold content of a 300-pound lot,
of black sand, from Discovery
claim, Ester, was extracted. Much
of this gold was lost to the miners,
hitherto, the methods they usually1
employ being inadequate.
BOIL YOUR DRINKING WATER!!
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I LAUNCH VICTORY I
FRED DOUSE, Master. |
Leaves Foot of A Street Even Other Day
| FOR FAIRBANKS I
§ RESERVATION'S AT THE TERMINAL. 1
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| JUST RECEIVED ON STEAMER ALASKA I
A SHIPMENT OF
| Fresh Imperial Candy |
] Dipped Brazil Nuts In Cream |
! Fruit, Nut, and Milk Chocolates I
IN HALF, ONE AND TWO POUND BOXES
Ithe portlandI
THE BIG PLACE I
| FRESH FRUIT ICE CREAM 1
ANOTHER VICTIM
OF FLYER WRECK
AWAITS BURIAL
The body found floating in the'
river yesterday by Arthur Wright
and brought to town has been posi
tively identified as that of Charles
Craig, the Tolovana mining man.
who, with his wife and baby, was
on his way to Fairbanks, enroute
;to the States.
At the inquest held at 7 o'clock j
last night at the commissioner’s
court, Messrs. Tom Smith, Pete
Schmidt, Joe Johnson, Adolph Nel
son, John F. Lake and Dr. R. J.
Diven served as jurymen. Arthur
Wright, who found the body, Pat-!
rick Breen, Wilfred Beatty, Dr.
Bowen, and Dr. David More were
examined as witnesses.
The identity of the corpse was j
established beyond a doubt and the
jury returned a verdict of death
by accidental drowning. The body
has been prepared for burial by
A. W. Heimburger and is sealed up
in a metal casket, which has been
placed in a wooden one, and will
be held pending receipt of instruc
tions from the relatives of the de
ceased as to its final disposal.
The launch Flyer, with Astral j
G. Vernon, better known as the j
"Hungry Kid,” in charge, left Ne
nana at 6 o’clock on the morning j
of October 4th last, with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Craig and child, Mrs.
Hawley W. Sterling, George Cole- i
man, Dick Richard, and Helen
Moulton as passengers for Fair
banks, and Pete Jensen for Wood
River.
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Fred Douse, on the launch Vic
tory, left Xenana about two hour?
after the Flyer did, and on arriv
ing- at Chena and learning that the;
Flyer had not shown up, reported
the matter at Fairbanks. He also;
sent a wire to Andy Hoey, of the
Terminal, reporting the non-ap
pearane f the boat.
Joe Johnson, on the launch Peer
less, left for Fairbanks on the
morning of the 5th, and Xenana
ites first learned of the disaster,
in the following telegram, which'
he sent to the Portland, imme
diately after his arrival at Fair
banks: “Yesterday Hungry Kid
passed Twelve-mile bar, up-bound, :
shortly after, boat drifted down full
of water; no people; expected all
drowned, no trace.”
Carl White arrived in Xenana on
the night of Saturday. October <t, J
and confirmed the news. From this,
source it was learned that Xorman
Hadley, whose camp is situated a
few miles below the Twelve-mile
bar, saw the partly submerged j
Flyer drifting down with the cur
rent and put out in his poling boat,
to try and get it. Hadley posi-;
tively identified the Flyer, but notj
being equipped with the necessary i
ropes and gear and fearing disaster j
to his frail boat, was obliged to cut I
loose from the Flyer, to which he!
had made fast, and return to camp.,
He had no idea then that the bodies]
of the passengers may have been in j
the boat.
Several search parties from Fair-!
banks and Xenana, equipped with
the necessary appliances, were soon,1
on the scene and a very thorough 1
search of the river in the neigh
borhood of the Twelve-mile bar was
inaugurated. A temporary tele
graph station was also established
near Xorman Hadley’s camp for
the convenience of the searchers.
On October 8, the body of Mrs.
Craig was found floating near ths
Twelve-mile bar. She had on a
life preserver, and a tuft of hair
was found in her tightly closed firt;
this hair was supposed to be that
of her baby. Mrs. Craig’s body
was shipped to Fairbanks, and later
to the States for burial.
The untiring efforts of the small
army of searchers failed to locate
the wreck or any more bodies, and :
with the near approach of freezeup
the search was abandoned.
Hawley W. Sterling, husband of
one of the victims, who is resi
dent engineer in the employ of the
A. E. C., attempted to continue the
search during the winter through
the ice with special lighting ap
pliances, but was obliged to j
abandon operations later.
On June 19, shortly after the
partial subsidence of the high water
in the Tanana river, the body of
Mrs. Sterling was found in an eddy
about three miles above town,
which, after identification and in
quest, was shipped to Fairbanks,
where the funeral services were
held, and interment took place at
the Fairbanks cemetery.
Yesterday, at about noon, the
body of Charles CrAig was found
as previously stated in these col
umns.
The theory is advanced that the
Flyer, which may have been held
by the anchor ice at the bottom of
the river, has now been released
and that the bodies found may have
floated off from it. There is a
possibility that the bodies of the
Hungry* Kid and the rest of the
passengers may- yet be recovered
if a search for them was made
along the sloughs and slack waters
in the river below the Twelve-mile
bar, on which, all accounts agree,
the Flyer was wrecked.
F"esli garden seeds, just arrived.
Fowler Sc Morris.
CLUB MEMBERS
ARE URGED TO
MEET TONIGHT
An urgent call has been issued
for a general meeting of the Ne
nana Commercial club, to be held
at the club quarters in the Union
building at the usual hour tonight.
The members are asked to be on
hand promptly, for there will be
much important business to transact
and probably not another meeting
of the organization will be held
until after the Fourth of July.
A part of the work to be taken
up tonight will be the settlement
of certain details of the forth
coming celebration and a genera!
discussion of the plans. The heads
of the various committees will be
on hand to report the progress
made by them and to receive defin
ite final instructions. >
One of the matters that will be
settled will be the timing of the
program so that the members of
the sports committee can go ahead
with the arrangements. As soon
as the events have been arranged
in their regular order and the
pr'.zes definitely settled, programs
will be printed for distribution
throughout the district, so that
prospective contestants may know
what events are coming, what the
prizes are and when the events
will take place. The advance dis
tribution of the programs, it is
believed, will add considerably to
the number of entries and to the
general interest in the celebration.
Another matter to be brought to
the attention of the club tonight
is the calling of an election to
choose town trustees under the pro
visions of the home rule law enacted
by the late legislature.
The meeting will be called to
order at eight o’clock and a full
attendance of members is desired.
MARINE BULLETIN
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Sibilla—Down Louden, 5 a. m.
Jacobs—Leaves Fort Gibbon for
Whitehorse today.
Davis—Leaves for St. Michael •
today.
Seattle 3.—Up Kotlik 7 a. m., 24.
Washburn—Down Marshal, 11 a.
m., 23rd.
Kotlik—Up Holy Cross 4 p. m., *
the 23rd.
Alaska—Up Rampart, 9:15, 24th.|
Benchely—At Melozi.
Dawson—In Dawson, 24th.
Selkirk—In Whitehorse, 24th.
Yukon and Casca—Up Eagle, 11
a. m., 24th.
Tanana—Up Hot Springs 8 a. m.. i
date.
Mrs. Mabel Kim, a native worn- j
an, was recently beaten to death
with an ax at Wrangell. She was
the wife of a Chinaman and former
ly resided at Douglas.
FRESH F8UITS HHD HECETR8LES
JUST ARRIVED
Rhubarb, Bananas, Apples
Oranges, Grapefruit
Cabbage, Potatoes, Bermuda Onions
Australian Onions, New White Nugget Eggs
New Swift’s Brookfield Cheese
COGHILL’5
SIR. TANANA10
MEET ALASKA ON
RETURN VOYAGE
The steamer Tanana. which is
now on the way up the Tanana i
river to Fairbanks, is scheduled to'
leave the upper town about Satur
day on a return voyage to Gibbon,:
where connections will be made
with the steamer Alaska for the!
Outside via Dawson. After trans-,
ferring passengers and mail to the j
Alaska, the Tanana will return *o:
Fairbanks, where Captain Green
and the men of his crew will board
the Reliance for the first Koyukuk j
voyage of the season.
The Tanana, now enroute direct;
from Dawson, is expected to reach
N'enana about noon tomorrow, with!
passengers, freight, and mail from
the States. After discharging cargo '
here, the boat will proceed up- j
river, and probably will be ready |
to start on the return voyage some-1
time Saturday. i
It had been previously planned
to let the Alaska come through to
Fairbanks on the next trip, but
doubtless owing to the fact that the
steamer Yukon will not be able to
go on the regular schedule between
Dawson and Fairbanks until after
the Midnight Sun excursionists
have returned to Whitehorse, it
has become necessary to make fur
ther use of the Tanana on this end
of the run.
The Tanana was reported at Hot
Springs at eight o’clock this morn
ing, with the barge Innoko in tow.
The last heard of the Alaska was
from Rampart, that point having
been passed at 9:15 yesterday on
the up-river voyage.
F-esh garden seeds, just arrived.
Fowler & Morris.
Heimberger’s Cascade Laundry has
just been renovated. Has sanitary
baths and furnishings. Shampooing
and electric drying a specialty.
Terms reasonable.
Hen ana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
For Sale
HORSESHOE CAFE
BROOKS
The Only Fully Equipped
Restaurant In Brooks
Open and Doing Business
Owner Leaving For Outside
Dr, J. R, 80WEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable?
THE BOWEN BUILDING
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| Miners and Prospectors! |
i NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS |
| According to a recently issued Court Order by |
E Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- 5
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- I
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts.
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be I
= enabled by this change to do their recording and trans- j§
| act other business at Nenana, which is within easy 1
§ reach of their mining activities. i
NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB,
R. S. McDonald, H. B. Joseph,
President. Secretary f
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DRINK
DISTILLED WATER
LIMITED AMOUNT IN
EXTRA LARGE BOTTLES
23c a Bottle
$2.30 a Dozen