Reputation and
Endorsement
Two pretty good points on which to judge any line
of merchandise are REPUTATION AND ENDORSEMENT.
We carry in stock goods of the best makes—goods with
a national Reputation for Quality-the same makes that
you will find in all first class stores all over the United
States.
And our prices are no higher for this class of goods
than you will have to pay for goods of unknown quality
elsewhere.
Our stock is complete in all lines. Right now we have
a number of late shipments on display that will interest
both men and women.
New “Keystone” Trousers for Men, Pair, up from $4.50
Gattner & Mattern Union Suits, Silk and Wool, Suit.. $6.50
J. P. Smith Fine Dress Shoes, Special, Pair.$7.50
Goodrich Rubber Co. Best Overrubbers, Pair. $1.50
Fine Lisle Sox, Different Colors, Pair. y 50c
The ladies will be interested in our new lines of Sterling
Silverware, Fancy China, Toilet Articles, Books and Sta
tionery, Cutlery and the Famous “Hetssey” Glassware.
SIMSOIN’S
THE STORE FOR EVERYBODY
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BOBBY SHELDON’S PARTY
LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS
After a fast week in Nenana,
Bobby Sheldon and his party of
tourists from the upper town, got
away for Fairbanks yesterday morn
ing, via the Thelin stage, with the
famous Tin Lizzie and double end
er tied on behind. Bob, however,
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TOM SMITH, Prop.
is going back lighter than he came
down, for the reason that several
of his “fair freight’” have remained
with us, one of whom turned the 1
visit into a honeymoon. If Bob can
do as well by us on each trip—that J
is, to leave a couple of very accept
able young ladies in or town—we
will welcome him every week.
Jimmie Barrack and Jack Levick
have decided that the reports cir
culated in Fairbanks about Nenana
being a slow town are all wrong,
as, besides the succession of hap
penings last week, Jimmie was near
ly run over by a Ford and Jack was
held up on the corner of A and
First street for fifteen minutes,
while a traffic cop got the traffic
straightened out, which all goes to
show that Fairbanks has nothing on
us.
Last week things were kept mov
ing all the time, starting with the
entertainment and dance at Union
hall Saturday evening. On Sunday
evening, Mr. and Mrs. Herman An
derson held open house for the visi
tors and about thirty of their
friends. An orchestra was engaged
and sinking, dancing and games took
up the evening. Monday night Mrs.
Cleveland got busy and, with the
rest of the bunch, managed to se
cure the Coliseum, and a big dance
was held, lasting until early morn
ing. Tuesday was the night of the
box party, and Wednesday another
dance, at the Engineering commis
sion office building; while the the
atre party on Thursday night wound
up the week of festivities.
Bobby Sheldon says that it is his
intention to make several more trips
like this one in the hope of estab
lishing more intimate social relations
between the two towns, and that he
will bring down a Ford-full of chick
. ens every once in a while. That
sounds all right, and coming from
Bobby, we might believe it, if we
hadn’t heard that persistent rumor
about one R. Sheldon being some
little mixer, master of ceremonies,
etc., and especially being under sal
ary from a matrimonial agency.
However, come again Bob, and bring
the Tin Lizzie and the “chickens,”
i we’re with you and for you.
NOTICE
I All ladies who have resided in
Alaska for 15 years or more are re
quested to meet at the Union hall,
Feb. 27, at 3 p. m., to organize a
Women’s Pioneer Igloo.
Seems As Tho
Most all the folks want PETATUMA
EGGS, from the sales this week. We
have a few left, however, so step
lively, your next.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
“ALASKA’S LARGEST OUTFITTERS”
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PROSPECTOR SAYS
DOSE MADE BOTCH
OF SUMMIT TRAIL
The Commercial club has been
urged to take immediate action with
a view to improving the trail over
Broad Pass. Mr. Dickson, who has
spent a considerable portion of the
winter prospecting in the hills south
of Nenana, appeared before the club
last Sunday for the purpose of in
forming the members of conditions
as he found them out the trail, and
to register the complaint of road
house men in that district, who
claim that travel over the Broad
Pass route will cease entirely unless
trail conditions are materially im
proved.
Objection is made to the trail re
cently marked by Engineer Dose, of
the Alaskan Engineering commission
who was dispatched from Anchorage
early in the winter with a party
of helpers to pick out a suitable and
short route over the summit. Mr.
Dickson informed the club that the
trail selected by the Dose party
passes through an open, exposed
country and cannot possibly be kept
open, no matter how much travel
may develop. The wind blows con
stantly, and the lakes and s-reams
which the trail crosses render trav
eling unsafe during the fall and
spring. The markings are distinct
enough, according to Dickson, but
the tripods are too far apart to af
ford protection to mushers in stormy
weather.
The club was informed that a
much better trail could be cut
through the timber, by way of Jack
river, materially shortening the dis
tance and avoiding both wind and
streams, thus making it a passable
summer trail as well as a protected
and easily followed winter trail.
The statements of Mr. Dickson
were substantiated by Mr. LeGault,
owner of a roadhouse on the summit.
He expressed the belief that a new
trail through the timber could be
cut for a comparatively small sum
of money and suggested that im
mutilate action De taxen in order
that travel from the Anchorage end
might be stimulated. It was stated
that at least one party of mushers,
headed for the Interior, had aband
oned the trip before reaching the
summit, when they learned of the
bad trail conditions.
Woodbury Abbey was appointed
to confer with Mr. Dickson for the
purpose of preparing a map of the
district for submission to the club
at the next meeting, when definate
action probably will be taken.
The only other matter of interest
before the club was a telegram from
Delegate Sulzer, requesting informa
tion regarding the Tolovana log jam
and the opinion of the club relative
to the importance of removing the
obstruction. Messrs. Cooney, Slip
pern and Secretary Joseph were ap
pointed to inquire into the matter,
and they probably will have a report
to submit at the next meeting, which
will be held at the usual place to
morrow afternoon.
It is better to be ahead of time
than behind time.—See us in the
meantime. W. TAYLOR, Jeweler.
The Little Susitna Coal company
has begun shipping fuel from its
mine at Houston. The coal is a lig
nite and closely resembles the pro
duct of the Bluff Point coal prop
erties down on the east side of Cook
Inlet. The operators of the mine
plan on extensive development work
and are at the present time work
ing ten men.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Inquire
News Office.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the copartnership heretofore
existing and carrynig on business
under the firm name and style of
Thompson & Gagnon, at Nenana,
Alaska, is hereby dissolved. The
undersigned will not be responsible
for any debts contracted in the name
of said late copartnership on and
after the publication of this notice.
All accounts due and owing by
the late copartnershin will be re
ceived and paid, by the undersigned,
A. D. Thompson, who will continue
the business at the above address.
Dated this 16th day of February,
1918.
A D. THOMPSON,
Publications: Feb. 1C, 23; Mar. 2,
9, 16th.
COAL LAND ONUS
READY FOR LEASE
IN NEAR FUIURE
Secretary Lane, of the interior de
partment, has made formal an
nouncement of the completion of
the work of surveying and dividing
into leasing units the more acces
sible part of the Nenana coal field,
and states that as soon as the data
is printed the lands that have been
divided into leasing blocks will be
offered for lease under the pro
visions of the Alaska coal land leas
ing law, act of October 20, 1914
(38 Stat., 741). Announcement of
the offer for lease is promised in
the near future when full publicity
of the leasing offer will be given
through the press and the leading;
coal trade journals.
The area to be offered comprises
approximately 19,000 acres of land
divided into 23 blocks or tracts,
ranging from 160 to 1,664 acres,
each block being in such form as
is belived to permit the most econo
mical mining. A lease under the
lay cannot exceed 2,560 acres, and
may include one or more contiguous
leasing blocks.
The lands to be offered for leas
ing constiute the more accessible and
immediate minable part of the sur
veyed lands of the Nenana coal field,
and are in T. 11 S., Rs. 5, 6 and 7,
and T. 12 S., R. 7 W., Fairbanks
Meridian. They lie in the valley
of Lignite creek, a tributary of the
Nenana river, extending up the
creek from its mouth for about 12
miles. The mouth of the creek is
on the approved surveyed route of
the government railroad from Sew
ard to Fairbanks, at a point about
364 miles from the coastal terminus
at Seward, and about 106 miles
from the inland terminus of the rail
road at Fairbanks. While it is not
possible to state when the railroad
between Fairbanks and Seward will
be finished, it is believed that the
summer of 1918 will see the portion
of the road completed from the coal
field to the Tanana river, thus mak
ing this coal available for barge ship
ment to Fairbanks and other river
towns.
The geologists who have examined
this field report that the coal oc
curs in many beds of various thick
nesses up to 30 or 35 feet, there
being: at least 12 beds of workable
thickness, of which probably at least
6 are over 20 feet thick. The coal
bearing rocks are only gently folded
and no intrusive rocks, are known
to cut them.
The coal of this field is lignite of
fair grade. While it is not suitable
for export, it will furnish a valuable
and much needed fuel in portions
of Interior Alaska that are now de
pendent on a scanty and expensive
supply of wood. The uses of Ne
nana coal will probably be as loco
motive fuel on the government rail
road, for power and thawing at the
mines in the Tanana valley, as do
mestic fuel in the Tanana valley,
and as river boat fuel on local Tan
ana river boats and possibly on some
of the Yukon steamers. It is desir
able that Nenana coal should, if pos
sible, be used on the greater part
of the railroad, rather than the
higher grade Matanuska coal, be
cause the heavy freight traffic will
be northbound, leaving southbound
empties available for hauling coal.
The Nenana coal field is nearer the
summit of the Alaska range than
any known coal south of the divide.
Four men were recently arrested
in Petersburg, following a near riot.
According to a letter from a .Ium.au
resident who viewed the trouble, the
matter seemed to have started over
a man tampering with the Red Cross
fund box. He was arrested and
led away under the eyes of his
friends, and when the marshal enter
ed the door a few minutes after,
about twenty men jumped him. He
succeeded in protecting himself un
til help arrived. According to the
6RAGE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
REV. ROBERT
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
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witness, the fight was one of the
cleanest on the side of the policemen
and one of the dirtiest on the side
of the gang that he had ever seen.
Wednesday Evening at 8 O’Clock
AT LABOR UNION HALL
Juneau, through the Alaska Auto
association, recently received per
mission from the marshal there to
use the prisoners for keeping the
streets clean, as the snow plow has
been unable to remove the "beau
tiful” from the highways. The
snow is packed so hard that the plow
can make no impression on the
drifts.
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SPLENDID PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT
Hearst Pathe News—Pictorial News
Showing General Pershing in France. All France Rejoices As the
First Contingent of America’s Expeditionary Forces Arrives
Safely Abroad—Ready to Join the Great Struggle
For Humanity.
His Last Laugh
FEATURING HARRY M’COY, WITH ALL STAR KEYSTONE
PLAYERS IN A SCREAMING THREE-PART TRIANGLE
KEYSTONE COMEDY
NOTICE-Those who are going to attend the dance tonight at
the Union hall, will have plenty of time to see the show, as the
dance committee has notified the management that dancing will
not commence until after the show.
SHOW STARTS AT 8 O,CLOCK
GENERAL ADMISSION 25c RESERVED SEATS 50c
Program for Sunday
CUPID’S BATH
An Essanay One-Reel Comedy Will Be Shown On the First Reel
So That Those Coming Late Will Be Able to See the Entire
Feature Which Follows.
SOLD FOR MARRIAGE
FEATURING THE EMOTIONAL ACTRESS
LILLIAN GISH
IN A THRILLING FIVE-ACT TRIANGLE FEATURE
NOTICE_Mr. E. L. Loughlin, One of the Four-Minute Men,
Will Make His First Speech on Topics of the War.
SHOW STARTS AT 8:30 O’CLOCK
GENERAL ADMISSION, 50c
RESERVED SEATS, 75c
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