THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of Uarcb 3, 1879.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana. Alaska
R. G. South worth ........—.Editor »nd Manager
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Captain Calvin H. Burkhead, in
charge of the U. S. Signal Corps
in Alaska and special army inspec-'
tor, left for the lower Yukon on ’
the steamer Davis late Tuesday
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night. He will be absent from his
headquarters several weeks.
Mrs. R. C. Morris has received
a letter from Mrs. Jack Dwyer
stating that she and Mr. Dwyer are
now located at Palo Alto. Californ
ia, where Mr. Dwyer has been tak
ing a special course. He recently
passed his examinations with high
honors.
Deputy Marshal J. J. Buckley
arrived from the coast this week
enroute to his headquarters at Fair
banks. after an absence of several
weeks in the states. He was in Se
attle at the time of the arrest of
Romeo Hoyt, and confirms the tel
egraphic report that he is being
held in connection with the robbery
of the Fairbanks postoffice.
Advices from Fairbanks state that
James Sizeland, who was seriously
injured recently as the result of
falling from a hand car. is slightly
improved although still in a critical
condtion. He is under the care o?
Dr. Romig at the Fairbanks hospi
tal.
Tom Smith, proprietor of the
Southern hotel, left for the Hot
Springs district Tuesday aboard the
steamer Davis on his annual outing.
He was accompanied on the trip
by R. T. Brooks, who will spend
several weeks at the resort.
Joe McClure is nursing a mashed
finger, the injury having been re
ceived on Tuesday while Joe was
engaged in the performance of his
duties as brakeman on a local train.
STEAMER DAVIS ENROUTE
SECOND TRIP DOWN RIVER
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The Government steamer Davis
sailed for the lower river late Tues
day night with a cargo of general
freight, mail for lower Yukon river
points and several passengers. A
mong those leaving were:
Hot Springs—Amy Hosier, Tom
Smith, R. T. Brooks.
Tanana—L. C. Edwards.
Holy Cross—Capt. C. H. Burkhead
Iditarod—Mrs. S. V. Guzenier, J.
O. Werner.
SHIP ALASKA FURS QUICK!
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick
sale at present high prices. Money sent same day ship
ment comes in—cash, draft or money order, whichever
you want. ACT NOW—if you have one skin or a
hundred. Ship to us at once.
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Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
JIG ORCHESTRA TO PLAY
AT BALL DANCE SATURDAY
One of the greatest aggregations
>f musical talent ever heard in Ne
lana will provide the music for the
benefit dance which will be given
it Union hall on Saturday night
under the auspices of the Nenana
Baseball club. The boys have se
cured the services of a nine-piece
jrchestra and peppy music will be
:he order of the evening.
The dance will start at nine o’
:lock and will be preceded by a
sand concert in front of the Coli
•eum immediately after the picture
■how, which will start an hour
rarlier than usual so as not to in
:erfere with the dance. The band
vil! play in front of the theater and
hen march to the hall.
The commttee in charge of the
iance announces that eight prizes
rill be awarded during the evening
:o the winners of the dancing hon
>rs.
The dance tickets, which are be
ing sold around town by a number
jf young ladies, are going fast and
the indications are all of them will
»e disposed of before the night of
the dance. The cause is a popular
>ne and the public is responding
'iberally.
LOOSES SPEECH IN MOUNTAINS
REDDING, Cal., (By Mail)—In
srder that she may not forget how
to use her vocal chords, Mrs. I. M.
Grander of Siskiyou Station, in
the high mountains, is spending a
few weeks in Redding. She has not
seen able to speak a word in sev
;ral weeks because she finds her
throat affected by the altitude of
1,100 feet at the mountain town,
trhere she resides with her son.
There she is compelled to use the
sign language to express her
thoughts but when she comes to the
ower altitude of Redding, which she
loes at intervals so that she may
sot lose her knowledge of peech,
■he at once regains the power of
irt iculation.
STUDENTS SELECT CHIEF
SANTA CLARA, (By Mail) —
3enry J. Miller, a junior student
■egistered from Valdez, Alaska, has
seen elected president of the As
sociated tudents of the Univerity of
santa Clara for the 1923-24 term.
Hiller is a member of the football
team and is also prominent in dram
atics. He is majoring in engineering
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hagen and
3aby returned to Nenana Tuesday
from a brief visit at Fairbanks.
CUSTER MASSACRE SURVIVORS
ARE REDUCED TO INDIANS
HELENA, Mont. June 12—With
more courage than hope, the Mon
tana Historical library has under
taken three difficult tasks: The first
to disprove the general belief that
teritorial governor Sir Francis Mea
gher, exiled Irish patriot, was in
toxicated when he fell off a steam
boat, and was drowned near Fort
Benton: second, to cut down the
number of sole white survivors of
the Custer massacre to a reasonable
number if not to the aero point;
third, to disprove the charge that
Major Marcus A. Reno was guilty
of cowardice in the Battle of the
Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876.
in lieu of the first imperssion,
the Montana library has statements
from pioneers who were with the
Irish-American statesman and war
rior on the day when he met death
to the effect that he was suffering
somewhat from the effects of a long
ride in the hot sun and had not
been drinking on that day. In this
respect, too, the state historians
claim the body was never recovered
instead of having been found var
iously from points on the Missouri
river in North Dakota to the mouth
of the Mississippi at New Orleans.
Against the second so-called fal
lacy the Montana historians say
there are no “sole white survivors”
living who were in or saw the
Custer massacre and only a few
Indians still alive.
To supplant the third general be
lief that state historical socie'y has
secured a copy of the United States
War department report of an in
quiry conducted March 11. 1879,
which is lengthy and involved but
the substance of which sets forth
that the man for whom Reno, Nev..
was named obeyed all of his or
ders on the day of the battle, tnd
under General Sherman’s signature,
declares there was no evidence of
cowardice.
PREHISTORIC RELICS FORM
NATURE SHOW IN COLORADO
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 12
In Mess Verde National Park, Col
orado, the visitor this summer may
behold for the first time the skele
tal remains of one of the prehistoric
inhabitants of this region as he was
laid out in his grave centuries ago,
acording to a statement issued by
the Department of the Interior.
These human skeletons were un
covered in an aboriginal cemetery
near the southeast corner of Pipe
Shrine House last summer All the
skeletons that were found were well
preserved, considering their antiqui
ty and had been buried in an ex
tended position on a hard lay
bed. They lay on their backs at
full length with legs crossed and
heads oriented to the east, general
ly accompanied by mortuary ves
sels of burnt clay and other ob
jects. These vessels once contained
food and water, the spirit of which
was thought would be suitable food
for the spirit of the defunct.
Every bone of one skeleton was
left where it was found and was
not raised from the position in
which it was interred oved 500
years ago. Walls of a stone vault
were constructed around it, reach
ing to the surface of the ground,
and to a wooden frame, firmly set
in cement, was nailed a wire net
ting, above which was constructed
a waterproof wooden roof hung on
hinges. By raising this roof the visi
tor may now behold the skeletal re
mains of a man about forty-five
years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall.
So far as known this is the first
time care has been taken to pre
serve a skeleton of a Pueblo in its
aboriginal place so that it may be
seen by visitors. It shows the en
vironment of the defunt and sat
isfactorily answers the question
whether the Cliff Dwellers were
pygmies.
F. A. Hansen, engineer mainten
ance and construction, came over
from the coast this week to inspect
the damage done by the recent high
water in the Nenana river and tri
butaries. He is at Healy at present.
LAWYERS TO REWRITE LAW
TO REMOVE UNCERTAINTIES
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 12—
The gift of the income from more
than a million dollars, to continue
for ten years payable to the Amer
ican Law Institute to aid that or
ganization in its ambitious project
of restating the common law, has
excited much favorable comment a
mong educators and legal lights in
the National's Capital.
It is explained that thirty of the
foremost lawyers of the country,
under the leadership of Elihu Root,
last May formed a comimttee to
investigate the causes of the law’s
uncertainties and unnecessary com
plications and the possibility of es
tablishing a permanent organization
to fulfill the public obligation of
the profession to promote the ad
ministration of justice, especially
! the clarity and simplicity of the
law.
After months of research and dis
cussion the committee issued a re
port urging the establishment of a
law institute, the first and most im
portant work of the institute to be
| the restatement of the law.
On February 23 last this report
and its recommendations were con
j sidered in Washington at the most
'notable gathering of the members
'of the legal profession ever held
j in this country. Those present in
1 eluded the Chief Justice and mem
bers of the Supreme Court of the
j United States, many other members
| of the higher Federal judiciary
j twenty-one State chief justices; re
presentatives of all the bar asso
ciates in the United States, the fac
ulties of all the leading law schools
'and about two hundred other lead
! ing members of the bar specially in
| vited.
j The Washington meeting created
and directed the incorporation of
i the American Law Institute, which
i will now, with these funds, begin
the most far-reaching legal reforms
ever attempted.
The officers of the institute are
Elihu Root, honorary president;
George W. Wickersham. president;
Benjamin N. Cardo, vice presi
dent; and George Welwood Mur
ray, treasurer. The affairs of the
institute are managed by a council
of the leading lawyers and judges
of the United States.
William Draper Lewis, of the law
school of the University of Penn
sylvania, has been chosen director
of the institute.
MOVIE WAR ON PACIFIC ISLE
PAPEETE, TAHITI, June 12—
Papeete is now in the throes of a
moving picture war, due to the ef
forts of an ambitious local merchant
to establish a monopoly of the exhi
bition end of the industry.
The merchant got control of
three moving picture houses after
building a new one of his own. He
then proceeded to cut down expens
es and among one of his first acts
was to dismiss the Casino band.
The Casinos, composed mainly of
member of one family forming a
large clan on Tahiti, considered this
an affront to their art and their
family honor, and built a theater
large enough to house the entire
movie population of Papeete.
Today, Papeete is divided into
two camps, and the war is on,
with no quarter to be given by
either side. The fight between the
two factions has brought great joy
to the thrifty inasmuch as it has
' cut down the cost of the admission
price from about eighteen to six
cents.
Most of the thickly populated
outer islands are provided with
moving picture theaters which are
well partonized by the natives. The
favorite pictures are cowboy stories
with plenty of hard riding, and the
yells of approval which emanate
from these movie buildings when
the villian is hard pressed by the
sheriff’s posse would warm the heart
1 of any cinema star could he but
hear them.
Mrs. Rice and brother, Walter
Belling, returned to Fairbanks on
the Tuesday train after a brief
visit in Nenana.
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RIVER NEWS
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H
j Davis—At Gibbon
Yukon—Arrived at Tanana yester
day enroute to Nenana.
Jacobs—Up Ruby yesterday.
Tanana—Up Holy Cross yesterday
morning.
Victoria and Buford—Arrived at
Nome yesterday from Seattle.
Whitehorse—Arrived at Dawson
yesterday.
Dawson—Up Carmacks yesterday
morning.
Casca—Leaves Whitehorse tonight
Canadian, Nasutlin and Klondike
—Up Stewart river.
Alaska—Scheduled to leave Daw
son for Nenana Saturday.
Cutter Bear—Arrived at Nome to
day.
WANTTOS
WANTED—Chiffonier. News Of
! fice
LOST—Bunch of keys, Finder
please leave at Depot.
FOR SALE—Sewing Machine,
Morris chair, cooking utensils. See
: Chas. E. Bergman.
FOR SALE—Two first-class pack
horses, known as Kennedy atock. |
Black weighs 1200. gray 1350. In- ’
quire of Anthony Letray.
FOUND—One key. Loser can re-;
cover same by calling at News Office ,
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127 W. 27th Street
SEATTLE
Alaska Building
Mrs. C. E. Jones, who arrived
from Ruby last week, went to
Fairbanks on the Tuesday train.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Nenana as
follows:
11.35 p. m. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning' arrives Nenana 11:20
a. m. same days.
5:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika
Arrives Nenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
“Trains both north and south
bound stop over night at Curry
where excellent hotel facilities are
available for the public.
River steamers leave Nenana ev
ery Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. for
points down river to Holy Cross and
Connecting with gas launch at lat
ter point for St. Michael. Arrive Ne
nana every Monday or Tuesday.”
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igleo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Gheui R. C. Morris.
Secretary. President.
D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Emhalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenama Manager