THE NENANA DAIL Y NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffiee at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, nndcr the Act of March 3, 1879.'
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska.
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this paper and also all the local news published herein
The decision of the Supreme
Court which permits liquor to be
served on American ships beyond
the three mile limit may be. law,
but it is not justice declares the
Editor of the Stroller’s Weekly. If
liquor is prohibited on land because
it is injurious to those consuming it
why is its oonsumption on water not
equally injurious? Also, how many
of us can afford to take an ocean
voyage every time we want a drink?
The fact that the government of the
United States permits liquor on its
ships will only tend to make it more
difficult for that same government
to enforce its prohibition law on
land. The decision of the highest
court in the land will give the great
est impetus to bootlegging it has
experienced since the prohibition
law came into effect.
Those four senators, Snodgrass
Aldrich, Dunn and Brown, who
voted against the literacy bill, -yere
honored (?) by a vote of thanks
embodied in a resolution passed by
the pupils of the Douglas Indian
school comments a coast editor, he
says; the senators should have the
document framed as there is a glar
ing possibility it is the only vote
of confidence they will ever get.
One of the graceful acts of the
legislature was the increase of sal
ary from $200 to $250 per month
of the superintendent of the Pio
neers’ Home at Sitka, the former
amount not being in keeping with
the responsibilities of the position
or with salaries paid other Territor
ial employes.
AMERICAN SOFT DRINKS
TO INVADE SOUTH AMERICA
BUENOS AIRES, (By Mail) —
How to make “Red Cross” cocktails,
ginger cocktails, cherry, peach,
guava, rasberry, orange and honey
cocktails, grape juice punch, cider
punch, pineappleade. and a score of
other non-alcoholic fruit drinks, Am
erican style, is described n a circu
lar by the Argentine Ministry of
Agriculture. Thomas. A. Lebreton,
the new minister of this department
until recently ambassador at Wash
ington, brought the recipes from the
United States. He has not deigned
to reply to joking suggestions in
the newspapers that the circular is
intended as prohibition propaganda,
or to queries as to whether the
ministry would object It a “wee bit
of something” were added to the
.
URGES GOVERNMENT TO
ABANDON “SPOILS SYSTEM”
WASHINGTON, D. C. (By Mail—'
An appeal to the party in power to
turn its back on the “spoils system”
and adopt a thorough-going applica
tion of the merit principle was made
by Richard H. Dana. Boston presi
dent of the National Civil Service
Reform League, in an address re
cently before the annual convention
“Let me ask the administration,”
he said,” whether there is any other
issue it could now take up which
would so appeal to the public at
large and so rebound to its own
1 credit in the history of the cotntry.
Experience has shown, that any fla
grant use of patronage always loses
votes for the party responsible”
Mr. Dana said that counting
■ employes of states, counties, mun
icipalities and townships, the army
of civilian public employes in the
j United States enumbers above 3,800
000, or one for every seven fannies
j The payroll of this army is about
i $3,000,000,000 a year, of which
$6,000,000,600 is spent by the fed
eral government.
One quarter of the total of sal
aries paid, Mr. Dana charged is
wasted in supernumerary employes
unnecessary duplication of work,
adequate management and antiquat
ed methods.
“Could waste be stopped in the
public sendee,” he said “there would
be a saving to our over-taxed coun
try of $700,000,000 a year.”
The Civil Sendee Reform League
proposed two methods of eliminating
this waste, Mr. Dana said. First
by turning efficiency and employ
ment experts into the various de
partments to replace the inefficient,
standardize work, modernize methods
and put promotion on a basis of
merit instead of seniority or political
pun. Second by requiring that offi
cials in the higher grades responsible
for the management of the lower
grades, be selected on acount of
fitness.
Mr. Danan appealed to the ad
ministration. to Congress and the
general public to support this pro-,
gram.
“We as a country, have let mat
ters drift on far too long,” he said
“We are not only wasting our pat
rimony, but are continuing bad hab
its which are becoming more firmly ,
fixed.”
Joe. O’Connor, of the Terminal,
went to Fairbanks last night on a
brief trip. He will return on the
SHIP ALASKA FURS QUICK!
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We are the largest buyers of Alaska fur# fa this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick
sale at present high prices. Money seat same day ship
ment comes m—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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AMERICA GREATER LAND OF
BEAUTY THAN ABROAD
WASHINGTON, (By Mail)—Am
ericans who spend millions abroad
for scenery and recreation are told
in the annual report of the Nation
al Park Service, made public today,
that these may be found in greater
abundance and beauty in their na- j
tive land.
Winter sports, now in the minds
of those who can afford the ever in
creasing cost of a trip to Font
Romeu in the French Pyrenees, or
somewhere in the Swiss Alps, are
among the things that may be had
here at home. The report calls at
tention to “the unexcelled opportun
ities offered in the national parks
for winter vacationing and winter
sports," and asserts:
“Those in Yosemite Valley are de
clared to surpass the offerings of
many foreign winter resorts. Rocky
Mountain. Mount Rainier, and La
fayette National parte are also avail-1
b’.e for winter sports in surroundings
unexcelled.”
Advantages of the national parks
for all year round activities are also
portrayed. Y'ellowstone, and the oter
parks offer scenic possibilities, and
accomodations are offered “to meet
the varied tastes and all degrees
of income, means and inclinations."
Stephen P. Mather, Director of
the National Park Service in send
ing the report to Secretary Full re
view the history of America’s parks
and their increasing popularity as
evidenced during the past year,
which marked the 50th anniversary
of Yellowstone.
Daring the past year a million
and a quarter persons visited the
parks, an increase of nearly fifty
thousand over the record establish
ed the year before. This showed an
increase of approximately 882,000
over the visitors in 1915.
“Yellowstone Park is reported as
having had its most successful sea
son. Of the 51,506 motorists coming
in their own cars, 50',000 camps out
in the free public camp grounds with
their own equipment. The park
trail system was used by saddle
horse parties more than ever be
fore. Y'ellowstone Park probably of
fers the best trout fishing in the
country.
“In Spite of a severe winter the
park antelope herd was the only one
to suffer much loss. This loss is re-!
ported as having been largely made
up rapidly by birth of kids during
the summer. The buffalo herd is in
creasing rapidly so that legislation is j
needed authorizing the disposition
of surplus buffalo in order to keep j
the herd within the winter feeding1
capacity of the hay ranch.
“Travel into Yosemite Park pass
ed the 100.000 mark in spite of the
poor condition of the park roads. It
would seem that the time has now:
come when, if the government is to
fulfil its obligations to the people
visiting Yosemite, Congress should
povide ample funds for the improve
ment erf the park road system.
“Grand Canyon Pari is enjoying
its greatest year as a tourist resort
84.700 persons having visited it the
past year. In order that visitors
would make wider use of the Can
yon trails and thus gain a compre
hensive view of the vastness of the
gorge and its wonders below the rim
a new tourist facility. The Phantom j
Ranch was built near the mouth of i
Bright Angel Creek at the bottom
of the Canyon.
.“Rocky Mountain Park again
leads all other parks in the number
of visitors revorded with the re
markable total of 219,164 persons.
“A new era for Crater Lake Na
tional Park is noted with the ac
quisition of the public utility enter
prise within the park by a group of
public-spirited citizens of Oregon.
An eighty room addition to the Cra
ter Lake Lodge is under construc
tion which it is said will be entirely
:ompleted and furnished by the op
ining of the 1924 season.
Alex Fowler, of the firm of
Powler & Morris, was among those
earing for Fairbanks last night.
Ele was called to the upper town on
jusiress and will be absent pro
>ab!y until Tuesday.
HELP BOYS LEARN TRADES
PHILADELPHIA. (By Mail)—A
survey recently made by the Indust
rial Relations Committee Committee
of the Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce of one thousand local in
dustrial establishments, representing j
twenty different trades, showed a
shortage of 8,000 apprentices. The
survey followed a meeting with
heads of institutes and industrial
leaders at which the needs in the
field of apprenticeship, and the steps
necessary for their development,
were discussed.
The committee has compiled a list
of public and private schools where
boys who wish to learn a mechanics i
trade may do so. and is now engaged
in a canvas of five hundred indus
trial establishments regarding their
needs and requirements, with a
view to supplying standardized train *
ing acceptable to these establish
ments.
“The question of apprenticeship,”
says the committee “is one of the
most important in industry, as the
need of adjustment and education
of our man-power to the needs of
present day methods is imperative if
we are to keep pace with the pro
gress of our city, and the unpre-!
cendented activity of its essential'
industries.”
CALL FOR BIDS |
Office of Morton E. Stevens, Pre
sident of the Board of Trustees of
the Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines. Fairbanks, Alaska. ^
June 15, 1923.
Sealed proposals will be received
at the office of the above named !
corporation until 12 o’clock noon. J ’
July 2, 1923, for funrishing all la- ,
bor and materials necessary to con- (
struct and for constructing a wing
to the present main college building 1
in accordance with the plans and
specifications now ready for inspec
tion and available for that purpose
at the Northern Commercial Com
pany Store, Nenana, Alaska. Pro
posals are to cover labor, materials, .
excavating, concrete, building, elec- •
trie wiring, plumbing, steam fitting. '
sheet metal work on roof, gutters. (
down spouting and priming coat of -
paint on outside of building. Separ- (
ate proposals may be submitted for >
all labor only.
Each bid must be accompanied ;
by certified cbeck covering ten per ‘
cent of the amount bid to be for-, *
feited if the bidder fails to execute ‘
a contract and bond upon any award
made to him.
The building it to be completed
by November 1, 1923.
The successful bidder will be re- i
quired to give a good and sufficient j
bond for the faithful performance f
of the contract in an amount equal '
to the contract price. ^
The Board of Trustees reserve the _
right to reject any or all bids.
Board of Trustees
By Morton E. Stevens, President
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
QZ FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Probate Court, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Division, Nenana
Precinct.
In the matter of the State of
Nels P. Rasmussen, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Chas E. Bergman, the Admin
istrator of the Estate of Nels P.
Rasmussen, Deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and
filed in said Court, his final ac- j
count of his adminstration of said
Estate; and that Wednesday, the!
fifteenth day of August, 1923, at
two o’clock, P. M., at the court
room of said Court, at Nenana, j
Alaska, has been duly appointed by J «
Probate Judge of said Court for j
the settlement of said account, at
which time and place any person t
interested in said Estate may appear
and file exceptions in writing to
the said account, and contest the
same.
Dated this 8th day of June, 1923
CHAS E. BERGMAN
Administrator of the Estate of Nels
P. Rasmussen, Deceased.
Date of first publication, June 9th
1923.
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WANT ADS
W ANTED—Chiffonier. New? Of
ice
LOST—Bunch of keys. Finder
'lease leave at Depot.
FOR SALE—Sewing: Machine,
iorris chair, cooking: utensils. See
'has. E Bergman.
"OR SALE—Two first-class pack
horses, known as Kennedy stock.
Black weighs 1200, gray 1350. In
quire of Anthony Letray.
FOUND—One key. Loser can re
over same by calling at News Office
LINING GROUND FOR SALE—
Jroup of three claims (placer) on
llacier Creek. Kantishna district.
>os. 17.18 and 19. (No. 17 worked
>ut.) Shallow ground, from six
nches to five feet to bedrock,
loarse gold. Automatic dam, boxes,
ools, complete camp outfit. For
urthers particulars inquire at News
)ff ice.
SPRING WORK FOR MEN
Cleaning, pressing, repair work.
tr:ng me ceats, suits, shirts, any
(ling that needs renovating.
DORSAY TAILOR SHOP
* EVERYBODY can buy groceries,
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t* rite for free pricelist. Peoples
frocery, 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
EOPLES GROCERY COMPANY i
ORDER YOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
PHONE YOUR ORDERS
.. TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
A guage that can be attached to
any knife assures bread heing
sliced evenly.
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 Xenana 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 Xenana 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.”
Andy’s Express
- AT -
Seward
Will Give Your
BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT
Careful Attention
MEETS ALL TRAINS
AND BOATS
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghexri R. C. Morris.
Secretary. Pretideet.
D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
Trappers T raders
SHIP TO
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Dealer in Raw Furs
NEW YORK
127 W. 27th Street
SEATTLE
Alesha Building
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