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ORDER AND NOTICE
Of Election to Be Held on Tuesday,
June 3, 1919,
for
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
In the Office of the United States
1 Commissioner at Nenana, Alaska.
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now. on this day, pursuant to
an Act of the Legislature of Alas
ka, approved April 26th, 1919, pro
viding for the holding of a special
election in the Territory of Alaska
for the election of a Delegate to
Congress to fill a vacancy caused
> by the death of Hon. Charles Sulzer,
It is hereby ordered that for the
purposes of the election to be held
on June 3rd, 1919. all of the Ter
ritory in the Recording District
known as NENANA Recording Dis
tr>ct, outside of incorporates towns,
is hereby divided into voting pre
c.ncts. in each or which a polling
place is hereby specified.
( Said voting precincts are de
scribed and bounded as follows: 1
The NENANA VOTING PRECINCT,
embracing all that portion of th.
Nenana Recording Precinct lying
NORTH of an east and west line
drawn through Mile 389 on the
Government Railway.
Polling Place: FIRE HALL in
town of Nenana.
The 35 MILE VOTING PRECINCT,
embracing all that portion of the
Nenana Recording Precinct lying
SOUTH of an east and west line
drawn through Mile 389 on the
Government Railway.
Polling Place: ALASKAN ENGI
NEERING COMMISSION SEC
TION HOUSE, at 35 Mile.
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held on Tuesday,
June 3, 1919, for the election of
A DELEGATE TO THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA. !
The said election will be held in
the voting precincts above-named
and at the polling places therein
specified. The said polling places
will be open between the hours of
eight o’clock A. M. and seven
o'clock P. M. of said day.
Dated at Xenana, Alaska. May 16.
1919.
r. s. McDonald.
U. S. Commissioner for the Xenana
Recording District. Fourth Divi
sion. Territory of Alaska.
Neuana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
GANG PREPARES
TO LA! STEEL ON
Foreman Thomas K. Blakey and
his men. who have been doing duty
as sectionmen from 43-mile t-i the
end of steel, were brought into town
last night and sent this morning
across the river.
They are now engaged in doing
preparatory work on the right of
way and as soon as this is com
pleted. the gang will be increased
and a commencement will be made
with the laying of steel toward
Fairbanks.
It is expected that the preparatory
work will be completed in a few
days and that a full steel gang will
be hired to extend the railroad as
fast as possible.
Grading contractors are hard at
it now and by the time the steel
gang is ready to operate, large sec
tions of the roadbed will have been
completed.
A new gang was formed and sent
out to 43-mile totake up the work of
the section and keep that section
of the road in good shape.
Game Warden Steve Foster re
turned to town today from Fair
banks. where he has been spending
the past week.
Nothing Succeeds
Like Success
Our Goods are Right. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelry Repairing, Engraving
Just Received
ON STEAMER WASHBURN
Fresh Eggs
Oranges, Lemons
Apples, Grapefruit
Northern Commercial Co.
GREAT HARVEST
REAPED BY “CON"
MEN IN STATES
—
CHICAGO.—The American confi
dence man reaped a harvest of more
than $lo,000.000 last year, accord
ing to figures compiled by Chicago
authorities. This is the approximate
amonut actually collected from the
credulous public by professional
confidence operators and does not
include the millions gathered an
nually by the various stockjobbing
schemes.
The crude devices of the old time (
confidence man, with his shell game,
three card monte, gold brick, green
goods, money changing and lemon
games, have given way to modern
methods, more complex, and more
profitable.
The really successful confidence
men of today usually have summer:
and winter homes, ride in limou
sines and are aided by richly gowned
women, authorities say. They are
educated and far more clever than
their brothers of old days, whose
favorite trick in Chicago was to sell i
the Masonic Temple to a “rube";
for a small sum, or agree to make
the building “turn around."
Land selling schemes, peddling of
worthless mine and oil well stock,
wire tapping and “fake” sporting
events are now the hand maidens
of the modern confidence man.
who matches wits with the banker,
capitalist and lawyer, instead of;
dealing with the ignorant ruralite. j
Nearly all the victims of a Chicago
gang recently sent to the peniten-!
tiary were bankers and business'
men. The gang's loot aggregated
more than half a million dollars a'
year. j
Fear of publicity keeps most vie-;
tims quiet, thus giving the high class j
confidence man a certain degree of i
immunity, authorities say. They i
add that federal prosecution for
using the mails to defraud has been
a big factor in breaking up gangs;
and recently brought about con
viction of half a dozen leading con
fidence workers.
“Tom Brown, who came from De-:
troit and made his headquarters in;
New 1 ork, was father of the pres
ent type of confidence man,” said |
William A. Pinkerton, veteran de-j
tective, in striking a comparison,
between the old and new swindlers. '
"He operated forty years ago and j
formerly was a three card monte!
man. He was known as a bunco
steerer and won by fake lottery
schemes and other crooked gambling
devices. Then he invented the gold j
brick with which he toured the j
country. The green goods game i
came later and Brown had many!
imitators who picked up thousands j
annually. Wire tapping and other j
schemes now used developed from ‘
these old games. The modern oper
ators don’t bother with small money
and often clean up $100,000 in a
single deal. The oldtimers thought
$1,000 a big job.
“Victims are not really honest:
at heart, for they often enter into
a scheme to cheat another fellow.
The small town banker and business
man has proved a shining mark for
swindlers. They connot risk their
reputations by complaining. It i=
surprising how many shrewd busi- j
ness men fall into the net.”
It is estimated that SS,000,000 of j
the $10,000,000 total was ob- i
tained in Florida, where hundred- i
of confidence workers are said t>j
operate, particularly among winter j
tourists.
Genuine Buhach at Fowler Ac
Morris.
FORMER ALASKA GIRL
TEACHES JOURNALISM
TO YANKEE SOLDIERS
JUNEAU.—A former Alaska girl,'
Miss Helene Moore, is teaching jour- i
nalism to American soldiers in 1
France, according to letters received
here, her former home. The letter?
said Mis^ Moore had been named
an instructor in journalism at Be
aume University, the largest educa-!
tional institution of the American
expeditionary forces in France.
Miss Moore graduated from the
University of Washington, at Seattle,
and later worked for a time in the
Sound city. She went overseas as
a hut worker during the war. She
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
I. H. Moore, formerly of Skagwav
and Juneau.
Andy Roth returned to town to
day from a busines trip to Fair
banks
ANTWERP.—Antwerp appears t >
be passing through a process of
resurrection, although the tonnage
handled since the port was reopened
more than three months ago rep
resents that which would ordinarilv
come through this port in one week
during the days prior to the war.
Ships now come straggling in, and
along the seven-mile waterfront the
winch is heard creaking here and
there, and the vision in some of the
great sheds is obstructed by un
pretentious stacks of bags of Ameri
can rice and rows of barrels of*
Chicago pork, and there are food
stuffs, clothing and manufactured
articles, most of which, however,
is for immediate use.
The American commission of re
lief in Belgium had seventeen steam
ships in port early in April and
the American base for supplying the
American army of occupation in
Germany was unloading five others.
Shipping men are anxiously await
ing the opening of the American
base at Contich, about two miles
outside of Antwerp on the Malines
road. Barracks are being erected
at Contich for the accommodation
of 20,000 soldiers at a time. This
is expected to inject a little more
life into Antwerp port. The grounds
picked out for the American base
is a vast plain, dry and well irri
gated. and the doughboys will find
living and sanitary conditions there
much better than in other bases
which have achieved greater pres
tige.
The Americans have taken over
some of the piers where North Ger
man Lloyd steamships formerly
docked. The early work was ardu
ous, as the piers were encumbered
with grave! imported from Holland
by the Germans, ostensibly to repair
roads, but actually to build rein
forced concrete shelters, dugout*
and trenches. One hundred thous
and cubic yards of the gravel had
to be removed before the piers
could be used. It is estimated the
Germans had enough gravel there
to repair Belgian roads for fifty
years.
Fifteen thousand longshoremen
and stevedores are idle here and
the only solution shipping men find
when questioned as to how the situ-!
ation can be remedied may be sum i
med up on one word: “America.” j
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I Miners and Prospectors! j
| NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS (
= According to a recently issued Court Order by |
5 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
5 enabled by this change to do their recording aud trans- 5
= ac* other business at Nenana, which is within easy §
= reach of their mining activities.
NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB,
R. S. McDonald, H. B. Joseph,
President. Secretary 5
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