THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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TIMES ARE TOUGH?
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Five billions of dollars, says the!
Mew York World, is certainly a lot
of money for the people of the ■
United States to spend for luxuries
and amusements in a year, and this, j
it seems, is a ‘‘minimum estimate”,
based on the Federal taxes collect-!
i
ed. The billion dollars spent for
movies and regular theaters would
pay a year’s interest on the nation-!
a! debt. Half of a billion went for
ice cream, soda water, etc. Per- ’
fumes and cosmetics cost consum
ers fifty millions, and the public j
paid taxes of a million and a half j
just for the privilege of chewing
gum.
Xo doubt the last item is as use
ful as any to illustrate the deceptive
effect of persona! expenditures as
stated in terms of national expendi
tures. When a nation of more than
one hundred million people, mostly
prosperous, sets out to buy thing?
the aggregate of purchases is sure
to be so colossal as to stagger the
every-day imagination.
To counteract this lavish expendi
ture the Thrift Division of the De
partment of the Treasury has in
stituted a campaign to discourage
the indiscriminate buying of non
essential things. Even a Treasury'
clerk might falter at the attempt to
classify luxuries and distinguish
them from necessaries. In which
category should toilet soap be put,
and bathtubs, books, tobacco, and
vacation trips?
Such a classification may have a
statistical value but civilized man
finds the so-called non-essentials too
necessary to his comfort and con
venience to dispense with. They are
essential* while his money lasts,
and all that any thrift propaganda
can do is to show him the unwis
dom of buying them when he can
not afford it.
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SEWARD WRITER GOES EAST
FOR MEETING WITH FORD
The persistent report that Dan
Sutherland will not be a candidate ,
for re-election, and the equally per
sistent rumor that Thomas B. Dray
ton will be a contestant for the Re
publican nomination have many of
the earmarks of a deal arranged
before the last delegate election,
says a recent issue of the Seward
Gateway. This is particularly so,
points out the Seward paper, when
taken in connection with other re
ports coming from high political
circles. All things considered, the
situation will bear watching. On top
of which, the paper admits that it
“doesn’t know anything about the
matter except as indicated by sur
face appearance.”
Continuing, the Gateway says:
“The two matters may be purely
-accidental and unrelated, but at the
time the reports of Sutherland’s
retirement began to appear in the
newspapers, other reports began to
drift in from the Outside that Hen
ry Ford would like to have Drayton
represent the Territory in Con
gress. Very soon after that it be
came known generally that Ford
had summoned his Alaska literary
representative to a conference ati
Detroit early in September, and that
the c nference will bear upon Alaska
matters. The delegate race may or
may not be the main object of the
proposed heart-to-heart talkfest. but
that it will be on subjects of im
portance may be imagined from the
fact that letters and telegrams are
not satisfactory means of communi
cation in this particular instance.
“If it can be proved that the big
automobile manufacturer is going in
to Alaska local politics, it will likely
put a crimp into the whole scheme,
and Drayton’s friends need lose no
more sleep over the fight they expect
to be made against their man by
the Washington bureaus and the
Pinchot conservationists 'n the East.
Outside support, however powerful,
would be extremely dangerous for
any Alaska candidate.
“In noting these circumstances it
is but common fairness to add that
Mr. Drayton's friends deride the
idea that Ford has any connection
with the professional writer’s can
didacy beyond a friendly interest;
that his claim for support will rest
entirely upon his effective fight for
Alaska in recent years; and, they
add with much assurance, that if
any candidate the Democrats pro
duce can be coaxed into a series
of joint debates on the stump, their
man would win n a walk.”
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Mr?. Samuel Thompson, wife of
the well known old time resident of
Seward peninsula, died at Nome re
cently.
Ketchikan citizens recently con
tributed the sum of $169.70 to a
fund for the relief of a destitute
Ketchikan family. Ketchikan claims
a population of 5,000.
Of the 200 persons who landed at
Seward from the Santa Ana, in 1903
and founded the town, only five re
main. They are George Phelps. T
W. Hawkins, Mrs, Schallerer, John
Ballaine and J. Nelson.
More than $36,000 is on deposit
in the savings department of the
Sew-ard postoffice.
A school district has been estab
lished at Hyder.
COAST BANKER OPTIMISTIC;
SAYS CONDITIONS ARE GOOD
Returning: to Skagway, after hav
ing spent two months investigating
business conditions to the West
ward, E. A. Rasmuson. president of
the Bank of Alaska, told a repre
sentative of The Alaskan recently
that, while business conditions in
general in Alaska were quiet, be
believed that Alaska had not been
as severely affected by depression
as had the States.
The banker said he had found
business conditions very good at
! Anchorage and vicinity. He said the
Anchorage branch of the Bank of
Alaska had three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars on deposit, and that
conditions in general were very
good.
He visited the several coal dis
tricts along the coast and was par
ticularly optimistic regarding the de
velopment o* the deposits at Chick
aloon. Captain Dowling, who is in
j charge of the work there, is doing
■ excellent work, according to Mr.
; Rasmuson, and enjoys the confidence
of every one in that section.
Mr. Rasmuson found Cordova Jess
active than Anchorage, but the bank
there is doing -well notwithstanding
the fact that the town is quiet. De- ,
posits have increased S30.000 dur
ing the past year, Mr. Rasmuson
says.
The banker was accompanied on
the trip by W. H. Benton, of Min
neapolis, who is a stockholder in the
Bank of Alaska.
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A new light has been established
at Cape Edgecumbe. at the entrance
to Sitka Sound: one at East Ama
tuli Island, on the Barren Islands
at the entrance to Cook Inlet, and
one at Cape Wedge, on Nagel Is
land. of the Shumagin group.
Larry Parks and Josephine Gil
patrick were married at Juneau re
cently.
In the Probate Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division.
enana Precinct.
In the matter of the Estate of
Michael Coakley, deceased.
I NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby {riven that the
undersigned has been appointed ad
ministrator of the above named es
j tate and all persons having claims
! against said estate are notified to
: present them, with proper vouchers.
‘ within six months from the date of
1 the first publication hereof, to the
' undersigned at his place of business :
n the Town of Xenana. Alaska,
which place is hereby designated as
1 the place where the principal busi
: ness of said estate will be trans
acted.
Nenana, Alaska. Sept. 24. 1921.
ALFRED J. GHEZZI.
| Administrator
John A. Clark.
Attorney for Administrator
First Publication Sept. 24, 1921
Last Publication October 22, 1921
Advertisement for Delivery of Coal
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Healy, Alaska, September 23, 1921
It is estimated that the ALASKAN
ENGINEERING COMMISSION will
require at least five thousand (5000)
long tons of coal to cover the period
for the balance of the calendar year
1921 and for the entire calendar
year 1922.
Bids, in triplicate, will be receiv
ed in the Office of the Engineer in
Charge, at Healy. Alaska, and public
ly opened at 12 o’clock noun. Wed
nesday, October 5, 1921. for the de
livery of five thousand (5000) long
tons, and as much more as the Com
mission may require during the peri-!
od noted.
The specifications are the same in
all essentials as submitted December,
1920, for bids, and are on file in
the office of the Engineer in Charge,
or will be sent to those wishing to
make bona fide bids. These specifica
tions especially refer to moisture
and ash content, and also to the
method of estimating the amount of
coal, which is to be paid for at the
rate of forty cubic feet for a long
ton, and not by actual weight.
All deliveries must be made on
demand from time to time during
the entire period, at or near the
site of the mine, f. o. b. cars of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
engine tenders or such other con
veyances as may be presented for
transporting the coal.
A bond will be required in the
sum of $2,000.00 for the faithful
performance of such contract as
may be entered into.
Bids must be addressed to the
undersigned, and the envelopes
marked: “BID FOR COAL.”
FRED’K D. BROWNE
Engineer in Charge
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. H. Patten. A. H. McNeer, N.
C. Stewart. Roper Sherman and
MaybelC. Sherman, their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the sum of one hun
dred dollar? ($100,001 in labor and
improvements has been expended
upon the Fox Gulch Association
placer mining claim, situate on Fox
Gulch, a tributary of Platt Creek
in the Nenana mining and Record
ing District, Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statute? of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims for the year
1920; said labor constituting the
annual assessment work for the year
1920; and if within ninety (90)
days after the last publication of
this Notice you, and each of you,
as respective co-owners of said
claim, fail or refuse to pay to the
undersigned your respective propor
tion expended by me for said labor
and improvements legally required
to hold said claim as aforesaid for
the year 1920, together with the
cost of this Notice, your interest in
said claim w'iil become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under said Section 2324. Revised
Statutes of the United States.
C. C. HEID
First Publication August 13, 1921
Last Publication Nov. 12, 1921
John McLeod, an oldtime pros
pector of the Henderson district,
in Yukon Territory, ha? been miss
ing since last March. The mounted
police have been unable to find-any
trace of him.
We Carry a Complete Line of
All New Goods - New Prices
new remington ammunition
Hardware Camp Outfits Feed
Clothing and Furnishings
Shoes and Rubbers
FOWLER & MORRIS
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NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
COMFORT AND SERVICE UNEXCELLED
DOG BARNS
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WANT _AD$
LOST—Lady’? engraved wTlst watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fitting?; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healv.
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FOR SALE—-Casey's waiehouse and
j Casey’s building on “A" street.
All instalments end taxesnre pvd
up to date. This property will be
sold at a great sacrifice. Apply to
James Hagan or Frank Rourke.
! WANTED—One or two sets of No.
5 bobs. Must be reasonable and in
good condition. Inquire at The
i Portland.
FOUND—Two keys. Call at A. D.
Thompson Drug Store.
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WANTED—Information as to the
whereabouts of our father, Erik
Hartull; last known address was
Xenana. Communicate with Mrs.
M. Silva and Anna Sofia Hartull,
836 15th. St., Oakland. California
FOR SALE—Three room furnished
house. For particulars inquim
N'ews Office.
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Juneau recently has the unusual
and novel experience of entertain
ing a real, live prince. The disting
uished visitor was Prince Haidar
Fairzal of Cairo. Egypt and he
spent four hour- looking over the
capital city, with a number of
i other tourists.
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BARBER SHOP AND BATHS
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Comfortable
ROOMS by the DAY
WEEK or MONTH
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DESIGNING AND NATIVE
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Nenana Igloo No. 17
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Welcome.
Frank Rourke
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Geo. S. Smith
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Alaskan Engineering Commission
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Secretary Dictator.