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SLAV MEETING WAS
WELL ATTENDED SATURDAY
The meeting held by the Ameri
can Slav Society of Nenana on
j Saturday night, for the purpose of
further discussing the forming of
the patriotic and educational society
was very largely attended and sev
| eral new names were added to the
! membership roll.
A full list of the members of
the society will be published soon.
This list is now being compiled by
John Ketooroky, the prime mover
and organizer of the society.
The meetings of the society will
be continued, from time to tim^
for the present at the old quarters
of the Nenana club, in the Bowen
building.
1 Jean Ellis left this morning lor
i Fairbanks, enroute to the States, n
the Karstens auto.
j Nenana—The Gateway to McKinley
I National Park.
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GENUINE DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
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William Siverly, one of the real
oldtime sourdoughs of the North,
arrived in Nenana yesterday after
noon- driving his own dog team
from his far away home in the
Koyukuk country. He is in Nenana
on a brief business visit and ex
j pects to get away again for his
| camp in a few days. He left Cold
| foot, Alaska’s northernmost mining
[ camp, away north of the Arctic
Circle, on March 5th, making the
long journey by way of the Koyu
kuk mail trail and Tanana in a
little over nine days.
While in Nenana he is a guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Erie Brown, with
whom also his son, “Sourdough Bill”
the paperweight champion of the
Dreamland Athletic club, is staying.
Bill Siverly is a real sourdough
of the vintage of 1897. being drawn
to the great Northland by the lure
of gold in the early days of the
rush. He mined and worked around
Dyea, Skagway, Atlin, and the
Klondike country for a few years;
leaving Dawson in 1900 for Nome,
when that camp was booming, and
the gold was as easily got and as
easily spent as in the Klondike.
City life, or any semblance of it
did not suit Mr. Siverly for any
great length of time; the great
mountains and the little known
rivers and valleys beckoned him
and he went.
Leaving Nome a year after his
arrival there, he struck for th->
country now known as the Candle
or Fairhaven mining district, and
after a short time spent there,
penetrated into the Kobuk and from
thence to the Koyukuk country
v here he- has, with varying success,
followed the exacting and alluring
mining game ever since.
In all the years of his life in
(he V r h. dating back to the time
when he first landed in the country.
Bill has never been to the States
and but seldom to Alaskan towns
of any size. On the present trip
to Nenana, he struck the Yukor,
at Tanana for the first time in 19
years, and at Tanana he saw the
moving pictures for the first time
in his life. Shortly after his ar
rival in Nenana he had his first
sight of an automobile, recognizing
the strange craft from illustrations
of them which he had, from time
to time, seen.
Mr. Siverly is an empire builder
of the finest type, with an abiding
faith in the mineral and other possi
bilities of the great Northland. In
ured to all the hardships of the min
ing game and the rigors of the
Arctic clime, he has untiringly
sought the elusive paystreak in the
little known wilds of the frozen
North with undiminished hopes of
success. A life in the lonely moun
tains and valleys has no terrors for
Bill. He knows the gold is there
and he is after it, with every
chance of striking it mos? any
time. He is, in short, one of those
“grim, intrepid ones, who would
unravel the mysteries that shroud
the Arctic Zone.”
INSURANCE ADJUSTER
LEAVES FAIRBANKS TODAY
A. W. Jones, the insurance ad
juster who arrived in Fairbanks
recently to adjust the claims re
sulting from the recent fire in the
upper town, left Fairbanks on this
morning’s stage for the States.
He will make a brief stop at
McCarthy, in the Shusana district,
on his way out to adjust a fire
claim sustained by a Chinaman, who
suffered the loss of his establish
ment recently.
Mr. Jones stated that the insur
ance companies lost approximately
$70,000 as a result of the Fair
banks fire.
The sun on longer days will make
you feel like throwing away your
old hat and suit. Certainly those
old spots do not improve your ap
pearance, but fo' a trifling sum you
can have them pressed, mended and
cleaned at Mrs. D’Orsay's Tailor
Shop, Third and A streets.
! FOR COAL TES1
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On Billy Butler’s dog stage
which arrived in town about 1
o’clock this morning, John A. Davis
of the Fairbanks Bureau of Mines
and Paul Hopkins, assayer for thi
Fairbanks banks, arrived.
Messrs Davis and Hopkins are ii
Nenana for the purpose of con
ducting chemical tests of the Lig
nite coal, the chemicals and appar
atus having been sent on a few day
in advance of their arrival.
Arrangements are now beinj
made for the test and the necessar;
apparatus is being assembled at th<
Alaskan Engineering commission':
power plant, where the tests wil
take place. It is expected that i
will take a day or two to fix uj
the apparatus, after which exhaust
ive tests of the different qualitie:
of coal from the Lynn and Burn
mines will be subjected to tests ti
determine their suitability for thi
various purposes for which coal i:
used.
CAMP LEWIS, Mar. 17.—Secre
tary of War Baker, accompaniec
by General March, chief of stafj
o fthe American army, arrived ir
camp today on a tour of inspection
They will remain to witness thr
demobilization of the troops.
Secretary Baker said that he
hopes to demobilize all soldiers with
in forty-eight hours of their ar
rival at demobilization camps ir
future. It itakes a week or more
now' to discharge the men arrivin',
from overseas and other camps ir
the states.
Secretary Baker said, further
that he hoped to make arrange
ments to have the pay records oi
the men ready for them upon theii
arrival at the demobilization camp
Camp Lewis, he said, will al
ways remain an army post, and that
the United States army will prob
ably be formed into three great
units, one of which will be located
at Camp Lewis.
IS HCIIVE AGAIN
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 17.—
The volcano Calbuco, in Chile is in
violent eruption, and the inhabitants
of the Island of Chiloe and in other
nearby towns are fleeing for theii
lives. ,
Ashes and lava are destroying
fields and houses and great distress
in the districts immediately sur
rounding the volcano and withir
range of its activities is feared
Mis Edna Lewis, who arrived on
the Sheldon auto Saturday evening
left for her home in Fairbanks or
the Karstens auto this morning.
Henana—The Gateway to McKinley
Rational Park.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
i From Nenana to No. Miles
Nenana Crossing (by rail).43
Lignite .52
Riley Creek .70
Jack River .90
Broad Pass Summit.110
Sullivan’s .128
Indian River .162
Dead Horse .182
Talkeetna .202
The distances given are approxi
mate.
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The barn dance given by the
j local lodge of Moose Saturday night
i was largely attended and was de
ciUely a most enjoyable function.
Dancing commenced shortly after
9:30 p. m., to the strains of the
Coliseum orchestra, and the farmers
and farmerettes kept it up with
vigor until three o’clock in the
morning
Union Hall was appropriately
decorated for the occasion, barn
i accessories and equipment being
I very much in evidence, with a
liberal sprinkling of hay over every
thing, which left no doubt in the
1 minds of those who attended re
| garding the character of the dance.
! The absence of conventionalities,
I to some extent at least, with the
homelike and comfortable cos
tumes worn by the majority of those
| present, added greatly to the en
jjoyment of the evening.
! There were several very striking
! costumes worn, both by the “rubes”
and the country girls, which per
haps harmonized w'ith the surround
! ings more than others. Shortly
before midnight, the merry throng
of dancers received an addition to
their number with the arrival of a
i bevy of young ladies from Fair
| banks, under the joint ehaperonage
! of Mrs. H. C. Hamilton and Bobby
| Sheldon, who immediately entered
i into the spirit of the dance and
(stayed with it until the end.
That the barn dance was an un
j qualified success was the concensus
j of opinion of those who were there,
j and it was thoroughly enjoyed by
all. It was a happy, though tired
bunch who wended their homeward
way after the last strains of “Home
Sweet Home” died away, and they
all voted the Moose a bunch of
jolly good fellows.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
At Union Hr.ll on Tuesday* and
Friday nights, commencing'Lat'^9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
DANCING ACADEMY
TOMORROW NIGHT
The dancing academy,, conducted
by Mrs. Bele Campbell, will hold
another of their jolly reunions at
the Union Hall tomorow night.
The next meeting following will
probably be held on Friady, unless
in the meantime an arrangement
can be arrived at with the trustees
of the Union Hall whereby the
dates of the academy meetings can
be changed so as not to conflict
with the bridge clubs.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
Kecaiia—Tie Gateway to McKinley
National Pari.
LOST
Small black leather card case,
containing gold piece and receipts
of value only to owner. Reward
for return to Mrs. E. L. Morrison,
at The Morrison (formerly Carter
House) on A street.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
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