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Merchandise
COGHILL’iS
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Masks
IN LARGE VARIETY
Wigs, Noses, Mustaches
Domino Masks. 50c.
Goods by the yard, suit
able for making
COSTUMES
Also Trimmings of all
kinds, including Beads.
Gold Braid, Stars, Bells
and Spangles.
SIMSON’S
The Home of Hart Schaffner St
Marx Clothes.
Highest Cash Prices Paid for
| Raw Furs.
See J. A. Siippern for new rates
on subscriptions and <*enewals of all
leading magazines and periodicals.
Club rates on application.
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JOHN KETOOROKY
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LEMON IS WELL KNOWN
ON THE LOWER YUKON
Since inquiry was made for Fred
Lemon several days ago through the
columns of The News,' fully a dozen
oldtimers have supplied the desired
information, the last to cal! at The
News office being Mrs. Charles Stan
ford, who has known Lemon for a
considerable time, and who saw him
late last fall as she was on her way
to Nenana from the lower Yukon.
Mrs. Stanford says that Lemon s
operating a trading post this winter j
about 100 miles from Andreafsky,
his nearest postoffice address. Last 1
summer he was engaged in fishing;
for the Carlisle cannery and cleaned j
up a tidy sum for his season’s work. j
He fished with one of the Govne j
boys.
in addition to telling The News;
about the missing man, Mrs. Stan
ford went to the trouble of writing
a letter to Lemon's sister, who made :
the inquiry.
Charles A. West, a Wrangell
wharfinger, suffered a severe injury j
recently when his leg was shattered j
Igy a bullet from the revolver of an i
Indian passenger on one of the boat= j
landing there. The revolver w-as in I
a suitcase, and when it was thrown
off on the dock it went off. the ball '
striking West, shattering the bone
of his leg, and probably necessitat
ing amputation.
Woodbury’s Facial Soap and otber
standard toilet soaps. Fowler &
Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Quigley return- j
ed to Nenana today after an ab
sence of several days in Fairbanks.
A. M. SMITH
FUR BUYER
WILL BE AT THE COONEY
HOTEL UNTIL JANUARY 2.
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For the Holidays
Lovera Nobles Cuesta Rey
Roi Tan Optimo Yukon
Cigar and Cigarette Holders and Cases
Also a Fine Display of Pipes
A Fine Assortment of Stationery in Boxes
AND
Imperial Candies in Baskets and Boxes
For Holiday Gifts
THE PORTLAND
O. M. JACKSON ALF EKELAND
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TIMES ARE GOOD
IN STATES, SAYS
RECENT ARRIVAL
Contrary to the general belief ir
Alaska, times are very good in the
[States, especially along the Pacific
coast, according to A. M. Smith
representative of the San Franeiscc
fur house of„Lievis & Co., who ar
rived in Nenana several days ago
enroute to the Arctic on a fur buy
ing expedition. “Conditions in Cali
fornia and elsewhere along the coast
are better now than I ever saw them
before," said Mr. Smith to a repre
sentative of The News, “and the
general belief is that things are
going to continue good for a long
time. It will be years, in my opin
ion, before the United States, and
the world generally, will catch up
with itself in production, and while
the demand for raw materials and
manufactured articles continues,
times are bound to continue pros
porous."
The wage earners of the States,
Mr. Smith says, are spending their
money like the old Klondikers, seem
ingly without a thought for the days
to come. They are making big mon
ey. but few of them are laying any
of it aside for future needs. They
buy the best, patronize the movies
and other forms of entertainment
liberally, and are usually broke when
payday comes around.
The so-called rich are the ones
who are doing the saving. At least
that is the way it appeared to Mr.
Smith, and he took careful note of
things during the several weeks he
was Outside.
There was some labor trouble on
the coast while he was there, but
less notice appeared to be taken of
it there than in the North, far re
moved from the strike centers.
Questioned regarding conditions
along l.:„ Alaska coast. Mr. Smitn
said that he stopped at most of the
towns and sized up things generally,
and it is his opinion that there are
just two towns worth mentioning at
this time. They are Ketchikan and
Petersburg, which he describes as
booming. There is considerable ac
tivity in the Portland Canal dis
district, and much talk about Hyder,
the new town on the American side
of the boundary, but most of the
people who contemplate locating
there are waiting for spring. Next
summer, he says, should witness a
big influx of people into that dis
trict, and the outlook for a big
camp, in his opinion, is very en
couraging.
Mr. Smith found Seward and An
chorage both rather quiet—“about
the same as Nenana” is the way he
expressed it. And this in spite of
the fact that there is a demand for
labor in the Anchorage division of
the Government railroad.
Mr. Smith is not a stranger in
Kenana. He was here three years
ago, having come to Nenana almost
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ADVERTISE
YOUR HOME TOWN
Your friends in the States will learn a
lot about Nenana and the Nenana dis
trict by reading the Development Num
ber of The Nenana Daily News. Give
us the addresses and we will do the
mailing. Ten copies for $1.50.
direct from a winter in the Arctic
regions. And he is an oldtimer in
the North, having first invaded the
fur country for the Hudson’s Bay
company about 35 years ago, since
which time he has spent just 20
weeks Outside. He spends most of
his time in the Arctic, but has, on
different occasions, visited every sec
tion of the Territory, and was in
business for a time on the lower
(Yukon. In his expeditions to the
| Far North he usually travels alone,
[experience having demonstrated to
j his satisfaction that he can make
j better time that way.
Asked regarding the quality of
:furs in Alaska, Mr. Smith gave it
[as his opinion that the upper Kan
itishna produces the best furs in
j Alaska, its only equal being a small
area in the Kobuk country. And
he says that he has found Nenana
! a veritable storehouse of furs, in
! spite of the fact that he was in
j formed that he would not be able
i to do much business here. He ha?
'already bought pelts valued at more
[than 81.500, and expects to make
I many additional purchases before he
I leaves toward the end of the present
week.
Like the Hudson’s Bay company,
the concern with which Mr. Smith
is identified maintains large trading
posts in various sections of the coun
try. one of the largest of which is
at Point Barrow—a regular depart
ment store, where the natives may
secure everything they need in the
way of food, clothing, house fur
nishings, and fuel. And the natives
of that district are very prosperous,
he says, their homes comparing very
favorably with those of their white
brothers in Alaskan towns. The
houses are clean, well furnished,
and well stocked with provisions,
with usually a substantial reserve of
furs for a bad season. In a num
ber of the cabins, Mr. Smith found
furs valued at $1,000 or more.
Mr Smith is making his head
quarters at the Cooney hotel during
his stay in Nenana.
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Today’s train from the upper
town brought twenty-six passengers
for Nenana.
Kenan?.. Alaska’! Interior Pnel Depot
WOOD
Sawing
ICE and EXPRESS
CYRIELE YERHAEGHE
OFFICE AT
THE TERMINAL
If Comfort, Economy and the
Environments of Home
Appeal to You,
STOP AT THE
MONTANA
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH.
MRS. BERT JOHNSON
Proprietress
Northern Commercial
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At a meeting of the council at i
Juneau recently a resolution was
passed providing that no vessel
should remain moored to the city j
float for a longer period than 30 j
hours. The city has been bothered j
a great deal by boat owners at- j
tempting to lay their boats up for j
the winter at the float.
Horlick ( Malted Milk. Fowler & '
Morris.
SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
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Celebrate the New Year
IN NENANA
WITH THE MOOSE
Third Annual
MASK BALL
NEW YEAR’S EVE
Special Train from Fairbanks
DECEMBER 31
Returning January 1
Round Trip Fare, $3.75
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The Last Word in
STATIONERY
LINEAL WEAVE
IN ALL THE DIFFERENT TINTS NOW SO
POPULAR ON THE OUTSIDE.
HARRY DAVIS
THE TERMINAL
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