Buy Your Winter Clothing Now
If you are hard to fit and think that you must have
your Suits made t.o order, try a
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
Suit or Overcoat
This firm makes Clothing for the Stout, Slim, Short or
tall, as well as Regular size persons.
Prices $25 and up
Men’s Cloth and Fur-Lined Overcoats, with Beaver
Collars .$45.00
Fur Caps in Beaver, Australian O’Possum and
Mink .,. 5-00
Extra Beaver Collars . 15.00
Waterproof Mackinaws and Stag Shirts . 6.50
New Shipment of Suitcloth Shirts just arrived
Heavy All-Wool Shirts . 3.75
Medium Weight Medlicott Underwear, a suit ... 4.75
Fine Wool Union Suits, per suit . 3.50
Heaviest Best Grade Medlicott, a suit . 5.50
Hand Sewed Mocassins, Teamsters’ Outside and In
side Gloves, Arctics, Felt and Sheepskin Socks, Canadi
an Blue Heel Sox, Rope Sox, Home Knit and Cashmere
Sox, Heavy All-Wool Chippewa Pants and Overshirts are
now on display.
Flannelette Night Shirts and Pajamas ..S 1.00 up
All Wool Extra Heavy Sweater Coats . 9.50
Part Wool Sweater Coats . 3.50
Genuine Eisendrath Mammoth Mitts, a pair . 1.25
Heavy Wool Sox . .50
Medium Weight Sox . .23
12 Inch Rubber Shoepacs, with Heels, a pair . ..4.50
Eiderdown Comforters in all sizes from 6x7 to 9x912
Priced from . 15.00
Blankets in all weights, including the Government
Blanket .. 4.50
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THE LAST WEEK
25% Off
on all our
Ladies* Hats
New Fur Hats are on display now.
Now is the time to buy your Fur
Coats, Muffs, Stoles and Caps to
match.
New Dresses will be
on Monday.
on display
C-B, La Spirite, R & 0 and Mad
am Binner Corsets, to fit amv figure.
Notions, Crochet Cotton, Snappers,
Elastic, Thread, etc.
Children’s Strong Stockings
Ladies’ Home Journal Patterns
New Dishes in
more pieces.
Our Stock of Ladies’ and Child
ren’s Underwear and Hosiery is
now competel.
Dancing Pumps and all kinds of
Street Shoes are awaiting your in
spection.
Silks, including Taffetas, Mesca
lines, Novelty Crepes, Novelty Silk,
Silk Stripe Shirting, Chambray,
Black Amo Silk Eiderdown Cloth,
White Flannel, Seed Voiles, Figur
ed Lawns, Linen Lawn, Handker
chief Linen, Long Cloth, Daisy Cloth
White and Figured, Dotted Swiss,
Gauze, Satin in all colors, Yard-Wide
Percales, Silk and Velvet Ribbon.
Burlap, Wool Batting, Cheese
Cloth. House Lining, White Fleisch
ers Yarn.
Sets of 50 or
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SIMSON’S DEPARTMENT STORE
The Home of Hart Scliaffner CD. Marx Good Clothes
HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS
THE SKOF HOUSE
Market Street at Second
Comfortable Rooms Spring Beds
Clean Bunks
EVERYTHING NEW and CLEAS
Dr. H. L. Hedger
DENTIST
Has secured offices in the New
York Block and will be ready
for business about October 14.
COONEY HOTEL
.
REASONABLE
COMFORTABLE
CENTRAL
NENANA BEANERY
Cold Lunches, Hot Tamales
Chile Beans
SERVED 10 A. M. TO 2 A. M.
Tom Monagon
BROOKER’S
CAFE and
BAKERY
YOU'LL LIKE THE PLACE
FOR.
BARGAINS
IN
Pants
GO TO
Paul Lescure’s
CABIN LOGS for sale—Set j
of 56 for cabin 20x24. Inquire ;
Jack Me vers, at Mike's Place.!
! “Butternut”
We want you to give our Bread
atrial. When you h&ve tried Tav
ern “Butternut” you will not be sat
isfied with any other.
The Tavern
PERSONAL MENTION
Immigration Inspector Wells is
authority for the statement that
Chas. Lester will soon be sent Out
side for deportation. The inspector
was to have taken Lestor out several
weeks ago, but the needed authority
had not been received at that time
and Wells has since returned to his
headquarters at Eagle.
Postmaster Love has returned
from Fairbanks, after an absence
of several days in the upper town.
While absent Mrs. Love attended
the wedding of her son, Max, to
Miss Lucille Latimer. She also se
cured her final citizenship papers.
Miss Katherine Wagner, who came
to Alaska this season to take sub
scriptions and gather material for
a Seattle mining publication, has
accepted a position as reporter on
the Fairbanks Citizen.
The Tanana Sheet Metal works
is installing a heating plant in the ,
Tom Smith block, which will be'
known hereafter as the The South
ern, that being the name selected
by Mr. Smith for his hotel building.
Percy Blanchfield, former Fair
banks school boy, is reported to have
been killed during recent action in
France. He was fighting with the
British forces.
Manager Isador Stein, of the
steamer Teddy H. paid Nenana a
brief visit this week, having made
the trip down from Chena on his
craft.
A number of business houses a
long A street have installed storm
sash during the week, in anticina- j
tion of a decline in the tempera
ture.
Jack Singleton is a recent arrival
in town from out the line. He has
accepted a position with the Alaskan
Engineering commission at the mess
house.
The petit jury will report to the
court at Fairbanks on Monday morn
ing. i
End of the Season
in Up-River Camp
Our “moon dopesters” predicted
this ideal Indian summer weather,
right in the face of that snow storm,
nearly a month ago (where did they
get that stuff?), and they persisted,
notwithstanding the fact that all
ordinary signs ami indications ap
parent to the sourdough, pointed
to the probability that old Jack
Frost was deliberately tightening
up for 1917—and skeptics in plenty
laughed at the profits.
The Chena river is lower now
than at any time within the memory
of our oldest inhabitants— right
under the bridge one could make it
in two “yumps." The water is very
clear—obviously the Xanana river
also must he low, its whitish, silty
glaeiar water being absent. Neither
the Julia B nor the Minneapolis
can get to the ways at Chena this
fall, something unheard of hereto
fore. The two boats will be compell
ed to winter it Steamboat slough,
below Chena, as steamboats di 1 of
yore when there was doubt regard
ing the future of “Alaska’s Golden
Heart.”
Our Alaska railroad suburb,
Garden Island, presents an animated
and cheerful scene these days, which
even the sombre appearance of our
new steel bridge (now painted black
black) can’t dispel. The shore re
sembles the busy Xenana waterfront,
for all along the gravel beach and
under the bridge are strewn logs,
piling and tie timbers, just driven
down from Contractor Banks’ log
ging camp on the Little Chena riven
The old red, two-story depot is be
ing entirely renovated, inside and
out, with a covering of new board
ing and a new roof. There is also
a new platform (O, bountiful Uncle
Sam), and across the tracks, at the
long freight shed, truckers are trans
ferring D. C. and White Pass freight
brought as far as Chena (the old
head of navigation) by the steamers
Julia B, Yukon and Alaska.
The last boat for the Outside
left here crowded with oldtimers;
auto stages are leaving almost daily.
One bunch of Russians are contem
plating the purchase of a Ford to
take them over the trail and reports
state that many are mushing out,
to more hospitable climes, Still, there
is no appreciable decrease in the
population. From every point of the
compass, throughout the surround
ing country, old familiar faces are
re-appearing on the streets and
numerous chechacos are here from
Nenana. Quite a bunch of Tolovana
ites got in on the train a week ago
from Brooks and report the Olnes
trail in good condition for mushing.
Olnes-Brooks winter freighters say
that, owing to the good stage of
water in the Tolovana river during
the past several weeks, not much
freight will be taken over the trail
this winter.
The big caribou run across the
head of the Big Chena must have
been split somehow this fall, for
a large number of the animals, in
small bands, are reported from all
directions, and many have been kill
ed close to town. One was shot a
few days ago by Roy Rutherford,
at the Independent mill and a couple
almost collided with Cris Laured
son, as he sped out the Valdez trail
on his motorcycle. The animlas v* :i‘fc
encountered about eighten miles out
from town, appearing on the trail
between Lauredson and Freighter
Johnny Burns. The surprised men
were not looking for anything like
that, but Bums had a little, old .22
in his wagon and Cris held the
team while the freighter took a
shot at the leisurely caribou, who
paid little heed to the little rabbit
gun. They were not even disturbed
by the noisy smelly motorcycle.
Another beautiful home will be
added to the many already here.
Arthur Williams has nearly finished
•his fine residence next to the
court of the Fairbanks Tennis club,
on the comer of Cowles and Fifth.
The old Gibson block, on Front
street, has been entirely transformed
into one of the finest stores north
of 52. The entire front is plate
glass.
Mining in the Fairbanks district is
rather quiet. The open cuts on Pe
dro and Goldstream are still sluicing,
but there is little other mining in
progress. Considerable restaking has
been going on quietly of late, on
lower Goldstream and also on Sheep,
Spinach and Moose creeks. It was
reported that Walter Fisher, who
has been prospecting extensively
with a Keystone drill, below the
mouth of Nuggget, had struca pu/
on the wide flats there.
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COLISEUM
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PROGRAM FOR SUNDA Y
Triangle Kay-Bee
Hell’s Hinges
Featuring
WILLIAM S. HART and CLARA WILLIAMS
FIVE THRILLING PARTS
Show will be repeated on Monday
SHOW ST A UTS AT S:30 SIIAI.T
Hen. Admission, *»0r. Reserved Seats, 7,v.
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Official notification Pi the an; r >v
11 of the new ro\ act uti.i re
ceived during the we.k from t olkc
l r of Internal Revere Dicid .1
Williams, of Tacoma and rs. ti-v
served upon all dealers in cigars
and tobacco in Xenana to comply
with the new law. which became
operative on October 3 The notices
were -erved by Corn, cscrnlaml, offi
cer in charge of th> local corps
station, through whic.i office the
instructions were received.
The notice states that all Alaska
tax nayers, in order to be in a
position to comply with tit ? new
revenue act of October M, 1017
must make comp'ete inventories of
all stocks of alcoholic l'quoro, i< br.c
co, snuff, cigars and cigarettes, the
inventories to include nil stock on
hand on October 4. The penalty for
failure to comply with the law is a
fine not to exceed $1000, or impris
onment, or both. Fifteen of the
notices were sei’ved In Xenana.
As a result of the enforcement
of the act, liquor dealers cf Fair
banks have advanced the price of all
liquors, whiskey having been boosted
$2 per gallon. Barthel bear is now
quoted at $19 per barrel, an ad
vance of $1. Keg beer has been
raised $2 per barrel.
Mrs. Ed. Lund is at the Commis
sion hospital, where she underwent
a minor operation several days ago.
WANTED
TO PUT
WATCHES
IN
FIRST CLASS ORDER
JEWELRY REPAIRING
and ENGRAVING
Wm. TAYLOR
Store next to Mike’s Restaurant
Go to
NELSON’S
for your
SHOES
and Shoe Repairing'
TRAVEL
on the Launch
SIWASH
Warm and Comfortable
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERIES
DRV GOODS
COMPLETE LINE LOWEST PRICES
THE MAIL ORDER HOUSE
OE THE NORTH
Everything in Groceries, Feed, Tobacco, Cigars, Hardware
Tools, Building Material, Electrical Supplies, House
hold Utensils, Overalls, Tents, Mattresses, Blankets, ete.
A Complete Stock of General Supplies, including
the Famous Mishawaka Rubber Boots and Shoes
Corona Typewriters, Dodge Bros. Automobiles
Special Attention Given to Mail and Telegraphic Orders
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
Fairbanks Chena
When In Fairbanks
Drink BARTHEL S Beer
The Best Made
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