THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application mane April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for curry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streeta. Nenana. Alaska
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WHAT AILS ALASKA
Maladministration of Alaskan af
fairs due to unworkable laws, mis
conceived ideas and decentralized
control, bar the development and
utilization of the Territory’s re
sources, says the American Mining
Congress Journal. With its popula
tion steadily declining and industri
al progress at a standstill, the situa
tion is one which demands the appli
cation of drastic remedies. Lack of
a responsible local government own
ership, restrictive leasing laws, con
flicing administrative authority, and
failure to coordinate governmental
functions are contributing factors to
the unfortunate lethargy which now
grips this great Territory.
Ketchikan’s two leading instru
mental musical organizations, the
Community Orchestra and the City
Band, have voted to join in the
nation-wide movement for the ad
vancement of music, by joining the
National Federation of Music Clubs.
This movement for the promotion
of music has taken rapid strides
since the advent of the radio, and
many hundreds of music clubs have
recently enrolled in the national or
ganization.
FOREST SERVICE SHIPS
CEDAR FOR EXPERIMENT
The local office of the U. S. For
est Service has sent 300 board feet
of clear Alaska cedar to the Madi
son Wood Testing Laboratory of the
Forest Service, at Madison, Wiscon
sin, to be used in painting and
varnishing experiments, according
to B. F. Heintzleman, Assistant Dis
trict Supervisor.
The wood, which has great pos
sibilities for furniture manufacture,
has been found not to retain paint
and varnish very well, when ordi
nary methods are used and the
laboratory will seek the kinds of
paints and varnishes and the meth
ods which are most satisfactory to
it, Mr. Heintzleman said.
Walter E. Mason, a merchant of
Kelawik. died of heart failure of
the sixteenth of the month. He is
known as the jade king of the Ko
buk and was buried on the banks
of the river by the same name, be
s>?ide the grave of an Eskimo boy
who saved his life years ago.
The little steamer Nenana, which
went into winter quarters down the
river last fall, was brought into port
last week by Jack Bailey and Chas.
Smith and now is tied up on the
Nenana waterfront.
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MAY AID FARMERS
The Federal Farm Loan Board is
sending investigators to Alaska to
find out the requirements and facili
ties to take care of the loan policy
in this Territory, according to ad
vices received at Juneau recently,
says the Empire. If the findings are
satisfactory the Board will make
necessary arrangements which will
make it possible for the farmers in
Alaska to borrow money to purchase
equipment and other necessary sup
plies for their industry.
If after investigating it is de
cided that fox farming and reindeer
grazing come within the scope of
the act, the fox farmers operating
in the Territory will be able to get
money.
It is not known how' soon the in
vestigators will come to Alaska.
UPPER YUKON DAM PROJECT
FEASIBLE SAYS ENGINEER
J. P. Forde. Canadian govern
ment engineer, who has been on a
tour of the Lake Tagish district,
where he inspected the reservoir
dam proposition under contempla
tion by the White Pass & Yukon
raiway. announced, recently, upon
his return to Skagway, that in his
opinion the plan is feasible and will
prove surprisingly inexpensive when
compared with benefits to be
derived.
According to Mr. Forde. the
scheme of the comany will render
available sufficient water at White
horse to permit navigation opening
by May 1, of each year and enable
vessels to play waters of the Yukon
for about three weeks later in the
season making a total season more
than a month longer than at present
STEAMER PIONEER IN
The steamer Pioneer, Captain
George Black, arrived from the Kan
tishna district Sunday afternoon.
The boat took in a load of gen
eral freight and Alaska Road Com
mission supplies, and returned with
several passengers. Bob Elli and
Walter Forrest made the trip to
Roosevelt and French John and Dan
Winquist were picked up along the
river.
Captain Black does not know what
his next move will be but thinks
it probable he will make a trip to
Fairbanks with his boat within the
next few days.
Dry Officer Seneff came down
from Fairbanks yesterday in a gas
boat, and continued on down river
on an official trip. He was joined
by Deputy Marshal Hagan at Nenana
SHIP ALASKA FURS QUICK!
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick
sale at present high prices. Money sent same day ship*
ment comes in—cash, draft or money order, whichever
you want. ACT NOW—if you have one skin or a
hundred. Ship to us at once.
Fouke Fur Cd.
BuiE2mcE ST. LOUIS, MO. -
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
BALLAINE MAKES OBJECTION
TO APPOINTMENT OF JOSLIN
John E. Ballaine. of Seattle and
Alaska, recently addressed the fol
lowing letter to Frank Waterhouse,
president of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, making vigorous pro
test against the selection of Falcon
Joslin as a member of the Seattle
committee to meet President Hard
ing when he arrives from the East
next month on his way to Alaska.
Mr. Frank Waterhouse, President,
Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
Seattle, Wash.
Dear Sir: Mr. Falcon Joslin is
among the men appointed by you
as a reception committee to enter
tain the president and his official
party on their arrivals in Seattle, en
route to Alaska, according to an
nouncements in the newspapers.
I have no word to say against
Mr. Joslin personally but I trust I
may say with propriety that his
appointment on such a committee
might naturally cause very grave
misapprehensions and misunder
standings over the country generally
and innocently place the president
in a prejudicial light in his announc
ed purpose to investigate conditions
in Alaska impartially.
Mr. Joslin has ^>een for many
years the lobbyist in Alaska and in
Washington, D. C.. for the Morgan
Guggenheim interests in Alaska, in
cluding their Alaska Steamship com
pany, of which he is a director, or
was at last accounts, and of their
Bering River Coal company, of
which he is president, or was at
last acounts. In hearings before
the senate committee on territories
18 months ago, it was proven that
Mr. Joslin operating behind the
mask of the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, was
responsible for the bill then pending
in congress, known as the Alaska
board bill, by which all public prop
erty of every kind in Alaska—gold,
silver, copper, lead, timber, fisher
ies, agricultural and grazing lands,
the Alaska railroad, all inclusive—
was to be transferred to this board,
the members to be appointed by the
president, but to be virtually im
mune from removal, with full and
unrestricted authority to sell such
property at any price, in the board’s
discretion
As one who helped to defeat the
pernicious measure in the commit
tee hearings, in co-operation with
Delegates Dan Sutherland and At
torney General John Rustgard of
Alaska, I am in a position to say
that the impression it created on
the minds of the committee and
on the minds of other high officials
ir Washington, was that it consti
tuted an attempt at legislated au
thority for graft on the most gi
gantic 'Scale known in many years.
The use that was then made of the
name, of the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce as
the ostensible sponsor of that bill
inflicted an injury on the standing
and influence of the Seattle Cham
ber of commerce in Washington
from which it has not yet recovered.
The fact that the Alaska bureau
was abolished in consequence of
others of like nature does not im
prove conditions if the president of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
now appoints the author of that
bill on a committee to entertain the
president.
This is but one of many instances
of Mr. Joslin’s work in Alaska
and in Washington, D. C., which
make his appointment on such a
committee unfair to the president,
unfair to Seattle and unfair to
Alaska.
You may recall that when Secre
taries Payne and Daniels, of the
interior and the navy departments,
passed thru Seattle en route to
Alaska in 1920, they declined to ac
cept the hospitality of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce. That action
by them might conceivably establish
a precedent.
Yours very truly,
JOHN E. BALLAINE
C. W. Felch, well known travel
ing man returned to Nenana last
week from a trip down the river.
SPEEL RIVER PULP MILL
NOW RUNNING AT TOP SPEED
With three shifts working pro
duction of pulp at the Speel River
plant of the Alaska Pulp and Paper
Company has been boosted to 40j
tons daily, according to Manager
Wr. P. Lass, who was in Juneau re-!
cently. Six hundred tons of pulp
are stored on the docks at the plant
awaiting shipment to southern mills,
Mr. Lass’ trip to Juneau being to
arrange for transportation.
The quality of the company’s pro
duce continues to be maintained at
i a high standard, said Mr. Lass. Re
cent shipments aggregating 1,000
tons made to California mills were
reported by them to be the finest
they had ever handled. All of the
mills who have handled it, he said,
i
have praised it highly.
Demand for labor throughout the ;
district has been so heavy that it i
has been with difficulty that the
' company has been able to keep its
shifts full and it was only by
combing the district that it has
been able to put on three shifts.
The third shift was made possible, I
said Mr. Lass, by pupils from the
Sheldon Jackson school at Sitka
Who were secured by Hiim. Several
' students from colleges on the Pa
cific coast have been employed for
the season and will arrive at the
plant in the near future.
“We have plenty of power, lots
of logs, men enough to keep grind
ing continuously, the plant is in
fine shape. All we want now is the
'transportation companies to ke^ep
our docks clear,” said Mr. Lass. The
1 Curaco, Admiral Line freighter, will
J call at Speel River southbound and
take on a cargo already on hand.
Mr. Lass returned to the plant this
' afternoon.
Fred W. Carter, one of the best
! known and most popular of old
i time Nome residents, and later may
: or of Fairbanks, where he lived
‘ for several years, is now a mem
ber of the sale force of Ewing &
Clark, the big real estate dealers.
Mr. Carter is stopping at the Se
ward Hotel. Of course, Fred had
! to have an Alaska atmosphere about
him, hence he took a position with
the two sourdoughs who compose
the real estate firm.
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The following have been named
! officers of the Cordova Chamber of
| Commerce for the next year: Presi
i dent. George C. Hazalet; vice-presi
dent, Caleb Corser; secretary, Ed
ward F. Madley; treasurer, John
Muller; executive committee, Nath
ahiel Greene, T. J. Donchie, Charles
J. Goodall, A. J. Adams, Caleb Cors
c-r, James L. Galen and Harry G.
' Steel.
Deputy Marsha! Fred E. Handy
of Ketchikan, and Captain Nelson of
the Coast Guard cutter Smith raid
ed the Loring cannery crew recent
ly, with the result that they brought
back some packages of opium, mor
phine and a large quantity of mau
rana. a Mexican drug which is not
included in the list of narcotics
acts but which is said to have “an'
awful kick.” One of the character
istics of the latter drug is that the
user of it will always consider him
self a far better fighter than Jack
Dempsey.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT
In the probate court for the Terri-;
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division.;
Nenana, Precinct.
In the matter of the Estate of
Clara Allred, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
undersigned has filed his final Ac
count as Administrator of the above
entitled estate, and has petitioned for
distribution, and the Court has fixed
Friday June 29th, 1923 at the hour
of 2:00 p. m. of said day, at the
Court room of said Court in Ne
nana, Alaska as the time and place
for hearing same, and any persons
having any objection thereto should
file same on or before said date.
E. T. SULLIVAN
Administrator
Qg?3 Writing paper at The New*
Alaska Steamship Co.
SAFETY SPEED SERVICE
TESSGL Lv. Seattle Lr. Seward Lv. Ancfc.
VICTORIA ' May 19 May 26
ALAMEDA _.___ May 26 .Tune 1 June 2
NORTHWESTERN ..June 2 June 9
ALASKA June 9 June 16
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Agent, Seward, Ala.ka Agent. Anchorage
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ANCHORAGE
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
Remco Redwood Stave
WATER & MINING TANKS SILOS HYDRAULIC PIPE
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WANT ADS
WANTED—Chiffonier. News Of
fice
FOUND—One key. Loser can re
cover same by calling at News Office
LOST—Bunch of keys. Finder
please leave at Depot.
MINING GROUND FOR SALE—
Group of three claims (placer) on
Glacier Creek, Kantishna district.
Nos. 17,18 and 19. (No. 17 worked
out.) Shallow ground, from six
inches to five feet to bedrock.
Coarse gold. Automatic dam, boxes,
tools, complete camp outfit. For
furthers particulars inquire at New?
Office.
FOR SALE—Sewing Machine.
Morris chair, cooking utensils. See
Chas. E. Bergman.
FOR SALE—Two first-class pack
horses, known as Kennedy stock.
Black weighs 1200, gray 1350. In
quire of Anthony Letray.
FOR SALE—3 room residence furn
rished—Cheap—Inquire News Office
“EVERYBODY can buy groceries,
‘eed and supplies WHOLESALE.
rV'rite for free pricelist. Peoples
Grocery. 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
PEOPLES GROCERY COMPANY
'^BILL OF~~SALE~~blanks for" sale
it The News Office.
ORDER YOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
.PHONE YOUR ORDERS
.. TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
Trappers Traders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE NEW YORK
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
I ...— iiiiiim wiwrrngwrai^wMM— iw^
» Mrs. Ed Brooker came in from the
Kantishna district last week, having
made the trip from Roosevelt aboard
the Mai! boat Mutt.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Nenana as
j follows:
■ 11.35 p. m. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points
Returning arrives Nenana 11:20
1 a. m. same days.
|5:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chataniaa
Arrives Nenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
“Trains both north and south
bound stop over night at Curry
' where excellent hotel facilities are
available for the public.
River steamers leave Nenana ev
ery Wednesday at 10:00 a. ra. for
points down riv'er to Holy Cross and
Connecting with gas launch at lat
ter point for St. Michael. Arrive Ne
nana every Monday or Tuesday.”
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Andy’s Express
— AT —
Seward
Will Give Your
BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT
Careful Attention
MEETS ALL TRAINS
AND BOATS
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghexxi
Secretary.
R. C. Morris.
Prexideat.