The Change In Prices Is
DOWNWARD
We Have the Goods
Complete Assortment of
Standard Quality
Merchandise
and We are Selling Goods at
Low Prices
Fairbanks Clothing: Co.
NENANA AND FAIRBANKS
For Printing and Developing *ee
Mr*. C. W. Adam*.
HOUSE
Clean and Comfortable
ROOMS
by the
DAY, WEEK AND MONTH
Mrs. Carl Eriksson
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PRIVATE BOXES
JOHN KETOOROKY
Proprietor.
Acting Postmaster Williams has
been directed to ask for bids for
a winter mail sendee between Ne
nana and Kantishna, beginning Nov
ember and ending April 30. Two
forms of proposals are wanted, one
for two round trips a month, with
a limit of 200 pounds, and the
other for one round trip a month,
with a limit of 400 pounds per trip
each way. Bids must state the rate
per round trip and must be in the
hands of the local postmaster by
July 1. The Kantishna mail was
carried by C. H. Calhoun last winter.
Life Insurance is a saving, not an
expense. It is sure to mature and it
makes splendid returns on the
amount deposited. Policies which
mature in their early years pay from
500% to 5,000% on the premiums
paid. Policies which mature even
after 50 years pay a wonderful rate
of interest when the protection is
figured. See R. S. McDonald, New
York Life Insurance Company egent.
Will Leave Seattle May 25
WILL MAKE PURCHASES FOR
PEOPLE OF NENANA AND FAIR
BANKS FOR DELIVERY ON
FIRST BOAT DOWN YUKON.
Address FRYE HOTEL, Seattle.
We make a specialty of
Quality Goods
at Right Prices
General Merchandise Outfitting
FAMOUS BUDWEISER BEER
JOHNSON’S STORE - FRONT STREET
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Reduced To
Half Price
Outing -Flannels
Dress Serge
Ginghams
Shirting
Burlap
Men’s Sport Negligee Shirts
Northern Commercial Co.
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A gang of men under Foreman
\TanBibber are making repairs to
the bridge which spans Deadmans
slough, on the Nenana-Fa’rbanks
division of the Government rail
road. Piles are being driven to re
place the seven bents taken cut
during the breakup Passengers are
transferred across the slough by
boat.
Reports from the lower river
state tha^ a number of cabins own
ed by natives, at the mouth of the
Tolovana river, about to fall into
the Tanana river, as the result of
bank erosion. The high bank is be
ing undermined rapidly by the swift
Tanana current and will soon reach
the Vachon warehouse, which must
be moved to be saved.
The weekly force report of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission for
the period ending May 14, shows a
total of 640 on the payrolls in the
Northern division and, in addition,
344 stationmen and 43 stationmen
laborers, making a grand total of
1,027 for the division.
Mail Carrier Carl White arrived
from Fairbanks this morning, en
route to the Tolovana with mail,
passengers and considerable freight.
More freight will be loaded on ar
rival of the train from the south
this afternoon and the voyage will
be resumed this evening. The trip
is being made by launch but upon
arrival at the mouth of the Tolo
vana river the steamer Carl White
will be placed in commission and
will be used on the run between
Tolovana and Fairbanks, connecting
with launches on the upper Tolo
vana. The through passengers on
the launch include Internal Revenue
Agent V. E. Crocker, Billy Mahan,
G. A. McQuarrie and Miss Myers.
The steamer Tanana is scheduled
to sail from Fairbanks tomorrow or
Monday with members of the court
party who will go to Iditarod for
a term of Court. Judge Bunnell is
already in the Iditarod, having gone
down river over the ice several
weeks ago to attend to matters in
connection with the changing of
the boundaries of the Second, Third
and Fourth divisions.
Internal Revenue Agents V. E.
Crocker and W. D. Peck, who ar
rived from the coast by way of the
Broad Pass trail several weeks ago,
will take passage on the steamer
Tanana next week, headed for Idit
arod and Nome. Mr. Crocker will
leave for the Tolovana but will re
turn in time to make connections
w'ith the Tanana. Mr. Peck will
board the steamer at Fairbanks.
Axel Hedlund and L. Olson left
for the Tolovana yesterday by
launch.
The Alaska Road Commission is
advertising for from four to ten
teams of horses, with drivers, for
use in grading operations.
There is a report in circulation
in Fairbanks to the effect that Ike
P. Taylor, formerly of the railroad
engineering forces, with headquart
ers at Nenana, is coming North, this
summer to work for the Alaska
Road Commission.
Agent J. A. Fairborn, of the
Fairbanks office of the American
Yukon Navigation Company, sailed
on the steamer Alaska yesterday
afternoon. He will act as purser
until the regular crew is picked up
at Tanana. Mr. Fairborn came down
from Fairbanks yesterday and will
return on the first boat up river.
Mrs. F. D. Browne, who came in
from Healy on Thursday, left for
Fairbanks yesterday.
Representatives P. J. Ricksrt and
H. H. Ross, who arrived from the
coast this week, lift for Fairbanks
on the train leaving yesterday.
Ed Head came in yesterday from
the A. E. C. sawmill near Dunbar.
CANYON NOTES
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Engineer in Charge Fred’k D.
j Chairman Mears, who is enroute
' to the Interior, having left Anchor
age yesterday.
Mail Superintendent Dan Leech
arrived at-Camp 314 last night en
route to Healy.
Charles Wheeler has accepted a
position with the A. E. C., and will
! Resident Engineer Roy Hersh
berger, of Camp 344, went to the
j Abbott camp, at 327 on Wednesday
to take charge until another engineer
: is sent to that camp.
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Traffic has been resumed on the
\ Anchorage-Hurricane Gulch line, re
1 pairs having been made to the line
where the washout occurred several
days ago. The first train was sent
over the repaired line yesterday.
^ There is no^mail on the trail at
the present time, owing to the in
^ terruption in rail communication be
j tween Anchorage and the end of
' steel at Hurricane Gulch.
Browne has left Healy to meet
1 be stationed at Camp 327.
CANYON ENGINEERS RESIGN;
KESTLY TAKES CAMP 344
Arrivals in town from the can
| yon district bring the report that a
general reorganization of engineer
ing forces is in progress, made
1 necessary by the resignation first, of
i Resident Engineer George Abbott,
■ at Camp 327, and his assistant,
Frank Nash, and later by the resig
1 nation of Resident Engineer Roy
1 Hershberger, at Camp 344. En
! gineer Hershberger has not yet
1 left the service of the Commission
’ but it is said that it is his intention
to do so as soon as a man is sent
to relieve him.
The report is that all the trouble
I resulted from the loss of several
I tons of explosive on the Abbott
residency, which was set off by a
rock from a nearby blast. This ex
plosive—three tons of TNT, dyna
mite and black powder—belonged
to Radovich & Co., stationmen, and
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, had been cached near their camp
at Camp 327. The rock which
caused the explosion is said to have
’ come from a blast set off by the
road gang, working close by. It is
also said that the explosion injured
two men and completely wrecked
the camp of Radovich & Co.
, Engineer Abbott, on whose resi
dency the exlosion occurred, is said
to have attempted to protect the
contractors by insisting that the
Alaskan Engineerin Commission
stand the loss, whereas Engineer in
Charge Brown held that the con
. tractors should stand the loss for
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the reason that the explosive had
not been properly covered. The
argument, The News is informed,
resulted in Abbott quitting, follow
ed by his assistant.
After Abbott has resigned, orders
are said to have been sent to En
gineer Hershberger to take charge
of the Abbott residency, turning
his own residency over to Resident
Engineer J. J. Kestly, who has
been stationed during the past year
or more at Camp 356, where the!
work is now near completion, while
the Hershberger residency will be
one of the last to be finished.
I Engineer Hershberger is report
ed to have objected to the transfer
and to have announced it as his in
tention to leave the employ of the
j commission as soon as he is re
lieved. In the meantime, however,
he is in temporary charge at Camp
327.
Arrivals from the canyon also
i report that Engineer Kestly is
1 slated for appointment as engineer
of maintenance as soon as steel is
connected.
J. R. Fowle, of the Fairbanks
Clothing Company, came down from ;
Fairbanks yesterday on a brief busi
j ness visit. He is a guest at the
“Southern.
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Sea The News for Carbon paper.
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| Furnishings |
| $40 Suits now selling at $25 | <
jj Highest grade hand-tailored suits B
g $12.50 Single Trousers, Best Worsted $9.50 8
8 0.50 Single Trousers, special, . . 3.50 J
| John B. Stetson Hats at . . 5.00 8
8 Caps, best grades, now . . 1.50 8
g Union Suits, worth $9 now . . 5.00 5
ij 6.50 Suits of Pajamas at . . 3.50 B
g 0.50 medium weight Flannel shirts, 2.20 M
g 14.00 Fine Dress Shoes now 7.50 B
g Overalls, No. 1 Levi Strauss, . 2.00 g
g Khaki Pants, Carhartt’s best, . 2.50 1
g Mammoth Mitts at 1.50 and 1.00 B
g Lisle Sox, brown and black, . .25 M
8 Engineer’s Bib Overalls . . 1.50 |
g Medium weight good wool sox, .50 M
Blue Wrist canvas gloves, . . .25 8 4
Brown wrist canvas gloves, 3 pr., 50 M
H White Handkerchiefs, 2 for 25c M
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