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
i
For Printing and Developing see
Mrs. C. W. Adams.
HOUSE
Clean and Comfortable
ROOMS
by the
DAY, WEEK AND MONTH
Mrs. Carl Eriksson
NOW
CENTRAL CAFE I
I FIRST CLASS \
in Every Respect k
PRIVATE BOXES f
JOHN KETOOROKY $
Proprietor. i
2
The fire loss sustained by W. A.
Coghill, in February, has been set
tled in full by the companies with
which Mr, Coghill was insured. The
j last payment arrived this week, from
;a New York company, and was
j turned over to Mr. Coghill by R.
S. McDonald, local agent through !
whom the insurance was placed.
An Arizona blacksmith is the in
ventor of an expanding drill to bore
tapering holes in rocks to increase
the effectiveness of blasting powder.
Two Italian aviators have equip- j
: ped a boat with a sail which re
| sembles an umbrella but is made in
j two sections that open and close like
, a fan.
Life Insurance provides a sinking !
| fund to educate children to grasp j
business or other opportunities; to
| insure independence in old age. See j
R. S. McDonald, New York Life In- i
; sura nee Agent.
George Anderson
Piano Expert
! and Factory Representative ..for
| High Grade Pianos, will be in Ne
j nana and. Fairbanks this Summer.
Expert work guaranteed. Home ad
1 dress, Juneau.
We make a specialty of
Quality Goods
at Right Prices
General Merchandise Outfitting
FAMOUS BUDWE1SER BEER
JOHNSON'S STORE - FRONT STREET
. . ===t
i
I Men’sDrwl!kJShoes
Men’sDr$i,Td Shirts
Men’s Hats j Caps
Children’s Shoes
are selling at reduced prices
GARDEN SEEDS
Northern Commercial Co.
i .—
************ *****
MORE OR LESS NEWS
mtKKXtOtKRRItttllRItatlt
The rail barge of the A. Y. X,
company, which was sunk in front
of the Casey warehouse during the
breakup, broke away later while be
ing moved to a new position, anil
lodged on a bar a short distance
below town.
The local po9toffice has been ad
vised that the mails which left Xe
nana on April 16, 20 and 23, ar
rived at Seattle yesterday.
Billy Ford left for the lower
river this afternoon with a con
signment of mail for lower river
points. There is a jam in the river
at Tolovana, but it is thought that
it will not delay the mail long.
The Bank of Anchorage was held
up by a lone bandit this week and
relieved of $2,500, according to rc
pors which have reached Xenanu
from the coast town. The two em
ployes of the bank who were on
duty at the time the robbery oc
curred, a young lady and one of
the men clerks, were backed into
the vault by the bandit and the door
closed upon them and locked. The
bandit then leisurely helped himself
to al] the cash in sight on the count
ers and made his escape. Both of
the Anchorage marshals were out
of town at the time the robbery oc
curred.
Vance R. McDonald, Alaska repre
sentative of the West Coast Grocey
Company, who arrived in Xenana
from the States several weeks ago,
was informed by Jerry Murphy,
well known Anchorage attorney who
was recently in Washington, that
there is reason to believe the gold
bonus bill will pass during the pres
ent session of Congress. Murphy
says all of the Western Congression
al delegations are lined up for the
bill and that the measure also now
has the support of the Bankers as
sociation, the only opposition being
the Retail Jewelers association.
Communication between Xenana
and the Outside is cut off today
as the result of a break in the
Alaska military cable. There is also
a break in the land line between
Fairbanks and Valdez. It is not
known how soon communication will
be restored.
Mail Superintendent Dan Leech
arrived in town this week to make
arrangements for the dispatch of
:he last mails of the season by way
af Broad Pass. The Alaskan En
gineering Commission’s contract will
axpire on the last of the month,
after which the regular summer
service by way of the Richardson
:rail will be resumed, carrying first
:lass mail only.
MEW ORE BODY DISCOVERED;
OLD MINE OPERATES AGAIN
PORTOLA, May 14—Gold quartz
>nce more is being taken from the
lupiter mine, located in the Sierra
Mevada mountains near this city
According to recently-discovered re
cords, the Jupiter was discovered by
nis&ionaries years ago and was op
erated for some time before it was
ilosed down.
After a long period of idleness,
the paystreak in the mine was re
iiscovered accidently about three
years ago and a modern reduction
plant installed. The first cleanup of
the new plant, which was made re
cently, showed the gold ore to be
as rich as it was when the mine was
first operated.
According to Superintendent J.
Gillman, who has traced the history
of the mine, a party of missionaries
camped on the site in the early days
of California and in enlarging a
spring to procure water, discovered
the gold-bearing ledge.
Billy Williams, well known old
timer who is under treatment at
the Government hospital for com
plications resulting fr<^m an attack
of the flu a year'Ygo, is raffling a
new Remington automatic shotgun.
’survey ship explorer is
STARTING IMPORTANT WORK
i The work of the survey ship Ex
' plorer, now in Alaska waters, is
attracting much interest among ship
ping men, says a recent report from
Juneau. The Explorer is the mother
ship of the survey fleet, the special
mission of which is to complete the
examination by wire drag, of the
main steamship routes in South
1 eastern Alaska. Until this is done,
there is no guarantee that the
' charts will show all the existing
(dangers, or that there will be no
I additions to the already long list
I of submerged rocks named after
' vessels which ran upon them.
I During the approaching season the
field of work of the Explorer and
her launches will be in Stephens
passage, Gastinau channel and Lynn
j canal. More than usual interest is
attached to the operations of this
j vessel and her survey party as new
' methods will be used which are ex
pected will greatly expedite the work
The wire drag was first employed
j by the coast and geodetic survey on
the Atlantic coast. Along that coast
the currents are moderate and there
are large shoal areas where rocks
: and ledges projecting a few feet
; only above the bottom are dangerous
obstructions, slow moving and some
. what complicated apparatus was best
suited to these conditions.
| In Alaskan waters, such shoal
i areas are comparatively infrequent,
j and deep water with a swift current
| is characteristic. It is in this deep
| water that some of the most dan
■ gerous pinnacle rocks have been
! found. The precision of the Atlantic
; type of drag is an unnecessary fea
j ture in this locality and its slow
movement limits or destroys its effi
' ciency in swift and irregular cur
' rents.
| Much experimental work was car
! ried on last year with a view to
' meeting these conditions, and a
1 drag has been designed of greater
! strength and fewer parts, which is
■ capable of being towed through the
! water, at two or three times the
speed possible by the old form.
If the new design comes up to ex
pectations, indicating that a correct
balance 'has been found between a
, drag of light construction liable to
be crushed and broken by the water
pressure at high speed and a strong
but cumbersome construction which
prevents high speed and quick
handling, this combination of light
ness and strength should enable the
party to make progress far beyond
that hitherto accomplished in Alaska.
The test is awaited with interest by
coast shipping men and officers of
the coast and geodetic survey.
AMERICA NEED NOT FEAR
GERMAN MOVING PICTURES
BERLIN, May 14—German mov
ing picture films will not be serious
competitors of American films in the
near future in the opinion of many
American producers who have been
in Germany within the last few
months studying the development
of the film industry.
“Neither the plays staged by the
Germans, nor the personality of the j
German actors I have seen would ap- \
peal to American patrons,” one of
America’s foremost film producers
declared after a recent inspection
tour which included the leading
studios and moving picture theaters
' of Germany. “I could truthfully say
the same of the British film industry.
American producers are, in my
opinion far ahead of the Germans
and British in the art of producing
appealing films.
I “In Germany many of the impor
tant films are too gruesome for the
Ameracn public. Then, the actresses
who appear in many of the films
are not young and beautiful enough
' to satisfy Americans.”
German film makers are producing
many cubist effects. Some of these
films are skillfully done, but the
i themes are generally gloomy and
not of a character which Americans
demand.
More than forty states maintain
state geologists or similar officials.
i|llllllllllilliilM ,
1 New Prices1
ON
Men’sSuits
AND
Furnishings
$40 Suits now selling at $25
5.00
1.50
5.00
3.50
Highest grade hand-tailored suits
$12.50 Single Trousers, Best Worsted $9.50
6.50 Single Trousers, special, . . 3.50
John B. Stetson Hats at . .
Caps, best grades, now
Union Suits, worth $9 now .
6.50 Suits of Pajamas at . .
6.50 medium weight Flannel shirts, 2.20
14.00 Fine Dress Shoes now . 7.50
Overalls, No. 1 Levi Strauss, . 2.00
Khaki Pants, Carhartt’s best, . 2.50
Mammoth Mitts at 1.50 and 1.00
Lisle Sox, brown and black, .25
Engineer s Bib Overalls . . 1.50
Medium weight good wool sox, .50
Blue Wrist canvas gloves, . . .25
Brown wrist canvas gloves, 3 pr., 50
White Handkerchiefs, 2 for 25c
SIMSON’S
Department Store §k
STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL EIGHT O’CLOCK =E
Trappers Traders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alaska Building
NEW YORK
127 W. 27th Street
THE NEW RAILROAD
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS
I
POOL AND PAN «
SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME
BARBER SHOP AND BATHS
ROOMS IN CONNECTION. BILLY THOMAS
j