FALL IS HERE
AND WE ARE READY TO SUPPLY EVERY MAN, WOMAN
AND CHILD IN NENANA WITH SUITABLE CLOTHES
BUY NOW and SAVE MONEY
THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY WAITING
ASSORTMENTS WILL NEVER BE BETTER
PRICES WILL NEVER BE LOWER
MEN’S DEPARTMENT
Fall and Winter Suits—Standard Makes
STERNS, ADLERS, HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
THE STYLES ARE CORRECT
THE TAILORING IS THE BEST
PATTERNS IN GOOD VARIETY
AND WE GUARANTEE TO FIT YOU PERFECT—TO YOUR
SATISFACTION
Special Attention Is Called to Our Complete Stock of Black
and Blue Serge Suits- Prices are
$25 $35 $45
(Silk and Satin Lined)
It’s Time to Put On Medium Weight Wool Underwear;
We Recommend:
Wright’s Needle Ribbed Wool Underwear, Suit.$6
Dunham Mills’ Ribbed Underwear, grey and whitef Suit $6
Cooper’s Spring Needle Ribbed Underwear, Suit.$5
$5.00
SIMSON'S
SU/TCLOTH
SHIRTS
$6.50
ThU label stand* for the best in Overshirts—Genuine Suit
cloths, London shrunk, fast colors; one of these shirts will
outwear half a dozen flannel shirts... Prices a'e
_$5 and $6.50_
FINE DRESS SHOES ARE KNOWN BY THESE NAMES
HANAN & SON FREEMAN
We have both makes at $8.50 and $9.50 pair for the best
Good Dress Shoes are selling now as low as, pair.$6.50
Heavy Waterproof Cutter and Chippewa Shoes from
__$7.50 up to $13.50.
Cashmerine Wool Sox, pair .50c
Heavy White Wool Sox, pair.50c
Hipress Rubber Pacs, white, pai' .$5.50
Hipress Rubber Pacs, red, pair.$4.50
For real comfort there is nothing like a Down Quilt Al 1 rf|
We are selling them at the old price, up from... y I I lull
Every Suit \
tZ bZ half ™ice
r r , ~ \this includes all
every evening Gown ) THE LATE arrivals
$25 Values at $12.50
$35 Values at $17.50
Fall Coats at Big Reductions
The Fall Hats Are Unpacked
Fall and Winter Underwear in Good Variety
GOOD UNION SUITS, At .*3 so
SILK AND WOOL UNIONS, At .$5.00
Towels, Sheets Pillow Cases, Clinic Gauze, Ginghams, House
Linings, Muslin, Cretons, Outing Flannels, Table Linen,
Canton Flannel, Daisy Cloth, Cotton Batts.
Wool Batts, Blankets, Quilts.
All At Big Price Reductions
SIMSON’S
Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing
Cigars =- Tobaccos — Candies
Soft Drinks -- Poo/
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I Furnished Rooms For Rent
HARRY DAVIS FRANK TAYLOR
WICKERSHAM TALKS
! TO NENANA VOTERS
i Judge Wickersham, the Republi
can candidate for delegate to Con
gress, opened his campaign in the
Nenana district Saturday night and
delivered an address to the people
of the district at the Coliseum. He
■was preceeded by Judge Louis K.
Pratt, of Fairbanks, who is running
for territorial senator on the Re
publican ticket. The speakers were
introduced by E. L. Laughlin. A
large crowd turned out to greet the
speakers.
The speechmaking commenced im
mediately afted the picture show.
E. L. Laughlin first introduced
Judge Pratt, who spoke on the ad
visability of the selection of trained
lawyers to form the territorial leg
islature and insure the passage of
sound laws on a proper constitu
tional basis that would be upheld
when put to the test in the courts
of law. He spoke of the many laws
that had been made and passed by
the territorial legislature heretofore,
which on being tested* in the courts
were found to be invalid, unconsti
tutional and not made out in proper
form. He paid a tribute to the
members of the legislature, who he
isaid, were capable men and used
good judgment in passing the laws
made, but, the actual making of the
| laws, he thought, should be enturst
ed to those who had ma^e a life
study of law, who could be depend
ed upon to see that the laws made
i by the territorial legislature were in
.proper form and in strict conform
. ity with the Constitution of the
United States, so that the courts of
law would be compelled to recognive
their validity. He condemned most
of the laws passed by the territorial
| legislature heretofore for the reason
IStated and sai£l that the only sound
law passel by that body was the one
having reference to negotiable in
| struments. This law, which had
j been adopted some time ago in the
j States, could be found in the statute
,books of most any state and was
copied and adopted by our legis
; lature.
Mr. Laup’hlin _»
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: Judge James Wickersham who, on
j arising to address the audience, was
| greeted cordially. He commenced
jhis spech by saying that “Our first
| duty was to lick hell out of the
i Huns and win the war. For this
purpose we must all unite, whether
Democrats or Republicans, and give
our whole hearted support to Presi
dent Wilson and help the country „
j every possible way to carry on the
| war to a triumphant finish and for
j ever destroy militarism and auto
; cracy.” He paid a glowing tribute
fto President Wilson, who was, he
said, one of the greatest presidents
j the country has ever had, and who
| was doing everything possible with
j men. money and material to bring
jan honorable and lasting peace to
j the world in the only poss ble way,
| by whipping the Huns.
He spoke of the period succeeding
; our civil war and said that for fifty
| years or more the North and South
had little use for each other, but
no such conditions existed now and
the -cople are united as never be
fore and stand solidly behind the
president with their support and ap
proval in all that he does in the con
duct of the war.
Young Americans from all walks
of life, he pointed out, were cheer
fullly responding to the country’s
; call for fighting men and were
marching on to the training camps
land thence t0 the battle fields, but
! n° one ever a thought to or
ever inquired whether these young
j men were Democrats or Republicans.
i They are Americans going to fight
I for the common good of mankind
.and that is enough for them
Party politics, he said, should
| never be allowed to interfere with
the vital issues involved in this war;
the President has said that politics
are adjourned.
He severely scored pro-German
activities and said that it was the
.duty of every loyal American to
report anything that savored o' Ger
man propoganda.
J Speaking of the opposition en
countered by President Wilson in
putting into force the various meas
ures for a vigorous prosecution of
the war such as the draft law, etc.,
all of the opposition, he said, came
from the Democratic members of
both houses, and cited as instances
the actions of Senators Chamberlain,
I Kitchen and Vardaman and Speaker
j Champ Clark.
Mr. Wickersham referred to Gov
ernor Riggs as a “peanut” governor,
who seemed to be an intermeddler
in politics, and in doing so was ne
glecting his legitimate duties. Mr.
j Riggs, he said, was a candidate for
| the governorship four years ago and
| the effect of it, he said, can be
j seen in the first twenty-five miles
j of the railroad out of N’enana. He
j severely scored the federal “bunch”
i at Juneau, who, he said, had stolen
I the election from him and given it
j to Sulzer, and characterized the act
| as one of the vilest this side of Ger
many. He was elected, he said, by
thirty-one votes and the canvassing
board, consisting of the governor,
surveyor-general and collector of
customs, had satisfied itself of this.
He stated that the opposing faction
had then filed a demurrer with the
result that Judge Jennings threw
out certain votes cast for Wicker
sham as being illegal, and gave the
election certificate to Sulzer. Judge
Jennings, he said, was a political
opponent of his and recalled that he
was some time ago badly defeated
by him in the race for the delegate
ship.
Regarding the great number of
people leaving Alaska to settle else
where, he said that this movement
of the people was due to the fact
t<ha»t Jiving conditions had grown
insupportable and intolerable. Pros
pectors, he said, were no longer able
to outfit and go out into the hills
in search of the paystreak, and the
operator could no longer afford to
work his ground, even on a small
scale, employing a few men. The
reason for the insupportable condi
tions he said, was to be found in
tne high freight rates charged by
the transportation companies, which
were driving the people away from
Alaska. He (jited an instance where
the cost of transportation on a ton
of hardware from Chicago, 111. to
Cordova, Alaska, a distance of ap
proximately 3850 miles, and in
volving a haul by rail and ocean
steamer, was about ten dollars less
than the charge made to haul the
same ton of hardware from Cordova
to McCarthy, a distance of only 191
miles. The crux of the situation,
he said, was here; and when cheap
transportation rates, with a reason
able margin of profit for the tran- i
portation people, could be obtained
then Alaska will have a population
that will stay in the country and
urged the people of Alaska to awake
to a full realization of this and help !
him to obtain legislation that would |
compel the transportation companies !
to give up their wholly excessive j
profits and unreasonable rates and I
give the prospector and miner a ’
chance for life in Alaska.
Concluding, his speech, Judge '
Wickersham again severely scored i
what he called the federal bunch j
at Juneau, who, he said, were'
“rotten” and who did not hesitate:
to have recourse to unfair methods I
at some of which even a Hun would '
balk. He severely criticized the \
governor’s political activities and!
held up to ridicule his appointment!
of John Moe to the position of j
special agent for the prevention of!
the sale of liquor to the Indians.
This was, he said, one of the many
jokes perpetrated by the governor
on the long suffering people of'
Alaska and the government of the!
United States. He belittled Sulzer’s
activities in Congress, declaring that
he had not done a thing for Alaska
during his term of office. Mr. Sul
zer, he thought, should be fighting
for his country, as he already had
the necessary military education and
was eligible for the draft, being 39
years of age.
The speaker read extracts from
the hearings hefore the Senate com
mittee regarding the building of
the Alaska Railroad, and said that
the bill providing for the construc
tion of the road was his bill, and
that the copy introduced in the
House by him was the one that was
passed and was made a law.
Mr. Wickersham spoke again last
night to a full house at the Nenana
Labor Union hall and advanced sev
eral reasons why he should be
elected to represent the people of
Alaska in Congress.
At the request of several Ne
nanaites, Judge Wickersham ex
plained the primary election law
and the eight-hour law. In his ex
planation of the latter Judge Wick
ersham went into the matter at
some length and again severely scor
ed the Northern Commercial com
pany’s political activities, which, he
said, had a tendency to have bad
laws passed and obstruct the gov- j
ernmet in. their efforts to help the 1
development of the territory. The i
eight-hour law, he said, was held !
to be invalid, unconstitutional and j
in bad form, and he said that the!
Northern Commercial company was i
fully aware of this. To test the
law which they knew to be bad, they
had their manager at Fairbanks ar
rested recently for a violation of the
law, and the judge hearing the case !
dismissed it, holding the law to be
invalid.
Regarding the suspension of the |
law requring assessment work to be
done on all mining claims in Alaska,
which was obtained by Mr. Sulzer,
he said that Mr. Sulzer obtained
the passage of a bill providing for
the suspension of Se. 2324 of the
Federal Statutes. This section, he
said, provides that all owners of
mining property in the United
States, including the territories, are
required to do one hundred dollars' i
worth of work annually on each
one of the claims held by them. '
The suspension of such assesment
work, he said, was a great help to ’
the Alaska miner but he thought that
Mr. Sulzer had overlooked the
Waskey law which applies to as
sessment work in Alaska and had
failed to obtain any relief for the
Alaskan miner. The Waskey law
introduced in Congress by the first
Delegate from Alaska applied to j
the assessment work to be dc: e on
claims in Alaska, he said where as
Section 2324 of the Federal Sta- ,
(Continued on Page Two.)
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MAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN
through the
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
If you want to either hire or be
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
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ARCTIC HOTEL
HOUSE
Thoroughly Renovated
Under New Management
ROOMS $1 BUNKS, 50c
MRS. BRAKKE
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nothing. You say.'Yet a.
heaping tcaspoonM
saved, each meal for
no days far each of the
100.000.000 parsons
in tha United. States
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Fresh Ranch Eggs Fresh Milk
THe Tavern
W. F. RODIGKEIT, Prop.
TRY SOME FRESH GREENS WITH ONE OF
OUR DINNER ORDERS
If It Is On the Market You Will Find It Here
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DINNER PARTIES
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WATERMELONS
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APPLES
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