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1 AND BAKERY
The Resort of the Epicure
fruit and fancy cakes
for the holidays
WM. RODIGKEIT Proprietor
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Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE
LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
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SIBERIA SECOND ALASKA
A
NOME.—On account of the un
certainty of economic and political
conditions in Siberia this year, few
Alaskan miners and trappers have
crossed the Bering Sea to take min
erals and furs from the Asiatic
In other years many Alaskans,
most of them from, Nome and the
Seward Pinsula, have ,gone into the
Siberian country around the Gulf
of Anadir. Nome is about 160
miles from the Siberian coast
Small American trading vessels
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plying across the Bering Straits and
along the Siberian coast built up
such a business a few years ago
that amovement was started for
the establishment of a custom-house
on the Siberian coast, probably at
East Cape.
Men who have returned from
across the straits say that a second ,
rich Alaska in its undevelopment
state lies in the Eastern Siberian
provinces of Kamchatka and ^ akutsk
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—At
The News Office.
HYLAND’S CIGAR STORE
C/GARS POOL TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Berber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
A Satisfied Customer
IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT
QUALITY
PRICE ,
Go With Our
CLOCKS
SERVICE
WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY
Tells the Time in the Dark
$3 Alarm ClocKs—Small and Large
We Have a Line of Safety Razors, Blades, Sharpeners and
Strops. Best Flashlight at $2*.. Refills and Repairs.
Wm. TAYLOR
JEWELER
Be Prepared for Cold jWealher i i
We Have a Large and Varied Assortment ot the Leading ^Brands o
MACKINAW COATS MACKINAW PANTS
Army and Navy Sweaters SPORT SHIRTS, Heavy Wool
SWEATER COATS WOOL SOCKS, All Weights
UNION SUITS and TWO PIECE GARMENTS
GENUINE DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
BALL BAND ARCTICS
WOOL BLANKETS BLANKET SHEETS COMFORTERS
SEE OUR BRUSSELS aid WILTON RUSS, ALL SIZES
Bisse.l’s Vacuum Sweepers Electric Vacuum Sweepers
We Carry a Full Line of
MINERS’ and TRAPPERS’ SUPPLIES
and Can Furnish Your Outfit Complete at Special Prices
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
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1
WHALE STILL IS
THE ATTRACTION
AT FORT GIBBON
—
In a letter received from Tanana
on the last mail (letter dated Dec
ember 6) the news is contained
that the Beluga whale is still at
tracting a great deal of attention
at the army town, and up to date
of writing had successfully eluded
capture: It would appear that the
quarters on the river occupied by
the whale is growing more circum
scribed and his food supply scantier
daily, and the chances of his long
surviving the efforts of the towns
people to capture him also grows
slimmer.
Tananaites are looking forward
to fresh whale steaks in the near
future and as much as $200 has al
ready been offered for the carcass.
The letter states that the whale
is a young Beluga and that it will
probably measure from 12 to 20
feet in length. He is reported to
be not as fat as when first seen
in the river, owing to the scarcity
of food.
The latest type of harpoon and
the necessary tackle is being got
ready and it is expected that the
next attempt to capture him will be
successful.
Although there are not many
prospectors in the country and
creeks adjacent to Tanana, it is
fairly well known that considerable
; tin and galena and some gold oc
j curs in the Tozi river country
| taries.
Mrs. E. B. Gilmore, of Tanana,
ow’ns the principal, and so far as
i is known, most valuable tin grouna
Jon Moran creek. Mrs. Gilmore lost
I her husband about a year ago, and
[so she knows only what he had told
j her about the claims.
Moran creek is a tributary of the
' Tozi river, which it enters on the
• right limit. At places along the
! creek the bedrock outcroppings oc
! cur at several depths, the deepest
being about 14 feet, the average
depth being about 9 feet. The bed
rock is said to slope towards the
creek.
The tin is found all through the
gravel; one crosscut yielding six
j ounces to the pan. There is said
i to be sufficient gold in the gravel
j to pay expenses.
■ The late Mr. Gilmore sent a sack
of ore to the American Smelting
and Refining Co., at Maurer, N. Y.,
and the return was as follows:
1 sack tin ore, gross weight 179
.lbs; net 178 lbs. S. N. 65.1 per
I cent; S. 0.15 per cent; tin, 116
jibs @ 35c, $40.60.
i The Moran creek tin is said to
j be a higher grade and comes in
larger pieces than the average tin
found in the neighborhood, and as
the ore is by no means smooth, there
i would appear to be a very good
chance to trace it to the vein in
place.
In the neighborhood of the head
waters of Moran creek, the late Mr.
Gilmore found galena ore in place,
but he was not a hard rock miner
and consequently did not spend
much time on the discovery. Many
an assay, however, made by L. M.
Drury, of Fairbanks, showed an
average of 112 ounces of silver to
j the ton, while there was from 20
to 70 per cent of lead present.
Just one comma cost the United
States Government 2 million dollars
i
once. It was ii^the tarriff bill which
provided that “foreign fruit plants"
shoul be omitted free so as to en
courage the raising of foreign fruit
trees. When the bill was printed,
this phrase read “foreign fruit,
plants’* and that little comma after
the word “fruit” allowed oranges,
grapes, lemons, bananas, etc., to
come in free of duty, and before it
could be corrected it cost Uncle
Sam over 2 million dollars in cus
tom revenues.
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CLUB 10 ISSUE I
SPECIAL NUMBER
OF DAILY NEWS,
At a largely attended meeting of
the Nenana Commercial club it was
definitely decided last night to in
augurate a publicity campaign thru
the columns of the Nenana Daily
News, the chief feature of which
will be the publication of a special
number of the paper at an early
date, in which will be set forth fully
the many resources and attractions
of the Nenana distric*- In addition
to the publication of the special
edition, the club will mail a number
of copies of the regular daily edi
tion of the News to various points
in the States for the purpose of
advertising Nenana and keeping
Outsiders informed regarding con
ditions in Interior Alaska.
This action of the club was taken
upon the recommendation of a com
mittee appointed at a previous meet
ing and the same committee will
have charge of the special number.
Their plan is to publish an edition
of from twelve to sixteen pages,
and to place copies of the paper
in the hands of Nenanaites at a
special price, for distribution. Or
the club will mail copies of the
paper direct to such addresses as
may be turned in to the committee.
This plan of distribution, it is ex
pected, will cover the cost of is
suing the special number, of which
there are to be three thousand
copies. The committee in charge
of the advertising campaign con
sists of W. A. Ryan, Dr. R R. Myers
and W. H. Gilchei.
The committee appointed at a
previous meeting to interview A. D.
Thompson, which reported verbally
a week ago, handed in a written
report last night, which was ac
cepted and the committee discharged
Dr. J. R. Bowen made inquiry as
to what would be done with the
new people the club hoped to at
tract to the district. He suggested
as a solution that an effort be made
by the town to raise funds for grub
stakinir prospectors, who would be
sent out into the nearby hills to
look for minerals, John Ketooroky
also advocated such a plan, and in
formed the members that he had
given the proposition much thought
in the early Fairbanks days, to the
point almost, of organizing a com
pany to send prospectors out- The
discusion was informal and the club
was not called upon, by the intro
duction of a motion, to go on record
either as favoring or opposing the
grubstaking plan. The majority of
those present, however, appeared to
share the belief that it would be
impracticable to do anything along
that line at this time.
Frederick D. Browne advocated
the commencement of a campaign
to secure the construction of wagon
roads into the Kantishna and other
promising districts tributary to N'e-1
’ nana and the government railroad, 1
and after several other members had
expressed similar viws, a committee
of five was appointed to take the
road matters in hand and to serve
the club as a permanent road com
mittee.
Andy Hoey brought the quaran
tine matter to the attention of the
club, by asking Mr. Browne if he
considered it probable that the quar
antine against Fairbanks would be
lifted in the near future. He ex
pressed the view that, inasmuch as
Fairbanks is maintaining a quar
antine against the coast, the Ne
nana quarantine against Fairbanks
is not necessary. He argued further
that the quarantine is hindering
travel between the two towns and
preventing Fairbanks families from
coming to Nenana to reside. He
also claimed that the quarantine as
maintained by Nenana, is not being
enforced rigidly. j
In reply Mr. Browne reminded j
Mr. Hoey that the people of Ne- j
nana, in mass meeting assembled,!
had voted to establish the quaran- j
tine against Fairbanks, and until ;
such time as it appeared reasonably '
certain that no further danger ex
isted, he would oppose any modifi
cation of the quarantine- And he
said further that he would not call
a mass meeting to reconsider the
COONEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA . ALASKA
Eat Your
SUNDAY DINNER
at the
CENTRAL RESTAURANT
Home Cooking Our Specialty
First Class New and Clean Quick Service
Ketoorohy & Co.
A Street next to Cascade\Laundry
question unless requested to do so
by petition, signed by a considerable
number of interested persons. In
the meantime, he said, the quaran
tine work is being carried on by the
district health board, to which com
plaints of all kinds should be direct
ed. The quarantine camp to the
south of Xenana, he said, would be
moved during the coming week to a
point a short distance beyond the
Burns mine, where the quarantine
oficers would be better able to
watch traffic in that direction. It
was possible, he said, that the quar
antine would be extended to oper
ate against the Kantishna country,
because of the reported presence
there of migrating natives, and the
danger of exposure on the Kusko
kwim side.
Chairman McDonald spoke in
favor of continuing the quarantine
against Fairbanks, arguing that the
upper town could not, by the meth
ods adopted, keep strict tab on the
people within their boundaries. In
the absence of such regulations, he
believed, Xenana should continue to
control travel in this direction. Mr.
Hoey believed that a certificate,
signed by the Fairbanks health offi
cials, should be sufficient to pass
a Fairbanksan through the Fair
banks-Nenana deadline without de
lay.
After some further discussion of
the question the club adjourned
without having taken any action.
The meeting was attended by twenty
members.
The money spent in the United
States for candy in one year is
double the amount required to feed
Belgium for one year.
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Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
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For Our Xmas Trade
All Kinds of 1
Imperial Candies j
ALSO |
Salted Pecans, Almonds, Peanuts |
Apples and Oranges
“THE PORTLAND I
JACKSON & EKELAND, Propi. ^
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