THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, nnder 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 Streets. Nenana. Alaska.
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eatiot' of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwiaa credited in
this paper and also all the local news published herein.
On March 31, American locomo
tive manufacturers had unfilled or
ders for 2,214 engines, all hut 102
of v&ich were for domestic use.
The railroads are making extra
ordinary efforts to prepare for the
heavy Traffic demands of the sum
mer and fall. The stories of nation
al prosperity are not propaganda
but solid fact, and the rail mana
gers are convinced that the roads
will be faced with the greatest vol
ume of business in their career.
The big guns with which the War
Department proposes to fortify the
Panama Canal are already manufac
tured and need only the construc
tion of emplacements at the canal
to be immediately effective. Eighty
two 16-inch rifles were built far
the ships of the Navy that were or
dered scrapped by the Washington
armaments treaty, and are just
the type of weapons needed to make
the canal impregnable.
Las: year Floyd N. Rice, who
died at P-ahway, N. J., left a most
unusual will. He directed that his
estate amounting to about 325.000
should be turned into cash and de
posited in a New York bank, where
it must remain until principal and
interest total 32,000,000. The a
mount shall then be turned over
to the Grand Lodge of New York
for the erection of a school for the
children of Masons born in the
United States. At six per cent in
terest, compounded annually, sev
enty-one years must elapse before
this bequest will be available.
JUNEAU ABANDONS HOPE
Evidently the sooner the United
States Land Office is removed from
Juneau to Anchorage the better
pleased will be Secretary Work of
the Department of the Interior com
ments Editor White of The Stroler’s
Weekly. He twice turned down the
request of Juneau made by Mayor
Goldstein that the order be sus
pended until further investigation
of conditions could be made. The
last telegram from the Department
of the Interior. Mr. Work himself,
contained the chilled steel state
ment that the order had not been
thoroughly gone into and that there
was no reason why it should be re
voked. Indications, therefore, point
to the removal of the land office
to Anchorage during the present
month in compliance with the exe
cutive order that declines to back
water.
If you are in doubt, delay.
SWEDEN ACTIVELY AT WORK
ON NEW RADIO PLAN!
GOTHENBURG. (By Mail) —
From Gothenburg:, Sweden, to New
York in one-fiftieth of a second
no more time will be required foi
the transmission of a wireless mes
• sage when the powerful new radic
station near Varberg, south of Goth'
enburg. is finished.
The work on the half million dol
lor contract by the Radio Corpora
tion of America for the equipment
of this station has begun in earnest
; A large force of men is busy oi
' the foundation for the masts foi
the two separate systems of antena«
one for sending and the other foi
receiving. One of the first steps
is the installation of a so-called bal
ance net. which consists of coppei
’ wires laid in the earth at regulai
. distances.
i This new radio station, which pro
bably will be known as the Grime
ton station, will be used for simul
1 taneous messages in both directions
between Sweden and the Unitec
j States. The radio system which is
to be installed is the now universal
If known Alexanderson aj&tom. in
vented by the Swedish engineer E
T. W. Alexanderson, who is now
associated with the Radio Corpora
tion of America as chief engineer
The mechanisms at Grimeton wiL
work automatically, requiring onlj
two or three attendants for the re
! ceiving division, and about a doz
' en for the sending division. The ac
tual handling of messages will bt
done at Gothenburg through land
v.-ires connected with Grimeton.
_
Lafe Spray, for the past eight
years an employee in the office of
tlhe clerk of the District court, a:
Juneau, has resigned. He was the
last hold-over Democrat. Walter B
King will be promoted to Spray’s
former position, the chief clerkship
and Norman B. Cook has been sel
ected by Clerk J. H. Dunn to fil!
the position formerly held by Mr
King.
John Beaton, one of the origina!
discoverers of the Iditarod mining
camp, and before that time a res:
dent of Fairbanks, has leased hi:
holdings and dredger on Ottei
Creek and is looking around foi
new pla'er fields to conquer. H<
was in -eattle and Vancouver. B
C.. during the greater part of th<
winter, and recently departed fo
' a new placer strike on Cedar Creel
British Columbia.
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 m—cash, draft or money order, whichever
you want. ACT NOW—if you have one skin or a
hundred. Ship to us at once.
Foiike Fur Co.
suss ST.. LOUIS,, MO.
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF
WEST’S MINERAL WEALTH
WASHINGTON, (By Mail)— A'
substantial beginning of the active
development of vast mineral wealth,
heretofore locked up in the public
domain of the various western states
but now liberated under the general
leasing law. was recorded by Dr.
H. Foster Bain, director of the Bur
eau of Mines, in his annual report
submitted today to the Secretary of
the Interior.
Oil is the foremost product of
these lands so far, but Dr. Bain said
that when coal resources of the East
start to give out, the government'
owned coal fields in the western
states would be of prime importance,
j In the fiscal year ended last
'June, there were produced from gov
i emment lands, other than Indian
; lands, 18,236,362 barrels of oil, of
; which the Federal government re
ceived as royalty 3,616,852 barrels
worth $4,768,397, not including bon
uses. In addition, at the end of the
year $14,000 a month was being
received by the government from
; natural gas leases on public lands
in Wyoming.
i In the Bocky Mountain field a
lone, there were on government land
; 336 oil wells, of which 267 were in
j the Salt Creek, Wyo., field. A hun
dred other wheels were being drilled
Under the terms of the devel
opment there had been issued 294
oil and gas leases in 4 states and
7,727 prospecting permits, on each
of which drilling is required, in
18 states and Alaska.
The largest number of producing
wells belonging to the government
is in the Salt Creek field, where
the government holds title to nearly
all the land. Such an immense a
mount of crude petroleum was pro
duced that the capacity of the welb
was far greater than the pipe line
facilities to transport it.
In Montana also, development pro
ceeded rapidly and at the end of the
fiscal year there were 57 producing
wells in the Cat Creek field and
9 drilling on government land in the
newly discovered and promising Sun
burst-Kevin field. Last June a well
near the center of the Cat Creek
field drilled into a second and pro
lific oil sand and flowed naturally
at the daily rate of 2,000 barrels.
Another well came in at 2,400 bar
rels. By these developments this
field became the third largest pro
ducer in the Bocky Mountain region
These developments are exclusive
to activity in naval petroleum re
serves. Final adjudictation was
reached in outstanding contests on
such oil lands, leases were granted
and drilling arranged! A study made
by the Bureau of Mines showed the
government lands were losing heav
ily by drainage and that approxi
mately 22,000.000 barrels had been
lost. Of this, on the scale now in
effect , the government’s royalty
would have been worth $8,800,000.
To prevent these losse«. leases were
'given to trill on rich lands where
drainage occurred and the Navy is
receiving royalties in oil which is
converted to fuel oil for naval ves
sels and shipped at such points as
necessity warrants for time of em
ergency.
The United States government
is one of the largest coal land own
ers in the world, and also holds im
portant reserve of phosphate, potash
and other salts. Coal is now being
mined in these lands under lease, in
, Wyoming, Washington, Montana.
North and South Dakota, Utah Col
orado. New Mexico and Nevada,
Phosphate rock is being mined in
Idaho.
LIGHTWEIGHTS BATTLE
PORTLAND. June 21—Benjamen
contender for the lightweight title
of the world, and Bobby Harper, of
Seattle, fought ten sensational
rounds to a draw here last night
before one of the largest crowds
ever assembled at a local fight. The
fight also was one of the best ever
witnessed here.
Comfortable rooms for rent i»
The Arctic, $15.00 per month. See
, Abe Simson.
ENGINEER MINE INVOLVED
IN LITIGATION BY HEIRS
A recent arrival from Vancouver
B. C., brings the report that the*
Engineer mine which was reported
to be under bond and option to the
Hollinger interests, which made an
extended examinatiion of the pro
perty last year, will again be thrown
into litigation papers, to this effect
having been filed. The plaintiffs in
the present action are the heirs of
Mrs. Alexander who was lost in the
wreck of the steamer Princess Soph
ia. Captain Alexander who also was
lost, was reputed to be the chief
owner of the rich mine. Since his |
demise, the property came into the
possession of a banker of Phile
delphia named Smith. Smith got
his equity in the mine through the
death of a brother, Allen Smith,
who financed Captain Alexander’s
development program.
BLIND ARE 90 PERCENT ABLE
LOS ANGELES, (By Mail) —
Blindness, though frequently the
beggar’s excuse, is rarely the cause
of his mendicancy, acordirg to the
Los Angeles Braille association, com
posed mainly of sightless men and
women. Beggars are usually self
made, the Braiffe association con
tends, citing a proof the fact that
California’s 4,000 blind, ninety per
cent are workers. The percentage of
self-supporting persons among the
blind would be still greater, it is
explained, were it not for the fact
that begging pays so much * •ter
than honest work.
Even with a rehabilitation bureau
of its own, backed by state and
county cooperation in training the
sightless to earn a living, the issj
ciation finds its campaign against
begging seriously hampered by the
high financial return of street beg
ging as compared with ordinary work
Blind beggars, investigators for
the association have e3:;mated, aver
im ’j vuu a uo; ,
worker rarely receive more than $3
or $6 for a day’s toil. The task of
1 converting prosperous beggars into
self-supporting citizens is therefore
not an easy undertaking.
The Braille association neverthe
less is conducting with vigor its
camapign to make sightless man and
and women self-supporting, and finds
its encouragement in the fact that
ninety percent of the blind prefer
honet employment to the more lu
crative pursuit of the street beggar.
This percnetage is proof. Braille
members declare, that loss of sight
is rarely repsonsible for loss of pride
To drive this point home they we'l- j
come all blind men and women to
meeting of the association, but make 1
mendicancy a bar to membership.
Miss Claire Collier is the newest
of Uncle Sam's employees in Anch
orage. Miss Collier is now one of
the force of Postmaster Stoddard's
capable assistants at the post of
fice.
NOTICeT OF SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Probate Court, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Division, Nenana
Precinct.
In the matter of the State of
Nels P. Rasmussen, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Chas E. Bergman, the Admin
istrator of the Estate of Nels P.
Rasmussen, Deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and
! filed in said Court, his final ac
J count of his adminstraxion of said
Estate; and that Wednesday, the
fifteenth day of August, 1923, at
two o’clock, P. M.. at the court
room of said Court, at Nenana,
Alaska, has been duly appointed by
5 Probate Judge of said Court for
,the settlement of said account, at
which time and place any person
' interested in said Estate may appear
! and file exceptions in writing to
the said account, and contest the
'
same.
Dated this 8th day of June, 1923
CHAS E. BERGMAN
Administrator of the Estate of Nels
; P. Rasmussen, Deceased.
Date of first publication, June 9th
f 1923.
A. A. SMONBECK
ANCHORAGE
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
Remco Redwood Stave
WATER & MINING TANKS SILOS HYDRAULIC PIPE
EXPLOSIVES FEED
Write u« for information
A London resident has invented
a coin in a slot machine to sell milk
in stores.
WANT ADS
PIANO FOR SALE OR RENT—
Phone Geo. Anderson at Cooney'
Hotel.
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CABIN FOR RENT—By week or
month. Inquire Tom Jones.
LOST—Bunch of keys. Finder
please leave at Depot.
FOR SALE—Sewing Machine/
Morris chair, cooking utensils. See j
Chas. E. Bergman.
FOR SALE—Two first-class pack'
horses, known as Kennedy stock.
Black weighs 1200, gray 1350. In
quire of Anthony Letray.
MINING GROUND FOR SALE—
Group of three claims (placer) on!
Glacier Creek. Kantrehna district, j
Nos. 17,18 and 19. (No. 17 worked
out.) Shallow ground, from six
inches to five feet to bedrock.j
Coarse gold. Automatic dam, boxes,
tools, complete camp outfit. For
furthers particulars inquire at News |
Office.
“EVERYBODY can buy groceries,
feed and supplies WHOLESALE
Write for free pricelist. Peoples
Grocery, 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
PEOPLES GROCERY COMPANY’
ORDERYOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
.PHONE YOUR ORDERS
.. TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
I
BILL OP SALE blanks for sale
at The News Office.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Nenana as
follows:
11.35 p. ra. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning arrives Nenana 11:20
a. m. same days.
5:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday fsr
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika.
Arrives Nenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
‘'Trains both north and south
bound stop ever night at Carry
where excellent hotel facilities are
available for the public.
River steamers leave Nenana ev
ery Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. for
points down river to Holy Cross and
Connecting with gas launch at lat
ter point for St. Michael. Arrive Ne
nana every Monday or Tuesday.”
4P™BI 1
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 Alway*
Welcome.
Alfred J. Chezzi R. C. Mom*.
Secretary. President.
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D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors ,
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
T raders
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