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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska.
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If tfhe Government should decide
to put a line of steamships on the
Alaska route, it should by all means,
believes the Juneau Empire, prepare
to put on enough ships to handle
all of the business, for it would
mean the abandonment of the Alaska
trade, as far as the general public
is concerned, by the private com
panies. it requires all the available
traffic to bear the cost of maintain
ing a satisfactory common carrier
service on the Alaska routes, and if
the Government should come in and
take a part of that traffic from them
it would finally result in driving |
private lines out. Experience has |
shown, points out the Juneau paper,
that in the long run conditions are
not often improved when the Gov
ernment enters business.
The task of the new prohibition i
commissioner is to prevent enforce-1
ment from becoming a joke. It isj
natural for him to ask cartoonists, j
scenario writers and vaudeville per- j
formers to take a less waggish atti
tude toward the law. Wlhy do joke
smiths, Commissioner Haynes doubt- ,
less asks, make murder, even of
mothers-in-law, a jest? Why do they 1
condone brutality, even toward fat'
men? The answer is of course that
f unmakers are indeed lawless, sug-'
gests the New York Post. Think of
the assault and battery that sprinkle
the comic pages with exclamation
marks. Mutt and Jeff in any but a
comic world would spend nine-tenths
of their time in hospital. Think of
tfoe variety of horseplay that would
land any man who tried it in jail.
What scenes are more common on
the comic pages than poker playing;
and with how much respect is family
life treated by the rolling pin school? |
Yet assaults and criminal fraud
are not increased by all this wit or
insanity, and family life maintains
its heaithfulness. It might be well
if out mad wags acquiesced in the
serious view of prohibition, but
then waggery is not of supreme im
portance.
Nine men in ten would heartily;
echo Mr. Haynes’ request from an
other motive. The professional fun-(
ny men are apt interpreters of any
public craze. Beginning with the
bicycle and bloomer girls a quarter.
of a century ago, we could trace!
all of America’s whims through their
comic handiwork. Where are the
tango cartoons of yesterday? The
p: ohibition jests will soon be with
them. The quip built upon the toper
who pays a staggering sum for a'
bootlegger’s case and finds it full j
of water; the quip anent the home
brew that turns out too well. They
are already getting flat—like home
brew.
SINN FE1NERS ARE RELEASED
BELFAST. July 26—It has been
learned here that it is the intention
cf the British government to release
all members of the Irish parliament
so that they can confer with Presi
dent Devalera regarding peace.
Tom Smith, proprietor of the
Southern hotel, returned to town
from Fairbanks today. He was one
of the Sunday excursionists.
MAYO CAMP IS NOT READY
FOR RUSH AVERS OLDTIMER
There is no reason for excitement
over the Mayo silver district, in the
opinion of J. S. Gosser, well known
oldtimer of the Upper Yukon, who
arrived in Nenana on the steamer
Tanana last week, cnroute to the
coast in search of a new place to
locate. He visited the Mayo dis
trict and believes that it is no place
for a poor man.
A lot of good ore was mined by
the Guggenheims during the past
winter, Mr. Gosser says, but it has
yet to be determined if the camp
is a permanent one This can be de
termined only by sinking and nothing
much will be known until further de
velopment work has been done, which
probably will be during the comine
winter. The Gugg operations have
been considerably curtailed for the
summer.
In the meantime, things are at a
standstill at Mayo and at Gordon
I-anding, both of which places are
on the Stewart river, many miles
from the diggings and with no roads
for the transportation of supplies.
The Canadian government has re
fused to give money for road build
ing and the result is that no hauling
can be done during the summer
months.
In anticipation of a boom in that
district, speculators shipped large
quantities of lumber and building
material to Mayo from Dawson, and
the stuff is now piled on the bank
of the river with no one to buy.
Mr. Stosser says sash and furniture
car. be bought at Mayo at lower
prices than prevail at Dawson.
The silver ore which is being
mined by tlhe Guggies has been
traced along the range, to the east
and west of Mayo, for a distance of
several hundred miles, but the dis
covery has caused no excitement for
the reason that inaccessibility prohib
its mining. Should it be determined
at Mayo, however, that the ore body
has depth sufficient to warrant de
velopment on a large scale, Mr. Stos
ser thinks it will not be difficult to
interest capital in silver propositions
elsewhere. He learned that tlhe repre
sentatives of two large concerns,
other than the Guggies, were in the
country this summer, looking over
the ground, and it is possible that
they will take over some of the
claims and operate them. Otherwise
there will be little development in
addition to that done by the Gug
genheims.
FUR SALES ARE HEAVY
SEATTLE, July 26—A Times
Washington special says that altho
last season was an off year for fur
coats, more than a hundred million
dollars worth of furs were sold in
the United States, according to fig
ures made public by the biological
survey. The gross business in con- i
nection with the import and export
handling of domestic furs the previ
ous year was $375,000,000. That
was during the period when the most
women possessed a fur coat. The re
cent depression is thought to be a
feature of the readjustment.
GOLD EXCITEMENT CAUSING
STAMPEDE TO ELBOW LAKE
THE PAS, Man., June 30—Gold
fever has temporarily displaced ex
citement here incident to the rush to
the oil fields, and prespectors are
leaving daily for the scene of the
reported rich mineral strike.
Reports of ore bodies rich in gold
content having been uncovered come
from several sections, but the richest
is reported at Elbow Lake, in the
Athapapuskow Lake mineral area
and east of the famous Gordon
Dyke, discovered last summer. El
bow Lake is about 200 miles north
east of The Pas.
Mining men who have visited the
spot have returned here with an ac
count of a vein sixty feet wide
wherein free gold is freely seen.
Until it is shipped, they declare, it
is possible only to approximate the
value and tonnage.
Other prospectors who visited the
region following the report of the
strike declare that a mineral body
forty feet wide and traced for 350
feet in length has been uncovered,
Lhroughout which free gold is heavily
deposited. One prospector had two
pounds of ore, of which the gold
content was estimated at not less
than two per cent. These samples
sre considered the richest ever seen
lere.
Another strike, the exact location
jf which is vague, also has thrown
Peace River into Che throes of gold
fever. The cause of the excitement
was the recent arrival of a party
who investigated a claim which
furnished an old Indian trapper,
about 70 miles northeast of here,
with a number of small nuggets.
The Carlisle Packing company is
circulating petitions throughout the
Interior country, in support of a
request to permit the continuance of
cannery operations on the lower Yu
kon river. It is said that one of the
petitions, circulated along the Yukon
river, was signed by practically
everyone, and it is understood the
Fairbanks Commercial club is also
giving its support to the cannery
company. One of the petitions was
received in Nenana last week, for
general circulation here.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
ro Sam Means, E. C. Campbell.
J. W. Ward Zaeh Hichman and
their and ea-' of their heirs, ex
ecutors and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
totified that the sum of cne hun
ired dollars ($100.00) in ,abor and
mprovements has been expended up
5n each of the following association
nining claims, situate on Platt
-reek, a tributary of Homestake
-reek, in the Nenana Mining and
Recording Precinct, Territory of
Alaska, and known as—
The Steward Association Mining
-laim, the Elizabeth Association
Mining Claim, the Queen Mab As
sociation Mining Claim, and the
Katherine Association Mining Claim,
in order to hold said claims under
the provisions of Section 2324, of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendments there
to concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said mining claims
for the year 1920, the time for the
performance of annual labor for
said year 1920 having been, by an
Act of Congress, extended to June
30, 1921; said labor constituting
the assessment work for the year
1920; and if within ninety (90)
days after the last publication of
this Notice you, and each of you, as
respective co-owners of said claims,
fail or refuse to pay to the under
signed your respective proportion
expended by me for said annua!
abor and improvements legally re
quired to hold said claims as /ifore
said for the year 1920, together
*'ith the cost of this notice, your
nterest in said claims /ill become
;he property of the undersigred,
/•our co-owner, under said Seit:on
1324. Revised Statutes cf the United
states. C. C HEID
?irst Publication, July 12. 1921.
-ast Publication, October 10, 1921
fSALTEN SEA OF CALIFORNIA j
IS DISAPPEARING STEADILY
BRAWLEY, Cal., July 6—The
Salten Sea, California's great sink
in the upper Imperial Valley, thirty
miles from the Mexican border, is
shrinking by evaporation at the rate
of two inches a week, according to
observers at Hell's Kitchen, a point
on the shore of the sea. The sea is
now more than 330 feet below the
j sea level and is considered one of th
most unique formations in the en
! tire country.
Epicureans of the Pacific coast,
particularly in San Francisco and
Seattle, it is said, may read of the
shrinking of the Salten Sea with
horror, for the water of the basin
is the haunt of the mullet, and sum
mer cruises in quest of these deni
zens of the Imperial waters are said
to be quite different from ordinary
fishing.
Burning rays of the sun not only
make it a torrid experience for the
fisher, but exposure of the mullet
to the rays soon robs them of their
lure for epicureans, and the power
launches of the fishermen are sup
plied with refrigerators, into which
the mullet are hastily whipped from
the fishline, to guard them from the
The scorching shores of the sand
islands within the Salten Sea furnish
some unusual reversals of nature in
'habits of birds frequenting these is
lands. The birds do not go near
their eggs in the hot summer day, j
but let the sun do their work of
hatching. As soon as the shells j
crack and the feathered bits emerge
into a hot life, the mother bird must
be on constant watch and shelter
them undei its wings to prevent the!
sun from incinerating them.
Mud geysers and steam springs
nearby and bubbles arising through
the surface of the Salten Sea indi
cate some powerful subteranean pres
sure beneath the surface of this in
land, lowland body and geologists
recently exploring the regions de
clared gases from mineral oils are
the cause of the pressure which re-'
suited in seismic disturbances in this
region.
Petitions are being circulated in
Nenana requesting the retention of
James Hagen as deputy marshal in
this locality.
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| JOHN KETOOROKY I
Proprietor.
The speeder arriving from Fair
banks yesterday brought the follow
ing passengers from the upper town:
Mr. and Mrs. Jack O’connor, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Southworth, Mrs.
Lowella Rosburg and daughter Ethel,
Alf Ekeland, Mayor Joe O’Connor,
Jack Donnolly, Herman Garrison and
one or two way passengers.
Major McFarland, head of the T.
& T. department of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, is due at
Healy this evening from the coast,
and likely will come to Nenana to
morrow.
Fine Stock Staple and Fancy Gro
ceries. Fowler & Morris.
KING SALMON RUN
is pinching out. Picked fish for!
salting, while they last, 12Vs cents!
per pound. Delivered in 50 and 100 i
pound lots.
FISH CAMP—First and D Streets
KINGSBURY UPRIGHT PIANO, n
nice walnut case; also Player
Piano, for sale cheap, or will
rent for one or two years to re
sponsible persons. Address, An
derson, Piano Expert, care of
X'enana News. 3t
NEW AMMUNITION ju.t re
recived, including .256 Newton
shell*. Anderson Bros. & Nertand.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Kitchen stove and pipe;
heater and pipe. All for $12.50.
Inquire at D'Orsay’s Tailor Shop.
FOUND—Brown fur at Coliseum.
Owner can recover same by call
ing at theater office.
CABIN FOR SALE
Cabin, furnished complete. In
quire of Fred Maurath at N. C. Co.
LOST—Cameo ring. Finder please
leave at News office.
LOST—Lady’s engraved wrist watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
WANTED—Information as to the
whereabouts of our father, Erik
Hartull; last known address was
Nenana. Communicate with Mrs.
M. Silva and Anna Sofia Hartull,
836 15th. St.. Oakland, California
FOR SALE — Two pairs short tamo
2-strap slippers. Mrs. Langstrom.
A BARGAIN—Fully equipped hand
laundry and bath house, for sale
cheap. For particulars address
Mrs. L. Gallian, Brooks, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healy.
LOST—Pocketbook containing pa
pers of value to the owner, ana
money. Reward for return to AI
Clarno.
FOR SALE—Mule weighing 1500
and two horses. William Smythe.
JUST ARRIVED
NEW GOODS
BAffl, HAM, BUTTER FRUITS OF All KINDS
NEW REMINGTON AMMUNITION
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