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POOL' CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Rates Bjr the Week or Montb
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NEWS IS RECEIVED
OF ALASKANS ABROAD
Several Kairbanksans received
letters and cards, on the last mail
from Major Robert Louphry and
Lieutenant J. G. Coleman, both of
whom were formerly stationed at
the Fairbanks Signal Corps office.
Major Loujrhry was master elec
trician and Lieutenant Coleman
was a sergeant in the Signal Corps.
They both received promotions
shortly after the United States
entered the war.
Major Loughry was in Coblenz,
while Lieutenant Coleman was at
Luxemburg at the time the cards
and letters were mailed.
Shakan was included in the itin
erary of the recent epidemic of
flu. At’ one time 26 whites and
50 natives were down with the
disease. Two native children died.
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IF YOU EAT ICE CREAM
CANDY-FRUIT-OR CHEWING GUM
IF YOU SMOKE CIGARS
CIGARETTES OR TOBACCO OF ANY KIND
IF YOU DRINK CIDER
OR ANY KIND OF CARBONATED DRINKS
OR IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MOMENTS
RECREATION OR AMUSEMENT, TRY
THE ARCTIC
DAVIS * TAYLOR, Prop*.
I ALSO NICELY FURNISHED, WARM AND COZY ROOMS
FOR RENT AT REASONABLE RATES
ML NEARING '
LIGNITE FIELDS
When work for' the day was
called off last night, station No.
17704 had been reached by the
i steel gang, and a distance of 1500
I feet had been covered for the day.
j The weather prevailing just now
is being taken advantage of to the
fullest extent and construction to
wards the coal fields will be pushed
with vigor.
From station No. 17704 to the
Jgap in the line, a distance of 5100
l ] feet intervenes, and at the present
, j rate of progress this gap will be
(; reached n a trifle over four days’
time, provided the weather holds
good.
The gap at present extends from
station No. 17641 to station No.
17644, a distance of 5000 feet, and
just as soon as the gap has been
reached by the steel gang, the
whole gang will be transfered to
town for the purpose of laying
track (narrow gauge) from the
Nenana yards across the river ice
and on to the grade on the Nenana
Kairbanks line. The steel will ex
tend as far up the right of way
towards Fairbanks as the completed
grade will allow, and material and
j supplies will be sent across on the
[ j trains to be delivered to teams at
the end of steel on the Fairbanks
I i line.
,j Just as soon as the gap on the
main line south of town has been
II closed, the steel gang will again be
i! sent south to rush the steel to the
. coal fields.
I According to the calculations
made by those in charge it is esti
mated that the time consumed in
j making the fill on the gap south
of town will give the steel gang
just sufficient time to complete the
line across the river to permit of
, freighting.
I
MARSHAL ERWIN
RETURNING NORTH
Thi marshal's office at Fairbanks
received a wire today from Mar
shal L. T. Erwin, indicating that
he has started for the North.
| The wire is from Hot Springs,
Arkansas, where he had been spend
ing a part of his vacation.
I Left in Cordova recently without
j funds, three seamen from the
i schooner Alaska appealed to the fed
eral authorities for help to get Out
side- The men who were suffering
from the flu were members of the
crew of the schooner which touched
at Cordova recently. Receiving no
| aid from the authorities they bor
; rowed and begged enough to take
(steerage on the steamship Alaska
, for the States.
Bursting of several sections in
the two boilers in the Alaskan En
gineering commission’s central heat
ing plant in the Anchorage terminal
I yards recently put the plant out of
| operation for several hours, but
' otherwise, except for ruining the
! boilers, occasioned no damage. Some
| inconvenience, because of lack of
i heat and warm water resulted in
! the offices, bunk houses and mess
, ball. The boilers are beyond re
I pair, and a locomotive engine which
| has been stationed on the track
| beside the power plant and con- j
[nected with it, is now doing their
i work.
A. H. Miller, superintendent of
native education for the Third di
vision with headr^iarters at Anchor
age, is strongly convinced that fish
ing should be closed in the Copper
river to all except natives. Mr.
Miller says that while appliances
for catching fish are increasing
every year, the natives who de
pend for their sustenance on the
fish of the Copper river, have been
catching fewer and fewer fish each
year, until they have reached the
starvation point. This year the
catch was about one-fifth that of
(other years, he said.
James A. Smith, well konwn by
oldtimers as “ZaZ” and an ex
ceptionally clever cartoonist, and
one of the pioneers of the Nome
country, is now secretary of the
Northbend Coas Bay, Chamber of
Commerce.
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NENANA 10 HELP
SI0P “BUONE
! Secretary Joseph, of the Nenana
Commercial club, received the fol
lowing telegram from the Anchor
age Chamber of Commerce, regard
ing the opposition offered by John
E. Ballaine at Washington, to the
' passage of the appropriation for
railroad purposes.
Athough Ballaine is known to be
a chronic kicker, and that he has,
on several occasions attempted to
hamper the work of the Alaskan
Engineering commission in various
ways, it was deemed advisable by
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce to wire several congressmen
to offset any ill e’ffects Ballane’s
action may have had. They ask Ne
nana to take similar action, and it
will be safe to assume that the Ne
nana Commercial club will readily
do so.
The wire from the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce is as fol
lows:
Anchorage, Feb. 3. 1919
Nenana Commercial Club,
iNenana, Alaska.
“Reported here that John E.
Ballaine is opposing the Alaskan
Engineering commission and en
dangering appropriation; we have
sent following to chairman House
Appropriation committee and others
Suggest similar action on your part:
‘Informed John E. Ballaine oppos
ing Alaskan Engineering commis
sion methods of work; Ballaine does
not represent people or sentiment
of this territory; is not a resident
of Alaska; has not even visited
territory in over year; has no in
terst except town lots at Seward
on which taxes delinquent two
years. His opposition caused by
personal pique and interests; Bal
laine not considered seriously in
Alaska. Alaskan Engineering com
mission efficient and businesslike;
necessary appropriation to continue
work be passed at earliest possible
time to credit employment fot idle
men and returning soldiers, who are |
now arriving here.
“Anchorage Chamber of Commerce”
It is reported that similar action
has been taken by the Fairbanks
Commercial club, who were also
wired to by the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce.
KNITTING CLUB MEETS
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
The next meeting of the Nenana
Knitting club will be held on the
afternoon of Thursday, February
6th, at the home of Mrs. Ike P.
Taylor, on the Commission reserve.
All members of the club are cor
dialy invited to attend.
Lieut. Crit Tolman and Lieut.
Tom Finnegan, Alaska boys in the
United States airplane service, and
fliers of repute, have asked to be
assigned to making airplane tests
in Alaska as to the feasibility of
using planes to carry the mails.
The boys are Alaskans, familiar
with the country and its climatic
conditions, and would be invaluable
men for this service, believes the
Valdez Miner.
Its inventor claims that he has
perfected a steamship berth which
remains level no matter what the
motions of a vessel and also is
proof against vibration.
“On the Wing,” the official paper
of the Spruce division on Puget
Sound, printed at Seattle and edited
by Lieut. Emil Hurja, formerly of
Fairbanks, recently issued its fare
well number.
The natives of Southeastern
Alaska proved their patriotism when
they oversubscribed their Fourth Lib
erty Lyan quota, which was placed
at $15,000 by over 100 per cent.
They also raised over three times
that sum for war work during the
past year. In addition to this they
registered for service under arms,
thus renouncing their allegiance to
their tribes.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
| We Carry a Complete Line of |
1 FRESH HIGH GRADE 1
I IMPERIAL CANDIES 1
|1 ALSO |
II Salted Pecans, Almonds, Peanuts |
j! Apples and Oranges |
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CIGARS POOL TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Barber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
BLANKFIELD’S EXPRESS
CLEAN DRY WOOD FOR SALE
COAL BY THE SACK OR TON
HAULING OE ALL KINDS
Offiee at The Arctic
Residence Phone
Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
SAM CRAWFORD
MARRIED AGAIN
On the last mail, some of his
friends in Fairbanks received notice
of the wedding: of Sam Crawford,
a son of R. M. Crawford, of Fair
banks, to Miss Frances Marie Star
ett, of Wilmeth, 111. The wedding;'
took place on December 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford are now
residing; at 38 Westland Ave. Bos
ton, Mass.
Major L. H. French, who has
been district commander of the Avi-!
ation Corps with headquarters at
Marshifield, Coos Bay district, Ore
gon, expected to leave there on
the first of the year and intended
coming; back to Alaska.
The Alaska Treadwell Gold Min
ing company is working a crew of
32 men under Peter Johnson on
their molybdenite prospect. At pres
ent the tunnel has been driven on
the vein 336 feet and 2400 feet
of the 3600 foot traip to the wharf
is completed.
The town of Petersburg, to the
north of Wrangell, is to have one
of the finest hotels in that part of
Alaska. It will be of concrete, two
stories high, and will contain forty
two rooms and twenty baths. The
estimated cost is $50,000.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
IRISHMAN AND NORWEGIAN
WAN TO BECOME CITIZENS
Two men applied at the office of
the clerk of the court today for
first naturalization papers, which
were readily pranted.
The men were Denis Bailey, of
i Fairbanks, and Arndt Wittendorf
Greve, of Nenana.
Venana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
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