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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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EMPLOYES BUY STOCK
Three years hence the employes
of the Standard Oil Company (In- !
diana) will be the largest single 1
group of stockholders collectively,
and will own more stock than any
other individual collective group of
stockholders of the company, if
the employes patronize the stock
purchasing plan in the next three
years as they have in the last two. j
This announcement was made at
Chicago recently by the company in
commenting on the result of the
plan during the two years of its ex-,
istence.
The announcement says that of
the 37,000 stockholders, 10,000 are
now employees and have purchased
stock under the plan which provides
that for every dollar an employee
puts up for the purchase of stock
the comany will add 50 cents to the
employee’s credit in the purchase,
providing, however, that no em
ployee can purchase more than 20
percent of his salary.
As soon as an amount sufficient
to buy one share of stock is reached
the purchase is made and dividends
to the employee begin. At the end
of five years all of the stock pur- j
chased in this manner is delivered to
the employee.
A few concrete examples of how
this plan works are interesting. Two
years ago an office boy earning $50
a month contributed $10 of this
monthly wage to purchasing stock.
Today he has nine shares and with
the small cash balance of $12.50 he
has to his credit $575. His net profit
is $340.
Another employee whose salary
is $500 a month put in $100 to the
purchase of stock. He has now 04
shares which has a total value of
$5,911. His net profit for the two
years is $3,561.
EXCHANGE WELCOMES WOMAN
THE HAGUE, June 2—For the
first time a woman appeared on the
floor of the Amsterdam Stock Ex
change. She is Miss H. W. Deterd
ing. representing an Amsterdam
firm of stock brokers. When she
made her initial appearance the
members of the exchange gave three
cheers and presented her with a
huge bouquet.
i
Clarke Black has resigned his po
sition as assistant postmaster at
Ketchikan to take a position in the
hardware department of the J. R.
Heckman & Co. store. Miss Ferne
Nelson, has been engaged to fill
the position left by the resignation
of Mr. Black.
THEY LIKE SUNTRANA COAL
“Juneau people are pleased with
he coal from the Healy River coal
nine and have ordered a second
ihipment of the fuel, which will ar
rive here in a short time/’ R. R.
ir'oung, agent for the Pacific Coast'
Hoal Company recently informed a
•epresentative of the Juneau Empire
3e said practically all of the first
shipment has been sold to Juneau
residents.
184 TIMES A BRIDESMAID
BESSEMER. Mich., June 2—Miss
VlacFarlane has been a bridesmaid
184 times, bur doesn’t worry in
the least, she says, about the old
superstition chat “twice a brides
maid and you never marry." For
Miss MacFarlane is young and pret
ty. ager to wed and frequently
overlooking many important details
young couples arrive at the court
house here with the license and
the ring, but without witnesses.
Desiring a bridesmaid, the judge
invariably sends down for Miss Mac
Farlane. a deputy county clerk, and
she’s never been known to fail.
L. D. Henderson. Territorial Com
missioner of Education, has accept
ed an invitation to deliver the Com
mencement address at the Ketchikan
High School’s graduating excercises
which will be held this evening.
The graduating class at Ketchikan
this year numbers IS members. This
is the largest class that has ever
graduated at any Alaskan school,
according to the records of the edu
;ational department.
“Service des Transports” Paris,
carried 12.000,000 more passengers
in year 1922 than in 1921. This ser
vice comprises motorbus and tram
way transportation in Paris and
Steamboat service on the Seine.
One of the patients in the Akiak
hospital is a Jap, who was brought
from the lower Yukon with frozen
hands and feet. He lost his way
in a blizzard and was out for IS
days. It was necessary to remove
part of his toes.
A number of employes of the
Healy River Coal Corporation, who
were given a vacation when coal
mining was interrupted recently by
the wreck of the coal spur bridge,
returned io Suntrana yesterday to
resume work.
Richard Suratt, representing the
Pathe at Wrangell, returned to Al
aska recently from a trip to New
York.
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 in—cash, draft or money order, whichever
you want. ACT NOW—if you have one skin or a
hundred. Ship to us at once.
Riiike Fur Co.
S8.SS? ST. LOUIS, MO.
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
FORMER ALASKAN WRITES
FROM SIBERIAN COUNTRY
L. A. White, an old raemploye of
the Copper River railway, who at
Kemerova. Siberia in a letter to a
friend in Cordova says Siberia is a
far different from Alaska in many
ways. “The climate is the same,”
he explains only here it is fifty
below Eero and two days afterward
it is ten below zero. The weather
was very changeable this winter. The
people who have lived here all their
lives said, or rather say, that this
was the most peculiar winter they
ever experienced. I do hope the cold
weather is over. It thawed a little
during midday today, but I suppose
the old rule holds good, when March
comes in like a lamb it will go out
like a lion. We had a very late fall
and I think the Spring will be the
same.
“Siberia is a great place in many
ways. It has many undeveloped op
portunities, but it w-ill be rathei
slow in getting many of the great
enterprises in operation. What il
mostly needs is modern maehiner>
and skilled labor is useless because
they hate the world Deaten wher
it comes to hand methods. They havs
the patience, and time is no objec
to them. They have lots of that. A
times I really cannot understand
their psychology. They sure are fret
and easy going: great lovers o:
music, dancing and social life. Thei
can sit and talk longer than an;
nationality that I know of, and an
great diplomats. At present the;
have a peculiar way of doing bus
iness. The co-operative stores are 0
K. but the small merchant, bette
known as the speculator, practicall;
does all his business in small booth
in the public market. No matte
how cold it is they carry on thei
place of business in the stree
sometimes I would think they wouli
freeze, but somehow they do not
“Some day in the near futur
Russia and Siberia will develop int
an unexplainable nation beeausi
they have the resources and ail tha
is needed is development. Righ
here in Kemerovo there are th
gretcest coal deposits that I eve
saw, and the farming industry i
wonderful. All that • the fanner
need is modern machinery; there i
more fertile land lying idle than
ever imagined there was in th
world. The wheat that could b
raised in Siberia would feed th
world. The tamers here cultivate
only small patches and with th
crude methods they use there is n<
mystery why there is such a short
age of food. If they continue t<
improve for several more years a
they have for the past two year
Russia and Siberia will have mor
food than they will know what ti
do with. At the present there is ;
shortage of many thing.
“This district is a little too coli
for me and most of the American
The winters are entirely too long
just about the same as the Interio
of Alaska, and the summers ar
short and very hot. The crops tha
require five months in the State
grow in three months here. Kemero
vo is mostly noted for its min
ing, farming, both grains and In
stock, a little timber and hunting
the rivers have small fish, and fo
sweets we have to go to the farmer
for honey. The live stock consist
of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep; als
plenty of geese, turkey, ducks an
chickens. There are quite a numbe
of foxes and wolves, some bea]
rabbits and lots of quail. The farm
ers do not have a great deal of In
stock, only enough for their ow
use, usually about three cows, tw
or three horses, four or five hog
and a dozen or so geese, turkey
and chickens.
“The snow gets about three fee
deep on the level and the farmer
have a pecular custom of usin
small sleds and wagons, and as
result their horses are very smal
weighing about six to eight hundre
pounds. Kemerovo will be som
place when we get it developed. A
present we are operating six coi
mines and constructing a chemic:
plant which is about ninety per cer
complete, and expect to get it i
.operation by June 1. We have three
electric power stations in operation,
the largest being 1000 K. W., and
we expect to enlarge it 2500 K. W.
this summer. Kemerovo has a popu
lation of 2,500, with two theatres.
We have some good sh<?ws occasion
ally. The River Tom divides the
town. It is a fair-sized river, the
width in Kemerovo being fifteen
hundred feet and in mid-stream it
averages about fifteen feet-deep. j
Kemerovo is located on the end of
one of the ranches of the Trans
Siberian Railroad. There are about
2.000 pepple employed in and a
round the mines, and we expect to
produce 400 tons of coal every 24
hours by the first of April. At the
present time the production is only
one-fourth of that amount.
Guriouf is a city located about
sixty miles from here. They have
a small steel plant there, which is
practically idle, because we are un
able to supply them with coke. The
Alti mountains are located near
Kemerovo and they are noted for
the gold deposits, but there is but
little gold mining being done. When
conditions are more settled it is
hoped the gold mining will begin.
People here are too busy trying to
produce something to eat and wear!
to bother with mining.”
TERRITORY TO HAVE SCHOOL
AT UNALASKA NEXT WINTER
Establishment of a Territorial
school at Unalaska was announced
at Juneau recently by Commissioner
of Education L. D. Henderson the
first term to open next fall. Coin
cident with the establishment of the
Territorial institution, the school
heretofore maintained there by the
Federal Bureau of Education will
be discontinued, said Mr. Henderson.
The latter school has been operat
ed at Unalaska for years. For sev
eral year there has bbeen some effort
to get the Territorial Depart
ment of Education to provide a
school. Recently an election was
held at Unalsaka and all the re
quirements of the Territorial laws
complied with for establishment of
a school district.
Douglas Aerie 117, Fraternal Or
der of Eagles, held their annual e
lection of officers recently, with the
following result: Charles Sey,:
worthy president; John Mill, vice
president; Hubert Vanden Weyer,
chaplain; Guy L. Smith, secretary;
Leo DeMytt.conductor; Axel Krom
quist. inside guard: Joe Kendlei,'
outside guard: A. G. Johnson, trus
tee; E. E. Smith, trustee; G. Grand-‘
ler, trustee.
5 j Frank H. Foster was another
member of the Territorial legisla
1j ture whose home people took ad
1J vantage of his absence to thrust an
j office upon him. He was elected j
I city attorney of Cordova at a recent j
= meeting of the council of that town
; Senator Dimond was elected mayor
• of Valdez while at the legislature.
: FOUND—Lady’s gold neck chain
i with gold stone pendant. Owner
- can recover same by calling on Lou j
- ; Isabel.
? ' " i
; In the Probate Court for the Terri
r | tory of Alaska. Fourth, Diviiion,
5 ! Nenana Precinct.
3 In the matter of the Estate of Al
> bert Maurice, deceased.
i NOTICE TO CREDITORS
r! Notice is hereby given that the
,' undersigned has been appointed ad
- ministrator of the above named es
5 state and all persons having claims
i against said estate are notified to
j present them, with proper vouchers,
s within six months from the date
s ■ of the first publication hereof, to
j the undersigned at his place of bus
t iness in the Town of Nenana,Alaska,
s i which place is hereby designated as
j j the place where the principal busi
i ness of said estate will be trans
, acted.
i Nenana, Alaska, May 5, 1923.
e ALFRED GHEZZI
t _Admin istrator<
.1 Date of first publication May 5,
;1 1923.
t Date of last publication June 2.
n 1923.
Alaska Steamship Co.
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VICTORIA May 19 May 26
ALAMEDA _.-. May 26 June 1 June 2
NORTHWESTERN* .-June 2 June 9
ALASKA June 9 June 15 June 16
FOR RATES AND RESERVATIONS APPLY TO
J. H. FL1CKINGER. A. H. McDONALD,
Agent, Seward. Alaska Agent. Anchurage
A. A. ShONBECK
ANCHORAGE
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
Romeo Redwood Stave
WATER & MINING TANKS SILOS HYDRAULIC PIPE
EXPLOSIVES FEED
Write us for information
See Mel Cooney for postcards]
of die breakup. i
WANT ADS
MINING GROUND FOR SALE—;
Group of three claims (placer) on.
Glacier Creek, Kantishna district.
Nos. 17,IS and 19. (No. 17 worked ,
out. > Shallow ground, from six
inches to five feet to bedrock.
Coarse gold. Automatic dam. boxes, ]
tools, complete camp outfit. Forj
furthers particulars inquire at News i
Office.
FOR SALE—Two first-class pack
horses, known as Kennedy stock.
Black weighs 1200, gray 1350. In
quire of Anthony Letray.
1
FOR SALE—3 room residence furn-i,
nished—Cheap—Inquire News Office
“EVERYBODY can buy groceries, i
feed and supplies WHOLESALE. t
Write for free pricelist. Peoples
Grocery, 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
PEOPLES GROCERY COMPANY
RUBBER!
Baby’s and Ladies Rubbers; rub
ber tea-aprons in blue, green and
light gray—pockets and butterfly,
pockets, the dainty fluted ruffles
are made secure with rubber ce
ment. Childrens ventilated pants,;
are pure white and protective, as I
well as sanitary. i ■
THE DORSAY SHOP <
ORDER YOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
.PHONE YOUR ORDERS
.. TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
Mrs. V. Corning returned to Ne
lana yesterday from the coast.
LOCAL TRAIN" SCHEDULE
[■HE ALASKA RAILROAD
["rains leave and arrive Xenana as
follows:
.1.35 p. m. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points
Returning arrives Xenana 11:20
i. m. same days.
>:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika.
Arrives Xenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
"Trains both north and south
►ound stop over night at Curry
vhere excellent hotel facilities are
ivailable for the public.
River steamers leave Xenana ev
■ry Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. for
>oints down river to Holy Cross and
Connecting with gas launch at lat
er point for St. Michael. Arrive Ne
lana every Monday or Tuesday."
Andy’s Express
— A T —
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.
Y'isiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghexzi R. C. Morris.
Secretary. President.
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D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
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Trappers T raders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alaska Building
NEW YORK
127 W. 27 th Street |