Store Closed Tomorrow
WILL REOPEN
FRIDAY MORNING
SIMSON’S
TUESDAY BRIDGE CLUB
AT SCHMIDT HOME
The regular -weekly meeting of
the Tuesday Bridge club was held
last night at the home of Mrs.
Carl Schmidt, on Front street, and
a very enjoyable time was spent at
the favorite game.
Mrs. R. W. Calderhead, with a
score of 2834 points, carried off
the honors of the day.
Light refreshments were served
by the hostess during the course
of the games, the party breaking
up shortly after midnight.
The next meeting place of the
Tuesday club will be announced
later.
Iiuu—The Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
Dr, J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
Shop in Portland Building
Now Open for Business with
Full Line of Requisites
The launch Peerless, which, un
der the command of Captain Joe
Johnson, has been on the Faif
banks-Nenana run for several years
past, and has carried more passen
gers between the two towns than
any other craft of its kind on the
river, is once more ready to re
sume the service. During its many
years of service on the river the
Peerless has carried passengers
without hitch or accident, and has
built for itself an enviable record
in this respect.
Captain Joe Johnson has fixed up
his boat in fine shape for the ser
vice this summer, and has effected
many improvements in the passen
ger accommodations and the hull
and machinery for the safety and
comfort of his patrons. The air
compartment of the Peerless con
tains 32,000 cubic inches of air.
which gives the boat a buoyancy
of a little better than 1,100 pounds,
and with a reasonable load on
board, renders the craft practically
unsinkable in case of accident.
Kenana—The Gateway to McKinley
Katirnal Park.
SHOTGUNS and Shotgun Ammu
nition—new stock just opened, at
Anderson Bros & Nerland.
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
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‘ TAVERN CAFE & BAKERY
WHERE THE LIVE ONES LIVE
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TAKE A CHANCE FOR FOUR-BITS ON A
$50 Victory Bond
We will raffle $50 bonds every night until close of drive.
Drawings to take place immediately before or after the picture
show, when necessary amount has been collected. We want to
**11 $1000 worth. Get aboard the Vieto**y band wagon and boost.
KOYUKUK MINER
BRINGS NEWS OF
DOCTOR’S DEATH
Ben Peterson, who arrived in Xe
nana Monday evening from the Koy
ukuk country, brings detrils of the
| circumstances leading up to the dis
covery of the death and of the in
quest proceedings over the remains
of the late Dr. Danforth, who shot
himself at Wiseman on or about
April r.th.
The doctor was very popular in
| the Arctic camp and the boys
' around Wiseman used to drop in
to see him at his cabin very fre
quently. They were in the habit
of borrowing books and magazines
from him, as he happened to be
always well stocked with reading
mattei.
Peterson says he went to the
doctor’s cabin about 7 o'clock on
; Saturday evening, April 5th, to re
turn some books he had borrowed
and get some more, but found the
door locked—a very unusual cir
cumstance in itself. He did not
j think much of it at the time, and
went away. Returning later and
finding the door still locked, he
went back to his cabin for the
! night, thinking the doctor had per
haps been called away on some
j distant errand.
He went back to the cabin the
j next day with Rod Morrison and a
few more of the boys, and finding
the door locked, they looked through
: the window and saw the doctor's
lifeless body lying in a sleeping
j position on his bed in the back
i room of the cabin.
The matter was reported imme
diately to Tommy Wright, United
States commissioner of che Koyu
kuk, who, with the aid of some
others, broke into the cabin and
held a coroner’s inquest shortly aft
erward. Ben Peterson was one of
the jurymen at the inquest.
The doctor’s body was lying as
described, with a bullet hole ever
the region of the heart, and a
Colt’s .32-caliber automatic pistol
lying on the floor near the bed.
ne was dressed in ins nigh: clothe.',
and his Sunday clothes were ar
ranged ready for use. Some blood
i bespattered the wall near the bed,
and examination of the body dis
closed the fact that the bui'et had
gone clear through it, coming out
at the back.
On opening his safe, a will, dated
April 4th, 1919, was found. The
; will was brief. It stated that he
had no debts to pay, and bequeathed
all his worldly possess! ms to his
! wife, and, in case of her death,, to
his two sons, one of whom is the
editor of the Oakland Tribune, and
the other in the army. It also
; named Ed Heppenstad, deputy mar
shal of the Koyukuk, as adminis
trator of his estate.
An examination of the cabin and
woodshed showed that the dead man.
as usual, had been provident. Suf
ficient wood to last him a year nai
| been sawed up and stacked ready
for use, and his larder was well
| stocked with all the necessary pro
visions and an ample supply of
wild meat such as is in general use
in the Koyukuk. The doctor lived
alone and did his own cooking.
The coroner’s jury returned a
verdict of death by suicide and the
body was finally laid at rest in the
Wiseman cemetery on Thursday,
April 10th, a very heavy snow
storm prevailing at the time.
Everybody in Wiseman, and some
from the neighboring creeks, attend
ed the funeral, all of whom deeply
regretted his demise. In life he
was a friend to alj of them and
he will be greatly missed.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
ANNOUNCEMENT
—
Dr. R. R. Myers wishes to an
nounce to his patrons that he will
leave Nenana on the first boat for
| down river points, and will be absenl
for some time.
The date of return will be dulj
announced later.
HOWARD CURTIS
IS NOW TOURING
THE BATTIEFRON1
A letter was received in the las
mail by William Gileher, from Lieu
tenant Howard P. Curtis, formed;
general storekeeper of the A. E. C
in Xenana, in which he tells o
having obtained a furlough, whicl
he purposed to spend partly on th.
late battlefront in France and part
ly in the Riviera (Mentone, Nice
and Monte Carlo). He says:
"Last Saturday I went to Pont
nazan as the guest of Jack Kerpe
(formerly office engineer of the A
E. C. in Xenana) to a fine shov
given by his regiment, the 319tl
engineer. Jack Hayes and Barne;
Goss are in this regiment, whic'
is composed of mechanics of al
kinds. They have put up a fin
hut in their camp, which seats ove
two thousand, and they have a fin
regimental band. Barney Goss i
sergeant bugler.
"Have received my orders fo
leave to start on March 31st.
am going to the front, and fron
there to Xiee. I will make Pari
on my way to the front, but cai
stay there only three days. The;
are awfully strict about leave t<
Paris. One has to register in witl
the M. P.’s, and, believe me, if yoi
do not register out on time, yo>
will hear from it.”
“Jack Barker (formerly specia
agent of the general land office
Fairbanks) has taken an apartmen
and wants me to share it witl
him. When he first came here, wi
tried to get an apartment, but weri
unable to locate one that wouli
suit, and since then I have becorm
so comfortably situated at the of
fleers’ mess that I hate to give uj
my room. Jack's plan is to kee]
house. I think it will be too muc!
worry, for, unless one looks afte:
the buying, these French will rol
you blind
“I bought a rug the other day
paid 32 francs for it, and when
went to pay my bill, found tha
they had charged me two cents foi
the string they had tied it with
That’s the way they do busines:
over here; you always want to ge
the price of anything, and ther
jew them down; they expect it.
got stung the other day; bought i
set of rubber soles and heels foi
my field shoes. The price asket
was two francs, and I supposed
naturally, that it included nailing
them on; but -when I went to settle
up, the frog made me pay fiv<
francs for ten minutes' work.
‘•We are using a lot of Germar
freight cars now and there are £
lot of German locomotives here ir
Brest being overhauled. Tht
damned Huns cannot be trusted
They had taken the rivets out oi
the boilers and l\ad pat in large
headed nails; ‘he air gauges were
set to go off at 200 pounds, and
only register 40—all such tricks
as that. They should be made to
pay dearly for that.
“I am going to try to get home
after I return from leave. They
are not letting any of the Q. M.’s
go back; they seem to need all the
officers they can get. This base
is growing every day. Only last
week they started on a big new
building for the finance. They have
started a newr salvage plant that is
to be the largest in France Thej
have one that is now turning out
about 800 pairs of shoes a day foi
; one item alone. They expect *.c
employ 2,000 French women at the
'■ new plant. All the soap we use
at this base is made there, and the}
have a hog ranch like the one 1
used to run in Nenana. 1 questior
' very much whether they are savin*
j much money on these salvage
[plants; of course, they save ma
terial, which means tonnage; bu
that is not so essential now as i
was during the war. The ships are
not bringing over full cargoes a:
they used to. Enclosed you wil
find a copy of the manifest of the
President Grant. The items o'
fresh apples are all Hood river ap
pies- You should have seen th.
shines handle those boxes. Then
were apples strewn all over tin
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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 MOMENT’S
RECREATION OR AMUSEMENT, TRY
THE ARCTIC
DAVIS & TAYLOR, Prop*.
ALSO NICELY FURNISHED, WARM AND COZY ROOMS
FOR RENT AT REASONABLE RATES
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IF YOU WANT SHOES
Tennis. Leather, Canvas or Rubber
SAVE TIME AND MONEY
Shoes for Ladies, Men and Boys
GO TO
\ rOWLER & MORRIS
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1 warehouses and we had to put ex
1 tra guards on to watch them.
1 "We estimated the value of the
I goods in warehouse No. 5 the other
day, for the fire marshal. J put it
; at about ten million dollars We
i have, in one little pile, over 200
‘ bales of officers’ uniforms, each
‘ bale worth $560; then another pile
I of trench coats, each coat worth
$25. The general told me he held
me responsible for the safekeeping
1 of all that clothing, as well as ev
' ervthing in the other warehouses.
1 If I have to pay for everything
that is lost, there won't be much
' left out of my pay chock at the
end of the month. The amount of
: goods that have been stolen from
’ the A. E. F. is appalling. I >up
: pose it could not be helped, but
• some day there will have to be an
explanation.”
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
TERMINAL WILL RAFFLE
VICTORY LOAN BONDS
To provide an easy way whereby
Xenanaites may acquire Victory
Loan bonds for a modest outlay,
and with a view to helping the loan
campaign as much as possible, Andy
Hoey, of the Terminal, will raffle
$50 bonds at 50 cents per chance.
The Terminal wants to dispose of
at least $1,000 worth of bonds- by
this method. The raffles of the
bonds will take place just as soon
as sufficient tickets to buy a $50
bond have been sold. Tickets are
on sale now and Xenanaites are
invited to step into the Terminal
and take a chance.
YUKON LEGISLATURE ~
CONVENED YESTERDAY
DAWSOX, May 7.—The legisla
ture of the Yukon Territory con
vened yesterday in this city.
Allen McMillan, of Bonanza creek,
was elected speaker.
CENTRAL RESTAURANT
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
FIRST CLASS QUICK SERVICE
HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
KETOOROKY & CO.
(BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JOHN)
BLANKFIELD’S EXPRESS
CLEAN DRY WOODJEOR SALE
COAL BY THE SACK OR TON
HAULING OE ALL KINDS
Offiee at The Arctic Residence Phone
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ICE CREAM |
AND
SOFT DRINKS I
(INCLUDING THE WAR TAX)
THE PORTLAND |
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