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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana, Alaska
R. G. Southworth — — — — Editor and Manage<
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NEW YORK IN 1321
New York has thrown away its
nickel novel of 1920, to begin read
ing the 1921 thriller of Dead Man’s
tjuleh moved into Broadway and the
Black Hills set down on Pith Avenue
somewhere between the Waldorf
Astoria and 42nd. street.
With something like 400 robberies
and “stick-ups" on the newspaper
lists of crimes for the past year,
and more than 100 murders and
killings set down by news offices as
"unsolved”, the present year has
had set for it a penny-dreadful re
cord it will take two-gunmen from
Coyote Canyon a lifetime's endeavor
to beat.
A ride from the flrand Centra!
-in a taxicab now is conceded by the
leading papers of the metropolis to
have nothing on a trip in the Dead
wood stagecoach and the big hotels
und restaurants loom up as cheery
as the Santa Fe Saloon in the Wild
West days of the six-gun toter and
the Bad Boy Bandits of Bloody Hol
low. Twenty police riflemen patrol
the streets at night in automobiles.
The curfew rings out at midnight
when Central Park is closed to
vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and
all persons abroad must give account
of themselves v.hen asked.
Conditions have become such that
.-judges on the criminal court; bench
have urged the formation of citi
zens’ committees on a par with the
vigilantes of the frontier before it
was accused of moving back East
to metropolitan centers. The mayor
has warned all persons carrying or
possessing valuables to procure per
mits to arm themselves against high
waymen and the police have tried to
get back to something like first prin
ciples in life and property protec
tion.
C rimes have been chronicled as
though they were robbery and mur
der cyclones, and the subway news
paper reader has fctt all the thrill
of riding the Overland Limited in
the days when Jesse James and his
gang held no prairie railroad im
mune from their ravages.
Estimates have placed about four
million dollars as the total value of
loot obtained by burglars, thieves
and yeggmen in New ‘York during
1920. Daylight holdups, attacks in
leading Great White Way hotels
and automobile banditry have yield
ed much of the valuables stolen. As
many ns 40 robberies and thefts
have been featured for asingle
month's acts of violence of note,
and six such attempts in a day have
been recorded.
Of the more than one hundred
“unsolved” murders listed by the
newspapers, a number* now are na
tionally, if not internationally, well
known. Conspicuous among those
who met tragic deaths were Joseph
B. Elwell, known from coast to
coast as a whist expert and horse
man; Miss Renie Hoxie, a 17-year
old girl who was found murdered
on her father’s farm; and Pred C.
Ecker, former government agent
and alleged whisky runner, who was
shot dead in an automobile in Staten
Island.
In the robberies, organized banJs
of gunmen have seemed to predomi
; rate. Thefts of valuable poods from
| railroad freipht ears, bulkinp bip in
I packinp cases, have been consider
able. Stolen automobiles have been
reported constantly. But holdups of
the old time type, by day as well
as nipht, on the street, in the home,
in hotels, where masked and un
masked men have taken what they
wanted at the point of pistols, have
called forth the hue and cry apainst
alleped inadequate police protection.
Automobile bandits have made off
with a number of factory payrolls
and banks have seen pur.men walk
in and demand money from the safe
under penalty of instant death.
To combat this condition, which
probably is no worse proportionately
in New York than in many other
cities in the States, Police Com
missioner Enripht has lenpthened
the hours of police duty, called for
half a thousand additional police
men and sent out automobile squads
armed with rifles to patrol the shop
pinp and business districts.
ALASKAN AFFAIRS
Sometimes, says the Ketchikan!
Daily Chronicle, the people of Alas-!
ka would seem justified in saying,
with Artemus Ward, “We are gov
erned 2 mutch."
The territory, continues the ed
itor of the Ketchikan paper, has1
never suffered from any dearth of!
federal regulations from the days;
of “Seward’s Folly” down to our
time. There is a happy medium be
tween the contemptous neglect of
sixty years ago and the excessive!
bureaucratic paternalism of the
present. It is not more red tape that
is wanted “where the darkened fifties
dip to the north.” It is national
scientific management which avoids
overlapping jurisdictions and allows
of the proper use of capital in
promoting industry, while curbing
the profiteer.
In the fifteen years from 1903
to 1918 the value of Alaska’s ex
ports grew from twelve to seventy
five millions of dollars. The natural
resources, except for gold, are still
for the most part in the pioneer
stage of development. Alaska is to
be incaklably more valuable in the
future.
Charles F. Curry, chairman of the
house committee which has to deal
with Alaska, is right in his insist
ence on the enormous importance
of a rational scheme for dealing
with such vast and multiplied in
terests as Alaska represents.
THE NEW RAILROAD
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS
POOL AND PAN
SOMETHING DOING ALL THE TIME
BARBER SHOP AND BATHS
ROOMS IN CONNECTION. BILLY THOMAS
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THE TRAVEL NORTH
There is every indication of a
heavy travel North in the spring, to
be followed by the heaviest tourist
travel in history, believes the Seat
tie Alaska Dispatch. Although there
will be few cannery crews moved
North, the Alaskans returning to
the territory will far exceed the
cannery help usually taken North.
' The Dispatch office is in fairly good
| touch with Alaskans out of the ter
i ritory, and a vanvass shows hund
j reds of these men determined to
| return North in the spring.
Alaska is not going to suffer as
I keenly from a short salmon pack as
anticipated. Many of the men here
tofore engaged in salmon fisheries
will take up other lines of endeavor.
An added factor in Alaska's favor
will be inclination of canners who
operate to employ Alaska help there
by eliminating the expense of ship
ping men to and from the terri
tory.
Frank Robertson has returned to
his post at the end of steel after
a two-week’s stay at the Govern
ment hospital.
! DAWSON AWAITS COMING
OF FT. M’PHERSON TEAMS
DAWSON, Feb. 10—The first
news of the winter from the Canad
ian Arctic is expected within the
I next couple of weeks, upon the re
turn to Dawson of the Mounted
■ Police dost team patrol train, whicn
left on the annual pilgrimage to
l Fort McPherson on January 4.
The Dawson train, made up ot
five police dog teams, was sent to
Fort McPherson to meet two trains
from Herschel Island and Rampart
House, stations maintained by the
•‘mounties" at Canadian outposts.
The Dawson train carried mail and
supplies for the men at Herschel
I and Rampart House and is return
: ing with postal packages and late ad
j vices from the country bordering
; the Canadian Arctic. The local teams
I will have traveled about 1,000 by
| the time they reach home.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murphy are
moving into the cottage formerly
; occupied by the George Smiths.
FRESH VEGETABLES—Carrot.
I Cabbage and Rutebaga. at Coghill'a.
One Pair Did Not Wear Out!,
II’ was a scientific expedition composed of three
white men and five Indians.
They tramped clear across Labrador, five months of
that heart-breaking going through rough country
that simply means death to footwear.
One man wore Goodrich “Hi-Press” and the resf
wore—other makes.
And before the traverse was completed every sol
itary boot and shoe had worn out except Goodrich !
The chief of the party (who wore the Goodrich) sen r
the shoes into us as proof. You should see them
the corrugations on the sole are not all worn otf.
There is no doubt of the superior wearing quality
of Goodrich Rubber Boots and Shoes. If has been
proven time and again.
Fishermen, laborers, hunters, miners all agree that
the footwear with the Red Line ’Round the Top
stands supreme for comfort and all around service.
THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY
Akron, Ohio
Seattle, 115 King Street
Goodrich
Hi-Press
Rubber Footwear
with the RED; LINEground the top ,
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of your birth. State locality of
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ceipt of $2.
H. M. D’Orsay, Nenana.
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GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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RIDGEWAY’S TEAS, PRIDES AND TEAGARDEN PRESERVES
CRAWFORD’S ORANGE JELLY AND MARMALADES.
HARDWARE AND MEN’S FURNISHINGS OF HIGHEST GRADE
SUNKIST ORANGES AND LEMONS—DELICIOUS APPLES
California Glazed Fruits—Candies and Nuts of all Kinds
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Baby sled. Cal! up The \
News for particulars.
FOR RENT—Piano. $10 per month. !
Simson's Store.
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Northwestern Feb. 0
Admiral Watson . Feb. 6
Alameda ...... Feb. 16
Coast Train Schedule
Train leaves Gold Creek for
Anchorage on Sunday ami Thurs
day at 1 :U0 I*. M.
Train leaves Deodhorse for An- j
chorage on Tuesday and Friday.
Train leaves Anchorage for Sew
ard on Wednesday and Saturday at
9:00 A. M.
Train leaves Chiekaloor. for An
chorage, via Kska on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at ?:.'50
A. M.
Nenana Train Schedule
Trains leave Nenana for the end
of steel four times a week—on
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday
THE ROYAL BEAN POT
Is now opened up.
Baked Chili Beans, hot or not;
The Coffee and Sandwiches are fine,
You'll find it a good place to dine
Service, noon until after show
CHRISTINE BRODESEN
Third and A Streets
Genuine Daniel Green Felt Shoes
Fowler & Morris.
^ssssssssmsk
Chop Suey, Noodles
AND
Home-Made Bakery
Northern Cafe
GEORGE TANAKA, Prep.
HEALY RIVER
ROADHOUSE
END OF STEEL
First-class Meals
BEDS
Cigars and Tobacco
Ambrose Van, Prop.
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
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LIFE INSURANCE
FIRE INSURANCE
Only the molt reliable companies
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MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Frank Rourke Goo. S. Smith
Secretary. President.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Schedule of .trains, subject t'>
change without notice:
I.EAV E NENANA for Healy on
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 8 a. m.
Returning leaves Healy at 1 p. m.
LEAN E FAIRBANKS for Nenana
on Tuesday and Friday at 8 a. m.
Returning- leaves Nenana at 1 ::{<)
p. m.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY
At 8:00 P. M. »
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELANl*
Secretary Dictator.