THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1. 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eojy as second class mail matter, onder the Act of March 8. 1879
Hnb of Alaska —_Where Rails and Rivers Meet
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska
R. G. Southwortb — — — - Editor and Manager
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this paper and also all the local news published herein.
After a careful survey of the po
litical situation in Alaska and at
Washington, The News is convinced
Dan Sutherland is the man Alaskans
should nominate at the forthcoming
primaries. The News believes Dan
Sutherland has come nearer to repre
senting Alaskans at Washington than
any delegate the Territory has had
before him. and there does not ap
pear to be any good reason why
either of the men cpposing him
could improve things at Washing
ton. Neither has had experience as
a member of Congress; neither is
more honest or more able than Dan
Sutherland; and neither knows more
about Alaska and its needs.
During the time that Dan Suther
land has represented Alaska at tne
national capitol, he has accomplish
ed considerable He has secured the
passage of a number of important
bills, he has always found time to
look after the interests of commun
ities as well as the Territory in
general and he has always been
courteous and obliging in his deal
ings with individuals. And what is
most important of all, he is on
friendly terms with the administra
tion, at home and at Washington,
and has many friends in Congress.
It is significant that about the
only opposition to Dan Sutherland is
made up of the fisheries interests,
the transportation interests and a
few disappointed office seekers., who
thus far have failed to produce any
argument worth considering. In fact,
about the worst that is said of him
is that he refused to support Haze
lett for governor and is friendly to
Secretary Fall.
One of the real problems confront
ing Nenana at the present time is
the providing of accommodation;
for newcomers. Practically every
house in the city is occupied at ths
present time, with the rush of poop’s
Interior-wards only starting, and the
demand for homes will increase rap
idly as the season advances. House;
are needed of a type of constructior
that will permit rental at a moder
ate sum and large enough for £
small family.
The News is heartily in sympathy
with those employes of the Alaskar
Engineering Commission whose pay
has been reduced—particularly wit':
the rank and file who receive the
minimum wage and who are forced
to labor under the most unfavor
able conditions, as regards weather
limitation of employment, mosqui
toes and accommodations, The pay
is inadequate, without a doubt anc
The News has r.o hesitancy in say
ing so.
But it will avail the employe1
not at all to voice their protest ir
the manner adopted by the Anchor
age employes. It is not enough t(
say the wages are inadequate. Then
must be facts and figures presentee
in such a way as to leave no roon
for argument. It should, and cai
be shown that a man cannot sup
port a wife on the wages paid, an:
that a single man cannot sav
enough during the short workini
season to keep him during the win
ter of unemployment. It should, an
can be shown that the wages paid
in some cases at least, are lowe
than are paid for similar work i
the States—and that in a countr
where freight charges on food sup
plies and the other necessities o
life are higher, according to Del(
gate Sutherland, than in any othe
part of the world.
It is the right of employes t
present their side of a wage argv
ment ar.d employes of the Alaska
Engineering Commission have a mo;
reasonable argument to present. A
The News sees it, a wage that wi
not keep man and wife is not a
adequate wage in any country, an
particularly in Alaska, where wome
ere needed to assist in building thos
permanent homes upon which tb
future of the Northland depenc
more than upon any other one
thing.
While The News is not entirely
in accord with the views of Secre
tary Fall on the question of Govern
ment ownership, the plans for his
Alaska trip, mention of which is
made in today’s advices from Wash
ington, smack of real thoroughness.
The Secretary intends to come to
Alaska just as soon as he can get
away from the capital and he is
coming prepared to “rough it". He
' is an oldtimer of the wild and wooly
West and he probably knows that
he cannot learn very much about
a new country from the deck of a
1 steamboat or the rear platform of
a private car.
Alaskans will be glad to welcome
the Secretary, how ever he may de
cide to come, but they will be the
more pleased if they know that he
is really serious about getting at
the bottom of things, as his an
. nounced plans would seem to indi
i cate.
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With floods and storms causing
havoc in one section of the States.
: and fresh snow blocking traffic in
another section, the well-behaved
climats of Interior Alaska is de
serving of special inenriou in the
records of the weather bureau. Ours
is not a land of sunshine and roses
all the time but we at least can
have the satisfaction of knowing
about what to expect in the way of
weather as the seasons come and
go. Even the breakup is fairly regu
lar in its habits.
• Fairbanks shippers who failed to
heed the warning to order their
goods early, must now face the prob
lem of tedious and uncertain trans
fer across the Tanana river by
means of sleighs, pending the move
ment of the ice.
One of the handicaps of Interior
Alaska is the fact that most of
our great men thought they had
covered the Territory when they
reached the Matanuska coal he'd.
Some day the Government will uis
: cover Healy.
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The firm of Avakoff & Brown has
awarded a contract for the erection
. of a building at Anchorage for oc
cupation at a jewelry store. The
building will be erected on a lot
on which the firm has taken a lease
for eight years.
Captain Ralph Newcomb, forme:
master of the steamer Tanana, will
■ probably soon blossom into a reai
i sky pilot. He was working in an air
. plane factory in Seattle recently
I and. from all accounts, means tc
i stay with that work.
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Captain James Gray, formerly ir
1 j command of the steamer Tanana, i:
; now settled on his ranch near Port
, land, on the banks of the William
_ ] ette. The place is known as Gray
i !haven.
' i Captain Miles Lemley, formerl;
| j master of the steamer Seattle No. 3
j is now navigatip a boat on thi
f j Willamette river.
f | Captain Jules Olivier, formerly pi
' j lot on the Yukon and Tanana rivers
r is now on a ranch near Portland
where he is taking life easy,
o
- i Bill Hartnett, for a number o
" years mate on the river boats i:
t Interior waters, was seen in Seat
=: tie recently. With the completio:
d i of the Government railroad and th
n passing of navigation on the river
d of Alaska, oldtime steamboatmen o
n' the North are turning their atten
e | tion to other vocations. Bill is re
e ' ported to have engaged in the fe:
s tilizer business.
DR. CARMICHAEL ARRIVES
TO PRACTICE IN NENANA
Among the arrivals in Nenana on
Sunday from the Outside were Dr
and Mrs. A. B. Carmichael, who
have come to make their home hero.
Although this is his first visit m
Nenana, Dr. Carmichael is by no
means a stranger in Interior Alas
ka. He spent some time in the Fair
banks district, in the sarly days,
going from there to the .States to
attend medical college. He return
ed to Alaska some year? later and
was located for a time at Ruby.
He also has resided in Anchorage.
Dr. Carmichael has had twelve
years’ experience as a surgeon and
doctor of medicine and has practiced
in a number of localities in the
States, as "well as Alaska. He has
be-r. in Washington, Arizona, Cal
ifornia and Nevada. In the last
named state he was surgeon at the
Tonopah Mine Operatois Hospital,
maintained for the care of the 1200
miners in that locality.
Dr. and Mrs. Carmichael have
gone into residence in the Dave
Patterson cabin, on upper A street
and the doctor will open offices as
soon as he can find a suitable lo
cation.
Dr. Carmichael is a son of Dr.
D. L. Carmichael, who practiced in
Fairbanks for a number of years
and who was rated as one of the I
districts successful physicians.
WHITE PASS ANNOUNCES
RATE FOR YUKON FREIGHT
In a wire received today from H.;
Wheeler, general manager of the
White Pass Route, he announces
that this season’s rate from Seat
tie, via St. Michael, to Tanana will
be $44 per ton, base rate.
This rate is made possible, it is
explained, by the fact that boats
will go both way loaded—with ore
shipments going down from Mayo,
and with freight coming up.
On account of the different ways
of classifying freight as shipped by
the river to Tanana, as against
the rail haul to Nenana, this rate
will make an average of about $5
per ton less on all shipments made
to Tanana, than will be the rate!
to Nenana. Some commodities, by j
carload, will be less to Nenana by i
rail than by water to Tanana, but
practically all less-than-carload lots
will be much less to Tanana than
the same shipments to Nenana by
l rail.
EXPRESS RATES ARE CUT;
NEW ARRANGEMENTS MADE
C. S. Crider, traveling represent
ative of the American Railway Ex
press Company, who arrived in Ne
nana on the train from the coast
on Sunday, is busily engaged in
transferring the express agency to
Agent Gus Buhmann, of the Alaska
Railroad. The express office will be
located in future in the railroad
office, this change having been made
necessary by the closing of the
local offices of the White Pass Co.
Mr. Crider states that nine inter
mediate offices have been opened
at the following points on the rail
road : Girdwood, Matanuska. Ohick
aloon, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Curry,
Broadpass, McKinley Park and Hea
ly, with main offices at Seward, An
chorage, Nenana and Fairbanks.
The new rate of $11.50 per 100
pounds, from Seattle to Nenana,
and proportionately less for points
directly on the railroad south of
Nenana, will become effective al
most immediately. Tariff covering
the new service will be out shortly.
Mail Carrier George Duncan ar
rived from the Kantishna yesterday
and will leave on the return trip
tomorrow. Mail for the Kantishna
must be in the postoffice not later
than ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HAL1
Fourth and B Streets
At 8:00 P. M.
Secretary Dictator
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND
SECOND AND FOURTH MONDA>
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
. THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Nenana as
follows:
I 2:00 p. m., Sunday and Wednesday
for Healy, McKinley Park, Tal
f keetna, Wasilla, Anchorage and
l Seward. Arrives Nenana 11:50 a
m., Sunday and Thursday.
1 2:00 p. m., Sunday, Wednesday and
? Saturday for Healy, McKinley
s Park. Arrives Nenana 11:50 a. m
f Sunday, Monday and Thursday.
- 2:00 p. m-, Sunday and Thursday
for Dunbar, Fairbanks, Chatanika.
Arrives Nenana 12:10 p. m., Sun
i day and Wednesday.
Donald L. McGinnis
Clothier and Haberdasher
Personal Attention Given Mail Orders
Anchorage ----- Alaska
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WANT ADS
LOST—Jade earing. Finder please
return to Cooney Hotel.
FOR SALE —Three room cabin,
partly furnished. Large basement.
Inquire News Office.
HOUSE FOR SALE—House and all
of Block 49—Good soil and above
high water of 1918. Price Ou ap
plication. J. H SCOTT
FOUND—Two keys attached to
string. Owner can have them by
calling at News Office and paying
for ad.
FOR SALE—Six cases of 72 gaso
line. Alfred J. Ghezzi.
FOR SALE—Monarch cook range,
9x12 rug, Westinghouse electric
iron, large heater. Inquire Pete
Wrenstedt.
PROSPEROUS plumbing, heating
and sheet metal business for sale.
86000.00 cash. Sanitary Plumb
ing Co., Juneau, Alaska.
Slater’s Dairy sells pure fresh milk
at 25c a quart. GET THE BEST.
Fresh milk from Slater's Dairy a*
25 cents a quart.
Gentlemen—Suits and Coats cleaned
and pressed—the sun is getting
higher every day—so bring 'em in
—D”Orsay’s Shop.
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Real Estate 1
FOR SALE OR RENT
LOANS
ACCOUNTING
BOOKKEEPING
TYPEWRITING
Chas. D. LecKie
% U. S. COMMISSIONER <
Nenana Gardens
Frank Tuefel, prop.
Fresh Vegetables
Rose Bushes
and other
Flowering Plants
Phone
STORAGE
WARM and COLD
Wm. C. Heinz
Andy D. Swingen
Successors to
Casey’s Warehouse
A. A. SMONBECK
ANCHORAGE
Feed of all Kinds
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
Agent - - Giant Powder Co.
BEEF, PORK, VEAL and MUTTON
WILD ROSE LARD, 10 lb*. *2.75 BUTTER, 50 c. lb.
SALT YUKON KING SALMON, 20c lb.
DELICIOUS HAM, 45c lb. DELICIOUS BACON, 60e lb.
PREMIUM HAM, 50c. lb. PREMIUM BACON, 65c lb.
ALL KINDS OF FOWL — — REDUCED PRICES
Waechter Bros. Co.
B. W. Miller
THE E. H. MACK Co.
Successor, to St. George Re.it, Co., and St. George A Catbcart
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Real E.tate, Fire and Life In.urance, Public Accountant
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
Liat Your Property with Ua, For Sale or Rent
Notary Public, Collection., Bonding Company, Renta Collected
Nenana Steam Laundry
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE i>L 70
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST luOne IO
GEORGE RICH. Proprietor
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Central Cafe
FOR A HOT GRIDDLE CAKE OR A SCONE,
JAVA COFFEE, OR TEA FROM CELON,
JUICY MEATS, FRESH AND RARE—
FROM BEEF DOWN TO BEAR—
YOU’LL GET IT IN STYLE—
Sheet Metal Work
Plumbing, Heating Plants
Stoves and Ranges
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
PAUL PALFY, Prop. — — New Location on A Street