NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
COMFORT AND SERVICE UNEXCELLED
DOG BARNS
Ibmobccbcoo^
AIRPLANES MAY FOLLOW
NEW COURSE VIA ATLIN
According to information received
at Fairbanks yesterday, the airplanes
•were still at Whitehorse at that time,
the delay having been occasioned by
had weather on the coast.
It is now planned to avoid Wran
sell, a new route having been se
lected by way of Atlin. with a land
ing either at Telegraph Creek or
Glenora. Definite plans will be made
just as soon as it can be ascertained
if gasoline can be transported up the
Stikine river in time for their needs.
lTenasa. the Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
Tourists
The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, fanning, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity. «
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
tine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. The district is the natural
gateway to Mt. McKinley National
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
Comme r cial
Club
Fid cam wii
MEET AGAIN MONDAY
The Nenana flu committee, which
was hastily organized at the com
mencement of the epidemic last
spring, and which is now engaged in
an attempt to straighten out the
financial tangle resulting from a con
fusion of town and commission re
sponsibility, held a meeting on Tues
day evening, at the firehall. for the J
purpose of hearing the report of the ;
finance committee and discussing j
ways and means of securing the re-j
mainder of the money needed to!
wipe out the indebtedness incurred
during the epidemic.
The finance committee reported
that some difficulty had been ex
perienced in collecting from those
who received treatment during the
epidemic, there being a disposition
on the part of many to avoid or de
fer payment. Of more than $2,000
owing, the committee was able to
collect less than $200, and it was
the opinion of numerous of those
present that suit should be started
to enforce payment
Chairman Robert Joseph Diven re
ported that he and R. S. Donaldson
had learned of a territorial fund that
might be drawn upon for partial
relief, and they were instructed to
take such steps as might be neces
sary to get all available funds from
that source. It was also pointed
out that funds in the treasury of
the local branch of the Red Cross
might be drawn upon, and the chair
man was instructed to look after the
matter of having a Red Cross meet
ing called, so that formal action
might be taken to set the money
aside for the use of the flu commit
tee.
The finance committee, which has
been the real working part of the
general committee and which has
practically concluded its labors, was
discharged upon request of the mem=
bers composing the committee, and
a new committee will be named to
wind up the affairs of the general
organization, which probably will in
clude a further effort to collect
money owing the committee.
Another meeting of the general
committee will be held on Monday
night, at the firehall, at nine o’clock.
ELSEWHERE IN ALASKA
Anchorage has given birth to an
other newspaper — The Anchorage
Aiaskan, a weekly publication, of
which Clarence J. Lincke is editor
and publisher. The paper is six
pages, is issued from the Times
plant, and is anti-Republican.
Owners of acreage tracts in An
chorage recently voted in favor of
the incorporation of the town, fol
lowing the favorable action of other
property owners. The matter is
now in the hands of the district
court.
The new town of Hyder, on Port
land canal, has taken steps to in
corporate.
A Mexican was recently arrested
in Cordova on a vagrancy charge
and sentenced to serve five days in
jail and pay a fine of $250.
A modern fire alarm system is
being installed at Ketchikan.
HEALY RIVER
ROADHOUSE
END OF STEEL
First-class Meals
BEDS
Cigars and Tobacco
S. T. Hinckley
Ambrose Van
PERSONAL *
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Mr. and Mrs. Herman Anderson
returned to N'enana yesterday after
an absence of several weeks in Fair
banks.
W. T. Pinkerton, Fairbanks trans-1
fer man, came down from Fairbanks
yesterday to see Mrs. Pinkerton
safely aboard the steamer Alaska.
Mrs. Pinkerton is enroute to the
States for the winter.
Dr. W. E. Thompson, of Dawson,
is enroute home on the steamer
Alaska, after a brief visit in N'enana
and Fairbanks.
Fuel Agent Joe Wilson, of the
White Pass company, is returning to
the upper Yukon on the steamer
Alaska and probably will not be seen
I in this section of Alaska again this
j season.
j Mrs. Cordelia Karshner, owner of
' the famous hot springs which once
j bore the name of Manley, arrived
from the springs on the steamer
! Alaska Tuesday and left for Fair
banks yesterday. She will spend the
winter in the upper town.
Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Fleisehman.
of Fairbanks, are outgoing passen
gers on the steamer Alaska, bound
for the States.
George Hunter, manager of the
Pinska store in Fairbanks, made a
trip to the end of steel yesterday to
have a look at the railroad construe- j
tion work in that district.
|
John B. Douglas, of the forest
service, who arrived in Fairbanks!
from the coast several days ago.
plans to return to the coast by way
of N’enana and the Broad Pass route.
i
He has not decided upon the date of
his departure, however.
Joe C. Van Orsdel, head of the1
Mt. McKinley Gold Placers corpora- ,
tion, who has been in the States j
purchasing hydraulic equipment for
installation on the property of the
company in the Kantishr.a district,
left Dawson for N’enana on the:
steamer Yukon yesterday morning. |
REFUGEES REACH NOME
FROM SIBERIAN COAST
i
Forced to the very brink of star
vation as a result of the present
great depreciation in the value of
the Siberian paper money and the
consequent refusal of the Japanese
traders to accept it in payment for
food supplies, two Russian families,
each consisting of a husband and
wife and several children, arrived at
Nome recently from the Kamchatka
coast on the trading schooner Fre
dolph Gek, owned and piloted by
Max Gottschalk, a former Nome
man. According to the story told
by them, the value of the Russian
ruble notes has reached a point
where they are almost worthless and
the Japanese trading vessels, which
at present form practically the only
source of food supplies along the
Eastern coast of Siberia north of
Vladivostok, absolutely refuse to ac
cept them at any price. There are
several brands of this worthless cur
rency in circulation, some issued by
the old Romanoff government, some
by the defunct Kolchak government,
and some Bolsheviki. But all are
practically worthless as a purchasing
medium. The Japanese will accept
furs and other articles of salable
value, but shun the Siberian money.
In consequence, the refugees, who
hail from a section of the Kamchat
ka coast north Petropaulovski, found
themselves this spring almost un
able to secure the necessaries of life,
although possessing some money.
Describing the situation through an
interpreter, they said starvation is
facing the populace along practical
ly the whole coast north of Nicol
aevsk. Hundreds have been reduced
to a state where body and soul are
kept together by eating roots, bark
and leaves. Many are almost naked
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and any rag is eagerly seized upon
for clothing. There is a semblance
of government only in the larger
centers and life is nowhere secure.
Conditions of the most appalling
character obtain everywhere in
Eastern Siheria, they say. The two
families appear to be of the better
class of Russian peasantry. The
men are sturdily built and bright
minded, the women are young and
comely and the children are bright
and vigorous. One of ■the families
is said to be planning to go to
Canada.
An Italian miner lost his life in
the Hyder district recently, at* the
Red Top mine, as the result of in
vestigating a hole which had missed
fire when a charge was exploded.
Another worker was badly hurt at
the same time.
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