THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for emry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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FAMILIES NEEDED.
What is needed for the Interior
is more families—men with their
wives and children — believes the
editor of the Skagway Alaskan. The
average poor man in the States who
would like to come to Alaska can
not do so on account of the heavy
expense attached to it. Men hasten
after a prospect, of a million in a
year or two, but when it comes
to the farming game, they know
what clearing land, building a home
and starting in to till the soil means.
It’s a long, slow1 process, and when
you have to freight all your ma
chinery, tools, cattle and the like
over two thousand miles of expen
sive transportation system, a man
must have some financial backing to
do it. It is not the same proposi
tion as when the men came West.
Then they could pack their all on a
prairie schooner and start West, as
.-ured that if the Indians did not get
them and they wanted to return it
was possible to do so in the same
way.
Alaska is not that kind of a prop
osition. U S nu naratr iruni un; ■
standpoint of the man who is on j
the field, and the prospects are as j
good as or better than they were j
in the pioneer days in the West, |
hut when it comes to getting here, j
you must have more than the man j
who came West had.
There is one reason for the faith!
of Alaskans that when a man does
come he is out of the ordinary. He
is ready to take a chance, and it’s a
good gamble that he will make good
in the country. But we need men
with families, men who will make
Alaska their home, who will demand
schools, and trading centers, and
start small towns for the sale of
some of the surplus stock. And we
need a cheaper freight and pass
enger rate. These will make Alas
ka the great land she is certain
to become.
ISLAND FASHIONS ARE
CONFUSING, TO MARINES
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands.—
United States marines garrisoning
these new possessions of Uncle Sam
cannot understand the fashions al
fected by the natives. Why a negro
or Cha-Cha Indian should wear an
overcoat when the thermometer
stands at 100 in the shade mysti
fies them.
For some strange reason, the na
tive Virgin Islander believes in
wearing every article of clothing he
can lay hands on. All American
holidays are now celebrated by the
natives, who spend the day parading
about the streets, some of them
wearing overcoats, capes, two or
more pairs of trousers, and a red
bandana handkerchief about the
neck. Also they frequently adorn
Themselves with the horns of cows
or oxen attached to the head just
in front of the ears.
H. E. Cleveland recently arrived
in Cordova with a tractor which
he will use in freighting supplies
and material from Chitina to his
Slate creek mining property, where
he will install a hydraulic plant.
NEW BANK ON COAST
The Bank of Europe is the name
of a financial institution which is in
process of organization, with eve-y
assurance of being a pronounced suc
cess, in the city of Seattle. This
new institution is of particular in
terest to Alaskans because the or
ganizers are two prominent sour
! doughs of the Northland—Colonel
W. T. Perkins, formerly of Nome,
and Danilo Vucetich, late of An
chorage. These gentlemen form the
bank’s organizing committee, and
have opened offices in - the Pioneer
building, room 628, where an al
most constant stream of people,
J among them many Alaskans, daily
! make their appearance.
I The Bank of Europe is capital
ized at $150,000, with an undivided
'profits fund of $30,000. Shares are
j selling at $120, $100 of which will
; go to the capital stock fund and $20
] to the undivided profits fund.
UMBER SALES SHOW
INCREASE ON COAST
During the month of December
the Cordova forest office executed
eight timber sale contracts, involv
ing 83,100 board feet of saw tim
ber, 81,303 linear feet of piling,
and 30 cords of fuel. The receipts
from these transactions aggregated j
$553.18. Four of the sales were in
the Cook inlet region and four in
Prince William sound.
Since the first of the fiscal year
(July 1), 74 sales have been ex
ecuted, covering a total of 3,265,
140 board feet of timber, valued at
,$5,760.95. During the same period
last year there were but 44 sales
consummated, covering 2.469,220
| feet of timber, with a value of $3,
j 599.74.
; The steady development of the
; Ashing industry in the Prince Will
i iam sound region is creating an in
creased demand for national forest
timber.
WOMEN TO HOLD MEET
IN NORWAY THIS YEAR
CHRISTIANIA.—A convention of
the International Council of Women,
of which Lady Aberdeen is presi
dent, will be held in Christiania
, next September. Three hundred
.delegates, representing twenty na
jtions, are expected to attend. A
jcommittee composed of presiding of
' fleers of various women’s organiza
tions will meet in Genevt in March
, to arrange the program for the con
vention.
GUARANTEED TRIP.
The Cooney dog stage will leave
the end of steel on Saturday and
guarantees to deliver passengers and
freight at Talkeetna by next Thurs
day, in time to catch the regular
train for Seward, making connec
tions with the steamship Alaska.
LONG AT BATTLE
NEW YORK. — Recollections of
the political feud which resulted in
the duel between Alexander Hamil
ton and Aaron Burr at Weehawken,
N. J., in 1804, have been revived
here by the merger of the Manhat
tan company and the Merchants Na
tional banks, two of the oldest fi
nancial institutions in New York.
For more than 115 years the two
establishments have dwelt side by
side at 40 and 42 Wall street, and
in 1882 they united in the construc
tion of the new building which they
have occupied jointly ever since.
In the union of these once rival in
stitutions the metropolis loses prob
ably the last tangible trace of the
most famous of early American an
tagonisms. Although the banks
themselves have long since “buried
the hatchet,” there was a time when
they were neighbors in name only—
when the mere suggestion of their
getting together would have been
dismissed as unthinkable.
Burr was elected to the New York
legislature in 1797, when the state
and city wore controlled by Hamil
ton as the leader of the Federal
ists. Hamilton had helped to es
tablish in New York a branch of the
Bank of the United States. This
was then the only banking institu
tion in New York city. The insti
tution was controlled, so the Re
publicans led by Burr alleged, by
the Federalists, who were charged
with using their financial power for
the furtherance of the Federalist
cause.
The political ambitions of the
“little intriguer” at Albany caused
him to desire to break through the
banking ring which barred all anti
Federalist banks from New \ ork,
and his opportunity came in 1799.
T „ V* n intrniltlPPtl n hill in
the legislature which authorized the
granting of a charter to a company
which was ostensibly to be formed
for the purpose of improving the
water supply of New York city.
The city, then with a population of
50,000, had just passed through a
severe epidemic and Burr’s project
quickly met with popular approval.
The real object of the Manhattan
company was to supply Republicans
with the sinews of war.
Republican merchants, it was said,
were discriminated against by the
Federalist bank, whereas their Fed
eralist competitors were freely ac
commodated when they sought funds
to carry on their business. The
adroitness which Burr employed to
obtain a charter was emphasized
by the fact that the Federalists had
a majority in the legislature. Hence
the omission of the word bank from
the Manhattan company.
The petition for the proposed
“waterworks” company stated tha1
as it was not known how much capi
tal would be required, the projectors
did not want to risk failure by a
deficiency of capital and, therefore
asked authority to raise $2,000,000
j Inserted in the charter was a pro
j vision of Burr’s that “the surplus
capital may be employed in any waj
not inconsistent with the laws of th<
Constitution of the United States 01
of the state of New York.
The senate and the house passec
the bill expeditiously, few member
even taking the time to read it, ant
none except those who were in th<
secret suspecting its real purpose
Burr’s manipulation of this affai:
won him the favor of a few Re
publican leaders, but cost him hi
former prestige, the people at tha
time having a chronic prejudici
against banks. Four years later
however, Hamilton, unwilling t<
yield the slightest degree to his op
ponent, organized the Merchant
National, which opened for business
next door to the Burr institution.
The Manhattan company’s actua
achievement in the waterworks fteb
consisted of the sinking of a wel
WANT APS|
WANTED TO BUY—Two or three
Rood dogs. Must be cheap. In
quire at Terminal.
FOUND—-Bunch of keys. Inquire
at Central Cafe.
i FOR RENT—Suite of three room*,
suitable for light housekeeping,
j with heat and light and ho-t and
cold water in connection. Also1
I
office rooms, at The Arctic.
FOR SALE — Furnished two-room
cabin. Assessments all paid. Phone
Kellum’s. tf
FOR SALE—Two-room house, part-,
ly furnished, with lot. Desirable j
locality. Inquire News office. tf
FOR RENT—Cascade laundry. Fully
equipped and with established in
come. No cash required. Inquire
at Arctic.
WANTED—Position as cook, town ;
or camp, or hour work of any !
kind in private homes, cooking, j
housework, or taking care of chil- j
dren. Inquire at the Arctic.
LOST—Pair of glasses in black case, j
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2.j feet in diameter in what is now
downtown NTew York. The water
was pumped to a nearby reservoir
and thence distributed through
wooden pipes to a few consumers.
The dams and other projects pro
vided in the charter were never
constructed. Occasionally excava
tors in lower Manhattan have du*r
j up pieces of hollowed-out logs, me
j mentoes of a generation lonj» past.
| RIO GRANDE.
FURS
i showing wear can be remodeled to
I look like new. Old fu«-s bought and
sold at
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
I
FRESH STOCK
Groceries, Clothing and Footwear
SAVE TIME AND MONEY
All Necessities for Trail and Camp
GO TO
FOWLER & MORRIS
We Strive to Please
EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
WM. RODIGKEIT
Proprietor
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
Tom Smith, Prop.
NENANA HOUSE
Just Gome in and Sit Down and Look Out.
Or. J. R. BOWEN
DE>TTIST
Price* Moil Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
I MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
i Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER
Secretary Dictator
I
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Department of tire Interior
I Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
! floor of the General Office Building,
i Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
■at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
’ Tickets will be on sarle at ;.uy
| time during office hours, and can be
! purchased in sufficient time before
■the departure of the trains.
I Regular trains for the south leave
! the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at d a. m., and from
I Camp 413 (No-th Nenana), lor
| Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
! l p. m.
; The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
isubject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m :
I arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
j Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m
■arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
| No tickets will be sold crossing
; the river. Those intending to trav
I el to Fairbanks must make thei.
jovrn arrangements for reaching
I North Nenana.
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Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods Mtill be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you arc an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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