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Reduced Prices
Not on the entire stock—but so many items
reduced that every article offered here is a
Genuine Bargain. Read on:
Men’s High Grade Hand-Tailored
Suits, actual value <1*0 Q
today $65, at - - t*'*'
COATS, GRAY AND BLUE SERGE $14.50
PANTS, GOOD WOOL. Pair $6.00
STETSON HATS AND OTHERS, up from $5.00
EMERSON FINE DRESS SHOES. Pair $9.50
FREEMAN BEST GRADE SHOES at $9.50
UNDERWEAR. Heavy White Ribbed. Suit $3.50
OVERSHIRTS, Fancy Madras. Special $2.50
KHAKI PANTS, BEST QUALITY $3.50
GENUINE LEATHER SUITCASES $17.50
GILLETTE SAFETY RAZORS.$4.25
GILLETTE RAZOR BLADES, Dozen 75c
CHESTERFIELD SMOKING PIPES 75c
COTTON OVERSHIRTS, the Durable Kind $1.25
SOX, Black Lisle, Extra Special .25c
SIMSON’S
DEPARTMENT STORE
I HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS
TRAIL TRAVELERS
CROSS WET PLACE
According to information received
in Fairbanks thus morning, the ma
rooned trail passengers, who had
been held up during the past sev
eral days by an overflow near Yosts,
have been able to resume their jour
ney. a crossing of the big pond hav
ing been successful negotiated.
The report does not state whether
or not the incoming and outgoing
mails were taken across the water,
but it is presumed they were and
that trail travel is again possible.
Should this be true, mail will arrive
at Fairbanks within the next few
days.
Fresh Groceries, Fancy *nd Sta
ple. Fowler & Morris.
A letter received at Fairbanks
from "Whispering Bill" Jackson says
that the weather has been very cold
this winter in Virginia, where he
is .located. The cold there, be says,
gets into one’s system worse than it
does in the North. He also finds
prices abnormally high in the South.
Leather Shoes and Rubber Pacs J
For Men and Children |
Hats Caps Furnishings |
W. A. COGHILL
FAMILY GROCER 1
FREE DELIVERY PHONE 32 |
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S We A,«e Overstocked With
1 BEDS, SPRINGS, MATTRESSES
I Sash, Doors, Building Material of All Kinds
1 HARDWARE, GRANITE WARE. ETC.
2 * Will Be Sold »t
For a Smoke
A Card Game or f
A Game of Pool |
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THE PORTLAND!
STATIONERY CANDY
M’KIION SAYS
OLDTIMERS ARE
TALKING NORTH
Many of the oldtimers of the
North, from Nome to Dawson, who
are now in the States, are figuring
on returning to Alaska during the
coming summer, according to Tom
McKinnon, well-known mining man
and one of the principal stockhold
ers in the Healy River Coal cor
poration, who returned to the In
terior several days ago from a visit
of several weeks on the Pacific
coast. Mr. McKinnon came in by!
way of the Fairbanks trail and ar-!
rived in Nenana on Tuesday, ac- j
companied by Ernest Peterson, who i
spent the greater part of the winter ;
in the States. . Both returned to j
Fairbanks on today’s train, but Mr. j
McKinnon expects to be back in ;
Nenana within two or three weeks. ;
“I met and talked with a lot of j
oldtimers on the coast,” said Mr. !
McKinnon to a representative of The
News this morning, “and the de- j
sire seemed to be general among
them to get back to Alaska. I found i
this sentiment especially noticeable
in Oakland, where a considerable
number of former Alaskans are or,
have been working in the shipyards. ,
I saw quite a few there who had ,
been away from Alaska for several'
years—some who were residents of
Dawson in the early days and who
returned to the States before the;
stampede to the Alaska side of the
boundary—and nearly all of them
told me they planned to start North
again during the summer if they
could accumulate sufficient money
for the trip.”
Mr. McKinnon says he heard a ,
Jot about the hitrh wages paid during.
the war. and he met quite a num
ber who were .'till making good
money. But the wage earner doe.':
not se .' chle to lay aside anything,
he said. The money goes about as
fast as it comes in, and when a man
is out of work for a day or so, he
usually finds himself in debt. The
high cost of living soon eats into
the savings—if there happen to be
any savings.
There appears to be a steady de
mand for skilled labor at good
wages. Mr. McKinnon says. But the
supply of common labor seems to'
exceed the demand, owing to a slow
ing down of industrial activity.
The people as a whole on the
coast. Mr. McKinnon observed, are
decidedly restless. This condition
is apparent to anyone who watches
the trains come and go. A large
part of the population seems to be
constantly on the move, one stream
of people entering the cities while
another stream leaves them. The
travel is made up very largely of :
people looking for new jobs or a
change of location.
The cities visited by Mr. Mc
Kinnon have a prosperous appear
ance. but the money situation, he
learned, is beginning to tighten, a
condition that is attributed to the
approaching political campaign. The
banks have become very cautious.
and real estate transactions, always1
a reliable barometer, have slowed
down very considerably. Mr. Me-!
Kinnon learned this first hand from
Seattle realty men.
Mr. McKinnon did not enjoy his
trip a little bit. The weather was
bad and there was sickness wher
ever he went. In fact, he was sick
himself a considerable part of the I
time he was out, having contracted
the Hu in San Francisco. The at
tack developed into pneumonia and
600D GOODS ill 600D VALUES
Across
the Street
From the i
Postoffice i
—
The Good Clothes Store !
LLP MAN SIMSON, Prop.
he hail a tough time of it. Ernest
Peterson also had a siege of it, and. ■
in fact, all the recently arrived ;
Northerners in San Francisco were [
ill. Frank Fonta^, Tolovana mining
man, who recently returned, was so 1
ill his doctors gave up all hope of I
saving him. 1
There were fully as many flu j
cases on the coast this winter as.
there were a year ago, but doctors
informed Mr. McKinnon that fewer
deaths resulted. And it is the opin
ion of the medical men that the flu
germs are wearing themselves out
and that when the disease recurs;
next year it will be of a still milder ;
type. One authority in San Fran-i
cisco, however, predicts that next!
year’s flu wave will be the worst
yet experienced.
There were so many flu cases in
S3n Francisco while Mr. McKinnon
was there that the hospitals could
not begin to accommodate them.
The hotels, in consequence, were
full of patients, and the scarcity of
nurses made it necessary for bell
boys, chambermaids and other em
ployes of the hotels to be impressed
into sendee as special attendants.
Sixteen patients at one of the ho
tels were under the care of a single
nurse.
\\ hisky entered largely into the
treatment of the cases which came •
under the observation of Mr. Me- j
Kinnon. When the patient is first j
taken down, the doctor orders plenty j
of water, fresh air, and liquor in I
abundance. "All the whisky you;
can get down him,-’ is the way one j
of the doctors prescribed for Fon-!
tas. The other remedies come later, i
Mr. McKinnon did not pay much ;
attention to politics, but found the j
people of San Francisco very much |
absorbed in the coming Democratic I
convention. In fact, Democratic i
talk was about all he heard there. ;
He stopped at a Democratic hotel, ;
read Democratic newspapers, and ;
associated largely with Oldtimers j
who are Democrats.
THE ALLEN CRANE FUND:
Previously acknowledged .$71.00 j
William McDougall . 5.00 i
William Hunter 1.00 j
Nellie Bates . 5.00,
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Printz 5.00 1
Thompson Drug Store 5.00
Jack Omelia 5.00
A. A. Roth . 1.00
Total
.$98.00
Horlick’t Malted Milk. Fowler &
MorrU.
NEW I
CENTRAL CAFE!
FIRST CLASS
in Every Respect
PRIVATE BOXES
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JOHN KETOOROKY
Proprietor.
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Spring Footwear
Men’s and Children’s Leather Shoes, in the
Following Makes:
CUTTER PACKARD MARVIN ZIMMERMAN
BARKER BROWN HANAN FLORSHEIM
We also carry a line of Men’s and Boys’ Rubber Pars,
in Ball Band and Hipress, in 8, 12, and 16-inch tops,
in both wide and narrow widths.
We are now displaying: a line of Children’s Laced
and Button Shoes, \\ ool and Cotton Hose, and La
dies’ and Misses' Hose in Silk. Lisle and Cotton:
also Ladies’ Low Rubbers.
And our window display shows Fancy Seal Slip
pers, Seal Mukluks, Seal Water Boots, and Snow
shoes, from the Arctic.
Northern Commercial Co.
ALASKA’S LARGEST OUTFITTERS
FRESH STOCK
GROCERIES, MEN’S WINTER WEAR
GENERAL OUTFiniNG
JOHNSON’S STORE Front Street
NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL £
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
COMFORT AND SERVICE UNEXCELLED
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Middle Fork Roadhouse
16 Miles South of Summit
JACOBSON, DAHL & MITCHELL
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS ON TRAIL
KENNEL ROOM FOR 75 DOGS
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The Terminal
IF HE IS IN TOWN. SOONER OR LATER THEY ALL DROP
IN AND JOIN THE BUNCH.
POOL AND CARD TABLES
COLD DRINKS SMOKERS' SUPPLIES
CANDIES
Clean, Warm, Comfortable Rooms
JOE O'CONNOR
MARTIN NASH