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The Approaching
Change in
Government
GIVES US ALL RENEWED CONFIDENCE AND SECURITY
AND WARRANTS A CHANGE IN PRICES
DOWNWARD
Commencing February 1
WE THEREFORE QUOTE THE FOLLOWING REDUCTIONS:
$5.50
5.00
4.00
FELT SHOES
$8.00 Grade .
7.50 Grade ..
6.50 Grade .
STAG SHIRTS
$12.50 Grade . $10.00
10.00 Grade . 7.50
HEAVY WOOL SOX
$1.25 Grade ..$1.00
1.00 Grade .75
.75 Grade .50
Bib Overall* .$2.75
Waist Overalls . 2.50
Moccasin* . 5.00
4 Buckle Arctics . . 5.00
Shoe Pass, 12 is. top — *.00
Sheepskin Sox . 2.00
Heavy Blue Wrist Canvas
Gloves .25
Rubberized Red Arctics 3.75
WE ARE ALSO MAKING
BIG REDUCTIONS
IN ALL LINES WE CARRY. ESPECIALLY IN MEN’S
SUITS OVERCOATS MACKINAWS
DEPEND ON US FOR BEST VALUES — PRICES UP TO DATE
Fairbanks Clothing: Co.
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Banana, Where Balia and Blvera Meat
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It is reported from Seattle that
Capt. George Green will be ac
companied by Mr#. Green when he
returns North this spring.
Col. Mears has announced that he
will be in active charge of the rail
road work in the Southern division
iuring the absence of William Gerig.
COAL
F'om Healy River Coal Mine
will lave you fi jm one-third to
one-half on your fuel bill.
2-ton lots, a ton 8.50
Special rate* on carload lot*
Deliveries. Tutidays and Fridays
Order from
Dr. J. R. Bowen, Agt
Bowen Bldg. Phones 54 Green
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SELLING AT COST
ELECTRICAL GOODS
Bed Warmers
Hot Pads
Curling Irons
Flat Irons
Percolators
Sweepers
Desk Lamps
Shaving Sets
Northern Commercial Co.
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Col. F. Mears, chairman. Col. II.
P. Warren, chief of the supply •divi
sion, and Krcil’k D. Browne, engineer
in charge, of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, arrived in Nenana
on Sunday, from the end of 3teel,
and Col. Mears and Mr. Browne
proceeded direct to Fairbanks, by
special train. They returned on the
regular train from the upper town
today and left almost immediately
by special train for Healy, where
the chairman will have a look at the
work in Nenana canyon on his way
back to the coast. Col. Warren is
returning to Anchorage with the
chairman.
The initial number of the Kusko
Times, newest newspaper in Alaska,
reached Nenana on the last mail.
It is a four-column paper, published
twice a week by A. X. Grant, old
time newspaperman of Nome, Idit
arod and Ruby. The paper is pub
lished at McGrath, and promises
to be a big help in properly adver
tising the resources of that promis
ing section of Alaska.
A record consignment of first and
second class mail arrived from the
States on the train yesterday after
noon.
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J. H. Caskey, formerly in the
newspaper business in Fairbanks, is
now working on a paper in a small
town near Los Angeles. Mrs. Caskey
is in Los Angeles, where she i3
seriously considering going in for
movies.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Foster, form
erly of Nenana, are now located at
Long Beach, where Ernest has a
position with a business house. Miss
Betty Foster left Los Angeles re
cently for Boise, Idaho, where she
was to wed Lyman Longfellow, a
former member of the A. E. C.
engineering forces.
Arrivals from the States bring
the report that Dutch Blankfield
held a night conference with a
bandit while in Los Angeles recently
and had to get help from a friend
to get to Frisco.
J. A. Slippem, oldtime Nenanaite
who is now in Los Angeles, is very
anxious to learn the present where
abouts of Johan Rumahe, said to
have been located in the Koyukuk
district at one time.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilbur Ward are
at present in Los Angeles. Mr. Ward
founded the Fairbanks Times and
of late years has been associated
with Publisher Herron, on the Alaska
coast.
The governor’s office has been ap
pealed to for assistance in the efforts
of relatives to locate Myron Kirk
patriek, who lived in Nenana in
1918. Any information about him
should be addressed to the Governor
or to Andrew Hart, Box 346, Daw
son, Yukon Territory.
R. R. Robinson and C. F. Ander
son were enrolled as members of
Nenana igloo No. 17, Pioneers of
Alaska, at a meting of the oldtimers
at Union hall last night. The meet
ing was well attended and consider
able routine business transacted.
Joe Rocha was brought in from
the canyon on Sunday for treatment
at the Government hospital for a
fractured femur and other injuries
received while at work in Tunnel
No. 2.
The unusual weather of the past
several days has put local teamsters
temporarily out of busienss.
A letter received yesterday by
O. M. Jackson, of the Portland,
contained the announcement of the
marriage, on January 30, of Wm.
L. Morris, former member of the
local signal corps detachment. Mor
ris is now in the employ of the
Illinois Central, at Coahoma, Miss,
and he says times are as tough in
that part of the country as they
are elsewhere in the United States
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Webster Pendleton died at St.
Josephs hospital late Saturday night,
a victim of diabetes. He was bed
ridden for a number of months
prior to his death.
The condition of Harry Wood
ward is considerably improved and
he expects to be back at his desk
shortly. He has had a severe case
of grip.
Mrs. J. Cleveland has returned
to town from Sheep creek.
Glen Denning is a recent arrival
in town from the upper Chena and
reports that the hydraulic outfit of
Frank Miller and assocites, on Lit
tle Shamrock creek, will be ready
for operations shortly after the
water runs in the spring. He also
paid a visit to the hot springs and
found five people there, taking the
rest cure.
The city authorities are busily
engaged putting the town in order
after the severe wind and snow
storms of the past several days.
The wind storm, which visited the
town early Saturday morning, was
the most severe ever recorded in
Fairbanks The wind was followed
by a fall of 18 inches of snow, and
and that was followed by rain and
more snow, with the result that the
streets were impassable until teams
had leveled the drifts with scrapers.
Demurrers in the case of Dou
main, on the charge of robbery, and
of Doumain, Traveller and MacLean,
on the charge of conspiracy, were
sustained by Judge Bunnell yester
day and this morning new indict
ments were returned by the grand
jury. The defendants will be ar
raigned tomorrow. Doumain is rep
resented by Morton E. Stevens, and
Dr. Aline Beegler was appointed by
the court to defend Traveller and
MacLean.
George M. Woods, Charles A.
Sheldon, E. W. Harrington and R.
Coe, of the T. & T. lepartment of
the A. E. C., came up from N’enana
on Friday for a brief visit and re
turned to the railroad town today,
enroute back to their headquarters
on the coast.
Prof. R. F. Wolf came up from
Nenana on Friday and returned to
day.
Billy Mahan is a visitor in town
from Brooks.
The trial of Mike Stepovich, on
the charge of robbery, began in the
district court this morning, and the
morning session was entirely taken
up with the selection of a jury.
Captain Flannigan is in town
from Salcha, where his trading
steamer is in winter quarters.
The Alaska Road commission had
men at work on the steel bridge
yesterday, removing the winter ac
cumulation of snow and dirt. Water
was turned on the structure from a
fire hydrant.
The Native Sons and Daughters
of the Golden North .net at Eagle
hall on Saturday night and admitted
several new members.
The Boy Scouts and High School
girls are organizing basketball teams
and some very interesting games are |
promised.
Jim Bender is a recent arrival
in town from the Kantishna, where
he had charge of the Aitken mess.
H. Kankkas is confined at the de
tention hospital, having been taken
into custody on an insanity charge.
The Pioneers held a largely at
tended meeting at Eagle hall last
night. Several new members were
admitted to the igloo, and a jolly
social session followed the business
meeting. A sourdough lunch was
served.
Engineer Deacon Jones reports
a very trying trip to Chatanika
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1 $30
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$15 1
$7.00 BEST HOME-MADE PARKAS
$6.00 MEDIUM HEAVY WOOL PANTS
12.00 BEST GRADE DRESS SHOES .
$7.50 UNDERWEAR. SPECIAL, PER SUIT
$6.00 ALL WOOL OVERSHIRTS. AT
$5.00 WOOL OVERSHIRTS. NOW
$7.50 BEST MEN’S HATS, NOW
$3.50 BEST BIB OVERALLS
$3.50 CARHARTT KHAKI PANTS
$3.00 NO. 1 LEVY STRAUSS OVERALLS
$1.00 LISLE SOX, BROWN AND BLACK
$ .50 CASHMERETTE SOX, PAIR
$ .50 BEST CANVAS GLOVES, NOW
$ .25 CANVAS GLOVES, 3 PAIRS FOR
$2.50 DRESS SHIRTS. NOW
$6.50 PAJAMA SUITS, NOW
$5.00
$3.50
7.50
5.00
$3.50
2.50
4.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
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Sheet Metal Work
Plumbing, Heating Plants
Stoves and Ranges
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
PAUL PALFY, Prop. — — New Location on A Street
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Trappers T raders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE NEW YORK
Alaika Building 127 W. 27th Street
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yesterday as a result of the bad
weather of the past several days.
The track was strewn with drifts,
trees and telephone poles.
The Dorman Baker post of the
American legion held a meeting in
the courthouse last night.
Carl White, Tolovana mail car
rier, left for Dunbar today.
Ed Williams returned to Nenana
on today’s train.
A1 Cosslett, of Brooks, who has
been visiting in town during the
past several days, was an out-bound
passenger on today’s train.
Life insurance is the safest sys
tem of finance ever devised. Banks
break, stocks, bonds and real estate
depreciate, but legal reserve life in
surance companies always meet
every obligation in full. Life insur
ance is founded on a scientific basis;
its investments are restricted by law;
it is thoroughly supervised, and
must maintain at all times an ade
quate reserve for each policy. See
R. S. McDonald, New York Life
Insurance Company agent.
Genuine Daniel Green Felt Shoes.
Fowler A Morris.
Harry Owens and Charley Peter
son arrived from the Koyukuk on
Saturday with Lee Wilson, an old M
I timer of that region who is par- •
tially paralyzed. The sick man was
placed in the Government hospital
and may be sent Outside later.
Mrs. W. H. Davis was adjudged
insane by a jury in the commission
er’s court yesterday and was taken
to Fairbanks today. She was ac
’companied by Mrs. Hick.
U. S. Marshal L. T. Erwin, w*ho ^
arrived from the States yesterday,
left for Fairbanks today.
Deputy Marshal J. L. Anders, or
Hot Springs, went to Fairbanks on
today’s train.
Paul Buckley, of Unalaska, who
is manager of a company develop
ing a sulphur deposit on Ankon is
land, recently announced that 3,000
tons of sulphur per month would be
shipped from the property during
the coming summer. A smelter has
been constructed and improvements
to the value of $300,000 have been
made on the claim.