THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for ersiry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 8, 18 <9.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska
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BRITISH AND AMERICAN TAXES
Comparing British and American
revenues and expenditures estimated
for 1924, the Republican Publicity
Association, through its President,
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., says:
“The estimated revenues for
Great Britain, 1923-4, total 818,
500,000 pounds sterling on the ba
sis of a slight reduction in taxa
tion—there is a proppsed cut in
the basic rate of income tax from
5 shillings to 4s.6d. in the pound.
Of course these estimates are on a
gold basis, the pound at S4.86 of
our money. The estimates expendi
tures for the year 1923-4 are plac
ed at 816,616.000 pounds, leaving
an estimates surpuls of 1.884,000
pounds. In terms of the dollar that
means revenues $3,977,910,000; ex
penditures $3,968,753,760; surplus
$9,156,240. That is figuring down
to the gnat's heel. The revenues are
to be raised from 47,000,000 people,
assuming that the new Irish Free
State is assessed its quota. This
figures $84.44 per cent capita
for revenues and $84.44 per capi
ta for expeditures.
“The estimated revenues for the
United States. 1923-4, total $3,
362.000,000, nut including the pos
tal service which is self-supporting.
The estimated expenditures total
$3,181,000,000. These estimates
were made last year and the huge
wave of prosperity which has come
over the country may result in re
vised estimates when the next an
nual report of the Secretary makes
its appearance in December. How
ever. until then these figures are
the best we can get for purposes of
comparison. They represent a per
capita on the basis of 110.000,000
people of $30.56 for revenues, and
$30.18 for expenditures, or about
36 per cent of the British per cap
ita in each instance.
RESTATEMENT OF LAW
Announcement is made that the
Carnegie Corporation has donated
$1,075,000 to the work of the Am
erican Law Institute recently organ
ized in Washington for the pur
pose of restating the common law.
The delays in the administration of
justice had become so pronounced
that some of the country’s leading
jurists met in the National Capital
a short time ago to discuss the
matter and suggest remedies. The
law Institute was formed at that
time for the principal object of sim
plifying the law as the courts now
have it. The practical assistance of
the Carnegie Corporation makes
certain that the work can be started
at o'nce and pushed to an early con
elusion. The result will be of much
practical benefit to those involved
in litigation and will bring that
greater respect for the law that
prompt application of justice al
ways induces.
GOVERNOR BONE’S VETO
Governor Bone exercised his veto
power for the first time says the
Juneau Empire when he returned to
the Legislature without his approv
al the Senate resolution directing
the Attorney-General to test the ab
ility of the President's proclama
tions establishing fisheries reserves
for the purpose of giving the De
partment of Commerce jurisdiction
to make regulations for the conser
vation of the salmon supply in Al
aska. The Empire believes the Gov
ernor exercised his powers wisely,
and he gave convincing reason’s
therefor in the message accompany
ing the returned resolution.
Governor Bone accepts at its face
value the statement of the Secre
tary of Commerce that the fisheries
reserves were created to meet ar
emergency and pending legislation
*hat would tend to conserve the sal
mon supply. He adds:
“Any thought advanced or enter
tained in heat that the two reserves
were iniquitously conceived and
created to despoil the people ol
their rights and hand the Alaska
fisheries over to sordid interests i;
unworthy of sober consideration
Wheither under existing regulation;
conservation is being or will be at
tained is problematical and at thi;
time open to reasonable doubt, bu:
these regulations, fortunately, art
flexible and the Department of Com
merce has given evidence that il
will not be tardy in correcting anj
injustices that may arise under th<
system.
Of course, the Governor is right
believes the Empire. As far as tht
Territorial Legislature is concerned
the proper solution is the presenta
tion to Congress for approval ol
a reasonable bill that would be ag
reed upon by those of all A task,
elements as a fair compromise plat
but one that would contain a pro
vision giving the Alaska Legisla
ture jurisdiction in the premises
The Douglas school board has an
nounced that Frank K. Foster ha
been chosen as superintendent o
the Douglas school for next year
Mr. Foster is a graduate of th
University of Washington, wher
he has been an instructor the pas
year. He comes highly recommend
ed.
Writing paper at The News Office
Alaska Furs in Big Demand!
Mr. Fur Shipper:
We have a big demand for all kinds of Alaska furs.
SHIP PROMPTLY all the furs you can and get the benefit
of the High Prices we are now paying. We will remit for
furs by cash, draft or money order—whichever way you
desire—and send remittance the SAME DAY your shipment
is received. Try us out with your next shipment.
Riuke Fur Co,
625 FOUKE
BUILDING
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
GARFIELD SAYS TOUKISIS
WILL SET NEW HIGH MARK:
Ten thousand persons will make!
applications for reservations on
American and Canadian steamships
operating to Alaskan points this
summer and 3,000 of them Will be
disappointed, said Charles D. Gar
field, manager of the Alaska De
partment, in a talk made to the
Juneau Chamber of Commerce re
' centlv, says the Empire. The steam
ship companies cannot accommodate
more than 7,000 tourists this year,
he said.
The contemplated trip of Presi
dent Harding, accompanied by Sec
retaries Wallace and Work, trips of
special Congressional Committee the
Brooklyn Eagle tour to Mt. Mc
| Kinley Park, and other prominent
parties, are directing nation wide
attention to Alahka as a land of
summer tours, he said. He also
announced that 150 business men
from Seattle and other Northwest
and Pacific Coast cities will make
an extensive tour of Alaskan towns
this summer. They plan to charter
a vessel for a 30 or 40 day trip and
t
will go as far as‘Fairbanks, touch
• ing at all the important towns en
route. He predicted the biggest
tourist business in Alaska's history
and said that the Taku River camp
should be an opening wedge for
similar resorts in this district. He
believed that the time has come for
the construction of a tourist hotel
at Auk Lake and said if data were
submitted to the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce setting out the various
attractions in the district, he was
confident that capital could be se
cured for such an enterprise.
The Alaska Department, he said,
is living up to its slogan, “Develop
Alaska as Alaskans Want it Devel
oped,” and has several irons in the
fire at the present time. It is car
rying on a campaign to line up Pa
cific Coast state delegations to Con
gress in support of the extension of
the Federal Highway Act to Alaska;
it is working out in conjunction with
interests in the Third and Fourth
Divisions and the Alaska Railroad,
a plan for attracting 1,000 settlers
along the railroad within the next
three years development of Mc
Kinley National Park as a tourist
center; abrogation of the present
fur seal contract between the Fed
eral government and the Fouke Fur
Company, of St. Louis and several
other activities.
The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce. he said, is sending an expert
photographer to Alaska this sum
mer to take several hundred views
of scenic attractions, industries, re
sources and other things. The photo
grapher is due to leave Seattle in
a few days, touching at Ketchikan.
Wrangell, Petersburg and coming
before the end of May of Juneau. He
will work here in conjunction with
the local Chamber of Commerce. Af
ter completing his work here he
will go to the Westward and over
the Alaska Railroad.
The Seattle organization is anx
. ious to see a central Alaska Chamer
of Commerce established, said Mr.
Garfield, and has appointed . George
. F. Forrest of this city to act for it
s in endeavoring to bring it about.
■ Mr. Forrest said he owuld take the
matter up with business men of var
> ious Alaska towns in the near fu
> ture. He expects to start on a toui
t covering a large part of the Tern
. tory in a short time.
BOXING DECISION STANDS
NEW YORK, May 22—The statt
• boxing commission has declined tc
review its action for bidding th«
proposed Dempsey-Willis fight.
Ketchikan residents are advocat
ing the raising of a fund for 2
monument over Father Duncan’;
grave. He was the founder of Met
lakahtla mission, and was the firsi
missionary to make his wards in
dependent and self supporting.
A twenty-page pamphlet being is
sued by the Commercial Club o:
Ketchikan, is now off the press
Twenty-five thousand copies will b<
distributed among tourists this sum
mer. Merchants and citizens contrib
uted to help defray the expense of
the publication.
in l tK-utr ajv i iric.ni i al buaru
IS DISSOLVED BY PRESIDENT
The Inter-Departmental Commit
tee of the Department of the In
terior, of Washington and Alaska
was dissolved April 21, by order of
the President, on account of the
“reason for creating; having ceased
to exist,” as stated in advice re
ceived by Governor Scott C. Bone.
The committee was created by Sec
retary Payne, by Presidential order,
in 1920, during the Wilson adminis
tration for the purpose of effect
ing coordination among the govern
ment department working in Alaska.
The Alaska branch, of which Geo.
A. Parks, chief of the General Land
Office. Field Division, was made
chairman was created to function
with the Washington branch.
During the first year says the
Empire several meetings were held,
resulting in suggestions being made j
for the different departments.
Little has been done during the
Harding administration. It is be
lieved the present administration is
fostering different plans for hand
ling the situation.
AMERICAN CAPITAL WILL
REBUILD ANGORA FOR TURKS
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 19—
British commercial interests are giv
ing much attention to the efforts of
American business houses to obtain
concessions from the Kemalist Gov
ernment. The Federation of British
Industries, in a letter to its mem
bers, points out the growing acti
vities of American capitalists at
Angora and urges them not to over
look this economic invasion of Asia
minor.
The federation mentions the so
called Chester project for the eon
1 struction of Angora as a modern
j capital, and says the plan calls for
1 the building of an entirely new
town, quite independent of the old
capital. The city is to be construct
ed on wholly modern lines, embody
ing electric supply. telephones,
broad avenues, skycrapers, modern
drainage and water supply and new
government buildings.
Another American concern, it is
: stated, has made a proposal for the
erection in different places in Ana
tolia of special workshops for the
manufacture and repair of agricul
tural implements. To put this
scheme into operation. It is proposed
to float a Turkish company, 90 per
cent of whose capital would be sup
plied by Americans and the remain^
j der by Turks, while the personnel
i of the factories would be recruited
i from native labor. This proposal,
j it is said, has already been adopted
in principle by the Ministry of Na
I tional Economy.
—
Tourists seeking information on
trips to various sections of the
Northland are visiting the Alaska
rooms several weeks earlier this year
than usual, is the report from the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Robert McChesney, one of the
best known newspaper men of the
Northland, who was engaged in
newspaper work in Dawson, Fair
banks, Cordova and Juneau, and
Mrs. McChesney are now living in
Seattle. Mr. McChesney is the fore
man of the mechanical department
of the Alaska Dispatch Printing
Company.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT
! In the probate court for the Terri
Itory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
; Xenana, Precinct.
■ In the matter of the Estate of
Clara Allred. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
j undersigned has filed his final Ac
count as Administrator of the above
entitled estate, and has petitioned for
distribution, and the Court has fixed
Friday June 29th, 1923 at the hour
of 2:00 p. m. of said day, at the
Court Toom of said Court in Xe
nana, Alaska as the time and place
for hearing same, and any persons
having any objection thereto should
file same on or before said date.
E. T. SULLIVAN
Administrator
Alaska Steamship Co.
SAFETY SPEED SERVICE
VESSEL
VICTORIA
ALAMEDA .
NORTHWESTERN .
ALASKA
FOR RATES AND
J. H. FLICKINGER.
Agent, Seward, Alaska
Lt. Seattle Lv. Seward Lv. Anch.
May 19 May 26
May 26 June 1 June 2
.June 2 ‘ June 9
June 9 June 15 June 16
RESERVATIONS APPLY TO
a. h. McDonald,
Agent. Anchorage
A. A. SHONBECK
ANCHORAGE
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
Remco Redwood Stave
WATER & MINING TANKS SILOS HYDRAULIC PIPE
EXPLOSIVES FEED
Write us for information
%.
See Mel Cooney for postcards
of the breakup.
WANT ADS
MINING GROUND FOR SALE—
Group of three claims (placer) on
Glacier Creek, Kantishna district.
Xos. 17.18 and 19. (No. 17 worked
out.) Shallow ground, from sis
inches to five feet to bedrock
Coarse gold. Automatic dam, boxes
tools, complete camp outfit. Foi
furthers particulars inquire at New;
Office.
FOR SALE—Two first-class pack
horses, known as Kennedy stock.
Black weighs 1200. gray 1350. In
quire of Anthony Letray.
FOR SALE—3 room residence furn
nished—Cheap—Inquire News Office
“EVERYBODY can buy groceries
feed and supplies WHOLESALE
Write for free pricelist. Peoples
Grocery. 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
PEOPLES GROCERY COMPANY
RUBBER!
Baby’s and Ladies Rubbers; rub
ber tea-aprons in blue, green and
light gray—pockets and butterfly
pockets, the dainty fluted ruffle
are made secure with rubber ce
ment. Childrens ventilated pants
are pure white and protective, a;
well as sanitary.
THE DORSAY SHOP
ORDER YOUR
COAL
BY PHONE
Healy River
Coal
Corporation
PHONE YOUR ORDERS
TO THE
RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
It is an unexplainable fact that
glowworms are much more brilliant
just before an approaching storm
| than at any other time.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
, Trains leave and arrive Xenana as
follows:
j 11.35 p. m. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points
Returning arrives Xenana 11:20
a. m. same days.
5:15 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika.
Arrives Xenana 5:00 p. m. Tues
day and Friday.
Andy’s Express
— A T —
Seward
Will Give Your
BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT
Careful Attention
MEETS ALL TRAINS
AND BOATS
William A. Hesse
MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
BOX 1035. FAIRBANKS
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghezzi R. C. Morriz.
Secretary. Prezident.
II-II
D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
Trappers
Traders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alaska Building
NEW YORK
127 W. 271b Strael