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Stock Reducing
SALE PRICES
Every item mentioned below is worthy of your sq'ious
consideration—because every item quoted here is backed up
by the goods in the store.
Many othey equally as good values will be found here.. .
Every day we are adding costumers to our list who lire
surprised at the prices we are quoting.
In these days, when nearly all merchant are taking ad
vantage of the war situation, it will be a relief for you to
know that there is at least one .store in this community that
has not raised prices, but actually lowered them on many
items, as the following list proves. Buy or look—you are
welcome.
Hart Schaffner & Marx
SUITS & OVERCOATS
Overcoats with Fur Collars $35
Satin Quilted Overcoats 65
Best Fur Lined Overcoats - 95
Coon Coats, dark color 95
All Wool Mackinaw Coats $8.50
$6 Moccasins, pair 4.00
Levy Strauss Overalls, pair 1.50
$6.50 Suitcloth Flannel Overshirts 4.50
Carhartt and Eisendrath Mammoth Mitts 1.50
Monarch President Suspenders .50
Canvas Gloves, 2 pair for .25
Medlicott Underwear, suit 4.50
STANFIELD UNDERWEAR, Suit.$5.50
WHITE SCOTCH WOOL MITTS, Pair.$1.50
GOOD GRADE FELT SHOES, All Sizes ‘ $4.50
FELT SLIPPERS AND COMFYS, Pair.$1.50
DOWN COMFORTERS, Large Size.$15.00
ARROW COLLARS, Entire Stock.3 for 50c
HANDERCHIEFS, Red, White, Blue.2 for 25c
Read the above list over again and make sure to come to our
store as soon as possible to get your winter outfit.
SIMSON’S
Store Open Every Night Until 10 O’clock
I CENTRAL RESTAURANT I
FIRST CLASS QUICK SERVICE
HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
KETOOROKY & CO.
(BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JOHN)
M
Fresh Ranch Eggs Fresh Milk
The Tavern
W. F. RODIGKEIT, Pr®p.
TRY SOME FRESH GREENS WITH ONE OF
OUR DINNER ORDERS
If It Is On the Market You Will Find It Here \
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DINNER PARTIES
Grub and the Kaiser
MUST BE KEPT DOWN
So Get Your
MERCHANDISE
at
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERS
ORATORS DISCUSS
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
A very large number of Nenans
voters gathered on Saturday nighi
at the Labor Union Hall in response
to the notice advertising a Demo
cratic rally, at which the speakers
were to define the campaign issues
It is estimated that the gathering
represnted fully two-thirds of the
voters of Nenana. R. S. McDonald
presided and opened the meeting.
He briefly stated the purpose foi
which the meeting was called and
I defined the duty of everyone who
had the right to vote, urging on his
hearers to use it. He said that the
franchise right was one of the great
est assets of an American citizen,
whose duty was to use It, and that
anyone who willfully neglected to
use this right was just as culpable
as a slacker who refused or neglected
military duty. He said that he
could not dictate how the people
should vote, but that the purpose
of the meeting was to show them
why they should vote for Delegate
Sulzer and his constructive policies,
who had the personal good will and
endorsement of President Wilson,
the cabinet officers and the heads
of departments at Washington, as
against Wickersham, who was an
obstructionist and whose policies did
not tend towards the welfare oi
Alaska and its people, and who was
not in friendly touch with the Presi
dent and was openly at outs with
nearly all the cabinet ministers and
the heads of departments at Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr. McDonald strongly advocated
the cause of Delegate Sulzer, whc
had been on the job in the interests
of Alaska all the time and had ac
complished more good and madt
more friends at Washington in the
short time he has represented us
than Wickersham had ever done,
In support of his contentions, Mr
McDonald enumerated the measures
for the relief and betterment of
conditions in Alaska, the passage
of which was obtained by Mr. Sulzer
and compared them with what Wick
ershan- had done during the Ion*;
time he was the delegate, to the
detriment of the former delegate
In emphasizing the great need for
the Delegate to be on friendly terms
with the administration officials and
* the heads of departments at Wash
ington in order that necessary legis
i lation can be obtained in the quick
j est possible time, and the support
and endorsement of those in power
; obtained, he spoke of the harmoni
! ous relations existing between Dele
gate Sulzer, President Wilson and
all of the cabinet officers and heads
of departments and contrasted it
with the known status of Wicker
sham at the nation’s capital. Wick
| ersham’s obstructive tactics and well
known quarrelsome nature had made
1 his a "persona non grata wan int
officials of the government, and as
a consequence the territory suffered
in much delayed legislation and in
the support of the cabinet officials
whose aid we had a right to expect
and which we would certainly get
under happier circumstances- The
general tone of’ Wickersham’s ag
gresive campaign tactics were
brought out clearly; his bellicose at
titude and wholly unwarranted, un
founded and unmerited attacks per
sonal and otherwise of his politica
opponents as evidenced by his
speeches at Nenana and elsewhere
in this division were clearly showr
and contrasted with Mr. Sulzer’s
more dignified campaign methods
which were confined to the neces
sary refutation of deliberate mis
statements made by Wickersham am
his misguided followers. In con
g eluding, the speaker thought tha
Wickersham might have done mort
good for himself had he refrainec
from unfou/ded personal attacks
and conducted his campaign in( i
manner more in keeping with th<
dignity of the office he had tht
honor to hold.
Mr. McDonald, whose clear state
ments were received with much ap
plause, then introduced the speakei
of the evening, Mr. W. A. Ryan
a close personal friend of Secretarj
Lane, who is known by all to be th<
greatest friend Alaska has ever had
Mr. Ryan, who was greeted wit!
. much applause ^on rising to speak
said that he felt that before saying
anything on the campaign issues he
should say a few words about him
self by way of introduction. He
was, he said, the close personal
friend of Secretary of the Interior
Fanklin K. Lane, and with whom
he had been closely associated and
in close personal touch for the past
35 years. He was city editor of
the Tacoma Daily News at the time
Secretary Lane owned that paper,
very many years ago, and had al
ways enjoyed the confidence and
friendship of Mr. Lane- He is un
doubtedly the greatest friend Alaska
has today, and Mr. Ryan said that
he had personal knowledge of the
secretary’s ideas and intentions re
garding the proposed measures for
the betterment of conditions in this
great northland and for the full de
velopment of its great natural re
sources by means of transportation
facilities and other lines of communi
cation.
Regarding the Alaska Railroad
bill, which Wickersham has laid
claim on several occasions to being
the author of, Mr. Ryan stated in
the most positive terms that he per
sonally knew that the bill was drawn
up by Secretary Lane and intro
duced in the Senate by Senator
Chamberlain and that Wickersham
had requested the privilege of intro
ducing a copy of this same bill in
the House of Representatives at the
same time it was introduced in the
Senate. That was all the connec
tion Wickersham ever had with the
bill, in spite of the claims he had
made of its authorship. In the
course of his campaign speeches in
the Interior towns, Wickersham, he
said, read passages from the Con
gressional Record on the hearings
on the Railroad bill, but he had
conveniently forgotten to read his
opening statement, which is as fol
lows: “I am unalterably opposed to
United States government operation
of railroads and coal mines;” and in
statements made later in the course
of his speeches at Fairbanks and
elsewhere, Wickersham said that he
was in favor ot the road being leas
■ ed to private enterprise after its
completion. Wickersham also per
sonally told Mr. Ryan that he was
in favor of such a policy.
! Mr- Ryan told his audience that
he had known Wickersham for as
i l°nft as he had known Secretary
Lane, and that during all this time
he has known him to be aggressive
iand contentious and that he was
| eternally quarreling, and that meas
ures for the betterment and de
velopment ol Alaska were, in conse
quence, retarded and defeated. The
railroad which the government is
building in Interior Alaska was go
i in£ to be the means of doing the
greatest amount of good for Alaska
as everybody could plainly see, and
it was up to Alaskans to see to it
that the hands of those responsible
for securing the necessary appropri
ations for a continuance of the great
beneficial work, be strengthened and
, the object fostered in every possible
i way until completed This could
only be done by sending a man to
Congress who had the confidence
and support of the President and
the cabinet officials, as Mr. Sulzer
had and, he said, it would be noth-1
ing short of a calamity to send a
man of Wickersham’s known antag- i
onistic views and actions, who, by
his obstructive tactics wo ’d throw
a cloud and hamper the passage of
the necessary appropriations for the '
continuance of the work.
Mr. Wickersham, he said, possessed !
a strong personality and had t*ie!
ability to dictate erroneous impres-I
| sions in the minds of his hearers j
and to convey false impresions; he’
has got the punch, but it is always j
misdirected and his quarrels have
earned for him a most unenviable j
reputation in Washington, and the i
| doors of the offices of heads of de-!
partments in Washington are closed
to him. He has always worked and j
fought to gain personal ends and to i
j vent personal spite at the expense j
of Alaska, and was certainly not the |
right man to represent this great i
, territory. Mr. Ryan spoke of the i
( beneficial results accruing to the
service and employees by the taking
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NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
NEW CONSIGNMENT
Green Tomatoes
Fresh Parsnips
Fresh Carrots
Fresh Beets
Fresh Celery
Outside Potatoes
Native Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
California Onions
Cabbage
FRESH EGGS
Apples Pears Oranges Lemons
Grape Fruit Grapes
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
over of the railroads of the country ,
by the government arK) 0f the jr00,| |
that may be expected by the ex
tension of this policy to Alaska
later on. Wickersham was opposed I
to government operation of public
utilities. In his campaign speeches
on the coast Wickersham tells his
hearers that the railroad is a failure
and in every possible way tries toj
detract from the great value to the |
country of the existence of this |
road. He makes his speeches vary.
to suit the audiences and apparently |
succeeds, to some extent, in con-\
veying false impressions to the
minds of his hearers.
There are a few friends of the
railroad in Congress, he said, and it
behooves all Alaskans to see that
the right sort of representation is
made at the capital in order that
the necessary money for the build-i
ing of the road and the development i
of the country can be obtained, j
Wickersham was making capital of j
what he termed the engineering 1
mistakes at this end of the railroad |
in his misdirected effors to discredit:
Governor Riggs, who was in charge
here when the construction work
was commenced. This policy, he
pointed out was fatal to the best
interests of this great northland
and would have a tendency to with-J
hold the much needed appropriation
for a continuance of construction j
work and seriously retard the coun- ‘
try’s development. The engineering
mistake which Wickersham played
up so largely, he sa/d, was not any
worse than similar mistakes that are
fairly all over the States. The his
tory of any big road in the United
States would show that enegineering !
mistakes of a similar nature were i
fairly common, in fact engineering
mistakes of a very much greater
magnitude have been made, but not j
much was said of them. He gave 1
several instances of such. Mr, Ryan
also referred to the engineering mis
take in the construction of the
Panama Canal and the Culebra cut,
and told of the enormous expense
the country had to stand for this
mistake to be partly rectified and
yet we refer to the Panama Canal |
as an accomplished fact and the
greatest engineering feat ever ac
complished in the history of the
world. *
This reference was made to give
one more instance of Wickersham's
unfitness to repreent the best inter
ests of Alaska. It was no easy task.
Mr. Ryan said, to get appropriations
for the continuance of railroad
work, especially so as the original
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By the Week $1.75
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Stieldon-Gibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WAV POINTS I
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any lime.
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Fairbanks
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VOTE FOR
LOUIS DALE COLBERT
The Brooks Mining Man
For Territorial Representative
BECAUSE HE WANTS
COMPLETE HOME RULE
A BANKING LAW MAKING DEPOSITS SAFE
A GENERAL EIGHT-HOUR LAW, WITHOUT PENALTIES
OUR CONTROL OF OUR MINERAL RESOURCES, TIMBER,
FISH, GAME AND TRANSPORTATION
ENFORCEMENT OF ASSESSMENT WORK ON MINING CLAIMS
Election Tuesday, Nov. 5