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Herman Magnussen, who returned
to town several days ago from the
Tolovana district, reports that en
couraging prospects have been un
covered on the benches of the Tolo
vana river, near the mouth of Wil
bur Creek, and he intends to return
there next fall to develop some
ground in which he has become in
terested and on which he has al
ready done considerable work. He
says there have been no new devel
opments on Wilbur Creek proper.
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LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive Xenana as
follows:
2:00 p. m., Sunday and Wednesday
for Healy, McKinley Park, Tab
keetna, Wasilla, Anchorage and
Seward. Arrives Xenana 11:50 a
m.. Sunday and Thursday.
2:00 p. m.. Sunday. Wednesday and
Saturday for Heaiy, McKinley
Park. Arrives Xenana 11:50 a. m
Sunday. Monday and Thursday.
2:00 p. m.. Sunday and Thursday
for Dunbar, Fairbanks, Chatanika.
Arrives Xenana 12:10 p. m.. Sun
day and Wednesday.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
At 8:00 P. M.
Secretary Dictate?
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News : FAIRBANKS : Notes
Peter Steil, Correspondent
Fred Enroth, L. W. Rogge, R.
Rasmussen, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald,
Joe Decko, J. L. Pitte, M. Sheldon.
Pat Driscoll and Gus Johnson are
among the recent arrival? in town.
Rev. Fred G. Scherer left for An
chorage on Sunday for the purpose
of attending the Presbyterian Church
: conference to be held in the coast
| town shortly. He will return to Fair
banks in about ten davs.
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Mrs. Thomas Tonseth was an out
going passenger on Sunday’s train,
enroute to her old home in Port
! land for a brief visit. She expects
! to meet her son Tommy, who will
j spend his vacation in Portland. He
■ is attending the naval academy at
Annapolis.
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j The visiting Elks from Anchorage
i were shown through the flour mill
i during the stay in Fairbanks. The
' mill was not in operation, however,
i owing to some trouble with the ma
1 chinerv.
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The Curling Club dance, giver, at
Eagle hail on Saturday night, was
attended by the visitors from An
chorage and Nenana, and the affair
is declared to have been one of the
most successful dances ever held in
Fairbanks. Music was provided by
a nine-piece orchestra.
—
Miss Margaret Collins, who grad
uated recently from the teachers’
class in the local school, and who!
has already had some experience as
an extra teacher locally, has left for
Tanana to accept a position as
teacher there for the balance of the
term. She will have about 18 pupils.
While at the army town. Miss Col
lins. who is the daughter of Assist
ant District Attorney and Mrs. E.
B. Collins, will make her home with
: Captain and Mrs. Barndollar.
—
Captain Bowman, who left some
time ago for the Circle countrj.
where he has mining interests, be
; came ill at the Twelvemile road
• house, on the Chatanika-Circle trail.
| and has been brought back to Fair
; banks. He is under treatment at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
John H. Sc tt. agent of the White
Pass Route, at Nenana, arrived from
i the railroad town on Sunday and is
I busily engaged in transferring the
, safe and other equipment of the
• American flailway Express Company
‘ to the office of Agent Palmer, of the
' Alaska Railroad, where the express
office will be located hereafter. Mr.
Scott is also attending to the details
i in connection with the final closing
1 of the White Pass office.
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A. .J. Marsh, gas car operator on
:he railroad between Fairbanks and
' Xenana during the last eral sea
sons. returned to Fairbanks recently
from Anchorage where he success
fully passed the examination re
- quired of employes of the railroad.
He will operate the gas car this
season, as usual, although it is not
known definitely where the service
will be inaugurated.
’ Ge.irge Hillar, who brought his
little son in recently for medical
attention, started on the return trip
to Salcha today.
Engineer Humphrey, who has a
drill and crew of men at work on
i Engineer Creek, Took out another
drill and more men today. Mining
activities in the valley promise to be
on a large scale this season.
Harry Beach, who recently had the
; misfortune to frost his feet badly
j while on the Circle trail, while en
' route from the Chandlar to Fair
: banks, has recovered sufficiently to
j make daily trips to town from the
i hospital, by the aid of crutches. He
expects to get his discharge from the
hospital soon and will then go to
Nenana. where he will enter the
employ of the Alaska Railroad.
| Mrs. Charles Gius. who was a
patient at ; e local hospital for
; some time recently, under treatment
• for a severe attack of the grippe,
left f jt her home today to complete
1 her recovery.
Eagle hall was packed to over
,‘ flowing last night when Delegate
j Dan Sutherland addressed the voters
| of the Fairbanks district. His ad
; dress, which was most interesting
I and of two hours duration, was
heard with rapt attention by the
large audience, and the speaker was
enthusiastically applauded at its con
clusion.
The Olson case, which has been
npp -led, will come up for hearing
next month.
I There remain only a few days in
which property holders will be able
to perfect their claims and get a
trustee deed. April 29th will be the
last day for the receipt of these ap
plications. and it is expected that
all property not properly protected,
will revert back to the Government
or sold at public auction.
The voting at the primaries was
very light up to noon. Up to that
time 107 votes had been cast, 105
of them being Republican votes.
Mrs. L. Rosburg. R. Radio, H. L.
Crook. A. Van Kirk, E. S. Thomas,
J. W. Jasper, Bob Wimbaud, Ed.
Overend, Pat Carr>11. John Mitchell,
James O'Donnell, Richard McCoy, A.
L. Hanot. John Simon, Gus Wilson,
P. M. Lamb and K. Lazaroff are
among the recent arrivals in town.
The fire department was called
out on Sunday afternoon to the resi
dence of Dick Thome, where a pan
of grease took fire and set the wall
paper ablaze. The timely arrival of
the firemen prevented serious dam
age.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hartwig ar
rived in town this week with D. E.
Stubbs in custody and will return
to his station at Hot Springs on the
next train. Stubbs was arrested in
the Iditarod district and relayed to ;
Fairbanks by the various deputies
along the route.
Superintendent John A. Davis, of ;
the local bureau of mines station, :
left for Anchorage on the Sunday
train. Upon arrival at the coast
town he will submit samples of
Heaiv and Matanuska coal to a
series of boiler tests for the Alaska
Railroad. He will be met at Anchor
age by Assayer Paul Hopkins, who
is enroute from the States.
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W. D. Lane, W. H. Tuttman and
custody in connection with the
John Tuttman were taken into cus
tody this week in connection with
the burglary of the Geo. C. Thomas
Memorial libray, but the Tuttmans
were later released, as it was found
that they had no connection with
the crime. -The till at the library
was broken open but no money was
found. Lane will be given a prelim
inary before Commissioner Boyd to
morrow.
J. H. Groves, who underwent a
major operation at the local hospital
some time ago. has been discharged
as a convalescent.
Among those returning to the
creeks on the train this morning
were Tom Ford. H. Robins. Richard
McCoy, Sam Dockham. Andy Nelson
and Gus White.
The street committee of the city
couneil, headed by Chairman W. T.
Pinkerton, has set men to w >rk
thawing street drains and getting
thing? ready for the fast-coming
springtime. The city boiler is being
hauled from place to place as the
exigencies of the service demand.
Louis Brigel. night' clerk at the
Pioneer hotel, has relinquished his
position and will leave for the Tolo
vana country on the next train, to
look after his mining interests in
that district.
MOOSE HOLD SESSION
A regular meeting of Nenana
Lodge, No. 1103, Loyal Order of
Moose, wa* held at the home of the
organization on Fourth street last
night, the antlered brethren gather
ing in force ami taxing the accom
modation? to the utmost. Victor
Neck, a member of the contracting
firm of Pete Jepson A: Co., was
initiated into the mysteries of the
order and after the conclusion of
the business session, a short but
pleasant social session w_as held.
A belated wedding invitation, re
ceived locally on a recent mail, an
nounces the marriage at Seattle, on
March 1st. of Miss Mary Alice
James and Henry A. Keil. The new
ly-weds were to be “at home” to
their friends after March 18, at 806
North 48th street, Seattle. Mr. Keil
is well known to Nenanaites, having
been connected, for several seasons,
with the cadastral surveys of the
general land office in Alaska. He
was a member, last summer, of the
party engaged in marking the bound
aries of Mount McKinley National
Park.
COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT
The members of the City Council
will meet in regular session at the
council chambers tonight, commenc
ing promptly at eight o’clock. It is
probable that a city clerk and mag
; istrate will be appointed at this
meeting, and the public utilities will
come up for a genera] discussion.
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MOUNT MKINLEY NATIONAL PARK
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