Men’s Hats
Up-to-Dmte Styles
Best Selection in Town
Price
$2.50
up
YOUR HAT IS HERE
SI MSOIN’S
WORK HATS $1 EACH
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
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STAGE MOVEMENTS
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Harry Karstens auto left Fair
banks this morning with Mrs. Met
calf as passenger, and arrived in
Xenana early this afternoon.
The Burgess auto left Nenana for
Fairbanks with Nick Perevitch as
passenger for the upper town.
Thelin’s stage left Fairbanks this
morning with a quantity of second
class mail, and is expected to arrive
in town sometime tomorrow.
Billy Butler’s dog stage arrived
j this morning from Fairbanks. He
j brought Ben Thompson as passenger
' for Nenana.
Officers and men of Fort Liscum
| are boosting for a road to be built
| between that place and Valdez.
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Be Prepared for Gold Weather
We Have a Large and Varied Assortment of the Leading Brands of
MEN’S CLOTHING and FURNISHINGS
MACKINAW COATS
Army and Navy Sweaters
SWEATER COATS
MACKINAW PANTS
SPORT SHIRTS, Heavy Wool
WOOL SOCKS, All Weights
UNION SUITS and TW O PIECE GARMENTS
GENUINE DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
BALL BAND ARCTICS
WOOL BLANKETS BLANKET SHEETS COMFORTERS
SEE OUR BRUSSELS and WILTON RUGS, ALL SIZES
Bisse.l’s Vacuum Sweepers Electric Vacuum Sweepers
W'e Carry a Full Line of
MINERS’ and TRAPPERS’ SUPPLIES
and Can Furnish Your Outfit Complete at Special Prices
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
IF YOU EAT ICE CREAM
CANDY-FRUIT-OR CHEWING GUM
IF YOU SMOKE CIGARS
CIGARETTES OR TOBACCO OF ANY KIND
IF YOU DRINK CIDER
OR ANY KIND OF CARBONATED DRINKS
| OR IF YOU ARE*- LOOKING FOR A MOMENT’S
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FOR RENT AT REASONABLE RATES
NOME DI3TRICI
PROSPECTS GOOD
5 roe B.G SEASON
According to Joseph Bellevieu,
who arrived in Nenana recently from
the Nome district, enroute to the
States via the Broad Pass trail, the
gold output of that district will be
much larger than that of last year.
The output of the district, he said
was considerably lessened by reason
Of a strike of the miners. The men
struck for $6 and board per day.
with eight hours as a work day. The
employers were not willing to grant
it and, consequently most of the big
outfits shut down.
Trouble of this nature is not an
ticipated next season, and Mr. Belle
vieu believes that there will be
more men in the Nome district this
year than ever before, and that the
mining game will boom.
A new strike, he said, was made
on the benches of the Snake river,
about 15 miles from Nome during
the latter part of the season; and
although it is generally believed that
the strike is a good one the real
extent of it was net known at tt e
time he left for the States.
Pay was found from the grass
roots, bedrock being reached at a
depth of from two and one-half
to three feet.
Three men shoveling in are re
ported to have cleaned up $35,000
in about three weeks’ time, and the
only reason they had to discontinue
operations was because they did not
have sufficient water to continue.,
Mr. Bellevieu and three others
form the outfit know'n as the Hast
ings Creek Dredging Co.. They
have a <f.-edger on Hasting creek
and will operate another this season
on Dry creek. Dry creek flows
through the town of Nome, and the
scene of the dredging operations
of the Hastings Creek Dredging Co.
will be within the city limits of
Nome this year.
Mi operations in the Xome
district, he says, were considerably
curtailed by the early fall. The
absence of snow after cold weather
had set in has had the effect of
freezing the ground to a greater
depth thfcn usual. An early spring,
he says, might offset the ill effects
of the early frost.
Mr. Bellevieu says that a lai re
addition to the population of the
Nome district is assured, and he
unhesitatingly said that, in his opin
ion, the gold output of the district
for the coming year will be more
than double that of last season.
NATIVE CAPTURES
PULA# BEAR CUBS
, A recent arrival in X'enana from
the Nome eounrty brings word of
the capture of a couple of polar
bear cubs near Solomon, by a native.
The native, who was out hunting
near Solomon, drove his sled right
over a pair of polar bear cubs who
were almost buried in the snow
The little fellows, who are said to
be about a month old, made an
awful fuss at being disturbed, and
the native promptly proceeded to
annext them.
He had hardly got them into his
sled when the mother bear appeared
and of course, seeing her offspring
in the native’s sled, charged right
up to it. The native managed to j
shoot the bear.
He loaded the carcass of the dead
she bear onto the sled and came into
Nome. The big bear is said to have
tipped the scales at 800 pounds.
Billy Webb, the butcher of Nome,
bought the cubs from the native. He
is said to have paid $25 for the
pair of them.
Solomon is a fairly large sized
town about 35 miles distant in a
southerly direction, along the coast,
from Nome.
Herman Anderson left for Fair-!
banks on the auto this morning. He:
is on a business visit to the Fair-'
banks branch of the Anderson Bros. I
& Nerland store, and will probably
be away some time.
[RACK CAMP IS
MOVED FORWARD
[0 NEW SIDING
The end of steel on the main line
south of town is now at the northern
approach to bridge No. 45, at sta
tion No. 17510.
Bridge No. 45 has been com
pleted insofar as the driving of
the piles is concerned only. The
bridge crew is now working on it,
and it is expected that the structure
will be completed and ready for the
rails in a short time.
The men of the steel gang, after ’
they had laid steel up to the bridge
and pending the completion of the
structure, went back on the line !
about two miles, where a permanent
sidin gwas put in. The work of
putting in this siding was taken in
sand and completed yesterday, and
to day the camp cars of the track
•amp, which had hitherto been sta
tioned at Mile 374, will be moved
an to the new siding at mile 369.
It is expected that Bridge 45 will
be sufficienly finished to permit of
the rails being laid over it, and the
steel gang will be able to resume
the extension of the road without
any delay. This bridge is 468 feet
n length and is the longest between
the Crossing and the end of steel
*t Lignite. There are a few small
oridges beyond Bridge 45 and the
Burns coal mine.
The intervening distance between
the point where the steel gang will
resume operations tomorrow to the
Burns coal mine, is approximately
two miles. It is expected that this
listance will be covered by April 1.
After putting in the spur track
to the Burns coal mine and extend
ng the main line for approximately
1000 feet beyond, a permanent siti
ng will be pu| in. and with the com
pletion of this siding, railroad ex
tension south of town will cease.
For the time being at least.
All of the force on the main line,
with .the exception of the section
rangs and those in the maintenance
jf way service, will be withdrawn
»nd transferred to the Xenana-Fair
oanks branch line for an indefinite
period, probably until through rail
fonneetion has been established.
The steel gang, as soon as they
lave reached the coal fields, will
be brought to Nenana and will lay
:he temporary track along the water
front for the accommodation of the
travel trains, which will bring ma
terial for the back fill on the water
front. When this work has been
•ompleted they will be sent across
the river to help complete the road
:o Fairbanks.
ffecana—Tk® Gateway *o McKialjy
KatiOTial Park.
The cabin belonging- to Louise
Lohr, in the restricted district, was
completely destroyed by fire at
about four o’clock this morning, j
The owner of the cabin is away in :
Fairbanks, and the cabin was un-j
sccupied at the time of the fire.
An alarm Vas turned in a little
after four o'clock this morning by
Harry Davis, who saw the blaze
from the Arctic cigar store, to which
both the city and Commission fire
departments responded; but the fire
bad too much of a start, and all
efforts to put it out proved un-'
availing. j
The cause of the fire is unknown
at present. A trunk is said to have
been the only article saved, the rest
of the contents of the cabin were
burned up.
LABOR union notice
A meeting of the Nenana Labor
Union will be held tomorrow night
at the Union hall, and all members
are urged to be in attendance.
The meeting will be called to
order promptly at 7 p. m.
The Whizz Canning company s
the name of a new firm that will op
erate near Valdez this season. '
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THE PORTLAND 1
JACKSON & EKELAND, Prop..
Word was received in Fairbanks
of the death of Arthur Hyde, of
Hyde's ranch, on the Chena slough,
between Chena and Fairbanks.
Death took place at Colfax, Cali
fornia, on February 13.
Arthur Hyde was one of the first
to take up a homestead in the Fair
banks district, clearing off quite a
tract of land and selling the wood
to the steamboats and the railway.
During the Marathon craze, Mr.
Hyde, who is a winner of many
long distance cross-country races
in England, was instrumental in
staging the Alaska Marathon race,
held at the old baseball grounds at
Fairbanks on July 4, 1909, in which
Terry Sullivan, the Nome sprinter,
took the purse, with Hyde second
best, in a field of twenty-six com
petitors.
On the Labor Day following, Hyde
beat Sullivan’s time on the same
track. He defended the cup against
several competitors, retaining the
title of long distance champion of
Alaska.
Of the old marathon runners of
the Interior, George Tree, Tommy
Thompson, Wallace Cathcart, and
the old veteran George Taylor still
remain with us.
Mr. Hyde had been suffering
from stomach trouble for the past
few years and in the hope of re
gaining his health went to Cali
fornia.
On the Brower stage which ar
rived in Fairbanks last night from
the coast, Mrs. Louis Golden, wife
of the proprietor of Golden’s Groc
ery, returned from the States.
At Union Hnll on Tuesday^and ^
Friday nights, commencing^at'^9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
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