THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en^ry as second class mail matter, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879.
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WHAT ABOUT INCORPORATION?]
The question of continuing the
operation of light, water and tele
phone plants under the favorable ar
rangement suggested by Engineer;
in Charge Fred’k D. Browne, is so
closely associated with the question
of incorporation that it is hardly i
possible to consider the one without1
the other. If the town is to continue
to have lights, water and telephones i
it also must have a municipal organ
ization, such as is provided for by
the laws of the territory. If there'
are not to be lights, water and tele
phones for the convenience and pro
tection of the town, after the first |
of August, it will matter little
what action is taken with regard to .
the question of incorporation, for in
that event we will be as well off
!
without incorporation as with it.
That is the situation as The iCews
sees it, and it is our belief that no 1
time should be lost in getting the in- j
corporation under way, for it is
practically assured that our public ;
utilities will continue to function, J
It does not follow necessarily that
incorporation will burden property
owners with excessive taxes, mere
, f
is a limit fixed by law, beyond
which municipalities may not go,
and there is reason to believe taxes
in Nenana will be lower, in case of
ineorpation, will be lower than in
any other incorporated town in the
territory, and with more to show,
in the way of improvements, than
most towns of more mature years
have.
Should it be decided to incorpor
ate, the town will start its municipal
career without debt and without re
strictions bevond those of territorial
origon governing all incorporated
towns. We will be free to make our
own laws and have power to ad
minister our affairs without inter
ference from any Source, and will
even derive some revenue from
territorial funds.
There are other arguments in
favor of incorporation and none
against it if we consider the ques- '
tion along with that of light, water
and telephone service, and the gen
eral welfare of the town.
HAS TURKEY FOR PRESIDENT;
TRIES TO INSURE THE BIRD
The New York Life Insurance Co.
recently received a request from a
a man in Mississippi for a life in
surance policy for a prize gobbler
intended for President Harding’s
Thanksgiving dinner. “I am raising
a fine turkey gobbler,” says the
President's admirer in his letter to
the company, “which is past two
years old for President Harding’s
first Thanksgiving dinner in the
White House and, of course, value
the bird very highly. Every care is
being taken to preserve the health
and good nature of the first turkey
of Mississippi to hold that honor.
“I have several policies in your
company and was wondering if I
could take out a policy on the gob
bler for about $500. Your agent here
has no information on this subject
-o I thought I would write to head
quarters.”
The application for insurance was
turned down by the company and
the following letter of explanation
sent to President Harding, together
with a copy of the letter from the
applicant: “When the letter of which
the attached is a copy, came to this
office, I had the papers passed upon
by our medical department. They
rated it as extra hazardous, because
the subject is overweight, and sta
tistics show that the whole group
will be dead inside of five months.
We, therefore, found it impossible
to make a rate.”
. Replying to the letter from the
insurance company, President Hard
ing wrote: “Thank you for passing
on to me the correspondence in the
matter of Mr. Mason’s turkey gob
bler. With some misgiving about dis
cussing so technical a subject with
an expert, I incline to disagree with
your decision. This bobbler may be
overweight, but he is also decidedly
oversize; a circumstance which ac
cording to the actuarial data of this
group indicates an impressive ten
acity of life. My advices are that
the gobbler that gets past the
Thanksgiving-Christmas deadline ac
quires thereby automatically a new
lease of life, the statistics indicat
ing that he is pretty certain to com
plete a second cycle with wishbone
and drumsticks intact and general
health unimpaired. While mortality
is notoriously high among immature
turkeys, their record of longevity,
once they have passed the critical
periods, is calculated to make even
us office-holders erfvious.
“Further. I anrf unable to give
official approval to your ruling that
an overweight gobbler is a danger
ous ri.-k. The aim of a gobbler’s ex
istence is to attain overweight. It
should be the ambition of your
company to encourage, not discour
age, his efforts at corpulence. Why
do gobblers abstain from golf, or
from taking courses at Muldoon's?
Why are they encouraged to lose
their waist lines early and never
recover them? Manifestly, the stand
ardized relationship between height
and weight, which is properly pre
scribed for gobs, doesn’t apply to
gobblers. I trust that on the con
sideration of these suggestions, you
will find reasons for reversing your
ruling.
“As it appears to be Mr. Mason’s
purpose to make me the beneficiary
of this turkey, I assume that I am
the appropriate beneficiary of his
insurance. Kindly have policy mailed
direct to me, and oblige,
Yours in sincere gastronomy,
Warren G. Harding."
Mrs. Anna Dickinson, mother of
Mrs. M. V. Tvler, arrived in Xe
nana from West Fork on the Geo.
Black steamer yesterday afternoon,
and left for the Outside this morn
ing, by way of the Broad Pass trail.
She is headed for Seattle, where her
daughter Agnes is seriously ill, and
expects to remain Outside until late
in the summer. She will be escorted
part of the distance by Mr. Tyler.
The George Moody power boat
will get away for the Kantishna to
morrow with passengers and mail.
DAIRY HERDS OF TERRITORY
WILL BE INSPECTED SOON
An inspection of Alaska dairy
herds will be made this year, accord
ing to a statement made recently at
Juneau by R. J. Sommers, acting
governor of the territory. It will be
carried out by Dr. Trubey, veterin
ary surgeon of the States Relations
Service, Department of Agriculture,
who has his headquarters at Portland
Dr. Trubey, it is stated, is making
his arrangements to leave for the
North at an early date. He will visit
Ketchikan first, and make an in
spection of the herds there, and then
go direct to Juneau, for a confer
ence with the governor. Until after
this conference is held, his future
plans will not be definitely known.
The inspection is being made pri
marily to guard against tubercular
stock. A similar inspection was made
in 1919 by Dr. B. C. Parker, which
resulted in many dairy cows being
condemned and killed. Provision for
reimbursement of the owners of
the slaughtered animals was made by
the late territorial legislature, which
also provided for continuation of in
spection of dairy animals.
OLDTIMER RETURNS NORTH
TO REVIEW FORMER DAYS
Howard H. Hart, a pioneer of Ju
neau, of 1888. who worked at the
Treadwell mine when work was first
started there, and who shared a
cabin in Juneau with Tom and Oscar
Ashby in the early days, returned
to the capital city recently, ac
companied by his wife, daughter
and two sons, for a look over the
scenes of former and leaner days.
Mr. Hart is one of the lucky ones
who wrested a fortune from Eldora
do creek, in the Dawson country,
after years of fruitless search for
wealth in the Forty-mile and other
early-day Interior camps.
Since leaving the North, the old
timer has increased his fortune by
lucky speculation in oil, and now has
a fine home in Berkeley. It is said
that his income is now placed at
a round thousand dollars a day.
JUDGE SUPPORTS WORKERS!
CHICAGO, July 14—Judge Sam
uel Alschuler, arbitrator in the
stockyards wage dispute, has re
fused to grant a reduction of five
cent* an hour, as requested by the
companies, and at the same time he
has ruled that overtime must be
paid for all work over 48 hours a
week.
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MISSOULA, .July 14—Due to the
excessive heat, the forest fire situa
tion in Northern Iowa and Montaana
is very serious.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Van Orsdel
were at Tolovana today, enroute to
i.N'enana from the Kantishna district.
[ They should arrive here tomorrow.
Ed. Bartlett, who arrived in town
this week from the Kantishna dis
trict, by way of the Riley or "High
Pass” route, reports having? seen
an abundance of game along the
: trail, including sheep, moose and
; caribou. The sheep were unusually
| numerous and quite close to the
! trail.
—
The committee appointed to con
: fer with Engineer in Charge Fred’k
| D. Browne, relative to the operation
j of the Commission light, water and
telephone plants, met with Mr.
Browne this afternoon.
Deputy Marshal William Butler ’=
j a visitor in town from Healy, having
| been called in on official business.
I He will return to his headquarters
i on Saturday.
George Melich, arrested at Healy
| this week on a charge of assault
! and battery, entered a plea of guilty
before Commissioner R. S. McDon
ald last night and was fined $5 and
costs. The complaint waas filed by
Parfeny Ovendk.
The first blueberries of the sea
son made their appearance on the
local market this week.
The shortage of eggs was relieved
by the arrival of the steamer Re
liance yesterday.
NEPHEW SEEKING UNCLE;
INQUIRY COMES TO NENANA
Deputy Marshal J. I* Antlers re
ceived the following letter on the
last mail, seeking information re
garding the present whereabouts of
Frank Matana, an oldtimer of the
North:
HoHister, Cal., May 21
Chief of Police, N’enana, Alaska,
Dear Sir:- You will kind excuse
me because I can not write very
: good English, but what I gone ask
! you if you be so kind to let me
i know if ever was the man in you
! city by name of Frank Matana. I
! am his nephew and last that I hear
from my friends that he was in
Xenana, year of 1917, and 1 would
I
i be very glad to know where about
J of him. Hoping that I will get some
[good news from you soon.
Very truly yours
Frank B. Markovich,
478 Sixth St., Hollister, Cal.
! P. S.—He is the oldtimer up there
! formerly of Dawson. V. T.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts
of the man inquired for, should
inform Deputy Marshal Anders or
write to the nephew direct.
ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE
OF HOP FOR SATURDAY
Responding to a very general re
quest for another dance, the man
agement of Union hall announces
that arrangements are being made
for a three-hour party on Satur
day night of • this week. j
The dance will start at nine
o’clock, for a change, and continue
until midnight, with the Berggren
orchestra in attendance. The hour
of starting has been advance for
the benefit of the considerable num
ber of dancers who desire to do
their dancing before midnight in
stead of after that hour, and there
is promise of a large crowd being
on hand.
The steamer Tanana, which con
I nected at Gibbon with the steamer
Seattle No. 3, from St. Michael,,
and the steamer Alaska, from Daw
son, is now enroute up the river,
headed for Xenana with a heavy
cargo of freight.
In the Probate Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
Xenana Precinct.
! In the Matter of the Estate of T. F.
Murphy, Deceased.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT
Xotice is hereby given that the
! undersigned has filed her final ac
! count as administratrix of the above
| estate, and the above entitled Court
has fixed 2:00 o'clock P. M.. July
; 18, 1921, at the office of the above
| Court, in Xenana, Alaska, a3 the
; time and place for hearing said
| petition. All persons having objee
1 tions to said account should file
; same with said Court on or before
| -said date.
MRS. M. J. SWEEXEY,
Administratrix
Date of first publication May 19-21
SOUGHT TEDDY’S MONEY;
WOMAN IS SENT TO JAIL I
HILLSDALE, Ind., July 14—Mrs.
Emma Burkett, who presented a
claim against the estate of Theo.
Roosevelt for $69,000, backed by a
note which she alleged Roosevelt
had indorsed, was placed under ar-1,
rest yesterday on a charge of
forgery.
The forgery charge was made by
George Roosevelt, executor of the
estate.
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Sixteen Nenana and Healy Masons
are working their way up to the
Scottish Rite degree as members of |
a class which is being initiated by
Hon. H. T. Tripp and IL E. Oarlock,',
recent arrivals in Interior Alaska
from Juneau. The first meeting was
held last night, the second will be
held tonight and it is expected that
the work will be finished at a third
session tomorrow night. The meet
ings are being held in the school
building.
Miss Vera Russell, of the local:
telephone exchange, went to Healy j
yesterday to relieve H. T. Giil for
a few days.
NEW AMMUNITION ju.t re
recived, including .256 Newton
•hells. Anderson Bros. Sc Nerland.
WANT All
LOST—Lady’s engraved wrist watch
Reward for return to Railroad
Cigar Store.
FOR SALE—Household Furniture.
Two spring-seated rocking chairs;
two straight chairs; one round
folding table; two center tables.
Victrola, cabinet and records; »2 |
straight chairs; large doll, with
clothes; wardrobe; chiffonnier;
cabinet sewing machine; electric
washing mashine; electric iron;*
Inquire at News office.
WANTED—Information as to the
whereabouts of our father, Krik
llartull; last known address was
Nenana. Communicate with Mrs.
M. Silva and Anna Sofia Hartull,
8d6 15th. St., Oakland, California
FOR SALE — l'wo pairs short vamp
2-strap slippers. Mrs. Langstrom.
A BARGAIN—Fully equipped hand
laundry and bath house, for sale
cheap. For particulars address
Mrs. L. Gallian, Brooks, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Heaiy.
LOST—Pocketbook containing pa
pers of value to the owner, and
money. Reward for return to A1
Clarno.
FOR SALE—Mule weighing 150'.'
and two horses. William Srnythe.
HOUSEKEEPER WANTED -F or
particulars inquire at Cooney
Hotel.
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MEETS AT ONION HALL
FIRST MONDAY EACH MONTH
AT 8:00 P. M.
\ isiting Members Always
Welcome.
Frank Rourke Geo. S. Smith
Secretary. President.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
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change without notice:
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Monday, Vi ednesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 8 a. m.
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