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Tom Smith, Prop
We Strive to Please
EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
WM. ROD1CKE1T * i : ProprUtor
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Nenana Steam Laundry
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE DLnn„ 70
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST luOne to
J. F. BENNETT.
GEORGE RICH
Several cars have been moved to
the end of steel, near Healy, for
the accommodation of the men who
will be engaged in track-laying op
erations in the near future. It is ex
pected the work will start about the
first of the month.
Fine Stock Staple end Fancy Gro
ceries- Fowler Sl Morris.
SeU Your
Furs in
Nenana
Most Buyers.
Highest Prices.
Quickest Returns.
Why Risk j
the Dangers of
Long Shipments
and Longer Delays
when you can
get the top
market price in
Nenana as soon as
you part with your
catch?
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Rust House
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Dealer in Raw Furs
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Alaska Building 127 W* 27th Slreek
A WORD TO YOU
At our Seattle office we have opened a buying department for
the benefit of the Alaska trade.
We solicit the accounts of individuals, firms and corporations
desiring closer connections for buying and selling. The service
rendered is direct; we, at every step, exercise close supervision
over all transactions, thus assuring accurate and prompt atten
tion.
We gre READY, WILLING and ABLE to buy right, to ship
right, .to insure right—to attend to all matters as your personal
agent. Your enquiries and wants will receive our immediate and
most courteous attention.
WRITE US—there is no obligation. We are just the business
connection that the Alaska Trade has been looking for in the
buying of mining, cannery and fishing supplies, dry goods, gro
ceries, cigars and tobacco, drugs, rubber goods, furniture, house
hold sundries, electrical goods, gas engines—in fact, anything that
grows or is*’ manufactured.
We are also willing and anxious to develop a market for all
Alaskan products. Get in touch with us, giving full particulars,
and your goods will be sold right.
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)H10 CAPITALIST BELIEVES
G. O. P. WILL HELP ALASKA
Charles L. Johnson, Ohio capital
st who has considerable money in
rested in the Mt. McKinley Gold
Placers, better known locally as the
/an Orsdel-Taylor company, firmly
>elieves Alaskans can look forward
lopefully to generous assistance for
Maska from the incoming Republi
:an administration, according to'
Mrs. J. C. VanOrsdel, who returned [
;o Nenana yesterday from a hurried
rip to Seattle, where she conferred
vith Mr. Johnson on matters per
aining to the affairs of the com
>any. The Ohio man came to the
roast to meet Mrs. Van Orsdel.
Mr. Johnson, who spent a consid
rrable part of last summer in Ne
lana, most of the time as a patient
it the Government hospital, is a
rlose personal friend of Senator
Harding and is in a position to
know that he is genuinely interest
ed in the Alaska problem, with a
sincere desire to do something
worth while for the territory.
Regarding conditions in the States i
Mr. Johnson believes things will be
considerably upset during the next
couple of years, or until the Re
publicans can straighten out the
muddle in which the country now
finds itself. Times will be hard, and
capital will be timid about new
ventures pending a restoration of
normal conditions. This will not
retard the development of the Kan
tishna holdings of the Mt. McKin
ley Gold Placers, for which there
are ample funds available.
Mrs. VanOrsdel says there are
fully 25,000 men out of work in
Seattle. She attended a show at
the Moore theater one night during
her brief stay, there and heard one
of Seattle’s prominent men appeal
to the audience to come to the relief
of the unemployed. He urged that
work usually done in the spring be
untertaken at once, so as to pro
vide employment for those in need
of it, many of whom started to
buy homes during the more pros
perous days and who cannot now
continue their payments.
Mrs. Van Orsdel says she stuck
too close to her hotel to be molest
ed by highwaymen, but she heard
of many others who were less for
tunate. Holdups were a common oc
surrence.
Many former Northerners were
met in Seattle and a considerable
^ number of them probably will be
back soon if they can finance the
! journey. Walter Scott, formerly al
I taehcd to the local office of the A.
Y. N. company, declared that he
regretted having left the territory.
North-bound boats out of Seat
tle are sailing with fairly Ur.;.,v lists,
Mrs. Van Orsdel says. Her boat was
well loaded and quite a number of
the passengers came ail t..e v. ay to
Seward. Much heavier travel is ex
pected later in the season.
Mrs. Van Orsdel made a quick
trip back from Seattle, being just
twelve days enroute. She made the
thip over the trail, between steel,
on the Cooney stage.
Prof. R. Wolf, who returned to
Fairbanks on Tuesday, will be back
in Nenana tomorrow to locate here
permanently, accompanied by Mrs.
Wolf, and Prof. Wolf will play regu
larly at the Coliseum thereafter.
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THE NENANA DAILY
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[DITAROD MESSAGE SPEEDS I
. DOCTOR FROM ANCHORAGE
Racing across Alaska, a distance
)f 1000 miles, in response to an
rrgent summons to attend a sick
■nan, in the Iditarod district, Dr. I:
I. B. Beeson, chief surgeon of the :
Government hospital, at Anchorage,
irrived in Nenana from the coast
shortly before midnight last night
»nd left for the lower river after
i stop here just long enough, to
sake dinner and to transfer from the
special train, which was sent to the
;nd of steel for him, to the basket
sleigh of Ole Jacobson, to which
are re attached a string of 17 dogs.
Dr. Beeson is going to Iditarod
io attend Claude Baker, of the
I
Miners & Merchants bank, of that
place, who is dangerously ill and1
without medical attendance. The par- I
ticular nature of his illness is not i
known, but the urgency of the call
for help indicates that the condition
of the well known oldtimer is re
garded as serious.
The doctor traveled by train from
Anchorage to the end of steel, on
the Southern division of the Gov
ernment railroad, crossed over the
gineering commission mail team, es- .
cortcd by Mail Superintendent Dan .
Leech, and was met by a special
train at Healy, the end of steel on
the Northern division. The remain
der of the journey will be made with
dog teams, arrangements having at- •
tended to by agents of the Nortn-'
ern Commercial company. The Jacob
son team will make the run to Fort
Gibbon, and a fresh team will take
him from there to Ruby, where a
third team will be in readiness to
take him to Iditarod, by way of
Poorman and Takotna. The distance
from Nenana to Iditarod, by way
of the winter trail, is approximate
ly 600 miles,, and it is estimated
that the trip will consume at least
eight, days.
In former winters travel between
Iditarod and the coast went by way
of what is known as the Seward
trail, connecting with the Govern
ment railroad at Chickaloon. But
that trail has been abandoned as a
I mail route and it is presumed that
it is now closed »to travel by un
broken drifts. Otherwise Dr. Beeson
undoubtedly would have gone that
way, as the distance between the
coast and Iditarod on that trail is
considerably less than the river
route, by way of Xenana and Ruby.
There is also a shortcut route by
way of Lake Minchumina, in the
Kantishna district, but that trail
also is little traveler and the snow
doubtless would have been founn
too deep for rapid travel. The
doctor is taking the long way, but
the sure way.
Considerable time could have been
saved had the message Tor help been
sent to Fairbanks, instead of An
chorage, but it is presumed the
friends of the sick man had the
Seward trail in mind when they
sent their wire to the coast town.
Mr. Baker is well known in Xe
nana and in Fairbanks. He formerly
resided in the Fairbanks district
and was here last summer on his
way back to Iditarod from the a
vacation in the States. Mrs. Bak-r
was with him.
There was a time when the Idit
arod district numbered several med
ical men among its population, but
with a decline in the camp’s act
ivities, the doctors scattered to
other parts of the territory.Therc
has not been a doctor there for
several years, and they are equally
scarce in other localities along the
lower Yukon, below Fort Gibbon.
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John Scott, young son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Scott, underwent an aper
ation at the Government hospital or
Monday night for acute appendicith
and is now mending rapidly.
Several new members were addec
to the roll at the meeting of th>
Nenana Republican club'' held or
Tuesday evening. A new secretary
1 will be elected at the next meeting
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