HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
ARE BEINC IMPROVED
When the improvements now under
way and under immediate contempla
tion are completed there will no longer j
be any room for complaint that Tanana \
does not possess adequate hotel accom
modations.
The town’s central location makes it a
stopping place for all classes of people
• who have occasion to travel in interior ;
Alaska. Nothing is more calculated to |
give a had impression of a place than
poor and forbidding hotels, and Tanana’s
hotels have not been up to a very high
standard. The condition was fully rec
ognized, and is being speedily and ef
fectually remedied.
The Tower House.
Joe Anicich was one of the first to
make a move for betterment, and the
result is the Tower House, a hotel that
would be creditable to a city of several
thousand people. The rooms of this
fine place have just been opened to the
public and are the perfection of comfort
and repose. High ceilings, generous
size, wide halls, every arrangement was
made with the object in view of afford
ing a thorough ventilation Steam heat
and sanitary plumbing will be installed
as quickly as circumstances will permit,
and every appointment of the establish
ment will be brought to a high standard
of modern excellence.
Mr. Anicich commenced the erection
of the Tower House last year, when
business depression was widespread and
the outlook for the country and the
town was not the brightest. Then peo
ple shook their heads and said his en
ergy was misdirected. Now there are
few who hold that opinion.
The Kentucky.
With his usual keen business foresight
Ed Y. Lee recently secured control of
the Kentucky and is remodeling that
well-known house in a manner that will
scarcely leave it recognizable to its for
mer patrons. It is his purpose to put it
on a firm footing as a strictly first-class
hotel. All who are acquainted with
Lee’s thorough way of doing things will
be assured that the Kentucky will merit
and receive a large amount of public
favor.
Mr. Lee has purchased the Golden
North building from Charles Chanquist
and is removing it to the lot just east of
its present site, recently acquired from
W. C. Brown. G. Brown is now asso
ciated with him in the Golden North
restaurant.
The Grand.
It is the purpose of Mr. Chanquist to
enlarge the Grand Hotel building and
extend it over the ground now occupied
by the Golden North. Another story
will be added to the Grand and when
the work is completed it will probably
be the largest hotel building in Tatiana.
The carrying out of these plans may be
delayed somewhat on account of the in
ability to secure lumber.
From the foregoing it may be seen
that instead of being destitute of up-to
date hotels, Tanana may soon become
distinguished for having the very best
hotel accommodations of any town of its
size in the entire north.
Mining Expert on Duty.
Dr. Ernest Horstinann, C. E., M. E.,
who has been in the district several clays
for the purpose of examining the min
ing property of Col. George F. Cooke in i
the Gold Mountain district, came up I
from Grant creek last Monday. He is
returning to the Gold Mountain district!
today. j
Dr. Horstinann expressed surprise at
the showing made by a superficial inves
tigation of the ground in that region,
but said that a closer inquiry is neces
sary before a final verdict can be pro
nounced upon it. He was present when
Allen & Fox cleaned up four ounces of
gold from a 4-point thaw on No. 3above.
On his return to the district Dr.
Horstinann will critically examine the
ground on Grant creek and will also in
vestigate the conditions on Mason. He
says he has not yet procured sufficient
evidence on which to base a final judg
ment of the property, but thinks he will
know the facts before he is through.
_ Returning to Mason Creek.
It is learned that Coloumbe brothers,
who joined in the stampede to the Idit
a: od a few weeks ago, are returning to
Mason creek, Gold Mountain district.
Came From the Old Man.
Pete Pemberton, who wintered in the
region commonly designated as the Old
Man, arrived from that country the
first of the week. He said that Bob
Buchan and Joe Shaw, who recently left
Xanana for the Old Man, found the
camp of St. Peter and lvenally without
any trouble.
Mr. Pemberton is well known as a
prospector in the Rampart-Hot Springs
region, and was formerly engineer on
the old steamer Xunivak. He has now
gone into the Sullivan district. He
thinks so well of the Old Man country
that he will return and winter there
again next winter.
Try the new barber at the Gibbon shop.
Salmon is Now King.
The first king salmon of the season
was brought into Tanana last Tuesday
from Abe’s camp, near The Rapids.
They were brought down by Harry Doty
and were three in number, not very
large, but duly appreciated by those
fortunate enough to annex a mess of
them.
Headquarters for the Traveling Public
Pioneer and Tower Houses
Two First-class Resorts
The Rooms just fitted up and furnished at the Tower House may cost a
little more—they are certain to afford a lot more comfort
than can be had at other places.
Joe Anicich, Prop. Tanana, Alaska
THE TANANA RESTAORANT
Best Meals in the Camp
Short Orders at All Hours
Best of everything on the Market. Service unexcelled in the North
Fresh and Delicious Bread, Pies and Pastries Always on Hand
NATIVES ASK
COMMISSIONER
QUESTIONS
Last Friday a delegation of about
twenty Indians, representing different
communities on the Tanana and Yukon
rivers, called on United States Commis
sioner Phil Gallaher. The visit did not
mean to them the discharge of an im
plied social obligation, or even the ex
pression of a warm feeling of personal
friendship, so much as it did the put
ting to the great United States govern
ment, through its most potent repre
sentative within their reach, a clean-cut
business proposition.
They wanted to inquire why it is that
they are not permitted to enter into
contracts for rafting wood down the
rivers and delivering it to the military
arm of the government at Fort Gibbon,
at a sure profit to themselves and a pos
sible saving to the people of the United
States, whose wards they now are and
whose resources are so sorely taxed
in circumventing their schemes for sat
isfying an overpowering craving for
skookum water. Several years ago, the
spokesmen of the delegation said, the
former owners of the land and the water
and the fruits and fishes thereof were
permitted to do this. Never did an In
dian fail to fulfill a wood contract and
never did the wood fail to burn ami
I make a warm fire. Now the rule is
' that wood that has been in the water
' shall not go into a soldier stove. Why
is this, when dry spruce several years
i ago was so near and is now so far? The
I Indian does not savvy the horse and the
i horse does not savvy the Indian; so the
| Indian cannot haul wood hut must bring
it over the water or not at all. Not to
take wood that has been in the water is
to not take the Indians’ wood. Would
the commissioner have the embargo
lifted from rafted wood?
The commissioner expressed sympa
thy for his visitors and their people,
complimented them for desiring to en
gage in useful and profitable employ
ment, and told them that while it is ob
ligatory on him to put them in jail for
infractions of the law his jurisdiction
does not extend over the fuel supply for
the army. However, he gave it as his
private opinion that at the rate the
nearby wood is being consumed fuel will
| have to be brought in by water before
i long. _
See Juck Cavanaugh for well water and
j light express. Scavenger work a specialty.
|
| False Alarm of Hen
Drowned on Beaver
Charles Schick, whose friends in the
Fairbanks district believed he had been
drowned in Beaver river last month,
floated intoTanana in a small boat from
the Beaver country last Saturday at
noon. His partner “Two-Step” Louis
Schmidt, he said, was on his way across
country from Beaver river to Fairbanks.
No accident had befallen them.
The apprehension for the safety of tlfe
men was caused by the return of their
dog, in a starved condition, to McGuire
and Chapman’s camp, on Beaver, more
than a month after Schick and Schmidt
had left there.
JUST-NEW GOODS-RECEIVED
At $4.00 WATCHES AT OUTSIDE PRICES To $110.00
Souvenir Rings $3.00 to $12.50.—Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, Charms
and all Kinds of Souvenir Jewelry
BEMIS
WATCHMAKER, MANUFACTURING JEWELER
Next Door to Postoffice
OPTICIAN