THE KUSKO TIMES
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24) h. 1923. at t be Post Office at
Toaotoa, Alaska, under the
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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. DEC. 22. 1923
Tells of Old-Timers
in Sunny California
Anchorage Tiroes.
Many hundreds of fuiroer Alaskans
are now residing in California uud
most of them have “made good.”
This is the message brought by H. E.
St. Geoige, former Fairbanks banker
and business man, who has been spend
ing a lew days here before continuing
i)o to Fairbanks for a business visit.
Mr. *>t Geoige now makes his home in
Bos Angeles* where he is dealing in oil
leases.
Speaking of the old time Alaskans in
the South, Mr. St. Geoige recalled a
considerable number.
J. Gardner, who ran a cold storage
busioess in Fairbanks, is in Hie oil
business in Texas auu doing very well.
Arthur broith, a iormer restaurant
tnau 01 Fall Ouuk'v • is now engaged m a
like business a^^taredo, 'iexas. Mr.
Smith recently married.
Fiank Mauley, tlemy Riley aDd John
L. McGinn ate operating in Texas and
California oil lauu and makiog money.
Kldis Suier, whose name is familiar
to all of the early-dav Alaskans who
wore jewelry, is iu the banking and oil
business at idunungtou Beach, Cal.,
and is tery prosperous,
S. Uarrnou Caskey, former Fairbanks
editor, has purchased the Vanguard,
reputed to be one of the best daily pa
pereMo Venice.
Joe Miller, former deputy marshal
at Fait banks, aud John Metzger, who
was a merchant at Fox Gulch, iu the
Fairbanks district, have a chain of
butcher shops in the vicinity of San
Diego.
ooa Clark, at one time clerk of the
district court at Fairbanks, is in the
brokerage business iu San Diego.
Mr9. R R. Meyers, wife of former
fairbanks dentist, is making her home
in Sun Diego, while Dr. Meyers is in
Mexico on business.
(.'. Brown, a former construction en
gineer on I he railroad at the Nenana
end, and Mrs. Blown, own a fine coun
try home and considerable acreage
bear San Diego, - • •
Jack Timmons, sourdough merchant
of the Interior, is making a lug success
in ihe vending machine business in L's
Angeles.
Mrs. Jackson, who was the former
Mrs Mark Sullivan, lives in Los An
geles.
Major Chios, former postmaster of
Fairbanks, owns a large apartment
■bouse and ranch in the famous Im
perial Valiev of California.
Wwrllv Listsv, who drove a butcher's
wagon in Fairbanks in the gold rush
davs, owns a big lemon ranch at Santa
Meuica.
Dr. and Mrs. Bow an. former resi
dents of Nenana, are living in Nenana.
Dr. Bow an is in the brokerage busi
ness.
Fred Douro,- who had one of the fitsi
chicken ranches in' Alaska, at Fair
banks, is in the real estate business at
Hollywood.
Ed VViekersbam. brother of Judge
James Wickersbaou, calls Pasadena
home.
J. Moore, employed by the Northern
Commercial Company at Fairbanks,
and C. Anderson, another old timer of
the Interior, operate an oil service sta
tion in Pasadena asd-are doing well.
Mrs. Essie Coleman, of Fairbanks, is
cashfer for ihe Los Angeles Times.
Mrs Carroll Va.-hon, wife of Peter
Vachoo. makes her home at Venice.
George VVesch. cmploved in the First
Naiii rial Bank of Fait hanks for veers,
and his brother have bought an orange
ot chatd near the ranch of Dr. d Cul
1 i 1*1. another old-timer, 18 miles out of
Los Angeles.
Wallace Cathead, who was vice pres- j
ident of a Dank at Fairbanks, is en
gaged in the rubber lire business in
Seattle.
Attorney A. R. Heilig. Mrs. Heilig
and son Reid aid his wife, onetime
residents of Fait batik-, re-ale now in
San Francisco. Reid He ■ has just
been admitted to i io ( i. t i.ia bar.
Mrs. Lou Williams, 'remembered by
many Fairbanks residents has a large
apartment house in San Francisco.
Henry Ford Acquires
Model Michigan Town
L’Anse, Mich. — Peqnarr.inf, nine;
miles to the north of L’Anse, is Henry
Ford’s town The highest rent there
is $1 a month, electric lijtht and water
are furnished, and t he doctor’s bill js
never more titan J.1.50 a month, and
fuel famines are unknown
The Detmis-autmnooile concern ac
quired possession of Pequaninc recent
ly from Citas. il^batd &; Sons, pioneer
lumbermen of the peninsula.
When che town was built, in 1887,
the owners set about to make it some
DR. W. A. RYSTROM
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Scheduled to Arrive in To- -
kotna- About December 24tb -
thins? different from other lumber
town*. They wanted a community ul
comfortable homes and happy, content
ed workmen. They seemed to think
more of their men than they did of
their profits.
There are 105 cottages for the work
men, two churehes-'-otie Protestant
J and one Catholic, an amusement hall,
a good school, club house, a water and
electric light system, telephone ex
change, a general store where ail res
idents shop, and public playgrounds
and park.
Each workman pats the same rent,
$1 permoDih. He stuffs his stoves with
hard wood at $1.75 a cord, and a doctor
ad ministers le i he ills of the family at
a charge of $1.50 a mom h. sick or well.
Well Known Miners
Return From Siberia
Seattle. -Reporting a tale of hard
ship arid privation in Siberia, where
the.) were held prisoners for some time
bj the soviet, authorities, a party of
live Seattle miners, who went into the
A re i ie with twenty three -others in the
spring of 1922 to search for gold, ar
rived here yesterday in the steerage of
the steamer Invo Mam from Japon.
The men are George GYemt»r Arthur
Marlatt, George A-kto, At,-"'-- Ison
and Richard Smith.
Gremer said that when the expedi
tion finally escaped from Siberia and
reached Japan the party divided. He
expressed fears that several of the
original party, who wer e tc Tokio re
cently, met demh during the earth
quake and fire. Among those of the
< xpeditioc known to have been in
l’okio during-the recent disaster were
Charles Murray, Robert Jones, Fred
Mehan. Joseph Wise, Ralph Downing,
Otto Larson and Mrs. A Williams and
her son, Alex Williams. Cremer said.
The expedition landed on Russian
soil eighieen months ago at Anadir,
rnembr-rs of the party said After
spending Sti) 000 searching for gold,
and finding none, the members of the
party were arrested on technical
charges by the b-d.-lieviks. but were
finally permitted to go to Japan.
1923 Salmon Pack
Worth $34,000,000
Based on the average opening prices I
announced bv the largest, packers,
Alaska’s salmon pack this year will i
have an approximate value of $33 861,
400. Phis ret. rejects a pack, of 5.055.000
cases, which is the estimated aggre
gate of the salmon canning' industry
thits season.
By districts, Soatbeastern Alaska not
only leads in the number of csaes I
packed, but also in the value of the j
output. Its estimated pack is 2 9.50 000 j
cases, mostly pinks, with a valuation of
$14 530.000. Western Alaska, which
covers all of the Bering sea canneries,
is second, with a pack of 1,275,000 cases,
valued at $13,113 400, Central Alaska,
including Cbigoik and West wai d, Ko
dutk-Afognak district, Cook Inlet and
Copper River-Prince William Souod.
ts estimated to have a. pack of 825,000
cases, valued a' $6 218 000,
San Francisco.—Gertrude Atherton,
novelist, went to San Client ih pri»on
today and saw for herself just how Dr.
J. L. Stanley, noted prison surgeon, re
stores the fires and ambitions of veuth
in aged frames. She watched Dr.
Stanley perform goat gland operations
on 6ix men, one a physician.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor/
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice in all Court®.
J. 12. McLEAfi
TQKOTNA
Yes. We're Handling
McMillan Qothing
In Both Suits and Pants
Extends
A Merry Christmas
To Its Many Friends and Patrons
Jack Mutchler
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Proprietor
EX
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SOB
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses . .
Mrs. Frank Larson
Proprietor
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man
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL E3H3NANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
ALASKA R
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COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private rooms
New dog kennels, and the best ot lower river; fish
for dog feed, ■»
Diamond Dick
Proprietor