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Bntered as second-class matter August
28th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, AlasKa, under the
Act of March 3. 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. AUG. 15, 1925
A Few Oldtimersof the
North, Where They Are
What They Are Doing
The whereabouts at. .1 doings of many
■oldtitnersof the North, particularly of
Nome, are related in a most interest ;
ing Seattle letter, recently received by
The Times man, partly as follows:
Business in Seattle is rather dull, al
though the real estate sharks are en
deavoring to start a boom There is
as a fact considerable building of vari
ous kinds under way. Business condi
tions throughout the nation are fairly
good, although not up to the expecta
tions of many people who perhaps ex
pected too much af t r Mr. Coolidge \
"had saved the country from bolshe
vistic and other threatened evils.
There has oeeu tremendous gambling
in stocks, but ti»e inevitable reaction
has occurred, arid 'now many people
who thought themselves wise are won
•dering what struck them^
Former Alaskans heir are numer
ous—io fact, they seem to be scattered
over all the city. There are also mauv j
4n and about Los Angeles, and all seem
to be doing well.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pepper have pur
chased a home in Seattle. Mrs. Pepper
returned recently from an extensive
trip through the East. She is a mem
ber of the local linn of Knettle, Inc.,
women's furnishings, and is doing a
good business.
Louis Stadie, formerly of Nome, has
retired from the restaurant business,
in which ne was very successful, in Los
Angeles, and is now located in the San
Machine, Black
smithTand
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
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Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
Fernando valley, not far from that
city.
A. E. Bovd, who used to run the tele
phone company in Nome, is developing
a graphite mine near Saugus, Los An
| geles county.
Mcse Kosenerantz and L. B. Tanner,
both former Nome residents, are trying
| to find oil in the Mojave desert.
E. L. Blank, a former Nome mining
1 man, has made a great deal of money in
a silver mine at Randsburg.
Mrs. Eugene Cbilberg, who was Car
rie Plough, recently sold her Los An
geles hotel for $125,000.
Major 0 H Pi eoch maintains a big
suite ( f ■' to Los Angeles, and is
engnyeo i oil business. He re
cently it.. i ,'ii a wealthy Pasadena
girl.
Ed C. Russell, who formerly ran the
i Juneau Dispai-cb, but who now has a
lucrative job printing business in Se
attle, is after the appointment of
United States marshal for the Juneau
’ district.
Col. W. T. Perkins, former Nomeite,
has a scheme on to build a railroad, 13
miles long, from Hyder to the big Pre
mier mine, in the Portland canal coud
I try.
Bill Eddy, who w as Nome’s first chief
of police, and wife are living at Har
! per. across the bay from Seattle. Bill
| looks contented and prosperous.
Jim Rudd, Nome’s first city treas
urer, is in business in Tacoma.
Among former Alaskans who are in
Southern California are Tom. John and
Dan Nestor, who are in the real estate
business at Compton. With them is
Fred Carter, once mayor of Fairbanks,
also formerly of Nome and Iditarod.
Rev. S. Hall Young, the well known
pioneer missionary, and author of a
number of interesting books on and
about Alaska, is in Los Angeles, where
he is spending a month in tire interest
of Alaska work. Dr. Young, with his
■daughter, Mrs. Kleinsehinidt, and her
three charming gills, lives at Medina,
across Lake Washington.
Waiter J. Henry, 4who used to be
circulator of the Itlftarod Nugget and
later of the Rubv Record in the palmy
days of those camps, is now director of
the beattle Sportsmen's Association,
and is getting ready an exposition to
be held durmg the summer at Wood
land Park, Seattle.
J. F. A. Strong, former governor of
Alaska, prior to which occupancy he
was one of Alaska’s most successful
newspaper publishers, and Mrs. Strong
were recent arrivals here from Los An
geles. Incidentally, the Major and
Mrs. Strong returned a few moiths
ago from a 14-montbs’ trip around this
gray, old earth, during which they vis
ited Hawaii, Japan, China, Korea,
Manchuria, Mongolia, Malay States,
Sumatra. Burmah, India, Arabia,
Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey.
Greece and the other Balkan states,
Hungarv, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia,
Germauy, Belgium, France, England,
etc.
Archie W. Shiels, who used to super
intend the Pacific Coal & Oil Company
at Kataila when that now forgotten
camp was on the boom, is now vice
president and manager of the Pacific
American Fisheries Company, Belling
ham, Wash. Recently he gave an ad
dress before the Bellingham Normal
School, on the schools of Alaska.
E. L. Holt, a Nome business man,
and a former member of the Terri
torial legislature, who spent the win
ter in Seattle, recently left for Nome.
Ira D. Orton, well known attorney,
and Nome pioneer, who has spent every
summer in Nome for the past 25 years,
is keeping up his record, having left
for Alaska on the first Nome steamer.
Dr. A. N. KiStelsen. another pioneer
mining man of Nome, also left on the
first steamer.
J. M. Davidson, builder of the Mio
ccue ditch at Nome, the first of that
kind in the Territory, is in Seattle, en
route to Alaska.
A. M. Capewell, a well known busi
ness mau, formerly of Fairbanks and I
Ruby, left recently for Wrangell,
headed for the uow strike in the Cas
siar district.
Johnny Barrett, successful life insur
ance man, formerly of Iditarod and
Ruby, who has been ill for some
months, has recovered, and is now on a
three-moDths’ tour of the Alaska coast
towns. He is connected with the New
York Life Insurance Company, as is
also his brother Billy, who has his
headquarters in San Francisco.
Porter J. Coston, former Nome town
site trustee, is cow employed in the
county assessor’s o0Kc here.
Frank S. Lang, whose stoves of vari
ous makes are well and favorably
known throughout Alaska and on the
Pacific coast, and who started his first
business in Nome in 1900, now has a
factory in Seattle covering two acres of
ground. He employs 150 men. Mr.
Lang, accompanied by Mrs. Lang, re
turned a few days ago from a business
trip to China, Japan aud the Philip
pines.
“Treat ’Em Rough.”
Ooe of our English cousins, com
plaining that the young men of today I
are being dominated by the supposedly
weaker sex, is broadcasting an appeal
for the regaining of trousered suprem
acy, and suggests that the best way to
accomplish this is for our youthful
striplings to grow whiskers—if they
already are not too effeminate for this
strictly male accomplishment.
While it is undoubtedly true that
domination by the female sex is on the
increase, we do not believe that it is
because the young men of today are be
coming feminised. Rather is it that
the young women are becoming more
masculine, in looks, actions and accom
plishments. But-glory be to Ifamo
Nature'—there is one thing the girls '
cannot do. They can’t grow whiskers!
And iD this strictly masculine attribute
we may yet find our way out of the
bondage into which we have unwitting
ly permitted ourselves to be led.
Young man, grow whiskers! Not the
soft, silky kind affected by some of our
movie sheiks, but the wiry, bristling,
corkscrew kind that, makes a typical
Russian bolshevik look as if he ate a
keg of tenpennv nails tor his breakfast.
Never tnind about keeping them neat
ly trimmed! Let ’em run wild'. Culti
vate an air of ferocity with all the hir
sute trimmings, and don’t‘forget to j
growl ever and anon at the smooth- j
cheeked upstarts who have taken to j
bosstBg us.
Treat ’em rough, we sav, and begin
by growing underbrush and rasps on I
your chin. Hooray for whiskers'—Ex
change.
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J. H, McLcsn i
Tokotna
Ladies’ Furnishings ,
Arctics Felt Slippers
King Island Mukluks]
Mild-Cured Ham (
and Bacon
Star Ham 45c Bacon 50d
Oregon City]
Mackinaw Coats
Hood Rubber Pacs!
- Leather Vests
Coal Oil Plenty of Gas
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Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions,? Etc. |
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
B.&E. Store
McGrath, Alaska
Arriving on first boats
will be a complete as
sortmentof tne verv
best goods, con-*'
sisting of
Groceries
Hardware
Miners’ Supplies
of All Kinds
Ladies’ Furnishings
Salmon Netting
Furs Bought
A. R. Eldridge
McGrath Pool Hall
George Mutchler, Proprietor
Cigars, T obaccos, Candies, fruits
Old-Timers' Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
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Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
!
New Dog Houses. ^
Frank Larson - - Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.