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NOME. ALASKA, JUNE 19, 1915.
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A» the German war reports recently
added to tlie already extensive news
service furnished b> tlie Nugget have
ulliacted much attention and also been
ilie subject of considerable discussion
owing to the frequent divergence from
ihe reports sent out by the press
bureau's of the other belligerent na
tions. we take the occasion to point
out to the public that in adding this
new source of information we are now
publishing the reports of both sides in
the great struggle and the public are
thereby enabled to judge more accur
ately tlie events of the mighty con
flict which is now holding the attention
of the entire world. While we have
ne doubt that the reports furnished
heretofore, which were mainly from
French and British sources, were fair
Indications of the facts attending the
• •lush of tlie giant armies in Europe,
it is never the less submitted that they
represented!' the views of only one
side and tlie reading public had little
or no opportunity to see the course of
events as viewed from the standpoint
of the opposing nations. During the
period through which the war lias en
dured it lias been frequently remark
ed that the German side, was hardly
given what was termed a fair repre
sentation in tlie local papers. The
preponderance of news from British
and French sources may have been
responsible for this impression and in
so fur as the quantity of news from
botti sources is concerned, it is admit
ted that tlie contention is supported
bv tlie evidence, for the German re
ports have indeed been few by com
parison. This, however, was not the
fault of the publishers but was due
mainly to the fact that but very little
news from Berlin was received in the
T’nited States until recently owing, it
is said, to tlie severance of cable com
munication with Germany early in the
war. This difficulty has now been
overcome and the German and Aus
trian governments are sending out
daily reports through the medium of
the great wireless station at Sayville,
Long Island, which is in direct com
munication with Berlin and the world
is thus enabled to hear the German
version of the various features of the
great struggle, it is these reports that
the Nugget is now publishing. As to
their veracity, we cannot presume to
offer judgment and if they conflict with
the reports received from other sources
that is a matter for the consideration
of the public who must form their own
estimate of which is right or wrong.
The object of this paper is to furnish
the news without bias and without re
gard in our personal views. Like the
reports from London nnd Paris, the
German reports have the official sanc
tion of that government, and may
therefore he taken as the evidence for
the German side without hesitation.
Whatever may lie the merits of the
several reports it is undeniably true
that through the addition of the new
service, the public of Nome can obtain
a much clearer view of the present his
tory making events in Europe than un
der previous conditions where in the
version of one side was the principal
object upon which to base ones knowl
edge of what was transpiring. This
extensive addition to the daily news
service of the Nugget does not mean
that there will be any lessening of the
service from other sources for the reg
ular press service will be maintained
as before and we will, as in the past,
use our best endeavors to furnish the
complete news of the day as far as is
possible under present conditions.
A number of interior newspapers,
which have always and consistently
opposed the construction, manning and
equipment of an adequate navy, are
making a great deal of the recent re
marks of General Goethals about the
coast defenses of this country. With
an entire misunderstanding of what
the general said and meant, they insist
that they ha\e this sound military au
thority to support their view that the
existing coast defenses of this country
afford ample protection to It from hos
tile attack.
The general in substance said that
no fleet could force the coast defenses
adjacent to our great cities. He point
ed to the diffleuty which the great al
lied fleet has had in forcing the Dar- i
danelies as one illustration in point.
But no peraon who has the slightest
knowledge of the subject has contest
ed that any hostile attack upon this
country, should it come, would be made
at the start on His coast defenses of
the great cities. That would be fool
ish. If a fleet, convoying transports
full of troops, were to reach our sltores
and defeat or evade the American fleet,
the troops would be landed where
coast defenses do not exist.
The local situation is squarely in
point. The three forts at ths head of
the strait of k'uea cotHd probably pre
vent the passage of any hostile fleet
to attack Seattle. Vet, if an enemy's
fleet were approaehlng our sfeores.
convoying transports loaded with
troops, there is nut ths fuintest probu
bility that the fleet would attempt to
puss these forts. Why ahuald it? With
out coming within more Mtkn remote
gunshot range of any oae of these
forts, the fleet could steam calmly l«to
Bellingham Hay, where not a gun is
mounted, and land an army under the
protection of its own guns without the
slightest difficulty in the world.
It could do the same thing, but witli
slightly more difficuty and only under
favorable weather conditions, at doz
ens of places along tl|e Atlantic coast.
To establish adequate coast defenses
at every passible point for the land
ing of a hostile force on America's
shores would cost infinitely more than
the construction of a navy greater than
that of Great Britain.—P.-I.
ALASKA
NOTES
(From our Kxcbauges >
Douglas lias the only Lutheran
church in Alaska.
Fire destroy ed three houses at White
horse last week.
The Spence family are all finding
employment at Valdez.
Skagway has decided to stamp out
the dandelion evil along with other
things.
The Valdez Civic League has a lawn
mower which it offers to loan to any
one who will use it.
The Tatiana river is clear of iee.
Contrary to custom the bridge across
the slough to Garden island did sot
go out this year.
The rate of a cent a word for press
matter going over the Alaska cable
may be doubled. An exchange pre
dicts it will make little ones out of big
ones.
The famous old clipper. General
Fairchild, of that period when the
American sailing ship was supreme on
the ocean, was recently purchased by
Janies Griffith & Sons, of Seattle, and
will be used as a barge in the Alaska
trade.
The chamber of commerce sf San
Francisco has sent notice to aH the
merchants of that city to the effect
that Alaska with a big purchasing pop
ulation would make a good market for
California goods and urges the mer
chants to take advantage of the busi
ness that will follow as a result of the
building of a government railroad in
Alaska.
In the new mining law passed by the
legislature at Juneau there is one
clause that will appeal to the oper
ators. It provides that for the record
ing of affidavit of annual labor, the fee
shall h« the customary $1.50 for one
claim and 25 cents for each additional
claim included in the affidavit, when
such affidavit includes a group of con
tiguous locations.
The festival of the Midnight Sun was
first held In June, 1912, Max Kollm, the
first organizer of the Native Sons and
Daughters, being instrumental in
starting the movement. In 1913 and
1914 the celebrations were held again
with such great success that the an
nual celebration is now a fixture in the
calendar of holidays of Fairbanks and
>f interior Alaska.
Knyukuk has set the pace this spring
far Alaska’s placer camps by produc
ing a single pan containing $1,633
worth of native gold, .lust what shape
it was in is not stated hut evidently in
large nuggets and dust. It is a big
nugget country, but never heretofore
has a pan produced anything like this
amount since the early days of the
Klondike or Fairbanks camp.
The First National bank of Fair
banks estimates thnt the gold <eld f.ir
lhe winter season will total $355,000
The winter dumps are all washed out
ind the open cuts are now being oper
ated.
A proposition to consider the organi
zation of subordinate camps of the
Woodmen of the World in Alaska will
ha officially considered at the annual
convention of the sovereign camp to be
held In Denver, Col., In July, 1916.
The deficit of $2,155.60 In the con
struction of a trail from McCarthy to
Chlsana which the Cordova chamber
of commerce has been trying to pay
off, may he cleaned up soon, as the
Alaska Steamship Company will pnv
$1,000 towards the amount, provided
tile Cordova business men pay the bal
ance Right members of the chamber
each subscribed $50 and others ore
working to rnlse the $700 still needed
Professional Cards
IRVING M. REED.
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR,
Residence Seiffert Flat*.
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