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Entered as second class matter Feb
20, 1207, at the post office at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
March 1878.
Copy for regular advertlsments
must be In by 10 o'clock on the day ot
publication.
NOME ALASKA, MARCH 5, 1917.
Alaska weather seems to refuse to
be governed by any of the recognzcd
rules of international meteoric phen
omena The ancient proverb that
when the days begin to lengthen the
cold begins to strengthen has been
smashed to smithereens by the mild
ness and humidity of the pust month
and fear is now expressed that there
may not be enough snow left for the
Sweepstakes.
Sometimes it is chaeper to hire
than to own. This has been illus
trated by the experience of a Phila
delphian who had a motor car and a
man to run it. He gave the machine
to the chauffeur and hired it when
ever he needed it. He paid out in
hire in the first year live hundred
dollars and thereby saved two thou
sand dollars, as the cost of maintain
ing the car and its driver had been
twenty five hundred dollars a year,
'i he car cost two thousand dollars
in the first place and it was good
business for him, he figured, to give it
te his driver.
When the Cook county democracy
felt the need of a silver-tongued
spokesman and Induced James Ham
ilton Lewis to leave Seattle and set
tle In Chicago a new trick was in-*
Loduced in politics. The republicans
are now announced as about to
transplant Senator Borah from Idaho
soil to New York with a view to the
next presidential contest. Ex-Con
gressman Bichard Pearson Hobson
went of his own accord some months
since from Alabama to Blinois where
he is establishing a domicile. His
announced reason is to help make the
state dry but probably the truth is
that he wants to he a senator by
Lewis’ side.
It was stated n dispatches some
weeks ago that the government was
having difficulty in getting American
shipbuilding concerns to accept con
tracts for the new battle cruisers au
thorized by congress. The trouble
lay in the fact that the navy depart
ment specified that engines should be
devised capable of developing 180,000
l orse power. The highest powered
marine engnes in use on the great
trans-Atlantic liners do not develop
much more than half this capacity.
The experts of the department had
rot worked out the details of these
monstrous mechanisms but left this
problem for the shipbuilding con
cerns The proposed battle cruisers
must have a speed of thirty five knots
an hour and how to produce engnes
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG 8TORE.
Hour* 2 to S and 7 to 8 p. m.
Phan* Main 7.
to develop this speed has been put
on the shoulders of the contractors.
They are willing to work out the
problem on a basis of cost and a per
centage of profit but have not looked
favorably on the proposition of doing
this for one or two ships ouly to have
the government sli p in a little later
and take advantage of their Ingenuity
by building more ships of this type
in government yards. They can and
will do the work but they think it
only fair that their skill should be
rewarded with further contracts on
the same lines. On the other hand
they are content to let the govern
ment desgners plan the engines in
every detail and ask for flat bids to
construct the ships according to
specification, or to let I lie government
jards build them along the lines laid
down. To desig nthese powerful en
gines is admitted to be a big under
taking and the construction compan
ies do not want the job unless the
profits in sight are enough to warrant
the extra labor entailed.
That enthralling mytsery and ad
venture have been injected into naval
warfare by the submarine is finely
illustrated by the news that United
.States destroyers are searching some
of the islands of tin West Indies to
and the German subinairne base that
is thought to be there. No fiction
dealing with pirates or tales of the
sea has yet devised such thrilling
situations as now s cm to exist in
very fact. Jules Vurne with his N'au
tilaus had been thought to have reach
ed the limit to which the imagination
could go in the development of this
sort of fiction Hut the axiom that
truth is stranger than fiction is now
proved again in a most remarkable
mouner. There are hundreds of isolat
ed and uninhabited, or sparsely set
tled Ules in the \\ est Indies that are
edapted for use as a temporary meet
ing place and supply statjon for sub
marines. Because of the ability of
the submersibles to escape observa
tion, it would seem to be next to im
possible to find th ir rendevous. From
their base close at hand they would
be able to visit almost any harbor on
the Atlantic and sink ships there or
bombard the city with their cannon.
They iLigt '. be able to sink battle
ships and cruisei > The possibilities
of harm by this new method of naval
w-arfare are so many and so great
that it behooves our navy to ascer
tain the location of such a base,
wherever it may bo, -and to destroy
it. War will mean that we shall lose
ships and men but there need bo no
[ tear that our navj will not give an
excellent account of itself. Men of
skill we have in plenty and any
enemy we may engage will find us
equipped with resourcefulness and in
genuity possibly as yet unsuspected.
For our advisory board has been long
at work and we may rest assured
that their labors have not been in
vain. Most of the new devices that
have been employed in tins war have
originated in America, and the same
inventive minds that designed thorn
have for months been busy with
problems of elTenco tu:d defence.
What is to be shown ttie world by
America la the next few months may
lie of ti startiling nature. Edison and
others have expressed themselves con
lltjcntly of tlie outcome and we who
can know the details onty afterwards
will do well for ur peace of mind to
have no fear or worry of what the
iuture holds
WAGE INCREASE
I PANAMA CANAL
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Pacific News Serviei^ Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, Wage increases
ranging from 1 to - cents per hour are
to be given the laborers who are paid
in silver on the I’unaga Canal work.
The increased cost of living has borne
hardly on many of the Canal Zone
workers and Acting Governor Harding
with other officials made a special in
vestigation of home economic and
working conditions. Tho inquiry re
sulted in the recommendation for the
higher wages which, it is understood
hi re, is to be adopted. I.ower rentals
end mproved living quarters also are
to i > u eorded the workers.
CHANCE FOR
NEW EXPORTS
FROM ALASKA
Pacific News Sorvics, Waeh. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Porcupine hunters'
of the west are offered mi opportunity
to turn their sport to profit. The
Indians of .Michigan depend largely for
a livelihood on their birch-bark handi
work. In this industry there Is re
quired a large supply of qulla. The
porcupines of Michigan are abon* all
used up according ‘.o advices received
; by the Government here and the In
I dlans .ire hard pressed to find mtearial
j for their work. John C. Wright of
i Harbor Springs, Mich., has written the
( Forest Service at Washington asking
for some suggestion for relief for tho
Michigan Indians.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following arc the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and last
on the days, tesignated. The minus
sign before a dumber means below
zero.
U. S. YVeether Bureau.
1916 1917
March 1 . —14 80 |
March 2 . —11 80 j
March 3. —4 82
March 4 . —14 12 !
D »«.7HkSTOCK.ED.
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To the puDIic —
VY» nave Juei flnlBtied stock taking,
and llnd mat we are heavily overstocked
so are mutnng enormous reductions In
Hardware—as much as o per cent In
certain lines. Notwithstanding Immense
advances outside, especially in Hard
ware and Aletal Goods, We are still sell
ing on the basis of goods purchased tin
past two or three years.
We will sell tor cash only at these
prices, and for a limite . time, until we
bring our stock down to Ihe reiiulre
menta of the camp.
if you nave an order to be tilled, let
us figure on It; we can save you n-.oney.
We have proved It to others, we can
prove It to you.
UAKL1NU AND DEAN COMPANY.
In ths home or in the camp, there
is no commodity so extensively used
as meat, therefore It ie upon that
commodity that you should look to
for economical buying. Following are
a few of our prioesi
Beef by the aide.>$.19
Round steak. 25
Sirloin steak . to
Pot Roast. ,22
Stsw . 20
Mutton by oercaee . 19
Mutton chops, enoulder . 26
Mutton ohops, loin and rib. 36
Mutton legs.."40
Pork loin shops. . *0
Fresh Reindeer from the Lnmen
herd, dree*ed in a skillful and sanr
tary manner.
Sweet Briar Butter 40c per pound
by the cave.
PACIFIC COLD STORAGE CO.
( hone White 17.
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