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VOLUME XV. NO. 349. TELEPHONE MAIN 46. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY. NOEMBER 1, 1915. TELEPHONE MAIN 46. PRICE £5 CENTS
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NEW CABINET PLEDGES
SUPPORT TO ALLIES
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PARIS, Oct. 30.—The first meeting
of the new representative cabinet was
held today and all of the members
separately pledged themselves to make
ever.',- possible sacrifice in order to
bring about the final victory of the
allies and to be guided in their actions
Bolel> by patriotism. The scene is
described as most impressive as the
individual members came forward and
gave their oath to support the nation
I in all things which may insure final
triumph. The action followed a stir
ring appeal of Premier Aritside Brl
and for unanimity and co-operation and
was entirely voluntary. The new cab
inet is the most representative that has
ever been brought together in the his
tory of tlie republic and practically
every political party is represented.
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POLITICAL PARTIES
PREPARE FOR A
CONVENTION
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NRW YORK, Oct. 30.—The chairmen
of both the republican and democratic
national committees have Issued calls
for a meeting at the national capital
for the purpose of selecting the cities
in which will be held the coming con
ventions. The democrats will meet on
December seventh and the republicans
(Mi ttie fourteenth.
RUSSIA SENDS ARMY
TO BULGARIA
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BTTKHAREST. Oct. 30.—Under con
voy of a large number of warships a
huge fleet of transports carrying Rus
sian troops ar* on their way to the
Bulgarian coast from Odessa and Se
bastopol according to authentic infor
mation arriving in the capital today
from one of the coast ports. It is
generally indicated that the Russian
offensive against the Bulgarians, will
now be taken up in earnest. Accord
ing tw the information the transports
fleet was composed of thirty large ves
sels heavily loaded.
CANADA WILL MUSTER
ANOTHER ARMY
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OTTAWA, Oct. 30.—It has been of
ficially announced by Premier Bor
den that Canada will muster an addi
tional two hundred and fifty thousand
men for service in Europe, thus In
creasing the total number of troops
placed at the disposal of the mother
country to over one hnlf million. The
new army will be fully equipped by the
Canadian government. The premier
today signed a new recruiting order
calling for troops to fill the ranks of
the new force.
SIR CHARLES .
TUPPER DIES
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OTTAWA, Oct. 30.—Word was re
ceived from Great Britain today that
Sir Charles Tupper died this morning.
Sir Charles was one of Canada's fore
most native sons and was the princi
pal promoter of the Canadian Pacific
railroad. At successive stages of ills
career he also occupied many impor
tant public posts
FIRE-MAN INJURED
IN FAIRBANKS EIRE
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FAIRBANKS, Oct. 31.—A fire break- j
Ing out In the Columbia hotel last
evening completely destroyed that pop
ular hostelry and also resulted in the |
serious injury of Jack Gasmen, one of
tiie firemen who fell from the ice cov
ered rungs of a fire ladder while try
ing to make his way into the upper
story windows. The prevailing cold
greatly hampered the fire boys and
prevented effective action. The loss
will approximately five thousand dol
lars and there was on insuranec.
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BRITISH SEIZE U.S.
STEAMSHIPS
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SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—Terming the
! seizure of the American steamships
Hamborn and Herking warships high
handed and illegal, the officials of the
state department today indicated that
that the seizures will he protested Im
mediately. The officials are not aware
of the exact raiding of the vessels but
believe that they were engaged in the
coastwise trade and were In no sense
''•irrylng on the commerec of war in
accordance with the British estimates
of contraband carriage. No * official
s: . s will he taken, however, until Con
sul Young at Halifax has delivered a
full report to the department.
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LOUIS LANE ARRIVES
AT FAIRBANKS
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FAIRBANKS, Nov. 1.—Captain Louis'
Lane, the man who located the ex
plorer Stefansson and who subsequent
ly sold him the schooner Polar Bear
with which to continue his explorations
in the North Arctic, arrived In Fair
banks yesterday afternoon after a
long mush overland from Herschel
island.
Lane reports leaving the island on
September 13 sailing twenty-five miles
to the mainland in an open boat. Cap
tain Lane says that Stefansson left for
the north on the third of September
intending to continue his explorations
from the northern en dof Bank’s land,
and is accompanied by the best men
he has ever had with him on any of
his northern Journeys, all of them be
ing tried and seasoned by long experi
ence in Arctic travel. Stefansson took
the pick of the best men of the ex
pedition and Lane predicts that he will
fully accomplish every thing that he
set out to do providing that he has
time. Fear that he would be handi
capped In this respect led the ex
plorer to ask the Canadian government
for an extension of time over and
above the stiuplated three years for
which tile expedition was outfitted.
Lane thinks that because of import
ance of the work accomplished by the
harily explorer he will be granted the
extra time asked. Lane states that the
early reports concerning the finding
of the explorer are slightly in error as
tie was located by Lane on a sandspit
near Cape Kellet on the western coast
of Banks land. This was on August 11
and Stefansson had just returned from
his winter sled trip when located by
Lane.
Captain Lane will leave for the out
side tomorrow with the intention of
proceeding to Seattle and there pur
chasing?. a new vesse lfor Arctic work
during the summer of 1916. Speaking
further of Stefansson Lane said that
he will probably cause him to remain
on the Polar sea during the greater
part of the summer. Lane was oc
companled from the Arctic by Messrs.
Bert and Dare both of whom have
spent the past summer on the north
ern coast by way of a pleasure trip.
YEGGS ATTEMPT TO
CRACK CARLET0N SAFE
The first safe cracking episode to
take place in Nome for many a long
year was pulled off in the hardware
store of the E. W. Carleton Company
supposedly some time Sunday but re
sulted in little gain to the robbers In
to far -tr the contents of the strong
box were concerned as the robbers gave
up their task before securing entrance
to the interior. The yeggs made a
bold attempt, however, and succeeded
in knocking off the knob to the com
bination lock with a sledge hammer but
In so doing locked the combination
In a way that prevented opening the
door.
When the proprietor arrived this
morning he was at once confronted
with the evidences of the attempted
robbery by the broken lock and several
implements employed in the attempt
to gain entrance to the safe. Locked In
the safe was a considerable' quantity
of valuables including a large sum of
money. For a time It was thought that
the safe crackers had accomplished
their work afterward closing the door
but after a locksmith hud Anally suc
ceeded in opening the door the contents
were found to be Intact. Entrance to
the building was obtained by Jimmying
a window opening on east side of the
building. Nothing else In the store
is missing so far as known. Mr. Carle
ton states, however, that the robbers
may have take any part of a hundred
dollars or more In goods but It would
be impossible to tell It without an ex
tensive investigation. The police are
working on the case but so far nothing
I,as developed.
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PETROQRAD, Oct. 31.—An attempt
of the forces of von Hlndenberg to
[proceed In the direction of Riga was
! effectually checked by the Russian
| troops who not only succeeded In turn
ing the tables on the enemy but actual
ly turned his attack Into a precipitate
retreat In order to escape complete
envelopment as a result of the Russian
COl'P
The German attempt was met by a
countei movement which completely
surprised the enemy and resulted In a
heavy loss In men and supplies In
cluding several guns of large caliber.
The Germans are still on the defensive
ir> their former positions south of the
Dvina.
The German movement was a part
of the general plan of encircling the
Russian positions at Dunaberg. Gen
eral staff reports place the German
losses at over thirty thousand men, a
large portion of whom were taken
prisoners.
UNITED STATES WILL N N N NNN
PROTEST BRITI8H SEIZURE
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—A dispatch
to the state department last night
from Consul Young at Halifax states
that the American steamships Hamborn
and Herklng have been seized by the
British warships lying off the Canadian
coast and have been towed Into Hali
•ax on a change of engaging In con
traband trade. The message contains
little detail. An Investigation has been
ordered
GOVERNMENT PROVES
HESPERION TORPEDOED
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Secretary
J Lansing announced today that the al
; legations of Gormatiy relative to the
'sinking of the Allen liner ilesperion
'have been completely refuted by the
iindings of the navy department fol
lowing an investigation of the frag
ments of the war engine which sent
the vessel to the bottom some of which
have been recovered. Germany has all
along insisted in the face of contrary
testimony that the Ilesperion was not
torpedoed but was destroyed by a mine
r similar engine of destruction. This
tatement has been completely contro
verted, according to the secretary, by
the findings of the naval engineers who
l ave established beyond all question of
doubt that the fragments recovered
from the Hesperion were originally
part of a torpedo.
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TWO BIO BATTLES
RAGING IN SERBIA
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ATHENS Nov. 1.—News from the
Serbian battle fronts state that the
French and Bulgarians are waging a
terriPi battle between Strumnitza and
Krovak while farther to the south the
British and Bulgarians are engaged
in a struggle in which the slaughter Is
worse than anything that has so far
occur r( d along the battle lines of the
near east.
Tin lighting at both points has been
hi T iogrtss for the greater part of two
Jr)vs both forces engaging yesterday
forenoon with the struggle continuing
tin.iug'ii'.'t the night. The results are
[still undecided as far as ascertained.
1 ightlng is also In progress at several
other points as there are now seven
distinct war zones In the Serbian ter
ritory.
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STEFANSSON WRITES
AN INTERESTING
LETTER TO ALLAN
Mrs. C. 12. Darling received by last
mail a letter from the explorer Vihljal
mur Stefansson which was forwarded
from Ottawa by (Scotty) A. A. Allan
who in turn had received It from the
Canadian authorities. The letter is
written to Allan from the Bay of Mercy
j on the north coast of Banks land and
bears the date of July 15, 1915. Sev
eral parts of the communication are
of a private nature but the remainder
is substantially as follows: As will be
j seen by the date the first part of the
j letter was written before the explorer
: had been located by Captain Lane on
Kellet point while the latter portion
was penned after Stefansson had
reached Harschel island In the Polar
Bear and shortly before he started
out on the return journey to Banks
land to continue his exploration dur
ing the present winter.
"Dear Mr. Allan: I Intended writing
j you this summer (by the mail I sent out
by .Wilkins but had not the chance. I
! write this not now on a page of in?
!diary so I shall have it ready to tear
out and send when I have a chance.)
, A whaler may call In, possibly about
It p time we expect to get to our winter
j c amp at Kellet (about August 15). We
shall have to go overland to there with
I pack dogs. This letter is written not
I because it will amount to anything as
: a letter but m< rely to show 1 have not
forgotten your services to the expedi
tion when we were outfitting. Mostly
. (he fine outfit you helped me get to
'gether went out of my hands with the
Karluk. The twelve dogs I took with
me ashore were ones which T had not
| previously tried and I was taking them
|on a trial trip. They were not, there
' fore the best though some of them
I proved excellent. Of the sleds I had
one that Father La Fortune made for
j us and the other from Mr. davenport.
] Both of these got out of my hands later
for when I was absent (with a six-day
team and Captain Bernard's sled) from
the rest of the expedition, the sum
mer of 1914, both those sleds and all
t|ie dogs I brought off the Karluk were
| taken by the Alaska to Coronation gulf,
•Of the Noem outfit I have here, there
fore, only one sled( Bernard’s) Ber
nard’s dogs and one dog you got for
me (a brlndle one named Hans). The
Nome freighting sled type has proved
excellent for ice work, but the tobog
gan bottom put In by Father La For
tune Is a great Improvement (pre
vents the benches being caught on
'■■nags of ice and floats the sled through
soft snow where It sinks to the body.
I or speed, convenience of handling and
for general driving on smooth going I
lif e the Nome style of hitching In pairs
on a central tow line, but, as you told
me you though would be the case, the
Individual hauling traces keep getting
snagged In very rough ice and so do
the neck lines, less frequently, some
times choking the dogs badly. For
heavy hauling in rough ice I And the
tandem system as used In the woods
better than any method 1 have tried,
especially with big dogs. For con
venience, speed In good going, etc., it
is of course not up to the Nome style.
Bernard is a jewel priceless to us in
<'ur situation.
Thompson has also proved very
serviceabl and his wife Is worth her
weight in gold. She is the most rapid
seamstress I ever know, which Is im
portant now that all our ready made
clothes are lost with the Karluk.
Everything has to be made now of the
skins we kill ourselves. I have thought
these things would be of Interest to
you especially general news I have not
time to go Into. This note may be
the only one I have time to write to
Nqme though there are many there to
whom I owe much beside you. Please
show them this letter or tell Its con
tents so far ns they are of interest to
Mr. and Mrs. Darling. I hope to have
the pleasure of seeing you all for a few
days at least In 1916.
VIHL.TALMtTR STEFANSSON.
Portscript written at Herschel Island
August 22, 1915, says Have heard the
tragir t ews of the Karluk. It Is un
believable, strong young men dying
one after the other and the Inflrmest
oldest man nnd the babies safe and
well - and our worst trouble so far t
has been a tooth ache.