INMACHUK NEWS STEMS
Special Correspondence
The weather in here continues to act
freakish. We have long known that
the natuie of the coming winter cannot
be predicted by the one past. But
for cantankerous variety this one puts
In the shade all past winters in our
experience. While cold snaps have
been comparatively few the ranges of
temperature have been great and close.
Blizzards threaten; gives us a little
taste of what they can do and suddenly
die away, to start making faces again
out of a clear sky very shortly, and
this continues sometimes for days at
a stretch, keeping us guessing as to
what to expect. We have had 35 below
and 20 above weather this month and
all intermediate points; sometimes
going from one extreme to the other in
a day. The lee was forced away again
this month and we had open sea for
several dais At some paint on the
opposite shore the ice must tie idled
tip to a great height for it never
comes heck here when blown away
New lie forms on the sea
Harry Courtney, one of the it Brown
Co outfit is in town.
John Swanson injured his back in
the drift up river and came down to
recuperate He expects to he back in
the harness in a few days
Frank Aquino made a flying trip to
town a few day* ago and took up the
mail.
Jim Donovan, of Cleary creek. Kobuk
District was brought down recently for
medical treatment. One of his legs
sustained n fracture while lie was
working on his claim.
The Nuggets advertising scheme to
inform tourists what we can show
them should they pay us a visit. Is
certainly enterprising, to snv the least
By si 11 means get the tourists to take a
look in Some may take a financial
interest in us. while others might stop
off and Join us. although their original
intention was merely sightseeing it
behooves us to see that a lot of Nug
gets reach the outside. This section
will sure invest in a lot of one cent
stamps while the campaign is on
Nome and Seward Peninsula certainly
ha* a great asset in the Nugget
The fellow who wrote that story in
the Nugget of January 29th about
"The Village that went to seed because
its citizens couldn’t get next," is sure
some gazaboo. He has swung about
the ’’Circle” some and Is a good obser
ver. He doubtless has seen towns on
ths outside go "Mukky" while otltei
towns, no better situated, possessing nr
greater or better resources, build uj
into largo and prosperous cities. Tip
reason is simple, the later towns pos
sessed assets the former lacked, whici
are enterprising, progressive, optimis
tie citizenship and a boosting news*
'paper, all working together to let out
siders know that thev are on the map
and alive and have something to sell
or give away. Those kind of people
do not “hide their light under a bushel"
they advertise themselves and their
community with blue lights and sky
lockets to attract attention Mr. “Wise
Oazaboo” give us another good story
Freighter Frank Knapp Is now
hauling coal for the Wallin Mine to
the Imachuk operators He came to
town today in a fierce blizzard for
horse feed.
Adolf Esholt and Alex Sicotte have
,returned from Lane river where water
I drove them out of their shafts.
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Theodore Spurlock, who has been
| tiding Frank Knapp freight the Kug
! ruk Fredge outfit up, was pretty badly
burned recently in extinguishing a fire
which caught in the interior of the
• abin and threatened Its destruction
Spurlock saved the cabin all right but
at considerable expense to his person.
He is in town growing a new hide
\\ c note ill a, lucent -Nugget tliat u
»oi oi Aiaskuns Held a nu t ung in aoai
ue uliU piulcsieu against « u petu.ig
; n;eis being giv en uiuir.i m Auibiva.
I 1 lM.lt Id till clVlial long W'U) d to go U»
i »egistui a kick, oi iaiuui nui lung
J • iiougit, Uity Kliouia 11 av u gone uu lu
' vv •idiniigioii i_>. y,. vv u) stop ui sacai
| to • IwAilllOt VV U uo uui Kl« king ill
| tioiiiu and have Uie unpaei n il or
ue.il'u , *ipp.ucnuy not. Alure Ai.isKa
I A* vvs emuHalts irom dvuiue limn goes
J out ui AubKu. IjoV ei'liui £>lrolig alia
ji>eieguie vv ickclsuam lake m Wash
ington, A. l. S. 1’. i’oiu.inu auu olnci
towns but mcy are noi Heard oi uiuu
• lit) tuacli ijoalllu and again vv lien
j tin y return lu Alaska, liny ale intern
j cd in sin nee. ^outlie is a gooil press
I aguui ior Alaska and sue looses Homing
on ll, but Alaska snouid have a press
oureau oi ils very own and send its
news oul in si hand.
The Auggets endeavors will uu
doubtedly succeed in bringing mail)
tourists io Nome next summer, bui
wo of this section feel handicapped.
Fine steamers come to Nome on which
the tourists will be comfortable and
feel safe. Hut when they' tome to
look at the dinky little craft they will
have to risk their precious persons on
in order to make us a visit, doubtless
most of them will conclude that they
do in*t care to see us or our magnifi
cent scenery anyway. Jf FncI * Sam
would specify’ in his mail contracts
that fair sized boats suitable for com
fortable and safe passenger traffic only
would be employed in carrying the
mails, we would bi greatly benefited
| A great many men coming in here in
•the spring and leaving in the fall use
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the overland route, fearing to travel
on these little boats, as both those seas
ons of the year are subjected to storms
In fact our mall boat meets with de
lays all summer, for It does not take
much of a blow to make It seek shelter
along the route. However whether we
get any tourists or not we will send
out Nuggets to the outside hoping w
ire helping Nome, our metropolis.
ESKIMO AS TRADERS.
Value Counts as Nothing if They See
Anything They Went.
Vmong the Eskimos of the Bering
sea region there Is no fixed value for
whalebone, furs or anything they may
have to trade. If one of them has any
thing of value he will keep It until
some white man appears with some
thing that appeals to his eye. And
the money value of what may take him
days to make does not make any dif
ference to him If he has a trinket
that may he worth a dollar and some
imp offers to give him for It something
that is worth a thousand dollars, but
of which he has no need, he will refuse
to trade nut he will give anything
he possesses for what he really wants
An Eskimo of St Lawrence Island,
in Bering sea. made a catch one season
of a hig hnwhead whale The head
of baleen was worth between $10,000
md $15,000. He knew the approximate
value of the head hut he held on to
.t with no apparent desire to trade
One day a trader appeared with a
small gasoline launch, valued at per
haps $^00 or $800 The sight of that
so took the native that he straightway
i traded his head of hone for It
Far out In the straits one day he ran
out of gasoline. He abandoned the
launch for a canoe he was towing and
paddled back to the island But lie
did not regret his trade. He was sat
istied and ready to try for another
whale Youth's Companion
CHISANA OPERATOR
DEMANDS DAMAGES.
SEATTLE.- Frank Manley, John L.
.MctJinn, J. J lTIce and E. J. Ives lin\e
been named an defendants in a damage
suit which was instituted today by the
attorneys for Fletcher T. Hamshaw.
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Hamshaw. w ho holds options on ground ,
iwned by the defendants in the Chlsana
mil who operated extensively in the
new diggings last summer, claim that
MctJinn and his associates attached
his Lank account in the Scandinavian
1 Uncrican bank, thereby forcing him to
. hi tail his operations. Damages in the
! uni of $15,000 are asked.
Hot chocolate, hot boof too. malted
milk and fresh ioe cream and toda
water at the Rose Candy Store.
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A COOK WANTED
Wanted, a good woman cook for road
house. Writ* Mrt< Lucy Pendergraet
Marks Roadhouse. Council, Alaska.
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BIRDSEYE VIEW OF NOME, THE FARTHEST NORTH AMERICAN CITY OF UNCLE SAM ON BERING SEA.
T5T In order to convince tlie public of Nome that the statements of
the Nugget, as to the tourist question were not mere vaporing*, that
W there would indeed be a serious attempt to divert to Alaska a portion
of that vast army of sightseers who will visit the Pacific Slope during
the coming summer, the Nugget ha1- taken special pains to ascertain
with certainty the full extent of the movement and also to learn the
opinions of those host qualified to know as to its probable success
That the statements published at intervals in the Nugget arc not idle
buncombe, that it is an absolute and irrefutable fact that a most
tremendous movement with a hacking which practically assures it
success, has been started, and that, w ithout a question of a doubt, a
vast number of sightseers will journey to the shores of Alaska during
dEC the coming season, is attested by the following tacts obtained by tin
Nugget's Seattle correspondent under instructions to secure only
X such data as w as absolutely reliable and sucli opinions as were worthy
m of careful consideration.
The following are the results of the Nugget's investigations
The AUska and Pacific Coast Steamship companies are both making
concerted efforts to increase the tourist trade, not only to Southeast
ern Alaska but to Seward Peninsula as well.
The Alaska Steamship Company has already announced that
the Victoria will make special excursion trips June 28, July 26, sailing
to Nome direct and returning via the inside pas-age and is offering
X, greatly reduced rates for the round trip.
The Senator will make no special trip- but will offer speojo'i
indiicygents to those desiring to make I be round tiip to ibis saction
IChfTi companies in addition to an extensive newspaper campaign
are maintaining booth- ami mtormatiim bureaus .it tin >:m
cisco and San Diego Expositions
All lines to Southeastern Alaska point- are preparing i n a hi
increase in summer travel, and are alread> making arrangenn-ni - t"
handle it.
Mr. Harry Brandt, General \geut <*f the Pacific t "a-t Steam
ship Company, states that he expects a greatly increas'd
the inside passage, down the Yukon and outside via X..nn
Traffic Manager Zipf, of the White Pa--, predict- tmprceedi ■
river travel during the summer.
E. C. McMiken, acting San I ranci-eo agant <>f the White I‘a
who will he remembered as an old Noineite, states that the W hit
Pass promises through rates via Nome, prov ided hi- cotupanv can
make the desired arrangements with the new owner- "l tin
Corwiu.
The agents of all steamship companies handling \la-k.i ti.itm
assert that arrangements will he made wherebv touri-t- 'id !
enabled to stop in Nome from a-i to 56 hours at lea-t.
Everett Clark, Assistant Passenger Agent of the Alaska Steam
-liip Company sa) - with enthusiasm that it "look- like .1 banner
year for Nome and his company will cooperate w ith the Nugget in
boosting the tourist trav el to Seward Peninsula."
Here is the evidence that sound, level-headed business men. men
who calculate both words and actions, are not only confident that the •
Northland will be an immense attraction during the coming -aaaon
but are alao show ing their faith hv -pending large sums in arivertfeing
the attractions offered.