WEILER WRITES OF AFFAIRS
OR THE RIG OUTSIDE
TACOMA, March—1 am in
receipt of your letter today and
it was the first news letter that
was received by me up to date,
and, in 4act, met no one else
who had received any letters re
garding load conditions at Nome.
Up to this mail very few Nome
papers had come out to this part
of the world at all; a few week
ly Nuggets and about four
Workers had been received by
Seat’ile subscribers, so up to th\s
:ime we have been very shy uu
Nome topics But am very glad
to hear that Nome is O. K., and
as you say, possibly much better
than last winter. There is no
doubt that the people of that part
of Alaska have more caues to be
content than of any part of the
Pacific coast.,
The eastern wave of prosper
ity has as yet failed to hit this
coast, though our docks are pil*
ed with war munitions and pro
duce of all kinds, all being loaded
upon steamers as fast as they ar
rive. But, as steamers are scarce,
there are long spells that even
iongsbormen remain unemploy
ed. Many orders arc now being
fplaccd by the warring nations
for lumber and many of pm idle
mills are now starting up and
many of the lumber jacks are
going to work, which is a god
send to many of them as they
have been idle for six months
and more—but, so far, have fail
ed to see any other industry be
ing stimulated by any orders
from abroad that the Pacific
coast can supply, as all other
lines, mainly produce, are kept
practically cleaned up all the
time.
If any of our poor consumers
at home went anything they
must pay an increased penalty in
price because the warring fac
tions must needs first be supplied
then, if any thing should be left,
we poor mortals can pay war
prices if we want (o procure the
necessities of life- 5
A poor farmer who is trying to
clear his land of stumps has now
to pay \hree times as much for
his powder,'fuse and caps than
last year. Flour, sugar, and other
commodities are continuing to
soar skyward and the Lord only
knows when the limit will be
reached. Then they have the gall
to preach preparedness when the
United States is cleaning up the
entire country with the necessi
that we absolutely need our
selves to prepare with.
1 wonder if Wall street would
let the United States have what
was needed in case of war.
Don't think their patriotism
would permit them to break any
■of tfihe big profitable i^mtracts
that they now hold with the war
dogs, as they would lose money
and that always come first be
fore God or country with them.
Our little difficulty with Mex
ico is an example. Our army (?)
which has been preparing on the
border far that past year, instead
of being prepared to strike im
mediately at Villa after his raid
upon Columbus, was helpless
simply because there were no
ammunition or stores available
or any prior preparation made.
So, when rush orders came to
cross the border, our soldiers did
not have anything but a few
rounds of cartridges and no grub
and no wagon trains or auto
' trucks, to follow them up with.
An order was immediately issued
to an auto factory to turn out
17 trucks. The men having just
quit their shift were called back
and worked until the order was
filled; Then when supplies were
wanted there were no freight
cars available as all were work
ing over tMMe hauling munitions
to seapprt towns for elsewhere
and none could be spared for the
United States.
Well, finally, after seven days
of vigorous work, the first Uni
ted States detachment was sent
across, and Funston gave as hia
excuse that he did not want to
send his men into danger in a
half cocked manner. Guess Vil~
jla’s army mufet have been su
prior to ours and they only have
a little jerked beef to subsist on
and they have no shoes and were
in a deplorable condition. Even
so, Funston must of been in great
fear, as no pursuit was taken for
a period of seven days, whereas,
a few hundred cowboys, if given
permission would have jumped
into their saddles and made
things interesting for a few days.
'Then there is another thing
The United States will know
that when ever one of our sol
diers gets a chunk of lead he
will have the satisfaction of
knowing it was made in the good
old United States.
Now, if any one tells me that
an immediate embargo should
not be placed on arms and am
munition he has got to show me.
Carranza has more cartridges
than the United States and
guess Villa has also. I am not
sure if the United States can get
any. Carranza is getting them
and also machine guns in car
loads, and the day will come
when Ik and Villa will join
forces and turn them against our
very 'selves. Won’t that be a
grand boost to our great Ameri
can policies and a crown to Wil
son’s glory? “Makes me sick!
Had the pleasure of seeing J.
J. Cole in Seattle the other day.
He and wife had just returned
from a tour of the large cities.
They only remained in Seattle
for a fw days and then depart
ed for San Francisco. He said
that New York was turning out
new millionaires every day, and
that if a wave of prosperity ever
struck any place it was sure lit
tic old New York. Said lie even
had to engage his table seats in
advance and then to dine on a
twenty spot and expect any
change was preposterous, so it
was a case of throw your money
over the transom first ami they
would do the rest. *Same when
you want to go to a
show; the spectulators buy
up nearly the entire seating
capacity and then do the scalp
ing act- If you can get an ordi
nary seat for four bucks you arc
lucky, if you buy your scats
through the box office you can
gte some by buying them many
weeks in advance.
He said that New York is O.
K. but not for him. He also
spoke about the prosperity of
Montana. Says that Butte now
has a pay roll of two million a
month and the minimum wage of
a miner was $4.25 Per day, so
is sure good times in Montana
and 1 presume that many of the
Alaska bunch are in that vicinity.
Arthur Cole got married to one
of the native daughters of Cali
fronia, and I trust, is now settled
and satisfied with life. At least
he ought to be. Henry Cole is
going to college.
Met Conrod Breeding later in
the day and he told me that it
was he for Nome on the first
sailing. Said lie was sick of the
game out here, and that better
intelligence teaches him that Al
aska is the best place after all.
4But I don’t know whether he
wants to go to Juneau again or
not. Heard that Cap Johnson
who made the big money on the
third beach line is badly bent
and wiP return to Nome again
and pick up another fortune.
Wish I could be as optomistic as
some people and block out my
future, but, hail, to him that can,
and also accomplish. But me
thinks that there are many wise
ones at Nome, right on the job
all the time, who cannot grasp
tile treasure, and yet there are
many who think that, by reason
of some past lucky good fortune,
there are many streaks up there
and by the use of some past ex -
perience or superior knowledge
(?) that it will not be much
trouble to make another fortune
when they get back. So, watch
the smoke. I maintain that the
pickings will not be as easy or
good as in the days of yore and
that times have indeed changed.
It might be that some of these
old has beens might go back and
show the stayers what’s what
(?)
Felix Brown has also expressed
an intention to return to Nome
and go into business again, but
I warned him that the good old
days were no more, so guess he
will go up and look the field over
before taking any action. Also
saw' Jim Rogan and he will take
another chance with Nome in the
spring, so presume that there
are many more old timers out
here that will probably take a
chance with Nome the following
spring, and hope they all make
money. Saw Sorenson at Seat
tle, the man who used to run the
famous Royal Cafe in the good
old days, and Re had just re
ceived a telegram from Calgary
saying that his two cafeterias
there had been wrecked by Can
adian soldiers. He had left
Frank Nagel, his old chef that
worked for him at Nome, in
charge during his visit to Seat
tl. Frank as you might know
is of German parentage but born
in the United States. The day
that the parliament building
was destroyed by fire at Ottawa,
the anti German feeling was very
intense for awhile so it was set
tled that as no building could
lie consumed by fire unless ignit
ed by the Germans, all German
establishments must he annihi
lated and then all future confla
grations would cease and Can
ada's honor would be vindicated.
However, they did a good job,
ar. 1 tell you there was one sore
Swede in Seattle that day
George Lorrimer and wife left
San Francisco about two weeks
ago and I think he has secured
a position with the United
Cigar Co.
Charles Dienger has sold his
interest in hi,s saloon down there
and says made a good deal and
lucky to get from under. Don’t
know at present if he has engag
ed in any other line or not.
The soft drink saloons are not
doing very well and don’t think
will he any great success in a
financial way. Some of them
evade the law by slipping whis
ky to close and intimate friends
in a manner what we call dealing
from the hip. That is, the man
behind has a flask in his hip
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pocket, and you call for some
ginger ale, and he reaches lor his
hip and draws the tlask and slips
into the glass some of this stint
ulant and you arc made happy.
Can you imagine such an ex
tremely unsocialable way to take
a drink / This uoes not have any
tendency to drive a man to drink,
but just the opposite. However,
the authorities have got wise to
this and have grabbed three vio
lators on this method of service
to the thirsty, but there is al
ways something new springing
up, and the county attorney has
to have a force of detectives on !
lookout and he is certainly a
very busy man. A big business
could be done in this contraband
if only it could lie shipped into
the state last enough. That
seems to be the main trouble;
you can’t get it in here in quanti
ties large enough for such a
thirsty public and the drys score
heavy on this point alone.
Eddy Adams is runing a strict
ly soft drink place in Seattle.
That is, the same Mecca on
Pioneer place. Told me he lost \
$300 the first month and was go ;
ing to try it for a few more
months so as to give it a thor
ough try out- Then, if it did not
look good, he would close. Guess
many can make a go of it by
cheating, providing a person j
could keep on hand a sufficiency,;
but many think the risk is not j
worth the game, and as the pen
alty is very' sereve, 1 concur in
the sentiment. No one can beat 1
the game and keep it up without ]
ultimate detection, and then they
confiscate your whole joint. So
what’s the use?
To he continued.
NOTICE] TO BARTENDERS.
Pursuant to an order of Local
No. 868. B. I. I., of A. (Affiliated
with A. F. of L. members are
hereby notified that the summer
wage scale of $7.50 per day of
eight hours and $! per hour over
time, becomes effective June 1.
Notice is also given that overtime
rates shall apply to all parts or j
subdivisions of the full day of
eight hours.
AL NICHOLSON, President.
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SPRING MEDICNE
A good spring tonic taken at this time of the \car i> of
great benefit to everybody. j
Among the simple and i fticiem spring medicines the foi- j
lawjng are recommended
CA3CARA BARK
SASSAFRAS BARK
sulphur and cream of tartak
Also
APARIENT POWDER
J Which contains Sttlphur, cream of Tartar ami other valua
\ hie ingredients.
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HILL’S PHARMACY
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SOMETHING NEW
Last fall we had a few cases of Ranch Eggs put up in
sealed cans according to the government formula, liquid
glass. They have kept so perfectly that you cannot detect \
the difference from Nome laid eggs.
They are $5.00 per can o f nine dozen or 75c per single
dozen.
] Telephone White 17 for a dozen.
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