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NOME, ALASKA, JAN. 29. 1916
Have you ever paused lor a moment
in your ousy cause it mis or that lo
take a retrospective giative back into
U16 past and recall the earlier days
m Nome. Most likely you have done so
and lue nupierslou you received vvUeti
you coiupaied lue iiuauclal, social atiu
uioiat couuiliuus ot Uus itllie isoiateu
camp ot ours must have luruiahed you
couetueiaoie food lor reflection, ifltug;,
have cuaiiged considerably since
those days, uovv smaing slowiy into
the misis ot Utue, wfleu that uu
cuuiUed horde ot humanity Ailed with
the gold lust Still lingered, when the
old camp was fUledf with a mighty
hustle and bustle and hurry and
scurry , a hen money was loose aud the
t irtues Were held but lightly; when
fortunes gold lure hung ever on the
horizon and hope was the mightiest
asset of everyone from the humble
delver on the end of a pick and shovel
iu the Stetson crowned operator open
ing wine In the back room of gilded
palaces of chance. Unite a change, in
deed, Consider the tinancial condi
tions of thirteen or fourteen years
ugu, for instance; The money so eas
ily wrung from the bosom of good old
mother earth was taken lightly then.
The miner coming in from the creeks
or from Lis rocker along the beach;
vied with the merchant, the mining
operator, the saloonkeeper and the
gambler, in the prodigality of their
spending. Money was easy and high
and low scattered theirs with a royal
good will and an oblivious disregard
for the future. Now it is different.
Next take for up a moment the social
conditions in the early days. All was
different then for society was founded
upon different things. Tom and Dick
and Harry were caught up in the
lightly flung net of social privilege
and the sesame to the social door was
neither worth nor wealth but, "He’s
a pretty good fellow and spends his
money life a prince." Now, again, It
Is different. No longer is Tom and
Dick and Harry received in the so
cial swim; no longer does the door
of the domicile of "our best families"
swing wide to the knock of Tom, or
Dick or Harry, regardless of their
qualities of good fellowship or their
capacity to make the money fly. Now
a days they have to undergo a rigid
investigation of character, pass the
censor, and get a nearly pure white
ticket before they can hope to mix.
True, they will still be forgiven an oc
casional slip, if redeeming qualities
are shown, for your Alaskan Is no
prude. But he will have to show four
teen carat anyway before he can get
by.
But when we get down to the moral
aspects then the diff erence Is startling
for the morality of the Nome of early
days was primitive indeed. This
early laxity was doubtless natural
enough when social linos were loosely
drawn and records were lightly scan
ned. Also the lust for the abounding
gold pushed aside all moral stand
ards. Then knave and blackguard,
strumpet and courteson rubbed shoul
ders with the morally virtuous and
all were more or less intermingled in
,ue busy busue Of life. No on* gave
,..u ucuiariy attention as to file tuan
.i<*i 01 ute or too customs or moral*
.i even tneir next uoor ueignuur, tui
. a gtcat majority cared mile to
.1 low stones wilen one ouin l know
just vt no ungiil be tut. Now. Uie mor
al* ot ms cumy are ol ute best, as
*nogre** afiu mole stable oonduioug of
me itote tuigety winning ted andean a -
otes ana leu us our due snare of tne
oe*u lousy ws can say witn all uutn
.out, coustueied Horn tne moral Slanu
^omt, mure is no cieanei town In tne
.tonvi, every tiling considered
oHitlan pnaalMiaM KtuuKtu
i ttal me tcugilsn people of lute
auto Uonc too tuucti yammering about
.tten owu troubles auU given too Ullie
.uottgm to me lioubte* oi men cue
.ate* ts suggested by tne iiiosyow Her*
..u. vvnicU adds
We are aware oi wbal, a vv inlet
ampuigu bolus lor our men in me
„ ml Have we lUougUl ol me despan
..men must nave already soiled upon
..to lieat Is oi me eueuiy * loaders tut
ncy taco me awful rigor of a Kus
„ia tv ■ tei : Hauled m ms pursuit ol
.oe mcsiuu, me enemy ts held up on
* trout cf bundled* of miles, living
upon slteuuaied lines of communlea
,wm* because the ravished country can
3;ve no support, aud confronted with
ai imminent coming of the snow*. It
.* too Ute now to poan on, and retreat
.an only be a disastrous counsel ot
.espatr. Uo our pessimists understand
.tie signidcanec of that long hue soon
o be frozen stiffly into the ground?
1 Uen corns back to the west. Again
ve know our difficulties, but does It
i not occur to the gloomy vlsaged in our
.nidst that the very geographical post*
.ion of that front Is a long spelling
ut of German failure? The enemy
.ms sacrificed his hundreds of thou
,auds. aud yet be is farther from his
bjects than he was twelve months
ago.
Next look at the Balkan position
relatively. It la but a small part of
a world spread whole. It Is the out
come upon the enemy side of a policy
of despair. It admits the failure of
Uie plans east uud west. It is a last
desperate throw of ths dice. We chal
lenge the pessimist to suggest how the
enemy own hope to clutch victory in
t rance or In Russia by reason of any
conceivable concurrence of events In
.Serbia. Bulgaria, Roumanlu, or Greece
GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY
tBoslou Record.)
When a government takes over the
.ood supply of its people a crisis Is
approucning," says the New York
y\ orld. "The regulation and control
oy government of the ordinary me
chanism of civil existence have now
extended lu Germany under war con
ditions, to a degree never before or
elsewhere in the history of the world
attained oil so great a scale" points
out the New York Sun, which adds:
If the military and political and
dynastic aspects of the great war were!
less absorbing the whole civilized
world would now be studying frouT
the point of view of political economy I
the remarkable experiments In palsr- j
ual administration w hich the German j
government has undertaken as mere [
incidents of its mighty struggle.
"Many." says the New York Globe;
ha\ e a better opinion of the pro
phetic powers of Kitchener, who sug
gested three years, than they hud
Attrition is a slow process and eco
nomic starvation is a disease that
marches leisurely."
Yet an American, recently returned
from Germany, denies that food Is
soane. lie claims that the scarcity is
chiefly psychological, anticipatory;
and that the government's taking over
ot minute control is solely an actiofi
of precaution.
ALASKA NOTES
hlii Bartlett, one ol the Bartlett
; brothers, pioneer freighters of KJon
dike days and who have been in busi
ness in nearly every carup in the north
its freighting between Ulnes and Tolo
t ana. The price being charged by the
-reighters ls ID cents per pound.
Major H. S. Tobin, a veteran of the
j Boer war, and w ho practiced law in
| Dawson for several years before set
I Uing in Vancouver, 1s reported to have
j been severely wounded in France
where he was in command of a com
pany known as the “Tobin Tigers."
Fairbanks is nearly $20,000 in debt
and is getting farther into the hole,
the expenditures for October being $1,
88S.62 greater than the revenue. The
valuation of real estate has been
boosted $300,000 more than it was last
year, bringing the assessed valuation
UP t‘> ilea.lv $3,500,000.
A convention of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood which lasted four or live
days was recently held In Metlakahta.
Native delegations come from almost
every Indian village on the coast from
Haines down to the lower boundary
line. They represented the Thlinget,
Hvdah and Tsimpshean native tribes.
The captain of the halibut schooner
Idaho reported in Cordova that while
passing Middleton island recently that
he had seen Joe Ibach's launch drawn
up on the beach there. The launch
with Ibach and wife and three others
t was feared, had been lost In a storm
between Cordova and the Island.
A mail carrier on the lower Yukon
is reported to have nearly lost his life
when his sled and dog team went
through the Ice. He managed to save
everything including the mall he was
carrying but nearly perished before
reaching shelter. Fortunately the
weather was mild or another tragedy
would have been reported.
There are millions of caribou re
ported in the hills 50 miles to the
west of Dawson. They are moving in
massed formation and have tramped
down the snow and brush for miles In
width. Many detached bands are
within ten and twenty miles of here
and hundreds of men are out shoot
ing meat for the winter. Tons of It
is coming to Dawson daily.
Judge Bunnell, of Fairbanks, re
cently received a petition from Mat
thews asking that he appoint a re
corder and commissioner for the camp,
but after inquiry decided that the de
velopment of the acmp did not war
rant the action. Mathews U the head
quarters of the miners In the "Wild
river country and the people of Fair
; banka have been asked to use theli
Influence In having a post office estab
lished there. It ls set forth that somi
, 120 miles are In the oamp and tha
la postnffloo and neeonU-cg precise
I would be a great convenience to them
j and would save unnecessary trouble
! if mushing miles to attend to any busi
ness.
;
Ohas E. Clay pool, formerly United .
States commissioner at Fairbanks, and
later superior court Judge at Olympia.
Is being urged to become the republl- j
can candidate for nomination for
lieutenant governor of Washington
As a young man Claypool served in'
i the Washington state senate from
Tacoma.
The Cordova Times says: A large
shipment of machinery la at the dock,
awaiting the arrival of U. A. Sprague,
president of the Lighthouse Packing
Company. Warren, Oregon, who will
start a clam factory at Cordova. It la
Mr. Spragues Intention to erect a
large plant on the city dock, and In the
meantime he has arranged to use the
building already there as temporary
headquarters. We understand Mr.
Sprague la bringing about twenty ex
| perlenced clam packers with him, and
us soon as he is abl„ to drive piling
) upon which to construct two new
buildings the force will be greatly in
ct eased.
MEETING NOTICE.
THE NOME BARTENDER’S UNION
Local 868. B. L L. of A. Affiliated
with the A. F. of L.) meets every first
Sunday In each month it 11 a. m.
AL. NICHOLSON, Pree.
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The following taoie snows the av
erage temperature for each day for the
the following years:
1916. 1916
January 1 . 1 11
January 2 . 1 25
January 3 .—6 18
January 4.—19 —17'
January 5.—8 —29
January 6.—21 0:
January 7. 12 IT
January 8.—2 II
January 9.—4 It
January 10.. . ..—10 19
January 11.—4 21
January 12 .... ... —3 30
January 13 0 II
January 14 .—10 1!
anuary 15. . ..—14 10
January 16 .—10 33
January 17.—11 0 j
January 18.—12 —11
January 19.33 —*8
January 20. 1 —22
January 21.—1 —*0
January 22 16 —18
January 23 . 87 —23
January 24 . 26 —17
Janua^ 25 . 24 6
, January 26 .11 —3
. January 27 . 10 13
. January 28 . 4 18
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