GILMORE TALKS ON
ALASKA GOVERNMENT
William A. Qllmore, former mayor of
Nome, and former republican candidate
for delegate to congress suggested In a
speech at Seattle that the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce take up the
matter of Inducing congress to pass
such legislation as would enable the
Alaskans to adjust their affairs for
themselves.
"We are qualified to adjust these
things," said Gilmore, "but under the
enabling act, we are not allowed to
legislate. The territorial government
granted to us has a string to It, and
every time we pass a law, somebody
at Washington gives the string a yank.
Under the law we cannot even build
a road or a school house, without first
running down to Washington to get
pet mission.
Need Fu'l Territorial Government*
"We should have a territorial law
giving Alaska the right to adjust
their own local affairs, with the pro
vision that when we pass a lav. It
shall become a law unless congress
sets It aside within a given period.”
Gilmore expressed the gravest doubt
as to anybody present, or their child
ren, living to see Alaska granted ,t
hood.
No Chance or 8tatehood
"Dld It ever occur to you that Al
aska Is not a part of the United
States?” he asked. “It Is non con
i
tlguous territory—an Insular posses
sion—and congress always will seri
ously object to granting statehood to
any territory that lies beyond
seas."—Seattle P. I.
Noma Nugqet $2.00 per month.
EDISON OUTLINES FEW IDEAS
FOR WAR MACHINERY
Holding that the war of the future
will be a war of machinery, Thomas
A Edison, electric wizard and head of
the new civilian Invention board, has
outlined some of the Idea* for prepared*
ness he will push If congress giants
his committee a big experimental lab
oratory. They Include:
Development of an Invisible sub
marine periscope—the "eye of the sub
marine.”
improvement of submarine engines.
Development and Improvement of
aeroplanes and aeroplane engines.
Creation of special machinery for
making shells.
Creation of a new brain supply
through organiaztion of the 56,000
engineers of the United States.
PreParedness the Keynote.
Preparedness of the United States
he rated ut zero. Preparedness must
be the keynote, he held. While he
would not have the nation pile up
giant stores of munitions and field
pieces, he would have everything in
readiness for supplying, on 48 hours’
notice ,as much ammunition and artil
lery as are being used now on the Eu
ropean battlefields.
Admittedly the few ideas he outlined
were not all he has stored in his head.
But they are a starter.
"Lack of munitions and machinery."
he said, "Is dragging this war along
If both sides had plenty at the begin
ning of the war, it would have been
ended long ago, and not so many would
ave been killed, either."
Trench D'gging Machine.
Among the Ideas already completed'
Edison explained, Is one for a trench
digging machine which could rip out a
tunnel six feet deep, three feet wide, and
Dog team di'vers at Anchorage are
planning a race to Seward and back.
A recent fish shipment from Peters
burg to Seattle Included twenty seven
barrels if shrimp.
The total assessment of real and
personal property In the town of Cor
dova amounts to $917,900.
In the Whitehorse district 38 men
are now working In the Grafter mlne>
and regular shipments aro being made. |
Seattle has set March 10 as national!
canned salmon day, and will urge its
celebration throughout the country
Stoft & Refling, enterprising business ‘
men of Petersburg, have recently pur- (
chased a 20 horse power auto delivery
car.
The new hospital at Whitehorse, said'
to be the finest building In the Yukon,]
will be opened by a grand ball, to be
given on New Years.
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The question has been raised as to!
whether the residents of Anchorage w‘.;i
be allowed to vote at the next general
election
The Ketchikan firemen have sold
their band Instruments for $200 and
expect to Invest the amount In an auto
fire truck. i Vj
John Borden, a Chicago millionaire
has decided to come to Alaska In the
spring on a killing expedition. Alaska
animals will suffer. Capt. Louis Lane
will act as his guldb.
Newspapers arc springing up all over
Alaska. The latest Is the Weekly
Alaskan, a neat little sheet printed at
Anchorage, of which Hazel Hunted It
the owner and R. R. Hunter Is editor
and manager
A snow slide on the property of the
Alaska Gold Belt Mining Company at
Sheep creek, recently demolished a
blacksmith shop and a dry room, and
other damage amounting to couple of
thousand dollars, but fortunately no
one was Injured.
Ths manager* of a number of Alas
kan canneries where Fllllplno's
were employed during the past sum
mer, declare that they are superior In
every way to the Chinese or Japanese
usually brought north. An association
to .bo knows as the FUJjglaoa AJasks
association has been organized In Seat- j
tie, which will secure contracts for its j
members iu the canneries in the north.
Whatever may be said of the town:
of Petersburg, its residents are good to J
pay their taxes. A recent copy of the
Report says that all of tho 1915 per
sonal property tax has been paid with
the exception of $26.50.
The Alaska Electric Light & Power
Company has offered two prizes for the'
pupils of the Douglas public school j
for the best essays on the subject of
electricity. The high school will con
test for one prize and the grades for
tl e other. All essays are to bo turned
in by the 20th of the present month.
According to Dick Morris, of the Hot
Springs district, there is much winter
work in progress at the lower river
camp, and Indications are that next
season will be fully as good as or better
than the last. The largest operators
in that district, and probaly In Interior
Alaska, are Howell & Cleveland. They
are working 125 men now, are getting
good pay and sluicing every day. They
expect to continue sluicing all winter, <
if possible.
The Alaska road commission is pro-'
paring to keep the Sekard Anchorage
trail passable all winter. One section
of the trail near Glacier creek Is so
obstructed by snow slides and Ice that
an entire day la required for the mall
..earns to travel twelve miles. Col
Reveil, the mall contractor, has five
horses with drags at work keeping
the trail open across Indian creek
summit, where the snow la already sev
eral feet deep. There are twenty Inches
of enow at Anchorage.
Deputy United States Marshal F. R.
Cook left for Kllllsnoo on the steam
ship Georgia to make arrests In the
Mary Nook alleged kidnapping case.and
to Investigate matters in connection
with the new witchcraft stories coming
from that village. He Is armed with
John Doe warrants.
Mary Nook, an Indian girl 15 years
old, left the steamship Georgia, at
IUUlsnoo last Wednesday, and, it la
alleged, she was not permitted to re
turn to the steamer, having been ac
cused of having witch blood In her
veins. She is the granddaughter of
an Indian woman said by the Indians
to be a witch. The girl was on her
way to Sitka, to enter school.—Juneau
Empire
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265 feet long In an hour.
Aa for the nation's harbors and har
bor defenses, Edison would have them
Impregnable.
"Until we have made the San Fran
cisco harbor and every other harbor
Impregnable," he said, "and are In a
position to supply enough machinery,
artillery and ammuntlon to accommo
date a trench running from Maine to
Florida, we are unprepared. Munitions
and machinery—mat's what we must
be able to supply.
Sould Ba Raady.
"X don’t mean that we ought to make
them now, but we should have the
buildings and the machinery to make
them .and make them quick. All har
bors should be so that an enemy's ship
could not get within 15 miles of
them."
The Inventor admitted his life had
been threatened before he came west
He had been making his own carbolic
acid because the war cut off his supply.
Then ho was warned that If he didn’t
stop making supplies for the allies he
would be kiled. Then, ho said, a Ger
man representative got some of his
j supplies, and he had not heard any
' more of the threats.
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BUILDING OF NOME AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF SEWARD PENINSULA
Concerted Efforts Will Get Results
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DAILY NUGGET EXPLOITATION.
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Mall (or Kougarok and Teller leaves
the first and fifteenth of each month.
Mall for other section* of Seward
peninsula and the outside closes Mon
da)* and Friday, at 4:30, registered,
and ordinary mall, five o'clock p. m.
Mall* arrive Thursday and Sunday
Malls leave Tuesday and Saturday
morning.
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We will mukc them lock like new
We do dry or gasoline cletm ng
We do steam cleaning.
Wo make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
pairing for Ladle* and Gentlemen.
Vi o make a »p*oiully of making end
repairing furs.
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reasonable. Once a customer a -vuy.
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C<*mo and see ua. wo will give you
our price* before we do your work
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