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NOME. ALASKA, MARCH 20. 1915.
THE OUTLOOK.
_
Spring, with its genial warmth, its
long and beautiful days of sunshine
and softly tempered breezes is again
approaching and the frigid Arctic win
ter, with Its bitter cold and darkness
and its tempestuous furies will shortly
lie relegated to the background of our
memories, there to remain with those
other memories good, bad and indiffer
ent, which make up the pages of our
past Once again we are entering into
that kind Is period when nature
emerges from her silent snow-wrapped
seclusion, when the binding fingers of
the frost king are tom front their
chilling clutch on the dormant earth
by the glowing beams of the mother of
all mundane life; when nature rejuve
nated and restored to fresh vigor and
activity casts aside the glistening robe
of winter and clothes herself anew in
the verdant mantle of summer: when
the land is filled with the pleasant
babble of running streams, and the
vari-colored flowers smile from the
sunny slopes; when all things blossom
and expand into the fullness of their
beauty; when nature smiles and beck
ons us forth from our winter seclusion,
from our gloomy thoughts and cares,
and bids begone all those petty trifles
with which we. harass ourselves during
the long winter.
With the coming of summer comes,
also, the time of our activities; the
period when we of the Northland must
enter again into the ru9h and hurry of
life's efforts, and hand in hand with
glowing spring hasten to our duties of
providing for the present and the future*
The summer is near at hand and doubt
less the majority of our citizens have
already laid their plans for making use
of the brief time when nature smiles in
kindly beneficence and bids us take
unto ourselves that which is held in
store within her glowing bosom. Some
will away to the lulls to search for
golden wealth In the rushing streams;
some will hasten to their labors on the
rumbling dredges or beside the drip
ping sluices and those whose labors lie
in the fields of commerce will bend
anew over manifest and stock list. All
will busy themselves at some task or
other. The boats will come and go; the
wheels of commerce will commence
their sordid grind, and the hills and
streams will ring with the strident
notes of labor.
While tho prospects for the coming
summer may not seeni especially prom
ising to many, there is littlo reason to
believe that the season of 1915 will be
any worse than those seasons which
have shortly gone before and many in
dications point to the probability that
it will he better New dredges are to
be installed which will furnish an ad
ditional field for thy employment of
labor, beside adding their quota to the
golden product of the district. The
several larger mining companies are
planning to work on enlarged scale,
it Is expected that the railroad will he
opened for traffic which will add a new
impetus to the activities of the interior
and we are promised that the York tin
region will witness a development on
a hitherto unheard of scale. Some, it
may be. consider that there is nothing
here to warrant the opinion that Nome
can recover from the decline of the last
few years and. hence, conditions can
not be better. Many are busy voicing
tfc« belief, we know, and strange to say
many who are busy spreading this de
spondent prophecy are among those
whoso every interest Is tied up with
the future welfare and prosperity of
the district The majority of our cit
izens. however, are. we believe, firmly
nf the opinion that Nome vet has a
future and that time will witness the
coming of a new and stable condition
of prosperity, and these are looking
forward to the coming summer, not
with the belief that they are going to
make a fortune, but that things will at
least be better than for the past few
seasons. For ourselves, we are firmly
convinced that Nome is not dead, that
1 there Is yet a marvelous future for
| Seward Peninsula There are still vast
stores of mineral wealth lying in our
hills and streams and it is believ ed that
time will witness their development
it is not expected that Nome will
bloom as it did in the earlier days,
luit it is believed that conditions will
be much better If there is nothing
here or back of us that in worth while:
if there is nothing to attract or war
rant development; if there is nothing
to bother ones self about in the hope
that it may be of benefit, then indeed
Nome is in a bad way and we had best
pack up our duds and vanish to more
promising Helds l!ut, we do not be
lieve that such is the case. Further, we
do not believe that the great majority
of our towns-people believe it either,
for there are many reasons to believe
that the loud voiced pessimists are not
ivrare of the true conditions and arc
merely voicing opinions bred of their
»wn failures and like the countless hosi
of those who howl calamity in even the
most prosperous times are prone to
.'lame their own lack of prosperity on
Rhoir surroundings regardless of the fact
that where they have failed a thousand
have succeeded. If we may accept the
statements of those who employ their
energy at some more worthy labor than
decrying what they do not themselves
enjoy, there, is a stable and prosperous
future in front of Nome and time will
disclose it, even to those benighted
unes who loudly proclaim the contrary.
LANE'S PLAN APPROVED
Much attention is being paid Outside
to the plan suggested by Secretary
Line to provide a development hoard
for Alaska, that its federal affairs need
not he tied up with too much red tape.
The reason that the people on the Out
side are so much interested in the plan
Is that it involves, in a way, the com
mission form of government that has
been adopted by several of the leading
ratios of the country, and lias been
suggested for some of the states in
stead of a legislature.
The only difference between the pro
posed Alaska Development Board and
Made in America
W <• i>f*£ t«» annouiK f* that we hav^ .lust
opened mir new stock «.f California Olivo on. i
lUcflottys 0(ive Oif
| Guaranteed Pure.
Kim "cessing from Olivos Brown on the duction tnny he a little more, still this year
estate of Andrew MeNaUy. La Mirada, t’nl we are in position to offer to yon this high
Our pure food laws fully guarantee the triad.. ..live nil „t th, same price as the
purity of same and as it is our own country’s foreign product
production should be a double incentive for Gallon tins, per trail.m. $4 25 i
evert one to use no other. We invite coin- Half gallon tins, per tin $2.25
phrisen with foreign products and such com- Quarts, glass, per bottle $125
parison will prove to you that our own pro- pints, glass, per bottle. 65c
dnetion is the better. While our cost of pro* Half pints, glass per bottle 3Sc '
Ipoiets Stores
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS. HEADQUARTERS EOR IMPORTED UEUUACIES I
the commission plan, as It is being tried
in some of the cities, is that the city
commissions have the power to make
laws, while the Alaska commission
would have only routine work to look
after. The law-making powers would
remain in the hands of congress and
the Alaska legislaf <*• t
Sometime Alnsk;* will have a point
lation that will support a home govern
ment, and then the federal commission
can resign, hut while tin- population
remains as scattering as it is at pre
tent. the main law-making authority,
and therefore the main source of in
come must be congress, though the
local legislature in a minor way will be
permitted to make a limited number of
laws
Those Alaskans who insist that the
Territory should be given a greatet
power to make laws fail to consider tin
fact that the Territory is not self-sup
porting itnd that even if the local leg
islature had the power to make men
laws, it would not have the funds to
carry out its plans of development
Thus, if congress is going to providt
the funds for the Territory it will justly
have the right to say how those funds
shall he spent. This authority vested ill
congress to make the important laws
for a territory, distinguishes a territory
from a state, which ims the right to
spend its own funds as it pleases.
At a meeting of the Pacific North
west Society in Seattle recently I L
McPherson who had charge of one of
the railroad engineering parties in .Al
aska last year, explained the need hen
of the development hoard, or territorial
commission as it may lie called, as sug
gested by Secretary Lane. The follow
ing is in part what he is quoted as hav
ing said at that time:
"It's population that -Alaska needs
And the vast treasure territory must
gain freedom from the too cram pi nf.
influence of the bureaus at Washington
who guide her interests thousands of
mites away, and gain the degree of
home rule that Secretary Lane so wise
ly ndvooates
“Alaska must have combative men to
win the treasures of the North so jenl
ously guarded by nature, men who ran
hear the sting of the Arctic winter nil
the long dreary nights and trails ll
needs a government nf men conversant
with the needs o ftlie Territory N'oy
there are eleven different bureaus it
four government departments to super
intend the development of Alaska Till
division of responsibility causes delay
and exasperating red tape, fickleness
in looking to Alaska's needs and re
sults in partly stopping the phenomenal
development that is sure to come wit!
the passage of Lane's program
"Alaska and the Northwest owe a
great debt to Provident Wilson and
Secretary Lane.”—Ex.
FOURTH AREST MADE
IN COUNTERFEIT PLOT.
WaTERBURY, Conn. Pail At.
Rosengarden was arrested recently on
a charge of counterfeiting, as lie was
about to take a train out of the city.
The arrest yeas made in connection
yvitli the recent arrest at Marlborough
nt Phillip T.eiherman, who had already
served a term for counterfeiting, and
Ihroe other persons. Others are being
sought.
WE CAN DO I r.
For first class work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the People’*
Steam Laundry will call and get your'
laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop... j
ESCAPES BY JUMPING
FROM TRAIN WINDOW
CHICAGO -Robert licit, a former
private detective, who was arrested
here for having used the malls in a
scheme to extort money by threats
from II. A. Guess, of New York, a
fromineut ottlelal of the Guggenheim
interests, escaped from deputy mar
shal today by jumping from a coach
window of a fast moving train in
Pittsburgh.
The officer was on his was to New
York, when Holt made his escape.
WEATHER RFPORT.
Nome, Alaska, March 19. 1915.
Temperature—Max. 24. Min. 9,
Barometer- 29.59 inches.
Weather Clear
Wind—South - miles per hour.
Precipitation—None.
NOTICE OF CLOSING OF POLL
BOOKS.
The voters of the Town of Nome art
hereby notified that the Poll Books foe'
the registration of voters for the Muni
clpal Election to Ire held April 6th, 1915
will close Saturday, March 27th, 1915.
PHILIP CORRIGAN.
City Clerk.
Dated. March 17, 1915.
A COOK WANTED
Wanted, a good woman eook for road
house. Writ# Mrs. Lucy Pendergrast
Marks Roadhouse. Council, Alaska.
AT THE NEW EAGLE
Old Lawis Huntar Rye and tha Fa
-nous Atherton Bourbon whitkeyi, On
tilled spring 1904-1905, bought in bond
and reduced to 90 per cent, by U. 8
government by the bottle or gallon.
it on to some one else ttist is also In
terested in Alaska. You will be doing
them a favor as Nome is destined ti* he
one of the large cities of Alaska
100 TONS OF FLOUR
Bread only 5c North Pol# Bakery
nd Anvil Bakery.
TARIFF DID IT. <;
* > Imported Goods, Domestic Prices
.1 ust received a large line of S
1. \. 1j. pof-ket knives from <[
J ► Schetfleld. England.
S Fresh stock Peters ammunition ]>
\ Also something new in 22 rifles S
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