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I HOLLYHURST EGGS I
;i We now have some more ot these well known eggs In slock. Shipied to f
1: us alrect from the ranch. Every egg guaranteed. »Ve agree to replace H
|| every Hollyhurst egg purchased from us and found to »e had. by two good
|| ones.
Also now In siook the Famous Holden State Sutter, put up In pickle.
and dry pack.
j D. E. CROWLEY
NEWS NOTES
The schooner Jewel (Uiard, belonging
to the Sinroek mission, returned to
that place today.
A radiogram to Brother Carroll front
the Victoria this morning states that
the olil reliable Alaska liner will ar
• ivi hero at 11:10 tomorrow morning.
Hans Batson returned from the
Kougarok district yesterday bringing
Mrs, Floyd Wheeler and Miss Alice
Peterson from Iron creek.
Tin' 1'lter came up front Solomon
short!) after noon today bringing five
pussengeis including Mrs. Oinnivan
and daughter.
That the ladies are going to take
an active interest in the November
election, was evidenced by the goodly
number of lady delegates present at
the republican convention last night.
Messrs. It. Kenney, Hr. Kitmsay,
Howard Ames and H. 1,. Peck of the
Moody Mining Company arrive,, over
kind from Solomon and Council sec
lions yesterday.
The t'matilla pulled out for Seattle
by way of Cordova at 6: SO last night.
Aboard the big liner was a total of 109
pnssi tigers of which ,sj were from this
port. The vessel also carried a quan
tity of oie and considerable bullion.
\ gio.it western drama, "The Angel
of tin Canyon," in five parts is the bill
at the Dream tonight. It is the story
of an orphan adopted by a gambler
and bis trials, imitating the tough
gang. It is a slitting tale of the old
Arizona days and has ihe Dream's
guarantee of Is-ing a "good one."
Owing lo considerable difficulty en
countered in placing the fire engine
in a deep cut which has been dug lie
side the well on the city lot. the ex
pected test of the capacity of the en
. gine to fill the fire mains dill not come
off last night. Chief Haughey says that
it will come off this evening at 7, sure
pop, unless something unexpected hap
pens.
W. I. Kowe was a passenger to the
outside on ihe Fmalilla, which depart
ed last night. Mr. Kowe will visit
Portland and San Francisco on busi
ness matters and will also act ns the
special represet native of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce. While on the
outside he will visit Ihe Chambers of
Commerce of Seattle and Ihe other
towns Visited and while in Portland
will take ui) the matter of attempt
ing to induce a closer communication
between that city and Nome. In each
town he will try to bring about a
closer understanding with Nome and
make an effort to secure additional
co-operation with respect to trade re
! lations.
! From authentic sources it is learned
that W. 1*. Wooster, well known min
er of the Kougarok section, has been
i
appointed Failed States commission
er for tlie Kougarok, vice F. H.
Thomas, who has been the official in
cumbent for several years. No official
| announcement has been made as to
when the new commissioner will as
sume the otlicc but it will probably
lie about the first of September.
The schooner Belinda returned from
i trip to Marshall last evening bring
ing a number of passengers and some
interesting stories concerning devel
opments in the new camp. According
i to the stories of Capt. Heckla and
others. Marshall is looking better all
the time. Andy Otterson, a passen
ger on tin schooner brought over a
considerable uuantity of gold from
the early cleanups which were far
'above expectations in almost every in
stance. Two parties alone cleaned up
total 01 forty eight thousand in dust,
one outfit securing $27,000, the other
$21,000, as a result of their efforts.
I I’raotieall) every other outfit working
i on paying ground cleaned up a tidy
sum in the majority of eases running
well into the thousands. It is also
reported that some pay has been found
on i lie benches which promises to
I develop into good paying propositions.
Also a very good looking quarts ledge
has been located on the divide be
tween Williow and Wilson creeks. The
town Itself is reported lively and con
siderable business going on. An evi
dence of the volume of business is in
dicated in the statement that thn BOO
tons of general merchandise brought
in by Dclhar anil Retseh has been
practically sold. There is no particular
demand for labor as there are quite
enough working men in comp to sup
ply the normal demand.
The Belinda made a good passage
both ways and encountered no bad
weather. Capt. Heckla states that
both the Belanda and Norah will
make Ihe trip next week with supplies.
While on the way up the coast Geo.
F. Kilroy stopped sit Ben Nygren’s
whaling station near Cape Nome and
says that Ben is as busy as the pro
verbial lice as the August white whale
run is now on. Ben had not been
able to reach his nets for six days,
owing to the stormy weather and they
were fall of the cetaceans. Ben has
several natives at work cutting and
skinning the big fish and is also re
fining much oil which he will ship af
ter hearing the returns of several sam
-' -1..J- L
YOU LIKE GOOD COFFEE
WE HAVE IT.
We don't specialize in any one particular brand or blend of coffee,
but we carry a splendid assortment of the best brands on the mar
ket. We believe that any one of the following brands will satisfy
your desire for good coffee. HILLS BROS., M. J. B„ SCHILLINGS,
KOLGERS, MAXIMUM AND GOLD SHIELD. The above brands
an blended by experts, not amateurs.
G. P. GOGGIN — —"y 8",r'
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The Lang Stove, born in Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
m Hotly made of Armco Rust-Resist*
J| ing Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with wood
or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
IOur line is complete from tho
smallest camp stove to the larg
est hotel range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know It.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE, WN.
pies sent to Kurope.
The whale average about sixteen
gallons of oil apiece although one
large one captured produced a total
of sixty gallons.
George K. Ktlroy returned from a
trip to the Casa and reports that min
ing activities are progressing nicely
in that section with a considerable
number of operations in progress. Gay
lord has finished his new ditch.
He is reported sluicing. The Goose
creek dredge, after being tied up until
recently by iee, started working on
the 8th and is running steadily. Work
on the 1‘eck dredge on Canyon is pro
gressing rapidly and the machine will
probably commence operations in
about ten days. Several small outfits
are sluicing on Willow creek but other
wise there is not much hand mining
going on. in the Solomon country
Alike McCarthy is doing development
Work on some of his Solomon river
properties. Allison, Aiken and Knnis
are engaged in putting In a wing dam
on Solomon river a short distance
above Hast Fork for the purpose of
working some ground belonging to
Airs. Uinnivun which was not handled
by the Mallock dredge. Lower down
on Solomon, Flowers and Newberg
are working the dredge formerly
known as Flodine No. and are doing
good work. Air. Ktlroy states that the
yardage handled is high. They will
finish at the present location, above
Iiig Hurrah in about thirty days and
will then dismantle the dredge and
move to the Flowers ground a short
distance below Oro Ftno. The Kimball
dredges'are reported working right
along, each one handling a good yard
age and doing well. George Barber
and Harry 1 .angle} are hydraulicking
at the mouth of Shovel creek and
are employing a crew of men. Halla
and Harvey are hoisting and sluicing
opposite Oro ®Fino and employing
about ten men. They are also oper
ating a Star power drill which is said
to be very efficient. The machine
weighs something like seven tons and
is of the tractor type and easily mov
ed. Bill Oliver is in charge of the
drilling operations. The Seward dredge
near Oro Fino is reported doing ex
cellent work under the management
of It. S. Oglesby and is handling a
large yardage daily. Aluch freight is
being moved over the railroad to the
upper Solomon and Casa sections and
lessee Hobert Kenney has about all he
■ an do with iho assistance of the new
gasoline car brought in last spring.
The teamsters and freighters are also
busy handling freight to various
points anil have been compelled to
send to Nome for additional stock.
The road commission has a crew of
H men about three miles out of Solo
mon working toward Council.
BROTHERHOODS GRANT MEDIA
TION BOARD MORE TIME
.'nternational News Service.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—At the re
quest of the federal medintton board,
the railroad brotherhoods have given
the board until ton o’clock tomorrow
morning lo secure a new proposition
from the employers.
FORTY SIX BODIES
RECOVERED, CHARLESTON
International News Service.
CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., Aug. 11.
—A total of forty six bodies of persons
drowned in the flood at Cabin creek
during the past several days have been
recovered, tl is now definitely known
that the death list will reach one
hundred.
BREMEN IS REPORTED
OFF SANDY HOOK
International News Service.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—A report
has gained wide circulation that the
long expected German submarine Bre
men is twenty five miles off Sandy
Hook. No confirmation can be ob
tained.
DEADLOCK REPORTED IN
RAILROAD ARBITRATION.
International News Service.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—It is cur
rently reported in railroad circles that
there was an early deadlock in the
railroad arbitration. The mediation
board is said to be still struggling to
find a method whereby the negotia
tions can be continued.
WEATHER REPORT.
August 10., 19lfi.
Temperature—Max., 56; min., 46.
Barometer—29.*56 inches.
Weather—Partly cloudy.
Wind—S., 5 miles per hour.
Precipitation—.15 inch.
NOTICE.
The Nugget |« giving lea subscribers
more telegraph news than any ether
paper in Alaska and will continue to
Jo so. Send In your nanse and have
'he Nugget delivered to your boms or
jfflee Do It now.
REP. REFUSE
ENDORSE “WIOK”
The republicans of the Second judi
cial division met in district convention
last night with seventy delegates pres
ent and participated therein.
The convention was culled to or
der by George D. Schofield, chairman
,t rhc republican district committee
who, utter a short address turned the
convention over to the delegates pres
ent.
George A. Diamond was elected
chairman and Joseph V. Sheldon sec
retary of the convention.
t'pon motions made, the chair ap
pointed the following committee:
Committee on credentials—-W. D.
Chnce, 'C. H. -Milot, and Ira D. Orton.
Committee on platform, resolutions
and order of business—G. J. Lomen,
C. K. Darling and Thorulf Lehmann.
After a short recess, the committee
on credentials reported seventy dele
gates present in person or by proxy,
.ml entitled to participate in the con
vention.
The committee on platform, reso
lutions and older of business, through
G. J. Ijonien, its chairman, reported
an order of business, and the follow
ing platform, which was unanimous
ly adopted by the convention:
PLATFORM.
We, the republicans of the Second
judicial division, of Alaska, in conven
tion assembled, at Nome, do hereby
adopt the following platform:
We heartliy endorse the platform
adopted by the national republican
convention at Chicago, and commend
the principles therein expressed.
We urge, through the proper au
thorities, negotiations looking to the
early establishment of a port of entry
on the Siberian coast not farther south
than Aaadir Hay, to the end that our
local commerce he promoted and pro
tected.
We urge appropriations by congress
for the construction of a harbor at
the mouth of Snake river, Nome, Alas
ka, for the protection of our mosquito
fleet.
We commend the good work of the
coast guard service and of the. officers
and crew of the cutter Bear. Owing
to our isolated and exposed situation
we urge the continuation of the mili
tary post at Fort Davis and its en
largement to that of a regimental
post.
We urge such further reductions in
telegraph tolls as will limit the re
ceipts to the expenses of an economi
cal und efficient service.
We urge a more expeditious and ex
tended winter mail service and that
during the period of open navigation
all steamers engaged in transporta
tion between Seattle and Nome be re
quired to carry the government mails,
We recognize the urgent necessity
of a wugon road between Nome and
Candle, via the Kougnrok district, tht
betterment of the Nome-Council road
and the construction of other road*
| in the Second division, and we de
I inand appropriations by congress foi
such purposes and to an extent that
shall place us on a par with the most
favored districts; and we demand a
more quitable division of the federal
road fund.
We condemn the present contract
system of caring for our unfortunaU
insane outside of our own borders, and
we demand that sanitariums for tht
insane be established and maintained
I by the feleral government in each ol
the Judicial divisions of Alaska.
We pledge our candidates to carry
out the wishes of the people as ex
pressed at the polls in the coining
election on the eight hour law and the
liquur questions.
We congratulate the republican par
ty on the splendid standard bearer*
selected, and we heartily pledge oui
earnest support of their candidacy.
The convention unanimously adopt
ed a resolution fixing the basis of rep
resentation for each voting precinct
to future republican district conven
tions of the Second division upon the
vote cast at the coming election foi
George D. Schofield as candidate foi
attorney general of the territory.
The convention thereupon placed in
nomination the following straight par
ty ticket:
For territorial senator—John Sund
back.
For territorial representatives—An
dy Anderson, Nate Coombs, Leo Kent
and T. M. Heed.
For road commissioner—W. J. Howe,
A motion was made to ^endorse
James Wickersham for delegate to
congress but was ruled out of ordei
by the chair. An appeal was taken to
the convention and the decision of the
ehuir was sustained with only foul
dissenting votes out of the 70 dele
gates present.
The utmost harmony and good feel
ing prevailed and It is the consensus
of opinion of the republicans of this
division that the republican party will
sweep the Second division by the elec
tion of the entire territorial and leg
I slut I ve ticket at the November elec
tion.
MANY PERISH
W. VA. FLOODS
International News Service.
CHARLESTON, Aug. 10. Estimates
place the number of persons perishing
in the Paint creek and Cabin creek
floods, occurring near here during the
past several days, at one hundred and
twenty five. Already sixty persons
are reported as missing and a large
number of bodies have been found.
Hundreds of farms lying along the
Shenandoah valley have been oblit
erated and there is no trace of their
Inhabitants. The country is still tin
ner water over a vast area and there
is little or no communication with
several sections. The total property
!, ss is estimated at two million dolalrs.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
INSIST ON CONSIDERATION
IMMIGRATION BILL
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Republi
can senators are threatening to block
the plan of the administration forces
to adjourn the present session on Sep
tember 1.
| During recent days there is an ob
| vious inclination to insist that as the
republicans are assisting as much as
possible in the passage of democratic
legislation, important republican
measures must be given consideration
before congress takes another vaca
tion. The republican members are al
most a unit in insisting that the im
migration bill be taken up before the
close of the present. session.
YUKON MARINE.
Aug. 11th, 1916.
Susie at St. Michael.
Sibilla up Nulato 8 p. in., 10th.
Jacobs up Rampart.
Delta with one barge up Rampart.
Davis at St. Michael.
Reliance up Koyukuk river.
Yukon with barge up Engle. ,
Julia R Ncnnna 1 p. m. 10th.
Tnnann with barge up Tolovana 10.
Sarah down Holy Cross 8 a. m.
Schwatkn at St. Michael.
Alaska down Fairbanks C a. m.
SOMETHING NEW.
just arrived on the last boat over
500 of this seasons' late.it styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever arrived in Nome. We
invite you to see these samples wheth
er you buy or not. If you wish to
take advantage of tills offer order be
fore the 30th of August, in order lo
have order arrive on last boat.
We also make alterations, and we
do cleaning, pressing and repairing.
We appreciate your patronage. Yours
to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.,
Next door to Segerstorm & Hagen,
Jewelers.
Just received on S. S. Umatilla
a new line of
LADIES DRESS SKIRTS
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KRISTAN BROS,
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A TALK ABOUT BUTTER AND EGGS
In buying butter and eggs there are just two things which have
weight with the ocnsumer price and quality. Poor butter and eggs
are expensive at any price. For a good article everybody is willing
to pay a fair price. Our qualities are not merely fair, they are ab
solutely the best. j
GIVE OUR BUTTER AND EGGS A TRIAL.
Moller’s Grocery
211 Front Street Phone Main 86
I PHOENIX HOSIERY ]
Until the arrival of our next shipment of ||
Phoenix Hose our prices remain as formerly; |
.90 1.15 1.50 2.00
You can still buy a box of four assorted
colors for $3.25.
Nineteen colors and shades to select from
P. A. Peterson Shoe Co.
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1 GREAT CLOSING OUT SALE j
| This week’s Offering 8
LADIES SUITS AND DRESSES
SILKS, CREPES, SATINS AND MENS
ijj Values Ranging from !|
$ $18.50 to $25.00 j
I CLOSING OUT SALE PRICE 1
$9.85
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