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Entered &a second class matter Feb
26, 1907, at th# post office at Nome,
AMIh, under the Act of Congress of
Ateroh 1878.
Copy for regular advertisments
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NOME. ALASKA. APRIL 7, 1917.
THE SPIRIT OF FAIRBANKS.
Just think of it;-Twenty-five per
cent of the entire population of the
city of Fairbanks have offered them
selves for immediate military service.
Answering the call to arms these men,
v-itn y sense of lion ir and duty.p fdg
ed their lives for the country before
the last notes of the bugle yesterday
died away.
Animated by that greatest of all 1
human qualities-Patriotism -these men
have laid aside all self-interest and
offer themselves to their country in
answer to the call to arms.
In Nome we are about to organize
a military contingent. It does not need t
comment to stir up that spirit which i
is so evident in the American make- ;
up and when the call goes out there |
are many, yea, proportionally as many |
ready, and willing to lay down their i
lives for our Glorious land of Liberty
hi this cause of Justice and Kight.
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Twenty-three years ago a steamship '
was buiit in England fur $150,000. It
was a good tramp vessel,put together
with British thoroughness and it
traveled the trade lanes of the world
for two decades or more, experiencing
the usual ups and downs of a com
mercial tramp.
Shortly before the war started this
craft- by that time a rather venerable
vessel, as tramp steamships go-was
offered for sale for $100,000. There
were no takers. It wasn’t worth $100,
000 of anybody's money just at that
time.
Then, the world went war mad and
marine freigtit rates commenced to
mount. Our good but somewhat el
derly ship was chartered at a rat*
which premitted it to earn about
$55,000 a month. In a single month, it
made about one-third of its original
cost- which was pretty fair for a
carrier more tnun twenty year old.
The other day, this merchantman
changed hands, it had added a couple
or three years to Us age since the
outbreak of the war, when no one
cared to pay $100,000 for it. Yet, it
sold for $750,000—five times its con
struction price.
Of late, there hasn't been so much
heard of the profits of deep-sea ship
Professional Cards
Ur. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG STORE.
Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m,
Phona Main 7,
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operation. However, this little inci
dent very patently indicates that there
still is money in the business more
mony than anyone had believed pos
sible, prior to the outbreak of the
European struggle.
An alliance between those two
arch opportunists, Villa and Zapata,
would lie merely a matter of mutual
convenience and would last only so
long as tlie bandit leaders were held
together by a common grudge against
Carranza.
Zapata is the Villa of Southern
Mexico. He is as unlettered, as pop
ular with the peon masses ,as un
scrupulous and as merciless as his
northern ally. A pro duct of revolu
tion, he opposes every form of organ
ized government in his country, be
cause organized government neces
sarily means the elimination of petty
predatory chieftians like himself.
It may serve Pancho's purpose to
asociate hitnselff, for the moment, with
Zapata. A similar alliance was en
tered into when Villa first broke with
Carranza. It did not last long, al
though during the period of its exist
ence, tHe southern outlaw was able
to enter Mexico City and remain then
f„t- a short time, urtil constitutional
^roojis returned and chared him out.
Since then, Zapata has been oper
at ng alone. He suei- eded in .v ather
ing the Carranzista storm, in which
1 ancho's governmental balk went
down, but was compelled to restrict
las operations to list riots somewhat
more remote * from Mexico City.
Xevrr, however, was the first chief
able to run down this nimble enemy,
who merely awaits an opportunity to
resume his raids mi the old-time
scale.
Portino Piaz managed to bring lead
ers of tli.s type under control in the
early days of his long reign in two
wavs. Some, lie ran down anil an
nihilated. Others, ho pardoned and
placed in his rural police, where they
were his most effective agency in the
restoration and maintenance of public
order. Whenever Mexico develops a
"strong man,” capable of governing
the country as it must be governed,
he will deal its Villas and its Zapatas
Just as Piaz did, and in that way will
end organized froebooting in tlie re
public.—Ex.
POLITICS AT JUNEAU.
Politcs are being played at Juneau,
and an Sutherland, ringmaster of the
Wicket sham circus and I cir appar
ent of the Wiekeisham d; nasty, is
daily in the limelight, creaking the
whip over the senatorial gathering
and endeavoring to compel the demo
crats and republicans of the senate
to jump through the Wickcrsham hoop
whether they like to or not. From
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telegrams to the morning paper it is
evident that after the day's perform
ance in the senate Dan is head of the
“Hey ltube"gang which does a strong
arm act about Juneau, greatly to the
entertainment of the Juneauites.
You don't want to he too harsh in
ci nstdering Dan's acts at Juneau. He
is simply playing politics according to
the rules of the game. From advices
from Juneau it is apparent that the
Wickersham cause is not getting any
the best of it there. The canvassing
board admits the claims of the demo
crats as stated in their application
for a writ of mandamus and declares
that it will act according to the in
1 structions of the court in Issuing a cer
I titivate of election—will give the cer
i titivate to Sulzer if the court so orders.
! There doesn't seem to he any other
, -out" for the court but to order the
issuance of the certificate to Sulzer,
and therefore Wickersham will have
J to tight in congress to hold his seat;
j to show cause why he shall be al
I lowed to remian in congress. It is a
! question whether Wickersham will
fight to hold the place; there is little
belief that he will over run again, and
Don, heir-apparent, is the logical can
i delate of the Wickersham machine;
in, Juneau he is simply playing the
I game to hold his position and pres
tige and to show his fitness to be
j Die successor of Wickersham In Al
| aska. Aside from Wickersham poli
i ties, there is no belief that Dan cares
who is speaker of the senate or who
is senate clerk. He is simply playing
tliv game.
\nd, it seems to us timt the chances
favor Dan’s winning. He seems to us
to have the best of it. His four in the
senate van be depended upon to stand
hitched" and the burden of proof is
in the other four.. lit they stick to- |
gether, the senate will he deadlocked |
throughout ttie session, for the four
entrenched Wiekershamites will never
quit for alien they quit Wickersham
i ism is dead in the territorial leglsla
| tun ant they might as well die fighV
j ing as commit suicide,
i No great moral principle is in
volved in this fight. .No great harm
■ ni good can come to Alaska which
j reel- way the tight ends. In the mcan
lime it will bn amusing to the people
uf Alaska to watch the progress of
tiu* game as Dan and Gaustad are
playing i*. at Juneau, and as this is i
i he idle season when Alaskans need
11> be amused, maybe the fight is a
g(,od thing for Alaska—Alaska Citi
zen.
NOTICE.
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Harry Watson Rivers, known to
every N’omeite as a versatile comedian
who participated in about every local
entertainment in the northern gold
camp, and who departed tor the out
side two or three years ago, without a
dollar to his name, has struck it rich
in Southern California, having located
valuable tungsten claims. 11c is now
worth $30,000 in cash and retains his
properties.
WAR NEWS—Inlist your name now
on the subscription list of the Nugget
and keep posted on the war.
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sale at Ros»’ mill and ahop. Also
building and minina timber.
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girl for the babies and the time of
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It’s the Halley Comet of 1917. The
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0 you C;in tell by looking at tht window of the ROSE CANDY
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& EASTER EGGS and T1ASKKTS and the GREEN GRASS glowing all
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAD
ILL BE 10 CENT8 PER -OAF OR THREE LOAVE8 FOR 21
CENT8. THE 8IZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASED
WHICH INSURES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
CHAS. CAVEY, Prop.
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Established June 1900
Alaska Banking aim
Sale Deposit Company
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ....$1».000
PAID UP CAPITAL. M,MO
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seated.
Miners & Merikaits
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NOME. ALASKA
Capital • * $100,000
Gold Dust Purchased
and Assayed
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