THE NOME DAILY
TELEPHONE MAIN 4S. PRI„3 E5 CEN1 S
VOLUME XVI. NO-26. ELEPHONE MAIN 46. NOME, ALA8KA. TUESDAY, JAN^ ARY 4, 1916. ' LL ^
STEAMER BLOWN UP
IN BROOKLYN
A. P. A. Servtce.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 3.—Whilst loading
gasoline for the alllies here today, a
terrific explosion occurred on the
steaber Aztec resulting In the death
of several people and the fatal Injury
of many other*.
The Aztec was flying the Norweg
ian flag and was to sail for Europe
In a few days. Ten thousand cases of
gasoline were stowed In her hold all
of which went up when the explosion
occured. The explosion was heard for
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many miles adnc aused considerable
excitement In the cltly.
Whether the lire Is the work of a
Incentdlary or not, hus yet to be de
termined and the authorities are mak
ing a close Investigation of the mat
ter.
It Is Impossible to ascertain the
number killed In the explosion as part
of the vessel was blown far and wldeu
For Nome N-w» ana World's newi
let the Nugget
YUAN SHI KAI ASCENDS
CHINESE THRONE
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A. I*. A. Scrvio*.
PEKIN, Jan. 3.—Yuan Shi Kal,
president of the Chinese republic, has
ascended the throne of China as em - j
peror. The grand formal cornatlon will
take place later and may be attended!
by serious results as the change from a
republic to a monarchy will not be
accepted cheerfully by the greater por
tion of the nation. Revolution will
undoubtedly follow In the wake of
the coronation.
INMACHUK NOTES
The following Items of Interest were
brought In by Ronald Qlllis who Just
arrived from the Inmachuk:
Jack Grant and partner are taking
out good money on the benches. Louis
ErlckBon and Oscar Swan have good
pay in sight and are getting ready to
hoist. Mickey McGee, Johnny Fagan
and John Lyons are prospecting with
encouraging results.
Fox and Black found good prospects
on No. 4 bench under the lava cap
ping. Arthur Cole and Shorty Rob
erts are hoisting pay dirt and should
have quite a little dump out by spring.
Frank Henry and J. Chase have good
prospects. Frank Knapp is kept busy
freighting on the river.
Manager Johnson of the Falrhaven
Ditch Company Is keeping his teams
on the go all the time getting up sup
plies and Is using a gasoline drill.. Emil
Pastarls is sinking and is not yet to
bedrock. Charles Nelson and Ander
son hav« struck pay and are ho'st
lng. Slim Fitch and partner are sink
ing on No. 2 bench.
Joe Slgsbe has a string of mala
mutes which he is training for the
Kotzebue Kennel club race. Coffin
the Seattle Jeweller who Is a brother
of Henry Coffin, made the cup for this
race.
BRITISH CABINET
FACES CRISIS
A. P. A. Service.
LONDON, Jan. 4.—British cabinet
facing another crisis. Sir Simmon,
home secretary resigned despite the
pleading of Premier Asquith. One
Million four hundred thousand men
available under Lord Derby's plan of
conscription available but a modified
form ef conscription is to bo adopted.
Send in your subscription for the
Mining and Dredging Edition; Ms per
copy. IS 00 per dosen.
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NEWS NOTES
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bittner of Coun
cil are In the city visiting friends for!
a few weeks. They are guests at the
Schneider building.
Mrs Campbell who Is In the local
hospital under the care of Dr. Chace.
Is recovering from an operation per
formed a few days ago.
Next Monday night the Pioneers of
Alaska and the Ladles Auxiliary of
that order will hold a Joint Installa
tion of officers at their Igloo.
Roll up you Eagles. Tonight is the
night. And the time Is 8 o’clock. Af
ter the installation of officers there be
big things on the program and we want
you all to be there.
The annual Installation of officers
of the Oddfellows and Rebakahs will
take place In the Eagle hall on Wed
nesday evening, January 6, at 8:45
p, m. All members are requested to
attend.
Through some fault at the wireless
station In Bait Francisco the name of
Harry Blooain<wd was omitted in the
contract made with the Keystone Bio
scope Company and the Aksala “No
Irish need apply’’ squad
The outside mall left the city last
night and probably got as far us Safe
ty before the big blow. Owing to the
| fact that Eric Johnson's team were not
In shape to travel Joe Felder was
substituted for this trip. Some two
hundred pounds of mail was carried.
St. Michael have nothing on us when
it comes to storm. They report Inst
night's blow as the severest known in
that section. Incidentally its a safe
bet that we lost more stove-pie per
kitchen stove than they did. Ask
'■ Henry Burgh, he passed flocks of It
last night.
Joe Dexter arrived in town last night
from Council. He was accompanied
by his son. John, who came here for
medical treatment. Over a month ago
the boy dislocated his arm and It does
not seem to improve. Dr. Chace la In
charge of the case and will use the
X-rays to And out where the trouble
Ilea
There was no snow on Steadman
avenue this morning. It was all In
Jim Frawley’s office. Opr Hibernian
commissioner spent the early hours of
the morning digging up the records
and consequently the snow Is back on
Steadman avenue agin. The office
ventilating intakes are now closed un
til the weather moderates.
There Is a silver carving sot going
spare and Dr. Chaco Is ready and will
ing to hand It over to the person who
can produce a ticket for the Monte
Carlo end of the carnival which shows
the following numbors 100J. In the
event of the holder of that ticket not
coming to the front In a reasonable
time number 90S will become the happy
possessor.
Ronald 011118 of the Inmachuk sec
tion arrived here from that section
last night. He made the trip through
Council and had fair weather until he
struck the coast. Mr. GlUls Is drill
ing some ground on the benches and
broke some part of his gasoline en
gine which he will have replaced here.
He will return to the Inmachuk in a
few days.
Elmer Reed received a letter fro m ]
eOorge Ooshaw on yesterday's ma 11.
Georgo has gone outside from Mc
Carthy where he held the position of
postmaster. He will spend the winter
at La Jolla, Cal. Goshaw states ttiat
A. E. Todd Is doing well In the store
business at McCarthy but that the
Sushanna camp has but a short life
to live.
Walter Wettergren, who is the own
er of the famous painting of 8tella
which was exhlbted at the Aksala
Carnival is wiling to bet that the fa
mous original of the picture which
was on view at the San Francisco ex
position has got nothing on his mas
terpiece. He sa<rs that his painting Is
so natural that whilst In transit from
the Eagle hall to his art gallery on
New Tears day two of the lady's toes
were nipped by the frost and are notj
yet thawed oat
[HOWLING BUZZARD VISITS NOME
AND SURROUNDING SECTIONS
Tearing !n from the Arctic and trav
eling betwcn fifty-five and sixty miles
an hour a howling blizzard swept
through thi city this morning. It ca
vorted and gamboled In our midst for
a period of two hour* and left behind
It a trail of bruises occasioned by
shortage of Jove pipe, broken windows
huge snow urifts, tangled and broken
telephone wires—which is usually our
lot, and then It delightedly wandered
south
The early birds decided to lose a
few' hours owing to the severity of the
gale and the business houses did not
open up until after 9 o'clock. Durinv
the early part of the night the mer
cury registered around the twenties
above but the Arctic wind made a
decided change of temperature and
the blass during the storm stood at six
below As the day wore on it be
came c older and at noon it showed ten
elegies lower.
All telephonic communication out
aide of the city Is out of action arm
considera ble work will have to be don
even before we can get to speak to
Fort Davis.
The local wireless Is all'1 ‘n com
mission and did not fare badly though
part of the antenna was torn down. St.
Michael radio reports that the blizzard
was the svorst In Us history but bid
not do any considerable damage. Tele
graphic communication with the out
side is at present Impossible but the
wires may be up at any time. Nulato
was in touch with Fort Gibbon after
the storm and the latter reports that
Die ground svlre is down on the othei
tide of Koyukuk. From all accounts
the •'Hie whs general throughout th*
territory.
The Eagle hall had several win
dow s broken w hen the storm was at
heigh whilst the Eagle saloon had
its front carried away. The Tin bank
was given the once over also, and a
few windows were blown in. Tomor
row however, we v. Ill be all looking
the same as ever.
Henry Burgh has a irew of men
shovelling the snow out of his place
of business as well as several carpen
i s fixing up a new front h
building. When the work is complet
ed he 'ill invite hi friends to the
grand re-opening.
your friends outside
os—! b Nugget mailed
,, them for f.O t is per month.
"Honor Where honor is uue, Pah
Holland and A. K. Miller unconscious- ;
■y saved iho luWn from gelling uioveu I
out on the ice seveial ni.ues last uignt
—or tills morning. BoUi weia taking
the fresh 4*r cure—never again—unu
left one of their winnow open win n
mey retired. As the blitzard swept
down on the town ha.f of it sped
through their window; ttiey awulte,
shut the window and now have halt of
the blizzard under lock and key Fine
dope.
At a meeting of the Nome Baseball ,
asoclation held in the Golden Gate
hotel last night it was decided that
Wednesday be the regular practice
night and that the first game be play
ed on Saturday next at a lime and
place to be given out later. The fol
lowing players were assigned to the
various teams: Gray, Bowen and Price]
to the Pirates; Grantham to the
Horseshoes, and Bert McCarthy to the
Northern Lights. J. P. Jones of Fort
Davis and Grant Jackson of the A. B.'s
were selected as umpires for the series.
The Dream theater presents a strong
bill of attraction tonight. Miss Rob
inson Crusoe, a Ride For Life and The
Queen of the Sea Nymphs, In addition
to the above the thirteenth episode of
[ the Million Dollar Mystery will be
thrown on the screen, for one hour only
This will be the second show of the
usual program. Commencing at S
o’clock sharp. Wednesday and Thurs
day, a continuation ofthe big mystery
will be shown, the fourteenth and fif
teenth episodes. Don't miss it.
STORM KILLS TELEGRAPH.
A, P. A. Service
VALDEZ, Jan. 4 - The Sltka-Seattle
cable is Interrupted and there is trou
ble all along the line. Seward papers
clamoring for news wires Nome. Out
side communication, shut off from
southeastern and s ujthwestern Alaska
COURT
A. P„ A. Service.
\Y.\ JSMIXGTON, Jan. 3.—Joseph
Luckt l Lamar, associated justice Of the
cupn-i ce Court, died here last nignt
after a short illness, lie was appoint
ed to t hat position by President Taft
In 1910 despite the fact that he was a
Suuthen i democrat of the old sfhool
Justice Lamar was born in Georgia
ISJT, was educated at Bethany college,
and studic id law in Washington and Lee
universltle «, Lexington. Va. Four
tears ago the University of Yale
confered tile d-gree of LI. D on him.
him.
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A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE. Jan. 3.—J. o Urlen Swan
sen. a. le al silversmith, took out itrst
liquor purchasing permit from the
country auditor here at noon. For so
doing he received a prize ol $25 and
to accomplish this lie had to stand In
line at the h- id i thousands of others
j since Friday at midnight
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, Jen. 3. Total gold
product!' n for r-ui ■ i States almost
$99,000,000 I’alifornia leading ell other
sTntes. roloraBo sc n I and Alaska
holding 1 ,-t own in 11 1 place with a
production of $ 1*5 •! TOO.
These returns in from the United
-taxes mint reports
i\r .■ I):. New Yi r right hy suh
•scriloti i f‘ r the Nugget. _
At the regular meeting of the city
fathers last night the city treasurers
report showed a credit balance of $ 110G
in the treasury
The city physician tendered his re
! port which showed but one patient in
the hospital under the city's care.
The larger part of the time at the
meeting was taken up by the reading
of a lengthy eloction ordinance which
embodied over ten thousand words.
The new ordinance repeals all previous
ordinances and provides fur the elec
tion of officers In conformity with the
territorial law.
The city attorney submitted his re
port on the ordinance which is as fol- '
lows:
To the Mayor and Common Council
Gentlemen:—In comp'lanee with your
Instructions, I have prepared an elec-!
tlon ordinance, and present the samej
herewith, providing rules and regula
tions for all elections to bo held under
the supervision of the common coun
cil and consolidating the annual school
board and municipal elections.
In order to obtain a consistent, work
I ng rdlnance under the plan of con
f mlldatlon, and to meet the requlro
i nents of the Territorial law relative tc
t he election of certain additional city
oofficials, it became necessary to re
^ rrlte and harmontze the old ordinances
a Jid their several amendments, as well
eta to provide new and add Itlonal re
UClUations, bemue the now Airdinanoo is
design' d to bo complete in itself, and,
all prior election ordinances are re
pealed.
At the .suggestion of councilman It
has been provided in this ordinance
that the question of the ratification of
the Territorial Act relative to the elec
tion of mayor and other city officials by
direct vote of the electors, be submit
ted to the voters at the next annual
1 election, and thus avoid the expense ol
a special election to determine that
matter If- contrary to general belief
the question of ratification should not
carry, there would probablj be a fall
1 uro of an election of a common coun
i ell, for the reason that but six coun
cIlmen will be voted for, as such, and
| a council of six members would not be
a valid succession to a council of s-sien
members; but. even in that event,
there would stll be a method by which
the will of the people could be car
ried out. namely by the successive
resignation of the present members,
and the election and installation of new
j member*, taken from the candidates
( recently voted for.
I The difference in the qualifications
j of electors for member of the school
j hoard, and electors at municipal elec
tions, has been made by congressional
' act, and may not be altered by ordl
I nance; It Is provided, however, by this
ordlnace, that persons who are qual
ified to vote only for member of the
school-board, may do.so on tho rsgu
I nr official ballot, the same being spe
cialized by the Judges of election by a
stamp, and should the ballot te mark
ed for any other candidate the same
shall not be counted therefor, but. If
properly marked, may be counted ior
the member of the school board voted
for; this obviates two sets of official
ballots, or two ballot boxes.
All voters are required to register
but In certain case-, voter may reg
tster on election day, if unavoidably
absent during the registration period,
and being otherwise qualliied to vote.
lu general the procedure in conduct
ing the elections that has heretofore
obtained, has not been changed, ex
cept where changes were made neces
sary by the new laws, and the plan of
consolidating the elections.
It will be necessary to amend the
registration ordinances in one or two
minor particulars, to comply with the
provisions of this ordinance, and 1
recommend that such amendments he
made bofore the nuxt registration pe
riod, which begins on the third Wed
nesday in February.
An extra copy of this ordinance has
been prepared to be kept with the
election supplies, for the convenient
use of the respective election boards
Respectfully,
J. F. HOBBES,
Municipal Attorney
Dated, January 3, 1918.
There being no further business the
council adjourned