ALASKA LIGHTERAGE COMPANY TURNS
DOWN NOME PURCHASE OFFER
(Continued from pa§re one)
*m<l elect officers.
In reply ti> the committee’s message
(putted :i I wive, the Alaska SbttUmship
t'ornpany resiH»nrt*cxl as follows:
Seattle. April 22.
.l'olot. Member Organization Commit
tee, Nome. Alaska..
AW wil be glad cooperate ."ml do
bus moss w ith any lighterage company
which will be able to give good liglit
etage service. Keep us promptly ad
vised especially giving us assurances
of your ability expoditcusly lighter
Steps as we cannot undertake any
freight shipments for N'oliix- until sat
isfactorily assured (let plate light.••
nge service will be available.
1'p to this point mutters appeared
to bo going forward in an entirely
f curable and promising manner On
Tuesday, however, the entire aspect of
affairs war changed whit'n the real i>i
revealed in the following letter
addressed to the 1 ghteragte committee
st mictions from the. Seattle office.
Nome. Alaska, April 20. 1921.
Mr. Hugh O'Neiill. Chairman
C tizens* Committee :n "Lighterage,
Nome. Alaska .
With reference to your recent offer
lor the purchase of this Company's
Lighterage Equipment at A’omc we
wish to make till** following reply op
A live years lrase of the F’acifl .•!
Coast Company's property is unobtain-l
able because our present reviser! lease.)
expiring in TVcetmlter 1924. provides1
for cancellation on ninety days notice
We propose to sub-let. under tlie
same terms, for a consideration of fif
teen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) an
nually. the s]*ace mfessary for con
ducting a lighterage business, specifi
cally reserving the following portions
f 'Oil.l Warehouses
* 'on 1 Platform.
Weighers Office.
Simply Room (2nd floor Warehouse).
One set ways for unsold barges.
Drum Rucks (for fuel dn&ns).
Agent's Living Quarters.
We ore at ptv«ent conducting other
M«v?oti;i.Uc»ns a.t Seattle and. due to the
latnnc»* of the season, do not consider
it advisable, to give further options.
We will, however, give the Nomve Com
mittee pnofereJU'e.
This Company Is unwilling to con
clude any deal that d<vs not. provide
f'Q' a substantial initial payment, at
the timo of closing and for this reason
• •annot accept your Ctoramittee’s terms.
We would, suggest, however. the pay
ment of $10,000.00 on ckxdnjr the deni
and $10,000.00 June 1. 1021 Iw-fo-ie
launching, these two payments paya
ble if necessary, in whole or in part
by Liberty Ronds at pair value. In
the meantime the Committee would be
allowed to prejKire the vessels for
Our Seattle Office has been in con
sultation with Air Carl'Lomen regaril
ing this subject and has suggested to
him that if the matter is properly pre
sented by him with the authorization
I of the Coiiuiiitte the Alaska Steamship
(’(BTij>,uny could possibly be indund to
;wl vance a loan of twenty thousand
dollars secured by a morUr;i#re on the
plant amt payable half in December of
this year and half in IVcember of next
ye;u*. It would bo useless, however,
to ask for this loan unless the first
two payments (fiMt.hOO.OO) were made
by the committee anti the ranainiing
twenty thousand were payable in tight
i*rage on coal shipped by this Cum
j It is also requested th.it we be ad
I vised jus ti> who is being eonxidercd for
| th<- position of manager for the pro
j posed Company.
We would l*o pleased to have your
decision restwdlng the aln.vc offer at
th" earliest possible moment.
Very truly yours,
Alaska Lighterage Commercial
Company.
P.y H. (I. fjabrielson. Agent.
On receiving the innvp.uny's answer,
the committee aft r thoroughly .analy
zing the situation and corn* I tiding that
the cwupuny was either not tutting in
good faith or was animated by some
Ulterior desire to avoid letting go of
Ms eiiuipmmt until it had the* etish do
majuled, addressed the following com
munications to the lighterage com pan y
and Alaska Steamship Company.
Nome. Alaska. April 26, 1921.
Alaska Lighterage X: ContracTciiU Co .
to reply as follows: The
company t.o l»o farmed for handling
the lighterage. situation would engage
in the. coal business ;us soon as prac
ticable as the coni situation has been
the lighterage problem. Furthermore.
We are in a position to comply with
fhe terms of our previous offer, but to
accept the. terms of your counter of
fer! would not only defeat one of the
principal and ultimate projects for
the future welfare of this community,
time in \he\v of local financial condi
tions. 1'nless advised to the contrary
forthwf'Ui. we shall be compelled to
seek relief from other sources.
Respectfully
Nome. Abudja. April 26. 1921.
Alaska Ste tan ship <'o.
Keattle.
!.ightefruge company rejects our ac
ceptance of Cbeir offrr making new of
fer reserving coal business also in*
sitting cash before commencing op
erations. Advised agent today will
ingness comply with previous offer,
consider impracticable second propos
al. Will endeavor obtain other equip
ment necessary handle first boat.
Will you co-operate and deliver freight
ship buckle.
■Citizens Committee on Lighterage.
In reply to the first communication,
the lighHeragy* company closed the ne
sotiiations in the following peremptory
INtime, Alaska. Apri. 2R1 1921
Mr. Hush O’Neill, Chairman.
Citizens' Committee on OiRhterajrc.
| Name, Alaska.
I This Company considers j our refusal
of their offer April 26th as ending ne
gotiations.
We wish to advise your committee
and others interested that we. lhad in*
tended remaining in t.he cool business
only long enough to collect the amount
of $20,000.00 due us 1n lighterage on
coal and to sell our remaining equip
ment and supplies. It was our in
tention to then relinquish the property
entirely.
Will you kind 1a advise, us if it Is
the intention of the Committee to sup
ply Nome's June coal requirements?
Yours very truly.
Alaska. Ugh tenure & Cotn’l Co.,
Tty H. f}. frabrielaon. Agent.
The Alaska Steamship Company, re
pp* <i as follows, evading all reference
to the committee’s query regarding tlie
delivery of goods at ship's tackle.
Seattle. April 27. 102!.
Citizens Committee on lighterage.
Nome, Alaska.
Yours twenty sixth we cabled 1’olet
Pridiiy would gladly co-operate and
<l" business with any reliable lighter
age company. We await assurance
your alwlity expeditiously lighter ships.
We cannot undertake handle shipments
Nome until satisfactorily ;tssured ade
quate lighterage service available.
Wo are withholding announcement
Nome sii.il:jigs pending authorative ad
company is already guilty of a serious
broach of faith in fits dealings with
Nome. Dining' his visit .here, last
Chamber of Commerce that his cim
onable tenns for the pure-hiise of the
plant. ’PTie company could not make
•my more than. an even, break, he* said,
and would meet half way any effort
to pu.pcluUSfi by local interns ts. At l«ust
th.s w;i»s Hu> understandiiug received
In the succeeding interval tlie coan
\ IKiny has not only reiterated its de< -
laration cf intention to retire fr*om t.!ie
lighterage businos? but publicly offer
ed to spII the pkmt either as a whole
or Cix part. The latter offer, howwer,
was suddenly withdrawn for unknown
rraaamt when it. became clear that
Nome was preparing to undertake
purchase of the plant. Now when fin
ally brought to a showdown by an offer
to purchase the entire plant at the
stipida.led po-k-n the company d.-Hpit.*
its oft redtora-ted. destine to duKpose of
the outfit, flatly rejected tb** offer on
the score that lit “is unwilling to con
clude any deal which dues not provide
for a substantial initial payment at
time of closing.”
In the oinil ion of many who are in
touch with the situation, the princi
pal nim of the company has been to
force the people of Norm* into a hole
by threatening to suspend its lighter
age functions, evidently believing that
the citizen? could not or would not
attlennlpt to solve the problem thus
created and would, therefore, accept
without further complaint a eontinu
atlon of the company's holdup methods
and extortionate chances.
As a result of the company atti
tude. citizens in all w«Uks of life have
more th;un ever dot- -rmined to
lesive no stone unturned in the effort
to secure a. publicly owned plant and
there is * very prospect that soma
feasible plan will 1h» submitted to the
mass mwituiff Sunday. The p:tssagre
by the territorial legislature of the
Cochrtui umeruhna.iU to the municipal
i:.v law. permitting municipaJfties to
ensase in the lighterage business, haa
added a new factor which will en
courage increjused efforts to escape
from the clutch-ec* of the lighterage oc.
LATE
NEWS
SIX SAILORS BELIEVED LOST
Seattle. A|»tU. 30—Six sailors who
were sent out in. a rowboat from the*
1 "matiHla reef lightship, off the Wash -
vegetables tossed overboard for tl <*
use of tlw 1117111 ship crew by a pass ng
ship are believe*! to have perisherl.
The men succeeded in tricking up the
vegetables safely but later disappeared
Five Lightship Sailors Found
Seattle, April, 3t>—hive sailors.
I missing from the l.'matillft light
ship, end who L'uuicd at Azette. return-'
i od to the llghtjthip today, i vrording toj
word received here.
ITALY WITH U S. IN
YAP ISLAND STAND
Washington, April. 3<*—Italy is in
entire accord with the I'mited States
wtfth respect to the island of Yap and '
other (lorman overseas possessions,
the I taiia.n. government says in a m>b
to Sec.reta.ziy of State Hughes, deliver- 1
Ml today by Ambassador Rice.
HUGHES AGAIN AFTER PANAMA
(Delayed in TransmJrs'on)
Washington. April, 29—Setuvlary
of -State -Hughes has sent, another note
to Itvmijma- regarding that country’s
refusal to accept the award of Chief
•luHfllce Whiitu on the boundary dis
ptotiH with Casta- 'll wtis an
flwrcni by the State Department to
THINKS BIGGER ARMY NEEDED
(Delayed .in TYnrusftLsslon)
Washington., April, 29—Chairman
Kahn of tho Military Affairs Commit
tee, told the House of Kespresentafcivea
today that the enlisted force of one
•hundred and sixty eight thousand men
fixed, by tha Army Appropriation bill
is too small and that at the proper
time he will offer an amendment to the
law increasing the enlisted personnel
to 175,009.
M>SS HEETIHB TOMORROW 2 P, H, AT CITY MAIL
MARINE WORKERS
APPEAL DIRECT
TO HAROING
(Delayed la transmission)
Washington. April, 29—The marine
workers' representatives. breaking
away from the. conference with Chair
man Benson of the Ship Board and the
ship owners today. wont direct to the
White House to aak President Hard
ing to intervene in the wage reduction
controversy which threatens to precip
itate a national strike of marine on*
The marine workers offer to let
Harding deckle the whole <iue«8ion of
wages and working conwlftiom* was
dramatically made by Andrew Pursoth,
the .seamen's leader.
“W<* ofTor to put the whole fpies
tkui unreservedly up to the Coresident
and the mlLrlnei unions will abide ab
solutely by his decision," Furseth de
Cabinet to Consider Mediation of
Marine Wage Disputa
Washington, April, SO—The reptno
Khtatives of the marine workers un
iona were told today at the Whit©
House that President Harding would
take up with his rublnet the matter of
modiaijion in the wage dispute with a
riiew to perventiitff the threatened strike
r*f marine engineers on Ameiflcun ships
Davi* Submits Marine Waye MeHiation
Washington. April, :t0— President
Harding is considering i » nmend.i
rio’i made by Sec-rotary Labor Pavia
that he appoint a oomm'ttee cf tliret
!A mediate the dispute between the
■ h T> owner.? and marine workers, it
wan stated at the W>':t • House this
iftemoon.
NEW TURN TO DRIVE
FOR HARDING VISIT
Seattle, April. 30—A new angle to
the drive now in progress to have
President Harding vi&it Alaska, this
sUmnietr is that the governor of every
state in tlie Union is being unged to
iwonmupony the ponenident. The effort
to Induce the governor’s to make the
trip is animated by the purpose of
holding the annual conference of gov
emors iiYi the North.
The all governor's phase of the
cjumfpajfrn is toeing vigorously pressed
by (Jovesmor Olcsott of Oregon and the
idea is said to toe taking well.
THOSE SOURDOUGH HOT CAKES
AND HILLS BROS. COFFEE AT
ARCTIC BAKERY.
Late News Flashes
TREATY WITH
GERMANY PROBABLE
Washington. April, 350—-A treaty he-]
tVoen the United Suites and dermanj j
will probably follow enaction o'" lb j
pea*'*' resolution and in conneetiun '■
with, t.ho revolution. Senator l-odge wild '■
today in, the Senate ,:.n supporting- the j
peace mcsitfuint) introduced by ^Senator i
Knox and. no* under debate.
Vdtp on the measure may t>e reached
CHICAGO JUDGE IMPOSE?
NOVEL SENTENCE
(EtaShyofl in-Transrufs«!un>
Chiragt* Apafi, 29-—Judge Unas, of j
this dtLy hnday .sentemred Frank Wardj
antt ISlmWr Abnrfciot, boy pichoocLeta. j
In nitrad. church every Sunday morn-!
iirg for the next six months.
BRITISH COMMONER
CALLS GEORGE LIAR
(Delayed in 'Transmission)
London. April, 29—The short and
ugly word was passed for the first time
in. years in the House of Commons this
aftdrnoon when Premier Lloyd George
was cnlled a “liar” by Dan Irving, a
Imdmber of i>;Lriiaiment, following a
I somewhat heated debate.
I Roth later withdraw their state
Unente.
MAIL PILOT INCENERATED
IN PLANE CRASH
Cleveland, O. April, 30—Air mail
pitot J T. ChriirtSa.naon, on
one of the wvaral tuir mail routes
leading out of Cleveland, was burned
to death tuifcvv wlim lii» plane craahed
to earth hare. ^
50 BRITISH COAL
MINES DESTROYED
lionxkxn, A.pptl, SO—Cfcrty real mines
liji various parts of the United Kingdom
■have been dr&troydtt as future eoal
prodiu ^’s by tha flooding Incident to
the* long ulurt down occasioned, by the
mijWTi* strike, it was announced here
CHICAGO POLICE 0d?F1ClAL SLAIN
(TMayed In Traatentaskra)
Chicago Aprlrl, 29—Goorge Rohm,
Chief of Police of West Chicago, was
shot and killed by an undddntlfled man
SEATTLE OCTOGENERlAN
PIONEER DIES
(Delayed in transmission)
Seattle, April. 29—Robert. H. Lind
sr.y, an octogenerian jurist and pion
eer of this section, died here today.
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