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VOLUME XXI
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY DEC 18, 1920
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Name is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska and Siberia
RACE RIOTS IN KANSAS TOWN
MU EXTENDS ASSESSMENT PfMOb TO JULY I.
BILL POSTPONINC
ASSESSMENT WORK
INCLUDES ALASKA
Seattle, Dee. 17—Postponement of
1920 aaeesrtnent work on mining
claim**, including Alaska, until July 1,
1921, is contemplated in a joint con
gressional resolution supported !>y
Senator Taylor of Colomdo.
The introduction of the resolution
was followed by bills aimed at the
same end introduced by Henderson
and Vens Senator and Representative
respectively of tfrie state of Nevada.
Scattli Business Interests Supporting
Assessment Postponment
Seattle, Dee. 17—Alu-skan and Se
attle business Interests are laying
down a wire barrage to SenatorsjMc
Cumber, Poindexter and Knox, urg
ing their active support of the bill
making extension of the time for do
ing this year’s assessment work on
‘Alaska and other mining claims.
FINANCIER’S DAUGHTER
PROMOTES WORLD
CHAMPJQNSHIP GOUT
New York. Dec. 17—In the room
from which the late J. I’ierpont Mor
gan sent out his edicts to the financial
wcrld, Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of
Uhe famous financier, today signed
Denny Leonard, lightweight champion
of the world, for his bout for the title
with Ritchie Mitchell.
liiss Mnrgan’s ilobut as a pugilistic
mcitdhmuker savored of the spevtacu
lar. She is the chairman of the Amer
ican Executive Committee of the fund
for devastated France and thp tight
will he in the nature of a charity af
fair to raise more funds for work ill
the war area of France.
Ar* YOU « Subscriber Mr. Reader 7
TWO FATALITIES
ATTEND KANSAS
RACE RIOTING
Independence, Kansas, Dec. 17—A
white school boy and a negro were
lulled and four white men were
wounded. three possibly fatally, last
night as a result of a- nice trouble
incident to the killing yesterday morn
ing of K. R. Wharton, a white gro
cer, by a negro.
The .trouble ended two hours later
when the officials, assisted by-members
of the home guard of the local Amer
ican Legion Post, succeeded in forcing
the combatants off the streets.
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ALBANIA ENTERS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 17—Al- j
bania was entered as a member of the j
league of N^tdons by the League As- j
uembly here this morning.
WYOMING CHIEF
JU8TICE DECEASED
Cheyenne, Wy. Dec. 17—-Cyrus
Beard, Chief Justice of the Wyoming
Supreme Court, died here today.
IRISH REVOLTERS
KILL FOUR COPPERS
Dublin, Dec. 17—Four policemen
were Willed last night at the town of
Kilcommon when a patrol of eight po
lice officers was ambushed toy a ciowd
of revolutionaries estimated at one
hundred.
BRITISH-IRISH PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS RE8UMED
Dublin, Dec. 17—Peace negotia
tion# between the Irleh revolutionar
ies representatives of Orest Bri
talu hp-vp keen resumed In Ireland it
la lea rap* en foa* authority.
UTAH COPPER MINE WAGES CUT
Salt Lake, Dee. 17—The wages >.f
the I'tah copper miners will he cut
one dollar a day it was announced
here today.
The new scale will become effec
tive New Year day.
DIME VISITOR RETURNS HOME
John La Montaigne. Dime Creek,
merchant who ‘has been a visitor in
Nome during the past week, returned
to Haycock Friday with a load of sup
•ilies for his establishment.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
There will lie a meeting of the Nome
Republican Club on Thursday Dec.
23rd at 8 p. m. at the old Nugget
jffice Bank Building, at which it is
ioped there will be a full/attendance
if Club members ae business of great
mportanoe in to be considered.
. . By order of the President.
JOHN HANCOCK,
Moepuorode A. B. Hell* New Year's
Eve. Dooombor Slot. Adm. $1.00
COOLIDGE TO SIT
IN HARDING CAGINET
Marion, Ohio, Dec. 17—President
elect Harding has formally invited
Governor Coolidge, vice president
elect, to sit in his cabinet, according
to on announcement from the Ihotnc of
Senator Harding today.
Coolidge will participate in the cab
inet consultations and take an active
part in the shaping the i>olicies of the
coming administration, in the some
manner ns if he were a regular mem
The inclusion of the vice presklent
in the presidential cabinet is a new
departure, the vice president here'.o
N umerous people are subscribing
for the Nugget now—why not you?
ELEVEN KILLED IN
MANILLA RIOT
men, four of whom were Americans
and the remaining seven Tudzen
Filipinos, were killed here today dur
, ing a riot within the walled city of
Manilla "between island men of the
I Philippine constabulary a id Manilla
The, Americans killed were: Pant,
of Police W E. Wiedemann: Patrol
men Albert 11 Trege; John AY. Pris
call and August Jneuinnn, field clerk
of the United States Army.
Fifty shots were fired when forty
numbers of the constabulary sought
to avenge the shooting of some con
stabulary men by the Filipino police.
Filipinos Want Full Independence
.Washington, Dec. 17—A House dis
eawdoft^df the -joeslftin of tin <IUt
posltion of the Philippines today, drew
from Philippine Commissioner Deveyrn
the declaration that his people wanted
“independence with >ut strings or at
tachments, such as the protectorate of
another nation.”
TUESDAY THE SHORTEST
DAY IN THE YEAR
The short days of the winter will
soon commence to lengthen out, as at
4:17 p. m. next Tuesday the sun
roaches its farthest declination south.'
and from then onward the daylight
wilt increase, at first impreceptibly.
but increasing rapidly, until about the
Vernal Equinox the maximum gain of
minutes per day is reached. The
event is known as the Winter Sols!k"\
and Tuesday the 21s* is the shortest
day of ihe year, though the days are
very nearly the same length for four
or five days before and after the sol
stice. Tuesday is only 2 seconds
shorter than the day before or after.
sots at 2:08 p. in. The gain is there
Jan. 10 the lengthening of the (lavs
server. The height of the sun above
and the declination of the sun 23 deg.
26 min. 4$ sec. south. These flgu- k
are calculated for the latitude of Nome
64 deg. 30 min. North.
It seems peculiar that the. days:
lenghten out only in the afternoon at .
first, while the sun rises a Little later
until Doc. 30 but this is due to the
fact that we use Mean Time instead,
't Apparent Solar Time. The so- j
•ailed Equation of Time is added to or!
subtracted from Apparent time,
which is obtained from the sun. i
convert it into mean time. The E.
of T. varies from nothing to abour
16 min. and is always changing. At
the solstice the E. of T. is additive
to apparent time, and increases more
for awhile than the gain of the sun in
the morning.
The apparent-movement of the sun
from South to North and back again
during the year is due to two causes:
the revolution of the earth round the
sun and the* Inclination or leaning of
the arth's axis to the plane of its
orbit round the sun. This inclination
amounts to titi deg-. 33 min., and a?
the axis always maintains the same
direction of spare, the poles alternate
ly lean towards and away from ‘he
sun. At midsummer the North Pole
leans toward the sun, ami six months
later, when the earth is directly op
posite its summer position, the North
Pole leans away from the sun. The
range of the sun during the year is
23 deg. 27 min. each side of the equa
tor. which is known as the sun’s dec
lination. The varying amount of sun
light and the changing direction cf
tiie sun’s rays causes the different
seasons in the temperate zones.
From 4he earliest recorded time,
tiie peoples of northern climes 1
brated tin* return <>f the sun at tin
winter solstice. Sun worship was
widely prevalent, the sun being re
garded as the source and sustainer of
all life. The gradual rise and de
cline of the sun during the year was
likened to the different stages in the
life of human beings, infancy., youtn.
maturity and old age. The sun was
supposed to Ik? rel>orn to new life and
activity at the winter solstice, and to
celebrate the event there was a gre-i*
carnival of sports, pastimes and feast
ing. In Scandinavia and Germany it
was known as Jul, in old England as
Yule, in Home as the Brumalia, etc.
In the fourth century the church de
cided to celebrate Dec. 25 as the birth
day of Christ, and the old festival
was gradually merged into the new
one known as Christmas.
The two blight objects visible in
the sky to the southwest shortly after
sunset are the two planets Venus nn«T
Mars. Venus is the brightest and is
fartherest west, while Mars is a little
to the East and North.
JOHN A. WILSON.
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SENATE PASSES
POINDEXTER ANTI
STRIKE SILL
Wiishington, Dec. 17—The Senate
odny passed the Poindexter bill mak
ng any labor strike which interfrrs
frith tnterstn*«. commerce a crime,
>unishable by long imprisonment, fin
Tho bill provides a m/uriimim sen
enco of ten years imprisonment and
ines up to fifteen thousand dollars for
:;:eh offense.
Senator l^ifollette strcmi*nisl\ op
posed the bill and after its passage
filed ;« motion to reconsider the vote,
which will hold the bill in the Senate
For further action.
Make a new New Year resolution—
Be a subscriber to the Nug??et.
HARDING, BRYAN
HOLD CONFERENCE
Marion. Ohio. Dec. 1? William j
,Ironing's Bryan was culled into con
HUltittlon today by Senator Hardlnp!
iri;:..sttioru," iuiui jjt tr* - j
ilence of the president elect.
f'hurch tonip^
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SOVIET PROPAGANDA
SPREADERS ARRESTED
IN GREAT BRITAIN
London, Dec. 17—"Three m« n have
seen arrested for bringing into Oreit
Britain fom Norway incendiary liter -
:ure," Premier Lloyd fieorge declared
n the House of ('onujions today.
added that one of the conditions of
the pending trade agreement with So
r:i-t Russia w. that the spreading of
S"\\ot propajRiixLi in British territory
FORMER NOME MAN
LOSES EYESIGHT
IN EXPLOSION
I*, te Minital, funner resident •!'
Nome and Candle and ono <>f the li .s',
men in this district to respond to th
draft call in 1918. lost the sight *>f
both eyes in one of the coal mines ne >r
Anchorage. Alaska, during the middle
part of October, according to a letter
from Bert ftecksted reaching A. Bohn
by a recent mail.
Becksted. who formerly own ! t'
Glue I’ot cigar store and was which
known here, states that Minital was
working in the mine and encountered
a half stick of dynamite which had
missed fire, the impact of his pi k
exploding the powder. In addition to
losing both eyes, Minital was als )
badly cut about tire head and face.
The accident was apparently due to
,a mistake or carelessness on the part
of the foreman of the opposite shif*.
who informed Minital when the latter
went oh shift that everything was all
right. Fete therefore, went to work
entirely unsuspecting the presence of'
the powder. After l\e nad been at
work about a half hour his pick en
countered the powder The accident
Is lent an added pathos by the fact
that Minital Is married and has a
little girl. Becksted states that the
ilraft quota and earned considerable
local distinction by mushing overland
from Candle in response to the draft
call, lie is held in the Highest esteem
by those who know him and his sad
■plight will he deeply regretted here.
Beoksted, who is now married, spent
•the past summer in Anchorage, coin
ing there from his present home near
Ventura, California, where he has a
nice farm. His letter, written at An
chorage October 24. says he intended
leaving for home about the last •<’
October and conveys his personal re
gards to all local friends.
ATTENTION MOOSE
Regular meeting L. O. O. M.
8 p. m. every Monday evening. New
Moosa Hall.
W. H. KOCH, Sooty
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