NEWSJMOTES
Postmaster Walsh announces that
the next outgoing mail, closing at 1
l>. m. Friday next, will bo the last
one of the winter se;uson to make con
nection for Tigara, Wain right and
Point Barrow.
News papers arriving on recent
mails report the death of Robert J.
Collier, the famous publisher, at New
York on November 8th. Mr. Collier,
whose name was a household word in
\merica. is reported to have died sud
denly at him home.
Nome Chapter 78, Women of Moose
heari, will hold a social dance Monday
evening at small Eagle Hall, March
10, at 9 p. m. The public invited.
Admission, Gentlemen. $1.00. Troops
of Ft. Davis Free.
Natives arrived from the east coast
today with another good sized batch of
liesh trout caught In the waters of
Solomon river. The fish attracted
much attention when placed on dis
play by the native vendors and found
a ready sale. The natives say the
trout are easily caught and far more
plentiful than is usually the case at
this time of the year.
The Rivers and Horbors bill recent
ly passed by Congress is said have
carried a rider providing for a reduct
ion of the present first class postal
rates to 2 cents after July 1. There
is a prospect that the provision may
have been eliminated during the con
ference following passage by both
houses, but unless this has been done,
the rates will probably be lowered as
indicated.
The Nome Bowling Alleys have re
opened. and the thunder-like rumble
of the balls traveling over the shining
alleys again serves to enliven the un
usual quiet prevailing along Front
Street since the epidemic. The man
agement reports that present business
is encouraging and all indications
point to a prosperous season for this
popular recreation. ,
The Miners Home Club is becoming
remarkably active in supplying enter
tainment to Nome’s winter sojourners
and contemplate two social events dur
ing the present week. The firs*, will
lie the weekly card social, to be held
Thursday evening, and will be follow
ed by a ball at the club hall on the fol
lowing Saturday evening. The latter
will be open to the public. (Gentle
men will bo charged a small admission
and ladies may attend free. The pro
gram is scheduled to commence at S
Arthur Brooker, who recently re
turned from a trapping trip in the
Cusadepaga section reports that game
is exceedingly scare this winter in that
locality. The Casa section is usual
ly well supplied with fox, but even
these usually prolific animals arc said
to be very scarce. Mr. Brooker left
Tuesday morning for Dime Creek by
dog team, after a short stay in the
city.
A large crowd enjoyed the hospital
ity of the Pioneers of Alaska at the
dance given at the Igloo Saturday ev
ening. The function was held in lieu
of the annual ltoof Garden given by
the Pioneer’s organization for many
years back, but was hardly less enjoy
able than the larger event. The com
mittee in charge of the affair left
HOLT’S CASH STORE
Fur Roboe, choice.$15.00
Fur Caps, bast.5.00
Drill Parkas.3.50
OvaraVla or Jumpers.2.50
Silk Shirts .3.50
Statson Hats, best.5.00
Undarwsar, woe I.2.50
Shoe Packs.5.00
Nacktiss, Good.25
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lothing undone which might add to
the pleasure of attendants and every
one participating declare that they
had an excellent time. Refreshments
were served during the evening.
Dancing continued until an early hour
Sunday morning.
Thos. Gaffney is in receipt of a let
ter from Win. G. Moncrief. Associate
Director of the Department of Person
nel of the American Red Cross, ten
dering his appreciation of Mr. Gaff
ney's offer of service made last Octob
er, with the Red Cross forces in
France. The letter adds: “We ap
preciate very much that you have
written to us from far off Alaska and
only hope that some channel may be
found where you services may be ut
ilized in tiie immediate future." The
letter is dated November 12. and was
probably written only a few hours be
fore the armistice ended the prospect
ive need for Mr. Gaffney’s services.
Owners of speedy dog teams are
commencing to look longingly at the
big silver cup donated by millionaire
John Borden of Chicago, as chief
prize "f the Borden Cup Handicap,
which is to he pulled off on the last
Saturday in March, unless adverse
weather conditions intervene. The
Ayer team, which has twice won the
contest ami lacks but one more victory
to become the permanent owner of the
massive trophy, is reported in good
shape and very likely to repeat its
earlier performances. The Riley
team of speedy animals is said to be
practically out of the running owing
to several of the dogs having been lost
through freezing while engaged in re
lief work in the Cape Prince of Wales
section. The Webb team is said to be
rounding into fine condition and will
probably ho a dangerous competitor
for any aggregation which may be
entered. Seppala’s animals have
been working for some time and are
! reported in good condition.
According to a Food Administration
bulletin arriving in the recent mails,
the need fer food saving by the Amer
ican people is not in the slightest de
gree dimnishe ! by the signing of the
Armistice. Ir. fact, there is an even
more imperative need for America to
|continue her humanitarian duty of
supplying the famishing peoples of
Europe than before the war was
brought to an end. The signing of
the Armistice brought within reach
starving millions long cut off by the
German lines and German sumarines.
America acted at once and raised her
food pledge from 17Vi million tons to
20 million tons. Within a week after
the Armistice was signed the first
consignment of an emergency food
order of over 200,000 tons had been
; dispatched. “Twenty Million tons”
i« America’s food pledge. Every ton
of food that can be pushed through
our ports must be shipped, for there
is no real peace in sight until the
European food situation is relieved.
A native "girl named Doras was
tried on an insanity charge in the
j Commissioner’s Court yesterday afte'r
noon but was acquitted by the jury
after an examination lasting several
hours. The defendant was represen-,
tated by Attorney O. D. Cochran,
District Attorney G. J. Lomen appear
ing for the government. The girl
was recently brought here from the
Cape Prince of Wales section, appar
ently suffering from a mild form of
dementia. She was placed in the
Lynch Hospital for a time. The
symptoms of mental affliction persist
ing, a complaint was made. A con
siderable number of spectators wit
nessed the proceedings. Several nat
ive witnesses were examined and Dr.
Kittleson gave expert testimony. Pete
Brandt and members of the Coast
Guard who were at Cape Prince of
Wales during tho influenza epidemic
also testified. The testimony, partic
ularly that of the native witnesses, in
dicated that the girl is more the vic
tim of fear created by the death of so
many of her people, rather than of
actual dementia. The jury was
composed of Messrs B. Gibney. E. L.
Holt, C. Blood, Tom Evans, Sam Cun
ningham. and Wt. B. Bartholetnew.
The following interesting items re
garding events at Point Barrow from
W. B. Van Valin, who is engaged in
ethnological rtudles in the Barrow
section in the interest of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania Museum. The
letter w is written December 21, 191S
i ml in ;nl lition to providing a graphic
glimpse of the far North, nlsw conveys
some interesting information concern
ing the Stefansson exploration party
headed by Storker Storkcrson, which
was reported endeavoring to cross the
polar sea on the ice in the hope of
discovering further new lands in tr.e
region between Prince Patrick Land
and the Sioe-Jan coast. Mr. Van
Valin writes as follows:
“In the* course of human events, we
anticipate hearing soon through the
mails of the doings of the big Out
side, and in return we would again
I acquaint you by way of remembrance
jthat we are still here,”
. "Talk about power! I only wish
that the Allies had some of the double
distilled quintessence of what l saw
I wasted here today, to concentrate on
the Kaiser and his outfit. They
would be swept like a leaf in a whirl
wind, back to their native
To behold the ice pack under a
.strong gale and the swift Arctic cur
I rent bear down suddenly, close up all
open water and butt-bust-bang-jam
shelvc beneath; then climb over top;
pile, fall, pile and continue to fall and
pile: large cakes plunging and rising,
bobbing, tinning to regain their equili
brium, while great cracks rent in every
direction in massive ice of great
thickness, extending far ahead of the
onrushing irrestableness, which a
moments before was a vast, placid
field of more or less level ice extend
ing hundreds of miles up and down
the Atlantic Ocean shores and half as
f • i• to seaward with nothing to
its perfect solitude except the lapping
of the swells against its windward
side, is an ocular demonstration which
is not soon to be forgotten. Look
out! there’s something doing! step
high, wide and pretty and be quick
about it! The land floe is suddenly go
ing to pieces everywhere: piling as
high as the Capitol dome at points of
greatest resistance, then forming new
pressure ridges in weaker places be
jond.
Forty degress minus has put the
gingle into salt water ice—deep in
tonations, shrill screeches and
screams, crunching, grinding, groan
ing. make “music of melancholy sort",
anrf reverberates from every quarter
In degree ranging from highest to
lowest pitch.
The mystery of this Arctic life is
often punctuated with the unforseen
and undesirable. A few days ago a
brave little Eskimo woman and baby,
were left in charge of their hunting
and trapping igloo. While the hus
band was away looking after his traps,
a hungry Polar bear confronted her
while she was emptying a pail. She
rushed inside the igloo and the bear
appeared at the gut skylight on top of
the igloo, about to come through and
make a meal of them.
She grasped a rifle, and shot. When
Pawyaura returned In the evening he
saw the bear lying outside the igloo
and thought it had eaten his wife and
baby and was taking a sleep. He fin
ally ventured to the top of the igloo
and had he not called down in time,
the little wife—who Is only four feet
high—would have shot him. Not
knowing that she had killed the bear,
she thought it was returning.
Bear are more numerous this year.
One passed within a few yards of our
house in broad day-light recently. I
blessed myself for not remaining home
that day, not withstanding that I kil
led three seal. There was not a good
hunter in the village, so Mister Bruin
took in the sights at his leisure and
passed on without a puncture.
(Continued in next issue)
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