| THE NOME NUOGET
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
i 3E0. S. MAYNARD. Sole Owner and Publisher.
Entered as Second Clae.- Matter, at the poet office at Nome, Alaska,
Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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imtnons la Divorce Cases .$25.00
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F.%rL\<; insolvency
just what is to become of the deserving n*-ed> iu Alaska is a problem,
end the word "deserving” is superfluous. Common humanity demands
hat they be cared for whether they are deserving or not.
The Ways and Means Committee of the last legislature overlooked
bet and the same bet was again overlooked when the list of appropria
tes W'ere sent up for sanction—appropriations to the amount of -nearly
i million and a half dollars. A popular bill was-enacted increasing pen
sions and no money was appropriated to meet the Increase. More than
hat. not sufficient money was appropriated to meet the pension demands
mder former schedule and the result Is. that with but nine months of
the biennium gone, the Territory is put to the disgraceful necessity of.
turning down all applications for ]M*nsions for the next fifteen months if
those already on the list are to 1*» cared for in the interim.
The office of the Governor, from which Territorial charity is dis
pensed. is helpless, as the G^ernor has no more authority than an indiv
idual to dispense warrants to meet which no appropriation has been made.
The Pioneers’ Home is crowded to capacity and even were it not. there
is no provision made for the accomodation of women therein, the pension
system being the one and only way in which assistance can be rendered
It is the above described condition of th^ situation that caused a
circular letter to be mailed throughout the Territory from the Governor's
office this week. The communication is explanatory of conditions and
is headed: "Lack of Funds Mow Prevents Further Pension Allowances."—
Stroller’s Weekly. Juneau.
SPF.KDING IT* Tire NEWSP. PKK
'■ In directing that beginning today, the uewsp ipers of the country be
giver, the status of first-class mail. Postmaster General Harry New says the
new program not only means much to the public but that it is one of the
most important and far-reaching steps taken in the history of the Federal
Postoffice Department.
He might have added that it is worthwhile recognition of the im
portance of the daily newspaper in the life of the American people.
The essence of the order now in effect is that newspapers shall -not
be irnxed with parcel post matter at any point in their dispatch from the
office of the publisher to their delivery to the subscriber. Papers shall
be handled by themselves and kept in constant transit and shall not be
sent to railroad terminals to be worked. This means that if there is only
a half a sack of newspapers it shall be handled in the same manner as
letter mail and rushed through to its destination, and that other mail shall
not be mixed with it.
The day is past when the subscriber is willing to wait several days
for his newspaper. He wants the news while It is fresh. The essence
of the daily newspaper is Its "news”—and it Is to the credit of the Post
office Department that it is co-operating with the publishers to deliver
the news while it is news.
No medium purveys so much information dealing with almost every
conceivable subject as the daily newspaper. The press, one of the out
standing and most beneficial institutions of the age, is the greatest mod
ern educator. Few homes in the land are without the daily newspaper
and the number of persons who scan the daily visitor from cover to cover
is surprisingly large, notwithstanding that the twentieth century citizen
frequently is referred to as a headline reader. It is an unfailing medium
between the merchant and the home; it is the vehicle that daily carries
the report of the local and world events to tens of millions of people;
it is the only printed matter read daily by millions of men and women
throughout the country.
Elevation of the newspaper to the first-class status by the Postal
Department therefore is not merely a concession to the newspaper pub
lishers. That is but a snondary consideration. The real explanation
is that the Department has taken this means of giving bdtter service to
100.000.000 American citizens who want it.—lie ward Dally Gateway.
A LONG LIST QP RIAGtRM*3
(Upward Gateway!
Seward ha* a number of hands***# bachelors who are well fixed in
this world's goods, and with tha large nmnber of women writing to this
paper inquiring ior soulmates. It la a crying sham# that a morotoriufn
cannot »e declared and a man take a dozen wives for a >ear or so,
their longing for Alaska has subsided.
While the letters of many of these inquirers indicate high blood pres
sure and an ardent desire to rush into matrimony without proper qualifi
cations. there might he one or two in the bunch who could swing an axe
or swing a nasty snow shovel in case of necessity. A wife used to be a
helpmate, a woman who did t'our-fiftiis of the work, and put in the rest of
the time in raising kids and poultry, and looking after the fires. Civili
zation has not improved the modern woman, who wants her breakfast in
bed and a thousand dollar Income. In case our correspondents believe
they can fill the bill and are willing to take a sourdough for better or
worse, (mostly worse.) we have a choice matrimonial list of eligible
! bachelors, guaranteed to bathe regularly and change clothes at least once
j every six months, which will he mailed for a postage stamp. The Gate
| way, however, desires it understood, that it is not responsible for dam
japes. nor does it guarantee property or title. We deliver the goods on
! the principle of caveat emptor.
SI CKKR SEASON
(Ketchikan Chronicle)
The Sucker Season is ou. The boys selling calendars are In town,
and others will follow within t&e next few weeks. Now is your oppor
tunity. th*y tell you. to advertise vour business via the calendar route.
Did you ever stop to think what becomes of the average calendar of
i ninety per cent of all calendars? If y,.u did not, think it over before
purchasing.
More than ninety per cent of all calendars are thrown into waste
baskets, cut up by girls to use the pictures withonr consideration for the
card announcing whose calendar it is, or the picture and the other part,
all but the actual enumeration of the days of the mon-h. Almost any
other kind of advertising in the world has proven to be more productive
of results thun calendar advertising.
Also, one always notes come along in January 1 f*24 tor calendars to
i be used in 1925. That is worthy of note also. It is easier to sell any
body anything for delivery next year than for immediate delivery. One
naturally does not worry about the cost. When you are approached to
buy calendars, ask yourself the question: 'Would I buy now if I had to
pay in advance?”
I’ut your calendar money into window display, c’rcular tetters,
pamphlets, better lettering on your windows, newspaper advertising, al
most anything but into calendars. They are 99 41-100 pure bunk.
The money goes to Cincinnati or Oshkosh or some other place thousands!
of miles away and you'll never see a dollar of it blow back. It gives you ,
about as much return ou your investment as would the stock of the fake j
salesmen who come to Alaska every once in a while to get some easy I
money for everything from balloons to automobiles.
AIAHKA WOMAN JTRV MW IS TIKIOKI! V. S. CIRCUIT COURT
.SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 15—The Alaska Woman Jur>' Law
was argued yesterday in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the
case of Charles II. Tynan, of Ketchikan. Alaska, convicted by a jury of
three women and nine men for violation of the Volstead Act.
Tynan eontended that neither the ‘Nineteenth Amendment, the. Fod
• ral Court, Constitution nor Organic Act of the Territory of Alaska au
thorized women on juries.
District Attorney Arthur Q. Shoup of the First Division. Alaska, ar
gued for the Government.
Decision was reserved.
ROUNDAMKH, OKOtiRAI'HlC
CKXTKRN, AND LATTTTDKN
OF THK UNITED STATUS
“Know America first.” should be a
maxim of wide appeal to Americans
In these days, and a government pub
lication just issued affords notable
contributions to the general know
ledge of some features of our owton
al domain and history. This publi
cation is entitled “Boundaries, are-is.
»g<opraph1c centers, and altitudes of
the United States, and of the several
States, with a brief record of import
ant changes in their territory." b.v R.
M. Douglas, and has been issued by
the Department of the Interior :*s
Bulletin 689 of the Geological Sur
vey. The report is sold by the Sup
erintendent of Documents, Wash
ington. D. C.. at nominal cost. It also
[gives numerous little-known facts re
flating to the organization of the or
ifinal thirteen colonies and of the
States after the Revolution. For ex
ample. how many know that the Col
ony of Virginia once included the
Bermuda Islands and also the coun
tty westward to the Pacific Oc?an,
then called the “South Sea”—so
christened by Balboa In 1B13. be
cause at the place where he first saw
it the shore lines ran nearly eas' and
west—or that the area now called
Vermont once belonged to New Vork
and that Massachusetts controlled
the area now included In Maine?
The reasons for the peculiar irregu
larities and the jogs in Rome of the
boundary lines are explained. For
example, the “nose” projecting Into
Canada at the Lake of the Woods, on
the Minnesota boundary, is due ‘o
the use of inaccurate maps by the
r. akers of the treaties by which this
area became United States territory.
The “panhandle’* at the southeast
comer of Missouri is said to be the
resdlt of efforts of a prominent prop
erty owner to have Ms nlanfatien in
cluded in the lew State.
The indeflntteness ef some of the
ectiy boundary lines is illustrated by
a quotation by Rufus Choate, who in
the h(*indary dispute between Mass
achusetts a ad Rhodb Island said be
fore the > Massachusetts legislature;
“The commissioners might as wet
hate decided that the line between
the states was- hounded on. the north
hj a bramble bush, on the south by a
blue jay. on the west by a hive of
bees in swarming time, and on the
east by live hundred foxes with fire
brands tied to their tails.”
The State of California has within
its boundaries the highest and low
est point of dry land in the United
States proper, and Alaska has the
highest mountain peak in the pos
sessions of the United States. Col
orado is the Stat6 having the great
est average altitude; Delaware has
the least. . v, ^ 5 , , t
The bulletin describes the outlying
possessions of the United States and
tells when and how they were ac
quired. Of the newly added possess
ions (Alaska bought in 1867. -not in
cluded) the 7,000 or more islands
comprising the Philippine group cov
er the greatest area. The Virgin Is
lands are the most recent acquisition
and also the most costly. To obtain
sovereignty over these islands, which
| have a combined land area of a trifle
less than 138 square miles, the
[United States paid nearly $300 an
acre. For Alaska, which has been an
• important source of revenue, the
; United States paid less than 2 cents
J an acre.
WKIGIiEY’S stock
GOOD INVESTMENT
j The annual report of Wm. Wrlg
I ley. Jr. Co., for 1923 has just been
: issued and shows the biggest year’s
. business In the history of the com
ipany, and excellent earnings with
i ample capital and reserves to meet
all possible emergencies.
Wrigley stock I*, now listed on the
New York and Chicago Stock Ex
changes and shov'B a dividend yield
iof about 7% per cent at present
i Spearmint gum has made a mint of
monew for Mr. Wrigley and his orig
inal associates, and the recent in
crease of stock will admit of many
(more stockholders \n the aaear Mint.
| The stock can be bougfft through
any hooker aod present quotations
jaas around $39 par share.
Let the %me Nnftieetdo yon
j letter writing, by having ne ntmV
] the Weekly Nnggec to yonr Mends
'on the Ontelde.1 -
ALASKA
NEWSY
ITEMS
i S. J. Marsh. Nome pioneer, and
for a period of six years U. S. Com
missioner in th«- remote Chandalar
j district in the Koyukuk country, has
I been out of the Northland for a num
i b< r of years, but still follows the
[tuning industry. He is President of
i the Marsh Metals Extracting and
Manufacturing Company, his head
; quarters being in Spokane.
—
I Walter Fisher, interior Alaska
: mining man. who is passing a few
I weeks in Spokane, is planning a trip
I to South America, according to ad
vices received by friends in Seattle.
Hughie MoCury. pioneer Alaska
mining man. well known in the Fair
banks country, departed from New
York the first of the year, en route
to British Guiana. South America.
MoCury i« familiar with South Am
erica. having been in charge of plan
tations on the Island of Trinidad for
many years, prior to going to Alaska.
Volney Hoggatt, formerly a well
known Nome attorney, is npw located
in Denver. Colorado. He is the edit
or of the weekly edition of the Den
ver Post, one of the great news
papers of Colorado.
K. G. Corwin, pioneer Stikine river
man. but who has been engaged in
other business for many years past,
now makes his headquarters at the
Brigham hotel, Otrdrn, Utah. Lately
be has became associated with C. J.
Dumboiton. also a well known nor
| them pioneer. In a placer mining
• proposition in British Columbia. Mr.
j Corwin w«h in Seattle last week.
| Alfred M. Oh I sol, pioneer of Pair
| banka. long employed in Martin A.
j Pfnska’s store, has recently opened
.a gent's furnishing store in Kelso,
(Wash. He has also purchased a
! home in that thriving city and in
i'tends to remain there permanently.
| Richard -Stapleton. Nome pioneer,
ior many years with the Kelleher
'dredge in the Kougarok district, la
j now in charge of diamond drill op
jerations for a big New York engin
eering firm. He has recently been
j prospecting a cement proposition in
I Alabama and is now engaged in drili
| tng a manganese iron property in
j eastern Georgia. His home is in
! Flushing, New York.
I Glen Carrington, who won fame in
| the old days as one of the best pitch
ers that ever won a hero's halo on
the famous Seward baseball team,
will soon leave for a round of his
customers In Alaska. Glen may have
lost his pitching arm, but he has not
lost his popularity with Alaskans, aa
Ms record of sales made is one of the
best in the northern territory.
i Thomas Cole, who with his brother
| Cash Cole, now a candidate In the
j Alaska primary in April for the Gov
ernorship. went to Alaska in 1895, i«f
now located In Seattle, where he In
the credit man for the Fobes Supply
Company, 6d0 First Avenue South.
Mr. Cole lived at Juneau from the
time of hfs early arrival there until
1915. During the years 1911-12, he
was the private secretary of the then
Delegate to Congress from Alaska,
Hon. James WIckersham.
NOTICE
Any items of interest to the com*
munity if given or telephones to ttao
Nugget will be given publicity and'
•v<m He appreciated at all times.
FORt'KlTCRfi NOTICE
To AAR AS JOHNSON. WILLIAM
BENSON, your and each of your
heirs and legal representatives:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, as co-owner therein,
has expended the sum of one bun
dled dollars in labor and improve,
ments upon the ALBATROSS Plarer
Mining Claim (location notices of
v'hich are recorded in VoJ. 153 at
Page 2f*7, and Vol. 171 at Pag* 332.
of the Records of the Cape Nome
M.ning District, Territory of Alas
ka) for the year If*IS. and for a fflee
sum for each of the years ending
July first 1921, 1922 and 1923. as
provided by Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States and
legislation supplemental thereto, in
order to hold said claim.
And you are hereby required to
contribute your proportion of sncv
expenditure, according to your Inter
est in said claim, to the undersign
ed eo-owner with you therein, at
Nome. Alaska, within ninety days
alter the service of CM* notice on
yon by publieatton thereof, or your
teferest in said claim will beooma
forfeited, and vest la the undersign
ed. as provided* by the said statutes.
WTNNTFRBT) H. RANK.
Co-Owner.
Publish Jan. 19. 26. Feb. 2. 9. 19.
22. Ware* 2. 9. 16. 22, St. April «,
13. 1924.
NOTICK OF FORFKITTRF.
To Wm. Frazier. J. Godin. A. G.
Taft. Wm, Dougherty and W.
Getehell, yon and each of your
hplrs. executors, administrator*
and assign*:
Y«*u. and each of yon. are hare by
notified that, the undersigned, as
co-owner thereii^ has expended the
sum of On** Hundred ($1W».00>
dollars during each of the rears
1916. 1924). 1921. 1*2? and- 192"..
fox labor and improvement • uxi and'
for the benefrt of the -vtt • •• m>. n*;
eiaim known and hiding the NEW
YEAR ASSOCIATION CLAIM. situ
ated on Washington Creek, a tribu
tary of Nome River, in Cape Noma
Mining and free ordtng District,
Territory of ATt.ska, notice of ioea
fiion whereof to recorded in Book
290. at page 384. in the records of
said recording district.
That .said wOTk wa.s performed as
provided by Sot*. 2324. of the Re
vised Statutes of the United State*
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally nuinlred to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sever
al interests in said claim, to the un
dersigned co-owner with you there
in. wrtbfta ninety days after the aftr
vise of ttfls notice on you by pabn
cattae thereof, or your interest In
said claim wfU become forfeitad and
vest ia the undersigned, as provided
by seal statuses.
Us led at Nome, Ala£a». this
2nd day of Irabi uafy. 1824.
JOB BOmfHtT.
Co-Owner
By A. A. Chagnos, Agent
Publish Feb. 2. 9. 18. 23, March 1. 8.
18. 22. 29. April 5. 12. 19. 28. 1924
16. 22, 29, April 5. 12. 19. 28. 19*4
PORFBnTRH vonci
To J. R. 9LLVA, your heirs. legal |
represent*tires mad assigns: j
You are hereby notified that the 1
undersigned, as co-owner therein, j
has expended the sum of one hund
red dollars for the years 1*01. 1002.!
1903. 1904. 190S, 1906, 1907, It OS. i
1909. 19iv. 1911. 1912, 1913, 1914,
1916, 1916, 1917, 1918. 1919, 1920,
1921. 1922, 1923, in labor and im
provements on and for the benelt
of CLAIM NO. TWO ABOVE on
Candle Creek, in Fairhaven Record
ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
notice of Location whereof 1s record
ed In Vol. 11. Page 258. of the re
cords of the Fairhaven Precinct, in
the performance of the antaual
labor required by section 2824 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Supplemental legislation, in
order to hold said claim.
And you are hereby required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your In
terest in said claim to the under
signed co-owner with you therein,
withi% ninety days after the service
of this notine on you By publieatldto
thereof, or your interest In said
claim will become forfeited and
vested in the undersigned as pro
vided hr fce Mid statute.
*. R TH9MAS,
Co-Owner
. By Fred Ttepteman. Ms *gM»
Publish Jan. 26. Feb. 2. », 16. 22.
March 2. «, 16,.23. 20; A»ri> *jlV
26; 1224. :
VOTtClB OF FORFEITURE.
To P. A. Kernel!. V. A. Julian, C. B.
Ryberg. Jeff Oodin. L, William*.
C. Pelletter and J. Dubois, your
and each of your heirs, adminis
trators, successors and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that Che undersigned, aa
co-owner therein, haa expended the
sam of One Hundred (8100.09- dol
lars during each of the years 1914,
1915, 1916. 1920. 1921, 1922 and
1923. for labor and improvements
upon and for the benefit of the
placer mining claim known and
being OSBORNE NO. 2 ASSOCIA
TION plater mining claim, situated
on Osborne Creefc a tributary of
the Nome River, in the Cape Nome
Recording District and Precinct,
Territory of Alaska. The original
location of which claim 1s recorded
in Vol. 190. at Page 174, of the
records of locations In the office of
the Recorder of 9aid precinct.
That said work was performed as
provided by Seq. 2324, of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of hfeldlng said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion, of such
«|pperulfture according to your sev
eral Interests in said afa!ra. to the
undersigned, co-owner with you
thoaeui, within ninety days after the
service of this notise <*a you by pub
H eat Ion f
saM c%
vest fa the tii
Tided hr . statute*,
id day od Febrtfatey.
tome. Alofel
ha. tds
y, iw.
JOB. BOUROfiy,
Co-Owner
9% A. A. Chagnon, Agent
FtoMMl Feb/t* •» Bi. M. March 1. 8.
22, MfUfc •*«. t»U