MONDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
li. C. TOWN SWEPT
BY CIAR'DRURST—
MANY DIE
Vancouver, B. C. Oct. 29—Many
lives were lost when a portion of the
mining town of Brittania Beach was
swept away in a great cloudburst
late last night, according to unde
tailed reports reaching here today.
Twenty Three Die in Brittania Bracli
Vancouver, Oct. 30—Twenty three
people lost their lives in the cloud
burst which partially destroyed the
town of Brittania Beach Friday
night, according to advices received
here today. The reports say the
cloudburst turned loose a wall of
water twenty feet high which swept
down upon the sleeping town in a
devastating avalanche. Thirteen
others out of a total population of
300 are also missing.
CENSUS BUREAU ANNOUNCES
U. S. VOTING STRENGTH
Washington, Oct. 29—The Census
Bureau -announced today that the
voting strength of the United States
is 54.428,832.
Font KILLED IN AUTO
TRAIN CRASH
Seattle, Oct. 31—Pay M. Beaver,
a local automobile dealer, his wife :
and daughter, Voilet, aged I t and j
Mrs. E. II. Shively, his mother in j
law, were killed near here today
when their automobile was run down
on a Great Northern Railway cross
riOXEElt SEATTLE
TEACHER DEAD
Seattle, Oct 31—Mrs H. L. Waugh
on, Seattle's pioneer school teacher,
died today.
SAYS ONLY GOOD ROOTLEtiGERS
ARE DEAD ONES
Washington, Oct. 31—“The Only
Good Bootlegger is a Dead Bootleg
ger,” is the headline on an article
in the World Digest of Reform News,'
issued by the Methodist Board of
Temperance here today.
HEARINGS ON SUTHERLAND
BILL POSTPONED
Washington, Oct. 30—Hearings
on the bill recently introduced by
Alaska Delegate Sutherland to per
mit Canadian ships to carry passen
gers and cargo direct between Alas
ka and the States has been postponed
until Thursday next, at which time
the National Merchant Marine As
sociaton will be heard in opposition
to the bill.
ALASKA FISHERIES
HEARINGS CLOSET)
Washington, Oct< 30—The hear
ings on the proposal (or new fishing
laws (or Alaska to afford protection
to the depleted fisheries, closed to
day. The committee expects to
make its report in about two weeks.
SEPPALA TO PROCEED
TO NORWAY
Seattle, Oct. 30—Leonard Sep
pala, Nome’s famous dog team driver
and race winner, who -arrived here
on the Victoria, will leave in a few
days on a visit to his home>4n Nor
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
REPORTS NEGLECT OF
OF DISABLED SOLDIERS
Washington, Oct. 31—Charges
that the federal government neglect
ed disabled veterans of the World
War are sustained by the reported
rendered by the special committee
of Congress which has been investi
gating the complaints for the past
four months.
- The - failure to provide sufficient
hospitalization for disabled men re
ceived from the committee most
scathing .condemnation.
DEMOCRAT NAT’L COMMITTEE
TO MEET TUESDAY
St Louis, Oct. 31—Chairman
White arrived here today to open the
Democratic ^ National Committee
meeting here Tuesday.
FOCH GIVEN REMARKABLE
RECEPTION AT CAPITAL
Washington, Oct. 30—Not since
the Marquis d'Lafayette visited
Washington in 1824 has the nation
al capital aeon such a reception aa
that given Marshal Ferdinand Foch.
k\ II-SON TOO II.I, TO HECKIYK
mahhhal Foni
Washington. Oct. 2'* Marshal
Focli r<Mlr.‘d at the residence of form
er president Wilson to ton* t-r liis re
spects today l»ut was informed that
tiis physician had ordered Wilson to
receive no one and departed after
leaving his card.
Wilson SuttVring From Digestive
Disorders
Washington, Oct. 30—Woodrow
Wilson is suffering from digestive
lisorders, I»r. Grayson announced to
lay
OOl.llHiF TALKS TO
LEGION (’ONV KNTH>X
Kansas City. Mo. Oct. 3 1—Vice
President Coolidge. speaking for
President Ilarding before the Amer
can Legion convention today, told
he delegates that nothing i closer
o the heart of the president than
o make relief for incapacitated vet
»rans absolutely complete
ION I*.AI tTISANS S\\ EI»T
OUT OF OFFICE 1\
* N. DAKOTA KKCALL
Fargo. N. D. Oct. 30- The Non
mrtisan League concedes defeat In
he recall election held Friday.
The entire Independent ticket has
>een elected. The successful can
lidates will take office in thirty days.
TUESDAY
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LUKI’.H VX LKGIO.X CO.’SMENTION
GHKKTS FA>IOl'S MFV
Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 31—The
American Legion Convention went
nto a three (lay action here today,
vith tlie important objectives Gen
■ral John J. Pershing. Col. Charles
•’orbes of the War Veterans Bureau.
General Diaz of Italy and Minister
lacques. the latter representing Bel
dam .and Vice President Coolidge,
•epresenting President Harding. Ad
niral Beattl, former commander of
he British Gra ml Fleet is also at
ernling the convetnlon.
The proceedings began with songs
»y Madame Schumanti-Heink. the
amous operatic star.
Vice President Coolidge and Gen
■ral Diaz addressed the convention
he latter declaring “The Great War
s over,” in conveying Italy’s mes
lage to the American veterans, “and
t must arise not war but peace, la
>or and progress."
>It. BRUMFIELD TO
HANG IX JANUARY
Roseburg, Ore. Oct. 31—Dr. R.
VI. Brumfleld, whose effort to col
ect life insurance through murder
was today sentenced to hang on Jan
uary 12 for killing Dennis Russes,
whose mutilated body was found tin
ier Brumfitld’s wrecked auto near
Here some motnhs ago.
r\VO MONTH SEATTLE
I1RIDE SUICIDES
Seattle. Oct. 31—Mrs Lenger, the
two month bride of George W. Lan
?er, a salesman, was found dead in
tier home here today, a victim of sui.
cide. In her lap lay $5,000 in Lib
erty Bands which she directed in n
note should be given to her mother
AIRPLANES COLLIDE—
2 KILLED AND INJURE!
San Diego, Oct. 31—Lieutenan
Eric R. Blackwell was killed am
Lieutenant Daniel W. Tomelson ha<
bofh legs broken when their air
planes collided in the air at the fly
ing field here today.
VICTORIA NEARING PASS
Radio reports from the steamshii
Victoria last night gave the positioi
of thei ncoming liner as 1193 mile:
from Seattle at Noon Monday.
This would place the ' steamc
abdUt 500 miles south of Ultima 1
Pass at hat time and indicates pro!)
able entrance into Bering Sea soim
time tomorrow.
INJUNCTION ISSUED AGAINST
SPREAD OF UNIONISE
Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 31—Ai
Injunction barring the United Mini
Workers of America from spreadim
unionism in West Virginia was is
sued today by Federal Judge Ander
DISPUTE THREATENS WAR
IN KAMCHATKA
Vladivostok, Siberia, Oct. 31—A
expedition to Kamchatka is belm
prepared by the .Vladivostok govern
ment, which does not recognise th
elaidis ot the* Clnta government
i which is now in control of tho ter
i riforv, that the 1> ninsula has been
J overturned to the jurisdiction of tho
| Soviet •overnment of Moscow.
| Greek i»lot to .murder
I ^ VEMZELOS DISCOVERED
Chicago, 111. Oct . 31- Former pre
mier Venizelos of Greece is today
speding to California under guard of
Secret Service men, following the
| discovery of aplot Jiy Chicago oryal
ist Greeks to assassinate him.
Nome is tlie outfiting base for all
.Alaska exploring expeditions.
SAYS GERMAN)' SHOULD NOT
ENTER LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Berlin. Oct. 31—“Germany would
make a grave mistake to enter the
League of Nations while the United
States and Russia stand outside.” de
clared Dr. Karl Simmins. former
German Minister for Foreign Affairs
in a statement today.
| YOUTHFUL BANDITS
TERRORIZE FASHIONABLE
SEATTLE DISTRICT
Seattle. Nov. 1—Two youthful
bandits, operating from a stolen lim
ousine, terrorized the fashionable
Capitol Mill district for forty minutes
last midnight.
During that brief interval the
youthful highwaymen orbber nine
men and .women and secured more
than a thousand dollars worth of
valuables before making their es
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER
scored ion omors
roM i winsons
Washington, Nov. 1—John J.
Tigert, •united States Commissioner
of Education, is under fire for a re
cent speech in Boston wherein ho
said. "While twenty five per cent of
American army recruits were illete’*
ate there was only on man in five
thousand in the German army who
could not read or write.”
ROM IIISTS ATTACK U. S.
CONSULATE AT LISBON
Lisbon, Portugal. Nov. t—A bamb
exploded this morning on the <tair
case of the American consulate here
The police attribute the outrage
to the anarchist agitation in con
nection with Succo and Vanzetti the
Italians who are under conviction of
murder in Massachusetts
Threatened l»y Herts
l ima, Peru, Nov. 1—Th > Vmeri
can Embassy has receiv. l a com
•n'.nKation which is supiT.sod to
h;«v»: been wr'tten by lo- ’l synipa
•!.«?er» with th - Sacco an.I Vanzetsi
movement which says: “i. these two
i.’i'O tnt beings are put to death, you
•vji. vepay with your lives ”
PI RKHING NAMES
NEW WAR HERO
Washington. Nov. 1—General
JPershing has designated Sergeant
Samuel Woodfield. son of a Welch
father and a German mother and
horn in Belliview, Indiana, as “the
war’s greatest hero,” and named him
as one of the war heroes who will
bear the body of America’s unknown
dead hero who wil be laid at rest in
French soil in Arlington National
Cemetery. .
Woodfield distinguished himself in
cleaning out German machine gun
nests and single handed killing sev
eral of their manning crews.
WEDNESDAY
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HARDING NAMES
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
FOR CONFERENCE
Washington, Nov. 1—Pesident
Harding today appointed an advisory
committee of twenty one members to
, act with the four principal Ameri
can delegates to the Disarmament
Conference and also a technical staff
of thirty four members to provide
data and expert opinion on military,
naval and Far Easten Questions.
The appointment of the committee
i completes the American representa
George Sutherland, former senator
. font Utah was designated as chair
man of the advisory committee which
will number among its members Sec
retary Hoover. General Pershing,
L Admiral Rogers, Samuel Gompers
and Charles S. Barrett of the Farrn
: Four of theft members are women.
) Try our sourdough Hot Cakoa nows
, hotter, at ARCTIC BAKERY.
\l \ska si;ro\D in
15)20 GOLD I’ltODCGTION
Washington, Nov. 1*—The Mint
today issued a final ..statement rela
tive to national production of prec
ious metals, giving the 1920 go'd
production of Alaska as $8,536,700
and placing the silver product of the
territory at $903,228. Only Cali
fornia exceeded Alaska in precious
mineral production.
1‘ltKSIDKNT ISSUES
THANKSGIVING PKOTLAMATIOX
Washington, Nov. 1—The presi
dent today issued the customary an
nual Thanksgiving Day proclamation,
designating Thursday, November 21
as a day of thanksgiving and urging
the people to give thanks “for all that
has been rendered unto them.”
INFANT Sl'KVIVKS
FijOOl) disaster in
Min.UTLOFS WAY
Vancouver. B. C. Nov. 1 —From
the driftwood of the Brlttania Beach
flood, a baby carriage in which the
infant daughter of Frank Broad
wood was sleeping was recovered
following the disaster which all but
obliterated the little mining town ac
cording io advices received today.
Th mother and another child of
the couple perished in the flood.
HOI'SK PASKFS ANTI
PROFITFERINC M has run
V.\, shington. Nov. 1— A bill ex
tending the Statute of Limitations
for ihreo years, in order to still pros
ecnprofiteers, was passed by the
House of Representatives today.
AIMI‘1 I, \ I'ltIFI! l’ASSFS ON
Ottawa, Fan. Nov. 1— Madame
T.anrier. widow of the late premier
Sir Wilfred Laurier, died here today.
FCMU ADDRESSES AMERICAN
|,F<;i<>\ CONVENTION
Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 11—Closing
his address to the American Legion
convention today. Marshal Foch
said: “As for me. the great honor
of my life will be to have guided
along the road to victory the Ameri
can army of J!>18, which is a real
Grand Army, beginning with its
commander.
General Pershing, on behalf of the
Legion and Missouri, his native
state, extended the formal welcome
to tlie French war hero. Foch was
given a tremendous ovation when lie
appeared before the convention.
FOREIGN DKliKGATION TO
OBSERVE PROHIBITION LAWS
nations participating in the Arma
ment Conference have announced
that they will observe the laws of
this country and bar all liquors dur
ing the formal functions of the con
ference .
The Italians had alerady brought
a full train load of wines Via New
York, which arrived under guard of
Italian marines.
FORMER DRY DIRECTOR
^ ARRESTED UNDER
VOLSTEAD ACT
Milwaukee. Wis. Nov. 2 —Joseph
P. O’Neil and Thomas A. Delaney,
former Federal Prohibition DirecJ
tors of Wisconsin, are under arrest
here, charged with violating the Vol
stead Act.
SOUTH WESTER V A LASKA
MAIL CONTRACT AWARDED
j Washington, Nov. 1—The Postof
j fice Department this afternoon
awarded a contract for carrying
mails between Seward and Unalaska
|and, during the summer, on to Bris^
1 t.al Bay points, to the San Juan Fish
ing and Packing Company. The
! company will employ the steel steam
, <*r Starr, with passenger aecomoda
j (ions for fifty persons and 350 tons
of freight. Service will be inaugu
rated at once. The contract is for
la period of four years, with payment
I fixed at $78,000 a year.
| CHARGES OF SOLDIER
| EXECUTIONS DECLARED FALSE
Washington, Nov. 1—Secretary of
War Weeks today branded as false
Senator Watson’s charge that sol
diers had been hanged in France
without trial.
Weeks asserted that no soldiers
have been executed there for mili
tary offenses.
Watson's Cliarges to Receive
Congressional Investigation
Washington, Nov. 1—A special
Senate committee will investigate
Senator Watson’s charge that Amer
ican soldiers serving in France have
or other form ■>
\ \T10\ Wi 7 >»: < OAL
STKIKK LOOMIN'**
Indianapolis. Ind. Nov. 1 A na
tion-wide strike of cal mi: < .-•••otn
ed inevitable tonight if th> opera
tors heed the injunction issued bv
federal judge Anderson, which pre
cipitated a che«-k off of union dues.
The heads of the United Mine
Workers this evening wired to union
officials to regard the discontinuance
of the check-off as breaking the ex
isting wage agreement with the op
erators .
DEMOCRATS ELECT NEW NATL
«’O.MMITTEK CII .HUMAN
St Louis, Nov. 1—Judge Cordell
Hull of Tennessee was elected chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee to succeed former chair
man White, at today’s meeting of the
National Democratic organization.
"We will begin to Tight anew thirty
days before •■lection.'* Hull declared
at the same time ob -rving: ’‘There
is an abundance of material on which
to base a fight, for commercial liU
is paralyzed and tin* republicans are
to blame for the present hard times.”
THURSDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
I.OY \L LK(JH>\
row i:\tion ends
Kansas ('ity. Mo. .Vov. 2 The
National Conv.-r.i ion <-C the Ameri
can Legion .■•djouriied today af» •.*
elect ins: Hunt -id Mamddor oL' Mason
City, Iowa, a National Commander-.
Two resolutions bearing on feder
al compensat.il for soldiers were
adopted dmu • the session. Loth
declared the L-gion in favor of im
mediate compensation legislation and
one deplores tlte recent request of
President Harding to delay passage
b> congress of a measure providing
for the same an I also the acquiesence
of Congress in that request.
KNFORCER llil.l': NOW
RE1H CER TO 2 MILLION
Washington. Nov. 2— Government,
reports made public today by the
Department of Labor disclose that
industrial conditions are improving
steadily and approximately one mil
lion men who were unemployed six
weeks ago are now working. The
figures also show that the enforced
idle now number but two million, as
against six million during the sum
mer period.
FIVE KILLED IN
JERUSALEM BOMB ItlOTS
Jerusalem, Palestine. Nov. 3—
Five were killed and thirteen wound
ed in disorders which included
throwing bombs by Arab rioters in
the Jewish quarter here today.
FORMER IDAHO GOVERNOR
DIES AT POOR FARM
Topekn. Kansas. Nov. 3—Norman
Willey, former governor of Idaho, is
dead at the state poor farm here.
MOTHER AND FOl'R CHILDREN
DIE IN APARTMENT FIRE
Toledo,, O. Nov. 3—Mrs Wolf
Greenbur.v and four children perished
here this morning in the burning of
the apartment house in which the
family resided .
The father and four other children
WATSON REFUSES TO
SUBSTANTIATE < MARGES
Watson has refused to recognize the
authodity of the special Senate com
ic substantiate his recent barges
in Fiance without trial.
HOUSE PASSES ALASKA It. R.
APPROPRIATION BILL
Washington, Nov. 2—The House
of Representatives passes and sent
to th*7* Senate today the bill authoriz
ing an appropriation of four mil
lion dollars to complete the construc
tion of the Alaska railroad..
Alaska Delegate Sutherland and
Chairman Curry of the House Com
mittee on Territories divide credit for
success in securing passage of the
bill increasing the limit of cost of
the railroad.
UP TO DATE ALASKA
MAP ISSUED BY GOV’T
Washington, Nov. 2—There haa
lust come from the press of the
Geodatic Surrey a new ontlino may
of Alaska which In many respect!
conic proj lion. The map .
i'io;n the Arctic to th< • of
ington ami includes all of th,
tia.ii Islands and part <>i'
TOWM.KV .I.\IIjKI> 1 OK
VIOLATION SKIHTION ATT
Jackson. Mich. Nov. A ('.
Townley. president of the Nonparti
san League is in jail hero to serve
00 days for violating the anti-Se
dition laws.
JAI* DKLKOATION
ItK.ACIIKS 4 \PIT.\Ij
Washington, Nov. 2—Th> Japan
ese delegation to the Dlsaramament
C'onfeornce arrived here lat*• today.
akmistkt; n.w i>k< i.\ki:d
NATIONA I. HOLIDAY
Washington, Nov. 2 November
11 lias been declared a national holi
day in honor of America'.- unknown
-•old'or dead, one of whom i to be
bu.ried on that day in the Arlin ;ton
National Cemetery.
•>» THors.WD IMil.WA
COAL MINERS .vrKIKR
Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 2 —Work
in tiio Indiana coal fields is a» a
standstill today as a result of a walk
out of twenty tbousnnd'men employ
ed by 400 coal mine operators in
the state.
‘>,10;? Kll.l l l) IN U TO
ACCinUNTS LAST VEAll
Washington. Nov. Ni:. ■ thous
and one hundred and three persons
were killed in automobile a< indents
last year, u Census Bureau bulletin
issued today reports.
New and uptodate legal farms for
Proof of Annua! Assessment Work
also Oil Location blanks, Deed blanks
for genera! use, Special and Genera!
Power of Attorney forms. Placer and
Quartz Location forms now on sale
at Nugget Office. Price 15 cents each
or $1.00 per dozen.
.Ml kinds of fur work made and
NOME TAILORIN'(4 CO.
Opposite Nugget Office.
Miners & Merchants
Bank o( Alaska
NOME. ALASKA
Capita) - - $100,000
Gold Dust Purchased
and Assayed
I MEET ME 1
| at the
BOARD OF
I TRADE
S CAFE
OPEN DAY AND
NIGHT
diar to PACIFIC COLD
STORAGE MARKET.