REPORTED GOOD PAY FOIND
ON MOONLIGHT CLAIM
Geo. Waldheim and Victor Ander
son, leessees. are reported as having
found exceptionally pood pay in
their workings and are taking out
a real winter dump on the Moon
light claim, owned by the Pioneer
Mining Company.
OCTSIDF. >L\IL ARRIVED FRIDAY
Mail contractor. Peter Curran, ar
rived in Nome Friday afternoon at
3 p. m. with an excess load of first
and second class outside and Alaska
Contractor Curran has been au
thorized by the Postal Department
to accept excess weigh* of mail mat
ter that may be offered to him at the
division point and on this trip car
ried an excess weight of 20rt pounds,
bringing into Nome a consignment
amounting to about 700 pounds.
PIONEER CARD PARTY
The Pioneers of Alaska held their,
regular card party Wednesday night
in the Igloo, all the tables were oc
cupied and a pleasant evening was
enjoyed by those present. Prizes
were won by the following:
Ladies—Mn. Chae. Lescher. 1st!
prize;Mrs. John Hegness, 2nd prize;
Miss Ada Arthurs, booby.
Gentlemen—Chas. W. Thompson.!
1st prize; Barney Lande. 2nd prize:
E. Raelson. booby.
After the card games were over
the gathering was entertained with
a lecture on Botany, by C. W. Thorn
ODD FELLOWS ENTERTAIN
WITH CARDS AND DANCING
Saturday evening Jan. 2S was an
evening devoted by the Nome Odd
Fellows to dancing and card playing.
Odd Fellows. Rebekahs and their in
vited guests were present, and after
the. amusements of the evening the
party partook of a delicious lunch.
Winners of the card prizes are
Ladies—Mrs. Win. Pangman. 1st
prize; Mrs. R. B. Julian. 2nd prize:
Miss Sprinsston. booby.
Men—Victor Anderson. 1st prize;
Fred Mehes. 2nd prize; N.W Lewis.
SEIDENVERG*
Where Quality Reigns i
Complete Outfitters
for Ladies, Men’s and
Children’s in ready
to-wear or yard goods
Out of town buyers
will kindly drop us a
line and your needs
will be attended to
promptly
CHEAP JOHN STORE
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
JOHN BELL FOUND
DEAR IN IlKD
John Hell, an old time miner, was
found dead in his rabin on Helmont
Point yesterday afternoon. It is
probable that death resulted from
heart failure and that it occurred
i some time Thursday nicht. ns friends
! had been to see him that day. He
had suffered from a cold for several
days and also complained of palpi
tation of the heart.
Bell was born in Iowa and was
about fiO years of age. but very little
is known about him previous to com
ing to Alaska. He first came to
Nome in 1S99 and followed the oc
cupation of miner and prospector
here. He was well liked and res
pected bv all who knew him. ns ho
was a quiet, peaceful and industrious
person who went about attending to
his own business. Tic fitnetal will
be held ttnd«r t?»e joint auspices of
the Nome Miners* Union and the
Federal Labor Union. .vhl or
ganizations the deceased had long
been a member
W.XTIIKY DANCE
POSTPONED FEB. nth
Wathey’s Orchestra Dance sched
uled for last Tuesday, was postpon
ed ou account of bad weather. Mr.
Wattaey states that on Feb. 9th his
orchestra will give a social dance in
the old Moose hall, over the former
Eagle Saloon, better known as the
Hunter Building.
MRS. DUKES PROPERLY'
At ’CREDITED WITH QUARTZ
EXHIBIT IN CHICAGO
Mrs. Anna Dukes of this city is in
receipt of a letter from Mrs. Watson
of Rtverside. 111., in which is en
closed a clipping from the Daily
News of Chicago, describing some |
of the features of the Mining Con- j
gress, recently held in Chicago.
Mrs. Watson writes that the Alas-1
ka exhibit occupied a well selected |
central position. Mr. Foster, who did \
the panning at the exhibition inform |
ed her that the remarkably fine j
selection of quartz specimens had j
been supplied by Mrs. Anna Dukes of !
Nome. Alaska
It is a well established ract tnat
Mrs. Dukes is the possessor of the
finest collection of mineral speci
mens in Seward Peninsula, and like
ly in the whole of Alaska It is to
great credit of Mrs. Dukes that
permitted this ‘valuable collec
tion to pass from her hands and be
used tor the purpose of advertising
Nome- and its resoucres.
The Mr. Foster mentioned in the
Article will be remembered by early i
Moraeites as being one of the third
beach miners of 1907.
HE ‘PANS’ GOLD RIGHT IN
HEART OF CHICAGO
Gold was discovered a? South Wa
bash avenue and East 14th street
by a prospector who used the old
fashioned panning method of wash
ing the yellow grains from the pay
No gold rush is expected, however,
because even if the hardy prospec
tors could force their dog teams over
the dangerous territory represented
by Wabash avenue in the process of
being newly paved, they would dis
cover that the pay dirt from which
the gold was washed had come all
the way from Nome. Alaska.
S. R. L. Foster, a prospector who
has spent fifteen years in Alaska,
and whose home is at 1920 South
Ridgeway avenue, '•discovers'’ gold
many times a day for the benefit of
visitors to the mining exhibition.
Clad In the rough outfit of an Alas
kan prospector, he leans over a tub
of water, his prospector's pan in
hand, and goe3 through the process
by which the forty-niners wrung gold
from the soil in the early days of
the California rush. The same pro
cess is used today in Alaska and pro
bably will continue to be used as
long as gold Is mined, according to
Mr. Foster.
INFORMATION WANTED
The Governor’s office has been ap
pealed to for assistance in the search
for ARTHUR OLVER. who w»« in
Seattle in 1911 and signified his in
tention at that timi to come to Alas
ka . Nothing has been heard from
him since, and his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Olver, 43 Fulwood Road,
Aigbruth, Liverpool. England, after
advertising in the Seattle papers and
reoeiving no information, is asking
this office for assistance in locating
him. Replies should be sent to the
Governor’s office
Juneau. Alaska. December 20, 1921
Hereafter no changes for advertising
ropy will be received later than
Friday for Weekly Nugget.
IMPORTANT MAIL CHANCES ASKED
FOR NIME-OUTLYINC SECTIONS
At the regular weekly meeting of
the Northwestern Alaska Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday evening, the
board of directors entertained many
new matters and disposed of issues
pending before the organization.
A telegram was sent to Heaiy re
garding the proposed new vessel for
! the Port of Nome in which the
Chamber asks for information re
garding the freight rates, capacity,
how many trips contemplated and
whether or not passengers will be
carried.
With regard to the mail situation
of the Peninsula, a special commit
tee consisting of O. S. Weaver. Wm.
Webb and .f. J. Keenan was appoint
ed to draft a letter to the Governor,
the Delegate in Washington and
Chief Clerk of the Railway Mail Ser
vice. Wetzler. at Nenana.
The special committee also sent a
wire to Washington, asking that the
Government procure a larger boat
for the Nome, St. Michael and Kotse
bue mail route: to establish a more
regular service and to carry freight
cargoes of at least 40 or 50 tons,
and also able to carry passengers,
with full government regulations
for all transportation conditions.
The letter of recommendation of
the committee is as follows:
Mail Service in Second Division.
The mail service in this division
of the Territory, if it is to furnish
the convenience to oar citizens that
is intended by the Post Office De
partment. Is very urgently in need
of the attention of the authorities,
and after due consideration of the
subject by the Chamber it has been
decided to ask you to take the mat
ter up with the Postal authorities.
With that end in view we are
writing you this letter, so that you
may be advised of the conditions
The weight limit from Tnalakleet
(the Divisional point) to Nome is
500 pounds once a week, while the
mail arrives at ITnalakleet from Tan
ana twice a week. The natural re
sult of this service is a considerable
congestion of mail at the Divisional
point, which accumulates during the
winter until along towards spring,
when an emergency contract ts us
ually made with the carrier for bring
ing this excess mail to Nome, some
of which has laid at Unalakleet all
On the other hand the Mail Car
rier leaving Nome once a week at
all times carries the limit on his
contract (500 pounds), and there ie
at the present time in the Post office
at Nome awaiting despatch over
1700 pounds of mail. This, you
will readily see, is a most deplorable
condition, as the points in the vicin
ity of Nome, such as Candle. Council,
Kougarok etc., depend to some ex
tent upon Nome for supplying them
with goods which become short dur
ing the winter season, and the only
available means of transportation
between Nome and these points is
the mail. However, under condi
tions as they exist at present goods
ordered from any of these points to
be shipped from Nome, at or after
the close of navigation, may not, and
probably will not be received by the
consignee until late in the spring or
after the opening of navigation. The
result is not only disastrous to the
merchants of Nome, but it is even
more disastrous to those people in
the outlying districts who are in
the outlying districts who are in
want of goods which they And it
impossible to obtain.
Of equal importance, and of equal
injury to the business interests of
thin community, is the congestion of
incoming mail at Unalakleet. - It
would aeem that after the mail had
been carried all the long distance
from the Coast to within 200 miles
of Nome that some arrangement
should be made whereby it would;
immediately reach its destination, i
These difficulties could all be over
come by the letting of a contract for
the carrying of this mail in excess
of the weight limit at ao much per
pound at all times instead of waiting
as heretofore until nearly the close
of the winter season.
Mail From Nome to Interior Point*:
Route No. 7816? between Nome
and Teller, and Route No, 78169 be
tween Nome and Kougarok provides
at the present time for the despatch
of mail once a month each way, and
this by no means convey* all the mail
to these points. The excess accnm
mulates at the Nome Post Office dur
ing the winter season, and is usually
forwarded to its destination after
the opening of navigation. There
can be no room for argument that
the points served by these . routes
should receive at least a semi-mon
thly service.
Mail From Nome to Haycock,
Candle and Peering:
The mail for these points leaving
Nome at the present time is routed
via Unalakleet. from which point it
has to “back-track” and annoying
Washington—Lincoln
AMERICAN
LEGION
Saturday Feb. 18
Roulette
Faro
Black Jack
Craps
Music
Dancing
Vaudeville
Sketches
Big Eats
Fancy Drinks)
Tiger Milk
Snake Juice
Shooting Gallery
and the most unique collection of Prizes
ever offered in Nome
1000 BUCKS WITH THE $1.00 ADMISSION
Come on in you old timers who broke the bank
in *98—The roof’s the limit—and we can
take that off
THE ME IIS TIME OF TIE YEAR
DON’T MISS IT
delays caused thereby could be
avoided if this mail were routed via
Golovin.
As an instance of the great incon
venience imposed upon the raining
and commercial interests of thin
Division by the present inadequate
mall service, the mail from the
Northern points, such as Candle.
Deering and Haycock, including re
quisitions for summer supplies for
merchants and operators, in the
spring of 1921 was marooned at
Unalakleet until too late to make
connection with the first boats from
Nome for the Outside. Had this
mail been routed over the direct
route via Golovin it would have
reached Nome in time to make the
desired connection
Recommendation*:
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce wfsh to make the
following recommendations based
upon the foregoing premises:
First—that a contract be entered
Into between the Government and
either the present Mali Carrier or
some other carrier, to carry all ex
cess mail between Unalakleet and
Nome at ail times at a reasonable
price per pound.
Second—that service on Route No.
781«7 between Nome and Teller,
and Route No. 78169 between Nome
and Kougarok be Increased from
once a month to at least twice a
month.
Third—that mall from Nome to
Haycock, Candle and Deerltg. and
from those points to Nome be routed
via Golovin, and the excess be cared
for as above suggested.
The Chamber realising the great
Interest that you are taking in th»
development of Alaska and its In
terests, and feeling assured that you
will see the great necessity for these
recopimndations being carried ont,
respectfully, with all the confidence
in the world, ask you to urge upon
the Department the carrying out of
the recommendations contained
ALWAYS LOOKING OPT FOR
GOOD THINGS TO EAT.
Bahlke's fresh home made Sanaa
Q« are delicious. Having the health
of oar patrone always in mind, we
have again butchered a freah pig aad
have now on hand a good supply of
fresh pork sausage.
Eat at RAHLKE’S, it costs less
and you get the best.
FEDERATED CHURCH SERVICES
Sunday School .11 a. M
1’reaching Service. IP. M
You are cordially invited to attend
these Services.
The Church with a Welcome.
RICHARD DECKER. Poster.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Second Division.
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK OF
AtjASKA, a corporation.
Plaintiff,
FRANK HALL,
Defendant.
THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED
8TATES OF AMERICA,
To FRANK HALL, defendant above
GREETING:
You are hereby required to ap
pear and answer tbe complaint of
the plaintiff on file in the Office of
the Clerk of the above entitled Court
at Nome, Alaska, within thirty (30)
days from the date of the service of
this summons upon you, or judg
ment for want thereof will be taken
against you.
And you are hereby notified that if
you fail to answer the said com
plaint the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you for the relief de
manded in the complaint, to-wit:
For the sum of |1100.00, with in
terest thereon at the rate of one per
cent per month from the, 4th day
of October, 1920, together with the
sum of one hundred dollars attor
ney fees, and the costs and expenses
of this action.
The date of the order for the ser
vice of this summons by publication
is February 4th, 1922.
The date of the first publication
is February 4th, 1922; and the date
of the last publication is March 18th,
1922; and the date within which you
are to appear and answer is thirty
days from the 18th day of March,
WITNE88 the HONORABLE G. J.
LOMEN, Judge of the District
Court for the Territory of Al
aska, Second Division, and the
seal of said Court hereunto af
fixed at Nome, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, A. D. 1922.
(SEAL) J. 8UNDBACK,
Clerk of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Second
Division.
By W. C. McGUIRE,
Deputy Clerk.