Nome is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska OIL FIELDS
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VOLUME
NOME, ALA8KA SATURDAY AUGUST 28th, 1922.
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RY. STRIKERS DETERMINED TO WIN
NOUN MOURNS DEtTl OF MMRMEL COUINS
BROTHERHOODS TO
ASSIST STRIKING
RAILWAY SHOPMEN
NEW YORK, Aug. 2$—Prior to his departure for Cleveland last
night, Stone, the head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
spokesman for the Transportation Unions, called a meeting of the presi
dents of the unions to be held in Cleveland Tuesday morning. The object
of the meeting is to decide upon what measures of support will be given the
striking shopmen tfnions to help them win their fight.
GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS FEDERAL OPERATION OF MINES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—Federal operations of the Anthracite
coal mines and some railroads was considered last night at the White
House conference between Harding. Chairman Cummins of the Senate
Interstate Committee and Attorney General Daugherty.
The Senator said, after the conference, that Anthracite miners
must be given one more opportunity and “If there isn’t a settlement in a
few days I will introduce a bill authorizing the government to operate
KENDRICKS ACCV ttf*bWW*iNft*TKATION OF VICIOUS ACTION ‘
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—Senator Kendricks, in a speech before
the senate yesterday afternoon, declared that the recent lease of the
Tea-pot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to tfie Sinclair interests, was “vicious,
wasteful and will eventually plague and damn the administration.
TWO WEALTHT HOBOS
ERROOTE TO ROME
OR HONEYMOON
SEATTLE, Aug. 26—Captain John J. Roche, Canadian war hero
and author and Mrs. Alice Marie Jourdan, widow of the lgte Captain
Lewis Sidney Jourdan, commander of the U. S. S. Dauntless, who was
killed in a brush with German raiders off the Mexican Coast in March of
1918, were married here.
Roche is traveling around North America as a hobo and his bride
will accompany him on the rest of the trip. It is indicated that their
itinerary will carry them to Prince Rupert and to Nome, from which place j
they plan on September 30th to depart by dog team across country to
New York.
APPEAL FOR RETENTION PRESENT TARIFF ON HERRING
SEATTLE, Aug. 26—The Chamber of Commerce, Packers and
Shippers joined in an appeal to the Washington Delegation in Congress
to attempt to influence the tariff conferees to retain the present one and
one half cent duty on Herring.
TAKING OF HUMPBACK SALMON EGGS PROHIBITED
SEATTLE, Aijg. 26—Orders, halting the taking of humpback
salmon eggs in Alaskan waters by the State of Washington or any other
state, has been issued by O’Malley, Unitea States Commissioner of Fisher
ies. This step has been taken to prevent the supply from getting too low.
BOOZED DRIVERS GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE
SEATTLE, Aug. 26—James A. Landers and J. W. Anderson, driv
ers of two automobiles which collided, were sentenced to ten days in jail.
They claimed they became intoxicated on a Jamacia ’ginger preparation.
DENTAL CORPS OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO NEW STATIONS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—Army .orders today relieve major Earle
J. McClung, of the dental corps, for the duties in Alaska and assign him
to duty at Fort McDowell, while William B. White of the dental corps.
’•Sow at Fort McDowell Is assigned to duty in Alaska.
VALUABLE SILVER LEAD
AND COAL MINES
ON KUGRUK RIVER
We are indebted to Mr. A. S.
1 Kepner for the valuable information
regarding the extensive deposit of
t Galena ore on the Kugruk river, in
. the Fairhaven district.
The mine is called the ‘ Indepen
dence Mine” and is located on In
dependence creek, a tributary to the
Kugruk river. The property is
owned and controlled by A. S. Kep
s ner and associates and already $80,
. 000 has been spent on development
, work, consisting of 700 feet of shaft
ing and tunneling into the ore body.
Development work has demon
1 strated conclusively that a valuable
i property has been discovered. The
. vein runs from eight feet at the
shaft to a width of forty feet at a
point fifty feet along the face above
.. ‘he shaft, and extends for one and
a quarter miles tip the river expos
ing a body of ore that will require
• years of intensive minin gto exhaust
. Last year the company shipped 33
tons of the ore to the Selby Smelter
at Selby, Calif., and the returns
showed 33% ounces of silver and
30 per cent lead per ton. plus 20 per
cent of iron.
At the rresent time, with the un
developed conditions of the mine,
it is possible to obtain high g:a<*o
ore tunning as high as $50.00 per
ton and concentration of the low
grade ore brings a return of $$90.0C
per ton. Shipping ore from the
high grade can be selected that will
value of the deposit.
Development of the mine is great
ly handicapped by the fact that
run as high as $80.00 per ton. All!
of which demonstrates the great j
roads from the mine to the coast are
in bail condition but with work done
on the highways and the employ
ment of gasoline tractors instead ;
of horses the ore can be delivered |
at the coast at a cost of about four |
dollars per ton. The Independence
Mine is thirty miles inland and the
coastal point of delivery is that of
Nine Mile Point, \vhere the ore can
I be loaded on ships and taken to the
j smelters for treatment.
An important fact in conjunction
with this mine is the presence of an
unlimited supply of high grade lig
nite coal, which can be used in the j
mine,development. At the present!
time the owners of the coal deposit
are supplying Candle Creek and sur
rounding points with a cheap and
satisfactory fuel. The coal has
valuable commercial possibilities
and already a project is on foot to
construct a power plant at the mine
and supply the surrounding country
with cheap electric power. The
mine shaft is clown 300 feet and coal
| from the vein has been mined and
I used in the upper country for the
[ last twenty years. Being located
half way between the Galena mine
and the coast it is a valuable adjunct
to the development of the ore'bod
AMERICAN GUNBOAT
ORDERED TO PROCEED
CHINESE WATERS
. PEKING, Aug. 26—Gunboats of foreign powers, including the U. S.
S. Isabel, flagship of rear admiral Bullard, in charge of the American
Yangtze patrol, have been ordered to the Yangtze Gorge District. All
are acting under instructions to exterminate bands, of disorganized sol
diers who are firing on foreign merchant craft.
fAhim; season coiamuia rivek closes
ASTORIA, Aug. 26—The fishing season on the Columbia river
closed at noon yesterday. The salmon pack is two hundred fifty thousand
NEW YORK—BRAZIL AEROPLANE WRECKED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—The seaplane Sampoia Correia, flying
from New York to Brasil, was wrecked off the coast of Cuba. Pilot Hin
ton and crew are returning home.
TUMULTY AND WIPE BAIL FOR OBKRAMMKRGAU
New YORK. Aug. 26—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tumulty will sail to
morrow for Europe to attend to their daughter Mary, who Is ill with
pneumonia at Oberammergau.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 26—The government this morning proclaimed next
Monday a day of mourning throughout Free State Territory.
Dublin is a city of mourning, machine guns and snouts of rapid
tire rifles peep out from behind sombre ribbons of crepe draped on build
ings, in memory of Michael Collins.
Reports still persist that DeValera is in the county Lough, prepar
ing an assault on Dublin before the week end.
VAST CONCOURSE FILE PAST GRAVE OF MARTYR.
DUBLIN, Aug. 26—In nine hours fifteen thousand mourners filed
past the coffin of Michael Collins. As much reverence was shown as if
the body lying there in state were that of the pope.
BOOZED MECHANIC RUNS AMUCK
SEATTLE. Aug. 26—Paul Stone, a liquor crazed mechanic from
San Francisco, ran amuck aboard the liner Dorothy Alexander and amused
himself by at woin^n passengers. Seveif'^ sl^tts were tiled
before he was overpowered and placed in irons. Upon afiival of the boat
in Seattle he was delivered to the police.
FORMER SEATTLE POSTMASTER DIES.
SEATTLE. Aug. 26—George M. Stewart, seventy years old, a for
mer Seattle postmaster is dead.
SPENDS SEVENTHOUSAND
FOR NARCOTICS
SINCE JANOARY
CHICAGO, Aug. 26—Mrs. Mable Howard Rockwell Schaffer, wife
of Captain Michael B. Schaffer an army officer, was taken in a raid by
Federal narcotic agents. It was disclosed that the woman has spent
seven thousand dollars for drugs since January 1st. This amount was
spent by her out of big remittances received regularly from an English
TRAIN WRECKED—ENGINEER KILLED.
SEATTLE, Aug. 25—The westbound Northern Pacific passenger
train was wrecked near Ellensburg and E. S. Cones of Seattle, the engi
FORMEIt EMPEROR WILLIAM REPORTED BETHROTHED
LONDON, Aug. 26—Former Emperor William is bethrothed to the
widow of a German aristocrat, according to a report received by the
London Times.
KU KLUX KLAN MEMBERS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26—Thirty five Rlansmen were freed today,
following their acquittal by a jury on the indictment charge of intent to
commit murder, in connection with the Inglewood masked raid of April 22.
FRESH WATER BOAT RECORD ESTABLISHED LAKE WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Aug. 26—Rowing two miles on Lake Washington in
sixteen minutes and ten seconds, the best time ever made in fresh water,
was the record estbalished 1st night in a race between navy cutters.
The boat carrying thirteen members of the dreadnaught California
finished in the front of a field of eleven boat from the battleships of the
Pacific Fleet and won the Seattle Times trophy.
PUBLISHER DIES AT SUMMER HOME
LAKE FOREST, 111., Aug. 26—Delavane Smith, publisher of the
Independent Netos, died at his summer residence here last night.