LATE TELBOHAPH BnEVlTIES
SEATTLE. Sept. 30—Chairman Charles Hebberd was reelected by
the republican 8tate Committee today.
EL PA80, Sept. 30—Two Americans were wounded on this side
from stray bullets during fighting occasioned by the revolt of the garri
son at Jurez.
LONDON, Sept. 30—Louis Dubois, Chairman and French represen
tative of Reparations Coimnisions has resigned.
TACOMA, Sept. 30—Major General Cronkhite arrived this morn
ing and was later closeted with the federal grand jury, which is investi
gating the shooting of his son Major Cronkhite.
GENEVA, Sept. 30—Six non permanent members of the Council of
League of Nations were elected today by the assembly. They are Brazil.
Spain, Uruguay. Belgium and Sweden.
CHARGE SUN VAT SEN FLIRTING WITH POW ERS
SHANGHAI. Sept. 29—Charges that papers discovered in the
private safe of Sun Yat Sen. after his flight from Canton, revealed that he
has been conducting negotiations to •*Bolshevikize,' China and bring about
a triple alliance between Germany. Russia and China have been flatly
denied by Sun Yat Sen.
PRESIDENT MAY APPOINT NEW AS GOVERNOR PHILIPPINES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—President Hardin? is said to have in
mind the appointment of Senator New to be Governor General of the
Philippine*.
HARDING NOMINATES WOMAN DIPLOMAT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—Mias Lucille Atcherson of Columbus,
Ohio, has been nominated by the President to the Post of Secretary to the
American legation. This is the first time a woman has received an ap
paintment in the American diplomatic service.
CITY EMPLOYEES HELD CP—ROBBED OF PAY ROLL
VANCOUVER. B. C.. Sept. 30—Three men held up Robert Arm
strong and F. P. Schooley. members of the City Hall staff, and robbed them
•f $75,000, the municipal payroll.
ALA&KAN AND SIBERIAN PUBS BRING BIG RETURNS.
TACOMA, Sept. 3$—Fifty thousand pelts, mainly from Alaska and
Siberia sold here at the fur auction brought one hundred thousand dollars.
Demand for beaver, red, blue, cross and wfcite fo* and ermine was ex
tremely keen.
CHIEF GRAND ARMY SEIiECTED
DES MOINES. Ia.. Sept. 30—Judge J. W. Millett of Tacoma was
elected Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in the
morning session of yesterday.
PERSHING TO WRITE WAR HOOK.
NEW BEDFORD. Maas.. Sept. 30—General Pershing arrived on
the Island of Buzzard Bay yesterday to begin work on his memoirs of the
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hunting and came across a partly
constructed camp. Investigating
he discovered the dead body of
Kingston. Close by was found his
dog team, nearly starved and frozen
to de%th. The team refused to
leave their driver and were slowly
dying. Kingston had evidently at
tempted to start a fire when over
come by an attack of the heart.
Gordon Bettels was met at Por
cupine on his return trip from Sal
mon river where he bad indulged In
the Lost River stampede, which also
proved a will o* the wisp.
At Old Crow village he found an
old native woman who is reputed to
be 135 years old. This poor crea
ture has the aspects of a living
mummy, but hangs tenaciously tr
life, taking an active part in the life
of the village.
Natives in this far North section
of the country are prosperous in
the sense that plenty of food is
available and fur hearing animals
abound.
At Demarcation Point the musner
encountered seepage oil in large
quantities and when asked if the
natives take advantage of the heat
units contained in the oil stated,
that they had plenty of wood and
didn't bother with the oil.
The Hudson's Hay Company has
started a new post six miles East
from the boundary line, on Clarence
Tom Gordon, a trader for the Lie
bes Company, had the misfortune
to lose his youngest child, an in
fant of about eighteen month old.
Along the McKenzie River a N.W.
M. Police officer was attacked by a
native and killed. A Hudson Bay
trader hearing the shot started to
investigate and he also was killed
by the native. Some-distance from
the scene of the shooting another
police officer was camped and as the
other natives feared an invasion of
white men to revenue me
notified this officer and with him
marie the arrest of the murderer.
When asked regarding other boats
reported to be in the Arctic Mr.
Povelick stated that the only boats
he encountered or heard of in his
travels were the Herman and Lady
Kindersley. What has become of
the Letty. Pox and Holmes remains
to be seen, their present position or
condition is unknown by any one
aboard the Lady Kindersley.
Mr. Pavelick will remain in Nome
for the winter and next spring start
back into the Arctic regions to make
further and more exhaustive inves
tigation into the mining prospects
he left behind hint.
This m-usher reiterates the report?
brought down by travelers from th?
north to the effect that ice condi
tions are extremely adverse, the
wont in the knowledge of white
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Tacoma, Washington.
TO THE EDITOR:
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
i3 asking the co-operation of your
paper in publishing information rel
ative to the new revenue law. Please
use the following for publication
August 7. 1922.
BURN’S POE. Collector.
The following statement is issued
by Collector of Internal Revenue.
Burns Poe, of the District of Wash.:
Tacoma—Following recent deci
sions in the Supreme Court of the
United States in the cases of the
Union Trust Company et al, execu
tors versus Warden, Collector, and
Shwab. executor, versus Dpyle. Col
lector. according to Burns Poe Col
lector of Internal Revenue of the
District of Washington, the state
ment was published that it would
not be necessary for estates to file
claims for refunds to which they
were entitled under such decisions.
The existing regulations provide
for the refunding of estate taxes
only upon the filing of a claim there
for by the taxpayer. It will there
fore be necessary for all taxpayers
who are entitled to a refund of es
state taxes by reason of the above
entitled decisions to make formal
claim therefor on Form 843 which
claim shonld be filed with the col
lector for the district wherein the
tax was paid for transmittal to the
office of the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revehne for appropriate action.
Section 3228, Revised Statutes, as
amended by Section 1316 of the
Revenue Act of 1921 provides that
all claims for the refunding or ^ed
iting of any internal revenue tax al
leged to have been erroneously or
Illegally assessed or collected must
be presented to the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue within four years
next after payment of such tax.
Consequently estate taxes affected
by the above decisions can only be
refunded provided a claim therefor
is filed within four years next after
the payment of such taxes.
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S L. E. WEITH *
Vi NOTARY PUBLIC *
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ORDINANCE NO. 23A.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the
ust* of Streets of the City of Nome,
by persons driving motor vehicles;
providing penalties for th** violation
thereof, and repealing all ordin
ances and parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith.
BE IT ORDAINED nnd ENACT
ED by the COMMON COUNCIL of
the City of Nome, as Follows:
SECTION 1. No person shall
drive or operate any motor vehicle
at a rate of speed faster than twelve
miles per hour at any street cross
ing within said city, nor within
seventy-five yards of any school
house on school days, nor in any
other portion of the city faster than
sixteen miles per hour.
SECTION 2. No person shall
drive a vehicle while anyone is
standing or sitting wholly or in part
upon the step, fender or running
board thereof, nor when the same
Is so loaded as to interfere with the
free, full and ready access to the
controlling mechanism thereof.
SECTION 3. A vehicle meeting
another shall pass to the right of
such other vehicle.
SECTION 4. A motor vehicle
overtaking any other vehicle shall,
J before passing, give a signal by
means of the sounding device.
SECTION 5. There shall be ex
hibited upon every motor vehicle
operating or being upon the public
streets of the City of Nome, during
the period from one-half hour after
sunset to one-half hour before sun
rise. and at all other times when tog
or other atmospheric conditions ren
der the presence of said vehicle dan
gerous to traffic, two head lamps.
one on each side of said venicie
showing white or yellow tinted
lights, visable under normal atmos
pheric conditions at least five hun
dred feet in advance of said vehicle.
Such vehicle, or any trailer attached
thereto, shall have attached to the
rear, not less tttan^ne lamp showing
a red light visable at least two hun
dred feet in the rear of such vehi
SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful
to iastall or use a light of more
than twenty-seven candle power in
any motor vehicle headlamp equip
ped with a reflector, or to use on a
motor vehicle of any kind, operated
upon; the streets of the City of
Nome, any lighting device of over
four candle power equipped with a
reflector, unless the san:3 shall
so designed, deflected oi rang 'd so
as to deflect or diffuse light and
produce sufficient light ti ’•eveal ob
jects rx» least one hundred fifty feet
ah •;'.(* t.I ereof and ten fe •» on either
side ( f the center line of sai l ve
hicle measured at a distance of ten
feet'in front thereof, and in such
manner that the beam of light there
from when measured seventy-five
feet or more ahead of the lamps
shall not rise above forty-two inches
from the level surface on which the
vehicle stands under all conditions
of the road.
The term “Beam of Light" shall
be construed to mean the reflected
rays of light which are projected ap
proximately parallel to rbe optical
axis of the reflector. A light shall
be deemed diffused when produced
by a headlamp which has the entire
surface of the glass front etched,
ground or sand blasted or so formed
that the light emmitted therefrom
shall strike the roadway at a point
at least six feet to the right and not
more than seventy-five feet in front
thereof when approaching a vehicle.
SECTION .7 No driver shall en
ter upon any street without first at
tracting attention of approaching
pedesterians and vehicles by signal
ling with sounding device.
SECTION 8. It shall be unlaw
ful for any driver to park his car
within fifteen feet from any Are
hydrant.
SECTION 9. All ordinances and
parts or ordinances inconsistant
herewith, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. Any person violat
ing the provisions of this ordinance
shall be punished by a fine of not
more than One hundred (100.00)
Dollars, or by imprisonment in the
City jail for a period of not to ex
ceed ninety (90) days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
PASSED by the Common Council
of the City of Nome. Alaska, this
11th day of September, 1922.
GEO. S. MAYNARD,
ATTEST:
City Clerk.
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