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CANADIANS DEFEAT l*ROHrBITION AT POLLS YESTERDAY
R BO ENA, Sask., July 19—Prohibition was apparently defeated by
the voters yesterday. One thousand one hundred and forty six polls
out of a total of two thousand five hundred and eighty one show a major
ity of twenty four thousand seven hundred and fourteen for the sale of
liquor as opposed to control by licensed beer premises. Nine thousand
eight hundred and thirty five votes were cast for prohibition.
MOHAMMEDANS AND HINDUS FIGHTING AGAIN
DELHI, India. July 19—Six were killed and over a hundred were
wounded in rioting between Mohammedans and Hindus here today.
The disturbance is said to have been caused by the aggressive attitude
of the Mohammedans who persisted in carrying cows to sarrifice, which
practice is prohibited by the Hindus. Order was finally restored, but
both factions are in a sullen mood and more trouble is expected.
CASHIER PINCHES PAYROLL—GETS SHOT, KILLED
ROCK SPRINGS. Wyoming. July 19—Clyde Fisher, the Cashier
of the Gunn Quealy Coal Company disappeared yesterday with the semi
monthly payroll consisting of eight thousand dollars cash. He was to
day shot and killed by J. Walker, the mine foreman, and a friend of
Fisher was hiding in the mountains about two miles from a coal camp.
Fisher Was hiding in the mountains about two miles from the coal camp,
where he had previously worked. The money was recovered.
MAJOR GENERAL MrGRAW TO COMMAND PHILIPPINES
WASHINGTON, July 19—Major General Janies H.' McGraw, com
mander of a Division pf Troops in the Philippines, is to succeed Major
General George W. Riled, the present commander of the Philippine De
partment, who will return to the United States shortly and be placed
on the retired list in November.
FIRE WO? PLANT EXPLODES, OWNER KILLED
MILWAUKEE JJbly 19—Joseph Cinqrimani. the of th.
plant was kill' d. •*: «a!ujther workman in the plant became a human
skyrocket, beiiu v« house into the street suff ri: *r >bah!>
fata injure w. ' , „ *ks plant exploded here vester>'!• ^ h
cause or explosion IfiaS he i ti*uu Ascertain*,,. . *S'
JAPAN'KSE RAISE TARIFF ON LUXURIES
TOYKO, July 19—Both Houses of the Japanese Diet passed the
Government's Bill raising the tariff on about two hundred and fifty ar
ticles, classed as luxuries, to advalorem duty, one hundred per cent.
FLYERS ARRIVED CKOVUKN YESTERDAY
CROYDEN, England. July 18—The American flyers arrived here
at two eight yesterday afternoon, having covered two hundred and twenty
five miles in three hours and three minutes. Lieutenant Smith was the
first to land, and one of the first to greet the American airmen was Mrs.
MacLaren. the wife of thp British aviator who is circling the globe in the
opposite direction from the Americans. Mrs. MacLaren wanted news of
her husband from the flyers.
TRIP OF HKIIM.W DELAYER BY MISHAP
San Francisco, July 18—The Northward cruise <f the' power
Schooner Herman, bound for Alaska and Siberia to trade in furs, and
to Wrangel Island to rescue a party left there a year ago. is being delay
ed by a mishap in her engine room, according to word received yester
day in a letter from Sydney Snow, son of J. A. Snow, the Oakland ex
plorer. The letter stated the vessel is now at St. Lawrence Island
awaiting a new crankshaft.
YAJjB NOW CHA»IO\ OLYMPIC EIGHT OARED RACES
ARGBNEUIL, France, July 1!)—The Yale champion Varsity eight
won the Olympic eight oared race by three and one half lengths, against
Canada, Great Britain and Argentine, whose teams were also competing.
Th® time of the race was six minutes thirty three and two fifths seconds.
This victory made America winners in the rowing competition by thirty
three points, with Switzerland a close second with thirty two points.
Switzerland won the four and pair oared "with coxswains races and single
sculls race was won by Great Britain, with the American team coming in
second place. .The United States won the double sculls races.
hEliBN WILLS, AMERICAN, WINS TENNIS BOUT
{ OLYMPIC STADIUM, COLOMBUS, July 19—Helen Wills, an Am
erican girl and the present American Tennis champion among women,
defeated Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, former American champion, now repre
senting Norway in Tennis at the Olympic .Games, by h score of six to
three; three to three and six to four.
LEON.UUMYALKKR BOUT JERSEY CITY AUGUST 2!
NEW YORK. July 19—Benny Leonard, the world’s lightweight
champion and Mickey Walker, world’s welterweight champion will fight
at Jersey City on the night of August twenty first. Walker’s title is
at stake in the forthcoming fight.
CANADIAN CREW WINS HEAT, YALE WINS FINALE
MONTREAL, July 18—The Canadian crew of eight, won - the heat
In the Olympic eight-oared race yesterday. Yale winning the final heat,
making Yale the winner for the Olympic games. The winning crew
finished second in the original heat.
LOCAL NEWS
BUREAU OF EDUC ATION
SCHOONER IIO.VER ARRIVES
The motorship Boxer of the Bu
reau of Education. Captain Frank i
Whitlam in command, arrived in
Name's! roadstead Friday from So- !
atU«*. making the voyage via the ^
insfde passage. The vessel after ar
riving Bering Sea called at St. Mich- i
a»l, UnaJakleet, Shaktulik. Elim, j
and Golovin, and discharged sup- ;
plies for the Bureau schools. After i
v matning in Nome a day or two,
the vessel will proceed to St. Law- '
nc4 Island where Mr. and Mrs.!
jScupholm of Seattle will remain as 1
teachers. Mr. Scupholm will install
a radio station and operate it in
connection with the community
store there.
Gen. Supt. of Bureau Schools and
Reindeer in Alaska. W. T. Lopp,
who made the trip from Anchorage
t. St. Michael via the Yukon River
liute. was taken aboard at the lat
ter place and is now in Nome. Mr.
Lopp will make the cruise North on
Among the passengers is Mrs.
Stevens, who will act as Nurse for
the Bureau of Education at Noor
j\5k. where Mrs. Stevens will join
[her sister who spent the past winter
at Noorvik.
Miss Mabel LeRoy. formerly a Red
Cross Nurse of Juneau and Ketchi
kan is also a passenger on the Box
• •r. and will make an inspection of
11 the Bureau Hospitals, and need
for same, in the Northern section,
going as far North as Point Barrow.
Mrs. Andrews, who came Notrh
f»om the States las* Fall and arriv
/ ttf to Kivilina, and who spent the
singer on this trip of the Boxer for
Wain wright, where she will teach
Andrews also expects to join her
hrsband in the No-th Country upon
her arrival.
Captain Whitlam slates that the
vessel will be occupied most of tlir
| Slimmer in distributing supplin'? to
I ti n Bureau stations in this section,
[going as far North as Point Barrow
when ire rondit ions will permit. It
i« also planned in the Fall to take
:• shipment of reindeer to the States
f”om Government and native herds.
\\ ORK OX H.XHROH REYRTMKXT
A\l) Mryiril'AI, WHARF
I'XDER WAY
Last Monday wo; 'x was cominen<
ed «»n (ho liarbor improvements and
the pile driver crew began driving
piling and revetment .along the
north bank of Snake river. The
plans call for the revetment to bo
constructed ISO feet upstream from
the foot of»D. Street, and the driv
ing of pilings and the building of
the Municipal wharf the full dis
tance of the same, with a freight
shel 16 feet wide by 100 feet long.
The work is progressing rapidly
and in a short time the mosquito
feet will be able to dock at same.
Considerable more dredging money
has been provided by the Engineers
office and it is expected that- suffi
cient work will be done to at least
r.ake the river accessible at all
times for the small boats.
DIME C HEEK MIXERS
ARRIVE NOME FRIDAY
The schooner Arctic Crief, under
the supervision of Harry S. Chester,
arrived yesterday from Dime Creek
with a number of miners and pros
pectors from Haycock and vicinity.
The following: were arrivals: Wal
lace Porter. Robert Hagberg, John
Grant, Fred Doroeher, Tracy Swan
son. O. A. Brown, Al. Braten, Jake
Gverbaugh and Pete .Bloomqulst.
During the winter considerable min
ing operations were conducted but
due to the fact that very little water
vas available for sluicing this
Spring and Summer, practically all
mining has ceased for the time be
ing.
A BAIhGAIX !
FOS SA1JJ—Four Houses and 2
Dots, inquire of Al. Braton, 4tli
ami Steadman Avenue.
LOCAL NEWS
MIXIXi ENGINEER DAVIS
STI DYIXG PLACER MIXING
O.V SEWARD PENINSULA
Mak.ng a circuitous route from
Fairbanks to Nome is th*- feat just
aceorapIi-he<l by John A. I>a\is.
Superir.t-ndent of the Alaska Sta
tion ol the Bureau of Mines at Fair
banks. Mr. Davis visited Nome a
few kears ago in the interests of the
Bureau of Mines which was at that
time just being established at Fair
banks. and has traveled extensively
o*er this section previously.
Leaving Fairltanks June 6th.. and
j. urneyinR down the Yukon Kiver
to St. Michael. Mr. Davis took pas
sage ..n the first trip of the S. S.
Victoria from St. Michael to Golo
vin where he made the trip to Dime
Cteek on the Arctic Chief; then
mushed across country via Sweep
stakes and Bear Creeks to Candle,
v here he stopped about ten days;
then by team t*. Deering via luma
chuck, when- he took passage on
the schooner Trader front Deering
t-> Nome, arriving here Friday July
"The object of this trip." Mr.
Davis says. "is made with the view
tf studying placer mining condi
tions on Seward Peninsula.” In lib
[travels thus far the shortage ol
| water was found t.» he generally du
! to the extremely dry season exper
ienced. which has handicapped min
ling operations in most of the plan
I v'sited. On the Inmachuck rivet
the Cordovado Mining Company i
[ hvdraulioking on a large scale
Their ditch line, which taps a lav
lake gives an abundance of watei
’ I
M»‘. Du vis expects to spend altoiH
j lu fore returning to Fairbanks.
(SILVER WAVE RETURNS FIMBI
NORTH WITH BIG FUR CATCH
i The mail boat Silver Wave. i'ip
Jtfiin John Hegness. returned :<
Nome Friday evening from her first
t-:p of the season to Kotzebue and
way ports, bringing down a good
J sized mail and passenger list, am!
[several tons of muskrat ski?;
C.'iptain Hegness states the vessel
j **•.countered considerable ice on the
I trip north and was delayed four
Id.ys between Shismareff and Kot
zebue. due to the vast ire fields. He
reported a big rated of'muskrats in
tie North but other furs are very
; scarce thjs Spring. At Kotzebue
the natives have made immense
I t-r tchbs of Oogruk and seals, which
carried them through the winter in
|-•« od shape. Captain Hegness «*x
[ pi cts to sail north on his next trip
| about July 21st.. carrying passen
gers. mail and freight.
The following passengers arrived
in the Silver Wave from the north:
Mrs. E. Gross, from Kiana; Mrs.
kattenberg and two children from
Candle; Miss Winn, who has been
t- aching school at Candle the past
v*nter; Mrs. Herbert Greenberg of
Candle; Charles Ringhizen of Can
d'o; Sam Magids of Deering; Aar
iiout Castel and Pete Poison who"
pMoted the Tug Kobuk to Deering;
Messrs Denny and Weingarten, the
kevemie Collectors; Mr. Mensing of
Candle; Mr. and Mrs. Keithan. Bu
reau of Education teachers at Shis
mareff and Chas. Mandelook, a Bu
reau of Education teacher from Dio
n ede Islands.
The vessel left Kotzebue July IS.
tit d no difficulty was experienced on
the return journey to Nome.
MIXING MEN RETURN TO
LOOK OVER SITUATION
J. C. Brown, the discoverer of the
Famous Third Beach Line on Lit
tle Creek, and owner of the Alaska
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
and who is interested in new min
ing propositons in this vicinity, and
James Hal pin of New York and
Nome, also interested in several
new mining deals, returned to this
city on the -second trip of the S. S.
Victoria to look after their interests
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET
CTTTKR I‘.EAR ARRIVES NOME
AFTER STREMOI'S TRIP IN
K*E KIEIJM
The Coast Guard Cutter Bear, C
S Cochran Commander, which left
Seattle for Nome about May 12th
v.ith a hea\ y consignment ->f IT. S.
nail for northern point-*, arrived
in Nome Wednesday afternoon,
J'*Iy lkth after a Strenuous voy
The B..tr which has for many
years in the past be»m the first
vessel to arrive in Nome from the
slates was unable to keep up her
record this year due to having en
countered heavy ice in the vicinity
(f St. Lawrence Island and only
a few miles distant from Nome. It
r ppoars from information at hand
that the Hear while endeavoring to
get through this heavy ice that
three sections of this field of ice
enveloped the .vessel forming a
triangle or vise about the ship, all
'efforts to extricate themselves
seemed futile and frun day to day
the vessel drifted with this vice
like-Ioek about her on past Sledge
Island, then beyond Kine Island,
through the Bering Straits and into
The vessel continued to drift
with the if- until about opposite
JOHN J. ELLIOT APPOINTED
«N»IMISSION'KK AT DIMK
Judge- (J. J ia^aon of the District
( ourt for tt* Second Division, an
te unced this morning that Je»hn J.
t Hot of Dime ('r**ek has been ap
I< in ted to the office of U. S. Com
n i; sioner at Haycock. Alaska, vice
Ij A Brown resigned. Mr. Elliot
i" well and favorably known thrti
< in the Seward Peninsula as a min
* . and prospector and the people
congratulated in having a man of
.Vi. Elliot’s ability represent them.
Mr. Elliot is also see kina: the office
ot Representative to the Alaska
I.- cislature on the Republican tic
f ftl Xt II,MAN lll'l) LEHMANN
lU'VS NEW r.AR
The new F--rd» Touring car shipp
'• ! in by the Ford Agent. R. H. Jul
ian. with several new appliances
thereon did ne t so many days with
« ut a new owner. Councilman Bud
Le hmann after taking a fancy to it
made a deal with the age-nt anel
row Bud can be seen joy-riding
nightly on the boulevards of Nome
Hal the* surrounding creeks.
<'I'TTKit i\ .\i»( tic <i 11:1,ns.
T
:;uu iii blow whit h broke up 11:
wjbi. li ha.i a death strip on rh-'
ood iOM Faithful Hear under that
«tertn Arctic Commander .Captain
' flirjin. th«- -nisi- of the vessel was
Nome where he lauded
opeller the old
a dink tie-, mad t*,e vessel sailed
r St. Michael whore she will take
<>ard a quantity of coal which rh«
S. Victoria discharged for her.
is possible that the two broker,
ides will he replaced by new
es while at St. Michael. In the
*antime the vessel will await fur
TIDES .AT XOMK
John W’Ison )
Hij;li Water
MorSK mil SALE
mpletely renovated and overliard
newly papered and painted thru
t. Tii(|uire at \Olivet office.
MIIS. II. It .11'IJAN TO
VISIT SICK VIOTHKR
Answering: . call from a sine
ir.other in Seattle. Mrs. It. M. Julian
is making a hurried trip on the S.
s. Victoria to be at the bedside of
her aged mother who has been ill
foi some time
WATSONS* COME TO NOSIK.
Mr. and Mrs. A. /.. Watson, former
Xomeites. arrived on the second
oyage of the Victoria, from Chica
go. Mr. Watson is heav ily interest
el in some valuable mining proper
11 es 1n this section arid is making
the trip to look after his many in
OIjI> TIMER RETURNS
(’lias. McFadden who lived and
conducted a laundry business here
tvi many years in the* early days of
the camp returned on the Victoria
Saturday. Mr. M'Fadden has re
turned to his old love, and has
• p-ened up his laundry at the City
Lath House.
VI IIS. CARTER OPENS
HAND LAUNDRY
Mrs. Amanda Carter who left
Neme on acount of ill health a
year or two ago. returned to Nome
i i. this Victoria and has reopened
her laundry on B street.
SINCLAIR OIL INTBRTSTS OMIT Qi’AJtTRRLY DIVIDEND
NRAV YORK. July lft- The Directors of the Sinclair Consoliclat. il
Oil Corporation omitted to declare their usual dividend of fifry cents per
INTEREST ON FEDERAL FARM LOANS REDl'CED
WASHINGTON. July 19—The Federal Farm Loan Board have an
nounced a reduction from five and one half to five per cent interest on
direct farm loans and loans to all co-operative associations.
EXTRADITION RATERS FOR DVNLAJ* ISSI FD
LANSING. Mich., July 19 Extradition papers have been issued by
the Governor’s office for Harry J. Dunlap, the "badger candidate” who
is wanted in Sacramento for robbery, and in Los Angeles for murder.