Nome is the Distributing: Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska and Siberia
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VOLUME XXI
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 7, 1920
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LAME LEAVES CABINET MARCH I.
mmSH NEGOTIATING PEACE WITN BOLSHEVDU
EAGLE ANNIVERSARY
BALL TONIGHT
The annual Anniversary Ball of
Nome Aerie No. 75 Fraternal Order
of Baffles, will take plaee this evening
at Baffle hall .and promises to attract
hall has been nicely decorated for the
occasion. The function will he in
charge of a skillful committee of old
timers who know how to do the honors
right, so everyone attending is sure
to enjoy themselves to the limit.
DEPUTY REED ON TRIP
TO PORT CLARENCE
F. S. Deputy Marshal Elmer Heed
departed for the Port Ci i'once section
during the first days of the week,
bound on government business.' F.
S. Marshal Jordan is also out of town
on official business, having left for the
eastward some days ago.
WILL BLAST NEW TRAIL
FOR WINTER MUSHERS
Divisional Rond Commissioner Har
ney Qibney is preparing U blast away
a portion of Pt. Riley, P(|!i CJarenej,
to ennblo winter trUveil in that
section to avoid an extrenf ly danger
ous spot on the ice imnuidlately in
front of the point. V
Owing to some unexplained reason,
there is usually a crack in,.the ice At
this place and traveller* ‘frequently
have to make a wide dejfoir, either
over Point Riley or far 7«jrt ori( the
hay, to avoid open 'vnt<v
fifto the crevice, which Is said to be
generally concealed toy snow, when
not overflowed. By blasting a trail
along the face of the abrupt point,
mushers will be relieved of the dan
ger of stumbling Into \ho trap. The
crack is said to appear every winter
and, with the resultant flooding of the
trail at that point, has been a source
of danger and inconvenience to numb
ers for years.
A. B. DANCE
Saturday, February 21. Adm $1.50
NOMEITES ENJOY
HUNTING EXCURSION
Ptarmigan are plentiful a few miles
back of town, but are so wary that t ie
prospective hunter has his work cut
out for him to got within shooting
range, according to Harold Nielson of
the Coast Guard, who returned to
town Thursday after a ten day vaca
tion In the hills. Nielson, with Jack
Warwick and another companion,
spent the outing period In the upper
Nome river section, residing during
the Interval in the ditch cabin at Cnpf|
Horn. Large bands of ptarmigan
were frequently seen on the surround
ing hillsides, he says, tout it was prac
tically impossible to get close to them.
On becoming alarmed, the birds sel
dom stopped flying until out of sight,
contrary to their usual habit of flying
but a short distance before settling
down. Mr. Neilson exmesses the
opinion that their unusualj timidity is
due largely to the constant harrying of
the foxes, which arc very numerous
this winter. Pox tracks were seen
during their stay but ■
mals came into view.
3 sighted but the hknters
rifle and
out of luck, as they had
ths animals took care to
range of short distance
for the stormy period during the first
days of the present week,
was fair throughout' *thei
The gale developing Mot rh
with such violence in that
mall carrier Gus WJheoler
tq negotiate the Nome Aver divid
end found himself com pell d to return1
to the U. 8. roadhouse 6 ter a futile
effort to face the storm
ed parties say he was stil
8. Wednesday morning t iving been
tied up tor two days
he weather
sojourn
ection that
was* unable
SAQLS ANNIVMI IKY
SATURDAY FIS. W>—I 0 HALL.
SEC. LANE
TO LEAVE OFFICE
MARCH FIRST
| Washington, Fob. 7th-- Aimoume
|ment was made today that Sfecr' t. ry
of the Interior Frunklyn K. Lane has
placed his resignation in the hands of
the president. Lane has beqn <•. n
jtemplating laying down his bortfclio
for some time and recently rihnouno
ed that he would have presetted ids
resignation to President Wilson so re
time ago but for the letter's illness.
Lane to Stay Until March
Washington, Feb. 7—A stat-in. n!
issuing from the White House tins
afternoon announces that the rtsigi
tion of Secretary Lane will lie accept
ed by the president March 1st,
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE REJECTS
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
Uk-limuml, Fob. I?—Tl"‘ |f«l. >1
U'om.iiv suffrage amendment Was ••
jeeted by the Virginia Legislaijro .
tkfy after a Wormy debate iif wh.’h
th/p constitutional amendment! grain
ing the fHthciilHe to women ft is bit
terly attacked by many repr**sen i
ALLIES WILL
SEND NEW
LIST BERLIN
Paris, Keh. 7—The delivery to the
German government by the French
Charge IVAffaires in Berlin of a n w
list of the Germans whose extradition
is demanded by the* Allies, is the pro
per course to pursue under the exist
bassadors decided today.
FIRE DESTROYS CUBAN
CHEMICAL PLANT
Havana. Feb.7—A Are which start
ed in the nitrate laden American
steamer Brookland today, , did
close to tep million dollars damage to
,’tho great chemical works plant at:
Begia. A large part of the huge
plant was wiped out by the flames, to
gether with a large quantity of valu
able chemical products.
A. F. L. PLANNING MOST
AGGRESSIVE POLITICAL
CAMPAIGN EVER WAGED
Washington, Feb, 6—Plans for the
most aggressive political campaign
lever waged by* the American Federa
tion of Labor were formulated at a
me ting of the organization leaders
held hero today.
The General Committee, it was said
officially following the session, pro-,
posed that a campaign be conducted
in connection with the general elec
tions in November, not only aimed at
members of fongress or candidates
who are unfavorable to labor but also
|at unfriendly candidates for president,
state governors and members of state
legislatures.
JAPS PLANNING BIG MILITARY
EXPENDITURE THIS YEAR
|. Waifolngton, Feb. 6—The Japanese
wnjy and navy budgets for 1920 will
call for appropriations totaling one
hundred and twenty million dollars,
according to information received In
Washington today, indicating that
Japan Intends to proceed with the
development of her wan making mach
inery on a greater scale than ever be
J C McBRIDE OUT FOR
REP. NAT'L COMMITTEEMAN
Announcement of the filing of the
petition of candidacy of J. C. McBride I
of June.'iti for the office of Republican
National Committeemen for the Ter
litory. has been received by Clerk of
tin- Court Thos. McCann from the
Territorial Secretary. The clerk has
also been advised of the filing of the
petition of Charles Herron for the
same position.
C. R. Derry, of Cordova, has also
hied a primary petition for delegate
to the Democratic convention.
OIL FIRE THREATENS
LIGHTERAGE PLANT
An accumulation of crude oil in the
boiler pit of the heating plant at the
Alaska Lighterage and Commercial
Company, threatened possible destruc
tion of the plant after the oily fluid
caught tire early Monday morning,
hut the arrival of the fire department
in response to a still alarm resulted
in the flames being quenched before
material damage resulted.
BACK FROM FUR BUYING
TRIP TO SHISMAREFF
of John Pelkel, the well known local
fur buyer, returned Friday from a suc
cored a fine assortment of pelts of
various kinds for his principal, among
them some exceedingly choice foxes.
DENOUNCES NEW PENSION LAV/
An exchange says: “The Fair hank*
denounced as iniquitous and unfair,
the territorial law passed by the last
legislature which requires th• • t before
sion from the territory, he or she
must transfer all right, title am: in
terest in all property, both iv! and
The Fairbanks pioneers declared
there was no justice in the passage of
the new law, as few of the pensioners
have any property beyond a fev per
sonal keepsakes of no monetary value.
BARNEY STONE SELLS OUT
Bernard M. Stone, former Nom?
newspaper man and late co-owner of
the Ketchikan Chronicle, has sold his
interest in that journal to E. G. Mor
risey, his partner, and is said to be
contemplating future location at Hy
der, the booming Portland Canal min
ADMIRAL LINE REPORTS
ALASKA PASSENGER
TRAFFIC UNPROFITABLE
The Admiral steamship line lost
close to $50,000 on its last year's Alas
ka passenger service and is figuring
on another increase in passenger rates
unless its freight department can
show a substantial gain over 1918.
according to statements published in
the Alaska Dispatch of November 14
and attributed to General Passenger
Agent McMlcken.
Discussing the outlook, the steam
ship officials told the Dispatch: “It
is haid to make the average Alaskan
believe it possible for a steamship
company to lose money. Every
steamer operated on the Alaska run
has steadily increased in cost of oper
ation. I don’t want to recommend
higher rates but with stocks being of
fered guaranteeing- seven and eight
percent, our stockholders are entitled
to a fair return on the investment or
our stocks will become valueless"—
All of which doubtless means we may
as well make up our minds to an
other whack at the already heavily
attacked pocketbook.
Are YOU a Subscriber Mr. Reader ?
If Not, YOU should b# !
E W CARLETON WRITES OF
OUTSIDE DEVELOPMENTS
Writing from Seattle under dnt<• oi
December 5th to .Mayor Holt, our f.u
givi-N the following observations nf
things outside and the movements of
Various Nmneites.
"I see great many of the N «me
crowd around the town, hut many of
them have already migrated to the
"sunny south." Milot and Andy An
derson left about a week ago. ts.
Lomen and bis family went this week.
all that are foot loose will go before
long, as things are very <|iiiet here.
No work and everything is sky high
and still a'soaring. It is unbeliev
able how things continue to go up
and with thousands of men idle all
over the country.
They are laying off men in the ship
yards every week and by the first of
ing here. In Frisco and Oakland
they are still out on strike an the big
crippling business in all linos. The
whit the government man. Hr. (!ar
field, wanted to give them. They are
holding out for a SO per cent raise in
wayes, and I think they are entitled
to it from all reports,
j lust (Mellin) is back in Kansas
bat < there, so they are going to Cali
forriln soon. I hope you are all well
and doing well in Nome this winter.
than last year. So business should
be good.
“And still things are soaring up
ward and reports are that by spring
it will bo much worse. The govern
ment seems powerless to stop this pro
fiteering business. And yet people
Ry the way they are crowding into the
stores and the prices they are paying,
it seems that the only place people
"squeeze” their money is when they
come hack to Nome. Then they hag
gle and chew the rag about prices.
Out here they just hand over their
purse and no questions asked.
“Old Christmas will soon be here
again and I wish you all in Nome a
good time. We are ull well and I am
feeling better now than 1 have for a
year. (live my regards to all friends.
Simply A Pleasant Parly,
SATURDAY. 21st. A. B. HALL
OUTSIDE MAIL ARRIVED FRIDAY
Owing to severe weather along the
.Fast coast, the weekly mail failed to
reach Nome this week until Friday.
The consignment contained no first
class, aside from a small quantity of
way and Interior Alaska mail. The
nonarrival of first class on two oc
casions thus far. despite the govern
ment announcement that all mails sent
In under the reduced service schedule
would include first class matter from
the states, is causing much unfavor
able comment which threatens to de
velop into the annual and parrennial
kick about our "rotten mail service."
The local mail authorities believe that
the trouble is due principally to the
reduced steamboat service' on the
Southern coast creating, long intervals
between the arrival of malls from the
States at Valdez. As noted in jour-*
nallstic references recently, it is fre
quently ten days nr so between boats,
hence on occasion several mails may
leave Valdez between arriving ship
ments. As the first class matter is
probably forwarded on the first mall
leaving for the Interior, if any ship- !
ments are forwarded before the suc
ceeding boat arrives they must neces
sarily be made up entirely of second
class matter.
; EAGLE ANNIVERSARY
SATURDAY PER. 7tH—GIG HALL.
ill iill
AMERICANS MIX
WITH JAPS AT
VLADIVOSTOK
to prevent Russian revolutionary
lail. The message state.l I:..
L-ned trouble if the Japanese in
BRITISH NEGOTIATING
PEA6E BOLSHEVIKI
published today in 111■ • Stockholm
Svcnska Dngcbladet. Tile journal
.dalins Uphove reliable iflforpialioii _ L>.
this <>:>ia filial from l: ussia a
LEWIS MADE PRESIDENT OF
UNITED MINE WORKERS
Washington, Ueh.7—John L. Lewis,
acting: president of tin* United Mm
Workers, was toda\ made prcsidi nt of
that organization through the action
of the International Kxerutivo Itpard
DISPATCH DEALS NOME
A SUBTILE KNOCK
The Alaska Dispatch of Xovcmh .
-1. unconsciously perhaps, giv.-s Nome
> gentle little •knock" by asserting
that "Barry K< own, one of the few
individual mining operators left in the
Nome district, camp south on the
steamer Victoria and departed a few
days latei on route to New York,
where he. intends to pass the winter."
Being an Alaska paper, although pub
lished in Seattle, the Dispatch prob
ably did not mean to do Nome an in
jury but evidently failed to realize
that such a statement not only creates
a decidedly bad Impression in the
minds of those not conversant witn
affairs here but is also completely
rnisrepresontative of the true situa
tion. Mr. Keown should not have
been described as if he were a relic of
some forlorn minority, as it happens
that a major portion of all the mining
activities of the Nome district are
conducted by men who are classed as
"individual miners." Men arc work
ing alone or in two’s and throe’s in
all parts of the district. Right at
the present time there are eighty or
ninety such “individual miners" now
working within a radius of ten miles
of Nome and the number is Increased
many fold during the open season.
The Dispatch statement gives the
impression that Nome is no longer a
field for the individual miner, where
as the contrary is the ease, as proved
by the fact that scores of "small” min
ers work summer and winter in all
parts of the district.
Like all the rest* of the territory,
tlw> Nome district needs more people
and more capital to develop its num
erous Intent resources, hence the
Dispatch is doing ns no good service
by publishing statements which can
hardly fail to keep settlors and in
vestors away.
Are YOU • Subscriber Mr. Reeder ?
If Not, YOU should be !
jERZBERGER GROWS DEFIANT AT
THOUGHT OF PUNISHING
TEUTON CRIMINALS
uttermost
-M;ithins Krzhorg. r. tl
FORMER RUSSIAN COUNTESS
ENDS LIFE BY DROWNING
Khenrichen. formerly maid of honor I ■
mitud suicido ?oda\ »>y drowning li« r -
SFPPALA AND LEHMANN REACH
FAIRBANKS IN 14 DAYS
—:
-Messrs. Thorulf Lehmann and Lem
jnrd Seppaln arrived in Fai: hank II
telegraph adviees nae/iinj; the eity
'durinff the week. Tiny'trip to and no
Ho- Yukon was spl.ii/lid throughout.
Lehmann <\peets to leave Fairbanks
nl; i v fw thff l.'iw r of.:,-,
on the Till" operated hy John
Rrower, over th< Valdez trail
PRES. WILSON
APPROVES OF
RESERVATIONS
Washington. 5». 7—I ‘resident
rock, leaner of the udministni tioii
supporters in the senate, nppmviiur
the reservations to tin- tivnt\ of Vo:
stilies which the* senator presented to
the bipartisan conferctue eotnmittei
which recently failed to reach an
before the publication ..f the letter
written by Lord Grey, which created
such a storm of comment intent the
reservation question a few days ago
Senator Hitchcock took the letter with
him today into the democratic confer
ence which will consider a plan for a
treaty break on the senate floor. It
is understood that the president also
endorsed the stand of the minority
lenders on the treaty and reaffirmed
his attitude as stated in his letter to
the Jackson Pay dinner.
PRINCIPAL OWNER OF BIG
SEATTLE DEPARTMENT
STORE IS DEAD
Seattle. Feb. 7—Mrs. Frank Mc
Dermott. tho principal owner of the
Bon Marche, Seattle's greatest depart
ment store, died at her home here thi<
morning.
FORMER GOV. STRONG
RESIDING IN LOS ANGELES
An exchange reports that former
Governor J. F. A. Strong and Mrs.
Strong are residing in Los Angeles.
FORMER DELEGATE
CANDIDATE IN BAD
Lena Morrow Lewis, one tiino. Soc
ialist. candidate for delegate to Con
gress from Alaska, was recently ar
rested by Los Angelos federal authori
ties during a raid on a radical journal
known as “the Dugout.” Miss Lewi*
visited Nome several years ago and
is well known ttfmany local residents