LOCAL NEWS
GRAND .11'RY MEETS—
IS DISMISSED
On Sept. 18th the Grand and Petit
juries met in the Federal court to|
consider any matter that might be
presented.
As no matters of importance were
presented the juries were according
ly dismissed.
1 ION ERR IGLOO NO. 1
AFFILIATES WITH GRAND IGIjOO
At a meeting held in the Pioneer
Igloo on Sept. 20th full steps were
taken toward afliliation with the
Grand Igloo of Pioneers. Rack per
capita tax. for two years, was sent
to the Grand Secretary at Ketchi
kan. thereby completing the steps
toward harmonious relations be
tween all Igloos in Alaska.
Igloo No. 1 is the last of all Igloos
to complete arrangements toward
this end. thus overcoming the fric
tion that has existed.
Thomas A. Powers of Unalakleet
appeared before the meeting and
spoke at length on the subject of
cheaper coal for Seward Peninsula.
His recommendations are to the ef
fect that steps be taken to investi
gate the coal deposits in the vicinity
of Unalakleet and those to be found
on Nelson Island. According to
traders who have visited Nelson Is
land coal in large quantities and
easily accessible is found there.
This matter will receive the atten
tion of the Igloo as they, as well as
the balance of this community, real
ize that some steps must be taken
to relieve the present fuel situation.
MARGARET ULLRICH
ENTERTAINS HER FRIENDS
Little Miss Margaret Ullrich en
tertained a number of her young
friends at the home of her parents
last Saturday afternoon.
Numerous games were enjoyed
by the children, a feature of the en
tertainment was a guessing contest
in which Stanley Martin was the
successful competitor.
After the afternoon had been
spent in amusements the lads and
lassies were treated to a luncheon
that made their mouths water for
At a late hour the guests left
■with high praise for Miss Margaret
as a royal entertainer.
Those present were: Madaline
Calkins. Barbary Gibney. Frances
Ross. Valerie McGuire. Bessie Brun
er, Ida Martin. Mary Walsh. Mar
garet Rowe, Eileen Walsh and the
hostemm Margaret Ullrich. Wilfred
Neely. Joe Walsh. Edwin Swanberg.
Stanley Martin. Albert Martin. Ed
win Ronen and Hugh O’Farrell Jr.
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NOME PUBLIC SCHOOL OPEN'S
WITH «l ENROLLED
Superintendent Rynning states
that when the Nome Public School
opened Monday morning sixty one
pupils registered their presence.
Of these one will leave on this
sailing of the Victoria and two fur
ther additions will be made by the
close of navigation.
Seven members constitute the en
rollment of the High School, while
the grades consist of fifty three
members. Considered from the
stand point of previous years the
enrollment rof this year will be
about the same as last.
Mrs. Anay box is temporarily
teaching the 5th and 6th grades and
Superintendent Rynning further
states that her duties will be assum
ed by some instructor from the out
side. employed by the School Hoard.
All grades began active work and
the school year has started in earn
est. Due to the delayed opening
studies were begun immediately in
stead of merely indulging in enroll
ment and assignment of classes.
NOMK «n, SUPPLY
ENDANGERED—ASSO. OIL
TANK SPRINGS LEAK
Last Sunday evening about nine
o’clock employees of the Hammon
Consolidated Gold Fields, employed
at the former Associated Oil tank
on Dry Creek, discovered that oil
was trickling from the big tank and
immediately notified the city office.
W. J. Rowe was ordered to send
out men. horses and scrapers to
Stem the flow of oil. W. .1. employ
ed all available men and with his
equipment hastened to the scene of
trouble. It is well to at this time
state that the Coast Guard boys an
swered the call for help and were of
great assistance to the force em
ployed. The li^ht company was
telephoned to string lines and lamps
to enable the force to work quickly
and without difficulty. Tom Kohan
ik accomplished the work in a few
minutes and the entire scene was
properly illuminated.
Men with horses and scropers
proceeded to build a dirt dam to
enclose the escaping oil, which was
issuing in two well defined streams,
and by eleven o’clock the oil had
formed a%good sized lake. The
leaks made their appearance on the
north and down hill side of the
tank, escaping thru the soft earth
beneath the large structure.
Engineer Edwards, assisted by
Mr. Gorman, was in charge of the
situation and sent out to the various
company camps and stations for
equipment to control the situation.
An oil pump was brought from the
tundra oil station and connected
with the small oil tank at the main
station. As quickly as the proper
connections were made the leaking
oil was pumped from the lake to
the tank. In the mean time the
main line from the tank back to the
tundra tanks was tried out and an
attempt made to pump or draw
back the oil into the smaller tundra
tanks. This was found impractical ]
due to the fact that the oil was too'
cold. Then the pump station at the!
Associated Oil tank was employed!
to pump the oil. Within a few
hours this was accomplished: the
tundra tanks filled and the Xome
Electric Light & Power tank also
filled. This left considerable oil
remaining in the main tank. As
th« Bourbon Power plant possesses
a tank sufficiently large to j^ccomo
date the remaining oil this will be
"*nwu 10 complete emptying tne
leaking container. Friday water
was being: pumped thru the oil line
from the Associated plant to the
Hourbon tank to reveal possible
leaks, of which there were many.
As soon as the leaks are stopped
pumping: will proceed until all oil
in the main tank is removed.
When emptied the leaking tank
will be given a thorough overhaul
ing to prepare for any further con
tingency.
Fortunately for the Hammon Co.
end the entire community the actual
loss of oil will be slight due to the
early discovery of the leak and the
further fortunate circumstance that
it was a base leak instead of a sur
face break.
STEAM HEAT NOTICE
The rate for steam lieat for the
period October 1, 1022 to May SI,
1923 will be 00 rente per square
foot of radiation except where a
contract is entered into for a stated
amount of radiation for the above
period, in consideration of which a
rate of 30 cents will be allowed for
the radiation contracted for
Those desiring steam for the com*
big winter should make arrange
ments immediately.
ALASKA MINES COBP.
CUFF WOOD, REPRESENTATIVE
U. S. VETERAN'S* BUREAU
LEAVING ON VICTORIA.
FOR SEATTIiE.
(Contributed)
Government Insurance. Reinstate
ments and Conversions lead the
field in the Veterans* Bureau Clean
Up Campaign in Alaska, just finish
ed by Cliff Wood, the representa
tive of the Cooperative Section of
the 13th District with headquarters
at the Arcade Building in Seattle.
138 men picked up their war
time insurance and 176 converted
their insurance to permanent forms
with* the Government. The Nome
District was second only to Junean
in point of numbers with 17 rein
statements and 19 conversions. As
a number of ino.n in Nome already
have their insurance there will soon
be at least 25 Government policies
held here.
The members of the Thomas A.
Ross Jr. Post No. <♦ of the American
Legion, especially Commander R.
Lomen and the energetic Captain
Ross have been enthusiastic Gov-;
ernment Insurance propagandists.
Frank Dufresne. the live wire Adju
tant of the local legion has bent
his efforts to seeing that every ex
service man in the Nome district
had the benefit of personal contact
with the Government Representa
t.ve. He not only conducted the
representative to all th«* *carl>y
camps, but took him on a 4f>0 mile
trip to the Dime Creek District,
coming in the last 80 miles f**om
Golovin on foot.
Wood says he will always re
member his Dime Creek trip, as it
gave him an insight into that pio
neering spirit which has made Al
aska. His introduction to the fam
ous Alaskan “nigerheads” will for
ever keep him from growling at the
roughest kinds of other footing, as
also will that experience on the
Koytik flats where he walked mile
after mile dragging a rowboat be
hind him in less than four inches
of w-ater looking for a channel deep
enough to float it.
The items handled in the Alaskan
Clean-rp Campaign by the repre
sentative total 1084, and besides
the Insurance, the following Veter
ans’ Bureau matters were handled:
.i t wew compensation claims. j
32 Old Compensation Claims. )
52 Vocational Training Claims. j
The Representative was also able
to be of service in the following
matters, which though not Veterans
Bureau work, were prepared and
sent in thru the Cooperative Section
of the 13th District:
Victory Medal Applications.... 210
Victory Buttons.\.137
Travel Pay Checks.130
Lost Discharge Certificated. ... 18
Liberty Bond Adjustments.8
$60 Bonus Applications.4
Representative Wood’s itinerary
included: Ketchikan. Wrangell,
Petersburg. Sitka. Juneau, Haines,
Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, McCar
thy, Kennicott, Jumbo, Bonanza and
Mother Lode Mines, Latouche, Sew
ard, Anchorage, Seldovia. Kodiak.
Xenana. Fairbanks. Tanana. Ruby
Xulato. Holy Cross. Iditarod. Flat.
St. Michael, Nome and many other
camps surrounding these places.
Wood will leave Nome on the out
going trip of the steamer Victoria
for Seattle, his work completed in
Alaska. In departing he wishes to
take this opportunity of thanking
the American Legion forits enthus
iastic cooperation in his work as
well as the hospitable reception giv
en him personally.
PREDICTED TIME OF
TIDES AT NOME
(By John A. Wilson)
High Water Date Low Water
3: Ort a m Sept.
3:33 p m Sept.
3:43 am Sept.
4:34 p m Sept.
4:30am Sept.
5:42 pm Sept.
5:18 a m Sept.
6:52 p m Sept.
6:07 a m Sept.
8:19 pm Sept.
7:00 a m Sept.
24 8:38 p m
27 10:24 p m
28 11:00 p m
29 4:00 pm
30 5:00 p m
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Nome. Alaska. Sept. 20. 1922
EDITOR NOME NUGGET.
Dear Str: /
The enclosed clipping revealing
the appalling distress In the famine
stricken provinces of Southern Rus
sia appeared in the curent number
of the Messenger of the Sacred
Heart. A collection will be taken
up Sunday in the Catholic church
to relieve the sufferers. However,
I feel convinced, that everybody,
would be. willing to help in so
worthy a cause, were it brought tq
their notice. I therefore make bold
to request, trusting in your feeling
for suffering humanity, that you
hnd space in your columns for the
enclosed, hoping at the same time
that the effect of its publication will
be an action of some kind, say a
benefit, by which all that are willing
to contribute to the relief of the
victims will be given an opportunity
to help. The money collected could
be sent to the Ukrainian Province*
Relief Fund. 51 Riverside Drive.
New York. N. Y., which is collecting,
for the orphans of the provinces of'
Southern Russia. Believe me.
Most Sincerely Yours.
FREDERICK A. RUPPERT. S. J.
•THE STARVING IN RUSSIA.
“Forty millions in that land are
actually suffering the pangs of hun
ger. and we are Informed that of |
that multitude thirty millions will
die before their crops are harvested,;
if outside aid does not save them, j
The help sent from the Far East
and from America, with that Which
the late Pope Benedict XV caused
tc be distributed, is far from being
sufficient. Reports received withiu
recent months, and photograph?
brought back, show that a terrible
state of affairs exists in parts of
what was the Russian Empire. In
the immense region south-east of
Moscow, particularly on the banks
of the Volga and down to the, Black
Sea. victims of starvation are being
counted daily by thousands. To es
cape from this desert of famine,
populations of entire provinces have
migrated. They have left their
homes in millions, carrying with
them whatever food remained. And
yet death stalks those fleeing multi
tudes. Photographs show masse?
of people who have shed almost all
their clothing in order to obtain
something to feed their emacciated
bodies. And another sad spectacle
are the groups of skeleton-like child
ren who, having lost their parents,
endeavor to draw sustenance- from
their dead bodies. Those little ones
soon succumb; photographs show
them huddled together, in twenties
and thirties,- in order to preserve
what remains of bodily heat. Ter.
hours later half of them are dead,
and the rest lie in horrible agonized
spasms of delirium. Six hours later
all those children are dead. No one '
caa bury them, for no one has th«|
strength or the time when everyone 1
is hunting for a morsel of food tc
preserve his own life.
“It is the fate of little Russian
children orphaned and helpless, that
should excite our pity. Listen to
a few lines from the pathetic appeal
addressed to the world by Russian
mothers, a few months ago:
In tne name or the ratner ana
of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,
may the world help the children of
Russia! We mothers soon destined
to die of hunger, cold and sickness,
which we cannot fight against, beg
the people of the entire world to
take our innocent children so that
they may not share our terrible fate
You who have borne children and
who have lost them, ypu who have
them still and fear to lose them, in
the name of vour children, we beg
of you not to remain deaf to our
entreaties. Come to the help of our
little ones, and free us from the
horror of seeing them perish.
O world, take our children before
they have lost the strength to Jive.
Do not think of us. for whom there
is no salvation. We no longer look
for deliverance. We shall be happy
when we know that our children ar*
happy. Put food into their hands
when they are far away from us. and
this will satisfy us. We shall be
comfortable if we know that the?
live. We shall fear onthing, for our
souls will continue to keep in touch
with them. Take our children, as
quickly as possible, for we are fanf
ished and in rags, and each passing
hour sees our strength waning
Haippy children of happier countries
pray you, too. that our children ma
be rescued.
We do not sign our names, nor
shall we even state in what part of
unfortunate Russia we drag out ouf
days, so as not to draw upon oursel
ves the an*4r of our tormentors.
When we know that you have sent
for our children, we will give the"-,
to yon; no power shall hinder os
from doing so.”
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SECOND DIVISION
Delegate to Congress
DAN SUTHERLAND
Senator (Long Term)
FRED M. AYER
Senator (Short Term)
E. L. HOLT
Representatives
J. C. KENNEDY
KATHRYN K1TTILSEN
E. (Dick) RAELSON
M. A. WINKLER