THE NOME NUGGET
VOUUMK 24.
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY, JULY 14Ui, 102#
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,$1.00 per Month
EVACUATION RHUR IS DEMANDED
WftURD MOCKED OUT M THE EIGHTH SOUND
FIRPO WINS WITH
KNOCKOUT IN
EIGHTH ROUND
Firpo the Argentine .heavyweight knocked Jess Willard out in
the eighth round of their scheduled twelve round bout at Jersey Sity,
Thursday July 12th. One of the largest crowds ever witnessed in Jersey
City attended the fight
The Fight by Hounds.
HOUND ONE—Both walked slowly to center of ring, at sound of
the gong. Willard lead with a left to the body, Firpo followed with right
*nd left swings to the head, both clinch and were separated by referee
Willard drove straight left to body, and Firpo answered with right and
J»lt hooks to Willards head which did no damage, both clinch, gong
sounds as referee starts to separate fighters.
BOUND TWf>—Firpo attempts rush, is blocked by Willards
straight left. Willtrd backs away stops swings short of Firpo’s head.
Firpo fighting in el<pe succeeds in getting Willard against Top** for < ily
a moment, Willard ailing out of clinch sends Firpo balk with hard left
to the body as gon« goes both standing and swinging, some blows reach
ing their mark and it hors falling short. Stopped by referee at gong.
ROUND THf'tEE—Firpo on the aggressive drives Wizard slowly
to one si<!« ol ring ere Willard with a straight left to the t ik; followed
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no sooner parted than Firpo with quick shift of guard drives right V.
Willard’s body with telling effect, gong sound ending third round.
ROUND FOUR—Both fighters jump to feet at the. sound of the
gong and meet in clinch after attempts of both to deliver short jabs while
fcn clinch are separated by referee. Willard drives short left. Firpo con
nects with right and left to body. Both clinch, break and stand exchang
ing blows to head and body. Willard falls into clinch. Firpo backs away
and aucceeds in driving right to Willard’s body Which straightens Willard
up and starts him to swinging short. Firpo rushes and has Willard well
into ropes when gong goes.
Willard takes hard right to jaw as they clinch. Firpo drive* «hort with
left, both clinched repeatedly.
ROUND SIX—Firpo drives terrific right to neck. Willard covers up.
Willard drives short with left both Jabbed lightly at long range. Firpo
drives right to jaw but falls to shake Willards powerful left. Firpo falls
short with a right came back with left and shot a right to the body at
the sound of the gong.
ROUND SEVEN—Willard drives hard right sending Firpo to the
ropes follows up with a rabbit punch to the back of Firpo's head. Both
clinch, Willard’s left connects twice with Firpo’s Jaw, Firpo slightly cut
under right eye, Willard took several blows on head as the round ended.
ROUND EIOHT—Firpo clinched after missing with left, Willard
clinched shooting right to ribs. Willard knocked to his knees from a drive
to the jaw and took the count.
One minute and fifty five seconds after the gong rang for the start
of the eighth round Willard took the count that sent him to oblivion in
the fistic world. The youngster proved too much for what is termed an
old man in the fight game.
Jack Dempsey after reading the Associated Press story of the fight,
said: "I am very much satisfied with the result and believe the best
man won and of coarse I am anxious to meet Firpo or Harry Wills and it
Is up to Manager Kerns to make the match for labor day. A later dis
patch received by the Nugget states that Tex Rickard said this afternoon
that Jack Dempsey will meet Firpo Labor Day, the place not yet being
cboos^n but likely will be 1n Jersey City.
WALLACE SEES GREAT DEVELOPMENT • FOR ALASKA
ABOARD HENDERSON. Friday July 13—Secretary Wallace an
nounced^ today that his convictions were that the future will see great
development in. the farming industry of this Territory, hut that the coun
try will never produce crops beyond the needs of the Alaskans themselves.
STB. VICTORIA DUE TO ARRIVE SUNDAY AFTERNOON
According to a wire received by James P. Daly. Nome agent for :
the Alaska Steamship Co ., the steamer Victoria sailed from Akutan at 4
8 a. m. July 13th and Is due to arrive In Nome at 2 p. m. Sunday, July 15. 1
A correction of the freight end passenger list as published in the Bulletin ’
during the week gives the passenger list 38 and the amount of freight as <
1450 tons. j
WALLACE, Idaho, July 14—Twelve hundred are homeless as a 8
result of destruction by forest fires. Towns of Burke and Mace and all i
surface buildings of Heckla Mine are burned. 1
BRITAIN DEMANDS
OCCUPATION OF
RUHR TERMINATE
LONDON, July 13—After Baldwin of the House of Commons and
"urzon of the House of Lords had laid before Parliament the facts con
cerning their fruitless negotiations with Premier Poincare for settlement
of problems arising out of the occupation of the Ruhr and Rhineland,
Great Britain has demanded the. occupation of the Ruhr to terminate,
so as to allow the Allies to unite in fixing a fair amount for reparation.
and also unite in asking Germany to pay the amount fixed
The essential factor of settlement of European ills Baldwin told
Parliament, are first the payment of reparations, second the settlement
of the interallied debts, and third the Security of Europe. Later in an
address before the house of Commons Baldwin stated: ‘The French
coarse in the Ruhr is endangering the peace of the world." and add-d
While Britain feels that Germany should make reparations for damages
of the war. we are convinced that measures which will result in the ruin
of Germany would be fatal to England, her allies arid whole of Europe.’
FRANCK VOTES LOAN TO Jl'GO SLA VIA
PARIS. July 13—The Chamber of Deputies today voted a loan ol
three hundred million Franc to Jugo Slavin.
WORK OF RK!*A1R1\<;
RAILROAD VM)ER W.4t
The work of repairing the railroad
form Nome north in well underway,
the bridge across Dry Creek has
been lined up and will be leveled in
a few days. A crew of men left
Nome this week to make camp near
Banner Station and will work north
from there, the crew working here
in Nome will continue on north re
pairing the track and bridges as
they go along.
R. L. Sommers Supt. of the Alaska
Road Commission states that most
of his work for the season is already
lined up and the preparations of get
tins this work started is almost
completed and In a few days more
things will Ik* rounded out so that
he will have a more definite Idea of
what needs to be done.
Supt. Sontmers states that Thos.
Gaffney has a crew of about 12 men
working on the corduroy road rear
Counicl and is making very eood
progress.
The damage done to the revet
ment will soon be repaired. It was
found that the damage was caused
by the dead men. that the revet
ment is anchored to pulled out of
the ground, and not to the under
mining of the revetment by the cur
rent as first supposed was the
cause by some who viewed the dam
ages at the time of the trouble. Mr.
Sommers states that the damage
•aused the revetment will be very
?mall, and the place that was broke,n
will be replaced in as good if not a
aetted condition than before.
The damage sustained by a few
alanks breaking loose at the end of
he East jetty has also been repaired
ind is now In good condition
SOWE GETS CONTRACT
TO MOVE DREDGE
Guinan & Ames are having their
Iredge moveld fronT claim No. 7 on
llacier Creek, Nome, to Gaines
'reek a tributary of the Innoko in
he Yukon River section.
The dredge which has buckets of
cu. ft. is being dismantled un
!er the supervision of Jack Guinan
iy five men employed to do the
rork. Wm. J. Rowe has the con
ract to move the dredge from
llacier Creek to Nome wharf a dis
ance of 11 miles.
From Nome the dredge will be
hipped to St. Michael and thence
p the Yukon to Gaines Creek where
will be reassembled in a new hull,
he dredge will operate on Gaines
Tr<*ik from No. 13 above to No. 2?
j above discovery. Irving Tleed an<
I (11 a as have obtained an option ot
the property and Guinan and A met
j owners of the dredge are assoeiate<
, with Reed and Glass in the opera
| tion of the claims. It Is stated tha
careful prospecting of the claims re
j veals a paystreak 300 feet wide an<
| will possibly average over $1.00 pe
j Irving Reed is a son of Fedora
Judge T M. Reed of the First Judi
cial Division, who grew to tnanhoot
in Nome, and is now a ITnitet
States Mineral Surveyor. Mr. Reet
has offices in the L. C. Smith build
iiig in Seattle and has branch offices
in Nome and Anchorage. Mr. Reec
is now on his way to Nome on tht
Alaska Steamship Victoria due ir
Pl.KAKIItF TRIP OF STR.
BUFORD STARTS JH-Y 3fl
The Alaskan Siberian Navigation
Company steamer Buford will sail
from San Francisco on July 2ftth to
make a pleasure cruise to Siberia
and return, leaving San Francisco
the Buford will stop in Seattle, sail
ing from Seattle July 23rd. she will
proceed to Prince Rupert thence to
Ketchikan thence to Taku, from
Takti glacier to Skagway leaving
Skagway she will call at Sitka from
Sitka she will stop at Cordova form
Cordova to Seward from Seward to
Anchorage thence to Kodiak and
Cold Bay where the new oil town of
Kanatak is located, leaving Cold Bay
she will then proceed to the Aleut
ian Islands and stop at Unalaska,
sailing from Unalaska she will stop
at the Prebiloff Islands. St. Cleorg©
and St. Paul. From the Prebiloff
Islands the trip will continue on to
Siberia along the Siberian coast and
them to Nome, from Nome to the
Ice Pack and return to Nome, leav
ing Nome on the return trip she
will call at Akutan and Seattle and
then return to San Francisco.
This is the trip that many San
Francisco and Los Angeles business
men have booked passage on. R. A.
Carroll, agent at Nome, for th© Al
aska n Siberian Navigation Co. re
ceived a telegram from the head
>ffices of his company stating that
bookings for the excursion trip were
rery encouraging.
Many outside business men will
10 doubt be on this trip and will
lave an opportunity to view Alaska
xs she really is and not as some of
he Action writers would have the
mtslde world believe.
HANSEN ARRIVES NOME
ON WAY TO JOIN
RASMUSSEN EXPEDT
The Hudson Bay motor ship Lady Kindersley under the Command
of Captain G. Foellmer from Vancouver, arrived in the Nome Roadstead
last night on her way to Coronation Gulf and points north.
The Kinderseley had aboard two passengers, Mr. P. P. O'Kelly a
representative of the Hudson May Company, and Leo H. Hansen, a camera
mar sent by the Danish government to take pictures of the Knud Rasmus*
sen expedition. The Rasmussen expedition which has been under way
for two years is under the leadership of Knud Rasmussen is making a
cross country trip from Greenland to the Mackenzie river delta. The pur
pose of the expedition is to trace the origin of the Eskimo and ascertain
the living conditions of the Eskimos in isolated villages never before
visited by white men.
According to Hansen. Rasmussen has already encountered Eskimo
who have never seen or heard of a white man. A team of thirty dogs is
transporting the Rasmussen expedition across country according to Han
sen The Danish government is financing both Hansen and Rasmussen
in this attempt to trace the origin of the Eskimo and obtain pictures of
the primitive conditions under which they live. It s possible that the
expedition will come to Nome from the MacKenzie river section before
continuing their trip on thru the northern part of Russia to Denmark.
* '.umo by the way of New Yor^ and overland to Van
couver whrrc he took passage on the Lau> A' '«y t<n* the North?
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NO FEAR FROM BRITAIN SiiYS POINCARE
PARIS, July 14
France feared nothing from
break away she would be back
f in an address to the French Senate said
break with l Britain, and if Britain did
t the side ofi France two days later
NATIONAL CONVENTION MAY BE HELD CHICAGO
CHICAGO, July 14—The Republican National Convention will be
held in Chicago if Upham National Treasurer makes such a request to the
National Executive Committee, J. H. D. Rubier Committeeman from Miss
ouri said after a conference of the National Convention of State Chair
men and Republican leaders from eight states.
JOINT ACTION Sl (^JK.STEi) BV BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, July 14 Joint action, by all powers has been sug
gested by Great Britain its a means of restoring normal conditions in China
HARDING PLEASED AT TREAT!' RATIFICATION
ON BOARD HENDERSON, Seward Bound, July 14—President
Harding expressed himself as being well pleased upon receiving word that
the French Senate had ratified the Washington Treaty, according to
members of the Presidential Party.
BATTLESHIPS ARRIVE PUGET SOUND
SEATTLE, July 14—With the arrival today of the last detachment
of the Pacific Fleet every first line battleship of the Navy is m Puget Sound
preparatory to the review by Harding which will be held upon the return
of the President from Alaska.
FRENCH OCCUPY MORE TOWNS
BERLIN July 14—French troops have occupied the big industrial
city of Elberfeld in the Edger region, and also the town of Litteburg ju9t
beyond Coblenz bridge, according to a dispatch received today.
UNITED STATES SENATOR DIES
MONTPELIER. Vt., July 14—United States Senator Dillingham
died here late last night, says a dispatch f£om Montpelier.
DROWNS WHILE ATTEMPTING RESCUE SON
SEATTLE, July 14—Clarence McLennan, 43 year old salesman and
his son Arthur aged 14. were both drowned In the Duwamish river last
night, when the father undertook to rescue the boy.
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