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NOME NUGGET gggT
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY SEPT It, 1920 Delivered by Carrier or Mailed J1 00 per Month
Nome is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska and Siberia
COX CLAIMS HARDING FLOPPED
■MUCUS THKATENM6 WHMESUIMUCOEIS
BEAR MAY CARRY
PASSENGERS TO OUTSIDE
As a result of a suggestion offered
by Governor Jtfggs, toward relieving
the situation created by the refusal
of the Alaska Steamship Company to
make the usual late fall sailing from
Nome, there is a prospect that the
Coast Guard Cutter Bear may be se
cured to take out bona tide dredge men
who are unable to secure iwtssage on
•the Victoria or Cordova, both of which '
are already sold out.
In a telegram to the Chamber of
Commerce received late Saturday the
tion as follows:
Northwestern Chamber of Commerce,
Alaska Steamship Company wires
(that on) account of previous delays
steamer Victoria will not get away
from Seattle on fourth voyage before
September 23'. This would make her
ready to sail southbound about Oc
tober 8, which would make a fifth voy
age leave Seattle October 23 or later.
The company claims this too late
Company willing to delay sailing from
Nofcne until October 15 at own expense,
hut wants $1,000 pet- day dnnumige.
paid in advance, for every day over
that date if fuel supply will permit.
Shall I suggest to Company thut
they delay Seattle sailing (a) week oi
ten days to make corresponding later
departure from Nome; and would mat
ters be helped If 1 can get authority
for Cutter Bear to carry 75 or 10j men,
actual dredge operators (from) Nome
Signed; Biggs. Gov.
Voicing the view that the company
had it been inclined to favor the peo
ple who have helped support ft for
years, could have prevented the pres
ent situatio by sending another of its
many vessels to bike the place of the
delayed Victoria, the Chamber of Com
nierce replied to the governor as fol
Rifggs, Governor, Juneau.
Re tel 11th: We are aware impossi
ble for Victoria to make fifth trip but
think steamship company should have
accepted our request and put (on) ex
tra boat on run to handle fall traffic
|Delay tof) Victoria North-bound
sailing now of no consequence as all
mevchandii.se ondei-s have been place 1
according to previous announcement.
Definite sailing date from Nome
should be set immediately in older to I
permit operators in outlying section*
to continue work us late as possible.
We cannot pay Victoria demurrage.
Service of Bear to carry operators to
Seward leaving Nome about October
25th would prove great value. We
should have definite information as to
what number passengers Bear can
carry and her sailing date. We thank
you for your efforts in our behalf.
Signed North western Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce.
As matters stand at present, t :«
Victoria will leave Nome October 15.
with the Cordova scheduled to depart
same days earlier, the date depending
on the tlmc.. .cl^ her return from the
Arctic coast. Present indications are
that there will he a sum us of passer
gem over and above the number' these
vessels may carry. Both Steamers are
reported sold out from stem to stern
With many representative people forced
to take steerage passage owing to no
other accomodations being available
and there are still said to be a con
siderable number who have not secur
ed passage. This deplorable situation
tarn be to some extent relieved If the
services of the Bear can be secured,
although matters would be Improved
tf the cutter should be permitted to
take a specified number of male pass
engers. regardless of whether they are
dredge people or not. Unless this Is
allowed. It appears certain that soma
who wish to leave for the south, will
>e forced to cool their heelp for an
other whiter.
COX CHARGES
HARDING SUDDENLY
CHANGED VIEWS j
Sacramento, Cal. Sept. 18—A di-j i
rect charge that Senator Harding •
changed his views on the Japanese im
migration question very suddenly m !
the day the California delegation ar- ;
rived at his front porch in Marion, ]
p.iign address here today.
"Harding sent out his speech on the
newspapers,” Cox said. "I received a
copy of it. Then Governor Stephens
arrived on Senator Holding's front
porch and said it would not do.”
The result was that the speech was
kiIlf<1 and Senator Harding's new po
sition on the question was entirely dif
COX ADVOCATES
ASIACTIC EXCLUSION
Cox, without quibbling, in ‘his speech
h)ore hist night came out for Asdactic
j exclusion.
The democratic nominee declared
j that if he is elected California will
[have the co-operation of the fedc-tl
j government in keeping her hands from
[ cntnlrur into the possession of Orient
RADICALS PROMISE WHOLESALE
KILLINGS IN CENTRALIA
Seattle, Sept. IS—Threats made by
Milwaukee radicals to slay American
Legionafires and business men of t-V n
tral-iu who escaped from the bullets of
the I. W. W. on Armistice Day,
placed Department of Justice secret
this section tonight to block any plo*
fm Seattle or the Northwest.
There Is a growing belief that the
threats signed by the socalled •'com
mittee of Vengunce,” of Milwauuk|'»
the. bombing of the Morgan Rink in
New York. This view is to some ex
tent substantiated by the fact that the
promise of a “wholesale killing" in
Street bombing disaster.
BIG CHICAGO PAPERS
SUED FOR MILLIONS
Chicago, Sept. 18—Two legal suit* |
for ten million dollars were tiled in j
the local courts today by the. City of
Chicago against the Chicago Tribune
and Daily News respectively.
The suits were filed on orders from
Mayor Thompson and are based on
the allegation that stories printed be
the newspapers in the primary r.tn
paJgn have I retired Chicago f'n.v rici.il
l.v. The leg..! briefs charge alleged (
false statements to the effect f at the {
city is bankrupt and its credit exhaust- i
JAP SOCALISTS VERY ACTIVE
Tokyo, Sept. 18—Socialist meeting \
are becoming daily more frequent In J
all parts of Japan and the utterances I
cf an Increasingly virulent character, j
Fifty policemen were sent today io ’
watch a meeting in Tpbvo. where M
Shaman, a noted Japanese Socialist
'^ruler spoke. Shaman declared open
ly that “a socialist that permits non
producers to eat is not fulfilling the
ai'ms of socialism." “Who does not
work, must not eat." he declared.
The police stopped the meeting sue
‘•'-or! pit at-d a fight In which two per
sons were arrested
EXPELLED SOCIALIST
LEGISLATORS RE-ELECTED
New York, Sept. 17—The. five soc
al'st members of the Now York leg
•^ature who were expelled from that
■'ody Inst spring on charges of dls
•rtyiiTty. based on thetr acknowledged
»rofeHslans of socialistic Inclinations,
•'•**** re-ejected by iitbitinttfl major
***«. complete «*tui*o tram im*r
fey’s special election showed today. |
CAPT JOE BERNARD
BACK FROM FOUR
YEARS ARCTIC VOYAGE
After .1 four year stay in the almost
unt racked Polar regions east of the
Mackenzie River during which he ac
quired a r- mark able eolleetion of re- i
llos of earlier explorers and numerous
quaint and odd curio's obtained among
the little known Eskimo people desig- i
nated by Stefansson a-s the "blond ■
Eskimo." Rapt. Joe Bernard, whose
earlier exploits in the far North have |
already won him wide fame as a voy- ;
ager into the strange places of the
<nrth, returned in Nome early yester
day morning on his stout little schoon
er Teddy Bear. Bernard and his ves
sel pulled into the roadstead shortly
after 7 a. m. after a .somewhat stormy
trip down the Northwest Alaska coast.
Bernard was accompanied on his ad
venturous cruise by A. Andersm. who
is interested in the venture which,
has kept the schooner far beyond the
border of civilization for the past
four years, and also by a male member
of the «o called “blond Eskimo” tribe
whom B-mard brought down with him
expressly to show to the world what j
kind of people they are. The name,
■of this example of Mr. Stefnnsson's
imuch advertised "blonde’s” is Apukt
I wana . In appearance be is little dif
ferent from fho Eskimo of this sec
tion. Mis home is in the bleak re
gion along the Southern shores of
Roronatioo Gulf, lie is stout built
with a. light copper colored skin,
straight black hair and possesses
I sparkling dark brown eyes. The cut
of this clothes is about the only thing i
by which he may be distinguished
from the local Eskimo. Bernard says
he is an average example of the males
of tk “blonde" tribe. Bernard, like
other recent visitors to the Corona-I
tion GuJf region, is in no degree in
clined to endorse Stefansson’s de
scription of the alleged blonde’s and
■says while there are some of them
who have reddish brown hair and light
eyes, they are scarcely light enough
to he considered blondes, even by an
extraordinary stretch of the imagina
tion. Rapt. Bernard is figuring on
taking the quaint save to the outside
tak>g r e quaint savage to the otitsid
proper light before the world.
' -nlng his stay in the far North
Bec-nnrd has had experiences enough t.i'
fill several books. Ho and the Teddv
B°ar spent the g realtor part of their
fen:’- years absence in the region be
tween the Adelaide retrinsula and the
Two years of the period was spent at
Taylor Island, a small Island situated
5-> Victoria Strait, a short distant' >
“"•<? of-Victoria I/ind. He also vjsib d
of Victoria. Strait and obtained from
rh' ' section a number of relics of
earlier explorers, some of which may
hav® been left by the Ross or Franklin
expeditions of 1829 or 1845 respective
ly • He also obtained a considerable
ni r-oher of curios from the little • i>vn
se •I’.rn of ‘he continent shelf kniwn
Y. ia-insr the 'simmer of 19J<i md |
(d "t /Tny!or Island in August j
TO!", -.f*.e • traversing- the southern
bo: 1 r of the Beaufort Sea, Dolplin
1 -'r.ion Strait anti Coronation Coif
Owi-g- 'o adverse ice conditions ho
v: -• unable to leave that point with
h-b; schooner until September 1919.
y• rad intended to push further to the
•wlward during- 1918 and possible
e : I ivav to the Atlantic Coast
’•••»* the plan was thwarted through
the Teddy Bear being frozen in for
V o years at Taylor Island. Aft
getting away from the island. Ber
nard attempted to procetyl farther
.- st birt having got a late start,* the
x-hooner whs unable to proceed far
cfoT-e being again frozen in, this tlm»
*t the mouth of .the K.-igrok River on
b' southern shore of Coronation Oulf. j.
During the winter Capt. Bernard via
*'■1 King William Tjand and adjacent ,
cations picking up furs and curios. ■
He tmsjlned at Kagrok River until
p' July and then, having decided tdi (
•ctrace Ms way to Nome; he proceed'
(Continued on Face Two)
CITY DECIDES TO INSTALL
OWN HEATING PLANT |
Declining to accede t<> a contract j
calling for a monthly payment of $1*8 |
for heating the City hall and Fire do- |
partment quarters, the City Council 1
has decided to install a private steam |
heating plant in the fire house to pro
vide warmth for the city buildings.
This decision followed presentation
nf a communication from the Wild
Goose Company at Monday night's
eounoilmnnio session, in which the
company stated that under its publish- |
«m1 contract ratrs. the charge for pro
viding ste-e. t.. heal die civic build-!
ings would amount to $188 per month. |
The communication further advised j
the conuctfl that inasmuch as the coin- j
pany did not advance its rates to the j
efity last year, notwithstanding many j
advances in the price of fuel, and that j
the advance indicated in the n« w I
schedule amounted to no more than l
L’5 jw?r cent over the 1918 rates .the
council should realize tha.t the rate)
quoted this year Is not excessive. At- j
tention was also calleti to the fact j
that a. continuous supply of steams j
was furnished without charge for I
keeping the jacket of the fire engine j
heated, together with an intimations
that experience has shown form t
oouruiil's that the engine cannot ho
started even in summer, unless steam
heat was applied.
amount "f heat,
if purpose rouh
considtM’ably I s.
demanded. Hf
i.nd fflt
also tbf boiler, th
enable morn y by securing its owj
plant. The view was endorsed bj
others and after some diseussioi
Councilman Tarnutzer offered a inn
lion to purchase the lived boiler fa:
beating purposes. The motion pass
ed without <Hiss#»nt.
Dutin.g the attendant proceedings n
the council a request was presrnte*.
from the Schistl Board asking for ar
appropriation of $3,000 from the schoo
fund for school expenses. On molior
was ordered issued for the amount in
dicated. Mr. McIntosh appeared be
fore the council regarding: the taxes
assessed against his property, statins
that he was willing to jmy on the basis
ref his taxes for 191« but considered
that last year's assessment was too
high. Clerk flrim.n thereupon arose
and Informed the council that the
a mount paid by Mr. McIntosh in 1!»1fi
taxes was Jess than it should have been
is a result of a clerical error. C'le.r.
!3rimw stated that after finding his
nast.ake he had personally pa id the
Ufferenee. amounting to 30# himself.
Following this disclosure the matter :
rvas laid ove»- pending further Jnves- 1
The council next took up a writ
en proposal from Mrs. Lyle to purch- '
.se a cabin on Fxrt <5 in Block fit from (
he city for $30 and agreed to accept
the offer on motion of Councilman ^
Maynard. Presentation of a bill for
he lumber purchased on the Outside 1
or solve I purposes developed that th<"
>!H vas not In.keeping with the price
igvvcd upon prior to purchase and tu
•ouncll delegated Councilman O-'fflt*
vlio expects to winter Outside ta 1
nnke a settlement on arrival at Seat
in. A complaint regarding the actio* r
>f certain natives in throwing rubbls** 3
n*o Snake River was referred to tlv 1
lative policemen with instructions t *
pe that the practice is suspended | • «
The council next listened to a pro
•osal offered by A. Polet to assist the *
ifaynard Columbus hospital and child ■
en*s home by giving an entertainment
I some character.. Mr Polet pr inted l
(OdpKiwA m hlH Two)
-INER TO WITHDRAW
FROM ALASKA TRADE
Seattle, Sept. IS Announcement
v.t.s made today that the steamship
M.uik'.i ill be withdrawn from the
Vluska service of the Alaska Steam
ship Company on Noveonber 1. under
he terms of a charter to ply chirin^
he; comint; winter between I’ortlani
md San l-Yanoisco.
That vessel will re turn to th* Al.-ska
i-iide .March 1.
BOMB INJURED REACHES 300
>t persons injured in toe Wall Street
tomb explosion has been raised to
hree hundred, with thirty five per
Worgan’s Whereabout*; Veiled In
Mystery
London, Sept. 18—A viel of seen •••;:
•ounds the. whereabouts of I. I’
nan, Jr., beyond that lie i- h
•e ;it one at his hunting lodsres re
ins •hourly reports of the boml.
Red Circulars Give Clew T« Bemli
New York. Sept. IS—Receipt ;»y
Peparttnent of Justice a cents of radl
rail curculurs sign' d “American An
Rroadwa.\ furnish the first tngi!»!e
rh*w. they said, to flic identity of t'i
persons who were re sponsible for the
Circulars Show Bomliisfs Concerned
In June 1919 Outrages
Washington, Sept. 18— Print'd < nr
>f the IVjii rtment of Just ire which iri
licate that the authors of the N< w
. ork explosion belong to tlie same
5tx>up that June 2. 1919. exploded
bombs in or near the homes of officials
in eleven oiities. The circulars de
mand the release -of all political pris
3omb Exploded In Genoa Stock
Exchange
Roane. Sept, is—A bomb was ex
ploded in the Stock Exchange at Genoa
odny. .Vo lives were lost hut heavy
<ILLS WIFE AND CHILD.
GOES TO SLEE° j
Jedgwick Honor, a local physic: 'n and
i white man. choked both his wife and
hree year old child to death at their
tome here today. After completing
he act he throw their bodies into the
•ack yard. The arresting officers
ound him sound asleep m his io n"
•short time afterwards.
JON RECOGNITION
OF SOVIET RUSSIA
PLEASES UKRANIANSj
Washington. Sept. 18—Oratitnd,!
ver the refusal of the United stain*
o recognize the Russian Soviet gov
rnment is .expressed in a cablegram
eceived by I "resident Wilson from th>
resident of the Ukraninn National
V.mmltttee in Paris and Nicholas
'Chaikovsky, representative of the
>on Cossacks. \
► EGLARES LEAGUE
IS IRRECONCILABLE
WITH CONSTITUTION
Marion. O. Sept. 17—'Pronouncing
ie League of Nations covenant .
irreooncdlahlie with the American
rmsMtutrion," Senator Harding declar
1 in a Constitution Day address he»- •
'.at " the tiime has come for us to «V
ide whether It would preserve o
ban don the charter under which wr
•hieved nationality.’*
ifth Pioneer 8«mi Monthly P>n*'
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18th
H.M M nomr Itha H.ll
DM. tl.M LADIES FREE
EVERYBODY INVITED
AMUNDSEN DELAYED AT
CAPE SERGE
Severe ice conditions along- the
north cast of Siberia had effVctu.tllv
prevented f’apt. Ihmld Amundsen from
getting fairly spirted on his contem
plated journey across the polar ice
cap up to the last week in August, ac*
< n ding to information reaching Nome
Thursday on the Dindeb erg fishing*
fug Ori<m, which returned from a wal
rus hunting expedition extending as
far to the westward :us Cape Sergo.
Those on board the Orion reported
that the Maud had been ice bound a
some time prior to their arrival at
that point, owing to its smaller size
the Orion was able to make her way
almost to the side of the exploration
ship and the crews of the two vessels
“xchansed frequent Visits. Cap*.
Tfekila of the Orion also took several
moving pictures of the Maud in the ice
pack. The Orion party learned that
the Maud hod been shut in between
shore and the ice pack almost from
the time of her arrival off Cape Serge.
The ice lay in an almost solid tints*- for
a distance of approximately one hun
dred miles north of the Maud's position
and moved very little. This condi
tion prevail*,! for days and prevented
any progress northward. i
During the lattes* days of August,
however, the ice opened alone ihe
shore to some extent and the Maud
was able to make her way to the w. •(
ward. When last seen by the Orion
crew she was steadily working her w; y
through the pack in search of an op
ening to the north.
The Orion encountered ice along
practically the entire distance between
K. st Cape and Cape Serge and was
frequently unable to make progress
bof.-uise "f the ice encroaching on the
shore. The Maud was the only ves
> 1 encountered along that section lmt
it was learned that the Polar Dear
” - somewhere in the vicinity of the
Kolyma river, far to the westward.
• . rCng- the Orion picked tip one
of a party of several prospectors left
i the Kolyuchton Bay section by the
Casco last year and returned him to
VmnP. He informed those on th »
' ■ion that the party spent the winte •
and spring in exploring the streams irr
that locality hut had found nothing.
The Orion succeeded in securing a
considerable number- of walrus skii.s
and oil during the trip.
ALLEGED GOVERNMENT
DEFAULTER FREED
S<"it;!'*. Sept. IS—Albert Rchubark,
Corporation, who was charged with de
frauding the government in the con
M ruction of Liberty ships during the
war period, was dismtissed today by
»'••• •’ nil judge Netteror holding that the
evidence .lid not warrant continuing
WALL STREET BOMB
SUSPECT ARRESTED
Hamilton. Ont. Sept. 17—Harold
i'.scher, suspected of knowledge eo'n
rorning the bomb outrage in Wall
S.i- ct, New York, was a-rested in the
A.nk < f Hamilton buiP ng here this
morning by local police.
h';s%her is said to have written
warnings to friends in New York t >
stay away from Wall Street on th»
:lay of the explosion.
FRENCH ASSEMBLY CALLED TO
ELECT NEW PRESIDENT
Paris, Sept. 17—Premier Milleronl
oday submitte<l president Peechanoi'
resignation to tho cabinet.
It was later announced that the N'a -
tional Assembly will be called into
session at Versa.iles Tuesday to elect
t successor.
CALIFORNIA POPULATION
NEARLY SVt MILLION
Waatyagton, Sept. II—Ills
X CaltfMa Is 1.ULM m Ipsrea* of
1.04M9V, —iius bureau reports skew.