LOCAL NEWS
ST. PATRICK’S DAY RANCH
IN A. Ik HALL TONIGHT
Tonight, the evening of St. Pat
rick’s Day. the N. W. Fur. Game
and Fish Protective Association will
hold a dance in the A. B. Hall.
The hall will be decorated w*h
Furs, from Martin's fur store, traps
and hunting gear. Henry Burgh
will have on exhibit cases of stuffed
game birds of Alaska, cases contain
ing numerous specimens. Every ef
fort 11 be made to make the decor
ative scheme carry out the idea for
which the Association stands, name
ly wild animal life and its protcc
A unique feature of the evening’s
entertainment will be the native
dancers, consisting of some twenty
athletic Eskimo men and women.
They will exhibit a prowess in en
durance dance* that will make white
folks wonder how they did It.
The native program wH! merely
be a feature and not the whole show.
The dance is for the Nome dance
loving public and music will be fur
nished by the Nome Orchestra. Ga
brlelson. Woofter and Lesoher, nuf
The fun starts at 9: SO p. m. and
the admission is $1.00 for men.
while the ladies exercise their prero
gative of passing in tree.
Funds derived from this dance
will be used to further extend the
activities of this praiseworthy or
ganization. Tf you fail .to get a
kick out of the party the man at the
door will give your money back.
TENANTS HOLD LOVE FEAST
IN THE POLET FLATS
Last Monday. March 12th. at the
seductive hour of 7 p. A., the ten
ants of the Polet Flats assembled
in the Stan groom apartments and
enjoyed a dinner party unique i-n its
conception and delightful in Its ac
complishment.
Twelve tenants dwell permanent
ly in the Hast and the fact that all
were in accord in the selected
event is unusual from the stand
point of "harmonious relation.”
More unuauai even that their own
harmony was the fact that the land
' lord waa invited to participate. A
! landlord is usually a bete nodr of
his tenants and to include him in
a get-dog* her love feast expresses
either that he is a model landlord
or that his tenants are going to hit
him for a cut in rent.
The ladies assisted Mrs. J. Stan
irroojn to prepare the dinner, which
! was Riven in her apartments. The
i dinner was a delightful afTair and
j all present enjoyed themselves to a
, surfeit. Beginning at 7 p. m. the
I party lasted until 1 a. m. the next
| morning. Zhose present were:
' Mr. and Mrs. J. Stangroom. Mr.
I and Mrs. A. G. Thommen. Mr. and
j Mrs. 1*. E. Morse. Mr. and Mrs. J.
I J. Walsh, A. Poiet. MVw C. Meek.
J Mins Jessie Newton. Orae Cochran,
i Edw. Johnson, Arthur Wright and
( Mitchell Weinberg.
MAH* ARRIVALS
AND DRPA RTITRKH
The regular outside mail arrived
Wednesday afternoon, in charge of
•Poter Curran and departed Friday
morning with the outgoing mail.
As many Nomeites wait until the
»ast minute of the last day before
presenting their registered and par
pel post matter the Postmaster has
‘established a new order. Hereaf
ter all registered and parcel post
must be preaented for mailing be
fore 3 p. m. or will be refused. This
1b done to protect the working force
of the office and enable them to com
plete their work before midnight of
the closing day.
Joe DeRosie will leave with the
regular mail for Teller and north
ern paints April 1st.
Sam Torkelson arrived in Nome
Thursday evening with the Teller
mail. Sam coming to Nome on
business of his own gratuitously
brought the accumulated mall with
The Kougarok maiil. due to leave
Nome on March 16. has been held
by the postmaster until the present
•snow storm is over. To leave for
Ihe interior at this time would be
to needlessly expose the carrier to
danger of death.
| S\AKK RIVER HARBOR WORK
| TO PROCEED THIS HUMMER
| After numerous telegrams being
I exchanged between Col. Steese and
I the City of Nome It has been decid
i *d by the Nome City Council, that
! the only, way to aasuro the comple
! tion of ilte Nome Snake Rhrer har
1 bor and Its future maintenance was
I to pay the amount 'in controversy,
namely, $2,500.00.
i Lest Monday City Clerk Grimm
I wired th^ above amount to the
First National Dank of Juneau—j
; having been so ordered by the City
J Council.
In bis las* telegram to Mayor
Maynard. Col. Steese said:
“The present condition of the
harbor Is immaterial. The allot
ment for RE-DREDGING last sum
mer was made last winter in Wash
ington and was conditional upon
Nome contributing $2,500 for such
work in aiooordance with the prev
ious agreement and you were so no
tified a year ago. ATI allotments
for next season are held up In Wash
ington. until Nome make^ this de
posit. A similar deposit will be re
quired of Nome January first next
year. REGARDLESS OF THE CON
DITION OF IMPROVEMENTS All
of this ie in accordance with an Act
of Congress, approved Aug. 18th,
1517 conforming to the project con
tained in House document No. 1932
of the 64th Congress, second ses
As soon as Nome deposits $2,500
a total of $11,000 for redredging
and $7,300 for other repairs and
extensions will be available, being
a total of around $18,000. all for
this coming season’s operations.
The Federal government has ex
pended $273,000 on this project to
date. but unless Nome immediately
contributes her agreed upon portion
the project will be abandoned. Re
lief can be secured ooly thru an Act
of Congress. The Second Division
•delegates here are thoroughly famil
iar with the sit nation.
In view of this telegram Mayor
Maynard called a special session of
the Ctfty Council Sunday afternoon
March 11th and the matter was
thoroughly threshed out. On mo
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'
tion of Councilman H. Burgh sec
onded and unanimously carried the
city clerk was instructed to immed
iately tedegmph the sum of 12,600
to the designated depository iir Jun
Mayor Maynard sent the follow
ing telegram to Col. Steese. advising
Mm of the City’s action:
Nome. March llth, 1923
U. S. ENGINEERS OFFICE,
June&u. Alaska.
Retel your- ninth. The City Coun
cil at a special meeting today rated
unanimously to wire $2,500 on ac
count or redredging maintenance,
thru Juneau First National Bank.
The people of Nome earnestly hope
that sufficient improvements will be
accomplished this season so as to
enable commencement of the build
ing of docks, from which further
funds can easily be raised for future
maintenance.
MAYNARD. Mayor.
On March l*tfh the Mayor receiv
ed the following telegram in acknow
lodgment of the money received:
Juneau, March IS, 1922
MAYNARD. Nome.
In re yonr telegram of ,the 12th.
The twenty five hundred dollars has
been received. Every effort will be
made to push harbor work aa soon
as weather permits.
STEESE
The contract entered into by the
city and U. S. Government in 1916
whereby Nome was to each yean- con
tribute 12,500 toward the MAIN
TENANCE of the Snake Hirer Har
'.K»r, was entirely contingent upon
the COMPLETION of the harbor.
The U. S. Engineers Office main
tains that the harbor IS COMPLET
ED. We of Noma, witnessing the
bar aaross the inner mouth of the
harbor know full wefll thait the har
bor is NOT COMPLETED, but rath
er than have the entire project
thrown Into the discard the city of
ficials wisely waived the point and
paid the sum aisked for.
With $18,000 s|>ent on completing
the dredging and further extensions
and improvements the coming sum
mer should witness the landing of
freight from the large bonks and the
construction of a City Dock and
Wharf. As soon as.the harbor per
mits free passage of boats and the,
landing of freight, from which the
city can derive a rev\pue, docks and
wharfs are a logical conclusion.
NOME-HASTINGS CREEK RACE
BEATS FORMER RECORD
(Contributed)
Five dog-charioteers bobbed ser
enely up on the middle perspective
at 12 noon on Sunday, last, to take
part in the Nome-Hastings Creek
Race, and at the appointed time—
right on the dot and the scratch—
Al. Carey took off; Ed. Rohn at
12:05; Leonard Seppala at 12:10;
BUlife Cameron at 12:15 and Tom
Kohanek att 12:20.
It was a grand take off, to be .sure.
The weather was mild and a profu
sion of light, fluffy snow was fall
ing. and a light wind whtsked the
falling snow into the faces of the
spectators and participants in a
most friendly manner, mtaktng one
glad to be a ll’ve. and glad of the
privilege of seeing these five sturdy
sons of the Norrth hot-foot It out
j along the course behind the choic
| eet collection of dog-flesh Chat the
| canine world of Seward Penlnaula
j After the last man had left the
scratch, speculation began to sim
mer, babble and finally boil. One
might hear such remarks as: “Well,
it I were a betting man. I’d bet on
So-and-So;’’ and “I’d bet my poke
on 8o-and-8o, only my wife won't
let me gamble,’’ eta., etc., ad Infini
tum; but of course there was no
adtual betting done. It isn’t done
in Nome, becauee lt’e fernenst the
law, and Nome people dote on keep
ing the law In the spirit as well as
to the letter.
There were three prises offered for
the three teams maUnt the course
in the beet time. The third prize
was a nice, new. crinkly ten-spot.
Have you ndfteed. n nice. new. crin
ky ten spot has some very potent
possibilities? Then, the second
prise wan two of *Mie above mention
ed nice, new, crinkly ten-spots ac
companied with a flve-epot of the
same general description and speci
fications. The first prise was four
of the above described ten-spots.
One may do a lot with four jA them
-—properly applied—or could before
Mr. Vohrtead discovered that this
wan a very wicked world, and pro
ceeded forthwith to make the
world safe for grape-juice. But
what we started to say. was, that
Bid. Rohn won the third prize, $10;
Lieonard Sappals won the second
prize, $25 and BilHe Cameron won
the first prize. $40—and on top of
that he won something worth mil
lions of such trifling first prizes, for
when Billie slid across .the scratch
on the home-stretch, little Mrs.
Billie was right there and she
gathered the glorified, victorious
racer Into her arms and covered him
wttih the sweetest klasess imaginable
—ye scribe knows, because he saw
’em. and envied BMlie. exceedingly.
To win such a prize one might do
some u-ndreampt-of deeds of valor—
but. we started to rtulk of dog-mush
ing. and not about the prize BilHe
won whioh was not put up by the
Nome Kennel Club. Who in thun
der wouldn’t run his legs off for
such a prize.
On the whole it was a fine lrtie
race, and thane who saw R—nant'cu
larly those Vrho saw BilH“ arrive—
were glad they were there.
The order in wlrich the entrants
finished. is as follows:
W. H. CAMERON.1:29:17
LEONARD SEPPALA . . ..1:31:1*
ED. ROHN.1:35:32
AL CAREY.1:40:37
TOM KOHANEK.1:41:15
In 1914 Fred Ayer covered the
course In 1:31:40. establishing a
record. Last Sunday’s race saw the
record broken in two places, both
Cameron and Seppala lowering the
former time. All of the drivers tn
last race experienced more or
less’ difficulty wttth their teams. Sep
pala in particular. Had the travel
ing conditions and other advantages
been the same as in 1914 (the record
| wo aid have have been literally
smashed to pieces.'
I wo’ — "
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN;
that the Registration Books for Hie
registration of voters for the Munic
ipal and School Boprd Election, to
be held April 3rd. 1028, will close
March 24th, 1028 at 8 o’clock p..m.
E. GRIMM.
rtBTOXIl TK1AI, KNOW
IN' AWITMIi
Tb* second trial of the case of (ke
United assies vs. Albert DeltMak,
b young native boy, was called In tbe
V. 8. Comminnioner's coart Monday
afternoon March 12, at two o'clock.
District Attorney Harrison repre
sented the government and Attorney
Hugh O'Nefll represented tbs defen
dant. The Jury after due dehber
at'ion brought io a verdict of NOT
GUILTY.
The brut trial of Uhls case was
hold Friday March Mb. The Jury
ait that time was unable id agree
and staid out all night, ending Me
deliberations with a vote of tig to
Commissioner Thornton realised
that to hoop tbe Jury longer would
be tare Ini nod nn unueceusury es
penae to the government ns well a*
n hardship on tbe Jurors nod accor
dingly discharged the twelve mm.
Tbe repreeentatlTe of the United
States Immediately gave notice of a
new trial and tbe new venire was
Tbe charge against the defendant
wan "Vlolatdoo of the Bono Dry Act
of Afcaka." the specific charge being
that of "having alcoholic Manor In
his possession.”
The evidence upon which the de
fendant eras brought Into court was
a partly filled container of about
14 ounce capacity. This bottle and
Its content!* was the evidence. Ex
hibit "A,” for the government.
The government establWhed the
fact that the defendant had become
intoxicated from liquor from an
other bottle, btit failed to prove that
the bottle In evidence had ever been
in the ipoaeeesrfon of the defendant,
notwithstanding the faot that Theo
dore Gregory le now nerving a sen
tence of 6 months in the Federal
jail for having been responsible tor
liquor coming into possession of De
lutak. When brought into court as
a witness Gregory denied the’ fact
that he had given or sold liquor to
the defendant.
A<* the srovernment based Its case
on liquor in possession of the defen
dant Albert Delutak and failed to
prove the fact, the Jnry brought in
a verdict of not gnWty.
Comtnvftwioner Thornton a,t the
end of the trial made a ruling that
If carried out in the future seta a
dangerous precedent, it was thde:
The government introduces Exhibit
“A” and then from the Comsn&qdon
era <%lffcrtlon pf seized contraband
selected a container purporting to
have been taken from the residence
of Theodore Gregory. The Motrhft
Attorney then passed both to the
Jury, for them to SMELL and estab
lish the identity of the two conttln
1 ed liquors—(an impossible thPng to
At the conclusion of the trial
District Attorney Harrison stated
that the "Exhibitsthe two con
tainers and their contents, most be
removed from the Jnry room while
the jury deliberates. Commission
er Thornton sustained the request of
Harrison over the protest and objec
tion of Attorney O’Nefft, thereby
establishing the precedent that
"EVIDENCE” can not remain for
examination or deliberation by a
Jury. Such decision is a perversion
of the l*w of evidence and Is decid
edly dangerous In a democratic
country._
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