A CREDIT MERCHANT CARRIES
TWO STOCKS OF GOOOS: ONE
IN THE STORE; THE OTHER
SCATTERED AMONG HIS CREDIT
CUSTOMERS.
CARRYING CUSTOMERS ON THE
BOOKS INCREASES THE COST OF
DOING BUSINES9 ITS ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT COMPEL THE
(MERCHANTS TO GET HIGH PRICES
FROM THOSE WHO PAY.
WHY DON'T YOU PAY CASH
AND BE INDEPENDENT ? TRADE
WHERE PRICES ARE FIGURED ON
A SPOT CASH BASIS.
A GROCERY
NOTES FROM THE
TELLER DISTRICT
(The following notes front the Tel
der <lnte of January 1st. -Ed.)
Teller ha<l the honor ««f entertain
ing a number of distinguished visitors
during holiday week. I lev. Father
liupert, Dr. J. E. Dutcher and Capt.
Thos. A. ilos.s, appeared in our midst
shortly before Christmas. After a
short stay in the settlement they pro
eeedod to l.ost Itiver to spend Christ
mas at the tin mine. On the follow
ing Tuesday Father liupert and Capt.
Ilos.s returned to Teller and spent New
Dr. Dutcher remained at the tin
mine to take up his duties with the
tin company, which has contracted for
his services for a period of one year,
lie is said- to be very contented to
remain there and rest up a bit before
going north in search of a polar bear.
Me also stated that he does not con
sider blazing many trails in the North
land until he becomes a regular sour
Father liupert read mass ever>
morning during the past week, the lit
tle church edifice being filled each
da> With the increase in population
at Teller It will be necessary to en
large the church to about twice its
Onpt. I toss didn’t seem to walk
quite right on his return and claimed
to have a little kink in his back.
After a week's rest in Teller he ad
mitted that it was his disposition.
Iteports from the Lost ltiver tin
mine are very gratifying: to all con
cerned. At a depth of 110 feet, a
large body of tin ore of high grade has
showed up as a result of winter opera
The Great Northwestern Company
teams have landed all the freight, left
a i Nome by the "dry land squadron”
last fall, safely on the Bluestone and j
will at once begin the moving of the'
company’s dredge from the mouth of
the milestone on the Tucsuk river to
the site of operations.
Another dredge for the right fork of i
the Bluestone is being considered by,
the company and later on a third j
dredge will he installed on Gold Run]
proper.
The benches on Gold Run and the'
Bluestone are showing up good this
winter. Gordon Strange is operating
on Gold Run and will work a bench on
the right limit of No. 8, where he has
located fair pay.
The Great Northwestern Mining Co
has secured by options all of the
ground not owned by the company on
the Bluestone and Gold Run for dredg
ing purpose's.
Christmas was made #realV tl|is
year, as far as the temperature was i
concerned, as *it was from 32 to 45
below during the week.
It was decidedly pleasing to the
people of Teller and I»st River to
learn that a regular monthly stnge will
pl.v he tween Nome and those points
ind will he increased to a twice a
month service when freight and pas
senger traffic warrants. The sleigh
used will he covered and have a stove
>nd lights, as well as grub on board,
so that there will he no danger of suf
fering on the part of the people who
travel north in future.
Mis:-. 11 usfe, sister at the mission
ucnrss the bay, says she enjoys every
minute of her work and is looking
forward to joining the ranks of sour
doughs.
The stork visited tlie home of Mr.
and Mrs. Tweets on Cayotc creek a
few days ago and brought a fine 14
pound boy.
Win. McAdams and J. McLeod ar
rived at Teller for New Year's and
will proceed to the Itfuc&tone, where
they intend taking out a winter min
The writer has never before observ
ed so many red noses as are going
mouml in this section lately. Cnm*
missioner Billy Marx went to Lost
Liver to look for a still recently. He
also stopped to spend the night on I’t.
Spencer, as it was rather stormy. lie
claims lie found no evidence of a
“moonshine" outfit but came hack
with a red "beak" also. The scribe
intends to follow his trail the next
Toddy Winfield's native trapper
Poreuok, who became famous as a
Persuek, who became famous as a
Teller, is now greatly increased in
fame because of a big catch of fox.
Among some thirty odd he has trap
ped so far is one very fine blue pelt
Territorial Hoad Commissioner Bar
ney Clibney will be long remembered
by the boys up here for the fine shelter
cabins and tents he has installed along
the trail to Teller and I^ost Hiver and
also up the Tishou river to Cold Hun.
They are a great convenience to trav
elers. Tin- shelter cabins on Nolan
Creek. Deere Creek and Spencer will
soon bo fully equipped. Tuksuk,
mouth of the Hluestone. Cape Douglas
and Cape Wooley are already well fit -
ted up with frame shelters. The
Douglas cabin, however, has been
visited by native trappers and is al
ready in no condition for a white man
to stop there.
KELLY QUITS NAT'L REP.
COMMITTEEMAN RACE
.Milo Kelly has withdrawn from the
forthcoming race for Hepuhlican terri
torial representative on the Republi
can National Committee and will not
appear as a candidate at the primar
ies, according to wire advices reach*
Ing local Republicans from Mr. Kelly
himself.
In a message dated at Seattle, Jan
uary 10, Mr. Kelly says he has de
cided to withdraw from the National
Committeeman contest in favor of
Chas. E. Herron, of Anchorage, who
is also out for the post of Territorial
Committeeman.
The Nome Nugget delivered by car
rier or mailed. Per Month fl.OO
COMMISSIONER MARX HAS
CLOSE CALL ON TRAIL
To be lost for hours in a blinding
blizzard and undergo the trials and
dangers of a night in the oj>on along
the unsheltered shores of Cape Spen
eer while, the storm king vented his
wrath in a whirl of bitter cold and
driving snow, was the recent perilous
experience of United States Commis
sioner Wh. Marx of the Port Clar
ence Precinct, according to informa
tion brought to Nome by Capt. Thos.
A. Ross, who returned from a trip
to the Teller and Hot Springs sections
last week in company with Rev. Fr.
Rupert.
Commissioner Marx spent the en
tire night of December 21 on the bar
ren reaches of Point Spencer, without
shelter of any kind and without even
a sleeping bag to protect him from the
I gale and lashing snow. Unable to
see in the darkness and driving snow
murk: bleeding at the nose from the
intense cold: saved from yielding t <
the deadly sleep of freezing only by
the strongest exertion of will and oc
casional stumbles over his recumbent
dog team. Commissioner Marks trudg
ed weary circles around his sled
throughout tin- long hours of storm
and darkness, fighting ofT the chill
grip of the frost until daylight
brought surcease from his terrible
vigil and permitted him to recognize
his surroundings. With the coming
of day the storm abated and the half
frozen Commissioner was able, to con
tinue his journey to Teller.
Relating the story of his experience
to Capt. Ross. Commissioner Marx ]
said lie became lost in the storm when i
within about six miles from Teller j
while returning from Lost River. Mr. j
Marx left Teller on the morning of
December 24th with Capt. Ross and!
Father Rupert as passengers, intend- |
ing to deposit them at the tin mine]
landing camp at the mouth of Lost I
River and return to Teller the same
day in order to spend Christmas with
his family. Shortly after leaving
Teller the trio were overtaken by a
of 35 below. They arrived at the
lower camp on host River at 3:30 p.
this time but Commissioner Marx
was anxious to return home and left
for Teller immediately. He succeed
ed in covering about 25 miles of the
Journey without difficulty and reached
a point on the bay near the entrance
to Grantley Hatbor. The trail at
this point ran between two strips of
open water and it was while en
deavoring to avoid these* danger spots
in the storm and gathering gloom that
Marx became lost. In some manner
he became turned around and appar
ently crossed the lower end of the
bay. After traveling for some time
he realized his predicament and de
cided to stop. By this time* dark
ness had settled down and the storm
was so dense nothing could be seen
Hour after hour was passed in trudg
ing around his dog sled, the chill
monotony unbroken save by occas
sional falls from stumbling over the
clogs. These tumbles. Mr. Marx
said, were about* all that kept him
from falling to sleep several times.
Luckily he was clad in furs and the
knowledge gained in |ong mushing
experience enabled him to avoid freez
ing any portion of his body aside from
blistered a bit despite ail precautions.
Save for the slight loss of skin involv
ed in this, he was none the worse for
his expetlenoe. Although escaping
practically unscathed, the experience
was one that the commissioner will
probably not recall without a shudder
for many year to come. For a less
experienced musher than he it would
probably have ended In a tragedy.
TAKES SUPPLIES TO LOST RIVER
Percy Blatchford departed Wedncs-'
day for Teller and Lost River with a
quantity of supplies destined for the
Lost River tin mine.
The Arctic Brotherhood will give a
Hard Times Danco, Saturday January
24th, A. B. Hall. Everybody wel
some. Adm. gente $1.5t Ladies Fret
E. L. HOLT
Successor to E. W. Carleton Co.
HARDWARE, CROCKERY
GRANITE WARE, FURNITURE,
HOUSE FURNISHINGS,
' DREDGE 8UPPLIES,
Sole Agent For
Lange Stoves and Ranges, Moore's
Merritt Ranges, also Columbia Mining
Shovels and Turoa Gasoline Lighting
TIN 8HOP IN CONNECTION.
• Telephone Main 11
HILT GISH STORE
MURDERER ARRESTED HERE
GETS LIMIT SENTENCE
Clarence Johnson, alius "Harry
Burns," the Cortland murderer, whose
capture was accomplished in Nome
last summer by U. S. Marshal K. It.
Jordan, was Riven the maximum sen
tence allowed by the Oregon law, life
imprisonment, on arrival at the scene
of his crime. according to advices
reaching Marshal Jordan on recent
Johnson was arrested August -9th,
last, while working at the Nome Life
Saving Station under Capt. Thos. A.
Boss. The young murderer, was ap
prehended as a result of wire infor
mation and descriptions sent out by
the Portland police officials, charging
him with the brutal murder of his
benefactress, Mrs. Kunioe Freeman, a
prominent Portland woman.
His capture was accomplished so
deftly that Johnson was landed in the
federal jail, almost before he realized
he was under suspicion. Following
incarceration Johnson admitted to the
Marshal his connection with the mur
der of Mrs. Freeman, telling tire re
volting details of his crime, and also
owned up to having served time in ?»
California penintentiary for the at
tempted murder of another woman in
that state. He also admitted holding
up a man in Seattle shortly before
coming to Nome. The only extenua
tion offered by Johnson for the mur
der of Mrs. Freeman, who had secur
ed his release from the California
prison on parole to herself, was that
he was “afraid she might send him
back to the i>en.” He was turned
over to Inspector Jn<>. A. Holtz and
A. I.. Phillips of the Portland Police
department Oct. 7 and was taken to
Portland. According to the informa
tion reaching Marshal Jordan. John
son received the sentence of life im
prisonment with apparent indifference
and turned away before the court had
finished pronouncing judgement.
Before passing sentence the court
severely excoriated Johnson for his
cold blooded crime and remarked that
he was sorry the law did not permit
a sentence of solitary confinement.
Johnson’s only remark after hearing |
the words which will confine him to a 1
prison cell for life were to the effect
that lie was glad to get cn his way
INCOME TAX RETURNS IN ORDER
With the opening of the NewYear,
figuring up income tax returns is once
more an uncheerful diversion among
such "f our citizens as have an in
come of sufficient size to put them in
the ranks of those who pay that an
nual tithe to ITncle Sam. The indus
try this year has one compensation,
however, in that there is a
slight reduction in the amount of the
tax. The 1920 tnXation requires pay
ment of 4 per cent on net earnings of
$4,000 or under, as against 6 percent
on the same amount last year. Be
yond $4,000 the 1920 tax is 8 percent.
Returns from this district are re
quired to he in the hands of the inter
nal revenue collector at Tacoma, Wn„
not later than March 15th to avoid
penal ties, hence it behooves those who
have returns to make to forward their
remittances at an early date.
BOILED NEW ENGLAND DIN
NER EVERY SATURDAY AT
MILO’S CAFE.
Mcarthur and lewis
BOUND UP YUKON
Messrs. Joe McArthur and Norvin
Lewis are now somewhere on the Yu
kon bound for Nulato, according to
wire information reaching local friends
of the mushers. The two men left
St. Michaels January in company
with Oeo. R. OJoshaw, the well known
fur buyer, who is proceeding to the
Outside.
.SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET.
Cm HEALED
BABV’SMNGWORM
On Head. Cross and Fretful.
Hair Fell Out
TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION
RESTORED
Telegraph communication with the
outside was restored Thursday, fol
lowing an interruption lasting since
Tuesday morning. During the Inter
val a few commercial and official mes
sages came through by the radio
routes: but'for some unexplained rea
son no press messages were permitted
to reach this section. It was ex
plained at the telegraph office that the
interuptlon was due to the breaking
down of the land line system between
Fairbanks and the coast but the local
staff could give no reason why press
matter was not routed over the air
routes. As a usual thing when such
interruption was due to the breaking
warded over the naval radio system
but this time there was "nothing
doing,” whether by reason of red tape
or official "nfficlousness" no one ap
pears to know definitely. It is sug
gested that the latter was the case,
as It is known that suggestions made
by the local Signal Corps officials that
messages be routed via St. Paul Is
land and the naval radio stations were
frowned upon by the chief something
or-other at Gibbon, one Collins, who
appears to be of that class of official
high mightinesses who dismiss public
inconveniences with that eloquent
phrase: "The public be d-d!"
At least he Is said to have replied to
the suggestion with the statement that
he did not “consider it advisable" to
Not receiving a scrap of telegraph
matter between Monday and Thursday
evening, the Nugget wn« unable to ls
aue the Dally Bulletin for three daya.
a situation decidedly Inconvenient to
the public as well us ourselves.
OUTLINES ALASKA AIR ROUTES
The "Aircraft Year Book" is the title
of an interesting volume on aviation
matters reaching the Nome Chamber
of Commerce from the Manufacturers
Aircraft Association, a national or
ganization composed of the American
manufacturers of air craft and aircraft
apparatus. The volume Is hand
somely hound, profusely Illustrated
with cuts of all types of airplanes and
dirigibles built in America and gives a
general resume of the development or
aviation from the days of the earliest
attempts of man to master the air.
aviation records, and the growth of
the aircraft production industry in
the United States. The volume also
contains maps of world and national
air routes, including proposed routes
from Seattle to Alaska and Nome, th«>
latter running from Seattle to Sitka.
700 miles, Sitka to Anchorage, 600
miles, and Anchorage to Nome. 600
BACK FROM HOT SPRINGS
Messrs. Bernard Neil'y and Chas.
Carr returned Thursday from a
freighting trip to Hot Springs with
supplies for the Catholic orphanage.
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INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
ALL KINDS OF FRESH MEATS
UPON ARRIVAL OF FIRST BOATS
BEEF, MUTTON, PORK, VEAL
ANr POULTRY, HAM, BACON, BUTTER.
ALL BI'.LS MUST BE PAID ON OR BEFORE THE
10th. OF EACH MONTH
WM. WEBB.Prop.
Happy New Year
And the Season’s
Greetings to All
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
Bread 15c loaf, two loaves for 25c
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