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CHAS. RICE RE-ELECTED
TO MAYORALTY
Rl«<* !«•<•,*!v«-«l IK/, his opponent. 102.
owing doubtless to there being only
eml ih<* School Board Clerkship. In
terest in th«- election \v;lk slight and
Ok? vote considerably lighter than w i>
generally expected. Many of the bal
lots contained endorsements of only
three or four tain didates while a nusn
»>er voted only for mayor and clerk nl
th«- school board. <’oiin< il:n:in Chas.
Cavey. candidate for re-election for
the two year term. Jed the tlcket'with
7Vi votes, City Clerk Orlmm. running
to succeed himself r reived 285. Can
didate* for kthe two remaining two
year council seats. 'Messrs S. If.
Burgh and John Utchenherg re ••• v-d
?M and 21X respectively. Councilman
tV-orgc S. Maynard, running for the
nnexplred one year term created by
the resignation of former councilman
M. W. Ur 1111 th. received 208 votes.
Two voters wrpte in the names of
Orant Jackson and Chas Mason for
tire two year council term In lieu of
voting fhr the candidates whose names
were printed on the ballot. One ballot
wilder favored Chas. Thornton with
one vote for the office of City Clerk,
while .** ven others wrote In the name
of William H# Kock. fSrant Jack
eon and C. C. Crooks also received 2
find 1 votes respectively for City
Treasur-r. For the latter office A.
Polet. the present Incumbent, received
221 votes. City Attorney Hugh O'Neill
was returned by a vote of 212.
In the contest for clerk of the School
Board. Dr. W. F. Baldwin beat his
opponent. It. B. Julian, by 72 votes,
out of a total of 28C cast.
The total vote polled was 287, but
one ballot was spoiled, making the i
actual count 216. J
The election was marked by an al
most complete absence of electioneer
Hnig and no workers were visible
around the polls throughout the day.
About thirty voters who registered
foiled to appear at the polls and ap
proximately the same number who had
foiled to register cast their ballots of
Following are the full it-turns.
FOR MAYOR
JiKHMANV, THORLX.F ....102
RI^E. PH ARISES F.1S1
FOR COUNCILMAN,
(Regular Two Tear Term)
CAVET, CHARIJSS .239
MTPHB.VBERO. JOHN ....21S
FOR COUNCILMAN,
I I'm-xpireiJ One Tear Term)
M.\YS.\HI), OHORGK S. ...203
FOR CITY CLERK.
FOR CITY TREASURER
FOR CITY ATTORNEY.
rrtrmu HUGH ..,
FOR CLERK OF SCHOOL BOARD,
BALDWIN', \\\ F.170
Jl’LIAN, R. R.107
BIG MAIL ARRIVED TUESDAY
A limit weight consignment of mail
from the Outside and Interior Alaska,
in. addition to als»ut three hundred
pound* of the delayed second class
matter accumulated at ITnalnkh-ot dur
ing the winter, arrived at the postof
Dce Tuesday in <-harge of Carrier
Curran. The dispatch contained a
large quantity of first cln** matter of
mid-February date*
According to Postnuurter J. .7.
Walsh, the next two malls to arrive
will probably be big one’s, as there is
still a considerable quantity of delay*
ed second class matter i*t ITnalakleet
to be cleaned up before the clow? of
ihe present winter service. Mr.
Walsh states that the first class mails
to come represent only about ten days
accumulation at Seattle, the consign
ment arriving yesterday having left
Puget Sound About that number at
days before the last dispatch over the
wanton trail was forwarded. About
four malls In all will arrive before the
winter service ends.
4 ets a day will bring tbs Weekly
Nugget te your boms.
JOHN LAND r.»i<K
Suits made to order
Repairing, Pressing and Cleaning
LOCAL NEWS
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NOTICE ♦
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All Eagle? .ire requested *
meet at the Aerie Club room ♦ ;
Sunday (tomorfow) • : 7:30 p. ♦’
m. Sharp for the purpose of a‘- ♦.
tending services in a body at the ♦
Federated Chun-h in heu of our ♦ ;
annual Memorial Services ^ ♦
TTLKD HARRISON *
W. President *
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COUNCIL ViSITOR DEPARTS i
Alec Holmson left Wednesday f r|
Council after o short visit in N
EAGLE DEPARTS FOR COUNCIL
‘ has. KaLjjle left for Council City on
a business trip Wednesday. •
WINKLER RETURNS FROM
CANDLE MUSH
A! Winkler returned Thursday from
a trip to Candle via Dime Creek, bring
ing load of motion picture film.--.
HARRY CHESTER PAYS VISIT
DIME CREEK MINER
VISITING NOME
IVto Blooinquist, well known miner
of the Dime section, arrived in Nome
from Haycock during the middle of
NEW ARRIVAL AT
ANDERSON HOME
A b;J>y boy arrived at the hom»- of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Anderson on
C Street Wednesday afternoon. The
little stranger and his mother ar* re
ported by Dr. Welch to be progress
NEVADA UNDERGOING
SPRING RENOVATION
Proprietor Henry Burgh of the Xp
the interior of his popular establlsh
bellished in re. i din css for the open
TWO CANDIDATES APPEAR
FOR NOME POSTMASTERSHIP
John Keen ess and Fred Bohn, wide
ly known old time residents of the
district, are actively seeking: appohit
m<-m as postmaster of Nome, it be
came known during the past week.
GAME WORDEN BACK
FROM STORMY TRIP
fJa/rne Warden M. O. Solberg. re
.week from an official trip which took
him into the Casadepnga and Kouga
MOOSE SOCIAL THIS EVENING
the Loyal Order of Moose will hold |
. public entertainment at Moose Hall i
this evening to which everyone Is In- I
vited. The program will comprise
cards, dancing and refreshment!, and is
scheduled to start at 8:30 p. m.
CONSIDERABLE TRAVEL
TO INTERIOR REPORTED
IN'. P. Peterson, proprietor of the
Nugget roadhouse, arrived in Nome
Monday on a business trip and reported
that consderahle travel Is going on
between Nome and Interior points it
present. There Is also some quart*
prospecting going on in his section.
After spending three days in Nome,
Mr. Peterson departed Friday with a
loed of supplier for h1s establishment.
LAST MAIL DEPARTS
The last Outside maJl of the present
wintei1 left Wednesday morning in
charge of Carrier Curmn. This dis
patch was originally scheduled to close
Tuesday evening but owing to the late
iitIvjU of the incoming mail. Postmas
ter Walsh thoughtfully held the out
going consignment until * a. m. Wed
nesday morning, thus permitting cor
respondents time to answer missives
received on the arriving mail.
MOOSE SOCIAL
PuMie Card Party and Danes at
Moos# Hall, Saturday, April t, StSS
». m. Everyone welcome. Admit
don. Gents $1.00, Ladies fro*
. The Nome Nugget AoUvemd bj car
tor or me Bed. par Vanik $1.$»
BASE BALL
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULED
.Vs soon vis the contesting teams can
be whipped into proper condition, the
public of Nome w.ll Ikivean opportun
ity to indulge its oil time predilec
tion for indoor base ball. Contests
are i-eing arranged ^n-tween trims
representing the Coast Guard, Signal
Corps and Citizens and a large number
of embryonic Ty Cobb's and Iiabe
Ruth's are planning to attend the pre
liminary practice games, the first of
which was held in the -big Eagle Hall
last evening. Every one who desires
to play will be given an opportunity
to secure .* place *»n one of the teams
and much pleasure and good exercise
may l>e derived from the practices even
tho one does not desire to become a
All who arc interested in the gre at
national diversion will welcome th- re
awakening of local interest in the game
and the public can be certain of some
NATIVE DEER HERDER MEETS
DEATH ON TRAIL
A young Eskimo reindeer herder
known a.« I>unnack, son of another
native of the same name, who is wide
ly known thruout Seward Peninsula,
was frozen to death between Cape
Wooley and Cape. Douglas, a short
distance west of Nome, sometime dur
ing to information reaching Nome Fri
day. Details of Die futility could not
OVER TON OF EXCESS
MAIL COMING
Twenty four hundred pounds of de
layed mail matter will shortly arrive
from Nnalakleet. where It has been ac
cumulating for some time'past as a re
sult of the low weight limit on the
Nome-1 Tiralakleet run, according to an
announcement by Postmaster Walsh.
Mr. Walsh states that the indicated
movement is to l>e made apart from
the regular 500 i*>und weekly shipment
and will be brought here under special
authorization from the Postoffiec de
partment.
CANDLEITES ARRIVE ON VISIT
Messrs John Little unci Robert Sny
vlsit during the I a ft days of the Week.
Mr. Little is engaged in mining and
his companion is the proprietor of
trail hostelries of the Candle district.
Their trip down from Candle was made
by way of the old Council-Candle trail
and was rather difficult owing to the
present absence of travel over that
route. The two inushers expect to
start for home^ihout Monday.
SEPPALA EXPECTED NEXT WEEK
Leonard Scppala, Nome's noted
musher, and dog racing hero, who has
recently added to his winter trail ex
ploits by an approximately 2.000 mile
trip from Nome to Bethel on the Kus
kokwiim via Ruby and thence to An
chorage, the Knntishna and Nenann,
as pilot for Major J. C. Got wain of the
Alaska Road Commission, expects t »
arrive in Nome about next Thursday,
according to a telegram received by
Mrs. Seppala from lier husband a few
days ago. Seppala was then at Nulato
on the Yukon. The messuage stated
that travel along the Yukon was slow,
with heavy trails and lots of snow
storms to hinder progress
MISSION TEACHER SHOWS
PUBLIC SPIRIT
The following self explanatory com
munication was received by the Nugget
on the last mail and is published for
the reason that it provides ah excellent
example for some of our local citltens
to follow.
Elton, Alaska. March 15, 1921.
The Nome Nugget.
None, Alaska .
Gentlemen: -
In a foreign language newspaper we
have just run across a news Item re
garding Alaska in general and Reward
Peninsula in particular. Nome is cred
ited with only two hundred people at
present—and that number continually
godng down, so that It is only a matter
of a short time until the straggling na
tives will possess the ruins of the once
itpuknt city. The gold output for the
last year was only a shadow compared
with the output of a few years ago.
But never one word is said about the
real causes for our apparent retnogres
Aa that paper is read by not a few.
who have been interested in this land.
its desire to send the paper some Al
iska *modkdne.'
Will It be convenient for you to send
is a paper of pills that we can for
ward to this Twin City paper?
Vem trply yours.
ti* V«V i iOwtSlr Sr. >
RICE
lOcts LB
Only a few Sacks to be
Sold at the above
Price
D. E CROWLEY GROCERY CO.
R B. JULIAN, Manager
Store Opens 5) a. m. and Closes 6 p. m.
' WM. ARTHURS RECOVERS
FROM OPERATION
Following an X ray exarnination at
Seattle which revealed the presence of
one large and two small ston*s In his
I right kidney, Wm. Arthurs, well
[known local mining man who went
| Outside last fall with his wife and
daughter, was operated on December
10 and s much improved in health, ae- .
cording to a letter from .Mrs Arthurs
received by local friends. i
The family is residing in Seattle ' ,
where, according to Airs. Arthuis. '
rents are still very high hut living j,
costs are not so hard on the pocket- L
ilrook. "Green vegetables arc very I,
(cheap." she says, “sugar Is S to 9 cents I
c n: butter 13 to is cents n< pound: po- ‘,
tatoes $1.25 to $1.75 per sack; flour 1
$9.95 per barrel. Other items men- ^
tinned are lard. 20 cents per pound. ,
lamb roost 15 cents, jiot roast 12V1*. ,
oranges 25 cents a dozen.
! Mrs. Arthurs relates having met
| many Nonieites and ex Xomeites,
among them. Mr. and Mrs. Jos.
Kricek, who have a fine place at Three
Trikes, Fred Daniels and Nels Peterson,
who are located at Snohomish. Dus
Holmberg. who it will be recalled sus
tained a badly crushed foot on one of ,
the York tin dredges in 1919 was re
ceiving treatment for his injured limb
until February 7 in a Seattle hospital
hut was not greatly Improved.
WIRES DOWN WEDNESDAY
The vagaries of the telegraph ser
vice were brought into prominence
agf in Wednesday when the wl vs broke
somewhere in thejower sections of the
territory, a result the Nugget re
ceived no news from the Outside and
was forced to fall back on a few belated
items received Tuesdtiy and a few
local notes to fill up the Dally Bulle
The wires were reported open about
four o’clock Wednesday afternoon but
no press came thru up to the hour of
issue. «
FOR A DISH OF ICE CREAM OR
IA GOOD CUP OF HILLS BROS.
| COFFEC AT ARCTIC BAKERY.
-OST MAN STORY FOOL’S JOKE
Recent reporta from the Candle' sec
ion to the effect that John I)e Rossi,
>r Council was lost arid had possibly
wished on the trail, have proved to be
ased upon nothing more than an
inart aleck desire to play an April
r.o\ joke without regard to possible
on sequences. l>e Rossi was a bit.
iverdue in returning to Candle from a
rip up the Kobuk River and this dr
um stances was employed as a basis
or what must be considered a decided
y reprehensible joke. Re Rossi was
ot in jeopardy at any time, it appears,
nd arrived at Candle a day or two
.fter the report was sent out, well and
r.und. The canard, nevertheless,
■aused much unwarranted ap)»r»*nen
ion among his friends, which the ill
.dvised joker might have forseen hud
e stopped to consider the results of
ikj foolishness. It is regrettable that
he law does not include some means
or punishing people who knowingly
irculatc reports of such character.
JIG WHITE FOX CATCH
AT POINT HOPE
Although the fox catch was unusual
y light In every section of the penin
iula, the natives at l*oint Hope have
ought an ^unusually largo number
vhite fox In that locality, according to
■eports 'reaching Xonne recently, 'fhe
number-taken is not Indicated but, ac
cording to one Informant, the catch
Mired to earlier years’ami is attributed
e some condition of stress or weather
vhfch drove the animals off the sea
ce onto shore. Probably as a result
af the same conditions, polar bear
.vere also numerous, twenty eight of
hem having been killed during recent
How do you Hite the Weekly Xug
r«t? If it suits you, pass It on or
nail it to somebody who might be
come interested in this part of Alaska.
The mineral is here but It takes
nen and capital to get it out. In
•rest your best fi lends by subscribe
ng to the paper tor them. We will
nail it anywbere for fl.Mper month
Going Out Business
Sale starts Honday Feb. 28th
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