THE NOME NUGGET
VOLUME 24.
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY, JULY 7th, 1023.
Oelivored by C»rru
Mailed.|1.00 per Month
HOME Will RECEIVE AEROPLANE
NEW POLITICAL PARTY FORMED IN CHICAGO
GIGANTIC FIRE
DEVASTATES
GOLDFIELD, NEV.
RENO, July 7—Goldflields, Nevada was swept with fire Friday
morning that left a damage of three quarters of a million dollars in it’s
wake. Communication by wire was cut off with outside towns until late
Friday night and grave danger was felt for many residents of the town.
First aid has been rushed the ravaged town from Reno. A section of ten |
blocks was practically destroyed and many left homeless in the wake of
the terrific blaze.
Goldfield is a gold mining camp and was at one time one of the
largest strikes in the states.
FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL
SEATTLE, July 7—E. E. Ray. track waiker for the Copper River
and Northwester Railroad of Alaska was found dead in the Atwood Hotel
apparently from heart disease.
PREDMT8 AGE OF EARTH, TWO BILLION YEAR#*
■WASHINGTON, July 7—The Smithsonian Institute made public a
paper by LoVfl Raleigh the fengiish Scientist in which fie give* the age of
the earth as more, than two billion years and possibly three.
VICTORIA SAILED
FROM SEATTLE
FOR NOME FRIDAY
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SEATTLE, July 7—Special to the Nugget—The Alaska Steamship
Company steamer Victoria sailed from Seattle at 5\p. m. July 6th for
Nome via Akut&n, following is a list of passengers aboard.
For Nome—Mrs. B. M. O’Connell. John Drain, E. J. Warburton, W.
H. Kaskh, H. M. Hanson, Mrs. H. M. Hanson, Wilber Medergenaus, Ther
esa Eacholt, N. J. Portell, J. Walker, Irving Reed. J. Summerville. A.
Nelson, Gns Haynes, C. Garvin, Gns Hansen, D. D. Kronquist, H. Garvin,
J. F. Halpin, Rose Gray.
For 8t. Michael—Mrs. I. Vogle, Katherine Vogle.
One hundred tons of sacked coal and five hundred tons of general
freight are billed to Nome.
LBIVINE MADE COUNCIL HEAD IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, July 7—Lemne though ill was made Titular head of the |
Council of Commissioners of the newly created United States of Russia.
FRENCH ADMIRAL DEAD
PARIS, July 7—Admiral Debon. French Naval Chief of Staff, is
reported dead according to a wire from Paris.
POPE PLANNING TO ISSUE THREATENING! LETTER
LONDON. July 7—An article in the New Leader says that Pope
Plus is planning to issue an encyclical letter threatening the excommuni
cation to any Catholic soldier who bears arms across the frontier of his
POINCARE TAKES EXCEPTIONS TO POPE’S PLANS
*ARI8. July 7—Poincare in an address before the Chamber of
Deputiea as (ha attitude of Pope Plus respecting German reparations, de
clared that tfca Pope has no power in the world to deprive France of her
rights under the ^Versailles treaty.
KHJJBO BY POLICEMAN
SEATTLE, July 7—-When, caught stealing an automobile spotlight
Walter Barg 19 year old Vonth, attempted to escape and was shot and kill
ed by Policeman C. G. Stanhope.
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AEROPLANE ON
WAY TO NOME
BY SCHOONER
The following wire was r
San Francisco: The four maste
to sail from San Francisco late
fifty men, women and dhildren
eceived today by the Nome Nugget from
rl schooner Fred H. Wood was scheduled
today for Nome with one hundred and
who have consolidated their savings in
the form of a IV-velopnent Company which according to A. H. Moore,
President of the Compan f are owners of five thousand acres of gold bear
ing placer land in the h«»rt of Alaska. The schooner, an automobile, and
a tractor were purchased! with various other supplies on a cooperative plan
Moore is no straiiger to Alaska having attempted <
promote a project something on the same lines that this one
shortage of funds the other project was abandoned and
>n. Owing
’ Moore has
evidently raised the necessary funds for another proposition and is on
his way here to start operations. It is supposed that the aeroplane that
Moore has purchased/will be used in making qnick transportation to and
from the location of/bis mining activities.
The Nugget printed an articel in the edition of Feb. 3rd. 1923.
where the Alaska Investment and Development Company had purchased
the dredge located ok Osborne creek with adjacent claims and ditch lines
from V. A. Jqlian for pne half of this sum to be paid dowitaMQ^f.
the balance, to be paid In $5,000 monthly installments after the season
opens this summer.
This is the company that is on their way to Nome now on the
schooner Fred H. Wood to start operations on the claims with the dredge
already mentioned. The company’s circular states that once water is
running thru their ditches it will be possible to clean up from $500,000
to $100,000 each season, and claims to have control of enough ground to
w Tk for one hundred years.
A NEW FARMER
LABOR PARTY
FORMED CHICAGO
L . , ; '!'Ok::!■**■? _ ’*1 ahat-A-x. 8 ”J..i
CHICAGO. July 7—A new Federated Farmer Labor Party with a
platform under the leadership of teh Workers Party of America was born
here last Friday. But the old Farmer Labor Party refused to participate
in a substitute for the old organization. A committee platform was sub
mitted by Caucus of the Farmer Labor Delegation but one substitute sec- <
tion provided that no organization affiliated with the Third International1
at Moscow could be a group to the party. Any weapon may be used in
obtaining political control to organize a government according to the new
Federated Farmer Labor Party created here Friday.
ALASKA MINED COAL
NOW ON SALE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA
WASHINGTON, July 7—General Gouraud the French war hero
wept aa he placed a wreath on the tomb of the unknown American eoldteT
at Arlington Cemetery and add rearing thirty Army and Nary Officers de
clared that Germany must be bronght to realise that she was beaten.
PERISH IN THUNDERSTORM
PITTSBURG, July 7—Fire were killed in a thunder storm which
broke over the city late yesterday according to a dispatch from PIttsbnrg
this morning.
HARDING TO
VISIT SEATTLE
ON RETURN TRIP
SEATTLE, July 7—Walter Brown Manager of the President’s
itinerary has approved the plans this afternoon for a ten hour visit to
Seattle by the President upon his return from Alaska the 27th. The
program includes a Fleet Parade during the day and a speech late in the
afternoon at the Stadium, then the President will depart for California
at 7 P. M. the same evening.
HARIHNU ENJOYING TRIP TO ALASKA
ON BOARD HENDERSON. Friday July G—President Harding is
enjoying a period of complete relaxatioe after his strenuous trans-con
tinent la 1 journey. Hatless and smoking a pipe the President strolled
about the decks of the Henderson yesterday afternoon pausing frequently
to chat with members of his party. Despite th*> rain the President wit
nessed the majestic skyline of Everett’s smoke stacks and Port Townsend,
Last evening the lights of Victoria wore rvbeaa and at several point*
hugh guns of Nfcva) ships boomd out the Residential salute.
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LIOUOR COPS JAILED
AFTER ASSAULT
YOUNG WOMAN
MALONE, N. Y., July 7—Residents along the Canadian border are
aroused over the wounding of Miss Belle Baker by Federal Officers who
were watching for rum runners and fired at the automobile in which Miss
Baker and her father were riding when the latter refused to stop. The
officers were later arrested and chargd with assault.
LENGLEN REMAINS SUPREME
WIMBLEDON, July 7—Suzanne Lenglen is still supreme among
women Tennis players of the world, having this afternoon defeated Kath
erine McKane both British Tennis playing women.
HARDING TO RECEIVE MAIL BY PLANE
WASHINGTON, July 7—Two special pouches will be sent from
Seattle to Vancouver by hydroplane to deliver the mail to Harding and
members of his party when the transport Henderson arrives there the
26th of July. The Postmaster General declared today that mail service
would be available for important communications to the President. The
pouches will leave here July 22nd and 23rd and will travel over the regu
lar domestic air lines to the Pacific coast.
brevities.
8T. LON IS. July 7—Mrs. Bertha Horchem of Ranson, Kansas,
established a new altitude record for women by ascending 16,380 feet at
St. Louis late yesterday.
TACOMA, July 7—Hoover was made a member of West Post 91
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in recognition of his services in behalf
of the organisation.
TACOMA, July 7—Harding announced upon bis departure for
Alaska that Judge Gary had Just-informed him of the surrender of the
American Steel offers to an eight hour day in all branches of the industry.
SEATTLE, July 7—The mysterious explosion of a bomb !n a vacant
residence where children were playing blew off the hand of John Treaney,
nine years old, and destroyed the right eye of Richard Craven.
If there is anyone in Nome unable to subscribe for the Nome Nugget
in order to read the gager, we win be glad to send them a copy free.