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VOLUME XXI. No 37. NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY SEPT 11 1920 Delivered by Carrier or Mailed $1 00 per Month
Nome is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska and Siberia
COX CAMPAIGNING COAST STATES
WOW APPEARS M ITUMlj HUE MSIMCT
SAYS PUBLIC NOT
INTERESTED IN
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Hamline, Minn. Sept 11—"The
country at large would not wire thirty
cents to find out the exact figures of
any campaign fund", said Aaron
Swartkins, prohibition party candidate
for president, in an address here today
at the State Fair.
-The real questions ate the League
of Nations, the labor problem and the
extinction of the. liquor traffic.” Swar*
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GOV. COX OPENS
WEST COAST CAMPAIGN
Hell Ingham, Wn. Kepi. 11—"The I
government of the United States must,
per or lower mob,” Governor Cox de
clared hero this morning in opening'
a duy full of slump speeches along the
western const.
His address, it was apparent, was
directed at the radical element that
►”ts been creating disturbances in the
■Northwest.
During the course of his speech Cox
road a letter from H. A. Alexander,
■chairman of the Washington Republi
can finance committee in which Alex
ander said Seattle had raised sixty
thousand dollars of Us allotment of
sixty five thousand.
Cox Delivering 10 Speeches Daily
■Seattle. Sept. 11—Governor fox, in
delivered a scries of addresses .n
I*uget Sound cities today, passed th;:1
Seattle at seven o'clock this morning
on his way to Bellingham, at whicn
point hv will make his first speech in
this section. In addition to speaking
at Bellingham, Cox will also address
the citizens of Everett this forenoon.
T)ur|ns mid afternoon he will sjxvik . •
Tacoma, and return to Seattle. On
arrival nere he will be talon <«n a
sightseeing drive and participate in
ap tirade before making an ; ddress
Cox h;us been avering ten speeches
daily and the strain is beginning to
iell in a voice grown decidedly husky.
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KENTUCKY SCHOOL
TEACHER BRUTAL
MUOER VICTIM
an, Kentucky, Sept. 11—Miss
Rimma Parsons, aged 25, teacher of
domestic science in the Pine Mountain
Kcttlement school near here, was found
murdered today on a mountain trail
u short distance from this place.
The murder was or particularly
atrocious character. She had first.
been severely beaten with a fence rail,
then assaulted. Finally her vicious
attackers cut her throat.
The body, livid with bruises and
covered with blood, was found und'-r
a rocky ledge near a convict eajnp of
seventy negroes, some of whom are
believed responsible for the brutal act.
LABOR ANNOUNCEMENT
CREATES RIOT
New York, Sept. 11—Police reserv- I
es were called out here today to sup
l>disturbances which followed the,]
announcement by Gompers of the
names of the members of the commit
tee appointed to draft a constitution!
for the newly organised Central Trades |
Labor Council for New York and vl- I
Hostility among the labor unions to
some of the men chosen was the un
derlying reason for the disturbance*.
The men appointed to the committee
Ijv (iompers were James R. s;tol
land. president of the New York Sta«e
Federation of Labor and vice presi
dent It. J. Brady.
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8ALM0N OUTPUT E8TIMATED
AT VA MILLION CA8E8
Seattle. Sept. 10—Secretary Dou
glas, of the Association of Pacific!
Fisheries, estimates the season’s Alas
ka prick of red and pink salmon at
three and a quarter million cases,
▼mined at 930.000,000 and brinflng the
total valve of products of all kinds
afeaee the purchase of Alaska to
ju. S. CRUISER AGROUND
| IN BALTIC
j Washington, Sept. 10—The Ameri
i can armored cruised Pittsburg is,
| aground in the Baltic Sen three miles
I from LUiau on the coast of Courland,
, Russia, according to a Navy Depart
, ment announcement today. The army
(transport Frederick, now at Antwerp,
* has been ordered to proceed to the as
sistance of th# Pittsburg.
STANDING OF
THE BIG LEAGUES
the standing of the '
New York
St Ixniis. .
Washington ,
HhihideTphia
Boston . . . ,
I’hihul-Lphin
SALAZAR IVTADE PERMANENT
GOV LOWER CALIFORNIA
Mexacnlii, Dower Cal. Sept, tl—
(.onerul Bouis M. Salazar lias been
appointed permanent governor of the
Northern District of louver California
by Provisional President Huerta.
LONDON LABOR PAPER
MAKES NOVEL PLEA
. - London, Sept 11—The Daily Harold
a radical laborite newspaper he-e
'frankly n.skeri its readers today if it
should accept an offer of $875,000 as a
"ijif.t" from Itussian sympathizers. The
a je r Haims that without this support
it wi'l !>e comp lied to douTile its price.
SHIP SITUATION LAID
BEFORE GOVERNOR RIGGS
t's.a
mor«- than the st.-iltitory allow.mce of
tMssengcrs under special dispensation.
Wc doubt even though this i< allowed
seeking t I’.-i nsportn t ion can lie a-como
d/ited. We have at all times consider
ed that such dispensation is an im
position on the traveling public- from
this port of Alaska.
Pan Territorial Shipping Hoard
serve us? (We) ask that you bring
this matter immediately to .ittenthm
of Secretary Payne. also Shipping
Hoard. Advise us of your effoi ts and
Signed Northwestern Alaska <" am
ber of Commerce.
wired Sept. 7 to th-- followin'.? effect. !
"Have taken matter up with Payne
and Alaska Steamship Compare' and
Pacific Steamship Company. Will ad
How many passengers to go out on
next sailing (and) how many will be
left? .Will this trip Victoria deliver
ill freight ordered? .Answer ofRci-d
business.
Signed Higgs, Governor
To make the situation still plainer
to the Governor, the Chamber of Com
merce further advised him to the fol
lowing effect Thursday.
“Re tel 7th, One sailing of Victoria
•an probably handle vital necessary
supplies. The hardship especially com
plained of with only October 10th
tailing Is the closing down of opera
ions three weeks before close of sen
If immediate assurance is given
Hint Victoria will leave Nome October
J5th, same would be advertised and c
he difficulty partly overcome. First i
:lass and Intermediate for last trip a I- r
teady all booked, leaving many repre- I
tentative men for steerage only. St a
Michael and Nome will furnish over a
•00 passengers for next sailing. How- t
sver objectionable overcrowding is.
:!•• steamship company
■rtised last -ailing S»*pt
■cssure now October lot
signed Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Coanmeree.
The net results of the protests and
efforts of the Chatrtber of Commerc-'
inay be summed up as decidedly fruit
ful. Th»- company has rhanged ii^
original last sailing date of the Victoria
from Sept. 15 To October 10. The
means that twenty five days have been
added to the length of the mining per
iod which would have been forced up
on the miners by the company. Need
less to say the added time has been ot
great, benefit through increasing th»
gold output and the earnings of labor
employed in summer mining.
The mercantile interests have a!s<
been granted additional time to se
cure supplies for the winter. In ad
dition Che c ompany has been hrouglv
to a realization of the fact that fur
ther display of such arbitrary method'
will result In the diversion of Nome'
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SUSPECTED WIFE
MURDERER ARRESTED
AT WASHINGTON
Wnxhinjjton, I). (’. Sept,
police in connection with t!
w:ih CiinoeinK on tin* I'.itumn
LITHUANIAN ADVANCE
AIMED TO AID
TNAPPED RUSSIANS
JjOmlon,
Lithuanian advance against the I’oh-s
n the region North of Suwalki was
i screen for t!v escape of ten thous
md Bolshevik! troops trapped hy the
’olish forces in the recent fighting, ac
’olish tlii'li
recently the object of a protest
Poland to the League of Motions.
TACOMA LAO
KILLED IN
IRISH RIOTING
Tacoma. Sept. 11—The nine year
Id non of Jaimes K. Maloney, a prom -
lent Tacoma merchant and business
lan. was shot and killed at Watertown |
'eland, by a British soldier during
recent clash between Irish factions
t that place, according to Informs
Ion reaching the boy's father today.
Maloney has asked Congressman
Johnson to lay the matter berore t *
State Department.
POISONOUS ALCOHOL KILLS FIVE
Baltimore. Md. Sept. 9—Five civil
ian employee* of the Edgewood u:*-ncl
here are dead as a result of drinMnj;
poisonous alcohol.