NEWSJTES
A December issue of the Juneau
Empire reports the death of George
Madsen at Seward. The deeased was
employed as warehouseman on the
Seward dock at the time of his demise,
which was due to an attack of pneu
monia. Madsen was for years a resi
dent of Nome but departed for Sew
ard five or six years ago. He is sur
vived by four children, tne of whom
lives in Seward and the others at
Cush man. Washington.
The quarantine existing throughout
the Second Division since the com
mencement of the influenza epidemic
in early November will be lifted at 6
a. in. Thursday, February 27th.. ac
cording to an announcement made by
Acting Assistant Health Commission
er Dr. Neuman today. Official notice
thereof is published elsewhere in the'
present issue of this paper. All re-]
strictions entailed in the long contin
ued quarantine will be abolished and
customary communication may be re
sumed without hindrance over all
parts of Seward Peninsula.
Friends of E. It. Fulton, former
Nome contractor who constructed the
Court House and other important
Nome edifices in the early days, will
doubtless he surprised to learn that he
has been over a year in France with
the American Expeditionary forces.
Mr. Fulton is a non-commissioned offi
cer and signs himself in a recent let
ter to < >. D. Cochran “Corporal Fulton,
Co. E. 23rd. Engineers., A. E. F,
France”. Referring to his experien
ces in the army he says he likes act
ive service. .
Efforts on the part of charitably
disposed citizens to provide a little j
amusement for the numerous native j
orphans now under the care of the.
Bureau of Education and Dr. Baldwin,!
have taken shape today in a special
moving picture show at the Dream
theatre this afternoon, the costs of the!
performance being provided by tlv-se
interested. The electric light com
pany donate' the electricity require];
the Dream management donated the
film: Operator N. \V. Lewis gave nis
services and the costs of heating etc.
were provided by other contributors.
About eighty five or ninety of the lit
tle brown orphans attended and en
joyed themselves greatly.
Reports from Solomon say that in)
spite of the fact that it is midwinter
and the waters of land arid sea are
locked in the icy clutch of old Jack'
Frost, salmon are caught at intervals'
in the waters of oSlomon rivet. Al
though some may consider the tale
nothing more titan another of those
famous "fish stories." for which Ala
ska has become noted, we are assured
that it is true by several parties. The
fish are believed to he of the “Ki^g"
variety, and are said to be very large.
One caught recently is said by Lawr
ence Kerr to have weighed 22 pounds.
Air. Kerr further avers that he finny
denizen was not weighed by the scales
on its back. Old timers say they
have heard of king salmon being,
caught under the ice of frozen streams
in the Copper river district and other
points in the Territory^
According to Solomon reports reach
ing town Saturday, a native mail car-j
rier named Henry, who resides at
Spruce creek, a few miles beyond Sol
omon riVer, shot and killed a large fe
male polar bear which he found wand
ering with two very young cubs it
HOLT’S CASH STORE
Fur Robes, choice.$15.00
Fur Caps, beet.5.00
Drill Parkas.3.50
Overalls or Jumpors.2.50
Silk Shirts .3.50
Stetson Hats, best.5.00
Underwear, wool.2.50
Shoe Packs.5.00
Neckties, Good..25
BEBIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
BUY AT
HOLT’S
Telephone Main 96.
short distance from the beach near
Spruce creek sometime Thursday or
Friday. After killing the mother, the
native'managed to capture the cubs
and is reported intending to bring
them t<* Nome. The female bruin is
said to have been extra large, the car
cass weighing in the neighborhood of
eight hundred pounds. As far ns
known, this is the second time in the
history of white occupation that a
polar hear lias been encountered so
far to the southward. Bears with
young cubs have seldom been seen this
side of Cape ^Prince of Wales. Dur
ing the earlier years of the camp a
polar bear was killed off the beach a
short distance from Bluff and another
a short distance above the mouth of
Penny river. Numbers of others have
been encountered or shot at long in
tervals along the coast between Sin
rock and Wales. Those familiar with
their habits say the polar bear display
little inclination to wander south of
Bering Strait.
In a communication to .ho Nome
Chamber of Commerce regarding the
projec t to secure direct radio cointnun
ication with Siberia, advocated by the
local organization. Secretary Elliot A.
Goodman, of the Chamber of Com
merce of the I’nited States, writjos
that he has been informed by the
Navy Department that such commun
ication is established at present be
tween St. Paul Islands and Anadir.
Weather reports are exchanged be
tween the Russian and American rad
io stations daily. The communication
thus established makes it unnecessary
to route messages from Nome to Sib
eria via New York and Eondon, or
Vladivostok, as they can be forwarded
by way of St. Paul and Anadir, ac
cording to Mr. Goodman’s statement,
Mr. Goodman also reports that he ha3
laid the petition of the local commerc
ial body to secure permission to ex
port certain commodities to Anadir
from Nome before the War Trade
Board for action.
G. W. Meegan writes to the Nugget,
from Bluff, to the effect that six dogs,
which had apparently strayed, were
picked up at Bluff on February 19 and
are being held ponding the location *»f
their owner. Mr. Meegan states that
the animals are apparently the prop
erty of a whito man.
The paralyzing effects of the influ
enza in some cases lies be -n so well
illustrated In Nome that examples are
more or h >s .*• ;.pe: fluous. Nearly ev
eryone 5n ! h" e:ty has been i personal
witness to tlu^m invoi in which the
insiduous disease can lay a communi
ty almost helpless within a few bouts.
However, a graphic illustration of
what the malady will do under certain
circumstances is disclosed in a letter
to Capt. Thos. A. Ross from his broth
er Joe Ross, who is engaged in the
service of the Shipping Board on the
Trans-Atlantic route. Mr. Itoss
writes from Havre, France that the
disease attacked the crew of one ship
of the commercial fleet, prostrating
the personnel to such extent that the
few who remained were totally-unable
to navigate the ship when the vessel
was at sea. An S. O. S. was sent out
and a convoy picked the vessel up and
towed her to port. An instance of
simiiiar character is mentioned ii^ an
article on the influenza contained in
the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, where it
mentioned that, in 1782 the crews of a
British war squadron under Admiral
Kempenfelt, were practically, disabled
by influenza and the fleet compelled
to return tg England.
The following notes relative to
Nomeitcs who are sojourning in the
States this winter are culled from a
letter written by W. E. (Rube) Cream
er, to the local Moose Lodge, of which
he is a member. The missive is dat
ed at Seattle, December 8th.
Shortly after the Victoria arrived
with so many sick Nomeitcs aboard,
157 of them were, taken to the Emer
gency Hospital. Shortly afterward
the Alaskans held a meeting in the
office of the Chief of Police and elect
ed a committee to look after the wants
of the sick and care for the effects of
the dead. The idea originated with
Lloyd Botts. I must say a better sel
ection could not have been made for
chairman of the committee than he.
He was on the go all day long. But
just as he got everything well
straightened out, he took sick himself
and died December 7th. He was a
credit to any order.
At the Moose Hall today, I met Don
and Charlie Brown and Bud Lehmann,
also Barney Bernard. All looked fine
and Charlie Brown is fat. Don and
Bud are on a vessel called the Broncho
and. Don tells mo that lie expects to
go across to France on her. At the
Frye Hotel. 1 met A1 Lomcn, Faxon
Lewis and George Modini. all dis
charged from the army. At Tacoma
I met Buckley, Billy Sukhold, Joe
Hemmington and Jimme Cooksie and
also visited Fred Weiler. Tie is ^em
ployed in the shipyards. At Bremer
ton T met TI. H. Moller. He is doing
good in the grocery business, more
than five times the amount he did at
Nome, he says. Also met Jim Mc
A-rdle of Dexter fame. Mr. Lucci
went Into the fruit and grocery busi
ness on First AveriUe in the 2t00 block.
oJe Protopopas is working in a candy
shop on Pike street. Dick Ivuhl is a
bolter up at the shipyards. So Is Law
yer Tim Clowes. Chas. Jones has a
gang or men in a uaiiarci smpyara. m.
S Smith. Jas AlcAllister, Chas McKay,
ilen Nyggron. Hendricks, of Anvil,
Pete Christiansen, Ous. Johnson. Mar
tin oMran, and others were alos en
countered. The Frye is full of Ala
skans. Bill: Eddy, Segerstrom, Hag
en and others to numerous to rememb
er arc to be seen on the streets every
day. Also many have left for Califor
nia. among them Cal. Berg and family
Ed. Young and wife. Torn Sharkey,
Ous Melin, Ous Nelson and Fred John
son. Met Marshall, farmer Nome
freighter. He is in business at Mc
Carthy. Also Ous. Borgen, who Is
down from Seward. At Cordova met
Park Stump and wife, formerly Miss
C. Murray, "also McConnell. Capt.
Morrison, one time owner of a famous
white horse at Nome and Walter Gaff
ney. At Iaitouche encountered Alike
Joyace, formerly of Solomon. laving
extremely high hero. A week ago I
returned from Wenatchee and coul 1
not find a room in a Seattle hotel, tho
I telephoned all over. So with twenty
five others I slept in the lobby of the
Frye Hotel.
Katallr! people are making a re
quest for a mail route between that
city and Cordova.
Flat is said to be the busiest city
this winter in the interior.
The citizens of McCarthy has asked
for $5000 for a trail to Chisnna and
$100,0000 for reconstruction of the
N'izina bridge and building of a road.
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Well chosen assortment bound, and
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John Milne. For sale low prices at
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Reasonable Prices. Mrs Madgwick,
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Fred Harrison
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Mason k fraternity.
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In comparison with other foed products Maccaroni and Spaghetti
stand in a class by t hem selves, etc.
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