FRIDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
JAPS STIL I .SHY OF AH
eastern discissions
'Washington, Nov. .‘I—An indica
tion by the Japanese delegation to
the Disarmament Conference that
they desired to discuss fht* limita
tion of armaments prior *<» Far East
ern and Pacific questions, was
brought forward today b\ the dele
gation leaders.
The Japanese attitude indicates an
expectation that difficulties might
develop with respect to the latter
4U«stions.
ADMINISTRATION WORRIED RY
CONFERENCE CRITICISM
Washington. Nov. fl- The Admin
istration is perturbed at the increas
ing critioism \oiced in Congress and
in the press against the secrecy as
pect of the Disarmament Conference.
There will be some open sessions but
just how many is uncertain
The State Department, in response
to queries, has replied that the mat
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Washington. Nov. 3 President
Harding i- considering A. it. Hough
ton. Nc'v Vcnk congiessman. for the
post of American Ambassador to
Germany, according to rumors em
anating from the White House to
GAS HKATKK kll,l,S TWO
Seattle. Wn. Nov. .1—James C.
and Avert Dahl, two brothers, from
(Jrookston. Minnesota, were killed
here today b> escaping gas from a
small heater in a hotel room.
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STKIKKKS lll,.\( KI.ISTKU
Bakersfield. Cal. Nov. 3—The oil
operators of the Bakersfield district
have declined to take back the oil
workers, who have now declared off
their recent strike.
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ll.\( K TO WORK
Columbus. 0. Nov. 3—The miners
who ceased work in protest against
the federal injunction abolishing the
checking off system, have been or
dered to return to work by the na
tional executive board, it was an
nounced today.
BKATTV TO VISIT SIM HI'
Beatty, hero of the battle of Jute
land. has accepted an invitation to
visit Seattle, it was announced today.
1VHITK I*.ASS HIT BY
ALASKA GOVT K. K.
Seattle, Nov. 3—The completion
of the government railroad to in
terior Alaska means the curtailing
of abandonment of some of the ac
tivities of the White Pass and Yukon
Railroad and is reflected in the an
nouncement of the company that it
will not operate its line of Yukon
steamboats as heretofore, below
Tanana next summer and that no
summer tourist travel can be carried
on its boats below Dawson.
PROOFS OF LABOR BLANKS
ON SALE AT NUGGET OFFICE
GEORGE IXARIJ-: ATTEND
OI'KMNG OF CONFERENCE
London, Nov. 3—Lloyd George,
will be unable to attend the opening 1
session of the Washington Disarms-1
nient Conference, according to pres
ent indications.
The premier indicated this after
noon that he will be unable to sail
for the United States next Saturday
but hopes to participate in the con
ference later.
SENATE ENDORSES EXTENSION
OF EMERGENCY TARIFF
Washington. Nov. 3—The Senate
Finance Committee, on resuming its
heatings today on tariff question-',
ordered a favorable report on the re
cent resolution extending the Emer
gency Tariff law to February 1. or
until such time as permanent tariff
schedules are enacted into law.
SENATE REJECTS SALES TAXES
Wasihngton. Nov. 3—A proposed
sales tax was rejected by eight votes
by the Senate in connection with the
tax schedule debate today.
The Democrats voted solidly
against the measure and were joined
ut^ri ration or dkfi x< r
SEATTLE BANK IN SltiHT j
Seattle. Nov. 3—The Hank of |
Washington and the Lumbermen's j
Bank of Washington, have organized j
for the purpose of handling its affairs I
has submitted a bill for the purchase j
of the entire assets of the defunct !
Scandinavian-American Bank of Se- |
attle. which if accepted by the State
Supervisor of Banking, provides a
sum sufficient to pay all deposito r
sixty per cent of their claims and to
pay in full all claims of preferred
creditors, as they may arise.
VICTORIA KXI'EtTEI)
AROl'NI) MIRNIOHT
The steamship Victoria was 16ft
miles south of Nome at noon today,
according to radio advices to the
Signal Corps.
The liner is expected to arrive in
the roadstead shortly after mid
HHKAT IMIWX TO
DOLLAR BCSHKL
Chicago. III. Nov. 3—Wheat sold
today at a dollar a bushel on the
Chicago Stock Exchange today
This is the lowest price reached by
wheat in years and indicates a prob
able reduction in flour prices.
MARK HANNA'S SOX
OIKS Sl'DDK.M V
New York. Nov. Dan R. Hanna,
son of the late Mark Hanna and own
er of the Cleveland leader, died of
heart disease today at his Hudson
River home.
PLANK FI.IKS ISO MILKS
IN S2 MINFTES
Omaha. Nov. 3—Beit A. Cosanerlv
won the annual Pulitzer silver trophy
race for heavier than air craft here
today by flying the 150 miles in 52
minutes.
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ALASKA BUREAU
NEWS LETTER
Tanks with a total fuel capacity of
20.000 barrels have been constructed
at I'nalaska for the convenience of
ships in the transpacific and Alasku
trade. The Alaska Steamship Com
pany, which installed the tanks, also
maintains coal bunkers of 8,000 tons
capacity.
The Alaska Bureau is in receipt of
a circular from the Board of Engin
eers for Rivers and Harbors ejecting
report of the District Engineers re
commending the improvement of
Wrangell Harbor by the construc
tion of a breakwater.
The Alaska-Dano Mining Company
at Funta Bay. Admiralty Island, has
struck one of its ore bodies in a tun
nel on which work has been under
way for nearly a year. It is now
planned to extend this tunnel to
crss cut other ore bodies.
Judge Lomen, confirmed as judge
of the Second Judicial District has
gone to New York to enlist additional
capital for the Lomen Reindeer Com
pany. He will return to Seattle in
time to sail on the Victoria on its
next trip to Nome. He expects to
secure needed capital and will place
the reindeer company in the hands of
a competent manager.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
announces that Secretary of the In
terior Fall has unofficially pledged to
the Chamber that he would return
within sixty days and make a visit
to Alaska . The Chamber has been
working since Secretary Fall entered
the cabinet to have him go to Alaska
and get first hand information on the
territory. Secretary Fall explained
his failure to include Alaska in his
present trip by promising to go to
the Territory this fall, it was said at
the Chamber.
Bristol Bay's canned salmon pack
will total about 1.076.00 cast's, two
thirds of normal pack, according to
advices brought by the full rigged
ship Benjamin F. Packard of the
Northwestern Fisheries Company,
which is discharging at the Bell
Street pier of the Port Commission.
The pack of the plants at Xushagak.
Koggiung. Naknek. Tgignk and lTgas
hil will total about 950,000 cases.
Port Moller produced 80.000 cases
and Herendeen Bay 4 6.000 or a total
of 126.000 cases, which is the largest
pack in six years for that part of the
North, according to advices received
Nine hundred and fifty thousand
cases of salmon is the estimated pack
this season in the region known as
the Bristol Bay district. The sea
son's pack is estimated to be at least
200.000 cases more than lats year
and also a larger pack than that of
1919. The season was a shrt ne
at that and none of the canneries
operated to full capicity. The above
resume is given by R. B. Mays, rep
resenting the National Canners As
sociation. “The past season, although
exceedingly short, was a splendid one
for the 22 canneries operating fit the
Bristal Bay region.” said Mr. Mays.
‘‘None of the canneries operated to
full capacity, owing to the salmon
market, which several months age
was overstocked, and the short but
heavy run of fish. There were 22
canneries operating in the Bristol
Hay region during the season and
all have closed down and the sal
mon is now on its way South, as well
Puget Sound is a recognized base
for Arctic explorations. Vllhjalmur
Stefansson. Canadian explorer, will
head a party to leave Seattle on an
exploration of the Arctic regions
which will take them from two to
five years. The party, under Allan
Crawford of Toronto, plans to spend
the winter on one of the Canadian
Islands in the Arctic, and Dr. Ste
fansson will join them later. Roald
Amundsen, discoverer of the South
Pole will leave here in the spring for
I another polar* jaunt.
Seattle—"Unshackle Alaska from j
bureaucratic control ancT speed up re
clamation of arid lands." These are
the major objects of President Hard
ins and his administration, said Sec
retary of the Interior Albert E. Fall.
The distinguished visitor here on his
first Seattle visit, deplored the lim
ited time alloted to him here, and
declared that he wanted to come here
again in two months "to sit down
and talk with Seattle about Alaska
and other matters before making a
trip to the Northern territory next
summer.” President Harding will
undoubtedly accompany him on his
1922 Alaska trip, he announced.
"There are three measures now
under consideration to relieve Alas
ka of the burden of bureaucratic
control, one of these is to give the
president power to allocate control,
and another provides for a commis
sion form or territorial government.
I have revoked a rule of my prede
I cessor relating to the leasing of Al
askan oil lands, the rule of the for
mer administration allowing a per
I son to take up a single claim of 2,500
acres, while present regulations al
low as many as live claims, or nearly
13,000 acres per person. The more
liberal regulation may assist in de
veloping Alaska's oil fields.
'Little can be done with the
Northern territory until all Alaska ]
departments and all authority to deal1
with Alaska is vested in a single
branch of the government. Fifty
seven varieties of bureaus can't func
tion in the best interests of the ter
J ritory.” was Secretary Fall’s sum
■ mafy of the situation as it exists at
; present. The laws pertaining to the
national domain do not fit Alaska.
The problems in that section of the
I country are peculiar to that section
I alone. Capital is what is needed. If
j it is available to open up the country
to the miner he will see to it that
I he gets transportation for his ores
j Moreover the laws relating to the
| territory must be liberalized if Alas
j ka is to be developed. Capital must
be assisted by legislation. If the
j speculative element is too strong it
will bo difficult to get capital to go
j in. It is my present plan to havs
j a practical railroad man make a sur
vey of the Alaska railroad situation
land render a full report on it.
j “I am interested in the territory’s
i development.” was the secretary’s
word to Alaskans, "and “hall do all
in my power to help it forward.”
Nome is the Distributing Center
; and Gateway to Northern Alaska Oil
THINGS WE THINK
pifost of the time Is the time for
silence.
A good fighter should be a good
finisher.
The fall is -hardest for those who
have climbed highest.
Half the world doesn't care how
the other half lives.
We have heard of rare instances
of weather predictions that came
The most acute eyesight some
times generously fails to see the fiail
ties of mankind.
Women's clothing has been a
puzzle, but it is getting so it is not
so hard to see through.
i It is easy to say a lot of bright
original things if your auditors have
n’t heard them before you steal them.
The mean things you say are grad
ually forgotten, but the mean things
you write may spring up to taunt
you at any time.
Air Inside a tire serves a good and
useful purpose, which it is not ho
true of that in a number of people
we could name.
A state court says that hereafter
employees of railroad companies will
be obliged to regard the legend,
“This side up." Heretofore they
have religiously carried out the bibli
cal instructions of smiting both sides.
KN(■ AGKMENT OF THEILE IS
ANNOUNCED AT JUNEAU
H. K. Theile, surveyor-general of
the territory of Alaska, will early
next summer marry Miss Mary Con
ley, at present in charge of the gov
ernment hospital at Akiak.—Ex
change.
NEW AND UPTODATE OIL LOCA
TION AND PROSPECTING
PERMIT BLANKS
On sale at the Nome Nugget Office
TENT OF NEW ASSESSMENT LAW
Following is the full text of the
new annual assessment work law.
passed recently by the present Con
. (Public—No. 64—67th Congress) .
(H. R. 4813.)
, An Act changing the period for do
ing annual asses«ment work on un
patented mineral claims from the
calendar year to the fiscal year be
ginning July 1 each year.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled. That sections 2 of “An
Act to amend sections 2324 and 2325
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States concerning mineral lands," ap
proved January 22.. 1*880. be. and the
same is hereby, amended to read as
follows:
SEC. 2 That section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States
be amended by adding the following
words ‘Provided. That the period
within which the work required be
done annually on all unpatented min
eral claims located since May 10,
1872. including such claims in the
Territory of Alaska, shall commence
at 12 o’clock meridian on^the 1st
day of July succeeding the date of
location of such claim: Provided
further. That on all such valid exist
ing claims the anrual period ending
December 31. 1021. shall continue
to 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1022..”
Approved. August 24. 1921.
THE RETIRING JUDGE
, It is to be regretted that Judge
Robert W. Jennings, retiring district
court jujlge in the First Judicial Di
vision. lowered the dignity of his
court by personally abusing two ter
ritorial officials who had invoked the
wrath or the court by taking legal
steps necessary to protect the funds
of the territorial treasury.
Judge Jennings has. during his
tenor of office as district judge, been
a persistent political partisan. His
mind has been constantly directed on
political matters, most important of
which was the infamous Sulzer-Wlck
ersham election contest opinion,
which was repudiated by a demo
cratic committee of the House of
Representatives. There was never
an election in the north but what
Judge Jennings was an active parti
Although directed by Governor
Riggs, Territorial Treasurer Smith,
on the advise of Attorney-General
Rustgard, refused to pay a certain
warrant drawn on territorial funds.
Action in court was started, and the
territorial treasurer filed an affidavit
charging Judge Jennings with pre
judice. In turn, both Smith and
Rustgard were cited and placed un
der arrest charged with contempt of
court. After spending two hours
heaping abuse on these officials.
Judge Jennings dismissed the pro
ceedings. declaring they were not in
contempt;
The action of Judge Jennings is
to be regretted No nu*n .should be
dottier with such misplaced author
iiy nor allowe-l to punish men in such
a manner. Happily, Judge Jen
nings is snortlv tc retire from the
Alaska district court hencV llis
retirement was no doubt hastened by
his unwise action in Ketchikan.—
Alaska Dlsp 'r’i »
SUCH IS LIFE
He placed his arms around her neck.
Upon her lips a kiss,
“I’ve drank from many a cup,” said'
‘‘But never a mug like this.’
They paddled up the river
Till they found a place to land:
The moon was shining brightly
And he held her little—sweater.
Yes. he held her little sweater.
(My, how the evening flies.)
They talked in tones of love.
And he gazed into her—lunch basket.
Yes. he gazed into her lunch basket.
He wished he had a taste;
His darling sat beside him.
His arms around her—umbrella
Yes, embracing her umbrella.
That charming little miss:
Her eyes were full of mischief.
And he shyly stole a—sandwich.
—Florida Alligator
FAIRBANKS WANTS
FORT GIBBON POST
It is reported that there is a move
ment on foot by the Fairbanks Com
mercial club to have the army post
at Fort Gibbon removed to Fair
banks. It is said the war depart
ment has no intention of abandon
ing the post at Gibbon and that prep
erations are being made for the in
stallation of an electric light plant
*Or use during the coming winter.
NOTICE
Herman’s Bootblack Stand is now
located in the Kelly building at the
corner of Lane’s Way, next to Board
of Trade where it will be located
for the winter.
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