MONDAY
STEESE WILL RECOMMEND
PURCHASE SEWARD PEN. KY.
.Negotiations Ijetwteen Colonel
Steese and the Pioneer Mining Co.,
relative to the purchase of the
Seward Peninsula Railroad have re
sulted in both sides making conces
sions. The original pric* offered
by the Territory was $20,000.00
and the price asked by the Pioneer
Mining Company was $30,000.00
Negotiations were entered into
by and between the parties with
the result that the price .t 123.000
was Anally decided upon.
It now remains for the Territorial
Board to accept the compromise
settlement. Colonel Steese •will
submit the results to the Board and
tholr action will be Anal.
In answer to the telegrams sent
.by the City of Nome. Nome Cham
ber of commerce and others, guar
anteeing all assistance possible on
part of the City of Nome in obtain
ing right of way thru the city a
wire was received by the Chamber
of Commerce which is as follows:
Juneau.' Alaska. May 27. 1922
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce Nome, Alaska.
Yours 25th also Maynard. Blake
and Prawley have today recom
mended to Territorial Board accept
ance latest offer of Pioneer Mining
Co. to sell for $25,000.00.
STEESE.
SIGNAL CORPS AND NUGGET
~ WILL OBSERVE TUESDAY
Tomorrow, Tuesday May 30th.
being Memorial Day. a legal Holi
day, the Signal Corps will observe
Sunday hours which will preclude
the publication of the Bulletin
Flag Service for the day will be
half mast from 6:00 a. nt. until
12:00 m. Full mast from 12:00
until sundown.
American Legion Memorial Servi
ces, Barracks Square 2 p. ni.
Pursuant to the Proclamation is
sued by the Mayor it is presumed
that all business houses will remain
closed for the day.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
INTERRUPTED UP RIVER
Breaking up of the Yukon river
)U(9 interrupted telegraphic com
munication between Nulato and Ft.
Gibbon. The land line between
these two points is yearly subjected
to overflow conditions with the re
sult that in many places breaks and
washouts occur. Our local tele
graph office is receiving messages
very slowly due to the present dis
turbances, and as a consequence
press news is meager and difficult
to obtain.
Traffic between Nulato and Ft.
Gibbon is being relayed by wireless
MURDERED POLICEMAN VICTIM
OP BOOTLEGGER RING
Seattle. May 28—Testifying dur
ing the inquiry into the death of
policeman Legato, w'.io was found
shot in a Garage, Emanuel Weitz
swore that this garage was the ron
devous for making bootleg deals
with police and for paying latter
for protection.
Mrs. Legate swore her husband
feared he would be murdered by
police sergeant T. W. Pillow.
CAPTAIN BLAKE ARRIVES
AT LfONB, PRANCE
Lyons, France, May 28—Captain
Blake arrived here yesterday after
noon. This ended the second lap
of his trip aroond the world.
A heavy fog prevented his continu
ing his trip to Turin, Italy as he
had planned.
SEATTLE MILK SHIPPERS
ACCUSED CONSPIRACY
PRICE CONTROL
Seattle, May 28—In an informa
tion Alpd by prosecuting attorney
Douglas the seven Seattle milk
shippers association is charged with
a conspiracy to control the price of
VATICAN PROTESTS
AGAIJJgT BRITISH
' MANDATE PALESTINE
Geneva, May 28—Cardinal Gas
parrl. Papal Secretary of State, "has
addressed a note on behalf of the
Vatican to the League of Nations.
Gaaparrl protests in strong terms
against the British mandate over
Palestine.
FRENCH UNCERTAIN ABOUT
HAGUE REPRESENTATION
Paris, May 2*—The French gov
ernment la debating whether or not
to send representatives to the Hague
Conference.
BANDITS OBTAIN LOOT
AMOUNTING TO «2S,(NHI.O»|
San Francisco, May 28—Five mo
tor bandits robbed Arthur J. Her
bert. a retired capitalist, and his
wife of furs and other valuables
amounting to $25,000.00. The
Herbert party was returning home
early yesterday morning when they
were stopped by the bandits and re
lieved of their valuables.
UK A K IX DITCH HARBOR
The Bear arrived in Dutch Harbor
the evening of May 27th and will
leave for Nome the latter part of
this week.
GOLF PRIZE AWARDED
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER MAX
Washington May 28—First prize
ir th<‘ newspaper golf tournament,
in which President Harding as edi
tor of the Marion Star won fourth
prize, went to Lowell Mellett of
Seattle, a trained newspaper man
now editor of the Washington News.
VATICAN AGREES TO PAY
SOVIET IX LIEl' OF LOOT
Moscow. May 28—An agreement
has been reached between the Vati
can and Foreign Minister Teitcher
in. whereby the Soviet government
will except the Catholic Church of
Russia in their campaign of levying
directly on church property for fam
ine relief funds.
Instead of taking the treasures in
the various churches for their relief
fund the Russians will accept pay
ment from the Vatican treasury foi
sums equivalent to the value of th-?
articles contained in the churches.
HOUSE MAY ADJOURN—SENATE
REMAINS IN SESSION
Washington. May 29—Talk among
leaders of the House tends toward
an adjournment from June fifteenth
to August first with the Senate to
remain in session.
W AGE REDUCTION RAILW AY
EMPLOYEES ANNOUNCED
Chicago, May 29—Wage reduc
tions affecting four hundred thous
and employees of the railways thru
out the country has been announced
by the Railway Labor Board. This
means a saving of forty eight mil
lion yearly to the roads. This re
duction applies to maintenance of
Way employees and kindred work
men and becomes effective July Is.
DECORATION DAY
Of all the days of the fleeting year.
The saddest and sweetest and one
When we scatter the flowers o’er,
the blue and the gray.
And honor the khaki, far and near.
With neither malice, hate nor fear.
They marched away neath sky so
To make this day the glory-day.
Of all the days.
The widow’s sigh, the ophan’s tear.
The mother’s love, the father's
And the poppies’ blushing heads
that sway
’Xeath country’s flag and sun’s
Make this the day. w'here death is
Of all the days.
—Heury Polk Lowtenstein.
TUESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
ARRESTED FOR MURDER
COMMITTED IS YEARS AUO
Seattle May 30—Fourteen yev*
and eight months after the Septem
ber Sunday on which the body of 17
year old Mrs. Agnes True McCoar
Covington, who had been strangled,
was found In a trunk, Boating off
Alki Point, a man believed to be
Charles Burleson, her husband’s
closest friend, has been arrested in
Callao, Peru, charged with her mur
der. Covington, who la also want
ed, Is said to be in Peru
former slaves during
time of LINCOLN DIE
Washington, May 30—N. 3. Lewis
and W. Miller, former slaves who
shaved Fillmore, Pierce, Bucbannan
and Lincoln died here yesterday.
FIRST CHAIRMAN ALASKA
ENGINEERING COM. DIES
San Francisco, May 30—William j
C. Edes, first chairman of the Alas
ka Engineering Commlsaidn died
yesterday afternoon.
POLICE RESCUE VICTIMS OF
MANIAC HELD IN SHACK
Omaha. May 30—Police yesterday
morning rescued two young women
and a man from a lonely ehack on
the outskirts of this city. The res
cued parties had been chained In
the shark by Gus Grimes, a maniac,
and had been confined since Satur
day without having had cither water
AMERICAX-BRITISH SHIPS
COLLIDE SEVEN KILLED
Astoria. May 30—Seven sailors
were killed and six injured in an
explosion when the American Ha
waiian carriers Iowan, bound from
Seattle for Europe, and the British
S. S. Welch Prince, crashed head
on in the Columbia river, at Altoo
nah. Washington, last night. All
the victims were on the Prince.
GOV’T WINS RAI1JCOAR
SPIT SUPREME COURT
Washington. May 30—The United
States government yesterday, in
tho Supreme Court. won its suit
against the Southern F’acitic Rail
way Company. The suit was for
the purpose of declaring unlawful
the Southern Pacific Company’s own
ership of the. Pacific Railway.
FEDERATION LABOR TAKES
STRIKE VOTE WAGE CUT
Chicago, May 30—A strike vote
on the proposed wage cut for main
tenance of way railroad workers,
was planned for yesterday by E. M.
Jewel. President, of the Railroad
American Federation of Labor.
CELEBRATES DISCHARGE FROM
ARMY—MAY DIE
Seattle May 30—At a party, cele
brating his discharge from the army
Ernest Touchett was shot in the
head with his own pistol In the
hands of Mrs. Bertha Darradh, ac
cording to the story told the police,
snapped the weapon taken from
Touchett’s hip.
According to surgeons in charge
Touchett has a chance to recover. ,
MURDERER OF A A ALTOUR
CONFESSES CRIME
Everett, May 30—Donald E'.'
Stevenso-n. railway breakman, con
fessed having killed A. A. Altour
the Seattle salesman whose body
was found jammed into a hallow
stump near Stanwood
Stevenson confesses that ho and
Altour had a row over some boot
log whiskey with the result that Al
tour was killed and his body hidden
WEDNESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC'
ASSISTANTS APPOINTED TO
PROSECUTE WAR FRAUDS
Washington, May 30—Clias. S
Thomas, former senator from Colo
rado and George P. Hoover of this
city, have been appointed assistants
to Attorney General Daugherty in
the matter of prosecuting war
SEATTLEITE WILL REPRESENT
AMERICA IN CHINA
Washington, May 30—Henry Black
Mood, of Seattle, will represent the
United States on the International
commission that is sitting in Shan
ghai to reestablish and reform the
Customs Service in the Republic of
SENATE ASKS INFORMATION
ALASKA FUR SEALS
Washington, May 30—The senate
passed a resolution directing the
Secretary of Commerce to furnish
it with complete Information regard
ing the sales of government seals in
the Alaska fur trade.
APPROPRIATES WAR FUNDS
AND IS IMPRISONED
London, May 30—Horace Bottom
ly m. P., former editor of "John
Bull," an anti American weekly, to
day was found guilty of appropriat
ing for his own use, one hundred
and fifty thousand pounds, from
funds subscribed for war bonds.
Bottom ly received a sentence of
seven years imprisonment.
ALABKA-SIBRRIAN FLYER HELD
UP BY HAIL
Cheyenne, Wyo., 'May 30—C. O
Prest. attempting to fly from Buffalo
to Siberia via Alaska, is held up
here. His machine has been dam
aged by bail storm.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
During the trial of the United
States vs. Oeo. S. Maynard, publi
cation of the Telegraph Bulletin
will be suspended.
Telegrams receired will be type
written and hung in the Nugget
office window. We iegret having
to inconvenience our subscribers to
this extent, but it is impossible to
he in court and operate the linotype
machine at the same tim**.
All news of the week will be
published in the Weekly Nugget,
our subscribers thereby obtaining |
the news, thpugh somewhat delayed.
Oeo. S. MAYNARD.
Publisher
CHANG SOIJHERS MUTINY
DECLARE FAVOR WU PEI FU
Harbin. May 30—Soldiers of gen
eral Chang Tso Lin. along the Chin
ese Eastern railroad, have mutinied
and declared in favor of general Wr
Pei Fu. who defeated Chang in the
recent battles around Peking
BRITAIN WILL NOT WITHDRAW
FROM DUBLIN
London. May 30—Secretary for
the Colonies, Churchill, told the
House of Commons that Great Bri
tain did not at present intend to
withdraw all her troops from Dublin
OPPOSITION TO POINDEXTER
SEAT DEVELOPS
Seattle. May 30—Superior Judge
Austin Griffiths, has announced his
candidacy for the republican nomi
nation for the senate, to succeed
CANADIAN FLYER JOINS
AMUNDSON'S PARTY
Seattle. May 30—Accompanied by
his bride of eight months. Lieuten
ant G. L. Fullerton, noted flying
member of the Canadian Air Board,
arrived here to join the Amundson
party, that is to leave Seattle Satur
day for tho North Pole.
SEATTLE FINANCIERS
ORGANIZE BIG FUR COMPANY
Seattle May 30—Representatives
of the Seattle National Rank. Seat
tle Hardware Company. National
Grocery Company. Schwabaehei
Pros.. and other wholesale concerns
have organized the Seattle Furs As
sociation. This association has in
view the making of Seattl* the
world market for Alaska-Siberian
RETIRED ( A PITA LIST.
YUKON PIONEER DIES
Seattle May 30—H. A. Freder
ick. 82. retired capitalist and civil
war veteran is dead. Mr. Freder
ick was a member of the Yukon
Order of Pioneers.
SEATTLE SCULPTOR MODELING
BUST OF AMUNDSON
j Seattle May 30—Alonzo Victor
| Lewis, noted Seattle sculptor, is
j modeling a bust of Captain Amund
| son. It will be finished this week.
RAILROAD COMPANY TAXES
DELINQUENT KING COUNTY
I Seattle. May 30—Assessor Hull
has disclosed that the Northern Pa
cific Railway ha^ 157.683 acres of
land in this state on which it has
paid no taxes for years.
King County proportion of un
paid taxes amount to more than a
million dollars.
THURSDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
INTERNATIONAL COURT
MEETS JUNE t!i TH.
The Hague, May 31—The Per
manent Court of International Jus
tice will meet on June 15th, in the
Peace Palace, to consider various
questions that have been submitted
to the League of Nations.
WELSH PRINCE SINKS
CREW RESCUED
Astoria May 30—The British S.
S. Welsh Prince sank in 32 feet of
water. The crew were taken aboard
the Iowan, which was damaged but
BRITISH ARTILLERY RUSHED
TO ULSTER FRONTIER
London, May 31—British heavy
artillery and large quantities of
shells are being landed at Belfast
and rushed to Ulster frontier.
Heavy fighting between Ulster
and Republicanites is in progress at
many places on the lster border.
EKGIjAND MAY CONSIDER
TREATY BROKEN
London. May 31st—In House of
Commons yesterday Churchill, min
ister for the Colonies, declared that
if DeValera and other members of
Dali Eirrann cabinet refuse to sign
prescribed declaration of allegiance
to the Crown, embodied in Peace
Treaty. establishing a Free State
Britain will consider the treaty
broken and the Imperial govern
ment will resume liberty of action
in Ireland.
LINCOLN'S SIMPLE
RUGGED GREATNESS
Washington. May 31—Harding in.
accepting the monument said all are
agreed "upon Lincoln’s Simple Rug
ged Greatness.’' while Taft in dedi
catory address said it is fitting that
Lincoln should have waited fifty
seven years for the memorial to be
built, for at this time is the culmin
ation of artistic attainment.
SEATTLE PAYS TRIBUTE
TO NATION'S DEAD
Seattle. May 31 —Seattle paid fit
ting tribute yesterday to the Repub
lic's heroic dead.
FLEET TO VISIT SOUND
NAVY' YARD
Seattle, May 31—The entire Pa
cific fleet will visit Puget Sound
Navy yard, late in June.
FI <AU COM ME MORA TING
ARRIVAL AMERICAN
TROOPS, FRANCK
Washington. May 31—An Ameri
can flag, hoisted by the French over
the Arc De Triumph, to mark the
arrival of first American troops in
France, was yesterday presented to
President Harding by Ambassador
Jusserand. It will be preserved
among American war relics.
STAMPEDERS SAIL
FOR KAMCHATKA
Seattle. May 31—Auxiliary Sch
ooner Duxburv. Captain William
To bin m with a party of twenty
stumpeders. headed by Edgar C.
Young and A. H. Arthur, sailed
yesterday for Kamchatka coast, Os
kotsh Sea .
HA IIIHNG-TAFT SPEECHES TO
UK DROA D<' AKTE1 > BV RADIO
Washington. May 30—Addresses
of Harding and Taft ai the dedica
tion of the new Lincoln Memorial
were broadcasted by radio tele
phones to farthest stations in the
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
DEDICATED TITKSDAV
Washington, May 31—The Notion’s
tribute to its glorious dead reached
the climax yesterday at the dedica
tion of the Memorial erected beside
the Potomac to Lincoln, by grateful
countrymen.
A former President headed the
commission which had lavished un
relenting energy on making this
stone au emblem of America’s grati
tude to the worthy man whose mem
ory it will perpetuate. President
Harding in person accepted the
work in the nation’s name.
FIERCE FIGHTING
ON IRISH BORDER
Dublin. May 31—Fierce fighting
is in progress along Donegal-Ferma
nagh border, with both Bellek a-nd
Peetgre in hands of the Irish Re
publican army, fighting is reported
at Clady. County Tyrone.
STABBED ENGINEER FOR
ENTICING HI’SBAND
Seattle, May 31—Angered because
he had persuaded her husband to
desert her to join a drinking party,
Mrs. Vivian Loutette Harder stab
bed Samuel Brown, a marine engi
neer to death aboard the steamer
Russel Haverside, lying in the har
bor at Port Blakely last night.
MANCHURIAN MUTINY
IS SPREADING
Peking. May 31—The Manchur
ian mutiny against general Chang
Tso Lin is spreading. Harbin is in
control of mutineers, who have
seized all of the Chinese Eastern
Railway from Harbin to Maritime
I Province of Siberia. General Wu
is in virtual command of tlje Peking
government.
ANOTHER DATE SET FOR
BONUS CONSIDERATION
Washington, May 30—Finance
Committee has announced it will re
port the MeCumber Soldiers’ Bonus
Bill to the Senate Wednesday.
CUTICURA
SOOTHES SKIN TROUBLES
Bathe with plenty of Cuticura Soap
and hot water to cleanse and puri
fy. Dry lightly and appry Cuticura
Ointment to soothe and heal. Cuti
cura Talcum soothes and cools the
skin and overcomes heavy perspi
ration. Del ica te.deligh t f ul .disti ngu6.
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\OTI( T! OP FORFKVTUCti
To J. W. Gallop. Alice Savage, J. W.
Morris. Annie Hendrik, J. Tngals,
L. B. Adams, your heirs and legal
representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified fha: the undersigned as co
owner therein has expended the sum
of one hundred dollars for each of
the years m2. 1913, 1914. 1915,
1918. 1920. 1921, and one and one
half dollars for each of the years
1917. 1918 and 1919. In labor arM
improvements on and for the hene
lit of the l:. S. ASSOCIATION*, placer
mining claim situated on the Niuk
luk River, about one-half mile above
the town of Council, in the Council
City Recording District. Alaska.
(Notice of location whereof is re
corded in Volume 24 of Locations,
at page 207 of the records of said
in the performance of the
annual labor required by Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the Cnited
States, and supplemental legislation
in order to bold said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure, aocoriling to your sev
eral interests In said claim to the un
dersigned coowner with you therein
within ninety days after the service
of this notiee on you lry the publi
cation thereof, or your interest in
said claim will become forfeited and
vest in the undersignori as provided
by the said statute.
W K. TAYLOR.
Publish—Feb. IS,2.'., March 1.11,18,
25.April 1.8,15,22,29, May fi. 13,1922
NOTICE OF FORPEITl’RE
To .1 W. Gallop. .1. W. Morris. J.
Ingal. Annie Hendrik. Edvraqd
Tuft ami Geo. Pendergast, yotfr
heirs and legal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned as co
owner therein, has expended the sum
of one hundred dollars for each of
the years, 1913. 1914, 1915. 191rt,
1929. 1921. and one and one-half
dollars for each of the years 1917,
ments on and for the benefit of the
SEATTLE ASSOCIATION'. placer
mining claim situated on the Xiuk
luk River about three-quarters of a
mile above the town of Council, in
the Council City Recording District.
Alaska, (notice of location whereof
is recorded in Volume 23. of Loca
tions. at page 17. - f the records of
said district! in the performance of
the annual labo>* required by Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States, and supplemental legislation
iu order to hold said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure, according to your sev
eral interests in said claim to the un
dersigned eoowner with you therein
within ninety days after the servteo
of this notice en yon by the publS
eatien thereof, or your interest In
nM claim will become forfeited and
vest iu the undersigned as provided
by the said state**.
W. K. TAYLOR.
Co-owace.
Publish—Feb. 18,25. March 4.11.19.
25,April 1,8,16,22,29, May 9,13,19*3
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To James Brannen and James P.
Biiasem (or James Ellison), yosr
heirs and legal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby na
tifled that the undersigned has ex
pended the sum of one hundred dol
lars, each year, during the years
1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1916,
in labor and improvements on an«l
for the benefit of the BIG-THREE
GRUPB PLACER MINING CLAIM
in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording District, Alaska, (notice of
location of which in recorded in
Book 190 at page 2*3, of the records
of the Raid District) in the perform
ance of the annual labor required
by Section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the Vnited States, and supple
mental legislation, in order to hold
said claim.
And you are hereby required to
contribute your proportion of suck
expenditure as your Interest may ap
pear as coowner in said claim to the
undersigned, within ninety days af
ter the servioe on you of this notice
by publication, or your intereat in
said claim will .become forfeited and
vest in the undersigned as coowaar
therein, as provided by said statute.
CHARLIE JANNSBN,
Co-owner.
Publish—March 18,25, April 1,8.15.
22.29, May 6,13,20.27 and June
3, tt, 1988.
J