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VOL17MK 28. No.
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY, JUDY 28, 1022
Delivered by Carrier or Mailed
.91.00 per Month
Nome is the Distributing: Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska OIL FIELDS
COMBINED STRIKES
STILL UNSETTLED
CAVALRY AND MACHINE GUNS FOR STRIKING SECTIONS
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 22—Cavalry and machine gun troops of
the Pennsylvania guard were ordered to the coal regions of western
Pennsylvania for active service in the resumption of coal mining.
EMPORIA, Kansas, July 22—William Allen White, noted newspa
per man, was arrested yesterday on order of Governor Henry Allen on the
charge of violating the anti-picketing law of Kansas Industrial Court.
The two men have been life long friends.
WASHINGTON, July 22—The government 1b working out a plan
for diverting the country's scant coal supply to the most essential consum
ing sections.
’ PITTSBURG, July 22r—Shootings and attempted dynamitings
broke out in the Fayette county coal fields yesterday between striking min
ers and guards.
WASHINGTON, July 22—Settlement of the striking railway shop
men appeared more remote than ever today following an insistant request
of Railway Executives,^WSWolffihTed here with member* of the
Interstate Commerce. Commisison, to accede to some of the Union's <le
HARRISBURO, Pa., July 22—Cavalry men and machine gunners
are now in Cambrai, India, Somersetts. Washington and Westmoreland
counties.
WASHINGTON, July 22—Harding contemplates as the next move
in the railroad strike, summoning to Washington of Chairman Hoover of
the Railroad Labor Board, for full discussion of the question at issue be
tween employees and executives. 'He has discovered that there are three
principal points at issue In th strike, they are restoration of seniority,
pension rights of strikers and setting up of a National Board of Adjust
ment as provided in the Transportation Act.
WASHINGTON, July 22—Gompers, in a statement issued today,
invited the government to urge that the striking coal miners and striking
railroad workers and employees inaugurate negotiations.
WASHINGTON, July 22—Countries producing coal are running
short one million tons each week. Hoover has summoned owners to a.
conference today.
WASHINGTON, July 22—At the close of a cabinet meeting late
today Harding indicated that an injunction will issue to compel strikers
to abide by the decisions of the Railway Labor Board and will be the next
move by the government.
CANNOT DRIVE MIRERS
TO UNWILLING WORK
WASHINGTON, July 22—President Harding and. Atty. Genera]
Daugherty field a conference regarding the possibility of governmental
actios la the railroad strike, but say that they will not adopt any definite
phKtfVet.' *fl8e council of the A. F.'t. has authorised Gompers to issue
a proclamation to all union members to help the strikers by refusing to do
•ay of their-work until the strike is over, as the combined coal and rail
•trikes are producing a most serious industrial crisis.
Hmrdiht Has appealed to the governors of all States to protect the
mines that are opened again. However the U. Mi W. have issued an
ultimatum thru Gompers stating that all other mines will strike if any
art&npt Is made to operate union mines with strihe breakers.
President Lewis of the U. M. W. announced that It was impossible
to drive the miners into the mines and says that a settlement will be
readied only when the miners and operators have reached a definite
agreement, and not before.
nationals capTUKE cmr limerick
London, July 2f~^be City of Limerick has been captured by Irish
National troops, according to a Central News dispatch from Dublin.
Nationals took many prisoners together With arms and ammunition.
HOME MADE HOOTCH BRIHGS WANT, TROOBLE
AND DISEASE TO SIBERIAH HATIVES
(Kpeeial Nugget Siberian Letter.)
East Cape. Siberia, June 10, 1922.
“A hell on Earth.”—No other
words will adequately describe the
situation here in Northeast Siberia,
than the heading I have given this
aftifcle. Almost every native house
it- the country is employed in mak
ing raw alcohol; a vile concoction
mad*' out of flour and sugar fer
mented, cooked over a Primus 01
Seal Oil Tamp, and distilled int<j
spirit by running it through an old
rifle barrell or some iron pipe that
they may chance to have.
I will try to describe the scenes
that are enacted here day after day.
night after night, the whole year
| rciund with only an occasional let up,
for the simple reason that with their
crude implements they can drink it
faster than they can make it. The
gear is all set (no secrets kept from
the young children who when they
old enough will follow in the
fewtsieps of their parents) th<*
father tests the strength every once
in a while with a spoon (a.id it*
strong enough to burn on the spoon)
When the bottle is half full, another
one replaces it and It is immediately
drunk up. This is enough to fire
the brain and is the beginning of
a drunken orgy that very often ends
with burning up of the house or
death of one of the occupants by a
knife thrust from a crazy savage
The poor little children crouch in
terror and watch father, mother,
older sisters and brothers become
raving maniacs, the little things
have no where to go and no one to
turn to and sufely the heading of
this article suits their case to per.
fection.
The whole country is a vast distil
lery and everything that a native
gets in the line of pelts, goes right
back in flour and sugar, the latter
article is in great demand and trad
ers reap a rich harvest. This con
coction in harmful and many big
husky men and women are now
Spitting blood, or have pains in the
abdomen frequently.
It’s awful to think that with our
boasted civilization. League of Na
tions. etc., etc., such things can oc
cur next door to America’s golden
shores of Alaska, and that some
thing cannot be done to save a noble
race from extinction, for with sy
philis and alcohol, both products of
the whiteman their doom is sealed,
but If something was done in the
next year or two it would work
wonders amongst the remaining
people.
Are they worth saving? I should
say so! They are superior in every
way to the Esquimaux and the won
der is that th. y are as good as they
are. considering they never had a
good word preached to them in their
lives. The traders only want what
they can produce 'and their young
women, and its got now that its
difficult for a young native boy to
get a wife as the whiteman first has
his pick—why? I don't know, from
what I can see the women slave
worse for-the Russian trader, than
for a Chuckchee, hut I suppose its
the clothes. The trader dresso*
them in Spotted deerskins and woN
vcrirte trlmfhlngs,^while the Chuck
chee only has'black deerskins and
dog trimmings.
Their conditions commenced in
1917. before that the country was
fairly quiet, natives prosperous and
contented, the only drawback being
syphilis; but now' they are poor, and
discontented; sons parting from
tbeir parents and moving away to
some other place and taking half the
bouse with them as their share, and !
all this is the result of bad words |
spoken during a drunken debauch, j
A few still remember their fathers |
and hunt occassionally. but the bal-i
ance of drones live off them. Nat-1
I uraily their energy soon wanes, hun-1
| ger all around is the result. What
jtc do about it? America or Eng-.
| land would stop it quickly, as a
Chuckchee fears and respects an
| official, who is an official, but looks
I down on and treats with contempt
| the class that are sent 10 these parts,
j jjy—God knows who, and although
I posing as superior to the natives is
j not his equal in my opinion, hut tar
I below him in human intelligence
though he is called a WHITEMAN
j Well maybe he knew the secret of
I soap—while the poor native didn’t.
j 4 cts a day will hrlng the Weekly
1 Nugget to your home.__
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
ALASKA Ml MAH’S LAND
WASHINGTON. July 22—Locating and photographing undiscover
ed lakes in the' National Forests of Alaska, are the latest uses to which,
aeroplane* are befng put As a result of lake discoveries made by the New
York—Nome army aviators. It is recognized that lost lakes may be the
sources of valuable water power. Th'e Forest Servl'ce has made plan3
to mdp this No-Man’s Land of the North by means of aerial photography
and the plana have been approved by the General Power Commission.
The work will be done by a seaplane flying from Ketchikan as a base.
ASK REMOVAL OF SUPERVISOR DUKES
SEATTLE. July 22—Immediate'removal of John P. Duke. State
Supervisor of Banking because of alleged laxity ip pushing liquidation of
Che Scandinavian American Bank settlement is demanded in a resolution |
sent Governor Hart’ today by five hundred depositor victims of the defunct
institution.
SECRETARY HUSTON
HOME’S GUEST OF HONOR
'lhe United States in g neral and
Washington in particular are much
ii terested in Alaska anti Aiasuan
conditions. Realizing tha this Far
Northern territory of our i.s of vital
ommercial importance to the states,
our beneficient government has de
teimincd to obtain direct evidence
of its potentialities, to devise wavs
and means to bring to Alaska the
relief she so long has waited for.
Pursuant to such policy we now*
have with us. as direct representa
tives of the Federal government, a
party of department officials Nvttose
purpose is to investigate and report
to the President and Congress of the
United States.
Yesterday morning the Coast
Guard Cutter Mojave arrived in the
Guard Cutter Mojave, Captain H
Hamlet In command, arrived la tin
Nome roadstead. Cap’ain Thomas
A. Ross of Coast Guard Station No.
305, with members of his galian-’
crew left in their launch for the Mo
jave and brought ashore Assistant
Secretary of Commerce C. H. Hus
ton. Ward T. Bowers, of the-U. R
Bureau of Fisheries; Joe U. Bako>-,
special assistant to Secy. Huston;
Lieut. J. M. Creighton, U. S. Navy;
D. J. Davis. Dept, of Labor. Divi
sion of Emuiigration; Col. H. M.
Evans. U. S. Public Health Service;
Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, U. S. Geo
logical Survey; Col. J. M. Steese.
President of the Alaska Road Com
mission; Lambert C'lifTord, special
assistant; Carl J. Gilbert, special
assistant; and Lieut Reed Hill,
member of the Mojave personnel
and official photographer of the
Two other original members of
the party Dr. Leonard Stejneger of
the IT. S. National Museum and
Capt, C. E. Lindquist, navigator
and special assistant were left be
hind at Dutch Harbor, from which
place they were taken by the Algon
quin to the Russian Seal Islands
where they will be picked up by the
Mojave on her trip from Nome
With the exception of Lieut. Reed
Hill and Col. Steese the party was
organized in Washington. D. C. and
came to the Pacific coast to partici
pate in the Alaskan trip. From
Nome the Mojave will go to the Si
berian coast steaming south to Ja
pan and as far south as the Philip
pine Islands. Sec. Huston. Lieut.
Creighton, Mr. Baker and Mr. Bow
er will continue the trip around the
world. Other members of the party
may continue with the four men
tioned. but uncertainty prevails as
to the further additions. If is
possible that the Mojave will carry
the party on the contemplated trip
around the world, in event that she
Is not available otjier means of
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FREIGHTER CORDOVA
ENROOTE TO NOME
SEATTLE, July 22—The Freighter Cordova sailed this morning
at four o’clock with a capacity cargo for Nome, St. Michael and Teller.
From Seattle she will go to Xanimo, Ketchikan, False Pass and th< n to
Nome. Freight aboard is mainly for the Hammon Company and included
one half million feet of lumber. A large consignment of freight is also
aboard for Harry Dobson of Teller.
Passengers for Nome are: Albert Thompson and wife, E. Johson,
Mrs. L. Vanderscer. For Teller: F. Kendal or. D. H. King and wife,
D. W. Cram and wife, E H Nylen and Wife, Russel Cramer and wife,
Peter Understeer, Miss Annie Taub and Mose Nelson.
(Special inquiry made by the Nugget Reveals that Chas. Kimball
is not aboard)—Ed.
\VItEt’KED HOMES, DESTROY CHURCH AND STATE
NEW YORK, July 22—A report read before the Joint Commission
of the Episcopal Church, following a special study of social conditions in
the United States and made public, xtatea that when the home is wrecked,
both church and state totter.
The report further shows that conditions in America are frightful,
that the dissolution of the marriage tie inevitably results in race suicide.
HERRIN, 111., July 22—Gusiness men and miners from ten cities
In Williams, Frauklyn and Jackson coal mining counties, passed a resolu
tion opposing President Harding's pla to reopen mines under the protec
tion of troops, saying that it would lead to bloodshed.