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VOLUME NINETEEN. No. 41. NOME, ALASKA V/EDNESDAY. APRIL. 9lli. 1919TELEPHONE MAIN 114
NORTHWESTERN WILL REPLAC^ VICTORIA
ON THE NOME RUN NEXT SUMMER
Special to The Nugget *>y The Associated Press.
SEATTLE April 51—Announcement was made by the Alaska Steam
ship Company today that the steamer \ ictoria. one of the most widely known
vessels ever engaging in the Northern trade, will not be placed on the Nome
run during the coming open season. The Alaska Steamship Company has
decided to substitute the steamer Northwestern owing to the decline in the
volume of passenger traffic making it inadvisable to send the larger steamer
Victoria. According to the announcement, the Northwestern will make the
first and last trips of the season to Nome.
(The above message Indicates that it is the intention of the Alaska
Steamship Company to maintain a greatly abbreviated passenger service
between Nome and Seattle during the coming summer, as the message stab s
that, in addition to removing the Victoria, the company intends to send the
Northwestern to Nome on only the first and last trips of the season. This
suggests that the Senator will be the sole passenger carrying vessel to ply
between Nome and Seattle during the period between the first and last trips
of the summer. The message also Indicates that the expected grand rush of
teiurnlng Alaskans is likely to prove more of a fizzle than a reality, at least
as far as Nome is concerned.—Ed.)
SURGEON GENERAL LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN
AGAINST FLIES AT ARMY CAMPS
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Tress.
WASHINGTON. April 8—The Surgeon General's office has sent print
ed notices to all army camp surgeons to start an immediate ami energetic
campaign to exterminate the common house fly at all camps ami army stat
ions throughout the country.
The circular directs that an effort shall be made to abolish the fly ow
ing to its capacities for spreading disease. It Ls expected that the campaign
will result In most of the army camps being practically free of the pests dur
ing the coining summer months.
TROOPS SENT TO SUPPRESS SERIOUS
IRREDENTIST GREEK UPRISINGS IN BULGARIA
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
SALONIKA, April 9—It is currently reported her that a large force of
Bulgarian and Indian troops have been dispatched to the Bulgarian town of
Strumnltza for the purpose of suppressing serious uprisings occuring there as
a result of the activities of Irredentist Greeks who are seeking to bring an > it
a restoration of Strumnltza to Greek control.
„ Details of the alleged uprising are unobtainable owing to the general;
breakdown of communication following the Bulgarian defeat.
PADEREWSKI SUMMONED TO TO
-i’BfcUtNT POLISH TERRITORIAL CLAIMS
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
PARIS, April 9—President Wilson and the Allied premier’s have sum
moned Paderewski, the noted pianist and present Premier of the Polish Repub
lic, to Paris to present to the Peace Conference the Polish claims for territory
formerly embraced in the German and Austrian kingdoms. .
Poland will thus be given an opportunity to urge her claims for the
possession of the port of Danzig and explain the reasons for Paderewski’s;
declaration that Poland must have the coal fields of Teschen, Silesia, upon
which, according to the claims of the Polish premier, the industry of Poland
depends.
FARRAGUT SAILS ON FIRST TRIP OF YEAR TO ANCHORAGE.
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Apiial 9—The steamer Admiral Farragut of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company sailed for Anchorage today on the first trip of the
year to that long isolated port. The steamer was filled to the limits of her
accomodations with returning northerners. *
MT. LASSEN AGAIN KICKING UP A FUSS IN CALIFORNIA.
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
REDDING, Cal., April 9—Mount Lassen, the only active volcano in
the United States, is again-in active eruption after nearly a year’s rest. A
huge column of white, sulphurous smoke issuing from the crater in a stream I
and filling the surrounding countryside with noxious odors. Slight earth-'
quakes are accompanying the outburst at intervals. No lava or other solids
have been erupted up to the present. The smoke pillar can be seen for many
miles. Residents of the surrounding district are reported preparing to floe,
in the event of the mountain displaying an inclination to greater activities.
FIRST AMERICAN STEAMER OF POST
WAR PERIOD SENT TO GERMAN PORT.
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 9—The first American merchant steamer sent to
a German port since the commencement of the world war departed from this
port today. The vessel is the Westhumna and she will be the first American
merchant ship to enter a German port in more than four years.
The steamer is bearing a full cargo of food supplies for-the German
population and will land at Danzig. On the return trip the Westmumna will
bring no cargo buttwlll probably carry a large consignment of German mall.
The vessel is one of the new fleet constructed during the war period and was
built at one of the Seattle shipyards.
GOVERNMENT STEAMER8 LEAVE FOR ALASKA TOMORROW
TO REPAIR RADIO STATIONS AND LIGHTHOUSES
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
VALLEJO, Cal. April 9—The naval collier Saturn aiul the revenue cut
ter ^Tnalga will leave for Alaska tomorrow with repair crews and supplies for
the various radio stations and lighthouses situated along~the Alaskan coasts.
SIDNEY DAEW DIES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK
Special to The Nome Nugget by Tho Associated Proas. N
NEW YORK, April 9,—Sidney Drew, the moving picture star and one!
of the best known of American picture play actoik died here today.
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WAR DEP|T WILL UNDERTAKE
CONSTRUCTION OF NOME
HARBOR JETTIES THIS
SUMMER
Associated Press Service .
That Nome will probably find the
projected harbor at the entrance to
Snake River fully completed at the end
ect presented in a telegram from the
Seattle offices of tin War Department
Engineering board reaching the. Nome
Cjianibcr of Common, today. Until
toe arriva. of the message referred to
it appeared that the department In
tended to perform only such portion
of the construction work as -would he
embraced ia the dredging of the chan
nel and the building of the revetments
tion of the! construction work were
called for some weeks ago and recent
advices indicate that the contracts
therefore ha re been let to W. J. Rowe
of Nome aid Messrs Uuinau and
Ames, operators of the Dlaeier creek
dredge.
construction'of the revetments was to
be assigned to Cuinnn and Ames,
Roue being given the contract for
dredging. In the message containing
the welcome information that the de
partment intents to complete the con
struction. Kngitcer Sturtevant, in
charge of the Sdttle oilice, states that
the government will undertake the
construction of lie wet jetties-, by hir
ed labor this stunner and also indi
cates by inquiries regarding the pos
sibility of securing electrical power
for boring and other purposes that the
department has determined to com
plete th.- entire harbor construction,
without waiting fur the additional ap
propriation which heretofore appenv I
necessary before the construction of
the Jetties could be undertaken.
Chamber of Oomorcc officials intimate
the view that the bids submitted for
the const ruction of the revetments and
dredging wore sufficiently low to leave
a surplus amounting to approximately
twenty thousand dollars to apply on
the jetty construction It is also be
lieved that a la rye. portion of the
$25,000 appropriated by Congress for.
the preliminary surveys was not ex-j
pended and may be applied to the act-1
ual const ruction work. This, togeth-1
er with the balance of the $1.05,00 ap-j
propriation for construction work, ov
er and above the costs of dredging and
revetment constriction, would, it is
believed, be practically enough to cov-j
er the costs of the jetties at the pricel
estimated* by Engineer, Carpenter, whoj
made the first surreys. Tn his com-i
implication to the Chamber of Com-|
merce Engineer Sturtevant says it is!
desired to use electric power for wood,
boring and requests information re-i
gardlng the current available, the cost;
per kilowatt and if the required cur
rent. of six kilowatts can be assigned,
for use. He also requests the local I
commercial body to ascertain the price!
at which the city or the power com-1
pany will extend a power line to the'
end of the jetties.
In the opinion of Secretary A Polet
and other members, the telegram is a;
practical assurance that the entire
work of construction will be started
aud probably concluded during the
coining open season without an addi
tional appropriation being necessary.
NOTICE
On and after April 1st, 1919 and un
til further notice the current for elec
tric lights and power will be off each!
day between the hours of 2 A M. and
10 A. M.
ALASKAN INDUSTRIAL
MINING & POWER CO |
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
Owing to the Dickson Hotel beiny
moved away from Dickson, Mrs I
Shaughnessy is having the old Steig-I
slmier Road House thoroughly renova -;
ted and refurnished and will be ready!
to accomodate the public in a few days
Meals $1.00; Beds 75cts; Bunks 50 cts.
Good accomodations for dogs.
MRS SHAUGHNESSY
BAVARIANS AT LOGGEREADS WITH BERLIN
GOVERNMENT OVER NEW GERMAN CONSTITUTION
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
OOPKN11 A<II'JN. April 9—It is officially announced in a Munich letter
that tlu» Bavarians are seriously disgruntled over the. provisions of the now
.German constitution adopted by tin Weimar assembly and have broken off
diplomatic relations with the Berlin government.
The Munich message says Von lTuger, the recently appointed Bavar
ian envoy to Berlin, has been recalled and official intercourse between the two
governments is entirely suspended.
The reason for the disseverance is declared by Bavarian officials to lie
in tin* fact that the provisions of the new constitution are such as to fore*} ft
practical surrender of Bavaria's special rights. The officials declare th'at the
drawing up of the document in this manner compels Bavaria to refuse it
recognition. It is declared that the new constitution can never become '..tiding
upon Bavaria as it was drawn up in, total disregard <*f the wishes of the
Bavarian people.
ESTHONIANS ADMINISTER ANOTHER THRASHING
TO BOLSHEVIKI INVADERS
Si»c. ial to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press
COI’ENHAdKN, April !i—An official statement issued by the Ksthonian
military authorities yesterday announces the capture of six villages and two
hundred prisoners from the bunding IJolsheviki armies in the region south of
Narva, ( Evnngorod.)
The battle in which the Ksthonians success was achieved occurred on
April (J and resulted in a hcav\ defeat of the IJolsheviki over a wide front. On
the same day the Ksthonian;- stormed the town of Gdov, tut the eastern shore
of Lake Pecpus am! capiured three hundred Bolsheviki prisoners and consider
able war booty.
The statement indicates that the Bolsheviki reverse has been of especial
severity and may force* their retirement from the region south west of Narva.
NUREMBURG IN A STATE OF WAR AS
RESULT OF RADICAL DISTURBANCES
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
BKIiLIN. April it (Associated Press Kxclusive Dispatch)—The As
sociated Press has received authoritative information that the town of Nurem
burg is in an uproar which may develop serious aspects as a result fit' the act
ivities of t lie H pa i t icans.
The situation lias become such that the government has declared the
city in a state of war and has pasted placards announcing that such a condition
exists throughout -lie city tnl the section immediately adjoining. Parades
and demonstrations of • very character arc prohibited amhthc public has beeen
forbidden to appear in the streets without a pass between eleven o'clock in the
evening and five in the morning.
ANOTHER BAVARIAN TOWN GOES OVER TO REDS.
Special to the Nugget B.\ the Associated Press.
BASKL. Switzerland, April 'J—Word has reached here that a Soviet
republic has been proclaimed at Regensburg, the second most important manu
facturing and industrial center ..f Bavaria.
Additional advices indicate that the Bolsheviki movement is spreading
to nil parts of tlm Bavarian section with great rapidity.
Armed Crowds Hold Sway at Nuremburg
BASKL. April a Late reports say Nuremburg is cofnpletely dominated
by an armed mob and pillaging is going on in every section. Armed crowd**
ai»> said to have pillaged the stores and other establishments containing food
supplies on Tuesday and also attacked and plundered the American food stor
REPORTED GERMAN CABNET CONSIDERING RE
QUEST TO ALLIES TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN GERMANY
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
I-ABIS. April 9—Reliable information reaching the Peace Conference
Officials indicates that Germany may ultimately call on the Allies to set Ger
many’s house in order and help in the establishment of a stable government.
Aeeording to the information received, the German cabinet and Council
are at present seriously considering the eventuality of asking the Entente
powers to take charge of Germany and restore order in the revolution dis
trnctecLnntion in the general interests of all Europe.
CURZON SAYS BRITAIN MUST MAIN
TAIN LARGE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 9—Speaking in the House of Lords today Earl Curzon
presented a strong defense of the. Military bill and declared thltt the empire
must maintain a large army and navy for self protection, owing to the widely
varied character <>f its peoples and the world wide distribution of its colonies.
Curznon declared that trouble is liable to happen at any *.iine, roga'diess
of what decisions regarding the maintenance of peace may develop from the
present peace conferences, adding that England will always need a large army
to take care of her colonial dominions.
GENERAL LABOR STRIKE CALLED IN ROME
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
ROME. April 9—The Italian Central Labor Council has decided upon
a twenty five hour general labor strike to begin at six o’clock Thursday
morning.,
(Editorial Note)—The above message is appended with the statement
hy the Associated Press that the reason for the strike is not mentioned in the
Romo Dispatch)
JAPS SEND TROOPS TO SUPPRESS KOREAN DISTURBANCES.
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
HONOLULU, April 9—Cable messages reaching members of the local
Japanese colony report that the Japanese government is preparing to employ
severe repressive measures to overcome the revolutionary inclinations of the
Koreans.
According to the reports, six battalions of Japanese troops have been
sent to Korea within the past few days to police the country and suppress
the continued revolutionary disturbances.