Oh! For The
Good Old Days - - -
News items from “Nome Gold
Digger,” Vol. 1, No. 37, July 4,
1900. Courtesy of Jack Wiegardt,
foi^merly of Nome, who left in
1913 and who now has an oyster
and clam cannery, Ocean Park,
' Oregon.
The British ship Maroone was
seized at Nome and taken to St.
Michaels for having about $18,000
worth of foreign liquor aboard
her not on the manifest.
The T. T. Co. succeeded in get
ting a portion of its line strung
i'that a.m.. and next week com
plete connections will be made
throughout the city.
T. J. Nester took in $5,000 in
gold from beach diggins
Ten and fifteen cent pans were
found near the mouth of Snow
Gulch, a tributary of Hastings,
J. Segar has also found pay.
The Nome Water Co. was lay
ing water mains across the tun
dra to Willow Creek and soon one
may turn a faucet and water will
flow in your home.
St. Michaels was quarantined
against Nome due to the outbreak
of smallpox in Nome. 13 cases
were reported in the hospital. A
pest house was set up.
A meeting of miners was held
in the Northern Club to elect a re
corder for the new town of Bluff.
Halpin was elected. 200 men are
working on the beach at Bluff.
R. B. Dawson advanced over
$3,000 for a chemical engine for
the Nome Fire Department.
There is so much whiskey in
Nome that a shipload of it was be
ing returned to the States.
TOKYO, {JP) — The Pyongyang
radio of North Korea announced
Saturday the communist regime
has started the mobilization of all
Koreans between the ages of 18
and 36.
The broadcast, monitored here*
said the order was effective Sat
urday. All men and women in the
age category will be called up for
the defense of the country, the
broadcast said.
A big force of men is pushing
the narrow gauge line to Anvil,
said Chas. D. Lane.
To celebrate the 4th, the Thea
ter Comique announced the open
ing with first class Vaudeville
stars.
July 8th, 1903
•Three persons were burned to
death in the burning of the Gol
den Gate Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Hays, of Pittsburgh, and Sher
man Gregg, of Freeport, Pa.
Criminal negligence charge was
placed against T. R. Barr, second
cook, for building a fire with coal
oil. The Golden Gate burned
down once before in May, 1901
(It burned for the third time in
1934. destroying the whole busi
ness district).
J. W. Thorp and J. J. Donnelly
arrested for salting a> claim on
Sunset Creek.
The Portland Mining Co. is put
ting in a ditch on Balto Creek.
The Campion Mining Co. is pre
paring for big work near the head
of Nome River.
Railroad Notice — Trains will
run from Second St. on July 5th.
stopping at Steadman and D for
passengers—Four trains daily.
Riley knocked out Sheehan.
Sheehan’s jaw was broken.
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12:30—Album Music
12:45—At Ease
1:00—Around World In History
1:15—Jack Smith
1:30—Yesterday’s Best
2:00—Matinee Melodies
3:00—News of the World
3:15—Interlude of Western Music
3:30—Name It For A Song
4:00—Curt Massey
4:15—Words With Music
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4:45—Fiesta Time
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MR. AND MRS. CHAS. CODE
ON TRIP IN STATES
(Alaska Weekly)
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Code, well
known Nomeites, left Seattle on
June 29 for a month’s trip, going
as far east as Columbus, Ohio,
where Mrs. Code will serve as an
elected delegate of Mt. Rainier
Lodge, No. 287, at the Interna
tional Convention of the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen. She will re
ceive grand honors there also for
the highest score in her Lodge in
the drive for new/members. En
route Mrs. Code will visit her sis
ter in Spokane, and stop in Gla
cier National Park. Mr. Code will
visit a nephew in Chicago who is
vice president of the Chicago Tel
ephone Company. The couple will
return via Denver and Salt Lake
City.
“Rank And File”
GOP Map Policy
(Continued from Page One)
can national committee would ig
nore the group’s declaration,
which urged the party to form a
progressive program and drop its
“purely negative opposition” to
Truman administration proposals.
In contrast, this program said
the national committee is busy
compiling a campaign document
listing what the (Republicans call
mistakes in Truman administra
tion foreign policy, particularly in
the Far East. Senators Taft (R.
Ohio) and Thye (R.-Minn.) have
suggested such a course.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
the GOP floor leader, said after
reading the lengthy document is
The M. S. Kotzebue arrived
from the north and departed again
over the week-end with a barge
in tow.
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sued by the “Advance” group in
Philadelphia that he still stands
on the declaration of principles
put out through the national com
mittee last February.
“If any group of Republicans
wants to back a man for the Pres
idential nomination, they ought to
get on that platform and get to
work,” he told a reporter.
There, was speculation among
Washington Republicans that
some of those represented at the
Philadelphia meeting might be
getting into position to support
someone like General Dwight D.
Eisenhower for the party’s Pres
idential nomination in 1952.
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