THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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LURE OF BEACH GOLD
Perhaps it is a holdover from childhood days when
faith was placed in stories of travelers wandering along
the shores of strange lakes or oceans and picking up
golden pebbles, but in Alaska this summer there was
more prospecting of beach sands than ever. One of the
reasons for it is that such areas are more accessible than
brushy creeks far inland, reached only after days of
hard trailing.
Another is that U. S. Geological Survey tested about
all the gold-bearing regions inland, while it has paid
less attention to the beach. Nome, it will be remem
bered, was a famous beach gold camp in its early days.
“A poor man’s camp”, was what they used to call it, and
that still holds good today. There is still an unsettled
argument over the matter of whether beach gold is
washed up by the sea, or is deposited there by alluvial
flow from the hills.
Which ever theory is correct, and regardless of wheth
er the “big strike” is to be made by dredging the beach
sands or tracing “colors” back into the hills, it is cer
tain that for many years men will continue to pursue
Dame Fortune along the thousands of miles of Alaska’s
coastline.—Seattle Business Chronicle.
WHITHER EDWARD ?
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Said one of the first London comments on the abdi
cation:—“The King is dead, long live the King ?”
But is former king Edward VIII officially dead ?
Will he, who had so endeared himself to his subjects,
fade out, and as the international experts are now say
ing go into exile, and spend the rest of his days on soil
that is not “forever England?”
Will that be the fate of the one whose leaving is de
scribed bv such an English authority as John Drink
water as “the most violent shock in our history?” Or
will he appear again in British affairs, looming large
because of what he was?
He is young, be it remembered, as compared to Stan
ley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
hers who have ushered him out..
It is not as if King Edward had been commonplace.
Being a high-paid puppet after all was not his role. Had
he fitted comfortably into the symbol pattern, the situ
ation created by his abdication would have been merely
another in which the world so soon forgets, and “long
live” the next king would have been the easy and the
obvious answ’er.
But he was not ordinary. He was no royal robot.
Whatever we may think about the Simpson aspects
of the case, the manner of his departure demonstrated
strength in great measure, not weakness.
If things from now on go smoothly, if Edward’s suc
cessor takes hold of the job which is set before him,
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then oblivion with the woman for whom he resigned as
Rex Imperator may be the lot of David Windsor.
But if British affairs become ruffled, if the govern
ment which forced the abdication fails to click, then
there may occur a powerful pull of memory—the mem-,
ry of a young man who carried a briefcase over the,
seven seas to “sell” his empire, who as Prince and as,
: King demonstrated more affection for the lowlies than
: for the highest of his subjects, and who thereby bound
i to himself the affections of the masses of the empire
! over which in theory he ruled, but which in practice
.alls for a symbol which he refused to be.
It is too much to hope to pierce all the fog which
now envelops the situation. It does seem clear, how
i ever, that should Edward come back it would not be
n the royal capacity, but as a citizerf. Anyway, where |
Edward goes from here is to us quite the most fascinat-1
:ng phase in all the whole series of events which in
both political and sentimental sense rivaled in interest
any other twenty-four hours of our time.—New York:
World Telegram.
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35,000 REASONS
A1 Smith, by what we see in the papers, has reached
the conclusion that it will be just as well for the Liberty
League to disband. Its usefulness, he thinks, is over.
Jouett Shouse, executive secretary of the League,
disagrees with Al. And Shouse presents 35,000 rea
sons why the League should continue.
The League pays Mr. Shouse $35,000 a year salary.
Some racket—Philadelphia Record.
Roosevelt has carried the Argentine Republic and
Brazil, which just about offsets the loss of those two
Latin States, Mainedor and Vermontero.—N. Y. Sun.
The Federal Housing Administration hasn’t kept up
with the times. It won’t lend you money to build a
home if you want wheels under it.—Akron Journal.
Russia’s boast of 7,000 planes and 10,000 aviators is
calculated to put Germany and Japan up in the air.
It will take all of 50 years to rebuild Spain, one ob
server thinks. And 10 more to get the bulls to come out
from under the bed.—Atlanta Constitution.
European diplomats are measuring the port of Bar
elona to see if it is large enough to contain the makings
)f a first-class war.—Chicago News.
Men thank God when wars are ended, but may
thank themselves for starting them.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given, that
Chas. Alexander has been ap
pointed, by the Probate Court,
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, Administrator
of the Estate of JOHN LEPRI,
deceased, and all persons having
claims against the said Estate are
required to present the same,
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with proper vouchers, within six
months from the date of this
notice to the undersigned admin
istrator in the City of Nome,
Territory of Alaska.
Dated this the 12th day of Jan
uary, 1937.
Chas. Alexander,
Administrator of the Estate of
John Lepri, deceased.
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GOOLEKE, Manitoba Province,
Canada, Jan. 18—Prospecting for
gold under 70 or more feet of
water by summertime methods
during frigid winter weather is
in progress at Gooleke, isolated
settlement 300 miles north of
Winnipeg, E, L..Brown and F.
Baker, officials of a mining com
pany, explained today in Gooleke
Prospectors wear diving suits
and are swinging their picks on
the floor of a lake to discern the
geological formations that consti
tute the clues of valuable gold
quartz deposits. Mr. Brown and
Mr. Baker declare that their com
pany’s claims, on which shafts
have been driven down 600 feet,
have been extended under the
lake at Gooleke and that the
quartz veins have been traced for
a distance of 3,000 feet under
water.
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Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
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Generally overcast skies were
reported between Nome and Fair
bank? and ceiling and visibility
were better except near Bluff and
Solmon early this morning. Snow
squalls continue over the north
ern portion of Seward Peninsula
and Kotzebue Sound. Snow was
falling at Cordova and rain was
reported from Juneau. Fair skies
obtain over the Pacific Coast
States.
Temperatures remain above the
seasonal average in most of Al
aska while a cold wave overlies
western Canada.
High pressure continues over
the north Pacific Ocean and the
western Canadian Provinces while
low pressure is centered around
Point Barrow and near Atka on
the Aleutian Islands. Cloudy and
unsettled conditions will likely
continue with possibly some
snow squalls and fog, and not
much temperature change.
Fairbanks reported 57 inches
of snow on the ground, and Ruby
52 inches, at 7 a.m., after a fall
of 6 inches during the past 24
hours.
The lowest Nome tempera
ture last night was 12 above and
the highest yesterday 27 above.
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