THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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C OOPERATE WITH ALASKA In NEW DEVELOPMENTS
The Alaska development committee of the Tacomt
Chamber of Commerce, C. C. Garland, chairman, has beer
active in assisting Alaskans in the development and promo
tion of various projects in Alaska. Many of those relate
to legislation in Washington. D. C.
Endorsement has been given the proposed Seward bond
issue to be procured through a bill now before Congress for
public improvement.
Another Congressional measure would extend to the
Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines the same
privileges and appropriations as now apply to the experi
ment stations under the direction of the state colleges in the
United States. The Chamber is active in urging the Inter
ior Department to hasten its appropriations and arrange
ments for construction work at Nome to bgein early this
spring in order that the work may be completed before cold
weather starts in the fall.
The Chamber also is pressing in Washington, D. C.. the
establishment of air mail service between Puget Sound and
Alaska, and the establishment of air mail service to the
Orient via Alaska regardless of any other route that may
be established between continental United States and the
Orient.—Tacoma Progress.
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The Nome Daily Nugget is one of the best advertising
mediums for Nome and Seward Peninsula. You can check
over the list of hustling, progressive, booming places and
you will find that each one has its live-wire journalistic suc
cess. When you see a town unable to support a decent and
modern newspaper you can check it off the list of those de
stined to enjoy more-than-average growth.
The publishers of this newspaper are making every ef
fort to get out a journal which is not only fair to the people
it serves but also creditable to them. This newspaper goes
into many sections of the Territory and the States. Every
where it travels it proclaims the mental and business condi
tion of Nome and Northwestern Alaska.
The people of the community should support the home
town newspaper to the extent of a yearly subscription as a
matter of course. They can at least contribute partly to
ward its growth and enlargement. At the present price
there is little danger of anybody being pinched through sub
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DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
A city of some 10,000 souls, with the background of
early Indian life and the appearance of a modern, thriving
metropolis—that is Wowako, Oklahoma.
As is my custom, I first called at the newspaper office,
The Times-Democrat, and had a visit with my old friend,
Robert V. Peterson, the publisher. Mr Peterson told me a
fascinating story of Wewoka and the old Seminole nation of
which it was the capital and is now the county seat.
A large, beautiful pecan tree grows in the Court House
lawn across the street from the newspaper office under
which Seminole Indian braves who had violated tribal reg
ulations were publicly whipped. Many of the residents of
"ewoka—now a modern, growing city—have seen public
whippings. A block farther down the street I was shown
the location of the public execution tree. The original tree
is now located in the State Historical society building in Ok
lahoma City.
Twelve years ago Wewoka was a quiet, sleepy little
village of 1,200 population. Then oil—that black gold
fluid—was struck by R. H. Smith, a Philadelphian, who bor
rowed $300 from pioneer Wewokans to help drill the discov
cry well. Each year Wewoka celebrates that anniversary
with an Oil Jubilee. Smith’s well was the first in the great
Seminole Empire, and is still producting oil in huge quan
tities.
It happened I was in Wewoka on a Thursday and I ask
ed Mr. Peterson why so many Indians were on the streets.
"It's Indian pay day,” he replied. “Each year the federal
government pays out $1,000,000 in cash to restricted
Indians.” The Indians who originally owned much of
Oklahoma are now being paid huge amounts of cash each
year.
Oil and Indians, I thought—can’t have much agricul
ture in Wewoka and Seminole county. But I was wrong,
for the Seminole county agricultural exhibit prepared by
County Agent, Claude S. Sullivan, has won first place at the
Oklahoma State fair for five consecutive years.
Wewoka and Seminole county are truly a city and
county of contrasts. Here are men who have seen Indians'
executed and lashed, who have seen oil discovered and bring
wealth to a countryside and who have seen the county’s
farm display bring first place at the state fair. Surely, this
is a time of rapid change.
Smiles, not frowns, scare trouble away.
Today an appeal to reason seems less than a whisper
in a whirlwind.
Too many people take too much interest in war and too
little in peace.
There is no encouragement for a business man to keep
his place of business nice and clean if the street in front of it
is littered with wastepaper and dirt.
Some people seem to want to kid themselves into be
lieving that the world not only owes them a living, but great
wealth. A lot of them are due for a rude awakening.
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