Fily Name Industrinl Mark;
is!
Published Daily except Sunday
Mr Nome Mine Worker*’ Onion, No. MO, Western Federation of Miner*.
Subscription Price
Tear — _ _ _ ~ — — - --- -- - — — fSS.O#
Months______ ___ - *10.00
Month . _ _ .. _ — — ~ . — — I * 00
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1*11, at the poat office at
Nome, • Alasica, under the Act of March t, 187*.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly as possible, la a worthy object of any good government.''—
Abraham Lincoln
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
•'clock eacn evening to insure Insertion In the following Issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Address all Communication* to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, AlaBka. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, April 10. 1017.
THE AGE OF REASON.
It is now many a long year since
that great libertarian Tom Paine
wrote his Age ot* Reason, intimat
ing by the use of that title that it
had at length arrived on Mother i
Earth, and his work would be justi- |
tied by the fact, but had he lived j
to see this age, it i3 hardly likely
that he would lay any claim to such
a condition of things.
Today, and especially since the
Great War broke out, it is evidenced
on every hand that men are govern- j
ed not by their reason but by their
emotions, and those feelings which
are spontaneously evoked and are
not by reason of the exercise of
man’s intelligence, now hold sway.
We are back to the days of nation
al Gods and Lares and Penates,
and men are moved by emotional
superstition of a sentimental type
rather than by their calculated
judgment.
In magazines and papers we see
very much concerning the religious
revivals which have arisen in con
sequence of the war. and we dis
cover that with the uncertainties ot
existence that this war condition
has given origin, men seek to pre
pare themselves by placing them
selves under the protection of a na
tional deity who will watch and
ward them from evils they know not
what.
Men arrange meetings, congregat
ings and gatherings with a view ot
subjecting the emotions of the mass
to a stimulus which will overcome
the hampering tendencies of intell
igent consideration, and also that
the instinctive superstition of the in
dividual may be roused to do what
his reason rejects as abhorrent.
Here is a Sunday magazine sec
tion of a great newspaper where a
Professor of Astrology tells wha. is
to happen in the war after consult
itig the stars. Here is another ar
ticle in a serai-scientific r % iew
which says that Looks on dreams, on
divination and astrology never had
such sales as \ Ithin the past few
\ cars. The death of a seeress in Pa
ris who foretold the future batth
of the war in annual instalments, is
the occasion of ini r.nationa! concern
and regret. Men turn under the in
fluences of their own emotional acts
for an emotional solution of the
oonsequ ilces v.T.n , puz.'.le tie m.
The war accentuates the insecurity
of living; it turns into strange chan
nels our thoughts, our acts, our feel
ings. And we turn just as naturally
to this mystic uncertainty, and ve
nerate and worship it. So the an
cients placed a God in the whisper
ing wind, in the tempest, in the
mountains, in the rivers, in the sea:
the air, sun, fire—all these things
which they did not understand they
endowed with a divinity that
passeth understanding.
When we throw away the con
quest of years of struggle against
superstition and revert to the con
dition of an elemental instinct which
obs -rves hut does not reason;
when we form our lives and perform
our actions as the unconscious re
sponding reaction to the stimulus
of our feelings, simply and directly,
we have to resort in the final reckon
ing to superstition to uphold us
when the ballast of reason has been
rejected.
So it is that having dethroned rea
son and elevated sentiment, emo
lion and feeling to take the place
of our intelligence, we have to re
vert to mysticism and superstition
to guide us in the path. Be it kind
ly or no. we crave for that guidance
which men have created through
their fears and nurtured through
the uncertainties of the consequences
of emotional acts.
Naturally we have no difficulty in
convincing ourselves of the nobility
of this. The gods which a nation
worships are always worthy of re
verence in the minds of those who
must needs reverence them. It is
now that reason assumes an ignoble t
even a seditious aspect. We have
to elevate to the pedestal of our re
verence quite other ideals. We re
gard those who do not worship as
we worship, who have not the faith
as we have it, who subject then
emotions to a control of intelligence
and who refuse to admit the pos
session of such overmastering sen
timents as are ours, evil, plotting,
haughty persons without gratitude
and loyally. We are ready to call
them, as Isaiah called his people
when they refused to respond to the
efforts were his to drive them with
their roused emotions “stiff necked
Jews"!
Necks that must be bended in sub
mission to the mightier will that
was already bowed down before
Olympus and which hearkened to
the Delphian oracle, or had read the
auspices in the bowels of the
slaughtered, are those who would
not return with the crowd to olden
time superstitions that laid their icy
grip upon the soul or branded with
red hot terrors the quivering human
breast.
Yet it may well be that today
we are revealing only throughout
the world the real savagery of our
civilization in our reversion to
superstition. Have not we always,
even under the hypocritical pretense
of being enlightened and civilized,!
worshipped force. And when such
has been a worship, latent, dormant
but always potentially alive, it was
as natural that those primal in
stincts, born of the uncertainties of
existence and the struggle against
natural ills that surrounded man
kind in the cradle of its careet,
should as well be potentially alive,
even though concealed by a veneer
of reasoned action and intelligent
direction.
The inhability of reasoning beings
in every country to rid themselves
of those hereditary sentiments has
been amply evidenced among the
greatest as the most shallow think
ers; and it may well be that the
war is only revealing us as we are
’.v hen strife and turmoil have worn
the veneer and stripped our souls
of our apparent enlightenment,
when even the sham of phrasemak
ing and platitude forging no longei
serve.
The stranger in a strange land
intelligently analyzes the customs,
institutions, social movements, aims,
ambitions, conventions, popular re
ligious which he sees around him.
He sees their absurdity and the de
gradation to which they lead. But
he is free to do so' because he re
mains unobsessed by the feelings
which animate the people he criti
cizes.
Yet it may well be that those
whom he criticized might as easily
subject his own country to the same
sort of intelligent if erosive criti
cism.
Thus Minister Wu Ting Fang
when a representative of China at
, Washington, told a lady in reply to
her question that he saw nothing
more inhuman in a China woman
binding her feet that they might
be small than was the action of a
voraan of fashion in western coun
tries lacing her waist so that it
might he of the proper proportions.
Many a person may have seen
Europeans stand in suppressed awe
at a religious procession where ban
ners and incense and crosses func
tioned to impress his mind. Yet
those same Europeans have been
known to jeer and ridicule similat
processions when carried out by
Brahmins on a Hindu festival, ot
Mohamedans on a Sacred Friday.
We can easily see the mote in out
neighbor’s eye, and subject it to
acrid criticism while failing to ob
serve the beam in our own. Scratch
a Russian and you find a Tartar is
of universal application. Scratch a
reasoning being with the nail of na
tionalism and you find the tribai
savage every time.
Now la the time to SobecrUM.
OPERATED UPON
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 18.—
Federal Trade Commissoner Will
H. Parry of Seattle was operated
upon today for gallstones. His
condition is serious.
WILL HAVE CURE.
CHICAGO, April 18.— Dr. Max
ill ian Herzig expects to have per
fected a sure cure for infantile para
lysis before the hot summer months,
he announced today.
NOTICE.
All Member-, of tlie Nome Mine
Workers' Union are requested to at
tend the next meeting, April 21,
1017, at 8:00 p. in. Business ot
importance will come up for discus
sion.
ANDREW BECK.
President.
JOHN A. WILSON.
Secretary.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
Two 4 H. P. Boilers.
One 12 H. P. Boiler.
One 16 H. P. Boiler.
Two 6 H. P. Boiler.
DARLING & DEAN CO.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To G. R. Jackson, M. E.' Jackson, R.
W. Jackson. W. C. Jackson, F. G.
Jackson and John Nelson, your
heirs, executors, assigns, succes
sors or personal representatives:
You and each of yoii are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars each
year for the years 1914, 1915, 1916
on Aksala Association Placer Min
ing claim situated on Cunningham
creek and recorded and more fully
described in Vol. 190 on Page 316
in the Records of the Cape Nome
Mining and Recrding District, Se
cond Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
laws concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are ,
further notified that if within ninety >
days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute |
your proportion of said expenditure |
your interest in said claim will be- j
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
JAMES FRAWLEY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 1, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 3, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Parke Godwin, your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns, successors or per
onal representatives:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended in labor
and improvements the sum of one
hundred dollars each year for the
years 1911, 1912, 1913, 1911. 1915,
and 1916 on the following placer
mining claims to wit: The New
Zealand claim situated on the right
limit of Bourbon creek. The New
Year Association ‘ and the Anvil
Square Association situated on the
right limit of Anvil creek and No. 2
Bench claim on the right limit of
Quartz creek, a tributary of Anvil
creek, all of said claims being re
corded and more fully described in
the Records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
laws concerning annual labor upon
mining claifns being the amount re
quired to hold said claims.
And your are further notified
that if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure your interest in
said claims will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOE DAROLLE.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 1, 1917.
Date of last pub., May 3, 1917.
No. 0314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nom^, Alaska, February 26, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that John
F. Ames Trustee with residence and
post office address at Cleveland.
Ohio, through his authorized at
torney in fact V. V. Dickenson
whose residence and post office ad
dress is Nome, Alaska has filed ap
plication on behalf of himself and
his co-beneficiaries under said trust
Mortimer P. Ames also with resi
dence and post office address at
Cleveland, Ohio, ahd Charles Wente
of .Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land office at Nome, Terri
tory of Alaska for a patent for
placer mining claims situate la the
Council City Recording District, in
the Second Division, in the Nome
Land District, in said Territory, said
claims comprising the following
placer locations:—Imperator, Mor
timer Bar, Eureka, Little Bloom
field, No. One and No. One and One
Half, situate on Dixon Creek and the
Casadepaga River, the Mineral Sur
vey thereof being designated as No.
1200. The description of said claims
as set forth in the Field Notes and
Plat of said Sur/ey, duly approved
by the Surveyor General ov the
said Territory, being as follows- —
Magnetic variation from 20 deg.
05 min. E. to 20 d“g 4 0 rain. J'J
Imperator Claim on Casadepaga
River.
Beginning at cor. No. I ir, the
Casadepaga River a id liable to de
struction by ice and ilood, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1201) bears N. ii deg
51.5 E., 3570.2'i :t witness corner,
a limestone 24x8x6 ins. chiseled W.
C. 2 M B I, 1-1200 with mound oi
earth 24 ins. base, 18 ins. high on
east side, bears N. 34 deg. 08 min.
W., 218.10 ft. distant; thence S.
34 deg. 08 min. E. 380 ft. to Cor.
2; thence S. 57 deg. 15 min. W.
1223.40 ft. to Cor. 3; thence N.
43 deg. 14 min. W. 350 ft. to Cor.
4 in river and liable to destruction
by ice and flood, whence witness
corner, a schist stone 24x8x6 ins.
WT n "J 13 AT A T-IOOfl
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 18
ins. high on west side, bears N. 43
ieg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft. distant;
thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 1278.40
ft. to place of beginning. Area
10.409 A.
Mortimer liar Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a schist stone
26x14x5 ins. chiseled I, M B-1200
and mound 24 ins. base 18 ins. high
on south side, whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1200 bears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
E. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
deg. 08 min. E. 384.6 ft. to Cor.
2, identical with Cor. 1, Imperator
previously described identical wit
ness corner previously described
bears X. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. W.
1278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
scribed and with identical witness
corner previously described bearing
X. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft.;
thence X. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 346.70
ft. to Cor. 4; thence X. 54 deg. 15
min. E. 342.70 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence X. 57 deg. 44 min. E. 673.60
ft. to Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 17
min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or' Discovery) Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a greenstone
24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1, E. 2, L B
1200. with mound 24 ins. base IS
ins. high on west side, whence U.
5 L M Xo. 1200 bears N. 42 deg.
17 min. E. 3009.40 ft.; thence S.
24 deg. 54 min. E. 1198.50 ft. to
Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 6 of M
B claim; thence S. 57 deg. 44 min.
W. 673.60 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. 5 of M B claim; thence
X. 23 deg. 29 min. W. 1209.20 ft.
to Cor. 4; thence X. 58 deg. 16 min.
E. 642.80 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.020 A.
Little Bloomfield Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a fir post 3
ft. by 4 ins. square set 18
ins. in ground, scribed 1, L B. 1, No.
1-1200 with earth mound 24 Ins.
base 12 ins. high around same,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears
X. 48 deg. 25 min. E. 2936.55 ft.
distant; thence S. 31 deg. 46 min.
E. 326.60 ft. to Cor. 2, identical
with Cor. 1 Eureka claim previous
ly described; thence S. 58 deg. 16
min. W. 642.80 ft. t3 Cor. 3, iden
tical with Cor. 4 Eureka ■ claim;
thence X. 26 deg. 56 min. W. 267
ft. to cor. 4; thence N. 52 'deg. 42
min. E. 623 ft. to place of begin
ning. Area 4.288 A.
No. One Dixon Creek.
Beginning at Cor. 1, identical
with Cor. 1 Little Bloomfield previ
ously described; U. S. L. M. Xo.
1200 having identical bearings;
thence S. 52 deg. 42 min. W. 623 ft.
to Cor 2, identical with Cor. 4 L B
claim; thence X. 33 deg. 28 min. W.
1330 ft. to Cor 3; thence N. 55
deg. 06 min. E. 583 ft. to Cor. 4;
thence S. 35 deg. 07 min. E.
1303.20 ft. to place of beginning. 1
Area 18.222 A.
No. One and One Half, Dixon.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a limestone
24x12x3 ins. in ground 12 ins. chis
eled 1, lVfe. 1200 with mound 24
ins. base 16 ins. high on east side,
whence U. S. L. M. Xo. 1200 bears
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. VV. 3064.57
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. H. 248.4
ft. to Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 4
No. One claim; thence S. 55 deg.
06 W. 583.80 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. .3 No. One claim; thence
N. 21 deg. 08 min. W. 241.50 ft. to
Cor. 4; thence N. 55 deg. 40 min.
E. 624 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 3.215 A.
This claim embracing 6 contiguous
locations, area 64.491 a. is on un
surveyed ground and situate on
Dixon Creek and the Casadepaga
River about 20 miles west of the
town of Council.
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 to which
Snrvey is tied is a limestone bluff
about 100 ft. in elevation above the
Casadepaga River and about 400 ft.
west of tfi'e left bank, a cross x
marking true point, whence Cor. 1
Mortimer Bar claim hears S. 22
deg. 42 min. VV. 3345.30 ft.; a cross
x cut on limestone bedrock chiseled
B R bears N. 51 deg. 40 min. E. 9.7
ft. distant; a mountain peak bears
N. 76 deg. 34 min. W. about 2 miles
distant. Said monument is about
1. 25 miles up Casadepaga River
from mouth of Big Four Creek, and
in Lat. 64 deg. 54 min. N. Long.
164 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. W.
Adjoining claims on all sides are
unsurveved and claimants unknown.
The notices of location, original and
amended are of record in the said
Council City Recording District as
follows:—Imperator Vol.' 23 page
81; Mortimer Bar. Vol. 4, page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery) Vol. 2, page
106; Vol. 16, page 17, Vol. 4, page
119; Little Bloomfield Vol. 16, page
18; Vol. 4, page 117; No. One, Vol.
20, page 267; No. One and One
Half Vol. 22, page 134.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 27, 1917.
Date of last pub., April 28, 1917.
fay?
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE 8 COM. 1
WBMB—aou
D. E. Crowley Groc. Co.
Kent Transfer Co.
Gene rat Transfer & Freighting
rt°ai & Qd
Phone Main 139.
LOOK
AT OUR DISPLAY OP UNDERWEAR, SHIRTS, SOX, GLOVES
ETC. IP PRICES TALK THERE IS AN INTERESTING STORY
IN OUR WINDOW POR THE MAN WHO W’ANTS THE BEST
FOR THE MONEY. SEE OUR SPECIAL PRICE ON
Heavy Weight Canvas Gloves
10 CENTS PER PAIR. GLOVES OP THIS QUALITY NEVER
HAVE SOLD POK LESS THAN $1.50 PER DOZEN.
| P. A. PETERSON SHOE GO.
<eBB«««BBge«»aaafiiMi!iaafaaeiai»
The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
THE HOME OF FRESH CANDIES, SALTED PEANUTS, PEA
NUT CANDIES, GOOD BREAD AND COOKIES AND GOOD
LU NCHES.
Golden State
BUTTER
IX BRINE OH CARTONS.
SEPTEMBER PACK
There is no Butter like it in Nome,
and this advertisement appears for
the benefit of those who are very
particular on butter and really de
sire to get the best obtainable.
Thorulf Lehmann
Prepare tar the winter by patron*
faring the advertiser* of yonr paper,
Mr M,BWt _•
Anything in the line off Job work
it the Indastrial Worker OAe*,