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A Happy and
Prosperous
New Year
To All
HILLS PHARMACY
We Deliver The Goods.
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The Elite Hotel and Baths
Now Open
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. REFITTED THROUGHOUT.
Hot and cold Baths.
Steam Baths.
Fine Large Tubs
Competent Attendance.
Electrict Lighted and ateam Heated Rooms at Reasonable rates by
Day, Wrcek or Month.
EVERY MODERN ACCOMODATION AND IMPROVEMENT.
ANDERSON & BROOKS, Prop.
----PHONE BLACK 171.
COR. FRONT AND B ST.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
' Headquarter* 808 Railroad Build'
gag, Denver, Colorado.
CHAS.'MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
. Li President. Bec.-Treaa
LOCAL 340 W. F. M.
. Xbe tegular meeting of the Nome
Mine' Workers’ Union, Local No.
•40, of the W. F. of M., la held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner's Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
go 8 p. m.t 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
PHIL CORRIGAN, President.
JOHN A. WILSON, Sec.-Treas. .
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
„ Local’Union 1789, Carpenter* and
(otners of America, meet* every Fri
day at Al Orland’s ahop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
* al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
of Labor, meets every Monday at
f :S0 p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
B. H. ANDERSON, Prea.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treaa.
For Correctly
Fitting
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Go to
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Segerstrom & Hagen
Jeweleru tnd Optician*.
W. J. ROWE
Transfer
liverjr and Saddle Horse* tor
Hire. Dealer in all kind*
ot Dumber and Building
Material.
PHONE MAIN 87.
*47 FRONT STREET.
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SEATTLE
Barber Shop
FIRST CLASS BERVICE.
Meet door Miners Restaurant
JOHN H. NICHOLAS.
Prop.
OVERSTOCKED
To the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 60% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling ju
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it no
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
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ARCTiC SPRING
WATER
10 Buckets $1.00
50c. a Barrel.
A. D. POTEET.
Phone Red 120.
Milo's
Cafe
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
SWEET BRIAR
BUTTER
40 c. per.
Pound
By the Case.
PACIFIC COLD STORAGE CO
PHONE WHITE 17.
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
AND TOWN TOPICS
Trails arc now in splendid shape
for dogs or horse teams and many
loads of supplies are being sent out
in all directions. The miners have
been waiting for some time for fuel
ind groceries all of which are now
being rushed out.
The Alaska Bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce dispatched
telegraphic greetings to A. Rolet,
president of the Nome-Seward Cham
ber of Commerce yesterday, and ex
pressing good wishes for the in
creased prosperity of Nome during
the coming months.
It is stated that Ed Johnson the
proprietor of the Windsor will leave
in a day or two for Irene creek
where he is interested with Elliott
and partners opening up ground In
that section. He will take with him
considerable supplies in order to
further stimulate the operations in
that section.
Oi'ice and Residence of J. !•’.
M'.Yllistor, freighter and transfer,
Elite Ruths.. I’hone Red 157.
Henry Walker who has been drill
ing on Glacier, and a mighty cold
and chilly location it has been, by
the same token, for the past few
weeks, returned to his machine shop
yesterday having concluded his hole
punching contract in that neck of
the woods. He reports that there
is very little snow on the hills this
year, much less than last year.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., Next door to Segerstrom and
Hagen's.
The natives at Wainwright have
started something new and that is a
co-operative store whicli has been
financed and operated by them
selves from the proceeds of their
fur trapping. The venture is re
ported to have been an unqualified
success from the start and a source
of considerable economy to the na
tives who started this, for them,
novel venture.
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The various stores in Nome have
distributed this year what is prob
ably the highest grade calenders
that so far have been handed out to
customers. Some of them are real
beauties and generally worKs of art.
It is interesting to observe that fe
male beauties of an elusive and rare
type, vie with rustic scenery in po
pularity among the sourdough mer
chants. There’s a reason.
The cold still continues. Every
morning a few clouds suffuse the
sky giving hope that a softer spell
may be forthcoming but these are
soon dissipated as the day grows.
Miners say that the lack of snow
this year is likely to prove serious if
the minimum fall is maintained.
Some prospectors will not be able
to get enough water to wash up
their dumps in the spring. The “old
est inhabitant” admits that not in
his memory, which may or may not
be defective, has there been such a
small snowfall.
Patronize tlie Nome Tailoring Co.
Why? Because they do the best
work, and- are the only pioneer
tailors in Nome.
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If you didn't win the Victrola, you
may win the Corona. So the holder
of tickets which were not placed
consoled one another yesterday
when they looked up their numbers
and found them weighed and want
ing. Yesterday the phone was kept
busy asking all particulars of the
drawing from Lomen brothers and
that they didn't win had to ex*
plained carefully to a good many.
This same firm has now evolved an
other competition which is in the
nature of a ticket to Seattle and the
Outside in June. That’s going
some.
• • • •
It is stated that one of the lead
ing dry goods merchants of Nome
has completed arrangements to leave
for up the river on a fur buying
trip in the near future. The mer
chant intends to go as far as Fair
. banks and buy pelts all the way up
and down where possible. In this
connection too, it is reported, that
this year no fur buyers will come to
Alaska from the outside, and there
will be a lot of loose fur to be
picked up by the men with loose
change from trappers along the
river. It is noticeable that almost
all Yukon papers report that lynx
are again in an unusual abundance,
but no naturalist has come forward
with an explanation for the presence
of these game destroyers. The out
side fur markets continue to be very
dull with no chance of conditions
improving for some time.
The outside mail leaves with Eric
Johnson today. Mails also leave
today for the Teller and the Kouga
rok. To each of the latter places
mails leaves on the first and
fifteenth of every month during the
winter time.
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There is said to be a revival of in
terest in Sandspit lots following the
report that there is a likelihood ol
the government constructing a jetty
and harbor at Snake river mouth.
Some wise ones when the project
was first mooted had looked into the •
matter of lots near the mouth of (
'nake river and t is understood ac- j
quirert what they could, quietly and (
without inflating the prices. Now, j
it is certain some of those lots will , j
become more valuable by reason ot : i
the harbor and tiie owners are going i |
to hang on to them for grim death, j!
It is certain tin t there will he no j i
hesitation in j tying taxes upon ; j
some lots on the Sandspit and it |i
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would surprise i -> one it there was j
some activity in moribund real i
estate in that section.
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While this weather may not have i
been so popular with consumers of |
fuel owing to the high costs of that !
prime necessity, the fact that the
weather has been what it was, is re '
lished by the Telephone Co. "lne lack '
of wind and sn.w storms has result
ed in less line troubles this ^winter
than in yearn. The llnr-s have been
running clean and without inter
ruption now practically since the i
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troubles havj vanished to the irre
ducible minimum. Thfs is all due
of course to the exceptionally calm
and cold weather that has prevailed.
It is an ill wind that blows no one
any good, said the old saw. but the
telephone com ; i* ,• profits by no
wind at all.
• • • •
There was a hiyu skookum time
yesterday afternoon among the
various lodges when the members
exchanged New Year's greetings
while they partook of the hospital
ity and cheer that their hosts had
provided. After two o'clock visiting
lodges became one of the principal
New Year activities yesterday, and
wassail bowls ifrere plentifully in
evidence on that cordial occasion.
Among those which kept open
houses were the Moose, the Eagles,
the Pioneers and the Arctic Brother
hood and all were well equipped to
function as hosts to visiting frater
nities. In the evening the Moose
gave a dance in the small Eagle
Lodge just to wind up the day’s
festivities and today is—the morning
after.
Not in many New Years mornings
was there such an epidemic of stak
ing as very quietly seemed to take
full hold of a number of miners ana
prospectors in Nome this year of
1917. Yet there was not a section
of this district where they did not
show up and where new owners did
not locate ground, some of which
has been held by others for quite a
number of years. Out on Dexter al
though the night was clear, lanterns
might be seen guiding the hatchet
turn iiv ii »» v» ? v* • o- ■
while some of the stakers studied
blue prints or tried to stucly them
by the light of the lanterns that
they carried. Away down on the
second beach there were stakers go
ing beyond Cunningham and other
creeks where old claims were swap
ped for new ones by the restless pro
spector. And as far on the west as
Jess creek the midnight locator was
very much in evidence. Close at J
hand on Center creek where all the
ground has been held for years
some new mineral divisions of pro
perty were made by the stakers while
along the third beach line some who
had been quietly waiting for the
Xew Year to materialize sallied forth
to do their location work. It is not
all of these may yet be recorded,
and some of these new locations may
not stand the test should something
be found upon them, but it shows
that there are several* who yet be
lieve that over, ground which has
been trampled on and worked for
years, there is still a homestake con
cealed which yet may be got by sink
ing and drifting.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A,. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON.
Office A Residence:
OVER HILL'S PHARMACY.
Office Hours: a 5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
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Merry Xmas
and
Happy New Tear
To All
the EMPORIUM
KRIS TAN BROS.
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i Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen's Accounts Solicited. *
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL
Cheap John Store
TEL. MAIN 48. OXE PHICE TO ALL
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Established June, 1900
Alaska Banking and
Safe Deposit Co.
Authorized Capital $125,000
Paid Cp Capital $50,000,
A General Banking Business
Transacted
Nome Scavenger
Company
All Orders Receivei
Prompt Attention
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THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER |
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE IIIDI15T1L WORKER OFFICE