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Hot e!0 .Nome, Alaska. Phone, BIscil 134
Nome, iliixta, 1 ( l)i ii;:r\ !, K>17.
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! of j in the Far
X< :i !:'■■! an ii’r.inln. ting c cample1 1
in tiic report uI* n i orr* spondent ;
.r a i; . '• «• to!!- of a firm , 1
t hf jv < otnit.g ir.im Nome whi--h cm-::
plo-s men for ten hours paying]!
r t:. ni i hr 'io'i.-.rs a (lay. The firm j t
tn • ;•!!>• t! is known In those parts j t
in i ; ;;'.<! Uordovado and j t
ip., im; ecs were brought with i
other itnpi dim nt. from Nome as i
partners.
From the accounts received it i
would appear that sent ■ Nome j 1
lawyer drew up a partnership agree- i i
meut whi'-h was intended primarily :
to evade tip- eight hour law. Under ,
this wonder, ul instrument the firm , i
above mentioned takes in employe, s j
as partners and agrees to pay them <
one p(r cent over and above the i
■vui. t.cid , n the sum of SilO.'iOO
is made. , i
This contra, t is not unknown in j
Xante, at. . last winter it enabled
• r - bcywlre outfits to ■
>,.;!• tl. slit hour law by getting
‘ ute . : .■ . together and pro
mising th- m a nominal pro rata of
the 'T, . s of operations.
One does not expect much better
irci. ,i-.i tip such as that rtferred
to. "cl -Till less of that class or
e love of a will
■ ii nr: ;i partnership agreement.
Tit most important fact in <ou
11... ti n with it' ll an agreement is
in t while it is a fictitious one, en
iMing operators to evade tiie law,
,;ii’ a, such not bona fide, it never-;
eless m b< r i for tl - pur
)»ise (i nullifying the eight hour
. .. with itnpu pparent ini
nntnity.
And : irthernior it is only labor laws j
v.-h ire allowed to he .-onfra
a , ; n such an outrageous man-,
ner. 1
Frankly when one feels indignant
at this deliberate and daring eva
sion of the law. although one may i
fee! inclined to berate and denounce ^
the operators who effect such an
evasion in their own interest, we run
liardiy denounce them consistently
without paying attention to those
who allow this sort of tiling, as this
sort of tiling lias bet u allowed to go
on for over a year in t lie Second
Division without any effort made to
prevent it.
The operators who sti evade this
labor law, probably do not give a
bang about any law. and only the
tear of prosecution prevents them
if occasion arose where there was
money in it. breaking much more
serious codes. Tin y are Influenced
by the desire of profits. That is
d'li'i ator
their one com 1 rn as
h<-<-ausc thry find a number of joblt-j
•i, -.\ illiiij? to labor under peonist '
■ ions they tabf advantage of |
,1: to ntor profitable operate their |
ground. Tiiev are peon bunts.
|i •• .food that the miners o: j
thiti : *■(■*ioit of the .-ountry where I
ibis sort of t liii '■ has come ;’i a-1
,, it tolerable innovation and where
higher wag.-s lr.ve been ur.ifornil..
paid, are furiously indignant; the-,
know that such glaring evasion of
the law is simply an encouragement,
to ignore tin law wholly upon the
part of all operators.
In. this tl ey are distinctly correct.
For last year when one operator .
adopted this fake partnership agree
ment. it was gcnrally adopted by all
of those who wanted to ignore as
they did the eight hour law.
We might denounce and attack
and berate authorites, officials and
operators and scabs until Doomsday [
without effecting anything more
than a few ruffled feelings among
sinecurists who never want to be |
troubled with enforcing a labor law. j
But the point is. and it is the only
one, that until the workers them
selves determine that these labor
laws shall be enacted and enforced
by themselves atid there is a
strong economic organization to en
act and enforce such labor matters.
Icy vvill face exactly ami always
hi same ■ oiuliiion.
There never >• t was an official in
osiib a ■:,!. > . .• :• -1 three continent
about enforcing a labor law. un
e he i:.ul to secure labor votes to
• ' his I'osltion. And own then,
ds Eotlviti -s will b< horn about the
iin• ■ he i.- looking for office and
'.'ill with r about the time Ini has
. elected for another term. His
intuition as an official will rest
111)n entirely different matters to
nothing connected with labor. He
cels no need for activity in this
ine, because he is acting against
hose interests which have o •curred
0 him ns very pleasant very peace
ul and ratisfa tory as well as in
inential. ail the t!m<■.
With tiie eight hour day det'-r
niiie.l upon by the workers, sirong
y organized, eight hour day d, ci
;ions could ty over-ridden by not
lie rhdiest and most powerful firm
ti Alaska.
It certainly is reducing things t
1 miser.ik! absurdity when a two h>
our outfit of strings and haywire,
,vith a f w pipes and a leaking
mile- tor ina- him ry and a buneh ot
ill i their gizzard for capital can
operators and break the
ight hour law with absolute impu
litv. Yet what else have been the
■v,ebons that occurred in this tamp
;ince tiie enactment ol iliis law tin
ier partnership urge, merits,
■nit that? A couple of men who
•ouldn't earn a days pay themeslves
get together an outfit of scrap iron
md stalling off the transfer man,
mini out tin supplies to some wild
' Hid 11 re proeeed to sink a hole
th tl helj ol on< p< r cent
iters who may never see even the
dollars a day for the ti n hours
h v work. This sort of thing has
ii' n going on since tile law was en
icted and still is.
So it is whether we take an Adam
am law which the railroads can defy
r au Alaska labor law which local
wo-by-fours can successfully evade,
egislation as a means of enforcing
labor demands is about the weakest
ink in the industrial chain to which
he labor movement can anchor.
Workers cannot depend upon em
ployers to obey a labor law or offi
dais to enforce a labor law. They
an only depend upon themselves,
first last and all the time.
Kvory man who remains outside a
labor organization, in deed and in
‘act aids and abets the defeat of
abor and labor laws. He is acting
n such a way that operators can
■vade with impunity such legisla
:ion as tnay be passed and such de
nands of labor may see its way to
nsist upon. Tn Alaska this is no
lifferent from elsewhere and when
such cast s as those which occasion
his i .nnient arise, the man outside
ihor organization can blame him
lf. He can do nothing and in a
much more menacing way and in a
much more cowardly way, he will
that the rest ■ ail do nothing,
indiffert ne ‘ ol irkei
iheir oWn interest is
primarily responsible for conditions
■ they arm for if the men who work
ror wages in this community would
tU of them unite and organize,
neither officials would dare allow it
nor would any operator venture to
evade as they do evade the eight
hour day law.
We place this blame for condi
linns Htrht whom it holrmtrs Thft
operators mentioned are operators
and are looking after their interests
as operators, the officials regard
their- positions as due in no way,
shape, manner or form to labor and
are uneoneerned about the violation
of labor laws, but the workers who
are outside a labor organization are
stealthily scabbing, are aiding the
work of defeating labor's struggle
for the ejght liur day and are no
matter how they may disguise the
fact, primarily responsible for every
evil condition that anywhere exists.
REST QUIET
PARIS. Jan. 30.—With the cxcep
ion of the Verdun and Upper Al
sace sectors the rest of the west
front is quiet, except for intermittt
ent canonading.
NOT THAT KIM>.
After suffering a long time with
toothache, the young colored girl
got up her courage to go to the deri
iI. The moment he touched tho
tooth she ht-gtin to s-r •am. "Loolt
r< " ; e said. “ You musn’t yell
like that, dont you know I’m a pain
•dentist”. ‘‘Well m-.-hbe yo i*
sah,” id, “ <
. si —Ex. Paveway hand ring
rn-.ichit • $15.00. Universal food
■ by oz. >3.00 and $3.50 eath.
1 > hand s les 25 tnd 50 cent
Grain weights 35 cents set. Gold
money weights 50 ■curs set. Ev
r-ady Safety Razor with 13 blade
for $1.00. Williams shaving soap
lHr. suaving: SlUK ai.u >uau:.}
cream 25.
C. AA\ LEAVIS.
Melba r**.
NOTH'! 01 AI'PI.H ATION FOR
p.ati r.
In the United States L: el Office at
25, 1917..
Notice is h r. y given, tliat
Nicholas J. Butii r, a citizen of the
l'niti-1 Slates, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nc me, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulcli Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
District. Alaska. being Mineral
Survej No. 1191: said claim being
i more particularly described in tin.
;;t id notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on tile in said
hand Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1. Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
1 157. Cor. •!. of No. 13 Dexter Crc. k
| Sur. No. 41s and Cor. 2. Bella Frae
i tion. Sur. 47S; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-115 7 K. 4-4 IS. 2-478 B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 hears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
: 26 deg. 29 min. E. thenc jp. S7 deg.
|04 min. \V. Var. 1S deg. E.
j 1171.00 ft. to Cor. Xo. 2; thence X..
2 deg. 11 min. K. Var. 19 deg. 15
j min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. Xo. 3;
j thence X. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.30 ft. to Cor. Xo. 4;
I thencf S. S9 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 tr. to Cor.
! Xo. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Var
1 19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 it. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
aon Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
i X. X. it. from the town of Xome,
; Alaska.
I U. S. L. M. Xo. 4 is a limestone
j block, about 4 ft.xG ft.x> ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. Xo. 4 on top
I surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. .X. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Xome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
j Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 47S, Pioneer Mining
Co. owner and on west Xo. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
j unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. AD A MS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 2' 1917.
Date of last publ., March i^S, 1917.
1 .
No. 0 30X.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Xome, Alaska. December 16, 1916.
Xotice is hereby given,* that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs. Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By \V. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden 1
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post J
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and 5
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E. 2
j Powell, has made application before j
the United States Land Office at j
Nome, Alaska, for a United States }
Patent for Discovery Claim and No. jj
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek ;
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis- J
! trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey j
No. 1175, said claims being more t
particularly described in the field [
notes and plDt of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land :
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows, ;
to-wit: .
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. \Y. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 i clow on Saturday Creek, Sur
095, a fir pest 4 ins. so. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed i-7 17,
1-105. 1-1175, D.. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
1110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 10 min.
\7. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 005.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
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1
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i
■ ' 1 1/. 1 V 1 li kV V_ U l . »'Vi • * * * - * ' • | j
| 4 9 deg. 4 5 min. E. Var. 19 cleg. 10 j ]
| min. E. G70.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;i
: thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var. !
| 19 cleg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to j
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 cleg. 43 1
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. ;
. 2S6.80 ft. to Cor. Xo. 6; thence S. ! ,
4 5 deg. 5 3 min. \V. Var. 19 cleg. 25
j min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13,3
| deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. ’
i E. 400.SO ft. to place of begining, J
containing 5.90S acres. j
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY. c
Beginning at Cor. Xo. 1 identical *
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. Xo. :
7 47 Xo. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. Xo. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. Xo. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
[ft.; thence X. 20 deg. 16 min. W. I.
Var. 19 cleg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft '
'to Cor. Xo. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. Xo. 3; thence X.
51 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00;
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. Xo. 4: j
| thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19:
j deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor Xo. j
j 5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
I Var. 19 deg. '30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
j to Cor. Xo. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45 «
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j .
670.00 ft. to Cor. Xo. 7; thence S. j
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10 i
mm. fc.: _uy. 4 u it. to inace oi ue
| ginning, containing 16.656 acres. j
Said claims are situated on un
j surveyed ground on Lake Creek '
| about 4.5 miles north of tlie Town
| of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
| ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
! Hr post 6 ins. sip 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
j Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
I Original locations recorded in Vol. 1
| 99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol. j
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page I
85, Records of Cape Nome Record- j
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the j
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek, j
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un-|
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 -Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
Commencing Monday, Jan. 22, we wiil have a guessing
contest. Guess liow many Candies the jar ocntain and win a
pretty leather sewing box Ailed with Chocolates.
| One guess for everybody. Closes Jan. Slst at 12 P. M. |
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COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
Jan. 20th, 1017.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE 8 Gil GO.
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Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer 6: Freighting
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Phone Main 139.
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Since the opening of Navigation we have rec ^ved 3270 pairs
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