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A dir e ail C'.-mmunrcatlona to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Blacx 134.
Nome. Ala.’ a..
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!i(.:(T AS \UJ.l..
lew a ic ‘1 a blind man to the j
; Mature. \.' . ir as some political |
activities of Alaska are eoneernea
they might as well have had deal,
dumb and blind scions making tlie
laws. Now dont get mad about it,
for there is nothing personal about
Truth and it was only Pilate askea
“What is Truth”.
i m: old doc.
Our old friend Doe Wiley lias been
talking about the prices of food and
says, as . good many of his ad
mirers malt and female have said,
that they are an outrage, and by
the sanit token that brings us as far
and no further than anyone else has
got in regard to tite aviation costs
of livng whieh all the while seem
bent upon hr aking tin height r
cords.
How- v-r tl • I)n asks a qut tion.
He says that the Mayor of a certain
city some tint- ago when spuds went
out of sight bought several carloads
of m irpi.it with tin city's money
and aid them v. thin reason to the
citizen-. Ami tic rt upon Wiley asks
why couldnt the other cities and
"Ten tin nation do that with regard
to all foods.. .
1msoi st itec! doctor!
The good n «t» has Veen so busy giv
ing his proft—sinnal okay to Nujol
ami nth' r nostrums food atm drugs
ihat he quia overlooks the fact
that interposing an obstacle in the
of pro
fit gelling.
\ \ \ \\ I i I. I'i'.OHl.KM.
|i«' you know what (ho financiers
u ’ . un’" arc now worrying
yon r< id tin ;r jour
oun • >11 ..< ■■■]• would t'll. You
niigbi inn -> ii is about the hard job
the work* )i\• to g< t enough to
• it. or tlio difTu ultii s in making tlie
fiour shortage go around, or the
troubles due to inequality between
the earnings and the purchasing
power of labor. But that would be
all wrong. They are watching no
such problems. Their whole time
is just now taken uu with the fact
that the rate of exchange is going
to cause all kinds of worry. The
rat*- of i xehange is matter only for
those who have millions, but it's an
interesting question and one not <
tirely unconnected with working
• lass aims and objects.
When a pound sterling is ex
■ hanged for a dollar, a certain de
tinite exchange rate is set. when a
dollar i- exchanged for a German
mark, a: Italian lira or a French
i ruin 'h'-pc are specific rat. s. These
are known as the rates of exchange.
Now tin dollai higher than ever.
.11,ti ■!! Furoi'i , r ■ olr.age or. shot
to pi' , . la ss \mcrican currency
is «.*i von for any of them today than
b< lore lhe war.
That shows the soundness of the
Amrri. all currency?
Not quite. But tiiat is beside tbe
question that is worrying the finan
ciers. The worry is this' : the Ital
ian lira buys .iust as much in sunny
Italy as before the war. so does, the
Knglish pound, tlie German mark,
the French franc and so on, making
allowances for shortages due to the
war. And the problem then conies
in that after the war with a shrink
ing rate for the pound and the lira
and tlie franc and the mark, those
nations having such a currency will
not deal with America but will deal
with those countries where the home
currency receives equality of rates
in foreign hands.
And that's only half the trouble
with tli/se knights of gold. To re
store tHe European currency rate of
exchange here would mean that the
.dollar would have to moderate its
power as a monarch in the world ot
currency. The difficulty is then seen.
The old dollar may he some class in
luri.'-.i lands, but when you start
out to buy grub, clothing or eke to
pay tlle rent, it is pretty small pota
toes here. So if its purchasing
pov it is to decline so tiiat it may
accomodate tlie Eurpcan systems
what is to become of it? Who said
bi-metalism? Hut isn’t it grand when
you have nothing else to do but
think of how much you are going to
give the other fellow for his monev
ADMIKE THE HAT!
When some particularly beautiful
specimen of the millinery art upon
some glorious woman's crowning
glory next catches your fancy, may
be you would like to inqierc as ot
tin- price, and while jour imagina
tion is staggering at the .norn o.ts
expense of such a confection, v ill
you please cool off your imagination
studying up some facts am' f:;:ares
as to what milliners who make
these things are paid. Fabulous
sums? Well not that you would no
tice it.
Quite recently an investigation has
been made as to the wages pa\d
milliners in the iiat making industry
and Boston was taken as a typical
average city.
The figures throw a great white
light on tic high costs of living—
we dont think. The wages per
annum var; between fitly-InP-irs and
four hundred and seventy live foi
:■ worki r A1 r it please!
Fifty per cent of the lady milliners
about $210.52, sixty three pel
■ i.t average ln-tween one hundred
• ml three hundred. But few rise
abovi five dollars a week. It is im
possible to properly appreciate the
beauties of captalism until the man
from .Mars asks in a perplexed sort
of manner how the devil they live
upon that wag". We dont know, or
dont pretend to know. The fact is
they do not live upon it. They in
crease their salaries—but this paper
has to pass through the mails. Yet
everyone knows how. Moreover con
sider the heart to heart talks of the
societies which protect bird life con
cerning the manifest cruelty of
wearing feathers in these hats. Who
ever asked the women to consider
the sighs and tears and the heart
a< lies and the chills and terrors and
the doom and disease and death all
rolled into the romance of a fashion
able hat? How beautiful are the
unappreciated delights of capitalism
and how signal are the blessings ot
.ree labor!
STtilKKS.
Nothing reveals the community
0 in'.-rest between employ.rs and
. 1. ; :oy ■ s like .strike data. Nothing
V. - a , ■ :.u r :.re the bosses lei
i-u> wages upon which thu workers
lan live. We have been getting
some sttike data of recent vintage
which show all this. We judge front
the tig tires of the Department that
1 at least two million more or less
wet'.- affected by strikes during tin
pas! year. The prices went up foi
food, clothing and shelter, but the
tender hearted employers saw nc
necessity to increase the wages iii
even ratio. They left it to the em
ployees as they generally do, to dc
that. And the way the employees
went about it was to strike. Dur
ing 1915 there were 916 strikes,
During tlie year of Our Lord 1916
there were 2.5S4. Hath striRe af
fected over a thousand men on ari
average. Some a great deal more
some a great deal less. They will
tell you In figures how much laboi
lost by these strikes in unpaid
i wages, hut what paper will tell you
that without these Btrikes laboi
would be floundering still in peon
wages which could not even begin
to reach the cost of living. It may
be a waste, and the way to end the
waste is to give in to labor's de
mands but the community of inter
est people never advise that.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Shoes are high ami going higher.
Meantime it is interesting to know
hat the leather trust which earned '
13 last year expects to earn fifty:
ents on every dollar of watered
stock this year. Shoes will go higher
la use and effect demand it.
in thi; ho.mi:,
It is pleasing to note that inter
esting papers are being read at eco- 1
nomic organizations showing the in
creased employment of women in
the industries and urging the still
further extension of this system.
What has become of the cheerful
ones who were wont to assert that
woman's place is in the home?
ORIENTAL QUESTION.
The oriental question is always
with us. The Robert Dollar line im
ported Chinese to man their lumber
. i hooners thus enabling them to
check matt tl coast-sean n’s ion
i The case was before tin courts. The
j ;; i’.ors of Mongol nationality came
rom Shanghai. Contract labor was
: implied. The court decided adverse
! ly to the union declaring that the
1 sailor's home was on the sea.
Hurrah for the freedom of the seas,
low wages and a ship subsidy!
HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT.
Under the caption “Workers Re
ward Friends” tlie Coast Seamen's
Journal whoops up a paen of re
joicing over the election of Wilson
as one would say “Labor Did It“.
“The issues of the election were so
plain that the workers had no diffi
culty in seeing and following tlie path
of duty” which was to vote for Wil
son. It is quite interesting that
the path of duty like the path of
glory leads but to the grave ot
hopes. What a blessed thing that
foresight is not equal to hindsight,
or otherwise what a mass of rejoic
ings would die aborning.
THKY QUIT.
The militia when used to break
strikes never suffered from any
shortage in men or officers. State
regiments afforded business men
' nice outings, natty uniforms and a
chance to crack a worker’s skull or
two—glory in these days of discon
tent and turburlence not wholly to
' be despised. But, ‘Snakes Alive!,
I it’s another thing altogether when
real war pops up and the War De
! partment is or was badly puzzled 1 •
the way wholesale resignations of
! militia officers came tumbling in
when the prospects of perforation
by a Yillatist bullet entered the
perspective of their mind's eye. For
| one alarming circumstance is that
! these officers and gentlemen who
were not above ordering “fire'
when the strikers got too gay, sent
in to the extent of nine per cent i :
them their resignations. War is alt
right for tlie regulars, but as for
th% militia, strike duty every time:
Peace lias enough glories for them
CITY BATH HOUSE
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lias the largest
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs in Nome.
No. 030s.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION I OB
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
D. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
--~
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Pov.ell, lias made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United Stales
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis- j
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey |
No. 1173, said claims being more!
particularly described in the field
notes and plat 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. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-7 47,
4-693, 1-1 17 5, D. TJ. S. L. M. No.
11 bears' S. 14 deg. 03 min. E.
4 110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.,
57 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
69 deg. 45 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 10 i
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
t lienee S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Yar.
19 deg. 13 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. \Y. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
3S6.S0 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. \V. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.SO it. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
74 7 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 13 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Yar. 19
deg. 10 mill. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
3; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. i
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S. 1
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 10,
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be- i
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un- ,
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. Ill
to which said claims are tied, is a:
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat- j
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly !
from mouth of Snake River and j
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road. I
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North j
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Yol. j
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Yol.
163 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East tin
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. 74 7. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21. 1917.
Ion Ought To
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im.ES BROS. COFFE, CALIFORNIA GOLDEN STATE BUTTER.
THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY GOOD FOR BREAKFAST.
ORDER AT ONCE FROM
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211 FRONT STREET PHONE. MA1N M
jj The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
IS THE PLACE FOR GOOD BREAD, CAKE, LUNCHES, CAN
DIES AND ICE CREAM.
THE HOME OF AUGU8TINER AND KEYER VICTOR!
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Jan. 20th, 1917.
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Siuce Uie opening of Navigation we have rec /ved 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
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