A Happy and jj
Prosperous
New Year I
To All
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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 .steam Heated Rooms at Reasonable rates by
Day, Week or Month.
EVERY MODERN ACCOM'. DATION AND IMPROVEMENT.
ANDERSON & BROOKS, Prop.
COR. FRONT AND B ST. PHONE BLACK 171.
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ORGANIZED LABOR.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 R*llrosd Build
tag, Denver, Colorado.
EHAS/MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
> President. gec.-Treai
LOCAL 240 W. F. M.
The regular meeting ot the Nome
a Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
*40, ot the W. F. of M., Is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
*to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
PHIL CORRIGAN, President.
JOHN A. WILSON, Sec.-Treaa. .
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local’Union 1789, Carpenter* and
(olnera of America, meet* every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Owrpenter’B H.eadqivaiWra, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
Ot Labor, meets every Monday at
f:30 p. m. In the F. L; U. Hall.
B. H. ANDERSON, Preo.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treaa.
Cor Correctly
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CLASSES
Go to
Segerstrom & Hagen
Jewelert) aid Optician!.
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* W. J. ROWE
Transfer
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Liver j and Saddle Horses for
Hire. Dealer In all kinds
of Lumber and Building
Material.
PHONE MAIN 87.
447 FRONT STREET.
SEATTLE
Barber Shop
FIRST CLASS SERVICE.
JOHN H. NICHOLAS.
OVERSTOCK (SI*
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tail
ing, and find that wo are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling an
the basis of goods purchased tue
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 oj
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
ARCTiC SPRING
WATER
10 Burbots $1.00
50c. a Barrel.
A. D. POTEET.
Phone Red 126.
3!
Milo’s
Cafe
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT
Next door to PaclAc Cold
Storage.
SWEET BRIAR
BUTTER
40 c. per.
Pound
w
By the Case.
PACIFIC COLD STORAGE GO
PHONE W1
f.
ALASKA HEWS ITEMS
AND TOWN TOPICS
The outside mail leaves today.
Great weather that tor the coal
man.
A slight accident to the Wild.
Goose Heating Plant on Thursday
night somewhat subdued the steam
pressure in some of the radiators.
On good authority we can safely
assure the public that the dutch
stunt alone is worth the price of
admission.
• • •
Chas Madsen, the former mosquito
fleet magnate, writing to friends in
Nome, says that he is stationed in
King Cove and will probably come
to Nome next summer on a trip. He
is game warden in that district
As may be seen rrom scanning
these columns the various fraternal
organizations of Nome are keeping
open House on New Years day and
extending invitations to all to at
tend
OfBce and Residence of J. F.
M’Allister, freighter and transfer,
Elite Baths.. Phone Red 157.
The Alaska Lighterage and Com
mercial Co‘s coal yard will be closed
on New Years Day. It will there
fore behove the chilly ones who
are short of coal to get in their sup
ply of black diamonds today—if
they have the price.
On Thursday night it went down
as low as 34 below even within the
environs of Nome. However no one
suffered mushing in this weather
j mainly because discretion kept them
I indoors.
All freighting to the
i creeks is suspended lor the time be
i ing and miners are awaiting .for an
improvement in conditions so that
they can get busy on their claims.
Admission fee to the AKSA1..1
CARNIVAL Saturday night is just
what you are willing and can afford
to give, no other expense in the
Hall.
Delegate Wickersham wired A.
Polet, president of the Chamber ol
Commerce that the War Depart
ment’s board of engineers in charge
of rivers and harbors adopted a re
port recommending the improve
m?nt of Snake river at Nome b;
dredging the channel ~fo tr depth o:
eight feet and protecting the same
with jetties with an inside
basin of the same depth,
the estimated cost would be
$95,000. The estimated cos
of up-keep for the first year woulc
be twelve thousand five hundrer
and afterwards seven thousand flv
hundred annually towards the main
tenance of the channel. The repor
was still to be pasesd upon by the
Chief Engineer. A special sessioi
of the council was called last nigli
by Mayor Moller for the purpose o
pledging the city still further to
wards the up-keep of the liarbo:
entrance at Snake river.
THE PIONEERS OF ALASKA
extend a general invitation to all
organizations and the general public
to visit their open house from 2 to
5 P. M. on New Years Day.
• • • •
An enjoyable affair of the Xma9
festivities of the week was a party
given little Doris Bayne in honor of
the happy meeting with Santa Claus,
with real live reindeer, in his icy
home. Those present who partici
pated in the relighting of the Xmas
tree candles, games etc., were Miss
Ada Arthurs, Ardath Folsom, Jane i
Sheldon, Doris Bayne, Willie Carle
ton, Stanford Seidenverg, Billie
Chace, Joe Sheldon jr., Miss Orr and
Mrs. Bayne.
• • • *
The public is kindly requested to
be at the hall as early as possible as
the doors will o|>en 8.45 and the
entertainment will start promptly at
9 P. M.
A special meeting of the city
council was held in the clerk’s of
fice last night at eight o’clock. The
concilmen were all present when
called to order by the Mayor who
stated that the meeting was for the
purpose of replying to Wickersham’s
telegram to the President of the
Chamber of Commerce relative to
the Snake river Harbor which was
ordered read. The Mayor said a re
ply had been drafted thanking Wick
ersham for his efforts and notifying
him that the council was pledged to
; spend twenty five hundred annu
j ally in the up-k cp of the harbor.
The motion to dispatch said reply
was unanimously passed upon roil
call and the council then adjourned.
The Aksala carnival committee
met yesterday and after receiving
reports from the different commit
tees on subscriptions which were
found to be better than anticipated,
the final arrangements and the ap
pointment of committees to have
the hall in cl arge next Saturday
right were m ; ’ as follows: Recep
t:: p Mayor Mol * r. and the entire
committee appointed by him as pub
lished some time before. The Floor
Committee: Dr. Chace, Chairman, J.
V. Sheldon, A. A. Allan. Lieut. Per
rine, Arthur Cole. Dr. Sharpe, Fred
Peterson, J. Kirstan, Ned Darling,
I R. S. Pollister. Committee in charge
j of office and finances at the door:
j A. Polet, Wm. Stipek, W. C.
I McGuire, Tom Gaffney, Dr. Wesley,
Jack Leach, Harry Jones.
I The committee also decreed that
, any member of the committees not
■ reporting for duty will have no
mercy at the hands of the Carnival
committee. The entertainment will
start promptly at 9 p. m.
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SONS OF THE NORTH.
t A business meeting of the Sons ot
t the North will he held at their hall
t on Sunday afternoon. Dec. 31, at 4
- p. m. Members and prospective
• members requested to attend.
SECRETARY.
Join The Eagles
Do not fait to
take Advantage
of our Special terms now offered under the special dispensation
REMEMBER
That the meeting of January 2nd is the very last meeting
that your application may be tilled.
If you miss this opportunity the fraternity will lose your sup
port and co-operation and you will regret of having lost the pro
tective influence of the Order, its saving features and the frater
nal communion in the lodge room and the well spent evenings in
the best club rooms in Alaska.
Join The Order Now
Nome Aerie No. 75 F. O.E.
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Merry Xmas
and
Happy New Tear
To All
the EMPORIUM
KRIS TAN BROS.
Merry Xmas
and |
I Happy New Year I
I To All I
| A.J. Mueller f
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211 FRONT STREET RHONE, MAIN 86
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Pole
Bakery
&Coffee
House
BREAD
10c. per It 3/
3 Loaves 25c.
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Bakery
and
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House
i Miners and Merchants Bank!
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
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Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL
Cheap John Store
ONE PRICE TO ALE
TEL. MAIN 48.
Established June, 1900
Alaska Banking and
Safe Deposit Co.
Authorized Capital $125,000
Paid Up Capital $50,000.
A Ganaral Banking Baainaw
Transacted
Nome Scavenger
Company
All Orders ReceiveJ
Prompt Attention
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