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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, ■ Alasaa, under the Act of March S, 1879.
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
Nome, Alaska, .laminry IOI7.
or course.
The who! chorus of railroad sup
porters who denounced the Adamson
law as legislation compelled hy t lie
tyranny oi the workers, will now
please join in a similar refrain over
the Newlands bill with this differ
ence that it is being forced from
Congress to protect railroad compa
nies which refuse to abide by the
law as Congress passed it.
WITH I'l.EASl RE1
Hail to Mayor Mitchell! The Mayoi
of Greater New York has been gra
ciously pleased to supend the clos
ing regulations and signified hi?
gracious permission to allow diners
to be also winers until at least three
o'clock on New Year's morning
What is a closing law among friends,
and especially those friends who
have pockets well lined with the pro
fits from their war baby farming?
A LONG TIMK AGO.
“God be thanked”, said Abraham
Lincoln, “that we have a system of
labor in this country where strikes
are. possible”. But that was quite
a long time ago before railroad com
bines and wartime prosperity and
industrial preparedness. Now what
is wanted is a system of labor when
strikes will not be possible. On to
the rack with involuntary servitude!
THE 1*1 K COUNTER.
This paper lias reliable informa
tion that many who are outside are
even now working tooth and toe
nail to succeed present incumbents
in official positions in Alaska. They
are not taking any pains to get an
expression of opinion from Alaskans
as to their own suitability to suc
ceed to the eats by the pie counter,
yet it is dollars to doughnuts that
these same seekers after the luscious
job would be the very first to make
the welkin ring with that time ho
nored and much abused slogan “Al
aska for Alaskans”.
SIGNIFICANT.
Is it not a significant state of
things when the leading lawyer of
the east voluntarily comes to the
west and to defend prisoners who
are charged with tlie crime of ex
ploding a bomb on a preparedness
parade, coming to defend them
without charge and upon his own
volition after reading the transcript
of the case against Hillings—spur
red to action by his own keen sense
that a great effort to pervert justice
and to persecute men and women is
being done in the name of tlie law!
There is nothing so significant in
recent times lias occurred as this
trip of Bourke Cochran to San
Francisco to defend the Mooneys, it
is such men as these with an acute
sense of justice who have from time
to time redeemed a profession
usually identified in the public
mind with the most sordid and often
contemptible motives.
THE STAKKRS.
New Year morning brought out
tlie usual quota of stakers whose
land hunger asserted itself over 'he
attractions of the dreamy couch or
the New Year bowl. The hope that
they might realize Heart’s Desire in
getting a piece of ground would
bring them yet a home stake was a
vision could not be denied.
It is surely a peculiar fact that
many who are the first to decry
Nome as a camp with little possibil
ities for the miner or prospector
were among those quite prominent
getting down their stakes. It is a
hard thing to avoid the attraction
of a gamble like prospecting and the
first pre-requisite, a piece of ground
of some repute, is a serious thing to
resist indeed.
It is quite safe to say that such
■staking will be as barren of result
for the vast majority in the present
as in the past, but that does not t
prevent many still hugging the
fond delusion that theirs is the
future of the millionaire with the
all the good things theirs which
money can huy.
It is the particular brand of hop
that Alaskans give way to by prefer
ence.
MEXICO.
These are happy days for the in
terventionists. Everything is coming
their way. While their press stor
ies about massacred Americans be
ing contradicted so often moved no
body, there is growing an interven
tionist sentiment when no Amer
icans are harmed. This idea of Uncle
Sam being a policeman of this poli
tical hemisphere is gainig constant
ground, and that it his manifest de
stiny to govern without the consent
of the governed is a doctrine preach
ed with something like universal
propaganda. The average man ap
preciates the fact that there is un
told wealth in Mexico. He thinks
that it is part of the divine mission
of Americanism to open that to the
world. He thinks that opening it
to a few plutocrats of Wall street
or of London is opening it to the
world. We are misled maybe by
phrases, hut there is no gainsaying
that the average man thinks that
he too will have a fair shot at the
loot of a looted Mexico.
Such a misconception of Ins pi
ratical function is to be only realized
after the event. And after the event
usually it is too late.
It is reasonable to point out that
; the British people regarded the
i Transvaal and the Orange Free
State much as the American regard
Mexico. It was supposed to be the
home of bad government, and it was
certainly the home of Immense
wealth. It was believed that if Great
Britain accomplished its divine mis
sion of conquering through the
Grace of God those two small na
tions, the wealth thereof would be
opened to the world. And it was.
But the world that grabbed it was
the world of Lombard street in Lon
don or of Wall street in New York.
And all that the British patriots
who fought to spread those elusive
blessings of the Union Jack over
the benighted boerdom was the.
chastening pleasure of watching the
sons of China peonizod to make pro
fits for Bark Lane millionaires. The
same idea exactly now prevails
against Mexico and American work
ers may at no distant date be called
upon to function in an equally lofty
manner to make permanent the
control of the peons in benighted
Mexico so that the profits oil king,
plantation monarch, copper baron,
and mine lord may be long and
large in the land. Let us prey!
THU LAWSON COMPLAINTS.
Tom Lawson has already achieved
publicity. As the author of a series
of exposures of what he termed
Frenzied Finance, he obtained more
than his share both for himself and
for Everybody's Magazine.' Since
those happy days of de luxe popular
ity, he has returned himself to the
“game" which he has played with
strict atttention to its details.
Now he again finds an opportunity
of getting into the lime light and
wants an exposure of the selling
raids which were made upon the
street by those who had advance in
formation as to official action and
makes the declaration that Congress
men profltted by these transactions.
Nobody wants to pay any atten
tion to Tom Lawson. The days of
the muckraker are passed. They
have muckraked the muck raker Un
til today there is an odor from his
own personality. These are days
when Big Business is esteemed and
has nothing but delightful attri
butes. We are in that fortunate
time when all that is considered
worth concern is the expansion of'
trade, and whatever Big Business
does is right. The TruBt today has
come unto its own: even the money
rust, and only those professional
igitators would attempt to say
otherwise. The Wilson administra
tion has brought to Mother
Sarth a well nigh Utopian condition
of things, and everything is as love
ly as everything can well be.
So this man Lawson with his
messy wav of pointing out and pick
ing out the flies in the ointment pot
:s to be discouraged. We want no
knockers. We want everyone to
boost and to boost like liell. A sys
tematic campaign of education has
been waget. to knock the knocker
and he is the unwelcome guest. If
there is a social ulcer here or there
cropping up, cover it over with odor
iferous salve that will hide the filth
within. If a sickness manifests it
self within the body politic try a
faith cure and see if mental healing
can be of avail. That's the new
nostrum. We have nothing but high
minded statesmen in and out of of
fice who are what Caesar-s wife
ought to be, above suspicion.
This effort upon the part of Law
son to direct attention to possible
speculation upon the part of politi
cians or officials should be nipped in
the bud. It tends to expose the fact
that these political idols have feet
of clay and are not altogether super
men. The correct idea is to have t life
hoi polloi considering the officials
and the politicians made of some
superior breed and not of the earth,
earthy. Anything that tends to dis
illusion the dear people laboring
under thi3 fond sunerstitition is tf
be denounced and discouraged. Any
thing that tends to weaken the faith
in popular heroes of Congress should
receive short shrift. That is the idea
of an inquisition. That is the why
of the stake. That is why social
ostracism should be visited upon
upon those who permit themselves
to aid or abet in depreciating those
who are supposed to be immune
from such aspersions.
The essential point to be remem
bered is that the national house has
ben cleaned, deodorized and properly
disinfected. The trusts have been
made reasonable and good, ana
where they could not be made rea
sonable and good they were dissolv
ed. There are no combinations try
ing to gouge a little out of the
pockets of the poorer man; the great
industrial organizations are strictly
altruistic institutions rendering an
account of their stewardship to God
and the nation. The political atmos
phere is as clear and pellucid as the
proverbial spring; there is nothing
but civic morality here, there and
everywhere. Business is above all
suspicion of undue exaction and
there is nothing evil industrially,
financially or commercially under
the sun. That is or ought to be the
general notion. If it is not, it is
fault of the knockers, the muck
rakers, the agitators and hence to
the stake with them! These are
days of industrial preparedness
when the nation is to embark upon
the career conquering foreign mark
ets and for the further plutouization
of the plutocracy. That’s the idea.
I To him that hath more shall be
{given and in order that this eternal
and immutably divine law tuny be
eternal and immutable, nothing
must be said, done or thought which
would cast any reflection upon even
tie least of these in hign official or
political places lest the stability of
the present order of things be affect
ed. Damn Lawson, anyway.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
'^Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916,
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. 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.
Powell, has made application before
the United . States * Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, 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 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 1't. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. .3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
3S6.S0 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25 j
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. 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.
747 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\
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
| Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the 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
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
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
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 235 and Vol. 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. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; 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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