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VOL. 9.
NOME, ALASKA, sATI'IJDAY, Al'Gl'ST 12, !!>!<>.
NO.
Railroaders Grant More
Time To Mediators
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The rail
■road brotherhoods have granted b
the mediation board twenty fou
more hours to adjust themselves ti
the situation and to render a deci
sion leading to a settlement.
Mediator Hangar is tor more time
He says that time is requisite in or
der that the situation may be pro
perly assimilated before renderinj
judicial decision.
He says that the board of media
-1 tion should be in continuous session
> i and it is the continuous session that
r | has proved its efficacy in all indus
) trial situations. He says that media
- tion since its inception in 1913 has
been successful in every case and
. forty-seven in all were, subjected to
- its test.
The Brotherhoods are impatient
; and say that is all noise and talk
and amounts to nothing.
The railways are getting on the
anxious seat and today submitted a
new arbitration plan. They sug
gest that each side name two mem
bers and two are named by neutrals.
The brotherhoods object to this ask
ing who is to be considered a neu
tral. They are willing to have other
labor organizations considered such,
but the railways insist upon other
business men. The strike situation
is getting graver.
DAILY EXPRESS DENOUNCES
CHICAGO WHEAT GAMRLERS
LONDON, Aug. 11.—The London
Daily Express has a startling page
headline displayed on its news page
"Gambling in Bread”, and accuses
Chicago wheat operators of forcing
up wheat to the topmost price, re
gardless of any consequent suffering
either in America or in other coun
tries. The article is written by an
American journalist in London who
takes the recent spectacular in
crease in the price of wheat quoted
in connection with the Board of
Trade activities, as the foundation
for an analysis of the genera
methods of grain brokers in tin
United States. The attack upon tin
elevator company system and tin
grain brokers is accompanied bj
startling figures purporting to b<
official returns from United State;
government sources.
LONDON, Aug. 11.—General Haig’;
morning report says that they madt
additional progress in the vicinitj
of Bazantine and Pozieres.
l PARIS, Aug. 11.—'The French
s are preparing the way t'or another
i drive in the Somme region under
! General Foch.
i LONDON, Aug. It.—General
Haig’s official report of yesterday’s
fighting is devoted to another refer
ence to the splendid fighting of the
i Australians. Joffre has congratu
: lated Haig upon having such splen
did soldiers. The report is very
well received.
FRISCO STRIKE BOARD
SUGGESTED RY ROLPHS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.— |
Mayor Rolphs in an open letter to
the Chamber of Commerce relative
to the rather hopeless outlook for
peace along the water front urges
that a board of five each from the
employers and Central Labor Coun
cil be appointed together with
Archbishop Hanna and four other
clergymen to relieve the city of
strikes and to insure Industrial
peace.
Rolphs declares that business man
fighting labor and labor fighting
business have everything to lose
and nothing to gain; that the two
should reciprocally recognize the
right of each to organize for their
own betterment and that when the
questions at issue become dead
locked between them they should
submit them to a board of arbitra
tion as already suggested.
MARINE BULLETIN.
Nome Radio, Aug. 11, 1916.
Susie at St. Michaels
• Sibila up Nulato 8 p. m. 10tn.
I Jacobs up Rampart.
Delta with 1 barge up Rampart
a 0 th.
Davis at St. Michaels.
Reliance up Koyukuk river.
Yukon with barge up Eagle 7:15.
a. m.
Julia B. up Nena 1 p. m. 10th.
Tanana with barge up Tolovana
8:45 p. m. lOtb,
Sarah down Holy Cross 8 a. m.
Schwatka at St. Michaels.
Alaska down Fairbanks 6 a. m.
This board would render a speedy
decision and cause peace to become
permanent in. the city. What ac
tion will follow is not known.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 11.—The
Board of Supervisors rejected the
ordinance introduced by the em
ployers association making pickett
lng a misdemeanor punishable with
fines and imprisonment.
The supervisors held that as the
courts had legalized picketting in
several decisions, the law was not
justifiable.
WHEAT RISE OCCASIONS
NATION-WIDE CONCERN
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—The pheno
AT THE EAGLE SHOWS.
A seven reel production in the
Eagle Hall Sunday night featuring
the incomparable Lina Cavalieri, a
world beauty and operatic star, and
Lucien Muratore, the famous
French tenor and lyric actor is the
Alco Film Corporation’s ‘ Manon
Lescaut”. This wonderful stjrv of
loev and romance beginning in
France and ending in the depths of
Mississippian forests is too well
known to need recital. Considered
by competent authority to be the
greatest love story ever written, it
surely loses nothing at the hands
of an all star cast in the Eagle
Hall on Sunday night. Superb is the
most fitting description of this
wonderful film.
menal rise In wheat, the highest
ever known, and that with new
wheat showing up freely in the
market and the supply steadily in
creasing, is occasioning general
alarm throughout the country.
United States District Attorney
Clyde says that a federal investiga
tion of the price in wheat and stock
gambling is not likely as the short
age is the cause of the increased
price and not brokers' manipula
tion as some papers have charged.
Clyde however is the same district
attorney who previously white
washed the wheat gamblers and
whose conduct secured for him a
severe reprimand upon investiga
tion.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11—Farmers co
operative societies chargs that the
wheat manipulations which are go
ing on in Chicago have for their
purpose besides the gratification of
the gambling lust, the more deadly
one of putting them cut of business
by luring the farmers wheat from
them.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Chairman
Hurley of the Federal Trade Com
misison has arrived here to probe
the wheat speculations which sent
the price skyward. Flour is mount
ing to unscalable heights.
WHEN IN TOWN
l>rop Into the
MERCHANTS CAFE.
The Home of Good Bate.
Wilson Announces That
He Will Make Itinerary
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.—
President Wilson told White House
reporters that he is now making
arrangements for a speaking tour
throughout the country, in order to
bring the administration in closer
toucli with the people and also as
part of the general political cam
paign. It is probable that Wilson
will follow the Hughes itinerary.
It is very evident that Democrats
are not regarding with wonder the
speeches made by Hughes, and many
republicans candidly admit that
Hughes campaigning is described
by one republican paper as "milk
toast politics”.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Aug. 11.—
The administration mediators in the
railroad strike announce that they
have been notified today by the
brotherhoods that tomorrow will be
the last day tlint mediation will be
considered and if the managers do
not seem inclined to get in line for
concessions, the whole thing will bo
called off.
The officials of the brotherhood
are candid enough to admit that
they are forced to this by the rank
and file that are determined to push
through their demands, at any costs,
even that of a general walk out im
mediately.
An air of pessimism is in evid
ence this evening.
lift as estimate on your Job Work
TZAR PRESENTS RRUSSILOFF
WITH LOTS OF HONORS
1’ETROGRAD, Aug. 11.—Tzar
Nicolas lias presented General Brus
siloff with a diamond studded
hilled sword and made him a
knight of the order of St. George.
Brussiloff’s continuous victories
have caused him to become the na
tional hero.
l’ETROGRAD, Aug. 11.—Russian
troops are now engaged throwing
bridges across the Bistritza river
easi of Stanislau, preparatory to an
advance upon the city, it is officially
announced this evening.
PKTKOGRAD, Aug. 11.—-Russian
troop; consisting for the most part
of mounted machine gun detach
ments and mounted ritiemen are
scouring across country in the direc
tion of llalicz in order to cut ofl
the Stanislau Teutons from reach
ing Lemberg. The movement has
been fighting all the way but is ac
complishing its purpose and the
railroad line is cut and held.
PETUOGIIAD, Aug. 11.—General
Brussiloff's north wing lias again
lriven hack the von Linsingen
irni.v, and that is now withdrawing
lipyotid tlie rivers which protecting
heir front enabled them to hold
since the Russians broke across tho
■itoc kod.
•lust south of I’ripet the Russians
have cleared the country of tho
enemy which is now retiring upon
Bn st I.itovsk. Airmen notified War
saw today that they were coming.
MYSTERIOUS GRAFT IS
SUPPOSED BE BREMEN
NEW YQKK, Auk. 11—A myster
ious vessel calling the telefunken
wireless station at Sayville in Ger
man Lloyd code is believed to be
the Bremen.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.—It is now
held by all naval men that tht
Deutschland haB successfully eluded
any attempt to capture the linei
and ir. now within reasonable dis
tance of its home port.
BERLIN, Aug. 11.—The Admi
ralty reports successful air raids
upon the British warships off the
Flemish coast. The airships also
successfully raided the Russian avi
ation station on Oescl island in the
Gulf of Riga.
BERLIN, Aug. 11.—Four more
submarine liners are ready to de
part from German ports for other
parts of the world with full cargoes
in all instances. The demand for
freight space is such that only a
portion can he supplied and that at
almost prohibitive rates.
It is stated that the trip of the
Deutschland netted almost a million
dollars for the new company and
more than paid for the initial cost
of the steamer. Several other firms
have now begun to construct sub
marine liners, but all have been no
tified that all will have to pass in
spection of the naval architects be
fore attempting to cross the ocean
with what might prove defective
machinery.
NEW LINER READY
FOR ALASKA TRADE
SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—The Admi
ral line lias now about completed
the construction of a new steamer
for the Alaska trade. This is a new
two hundred thousand dollar motor
ship which will he ready for the line
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING &
REPAIRING
Ladles and Gentlemens Clothes.
ill October. The ship is a unique
type of merchantman and will ac
commodate one hundred and fifty
passengers. It will utilize electricity
throughout in its machinery, and
consume four-fifths less fuel than
than the average liner of similar
capacity. John Bunch of the Al
aska Steamship Co. and Harry
Brandt of the Pacific Coast line say
that they are satisfied that Alaska
tourist travel is increasing.
FOUND:—Child’s gold ring. Identi
fy and puy for Ad. This office.
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