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mT Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. *40. Western rede ration of Miners.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or at,
eesrly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
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Address all Communfratlons to Dally Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
e clock each evening to insure insertion in the following Issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Kntered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a* the post office at
Nome, Aiassa, under the Act of March S, 1871.
Nome, Alaska, May ii5, 1010.
WORTH CONSIDERATION'. i
The fact that a case was brought 1
by a plaintiff who worked in the !
mines in the • Nome District who ,
had signed one of these alleged j I
partnership contracts and who de-Ji
dared himself an employee in that|i
suit, is proof in itself that he whop
signed that agreement did not un- *
derstand what it was intended or 1
supposed to intend to convey.
He felt that lie was an employee
and he acted as one and sought
damages for injuries sustained 'as
an employee under the law.
There is no getting out of this.
It is there an obvious fact for any
official who has a hankering to en
force the law to read and consider.
Yet, notwithstanding this, what we
do find is that the system instead
of failing because an evasion of the
law seems to bo thriving as if it re
ceived official sanction. To repeat,
the Industrial Worker h:.s been in
formed that the r.gr < meet which is
rig..- -I b 1 i-<i nib gi d partners
was submit! d to an official hero in
order lo r. . rmine whether or not
it would be h gal.
Why was it submitted? In order
to obtal ' a "mod man’s opinion
an -Jif-P- ■ 1 gal question? Not
at all. I at the Intention was to 1
discover if that agreement wonlt
Is- miff.r-ient’.y binding to r-!in,,i!<;
those who had it drawn up to viol
ate or evade, which is the sam«
thing, the eight hour law.
It was no part of an official's duty
to render an opinion on that sub
ject. If an opinion should have
1 eon rendered it would indicate that
the official himself had a notion,
distinct cr not, of what the purport
of that agreement really was.
Dozens of partnerships arc estab
lished every day. None of them,
unless they are going to sail, close
to the wind of the criminal law,
will venture to submit it to an at
torney or an official.
It is certainly an outrageous con
dition when right in this camp the
law should bs violated upon that
very standing that such nr agree- ^
ment has been officially approved.
It is supposed that the workers
interested in the enforcement ot
this law should constitute them
selves the prosecution and the cot-1
lectors of evidence; that they |
should gather up the derails a m ;
band them to the government offi
cials on a platter where the facts j
could bo studied like a part of In
a comic opera.
That’s a nico condition of things
surely.
“THE HUNK HOUSE."
Wlckersham in a letter to Attor
ney General Gregory objects to
Marshal Erwin making a private re
sidence out of_a public building
like the Detontffn Hospital ana
calls it “pettf graft”. Now it
Wtckersham knew about the bunk
house?
AN INTELLECTUAL OPINION.
Langdon Mitchell an American
playwright of some note in an in
terview when asked as to the
value of the movies thus replied.
“The movies arc doing the Amer
ican theater the greatest possible
good. They are taking away the
ignorant people; from the audiences
at tl)e .theaters. The result is that
the dramatist and actor have only
to please people of some intelli
gence and education. And I can
not think of any greater service to
the drama than that very thing.”
“It isn’t a question of giving an
opportunity to the high-brow writ
ers so to speak. It is simply a ques
tion of relieving the dramatist of
the terrible burden of trying to en
tertain the uneducated people”.
It is a strange thing that many
persons who imagine that they have
gifts beyond the ordinary and Who
■each tno very lofty pinnacle of
■steem, blame the uneducated ana
incultured tastes ot' the public.
But in the /irst place about
ditchell’s criticism, it would be In
ercsting to understand wliat is his
dea of education. Because one 01
lecessity appreciates some literature
lubtlety or another, it is no pre
lumptlon that that one is a cultured
>r educated person. And all this
alk about Ignorant or uneducated
passes is more or loss bosh any
way, for when all is said and done,
t is the popular opinion always that
tas unerringly detected gcn®is in
literature.
The high browed concepts 01
genius of another age are not the
concept which outlive the popular
notions. Quite the contrary and it
is a somewhat severe commentary
upon even such a critic as Samuel
Johnson that the very poet who
should have by him been most,
severely criticized and whose repu
tation was blasted with a few phrases
to which no more importance was at
tachcd than to the merits of tli;
writer, Hi poet Gray should also
have been the one whom the popu
lar notions gave credit fer being
the o(iuu! of Pope and the superior
a good many others.
The to: I; of writing for educated
pcoi ■ . for the middle class who
h: i had education thrust upon
tin in is wearisome in the extreme.
Y. t it is for these that the mass o!
literature whether novels or playv
nro provided. The mediocrity and
inferiority of the greater portion of
modern writing is due precisely to
the fact that the educated taste
that demands it is of an inferior
nature.
As far as tho movies are con
concerned they are still in their
infancy. But they open a field for
acting that no dramatist with an
eye upon literaly expression and
and verbal witticism could possibly
create. Moreover inasmuch as four
fifths of the dramatic is in the act
ing and ' not in the wording, the
movies lose very little by the ab
sence of spoken words.
Where the weakness of the mo
vie lies is in its copying the melo
dramatic tendency of middle class
society. "-he illegal loves of the
bourgeois, the struggle to outshine
one's neighbor in ostentatious
wealth, the greedy desires to
achieve social distinction and the
uncertain pleasures of a leisured
class—these are the subjects that
are thrown upon screen after
screen in a multitude of.plots all
more or lees akin.
But there are possibilities. A
writer in Solidarity some time ago
drew attention to such a production
as Test of the Storm Country
wherein Mary Pickford stars in a
wonderful manner. The subject 13
not the hackneyed subject of middle
class romance, mean, sordid and
often pitifully ridiculous, but a
story of the people painted an.l cer
tainly acted with wonderful power
and realism. The opportunity for
the establishment of a real series
of motion plays which will depict
life as it teally is, the life o' the
workers in the sense that a play like
Hauptmann’s Weavers- Is a story ot
the workers, are endless but harly as
yet touched upon. Thcso things ap
peal to a\l audience whether In the
sense educated that Mitchell means
or not.
The fact that the written drama
has outlived its usefulness is al
most as self evidont as the fact that
an epic poem is today impossible.
But that education and culture or
tho lack of these things are the
cause of the decay is not correct.
Dont forget your SPRING TONIC
Flowers of Sulphur, Sassafrass Bark
Mexican Sarsaparilla,, Cascara Bark
LOMENS DRUG STORE.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
HISBRAJj APPLICATION NO. MH (
L'. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska, j
April 18th, 1916. \
Notice is hereby given that the 1
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of j
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post- :
office address, Mills Building, San J
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for J
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melning Creek,j
ip the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alasaa, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No. ;
1172, which said placer mining claim j;
is described according to the plat:
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska, |
with a magnetic variation of 21 I
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a I
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia- j
meter, in earth mound, scribed 11
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whet ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 5G deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monument No. 1172 ts
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed it
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 6 4 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
j Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
j Council City Recording District, Al
| ask a.
The adjoining claims are as fol
ilows: On the northeast No. 15
| Above Discovery on Melsing Creek:
[on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
| covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
! unknown; on the northwest and
|southeast, claims unknown; all un
! surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
j Dato cf first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
1
CARRIER'S LIEN.
. NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the
I Pacific Coast Steamship Company, a
I corporation, having a common car
i rier’s lien on the personal property
hereinafter describod, in the sum of
jOne Hundred Twelve and 401100
($112.40) the amount of the just and
! reasonable charges for carriage
i thereof from Soattlo, Washington,
| to Nome, Alaska, will on the 29tn
day of May 1916, at the hour of
twelve o’clock noon, at the Alaska
Lighterage & Commercial Company’s
Dock, Front Street, in the City of
Nome, District of Alaska, sell at
public auction to the highest and
best bidder for cash in hand the fol
lowing described personal property,
to-wit:
1 36 X 6 ft. Air Receiver
54 c. f.
1 Crtd. Gas Engine 143 c. f.
1 C. L. Fly Wheel.
1 Galv. Iron A. Tank 6 c. f.
I Bx. Eng. Parts.
II Steel Post Caps 1255 lbs.
1 Bx. Iron Riffle Bars.
1 C. I. Friction 275 lbs.
1 Pc. Shafting 135 lbs.
1 Sk. Shaft Collars 1 c. f.
now located at Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company’s Dock, Front
Street, in said City of Nome, or
such part thereof as may be suffici
ent to pay such lien, and costs of
keeping and selling said property.
The ‘name of the consignee of
said property is Kougarok Dredging
Company: the name of the owner
or reputed owner is Kougarok
Dredging Company.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1916.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agont.
Agents for Pacific Coast Steamship
Company.
Date of first publ., May 4, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 26, 1916.
CARRIER’S MEN,
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice 18 hereby given that the
1 Alaska Steamship Company, a cor
poration, having a carrier’s lien on
the personal property hereinafter
described, in the sum of Fifty Six
and 05| 100 Dollars ($56.05) the
amount of the just and reasonable
charges for carriage thereof from
Seattle, Washington to Nome, Alas
ka, will on the 29th day of May,
1916, at the hour of 12 o’clock
noon, at tho Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company's dock, Front
: Street, in the City of Nome, District
of Alaska, sell at public auction to
, the highert and best bidder for cash
in hand, the following described
personal property, to-wit:
1 Crt. Engine, 77 c. f.
1 Fly Wheel, Eleet. Supplies 10 c.h
1 Fly Wheel, 10 c. f.
1 Bx. Elect. Supplies 10 c. f.
2 Bx. Inc. Lamps, 12 c. f.
1 Crt. Dynamo, 14 c. f.
1 Pump, 2045 lbs.
now located at Alaska Lighterage ft
!emm«rcUtl Company's Dock, Front S
treat, la said City of Nome, or such #
art thereof aa may be sufficient to g
ay such lion, and costs of keeping 9
nd of selling said property.
The name of the consignee of said gj
iroperty is the Kougarok Dredging S
lompany; the name of the owner or S
eputed owner is Kougarok Dredg- 9
ng Co. |
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd, 9
916. I
lLASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM- g
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Agents for Alaska Steamship Co. |
late of first publ., May 4, 1916. 1
late of last publ., May 26, 1910.
WAREHOUSEMAN’S LIEN
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the a
Alaska Lighterage & Commercial a
Company, Agents for the Maine jj
Northwestern Development Compa- |
ly, a corporation, having a ware
louseman’s lien on the personal pro- §
ierty hereinafter des ribed, in the \
sum of ten hundred seventy sovjn ;
ind 40j 100 Dollars ($1,077.40) the -
imount of the just and reasonable
charges for safely keeping and stor- i
ng the same at the request of the i
jwner or lawful possessor thereof, ]
will, on the 29th day of May, 1916,
it the hour of twelve thirty o clock
in the afternoon, at the railroad
rard of the Maine Northwestern De
velopment Co., north of First Street
and East of Steadman Avenue, In
the City of Nome, District of Al
aska, sell at public auction to the
highest and best bidder for cash in
hand, the following ccscribed per
sonal property, to-wit:
1.—Lot Lumber said to contain
65,000 feet, amount of feet un
known.
1.—Lot of iron, shafting, castings,
etc., articles and quantity un
known.
now located in the yard of the Maine
Northwestern Development Co.,
North of First Street and East of j
Steadman Avenue, in the said City j
of Nome, or such part thereof as \
may be sufficient to pay such lien !
and costs of keeping and of selling !
said property.
The Name of the owner or re
puted owner is Kougaroa Dredging (
Company.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd, j
1916.
ALASKA LIGH"111.RAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Agents for Maine Northwestern
Development Co.
Date of first publ., May 4, 1916.
Date of last publ.. May 26,' 1916.
WAREHOUSEMAN'S HEX.
I
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby giver, thet the
Alaska Lighte .go & Commercial
Company, a corporation, having a
warehouseman’s lien on the personal
property hereinafter described, in
the sum of Eight Hundred Thirty
Ono and 12100 Dollars ($83j..12)
the amount of the just ana reason
able charges for safely keeping and
storing the same at the request of
the owner or lawful possessor the-e
of, will, on the 29th day of May,
191G, at the hour of twelve o’clock
noon, at the Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company's Dock, From
Street, in the City of Nome, District
of Alaska, sell at public auction to
the highest and best bidder for
cash in hand, the following describ
ed personal property, to-wit:
Est. Est.
Wts. Meas.
1 Upright Gas Engine 450
1 Lot Washers & Paint 225
1 Lot Castings, Grease &
Washers 130 1
1 Vice and Anvil 280
1 K. 1). Wheelbarrow 8
1 Lot Ore Sacks & Matting 11
1 Lot Paint & Oakum 57
2 Bdl. (5) Plates 100
1 Coll Rope 4
3 Wheels & Sk. Washers 625
1 Bbll Pitch 6
20 Sx. B. S. Coal 2000
1 Bdl. (2; Brooms & 1
coil hose 3
1 Handle & 1 Tcrch 2
1 Ctr. press & 1 Cs. Bolts 200 12
1 Cs. Bolts
12 Pc. Gal. Sheet Iron 960
130 Pc. Bolts 14&w
1 Bbl. Oil 12
2 Bdl. (6) Plates 50
2 Bdl. Washors 100
74 Pc. Shafting 7000
1 Pc. Shackel 50
14 Wheels 2800
1 Coupling 100
3 Clutch Levers 120
6 Pullys 240
1 Gas Eng. Wheel 400
1 Ro. Belting 2
(90 Bdln Lumber
18 Pc. Lumber
Approx. 3500 BM)
1 Pc. Shaftings 60
1 Bdl. (2) Tongs 2
5 Bx. Bolts, etc. 3000
17 Pc. Ir >n pipe, etc. 800
11-2 Keg Nails 40
1 Air Receiver 64
1 Crtd. G. Eng. & 1 Fly
Wheel 675 143
1 Galv. Iron Air Tank 6
I Bx. Engine Parts 4
II Steel Castings 1255
1 Bx. Irons & 1 Friction 275 1
1 Pc. Shafting & 1 cack
collars 13P 1
1 Crt. Eng.&Fly Wheel 87
3 Bx. Elct. Supplies 22
1 Crt. Dynamo & 1
Pump 2045 14
now located at Alaska Lighterage &
Commercial Company’s Dock, Front
Street, In said City of Nome, or such
part thereof as may be sufficient to
pay such lien, and corts of keeping
and of selling said property.
The namo of the consignee of
said property Is tvougarok Dredg
ing Co.; the name of the owner or,
reputed ownor is Kougarok Dredg
ing Co.
Dated, Nome, Alaska, May 3rd,
1918.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COM
MERCIAL COMPANY.
By R. S. POLLISTER, Agent.
Dats of first publ., May 4, 1*16.
Date of last publ., May 26, 1916.
WE WILL PURCHASE
Empty Coal Sax
IN GOOD CONDITION
8 Cents Each
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE a COM! G.O.
HIPRESS
j White Boots
$8.00
| Cheap John Store
Kent Transfer Oo.
General Transfer <£ Freighting
goa/ &
Phone Main 139.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Summit Shirts, Stetson Mats.
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and Connelly Shoes
RRI-BAK CLOTHING. A Suit of this will answer any miners
requirements, and has proven the best goods of the kind on the
market to date.
PHIL MURPHY
wrawawawacwaia^^
ARTIC SPRING
WATER
Always at your Service.
Prompt delivery— Blizzard or
Shine at asnal Rates Id
Backets Si.OO. 50c. a Barrel.
A. D. POTEST.
Phone Red 120.
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MEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Retail Dealer
in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal,
Ham, Bacon Poultry and Fish
Game in Season. All fresh
Stock. No old or damaged.
W. H. Yyebb prop. Phone M.15
Your steady cigarette must suit
your own taste, of course.
Test any other cigarette in the
world alongside of OMAR and
you will find that OMARS are
the most “comfortable” and
“sensible” cigarette that you
ever smoked.
20 For 15 cents
YORKEY’S smoke shop
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