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AOdri-sa all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box £10 Nome, Alaska. , Phone, Black 1!4.
Nome, Alaska, February —;S. 1017.
HK;H l’KK'ES.
If an Aladdin with his Wonderful
l.amp were to exert the power of its
genii and obtain enormous wealth
in gold coin, transferring it to Nome
with liis own precious persona!'*;
if lurthermore Aladuin in the ! os
s'ssion of such fabulous riches were
Vo ( i posit the same in one or both
of the local banks- li ha.'i.ug done
tliis he worn! thereupon sally forth
to th<‘ various storekec-p- rs buying
up without regard to production
costs, wholesale prices or anything
. Ise, the: various commodities which
t lit* commercial men of Nome had to
offer—where do you suppose the
Nome Toms and Hicks and Harr's
would with their wives and families
get off at? In the first place the
storekeepers being men trained to
business and knowing that lie ol
the Wonderful l.amp was willing to
pay all that they asked for their
stock would sweep its price out ot
sight, and the money that Tom and
Dic k and Harry held in their jeans
would have its purchasing power
reduced to terms of the untold
wealth of Aladdin: as much and no
more.
It is a hypothetical case, but it
reveals what is precisely taking
j.la.-c in the rnited States today,
’the b. lligi rent nations of Europe
want food, want clothing, want
shoes. want machinery, want raw
material. Most of their own pro
ducti'e workers are engaged tilling
Up each unforgiving minute in kill
ing one another off as rast as they
possibly can with the aid of science,
prayers and human ingenuity. They
have gold. They liave it in a supply
,hat is practically unlimited and
ili. v ,-omo to tlie l. mien
lmy. mu.h as our friend Aladdin
uf tlie wonderful Lamp in the U>
pothetical ease we have cited, might
< ,me to Nome. They buy evrything
in sight. They contract for the out
put of the canneries, for the entire
sto. its of the commission men, for
11)(- products of entire acreages.
And the American people have to pit
their monies against the monies ot
the belligerent nations. The demand
is intensified beyond any such thing
is the normal, and the supply has
not increased at all, while it has in
some cases decreas. <1 perceptibly.
In such a condition what could hap
pen does happen. Storekeepers and
provision dealers and mar.uta t,... ■
and cannery men and commission
agents and grain brokers are not in
business for their health. The gold
supply that the belligerent nations
have on hand is tasked to its utter
most for their profits and prices go
up they go up so that they hear
no relation in the least to the cost
of production, to the actual labor
values of the commodities, to the
first costs, but a direct relation to
tin* reproductive capacity of the na
tion and the unusually prolific
spending capacity of the belliger
ents
After two years of war, after two
years of the most prolific squander
ing of the hoarded wealth of the na
tions in the history of the world,
after two years of a constant flood
of gold streaming into the 1 nited
States from countries wanting to
buy up everything in sight and ask
ing nothing about prices, the inevit
able has happehed. The normal
condition of prices has been super
seded by an entirely unnatural con
dition and the necessaries of life as
well as tlie unnecessaries have gone
away out of sight.
To be sure here and there a spec
ulator or a dealer lias aggravate,
this condition by their undue avar
Ice and covetousness. Hut on th<
whole these cases are negligible.
The condition which we face to
day is not that the consumer is rot;
bed but that the producer is de
frauded—as usual and as always
There would have been no sue!
crisis reached today had the pro
ducers. the workers, received tilth
proper and proportionate increise It
their share, relative to the Increase.
I ;.i ices of tlie commodities the> ;>ro
duced. They would then have been
able to meet tlie decreasing pur
chasing power of gold by the re
ceipt of an increased quantity in the J
form of wages step, by step.
Hut labor and gold have been the
two commodities which compared
with the others did not increase one
whit; which show relative to the
rest and in terms of the rest a va
nishing price. Hence, too, the work
ers reduced to the starvation point
and compelled by the low wage rate
relative to the higher rate of otiier
commodities, have been compelled
to endure also a lower
; standard of living and the
prolits and dividends and rents and
interests and taxes have been kept
up by the intensive labor so ill re
quited, still in terms of diminished
gold values, and for that reason ap
parently excessive.
It is only throwing dust in the
eves of the people to assert that
present prices are due to mono
polies. to speculators, to this, that
and the other thing which has been
used to exploit the people.
There is only one thing exploits
the people: that and no other. Pri
vate ownership, which makes of uti
lities commodities, and human need
a source of gain. What we see be
fore our eyes is the capitalist system
under tin* stress of war breaking
down—smashing right before our
»*y('8—demonstrating its social and
uononii' ineffieit-noy. And the
master (lass do not like it. They
blame the middl* man as it the poor
middleman was anything else but
the go-between and often in as hap
less a positioi: as the uimer-man ;
hitnseU.
Hut lie serves to fool the peov>le. j
If the ilcar people can he pot to eon- ;
line their attacks and denunciations |
and diatribes and muck raking t< |
the hold bad food speculator and ,
the commission men and the middle
men generally, they will he tin :
more likely to overlook the real ;
facts. They will begin to imagine j
that it is as consumers they are i
robbed and not as producers. They ;
will , affect to understand that it is
the corner grocery man and not the |
owning manufacturer that performs ;
the skinning process, and it is be-j
cause they are mulcted of all they i
have got to pay for life's necessities, j
and not because that they are skin- j
ned of four-fifths of the value ot j
that which their labor power pro-|
duced. they are in the fix they are J
in.
So the Federal I rades t ornmis
sion is to investigate. They are
going to dope with the chloroform of
unreasoned facts the minds of the
wage workers and the whole people,
Iso that everything may he lovely
and free from discontent.
Turn we now to Europe whence
came the gold that is raising sto’h i
Cain with the prices of commodities. ,
In Germany wealth is as unevenly
distributed as it is in the I nitcfl
States. Or very nearly as unevenly.
So that when the food demand be
came intensive for the non-produc
tive laborers in the army or the
productive laborers at home, the
government saw and indeed *be
blindest man might see that it was
! only a matter of time until the rich
| would wholly out bid the poorer
| classes in all the means of subsist
ence. But the result would have
j been the destruction of the poor,
i And they were needed—the pool
are always ejctra valuable in wax
time to the nation. So the govern
ment had to see that they were fed.
What they did was to strike as ef
fectively as might be under capital
ism at the root of capitalism itself.
They destroyed private ownership, in
grain and other food. They con
fiscated the property rights which
the owners by the grace of God had
held therein. And they comman
deered the food and distributed it
under tickets and under the direc
' tion of a food dictator. They did
not have the time and probably the
people would not have had the pa
lienee to endure long winded inves
tigations and long winded reports
upon the evils of speculation—upon
i lie dangers of middle men and tlie
•ntire iniquity of the corner grocer.
They knew where the fault lay. It
was in private ownership of the
means whereby the masses lived,
and they knocked that category full
of holes.
THE HONOUR OF THE FAMILY
AT THE DREAM TONIGHT.
The story is based upon the ad
ventures of a beutiful girl who has ]
fallen into the dutches of a band !
of desperate crooks. She becames j
the dupe of a bogus nobleman, who
is in reality a polished criminal. !
There are many thrilling and real-!
istic scenes in the picture, and it
may in safety be called a remark
able as well as a master production.
Another number is entitled “They
never Knew” a very classy picture
from beginning to end. Also a good
original laugh maker, that bubbles
with the joy of life.
Now is the time to Subscribe.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE,
Public notice is hereby given, that
under and by virtue of a Writ 01
Execution issued out of the District
Court for the District of Alaska,
Second Division, in Cause No. 3649
upon a certain Judgment therein
rendered on the 6th day of January
1917. and entered in favor of Fred
Henton, plaintiff, and against the
Empire Tin Mining Company, a cor
poration, defendant, for the sum of
Nine hundred eighty-two and 27 100
($982.27) dollars, together with
costs amounting to Two hundred
ninety-eight and 30 100 (?29S,30)
dollars, with interest at the rate ot
eight (S'.i per centum per annum, i
will on the 12th day of March, 1917
at twelve o'clock noon of said day
at the front door of the United
States Court House, at Nome. Alas
ka, offer for sale at public vendue
and sell to the highest and best bid
der for cash all of the right, title,
and interest, which the defendant
company had on the 6th day ot
January. 1917, or at any time since,
in and to those certain lode mining
claims known as:
The PvOger, Lucky Queen, Tre
mont. North Star. Champion, Bronx,
Daisy, Birthday, Venus, Mars. Ju
I piter. Saturn, Excelsion, Aurora,
Elgin. Washington, Adams, Jeffer
: son. Madison, Monroe, Planet,
Fourth of July. Martha, Mispickle,
j Noble, Tin Quartz, and Bust'
Quartz.
Also tlie Northwestern Mill Site
being Mineral Survey No. 336; and
all real property thereon. All the
above are commonly known as the
Bartell Tin .Mine and are situated
in the Port Clarence Recording
Precinct., Second Division, District of
Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, Ft bruary
8th, 1917.
E. Tt. JORDAN.
United States Marshal, Second Divi
sion, District of Alaska
Feb. 9. 16, 23, Mar. 2, 9.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles T. Webb, Holly \V. Webb
J. W. Webb. C. F. Elliston and
L. C. Tanner, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified, that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvement#
the sum of one hundred dollars for
labor and improvements for
the year of 1916 on the
Osiris Association, an association
claim situated on the left limit ot
N’os, 4 and 5 below on Drv
creek and recodred and mote
fully described in the re
cords of the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District in the Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment worl
upon Mining claims, being tht
amount required to hold said claim
And you and each oi
you are further notified, tliai
'f within ninety days after the Iasi
publication of this notice, you fai
to contribute your proportion o:
said expenditure your Interest in salt
claim will become the property o
.lie undersigned, your Co-Ownei ua
ler section 2324 Revised Statutes
if the United States.
. ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Ownei.
Date of first publ., Feb. 9, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 11, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chas. T. Webb and Sidney
Mudget, your heirs, executors
assigns or personal representa
tives.
You and each of you are
hereby notified that the under
signed has expanded in la
bor and improvements the sum ot I
one hundred dollars for 191G on the
Myrtle Association, an association
placer mining claim situated on ieft
limit of Dry creek and recorded and
more fully described in the Re
cords of the. Cape Nome Mining and
Recording district, Second Divison,
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount hac been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisi ns of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount requited
to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
are further notified that
if within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fall
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest In
*atd claim will become the proprety
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statu
tes of the United States
. ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 9, 19J7.
Date of last publ., May 11, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Cutler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska, being Mineral
Survey No. 1191; said claim 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 fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1, Identical with
| Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
I 1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 41 S and Cor. 2. Bella Frac
tion, Sur. 478; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-418, 2-47S B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 bears N. 7S deg. 56 min. 5
E. 54G7.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Yar. 18 deg. 35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
| 2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Yar. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.SO ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Yar. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. IT; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Yai
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.xGft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 47 8, Pioneer Minin,;
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. AD\MS.
! • Register.
: Date of first publ, Jan. 2 7. 1917.
' Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
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Arctic Bakery
IT IS “THE PLACE” TO GET GOOD LUNCHES AND FRESH
CANDIES AND ICE CREAM.
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