FOLLOWING UP
Our last Advertisement, we are glad to state, that no one claimed
the reward, for two reasons;
Ihe first reason is that we are $1000.00 to the good.
The second reason is that we have demonstrated to the
public the unreliability of rumors, and we are sorry to say that
owing to the same persistent and pernicious agitation many of
our citizens are placing confidence in such malicious rumors
which are intended to injureNome for some hidden purpose.
The true development. of locality is never based on a mush
room growth it takes arduous and patient work to bring and keep
section prospering.
At this time more than any other time (Excepting few war
conditions which no good American will run away from)
Nome's future looms up brighter than ever and those who remain
to assist in bringing the daynearer will reap the benefit.
LEST YOU FORGET
We want to also impress upon your mind that we have not relented
in the grocery business, we carry the best of goods and we are sell
ing them at right prices.
POLET STORES
BRITISH STILL MAKE
STEADY GAINS WEST
LONDON,—The Germans retired
two miles north of Albert, making i
their way carefully to better military
positions.
The British command reports that
the Germans are also withdrawing
from Serre indicating an inability to
withstand the punishment that has
been administered in that sector.
The British are steadily progress
ing in Picardy and although the ad
vance is slow it is sure and far from
costly in casualties.
A Paris dispatch says that the
French captured Belval and Ribe
court, two centers around which fight
ing has been violent and continuous,
at times even ferocious in its desper
ate savagery of determination.
An unofficial estimate appearing
in the London papers ,and by no
means a very extravaagnt appraise
ment, says that the prisoners taken
in Picardy now total 34,000 while
the number of cannon grabbed by the
Alies will reach fully 700.
In the last rush of the Germahs in
the Soissons-Rheims sector, before
the counter stroke of Foch began at
Chateau Thierry, the Germans claim
ed that the number of prisoners tak
en was 35,000. It will be recalled
that some French divisions near
Rheims suffered very heavily as they
were driven across the Vesle and
Ourcq rivers.
The total now given however does
not include foj the Allies their suc
cessful total in the Marne sector, and
as the number of prisoners taken
when the Germans struck ineffective
ly near Amiens and Montdidier was
quite inconsiderable, the gains be
tween the two is in favor of Foch.
ITALIANS ARE ALSO
MAKING STEADY WAY
HOME,—Further to gathering up
the Austrian positions on II Montello
the Italian forces are continuing the
offensive and with very specific re
sults.
Thursday says a War Office report
the Italians captured La Grina be
tween the Brentna and the Piave after
severe fighting. Hundreds of Aus
trians were captured also by the Ital
ians.
South of Grave the Italians alsc
scored notably, occupying the island
fortress of taking the entire garrisor
prisoners, including the commanding
officers.
Austrian prisoners do not admit
that any plans are being prepared
by the Austrian generals for an ex
pensive offensive campaign.
! The closing of the Austrian fron
tier reported earlier in the week,
since last Monday, had given rise to
reports that a great campaign was
to be inaugurated in Austria for an
Italian offensive and that troops were
being even then rushed to the Italian
front and others were on the way.
Owing to the severe turmoil with
in the confines of Austria no such
strong policy is feared by the Ital
ians. >
WILL INTRODUCE BILL TO
CONTROL PACKING INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON,—Senator Borah
republican, announces that he wil
introduce a bill to carry out th
recommendations of the Federa
Trade Commission whereby the pack
ing industry will be commendeerei
by the government.
The administration leaders hav
j displayed no anxiety to carry out the
r report's recommendations, and in the
! i absence of any such action on theii
* part, Senator Borah will enter the
I breach and endeavor to have the
packing industry controlled by the
; government.
ENGLAND HAS LOST
NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND
LONDON,—Speaking at the Im
perial Colonial Institute, Lord North
olift'e proprietor of the most powerful
chain of papers in the United King
dom said that England lost nine hun
dred thousand men in killed since the
■war began.
This left the impression that this
| excluded the troops of other sections
| of the empire and formal correctior
• has been made showing that this in
j elides the United Kingdom, and th<
| colonies. The losses of some of thess
[are individually much greater that
! those sustaind by England.
GERMAN DIVER SINKS
BRAZILIAN MOTOR SHIF
AN ATLANTIC PORT,—The Bra
zilian motorship, Magragado, a new
ly built freighter, waa divered almost
within Bight of this port by a German
submarine.
The continued sinking of the ves
sels close to the American coast is
creating a demand for more eeffctive
work upon the part of the patrol
boats.
BOLSHEVIKI GETTING
READY FOR FIGHTING
AMSTERDAM,—The Soviets art
determined to put up a heavy defense
against their enemies.
It is stated that they are now for
tifying the Kremlin in Moscow and are
accumulating supplies for their
troops.
Supporters of the Bolshevikists
point out that the Soviets are not op
posed by any strong Russian party
and that they are being attacked
wholly by outside and alien influences
in their country. The German and
the Allied forces are the chief of
these while the Czecho-Slavs are not
Russians but prisoners taken by Rus
sia, most of whom have no claim to
NEWS NOTES
Ptarmigan are coming back, but in
small numbers replenishing the coun
try from the few that did remain.
There seems to be no good reason
why there ought not to be a two year
closed season to ptarmigan in this
section and only in this way will the
once plentiful supply of birds, so
necessary to prospectors, be found in
the abundance as they once ’flourish
ed in this section. The suggestion is
submitted to the game warden.
IS NOW AN ESSENTIAL
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
has received notice from Edwin B.
Parker, Priorities Commissioner that
a resolution had been adopted by the
Priorities Board declaring that gold
mining was an essential industry and
that it should receive priority in the
matter of supplies, labor etc. Ever;
since last winter the gold mining
interests thruout the nation have
been tirelessly seeking to have gold
mining declared a war essential in
dustry.
Arrivals from the Iditarod section
report that there is nothing doing and
what little work is going on is con
fined to the Guggenheim dredge
Other firms are working, but there
is no chance of getting paid and wood
be called Slavic except the accidental
tact that they speak that language.
Soviet papers denounce the effort
made to make it appear that the
Czecho Slavs have any interest in
l Russia good or bad, that they have
lived there as Russians or that they
are anything else but actual alien
enemies who are for their own antag
onistic interest trying to disrupt the
Soviet control.
The control that the Soviets, made
up of soldiers, workmen and peas
ants have over Russia in spite of every
influential factor at work to destroy
them is admitted to be marvellous,
i and it is possible very serious fight
choppers bills and time checks are
as plentiful as the well known leaves
in the equally well known Vallom
brosa. Because he shot and killed
Riley who owed him a large labor
account, the man who did so was
found guilty and according to re
ports brot down from the Iditarod
given the capital sentence. So many
operators in the Fourth Division pay
off with nothing but time checks
they have to be protected with awful
examples provided by those who take
the law into their own hands. Noth
ing can excuse such violence, but
there is nothing so exasperates a
worker and drives him to such lengths
of desperation as to be left in this
severe territory unpaid for the work
that he has done for another.
Thursday in the District Court the
case of the Eskimo Gold Dredging Co
versus the Shovel Creek Dredging Co,
the Yuba Manufacturing Co, Andy
Nylen et al. came up for a hearing.
Plaintiff in the suit claimed $5,000
damages and claimed a lien on the
dredge which was alleged to be under
contract to dredge certain ground of
Plaintiff. The Shovel creek company
bot the dredgt from the Yuba Co. it
was alleged and Nylen et al had thus
acquired possession of it. While tak
ing depositions in the case it was
shown that the Yuba Manufacturing
Co had never parted with '.heir pos
session of the dredge and hence no
lien could attach and the equitable
action against the defendants must
fail. The plaintiff took a voluntary
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I REAL BARGAINS l
As we are now preparing our stock to In- S
ventory we find many [lines of shoes in which *
there are but few sizes left. Many of these shoes I
are being sold every day REGARDLESS of COST. I
Watch our Window. Every day we find new j
bargains to offer,
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
S. L. LEWIS
IN CLOSING OUT HIS ENTIRE STOCK, TO SAVE PAY
MENT OF HEAVY FREIGHT RATES TO OUTSIDE, OFFERS
MERCHANTS AND CONSUMERS ALIKE AN UNUSUAL OP
PORTUNITY OF PURCHASING GOODS IN NOME AT LESS
THAN THEIR ACTUAL COST TODAY OUTSIDE. THIS IS A
BONAFIDE OFFER—CALL AND SEE HIM.
S. L. LE WIS
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-Formerly Delbar’s store=»
The place where you can
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ng will develop before the Soviets
•elinquish the government of the
jountry.
It is pointed out that their army,
;he Red Guard, is well drilled and
fas according to their Minister of
iVar, Leon Trotsky, ample supplies,
LONDON,—Conflicting reports are
irriving from Russia. While doubt
less the government has exact in
formation, it is certain that the re
ports all coming out of Russia cannot
be correct.
Advices have been received hen
that the anti-Bolsheviki control Mos
cow. That the situation is critica
non suit and the case was dismissed
James Frawley and T. M. Reed wen
attorneys for the plaintiff, Willian
A. Gilmore represented the defend
ants.
Although the Ram was expectet
to function as a collier on this trij
it could not do so. On its arrival a
Unalakleet, advices were receivec
that many passengers were at S
Michael waiting to come over t<
Nome, so it did not dally for coal bu
came direct. T. A. Powers has madi
entry on the coal land in the nami
of the Pioneers of Alaska and th<
necessary papers it is understood wil
be sent that body here. The Pioneer
cannot be questioned. Germans have
it is announced, occupied a part of the
railroad leading from Petrograd to
the northeast coast, driving back the
Bolsheviki forces.
WASHINGTON,—The State De
partment announces that it has re
ceived confirmation of the capture of
Irkutsk by the Czecho-Slavs operat
ing in that section of the country.
They have established a new Siberian
government with headquarters at
Omsk.
The news is regarded as of great
importance.
interested themselves in the opening
! of the mine, and an application will
be made to operate under the usual
• lease law a certain section of the coal
The Ram will return to Unalakleet
and it is stated that 15 tons will be
l ready for it when it does so. In ad
i dition the supply available will de
: pend upon the sacks that can be ob
I tained. It is hoped to land about 250
tons of this coal before the close of
> navigation. Another boat is to be
. requisitioned for this purpose which
s will materially aid in solving the local
! problem as to coal costs, which is
s practically compelling mining and
1 other producing interests to leave
i the camp.
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Owing to unforseen circum
stances, I am unable to close
out my stock by the first of
Aug. and so extend the sale
to the first of September.
Don’t overlcck the bargains offered.
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