FOLLOWING UP
Our last Advertisement, we are glad to state, that no one claimed
the reward, for two reasons;
lhe 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 cit’/.ons are placing confidence in sucli malicious rumors
which are intended to injurcXome 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.
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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
NEWS FROM
KUSKOKWIM
(BY FRANK MANTON)
BETHEL, Kuskokwim,—The good
old summer time is almost over; ere
long the birds will be beating it and
I am going to follow them. The
Big Outside looks good indeed, even
if the atmosphere is surcharged
with electricity and the “holier than
thou” guy blazes the trail.
This part of the country is very
quiet.. No new developments have
occurred to report from Good News
Bay and absolutely nothing doing
in the older camps. As I have al
ready mentioned in previous articles,
only four claims amount to anything
on Watermouse. The summer's work
has been much retarded by the lack
of material; the output up to August
8 a little shy of $13,000 and the oper
ators, Emerson and Smith expect to
realize about $20,000 more, Wages
on Watermouse creek are six bones
a ridiculous wage out of all reason
too small in proportion to existing
conditions. Grub at Good Nejvs is
pretty stiff and eight cents freight up
Good News to Watermouse, about
thirty miles makes hard going and
hard prospecting prohibitive. Most
of the boys are leaving the camp.
Last week I took sixteen men, in
sluding Jim Connors of Nome, to
Nushagak and arrived here yester
day with about twenty. I am return
ing to Nushagak via Good News to
morrow. The boys here are all up
a tree dont know what to do or where
the hell to go. Most of them are
reluctant to go Outside and buck
“modern efficiency.”
Nushagak was real lively and pros
perous this summer and the run of
fish all that could be desired. The
fishermen received 40 cents per king
salmon and seven cents for “reds”;
the fishermen averaging $1200 per
man. Wages round the canneries
from $2.50 up to $4.00, mostly Mex
icans, Chinks, Hawaiians and Filipi
nos.
There are quite a number of salt
eries springing up on Koskokwim
Bay and lower river, outside parties
furnishing salt and barrels and paying
$7 per barred of 200 pounds; beats
mining all to pieces and herring and
shell fish are also very plentiful. It
is an easy going country for an easy
going “glider” but squaws are scarce.
I spent about three weeks over on
Hagenmeister Island, opposite Tog
iak Bay and may decide finally to lo
cate there; coal, fish, fur—and well
what else does one require? Rotten
place this as far as postal facilities
are concerned and news is mostly lo
cally manufactured.
I was very sorry to hear of the
labor difficulties and strike in Nome
—but it’s all in the game and as
Covington Hall says;
. . . .The strike is good.
It jars the social mind awake—
It forces man a stand to take,
S’long! August 15.
LABOR BOARD WILL
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BE ESTABLISHED
WASHINGTON,—Representatives
of labor and employers from seven
teen western states met at the Brown
Palace hotel and outlined a policy for
the perfection of the United States
Employment service.
By order of the director general
of the labor department there shall
be created at once in each state in
the union the following boards and
committees:
1. An advisory board to be known
as the State Advisory Board of the
U. S. Employment service.
2. Community labor boards to be
known as the Federal Community
Uabor Board.
3. A state organization commit
tee to establish the state and com
munity boards.
The state board shall be composed
of the State Director of the Employ
ment Service, twio representatives of
labor and two of employers. The
community labor boards shall be
composed of one representative of
the Employment service and one each
of labor and employers.
The purpose of such boards, will
be for the proper distribution of
labor to be used exclusively in war
industries pursuits. In plants where
non-essentials are manufactured men
will be taken to supply demands for!
help in plants engaged in the manu- i
facture of noeded supplies and am- j
munitions. There boards will not
only assist in enlisting labor, but will
determine the respective needs of
the various war industries and as
sign the available labor reserve to
these industries in the order of their
importance.
Already plans have been made for
the prompt organization of the state
board for Washington. Wm J. Coates
represented the State Federation of
Labor at the Denver conference and
has made his report to President
Short who will assist in the forma
tion of the state board, a meeting
of which will be held in Seattle this
week.
In the formation of these boards
the death knell of the paid employ
ment agency has been sounded and
these gentlemen who maintain them
will have tough sledding thereafter
in their attempt to take the last dol
lar from a workingman who seeks
a job.
More will be said about this new
move by the government to properly
recruit and distribute labor when
the state and community boards have
been organized.
NIPPING ST QUENTIN
LONDON,—The British have ma
terially developed their encircling
operation around St Quentin and are
preparing to nip the German posi
tions.
TEN THOUSAND
LONDON,—The British have tak
en ten thousand prisoners in two days
around St Quentin.
RESISTANCE STIFFENS
LONDON,—British official reports
indicate that the German resistance
on the west front is stiffening all the
;ime. .
ALL MINERS RETURN
AGAIN TO THEIR WORK
POTTSVILLE, Pa.—On Wednesday
all the thirty thousand miners in the
anthracite fields returned to work
under conditions changed in no re
spect from those against which they
struck, but assured by their-leaders,
that general reforms would be install-j
ed.
'the miners returned to work de
claims that the ends of^the strike
had teen accomplished in direct1.;,
liatio.ii-.l attention to the condition
under which they worked and the de
mands which they made for higher
wages to meet the increased cost of
living.
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AMERICAN ACE KILLED
BRINGS DOWN VICTIM
• PARIS,—Lt David Putman, of<
Massachusetts, American Ace, brot
down an enemy fokker in flames a!
few moments before he himself was|
killed in a battle on the Lorraine i
front.
WANT PEACE ]
AMSTERDAM,— Peace demon-!
strations are being held thruout Ger-1
many. These have been rigidly sup
pressed many being killed and wound
ed from contact with police and sol
diers.
SEEK DESTRUCTION
COPENHAGEN,—The German
press evidently campaigning in the
interests of the Kaiser and the Fath
erland Party affects to regard the
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Notice is hereby given, that pur
suant to an order of sale made by the
Probate Court in and for the Cape
Nome Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
on the 30th day of August 1918, in
the matter of the estate of Charles
Hedberg deceased, directing the sale
of the hereinafter described real
property, the undersigned adminis
trators of said estate, will sell at pub
lic auction, on Friday the 25th day of
October 1918 at the hour of one
o’clock in the afternoon, at the front
door of the U. S. Commissioner’s Of
fice for said Precinct in Nome Alaska,
all the right title and interest of the
said deceased Charles Hedberg in and
to the following described placer
mining claims situated in the Cape
Nome Recording District Alaska to
wit:
His total victories were ten. altho
an unofficial count credits him with
eighteen. Planes which fell behind
the enemy lines not being officially
reckoned.
Balfour statement and the Wilson re
ply to the Austrian peace proposals
as sure proof that the Allies seek the
complete destruction of the Central
Powers.
ANSWER ENOUGH
PARIS,—The- Foreign Minister
quotes Clemenceau’s speech in the
French Senate as sufficient answer
on the part of France to the Austrian
peace proposals.
No. 10 below Discovery on Shovel
Creek;
The Lost Fraction, sometimes
known as Dredge Claim No. 4, on
Shovel Creek;
An undivided % interest in No. 11
Below Discovery on §hovel Creek;
An undivided % interest in the
Echo Claim on Shovel Creek;
An undivided Vi interest in No. 14
below Discovery on Solomon River;
The North Star placer claim on
Shovel Creek;
An undivided % interest in the Goo
Goo Association claim on Shovel
Creek.
Dated this 12th day of September
1918.
MARY AMBLER
ANDREW MATTSON
Administrators estate of Charles Hed
berg deceased.
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1 REAL BARGAINS
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As we are [now preparing our stock to In- 2 j
| ventory we find [many [lines of shoes! in [which ■■
I there are but few sizes left. Many of these shoes
are being sold every day REGARDLESS of COST.
Watch our Window. Every day we find new
bargains to offer,
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO. :
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S. L. LEWIS
IN CLOSING OUT HIS ENTIRE STOCK, TO SAVE PAT
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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C. W» Lewis
-Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
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Announcement
Segerstrom & Hagen
WILL LEAVE OX THE LAST VICTORIA FOR SEATTLE
The store will be closed for the Winter and will open
again on our return with the first boat in the Spring.
All those who wish optical service should call as early as
convenient and we will be glad to serve you in the best possible
way. .If you should have an accident with your glesses we have
your prescription on file and a letter or telegram to our Seattle
address i*. O. Box 1014, will reach us and we will make required
parts and send them to you by return mail.
All of our stock will be taken outside and you will do well
to make selections of your Christmas presents now and secure a
substantial discount, as most of our bulky stock will be sold at
greatly reduced prices.
JEWELERS AXD OPTICIANS
Our Seattle address will be
SEGERSTROM AND HAGEN
I*. O. BOX, 1914.
SEATTLE, WASHXIGTON.
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WE LEAD IN
QUALITY AND SERVICE
THORULF LEHMANN
OUR£PRICES ARE THE
LOWEST IN NOME
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EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1ST.
EVERYTHING IN THE STORE
AT BARGAIN PRICES
WE ARE OFFERING ALL
FIXTURES, SHELVES CASH
REGISNER ETC FOR SALE
CHEAP
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