RAPS RAILROAD FIGHT TO
POSPONE VALUATION
J|N SEEKING SUSPENSION “PA
TRIOTISM” OK PROFITEERS
IS SHOWN UP BY COMMIS
SIONER.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
The Federal valuation of the
257,000 miles of main line rail
roads in the United State® will be
completed in 1920, according to
a report on tho progress of th9
work which C. A. Prcuty, chief of
the valuation division of tl:e inter
state commerce commission, made
today to the 29 th annual conven
lion of the National Association
of State Railway Com mission era
in session hore. •
The act instructing the interstate
commerce commission to appraise
the railroad properties for rate
making purposes was passed by
Congress ir. March, 1913.
I During the past year the valua
tions division has complHed the
inventory of 53,000 miles of main
lire road. It i3 expected that 150,
000 miles will be inventoried by
March 1st, leaving 100,000 miles
to cover. Two years will suffice
to inventory the 100,000 miles.
The office work to tabul.-.te and
compile the field data will require
one year additional. The valuation
division estimates that the total
cost of ascertaining the value of
the railroad property will not ex
ceed $19,000,000.
To date, the work lias cose $9,
600,000, and the current expenses
aggregate about three and one-half
millions a year.
Judge Prouty ondemned sever
ely the campaign initiated by the
railror.d owners to have the valua
tion work suspended during the
war against Germany. He declared
that there exists no valid reason
for the suspension.
It was asserted by Judge Prouty
that the suspension of the valua
tion campaign was formulated by
the railroad people, not out of a
“patriotic” desire to assist in win
ning the war, but rather to kill a
work which they felt would have
disastrous results on railroad pro
fiteering.
ANIMAL RESOURCES ARCTIC
RELIEVE MEAT SHORTAGE
BOSTON, Mass.. Feb. 7.—As
■war’s drain on food resources con
tinues to grow more acute new res
ervoirs have to be tapped. Already
reindeer meat from Alaska is re
placing beef on the Pacific coast,
and Christian Leden, the mission
ary-explorer of Greenland and Hud
son Bay, sponsors a plan for moib
Rnasonable prices, and first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
Ooaapanj.
You’ll see It first In the Worker.
FOOD
PRESERVATION
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Het Springs Vegetables
Sack price
15 Ilia..5100
G. Wash. Inetanteneous Coffee
Large Cana.. 46c
Small Cans .... 2 for 55c.
Reliance Coffee
2 2 pound tins .. .. $1.65
Instant PcBtum
Small cans.... 3 for 86c.
Large cans.each 65c
Flower Bud Toilet Soap
per dozen cakes.76c.
Rose Blcssom Glycerine So(ip
$ bare for .. .6c.
Clean Easy Soap
Save fuel and labor
16 bars .. ... $100
Pearline Washing Powder
Per Pkg.10c.
Royal Chef Clams
2 Cans for.26c.
Dried Calif. Black Grapes
(RAISINS)
2 lbs. for.. 25c.
Calarab Figs
per pkg.10c.
Qolovin Bay Herring
per kit.$1.50
Spiced Pickled Herring
ready to eat, per doz. 76c.
Pickled Eels
per Ibe...16c.
ALASKA COD
per Lbr..10 c.
Small pink Beans
One order to a customor
7 lbs. for.$1.00
A-I SAUSE.
Small bottles 2 for.45c.
Large bottles.45c.
LIBBY FANCY RIPE OLIVES
Quart tins each .... 40c.
COCOA
Llpton, per tin.15c.
Hersheys 5 lbs. tins per lb.. . 50c.
SOOT DESTROYER
3 pkgs... .. 50c.
A. Polet
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lizing the food resources of the Arc
tics, the Boston Globe says.
It appears that the Eskimo, be
lieving animals are sent by the
great spirit to be killed for food,
conceives it to be hjs duty to kill
all he secs. Enormous quantities
of most valuable meat are thus
waeted—meat which the Northern
tribes could, Mr. Leden thinks,
easily be induced to save and sell
to the people of the lower alti
tudes.
The German army, from the very
start of the war, has been fe*
largely on dried meat. One pound
of dry meat is equal to live pound
of fresh meat, and it is, in addi
tion .far easier to transport. The
Eskimos are especially skillful in
drying their game, which wculd
make a resort to this source of
DANCING SCHOOL.,
At the Miners Home Club Hall,
Dancing Class every Moud., Tuesd.
Wednesday and Friday, evening
from 8 P. M. to 11 P. M. Admis
sion to class $1.00. Private lessons
$1.00 per hour.
MRS. GKO WALDHELM, Teacher.
NOTICE.
The Modint's B. of T. Restau
rant closed for a few days in
order to make some remodelling so
that the place can be run more eco
nomical and will also arrange to
run furnished rooms In connection.
MRS. ft Sf. HKIDLKR
Has Opened First Class
REPAIRING ESTABLISHMENT
FRONT STREET. Next door to The
Emporium
We are here to please old and
new patrons. We do the best
CLEANING, PRESSING,
ALTERING & REPAIRING.
First class workmanship.. Gent
lemens end Ladles Clothes.
EIGHT HOUR FIRMS.
The following business bouses
have signified to this paper their
cheerful adoption of the Eight
Hour Day.
A. Polet.
Thorulf Lehman.
Pacific Cold Storage Co.
North Pole Bakery.
Arctic Candy Store and Bakery.
Nome Bottling Co.
Chas L. Ross, Transfer.
E. W. Carle ton Hardware Co.
The Surprise Store.
.» Cheap John’s Store.
Lorn on Bros.
Kristan’s Emporium.
The Nonpardil.
Ed L. Holt.
P. A. Peterson Shoo Co.
A. Wittenberg.
Crowley Grocery Company.
Anvil Bakery.
Nome Bakery.
Nomo Bakery Annex.
Milo’s Cafe.
Rowe Transfer Co.
C. C. Crooks, 2nd and Store.
B. O. T. Cafe.
Nome Tailoring Co.
Alaska Dream Theater.
Wm. Stipek,
Independent Moat Market.
U. S. Mercantile Co.
Hill’s Pharmacy.
Board of Trade.
Subscribe now for the Worker
and keep Posted.
Bring your forfeiture ncticee to th»
Industrial Worker 'v
food supply all (he more fe.».--ible.
The Arctics are far richer in ani
imal resources than we of the tem
perate zone suppose. Caribou, wal
rus, salmon—all are yolilio oi
foodstuffs, not to mention the by
products of leather, furs and oil.
It is the explorer’s couip.-taKon
that the Arctics, even i’t.'erately
exploited, would yield enough meat
to feed 70,000 men for a ■'.ar He
assures us that caribou makes the
best vension, and that the walrus
bcng himself found of oysters,
makes good food.
GIRL 15, BOY 18
CAN LEGALLY MARRY,
IS RULING OF COURT
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.—The
legal age for a girl to we>l in Call
forina is 15 and for a youth IS. de
spite the marriage license restric
tions. according to a decision by
Superior Judge Joseph Koford in
Oakland In the case cf Ir:a t Uoyd
Russell against her husband,
Waynn Wesley Russeli, for annul
ment. He denied the pea.
The complaint declared that the
girl was 17 at the time she was
married. She swore she was 18.
Judge Koford quoted a recent
decision of the Supreme * url that
the legal age fixed in th*‘ statute
when a marriage is valid is 15 for
the girl and 18 for the bo>’.
It is true, he said, that they are
not entitled to a lie >nse unless 18
ana ?1, but if they get the license
and wed they are legally married.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., .next door to Begerstrom and
Hagen's.
OUT THE NEWS RIGHT. REA. •
THE WORKER. •
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'The Eagle
Gigars, Tobacco
Soft Drinks
Billards and Pool
Lunch Counter
LADIES AND GENIS TAILOR
Tour Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired.
SUITS MARE TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
AJLL WORK GUARANTEED.
Cor. Dane's Way and Front Street.
M. PASCO FF.
Prepare for the winter by patron*
Izlng the advertisers of your paper,
Mr. Miner!
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CASH & CARRY SYSTEM
As an inducement to our customers w> practico economy,
wo have decided to inaugurate the Cash and CARRY System.
Many stores on the Outside r.re using this system with
much success. The idea is to offer, as an in'iucoment to pay
cash and carry tho goods home with you, a cash discount,
which we propose to do as folows.
On all groceries or merchandise purchased from us, for
which you pay cash ar.d carry tho goods home, we will give a
discountof 5 per cent, except on SUGAR, FLOUR & MILK, on
theso goods which are sold on a very close margin we
will giv& 2 1-2 per cent.
iThv.3 If you buy $1.00 worth of goods and pay CASH and
CARRY you get 5c. off, if yoy buy $5.00 worth, you get 25c. off
Bring your market basket when you go shopping. PRACTICE
ECONOMY'. SAVE THE NICKELS AND DIMES.
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IT IS NOT
NECESSARY FOR VS TO
ADVERTISE ANY PRKSHRVATION8
JOB-LOT OR JTVNK SALKS IN
ORDER TO DISPOSE OF OUR GOODS
Thorulf Lehmann
WK HAVE THE CLEANEST STOCK
OF HIGH GRADE GROCERIES
V AND PROVISIONS IN ** V j
NOME, AND OUR PRICES V ' ' ;
ARE VERY CLOSE.
I Miners and Merchants Bank
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Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORK!!
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE IBTIL WORKER OFFICE
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