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Vol. 2
Nome, Alaska, Friday, February 21, 1908.
No. 34
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JOHN OLSEN MEETS
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
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' A Swinging Bucket Crushes in His Skul/=== Was at
Bottom of Shaft===A ccident Occurs at Shaw9s
\ . Claim oh Little Creek.
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John Olsen, who has been working
at Frank Shaw’s claim on Little creek
net with a terrible accident yesterday
morning. While he was workup at
the bottom, of the^-shaft, thru some
mistake the bucket was hoisted sud
denly and unepectedly. The bucket
struck him in the forehead just over
the right eye crushing the frontal
bone for a diameter of about two in
ches. Thd pieces of bone penetrated
into the brain.
He was brought to tbe hospital in
all possible haste, where he received
immediate attention from the union
physician. The pieces of shattered
bone were removed from his head and
all that could be done was done for
him.
From the information available it
seems that Olsen was kneeling fixing
the backet at the time it was sudden
ly hoisted. It is not known at this
time who if any one is to blame for
the unfortunate and terrible accident.
He has been a member of Local No.
240, W. F. M., for some time. Olsen
has a brother in Ballard, Washington.
AMONG MEMBERS
OF LOCAL 240
Andrew Beck, who had his foot
severely injured in the accident at
the Jupiter claim, is improving.
Ed. Dorian has been very sick with
pneumonia, he isfcf-y>w convalescing.
Wm. Skeins goChis hand caught in
the sheave of the hoist at Center
creek claim, and sustained a severe
crushing of the middle finger of the
right hand. The member was ampu
tated by Dr. Weyerhorst, the union
physician; Skeins will be out of hos
pital in a few days.
David Caura, who sustained a com
pound fracture of the bones of the
lower right leg in the Jupiter acci
dent, is still in the hospital under the
treatment ot the union physician.
Tom Phelan, another victim of the
Jupiter accident, is improving re
markable fast, cousid- ring the severe
character of his injuries. He sus
tained a double compound fracture of
the bones of the lower left leg. The
circulation in the injured member is
getting better and the prospects for
his recovery to health and strength in
a short while is good.
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MAIL CARRIER
HAS TOUGH TIME
P. Olsen, who bad the mail for the
outside, left the mail on the tundra
and wended his way into Solomon at
12:30 p. in. yesterday. He camped
out last night when the storm caught
him. Four of his dogs were frozen to
death. He is badly frozen about the
arms and shoulders.
The storm is still raging fiercely and
it is impossible to recover the mail
left by Olsen until the storm subsides
somewhat. Olsen will probably be
able to continue his trip when thh
storm checks enough to permit a
search for the mail which he was
compelled to leave on the tundra.
WIRES ARE DOWN.
Owing to the breaking of telegraph
communications with the outside we
are unable to supply our readers with
the news 6t theTiutside world. Some
news, however, was received before
the breaking of the cable. The next
issue of the Industrial Worker will
give the full news including the back
news. _
Bo at Eagle hall March second.
That’s the date of the big ball. The
proceeds are to be donated to the
listers of the Holy Cross.
An Eskimo on the Stage.
Charlie Ong-a-tun-uk, a spleudid
specimen of the Eskimo race, a native
of the Diomede Islands, is taking the
part of Eskimo Charlie in the “Thaw
at .Slisco’s- - - -Heenters into thVepirjft
of the play, and the management can
assure the audience they will not be
disappointed in him.
This is the Hrst time in the history
,of Alaska when an Eskimo has taken
part in a play before an American
audience. tl
Don’t miss the big ball at Eagle hall
March 2nd. Given under the auspices
of Local No. 240 Western Federation
of Miners.
WORST STORM IN YEAR
RASES AT SOLOMON
By Long Distance Telephone.
Solomon, Feb. 20.- The worst storm
in years is now raging here. The
• thermometer registers 10 below zero,
and the wind is oi' very high velocity.
Traffic and business is practically
suspended.
P. Olsen and Mr. Walker of the
West Coast Grocery Company left
Port Safety about the same time yes
terday. Olsen had the Nome mail for
the outside, Mr. Walker was on his
way to the outside. Walker has
arrived at Mission city nearly frozen
and suffering, extremely from his ex
perience.
Olsen lii» not yet been heard from
and it is feared he is lost or perhaps
overcome by the storm. No trace of
him can be had by telephone or
otherwise. The gravest fears are en
tertained for his safety.
The mail carrieivbringiug the Coun
cil mail for Nome has arrived here and
will proceed on his way to Nome s
soon as the storm subsides.
Hob Griffith bringing the outside
mail has left Bluff city on his way to
Nome.
Mr. Blatohford and Mrs. NoyeS (were
lost two days on the trial. The.c ar
rived at Silver Bow last nignt, between
Bluff and Solomon. Mrs. Joyce; was
suffering extremely from her ex 1
posure.
Mr. Joyce was nearly suffocated in
the fire here Monday night. Tje has
been confined to tb house since, his
injuries are due entirely to smoke
and gas and his early recovery is ex
pected.
The storm is still raging with no
immediate prospects of its abaj?ment.
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PIONEERS
PARADE
Despite the inclemency of the
weather the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo
No. 1, • lheld their parade Wednesday.
All wore parkas and other clothing
familiar to the pioneer in Alaska.
Some were hauling hand sleds, others
were leading malamutes and pack
mules. . -
Mayor Baldwin was grand marshal
of the parade. The procession march
ed from Eagle hall down Front street
to Barracks Square, at which place
the photogarphers took the photo
graphs. The parade then returned to
the place of starting.
A potlach took place Wednesday
evening at which there was plenty to
eat and drink. A program was also
rendered in which some of the best
entertainers in the city took part.
March the second is the date of the
big ball to be given under the aus
pices of the Miners Union.
See Jack Leedy as Erick Lund in
“The Thaw at Blisoo’s. He will be
on hand. _ tl
Granite Mining Candles are the best
MINING NOTES
FROM COUNCIL
Special Coriespoudeut.
Council, Feb. 17.—Since New Year
prospecting has again become active.
Each year sees more ground being
worked or prospected. Individuals,
who have been holding ground and
who have not complied with the law,
are compelled to throw up tbeir
ground; this gives those who really
desire to test the ground a chance to
do so.
Jack Doyle and Dan McCloud are
prospecting the benches of Ophir at
the Portage. They have some lair
dirt. But at present they are drifting
to see if they can strike something
better.
Jim and Lee Laudette are prospect
ing a fraction between five and six.
They are using a hand drill. They
also have a lease on No. 6. They
intend to prork it with a steam hoist
next summer.
Vincent, Sayers is working a lay on
Sweetcake oreek.
Patton and Altman are prospecting
a bench on No. 6, which is the prop
erty of A. G. Adams.
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| Tc Those Who Hfcve
Friends on the
2 Outside.
Owing to the difficulty intend
ing out funds to enable, fiiends
and relatives to arianga eturn
transportation to Nome inffune.
in compliance with many re uests
the Northwestern Stet nship
company has .made arrangi nents
through J. J.Carroll, of the flerth
Coast Lighterage Codpany,
whereby tickets tnr bl pur
chased here of him ail for
warded to the friend’s ad
the outside.
These tickets will be fcnored
for passage on any oneof the
following ships of theJNorth
western Steamship company’s
fleet: Victoria, Northwestern,
Saratoga, Yucatan, OlyJpia.
For tickets, quotations of
freight rates, and furthfr infor
mation, see Mr. Carrol at the
office of the Northwester Steam
ship company or residefse phone
Black 117. x
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i Worker
WORLD’S WIRELESS
RECORD IS DROKEN
Point Loma Picks up a Pensacoia Message===It Had
Encircled the Earth===Is a Triumph
of Human Skitl.
Special to the Nome Industrial Worker.
Point Loma, Cal., Feb. 17.—The
world’s wireless record has been bro
ken. A message from Pensacola,
Florida, was picked up here today.
This undoubtedly breaks the world
record for long distance wireless com
munication.
Experts in wireless telegraphy are
wondering whether the message went
across the continent or around the
world. Strong arguments are being
advanced for both suppositions. The
weight of the tegument favors the
supposition that the message went
round the world.
The argument in favor of the latter
hypothosis is that by encircling the
earth the ether impulses would have
met less resistance from mountain
ranges and high plateaus. The theory
that high elevations effect the pro
gress of electrical impulses in the
ether of space is now a settled convic
tion among those who have given th»
subject a careful study. So in all
probability human skill and ingen
uity has made the triutnphant feat of
breaking the barriers of time aad
space and actually sent communica
tion around the world without relay.
TANANA
MINERS
JTRONG
In Tanana today, as per census just
completed by the U M W T, there are
1,500 bona fide working miners.
0£ the 1,500 miners, 80 per cent be
long to the U M W T, organization,
and by March 1 another 10 per cent
will be added to the Union’s strength.
It was the impression here that only
200 strike breakers wrere brought into
this camp last year. The census just'
completed reveals the fact that there
were nearer 500 of them. Some of
them have since left Tanana, as have
many of the old nriifevs, and today
there are 1,500 working miners here.
—Miners Union Bulletin Jan. 6.
Stage to Solomon.
A new sta^b ,has been established
by Mrs.Uinivaii of the Northern hotel,
Solomon, to run hetween that place
and Nome. It leaves' the Golden Gate
hotel every Monday and Friday morn
ing at 8 o’clock." . - tf
SPANISH WORKERS
LEAVING PANAMA
Special to the Nome Industrial Worker.
Washington, Feb. 20.—One diffi
culty the Isthman Canal Commission
is making much of is that of discour
aging laborers brought from Spain, at
the expense of the commission, from
emigrating to the West Indies and to
the various South American countries,
where as a rule, they are a welcome
addition to the planters, as they have
the effect of keepiug down wages. Id
payment of their transportation ex
penses, a certain, percentage is taken
monthly from the pay of the laborers
until the whole amount has been satis
fied. The laborers sometimes get
away from the Isthmus before all of
their transportation expenses have
been deducted from their pay, and
the government is so much the loser.
HILL BLAMES
STOCK GAMBLERS
St. Paul, Feb. 7.—J. J. Hill, the
great railroad maguate says in an
interview that the country needs a
rest from the speculat ion of the Wall
street gamblers. He fixes the blame
for panic conditions upon the big
stock gamblers of the east and says
the country should take some valuable
lessons from such experiences.
FREIGHT GARS IDLE
New York, Feb. 17.—The various
journals of the plutocrats say that. \
there are 330,000 idle freight cars be
tween Prescott, Arizona, and New
York city, and that three mouths ago
there were not enough cars to handle
the traffic. These journals continue
then to paint the panic with the char
acteristic ignorance or indifference to
the factors and conditions that oro
duce such calamities to the popula
I tiou.
MINES AND SMELTERS
AT CANANEA TO CLOSE
El Paso, Tex., Dee. 15.—Colonel;
Emiliai.o Corella, of the Engineering j
Corps of the Mexican army, was today |
ordered by President Diaz to proceed !
from here to Cauanea to take com
maud of the Mexican troops at that
palce. This move it was stated, was
made through fear of disturbances
when the mines and smelters are
closed. To avert this trouble as far
as poss'ble, the Cauanea Consolidated
Copper Company is furnishing trans
portation to workmen to any point in
the United States or Mexico to which
they may wish to go.
The order to close the mines and
smelters at Cananea was issued by
Colonel W. C. tjreene more than ten
days ago. To make the closing as
small a burden as possible upon 8,000
men, who have been employed at
Canauea for many years past. Colonel;
Greene ordered that the mines be
closed one at a time, the shifts there
by being let out more gradually and
given more time to find other employ
ment. The same rule has been ap
plied to the closing of the smelters.
One after another of the big plants
has been tlown out until new but two
are at work and these on ores which
had been cast into the “dumps.”
When this ore is exhausted, these
plants will be “blown out” and the
copper industry will have ceased at
Canauea, for the present, at least. /,
According to men high in the con
fidence of Colonel Greene, the copper
war whioh has been waged in Wall
Street for many months past has been
the cause of the closing.of the mines
and smelters. This war has resulted
in the cutting of the price of copper
to such an extent that it is no longer
profitable to baudle the ores and, it is
said, Colonel Greene has determined
to abandon the mines until such time
as the price shall make a reopening
worth while.
in the opinion of these same men
this reopening will never come. They
declare that the pumps have been re
moved from the lower levels of the
shafts and that the resultant flooding
will cause caveins which will forever
destroy the hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of work done in the tun
neling aud bracing shafts.
Several hundred American employes
have been affected by the closing of
the mines, in addition to 8,000 Mex
ican laborers employed therein. Of
an American office force of more than
100 men, less than a dozea are now
left at Cauanea, aud these, it is stated,
will not be needed after the last
smelter has closed which will bo soon.
MINERS
BALL ON
MARCH 2
Great preparations are being made
for the big ball under the auspices of
the Miners Union to be held March 2.
The following committees have been
appointed and are busy with arrange
ments :
OFFICERS.—W. B. Eaton, Presi
dent Phil. Corrigan, Secretary-treas
urer.
COMMITTEES.
EXECUTIVE.—Thos. Gaffney, Rob
ert Burton, Chas. Peters, Bernard
Benton, Wm. Priest.
ENTERTAINMENT.-Geo. Lamb,
Jack Flynn, Thos. Gaffney, & E.
Baker, Miohlael Young, Got Stenfleld.
RECEPTION.—W. B. Eaton, James
Cleasby, J. C. Gaffney, Prank Went
worth, Dr. Weyerhorst, Philip Cor
rigan, Joe Hall, Dr. Hill, E. T. Mc
Intyre, Ira Bank, Dr. Mustard, Wil
liam Glendeuning, Bob Adams, Fred
Broomer, G. B. Baldwin, Carl Ment,
E. E. Flemming, Conrad Freeding,
Dick Connors, Geo. Stuart, E. J.
Hickey, Dan Kelly.
FINANCE.—Joseph Chilberg, W. B.
Eaton, Philip Corrigan.
FLOOR.—B. A. Cline, Barney Cog
gins, John Stromberg, George S. May
nard, E. F. Fisher, Charles Peters,
James Brennan, Tom Connoley, Neil
McCarthy, Michael Campbell, A. F.
Jackson, William Flanders.
HALL and MUSIC.—Robert Bur
ton, William Priest, Bernard Benson.
DECORATIONS.-Joseph Chilberg,
John Sutherland, Charles New ho use,
W. IL Schauf, Ed. Endholm, Jacob
p^teraon, John Perrano, Jens Madsen.
|}^3FRESKIMENTS. —Thos. Gaffney,
Ofaas; Schultz, Chaa. Fakler, A. A.
Banta, Rq)ph Smith, Hans Hanson.
JohndBInfera.
PRINTING!.—John McGiivuey, Rob
ert Burton, Howard Whaite, Bernard
Benson, Tom Jacobs, A. J. Hackett,
Andrew Ottooson, Nels Ringnell.
Secretary of Committee, Wm. Priest, s
HOTELS BURN
ATS0L0M0N
Monday evening two hotels at Solo
mon were destroyed by Are. The
hotels were those conducted by Emma
Christie and Mike Joyce. The build
ings stood on opposite sides of the
street but a strong wind carried the
flames across the street in spite of all
effort to extinguish. The fire is thot
to have been started by an explosion
from a gasoline lamp. The whole
town would probably have burned had
It not been for the large drifts of
snow which to a certain extent pro
tected the buildings.
The lose will be in the neighborhood
of W,000.00.