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VOL. 11.
KOKH. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1018.
NO. 2457.
SERGEANT SUSPECTED
OF SPY ACTIVITIES
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 6.—Sus
pected of activities in the interest
of Germany Thomas Ritter who is
a Sergeant Major at the new army
cantonment at Camp Lewis near
American Lake is held under ar
rest at that post, pending investi
gation.
The discovery was made early in
December that government docu
ments of the most important nature
had mysteriously disappeared and
for some days secret observations
were made with a view of locating
the leak Nothing so far uncovered
has pointed to the guilt of Serge
ant Ritter who strenuously denies
any knowledge of the matter.
Ritter is of German nativity and
his father is a Quartermaster Gen
eral in the German army at the
present time. These facts were con
sidered and it was concluded that
it wero possible that he had di
vulged military information to the
enemy.
Ho was arrested on December 12
but the matter was kept secret un
til this date and the Commander of
Camp Lew's is awaiting telegraph
instructions from the Department
of War at Washington D. C.
Whether proof is had or not di
rectly connecting Sergeant Ritter
with the disappearance of the docu
ments it is believed that he will be
detained.
Special Xew England Boiled Din
ner Wednesday and Sunday at Mo
dini’s B. O. T. Cafe.
BRITISH LABOR
WITH BOLSHEVIKI
LONDON, Jan. 6.—Declaring that
in all essential particulars the or
ganized British Labor Federation
stands solidly with the Russian
Bolsheviki regime in their concep
tions of a proper basis lor peaco
Arthur Henderson startled the staid
parliament today.
The Labor Federation has form
ulated a set of peace demands
which they refer to as an irreduc
ible minimum beyond which they
■will not expect the British govern
ment to go, in any considerations
in the ultimate peace arrangements.
The simple statement of the la
bor representatives Include the de
claration that Belgium must be
freed of the German dominion,
that the Serbias, Romania and
Montenegro must be restored that
a permanent League of Nations
must be formed after the war to
prevent future wars.
Henderson is the leader of the
labor wing of Parliament and
next to the Premier Lloyd George
is regarded as the strongest man in
the empire. He stated in his ad
dress that insofar as the Premier’s
program covered these points the
British labor movement would back
him to a finish.
The Bolshcviki program referred
to as a basis for world peace differs
only slightly from the position
taken, and includes the demands
“No annexations, No indemnities
and a permanent workingmen’s in
ternational.”
BARONESS VON DK VITTE
AT DREAM TONIGHT.
A big Mutual Masterpicture “The
Valkyrie” featuring the celebrated
and beautiful Baroness Von De
Vitte’1 in her famous dances is the
headliner at the Dream Theater to
night. A Vogue Comedy with
Rube Miller and Madge Kirby in
“On the Still Hunt” and "Toplitzeki
& Co.” a funny Keystone are also
on the bill. Tomorrow night Mae
March in ‘Hoodoo Ann.”
For the test 50c. Dinner In Nome
go to the Board of Trade Lunch
Counter.
THE PRICE OF GOOD
COAL AT JONEAU
Wo received tho following item
in th« last mail:
Notice to our Customers.
We wish to make the following
explanation: The excellent coal
which we have been able to deliver
for the past years, at so low a cost
has been largely due to the fact,
that our percentage of lump coal
has run from 75 to 85 per cent,
while at the present time we find
our percentage of lump coal to run
only 35 to 50 per cent. For this
reason we are obliged to make ef
fective at once, the following prices
on screened coal. This, however,
we do consider an advance in the
price of coal, but a condition that
wo must necessarily meet as we
wish to particularly call your at
tention to the fact that the price
of mine run coal Is not being raised
at this time.
Screened Coal, Delivered:
Per ton.$13.50
Hr.lf Ton.,.,6.75
One-fourth Ton . ...3.40
Three Sacks.2.50
Two Sacks.(.1-76
One Sack. 90
One Sack (at shed).75.
FEMMER & RITTER.
LABOR WOMAN
RELEASED ON BOND
SEATTLE, Jan. 4.—Mrs. Kata
MacDonald, wife of the Managing
Editor of the Seattle Induotrial
Worker, has been released on bond.
Editor MacDonald is in Chicago
being tried with some two hundred
others charged under the sweeping
indictments issued by the United
States Federal Grand Jury.
In his enforced absence Mrs.
MacDonald was given charge of the
paper and was conductng it with
assistance of Walker C. Smith a
brilliant and iconoclastic writer on
labor subjects. She is esteemed
by all who know her as a woman
of the mort gentle and excellent
lualities but with the too evident
intention of destroying the paper
was arrested apon the farcia! and
ridiculous charge of being a disord
erly person by the department of
justice. The charge has since been
changed to that under which sever
al other members of the Industrial
Workers organization are being
held; that of criminal conspiracy.
The workers are rallying to the
support of the publication and there
seems no prospect of its dissolation.
The Daily Call, a labor and Social
ist publication has been denied the
second class mail privilege but is
gaining a tremendous street sale
circulation, its distribution daily
amounting to upward of eighteen
thousand copies.
LADIES & GENTS TAILOR.
Toar Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Oor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
M. PASCOFF.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
Let ns estimate on your Job Work
REBELLION BREAKS OUT
IN GERMAN ARMY
PETROGRAD, Jan. S.—Accord
ing to wireless dispatches reaching
this capital a mutiny of consider
able proportions has broken out
among the German military forces
on the Eastern front.
Twenty five thousand Teuton
troops at Covno have revolted and
are refusing abedier.ee to their com
manders and have fortified them
selves in their trenches to resist
any attack from their comrades
who may be sent to disarm them.
The mutinneers give as reason
for their action the fact that their I
government is drafting all of their t
numbers who are thirty five years I
I of age for service on the Western t
front to which point they have been
ordered transferred. The revolters
maintain that this is a violation of ,
the recent armistice entered into
between Germany and the Bolshe
viki regime in Russia for the pur- c
pose of considering a permanent (
separate peace. t
The German commanders con
omplate sending any force against
he mutineers but will undertake
o starve them out by cutting off
heir food supplies.
MADRID, Jan. 6.—That a new
,nd widespread revolutionary move
aent is planned for the overthrow
f the Spanish government is the
onclusion from recent investiga
ions of the Spanish secret police.
ALASKA DRAFT
ELIGIBLES RELIEVED
OLYMPIA, Jan. 6.—It is found
that several hundred draft elig
ibles formerly residing in Alaska
are now in this state. Through a
misunderstanding of the Provost
Marshal’s General's instructions,
through neglect to furnish the re
gistration boards with their for
ward addresses or for whatever
cause, a serious problem had arisen.
Drastic measures had been con
templated against such Alaskan
citizens but investigation has re
veiled that many persons leave Al
aska for no definite objective point,
and most of them arriving in the
stales before deciding upon new lo
cations and it was considered that
an unecessary hardship would be
worked upen many
Accordingly the Provost Marshal
General has made a special ruling
to cover the cases of such Alaskan
registrants, and which provides that
such citizens may apply to any local
registration board and be certified
for voluntary induction into the
army or navy.
This it is believed will relievo
many of the complications other
wise arising because of the provi
sions relating to deserters.
The language of the Provost Mar
shal General’s ruling however pro
vides that the privileges of such
Alaskans under the voluntary in
duction provision will lapse so soon
as the Alaska drawings for mem
bers begins.
GOVERNMENT IN
NEED ALASKA COAL
SEATTLE, Jan. G.—That the fed
eral Government must act quickly
and prepared to send men and
equipment to Alaska to develcp its
coal and oil resonrsec for war
needs was the statement made h^re
today by Mr. John Barret, of
McCarthy, Alaska, and President
of tbo McCarthy Commercial Club.
To newspaper men and members
of tho Chamber of Commerce Mr.
Barret elaborated his plan and
spoke confidently of p!eject
pointing out that the continued
short supply of coal from operating
mines in the states could not be ex
pected ever to be relieved if the
LOCAL ITEMS.
Billy Rowe’s teams will today,
haul supplies for Ed Gross and
Fred Rohn camps on Dexter creek.
• • * •
Nols (Shorty) Nelson and Klein
er are moving an outfit to the sub
marine. They will prospect for the
elusive paystfeak near the big bend
on Snake river.
• • • •
John Holm and Gust Hanson will
return to Tripple creek today, after
sojourning in town during the holi
days.
• • • *
Yesterday a member of the Min
ers Union received a letter from
an Australian soldier who is “some
where” in France. The letter re
cevod the French censor’s postmark I
on Nov. 2nd, and it reached Nome
Jan. 6th.
government continues as such a
heavy consumer of the domestic
coai and oil products, and that in
the end it will be seen necessary
for the Federal Government to
take steps to develop its own rich
deposits of these basic resources.
Mr. Barret proceeded to show
that by building only thirty nine
miles of additional road the govern
ment could tap an inexaustablo
supply of coal. The lino contem
plated is to be brtneh from Copper
River to Katalla and it is expected
to be government owned.
Jan
WILKESBARRi'.
--Due
Dave Johnson a former employee
■>f the Pioneer Mining Co. writing
.o friends, says he is having the
:ime of his life in Soap Lake, Wash.
He mentioned about visiting the
cantonments in an automobile
which his brother won in a raffle.
A.xel Berg has gone south from Se
ittle. Dave sends his best regards
:o his friends.
Charlie Jonson, Jorgen Nelseu
rnd Tom Tomes are getting ready
to sink a shaft on the Sjgnr claim.
• * * *
Charles Watson trapped a fine
Link near his camp yesterday.
Watson and Stump are prospecting
:>n East Gulch a tributary of Dry
creek.
Reasonable prices, and first class
workmanship at fhe Nome Tailoring
rjonipany.
to improper timbering and to gen
eral mismanagement of the interior
workings a serious coal mine acci
dent occurred here today when a
huge mass of earth loosened from
the mine roof and completely hur
ried an unknown numbe' of >nn
ers, believed to be four at least.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., .next door to Sogers from and
Hagen’s.
(’losing out Xinas goods. Cargo
Stock useful presents at HOLTS.
„ • * •
EIGHT HOUR FIRMS.
The following business houses
have signified to this paper their
cheerful adoption of the Eight
Hour Day.
Lomon Bros.
Kristan’s Emporium.
The Nonpareil.
Ed L Holt.
P. A. Potcrspn Shoe Co.
A. Wittenberg.
Crowley Grocery Company.
A. Polet.
Thorulf Lehman.
Pacific Cold Storage Co.
North Pole Bakery.
Anvil Bakery.
Nome Bakery. . 1
Nome Bakery Annex.
Milo’s Cafe.
Rowe Transfer Co.
C. C. Croks, 2nd Hand Store.
B. O. T. Cafe.
Arctic Candy Store and Bakery^