BUYING
POLET’S FRESH ROASTED COFFEE
YOU WILL
ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT IN THE
PRESERVATION OF.TIN_
SATE YOURSBLF AT LEAST 15 to 25% ON YOUR COFFEE
EXPENSE AND IF YOU UNPREJUDICEUT TRY YOU WILL
MAKE YOURSELF BETTER COFFEE THAN OU HAVE EVER
MADE IN YOUR LIFE.
FRESH ROASTED COFFEE UNDOUBTEDLY WILL MAKE
THE BEST CUP OF COFFEE.
A POLET
ANOTHER GOLD DISCOVERY
MADE NEAR NENANA
NENANA,—Ground yielding more
than $1 dollar a loot In placer gold
and carrying a considerable quantity
of placed tin has been discovered on
lower Patterson Creek, about twenty
two miles from Hot Springs . The
town of Hot Springs is forty miles
from the line of the government rail
road at Nenana.
The gold and tin deposits extend
over a large area. About twenty
holes have been put down with a
Keystone drill and in every one of
these holes encouraging prospects
have been found. That the deposits
of gold are heavy ia believed to be
indicated by the presence of tin in
the gravel, as the best gold-producing
gravel in the Hot Springs district car
ries a large quantity of native tin.
The ground, for the most part, is
deep, the drill penetrating to a depth
of 240 feet in places before reaching
bedrock, but the prospects are so en
couraging and the country so well
adapted to mining, having an abund
ance of water and timber, that the
operators jexpect to realize handsome
profits.
FISH SHIPMENTS ARE
MADE FROM ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE,—Anchorage is de
▼eloping into a shipping point for
the fishing industry. Canned and
salted salmon are brought here in
small power boats and on barges and
are then sent to the states on ocean
steamships.
The most recent shipment of fish
from Anchorage to Seattle consisted
of 17,000 cases of salmon that was
brought here from Libby, McNeill
and Libby’s cannery at Kenai and 5 50
barrels of salted salmon that had
been brought here from the plant of
the Kachemak Saltery and Canning
Company at Swanson Creek.
The season for canning and salting
salmon is drawing to a close. Many of
the persons and firms in the salmon
fishing industry will soon go into the
herring fishing business. The her
ring run occurs in the winter months
and attains its heaviest proportions
at Kachemak Bay and other places
near the mouth of Cook Inlet.
NEWS NOTES
The school board met today and
resolved to close the schools for two
weeks on account of the epidemic.
The step is precautionary lest after
the arrival of the last boat any signs
■of the sickness develop.
* The Pioneer Women last night gave
a ball in celebration of Alaska Day,
which by the way is also the anni
versary of the foundation of their
own organization. The dance was in
every way a brilliant success, the pio
neer ladies excelling themselves in
the work of arrangements so that
everyone might have a good time as
everyone did. The music and dancing
was enjoyed by the guests of the or
ganization to a late hour and all went
merry as a marriage bell as Hogan
says.
Gus Konelis and S. N. Simeon who
essayed the heaving waters of Ber
ing .Sea in a launch on a journey of
exploration up the coast had the mis
fortune to find that ujst when making
most rapid progress the engine of the
launch got out of order and the mari
ners were compelled to seek shelter
near York where they were noticed
by the crew of the Jewel Guard and
rescued. They arrived in Nome after
leaving their dismantled launch up
north.
CITY BATHS, HOT AND COLD
WATER, ALWAYS READY.
During this summer while Nome
ites were bewailing the fact that this
camp had fallen into evil times and
from its high estate into abject de
pression, in the Port Clarence section
tin fields secured the attention of
stakers to quite an extensive extent
and several plastered the whole of
that known ore field with location
notices, the hatchets and pencils
working overtime. Now if a real
miner with intent to discover and
perform real development work set
ties on a piece of ground, he has
litigation on his hands the very min
ute his prospects show up and be
come worth while. Some system.
This morning bright and early the
Kobukers started off for their home
r in the Shungnak section of the terri
I tory. The long journey is to be made
by dog team and the sleds were haul
ed by nine dogs, six in one and three
in another. Paul Primar had three
large dogs and Olaf Nelson and Jim
Donovan had six. The men were here
in connection with the charges made
against Moran and against Tuohy,
both of which collapsed, the former
before the Grand Jury where they
found no true bill and in the case of
the latter the trial resulted in an ac
quittal. The men expect providing
weather conditions continue favorable
to make the trip in good time.
The work of getting the boats up
j to winter quarters began yesterday
! and the Defiance was hauled out of
, the water by the Rowe teams which
| will also get busy on several others
of the mosquito fleet.
Robert Benson of Benson creek in
the Iron creek section arrived in town
on Friday n tier noon after a seas;n
mining fin his ground • which was
greatly affected by the exceptionally
dry summer. Creeks which always
heretofore carried ample water for
mining purposes, this season ran dry
and hampered work. Incidentally on
Benson’s ground those working with
I him were lucky enough to strike very
good pay which is of large extent.
Benson struck an old channel on the
benches and running parallel to Ben
son creek with the pans running to a
very satisfactory richness thruout
and with Indications that the channel
is of much greater extent than was
at first anticipated. Unfortunately
while in other years Benson creek
supplied enough water for several
sluice heads, this season it ran quite
dry. This ground must not be con
fused with the property whereon
plans had been made to construct a
dredge, before the wartime condi
tion prevented this. This ground is
still intact, but its o.wner is convinc
ed from further prospecting that he
can secure enough water from Iron
creek to operate it by hydraulic
means. One thing the new discovery
tends to show is that the section
named is very far from being exploit
ed and there are considerable pay
streaks yet to be located in that fam
ous section.
Yesterday about 45 were register
ed under the Man Power act in Nome.
All of these were going Outside on
th Victoria, the eligibles who are
remaining having been requested to
defer their registration until after
the Victoria arrives with the neces
sary blanks under the new law. Mr
Grimm says that one of the peculiar
things about the registration now pro
ceeding is the anxiety upon the part
of all registrants married or single,
with or without dependents td waive
exemption. This is quite the reverse
of eonditlons under the Selective Ser
vice Act first passed. Then those
who could claim exemption for the
most part did so, of course there be
ing exceptions to this. Now irrespec
tive of the nationality one and all
seem desirous of serving in the army.
Inquiry from some registrants as to
what would become of their wives
and those dependent on them elicited
usually the response that “they
would get along somehow,” and in
several cases where the registrant
had a large family, quite dependent
upon his efforts of support, the advis
ability of claiming exemption was
pointed out. The only deduction nat
ural from this is that the registrants
now getting their names down are
more enthusiastic for the fighting
than tvas the case in the earlier
stages of the war.
CET THE NEWS RIGHT HEAD
THE WORKER.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER
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S. S. VICTORIA
will sail from Seattle for Nom on her last trip 10 a. m. Oct. 10th.
Last Sailing of the Season
LEAVES NOME
OCTOBER THE 20TH
R. A. Carroll Ageist, Nome
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Capital $100,000.00
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REAL BARGAINS
As we are [now preparing our stock to In
ventory we find Jmany [lines of shoes[in [which
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.
This space reserved by
Cm Wm Lewis
-Formerly Delbar’s store—
The place where you can
reasonably buy anything
from a needle to an
anchor
Announcement
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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 prescr.pUon on file and a letter or telegram to our Seattle
address P. O. Box 1»14, will reach us and we will make required
parts juidjsend 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 AND OPTICIANS
Our Seattle address will be
SEGERSTROM AND HAGEN
P. O. BOX, 1914.
SEATTLE, WASHNIGTON.
WE LEAD IN
DUALITY AND SERVICE
THORULF LEHMANN
OURi PRICES ARE THE
LOWEST IN NOME
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EVERYTHING IN THE ST9R
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WE ARE OFFERING ALL
FIXTURES, SHELVES CASH
REGISTER | ETC FOR SALE
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