THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT
FREQUENTLY HAPPENS
Received a Few Days Ago
From New York
NEW YORK, (by mail) In the
following letter the mother of a
nine year old boy, killed while
-playing on the streets, voices the
sentiments of thousands of work
ing people of the greater city. The
boy is forced to play on the streets,
and the same system that leaves |
tho streets of the city as the only!
playground of the children, forces!
the drivers of the trucks to ‘make
limo’ to the danger of the children,
and finally blame3 the child for
cardessnccs when an accident oc
curs.
The letter reads as follows:—
“Dear Editor— We are advised
to keep our children in the open I
air. so that they may be healthy, j
end, not being wealthy enough to j
provide our own playgrounds, we j
are compelled to use the streets for
that purpose. On Dec. 15, 1917,
my son, 9 V2 years old, was playing
on the street in front of the house.
We lived at 4S5 East 172nd St
near Warhington Avenue, and while
stooping to pick up a ball near
the curb was struck and killed
by a heavy truck which came around
the corner withont sounding any
horn o.- other warning, and al
though it was sworn to by a great
number if eye-witnesses that it was
through the carelessness of the driv
er, who came along on the wrong
sde of the street and was going at
a high rate of speed, that I lost my
child, a jury in the supremo court
ruled that it was through my boy’s
careless-nss that he was killed.
“If we are careless because we
are on the street for which privlege
■we pay taxes, why not close up
the streets or forbid us from using
them; otherwise wo are in constant
danger of bang killed, and Mr.
Schnieder, who is the owner of the
truck which killed my boy, as well
as the owner of a number of other
trucks, instead of cautioning his
drivers to travel carefully with their
auto trucks will say to go right
ahead and make their trip in time
regardless of how many people you
kill as we have the ‘courts and pol
iticians’ behind us.
SENATOR BORAH CHANGES
HIS MIND; WILL RUN AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Senator
William E. Borah, of Idaho, it was
Jearned today, has changed his plans
and will not refuse to miake the race
to succeed himself this coming Spring
when his term expires.
Borah, who is a leading progressive
in the Senate, and a member of the
Judiciary committee, is considered one
of the most eloquent orators who has
graced the Halls of Congress for many
years. At the opening of the present
BUTTER, EGGS
AND POTATOES
We have in "lock the same grade
of Butter, Kggs and Potatoes that
the other stores carry und we will
sell them at the same price or less
in some cases. But, in addition to
the common grades we have exerted
our utmost to be able to offer
something better, not necessarly
cheaper. Our effort was product
ive of the following result.
BUTTER
Our Alberta pickled butter is
especially churned for us and is
made from clean, pure and whole
some pasteurized cream. In fact
other buyers must wait and go
without until our orders are filled.
The Consolidated Creamery Co.,
of Ellensburg Washington, is u co
operative institution of the farmers
of that vicinity who have success
fully marketed their products in
this way for several years and in
tills manner they have been able to
give the public as direct as possible
the best butter fresh and niunixed
at a better profit to themselves and
Jess to the consumer. Our price
per 2 pound brick $1.33.
KCKM
i
Our Hunch Kggu are all guar
anted to be not over a week old
when shipped last full. Per dozen
t>U cents.
POTATOES
Our potatoes that we are now
offering are the very latest YAKI
MA BURBANKS the Potatoes that
made the N.P.R.R.Co. Diners fam
ous for their big Potato Hake, l ull
weight crates, per crate $5.50.
A. Polet
session Borah stated that after ten
years in Washington had expired he
would be obliged to abandon political
life ini order to return to the practice
of law.
It was said today that he has been
prevailed upon by some of the most
influential men, as well as by his sup
porters in Idaho to alter hi sdecision.
He is one of the staunchest support
ers in the Senate of the present ad
ministration. His chances to succeed
himself is not doubted.
HOBOKEN, Feb.20.— Crist Beyer
71 years of age, was arrested here yes
terday, accused of having abducted
Julia Wygant a girl 14 years old, the
daughter of one of his tenants. Beyer
declared he merely regarded the girl
as a grand-daughter. He said she had
iissed him in a grand-daughterly way
aind that he had given her a diamond
ring for a birthday present. Beyer as
serts the girls mother had not made the
reduction charge in good faith. The ac
cused is wealthy.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To O. A. Clasell, Jo5.a Dahl, Wil
liam Hanson and John Lind
blom, your heirs, executors, as
signs, successors or personal re
presentatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars each
year for the years of 1906, 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 1912 1913
1914 1916 and 1916 on placer min
ing asociatlon claim known as The
Lucky three Gronp situated on
Dahl creek a tributary of tho Ko
tmk river and recorded and more
fully described in the records of
'toatak-Kobuk Mining District at
iho office at Klana, Second Division,
rorrltory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
aws concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
tired to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
’urther notified that if within ninety
lays after the last publication of
:his notice you fail to contribute
four proportion of said expenditure
four interest in said claim will be
:ome the property of the under
signed your co-owner uuder section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
states.
MICHAEL TUOHY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 29, 1918.
Dale of last publ., April 30, 1918.
“All the money in the world could
not bring back my boy to me; there
fore it was not a matter of money,
but a matter of punishing those
who deprive us of the priviledge
we pay dearly for, and if'the jury
was not prejudiced or influenced,
as I have been told by people who
wore disinterested in the case but
who heard the testimony, that under
the crcumstances the only thing
for an honest jury was to tender a
verdict against the truck owner and
compel him to instruct his drivers
to spare human lives at least, if
nothing else, while tryng to make
the trips in record-breaking time.
"It is the old story (money rules)
which pla>ed a part in this action
as the defense provided witnesses
who, it was proved, never were
near the scene of the accident; but
as my husband is only a working
man, and I need all of his earnings
to provide for my other three child
ren and ourselves, I am not in a
position to delve into the records
of these witnesses and prove that
they were a fraud, as it requires
money to do so, and I have none.
Therefore I am writing you, and
beg that you cooperate with me in
telling the residents of your bor
ough, that the poor man has no
chance whatever in New York City,
when it comes to fair play, and it is
at the risk of their lives that they
send their children out on the
streets to play. Very truly yours,
Mrs. Strauss.”
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QUES. Why do the fathers and mothers of the
United States today, worry about pay
ing their bills?
ANS. It is because they have not adopted the
right and only system.
THE CASH AND CARRY SYSTEM
SAVE HONEY SAVE TIME SAVE WORRY
The above ad wins third prize in our Cash and
Carry System contest and if the writer will call
at our store we will be pleased to present them
with a silver dollar.
P. S. Don’t forget that we are selling Folgers
best Teas at 65c per pound.
D. E. CROWLEY GROCERY CO.
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I Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
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Keep Books
So that you will be able
To make out your next
Income tax return intelligently
Begin Now
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IT IS NOT ”?
NECESSARY FOR US TO
ADVERTISE ANY PRESERVATIONS
JOB-LOT OR JUNK SALES IN
ORDER TO DIS POSE OF OUR GOODS
Thorulf Lehmann
WE HAVE THE CLEANEST STOCK
OF HIGH GRADE GROCERIES ' T
AND PROVISIONS IN ' 1
NOME, AND OUR PRICES ' »
ARE VERY CLOSE.
Anything in cue !l«e or Job work
»t the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., .next door to Segerstrom and
Hagen’s.
-ATHLETICS
BENEFIT ALL ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES
BASKET BALL
-All Stars
Nome High School vs. AH NOME
Midgets vs. Pygmeis
BASE BALL
Fort Davis vs. Sourdoughs
Boxing and Wrestling
EAGLE HALL THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21ST 8:30 P. M.
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