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SPECIAL NOME NEWS.
LaN*st N«ws From Tilt* Coast Metropolis
N. C. Co. Robbed Of Seal skins--*A
Tragedy at Chiuik-OUl Ham par ter*
The follow!.tg news items from
Kome are taken from the Gold i)ig
ger, copies of wiiicu was received
tais week.
Oct. 16. Mrs. B leu Bradley, a
nurse, was robbed on the sandspit
yesterday.' ; She left a bag cantain
iug ${50 in her trunk. After a few
hours’ abseuce from her quarters,
sne returned to find that the bag
•-old contents had disappeared.
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Harry Leonard, of the Raymond
/ Cate, shipped out Friday, leaving a
string of creditors.
•Robert O’Shea, well known in
Alaska, and who has conducted a
store at Greyling, on the Yukon,
Las disappeared in Seattle.
O’Sliea-teft here last September
with $30,000 in his possession.
Murder ii suspected.
Commissioner R. N. Stevens and
his collaborator Aicliie K. Wheel
er had their official heads lopped
off Monday afternoon by Judge
Wiekersbam. T. M. Reed is the
new commissioner.
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The N. C. Co. has had its usual!
fall robbery. ^This time it was not I
gold dust, but exquisite sealskins ;
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which .were intended to grace, the
forms of some of the members of;
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Nome’s Four Hundred. It is un
derstood that three sealskin sac-'
ones, valued at $1000, were stolen j
Pfrom the stock, and that they were j
taken out of the country on the
last trip of the St. Paul. Harry
Hoyle and several others are now
supposed to be implicated in the
robbery. - I
Get. 23. Yesterday was get a
vvay day in Nome, among the
many who left were Tex Rickards
who goes to Texas, and intends to
open a wholesale liquor hou.^e in
Seattle; Chas. Hoxie who will win
at Portland, and will return next
spring, and Dick Dawson bound
for Nevada with the Intention of
going into business somewhere a
long the line of the new railroad.
A tragedy oecui red at the Dex
ter House at Chinik. *A man nam
ed Beale cut his wife's throat with
a razor. A J. Beecher attracted
by the woman’s screams, rushed in
and shot and fatally woutided Beale
in order to save the woman’s life.
Dr. Lund took forty-nine stitches
in hef neck, thejngular vein being
cut. The woman will recover, but
the man will die.
An army of stowaways surround
ed the Queen and put up a hand to
hand fight with the crew and offic
ers of the steamer. .Only six were
finally caught and put ashore, and
three of them were boys.
Brooklyn Bridge is Unsafe.
Kdward Duryea and Joseph
Mayer experts appointed to exam
ine the Brooklyn bridge as a resnlt
of the recent collapse, have report
ed that the structure is now loaded
to its extreme capacity and a few
more tons will render it unsafe.
The report calls for $1,000,000
needed for repairs. The outside
truss needs to be replaced with a
'new truss. * Rust has eaten into
many parts and these must be re
placed. Ex. !
JUDGE WICKERSHAl
1m VV inning Goldeu Opiuions at Noun .
Restoring Order Out of l-haos-An
Appreciative Public Want Him.
The Nome Gold Digger of recent
date prints the following eulogy on
Judge Wickersham, in its editorial
columns. The Forum reprints the
article in full, believing it to be a
well earned token of appreciation;
borne out by the career of Judge
Wickersham while on the bench in
this division, and where there is
yet to be heard the first criticism on
any act of his while occupying
that position.
Judge Wickersham has done more
for the people of Nome and the dis
trict in the last few weeks than
any man who has ever held a pos
ition of public trust in Alaska. The
first greatest possible good he could
do the people was to restore confi
dence and in a few short days he
has accomplished that herculean
task, and in such a way that all
classes of people are loud in sound
ing his praises. A task before him
that would have discouraged the
bravest man he set to work to bring
order out of chaos, to build up the
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fences which Judge Noyes had des
troyed, and in ‘so doing to secure
the entire confidence of the people.
This he has succeeded in doing and
everyone realizes what a great blow
it would be to Nome if Judg^ Wio’.. -
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ersliam be recalled.