The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-22

diu:r- house broom.
Ice is cents Per pound. coal So rcr ton.
new potatoes 20 cents per pound. -four g per
l'.'. butter :. prr pound. :: bottle Of ink. SlCh
as j. sold I'm tho states for cents = cents;
lumber Sl-3 per !."" feet. a one-pOUad can -:
tomatoes - cents. and bacon ~ cents per
pound. Fifty cents IS charged for a shave
and 81 for cutting hair
had Even Tor Oficch oIdrrS-
Former Governor McGraw. who is a Seat
tie !awyer and who came here for the pur-
pose Of accepting the position OF United
states Commissioner hG' decided 10 return
to Seattle after looking over the situation,
told me that $50 per month rent was de
maDfed "f him for a small room in a frame
shauty in which To establish his Office
Il did not come 10 Nome 10 rob myself
10 said 70 me when describing the CircIrn-
stances later Mr.. McGraw Is mining man
of wide experience and made much money
IN the kloudike region several years ago by
the sale OF mines.
This place i tremendously overdone." he
said For every twenty persons who are
here now there should not he more than one
Nothing in Nome jUstifios the Wild rush
wlion has taken place there from all parts
Of III. United States and the holstering UP
-; prices Tor everything in this camp Is
without reason" He returned 20 Seattle
last week.
Claim jumping.
Instances Of financial disaster which has
oyCrtakon many Eastern men and concerns
who cam" here for the purpose Of working
the claims having heen bought last winter
from q horde OF Nome men who Invaded the
East teDklN. Tor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 10
cUmUl4te. The manager Of one of these COM
pauies which has a faEciful name and an
imposing office in Lower Broadway, New
Work. with 4 number OF excellent New York
business names among it's lisr of directors.
admitted to M. yester' ,ay that his company
had bought from one individual who visited
New York during the winter one claim alone
viii N had been Jumped three times
This man who did the third jumping ste
C.csi,d in getting S21.HG for il from the
couriding New Workers. whose names. if
gave them. would be sufficient 10 cause tie
greatest surprise that such ordinarily
>hr.wG business mon should have been 81
easily INDUCED 10 buy Nome gold bricks.
Another instance is that of a man t."ri
Salt lake city. who bought thlrty-iive
chin.rv with which in the innocence of his
heart. h. imagined he could SCrape the
tundra by means of piows without the
slightest dif'ic ,Ilty. He had also bought q
number Of claims. Until he arrived he.e he
was one ~ the most enthusiastic admirers
Of Nome godminrg camp. and
strongly resented any reflection upon its
richness and attrIC;.verosS. \ couple Of
days was sufficient 10 satisfy him that his
investment was "a dead loss.
The tundra is frozen To depth of forty
on" foot below the surface. and probably
has been in this condition TO- ages. When
cNcsvatei and exposed 20 the SUMS rays
the thawiuC accomplished amounts to Tra.-
i.cdlly nothing in this land. where the rays
Of the not frequently seen. and
even when in evidence DO not give anything
Ike such heat as i'm the States.
The man from Salt Lake now finds him
self with large outfit on his hands and Il