Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-27

very doubtful if there will be any in
crease during the summer. Consider
ing the expense and the shortness of
the season, this is hardly enough to
justify man in coming up here to
work for wages. A man having
steady work in the States at So per
day is better off where he is.
The new Nome City water.works
are now under construction and will
be completed in about a month.
This will supply the town with pure
water from Moonlight Greek, little
tributary to Anvil Creek, about six
miles out from town. The promoters
of the scheme are DR.. Lane and the
Pioneer Mining Company. The pipe
is made of redwood slaves, heavily
banded and laid on top of the ground
uncovered. At present the water sys-
tenn of Nome City consists of a num-
Der of pumps stationed at certain
points in the city, where water is sold
at 5 cents per bucket.
DIR. C. ID. Lane will shortly COM
mence the construction of a narrow
gauge railroad to run over the tundra
out to his claims on Anvil Creek.
The distance is six or seven miles,
over an easy grade.
Great complaint is heard every day
about the postoffice facilities at Nome.
They are entirely inadequate for
town of this size. If you want to get
your mail you have to take day off
from your work Gf you have any,
bring lunch along with you and place
yourself in the rear end of line half
mile long. Then if your patience
don't give out you will get there some
time in the afternoon. No blame,
however, is attached to the postmas-
ter, as he is doing everything in his
power to facilitate the service with the
means at hand. A night shift of
clerks is employed and the Office is
Kept open till II o'clock at night. A
free delivery is established for the
business part of town. heard yester-
day that large new postoffice is to he
constructed at once.
1t is feared that Nome City will be
an exceedingly unhealthy place this
summer, no sanitation or drainage
whatever being provided for. Several
cases of smallpox and typhoid fever
are already on record. If no proper
sanitary provisions are made for the
town the situation is likely to become
very serious later on when the rain
sets in.
Like all wild, woolly mining towns,
Nome abounds in places where the
fool and his money part company.
You will find all the modern devices
for fleeing the prodigal miner, from
the tinhorn games and two-bits.in-the-
slot machines to the sirens who will
work you for drinks at 81 apiece. And
the miner, rough, ready and generous,
as he always is, is easy game every
time. 1t is surprising to see how anx.
ious some people are to get rid of their
money, apparently just as much so as
others are to make it. The other
night when / took a trip around to
some of the principal saloons, l found
in one OF them six drunks slowed away
in the corners and on the music stand,
reminding one of a miniature battle
field. They were surely having a rat
tling good time and they were entitled
to it, for they had paid dearly for it.
If you walk through the streets of
Nome of an early morning you may
see dozens of these human beasts scat
tered around on the sidewalks, lean.
ing up against beer-barrels, grocery
boxes or anything. Nobody pays any
attention to them. Everybody is busy
attending TO his own affairs. Who
are going to help such people? No
body, for they don't want to be helped.
A dirty. half-finished, gold-intoxi.
Gated, "get up and grab" harum-
scarum town-this is Nome City at
the present time. Some day a fire
will come along and wipe this whole
Babel off the earth and then better,
healthier, neater and more substantial
town will be built in its place, which
will be filter for man and beast to live
in.
EMIL KoPFELMErER, rich old
miser of Albany, who died recently OF
starvation, left 100000, which was
found in gunnysack hidden between
a couple of straw ticks on which he
slept. He had affiliated with the Re-
publican and Democratic parties alter.
nately, during his life. but was always
turned down by each. In his will
which was found in the gunnysack, he
left the money to be divided equally
hetween the Renublic8n and Demo