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The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07
PERTINENT SUGGESTIONS.

correspondent of THE NUGGET in referring to an article in recent issue of this paper relative to tho need of wagon roads and railroads in order that the mining resources of the peninsula may be developed makes some pertinent suggestions. He proposes that the amount of labor now expended in doing assess ment work mining claims shall be devoted to the building of wagon roads to the different mining dis tricts in which the claims situated, instead of on the claims themselves
 There is no doubt that system of doing assess. ment or representation work on mining claims is altogether unsatisfactory. We venture the assertion that ninety-ive per cent of the assessment work done on claims in Northwestern Alaska is utterly wa sted
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07

It is done in periunctory manner, to meet the requirements of an in sufficient law and not for the pur- pose of development work. The system in vogue, too, invites false representation and cultivates per jury. Many times we have point ed out in these columns the ease 'and facility with which assessment work is done with the aid of a pen and notary. And how is this manifest violation of law to be di- tected ? In nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of one thous- and it cannot. The records of the district court for this judicial de- vision will show how easy it is to bring cloud of witnesses to prove that alleged assessment work was actually performed. Perhaps it was; for q hole two feet square and foot or so in depth dug by man in an hour or two, is at least an evidence of good faith, if not of honest intention. At any rate our system of representing claims, as it is called, is perniciously wrong. It doesn't develop claims, and it as- sists in putting a premium on per jury. Our mining laws, especially as applied to Alaska, need refor- nation. They should be amended in the interests of the development of the territory, and to protect men from themselves. Congress and the government, ever indifferent to the needs of |, new territory, need to be reminded of the duty they owe to 1t and the people who make it.. Wrong will always prevail unless it is pointed out aud remedies sug- gesled. This is what HE NUGGET IS trying to do. We wish to see an active, intelligent interest taken in all matters that appertain to the well-beins of Alaska. This can only be done by calm discussion of the situation.
 The ground that we took that wagon roads are essential to the development of the mining re- sources of this peninsula, we be- lieve to be eminently sound. How to secure such is a question which is deserving of the closest attention. Most of Us believe in great min ing future for Northwestern Alaska. Many of us acknowledge the fact that means of securing cheap transportation facilities must be afforded before any great move ment towards development can take place. However, if we ear nestly agitate this question not in d faltering but in an honest, sin cere manner we may do much good towards securing the fruition of our hopes, and right speedily.
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Frank Buell., s. E. Heist and Fred c. Spray: You are hereby notified that I, the under signed. have caused to be perJormed work. labor and services to the value of two hundred dollars on second tier, No. ?, opposite left limit Of Cape Nome mining district, District of Alaska, for the years 1901 and 1909, and if you do not. within 20 dave from the date hereof, pay, or cause to be paid to lhe undersigned. your pro portionate share of said expenditure, as O. owners, your interests in said claim will become the property of the undersigned, under section 232i of the Revised Statutes of the United States
 Date hereof and of the first publication. Jan. 2, 1903.
 LATE SPRAY, l-3-3mS Co-owner of aforesaid parties.
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07

The NUGGET is on sale at the following towns in North Alaska where subscription, and advertisements will also be received
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The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07

NOME ALASKA. JANUARY :. 1903. Frank G. Kappe,man is the only authorized collector in
 Nome for the NOME NUGGET. The NOME NUGGET hereby guarantees circulation double the combined circulation of all other papers published in Northw estern Alaska. Advertising contracts
 will be made subject to this guarantee
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
Dated Nome, Alaska, Jan. 3. 1903.
To Dennis J. HOrgan:

To Dennis J. Horgan:
 You are hereby notified that have expended during the year 1902 one hundred dollars in work and labor upon the mining location in the Cape Nome recording district of the District of Alas ka, known and described as No. 6 below dis covery on Sanders creek, a tributary of Hast ings creek, in order to hold said claim under the provisions of section 2:i24 of the Revised Stat utes of the United States and the amendment thereto approved January 22d, 1880, concerning annual labor upon mining claims. being the amount required to be done on said location during the year ending on the 3lst day of De. cember. 1909. to hold said location, and you are hereby notified that if within ninety days after final publication of this notice you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expendi- ture as q co-oWner, your interest in the said 10. cation will become the property or the SUD. scriber, your co-owner who has made the cxpen. diture required by the terms of said section 2324 of the Revised Statutes, and the said amend ment thereto.
 Date of first publication Junuary :. 1903.
 Date of last publication April s. 1903.
 OLE STENFJELD.
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07

An old Sour Dough suggests that to the Alaska Academy of Scien- ces" be assigned the task of locat- ing the Japan current, which evi- dently has Skipped cog"
The Nome nugget., 1903-01-07

II am going to help out the law yers," said . man on New Years eve, as he shouldered bundle of stakes, and started tundraward.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26

necessary to pay the high freight charges
1on the long haul to the Atlantic states.
The rich of the east may dream of Per-
Fines fruits, but they are no more to be
had than the apples Of the Hesperides.
Senator Ciark's Falls.
One other man has seen the advantage
of pre-empting land in this canyon, name
ly, Senator William A. Clark of Montana
who is the proprietor Of the Shoshone
falls, well named the Niagara Of the
West On both sides of the falls the
land has been acquired under the home
stead act, and is now the property of the
beauty the falls may we'll be compared
with Niagara. The fall Is so feet higher,
and the setting is more picturesque tho
the amount Of water going over the fall
is less Some day a railroad will be run
to the falls, and then the world will pay
tribute to Senator Clark to see one of the
earth's grandest spectacles.
Even before the tourists have arrived
have come the advance guard Of the indus
trial hosts. The Shoshone falls, still al
most unknown to the sightseeing world,
are being harnessed to make electricity.
Already the engineers are at work to turn
part of the water thru a turbine which
will generate 10000 horse power, which
enormous energy Is to be transmitted $50
miles to Salt Lake City, in which vicinity
it is to be used to run street cars and
operate mines
In order to see the Shoshone falls it is
necessary now to take stage ride of 80
miles and back across the sage brush
desert, and to do some foot climbing which
would be difficult for a person not strong
and we'll. -
" + JTY
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
GOOD FLIES FOR BASS.
Fish VIII Rise Readily Now to This Kind
Of Bait

OF Bdlt.
On September waters which run swiftly
over shallow places and have deep pools
here and there the angler for black bass
may, If he chooses discard all bait lures,
from frogs to bare spoons, and use only
artificial flies. The fish rise readily now
to the proper fly, and certainly in all
than a fight with a black bass of three
pounds hooked well and handled with a
fly rod
The angler is, however, restricted In his
choice of flies In spring and summer
fishing there is the hard and-fast rule Of
light flies for dark days, and vice versa
but in the fall none Of the drabs or dull
grays or whites and blacks, seem to be
effective. Only flies with strong dash Of
crimson are good. and the feathers to go
with the crimson must be either light gray
or strong brown.
There is a fly. tried by western anna
teur and unnamed which will catch more
bass In September from rapid water than
any one of the standards. 1t consists only
Of feathers of a red brown, with black
tips tied to form the upper part of the
body and the wings. The under part Of
demarcation between the feathers is
plain.
When dry this fly resembles late in
sect with red belly. When wet it is
much like variety Of bucktail and the
bucktail has been noted bass lure for
more than fifty years.
The brown and scarlet fly is used plain
ly, or If the fish are disinclined to it. a
small gold No. i spoon is mounted on wire
just ahead of it. In one form or the other
it is sure killer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
New Patents.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 5-(speciaD-
The following patents were issued this
week to Minnesota and Dakota inventors,
as reported by Williamson & Merchant,
patent attorneys, 925-933 Guaranty Loan
Building, Minneapolis, Mimi: c. j. Albee,
Whiterock S. D., portable and revolving
whip stand e. C. Bisbee, Minneapolis,
two patents oll-cake forming apparatus
and oil cake stripping machine; Jared
Burton, Wheaton, Mimi, blanket holding
attachment for vehicles; Thos. Forstner,
New U1m, Mimi, snap hook; J. H. Gress-
ON, Minneapolis, Mimi, wagon stake
standard; P. s. Houghton, Grand Forks,
N. D., threshing machine attachment;
Fred c. Johnson, Cloquet Mimi, luggage
carrier for bicycles; Max Leveson, Scot
land. 8. D., insect trap; Louis Mayer,
Mankato, Mimi, friction-cmtch;. w. L.
McComb, Window, Mimi, umbrella; M.
Mcdonald Benson, Mimi, harrow; D.
Melcher, Bonesteel, S. D., attachment for
trlp-hammers; c. c. Mumm. Minnea polls
book file; G. =. Wendt, Canton, s. D., bar
Der chair attachment; Albert F. Wood,
Snoma, s. D., tie plate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
SHOOTING THE PL0VER
Birds Can Be Easily Approached by
Wagon, But Are Shy of
Pedestrians.

The shooting of upland plover, whether
the birds be the slender yelloW-legged
variety, the great golden plover or the
dowitcher, is sport In itself different
from all other forms Of field shooting.
1t is characteristic Of all members Of
the plover family to be desperately afraid
Of man on foot and not at all afraid
Of man on horseback or in vehicle.
Consequently the gunner who pursues
them on foot will have an arduous chase
Of it. He who hunts them from a light
cart or buggy will have all the shooting
he can attend to and will be put to very
little trouble.
Plover feeding upon pasture will permit
horse between shafts to approach within
If hunted on foot it becomes one Of the
wariest and hardest sorts of game.
A man will need then a twelve-gauge
Of good weight and both barrels closely
checked. His shot should be No. 6 chilled
on top of three stiff wads over three and
a half drains Of powder. What he wants
Is reaching capacity and shocking capacity
when 1t reaches. His birds will flush at
an average Of forty yards away.
While the plover is of broad wing and
slow pinion movement, it rushes or slides
thru the air a great deal faster than it
seems to be going, and when it has forty
yards the start a quick and shot is
nceueu W DIlH6 IL uOWH. WIN Lne DlrQ
flushing at that. distance the man must
get his muzzle on the target we'll inside
Of two seconds or he will not bag any
thing. .l
1t is another characteristic Of the plover
to decoy we'll flock at an elevation of
800 feet will see a band of decoys on the
pasture land when they would be invisi-
BILE to a mani7using strong glass, and If
other conditions be favorable. will come
sweeping in. The man will be shelfered
behind a hastily constructed blind, low
and inconspicuous, or else will be lying
fiat on the earth, rising and shooting as
| the birds go by - -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
IOWA GAINS BEEF
Three HeavyWeghts Added to the Squad
This Week,

Three HeavyWelghts Added to the Squad
This Week.
Iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 26.-The State
University of Iowa football season opened
here to-day, but the eleven that lined up
against Cornell college is not necessarily
the team that will represent the univer-
sity In any subsequent game. Coach
Chalmers and Captain Coulthard made
that point clear this morning. Both de-
clared that the lineup was purely tenta-
tive, and that the team would be changed
, from time to time, in accordance with the
merits of the various candidates. No man
may consider himself a fixture during this
seasons experiments, the coach averred.
AS soon as any player shows himself more
worthy Of a position on the eleven than
a present incumbent, he will be given
that post. no matter whom he displaces.
With this announcement, the coach
hopes to inspire the men to continual ef-
fort, for he feels that he is building up an
entirely new eleven.
The prospects for good team at Iowa
are brighter this week than last, how
| ever, by fully SO per cent This is due
to the arrival of at least three men, who
will contribute the long prayed for ele-
ment Of beef to the squad.
The candidates up to date have been
very fast, but they have lacked weight.
The coming of Reed, Swain and Arnold
has been a boon to the bunch" Reed
weighs PIP pounds and has had considera-
BILE experience in minor Iowa schools. His
work at guard looks git-edged. Swain is
la Wilton Junction, Iowa, high-school
graduate. He, is % years of age and he
seems to be aayoung Hercules, with his
225 pounds and 72 inches. He is playing
brilliantly at tackle. Arnold is showing
up well at tackle, and he uses his 1913
pounds of humanity effectively. He is a
sophomore dental student, but has not
tried for the team before.
The schedule of the season, officially
announced to-day, is as follows:
Sept. 26-Cornell College at ........ Iowa City
Sept. 20-Coe College at ........... Iowa City
Oct. 3-State Normal at Iowa City
Oct. 10-Drake University at ............
oct. I'M Minnesota at. ............ minneapolis
| Oct. A-Grinnell at ............ Grinnel
Oct. 3l-Nebraska at ............ Iowa CITY
! Nov. 6-Simpson College at ........ Iowa City
Nov 14-University of Missouri at. Columbia
| Nov. 21-Illinos Mt ............... Iowa City
Nov. 26-Washington University at. st. Louis
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
SMALL DEALERS SUFFER
Strikes and Resultant Money Strin-
gency Hurt Their Business.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Sept. 2e.-Following an ex-
tended inquiry In the great centers of
population on the east and west sides of
Manhattan borough Of this city, where
thousands Of toilers reside, it is announced
that the summer strikes have brought
deprivation and want to many workers
and seriously injured the trade of the
small shopkeepers.
During the summer there had been
many protests against the condition OF
trade, owing perhaps to the fact that last
summer was exceptional in the matter OF
weather and business therefore was not
Of normal character. But the quest de-
veloped the information that on both sides
of the city the strikes which have called
a halt in the construction of many build
ings and left members dependent upon
their unions for support, have played
havoc with the trade OF the small deal
ers. .
In the list of small dealers are to he
found the butcher, the baker, the tobac-
conist, the dry goods dealer, the drug
gist and the keepers of ,laundrfes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
FINE SPORT AT HARVARD
Practice Game as Good as the "ReaI


Harvard's practice yesterday was al
most as interesting az a real game. Don
NicholsI with fine interference, formed by
Marshall and Schotkopf, circled around
the entire second eleven and made a
touchdown. Captain Marshall made a
pretty lodging run Of twenty yards thru
the second team. In every way the en-
tire eleven men worked together. The
linemen were constantly helping the run
ners along, and they drew forth frequent
applause from the spectators for their I'M
usual activity. In the scrimmage the var
sity gained at will all but once. when the
second eleven forced it to punt. Schot
kopf was again at right back on the var
sity. He received the kickoff after the
touchdown and ran the ball in forty five
yards behind a frst-class interference.
Captain Marshall was at quarterback for
the greater part of the game. He handled
the team ably again. He kicked the goal
after the touchdown
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
PARIS IS AROUSED
Doesn't Like Americas Filtration
With King Menelilx

Paris. Sept 26.-United States Consu,
SINNERS departure frem aMarseiIes for
Abyssinia has caused great uneasiness in
political and industrial circles here. Skin
ner's mission is believed to have some
connection with thef undertaking Of W. III
Ellis of New York, whip set out for Adds
Abeba last week loaded with present for
the Negus and his empress. Ellis frankly
confessed that he was backed by Ameri.
can millions and that the object of his
journey was to develop the resources OF
Abyssinia, which will extend unlimited
credit to the Ethiopian monarch.
Z Beyond the fact that it is a business
venture, the foreign office here processes
to see no significance in this movement
put 1t displays some slight irritation over
the attention the affair is creating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
WRONG MEN GOT LUNCH
Soup Meant for Railroad President
Is Stopped by Two Directors
of the Road.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Philadelphia, Sept. 26.-Dignifed direc-
tors Of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany yesterday had an encounter with a
waiter who was bringing President Cassatt
his luncheon in the office building and
came out second best.
The waiter rushed around corner of
the hallway carrying a tureen Of soup.
He did not calculate upon the broad
shouldered man who had buttonholed N.
Parker Shortridge and Effingham B. Nor
ris.
The tureen and the broad shoulder met,
and miniature Niagara of pale green
liquid was showered over the Well
groomed front Of Mr.. Shortridge and be-
spattered the garb of Mr.. Morris. Mr..
Morris laughed, but Mr.. Shortridge could
not see the joke. Second Vice President
Pugh finally came to their rescue and car
ried them away to his private office to
spruce up.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
Relation Of Diet to Progress.

Ancient and modern history both show
that 1t is the people with big appetites
that inherit the earth. In the struggle
for supremacy, the ascetic goes under.
It is interesting to note that the people OF
this country pay more for their daily food
than those of any other nation. The ma
ture OF the food eaten has also striking
relation to national character and for this
reason the sooner golden grain belt beer
is used in every American home, the SOON
er America will have the strongest men
and women in the world. This delicious
tonic furnishes the! strength OF bread and
meat in liquid form.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
vANDEReooM PASSED.
Gets Thru Law Exam at Wisconsin "U'
and Into Football,

Reports from Madison indicate that no
stone will be left unturned at the univer-
sity to give Wisconsin winning football
team. The acquisition of Balm, former
player on the Haskell Indian school team
and Vanderboom disclose interesting facts.
Balm Is a strong player, but not particu-
larly ambitious as student. Wisconsin
needed him, however, and in order to oh
tain his services on the gridiron the ath-
1etic management employed him to lay
out second football field at Camp Randall
during the summer.
Vanderbooms prowess on the football
field is we'll known but as a student he is
not brilliant success. Even Wisconsin
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26

refused to let him train for the football
season until several deficiencies were
worked off. This looked far off and Coach
Artie Curtiss was in despair. He had a
conference with Dean Harry Richards of
the law school and it was arranged to give
the burly Vanderboom a private oral ex-
animation in which he passed" with high
honors. Dean Harry Richards Is now the
most popular man at the university and
interest In football has been given great
impetus.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
BADGERS CRITICIZE.
They Don't Like Way SakagamI Was
Treated In Minneapolis.

Wisconsin university from top to bot
tom resents the dismissal of Sakagami,
as the trainer for the Minnesota football
squad as an lmputation that his former
connections with the university made him
the object of suspicion, It Is stoutly as
serted that he is innocently punished.
That he was favorite of Trainer Kill
patrick is not denied, but he was a gen.
eral favorite at the university and any
time that he goes back he will be received
with open arms by the whole student
body
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
COMING WEST
Rev. Mr.. Miller to Take Professor
ship in Wahpeton GU

Boston, Sept. 26-Rev. r. B. Miller,
pastor Of the Newton Upper Falls Meth
odist church, has accepted a call to the
chair Of Biblical literature in the Red
River Valley university at Wahpeton, N
u. He will leave Tuesday for his new
field, accompanied by his family. Dr..
Miller is a native Of Ohio and is So years
old. He was graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan university and the Boston uni
versity theological school,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
Phil King at Princeton.

The Tigers had hard practice yesterday.
The coaches devoted much more time to ind-
vidual playing than usual, and were aided by
Phil King, 1913, formerly head coach of Wiscon-
sin university The varsity scored a touch
down and kicked goal from the field in a short
game with the scrubs, but the team work of the
first eleven was very ragged and fumbling was
frequent
Two men got trials on the varsity yesterday
for the first time. These We're Daube Of Hill
school, and Cooney of Exeter, both tackles. The
new men showed up fairly we'll, but will need
plenty of training to get them to the varsity
mark.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
Should Have Been Called Off.


Huron s. D., Sept 26.-The dispute over the
disposition Of purse won in horse race during
the Central South Dakota fair, has been settled.
The race was won by horse owned by Hilo
Booth The purse was $500, five horses to enter,
three to start. When the race was called only
two horses upon the track, taking first
and second money. 1t was question as to
whether the purse should be paid, and the Sec
Trotting association giving statement of the
facts. and In reply received letter stating that
the fair association was not held for the purse,
the conditions were not filled, and should
have called the race off; that it was pulled of
in violation Of the conditions governing the
state.