The Nome nugget., 1903-05-20
FROM THE
 OUTSIDE Letter From a Former
 Nome Man. WHY ALASKANS LIE Asked So Many Questions That They Are Driven Almost to
 Desperation.
WHY ALASKANS LIE

HE NUGGET is in receipt of t news letter from Allen K Grant. tolmrl one of it's employees, which touches on many matters of interest to Nome folks. Mir. Grant spent most oi tn, past winter at his old home in Detroit Among other things, he writes:
 ''While in Chicago 1 was accosted by Mr. Thomas D. Cashei. He oaAs he does not think he will return to Nome this year. He is evidently traveling for some railroad company, or he carried, good over various rallruad lines. While 1 was talking with Ca,hel, Otto Lonsturtf came along, shook hands W tn Us and said he Wa, just leaving tor Germany. Otto told me that Judge Du Bose, Judge stevens and Judge Shepherd were stopping in Chicago.
 "lro>perity seems to be the order ou the outside. This is particularly mo- ticeable in the papers, all of which seem to carry an immense amount of advertising matter. Take, for instance, today's Minneapolis Tribune. which printed d paper of eighty pages. It was special ,dit!on. oi course, but it indicates great deal. to my mind. Then, again, there is lack of tacil- lties to handle freight in different parts of the country, especially to handle coal from the east and tloul from the west, and the Great North ern road has put on an extra flyer each way from St. Paul and Seattle tC handle the passenger traffic.
 Adam Johnson came down on the Nome City last fall and saw his wife and her mother in Seattle. l don't re- member seeing Adam on the boat until we had got fairly started.
 'Coming down on the boat the Arc tic Brotherhood as a body had social session, and then again there were several individual social sessions When we arrived at Seattle, the night after, all of the A. B. $ got togetht and held a sort of jolliicatlon, having a big crab feed. beer, cigars etc at the hotel. Judge Ferguson, Dick Ryan, Judge Shepherd, Morton Stevens. Il. M. Miller, Judge Blackett, Tom smell and about dozen others were present. At this meeting a committee was ap- pointed to take steps looking to the establishing of some sort If headquart t. CTS for the A. B. $ al Seattle.
 Up to the present lime l have net heard muc" news from lh, uur!H- in fact the only thing 'ha' have -c'H |. the newspapers is hat ther. ha, been anOthe big strike on the ;ahd'.1, ulll of course you kl,nw al about i; h, Iii, time.
 "The outside is all right, but, Il, a matter of fact I am again long ing fer the inside and will be quite conteul to start back again for the north and think have felt the cold ust d, n.uyh in Chicago ana Mlnnear"'i- lHtriy d. did up there.
 Say, I am tired. awful tired. an swering questions thatvvery Tom, Dick and Harry asks me about A a,ka-- uch personal, n"nSen,ical. aamphOol ques- tions that they ask--it is enough to drive one tu desperation. Aud uust say that sonnet me, think that this is l the main reason for so many Alaskane | turning out to he such munulncnlal liars when they -et on the outside. They are pe>tered to death. not only | by newspaper reporters, anu 1 think that the A Iaskan in order to get rid oi | them just fills them up on the frs, thing that comes into his mind.' Wall Paper. Nome tracing '".