The Nome nugget., 1903-04-01

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 ming. He was pledged to no man to support him for office, but would vote for the man who would give tho best service.
 Josh Mcintyre wa, glad to, see such a l'nire bunch of candidates. The spit
 had never received anything: they had
 tried to get free bridge but the council has stalled them every time. ! The people had offered to furnished tho scows fer bridge last summer, if the
 city would furnish man, but Capt. ! Geigcr was there with the goods and '+hev gnt nothing. Geiger was the best man in the council hut he had done nothing for the spit
 Councilman Archer made Il neat
 speech: he said conditions had changed and radical change, were necessary, and he made q brief resume of the fin
 ancial condition of the town; salaries
 should be cut. and fewer officials em- I ployed. Another important matter was ! the probable visit of d congressional committee. and they should he told in telligently of the needs of Nome and this section. Money raised by taxa tiOn in Alaska should be spent in money outside. He believed that each | pQrton of the city should be made
 easily accessible to every other part.
 Capt. Storey said that if elected he would try and run the schools as econo-
 micalIy as possible, ,.and J. F.. t.ul said he favored free bridge, Il night school
 and school money for the city. Dr. Gall followed. He said in the 1 future, as in the past, he would always ! do hi~ best tor the maintenance of good schools and for the city's interest. He 1 thought that this year the revenues [ being the same, $6,0o0 or 5000 would
 be available for the city. Lately he had received an anonymous communi-
 cation in>tru"ting him as to hls duties. 1 i1e had lived in Alaska Is years and he thought it strange that he should be the rocepient of such a communication.
 W. H. Bard -uid he reiterated every
 thin. said previously at other meet ings. and would cndcavor to fulfill every promise he had made. John Rust gard was recalled and he stated that the people of the sandspit would have q free bridge. cor down zoe, the bridge. There would never be any
 more need of the people paying toll,
 uules, they did it for charity. Mr. Rust gard meant that the present
 bridge could not be maintained d, d
 toll bridge.
 Judge McNulty made ringing speech. He scored those candidates who only secured office for the sole req son that they could send their news paper nome to show that they were in 1 the city council" remark that was
 received with q roar of applause.
 Good fellows. fine. looking fellows, ' 1 he said must give way to men who
 could transact business. He also SCOT
 ed the council for their executive
 meetin.s,' known only to the |. s.
 Senate and the Nome city council. It
 was d public scandal that the revenue
 of the city was S30, GOO, and there was
 an indebtedness of S::J, GOO: it was inn
 moral: the money had been absorbed 1 by salaries.
 1 !. l.. l'id"cOn made q practical
 speech, in which he said he was un- 1 pledged and if elected, would do his duty. W. r.. Dean made brief but good speech the second in his life he said. He was in the saloon business. and unlike his friend Hoxsie. he had made little money and he had invest
 ed it here. He would do his duty by
 every part of the city if elected.
 Miner Bruce also spoke briefly. giv | ing several of the candidates dose of tatiy; the Grave Digger he intimated had dug 9 political grave, probably meaning Stevens: Doc. Hill would be
 the brains of the new council: HOXsie
 would go Tn and everybody would vote
 for Billy Bard. He wanted clean
 sweep.
 Geo. D. Schotield made an excellent 1 speech in which lie reviewed the finan-
 cial conditions of the town, and offered
 some practical ideas for their better | meDt.
 \ report which has been going the
 rounds is to the effect that w. E. Good
 rich has withdrawn from the race for
 the council. The report is absolutely
 unfounded and was no doubt started by
 some interested party or parties to in | jure Alr. GoOdrich's candidacy.
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