The Nome nugget., 1903-03-21
FROM THE
 OUTSIDE RersOnal and Other In. terestiilg News.
NOVELTIES lN'FREcu
And How They Are Spending the Winter--PrOsperOus Times
 In the. States.

THE NUGGET is in receipt of a mum Der of interesting letters from Nome men now on the outside, and the follow ing extracts are from some of the com municationS:
 J. T. Murphy under date of Dec. 27. says" "Jafet Lindeberg is stopping at the-Palaoe hotel and is looking fine. He called on me d few days ago. There are number of Nome people here, and some have gone east. Among those here are Till Price and wife, Frank Price and wife. Walter Soderberg, Flu gene Chilberg and Gerald O'Shea, of the Hot Air Co.. Billy ChenOwith, A. F. Garber.. Joe and Bob Larios, Judge FeAton, Judge Nudd, Stewart Cai ter, Margaret Carroll, Mollie Courtney and several others. Among those who have gone east. are: Edward McG. tt gan,, Al Munphy, Tom Nestor and Tom Shell. Diok Dawson was here but | have not st on him for some weeks past
 "Times are better all oyer the coast tlian,l.ever saw them before. Every body seems to be busy and making money. Wages are high and work is plentiful. This is a deligh ful winter in this,state. Tom Shell said he never wa- in,;t country Def ,e W here they had >umn T. in Dcceu.brr Of cuur,e you know WV al eej !"r you leopl a"ay up there in cod storage, N hiie we are enio, ing summer here.
 "I.in bl >um seli5ed V t. his wife for $lG5.0JJ in money and property and they will br divurced.as soon as he gets backs from Mexico."
 B. L.. Faust, of Shamokin. Pa.,. says: How l envy you up there.. | don't like our peculiar weathen. We have had several big snow storms; the first came Nov. 30, and then thaw, and then another snow, and so it goes, until l swear that. Alaska has the finest eli mate on earth.
 Jas. R. Ivory. under date of Dec. 30, writing from San Francisco. says. "I am going to Chicago next week to meet parties who think might be induced to invest some capital in Alaska. If had some good property l would have no difficulty in placing it to advantage. y
 H. H. Clark, one of the owners of the Snow guluch quartz mine, who is also in San Francisco, writes under date of Dec. 29, as follows: "I am sitting in an open window in shirt sleeves writing this at S,a. m. There is d big crowd of Nome people here, among them Price and Tremper, J. D. Leedy, Humbolt Gates and Dick Dawson. Col. D. H. Jackson andi son, Clyde, have made their fortune in Tonopah, as have many others. Times are exceedingly good in the States"
 J. $. Wheeler writing from Seattle Dec. 3l last says; 'Aside from the Ven. ezuelan controversy and the decision of the president of the United states not to act as arbiter as requested by the powers concerned, there is little going on. The weather is miserable, rain, rain all the time: no cold or snow. so far. While many of those who came ou, fn m. Nome intend going back, one hs-ren0tle of Nome, and you may be sure that there will not be any grea, rush this coming season. Those going will be interested ones.
 II have it on good authority that the ground on Anvil creek, claimed to have t,een misrepresented by McArthur ir Ms Gadd d, al has been taken over by the Pioneer Mining Co. Gadd ha: gone to Europe. There is long story to this whole matter. I met persona acquaintances of Gadd's who allege that instead of being rich, he was ar ord ,nal y employe in Butte up to the V.sahl hat he went to' None, and was D. ( up to few week. age, with his brother. They made q 'raise' in some way and were sent to England by some parties in New York. The cue whs was in Nome sold q good deal Of stock in these same clam It was r"pre sentrd that $l6.O had been taken ou of the ground in short time. They are pretty slick chaps.
 ''Valdes seems to b. the place talked of and many are going there,, and iron alpI can h, ar people will bs sadly dis appointed, which Will result to tht benefit of Nome. Many of those wht came out from Nome wish they had re mained. Everything here is overdon, and competition is keen"