The Nome nugget., 1903-02-07
FROM THE
 KOTzEBUE. An Interesting Budget
 of News. NO N0ATAK STRIKE. About Seventy.Fiye Men Winter ing on the SeIawik
 and NOatak.
NO NoA1AK STRIKE

Friends Mission, Cape Blossom, Jan. 16.-We were very glad indeed to re- ceive a file of your paper, sent by whom we know not, but presumably by thy- self. This was the first newspaper we have seen since the latter part of Sep tember. We note with pleasure your commendable stand against those Vile wretches who for few miserable dol lars sell liquor to the Eskimo. There is very little of that defaming trade carried on up here, none at all in the immediate vicinity of the mission, but we hear of some mscalled men who are selling whiskey to natives on hoouk river, Those natives here who do not drink intoxicating liquors are peacetul and altogether harmless, yet we are told that whiskey changes them into murderous devils. How unfortunate that such murIerous instincts are not always turned against those who gave them the vile stuff. instead of as some times occurs, their best friends.
 There is little to record of happenings here that would interest the outside world. noticed a statement in your paper last fall. an interview rather with some man who had been here. Mir Keene I believe, who stated that a strike had been made up the Noalak. and that l50 men were stampeding up there. No one about here ever heard q. sny strike. no claims were filed at the recorders office here. Not a single man who has been up the Noatak re .urred there. and only fifteen men all told wen; up he NoataG during the SetSor. Late iu the season a steamer caF-vins ,he Williams party seven rec and cwo women went up the No a:ak. and heari they were about a mile. ID river. The Agnes Boyd steam a- reoy.e. Lind bloom. Lloyd and others vec. ID The kJbls river and then c-c~sa3 ;de divide 70 the headwaters of .he Noatas. Personally l do not be- lieve suyt1tag has oe-1 t0lUd on any river here 70 wlrrIc- acy stampede. thous1 some Ire going from Caad!e via SeIaEis river Co 1as headwaters oi the Kubuk river AsI, -5 men are wiuteriug ou the three rivers, kobuk, Seawik and Eoa,aE.
 There have been no deaths of white men that We know of and no severe cases of freezing so far. Two natives going from here across the channel were frozen to death Dec. 27th, an aged woman and grandchild. The latter was one of the brightest scholars in our school. Nine whites are winterng hero at the mission. MT. Frost. the min ing recorder and his wife. Baker and r1cCamant, Captain Wentworth and MT. Weston, together with three mis sionaries.
 The culdest weather registered h, our government thermometer was 5 below. We hear of much lower record. about, but always registered by cheal unreliable thermometers.
 Natives about the mission will proh ably have sufficient supply ot food tt last through the winter Mir. Chas D,nkert, who recently came down 1T, kobuk, reports many of the natives there on the verge of starvation ever thus early in the season.
 This is the most northern point tt which Uncle Sam delivers mail reg ularly, either in summer or winter ser son. At present we have semi monthly service, Messrs. Nash ant Mckay doing acceptable service a' mail carriers. With best wishes fo yolr health and prosperity remain,
 Yours respectfully,
 DANA THOMAS.