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Nome weekly Nugget., 1909-07-24
CRAFT IN CANADA.

When we talk about graft as dis :.
 tinctive feature of American politics we must not forget that the terra American includes Canadian.
 According to a recent disclosure,
 $10 .OOO,0O0 was lost in one year in the Canadian Federal departments through
 prepayment for supplies. A political intermediary at St. John received as a commission on one small contract $35. 900, which was charged to the Govern ment. In forty eight out of the ninety Ontario seats "the people were pub- licly bribed" by promises of local i'm provements, and in nine seats the elec- tion of public works if they did not support the party in power. "Wine, women and graft" accusations have been freely made.
 Says the Toronto correspondent of the New York Tribune: "Whenever a
 mn can make one. five, ten or thirty tflouSd1lu uoildiS OIl d Sdlt Ol SOliit kind to the Government or by commits
 sion on transactions with the Govern ment, or as a go-between in matters of
 public patronage. he seems to think
 nothing of the moral side of the affair. . Yet in 1S72 tumult spread over the
 Dominion when it was proved that the
 Government of Sir John Macdonald had
 received campaign contributions from
 would be railway contractors, and the
 grand old man went down to defeat
 Mercier of Quebec was overwhelmingly
 beaten for a similar reason. Slower
 but no less certain was the retribution
 which overlook that Ontario Govern
 ment which had remained in power by
 virtue of stuffed ballot boxes. And it
 is safe to anticipate the end of tho
 ring that is responsible for this latest
 corruption.
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official act was to recommend economy in all departments. His advice was tp prune. not pad. the expenses of each public office.
 Before his election he knew full well that the Roosevelt administration was not notable for economy: indeed, it has been said that the lavishness in spend ing the peoples dollars was only ex- ceedcd by it's enormous flow of words and the swinging of the big stick. Taft recognized the curious fact that while the preceding administration was loud in it's acclaim and efforts for for est reservation. it was neglectful of the conservation of economy in spend ing the peoples money.
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It was so sudden! MT. Loeb, tnt very new Collector of the Port, was such an immediate shaker of dry bones He shook the dry bones of the New life with a suddenness appalling botl 10 the Customs House and the snug glers.
 Persons used to cheating Uncle sam as a regular old thing come along happy and care-free. William Loeb Jr., meant nothing to them. And their experience with the Customs House under the new Collector was as if leisurely thieves in an old, unguarded museum suddenly were confronto with a mummy coming to life anl swatting them.
 "All smugglers look alike to mo, ,' said Collector Loeb, in an interview "Rich voyagers and poor immigrants will receive exactly the same treat ment. I am here to collect the reve- nue, and I'm going to collect it. I will turn all cases over to the United States District Attorney for prosecu- tion."
 That is the right sentiment. It is the principle of action which should pervade all branches of the Govern ment It is very unpleasant for thoeo who evade the laws. But it is th2 course which protects honest people from the still more unpleasant feeling of unequal enforcement of laws an l unequal collection of taxes.
 MT. Loeb is a product of recent ten dencies in the National Government t. put men on guard in the vital places that rise by nerve and ability instead of mere politics. He has risen by hard work on his jobs.
 The public is interested. It has re- garded MT. Loeb as a hard working clerk to Presidents. It had no idea that he was so sudden. But everybody likes to see man seize his opportun- ity by the neck, as it were. We hope that he won't relax his grip, but prove in the long run that nerve and ability on the job beats the best political wire pulling for place.-Ex.
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WHY IS THERE A PRESIDENT?

There is story that President Taft will veto the Aldrich tariff, thus leav- ing the Dingley tariff standing. If such is his intention, it does not impove the situation.
 MT. Taft called special session of Congress. The country has been wor- ried and disturbed by ong-drawn and acrimonious debate. Then, if ne vetoes the new tariff, the net results will be the disturbance of business about nothing. with pledges unkept and tariff revision up in the air. and a con- tinuance of business uncertainty.
 As the American has suggested from the beginning, there was only one course for MT. Taft to make good his campaign statements. It was to take active interest in the revision and indi- cate to Congress what ought to 5e done. Instead of that he has main tained the futile position that it is not
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Press reports furnish the informa- tion that Booker T. Washington. the president of the Tuskogee negro school stirred colored men to wild en- thusiasm in a negro church with thn statement that Jack Johnson's pugi- listic victory was a godsend to the black race''
 This idea is not one that would q are directed toward leading an unfor- tunate and undeveloped race through pcriod of difficulty and prejudice to position of responsibility and es- tecmed citizenship.
 Booker T. Washington has usually been discreet in his utterances, and his diplomatic management of the blatH men has been the policy of a conserv- ator of peace. rather than an inspircr of racial asperites.
 But the dusky educator falls several degrees below his own level as a leader when he praises the pugilistio ability of Johnson. Johnson's victory has been rather a curse than a blessing to the race. The negro has better models of character and worthier ex- amples of courage than the black prize fighter.
 If Booker T. Washington was seek ing the applause of the radical elemen. of his race, he took the right road to however.
 If he was merely bubbling over with racial joy over a negrOs success in nn have restrained it for more appro- priate place, time and audience
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MORGAN CAN SERVE COUNTRY.

We had panic in this country amiJ the full fields of prosperity. It was a! if hundreds of thousands of battlina troops trampled down the ripenet grain.
 And there was no enemy. We were our own enemy! The enemy was our selves! Singly and alone we swept our own country, fighting an imaginary paralyzed industries and starving un. employed.
 And it was said that in the psycho- logical hour J. Pierpont Morgan-th, great banker-had come to the rescue of the nation with loans. At least his name was cheered again and again il political meeting in Brooklyn. l Sanity returning with normal condi- tions, the general public scoffed at the great public services of Mr. Morgan ir that tremendous Bull Run from notn. ing The idea of the calmness Was that MT. Morgan had gained grand profits in the use of the capital of a people who were at the moment tot panic struck to use it themselves. | We offer the episode only as a pre- able to emphasize MT. Morgan's pres ent opportunity to serve his country. | We want the trade of China. We want supremacy in the Pacific. It Is worth dollars and cents to every | American workman-if not in in- creased wages. at least in stability Of | wages.
 A great new railway is projected in China, involving American trade in the great empire. The loans were about tr be closed with European bankers when our State Department inter- vened and asked for halt until Amer ican capital could enter the vital game of China's awakening. China is Realizing that. the Imperial Govern ment dutifully paused, awaiting the proposition of MT. Morgan and his as- | sociates.
 The point of national service in that trade does not follow flags so much as the development of credits. And that development must center in banking along the line of the credits. A merchant marine is absolutely es- sential. But American banking in China is equally essential. In the old great days of American trade in China we had mercantile banks on the spot. Now we have only a name.
 It is possible to be a patriot in bank ing in time of peace relatively with the patriotism of the man behind the gun in time of war.
 The opportunity stands at MT. Nor gan's elbow. Let him establish an | American bank in China to help revive American supremacy!!
 And if he accepts the opportunity the plaudits will not be ephemeral, at least. as in the political meeting in the Borough of Brooklyn. where the chiefly vivid-waistcoated Republican. MT | Woodruff. and the lean, lank. alleged Democrat, Senator McCarren. debated the issues of a national panic. whereof neither had lucid comprehension.-Ex
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Although the revolution in Turkey the past few weeks have brought the baptism of blood that is the usual con comitant of such historic upheavals. It was hardly to be expected that Abdul Hamid should accept quietly the deprivation of absolute authority.
 There were many others who were the powers who were trying to upset the throne.
 These clements, with the secret aid of the Sultan, sowed seeds of revolt among the soldiers. Appeals were made to their moslem fanaticism, and it was easy to persuade them their re- ligion was in danger
 From Soloniki. where were stationed the Third Army Corps of the Sultan's army the revolution started, and as the soldiers approached Constantinopic the strength of the Sultans opposition was apparent by the cOnciliating ef- fleets produced upon the masses
 If the past rule has been one of op- pression, then let it be said that the revolution is but the cry for justice raising from the blood upon the ground marked by numerous revolutions.
 The young Turks seem bound to convert the Government into a repub- lie. Abdul Hamid was deposed by his brother. Mohamid Richad Effendi. and hardly had the latter ruler been crowned and seated on the throne amid pomp and feasting than the Young Turks rose up and unceremoni- ously dragged him from the palace taking him to Salonikf as a prisoner and it was only upon ardent pleading that the lives of the ruler and the
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The Occidental world is in the grasI of a convulsion of unrest and violence In France and England there is con tinuous uprOar, commotion within anf fear without.
 Germany and Russia are frantica ly excited about maritime armaments. IT European Turkey the massacrcs in thf Asiatic dominions have gone on unin- terrupted by the powers, and old Aus tria has been worked up to the point of war.
 In the United States there are sign> of the times in a flood of dynamite out rages and other terrible crimes.
 What is the meaning of it all? Wha' is the origin of this wide unrest anJ clamor?
 Perhaps it is the dissolution of re- ligion. Some think that civilization is a failure, while others regard it as a manifestation of a new revolution for the higher human freedom.
 Ministers of the gospel claim it is the outbreak of original sin, but the thinker, the student of the signs in tho heavens. heralds it as a world cry foI justice to man by man.
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CONGRESS GETS BUSY WITH
 TARIFF BILL
Nuggets Special Service.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1S.-- Certain Congressmen here are jubilant over what they are pleased to term a victory in their fight to have raw ma terials admitted free in the tariff re- vision now before Congress.
 President Taft indicated in no w .v- ering terms that he would veto the tariff bill if the measure came to him for signature without revision down ward. as he had advocated in his mes- sage to Congress some tIme ago.
 The way it appears to people who have been following the passage f tariff bill, iron and oil will be admitted free. while hides will be reduced to seven and one-half per cent.
 Coal will be reduced to forty five cents per ton. and lumber one dollar and twenty cents per thousand.
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The Gould millions secured titled husbands for Ann, but the vast wealth was not proof against infidclity on the part of the expensive and fastidioue gentlemen on whom were lavished a brides dover the siZc of kings ran som. Her children may bear distin- guished name and title, as well as oc- cupy place of importance in the so- cial world of Paris, but she has bought such distinction at the expense of her own self-respect and the love of her family.
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The City Council was called to order last night by Mayor Cochran in the City Hall at o'clock for its regular weekly meeting.
 All the members were present except Councilman Watts, who is still absent in the States.
 The first matter to come before the meeting was the condition of the indigent Sick. The Mayor stated that in the pres ent condition of the cfty's finances the care of so many sick paupers as were at present on the list was matter for grave consideration. Many of these public charges were bequeathed from the last Council, but, of course, there were some new ones, and the number seemed to be constantly on the in' crease. The revenue of the city for the current year would be less than for many previous years, as the main source of supply, the saloon licenses, would be greatly reduced, both because there would be fewer saloons and be- cause those which remained would pay only s1,000 per year, instead of s1,5oO, as formerly.
 The City Lot.
 City Attorney Hobbes reported that the lease held by one Dutilh on the city lot at the corner of Hunter way and First street had been forfeited by reason of the non payment of rent and that liens to the extent of $225 had been filed against the building on the property.
 Mr. HObbes recommended that the city take over the building. as the liens filed would not in any way affect the city's rights. He also stated that Mr. Fulton, the architect and builder, had estimated the building to be worth between $4O0 and $500. The matter was allowed to go over for further consideration. Messenger Service Franchises. The Law and Ordinance Committee, through it's chairman, Councilman Ol iver, presented a report favoring the granting of franchise to J. E. Ma honey, as follows:
 To the Mayor and Common Council. Nome. Alaska: Gentlemen-Your Committee on Law and Ordinances, to whom was referred the application of J. F. Mahoney for permission to conduct messenger service in the town of Nome, report as follows:
 Your Committee recommends that said Mahoney be granted the right tp extend his wires across ID street, under supervision of the Street Committee, for the purpose of installing his mes senger system. and that he be grante permission to conduct a messenger ser r- vice in the city, in conformity with the restrictions and recommendations of this committed, heretofore submit ted. Respectfully,
 (Signed) A. c. OLIVER,
 Chairman Law and Ordinance Com.
 Dated July 19, 1909.
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STEEL STRIKERS
 BACK TO WORK
Nuggets Special Service.

Nuggets Special Service. PITTSBURG, July 19.-The plant G the Pressed Steel Car Company today partly resumed operations. The loss entailed by the disastrous strike in these works has been enor- nous. being conservatively estimated at over sixty thousand dollars per day. The men Who have returned to work do so at the old scale of wages, and has been to deprive an army of work CTS of their wages and the company of it's legitimate profits.
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These pleasant days of sunshine weather, causes longing for dancing waters, leafy trees and grassy sward where one may complacently lay back boughs. At the very contemplation of such joy Kosmic Kilowatts terpsichore lightly up and down the vertebra. lull- and superinducing cerebral inclina~ tion to bestow absent treatment on the WOodpile.
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Of course, economy is a good thing to conserve. and while Hartman may be looked upon as a detriment on account of the gigantic railroad trust he rep resents. yet his sharp shot at the ex- travagance of the United States Gov ernment was only voicing the views held by many people who have made study of the Governments expenses. Harriman's hot shot hit the mark in public offices, even though the target is now receding from view in the po- litical heavens.
 The situation dwelt upon by Harri- man was the prodigal waste of Gov ernment funds. and these facts were recognized by MT. Taft, whose first
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YUKON STEAMBOAT
 WITH WIRELESS PLANT

The scope and necessity of wireless on ships, is being felt in river traffic, and D. F. MacFarlane, one of the own CTS of the river steamer Minneapolis. who is interested in mining on a large scale with John Roman in the Fair banks district, has made arrangements apparatus.
 MacFarlane says that a wireless sys-
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COUNCIL GRANTS
 MESSENGER SERVICE

| On motion the report was adopted.
 with the proviso that the license 70
 granted to the said Mahoney should
 be revokable at the pleasure of the i, Council if. in its judgment, any of th'
 regulations governing messenger ser
 vices were being violated either in let
 ter or spirit.
 Mayor Cochran then notified Ma honey. who was present, that it would
 be his duty to familiarize himself with all the rules regulating his business and to see that they were rigidly ad- hered to.
 | The Mayor mentioned as being among the salient features of r.'e new regulations that all messengers must !, be registered in the City Clerks office. | that they must wear a unlso.ir or some distinctive badge so as to be readily | ,,istinguishable. and that no drinks
 couI.l ne carried through the stre cts except in a suitable closed vesse. of sole sort.
 One weeks further time was grant | ed the same committee to report on the petition of Burg and McMaster for | vice.
 The law and Ordinance Committee
 also reported on the impounding of Cattle, Etc. The report was as follows.
 To the Mayor and Common Counch, Nome. Alaska: Gentlemen-Your Committee on Law and Ordinances, to whom was referred
 the matter of the insufficiency of the ordinance, being Ordinance No. 203, relative to the impounding of horses cattle. etc, report: Your Committee finds that Ordi-
 nance No. 203 is now in force, and that supplemented by directions and regu-
 lations to the poundmaster, through the Committee on Police. is sufficient
 for all purposes; that under this ordi- nance horses, mules, cattle. etc, may
 be impounded by the poundmaster in his regular employment. and that a
 new or additional ordinance is not at
 this time necessary or advisable. (Signed A. G. OLIVER, Chairman Law and Ordinance COm Dated July 19, 1909. On motion the report was adopted. Several bills against the city were
 read and approved and warrants were
 ordered to be drawn for their pay
 ment. Councilman Oliver reported that
 several complaints had been made as to the conduct of some of the habitues of
 River street. who were in the habit of
 coming up on Front street in the early
 morning and disturbing the residents
 of that section by their noise. The
 Police Committee was instructed by
 the Mayor to see that this evil was
 remedied.
 On motion the Council adjourned to
 meet again on next Monday evening"
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JEFFRIES COVERS
 JOHNSON FORFEIT
Nuggets Special Service.

CHICAGO. July 1S.-Jim Jeff:'cs gently drlfted into town last night, and from the rotunda of the Annex softly announced that he had in his jeans the ten thousand dollars necessary to cover the forfeit of the same amount posted by Johnson.
 Jecffries wore big straw hat and a pleasant smile when told of sor1e of the things that Johnson had said about him. and remarked that he guessed he would make that coon hump when he once started him on the Marathon around the twenty-four foot ring next Fall.
 Nothing was heard from "Mistah Johnsing."
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So tyrannical is the Sugar Trust that wholesale and retail dealers find it ab- solutcly impossible to secure sugar un- less they comply with the rules of this saccharine devil fish. Neither tht Standard oil nor the Beef Trust pos scSses such a grip on the throat of the commercial world as does the sugar magnates.
 The Department of Justice has a stupendous task on it's hands in trying to suppress the tyranny of the sugai monopoly
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tenn would be of inestimable advantage on the Yukon river ,as the stream is full of shifting bars, which sometimes hinder the progress of a boat for sev- eral hours at time. He says that with the wireless he can call his home station and keep the people there in formed as to his movements.
 The apparatus IS to be of a one kilowat power, and is expected to ar rive from Seattle on the next steamer.
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YUKON COUNCIL
 AIDS MINERS
Nuggets Special Service.

DAWSON, July 19.-Robert Lowe was today elected Speaker of the Yu- kon Council, and immediately after the taking of his office introduced before that body a resolution providing a loan of six drills to assist prospectors in developing the outlying districts and to encourage the development of quartz and placer mining in such sections.
 This move met with the approval of the miners interested in these districts. and it is thought that a great deal more previously planned.
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Sugar forms an important article m the diet of the world and in this coun- try it is estimated from the sale of the sweet stuff that over q million poun Is are used daily. And HaVemeyer and two other men own and control the production of 1t. It looks as if Con gress had something else to do besides revising the tariff.
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Prizefighter Johnson,s auto acciden,

Prizefighter Johnson's auto accident. in which the black champion" re- ceived injuries, to-wit: one swollen op- tic. severe cuts on the cheek, one optic closed, one sprained tarsus and several bad contusions, might furnish him some idea of what gentle surprises Jeff fries will slip to him when they meet in the ring.
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The revolt in Turkey, the unrest all over Europe, the secret preparations for war in this country. indicate that civilization is not yet free from say age impulses. Scratch the veneer and you find the primeval man.
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NOME, ALASKA, JULY 24, 1909.

Heney's expense accounts are to ne investigated. Wouldn't it be funny if the little graft fighter were called upon to ferret out the 'puil-down" in his own office?
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cottolins, cotosust and Cooking Oil, vegetable product lard substitutes, and the only Fresh Roasted Coffee, at chilbsrp's, Main 6.
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Go to tn. Worth Pole

So 70 tUo Nosxn pOte
 Bakery for the best bread and pastry The only coffee house in town.
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Job Printing at Nugget esgses.
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Job Printing at Nugget office.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-01
Ta0< ana Tancie/
,a2HI.!maerdF

Morning robes and teagowns are APP
pearing without sleeves, except as
they are made of contrasting material.
Foulards are made in such attract
i've designs this season that they can
be used effectively in detached pieces.
Girdles will emphasize many gowns.
The underarm seams are high and
give smartness to the close-fitting
sleeve.
Net is not used so much now as
sheer batiste, finest tucked organdie
and thin lawn. combined with fine
Cluny or Irish lace.
A few years ago the little girl was
dressed with numerous ruffies and SO
full were the skirts that child dress
ed with all of the numerous rufies
looked for all the world like fancy
rufied pen wiper. The dresses to-day
are much straighter and the rufies
are not so full.
A pretty bordered foulard seen re
Gently had a coarse-ribbed surface
with a pattern of small groups of tiny
dots on an ivory ground and straight
border of black on white, with touches
of heron blue rhododendrOn purple
Jade green and brownish purple, the
effect being like that of broad band
| of embroidery.