The Nome daily nugget., 1910-11-08

boat and it was with no sadness that we sighted Nome laying of the star board when We stepped on deck on the morning of the eleventh day out. There was fully seven hundred men, women and children on board ship-all eager |" see the country they had heard and read much about. Lambson and myself went ashore in a dory as We understood that the lighters would not convey passengers to the beach for some time
 Tom Rose. who was an old time AL askan. was at the oars of the dory and it was a matter of but a few minutes before We reached the white-tented beach Everywhere on the strip of sand ard rocks there was life. Tents. big and small and of all colors were er.,t. cd side by side. vepiar3 of all com modities piled their trade with a briskness unknown to us who had never before Joined stampede to a new country. Hardy men were rocking
 
 others were banning the ruby sand.
 Lambson and I, who were new to the country. watched the activities of the miners with unusual interest. It was ai so different than we had expected. but our anticipations were realized. We particularly desired to see such a sight as was then presented. It was typical of new country where men worked night and day, stopping only long enough to gulp down their meals. The sight of the virgin gold seemed to inject certain lust for the treasure into the blood of all. There ware those whom shot while before had been selling ribbons and gents furnish lhss over counter in one of the large department stores in the states now working side by side with a college professor student or lawyer.
 Surely it was a community where all men were equal: where the past count ed for nsught and where Christian names did not prevail.
 Each Individual had staked his claim and was working the property while his wife labored inside of the tent frying eggs which were then sold for hVe dollars a dozen. Butter. at one hfty per pound was used for cooking purposes while other commodities were vended at proportionally high prices. But nothing was thought of these items then. for one and all were get ting big pay out of the beach.
 Men who now occupy places Of prom nance in the world and it's affair, side by side for color"
 Rex Beach was one Of the many who prospected around Nome in the early days and despite the fact that he was not one of the fortunate in the search Tor gold he wa one of the most popular boys in the camp. To him we owe some of the best sellers of the season and incidents and characters of the early days at Nome have been incor- porated into many of his brightest bits of fiction.
 Tex Rickard. who sprang into the limelight as promoter of the worlds greatest flstic battle was one of the genial proprietors of the Northern sa loon and dance hall His episodes in the North have been the subject of many stories told by the old timers.
 But to get back to Labson and my self and our first impressions of the great tented city. We gazed for many minutes on the seething multitude which dotted the beach from one end to the other as far as the eye could see. Finally we ventured up a few steps toward what is. now known as. Barracks square We had not gone far before our progress was arrested by the sound of five revolver shots in rapid succession.
 Only few seconds We stopped end then We ran forward just in time to see man with a smoking gun In his hand fall to the ground. Upon further
 
 body lying still in death a few feet away from where the first man fell
 It later leaked out that the man whom We saw drop to the ground was a watchman employed by some mining concern to take care Of piece of town property which they had illegally equatted upon It seems as though the other man. who fell dead. a victim to the watchman who killed hls opponent after he had been badly injured. had squatted on the property the year be- fore and that he had returned to the states after having taken care of his interests in Nome. During his ab. sence the F1nanza Mining Company had jumped the property.