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the enlightened areas of the earth but has been at some time vitally influenc- cd in thought. habit or deed by the power of the press. With the enor- nous personalities possessed 1t Is n regrettable matter that the newspapers do not further extend their activities in the discernment and correction of the evils, the wrongs and abuses with which society is infested. Theirs is a power superlative This overwhelmine. influence of the press. in the hands of those who have due regard for the power for good which lies. therein, could, if properly used be made the predominating power of the world; one before which even the mightest monarchs of the earth would tremble. Yet we find very few of them that are willing even to denounce the most trifiing abuses in our public life and fewer still who do not in some degree deliberately misconstrue some innocent fact until it assumes power for evil hideous in it's aspect
 The upholding of truth and right is a matter to which they give little time or space unless it be for personal inter- est and denunCiation of evils of even the most glaring nature Is a matter that few care to undertake The great majority are at best only passive and the tremendous power which lies al their command is neglected or forgot hedged about by many restrictions and on many subjects dare not openly speak for fear they may tread on some bodies toes. Once in while. however
 We find one who has the courage tC come forward and champion the right who dares to point the finger of SCOTT al the evils, the shams and the hvpo- cricis, of both civil and national ex. istanCe, and. while we may hold oul breath at the unwonted sight WI never the less believe that the paper which comes forward firm in the con Viction of its duty 10 humanity finds an nnuttered applause in the hearts of even those who are stung hv it's de- lnunications.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-09
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, APRIL g, 1915.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS

rrtely speaking the primary office of the newspaper IS the dissemination of news concerning the current events of the period and generally speaking or wrong involved in the items which il records. News is news, if We may be permitted the term, andw hile all is not grist that comes to the newspa per mill it is perfectly within the rights of the press 10 publish such facts as may come within the range of it's observa- ton
 The first duty deyolying on the newspaper is. of course. to tell the truth ns far as it is possible 10 ascer- tain 1t and in the majority of cases, that rule is rigidly adhered to by all reputable newspapers. Yet withal there are some papers which, while in no way deviating from the facts, never the-less place upon them a construc- ton so misleading that il amounts to a complete perversion of the truth. In constituencies hands the simplest truth may become so dstolted as to assume an altogether different meaning and may thus furnish power for evil if subverted to base uses, which is almost illimitable and furthermore is absolute ly unrestricted by the law The power of the press in the shaping the ten- dencies of human thought has been amply demonstrated times without number and apparently the more en- frightened the individ. the more sus- ceptlbie is he to the influence wielded hy the public prints.
 Among. the general masses of the people, the ideas disseminated by the press for the primal foundation upon which the views of the great ma jority on almost every subject, are based. It is a safe assumption that in matters pertaining to political issues or to ad- ministrative ideals the ideas of fully two thirds of the people in the ordinary walks of life arr derived solely iron the columns of the newspapers and are more or less tinctured with the par ticular view point of the party, clique, faction or the individual in whose in terest they are written
 In this aspect alone the influence of the press is almost overwhelming and is readily recognized by the politicians as the mightiest force which can be employed 10 gain the desired ends. Likewise. the interpretat tons of the press are the accepted views Of the generality in matters pertaining to the ordinary affairs of life, Morals. cus- toms fashions and all the heterogeneous mass of everyday human activities are in some degree shaped and moulded in accordance with the expressions of the public prints.
 Hardly an individual ill the full pos- session of his faculties and existing in |
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-09

The CordoVa Chamber of Commerce
 has passed and forwarded to the nat
 ional capital a resolution protesting against the passage by congress of any legislation providing for the prohibition of the sale of liquor in Alaska. unless the people of the territory shall by majority vote express their approval of such a law. The resolutions recite that Il bill has been introduced in congress providing for prohibition in the Terri tory of Alaska, and that the people of Alaska feel that as American citizens they are entitled to share to some ex- tent in the passage of the laws that affect them; that in those states where the prohibition question has been rais- ed it has always feen settled by a vote of the people. They respectfully peti- tion congress that the people of Alaska be extended the same privilege and rights granted the people of the states on the prohibition question, and that no prohibitory law shall be valid in Alaska unless the people of Alaska, by majority vote, approve the same
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stampede to tho North which may rival the rush to the Dawson and Nome goldfields is expected within another month, when the commission will an nounce in Washington the route of the Alaska government railroad.
 From the letters of inquiry which have reached the office of Governor ]. r. A. strong, it is evident that people from all over the United States will come north as soon as the railroad re- leases it's verdict. Letters asking of the railroad are pouring in from the entire country, from Maine to Cali fornia and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
 That Juneau will he benefited by the travel through here is a foregone onclusion.-Juneau Empire.
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FAIRBANKS-- By a letter received recently President R. C. Wood, of the First National Bank, of this city, is in- formed of his selection of vice-preSi- dent of the American Bankers As sociation, representing the territory of Alaska.
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FA1RBANKS--Jim Emdahl return ed recently from the states and says that he met several people coming out from the Chisana, all of whom state that there will be only two or three outfits working there this year, and that most cf the old prospectors have left the camp
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ALASKA NOTES

gress and favorably reported limiting the location of whaling stations in Alaska to not less than seventY-fve miles apart
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Tom Cole, of Juneau, at one time secretary to Delegate Wickersham in has been appointed court
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During the past year the Ellamar Mining Company mined 30000 tons of ore according to statement by Supt L. l.. Middlecamp
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The White Pass company will op- crate five boats on the upper Yukon this summertime Casca, Whitehorse, Dawson, Selkirk, and one other.
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SEATTLE Adolph John ,Iarmuth, an Alaskan mineowner. recently started suit In the local courts for divorce from his wife. Edith DeLong. the noted woman suffrage agitator. He charges has destroyed her domestic value en- tirely.
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While in Cordova Judge Bunnel an nounced that he had appointed Ed. Nolcot. of Fairbanks, as stenographer for the district court of the Fourth di- vision.
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PHONE MAIN 46.

Entered as second -el1ss matter Feb 26, l98f, at the postotfice al Ncme Ai,ta. aHdef the Act of Congress of Nar,h l,.,
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From Kansas City, Missouri word was received that Ben Biglow. until last summer a telegraph operator in Fairbanks, had been killed in a train wreck near Springfield Missouri
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Two Coward councilmen recently settled their differences in a fstic en- counter, which resulted in the aggres- sor being fined $50
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-09

SEATTLE.--H. F. Alexander. presi dent of the Alaska Pacific Navigation Company, which operates the Admiral line of steamers is extremely optimis- tic over the recent successful test of the Matanuska coal, In an interview he says:
 within two years the activity re 5ulting from the opening of the Alaska coal fields, the settlement of the vast valley of Alaska and the protection of great mining propositions will as tonish the coast.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-09

Two months on clam diet was the luck of man down near Ketchikan. His gas engine refused to run.
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Cordova may be the first city in Alaska to be invaded by the jitney bus, which Is now SO popular in the Western cities.
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(From Dur Exchanges.)

". C. Edes. chairman of the Alaska Engineering Commission, recently de clared in Washington that railroad constructed in the territory would not be costly.
 He stated that the work would en- tail expenditures only slightly more than similar enterprises in the West eln states of America, the principle item of increase being the expense of transporting materials to the North land.
 NIr Edes frankly states that the government lines will not be dividend payers for two years. However. he indicates that the immense territory that will be opened up by the lines ul- timately will make them financially successful Seattle Times
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Fifty per cent of the merchandise shipped to Southeastern Alaska in 1914 went to Gastineau channel
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Qn advance.

Nome Daily Nugget, l month. $2.0O
 Nome Daily Nugget, months. .$10.00 Nome Daily Nugget, l year. 5000
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-09

An attempt to burn the White pass office at Skagway was foiled by a teamster, who put the fire out with snow.
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Copy for regular advertisements must bs in by 10 o'clock on the day of publication
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Nome Weekly Nugget, month. SOC
 Nome Weekly Nugget l year. 500
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The delinquent tax list for 1911 al Wrangell amounts to s123S3.
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In 1s14 Alaska's business amounted to S70, $40.
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NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
 MAGAZINE,
 ussued Annually in Oetober) Price per copy y................... soc Price per copy. mailed ..........,. 55c Rates for advertising space in any of the abeve publications will be made known on application.
 PHONE MAIN 46
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A bill has been introduced in con-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
RUSSIANS SINK II GERMAN
WARSHIPS IN RIGA GULF
Petrograd Says Dreadnaught Moltke,
Three Cruisers and Seven Torpedo
Boat Destroyers Sunk.

London, Aug. PA dispatch to the
Central News on Sunday from Petro-
grad says:
"The president of the duma has an
nounced that the Germans lost the
battleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga bat
tie"
"The announcement of the president
of the duma, as sent by the CORE
spondent. follows:
in the Riga battle the Germans
lost ore superintendent the
Molke; three cruisers and seven tor
pedo b. ats.
The German feet has withdrawn
from Riga bay.
THE Germans tried to make a de-
scent near Pernpvin (Pernigel, on the
east shore of the Gulf of Riga, some
thirty-five miles north of Riga).
-Four barges crammed with soldiers
took part in the descent They were
repulsed by the Russian troops with
out the cooperation of artillery, the
Germans being exterminated and the
barges captured"
An official statement from the Petro-
grad war Office also says the German
fleet has left the Gulf of Riga.
Our destroyers in the Black sea
have sunk over a hundred Turkish
boats" the statement adds.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
WOLFF HEADS CITY LEAGUE
Oshkosh Is Chosen by League of NUM-
cipalites as the Convention
City for Next Year.

Green Bay.-Mayor F. J. Wolff,
Fond du Lac, was elected president
of the League of Wisconsin Munich
palities at the closing session of the
seventeenth annual convention here.
Other officers chosen were: Vice
president C. B. Clark, mayor of Nee
nah. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Prof. Ford
H. McGregor, Madison; executive
committee, o. J. Sorenson, La Crosse;
Joseph Fisher, Marinette; P. E. Bo-
lens, Port Washington; ]. c. Schu-
bert, Madison; A. j. Horlick, Racine;
Rurt Williams, Ashland. The next
convention will be held in Oshkosh.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
SLAIN PASTOR WAS
PUT TO TORTURE
Coroner Believes Rev. Kayser of
Gary, Ind, Has War Secrets.
LIFE HAD BEEN Threatened
Dead Men Lived in Community of
Slavs and His Pro-German Utter.
ances Had Aroused Enmity
of His Neighbors.

Gary, Ind, Aug. 27.-Out of mass
of evidence two theories developed
in the investigation of the assassina-
ton of Rev. Edmund A. M. Kayser,
the Tolleston Qnd) pastor. Kayser
was shot twice while in his study on
Tuesday night
The first, and, the police think,
most plausible solution of the mys-
ferrous murder is that the pastor was
the victim of fanatical protagonists
of the allies because of his pro-Ger-
man utterances.
The second theory finds it's founda-
ton on the fact that the clergyman
had become involved in factional
fight in the Evangelical Lutheran
church, of which he was pastor. and
had received numerous threatening
letters as result.
These letters have been the subject
of an investigation by post office au-
thorities for several weeks. They
charge that Kayser was too friendly
with two women members of his con-
gregation.
Chief of Police Heintz of this city,
of which Tolleston is suburb, de-
clared he had both women and the
writer of the letters under surveil-
lance and would question them. The
chief declined, however, to name the
three persons suspected
The police are working on the the
DRY that perhaps the murderers in
tended to bind Kayser, and then tor
ture him until he revealed whatever
information they sought.
Kayser's emphatic pro-German stand
since the outbreak of the European
war often had involved him in street
fights. The pastor a month ago ap-
pealed for police protection. declaring
he had been threatened
The letters which are now being
held by the federal authorities are
written in German and margins are
deliberately decorated in rude pen and
ink pictures of pigs. They were turned
over to Postal Inspector John Hunter
of South Bend by H. B. Snyder. post
master at Tolleston.
Before the leaves become green
on the trees" read one, you will be
stretched on the ground. Move away,
or dynamite will move you.
Another read:
Dear Sir: Your life is in danger
and your wife will be a widow pc
fore the leaves fall if you do not stop
your pro-German utterances. You are
too bold in your remarks, and are
too outspoken in your advocacy OF
the cause which is directly opposite
to that of your neighbors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
GERMAN TROOPS STORM
STRONG RUSS DEFENsEs
Berlin Announces Gain at Brest-
LitoVsk-Teutons Capture kopy-
tow Hill in Fierce Charge.

Berlin, Aug. ga hill at Kopytow,
southwest of the Russian fortress of
Brest-Litovsk, has been stormed by
the Teutonic forces, according to an
official statement given out by the
German army headquarters.
The official statement says:
North of the Niemen river there
are no changes in the situation.
Army group of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg: On the remainder of the
front of this army group progress was
made. During battles to the east and
to the south of Kovno our troops cap
tured nine officers and 1900 men ana
took eight machine guns.
Army group of Prince Leopold OF
Bavaria: On the plain CD situated
northeast of Kleszezele and in the
forest district southeast of this place,
the enemy yesterday again was de-
feated by our troops, the pursuit
reaching the Bailowieska forts. The
enemy lost more than $500 men in
prisoners and nine machine guns.
Army group of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen: Before the attack of the
German and Austro-Hungarian troops
advancing across the Pulva and Bug
rivers east of the mouth of the Pulva,
the enemy evacuated his positions.
Our pursuit continued.
ION the southwest front of Brest-
Litovsk a hill at Kopytow was taken
by storm. Our troops are advancing
through the marshy district to the
northeast of Vladova. pursuing the
enemy"
Amsterdam, Aug. 25. = Russian
claims of great German losses in the
naval battle in the Gulf Of Riga are
repudiated in a semiofficial telegram
received from Berlin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
RocKEFELLERs ARE INDICTED
U. S. Industrial Relations Board

U. S. Industrial Relations Board
Scores Colorado Labor Conditions.
Chicago, Aug. 25.-Political equal
ity for women is urged as the saliva
ton Of the woman workers in the re-
port of the United States commits
sion on Industrial relations
Shocking conditions among tenant
farmers in the South and the day Ia
borers of the North are charged in
the report.
A third of the laboring element in
the United States is a pauper class,
underfed and half-clad. the finding al
leges.
An indictment is returned against
the Rockefeller mining interests in
Colorado. In these mining districts
and other typical industrial communi-
ties, it is charged, every aspect of a
state of feudalism is presented. The
employers control the political and
social life of the citizens, abridging
their rights and usurping at times the
prerogatives Of the federal govern
ment itself, the investigators declare.
The Pullman and public-service cor
porations are censured roundly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
No Raise in Tuition Rate.

Madison.-It is the general impress
sion that the nonresident tuition at
the University of wisconsin has been
raised for the coming school year
but this is incorrect. The new law
as passed by the 1915 legislature
made specific provision that the in
creased SPA in the nonresident tut
ton fee should not go into erect
until September, 1915. This an
nouncement is made to correct the
idea on the part of students intend
ing to come to Wisconsin for the next
school year that they will be requlr-
ed TO pay the additional fee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
GERMAN ARRESTED AS SPY.
U. s. Agents Seize Reservist OF Kaiser
at WASHINGTON.


at Washington.
Washington, Aug. 27.-The secret
service of the department OF justice
on Wednesday arrested here on a
charge of espionage Gustav Kopsch'
a German reservist, twenty-seven
years of age, who had in his posses
sion many photographs and films OF
the Notifications of Fortress Monroe
and pictures of the proposed fortif1ca-
lions at Cape Henry, protecting the
entrance to Hampton roads and Ches-
apeake bay. Kopsch has been in this
country two years. The speclnc
charge against Kopsch is that he vlo-
lated article of the act OF l9ll'
which prohibits the making OF pic
lures or the having possession OF PIC
lures that might impair the defense
of the United States. The prescribed
penalty is fine of $1,000, lmprison-
ment for one year, or both. Kopsch
is in jail in default of $4,000 bond nAeo
by the United States commissioner
Kopsch's alleged activities occurred
in late July and early August.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
START JAIL DEATH PROBE
District Attorney investigates Suffoca-
ton of Insane Prisoner at
Fond du Lac.

Fond du Lac.-At the request OF
relatives of the victim, Dist.-ANty l..
J. Fellenz has ordered an inquest on
the death of John Spellecy, who died
from suffocation in the padded cell
at the Jail. Spellecy had been pro-
nounced insane, and was conhned
pending his removal to an asylum.
He was found dead by Sheriff Brunk-
horst, the cell being filled with smoke
and the blanket which had been CIV
en- Spellecy to sleep on was found in
ashes on the cell floor.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-01
new FEDERAL GAME
LAW SATISFACTORY
DEPUTY GAME WARDENS TELL
OF IMPROVED CONDITIONS
IN WISCONSIN.
FIND DEER MORE PLENTIFUL
Marshes Full of Ducks and Number Of
Water Fowl of All Kinds
on ncrease-Prairie
Chickens Scarce.

Madison.-That spring shooting of
migrating birds in Wisconsin has
practically stopped since the enact
ment of the federal prohibition; that
the number of water fowl breeding in
the state has increased fully SO per
cent; and that the principal water
fowl so breeding are Mallard duck,
blue wing teal ducks, wood ducks,
spoon bill ducks and coot, are the
conclusions of a study of reports to
the conservation commission made by
game wardens from all sections of the
state.
From the same reports it is gath
cred that in most sections of northern
Wisconsin deer are more plentiful
than in several years. Because OF
the cold weather and unfavorable
breeding conditions the number of
prairie chickens and grouse is less
in many regions.
The reports by the wardeDs were
made particularly upon the effects of
the federal migratory bird law and
there is a general agreement among
the sixty replies that spring shooting
in the state In violation of the law is
practically negligible.
Wardens in those regions notable
as breeding places give most crafty
ing replies. Experts say that the
number of water fowl in Wisconsin
is increasing under the new restric-
tions and will continue to increase
from year to year.