The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-18
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
 AND TOWN TOPICS
NOTICE.

GOggin building the Carpenters Union has declared the work unfair. LOCAL 17S9 CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA. Affiliated with A. F. of l..
 BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
 The mail, all second class, arrived yesterday.
 The river is now clear in Solomon where the season is reported to be in more advanced condition than around Nome.
 Victor A. Julien will leave this morning for the Julian dredge oG Osborne, to have everything ready fer all early seasons operations
 
 There is now beginning to be q shortage in some provisions lines in Nome stores, but it will not be any, thing serious if the boats are not delayed in arrival. There is no shortage in gum boots.
 Fairbanks papers of April II notably the Citizen, which delibe- rately charges a frame-up are full of the conviction and sentence upon Dan Callahan formerly councilman in that burg. He got twelve years
 Senator M'Gann left last night for his mining ground up the coast to make ready for summer operations. He has Q quantity of remunerative pay stripped for the sluicing and in tends to lose no time getting the auriferous dirt through the boxes.
 Carpet Vacuum Cleaned. See Beebe, Phone White 157.
 Mrs Rogan of the Cape Meme Roadhouse was inferred yesterday Services were held in the Catholic Church at ten o'clock after which the body was laid to rest in the Belmont Point cemetery.
 Harry Bloomfield intends to run Gog camp this summer at Topkok and has freighted supplies to it. He will also engage in fishing and ex- poets to put up a quantity of tho finny tribe for winter consumption by his canines.
 The Norwegians in Nomc and vii cinity made a great celebration of their Independence Day in the Sons of the North Hall last night, feast ing, dancing and speech making being the order of the evening, and everything went merry as a marriage bell as the Bard says. The celebra- tion was wonderfully we'll attended showing the national pride taken by this by no means unimportant part her of the Scandinavian alliance. The Alaska Lighterage and Com mercial Go. attempted a new method of clearing a way for launching, that is by piping the snow and ice on the beach ahead of the scows. This ingenious idea was recently pu! in force and is now being success fully carried out SO that there will be no trouble getting the barges 1T, the briny Notwithstanding the lateness of the season and the un. favorable outlook for open water this simple plan enables the com. pany to have everything certainly ready for the traffic coming in on the first boats.
 | Eeterday was the best thaw day SC far the city or creeks experienced this spring, that is if you can call il spring without injuring the poetic reputation of that particularly gentle season. The rain fell generally yesterday afternoon and helped tC increase the water in some creeks It also made mushing harder and heavier and even dog teams had a hard time taking out supplies. The condition of the back streets is any. Il thing but good and in several places an accumulation of water adds to the difficulties of progress for de livery and water teams. Occasionally an automobile delivery car is wit. messed endeavoring to negotiate the side streets but they have even more trouble than sleds and ponies.
 The following radiogram is fur nishedas news note to the Worker hxy fho C;oaoI Corno.