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The Nome daily nugget., 1916-04-25

Mr.. Polet was in the audience
and responded to the invitation
by stating that the chamber of
commerce was heartily in accord
with the municipal Utilities pro-
jects and would do everything
possible to aid and assist in their
development.
He said that the amount asked
for by the resolution was more
than was exactly needed for the
proposed pumping and lighting
plant but the surplus could be
used for other purposes of like
beneficial nature. Mr., Polet men,
tione)l the possibility of using
the exhaust steam from the plant
for heating heating purposes as
one OF the uses to which the SUR
plus bonds might be devoted.
The speaker also took shot at
the local monopolies by stating
that everything was in their
hands and that they absorbed the
profits of the community and
business.
This pleased the crowd and
YOU'D applause followed his re-
marks. Harold Jensen, one of the
spectators, asked Mr.. Polet if it
was intended to establish mu-
nicipal coal yard as we'll as a
municipal pumping and lighting
plant, giving as his reason that
the bonding question as embraced
on the ballot at the last election
included coal yard.
The mayor replied for Mr. Po-
let, saying that such was the in
tention. Councilman Thompson
then withdrew his resolution of
last week fixing the salaries of
city employees and submitted "a
new resolution of the same char
acter.
After reading this was adopted
ON motion OF Thompson, second
cd by Ross. Councilman Rose
also withdrew his resolution of
last week fixing the salaries of
city officers and offered new
one, in which the salaries of the
various officials were named as
follows: City clerk, magistrate,
assessor, tax collector, etc, SIZE.
City attorney SIS. City treasur-
er SI.oo. City physician 5000
Thompson moved that the rules
be suspended and the resolution
adopted The motion was Sec
onded and all voted yes on roll
call.
The council then selected the
following to fill the positions
n''ae': Ia es H7:...:hcy chiet
ol the fre department Captain Of
chemical, Geo. Bond; Driver, w.
B. Nelly; Pipeman, Louis Holm
gren; Street foreman, H c. Kell-
ing; Street sweeper, Domonic
Scrivenik; Janitor, Mrs. Tiffany.
The various names were offered
without opposition and the selec-
tons were unanimous i'll all but
two instances The council also
selected DR.. Chace as health Off
Ger.
The mayor then announced
the appointment of the following
standing committees: Finance
Rose and Burgh. Police and Jail
Thompson and Rose. Fire and
Water-McAllister and Thomp-
son. Law, Ordinance and Print
ing-Burgh and Ross. Health
and Relief-Ross and Poteet.
Streets, Alleys and Lights-Po-
teet and McAllister
Councilman McAllister did not
like the change and enquired why
it was that such occurred. Also
he questioned the right of the
MAYOR to make such change.
Councilman Rose arose to re-
mark that he was willing to
change with Mr.. McAllister SO
that the latter could Be chief of
police if he wanted to. The mayor
stated that he had the right to
change the committees and to
change again if necessary. The
city attorney supported the state
ment of the mayor and the pro-
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-04-25

Information from Solomon ear
ly this afternoon indicates that
the incoming outside mail is some
where between Chinik and Solo
mon. The consignment left Chin
TX day before yesterday in charge
Of Carrier Louie Erickson who
has come through from Unala-
Itleet. 1t may possibly arrive
this evening but probably not un-
I'll tomorrow morning.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-04-25
NEWS NOTES

One year ago today the ice had
returned to the roadstead after
being out for some time. The
day of return is given in the
weather records as April 23.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-04-25

Nome's best talent rejoice in
the opportunity to assist on FRI
day night.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-04-25
WEATHER RECORD

The following table SHOWS the av-
erage temperature for each day for the
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The Washington times., 1916-02-20
TREAT THE GIRLS FAIRLY

Said serious-minded gentleman
1. to group Of parents last evening:
American girls are frivolous and
meaningless, and something should
be done to strengthen their IDEAS"
Come, come. Gentlemen with d.
gestive disturbances or chronic
cerulean temperaments. may 20
ahead and talk about the tariff, or
our statesmen, or the movies, in that
vein; but when it comes to working
of the crouch on our girls, it is
time to cry enough"
Now along comes this gentleman
just at time when the American
girl is beginning to impress us more
and more with the idea that she is
useful and most adaptable. More
over the beauty of most of her is
that she goes about with brisk eff
cheney in happy spirit, just as if
no burdens rested OH her shoulders.
This bilious observer may have
seen her out in the evening. She
won, for she conveyed to him that
air of careless gayety which the con-
tinental woman works, or sleeps, all
day to attain. But the observer saw
only half her days cycle. The next
morning may have found her in a
business Office, capably and quietly
attending to business.
Or perhaps he saw some girl home
from a college vacation. He heard
talk of dances and chafing-dish sup
pers. Did he hear hear tell of those
early morning hours of "plugging"
with wet towel about her head? Did
he ever hear college girl admit she
ever studied? He probably did not.
That is not the way of the species.
1t is borne more and more upon
our attention that women have a lit
tie way of doing what they have to
do and letting it go at that. Usual
ly they don't need a Saturday night
spree to recover. If they indulge in
of moments in harmless inanities,
who shall say them nay? Certainly
not the sex that is given to SO much
of what is good deal worse than
mere ,inanitv
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT

The gentlemen responsible for the
recent military tournament in Wash
ington under the auspices of the Ma
tional Guard, deserve the thanks of
citizens for demonstration of the
work of the National Guard. Few
military organizations in State serv-
ice could have put up more cred
table exhibition. To show the pub
lie that the young men who have
given up their own time, without re-
Enumeration under existing laws, in
the most uncomfortable and insult
able quarters to familiarize them
selves with the various technical ap-
pliances and methods necessary for
the making of soldiers, have not
worked without purpose, is very
much worth while.
There are yet good citizens Of the
District who regard the National
The Washington times., 1916-02-20

Guard as joke. This number is
decreased at least by the number
who attended the military tourna-
mens. They saw things Of which
they have never dreamed the aver
age 'tin" soldier capable, done in the
most efficient way. They saw DEM
onstrations in the use Of apparatus
that has seemed reserved for ex-
perts only. The men who handled
this apparatus they recognized as
the clerks who sold them collars or
the groceryien who weighed out
their sugar.
The military tournament was a
liberal education. A further educa-
tional course could be taken by visit
ing the armories Of the guafdsmen
from time to time and talking with
the youngsters who are doing the
work.
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
BRAVED DANGER FOR
DEAD MANS MEMORY
Dritish Soldier at the Front De-
seribes Unique Burial Service
Under Fire.
(From the London Chronicle. }

A soldier now at the front sends to
a relative the following story. which
he describes a. unique In my expert
ence of the war:
''It occurred" he writes. during n
particularly bad night. All day the
Germans had been Smelling US. and their
shippers had been picking us on through
the ssndbag rampant wherever there
happened to be a weakness. They SEEM
ed to have a genius for finding these
places-though goodness knows they
were few enough.
The water In the trench was foot
deep. and the enemy's line only . few
yards distant. Our lot was not a hap
py one though by that miracle OF luck
which seems to be part OF our battalion.
our casualties were few. But just as
the last light OF day was merging into
a hopelessly dark night one Of our men
caught three bombs at the same time
and was killed.
I'VE picked him up and put him on
waterproof sheet. Injured though we
are to the fearfulness OF war. this boy 8
death seemed hard--it hit each one of
us behind the throat. He was so young
and good and high OF spirit. Also one
us week or two. One felt that an
older man could have been better
spared.
ITO bury him we had to lake big
risks. The enemy had our trench we'll
marked. and all night their rifles swept
the around which separates the trenches.
But small party dug a hole on top a
few yards In front Of our line and we
buried him.
Then the unique thing happened.
The sergeant ordered us back to our
trench and remained behind alone. lie
stood STRAIGHT I'm amid that hall Of
lead and calmly read the burial service.
From beginning TO end he read II. calm
ly and with great reverence. And God
above knows that many of us who, to
our shame be It said. have not prayed
for years. echoed deep In our hearts
that lest amen.
"Afterward he returned to our trench
untouched. This seemed to me a great
thing. Our sergeant Is finer man than
most have met"
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
eNdLAND's OWN BLOCKADE

1t is a singular coincidence that
exactly one year after the beginning
of the submarine blockade to starve
out Great Britain the British gov
eminent itself, by votes Of Parlia-
ment, is excluding tens Of millions
of imports which the Won Tirpitz
submarines were never able to touch.
On February Is, 1915, Won Tirpitz
began his undersea blockade which
was going to shut the British Isles
up within themselves as the allies
were undertaking to bottle up the
central powers. But from thpt time
70 this there has never been a day
when all manner of ships, bearing
all manner of cargoes from all parts
of the world, have not sailed in
fleets into the ports Of Great Britain.
In the whole year Of thc subma-
rine blockade probably there has
never been a single vessel deferred
from sailing for or sailing from
British ports. Vessels going in
either direction have been torpedoed
in the home waters and on the high
seas, cargoes Of goods and cargoes
of humanity have been destroyed;
but never has there been any check
of the stream Of supplies flowing in
to the United Kingdom.
And if that Won Tirpitz program
was never anything but futile, what
folly it must seem today when the
Asquitn government itself sputting
an embargo upon the entry of mil
lions of tons of commerce because
to the British people those things
are not essential either for war OF
for peace; because the government
wishes to improve its foreign trade
balance by reducing the expenditures
now made abroad for supplies which
can be dispensed with; because the
government wishes to divert ship.
ping from non-essential trade, how.
ever profitable, to purposes more di.
rectly advantageous to the country's
conduc. of the war.
Won Tirpitz didn't and couldn't
blockade the British Isles. The Brit,
ish government can and does; and 81
here endeth the one-year Won Tir
, MIX chapter Of submarine bloekad.
u in ridieule and contempt.
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
BRANDRIs ANYHow

Let the American people take in
the import Of the unofficial an
nouncement in behalf of the Senate
Committee on Judiciary that they
don't see any use going much further
with the Brandeis hearing. Those in
control of committee and Senate are
going to confirm the appointment,
whatever testimony and proof might
be forthcoming against his qualifica-
tons to sit in that tribunal.
1t must be Brandeis anyhow.
They are going to jackscrew him
into the Supreme Court whether
their action shall be a good thing OF
bad thing for the Supreme Court,
for the United States Government,
and for the American people.
Now, beyond the particular scan
dial Of not being willing to consider
or even to hear the evidence in the
case, this must be taken to mean
that here is a determined effort to
drag the Supreme Court Of the
United States into politics by the
heels. ,ss
Those in control of the admins
trative and legislative branches of
the Government are resolved to get
control of the judicial branch. They
are going to jam Brandeis in,
whether or no. When the next va
cancy comes they are going to re-
peat that sort Of performance,
whether or no. If enough vacancies
occur they are going to keep It up
until they have converted the Su-
preme Court of the, United States
into political machine. ~
One of the great issues of the COM
ing national campaign, therefore,
along with the tariff, along with
preparedness, along with foreign
policy, will be this of making the
Supreme Court of the United States
political machine. This paper for
one is perfectly willing to have the
American voters pass on that cues
ton fraught with such danger to the
highest ideals and the dearest liber-
ties Of our republican institutions.
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
UNITE TO SAVE SHAD;
8 STATES CONCERNED
Pennsyivasia. New jersey, and Della
ware Must Co-eperate--stoek
IL Depleted.
From the PhiiadeIphia Ledoer.)


Local fish culturists and sportsmen
agree with the annual report OF the
United States Bureau OF Fisheries,
which asserts that despite artificial
PROPAGATION American waters are being
depleted OF fish. especially shad.
sportsmen say the shad catch last
season was the poorest In the history
OF the Delaware, and the fishing in
streams marking State boundaries was
not what 1t should have been. The be-
lief exists that unless laws are made
by this State. New Jersey. ana Della
ware 10 prevent the pollution Of streams
and to pensliEe cruel and unfair meth
DDS OF fishing artificial propa CATION can
not avert the killing OF All the tish.
jeremiah Berkhaus, superintendent Of
the state hatchery at Torresdale. COM
Fisheries. said:
Several things are responsible for
the decrease In the fish supply. Streams
In the state are being polluted BY refuse
from mills and tanneries that Kills fish
by the thousand. This year the State
has put 100000 spawn In the streams.
OF what avail Is this expenditure OF
money and labor unless laws are obeyed
Which prevent the poisoning OF streams
THE catching OF fish by unfair and
inhuman devices should be stopped.
These instruments figure effectively in
the destruction OF fish colonies. The
most destructive devices are known as
the wing wall and the parallel. used par
ticularly In the Delaware. Every Della
ware river fisherman knows that FISH
fock to reed rice and spaterdock mead
owe. The parallel net IL set In the
meadows at high water. ana when the
fish try To return TO the channel with
the outgoing tide they are trapped In
the net. thousands of them at once.
I'm intrastate streams fishermen
would not dare to resort to- this whole
sale slaughter OF FISH. because there Is
law to punish them, but the State
which puts millions Of eggs In the Della
ware or other State-line stream cannot
punish those who use those cruel meth
DDS. as 1t has no jurisdiction.
Neither has II authority to protect
shad spawned In the Delaware and
which 20 out to salt water afterward.
The renody for this wrong can be
reached by New Jersey. Delaware. and
this State passing laws that will make
this method of fishing unlawful. Both
the shad and herring 80 to the best
fresh-water streams to deposit their
eggs, and II We are to have these best
brands of the fish family they must be
protected from this way OF killing them,
which Is not legitimate sport"
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
HARDEN FRIoHTrULNRss

When Maximilien Harden, Ger
man editor, declares that unless the
allies sue for peace very soon Prus-
STA, regardless Of the whole world,
will launch an era of frightfulncss
against anybody and everybody. no.
body should suppose that he speaks
for the German government, mucn
less for the German people.
The Germans have had their ex-
perience with an actual program Of
limited frightfulness, and there il
every reason to believe that they
neither have found it profitable nor
are proud Of it.
It is unthinkable that the German
people, IL in truth they know all that
has been going on, have indorsed the
Won Tirpitz course Of submarine
lawlessness and crime. II they had
been permitted to know actually
what has happened the German
people would never have tolerated
the Won Tirpitz run-amuck cam
paign. It is a certainty that as a
whole the German government it.
self has not been in sympathy with
the Won Tirpitz frightfulness. 1t
has been unwilling to repudiate in
the eyes Of the German people the
only part of it's naval service which
has been capable of offensive action,
but at the same time unwilling to
have Won Tirpitz, before the eyes of
civilization, stamp the brand Of Cain
upon the forehead Of the German
nation.
In the grim business Of war the
German Emperor has not always
been too squeamish in Belgium, in
Poland or in Serbia, but out Of his
beleaguered empire have come a
hundred reports of how he has re-
coiled from the Won Tirpitz horrors;
and where there is SO much smoke
there must be some fire.
But il the Berlin militarists were
unanimous in their passion for sub
marine atrocities against the senti-
ment of civilization they have learn
ed by their experiences of the last
year to measure what this fright
fulness costs as against what 1t
gains. They realize that the sub
marine activities, on the one hand,
have had no influence whatsoever
upon the ultimate result of the war;
that the submarine atrocities, on
the other hand, have alienated the
world, except for the unspeakable
Turk, from Germany.
Whether a MaXimilien Harden
predicts it or the Berlin foreign Of
flee threatens it, there will be nc
campaign >of frightfuiness in de-
fiance of all creation.
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
Paper Prices Soar As
Rag Scarcity Is Evident
Retail Merchants Told by r. p Andrews Of Other Fac
tors in Soaring Values Some Sdeghts
of the Situation Shown

Have you wondered about the higher
cost OF writing to your friends7 o.
about the higher cost OF wrapping the
gifts you send them7
speaking OF the higher cost Of paper
do you remember the tin pedlers Of
your youthful daysY
These subjects have an intimate con-
nection, but one has to start thirty
Eve or forty years ago. with those Tin
padlera. M
ersed the country with the bright tin.
ware piled high on their wagons, and
boys who lived on farms can remem'
Der how their mothers diclxered with
them about the exchange Of bag OF
two OF rags for q new dishpan.
Then farmers grew more prosperous
and bought automobiles. and theil
wives Joined clubs, and rag-saving be-
came n lost art. The pedlers who used
to collect these rags and sell them &c
makers OF hieh-grade writing paper
became al extinct AZ the buffalo. "
we had TO turn TO the frugal house.
wives Of continental Europe for rags.
Scarcity in Rags.
90, IL happened, ttat Wnen inc Ell
ropean war broke out the Cnlted states
was getting 90 per cent OF lis rags from
Europe. So the price CT rags jumped
from tl.sS per 100 pounds 10 12.12ii pei
100 pounds. Likewise. the price OF pa
per began to creep Up az the supply or
hand was reduced
This 10 the outline OF one chapter ir
the story Of the rising cost 81 laper n
told by r.. p. Andrews, president OF the
Retail Merchants' Association, a papel
dealer. whose experience ranges frcn
the farm days OF the tin pedlcr, TO year.
spent Ia paper mills and In studying tn,
making Of paper.
Another sidelight on the scarcity Of
rags In furnished by the case OF a Mas
sachusetts paper mill that foTmeri,
turned out about 10000 pounds OF high
grade writing paper daily Not a pounc
of paper comes from that mill today
Bet the plant IL working twenty fonI
hours day grinding IN raRs and soil
Ing the pulp to q powder company. Gu
OF that pulp gun nOwdnr can be made
and the price paid for the pulp Is NOR.
than the paper sold Tor.
When Il comes 70 paper used In books
newspapers. magazines. for wrapping
and the cheaper paper for corresL ond
ence. the rag problem Is one OF thu
many elements that contribute TO thu
soaring prices.
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
FABULOUS PRICES ARE
PAID AT BALM BEACH
Plenty Of Ensy Money and Not
~, Rooms Enough 90 suPpIy
the Demand.
palm Beach Correspondent, Neto York
Ecentn0 PoSt.)

palm Beach Correspondent, NeU York
Ecening Post)
A news survey Of the week along the
Florida east coast IL interesting In the
evidence It gives OF countrywide pros
perity.
for most any kind OF accommodations
from Sd. Augustine to Miami. The resi-
dents. not Southerners. but people from
the West and North who came here ana
settled three or four years ago, have
the same flavor to their talk OF easy
money that one hears today around
munitions factory. For ipetance, West
Palm Beach has a bank Two years old
with deposits Of nearly $S.oOo,0O. and
four miles from here. In new town
called Lake Worth, they have twenty
nine miles of paved streets, blocks or
business buildings, stores Dah 49, lew Ne
papers, where three years ago there was
not one stone on top Of another.
Here is another aspect OF the situa-
ton. The Poinclana Hotel, with Its
l,S00 rooms, seldom flled until wash
ington's Birthday, leased pracucAily its
Vincent Astor. and the following day
had 10 turn down a big order from Otto
ii. Kahn and get him a small frame
cottage. The following day James Cox
Brady was placed In a bungalow. and
he leased a second bungalow next door
for his child and It's nurses from A. n.
Huston. mine owner, or Coatesville,
Pa. who put the bungalows up a couple
Of months ago next to one he Is occupy
Ing. Trying to provide for people. the
management on Tuesday seized upon =
Just erected opposite the postoffice. and
Is furnishing them for bachelor apart
ments. Conditions OF such pressurs
have never been approximate In the
twenty-year history Of the resort
The Washington times., 1916-02-20
RUssIA,s sToCK or vODKA.
what caa she DO with the 2eO,OOO.OOO
Gallons on Hnnde


The Russian government has before
It problem whose solution IL full OF
potential interest for other countries.
says the Neto York Times, Owing TO
the prohibition or the sale OF vodka,
II now holds In stock 26O.OO.OOO gallons
of that liquor and is wondering what
can best be done with II.
A question OF more complexity but
similar In spirit is coming over the
horizon in other nations. including OUT
own. by reason OF the rapid spread dur
Ing recent years OF the principles oil
temperance, total abstinence. and pro-
hioltion. For Russia the matter Is sim
plIted by the fact that the government
owns the liquor that its own laws have
made valueless. 1t can do what II likes
with this ocean of vodka.
Russia Is Just now finding her stores
OF VODKA an embarrassment OF ricnes
But IL she can put II to industrial uses
that equal its former market value, hel
solution OF the problem will have much
significance for other nations confront
ed by the same question.