The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-26

PHILIP CORRIGAN President.
 JOHN A. WILSON.
 Secretary.
 J. Kelliher who arrived from the | Kougarok with the mail car yester- day afternoon says that they closed down the dredge for the season a few days ago. They will thus con- serve fuel for next year, the cost of which is reaching up beyond bonds owing to the increase in freight rates. It is now costing eleven dol lars from Port Clarence and so heavy are expenses on account of | these rates that he estimates that an ounce of gold is worth only | about eleven dollars. On account of transportation charges and the difficulty of getting in supplies only | the evry best ground will stand ope- ration and if something is not done to improve this condition and pre- | vent the wholesale footing of the | producers in the Kougarok through heavy freight rates, the country will, soon be peluk.
 Special sale for ten days. Dressers $1O to $12.5O, Beds $1 to $500 Mattresses S3 to $1O.OO at Crooks, next Fire Department.
 The Gladiator, Captain Sweeney, arrived yesterday from St. Mathew Island where in that bird reserva- tion they salvaged the moveables on the Great Bear, although they could not salvage the wreck itself. Gas engines, rifles, ships stores, equip ment and instruments were taken off: anything and everything that could be moved without inconveni- ence. The heavy sea that was gen. eraly running made approach to the Great Bear a difficult matter as the reef abutting Pinnacle rock is far from being safe as an open road stead. While there, uninvited and unauthorized wreckers had arrived on the Viking from Standpoint, help ing themselves to flour and other food Stuffs. As this might have been destroyed by the weather, the Gladiator men did not make much of holler. One expert wrecker in the Gladiator crew says that not withstanding the adverse opinion Of so many to him an examination made it evident with proper equip ment they could successfully wreck the Great Bear.
 Carpets Vacuum Cleaned. See Beebe. Phone White 157.
 The Belvidere arrived yesterday, having traded all the way up the coast of Siberia, then crossing over to Barrow after reaching away up the Arctic after walrus. Captain 'Jochinsen says that in all his eXpe- rience in the Arctic he never saw i, the ice so far north, open stretches of water away beyond places that heretofore have almost always been ice-locked. This made it difficult to get warus as they had to reach away north into the ice fields after the animals. The absence of ice in the lower Arctic is probably the req son why the fall this year is so late. Up north the Belvidere encountered the Herman who missed a lone whale nor,h of Barrow it had sight ed, the whale getting clean away in open water. The Herman will fol- low down in a week or so from the north. Tfis was the only ship that the Belvidere encountered on it's trip From here the native crew will be discharged and the trader will ship a crew of white sailors for the home trip. Yesterday good many of the mariners who like not the chilly winters in this frigid zone were pondering long and deep the usual sailors question to ship or not to ship. 1
 Gasoline lamps at Crooks, next pt