The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-20


 Empire will be read with interest:
 That the Territorial Legislature had the right to regulate the filing fees charged by Records for enter ing documents such as proofs of labor for assessment work and that the law passed by the last legisia- ture is valid, was the decision ot Judge Robert W. Jennings an- nouneed this morning in the District Court.
 The legislature, it will be re- membered, materially reduced the fees to be received for recording documents, especially those charged | for proofs of labor on association mining claims,
 The matter came up as the re- suit of test suit filed by Sam Newsander against Js B. Marshal, as Recorder for Division No. 1 and oycrrules demurrer flied by the de. fendant asking dismissal of the suit on tho ground that the legis- llature had violated tho Congression- al act in modifying the fees to be charged for recording. J, H, Cobb appeared for the defense, Hellentha' & Hellenthal being retained by the plaintiff.
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 Simon Simson in letter to the Industrial Worker gives no over- roseate accounts of conditions out side. "I have been in lots of sur rounding towns and find them pretty we'll over done in every way; lots of stores are empty and more will be empty yet by Janucry i. You can say what you like, but no one goes hungry in Alaska; here you find hungry people everywhere am many out of work. Vegetables and fruit gre very cheap. Here you can get everything from fresh tomatoes to strawberries now. Turkeys are sold from 25 to soc. pound and chickens and geese 20c. fresh killed. Clothing sells as cheap in Nome, yet there are lots of stores where you can buy out of date or shop worn goods very cheap. Kracower broth CTS are running two or three stores yet I am told on good authority that they are going back to Nome and claim to have a store all ready there. You can meet all kinds or Nomeites here such as blue tickets, remittance men or First classes. They are all more or less looking for capitalists. It is funny to see. men who never wore anything but cap trying to wear a derby and white collar here, walking the streets or trying to sit straight in some of the Lobbies of the big ho- tels. One fellow got a room at the Frye on the Tenth floor and he came back quick asking for a room on lower floor. I don't write his name because it might come back to me. So far we have he'd rain every day and to tell the truth 1 feel colder here than l did in Nome. Delbar Is in business here but says 1t is very slow. Blackwell runs a curio store. met Judge Flynn, E. E. Paterson and Chas Mattson there. Dixon sold his herring at a good price. John Hegness will be back with Dixon and go into the fishing business; someone is putting up the money. The Alaska Theater owned by vigilius, Dobbs and Albright Is closed. It cost them $8O,000 besides paying a rent of $500 for the ground per month. Saw Dad Wit tonberg He doesn't know what to do with himself; wants to go in bus mess but says he's going to wait until after New Years when rents will be cheap. expect If nothing happens to be in Nome on the first boats with goods which Nome mer- chant have asked me to buy, and will then show Nome the latest wrinkles in business. l expect to gp east after New Years" <, STILL DOING BUSINESS AT THE