The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-13
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
 AND TOWN TOPICS.

In the District Court yesterda.
 morning the case of the United
 States ys. Karl Anderson came LII
 for tpal, Attorney O'Neill asked
 for continuance until November
 as many of his witnesses could not
 be on hand. This was argued anG l the motion was continued unti
 two o'clock when as court convened
 District Attorney Saxton pro.
 duced affidavits against the postponement of the trial and
 Attorney O'Neill was granted until four o'clock to file affidavits con-
 trary to the ones filed by the Dis
 trict Attorney. At four o'clock the Court took the whole under advise
 ment until tomorrow at ten o'clock.
 In the meantime the petit jury has been continued until that time also. I have the knife, it Is long and shinney. Helen Crowley AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. Eagle Hall, April 14th.
 A former Nomeite, writing to a friend in Nome, gives the following racy if somewhat gloomy picture of conditions in the Suirit City:
 I have been waiting for the time when 1 could write something of importance but the unexpected has not happened up to date. I have been doing odd jobs of all kinds anG hardly could I say that I have been at work. I have three or four promises to go to work soon and if it looks good to me I will stay here. 1 have not made my full eX penses. There is three times as much work going on in different lines at the present time than there was last winter but there are thou sands of men to do it. One must be we'll acquainted or born in Se- attle in order to obtain work. The waterfront is the dullest of them all. If there is a rush there they send to the University: some students are always ready for few hours work checking and they get the call. don't look around the front any more. The weather has been fright full all winter Rain always. snow for a change and hail at times and it was real cold this morning. 26 and showing. Very seldom have l seen the sun Seattle has the same old boost: Graft, leading the U. s. A. in everything nothing is over looked They brag until one gets sick of it. Nothing but prosperity and boom and yet everyday the pa pers tell of some father with six or seven children that need work as he has been unable to procure em- ployment of any kind, and the pa pers ask if any one knows of or has any work to notify the news paper and when they succeed in finding him a job it is blazoned out in big headings-Oh rot. what's the use!
 I spent ten days in Frisco and found I was a total stranger and did not meet twenty people that l really knew. Plenty of idle men in Frisco too, so I returned here. There are many Alaskans in Seattle meet many that do not intend to go back, especially among the work ing classes.
 It also meet Goggin, Murane, Schofeld, Ben Bernard and so many others I can't remember them. Pete Brandt and Bill Eddy are at the Frye. Tom Ross is in California. Chas Wente of the Casadepaga has opened restaurant called the Rock cry on Pine between First and Second Avenue. William McCurdy is working for him. Mrs. Mike Sulli- van of the Staple House at Nome is running a rooming house on 1st Avenue. called the Hanover House and seems to be doing well. The two oldest boys are near Tacoma al School. Jack Nash, young Dill. Gene Rose, Chas LeClaire and quite few others are working in the shipyards. Frank O'Connor is in San Francisco, Brother Carroll is in Baltimore. The price of living is some factor here. Potatoes $S5 per ton and