The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-02

AS however everyone was prepared for big food this year it did no damage to speak of.
 A considerable quantity of freight is to go north for the Bernard dredge on American creek on the next boat going north F. w. Carle- ton Co. have a considerable ship ment to make for this and other firms at Deer;ng.
 You can save money on your House, Camp or Dredge Supplies by paying cash at HOLT'S.
 The Wild Goose heating plant is still making extensive alterations in their main system. The piping is to be boxed with heat insulaters throughout and this will mean con siderable tearing up along it's en- tire line.
 
 The City is tearing up the plank ing between the Telephone Central Office and the Alaska Bank prepara tory to relaying it. The street is badly cut with holes in this section making it dangerous to life and limb No money was found when the plankins outside the Eni Club was taken up None is lost on the outside whatever happens on the inside.
 GENTS FURNISHING, new goods, Comprising Shorts,. Underwear, Gloves, Stockings for Ladies, Gentle men or Children. 4 little better and cheaper at HOLT'S CASH STORE.
 About ? men are now employed by the Divisional Road Commission making the Cape Nome road eXten- sion beyond Fort Davis. Several teams are used for hauling the road metal to the right of way laid out for it's construction. This work will place a considerable sum Of money in circulation in Nomc
 
 Tom Ward, the Kougarok copper king, arrived on Tuesday night in Nome. He has some samples of his copper ore which will be shipped outside. In the copper mine owned by MT. Ward, there is a vein of valu- able peacock ore that gave valuable returns some years ago when smelted al Tacoma. Since then no extensive shipments have been made, mainly owing to the fact that sev- eral were to take options on the property thought to get a valuable something tor little or nothing. This is one of the genuine mines on Sew ard Peninsula and without doubt when transportation has developed beyond the present stage will be con siderable Of a producer.
 The following from recent ia- sue of the Seattle P. J. will be read with interest hy tho.r who were acquainted aith the deceased:
 John Holmes, for many years a resident of Seattle, ana recently vice president of the Miners and Merch- ants Bank of Iditarod, Alaska, died Wednesday morning at the home of his brother, l.. F. Holmes, 1927 Bellevue court, following an illness of several months. Besides L. F.. Holmes, secretary of the Olympia Shipbuilding Company, in Olympia; a sister, Mrs. w. B. McCreery, of Tacoma, and his mother, Mrs. A. M. Holmes of Tacoma. He was born ill Iowa, coming West as a young man. He graduated from Stanford university in 1900, and came to seattle shortly aItcT. lie served four years as assistant as saver in the United States assay of flee here, removing to Candle, All aska, in 1907. In Candle he became assistant manager of the Miners and Merchants Bank. He returned to Seattle in 1910, and went north again in 1911 as manager of the Miners and Merchants Bank in ldi- tarod. He was elected vice president of the concern in 1915. He came out in the fall of 1916 on account of his health He spent last winter in Santa Barbara. Cal, and returned to Seattle in :he spring. Recently he suffered relapse He was 36 years old. The remains will be to anno for bnri l1