The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-16

Pat M'Ginty expects to get away today for Dime creek.
 Albert Watson with team of six teen dogs and a full load of SUD- plies, mostly wet goods, will leave today for Dime creek.
 For Coal and General Delivery see Erickson or leave order at Mansfield Tobacco Store.
 While the Moose burden race will be run on Friday next, entries can be made up to and including Wcd- nesday next.
 Grant Laiblin and Bill Paulson ex- pect to leave some time during the present week for Dome creek to exploit the auriferous ground in that section of the Iron creek dis trict.
 The mail arrived with Louis Erickson, yesterday, shortly after two o'clock. There was consider | able first and second class matter in the batch.
 Teamsters report that the trails are getting soft and soon freighting will be difficult if not impossible if this mild spell continues. It looks like the break up.
 It is stated that R. s. Dimmick will open up a motion picture Theater in Dime creek this summer, similar in nature to that operated SO successfully at Candle It is supposed to be operated during the the winter months also
 A recent arrival from Dime, who has been there since the camp began and who is greatly interested in it's future, says that there is consider able danger that too many miners may go there, and so congest labor in the camp and be unable to obtain employment, In fact just before he left there were all the men needed in the camp, but they were going into the camp still and he met all kinds on the trail.
 At the End of the Rainbow, ap entertaining amateur production, drew a fairly large house to the Eagle Hall on Saturday night, the audience greatly enjoying the clever presentation of a very difficult play. The substle humor of the dialogue and the sparkling wit of the well written text required considerable dramatic ability to deliver without some loss of the SubtletieS which the play contained, but the Nome amateurs were equal to the occa-. sion and as a result very credit able performance indeed was rem dered. The whole was under the direction of Arthur Cole to whose indefatigable labors not a little. of the plays successful presentation is due.
  An interesting question has ari- sen now as to the status of the city clerk as city assessor, It has been claimed to MT. Grimm that it is up to the Council to appoint an assessor and that he does not legally fill that office. The enabling act provides for an assessor, but the city ordi- nance provides for the city clerk performing the duties ex officio as assessor. This it is contended by a newly elected official is irregular and will have to be changed. If i this contention now made is correct then the fact that the clerk ill former years has been performing these duties Illegally make all the tax collecting under such invalid This perpetual uncertainty as to the right of the city to collect taxes, it having formerly been alleged that the incorporation was invalid and now this later allegation that thie city assessor is an appointive office. independent Of the position of the city clerk, is only going to show the situation is getting Nmore and more complicated That sooner or later men will be elected to office who will decide these questions for