The Nome daily nugget., 1918-02-27
AL NICHOLSON WRITES

ht ApiiOhiiS AhAtANhbihb AtNhAo 1cii- corning Nome people and the Outside, are excerpts from several letters reach Ing the Nugget from Al Nicholson dur
 ing the past week or two. The mis- sives were written under late Novem- Der and early December Seattle date lines.
 The schooner Eagle, of Nome, ar rived at Ketchikan Nov IT. Emil Heg- berg left her as the Eagle was to undertake fishing there. They had a tough trip from Nome but everybody aboard was well.
 Nome Ginnivan Is attending school at St Martins Olympia. He has grown to about feet inches and you would hardly know him.
 Frank Cooksie, ex bartender, OK Deputy Marshal of Skagway, is going to Butte to work for his brother Ar thur Swanson, who worked for Russ Downing in the E. O. T.. arrived from Anchorage the other day to join the navy. Mrs Russ Downing is at pres ent in Victoria visiting friends.
 Dan Halpin. formerly proprietor of the Merchants Cafe in Nome. is em- ployed In the local shipyards. Mrs Halpin is running q rooming house and Mrs Mcconnell is stopping there at present.
 Mrs Wm oliver and children and Mrs Fred Peterson left Seattle for San Francisco on Nov. 19.
 Billy Saltis, who worked for Milo, the restaurant man, is at Camp Lewis and looks fine in his soldier clothes Chris Jensen and wife also left for Frisco few days ago.
 Met Mrs Paul Jones and she is look 'Hg ten years younger than when fin Nome. s. H. Stevens (Dig Steve) formerly owner of the Nome Gold Digger, Is working for a trade journal in Seattle.
 Ed Divine Is doing nothing and re- ports having missed a big chance to make some money out of a biscuit making plant. The biscuit maker later sold out at a big figure.
 Johnny Martini is living with his parents and is feeling fine again. Billy Dolan has been sick for some time but came out In time to attend the funeral of the late Billy Parker and is feeling o K again.
 George Steinmann, former ship agent for the Flyer is working in a paint store and looking fine for $3 per day Mir. Valine, who worked for Ira Rank for several years, was employed as book keeper until recently, when he quit to go into the real estate business.
 Jimmie Cooksie is running a pool hal in Tacoma and doing well. Also he has quite a family. Geo James ex mayor of Nome. is looking for milk route with the intention of buying but has not located one yet He intends going into the logging country If none 
 Billy McCurdy and Jack Nash, are in the sh;py,trds. Osack, the old timer who used to longshore at Nome, came out last fall and has bought an interest in q fishing boat.
 Mir and Mrs Bittner of Council have purchased a fine home here after try ing to rent flat or apartments, of which there are none to be had as the l town is full. Hank Fries has left 1 for the ranch in Oregon owned by himself and others and which contains twenty two hundred acres.
 Living here is worse than in Nome. i, If anything the groceries and restau- rants in Nome are giving people tho best of it.
 was talking with Tom Watson and Jenny Stromberg the other day and they both slid they had left Nome for good
 Among others have seen Phil Hol- land. Capt Thompson, Evan Jack, Dan Cassidy, Bin Dougherty, Chris Dolan. Barney Bernard, Tony Binkey, Dan Mcdonald. of Bluff, Chris Masharup. George Wolf. Charles Brown, Don Brown, Curtis Yeager, rom Hull. Jul us Olsen, Hiram Lusk, C. Hogan, Paul Morgan, Mrs Casey, Johnny McNeill Barney Ford and Billy Rose.