Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1918-07-26


 ......... ....... Margaret Rowe Closing Song .......,..S Sarah Shields 
 The trading schooner Sea Wolf isl back from a trading trip of several weeks duration along the Siberian coast. Mr, Wittenberg, the owner, made the trip and reports that his vessel reached as far north along the siberian shore as Kaluchin Bay. The trip was eminently successful from the standpoint of the trader and val uable cargo of trade was obtained as a result of the venture. The vessel encountered considerable difficulty with the ice after leaving Nome. One of the propeller blades was bent by contact with the ice and the schooner was forced to undergo repairs at Tel Ter After d strenuous seize of ice| navigation the schooner finally reach ed East Capc without further mishap and the remainder of the trip was marked by no untoward incident Mir. Wittonberg brings news of a new development of considerable interest to traders in the announcement that he was compelled to secure a license from the Russian officials, who as re- ported by Capt Billy Thompson, are still following the orders of the Ker- cns5y government before the natives would trade with him. In fact he was compelled to take out two licenses be- fore the way was clear, paying a total of 141 roubles 115 for one and 26 forI the other. As both were for the same purpose, the reason for the dis .rcpcucy is not entirely clear.
 The Bclleviow brothers dredgo sit uated on Dry Creek near the end of Fl street. was entirely destroyer ny fire between : and 10 a. m yesterday morning. as a result of the accidental enition of a pile of oakum which was being used in callling the hull. The drcdec was the one formerly located on Moss Gulch but was brought to it's late site on Dry creek last winter and was in process of reconstruction Emil Anderson and another man have been engaged in calling the hull pre- paratory to floating the structure for some days and both were aboard the | .redge when the fire broke out An 1 dcrson is said to have attempted to light a candle prior to a visit to the interior of the hull and the head of the match broke off and flew into the 9allum spread upon the deck a short distance away. The infamable oak um blazed up ficrcely and spread to the wooden portions of the structure before the two men could do a thing 10 check the progress of the flames. The fro spread with remarkable rapi- dity as the deck seams were full of pitch and the boarding was soaked with distilate and grease from the earlier period of operation on Moss Gulch. Within a few minutes the en- tire supcrstructure was blazing fierce ly. A fire alarm was turned in as soon as possible but as the dredge isl located far beyond the end of the fire mains in that district, no water was available and the chemical, reinforced by a couple of dozen hand extinguish- CTS hastily collected and brought from town by Davis Runyan, Grant Jackson,
 c> Liston and Ralph Lomen, was of little effect The firemen worked desperately to save the hull but there was little chance to do effective work m the absence of water and the fight was finally abandoned. The loss is 8 dcplorable and costly one When the flames had completed their work. the structure was entirely consumed and nothing but pile of ashes and char- ed fragments remained to mark the site. It is said the loss will approx imatc $20,OO0