Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-04-14
NOTES FROM THE
 EAST COAST DISTRICT

The following interesting notes are
 eulied from letter written to the
 Nugget April by our correspondent at unalakleet.
 Fire caused by defective fluc started a small blaze in the home of F. Bradley few ,la,'S aSo i.u. was ox- 1 itinguished before it had gained much headway through the prompt use of hand fire extinguishers. snowballs and much profanity.
 Five discharged soldiers from St.
 Michael passed through here March 2s Dr, Randall, also arrived from :he vil- las se of Elm on the same day. He re-
 turned here on the e7th. and left for Nulato a couple of days later. He at tended many minor cases in this loc- ality but found healthy state of affairs, generally speaking.
 John Somers. former mail contract
 or across the Portage. passed through here Apr,i ,n is way : ':ne at.e CT II
 business trip to St. Michael
 \. Hilton and party from Ft. Day. is passed through the town March esth. Y. Jacobsen (Scurvy Kid> and la man named Ryan headed across the Portage on the following day, bound ! for Somewhere.
 Lecn@rd Seppala arrived on March | ? with a passenger from Candle. lie laid over here one day pending the arr rival of news from Nome and depart
 ed this morning for Haycock. where
 he will pick up Dr. Fromm and con- veT him to Candle and afterward roI
 st. Michael if conditions permit. The letters recently appearing in
 the Nugget from George saggak. the
 Eskimo who served with the Americ-
 an forces in France. have created \ lively interest among the Eskimo of
 Unalaklik as the lads father lives here and also many of Saggak's personal
 friends. The natives are exceedingly :. proud of the fact that one of their race served with honor among the men who died that Democracy might live. Joe Felkel, the fur buyer. arrived here on the 4th. and left for St Mich ael where he expects to meet Carlson, the fur buyer of the \. (, Co. Carl son recently returned from the Kusk- tokwin section where he spen, some time buying furs for his coinpany.Carl- son brings the weloomei news that the ! influenza stopped at Hooper Bay and that only twenty deaths occurred in addition 10 those already noted. Christ CsUdnaundsun- who passed thru here March on his way to annex all the furs produced in the Kuskokwin this winter. is reported by Carlson iol have reached Nelson Island ahead of himself and at last accounts was working down the coast and doing vel. Fa,rS are plentiful in this sect lon this winter A persistent but unconh1ned repo-. is rife along she kuskokwirn io the ef- effect eha. q resident Of that section recently killed his partner, but where or how cannot be learned at present Joe BeTey1ew arrived here on March 3 snroate 70 the big Outside. He de- yarzed on the following day Capt Cumnius. of St Michael arrived froml Nome Mae 5 and the following raornsns saw him heading for St Michael :. Goodrich who is prospecting on inc rlver, was with us for g short lime Later he and Bradley may goI to the BonasiIla where the new strike is reported Hans Larsen left March .s for the Koyak reindeer herd which he win round ID and introduce ii to its larg- e, 1.e.her demicised by Eyinik- The herd of Lo,nen Brothers is growing. The e-od1ss successor of OFT old friend Thos. Eafney arrived on the 18th and zssr . thorough investigation Of the whites and Eskimo lets for St Nichasl Marshal Jordan arrived oa the 18th ans departed for St Michael TWO darsI a1g-
 Frank Shaw was . recent arrival fran Bonanza OF his way 10 St Mich a.l Later he returned znd left for