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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-22

United States marshals acted as enumer~Gors at the first nine decen- niaI censuses. Each marshal had as many assistants as were necessary to properly cover his allotted terri tory.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-22

About $50 people were engaged in taking the first census of the United States. The 1920 census will require the services of 9O,00O.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-22

A census of the-country's rnanu- factures was made for the first time in 1910. Under the present law manufactures census is to be taken in connection with the fourteenth decennia1 census and every two years thereafter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-22
FREE TO THE SICK!

Dr Naughton making X-Ray examination of the Lungs, with Improved Magnoaths Skascope as to Diagnosis This other wonderful methods aminat1ons Free to all who call him a the HOTEL LORRAINE
 Lorraine Hotel, Monday Nov. 24th. Hours ....,........ll Il A. M. to P. M.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the United States Commissioner S
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
FRED LARSEN, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Fred Larsen,
deceased, by the above entitled court,
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of tais
notice, to the undersigned administra-
tor, at Nome, Alaska.
]. C. WIDSTEAD
Administrator of the estate of Fred
Larsen, deceased.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the United States Commissioner s
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen
Anderson. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the UNI
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, by the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned admins
traitor, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB-Nov 80. Dec Z, IA, 81, %.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

I influence it's policy in a tremendous
world crisis. The facts upon which
the administration and the American
people base their opinions and poll
cies must be, indeed, facts.
"a close but by no means eXhaus-
tive study of the first instalment of
the Sisson documents raises the fol-
lowing doubt
I'D The circular of the German
Imperial Bank concerning remittan-
ces to Lenine, Trotzky, and others is
dated March 2, 1917. This would be
week before the revolutionary
troubles began in Russia and nearly
two weeks before the Tar was de-
posed Did the German Imperial
Bank forsee the overthrow of the
Tar so precisely? In Europe this
document, No. 2, has ben repudiated
on the ground that it was written
long before the events, by Russian,
who thought in the Russian chrome
logy, which is thirteen days late, and
that March was really mistake for
our March Is when the overthrow of
the Tar was an accomplished fact.
This charge requires an answer.
"(2) Document No. 2 speaks of
the arrest of certain agent having
on his person the original of the I'M
perial Bank circular of March 2 1917,
with notations and stamps of the
Petrograd secret police (Okhrana) :
Now, the offices of the notorious Ok
hrana were stormed by thee rowds in
the first days of the revolution, say
on March 10 or II. We must sup
pose, therefore, that a~circular issued
by the German Imperial Bank on
March %, and addressed to bankers
in Sweden, had time to get to Petro-
grad, to fall inc the hands of II
Okhrana, and to be stamped by the
Okhrana officials, in just week. The
thing is almost incredible and points
to fabrication.
"(3) Document 5, a letter from
the German General STAFF to the Boil
sheviki government, accrediting GER
tain German agents, is dated Oct,
1917 In Oct 1917, there was no
Bolsheviki government. Their coup
was delivered on our November Z.
We must suppose, therefore, that
the German General STAFF dated his
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

letters by the Russian chronology.
Even then, Oct, 1917 cannot be later
than November IL, so that five days
after the Bolsheyiki coup the German
General STAFF is assigning its agents.
to the Bolsheviki minister of Foreign'
Affairs, and minister of Finance. And
always on the supposition that Berlin
thot in terms of the Russian calendar.
go Document is a letter from
the German General Staff to the Com
missary of Foreign Affairs ordering
the election of a large number of
Bolsheviki leaders to the general exc
cutive committee by the Soviet con-
vention. These leaders are spoken
of as candidates for reelection, so
that the Soviet convention must have
been in session. The convention was
opened January rs. But the German
letter is dater January IL. Again
we must suppose the general staff at
Berlin to be using the Russian Choir
nology which would make the date
exactly January 25-a striking coin
cidence.
These are but specific items. The
general tone of the documents is a
strain upon credulity. The orders
and instructions and demands and
responses have the directness of a
thieves kitchen; it is not the way in
which government conspiracies are
couched. Mr. Creel owes it to the
country to do his best to find out
whether we are really face to face
with the most extraordinary cabal in
history or whether Mr. Sisson is the
victim of a gigantic hoax"
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
OF
BOLSHEvlKI PAPERS

A good deal of comment has been
made in the capitalistic press relating
to the supposed Bolsheviki activities,
and there has been reproduced what
is supposed to be discriminating evil
dence as to the Bolsheviki intrigue
with Germany. In view of this COM
ment, the following from the New
York Evening Post on this matter will
be of interest;
The Bolsheviki Documents
''Mr Creel is confronted by SIM
pie and immediate duty. He should
supply the newspapers with facsimile
reproductions of the documents that
Mr. Sisson brought with him from
Europe and which, in the English
translation, have been given to the
press We do not ask for this be-
cause we think the material as given
out by the Committee of Public Infor-
nation does not correctly represent
the originals, but because we believe
that the documents themselves are far
from being above suspicion, and
should therefore in their exact form
be subjected to as wide a scrutiny as
possible.
''In the material as printed, there
is plenty of ground for doubt. 1t may
be that the publication of the Rus
sian or German facismiles will sup
ply other evidence. The plain fact
is that some of the most important
charges and documents brought for
ward by Mr. Sisson were published in
Paris months ago and have, on the
whole, been discredited. Mr. Sssop
remarks of Document 2, printed in
the Petit Parisien, that the Petro-
grad Bolsheviki papers proclaimed it
a falsehood. He does not tell US
what new reasons there are for be-
lieving in the authenticity of Docu-
ment 2 in view of the very solid argu
ments that were made against it,"
The Post then goes on to say that
the Sisson Documents now have only
on academic interest, as the policy of
the Allied governments has been de-
termined by other and more power
full data. 1t then continues as follows.
I'VE are coming nearer to condi-
tiops with regard to the whole war
in which the character of the govern
ment's information must inevitably
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

world conAagratlon has swept from
one nation to another dumped all
boundries. 1t is something deeper
than that. 1t is a war of democracy
against autocracy. So we British are
inclined to think and who does not
hope that out of the welter of it all,
democracy will emerge VIGOROUSLY?
But No Mans Land is not line that
divides autocracy from democracy. AT
the beginning of the war England
Joined hands with Russia. "Democ-
racy," if you will, in league with
world-detested Tsarism.
Why the war. German aggression
Even if Germany alone were to blame
why German aggression? Why seek
new colonies? Why seek an outlet
in the East? Why seek ports on the
Atlantic? Why increase her navy?
Why so jealous of England? Why?
Trade! Gentlemen" said prom
inent Canadian manufacturer, I'VE
must recognize that this is funda-
mentally a trade war, and we must
prepare for the war after the<war. :
And so long as the existing indus
trial and commercial system exists,
we may look forward to war. Our
Canadian manufacturers are already
planning to take advantage of wider
markets after the war. So are the
manufacturers of every civilized conn
try in the world. So are the manu-
facturers in the countries which till
recently have been new fields for
exploitation. Where the the new
morkets to come from? Rebuilding
devastated Europe may take few
years, and then we shall need to
knock it to pieces again or our work
will cease! That, of course, taken
for granted that Europe can pay US
for our work of rebuilding, but how
repay us except in goods which we
don't want, lest they should ruin our
own industries.
i No! The advocates and benefi-
| ciar'rs IF the present system can show
us no way out.
ut is possible" says a writer in
The Nation, "that the human race has
| now entered upon a generation, an
J age, or an aeon in which war will be
the normal state. and peace extraor'
binary; war the rule, peace the ex-
ception; war continuing almost unin'
terruptedly, and peace breaking out
only now and then"
] Permanent war-or Revolution
Surely the human race will not be sc
blind as to refuse the alternative
Even without the aid of machinery
or scientific knowledge, man was able
| to produce enough to sustain himself
and devote considerable time to arr
and religion. With oar modern equip
lment, if instead of grasping after
more profits, we could produce what
we need, there would be enough fol
all and to spare.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
FINALSNOTICE

In the U. S. Commissioners Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
j. Stokes, Administrator of the Es-
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
has filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Friday, the z2nd day of Novem-
Der, 1918, at 2 o'clock p M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probate
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place for the hear
ing of the said account and the OBJ
jections thereto, II any, and for the
dictribution of the residue of the
said estate.
JAMES j. STOKES,
E.... Administrator.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

tenn was abolished, ~ the United
States this great social change was
ccompanied by q var; in British pos
sessions it was brought about without
bloodshed. The end was the same
the freeing OF, the slaves-the aboli-
tion of an Anticipated social system.
This is essentially what we mean
by reyolution-the freeing of the
slaves-the abolition of the anti
quated social system. Since the in
dustrial revolution new species of
slavery has grown up-a social con-
dition in which workmen not owing
their tools of production are Deepen
dent upon others for their livelihood.
Production has become social; owner
ship and control have remained in
the hands of few privileged individ-
pals who exercise life and death au-
thority and reap wealth undreamed
of by the old slave owners. Under
these conditions the old system of in
dividual ownership and control has be
come antiquated and must be replaced
by system of social ownership and
control. This means revolution-a
turning of the world upside down
or rather, since the world is now
wrong side up, it means turning the
world right side up. When icebergs
drift into warmer waters the submer-
ged parts gradually melts; the center
of gravity is changed; the state of un-
stable equilibrium cannot be long
maintained So one day there is big
splash-oyer she goes-upside down
stable equilibrium. In this present
social system the centre of gravity
has stiffened-confessedly we main
tain very wobbly and precarious ex-
istence. Revolution is inevitable
revolution that will bring not disas-
ter but state of stable equilibrium.
Revolution means the end of blood
shed because it means the end of
blood money. Why this war? War is
not thuder-bolt out a clear sky 1t
is not an unrelated phenomenon. 1t
has definite cause or combination
of causes. 1t has been estimated that
already in this war 1.-The killed and
dead by fighting alone comes to over
ten millions of the best men in Eur
ope" A little spark may kindle a
big fire, but surely murder in Serbia
can hardly be held to be the sole and
sufficient cause of the turning of the
world into a shamb;es. Why this
| war? 1t is not religious war the
| Kaisers and would-be Kaisers may
call it holy war. Catholic fights
| against Catholic, Protestant against
Protestant, Mohammedan against Mo
hammedan. 1t is not racial war
| black men and red men and yellow
men fight side by side with white
men against white men. National
aims and prejudices play their part
and a very important part, but this
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
CHARGES BAKER

WASHINGTON, Dec 31-Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon, Chairman of
the Committee on Military Affairs,
charged Secretary of War Baker with
extreme and unexplainable slowness
in paying to the U. S. soldiers their
war risk insurance He also blamed
Secretary Baker for the lack of hos
pital facilities for returned wounded
soldiers.
The Secretary claimed in his de-
Tense that his department has handled
all war risk insurance claims as ex-
peditously as possible and denied
Chamberlain charges of inadequacy
of hospital facilities entirely.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
CAPITALISM AND
The FUTURE

goods manufactured in Japan are
flooding the United States with the
product of cheap Japanese labor. The
market of China has always been
looked upon as lasting dumping
place for goods, but how much longer
will it remain that. What does the
phrase 1.-The open door in China"
really mean? Nothing else but that
no nation should have the advantage
thru treaties in the Chinese import
trade. The time to coerce China
seems to have passed, and that China
will yield to foreign pressure as she
did in 1909 when she proposed to
build the Hankow railroad without
European assistance, with Chinese
capital, but had to yield to the pro-
tests of European and American bank
ers backed by their respective gov
ernments seems to have passed
Nothing can give one better idea
of the power welded by international
capital than the fact that President
Taft asked the Regent of China to
give the American bankers a chance
to grab some of the bonds to be issued
for the construction of this road.
Then China yielded as it did in 1871
when Great Britain with guns and
battleships, during the so-called
opium war forced the Indian opium
upon China, never caring whit that
the Chinese government wanted to
stop the import and use of this dan
gerous drug.
But England did not seem to want
to go to war in 1907 when China pass
ed new opium exclusion law. The
time don't seem to be far off when
China will refuse to yield, and when
that happens, look out for squalls.
Whenever countries who are con-
Stunning the surplus of manufactures
cease to consume, times become hard
in the countries producing the sur
plus, factories close down and a panic
ensues. The closing of the factories
tends to restore the balance although
at he cost of considerable suffering of
the working class This occurs more
often the more other countries de-
velop their manufacturing abilities,
and at some time in the future all
countries will be producing a surplus
and there will be no place left to get
rid of it. Then the present system
will break down because there will
be no more profits to be made from
the export trade. When profit ceases
Capitalism will cease and industry
will have to established on a new
basis. And when Capitalism goes to
the wall, war, poverty, restitution,
most of the crime and a good deal of
disease will be also abolished. And
since the breakdown of the present
capitalistic system is in the course of
time inevitable, why should we wait
at an enormous cost in suffering and
lives until the rotten system works
out its own destruction? Why not
end it now, the world is ripe for the
change.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To ]. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con-
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex-
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years OF 1914, 1915,
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re-
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half (h) Of
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that il
within ninety 900 days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
neglect to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, your interest in
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 1924 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AL CAREY
Co-owner.
Published-Nov. 23, 80. Dec. Z, IA.
81, %. Jan. 4, II, IS. rs. Feb.1, s, Is.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

States Ratent for thu PLUTU9 AS
NATION PLACER mining claim
situate ON the left limit Of Dry Creak,
between the heads2of Peluk Geek and
franklin Gulch, about IA rsi1EsN.,E n.
Of the Town Of Nome. in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being MIN.
raj Survey No. 1915; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the Official snr-
vey thereof now on file in said Land
ONCE, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
BEGINNING at Cor. No, /, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1909, Mead
ow Association Placer; a fir post ms.
So, Q IT. above ground, in earth
mound, scriBed M.-3-1209 and 1-1215
P. whence U. s. L. NJ. Nc. 10 hears
N. 70 deg. "a min. E. 4822.4 #:
thence S. % deg. 43 min. w. (var.
IS deg. OS min. e. 1473,60 It. to Cor.
No. 2, fir post 4. #. long, ms. 50.
in earth mound soribed 2-1215 p;
thence N. So deg. 05 min. w. (Yar.
18 deg. 10 min. ED 1218.10 IT. to
Cor. No. 8, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1903, Osiris, Placed; thence
N. II deg. 81 min. 3. .(Var IS deg.
03 min. E.)1226.7o It. to Cor. No. A,
identical with Cor. No. /, Sur. No.
1909, Osiris Placer; thence S. IA deg.
16 min. E. (yar. IS deg. .e3 min. sE)
1890 TT. to Cor. No. / and place of
beginning; containing an area of 3D.
25S acres. Total area applied for be-
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1909,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex-
tent of 0.5S9 acres, and by Survey No.
1909, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex-
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so in
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby Or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on I'M
surveyed ground on the left limit Of
Dry Creek, between the heads OF
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 21s miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. l.. M. No. 10, to which
this claim is tied, is fir post, painted
white, 6 ms. So. 5 it. above ground,
scribed U. S. l.. M. No. 10. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about SO TT. from the
railroad and 2 " miles North of Ber-
ing Sea, in Latitude ga deg. 80 min.
North, Longitude 165 deg. II min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
100, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North, Survey No. 1909, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
| 1909, Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
FORD INCREASES WAGE

DETROIT Jan 2-The Ford Motor
Company of this city concluded very
successful year by paying a two hun
dred per cent dividend to their stock
holders. The company after the dis
tribution of this melon most gracious
ly raised the minimum wagescale of
their employees 81 per day paying
now Sc per day to IS paid formerly.
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04

All indications point to resump-
ton of the struggle for the markets
of the world, in more intensive man
ner than ever, the motto inscribed on
the flags of the capitalistic nations
to be Every nation for itself and the
devil take the hindmost." All govern
ments seem to show little inclination
to dsarm or even consider reduction
in their armament especially their
navies, because they know, that no
matter what peace will be arranged
when they resume to market their
surplus manufactured products.
Every nation even the neutrals will
be anxious and in fact must protect
their home industries and how can
that be done unless import duties are
imposed to give them a chance to
compete with the manufactured pro-
ducts of countries that may be able
to produce cheaper than they can.
England, France and Italy have for
some time made preparations to turn
their factories who have been turning
out war materials into establishments
to manufacture agricultural machin-
purposes of manufacture etc, hereto
extensively imported from the U. S.
England and Germany. 1t is a fact
that all countries will have to raise
money, some of them an enormous
amount, to pay even the interest on
the debt incurred by them during the
war, and that some of the govern
ments will try to raise part of the
required revenue thru the we'll estab-
ished custolm of import duties, which
will act as a barrier to trade with
other countries.
But this flooding of the world
markets with surplus products will
have to come to an end when there
will be no more markets for the sur
plus products of the manufacturing
countries, and at that movement the
present capitalistic system will col
lapse and follow slavery and serfdom
into the discard. The number of
countries that consume more than
they produce is steadily growing less,
because they are struggling towards
acknowledgment. For long time the
South American countries were great
consumers of surplus products. But
lately several of these countries have
almost ceased as importers of manu-
features, importing to great extent
only machinery and raw materials.
Japan was for good many years a
grand dumpingplace for our surplus
products, but she has now surplus
products of her own to dump upon
other countries.
How pleased the manufacturers OF
the United States were some years
ago over the enormous amount OF
machinery exported from the United
states to Japan, accompanied by ex-
perts to show the Japs how to manip-
ulate these machines. But now thru
the expectation of this machinery,
Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1919-01-04
WAR OR REVOLUTION

this, they are, of course, simply ac-
cepting the principle on which this
war and every war is justified But
whether or not revolution will be ac-
companied by bloodshed is at most
incidental 1t is not as the school
men used to say, essential to reyolu-
ton. Illtreatment Of slaves disap-
peared when chattel slavery as sys-