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The Nome nugget., 1923-03-17
SECOND rl,laI ENDS
IN ACQUITrAL A

|
 The second trial of the case of the l United SMkes vs. Albert DelutAk,
 A young native boy. was called in the | U. 8. Commissioners court MondAy afternoon March IF. ct two o'clock.
 District Attorney Harrison repre- sented the government and Attorney Hugh O'Neill represented the defen-
 dant. The jury after due dehber-
 ation brought In a verdict of NOT
 GUILTY. s.s
 The first trial of this case was
 held Friday March sth. The juFy
 at that time was unable to asree and staid out all night. ending it. delibera,usons with . vote of six to six.
 Commissioner Thornton realised
 !tlnt to keep the jury longer would be farcial sod an unnecessary ex- pense to the government as well = . hardship on the jurors and aecor- dingy discharged the twelve msu. The representative of the Unhed states immediately gave notice of . new trial and the nev venire was issued. b The charge agahnst the defendant was "violat5on of ahe Bone Dry Act of Alaska. i" the specific charge being that of ''havdns alcoholic liquor in his possession. "
 The evidence upon which the de- fendant was brought into court was partly filaed container of about 14 ounce capacity. This bottle and |fts contents was the evidence. Ex- hibtt "A." for the government. The government established the fact that the defendant had become intoxicated from liquor from an- other bottle, but failed to prove that the bottle In evidence had ever been in the possession of the defendant. notwithsta nding the fact that Theo- dore Gregory is now serving . sen- tence of 6 months in the Federal ian for having been responsible for liquor coming into possession of De- lutak. When brought into court as witness Gregory denied the fact that he had given or sold liquor to the defendant.
 As the government based fts case on liquor in possession of the defen- dant Albert Delutak and failed to prove the fact. the jury brought in
 verdict of not guilty.
 Commissioner Thornton at the end of the trial made ruling that
 if carried out in the future sets . dangerous precedent. it was thds:
 The government introduces Exhibit
 "A" and then from the CommaNsion- CTS c6liection of seized contrabanA selected e conhainer purporting to have been taken from the residence o. Theodore Gregory. The District Attorney then passed both to tho jury. for them to SMELL and estab- I lish the identity of the two contain I ed aquors-(an impossible thing to dol
 At the conclusion of the trial I District Attorney Harrison stated that the "E1hibits.'' the two con- l tainers and their contents. must be
 removed from the jury room while
 the jury deliberates. Commission CT Thornton sustained the request of Harrison over the protest and ob3ec- 1 tion of Attorney O'Nefif, thereby
 establishing the precedent that
 EVIDENCE" can not remain for
 examination or degberation by : jury. Such decision Is perversion of Ahe law of evidence and is decd-
 edly dangerous in democratic country.
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N oric

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN; that the Registrafion Books for the registration of voters for the Manic ipal and School Beerd Election. to be held April 8rd, 1923. win close March 24th, 1928 at 5 o'clock p. m,
 E. GRIM M.
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eot c0lbeNti0n of dog-desh that the canine world of Seward Peninsuls affords.
 After the last man had left the scratch. speculation began to sim. ner. bubble and finally boil. One might hear such remarks as: Well if I were a betting man. I'd bet on So-and-So:" and "Td bet my poke on So-and-so, only my wife won't let me gamble" etc.. etc. ad infini. tum; but Of course there was no actual betting done. It isn't done in Nome. because it's feruenst the law. and Nome people dote on keep. ing the law In the spirit as well as to the letter.
 There were three prizes offered for the three teams making the course in the best time. The third prize was nice. new. crinkly ten-spos. Have you ndticed. nice. new. erin ky ten spot hos some very potent possibilities? Then. the second prize was two of the above mention ed nice. new. crinkly ten-apots ac- companied with . five-spot of the same general description and speci- fications. The hrat prise was four of the above described ten-pots. One may do . lot with four of them properly applied-or could before Mir. vohtead discovered that this was a very wicked world. and pro ceeded forthwith to make the world safe for grape-5uice. But what we staswed to say. was. that Ed. Rohn won the third prize. SIG: Leonard Seppala won the second prize, $25 and Billie Cameron won the first prize. $40--And on top of that he won something worth mAl- Hons of such trifiing first prizes. for when Billie slid across the scratch on the home-stretch. little Mrs. Billie was right there and she gathered the glorifed, victorious racer into her arms and covered him with the sweetSst kissess imaginable -ye scribe knows. because he saw 'em, and envied Billie, exceedingly. To win such prize one might do some undreampt-of deeds of valor- but. we started to talk of dog-mush- ing, and not about the prize Billie won which was not put up by the Nome Kennel Club. Who in thun- der wouldn't run his legs of for such prize.
 On the whole it was fine little race, and those who saw ft-nart'cu- larly those who saw Billie arrive were glad they were there.
 The order in which the entrants finished, Is as follows:
 w. H. CAMERON. ... ..1:29:17 LEONARD sEPPALA ;. ..1:s1:1s ED. KUHN ..'. 'o".' 2 AL CAREY .... .... .1:4O:37 TOM KOHANEK .... -. .1:41:15
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tion of Councilman H. Bursh sec onded and unanimously carried the city clerk was instructed to immed- lately telegraph the sum of S3.500 to the designated depository in Jun eau.
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In view of this telegram Mayor Maynard called special session of the City Council Sunday afternoon March 11th and the matter was thoroughly threshed out. On mo-
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On March A6h the Mayor receiv- ed the following telegram in acknow ledgment of the money received:
 Juneau. March IS. 1928 MAYNARD, Nome.
 In re your telegram of the 12th. The twenty five hundred doliars has been received. Every effort will be made to push harbor work as soon as weather permits. sTEEsE
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GET OUR PRICES ON DOG SEEDS

HARNESS FOR RSd AND SEND US fe ,4st ags
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The Kougarok mad7. due to leave Nome on March Is. has been held by the postmaster until the present snow storm is over. To leave for She interior at this time would be to needlessly expose the carrier to danger of death.
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MAIL ARRIVALS
 AND DEPARTURES

The regular outside mail arrived Wednesday afternoon. in charge of Peter Curran aud departed Frbday morning with the outgoing mail.
 As many Nomeites wait until the last minute of the last day before presenting their registered and par eel post matter the Postmaster has esta baished a new order. Hereaf- 1e- all registered and parcel post must be presented for mailing be- fore p. m. or will be refused. This fs done to protect the working force of the office and enable them to com plete their work before midnight of the closing day.
 Joe DeRosie will leave with the regular mail for Teller and north- ern points April 1st.
 Sam Torkelson arrived in Nome Thursday evening with the Teller mail Sam coming to Nome on business of his own gratuitously brought the accumulated mail with him.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08

who become members of it, has at least
the negative virtue of not making mat
tiers worse in the event of its failure to
settle an issue brought before it for adj
Indication. If the United States had
signed the Treaty of Versailles, the out
break of another great war in Europe,
such as some Europeans anticipate as
result of the present trouble between
Greece and Italy, would obligate this
country to become involved in matters
that do not directly concern Americans.
II the League of Nations does not
make good" in the present situation
and Italy has unequivocally announced
that she will neither submit the issue to
that institution nor accept any decision
1t may Ieach-then perhaps some rather
quiXotic people in this country will be-
gin to- think that maybe there is a pos
sibility of their having exercised more
zeal than knowledge when they advo-
Gated ratification of the Versailles
treaty by the United States.
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their reckless hands could not unveil.
They were drunk with their own
| glories, and the ultimate source of all
| things had no place in their philoso-
phies or their thoughts. 1t was true
that churches flourished among them,
| that charity received her due; but the
old virile faith, the reverent wonder,
the mighty urge that has achieved all
things that have been worth achieving
were cold and dead in their hearts.
But out here in this little, wind-blown
craft, surrounded by an immensely of
desolation beyond the power of their
minds to grasp, it was hard to hold
their old complacency. Their old phil
osophies were barrenly insufficient,
and they couldn't repel an ever deep
ening sense of awe. The wind. sweep
ing over them out Of the vastness, was
new voice, striking the laughter from
their lips and Installing a GOODNESS that
was almost fear in their warm, youth
full blood. The sun shoLc now, but
soon vast areas, not far off, would be
locked tight with ice; never the move
ment of a wave, never the flash of a
seabird's wing over the wastes, and the
thought sobered them and perhaps
humbled then. little, too. Sometimes,
alone on the deck at night, Ned was
close to the dearest reality, the most
profound discovery that could possibly
touch his life: that the dreadful spirit
Of God moved upon the face of thes.
desolate waters, no less than, as is
told in Genesis, at creations dawn.
Everything would have been differ
ent if they had come in larger boat,
for instance, one of the great liners
that piled between Seattle and Anchor
age. In that case, likely they would
have had no trouble in retaining their
old point Of view. The brooding tone
of the North would have passed them
by; the journey could still have re-
manned holiday instead of the
strange, wandering dream that it was.
The reason was simply that on a liner
they would not have broken all ties
with their old hfe. There would have
been games and dancing, the service of
menials, social intercourse and of the
superficialities and pretenses that had
until now composed their lives. Their
former standards, the attitudes from
which they regarded life, would have
been unaltered. There would have
been no isolation, and thus no darken-
ing of their moods, no haunting un-
easiness that could not be named or de-
scribed, no whispering voices heard but
dimly out of the sea. They could have
remained in their own old ramparts of
callousness and scorn. But here they |
were alone-lost and far on an empty |
sea, under an empty sky.
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue)
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SUPREME TEST FOR LEAGUE

The League of Nations could not
have wished for fairer opportuntv-t to
demonstrate its greatness than the one
presented by the sudden threat of war
between Italy and Greece If those two
nations should take the field against
each other, the whole of Europe, in its
highly combustible condition, might
burst into flames. So. the League would
be doing the world an incalculable
service if it would take control of the
situation and settle the controversy
satisfactorily to all parties concerned.
What are the prospects for solu-
ton of the problem by the League?
When the Italians, to show the world
how much they loved their fellow
lcaguers, bombarded Corfu, the League
announced that it would undertake to
compose the differences between the two
nations. The League wasn't slow to
recognize its duty as defined by the ar
ticlcs of its creation. SO far as intention
was concerned, the League was "on the
job"
But hardly had this announcement
Teen made before the Italian govern
ment, through Signor Montagna. its
minister at Athens, informed the Greek
government that it would "refuse to
recognize the decision of the League in
this controversy" The reason given
by Italy for this attitude is that the
matter in dispute affects "thc honor Of
the nation"
One might say that such a reason is
naive. But is that sort of naiyette dis
tlnctive of the Italians? To the future
attitudes Of peoples, as of individuals
there is only one guide-namely, Their
past attitudes. Has there ever been {
threat OF war that did not in some way
affect the honor" OF the nations involved
in the dispute?
Settling international issues is no
merely a mechanical matter. Befor'
any institution-the Court of Intcrna
tional Justice includcd-can prevent war
there must be will to peace on thu
part of the nations subscribing to it
rules. But even if such a will shoulc
appear it might easily be rendered in
effectual by poor mechanical devices de
signed to give it medium of practica
expression. So, the Court of Interna
! tional Justice, while by no means con
stitutlng guaranty OF peace to thos
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08
BRAHsIA.

If the red slayer think he Stays,
Or il the slain think be is slain
They know not well the subtle ways
/ keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forgot TO me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The .vanishd gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.
They reckon i'll who leave me out:
When me they fly, ! am the wings;
/ am the doubter and the doubt,
And l the hymn the Brahmin sings.
The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou. meek lover of the good
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08
SCHOOL LIFE IN ENGLAND

School life in England must be vcr,
monotonous-perhaps agreeably so t.
parents who pay the bills. For. accord
ing to an American mother who seems
to know what she is talking about-sh'
is there now, and her boy is getting al
English education-there is absolutely NJ
variety in the dress of the students, OF
in any of their paraphernalia. Every
thing is "cut and dried
Not that student is forbidden by
law to don red necktie or show little
Originality" in his choice. say. of shirts
But woe to him-or to her, either
who breaks over the traces of CUSTOM
1t simply isn't done.
One goes into a store to buy school
outfit. The clerk takes charge of the
situation. The parent may have notions
of his or her own-especially if he or
she is an American-and may also have
coolies of money with which to crafty
such ideas; vet there is no choice ex-
cept as to quality. Even the number of
garments which must comprise the out
fit is fixed, and anybody who expresses
a desire to depart from custom in this
respect gets a cold stare for his enter
prise.
To begin with. every English school
has a uniform. Each part OF the uniform
must be just so. even down to the
ubiquitous umbrella.
What chance. in England, would some
Of Our American school boys and girls
OF present-day tendencies have to crafty
the desire to be "different"? If an
American flapper, for instance, should ap-
pear in the class room some fine morn
ing attired in a dancing frock she would
probably be expelled as an undesirable.
"Swank,' says the American mother who
describes English school life, ais the I'M
sin" over there. Anything
that smacks OF pretense of snowy orig
inality, OF sentiment, of conceit. is bat
tered out OF boy so ruthlessly that for
ever after he walks in meekness. What
so often appears as reserve and disdain
in the English is merely an intense de-
sire, ingrained at school. to sink into
the background
After all, then. the English System"
may not be so inferior as an Americana
thinking of the limitless possibilities af-
fnrded by American school life for cx-
preston of Originality" might at first
be inclined to regard it. There are some
American boys and girls who might
profit considerably by a few years
schooling under conditions designed to
disabusc their minds of several notions
that arc too common among Young stu
dents in this country. For example.
the notion that the sole function of
Father is to provide an allowance big
enough to enable Son or Daughter to
make the greatest chit" in school.
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A Puzzle a Day

A man was asked the age Of his
two sons. "The elder" he said, sis
just three times the age Of III,
younger. If you multiply the age Of
each by itself, and add the two re-
suits together, the total will be 800. "
What were the ages of the two sons
Yesterdays answer:
Thirty-seven is the number from.
which, if ten is subtracted, the re-
mainder multiplied by three; then the
product divided by nine and nine sub
tracted, nothing will be left.
This problem is exceedingly simple,
although it apepars difficult. Merely
start with nothing and work it back
ward. thus.
0 plus . equals ..
times Q equals ST.
ST divided by 8 equals "a.
p plus 10 equals 81.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08
AMT 1 LUCKY?

Modern Man:
When I think of Ancient Man
And his stoney pot and pan;
How he fought for life each day
Seeking after his wild life prey.
Swinging slyly from limb to limb,
Back there alone, just she and him;
Living solitary among hostile life,
Consumed with the lust of devouring
strife;
Man Supreme, beast, subordinate:
Filled with the love of blood NOR
dinate;
An electric shock jolts through my
spine
l must say proudly in the face of
time:
SAINT lucky?"
l can see them now back through
the ages
INDUCING in one of their petty
RACES;
Cussin' the wolf that served as dog;
Eating wild boar, their domestic hog.
Sitting there in their cavelike home,
Gnawing the remnants of a cast off
bone.
When l sit down to my steaming
hot grub
can not help but think of those
old time "dubs;"
With calm soliloquy of the modern
day race
And the swift advancement of civil
ization's pace;
When my fingers grasp my weekly
pay,
Can you blame me, then, when I say
"Ain't 1 lucky?"
When I think of the perils the cave
man faced,
Through all the countless ages trac-
ed;
An old thought flashes through my
mind,
As I glance about upon my kind;
And see the luxuries that they IN
dulge,
can not help IL, must divulge:
"Ain't lucky?"r
"MAK" SMITH.
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NEW WRINKLE IN TAXATION

1t is reported that Senator Smoot pur-
poses to introduce at the next session
OF Congress bill providing for the levy
ing of an expenditure tax" Exactly
what that means, or what meaning he
would have it convey, is not made quite
clear by press dispatches describing his
scheme and quoting his own illustrations
OF the prospective measures effect
Possibly there would be a real diff
ference, as we'll as a distinction, be-
tween the actual, practical meaning of
expenditures tax" and the construction
which Senator Smoot hopes the people
will put upon the quoted phrase. For
the gentleman from Utah was the author
OF the sales-tax bill which was defeated
at the last session of Congress, and it
is difficult to see how a tax on expendi-
lures could vitality differ from a tax
on sales. In either case, unless the
world of economies should become
turned upside down between now and
the converting of Congress, the consumer
would have to pay the tax.
1t may be, therefore, that Senator
Smoot is simply doing the best he
knows how to get around the popular
aversion to sales tax. The title which
he would give to the new measure
doesn't have such an onerous sound
although phonetically there isn't much
to recommend it. Expenditures" is
word most frequently applied to the
purchases of the wealthy-people who
have secretaries or business managers
to total up their income and outgo and
keep them informed as to the size of
their bank balance from time to time.
The suspicion that Senator Smoot
is trying to "gct by" with an old project
under new name may have no basis
in fact. But if it is his purpose to con-
vince the little fellow" that he will not
be affected by the Expenditures tax"
then he oughtn't to have chosen at least
one of the illustrations which he used
in his first attempt to explain just how
the tax would work" If person Eek
pended" $3.50 for pair of shoes, he
said, there would be no tax to be paid |
under the provisions of the prospective
bill but if the shoes cost S7.50-ah. then |
there the Expenditures tax" would step
III. OOuDtIcSS lHtIC arc some lew num-
dred thousands Of American consumers
who would appreciate information from
Senator Smoot as TO where they could
buy respectable shoes for $3.50.
Senator Smoot is quoted as saying
that the expenditures Of farmers would
be exempt Cup to $1,000" Presumably
this means annual expenditures. Even
so, it is difficult 70 see how the gov
eminent could get much revenue from
the farmers by means OF a tax with
such liberal exemption. How many
farmers of anybody's acquaintance Eek
pend" as much as $4,000 a year? Very
few farmers make that much
So, seemingly, in addition to pretend
ing that the tax would not apply to
the little fellow" Senator Smooth is
scheming to do something" for the
chosen wards of the farm bloc-and to
do it under the guise of solving the gov
ernments revenue problem.
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Poets Corner
YES, 1 WANT NO BANANAS.

went walking along;
Singing some old love song.
Happy and gay.
On me the sunlight shone;
was quite all alone,
Content was l.
My feet began to reel;
So sick it made me feel,
Then down l went.
My feet went in the air;
They did not belong up there,
What could l do?
And then / hit the grounod;
l made an awful sound,
l fell so flat.
The people stared at me;
Shouted and laughed with glee,
But helped me not.
/ then regained my feet;
And ran on down the street,
My day was ruined.
You are greater than man;
You do what no one can,
Curses on you.
Hatred untold 1 feel;
For you slippery Banana Peel,
l hate you well,
If / but had my way;
In Cuba you would stay,
Forever more.
No more on you I'd slip;
My coat and pants to rip,
No, nevermore,
This land would be divine;
Forever for me and mine,
If you were gone.
Happy and loud I'll sing;
And church bells all shall ring,
If you'll stay away.
A monument I'll build:
For those whom you have spilled,
To reach the SKY.
CLIFFORD WESLEY.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

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after all. my dear. one OF a pair of
lovers is always more deeply in love
and that Is the one that suffers" Yes.
but the other one. is the bored party
and find that thought consoling.''-
La Vie Parisienne.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08

Now that the vacation season is over,
we are compelled to admit that most
summer resorts would be all right if so
many people didn't go there.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08

others. Nor is any diminution in the
demand probable in the next ten years.
In fact the breeder who will raise the
standard can have an almost unlimited
field and command a top price.
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Where to Go
Motion Pictures.

Motion Pictures.
Palace: Mae Murray in "Th.
French Doll"
Empire: Gloria Swanson in Blue
boards Eighth Wife"
Princess: Agnes Ayres in 'The
Heart Raider"
Rialto: "Penrod and Sam"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08

Greece has filed a formal protest
against the occupation of Corfu by the
Italians. When a nation is little. it
files a protest; when it is big it fights.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-08

A we'll known lecturer says more
leisure is needed for culture. How can
anybody find leisure for culture with
;nstallments falling due every month";.