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The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09
SUMMER SCHEDULE OF
U. s. RADIO STATION

Week days--10 a. NJ, to 6 p. N.
Sundays-s:s0 a. M. to $3.50 g.
H.. and p. m. to 6 p. m.
The regular collecting stations arc
at Lomen's Drug Store and the Gold
en- Gate Hotel. Those who do not
wish to walk to the radio station in
order to file their kilograms can
leave them at either Of these places
and the messenger boy will call for
them. u...
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09
MINERAL APPLICATION
No. ta,20
I UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
NOME. ALASKA,
IulN Is. 100

NJ hF., Ats+ASh "A,
July is. 1924
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN,
that Harmon Consolidated GO'd
ields, a corporation. organized I'M
der and existing pursuant TO the
laws OF the State of Maine, author
ized to dc and doing business in the
Territory OF Alaska, the Post Office
address OF which is 1873 California
Street. san Francisco. California,
has. through II. R Edwards. its
duly authorized agent and attorney
in fact. whose Post Office address is
Nome. Alaska. made application to
the United States Land Office at
Nome. aska. for a United States
latent for placer mining ella N
known and described as CANDY As
ISOLATION Claim placer, situate on
Penny River. in the Cape Nome Min
ing District, Alaska, under Mineral
Survey No. 1891. Said claim is
more particularly Described in the
field notes of the official survey
thereof as follows. to-wit:
BEGINNING at Cor. No 1,
Identical with the original s. W.
Cor of the location and Cor No.
6 Of Wayne Associat on Sur No.
1908. limestone boulder 6xSx-
II in. ont OF the Ground, chiSai-
ii 1881 c CIV 1905, whence
L S. T.. NJ, No 1922 bna"S :; 8
deg IS min. W. 557G5O feet;
Thence y, 81 deg. o. min F.
2t20.-U feet TO Cor No ; = ir
post scr b d 2-13S2 G.; thence n. 1
deg 10 min. f 29S9So faet to
Cor No 8 fir pOSt scribe b
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09

August .. 1924
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN
bar Holm DAVIS DcFRIES. whose
,ost office address j. Nome. Alas
"a has made applicatior before
h.. Tnited states Land Once at
,omn Alaska for a United States
latent for that certain placer min
ing claim known as the RUTH
Placer claim, situated on the
r L.. first tier OF benches Of
Vurget creek, tributary of
oregon Creek. about 100o # W.
oy tb.. confluence of Oregon and
Epagat Cranks and about 90
n,IIes \ w of tho town Of
Nome in the Cam Nome Min
iny and Recording Precinct and
Ds+rict Tarritory of Alaska
and baiue mineral survey No.
TgS. sad claim heing more
narticu1arlv described i'm the
,1,+ ond 6aId notes Of the OtfiC-
iar survey thereof. now Oh file
in tha office of the registe" Of
The Tinted states Land Office
a, Nome Alaska Wit, magnetic
v.r;atiars of from Is dog, o.
min + tn 90 deg OS min. F..
-. folInys
paerinnine at corner No. /, den
ticaI Win corner NJ. 4 survey
Va ,2e5 IF G. + Eenrh Placer.
live stowe qy4 ins - ms
,bove sro,,nd stone mound
along side chisefed 1-13S4R for
this survey. from whence L. S
l.. NJ. No. l1Os bears y. 81 deg
q, ,,,:, L % 81 fbeprn
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT.
Mineral Application No. 0631.
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT NOME, ALASKA
Anuust 1904

August ,. 1924.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that JOHN DAVIS DeFRIES, who's"
post office address is Nome. Alas
ka. has made application before
the United States Land Ofticr at
Nome. Alaska, for a United States
Patent Tor that certain placer min
ing claim known as the CARABOO
FRACTION PLACER CLAIM. stu
ated on the l., l.. of Oregon Creek,
a tributary of Cripple River, and
on Short Creek. a tributary of Ore
gon Greek. about 20 miles y. w.
of the town of Nome, in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
iEg Precinct. Territory of Alaska.
and being Mineral Survey No.
1869. said claim being more par
field notes of the official survey
thereof. now on file in the office of
the register of the United States
Land Office at Nome. Alaska with
magnetic variations OF from is deg.
81 min. f. to 20 deg. OF min. F..
as follows
Beginning at Cor. No l iden-
teal with corner No. Survey
No. 1866. Portland Bench Pla-
Ger. an andecite stone Ike ms.
l foot above ground. chiSeled
1-l369C for this survey, from
whence U. S. l.. NJ. No. llO9
bears S. 81 deg. Sc min. w.
207O90 it. distant, thence N.
SO deg. % min. E. $3.50 TT.
to corner No. 2. schist stone
26x9x6 ms. set one foot in the
ground. chiseled 2-1369C thence
S. 54 deg. SO min. f. S32 10 IT.
to corner No. 8. lime stone
2SxSx6 ms set IA inches in
ground. chiseled 3-1369C. thence
S. Sc deg. 81 min. W. 5O9.1O
it. to corner No. 4. identical
with corner No. 3. Survey No.
1866, Portland Bench Placer, a
lime stone 1870 ms. - ms
above ground. chiseled 4-1369-C.
thence N So deg. 80 min. w.
1361.50 TT. to Cor. No. |. and
place of beginning. containing an
area of 122O2 acres.
The notice of amended loca-
ton of said placer mining claim.
is recorded in Vol. EOS. at Page
1872 of the records of locations.
III tue oh1SC vi Vic ikStoA"N' ~
the Cape Nome Precinct. Terri
tory of Alaska.
There are no conflicting claims
The adjoining claims are on
the North and East, claims I'M
known and unsurveyed: on the
South, Survey No. 1866, Port
land Bench Placer. this appli-
cant claimant; on the West No.
on Oregon Creek. unsurveyed
claimant unknown.
The Location Monument to
which this survey is tied, is To-
Gated and described as follows:
U. S. L. NJ. No. 1909, is lime
stone block in place Sx4 it.. IT.
high with stone mound on s.
side OF same. chiseled U. S. L.
h NJ. No. 1903, and is situated on
a bluff about 20 IT. above the r.
L. of Oregon Creek, whence the
top of Nugget Mountain bears
s. So deg. 06 min. E. top of Hog
Back Mountain bears S. z deg.
IS min. F.. in Latitude 81 deg.
Il min. N. Longitude 1S5 deg.
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09

II IN HE Nj Ell = | y RS Ian u
: OFFICE AT NOME. ALASKA
August 2. 1924.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
| that JOHN DAVIS DeFRtES. whose
post office address is Nome. Alas
/ ka, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
None. Alaska. for a United States
! Patent for that certain placer min
! ing lain known as the GENERAL
SMART Placer Claim. situated on
the l.. L., second tier of benches OF
| OREGON Creek. . tributary of Crip-
/ pie RIVER, about 30 miles y. W.
o the town of Nome. in the Cape
Nom" Mining and Recording Pre-
, cinct. TER. of Alaska. and being
i Min. Sur. No.1383, said placer min
| ing claim being more particularly
descr bed in the official plat and
| field notes of the survey thereof.
now On file in the office of the Reg
lister of the United States Land
| Otficr at Nome. Alaska. with
| magnetic variation of from 10 deg.
| A. min. F. to 20 deg. 0S min. e.
"a follows:
! Beginning at Cor. No. l iden
! teal with Cor. No. 4. Survey No.
( I"'o' Lara ME behch flacer.
| quarts ana Srhist stone eA' ms
! ms above ground with earth
/ H1"uhu ai"hsaihe' chiaeIed
I l"s"-GH toF TINS survey from
/ whence ;. L. VI. NO. llo"
/ bears y. 10 deg. Is min. w.
1881 TT. thence y. As deg
81 min. f. 10000 #. to Cor.
No .. identical with Cor. No. .
Laramie bench Placer survey
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09
NOTICE OF .APPLIt ALTON
FOR PATENT.

Mineral Application No 0632
IN THE UNITED STATES Land
OFFICE AT NOME. ALASKA
Annrll.t Q 1lDt
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09

Mineral Application No. 0633.
n THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT NOME. ALASKA
Aupust 1904
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09

AZ min. W.
JOHN SUNpBACK.
Register.
Publish Aug. 2. 8. 10. %. 80. Sept
6, IL. 20. -. 1924.
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09
NOTICE OF APPLN ALTON
FOR PATENT.

Mineral Application No. ot3f.
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT NOME. ALASKA
AuuuSt 1924
The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1919-1934, 1924-08-09

chiseled L-4-1365. thence y. So
deg. IS min. ". $3.50 it to Cor
No. l.. and place Of beginning.
containing an area of 1920
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Classics Furnish New Material
For Rambler in Investigations
the Past Sets Him Right When He n
Wrong Portrait Hote PeobleAo - Sene

~ EGRET for a word or an act
- may trouble a man for ~,
minute, but contritior 49,
not long oppreS~
Evening star., 1924-06-22
l will set down truly what the old

l will set down truly what the old
man said 1t follows:
'1t was not Paul Peter Rubens who
painted the portrait you saw. We
had a blacksmith at the crossroads
yonder who, besides shoeing mules,
painted barns and wagons. When he
had no work to do he painted por-
traits. They never looked like hui
man beings, but they were genuine
oil paintings. We called him Rube-
Rube Jackson, 1 think, his full name
was.
when / was a youth, in 1900, my
father called me to the dining room
and said the family would hold a
conference or an inquest on me. He
said: Pyle, your brother Bill is
running the farm very well. and your
brother Dan is working the lower
place all right, but you haven't sense
enough to hoe tobacco or get in out
of the rain. You have never learned
anything, and you never will learn
anything, SO the family has deter
mined to give you a thorough educa-
tion and set you up in a learned pro-
fession.'
MY SlSlcl SdI dn Sdlu luluh lie
might do well in medicine but my
father said: No. He is so careless of
human life that he might exceed the
ethics of his profession and the
ghost of some patient would come
back and shoot him.
Then my mother said: IF we
could make a preacher out Of Pyle
it would please my fond heart But
my father disapproved. He said:
That boy plays seven-up at the Good
Hope Tavern, fights chickens and
bets on horse races, and he would
| never rise higher than a bishop
"WelI,' said my sister Jane, ii
| there's nothing else he's good fol
you might put him into the law a,
Port Tobacco, Dumfries or Brents-
| WILLIE No. said my father. Z have
always wanted my sons to do some
thing creditable to the family name
| X
| IS 4 FTER my graduation from col
| lege the family thought the
4 best thing to do was to have Presi-
| dent Jefferson appoint me to some
| thing. My father and Mr.. Jefferson
were friends, and often drank tea
out of the saucer together. Wher
| my father rode up to the White
House Mr.. Jefferson said: I might
! appoint Pyle in the diplomatic
| service and give him a post where
there is yellow fever. But, never
having done anything in politics fol
the good of the party, 1t was found
that 1 could not be made an ambas-
| sador. I got a. commission Of some
kind signed by the President
The National Intelligencer, nine
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Walking south from Good Hope to-
ward Redds Corner, the Rambler
came to a lane, tall-hedged with
Eracious-smelling box. At the lanes
far end was a house. The door was
opened by a woman with beautiful
gray hair. and whose face. mellowed
by lines of experience, any romantic
man would love. She led him to the
parlor, and said in a gentle way:
You seem so tired. Can l per-
suade you? We have had it in the
house a long time"
NO persuasion is needed" an
swered the Rambler.
After the customary good wishes,
the lady pointed to a portrait in a
large gilt frame, and said:
This is my ancestor. 1t was
painted by Rubens. His name was
Eurypylus Smith, and he was named
for his ancestor, who served under
Evening star., 1924-06-22

A S these findings of ancient pottery
at Kerak led us to the discovery
Of the old kir, so have the potsherds s
established for many other investi-
gators authentic data concerning
various periods OF history. Articles
of iron and textile fabrics have rusted
and rotted, but the potsherds have
not perished.
Old pots in Palestine indicate the
ages from which they come as posi-
lively as do Dolton and Limoges in
dicate the ages and stage of modern
ceramic art in Europe. In the past
twenty years the science of pottery
has been carefully worked out in
connection with archaeological ex-
plorations. Now there is known very
definitely the pottery which belonged
to the early bronze age. 25o0-1s00
B. c., the middle bronze age, 1900
1900, and the late bronze age, from
1900 to a more indefinite date.
1t was because of this recent de-
velopment of the science of potsherds
that the Xenia Seminary expedition
was able TO make the first really
archaeological survey of the region
of the civilization of Sodom and
Gomorrah.
But our objective was in the plain,
not at Kerak. We changed to a
muleteer pack and started down
5000 feet in few miles.
We had literally combed the plain
for information.
An Identification of the ancient city
of Zoar made by Gen. Kitchener as
being located at Ell Ubrous, far up in
the foothills of the mountains of
Moab, we found to be inaccurate.
There was no water for miles around
A mountain fortress such as that at
Ubrous oight be located on a noun
tain, to guard the caravan road, but
the inhabitants of the plain dwelt
near the water. All the heaps of an
cient ruins are along the water
course.
But what might not be at the bot
tom of these heaps of ruins dotting
the plain? We had to find out. Our
Bedouin diggers went down to the
virgin sand and gravel. We found
not trace of anything that went
back within two thousand years of
the time of Sodom. Here was an ex-
act parallel to the silence of Scrip
ture concerning this region from the
time of Abraham on.
When our excavations, however.
had led us as far as the shore of the
sea a real discovery awaited us. On
the east side of the sea was a sub
merged forest extending in places
about a mile out from the shore. An
western side of this lower end of the
sea- These trees grew on dry land
certainly within a hundred years,
probably less.
Does it need an archeilogist to
tell the reader what this means? The
sea has been rising. There are other
evidences. 1 have myself been max
ing observations on the Dead Sea for
| thirty-two years. When 1 first saw
| the sea there was a beautiful island
| in the north end. In 1924 1 passed
over that island in eight feet of wa.
| ter.
We traversed the shore and came
| up the plain along the old Roman
road, of which branch runs down
the Lisan, the tongue of land that
| juts out from the east and nearly
cuts the sea in two. Arabs still
living at Kerak remember when
camel caravans used to ford the sea
Evening star., 1924-06-22

from the top, is a mari mixed with
pure sulphur. Lumps of it may be
picked up far and wide over the plain.
The salt and sulphur incrust every
thing in the neighborhood A GER
tain pinnacle of the mountain in
crusted with it has been pointed out
by the Arabs as Lots wife. That
identification is only legend, but the
incrustation shows exactly what hap
pened to the poor woman, reluctant
to leave her home. Some people
imagine the whole story to be
myth. 1t is the simplest narrative of
historical fact.
The biologists, Wright and Blanck-
enkorn, while working here twenty
years ago, found unmistakable evil
dence of just such a catastrophe as
the Bible records. This is a burned
out region of oil and asphalt. The
oil has collected again; in fact, they
are now drilling for oil near Hebron.
At some point in historical time, the
date of which geology cannot fix,
something kindled the gases which
accompany oil. There was an up
heaval and then subsistence and the
Evening star., 1924-06-22
A Sharp=Angle Bridge.

THERE used to be a bridge SPAN
= ming the Rio Pasig, in Manila,
which was built V-shaped. This pc
culiar construction caused wonder
why the structure took such odd form.
The reason was this: In the center of
the stream was small island which
was out Of plumb with the street
footing on either bank. In order to
use this island as a support for the
center of the bridge the engineers
were compelled to build the bridge in
the form Of a letter v.
In Japan. however. the people build
bridges with sharp angles just for
the novelty of the thing. Bridges the
world over are noted for their
straight lines. The Japanese like
something novel, especially II 1t is
along lines that appeal to their ar
tistic sense. They dislike to be imi-
tators, and to this dislike is due the
large number Of tourists who visit
their land year in and year out In
stead Of building bridges to f1nd con-
venient natural supports. the Japa-
nese build them as an attraction.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Agamemnon at Ilium and slew Me-
lanthius. His mother was a daughter
of Peleus, who crossed the Euxine
Sea to Colchis with Jason. Families
sprung from persons who went TO
England with the Conqueror or came
to America in the Mayf1ower are very
new. We are proud of our descent
from Eurypylus Smith"
X
7 RESUMED my walk, and came to
spot 1 thought delightful. A
rail fence. stained gray by time and
draped with trumpet vine, stood
crooked in a field, and this field,
gramine ct foribus vestiebatur. 1t
seemed as beautiful as that shining
place where Proserpina played and
plucked violets and fair lilies when
Pluto caught her:
Dunn Proserpina luco
Ludit, ct aut violas aut candida lila
carpit,
Evening star., 1924-06-22

at that point. When the sea had
filled in enough at the upper end. it
ran over at this point and flooded
the southern plain.
X X x
A LII the time we were camped at
Ghor Els Saf on this plain there
had been-glaring in the sunlight day
by day-that great white mountain
on the west shore; not so high as
those back of it, but conspicuous be-
cause cleaning like a veritable
mountain of salt. res, salt! That
is exactly what CLEANS and flashes
there. We hired a motor boat at Ell
Mezra, the port of Kerak on the sea,
to cruise about that salt mountain.
1t is known as Jebel Csdum and con-
sists of a stratu of rock salt $50
feet thick at the base. Between the
layers, and running down over them
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Tragedy of Sodom and Gomorrah !.
Verified by American Explorer
Who
;nPe GaesOn Ra;nedFv

CCIENCE has at last conquered.
- in its long search for the SHES
of the wicked biblical cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah, says Dr.
Melvin Grove Kyle, eminent ar
cheologist. In the following arti-
Gle he sets forth the results of the
recent expedition which he led.fnto
the region of the Dead Sea. The
party discovered the first scien-
tific evidence of the actual exist
ence of the ancient cities, which
were destroyed by rain of lsrim.
stone and fire, at the time Lots
wife, looking back, was turned
into a pillar of salt.
The expedition, according to. DR..
Kyle, showed that the two critics
were destroyed as described. and
DR.. Kyle says the fate of Lot's'wife
is scientifically possible.
The Investigations of DR.. Kyle
and his fellow explorers, accom-
plished in association with the
American School of Oriental Re-
search at Jerusalem - investiga-
tions Of outstanding historical i'm
portance-met with success
denied to previous searcheTs be-
cause Of recent developments in
the study Of ancient pottery. 1t
is now possible to determine the
date of ruins from fragments of
pottery.
DR.. Kyle found corroboration of
the biblical story in pottery or be
early bronze age, 250o-1SW RC.
Sodom was destroyed at least 500
years before the death of the
Egyptian king, Tut-ankh-Amen. and
possibly much earlier. Lot was
the nephew Of Abraham. and, ac-
cording to some authorities. the
latter entered into this region
about $500 B.C.-more than
thousand years before the Trojan
war and eighteen centuries oefore
the Greeks defeated the Persians
at Marathon.
DR.. Kyle thoroughly explored
the region of the Dead Sea, the
lowest sheet of water in the world
"a region, in which civilization is
said to have been established by
Lot. In this vicinity drilling for
oil is now being carried on. Ac-
cording to DR.. Kyle the site OF the
cities which were destroyed by hre
now lies under the rising waters
of the Dead Sea.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

~ EGRET for word or an act
- may trouble man for -
minute, but contritior 6oes
not long oppres~-bim He
CEN always justify s1rosa,f m him.
self. even thoun dimly or brightly
conscious trat the iust,fication ~
laoored. The Rambler regrets
"o-a or line he. wrote in the Good
f1oEs ramble last Sunday. He can
Not Justify himself, and, naturally, he
Viii try. The offense was in that
sarsRraph where he told of Lis In
fseest In lady named Clio. one of
Fhe ntne daughters of Mnesonype. He
ODD not name her sisters, though he
sarhits that one of them, very
Sracefrl dancer, Miss Terpsichore,
caught his eye, while another sister,
Miss Euterpe, played the Tyre de-
hghtfuily and recited poetry without
oe1ng more of a bore thar usual
There was some dispute az to the
pafentage of those girls, but the
Gambler never rakes up scandals. He
sald that he used to ride his old
mare Pegasus out to the Olympus
heigEborhood; that the realtors had
subdfvided it into building lots: that
a gas station had been put up, and
that there were many changes since
his fellow writer Homer was there.
That compound word, fellow
writer was the Ramblers undoing.
His old friend, Bill Mooney of the
city post Office, has brought him
letter the same week 1t was mailed,
and which comes from a serious-a
very serious-reader. That reader. or
writer, denounces the Rambler for
associating himself with Homer, and
says: Homer was a famous writer
of the olden time, and considerably
superior to many writers we have
today
The Rambler had no intent to de-
fame Homer. He has been told by
his friends. Miss Marian Baker. Miss
Mildred Dean and Bill Eckels of Cen
trail High. and by Father Davey cf
Gonzaga, that Homer was a cred
liable writer, though a few of his
pages look like directory of for
eigners. 1t is worth mentioning that
Homer was not much thought of
when he lived, but few hundred or
few thousand years after he died
men began to praise him. and he is
now held in esteem by many persons
who never read a line he wrote
The Rambler did not mean to push
himself into the Homer class, but he
feels that If Aleck Pope or Jack
Dryden would translate these ram
oles into the English language they
might make good reading.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Dumque puellari studio calathosque
Sinumque
Implet-
Well, reader, you know the story
as we'll as 1. A grove of pines was
by, and the wind harped on them a
song. The Rambler sat on a pine
stump and lit his pipe. A monarch
butterfly dallied with blooming
milkweed and chipping sparrow
told it to the world that she was
gay. 1t was pleasanter to spend ten
minutes there than ten months in
the most expensive hospital I have
known.
was surprised to see an old man
sitting by me on the stump. He was not
there when 1 lit my pipe. 1 did not
hear him climb the fence at my back
nor see him cross the sunny field. He
said
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Il am, or, at least, I was, Eurypy-
lus Smith, whose portrait by Rubens
you saw a while ago"
l was not so shocked as you who
read these words. There was nothing
of the traditional or fictional ghost
about him.
There is not much in this mid
night graveyard stuff" he said, and
he continued: "Well-bred ghosts do
not go abroad to fright frail women.
though oft will we even up the score
with some fellow who did US on a
horse trade or in the buying of a
house. / keep my hauntS of the days
of life, though I am not the haunting
kind of ghost. but only men with the
eyes of spirit see me. When you
came down the road 1 said to myself,
TIA vivam, tia vivam! 'Tis my ven
erable friend, the Rambler, and I'll
speak to him though hell itself
should cape and bid me hold my
peace"