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plenty of returns. III TF
Mail day in Nome was something
of a spectacle. There we're only two
windows at the post office, and
with 10000 persons trying to get
mail there would be double columns
of people four blocks long, often
standing in line all day
Early in 1904, J. C. Brown, a car
penter and prospector, won an ar
gument with his wife and made zone
last try" for gold. He had just made
a couple of thousand dollars on a
contract, building a wooden road
out to Belmont Point, the Nome
burial ground. His wife urged that
they leave, while they had enough
of a stake to start something Out
side. But Brown talked her into
letting him make a last try at his
claim on Little Greek, a tributary
of Anvil Creek, and some three miles
from the Nome beach line.
Brown went to Johnny Densmore,
who had small boiler used for
thawing ground. He rented the
boiler and in February, 1904, moved
it out on the tundra to his claim on
Little Greek. He started thawing
down, looking for bedrock and
/ reached it at 10 feet
Browns Strike
The first pan of dirt he brouS I
off the bedrock assayed ABOUT $1,J.3
and later he had some as high as
$4,000 Which means, if it were at
the present price, that he was pull
ing up as high as $4,000 per shovel
full
Browns discovery claim made
him from $3,0oo,0O0 to 100000 il
two seasons, and once again set the
world on fire regarding Nome. His
bedrock was the beginning of the
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HAVING HIS FLING

HAVING HIS FLING
Il wish to goodness we could
go home, mother, but dad wants
to stop for three more dances"
yes, dear, your father is
trial, isn't he? But after all,
one can be old only once"
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opening Of the famous Third Beach
Line of Nome, for. subsequent de-
velopment showed that, at the same
level, and for a distance of three
MES, this same streak of gold
stretched in narrow ribbon pro
baby 100 feet wide. -"
Z Again the Outside stampeded to
Nome, and in 1904 and 1905, the
population was over $4,000. In 1905
the so-called Second Beach Line"
was uncovered, lying between
Browns Third Beach" and the
present shore. The Second Beach
has been worked extensively also,
and has produced many fortunes,
though it never showed the wealth
of the Third line
Dredges in 1911
From that time to the present, the
Seward Peninsula has been mined
commercially, the population gra-
dually sitting down to those actu-
ally working or in business. Dredges
were introduced in 1911 and today
there are about dozen operating
during the open season. Last years
gold output WAS reported at APP
proximately $2,000,0OO
Every year there are now CAD
gets and inventions brought to
Nome to work the so-often-moved
sands. Many plans have been dis
cussed or promoted for floating
dredges to work the underwater
sands of the Boring Sea, but Sc
far none has been worked COM
mercially. Storms come fast and
ter, and this little problem has not
unannounced, and there is no shell
yet been conquered.
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Z Stewart declared that the phe-
nomenal speed with which Nome re-
covered was cue to the spirit of
courage and cooperation shown by
the residents record almost IN
paralleled in the history of similar
disasters Stewart was called upon
by the business men to design
new town, completely ignoring old
property lines.
Laid Out Main Street
Where there had been a 30-foot
street, he laid out a main street OF
s0-foot width, with a secondary
street of so feet, and totally new
street, paralleling the main street,
along the water-f front. The property
owners turned over deeds to their
land to a trustee leaving it to the
fairness of the community to give
them other land of equivalent value
in the new town. Only one piece of
property was withheld, that which
had housed the United States Com
missioner and all the records of the
district The huge safe of this office
stood in the midst of the ruins, and
the street was built around this
safe. A new temporary structure has
been built and the street still goes
around it, cat the last information
available in juneau but it is ex-
pected that this property will also be
decided TO the city, and the street
cleared.
The greatest loss expressed by the
Mono residents was not the destruc-
zion OF their property, personal be-
iongings and valuables, but the SEN
simental monuments that linked
hem to the past 1t was the wiping
/ out of their dance halls and gath
ering places, where their social life
had centered for more than a gen
GRAFTON, that left something lack
ing in their lives. These places, to-
lgether with many a priced collec-
ton of souvenirs and photograph
of the past, are gone forever.
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION


In the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Division Number
One. At Juneau
ELLEN LINDY, Plaintiff, VS.. FRED
LINDY, Defendant.
The President of the United States
of America. To the above named
defendant, GREETING:
You are hereby required to APP
pear in the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, First Division,
ut Juneau, Alaska, within thirty
days after the last publication of
this summons, namely within thir-
ty days after the oath day of April,
1886, in case this summons is pub
iished. or within forty days after
the date of it's service upon you, in
case this summons is served upon
you personally, and answer the
complaint of the above named
plaintiff on file in the said court
In the above entitled action.
The said plaintiff in said action
demands the following relief: dis
solution of the bonds of matrimony
now and heretofore existing be-
tween plaintiff and defendant; and
for any other or further relief
merited.
And in the event you fail so to
appear and answer, the plaintiff
will take judgment against you for
want thereof, and will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in
her complaint and as hereinabove
stated.
witness, the Honorable Geo. F..
Alexander, judge of said court, and
the seal of said court hereunto
affixed, on this 9th day of March,
1886.
ROBERT E. COUGHLIN,
(Seal of Court Clerk
BY: PEGGY D. MCLEOD,
Deputy
HOWARD d. STABLER,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Shattuck Building,
Juneau, Alaska.
First publication, March ~, 1886.
Last publication, April "a, 1886.
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for WPA Held
Insufficient
Approximately One Billion
Dollars More than Es-
innate Is Needed

WASHINGTON, April "a. - At
least one billion dollars more than
President Roosevelt has asked Con-
gress to appropriate will be required
to keep the Works Progress Admin
jstration going at its present pace
during the next fiscal year, accord
ing to Treasury figures released to-
day
Monthly expenditures under the
works relief program reached al
most $200,O00O00 in March At this
rate it would cost almost S2,4O0 ,00O.-
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History One of Most
COIOrfuI in Entire Story
of Northern Gold Minin q

that a Government Printing Office
map maker, seeing the word Cape, >
penciled in after it "Name?" and
before someone who knew the name
could fill in this detail, the map
went through, and in his handwrit-
ng it looked like Cape Nome" An
Their story is that the word came
rom the Eskimo r'Ka-no-me" CT
lon't Know.
Consent Coz eminent
In 1899 the first Consent Gov
,fninent was established, and at the
lection Tom Cashel was elected
mayor. William Eddy was chosen
irst City Marshal. George A. Schu-
nacher was the first Fire Chief,
and was about the busiest man in
he country. with record OF put
ing out more fires in proportion to
he population than any man on
ne North American Continent.
Alonzo Rawson was chosen munich
pal MAGISTRATE, and won not only
he respect but the affection OF all
who had the honor to meet him
officially.
Marshal Eddy would harvest quite
a company of DRINKS in his nightly
round of the saloons, and next
morning. sobered and for the most
Part proud Of their temporary PRO-
minence in the community, the
prisoners would be brought before
Magistrate Rawson.
you were drunk last night" His
Honor would say. "One hundred
dollars fine or one day in Jail"
There is no record that any of
them took the day in jail. A hun
dred dollars was no money to pay
for the honor of appearing before
Judge Rawson, and besides with
q $1,000 per day pickings on the
beach, that left 5000 profit after
paying the fine.
Trek Outside
OF course there were plenty OF
men in Nome who didn't make any
money With that many thousands
around, the greater majority OF
them could find no locations that
would pay, and with fall, some 3d.
600 of them went Outside, leaving
about 5000 to winter there. The next
spring approximately 1000 returned,
and the population fluctuated be-
tween 5000 and 1000 from 1901 to
1904.
In 1901 Nome was Incorporated,
and ]. F. Giese was chosen mayor
with the following six councilmen:
Charles Hoxie, Capt. w. E. Geiger,
Tex Rickard, Bill Tierney, S. H. Ste
vens, Bill McPhee. Richard, a third
owner in the Northern Saloon, was
popular, but HoXie, half owner in
the Dexter Saloon, was even more
so, and his vote topped the list. He
refused the mayorship which his
vote entitled him to, asking Giese
/ to take it. Hoxie's partner in the
saloon was Wyatt carp, the famous
1 Arizona gunman.
Captain Geiger
I Captain Geiger was one of the
outstanding personalities OF Nome.
A retired sea captain approaching
60, he saw not only the gold but
opportunities for development Of
the country. His first project made
him comfortable fortune a
wooden bridge over Snake River,
from Nome to Sandspit, built in
1900. He charged 10 cents toll each
way, and with 10000 persons milling
up and down the beach there were
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appeared in the doorway.

appeared in the doorway
Rubbing her eyes she looked quiz
ideally at him and said boldly: You
are not my daddy"
He wasn't but he jumped cut {,
window a moment later when dad
dy" arrived.
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Eric Iindbloom was a tailor IN
oakland. Cal. the day before he
started to Alaska in 1898. He had
taken a night off to do the Barbary
coast IN San Francisco and was
ehanghaied aboard the square rig
or Alaska, under command OF the
veteran whaling skipper, Captain
Ccogan.
The next land that Lindbloom SCI
foot on was at Grantley Harpo
now Tener). north OF Nome ant
i sregarding its isolation he mao
oood his threat to desero the MN
HE he reached shore. He hired
Eskimo to take him along the shol
IN a KAYAK. and after time reached
Csoloyin Bay where a Lutheran MIS-
SION was established.
{ Thcre he met two other Norwe
asans. Jafet Lindeberg, employed b
tle government as a reindeer eX
psrt ard A. Byrnteson, who Wa
y rking at the mission.
Find Color
The three decided to go back
q no the coast prospecting Tor gold
having heard from the Eskimos d
r. mber Of rumors that excited
4 an. They started in dory and
tr,ed first at Sinrock, north Of
no,,,o Their efforts showed colors,
Int not sufficient. and trey started
lack toward Golovin bay. Heavy
= ather forced them ashore at the
r,outh of the Snake River, where
Nome is now located, and about
folr miles from there. on Anvil
creek. they made a rich find.
The gold taken from the twelve
c-aim lengths 1920 feet each) in
aud adjoining that first strike has
exceeded sl2,oO0OOO The three
mariners were of course unable to
keen their find secret, despite all
efforts. and the word reached Daw-
ron. then crowded with gold STAN
peders. BY the spring OF 1899 Daw-
son was practically deserted, the
population having mushed down to
Nome.
On Beach at Nome
The Army. forseeing possible
trouble. established Fort Davis at
lSome. and moved over a detach-
Inent of soldiers from st. Michael.
One of the privates at the new Fort
Davis bought a gold pan in Nome,
Y~d not having time TO go back TO
tie creek gold area. started panmng
On the beach at Nome (the town
at this time was called Anvil City,
The private's efforts brought
forth ruby sand and gold in rich
quantities, and Immediately The
settlement started stalking claims or
lie beach, extending them south
end east as far as Fort Davis, anC
nth as far as Sinrock.
.2y mutual consent the mner
agreed to limit beach claims to rs
foot frontage. A recording distrie
was established and DR.. A. N. Hl5
tlesen chosen as the first recorder
From the time of that first beacl
e.fike. Nome really woke up. Will
plain rockers and long toms, thu
miners were panning as high a
$1,000 day, and the word wen
round the world. In the spring O
1900 between 10000 and $4,000 new
corners arrived, not only from
United States and Canada, but from
every major country on the globe
History of Nome
This was the first year the nam
Nome" was heard. One story
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900 to finance the program for an
other coming year.
President Roosevelt asked Con-
gress to appropriate $1,500,0O0, 900.
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The bones of huge mastadon,
found in swamp near Saltillo, Pa,
may be removed and prepared for
display as a WPA project.
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Child Wanted Daddy;
Prowler VIII Not Do

EUGENE, Oregon, April 24-The
small daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
jacob King awoke in the night and
called for a drink of water. A man
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The United States office Of edu-
cation reports a decrease OF about
80 per cent in the number of one
room schools during the last 10
wears
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-22
POPULAR SONG HIT AUTHOR

The author of the music of "a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight" the song hit of the Spanish
American war foreruner of the jazz era, Theodore
August Metz, died in Bronx hospital few days
ago at the age of ST. He wrote many scores and
musical numbers throughout his long life and was
active almost up to the last, but none approached
the popularity of the song which established his
fame as an originator of snappy poppy music long
before jazz held sway ..
Just what inspired Metz to write the musical hit
which is associated with him is recounted in a news
story of his death in the New York Times. 1t was
in the eighties he was travelling with minstrel
show in the far South. The train passed through q
Louisiana hamlet known as "Old Town." in which
a negro cabin burning A member of the
minstrel group remarked: "Therell be hot time
in Old Town tonight Another turned to Metz
who had to improvise the music for marches and
numbers and said: "Thatll make great title for
our street parade march," He acted on the sug-
gestion and write his march For ten years it was
used without arousing much interest, but in 1896
when things began to shape up for the war with
Spain, the music was set to words and it spread
like wild fire at home and Notwithstanding
Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-22
DRIVERS PLEDGED TO SAFETY

In a good many cities the police departments are
encouraging automobile drivers to sign safety
pledges which bind the signerS to the following:
/ will drive more CAREFULLY.
2 will not pass car unless have 100 yards
clear vision ahead.
g. 1 will not pass car in traffic until l have
looked in my rear vision mirror to be sure that no
car is beaeing down from behind
4. | will not jump traffic lights or drive
through red lights while the signal is changing.
5. In city traffic will be particularly watch
full of pedestrians stepping into the line of traffic.
g. will always give proper hand signals before
turning to the left to the right, or stopping; will
never leave the curb from parked position until
have given the proper hand signal.
7. will always remember while driving that
must watch out for FOUR CARS-my own, the
one in front of me- the one behind me, and, espe'
ciallv for one around the curve or up side streets
that cannot see.
driver who abdes by these seven conditions
is safe driver. He is CAREFUL polite and consider
ate He would prefer being late to being sorry.
Every one of the conditions cited in the pledge IS
important.
1t is not plain why this pledge should omit refer
ence to speeding for speed the preponderant
majority of automobile accidents in town and
country. Enforcement of the South Carolina speed
limits would greatly reduce the accident toll on
this states highways. 1t is the speeding drive;
who takes chances on curves and grades and in
weaving in and out of moving jueues.-Charieston
News and Courier.
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put of coal remarkably which discovery and per-
formance made him an industrial hero Immediately
Russia has gone mad on efficiency new turn,
Stakhanovsm, has been coined to describe it.
Everybody's doing it, among them:
Boris Smetanin of the Leningrad shoe factory
who affixed lasts to 1920 pairs of shoes in one
day; 81
Evdokia and Maria Vingradova, textile work
ers who tend 144 looms;
Malakat Nahangova, 11-year- old girl who show
ed I'D the grown people by picking 22O pounds of
cotton in one day.
They call it Stakhanovsm and they glorify it.,
which is their privilege. But by no such evphem-
ism can they conceal from this country, where
Communism is supposed to be getting foothold,
that Boris of the shoe factory is bound down to the
practice of that wicked and monotonous system
known in this country straight-line production.
Evdokia and Maria are plain victims of the stretch
out, and we shall have to sic Francis German on
their employers, the state. As for the little girl
with the big and symbolic name, Mamlakat Nahan-
gova. she is child labOrer, and there ought to be
an amendment to the Soviet constitution to protect
her from Observation-Disclosures News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-22
1T WASN'T THE NATION"

A New York press dispatch described 'the ma
ton" as slumbering late on New Years Day to re-
cover from "the greatest mass hangover IN Its his
tory ,-.-.., ....
1t was not ''the nation" Despite crowded res
taurants and other whooppee places in New York
and other cities great and small, lineup of their
patrons over against all the Americans who spent
New Years Eve at home or in places of entertain
ment of wholly different character would have
shown that the alcoholic ceebrants were relatively
few in number.
The reporters of the Broadway scene say moth
ing of the watch night service which all over the
country drew multitudes to the churches. They
forget that the collective 'Broadways" OF the Uni
ted States are after all only scratches on the map
of the nation. They overlook the enormous rural
population and also the millions of city and town
jewellers who had no desire to flock to gay resorts
and accumulate "mass hangover" whether or not
they had the money for such Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
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WamSoidt mCntlOll--f)r' ne
has had plenty of chances to step
out.
On a number of occasions lady
monkeys have been chartered IN
the cage with Doug and Mary; bur
they were nothing 20 Doug; he
paid them no attention. At the
present time a widow monkey Is
rooming with Doug and Mary. She
has been there ever since she lost
her husband two years ago. But
Doug has no eyes for her, so FOR
any member Of the monkey fGir
sex except his Mary.
We salute you, Doug and Mary,
admirable monkeys. You have de-
Ginitely refutad the claim that
men descended from monkeys. Or
if they did descend, they certain
" did descend. Some men.
Doug and Mary, honorable mon
keys, in the name Of the great
misguided Darwin, we apologize to
YOU
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-22
CABINET MEMBER FALLS VERY LOW.

A short time ago Jim Farley made the
prediction that this years national polltl-
cal campaign was going to be one OF the
nastiest campaigns in the history OF Amer
lean politicsrand, then, the Postmaster
General Immediately went to work to 90
his little part to aid in making his prognas-
tications come true, by hurting choice as
sortment of bilhgsgate at the opponents OF
the administration.
Other supporters and members OF the Of
fetal family of the administration have
manifested determination to follow the ex-
ample of Big Jim,"" so. it is clear that the
political dealers who now control the gov
ernnient are going to line up solidly behind
that, more or less we'll known political
manipulation in the effort to make this the
dirtiest campaign the country has ever
known. .,-.- 1t
Yesterday Big Jim. :; was joined by
Secretary Ickes, who entered the fray by
issuing an attack on Governor Talmadge OF
Geotgia The honorable G., Secretary re-
ferred to the Governor of Georgia as his
chaihgang exesliency," among other choice
flins at the Georgia executive. The Secre-
tarv'' did not elaborate or explain, so the
public is left in doubt as to the exact mean
ing of the epithet applied to Talmadge Oy
Ickes.
However, the public is treated to the
spectacle of a member of the Presidents
cabinet literally getting down and wallow-
ING in the mire of piffle, buffOOnry and
billingsgate, in making an attack on the
Governor of Georgia; and the spectacle
does not increase the respect of any intelh-
gent, decent citizen for Secretary lckes.
The public has right to expect an entire
" different course from member of the
cabinet-an exhibition of dignity, states
manship and regard for the properties
which appear to be entirely lacking In the
Secretary.
This newspaper does not feel called up
on to come to the defense of Governor Tai
madge. 1t is a certainty that he is able ana
willing to defend himself; and while the
manner of mis- defense, or reply, may not
win our complete endorsement and ap-
proval, that will not absolve this newspaper
and all good citizens from the obligation
to condemn such tom-cat tactics OF polltl-
cal warfare as those adopted by Secretary
Ickes.
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Wait
q
Minute,
Please
BY
Noah
Holiowell

Those figures cditolia'ly given
Friday showing that Henderson
county farmers are about GA per
cent tenants are not so hot. They
appear TO show that farming here
abouts has gone to pot.
MIGHTY influences have been
rapidly working. " h e n salarled
city Jobs ended people returned TO
he fans. When jobs ran low in
the forests the day iaborers there
IN returned to the fields.
Many settled IN abandoned
houses on los than ten acres of
farm land and much OF that for
all practical purposes was UNTIL
aria.
There's where the relief prob
lem set it. Many families had ef-
lloymlnt on only small acreage
and couldn't make living. Land
owners would not furnish worl;
ror stake these tenants. Now
they are working for Uncle Sam,
Tom, Dick and Harry will pay the
bills.
Uncle Sam is trying to rehabili-
'at" ab0at 100 in Henderson
county but this is not such = hot
job under the foregoing circum-
stances.
Not so hot; not so hot; not so
hot.