The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1936, Page 10

‘ ‘ Nome’s History Colorfulin of Northern Gold Mining Lindbloom was a tailor in Qaklar Cal., the day before he rted to Alaska in 1898. He had 18 k\*n a night off to do the Barbary n Francisco and was aboard the square rig- der d of the comma gold taken from 1320 feet each first strike ha The thr hat 000.000. »t, despite all he word reached Daw- ed with gold on, then crow ors. By the spring of 18 2 2 was practically deserted, the )cpulation having mushed down ic Nome. On Beach at Nome Army, forseeint established Fort i over a possible Davis yme, and mov ch ant of soldiers st 1 One of the private: he new Fort Davis bought & pan in No: ing time to go back to {he creek gol tarted par ¢n the beach at Nome (the this time was called Anvil Gity). The private's efforts brought forth ruby sand and gold in rich quantities, and Imme th cftlement started staking claims on ilie beach extending them south nd east as far as Fort Davir, an i srth as f Ay mutual consent the mine agreed to limit beach claim foot frontage. A recording was established and Dr. tlesen chosen as the first recorder From the time of that first beach i<} ‘rike, sme really woke up. With plain rockers and long toms, the miners were panning- as high a $1,000 a day, and the word went round the world. In the spring of 1600 betwegn 30,000 and 35,000 new- comers 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 name “Nome"” W heard. One story is THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936. One of Mos Entire Story that a G ment_Printing Office map maker, seeing the word “Cape,” penciled in after it “Name?” and sefore someone who knew the name could fill in this detail, the map went through, and in his handwrit- | 1g it looked like “Cape Nome.” ther story is that the word | rom the Eskimo “Ka-no-me” (“I| on't know™) | Consent Gor ernment In 1899 the first Comseni Gov- nment was established, and at the Tom Cashel w: elected William Eddy hal. George A the first Fire C about the busiest man in | with a record of put- | lection was chosen Sc u- 1e country ing out more fires in proportion to | he population than any man on | e North American Continent. | lonzo Rawson was chosen munici- pel magistrate, and won not only ct but the affection of all d the “honor” to meet him y would harvest quite any of drunks in his nightly { of the salcons, and next | sobered and for the most | proud of their temporary Lro- | in the community, the uld be brought before | Reawson | nk last night,” to & new and ldld]y-bmlt iveés and left y .demol- Honor would One hundred | dollars fine or one day in jail.”” | There is no record that any of | them took .the day in jail. A hun- | Ewl%m‘:’;;:” 3 jollars wes 1o money 0 PAY | thousands bomeless. ow, anotber A wo of appearing before | o 2 s N Judge Raw and besides with | % » $1,000 pe pickings on the |plenty of returns. Mail day in Nome was something beach, that left $900 profit after | paying the fine, of a spectacle. There were only two X Trek Outside {windows at the post office, and Of course. there were plenty of |with 30,000 persons trying to get n in Nome who didn’t make any mail, there would be double columns With that many thousands |of people four blocks long, 'often the greater majority of standing in line all day. t 1d find no locations that| Farly in 1904, J. C. Brown, a car- would pay, and with fall. some 30,- 'penter and prospector, won an ar- 000 of them went Outside. hout 6,000 to winter there. The next | last iry” for gold. He had just made yring approximately 2,000 returned, | 2 couple of thousand dollars on a and the population fluctuated be- | contract, tween 8,000 and 4,000 from 1901 toiout to Belmont ney ind, n cc Point, the Nome 0 In 1901 Nome was incorporated,|they leave, while they had enough md J. F. Giese was chosen mayor |of a stake to start something Out- with the following six councilmen: side. But Brown talked her ‘into Charles Hoxie, Capt. W. E. Geiger, | letting him make a last try at his Tex Rickard, Bill Tierney, S. H. Ste- | claim on Little Creek, a tributary vens, Bill McPhee, Rickard, a third of Anvil Creek, and some three miles owner in the Northern Saloon, was | {rom the Nome beach line. popular, but Hoxie, half owner in | the Dexter Saloon, was even more Who had a small boiler used for 0. and his vote topped the list. He ' thawing ground. He rented the efused the mayorship which his boiler and in February, 1904, moved | ote entitled him to. asking Giese it out on the tundra to his claim on to take it. Hoxie's partner in the 'Little Creek. He started thawing aloon was Wyatt Earp, the famous | down, looking for bedrock and Arizona man | reached it at 70 feet. Brown's Strike The first pan of dirt he brouz:i off the bedrock assayed auout $1, Captain Geiger Captain Geiger was one of m-‘ 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 $5,000. Which means, if it were at ing up as high as $10,000 per shovel- him a comfortable fortune 2 ful. wooden bridge over Snake River,| Brown's discovery claim made lfrom Nome to Sandspit, built in him from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 in 11900. He charged 10 cents toll each tWwo seasons, and once again set the way, and with 30,000 persons milling World on fire regarding Nome. His up and duvm the beach there were hedrock was the beginning of the B sYe told her leaving | gument with his wife and made “one | building a wooden road | burial ground. His wife urged that | Brown went to Johnny Densmore, | and later he had some &s high &sj the present price, that he was pull- | " MODERN GITY That v‘n'}e of mine is a swell person, but she’s done nothing but experiment with coffee for the last six months, She’s fussed with this and she’s fussed with that. I've seen her experiment with half a dozen different ways of measuring the coffee and water. She's tried all systems of making her coffee. She’s hopped around from one brand to another. And we haven't gotten anywhere. i So, last night, I up and told her: Let's get back to Hills Bros. Coffee—and stick with it. I don't know what it's got. They talk about Controlled Roasting, and ground right to taste right, and vacuum- packing—and a lot of other reasons why it'sbetter. Anyhow.Iknow we get a lot more pleas- ure out of drinking coffee when we use Hills Bros. i upening of ‘the famous Third Beach:' ne of ne, for, subsequent de- velopment, showed that, at the same level, and for a distance of three m"es, this' same ' streak of gold stretched in a narrow ribbon pro- bably 100 feet wide. | Again the Outside stampeded to Nome, and in 1904 and 1905, the population was over 12,000. In 1905 the so-called “Secchd Beach Line” iwas uncovered, lying between {Brown’s “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 1611 From thet time to the present, the | Seward Peninsula has been mined commercially, the population gra- | dually sifting down to those actu- ally working or in business. Dredges | | were introduced in 1911 and today there are about a 'dozen operating | during the open season. Last year's gold output was reported at ap- proximately $2,000,000. | Every year there are now gad- 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 Bering Sea, but so far none has been worked com- mercially. Storms come fast and ter, and this little problem has not | unannounced, and there is no shel- vet been conquered. i —————————— 'NOME BECOMING MTER 19834 FIRE ‘_fiéw Bu’!‘cfing Con- | struction Playmg Import- | ant, Part in Housing When summer comes to Nome ' this year, it will reveal the effects ,of the first full-season test under | extreme service conditions of a new type building construction that may play an important part in future + housing plans everywhere. ! Tt was the fire that wiped out Nome in September, 1934, that ¢aused this northern capital to be- come in some respects the most modern city in the world. When | word was radioed to Seattle to im- mediately ship building materials for rehabilitation, there happened to be on the dock the sections for an experimental ready-to-assemble house of a newly develo) steel and cork construction. was sent along with other materials to Nome. Officials of the Miners & Mer- chants Bank of Nome decided to try this type of construction for Nome, and though they had planned tc rebuild immediately, they halted their work, went througn the win- ter in emergency quarters, and last summer had material sent in for a new bank building made completely of steel-and-cork. It is the report on the first year of service of this building that is awaited by many interested in building construction. i Speedy Rebuilding | Speaking of the speed with which Nome rebuilt after the fire, B. D. | Stewart, Territorial Commissioner of Mines, in Nome at the time of the disaster, said that when he left there in December, 193¢, 90 per cent of the business men had com- pletéd and were occupying new buildings. A large percentage of the home owners also had rebuilt, he said. In addition, the Red Cross put up gixteen homes, which are being bought on long-term contracts by | other residents who lost their bomeés, L i B AR08 o304 5 D T s B P A e P B Pt -— |owners turned over deeds |land to a trustee, of the past, are gone forever. } SRl - S Steweart declared that the phe-! nomengl speed with which Nome re- covered was due to the spirit of courage and cooperation shown by the residents—a record almost 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 i Where there had been a 30-foot street, he laid out a main street o 80-foot width, with a secondary | street of 60 feet, and a totally new street, paralleling the main street, | along the water-front. The property | to their| 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- issioner and all the records of thé strict. The huge safe of this office stoed 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, (at the last information | available in Juneau) but it is ex-| pected that this property will also be ! deeded to the city, and the street| zleared. ‘The greatest loss expressed by the Nome residents was not the destru tion of their property, personal be- | iongings and valuables, but the sen- | ‘imental monuments that linked | hem to the past. It was the wiping | out of their dance halls and gath- | ering places, where their social life | had centered for more than a gen- eration, that left something lack- ing in their lives. These places, to- gether with many a prized collec- tion of souvenirs and photograph —— - The bones of a huge mastadon, found in a swamp near Saltillo, Pa., may be removed and prepared for display as a WPA project. FOR PUBLICATION | 3895-A | 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 ap- pear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, First Division, at Juneau, Alaska, within thirty days after the last publication of | this summons, namely within thir- ty days after the 24th day of April, ! 1936, in case this summons is pub- | lished, or within forty days after the date of its 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-| polution of the bonds of matrimony pow 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 heremabovel stated. i Witness, the Honorable Geo. F.| Alexander, judge of said court, and the seal of said court hereunto| affixed, on this 27th day of March, | 1936. ROBERT E. COUGHLIN, | (Seal of Court) Clerk. By: PEGGY D. McLEOD, : Deputy. | HOWARD D. STABLER, i Plaintiff’s Attorney. I Shattuck Building, 1 Juneau, Alaska. | First publication, March 27, 1936. | Last publication, April 24, 1936. fihed. I'r: the imedt l:sc'lll'eh workers are shown ome where two die e death list in Cordele is nearly half whole storm toll, and a thousand persons are homeless thexz. i Appropriation | Approximately One Billion Dollars QUALITY ched and. GUARANTEED GOOD HOUSEKEEPING & T i Uit &5 BETTER FABRICS TESTING Deubly Certifiedi Besidas the Good House- ping guarantee of qual- Holeproof Hosiery aiso bears she, covered geal of approval of the Befter Fab- vic: Testing Bureau. It fs the onlv_hosiory ihus " doubly certified GOOD OUSEKEEPING i checks and H iho fine quality of ' HOLEPROOF : HOSIERY WOULD you like Good Housekeeping's help in spending your hesiery budget wisely? Now you may have it. For, after @onths of study—combining all that laboratory scientists could discover with hundreds of actual wear tests—Good Housekeeping places ifs Guarantee of Quality on Holeproof Hosiery. searching the ruins in a Come in and see this sheerer, stronger hosiery . . & with improvements that cost Holeproof $250,000 but cost YOU not one cent extral Shadowless chiffons or light service weights . . . for WPA Held a Insufficient 3 pale for $2.85 the FAMILY SHOE STORE Lou Hudson, Manager More than Es- Seward St. timate Is Needed {000 to finance the program for an- appeared in the doorway. WASHINGTON, April 24, — At 9 least one billion dollars more than | SEF.£OMINg year, Rubbing her eyes she looked quiz- President Roosevelt has asked Con-| _FTesident Roosevell dsked Con- | zically at him and said boldly: “You gress to appropriate will be required | ° to ke istra irir gress to applugna'e $l 500,000,000. are not my daddy!” He wasn't but he jumped cut Y window a moment later when “dad- dy” arrived. ! D eep the Works Progress Admin- tion going at its present pace Child Wanted “Daddy 1g the next fiscal yedr, 2 to- | to Treasury figures releaced Prewler Will Not Do S day B — The United States office of edu- Monthly expe; ulmxrn» under the| EUGENE, Or April 2¢—The | cation reports a decrease of about W pr ached al- {small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |30 per cent in the number of one- most $209.000,000 in v{. At this | Jacob Kihg awoke in the night and |room scheols during the last 19 rate it would cost almost $2,400,000.- called for a drink of water. A man ' years. CAUSTIC WEEKLY SMMENTS — THRIFTY FOOD NEWS z Garnick’s Chats 52 “A Newspaper Within a Neuspaper THI, FRIENDLY STORE APRIL 24, 1936. THE I< R[ENDLY STORE April Offerings | COCOA | Cornflakes | CORN Best Quality PEP and RICE From Wisconsin ; KRISPIES Regular Cans 2 Ib. cans 40c “ALL KELLOGG'S 10¢ i 0 Which Means the Best 2 pkgs., 25¢ COWBOY'S BAIT The dear old lady watched the gayly clad cowboy dexterously swinging his lasso in the grounds of the circus. “What a long rope,” she said Drunken Man — “Whash you looking for?” Policeman — “We are looking for a drown man.” Drunk—“Whash you want one for?” at last, “What do you use it for?” “Waal, lady,” he replied, “when I'm out West on the ranch I use it for catchnig cows.” “Catching cows!” she echoed. “llow very interesting. Tell me, what bait do you use?” 0—0—o UNCLE WAS RIGHT Nick—My car has a 100-mule- power in it. George—You mean 100-horse- power, don't you? Nick—No, I don’t. It always balks when I'm in the biggest hurry. o—0—o “What do the ruins of ancient Egypt really prove?” we are asking. “Well, probably among other things, that the wives and daughters of those times backed the chariots into their garages.” BEANS SMALL. WHITE Fresh Steck 5 Ibs. for 25¢ PEAS and CARROTS MIXED IN LARGE 5 ACANS- b # each, 10c Mix with a little mayon- naise for a hot weather salad. “You want me to raise your salary eh?” growled a Welling- ton boss te his employee. “Give me at least two good reasons.” The employee gazed meekly at his employer and murmured, “Twins.” 0—0—o * NEW GADGET Traffic Cop—“Use your noodle, lady! Use your noodle!” Lady—“My goodness! Where is it? I've pushed and pulled every- thing in the car.” o—0—o COUNT ’EM! ' o—0—a_ o HAVING HIS FLING “I wish {0 goodness we could’ g0 home, mother, but dad wants ) to stop for three more dances.” “Yes, dear, your father is a trial, isn’t he? But after all, ome can be old only once.”