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Show HOW NOME WAS NAMED. Insignificant Error Which Determined Deter-mined Its Appellation. There is to be a considerable rush for Nome next month, if one may believe be-lieve w'n.t one hears among mining men. Tuere is no more sensationalism, sensational-ism, but pler.ty of effort and intention. inten-tion. Men are going there who have thought over the situation very sen- cusly since the wild craze of a few years ago, and they will go prepared for hardships and disappointment. How was Nome named? By a man on the Herald, one of the Franklin rescue ships. When tne manuscript chart of the Cape Nome region was constructed attention was called . to the fact that the cape had no name by the insertion of this "? name?" Tne interrogation point was inked in by a draughtsman as a "C," and the "a" in "name" being indistinct he interpreted is. as an "o"; hence "C. Nome" Cape Nome." This little romance ro-mance occurred in 1853. What's in a name? Nome. New "iork Press. |
