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SKAOWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AI'RIL 1, ISM
PRICE, 10 CENTS
CITY SEEMS TO BE DDOMED
(By Alaska Nsws Bureau.)
CATANIA, Sicily. April 1? The
mountain villages of Belello and Rel
passo have been abandoned to the .
rushing streams of lava.
Yesterday it was thought that Ca
tania would be saved and all the
church bells of the city rang out the
joyful tidings.
Today, however, the eruptions have
increased In violence and the great
streams of lava an* slowly advancing
towards the city. Unless the erup
tion^ subside Catania is doomed.
WOULD CONSERVE ALASKA LANDS
(By Alaska Naws Bureau.)
Washington, D. C., April 1? Repre
sentative Good of Iowa today intro
duced a bill in the House providing
that neither the coal or oil lands of
Alaska be sold outright, but that the
government retain the title to the
lands and lease them on royalty basis.
Washington, D. C., April 1? Con
gress will adjourn June 15.
KEPI WAITING
FOR JEFFERSON
About 8 o'clock this morning some
practical joker went aboard the Prin
cess Ena laying alongside of Moor?'*
wharf and blew one long and one short
blast on the whistle. It sounded just
like the Jefferson and "central"
heinsr told the boat was near
promptly called up the different hotels
and in dulcet tones announced ''The
Jefferson's coming."
Promptly the hotel men ordered
their busses out. Horses were harnessed
in hot haste and in a straggling pro
cession^ he jehus whipped down to the
wharf.
No Jefferson was in sight, so Charlie
Runner, waxing impatient, called up
Mrs. Sandbeck and inquired if the Jeff
erson was in sight. Mrs. Sandbeck
"tumbled"' at once and replied that it
was in sight and would be in port in
about an hour.
Charlie and the other hotel men
waited about an hour and were still
waiting, without their breakfast, when j
Bert Towne took pi' y on their plight
and told them causually that it was
April Fools day.
A great light dawned and with i
crestfallen faces and with earnest and
profane ejaculation the victims of the
jok? returned to town.
Hugo Ungefroren left for Seattle
on the HumboMt. Mr. Ungefroren
will spend some time visiting at Se- j
attle and Portland. !
HUMBOLDT H
io put mi
| The Humboldt arrived in port at 1
this morn.ng with 12 passengers anil a
: light load of freight and sailed south
at 2:30 a. m., with six passengers.
Right hours out of Seattle tbe Hum
boldt broke her steering gear just be
fore she was entering Active Pass.
1 The tide carried her out of the pass
I and temporary repairs were made. The
; Humboldt then put back into Seattle
! and the broken gear was repaired.
Crossing yueen Charlotte sound the
Humboldt encountered a terrific gale.
(The well known seaworthy qualities of
j the Humboldt stood in her in good
stead and she crossed the sound with
out anv accident.
HELLOltS
HEARD TALK
(By Alaska News Bureau)
Pittsburg, Pa.. April 1 ?The grand |
jury has subpoenaed a number of
telephone girls to testify regarding
the bribery cases. The hello girls are
said to have overheard telephoned
conversations between the bribe takers
and givers. A number of prominent
bankers have also been called before
the grand jury.
JNCH& KENNEDY
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?l BHD TELLS ?
No doubt the citizens of Skagway re
| ceived quite a startling jolt when they
read .Mr. Britt's treatise on muniei
, l>al economy appearing in last night's
I Alaskan. With a simultaneous gust
of hot and cold air the careless, ex
travagant and erratic official conduct
of the city officers was laid bare to
the critical gaze of the public, and
a hint was offered as to what ought I
to be done according to the business
acumen of Wm. Britt. Ancient his
tory is interesting sometimes, provid
ed it has some semblance o'f accuracy
providing it does not actually con
cern a .community where it has been
the one absorbing topic of conversa
tion for months, and if it represents
a little honest thought and energy.
No one questions Mr. Britt's right to
further his political interests; he has
a right to make any kind of a state
ment he chooses to the public, and
the public has the same right to ac
cept It or reject it. And no doubt
the article in question would have
served its purpose better had it sonu
semblance of originality.
With one more year to serve
on the school board I did not intend
to make any further statements re- 1
garding school expenditures, but now i
that the subject has been laid "open
for discussion I wish to tell the peo
ple what Mr. Britt forgot to tell them
that we too were thinking of econ
omy for the past year; that the ex
penses of operating the school this
year was $905.00 less than last year;
that we installed a new boiler to
keep the children warm in winter,
and saved the city $231.80 in fuel I
alone in seven months time. He did J
not tell you the great amount of uion- !
ey spent for repairs and 'mprovement
during the past two or thre^ years j
was due to an erratic system of pip- j
ing installed in the school buiiding, '
as well as an unsuitable boiler that
devoured the fuel and gave nothing
in return. He did not say anything
regarding the general condition of the
school building owing to the slip-shod
manner in which it was originally
constructed, and the money it has
been necessary to spend during the
past two years in repairs, patching
and altering the piping, in order to
make the building tenantable for the
children during extreme weather. It
was a question of spending the mone
for betterments, or the parents of the
children spending the money for doc
tor bills.
We believe in reducing school ex
penses. We have been discussing
this subject for the past year. On
Mar. 1st, last year, I wrote Mr. Gavin
and asked if it would not be possible
to reduce the teaching force to three
teachers for the coming year (that is;|
the pr.sent year) and thereby save
the city $1,000.00. After careful con
sideration he replied to the board
tha such an undertaking would be
hazardous, and that the teachers at
that time had all the classes they
could handle and do the children jus
tire. All this correspondence is on
file in my office. At that time we were
paying $500 per month , for teachers,
same as at the present time, and the
enrollment for the year was 105. I
then wrote to the Juneau school j
board, asking for information regard
ing 'he expenses of ooerating their
schools, to which Miss Emma Yule,
principal replied. She stated that the
principal was paid $166.65 per month;
1st assistant, $125.00; 2nd assistant,
I $125.00; and all grade tcach-jrs $100
per month. The janitor received the
same salary as we pay l/;re. There
being four grade teachers brings the
total expense per month, for teachers
alone, to $816.65, as against $500.00
per month at Skagway. Miss Yule did
not state ho\v many children were en
rolled, but 1 am reliably informed th;l
the a v. rage was about 144 per month
l>u' for good measure we will pall it
150. Thi3 means that it costs the tax
.payers of Juneau, or did then, $5.44
per month, per capita, for each child
attending school. As stated before,
our enrollment at that time was 105,
but in order tj be conservative, we
will call it 100 even, which means that
it cost the tax payers of Skagway $5
per month per capita for children at
tending here, or 44 cents per capita
less than Juneau.
Today I received a letter fr.-.m a
luemb* r of the Cordova school board,
lie told me that they pay $255 per
month in salaries now, but will put
on aualher teacher next yrar, which
will add $100, and mean a total cf
$355. He also stated that the attend
ance amounted to about 40 pupils.
Agreeing that it does amount to 40, it
t os* the tax payers of Cordova $6.37
per capita, per month, for each pupil
:n school, and next year when anothe
teacher is put on the payroll, it will
mean $8.87 per capita per mouth.
In my figures 1 am dealing only
with salaries paid, because that is
the only item that can be reduced to
any great extent; the cost of fuel,
.light, incidentals, etc., is constant, and
cost just as much for one as for 20
pupils ? and unfortunately, these item
cannot be lowered to any great ex
tent.
After we received the report from
the Juneau school we decided that
we were not greatly out of proportion
with other schools and decided to
let the old schedule stand, expecting
that we would at least have the same
enrollment for this year as we did
previously, and from reports received
we believed it would be even greater
and afterwards the contracts were
let accordingly; the teachers be
ing engaged for the school
year, as is customary everywhere.
However, the enrollment was 13 less,
and several pupils dropped cut during
(Co: i tinned on Page Three.)
INFANT DIES
OF PNEUMONIA
Mrs. M. A. Jackson, wife of Rev.
Jackson of Atlin, who recently left for
Vancouver, came out on Wednesday's
train with Miss llaniii of Atlin, and
sailed south on the Humboldt. Last
Sunday Mrs. Jackson's infant son passed
away in Atlin. The child caught cold
while coming out over the trail about
two weeks ago. The cold developed
into pneumonia and nothing could be
done to save the child's life.
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(By Alaska News Bureau)
ST. LOUIS. April 1.? Two hundred
and seventy thousand miners in all
parts of the United States went on
a strike at midnight, last night.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April 1? Pres
ident Lewis .of the United Mine
Workers of America issued the strike
order at 12 o'clock last night, wiring
instructions to strike to the heads in
the various diatricts.
FAVORS ACTS
OF COUNCIL
To the Christian People of Skagway
It is with great pleasure that I read
in The Daily Alaskan the report of
the work done in this your city dur
ing the past year by the Party known
as the Citizens Party, really a good
name, for they seem well worthy of
the name. And I think that Skagway
citizens well may be proud of the
fact that in seven months the fines
have only amounted to $19.00. But
I hear that some people are complain
ing that the fines are so small that
soon they will not get enough to pay
the marshal. I say so much the bet
ter. If it is a question of no crime
or marshal, then let there be no un
certain sound in this election. As
Christians we should vote solid for
a clean city. You say that you are
indifferent as to which party is elect
ed. You are indifferent as to whe
ther the next street contains houses
that are the very gateway to Hell
itself. Is that how you feel, and yet
carry the name of Christian. There
are men here who would like to flood
your city with those who would lead
your young men to a life of shame
just for the sake of the money they
can get from their ill famed houses.
How do you as a Christian vote? If
you vote for a party that will estab
lish such houses, a party that wants,
or would rather see crime than a
;;mall fine roll, then you have become
as bad as them, and the lives of these*
fallen ones will be received at your
hands. Now is the time to prove
whom you serve by placing men on
your council who will seek to put
down vice of every kind.
Mar. 31, 1910. C. S. Evans
Herman Kirmse returned on the
Humboldt after a brief trip to Seattle
Mr. Kirmse left Skagway with the
intention of going to Cordova. He
could not secure reservations on any
of the boats at Juneau and going
down to Seattle found the reserva
tions sold out for nearly a month in
advance.
NEWlGLEANER
RAISING OUST
(Special Correspondence.)
WHITEHORSE, Y. T. April 1 ?
The new vacuum cleaner for the
White Pass hotel arrived last week
and has been In constant use ever
since.
Mine host Pete McMillan manipu
lates the nozzle, with "ficotty" Mor
rison, the hero of many an unfought
battle furnishing the motive power.
It is without doubt a howling success,
the only complaint to be made against
1' being that the roomers are awak
ened by it at all hours of the night,
as both the chief and his assistant
persist in getting up and running it
in their sleep.
The assistant claims to have a new
disease called among the medical pro
fesh "pumpitis." He also says a
child cannot run it.
SWITCHMEN TO
GET MORE PAY
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
St. Paul, Minn., April 1? The sTitch
mea working on all the railroads
throughout the northwest commencing
today are given a wage increase of
three cents an hour as the result of
the arbitration of the strike.
J. H. Champagne, well known in
Skagway, and formerly one of the
crack players on the Whitehorse base
ball team, now in Dawson, lost all
his personal belongings by a fire
which destroyed his cabin in Dawson
last Friday afternoon. Mr. Cham
pagne passed through Skagway a
short time ago, on his way to Daw
son after a visit in the east.
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