Hi) FOLLOW
MM OF SGUT10I
London, March 11 ? It is feared
that with the fall of Scutari Into
the hands of the Servian, Bulgarian
and Montenegrin troops, there will
be a general massacre of tho Turks.
With the troops of the allies taking
one after another of the outposts
cf the fortress of Scutari, It seems
now but a question of few days'
until the Turks can no longer hold I
out. The Invading forces are worked
up to a pitch of anger over the
losses to their soldiers, and it is
predicted that a terrific slaughter
will follow the downfall of the fort
ress overlooking the Aegean sea.
Diploatic relations remain at a
standstill as the fight goes on. Tur
key will not agree to pay an Indem
nity and the allies will stop at
nothing less.
MONEY PROVIDED FOR
CARE OF INDIGENT
Delegate Wickersham who is now !
in Juneau received a cable from
his secretary, Mr. Jeffrey, saying
that Congress had passed the Val
dez, Cordova, and "Indigent' ap
propriation bills.
The first named is for the dike
b*ck of Valdez to protect the town
from the floods of glacial streams.
This item calls for the expenditure
of $55,000. Two years ago the
town sustained greet damage by
the floods and the citizens have
been asking for relief ever since.
After the flood an army engi
neer was called to examine the sit
uation and prepare plans and fur
nish estimares for a dike that would
protect tha town from a recurence
of such a disaster. The result of it
?til was the Introduction of a bill ap
propriating $75,000 for the purpose.
This was lost. The bill that has
just passed was introduced by Del
egate Wickersham. Under this act
the dike becomes a charge of the
War Department, which will keep
it ta repair.
The Cordova appropriation car
ries $100,000 for a public build
ing at that place. The building is
to combine the courthouse, post
office, and customs house and con
tain minor offices of the government
s?- price.
The Indigent appropriation bill
takes 10 per cent from the Alaska
fund, amounting to $17,000 or more
;? <* annum, which amount is to be
divided between the four judicial di
visions. The marshals of each di
vision are made custodians of this
annual appropriation and all dis
bursements are made by and at the
discretion of said marshals.
Sl'LZER MAKES EXCHANGE
MEMBERS HE GOOD DOGS
Albany, March 11 ? Governor Sul
zer has withdrawn hl9 bill which
provided for the doubling of the
state tax on stock transfers. The
bill was aimed at the New York
stock exchange, to prevent the wash
si-les which have been the gambling!
part of the exchange transactions.
It was owing to the change made in
the rules of the exchange forbid
ding fictitious transfers, which caus
ed the governor to withdraw his bill
Tn speaking of it he said that the
bill had accomplished all that it Bet
out to accomplish and there was
no longer a need of its enactment.
JlXEAl'S CITY lMH'K
A PAYING INSTITUTION
Six hundred dollars per month!
profit, notwithstanding the econom-i
ical rates, is what the report of
Juneau's wharfinger shows for th?* |
past two months in that city.
Persons who scan the totals show
in the report, covering the period of
eleven months, from April 1, 1912,
to February 28, 1913, will discover
that the prosperity was not confined
to those two months alone.
One of the main factors in bring
ing the dock to such financial stand
lng is the profit on coal sales
handled through the agency of the
municipality. A study of the meth
ods adopted will disclose the fact
that coal is also sold by the city
at a very low price compared to
thofe prices obtaining before the
city went into business while wharf
age rates were cut ia half.
Send the Alaikan to your friar da
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Vallej South of Skagvtay
ALASKA RAILROAD
ACTION IS A?ITATKI>i
Seattle, March 11 ? The efforts
put forth by the Alaska bureau of
the Chamber of Commerce to In
duce President Wilson to take early
action on the Alaska railroad com
mission report are being widely
bucked. The house and senate of
this state have adopted a joint me
morial in request of such action,
and it is esperted that Gov. Lister
will communicate with President
Wilson so<iii. In addition action is
being urg<d by other chambers
throughout th?' West and the Cali
fornia and Montana legislatures are
being urged to fake action similar
to that of this state.
S if m mi ii
w m r m
New Orleans, March 11 Joe Man
dot was sweetly and completely
whipped by Leach Cross last night.
After fighting nine rounds in which
both m??n did valiant service, but
in which Leach had the better of
1; all along, the seconds of Man dot
threw up tin* towel In the tenth,
just before the referee had counted
the fatal tea, which pave Cross the
decision. This is the first time
toat the two Itf.htweigbtj have conie
together, though both of them hnve
Hue ring records.
Whole Public School
System Is Insufficient
and Uneconomical
By Professor ROYAL MEEKER of Princeton University
1 TIIIXK the supposed influence of our schools upon our morals
is greatly MISUNDERSTOOD AND SOMEWHAT EX
AGGERATED. Ignorance is commonly used synonymously
with immortality, vice and crime. We now recognize that
mere information has little to do with right conduct.
Those familiar facts of our childhood, "The hug is in the rug"
and "Seven times 9 is 5.'5 or 67," whatever it may be, do not incite to
deeds of high moral emprise.
I DOUBT THE EFFICACY OF THOSE EXCESSIVELY
MORAL YARNS contained in the school readers about George
Washington and the cherry tree and the bad little boy who stole Bp
pies from the old apple woman and years afterward died a miserable
death in the workhouse n* a result.
It may be that the ability to read does make some individuals
more virtuous. 1 am sure it makes some more frivolous, more worth
less, more wicked bv enabling them to feed upon TRASHY READ
ING MATTER. Of course we are less savage, more sympathetic,
more truthful, more honest, because we have a common literature, a
common morality, common laws.
SOME OF THE DEMOCRATIZING EFFECTS OF OUR SCHOOLS
ARE, HOWEVER, CLEARLY INJURIOUS. COMMUNAL WHOOPINO
COUGH, MEASLES, CHICKEN POX. DIPHTHERIA AND THE LIKEj.
DEMOCRATIC LYING, PROFANITY, OBSCENITY AND OTHER IM
MORALITY ARE UNDESIRABLE BYPRODUCTS OF WHOLESALE
DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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WILSON PROMISES 10
H n ll ?
Washington, March 11- Th? WMk
ington delegation, and a nurntwr of
Alaskans temporarily In th# city,
had a conference with Prwldent
Wilson yesterday for the purpose of
urging him to recommend! the Im
aiediate building of the Alaska rail
roads.
President Wilson said that he
was giving the deepest thought to
Alaska affairs, and was graief?| for
the information which the western
, ?n were able to *1? Him r?ir*rdlo?
th? ?ltn?tion m th? now territory
><? told tho vt*tmb*r* of tho ronfr
?nro that ho woald dtarfl?? rko Al
aska qoeatlon with Awrvtary of tho
Interior U**, oho M> jnrtadlo
< Ion titer tko land and Indian af
fair* of tko north and v?ft, that
no mtfht b? ablo to form awtM
poJWty forernlnt tho r^l^atn* of tho
?oal landa ohteh haw an kwf kwi
! tlod up by ?w?tloo ordor
KPRINfl ICI'HII BRMIJTS
I'XiH NORTHERN' r.lMPH
Steamship Princess May l*f
Wrangell at 8 o'clock this mot-nine '
and If nothing happens to delay her.
she ought to arrive in flkagway
about nln? or ten o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The May s passenger list show*
thai the spring rush for the Inter
ior Is on, aa she Is bringing J 12
through passengers, most of IheWi
headed for Dawson, but a number Of
them will go into the new diggings
at Teslln lake. The boat also has
a cargo for here of It# tons
Passengers going out will be Theo
dore Van Hook, for Vancouver, Mr
and Mrs Huehan for Tacoft;., Mr
And Mrs. I.. H. Johnson who will
visit In Vancouver, Mr anO Mrs
Ullly Gordon and children of Wblto- '
horse who will go to Victoria, Mrs
Evans of Carcross going to the
Sound, Mr. E. H. Fletcher of tww
soti bound for Victoria and Mr. U J.
Hartman for Vancouver.
John James, brother-<n-law of
Henry Phillips, yesterday received
e cablegram from Petersburg, stat
ing that Mr Phillip's little son A?s
tin had died yesterday morning fn>m
la grippe Henry Phillips Is employ
ed as printer on the Petersburg Pro
gressive
INDEPENDENCE.
Do not be loo independent. Re
member alwayi that the man who
imagine; he can do witho;4 the
word makes a great mrtake. ?nd
remember also that he who in?*sww?
that the world cannot do withnot
him is under a much greater de
ception.
On ENTRY
IS SHERLQOKOED
(hleatro, Marrfcll- A* lifcwtlfl
cation Itu b#*n marie of IN orlfin
?I application for *n*ry of rm\ laMa
inToiv?M ?n ll?* Trim ?*l rae*a, hy
r A Bojrle. reeetTOr of ?J? /aaea*
land offH*. ?1k? appeared m ? wM
n?M today tor tk? ((???????
The proae?t km to ad ranging tl*
< iaim that Frnot and the Ore
othera who vtrt Intended
to prom re th? <"?al undo and thew
turn them oimr to the
syndleat* A large aamb#r of wK
imm will be esamlnad. inwiti
whom ?re a dogen from Atoaha
nan ti o nt.UflR
>kxt *ow? mnw
Ob thg 1 7th of JUrffc. a^tt Mon
day. the Uka will g1*? a danre la
honor of Patrleh. the patron Saint
of Inland In all Chrtetlan ">??
trlea thta Hay to wwdH la ???*?
or teen 4<tn? 9*m* ewanirlea
mako <|0t?? a retlglowa featl?al of
the day, ia tho 1'atted Stotea we ?a
nally daae# ia Ma ho?M?r. That w
what tho Kiln of Phagway intend
lo *?.
The ilinr* will ho gt^en la Rika
hall **d (firing the er-nlng on# af
tho lode*'* ?am?t|o?a Innrhea will
Hi wttrt Tho MWV to l?t#?<
Fka*w*r merHtaata ar? heglanlng
to pat ap their ?nmm?r awninga
Tbto boaatlfal aaeahlne. while anoth
.tig to the m naaa, ta la)arta^ to
merchaadtoe whan rat ml
?hronrh a plate r'?aa wlatow
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