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nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.’’—
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, • Aiassa, under the Act of March 8, 187$.
Nome, Alaska, September li, 1 !)!<>.
THE SCHOOLS.
In Valdez there was considerable
discussion in the paper and town
over the school appropriation and
when it was suggested to eliminate
the High School, the community de
termned to maintain the $7,000 ap
propriation or thereabouts so that
they might have a High School
whose,diplomas would be recognized
in lieu of entrance examination at
the outside Universities.
The situation in Nome is some
what different. The appropriation
is about five thousand dollars more
and they have a High School, but
from recent information, some at
least of the outside universities de
cline to recognize a graduation in
the Nome school as any sort of a
guarantee that the student has ac
quired such an elementary know
ledge as is required by outside
universities.
We suppose that the Nome School
Board has about come to the con
clusion that with the moneys avail
able, it is impossible to maintain
the High School at a standard of
education which would reach the
requirements of the higher institu
tions of learning. •
All of which goes to show that
as far Is the High School is con
cerned, it is unequal to the re
quirements of the average school
and as a High School is more or
less a failure. It is only right then
that parents and public should know
that this is the case.
It is of course relatively few
that will ever tjike up a college
course even as it is relatively few
anywhere who finish the high
school (about ten per cent, we be
lieve, is the national proportion)
and for this reason it is essential
that the greater stress should be
laid upon the grade work of the
SCI1UU1 s.
We do not see that the literary
emphasis that is a marked charac
teristic of the scKool system is at
all correct. It appears to us that
it is far from being the best, and
that today more attention should
be given to the sciences and manual
training than to delving in dead
languages and rummaging among
the literary bones of the authors
that have come down to us. Almost
everyone makes haste to forget the
smattering of Latin and Greek that
is taught in the schools and al
tough it is supposed to give the
finishing touches to an education,
that is more or less a fantastic idea
which has remained because it was
held when science was confined to
the very few and the very much
persecuted. *
It is hard to understand why a
political history should be empha
sized in the schools and an indus
trial history ignored. Everyone Is
familiar with the political names
which have emblazoned the roll of
history, very few understand the
realy important economic facts
which compelled these men to their
actions. History as taught in the
schools is national mythology.
There is not a trade or craft to
day which does not fall back upon
either physics or chemistry, and in
asmuch they equip us for the strug
gle for existence, their supreme
importance should seem obvious.
But for all that, we find them
side-tracked so that some poor
brain could cudgel itself through
the pages of Caesar or Sallust in
order to gain some degree of a
vesy superficial culture. What on
earth good is it to have mastered
the difficulties of Latin gender and
Greek aorists as far as making a
living is concerned, unless one is en
gaged as a classical teacher passing
on this kind of stuff to the next gen
eration for their foolish pains? What
good does it do to be able to re
cite the dead languages by the ream
and to be unable to get a hold of a
job or fill it when one gets one,
which will enable one to exist?
Surely education to be worth
while must aid a person in the
struggle l'or existence just as long
as the struggle continues, and for
that -reason it is far more important
to be well grounded in the rudiments
of physics, of chemistry, of geology
and biology, than to have a complete
course in the classics to one's
credit..
Here is Nome, a mining camp,
with a school that has had expended
upon it thousands of dollars. Not
a single pupil, graduate or other
wise, has left that school equipped
with even such an elementary know
ledge of chemistry or geology a:
would aid in the work of prospect
ing or mining. Not one of them
mastered a single phase of know
ledge would be of real benefit to
them in after life.
Their knowledge of the English
language and literature and modern
history is in the same hopeless
muddle. Language is not taught
as a science, but as a gramatical in
tricacy which is endless drudgery.
History is a smattering of the lives
and events of great men, with the
economic factors ignored, resulting
in all the great events being
thoroughly misunderstood.and mis
interpreted.
The part played in history by eco
nomic interests, land companies,
and financial powers of greater or
lesser magnitude is completely hid
den in political generalities which
are toned down to a becoming pa-(,
triotism had no part whatever in
the actual happenings are chronic
led.
That Nome High School should
not be recognized by outside colleges
is not such a serious matter. The
really serious matter is that the
Nome schools any more than most
of the others, do not provide a
practical education even of the most
elementary type.
Current events in the industrial
world should have shown us all
that the really vital part of modern
education must be sought in the
sciences. This is an age not of
priests and preachers, of politicians
or poets, but of chemists, geologists,
metallurgists and machi lists Jt is
an age when the good mathemati
cian, the effective draughtsman, the
clear thinking chemist, the brainy
machinist carries the world along.
A.id education to be effective must
be the education that helps a man
who works, not such as merely aids
the leisured man’s in enjoymen: of ,
his leisure.
Moreover, it will follow as inevit
able, that the pleasures of literal me ,
will be not the less appreciated by
the man who devotes his lime to
science than by the person who has
made it the end of all education.
On the contrary, all experience
goes lo show that it is the man who
does labor who appreciates the real
pleasures of art and literature when
he is afTorded opportunity of Going
so within his leisure.
The man who is grounded in
3cience will of necessity be the clear
est thinker. $Ie will understand
better the essential of utility, and ;
the necessity of ridding society of
the useless things that cumber it f
and make his and his fellow work
ers progress hard.
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NOTICE OF UNITED STATES
MARSHAI/S SALE UNDER
SPECIAL EXECUTION.
Notice is Hereby Given, that
under a Special Execution issued
out of the District Court for the
District of Alaska, Second Division,
in a cause entitled Empire Trust
Company, a corporation, Trustee,
plaintiff, versus Fairhaven Water
Company, a corporation defendant,
dated the 14 day of August 1916,
the undersigned United States Mar
shal, will on the 18 day of Septem
ber, 1916, at 12 o’clock noon, at the
front door of the United States
Court House in the City of Nome,
Territory of Alaska, offer for sale
and sell to the highest bidder, upon
the terms hereinafter stated, tnost
certain properties, premises, rights
and franchises of said Fat:haven
Water Company, described as lol
lows:
All the interest of Fairhaven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 5000 miners’inches, lo
cated at Lake Imuruk and stream
running out therefrom, on August
10th 1904, notice thereof being
posted by law called and itnov'n as
the “Polar Bear Ditch” and right
of way thereof, particulars of said
water right and location being more
fully set forth in Volume 30, Page
55 of the Records of the Fairhaven
District, together with the right of
way, and appurtenances; and
All the interest of Fairhaven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 6000 miners’ inches,
measured under a four inch press
ure, and located just below the first
lake at the head of Plnnell River,
the same being more fully set forth
and described in a certain “Notice
of Appropriation of Water”, dated
August 25th 1905, and recorded in
the Fairhaven Recording Precinct,
on the 4th of September, 1905, to
gether with the right of way and
appurtenances; and
All the interest of Fairhaven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 500 miners’ inches,
measured under a four inch press
ure, located at Lake Imuruk, the
outlet thereof and stream running
uui luci cii uiu , i ik oam ** aiv i i 15m
of 500 inches being part of and
included in a certain water right ot
5^000 miners’ inches at said location
and more fully and particularly de
scribed and set forth in a certain
“Notice of Appropriation of Water"
dated August loth 1905, and re
corded in the office of the Fairhaven
Recording District, on the 4th day
of September, 1905, together with
the right of way, and appurten
ances;
Also the ditch and right of way
appropriating and carrying the
waters above described, extending
from the intake at Lake Imuruk to
the head of Pinnell river; thence
down 'Pinnell river to the
dam and reservoir; thence
down Pinnell river channel to in
take on Pinnell river about nine
miles from the mouth thereof,
thence along the right limit of Pin- j
nell river and Inmachuek River to
the penstocks situated above Ari
zona Creek, together with all dams,
reservoirs, branches, laterals, ex
tensions, and appurtenances; also
nine wooden houses and two stables
at various points along said ditch.
Also all that placer mining claim
called the ‘Utica’ containing 160
acres, more or less, described as
follows:
Said Utica claim adjoins placer
claim known as the Dashley Group
on the North and No. 6 below Pin
nell on the South, and ex
tends about two miles up and down
the Inmachuek river between said
Dashley Group and No. 6 Below
Pinnell river, being 660 feet wide,
more or less; the corners and side
lines thereof being marked by
large substantial stakes set in
mounds;
Also an undivided one half inter
sst in placer mining claim called
Mo. 6 Below Pinnell river, situated
>n said Inmachuek river; said
jlaim containing 20 acres, more or
less, and running 1320 feet, more
Dr less, up and down said Inma
ihuck river, and being 660 feet
vide, more or less.
Also that certain placer mining
:laim called No. 9 Bench below Han
lum Creek on the left limit, situat
;d on the left limit of said Inma
:huck river, and containing 20 acres
more or less;
Also an undivided one fourth in
erest in placer claim described as
No. 4 below Hannum creek on sait
Inmachuek river,, containing abou
20 acres, running 1320 feet, mori
or less, up and down said river ant
being about 660 feet wide;
Also placer claims called Numbers
5 and 6 below Hannum Creek or
said Inmachuek river, containing
about 20 acres each, running 132(
feet more or less,'up and down saic
river and being about 660 feel
wide.
Also a leasehold estate in placei
claims on said Inmachuek river de
scribed as follows: No. 9 Below
Hannum, No. 9 Fraction adjoining
the South side of No. 9 below Han
num on the Inmachuek river; a
Fraction between No. 9 below Han
num on the Inmachuek river ana
No. 1 below Pinnell and adjoining
the East end of No. 9 below Han
num; No. 1 below Pinnell on said
Inmachuek river. No. 2 below Pin
nell on said Inmachuek river, ex
cepting therefrom the present
thawed channel where the Inma
chuck river flows through said
claims; said leasehold estate being
for the period commencing July 4th
1912, and ending when said claims
shall have been fully worked out in
accordance with the terms of a cer
tain written lease of said premises
between the Inmachuek Dredging
Company, and said Fairhaven Water
Company, yielding and paying to
said Inmachuek Dredging Cpmpany,
20 per cent, of the gross amount of
all gold, and precious metals pro
duced therefrom.
Also certain real property in the
Town of Deering, described as fol
The house known as the Fair
haven Water Company’s Building in
said town, 48x20 feet, 2 stories
high, with shed in rear 12x16 feet;
also stable 20x20 feet situate about
4 0 feet Easterly therefrom; also 2
warehouses 40x20 feet situate about
40 feet easterly from said stable;
all being situated in the East end
of said town of Deering, Alaska, to
gether with the lot of land upod
which said buildings are situated,
being about 250 feet East and West
and 100 feet North and South.
All of said properties, premises,
rights and franchises, with the ap
purtenances, being situated in the
Fairhaven Recording District, Terri
tory of Alaska, Second Division, in
cluding all and every estate, right,
title and interest therein which said
Fairhaven Water Company, a corpo
ration, had on the 1st day April,
1909, or that it has since acquired.
The Terms upon which said sale
will be made are as follows;
The purchase price may be paid
wholly in cash, or the purchaser or
purchasers may pay in cash suffici
ent to defray the costs and expen
ses of sale, including the Marshal’s
costs, fees and commissions, and
any additional amount which may
be bid by such purchaser or pur
chasers, may, at his or their option,
be paid in cash, or said purchaser
or purchasers may deliver to the
United States Marshal in lieu of
cash, any of the prior lien bonds
and coupons, which said bonds and
coupons are fully described and
identified in the judgment in this
action reckoning and computing said
prior lien bonds and coupons for that
purpose at a sum equal to and not
exceeding that which would be pay
able out of the net proceeds of
said sale to the purchaser or pur
chasers, as the holder or holders of
said bonds and coupons, for his Sor
their just share and proportion in
that character of said net proceeds.
All of said properties, premises,
rights and franscises will be sold
in one parcel, as a entirety; said
sale, however, will be made subject
in the lien of $16,500.00 outstand
ing first mortgage seven per cent
gold bonds of said Fairhaven Water
Company, witfy interest thereon at
the rate of 7 'per cent per annum
from September 15, 1906, which
said $16,500.00, first mortgage
seven per cent gold bonds, together
with the interest thereon, are se
cured by a trust mortgage on the
properties, premises, rights and
franchises above described.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August
19th, 1916.
E. R. JORDAN,
United States Marshal for the Di
strict of Alaska, 2nd Division.
Bat. Aug. 19, 26, Sept 2, 9, 16.
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