SCHOOL HOUSE
Expenditure of $19,000 Will Be Made
in Fitting Up Building and
Grounds.
The expenditure of $19,000 on im
provements for the local school house
and grounds has been authorized by
Commissioner Mears, it was an
nounced Saturday, and work on fit
ting up the building for the fall sea
son will begin at once under the su
pervision of K. K. Kuney, engineer
of maintenance of way. The pro
posed work was recommended by a
committee recently appointed to in
vestigate conditions and report on
necessary changes and additions. A.
Christensen, K. K. Kuney, J. G.
Watts, and E. R. Arbuckle served on
the committee.
To Grade Grounds
The grounds will be graded, park
ed and fenced, and the old school
building, which has served as a gym
nasium during the winter, will short
ly be advertised for sale and removed
when disposed of.
Alterations and additions to the
building constitute the main item in
the work. The third floor will be
completed, a matter of putting in
floors, finishing the ceilings, and
partitioning off rooms. The entire
floor will be made into class rooms to
insure against any congestion that
may result from an expected increase
in attendance this winter. The lunch
room will be provided with a double
door and also be prepared to handle
the increased demands that will be
made upon it. All the interior of the
building will be painted and when the
■Woodwork has been completed, the
walls will be kalsomined. Additional
wiring and electrical fixtures will be
provided.
Fire Protection
A number of improvements to in
sure better fire protection have been
incorporated in the new plans. There
will be an exit from the main hall at
the south side of the building, steps
will be built to the basement and first
floor at the east entrance, and a new
set of flues from the furnace will be
installed. An apparatus for hoisting
the ashes from the boiler room will be
put in, and there will be a fireproof
vault to hold the records of the school
board and district.
Mrs. David Vint, Miss Ruth Reit,
and Miss Record, who were accepted
for another year by the old board)
were given the stamp of approval by
the new. The applications of Miss
Frederick Deierling, who has beer
teaching in Valdez, and of Miss Vera
Waller, recently from Seattle and
Edmonds, Washington, were favor
ably acted on and the ladies will be
notified of their acceptance.
A stack of applications, estimated
at between 100 and 150 in number
will be gone through by a committee
of two and a small number of the
most likely ones selected for final ac
tion at the next meeting. From about
25 selections the two teaching and
one principal positions will be finally
filled.
Laurence makes portraits.
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GOSSIPY NEWS
OF TALKEETNA
People of That Thriving Community
Have Petitioned For a
School.
TALKEETNA, July 2.—The people
of tills village and vicinity have made
application to the U. S. district court
for authority to organize and in
corporate itself into a common school
district, to be known as the Talkeet
na school district. Approval and re
turn of papers giving authority for an
election is expected within a few
weeks.
The territory embraced in the pro
posed school district is slightly less
than 40 square miles. The plans are
to hold the election and be ready to
open a session of school not later than
the middle of September. A year ago
this section was a wilderness, yet in
September a fully equipped public
school will be in session. In connec
tion with this move, steps have been
taken to get a library, to be known as
the Public School Library, Talkeetna,
Alaska.
There is also a promising field for
churches here and though they would
be small at first, there is an opportun
ity for them to start in and grow with
the community.
Miss Alice Small has about comple
ted a large two-story hotel built of
lumber. It is an imposing structure
and a credit to the town. She will
doubtless receive the large patronage
which she deserves.
Judge Carl Almy, U. S. court com
missioner, formerly of Susitna, has
been transferred from that place to
Talkeetna, his future official home.
The judge is ex-officio recorder and
justice of the peace.
Scores of prospectors and miners
have recently passed through here on
their way to the Broad Pass and Kan
tishna mining regions.
Many are also going south to Iron
Creek copper region about 35 miles
from here. Promising reports are com
ing from this region. Other sections
of the Talkeetna mountains and the
creeks to the north are being pros
pected. Hundreds of men are covering
the various sections in search of plac
er, lode quartz, iron, copper, tin, an
timony, lead, zinc, nickel, platinum,
tungsten, and gold. The war has made
a call for most of the above metals.
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion through Mr. H. F. Dose, district
engineer, this past spring caused 5.7
acres of land to be cleared and plowed
up. This has been planted to potatoes,
cabbage, and vegetables. The plant
ings are doing fine, making wonder
fully rapid growth.
There are splendid business open
ings in Talkeetna, on a small scale
such as carpenter, blacksmith, cabinet
shop, boot and shoe repair shop, tailor
shop, tin shop earning hardware,
small bakery, small drug store, phy
sician and surgeon, general mercan
tile and clothing store. A good live
visiting dentist would find suitable
work.
Cook Inlet sunsets at Sidney Lau
rence. 40
HIGH CLASS GROCERIES
AMOCAT BRAND
The Brand of the Coast.
LARSON & WENDLER
Corner 4th and I.
Felix Brown & Co.
WE ARE JUDGED BY OUR CLOTHES.
Reflect tlio Prosperity of Anchorage by wearing a
Stein Bloch Suit. C ME FELIX, for a good front.
NEW STOCK ARRIVED ON ALAMEDA
MOTHER MAKES HER FIRST APPEARANCE IN HER NEW OVERALLS.
RUSSIAN SOCIALISTS
WIN IN ELECTIONS
Delayed reports from Petrograd
state that a united socialist party
has carried that city in the municipal
election, and controls the city coun
cil. The revolutionaries, the labor
iets and the democratic socialists
came together for the first time since
the revolution, in opposition to the
liberals, who ran a bad second.
Women voted in the election—the
first application of women suffrage in
Russia. A hot campaign was waged,
with street meetings and demonstra
tions every night and in some dis
tricts during the day.
Meanwhile the Council of Work
men’s and Soldiers’ Deputies con
tinues to rule Russia. It is now la
boring to avert a threatened railroad
strike, which would paralyze traffic
in Petrograd and cut it off from rail
communication.
The railroad workers want in
creases in wages and shorter hours,
and their strong position makes con
cession to their demands inevitable.
A socialist republic already, Rus
sia is likely to emerge from the war
a federation of states like the United
States of America. The congress of
Peasants has decided to demand that
this form of government be adopted.
The peasants are perhaps the most
powerful single section of the peo
ple.
WOMEN WALK OUT
OF NORTHERN PACIFIC SHOPS
TACOMA, Wash., July 13.—Sever
al women employed in the shops of
the Northern Pacific railroad have
quit. One woman said she did not
blame the organized workers for pro
testing against women who are plac
ed in the shops at a lower rate than
the unions have made possible. She
said her husband did not belong to a
union, and that “it is true he does not
get a sufficient wage from the com
pany to support the family and I
started to work to help him.”
The railroad’s action has aroused
strong protest from trade unionists,
members of women’s clubs and oth
er citizens.
Writing in the Tacoma Daily News,
E. J. Pelky, labor editor of that
paper, says:
“The real trouble with the North
ern Pacific is not a scarcity of men,
but the fact that it refuses to pay
a wage sufficient to maintain a de
cent living. The extremely low wages
offered by the Northern Pacific ex
plains its cry of labor ishortage.”
There are lots of well dressed men
in Anchorage and amongst the very
best will be found those who buy their
clothes from Felix Brown. adv,
It’s a fine time for the agricul
tural schools to give a reason for
their existence.—Nashville Banner.
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rence. 40
BITTER FIGHT ON LABOR
IS ON IN SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—
This city is now in the throes of a
bitter struggle between the Chamber
of Commerce and organized labor.
Through its Law and Order Commit
tee, equipped with a million-dollar
fund, the chamber of commerce is
attempting to discredit and besmirch
ire cause of unionism and to place
the wrage earner at the mercy of the
meanest employer by destroying the
power of his organization.
Because Thomas Mooney is an ac
tive trade unionist the chamber of
commerce stands behind District At
torney Fickert in the effort to send
Mooney to the gallows, and ignores
the proof that Fickert’s chief wit
ness against Mooney in the Pre
paredness Day bomb cases conspired
to procure prejured testimony to
back up his own story.
In a booklet circulated widely
through the United States, the
chamber of commerce attacks or
ganized labor and asserts that the
hideous bomb outrage of last sum
mer was the logical outcome of
union activities. Its campaign against
the unions has been denounced by
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., himself R
millionaire ship builder and owner.
Back of the chamber of commerce
campaign is the necessity of stop
ping the decline in industrial ac
tivity in San Francisco. Factories
have moved across the bay to Oak
land or Los Angeles. The chamber
of comerce has seized upon the
hardest way of reducing costs. If
the power of organized labor is
smashed, wages can be reduced. Yet
the testimony of Willis N. Polk, the
city’s leading architect, and that of
other employers with experience in
both Los Angeles and San Francisco
is that a dollar in wages pays for
more work in San Francisco than
in Los Angeles.
The real trouble in San Francisco
is high rents. The city is situated
on the tip of a narrow peninsula,
with salt water on three sides and
high hills on the fourth. The land
space is limited. And land values
are so high as to be almost prohibi
tive. Yet there is still plenty of va
cant land. But it is held at exorbit
ant prices, and the man looking for a
factory site goes elsewhere.
Samuel Samuels, a stevedore, tes
tified that Mrs. Mooney received from
himself ten pounds of nitre eleven
days before the bomb outrage in San
Francisco on Preparedness Day, 1916.
This is regarded as the most dam
aging evidence yet produced and
created a sensation. The defense is
expected to try to prove that Sam
uels, like Oxman, is in the pay of
those who seek the woman’s convic
tion.
Trade union girls employed at the
Parker hosiery at Frostberg, Mass.,
have won a four-weeks’ strike and se
cured increased wages.
Frisco Cafe
^ Where Matt and Andy Giro the T
Beat Meals in Team.
CORNER 4th AND H.
CAMERON’S
CAFE
THE PLACE WITH A
REPUTATION.
4th Ave and C.
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PIONEER
SHEET METAL WORKS
COLE’S
HOT BLAST HEATERS
5th and C.
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BANK OF ANCHORAGE
THE BANK OP SERVICE.
Anchorage Alaska
CHAS. E. BROWN,
President.
SIDNEY ANDERSON,
Vice Pres, and Cashier.
WINFIELD ERVIN
Assistant Cashier.
DAN VTJCETICH
Manager Foreign Exchange
Department.
ANCHOR
TO ANCHORAGE
AND THE
BANK OF
ANCHORAGE
Resources Over $500,000
WASHINGTON, July 9.—In a Sun
day night’s proclamation, President
Wilson took over control of exports.
In the statement accompanying the
order he declared that the govern
ment’s policy would be to give first
consideration to American needs, to
the allies next, and lastly to neutral
countries.
DEATH VISITS TRAPPER
AT GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL
Joe Foucher, aged 45 years, a
rancher and trapper residing at Su
sitna, died at the government hospi
tal this morning at 8:30 from cardiac
insufficiency. He had been in the
hospital ten days for treatment.
Foucher has no relatives in this vi
cinity and his only known relative is
his father, Napoleon Fouchsr, whose
home is in Stillwater, Minn. The
body is at the Wood Undertaking
company’s parlors while an effort is
being made to communicate with rel
atives as to the disposition of the
body.
For light lunches go to the White
Lunch, 4th and C. 712
GIVEN NENANA AGENCY.
FAIRBANKS, June 22.—Max. M.
Smith, formerly connected with the
store of the Northern Commercial
company and well known here, is to
be given the agency of the company
at Nenana as soon as the store has
been established at the railroad town,
local agent. Mr. Smith is now act
ing agent at Tanana in the absence
of J. A. Donald, who is on the Out
side. As soon as Mr. Donald returns
north Mr. Smith will go to Nenana
according to Geo. A. Coleman, the
and assume charge of his duties.
WILL SERVE THREE YEARS
FAIRBANKS, June IS. — Louis
Goyette, the defendant in what are
known as the Skoogey Gluch shoot
ing cases, was last night sentenced
by Judge Charles E. Bunnell to serve
three years in the United States peni
tentiary at McNeil's island. After
listening to the sentence, passed by
the judge at the end of a lengthy dis
course to the defendant, Attorney
Thomas A. Marquam intimated that
an appeal from the decision of the
court may be taken.
Kodaks and Supplies from the
Eastman Dealer. “That Man Loge
man” ,..th ave. adv.
Only one kind of bean3 at the
White Lunch. Good beans. adv.
io;o;o;c;o;o;c;o;g
NO MIDDLEMAN’S PROFIT
WE SELL TO ANYONE AND SHIP ANYWHERE
FROM THE MILL DIRECT TO YOU.
The Bird Creek Lumber Co.
ROBT. H. FLEMING
Manager.