BRIEF NEWS OF IRE NORTHLAND.
The big freighter Valdez, belong
ing to the Alaska Steamship compa
ny the other night went aground at
Point Caution, but floated off shortly
afterwards without damage to the
ship. Point Caution is in Chatham
Straits near lvillisnoo. The Valdez is
one of the largest freighters of the
Alaska Steamship company fleet and
is one of the two Great Lake steamers
purchased by that company several
years ago and brought to this coast.
A. C. Williams, well known in Alas
ka, has left Juneau, accompanied by
A. C. Williams, jr., to join Mrs. Will
iams who is now in Seattle. Mr. Will
iams does not expect to return to
Alaska for some time. He was former
ly postmaster at Katalla, and largely
interested in coal and oil there, but
the conservation craze wiped out all
his prospects, the same as it did for
many other Alaskans who expected to
make a stake for their old age, and
he has been a resident of Juneau for
several years.
Shortly after a searching party was
organized at Juneau headed by Cap
tain James Davis, to go out after
Captain Jack Cann and his wife and
others, word was received that they
had arrived in Juneau. Three weeks
previously Captain Cann started for
his cannery in Icy Straits, accompan
ied by Mrs. Cann. Their boat was
stranded near Hoonah, but later was
gotten off and they left there for Ju
neau. Until they arrived in town,
they were not heard of for five days.
Captain Cann is one of the best
known navigators in Alaska waters
and it would require something out
of the ordinary to make him a victim
of Alaska waters.
Mrs. Sabin at Juneau has just re
ceived word from Lieutenant Emory
Winship, of the United States navy,
that her son Harry Sabin had enlist
ed and is at the front. He joined the
day after he was 18 years old. The
young man was raised in Juneau and
attended school there, save one year
which he attended school at the Jef
ferson high school in Portland, Or.
From New York City, Harry Del
vig, who used to live in Fairbanks and
who was third officer of the steamship
Rochester, which was torpedoed off
the coast of Ireland, wrote a letter to
Frank B. Hall of Fairbanks recently.
The letter is about as modest as any
letter could be from a man who had
gone through such an experience and
the writer refers to the sinking as
though it was all in a day’s work and
nothing to marvel over. At the time
of writing he was preparing to leave
for Europe on another ship. He has
been traveling across the Atlantic
ever since the war started.
From New York information is re
ceived that Rev. Charles E. Betticher
and Miss Margaret Graves, both
formerly of Interior Alaska, are to be
united in matrimony about Easter
time. Mr. Betticher, at present, is
managing editor of the Spirit of Mis
sions in New York and Miss Graves is
in the missionary field in the Philip
pine islands. While in Alaska, Rev.
Betticher was rector of St. Matthews
church at Fairbanks and superintend
ent of the Episcopal missions in inter
ior Alaska.
At a largely attended meeting of
the business men of Cordova recently,
it was decided to organize the Cor
dova Credit association. A temporary
organization was formed, and a com
mittee appointed consisting of H. A.
Slater, William Clayson and H. I.
Lewis to draft a constitution and re
port at the next meeting. E. V. Boyle,
M. B. Holben and F. A. Jones were
named as a committee on membership.
Among the outgoing passengers on
the last southbound voyage of the
steamship Admiral Evans from Val
dez was “Rastus” whose true name is
Charles Wilson, a gentleman of color
and a former resident of Cordova,
who was recently adjudged insane.
■“Rastus” had been a steady boarder
at the government institutions for
most of his stay in Alaska, and of late
has displayed numerous evidences of
a disordered mind. Recently he ha«
threatened, as soon as released from
jail, to become a German spy. He is
now on his way to Morningside
asylum.
Teachers in southeastern Alaska
Indian schools have been instructed to
i instruct their girl pupils in knitting
and the boys in first-aid methods, ac
cording to District Superintendent
Hawkesworth of the United States
bureau of education. All the Indian
pupils are being urged by their teach
ers to help further the Red Cross
movement.
Any grain grown in the United
States can be raised in Alaska, asesrt
ed Professor C. C. Georgeson, agron
1 omist of the United States depart
! ment of Alaska, while in Seattle re
cently. Professor Georgeson has
charge of the federal agricultural ex
periment stations at Fairbanks, Sitka,
Rampart, Kodiak and Matanuska.
Most of the grain experimental work
is done at the Fairbanks and Ram
part stations in the interior. Hybrid
wheat has been developed he said,
which will mature, produce a large
yield and be suitable for Alaska.
Spring Siberian wheat has been
grown and has produced over forty
bushels to the acre. Hybrid oats, al
falfa, rye and beardless barley have
also been produced. The stations have
also a hybrid strawberry which is
sweet and large and grows profusely.
Professor Georgeson took 125 samples
of grain to Seattle.
Several elaborate buildings have
been built by the government at the
Metlakatla Indian school, according to
W. T. Lopp head of the Alaska bureau
of the United States bureau of educa
tion. Mr. Lopp said the government
hopes to have in Metlakatla in a few
years an industrial school patterned
after Carlisle, Pa., and other Indian
schools in the states.
—
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1_\
at Skagway, held their annual election
i recently. The newly elected officers
are past president, J. C. Wood; presi
dent, W. J. Mulvhill; first vice-presi
dent, S. S. Brockmiller; second vice
president, John Grashel; secretary,
Jack Phelps; treasurer, Tony Dortero;
chaplain, Frank Fowler; historian, El
more Farmer; sergent-at-arms, Wal
ter McBrien; trustees, J. C. Wood and
Andrew Brown.
A preliminary report on the mineral
resources of the Katishna region,
Alaska, has just been published by the
United States geological survey as
Bulletin 662-E. This paper gives a
rather complete account of the min
ing activities of this interesting area
during the last twelve years and des
criptions of the many small producing
placer mines and of the promising,
but as yet unproductive gold, silver,
and antimony products. It may be ob
tained free on application to the direc
tor of the United States Geological
Survey, department of the interior.
Dyea bay is said to be frozen over
for a distance of more than one and
one-half miles. The ice is smooth and
line for skating.
The four McNeil boys, of Fair
! banks, who were ordered by the dis
! trict court at Fairbanks, delivered to
' the Edwin Briscoe Home at Kent,
Wash., have arived in safety and have
: been placed in school. Three of the
| boys were taken out from Fairbanks
j some time ago, going out under the
I care of Commissioner Thos. Riggs, jr.,
j as far as Juneau, and from that point
under the care of Bishop Crimont. The
| other boy was picked up in Seattle,
where he had been living for a time.
Annie Lyons, the notoi’ious Indian
woman, who has spent most of her
winters in recent years living at gov
ernment expense in the Fairbanks
jail, was very disagreeably surprised
the other day when the commissioner
at Fairbanks sentenced her to only
twenty days in the federal jail, in
stead of the sixty she usually draws.
Annie will now be forecd to leave he:
nice warm quarters right in the mids
of one of the coldest winters in his
tory, and she will then probably b*
returned to Rampart with severa
other natives who are serving tirm
and will be released about the sam*
time Annie’s sentence is over.
Word has been received from Tan
ana by the marshal’s office at Fair
banks of the arrest and iniprisonmen
of four persons at Tanana in Decern
ber. Pat Welch was arrested charge*
with assault and sentenced to pay ;
I fine of $100 or spend fifty days in jail
He is serving out his fine in jail. A
the same time John Deyck was trie*
for assault and also was fined $10C
and is serving it out in jail. Durinj
the trial of these two Olga Ceyck wa
found guilty of contempt of court an*
was sentenced to ten days in jail
Fish Creek Williams was arrested a
Tanana on a charge of disturbing th
peace, and was sentenced to pay a fin
of $50 or spend 25 days in jail. H
is serving his fine out in jail.
The Wrangell hotel, owned by Joh
G. Grant, and the leading hostelry a
Wrangell, caught fire the other da;
in the living rooms of Mr. Grant an
was badly damaged before the fir
was extinguished in the face of a hea
vy gale.
The governor’s office at Juneau an
nounces the following as the complet
list of chairmen of registration board
in the' several precincts:
Samuel Nixon, Haines; M. J. Hen
eghan, Ketchikan; Jacob Johnsor
Petersburg; John G. Brady, Sitka
Howard Ashley, Skagway; F. Mathe
son, Wrangell; G. J. Lomen, Nome
Thomas D. Dwyer, Anchorage; Georg
C. Hazelet, Cordova; T. W. Hawkins
Seward; James H. Patterson, Valdez
W. S. Layman, Chena; Robert E
Steel, Eagle; Albert R. Heilig, Fail
banks; Howard P. Curtis, Nenana
George F. Memis, Tanana.
The governors office is in receip
of a wire from the provost marsha
general, stating that all aliens withi;
the draft age should hold permit
from their local board to enable then
to leave Alaska. All alien enemie
must have permit from United State
attorney before they can leave Alas
ka. Subjects of both Germany am
• Austria without declaration of inton
tion are classed as alien enemies.
Phillip R. Bradley, general mana
ger of the Alaska-Juneau and Tread
well companies, said at Juneau tin
other day that the chief concern o
gold mining men these days is tin
question of how the government i;
going to classify the industry.
“There have been numerous confer
enees at San Francisco,” said Mr
Bradley, “by western gold miners t<
discuss the threatened classificatioi
of gold mines as “non-essentials” b;
the government. This would meai
there would be little consideration giv
en their demands for labor and trans
portation of supplies. However, ii
the case of Alaska the transportatioi
would not be such a blow to the in
dustry. In the states where railroad:
are already congested with freight
it would work a hardship on the goh
miners.”
Mr. Bradley is optimistic regardini
the outlook for Alaska.
Two cases of scarlet fever hav<
broken out in Treadwell and citizen;
have been warned by the health offi
cer to take every precaution to pre
vent an epidemic of the disease.
John Johnston, formerly of Juneau
died recently at Los Angeles, wher<
he had been residing for some time ii
poor health. The deceased was elos<
to 70 years of age, and had been ac
tively engaged in mining from tin
Black Hills to Alaska. In the earb
70’s Captain J. Johnston gained i
military record in connection with tin
Indian wars. He came to Aiask£
about 1900, making Juneau his head
quarters. In 1904 Captain Johnstoi
engaged in the newspaper business ii
Juneau as publisher of the Daily Rec
ord, which later he sold and eventu
ally it suspended publication. H<
speculated successfully in Juneau rea
estate, and sold part of his holding!
in the block now owned by the gov
ernment as a federal building site.
■ THERMOMETER AT SKAGWAY
t DROPS TO BETWEEN 25 AND
30 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
1
i TEMPERATURE
50 AT
SUMMIT.
t Juneau, Ketchikan and Wrangell Ex
1 perience Severe Cold and Similar
, Advices Are Received From North*
r ern Yukon Country.
5
1 Weather this winter on the south
. eastern and southwestern coasts of
t Alaska and throughout the Yukon
; country has broken all records for se
2 verity, says the Skagway Alaskan.
- The mercury in Skagway recently
dropped to between 25 and 30 degrees
below zero, with a terrible wind blow
1 ing. At the summit of the White
t Pass the temperature was 50 below
' and all business was stopped.
^ Along the northern Yukon and at
Dawson many cases of pneumonia
have developed and in addition there
is an epidemic of whooping cough,
which has resulted in several deaths.
At Juneau the mercury went down
to zero with a terrific Taku wind,
making it impossible for steamships
j to leave for a while.
lU'LtiiiKiui aim
v> raiigeu reports
- t
! severe weather.
Over to the westward reports show
’ the weather severe.
! \\ ind has played havoc with tele
’ | phone and electric wires in Skagway.
I The other evening a fallen wire struck
one man across the eyes and almost
’ | mocked him unconscious for a time.
| i'art ...e roof on Ask’s warehouse in
• Skagway blew off and the whole front
| of the old blacksmith shop on Fourth
j and Main in Skagway blew down,
j Windows have been broken in many
ARGUMENT SUBMITTED TO CON
GRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON
EVIDENCE IN CONTEST.
; INDIAN FRANCHISE INVOLVED.
Question of Soldiers’ Right to Vote
Raised and Federal Officials Are
Charged With Exercising LTtdue
Influence.
1 The reply brief of James Wicker
' sham, in the matter of his contest
■ against Charles A. Sulzer for the of
1 flee of delegate to congress, has just
1 been received here. In this brief Mr.
■ Wickersham submits argument upon
5 the points covered by the testimony
> taken in Alaska last summer, and the
1 law is quoted in support of the argu
! ment.
> The issue as raised by this testimo
ny is really very simple, and involves
the right of the Russian-Aleuts living
'! at Kodiak, Afognak and Seldovia to
5 vote. The same question is raised at
‘ precinct No. 2 in St. Michael, but by
■ reason of the fact that the attorneys
failed to show for whom the alleged
illegal or fraudulent votes at that pre
’ cinct were cast, the committee of the
' house in considering the contest is
1 likely to ignore the protest there.
' The brief on these points is an in
' teresting i-ecital of the historical re
‘ lation of the Indians of Alaska, to
the Russian government originally,
1 and afterwards to the government of
‘ the United States.
1 The question of the rights of sol
' diers to vote was fully discussed by
1 Mr. Wickersham in his original brief,
1 and his present brief is largely con
■ fined to arguing that federal officials
• and military officers conspired togeth
! er to control the vote of the soldiers
I and then to prevent evidence being
! taken of the fraudulent voting.
Read The Weekly Times.
DP SCHOOL HAS
SUPERINTENDENT T. R. McAN
ALLY COMPILES REPORT OF
WORK FOR DECEMBER.
SURVEY PROVES SATISFACTORY
Current Semester Will Close Next
Thursday and Examinations Will
Begin Friday—Pupils on Honor
Roll Given.
The fourth month of the present
scholastic year of 1917-18 closed Jan
uary 4, and Superintendent T. R. Mc
Anally has just compiled his monthly
report for December.
The superintendent has been mak
ing a partial survey of the school. A
shilling measurement test was recent
ly given to all pupils above the sec
ond grade. The test consisted of a list
of 100 words made up by Dr. W. F.
Jones, of the University of South Da
kota, who conducted a comprehensive
and careful investigation of the ma
terial of English spelling. He named
these words the “One hundred spell
ing demons of the English language"
because he found them to be so fre
quently and persistently misspelled in
all grades.
Good Record in Spelling.
In this spelling test the Anchorage
high school made the very creditable
lecord of 96 per cent. The highest
standing was made by the eighth
grade and sophomore classes, there
being three pupils of each class who
spelled all the words correctly. Ihr
individual pupils who succeeded ir
spelling correctly each of the lOt
words were:
Eighth grade, William K. Thomp
son, Selma Swanson and Irja Kopika
Sophomores, Maxine McDonald, Es
ther Denton and Keith Miller.
A measurement test was also made
to determine the grade distribution.
For the month just closed there was
a total enrollment of 271 pupils, 118
on the monthly roll of honor, sixty-sis
cases of tardiness, 150 pupils neithei
absent nor tardy and an attendance oi
97.3 per cent. The highest standing
for the month was made by the fifth
grade with the following record:
Number enrolled, twenty-five; num
ber on honor roll, eighteen; numbei
neither absent nor tardy, twenty-four;
number cases of tardiness, three; per
cent of attendance 99.6.
The fourth grade deserves special
mention for having attained 100 pet
cent punctuality.
Semester Closes Thursday.
The first semester will close next
Thursday and Friday will be devoted
to the final examinations. All pupils
who have been on the honor roll
every month will be exempt from the
final examinations and will be passed
as honor pupils.
The night school now has an en
rollment of 214 students, there having
been twenty new students enrolled
since the holidays. About half of the
enrollment is in actual attendance,
which is holding up well. While some
are dropping out others continue tc
come in and a considerable numbei
has been in attendance since Septem
ber. It is the purpose of the night
school board to continue the night
school throughout the school year.
The sixth and seventh grades enter
tained the high school and the eighth
grade with a literary program Friday
afternoon. The junior class of the de
partment of public speaking of the
night school will give a declamation
contest at an early date. The senior
class is preparing for a public orator
ical contest a little later. To all of
these exercises the public will be in
vited.
In the honor roll for December the
names are arranged in order of rank
or class standing, only honor pupils
being in rank. The roll follows:
First grade, C class—Frank Casali.
First grade, B class—Jessie Ward,
Lyle Triplett, Margaret Culbertson,
Geraldine Gerber, Lela Jovanovich,
George Pyatt, Walter Smith, Mabel
Swanson.
First grade, A class—Margaret Tif
fany, Carl Wester, Pearl Cort, Doro
thy Bayles, Clarence Dunn, Irvin Pack
ard, Albert Suomela, Earl Ramsey,
Sheldon Marsters, Iva Lothrop, Betty
McFate, Harriet Wolsky, Glen Whit
well, Harold Anderson.
Second grade—Helen Welch, Ruth
Ramsey, Victor Sleuter, Edith Bayles,
Mary Grandjean, Ernest Richter, Ly
dia Shaw, Sue Bell Clayton, Corrinne
Mayhew, Edward Barber, Janet Mc
Fate, Buster Brown, Marjorie Bar
tholf, Reino Vanaja, Henry Horton,
Freda Carrol, Carol Bartholf, Alice
Bayer, Clyde Bergerson.
Fourth grade, B class—Geneva Mor
rison, Margaret Grandjean, Barry Mil
liken, John West, Elna Wells, George
Johanson.
Third grade—Elsie Anderson, Don
na Balch, Robert Hart, Ruth Ander
son, Paul Reed, Margaret Whitwel!,
Leighton Ross, George Ingram, Fred
Bartlett, Kenneth Bayer.
Fourth grade, A class—Arthur
Hanson, Gladys Nasstrom, Edna Rath
well, Louise Boudreau, Cecil Brayford,
Bernice Tweeddale, Alice Erickson,
Grace Smith.
Fifth Grade List.
Fifth grade—Margaret Holmes,
Esther Thompson, Josephine Mears,
Gertrude Murphy, W'illiam Gill,
Blanche Fox, Paul Beeson, Carl Eng
lund, Gerald Shucklin, Emmett Zei
barth, William Allenbaugh, Harry
Locke, Mildred McMahill, Mildred Er
ickson, Thoralf Peterson Celia Fried
man, Sabina Smith, Charles Sheehan.
Sixth grade—Alice Hales, Helen
Kiel, Lawler Seeley, John Dunn, Dec
ema Kimball, Mary Jackson, Elinor
Meinally, Dorothy Hart, Alec Park.
Seventh grade—Ernest Fox.
Eighth Grade Pupils.
Eighth grade—Irza Kopika, Will
I iam Thompson, Opal Dow, Selma Si
; monson, Albert Denton, Selby Seeley,
! Helen Chovin, Albert Heckev.
i
Freshman class—Vera Kimball,
| Clover Morrison, Nellie Brown, Ralph
! Bartholf.
Sophomore class—Keith Miller,
| William Slolt, Maxine McDonald. Es
‘ ther Denton, Gerald Arbuckle, James
i
I F. McAnally, Rasmus Simonson.
Junior class—Harold Beeson.
Highest honors in the high school
j for the month go to Keith Miller,
! 94 4-5, and Vera Kimball, 94.
CHOOSE YOUR FOOD BY SYSTEM
1 Seelct From Groups Below for Scien
tific Combinations.
Here are three groups of food,
j For a well-balanced dinner one might
! select one dish from group one, and
| two each from groups two or three:
Group One (foods rich in protein)
: —Meat, meat substitutes, milk, eggs,
nuts, fish, beans, peas, macaroni and
cheese, rice and cheese, foods com
bined with nuts.
Group Two (foods rich in starch,
sugar fats)—Creamed vegetables,
potatoes, hominy, rice, breads, cer
eals, pie, cake, puddings, ice cream.
Group Three (foods rich in miner
als and cellulose)—Green vegetables,
salads, fruits and vegetable soups.
These suggestions are made by the
home economics department at the
University of Washington.
HAIR AND COLD WATER,
To make the hair grow use cold
water as it runs from the hydrant.
Apply the water to your hair with
your wet hands and run your fingers
through what you have or rub your
scalp with your wet cold hands. This
exercise will bring the blood to the
scalp, and only from the blood can
you get new hair or make the hair
you already have more luxuriant.
You cannot get hair from grease.
Nothing in the world is so good for
the hair as cold water applied with
the wet hands until the water has
reached the scalp. But do not im
merse your head in cold water. This
is all too much of a shock.—Exchange.
FIRST USE OF “MAGAZINE.”
“Magazine,” properly a storehouse
(Arabian), has been annexed by liter
ature, but it is interesting to recall
the birth of its now common literary
use—in that venerable periodical, the
Gentleman’s Magazine. In the intro
duction to its number (1731) we read,
“This consideration has induced sev
eral gentlemen to treasure up, as in
a magazine, the most remarkable
pieces on the subjects above men
tioned.”—London Times.