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LAND OFFICE TO
HANDLE TOWNSITES
A. Christensen, chief of the field di
vision of the Alaska Band office, Is a
passenger on the steamer Watson, due
here tomorrow, for Anchorage to con
fer with the members of the AlaBkn
engineering Commission, which is in
charge of the government townsite at
thnt place, and of all government town
sites along the line or the railroad.
People have been flocking to Ship
Creek in such numbers and are squat
ting promiscuously on the townsites,
with such attendant disorder and dis
putes over their rights, that the com
mission has decided to take the mat
ter In hnnd at once and bring order
out of chaos.
Mr. Christensen will arrange to
place a price on the lots which may
be left in these townsites after the
government has determined upon the
space that shall be required for rail
road buildings, etc., and it will be
done in such a way that those pur
chasing ground can secure undisput
ed title.
The government has a tract con
taining three square miles of land at
Ship Creek, a townsite reservation at
Matanuaka unction, and a tract of
about 12 by 24 miles near the head of
Resurrection Bay, near Seward.
All of this land will be surveyed by
J- F. Warner, government surveyor,
who has been ordered to accompany
Mr. Christensen and lay out the town
sites.
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HOLLAND'S FOOD PRICES
ARE SOARING HIGH
THE HAGUE, May 20—Holland in
now suffering from high food prices,
the result of various causes, the chief
of which was the rush of Dutch pro
ducers at the beginning of the war
to take advantage of the increased
demand from abroad and the conse
quently augmented rates offered by
foreign buyers.
Retail prices of a number of articles
of consumption have risen in an ever
Increasing ratio ever since the out
break of hostilities. Statistics cov
ering 27 articles have been compiled
and tliese show that, figuring the
average cost at 100 during the pnst
twenty years, the prices have now
risen by 30 per cent. Prices, howev
er had started going up some time
before the war. In fact, since 1907
they have been rising steadily two
or three points a year until July, 1914,
when they stood at 113. From Au
gust to December last year they
jumped suddenly to 121, In January of
this year they had mounted to 129, in
February to 130, and they are still
going up.
SILVER WAVE STARTS
FOR THE ARTIC
The gas schooner Silver Wave,
owned and operated by Capt. Gund
mundson, one of the few surviving ves
sels of the Alaska field fleet, is on its
way to Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
places rarely visited.
The Silver Wave will penetrate far
along the coasts of the Arctic ocean
In search of trade with the Indians
and Eskimos.
The Silver Wave will be remembered
as the schooner that took a party of
Alaska legislators from Nome for Ju
neau and never landed them at their
destination, running into a storm, the
violence of which so dismantled the
little craft that she had to put into
one of the islands above Kodiak for
shelter for such a long period that all
hope for her was given up. Finally
he Dora, a freighter bound for Sew
ard, transferred them to that port.
Copt. Gundmundson is the second
navigator to brave the perils of the
Arctic this spring, the Polar Bear
already having departed for the Far
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HISTORY OF WU
TAUGHT FRENCH SCHOOLS
PARIS, May 20—The history of the
war is being taught to the children
of France as it goes on. By order
of the minister of public Instruction
the schools have observed a patriotic
day. Every teacher talked about the
war and brought out the patriotic char
acter of the conflict from a French
standpoint. There followed a Bel
gian day devoted to King Albert’s
heroic attitude, a Serbian day and a
day devoted to the praises of the cel
ebrated 3-Inch field gun.
Instead of distracting the minds of
the children from school work, the
war has been made to heighten its
interest, and the attendance has been
normal during the winter. The great
est difficulty was finding new quarters
for the primary classes, most of the
school houses having been utilized
by the army for barracks and hospi
tals, but this has been overcome.
The details of instruction in matters
relating to the war have been left to
the discretion of the teachers. Some
of them read and comment on the offic
ial communiques. Others read the
exploits of officers and men as dis
closed by the citations in the orders
of the day, and many letters sent from
the front by soldiers of the vicinity
are read. It is often the soldier in
person who tells the little ones of his
experiences, for many teachers, dis
abled for further service in the army,
have returned to their school duties.
Sometimes it is a soldier who has
never been a pedagogue who relates
his experiences.
GERMAN SHELL LIFTS
COFFIN OUT OF GRAVE
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Brit
ish Army, Franc©, May 20—One of
the huge German 42-centimeter shelf*
opened a grave in the little cemetery
of the village of Riche Bourg St.
Vaaste recently and, exploding, lifted
a coffin and the skeleton therein fifty
feet in the air, where bones and splin
tered wood caught and hung on the
side of the church tower. Wind and
rain have come, but part of the skel
eton still depends from the tower, rat
tling and swaying in the breeze. A
correspondent of the Associated Press,
itoring along the British lines, saw
the strange sight, perhaps the oddest
freak of shell fire of the war. Parts
of the skeleton, whose, nobody knows,
(for the villagers have fled) has
dropped to the churchyard below, hut
enough of the bones remain in mid
air to be identified as those of a hu
man being.
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(INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS
AMONG YAKUTAT NDIANS
Joseph A. Snow, special officer for
the suppression of the liquor traffic
among the Indians, has just spent 19
days at Yukutat. At that place he
was passed up by the boat, and had
to await the arrival of the next.
Mr. Snow says there Ik very little
drunkenness among the natives in
Yakutat and vicinity, and little com
plaint of "bootlegging.”
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Cordova grow.
DEPARTMENT BF LABOR
WILL HOLD CONFERENCE
Governor Strong recently received
a letter from Secretary Wilson, of the
department of commerce and labor,
requesting him to appoint a delegate
to a conference of state and municipal
officers which will be held in San Fran
cisco on Aug. 2nd, for the purpose of
gaining their co-operation in promot
ing the best interests of the laborer!
of the country by widening the scope
of the labor bureaus recently estab
lished by the government.
The letter says:
“Recently through the division of
information of the Bureau of Immigra
tion, distribution branches, or labor
exchanges were established through
out the country in order, on the one
hand, 'to foster, promote and develop’
the welfare of the wage earners, and.
on the other hand, to afford to employ
ers in all industries a method where
by they may make application for and
secure, without expense, such help as
they may need.”
"The post office department, with of
ficers in each city and town, and the
department of agriculture, with repre
sentatives in every agricultural com
munity, are extending to the govern
ment great aid.”
Continuing, the letter states that
the state and municipal authorities are
in closer touch with the laboring clas
ses than the department heads and for
this reason it is the wish of the de
partment to hold a conference with
them.
PANAMA CANAL
SHOWS BIG LOSS
PANAMA, May 20—The first eight
months of operation of the Pauama
canal have not yielded a profit to the
government, notwithstanding that traf
fic has been better than had been ex
pected in view of the European war.
Prom July 1, 1914 and and ng March
1, 1915, the canal showi . i loss of
$201,098, the deficit being mainly
chargeable to the high cost of opera
tion and maintenance.
During the period mentioned the ca
nal earned $2,334,515 In tolls, while
the charge for operation and mainte
nance was $2,595,613, the government
thus losing approximately 10 per cent.
Under operation and maintenance are
included all the diversified expendi
tures necessary for keeping the canal
open to traffic, and a prorated part
of the expenses of the civil govern
ment, sanitation and general adminis
tration.
More than one-third of the overhead
expenses of the canal is charged to
operation and maintenance.
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Where is John Menetho Scott.
Governor J. P. A Strong is in receipt
of a letter from Mrs. Eldora Dixon,
1911 Grant street, Denver, Colorado,
making inquiries as to the wherea
bouts of her brother, John Menetho
Scott, formerly of Springfield. Ohio,
who was last heard from In Alaska or
the Klondike. Alaska papers please
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E. F, MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at law
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Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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