^SELECTION OF
TEXT BOOKS
FOR SCHOOLS
The territorial text book commis
sion, which was created by the last
legislature and recently met at Ju
*neau, has an important part to play
in the development of the Alaska pub
lic schools. Its duties are to select a
uniform set of text books for use in
the elementary schools of the terri
tory, and approved list of text books
* in each subject listed in the high
school curriculum.
‘The memoers of the text book com
mission are Lester D. Henderson, com
missioner of education, who is ex
officio chairman; W. A. Knox, for the
past three years superintendent of the
Ketchikan schools, and Miss Emma
Keever, who has for two years been
superintendent of the Cordova
schools.
The commission has secured data
relative to the text books now in use
in the public schools of the various
states, and has, since its creation last
states, and has, since its creation last
May, been examining leading text
books with a view to‘securing only
the best for use in Alaska.
Text books now in use in the schools
of the territory which do not conform
to the regular adoptions will be re
^ turned to the various publishing
houses some time during the coming
summer, and new books purchased.
According to the terms of the agree
ment which will be entered into be
tween the commission and the pub
lishers, old books on any subject may
be changed for the adopted text on
payment of but a part of the regular
ikirchase price."
Text books will be adopted for a
period of four years. The law pro
vides that after the expiration of the
period of the original adoption no
more than one-fourts of the books
may be changed during any one year.
In the past text books have been se
lected by school boards and teachers,
and frequent changes have been made.
The selection of a certain text has
also many times taken place without
the careful consideration which is due
so important a matter. It is expected
that the present arrangement will re
sult in the use of a uniformly higher
grade of text books in many of the*
public schools of the territory.
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In the District Court ror the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Auralee
P. Pritchard, plaintiff, vs. Carl A.
Pritchard, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to wit,
within thirty days after the 23d day
of January, 1920, to answer the com
-pJaitijt of. the above-named plaintiff in
the above-entitled action, wherein
said plaintiff prays that she be given
an absolute decree of divorce from
you forever dissolving the bonds of
matrimony heretofore existing be
tween you and said plaintiff.
And unless you so appear and an
swer, the plaintiff will take judgment
against you for want thereof and will
apply to the court for the relief de
manded in her said complaint as here
inabove set out.
The date of the order for service
by publication herein is December 8,
1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and filed herein on said
date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is December 9, 1919,
and the date of its last publication is
January 22, 1920.
Witness: The Honorable CHARLES
E. BUNNELL, Judge of the said
Court, and the seal of said Court,
on this 8th day of December, 1919.
(Seal! ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division.
By JpHN B. MILLER, Deputy.
R. H. L. Noakes, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
FEIGNS SUICIDE
TO WIN MILLION
Nicaraguan Found Living Like
Hermit After He Took
■Out Insurance.
HUNT MAN TWO YEARS
Narcisco Arellano Confesses Daring
Attempt to Defraud American Com
panies—Sought Million—Risk
Companies Wrote Him Up
for $250,000.
New York.—An attempted life in
surance fraud involving $250,000,
which began with applications for
$1,000,000 insurance from American
and Canadian life companies by Nar
cisco Arellano, member of one of the
oldest and most prominent families of
the republic of Nicaragua, who simu
lated suicide and concealed himself
for nearly two years in a hermit
mountain retreat until a New York
investigator ferreted out his hiding
place, was described by insurance of
ficials recently. Robert L. Barnes, an
ex-anny man of Washington, who
caught Arellano, has brought back a
written confession from Arellano, and
a story of his man-hunting trip in the
wilds of Nicaragua that amazed in
surance officials.
In February, 1917, scores of insur
ance companies here and in Canada
received applications simultaneously
for large amounts of life risks on the
person of Narcisco Arellano, said A. .T.
Pickford of the law department of
the New York Life Insurance com
pany.
Such investigation- as the different
companies made at that time showed
that Arellano had been a merchant in •
his native city, Orenda. Nicaragua. |
His family connections were all prom
inent in social or political life in the
republic.
Sought a Million.
However, the various insurance
companies would not accept the ap
plications for the full amount asked
for.
The numerous policies finally issued
aggregated $250,000, one-quarter of
the total sought. The policies were
made payable to his wife and son and
to his estate.
Some months afterward reports
reached insurance officials that Arel
lano had disappeared. Then came |
what purported to be official confirma- |
tion of his death.
Mr. Pickford went to Nicaragua to
investigate, as proof of death was
not convincing. There Mr. Pickford
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Living Like a Hermit
was told that Arellano had either
committed suicide or had fallen from
a boat into Lake Nicaragua.
“I was not satisfied with what was
told me,” said Mr. Pickford, “and
wlmt I had learned through my own
initiative, and I advised that payment
on the policies be withheld.”
All of the companies subsequently
pooled their interests and sent Rob
ert L. Barnes to make further inves
tigation.
Found Living as a Hermit.
The death of Arellano was reported
in November, 1917. Barnes worked
for months to find a trace of evidence
to disprove the Lake Nicaragua re
port. A friend of Arellano, who had
been in the boat with him, insisted
that Arellano had been drowned in
the lake. But Barnes got a hint and
finally some admissions from this in
formant. which started him on the
trail that led to the finding of Arel
lano. living like a hermit in a remote
mountain section some distance from
Nicaragua, capital of the republic.
To save himself he made the writ
ten confession to Barnes.
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from a recent demonstration in St.
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through a goldfish bowl makes a mag
nificent lens powerful enough to set
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Some Bull’s-Eyes and Stray Shots by the Young Idea
THE schoolboy of the nation means well and will probably grow up to be a
useful citizen—in some line of activity where accuracy Is not absolutely
essential. In the meantime he is, as Artemus Ward would say, a “most amuzin’
little cuss.” For example, here are ex
cerpts from the examination of classes
in general history:
“Romulus obtained the first citi
zens of Rome by operating a lunatic
asylum.” “Pompeii was destroyed by
an eruption from the Vatican.” “There
were no Christians among the early
Gauls, they were mostly lawyers.” In
mythology we have the following:
“The Gorgons were three sisters that
looked like women, only more hor
rible.” The class in English history
furnishes some interesting material: “My favorite character in English
history was Henry VIII. He had six wives and killed them all.” “Edward
III would have been king of France if his mother had been a man.” “Henry
Is son William was drowned in the White Ship and never smiled again.” “The
Black Death was terrible for the laborers, because they were forced to do
all the work left by the thousands that died.”
We derive various bits of biography: “Benjamin Franklin produced
electricity by rubbing cats backward.” “Andrew Jackson was called Old
Hickory because when he was a boy he was a little tough.” “George Wash
ington married Mary Curtis and in due time became the father of his country.”
Definitions of this and that: “A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian.”
“The Pharisees were people who liked to show off their goodness by praying
in synonyms. “An ibex is where you look in the back part of the book when
you want to find anything that is printed in the front part of the book.” “A
man who looks on the bright side of things is called an optimist, but a pianist
looks on the dark side.” “A hyphenated American is one that talks in short
sentences.” “The whole of the United States speaks English except Chicago
and New York.”
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