ALASKA MINER
PROVES TO BE
- MUCH ALIVE
SEATTLE, Feb. 17 (by Associated
Press).—Just as the friends of Jens
Nielsen, an Alaska miner, were ar
ranging to administer his estate and
send his banked money to his mother
in Denmark, they received a letter
from him saying he was alive and that
he was coming to Seattle.
He had $5,200 in the bank, which
had remained untouched for two
years.
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TEACHERS TO
GET DESERVED
PAY INCREASE
# “An adjustment of teachers’ salary
schedules in Alaska seems to be nec
essary if justice is to be done to those
who are in the profession and if our
schools are to be maintained at their
present high standard,” says L. D.
Henderson, commissioner of educa
tion for the territory. “The larger
salaries and opportunities offered by
tfce industries and other professions
have withdrawn many ambitious men
and women from the teaching profes
sion, and as a result a real crisis con
fronts the nations, for the schools
make the nation and the teachers the,
schools,” continues Mr. Henderson.
“The situation in the nation has
not yet materially effected the quality
of Alaska teachers. However,- the in
crease which has taken place in sal
ary schedules throughout almost the
entire nation will cause many of the
best teachers to leave the territory
at the conclusion of the present school
year unless salaries are materially ad
vanced. It is impossible to build tipg
a thoroughly efficient system of
schools where the personnel of the
teaching force is continually changing.
While Alaska has considerable scenery
to offer to teachers as an inducement.'5
to accept positions here, it is, never
theless, true that one can easily be
come surfeited with scenery and that
financial sacrifices which are too enor
mous will make even a nature lover
long for pavements and skyscrapers.
“The increase proposed will, it is
believed, appeal to boards of educa
tion as being a simple matter of jus
tice. In preparing a schedule of sal
aries for Alaska it has been necessary
to take into consideration the varving
cost of transportation to various parts
of the territory and for that reason
four schedules are given.
“Th figures given cover an annual
salary, whether divided into nine, ten
or twelve monthly payments. — The
* minimum salary represents that of
the first year’s work and the maxi
mum that of the fifth, increases being
given at the rate of $100 per annum:
First Judicial Division
Elementary School-...$1,350 $1,750
High school .. 1,500 1,900
Second Judicial Division
Min. - Max.
Elementary school.$1,550 $1,950
" High school. 1,700 2,100
Third Judicial Division
Min. Max.
Elementary school .$1,450 $1,750
High school . 1,600 2,000
Fourth Judicial Pivision
Min. Max.
Elementary school .$1,650 $2,050
High school .. 1,800 2,200
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
^irug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
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MRS. SWANBERG
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The O.-T.-O. Shop
Mrs. Grant Reed has taken over Mrs. J. C.
Funk’s stock of goods, which has been added
to her stock of goods recently removed from
her McCarthy store, and is now open for busi
ness at the Windsor Hotel
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Seattle, Wash.
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Headquarters for Alaskans
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CORDOVAN IS AFTER §
AN ALASKA ISLAND j
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Clyde Colman of Cordova is on a $
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hunt for some department of the gov- jjj
ernment which can lease one of the jij
many small unnamed islands in the iji
Pacific belonging to Alaska. The jij
island he wants is about eighty miles ij:
from Kodiak. jjj
He has communicated with Wash- ij]
ington, D. C., and was told to see the j:j
land office at Juneau. He visited the jij:
land office there, as well as the forest iji
office and other offices of representa- *jj:
tives of the government, but it could iji
not be determined definitely whether jjj:
the island he wanted to lease was un- :j:j
der the jurisdiction of the forest de- ***■
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partment, the fisheries department or
some other department, and was
finally advised to go to Seattle and
consult with the head of the United
States fisheries department, located jiji
there. If he can not get any satisfac- ijij
tion he purposes to proceed to Wash- jiji
ington. jjj:
He wants to lease the island for jiji
fox raising, and he wants assurance ;§
that after it is leased some other per
son will not be given a permit to oc- r
cupy it after he has spent a small for
tune there on improvements. Coombs
told about another resident of the
westward who leased an island for
fox raising and later the forestry de
partment gave some other person per
mission to use the timber. Since the
timber was essential to the industry
of fox raising, the fox farmer,
who thought he was in undisputed pos
session of the island by virtue of his
contract, upon learing of his mistake,
has been “talking in his sleep” about
the multiplicity of interlocking gov
ernment bureaus and their methods of
doing business in Alaska, Coombs is
anxious, if possible, to avoid a similar
mistake before investing all of his
hard-earned cash. The other fox
farmer paid the government $200 a
year for his lease.
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery. , 13-tj
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
N. R. G. laundry tablets wash clothes
without rubbing. Contain no lime,
lye, paraffin, wax or other injurious
chemicals. Nothing like it on the
market. Phone 142—5 rings. 12-tf
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Special Sale
Special Sale at Rawson’s in all lines of
goods from pins to pencils. The proof
of the pudding is the eating, and the
proof of the right prices on the goods at
this place is by coming in and finding
out.
REMEMBER, 15 DAYS ONLY, AT
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