PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
The freighter Skagway is due from
Seattle tomorrow night.
The steamer Curaco was reported
by wireless at Cape Edwards last
night and is due here tomorrow. She
will be in port several hours taking
on crude oil for the Ellamar mine.
The Home Guards meet tonight and
a full attendance of the members is
desired as business of importance
will be transacted. Recruited by our
returning soldiers this organization
should be maintained at a high state
of efficiency.
. Last evening Mrs. Chas. M. Ross
wog was tendered a surprise party by
the Ladies' Altar society, and was the
recipient of an electric coffee urn, as
a token of appreciation of her faith
ful service during the plst ten years
that she was president of that body.
The Women’s Christian Temper
ance union held a silver tea at the
home of Mrs. T. N. Hubbert this
afternoon and the proceeds went to
its French orphan fund. The affair
was largely attended and a most in
teresting musical program was ren
dered.
All arrangements have been per
fected for the memorial service to be
held at the Empress theatre on Sun
day afternoon in honor of the late ex
President Theodore Roosevelt. Attor
ney B. O. Graham will deliver the
principal address. Mrs. R. G. Walker
and Mrs. T. N. Hubbert will sing a
duet, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee;”
Miss Frances Praisure wil render a
vocal solo, “Beside Still Waters,"
and the service will close with a
patriotic song in which the audience
will join in the chorus.
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On Friday evening of next week
the Northland club will give a Bridge
pary to members only. Playing will
start at 10 o’clock sharp and those
not present then will not participate
in the prizes. The hostesses for the
occasion are Mrs. E. P. Harwood,
Mrs. Bartley Howard and Mrs. F. A.
Jones.
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NATIVES OF ALASKA NOW
OPERATE WIRELESS PLANTS
In the days of John Smith and Will
iam Penn the unlettered savage mar
veled when he learned that white
men could transmit messages by mak
ing marks on a piece of bark or paper
and conveying them by carrier to a
given destination.
Today, by means of an efficient and
far-reaching system of education, the
aborigine of the far North is not only
able to send written communications
through the mails, but is also being
taught the scientific art of communi
cation by wireless telegraphy.
During the recent influenza epi
demic a superintendent in the Alaska
school service, anxious to learn
whether this dread plague had in
vaded the native village on Atka
island, three hundred miles west of
Unalaska, in the North Pacific ocean,
sent a wireless message asking for a
report on health conditions to that
remote village from Anchorage, and
received a reply on the ethereal
waves as follows: “No unusual sick
ness.”
This message of importance to the
service was made possible because
the United States bureau of education
established a small wireless plant at
the Atka island government native
school, where the teacher in charge
is a wireless operator. The wireless
apparatus was purchased at a neces
sarily small cost, owing to the meager
funds available, the resourceful
teacher constructing his own aerial
out of galvanized pipe, and with this
improvised arrangement he has suc
ceeded in transmitting messages a
distance of three hundred miles to
the Dutch Harbor station, near Una
laska.
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naa iunas Deen avauaDie 10 tne
bureau of education for installing
even these small plants at other
places where they are greatly needed, !
and natives taught to use the wire
loss, a less tragic tale of the rav
ages of influenza among natives
might be told.
For instance, Tyonek, a native vil
lage of about one hundred inhabit
ants, is situated but forty miles across
Cook inlet from the superintendent’s
headquarters at Anchorage. Through
an unavoidable coincidence the
teacher at that village came to An
chorage to purchase the winter’s sup
plies for the native co-operative store,
and having supplies aboard the boat
just ready to return, was stricken
with influenza. He wisely sent the
supplies on to the village, but during
his sickness and convalescence the
inlet filled with ice and navigation
closed for the winter, leaving him to
return in a weakened condition after
his illness by trail around the head
of the inlet, a distance of nearly one
hundred and fifty miles. During this
journey he lost his way on the Beluga
flats in a dense fog, freezing both his
feet, and when he reached the cabins
on the Beluga river was in such a
serious condition that he was neces
sarily delayed several days longer.
While he was absent from the vil
lage the natives were stricken with
influenza. The gruesomeness of such
a situation will readily be appreciated
by those familiar with native life.
The chief succumbed to the disease
first, leaving them without even their
primitive advisor, panic stricken and
helpless. Thirty-five in all died in all
sorts of places and postures, there to
remain until such time as the others j
^uuiu give mem Dunai.
The crudest form of a wireless mes
sage received at the government wire
less station in Anchorage would have
brought them relief.
At Nurvik, Alaska, where the Unit
ed States bureau of education has
established a wireless station in con
nection with the government native
school, the natives are also taught to
operate the wireless. This is said to
be the most northerly wireless sta
tion in the world.
The Bristol Bay region, where three
government native schools and a gov
ernment hospital are located, several
hundred .natives reside, and many
white people, yet there is no wireless
service during the winter, and the
mail—if it ever does come—comes by
freight. <
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All messages now received at the .
local cable office are taken subject to i
delay and those for the outlying dls- ;
trlcts of Seattle must be prepaid, due j
to tlj'e strike conditions on the coast, jj
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French lessons, private and class,
for children and adults. Ida Dowald
er, experienced teacher. Adams build
ing, C street. S4-St '
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MARGUERITE FISCHER
In the Six-Act Comedy-Drama
“Jackie of the Navy”
A Comedy Up to the Minute
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Mr. D. Faimian at the Piano
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Regular Sailings Between Seattle, Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez, Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche and Seward
From Seattle ’ 1 1 i V V, Due Cordova
Feb. 5 ALA8KA Feb. 10
15 ALAMEDA 20
25 ALA8KA March 2
Note.—Steamer Alaska does not go west of Cordova. ■
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Agent
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