PLENTY OF FUNDS
TERRITORIAL
The Nelson school fund of the ter
ritory Is holding out much better
than expected when the estimates for
1915 were footed up. All schools are
to run the full nine months with the
exception’of the Eagle River, Anchor
age and Kasaan. The latter three
are new districts established during
the past summer, and for a time It
was thought funds to open schools
there would not he available. At the
governor’s office it was said that all
schools are running and that so far
it has proven unnecessary to touch
any of the $15,000 received from the
forest service as the school fund of
the forest service money turned over
to the territory,
i The Anchorage school has been
opened and Is to run for a term of
eight months. This was made pos
sible by the railroad commission,
which arranged for the housing of the
school. If the territory had been
forced to provide a school building
the school could not have been open
ed this term. The Eagle River school
was opened under the same condition,
♦he settlers In that section providing
the building. The Eagle River dis
trict has been allowed funds for eight
months of school. Expenditures were
authorized to cover the expen
ses of five months of school at Ka
saan. This was the last district
formed and for a long time no funds
were available to open the school.
Mendenhall was authorized to hold
school for five months with the pro
viso that If an increased attendance
could be shown at the end of three
months the full nine months term
would he authorized. The showing
of Increased attendance has been
made and the directors were
authorized to continue the school for
the full nine months.
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SPENCE'S RECORO IS GIVEN
AN AIRING
In a two column articles In the Se
attle Times Is a review of United
States Attorney Spence's record since
he took office at Valdez. The article
tells of the charges that have been
made against the district attorney,
and the grounds upon which they
were made.
Among other things, the district at
torney is accused of unjustly prose
cuting the Tilllcum Club of Valdez
for selling liquor without a license.
Regarding the case, Sam Blum, the
! well known merchant and banker, is
j quoted as saying that the only rea
son for the prosecutions were that
O. P. Hubbard dominated the district
! attorney. He says that Hubbard was
| sore at the club and took this means
of getting revenge, using the district
attorney as a tool. i
Another charge is that the official
prosecuted the Valdez camp of the
Arctic Brotherhood, of which organi
zation former President 'William H.
Taft, ex-Clovernor William Sulzer, of
New York, ex-Secretary of the Navy
Nagel, and others, are members.
The article also describes Spence’s
disloyalty to the Democratic party in
not fighting against the Republicans.
It charges him with more friendship
for Delegate Wickersham than is be
coming a good Democrat.
The Times says that the Valdez dis
trict attorney was responsible for an
noyance to the people of the Interior,
tn that, by closing the Valdes club,
the Tanana club was also forced to
close its bar.
The fight that is being waged
against the district attorney was
set out^fulty, every move that the
machine men of the territory jrtp
making having been set forth.
In conclusion, it Is said that the
district attorney will have a hard
time explaining satisfactorily many
of the charges that are made against
him. <
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ALASKA BUREAU OF SEATTLE
CHAMBER HAS MANAGER.
With much important work to be
done during the winter, the Alaska
bureau of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce has created the position of I
manager, and appointed J. I,. McPher- j
son, secretary of the organization'
since It was founded In 1911, to the
post. His selection was unanrmous.
The managership, according to Mc
Pherson, was decided upon as a means
of centralizing the work of the bu
reau and making it unnecessary for
the executive cOTnnlittee of the or
ganization to assemble minor details.
The chief work of the bureau this
winter will be to prepare data in sup
port of a campaign for legislation for
the development of Alaska, and this
is row going forward under McPher
son’s direction.
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the Blum. O’Neill Co.
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the Blum. O’Neill Co.
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A detailed account of the operation
and maintenance of the Panama Canal
during the first ten months and a half
after, its opening to commerce in
August, 1914, Is given in the annual
report of Governor Goethals, of the
Canal Zone. Just made public. Final
construction work just prior to the
canal's opening also is described in
the report, which embraces the fiscal
year ending June 30 last, prior to the
earth slide which blocked the chan-t
nel.
Between August IS, 1914, and June
30, 1915. 530 vessels, representing a
net Panama Canal tonnage of 1,884,-.
728, and cargo tonnage of 2,125,735
were passed through from Atlantic to
Pacific, and 558 vessels, representing
a Panama Canal tonnage of 1,958,301
and a cargo tonnage of 2,844,057. from
Pacific to Atlantic, making a total of
1,93? vessels with a net canal tonnage
of 8,843,035 and a cargo tonnage of
4,969,792. During the period three
minor slides interrupted traffic, the
channel being closed from October.
14 to 20 and October 31 to Novem
ber 4, 1914. and March 4 to 10, 1915. *
Of the 3394.399,149 appropriated by
Congress to June 30 last, the report
states that $14,689,873 has been spent
on fortifications: $750,000 to cover
three annual payments to the Repub
lic of Panama: $6,440,000 for the op*
eration of the civil government of the
Canal Zone for the fiscal year 1916,
$4,289,156 for the operation and main
tenance of the canal to the end of the i
fiscal year 1915, while stock on hand
aggregates $2,225,000, leaving $365,
999,116 appropriated for the actual
construction of the canal and its ad
juncts.
Two million dollars of this was in
vested in colliers, and $6,563,067 was
returned to the treasury department
up to the close of the fiscal year 1915
as miscellaneous receipts, leaving
$357,436,048 ns the net amount ex
pended for the canal. Including the
amount available for work still in pro
gress. A drydock, two coaling sta
tions and terminal piers, not included
in these figures, are yet to be con
structed.
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SPECIAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT
SHOW.
A big five act feature, written by
Bret Harte, produced by the World
Film Corporation, in which Howard
Estabrook and Barbara Tennant play
the leads, will be shown at the Em
press Theatre Wednesday night.
M’LISS is one of the big pictures of
the season. Don’t, forget the date —
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
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All the music of all the world—
Columbia Records. E. A. Hegg.
Agent.
MASONIC MEETING TONIGHT.
A meeting of Mt. McKinley Lodge,
No. 113, F. & A. M.. will be held to
night at 7:30 o’clock.
H. A. SLATER, W. M.
E. F. MEDLEY, Secretary.
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The Blum. O'Neill Company is to
day placing a handsome electric sign ^
In front of their Front Street store.
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F. A. HEGQ, agent Columbia
Graphophones and Records.
Empress Theatre
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SPECIAL SHOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The Big Five Act Feature,
M ’ L I S S.
Howard Estabrook and Barbara Tennant in the Leads
Produced by the World Film Corporation.
Admission 25 Cents. First Show 8 p. m.
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