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Claude T. Boyles, since May 191C
acocuntant of the telegraph and tele
phone department of the Alaska:
Engineering commission at Anchor
— age, was arrested several weeks ag<
- on the charge of having embezzle*
5 $4759.07 of the commission’s funds
In default of bail, which was fixe*
at $5,000, he was held in the An
, chorage jail pending a hearing be
- fore United States Commissione:
. Leopold David. The penalty for th<
alleged offense is imprisonment ir
the penitentiary for not less thar
one year nor more than fifteen year1
| and a fine equal in amount to twict
i. the sum embezzled.
The government was insurer
against dishonesty on the part ol
the prisoner by the United State;
j Fidelity and Guarantee company oi
. Baltimore, and it will have to makt
good his shortage.
According to John H. Robinson
special investigator for the Alaskan
j Engineering commission, who ar
rested Boyles, the prisoner admitted
having embezzled the commission’s
funds, receipts of both the telegraph
and telephone department, and the
I lighting department, but was not cer
tain as to the amount of his pecu
" i lations.
. The money, it is said, was taken
in sundry amounts since August,
1916, the first defalcation for less
than $100 occurring about three
months after Boyles arrival from
Valdez to take the accountancy posi
tion. Now that his accounts have
been accurately checked, it is de
■ , dared that they show he pilfered
| almost every month, the thefts rang
^ i ing in sums from as low as $50 a
month to as high as $1,500 a month.
; The Lighthouse Canning compan;
of Cordova has begun the erectioi
j of a two-story warehouse 40x70 fee
' near the city dock. Sixty-five mei
i and women will be employed in th
■ cannery, all of whom will be Cor
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PRESIDENT ASKS
START GARDENS
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President Wilson has written Sec
retary Lane, of the interior depart
ment, expressing the hope that “every
school will have a regiment in the
volunteer war-garden army”—the
army of school children that, it is
hoped, may raise this year product
amounting to $500,000,000.
“Every boy and girl who really
sees what the home g.i-den may
mean,” wwites the president, “will
I am sure, enter into the purpose
with high spirits, because I am sure
they w'ould all like to feel that they
are in fact fighting in France by
joining the home-garden army.”
In his letter .which follows, the
president approves the design of
Secretary Lane to arouse the school
children of the United States to “as
real and patriotic an effort as the
building of ships or the firing of a
cannon.”
President Wilson’s Letter.
“My dear Mr. Secretary:—I sin
cerely hope that you may be suc
cessful through the Bureau of Edu
cation in arousing the interest cf
teachers and children in the schools
of the United States in the cultiva
tion of home gardens. Every boy
and girl who really sees what the
home garden may mean will, I i m
sure, enter into the purpose with
high spirits, because I am sure they
would all like to feel that they are
in fact fighting in Franc-; by join
ing the home-garden army. They
know that America has undertaken
to send meat and flour and wheat
and other foods for the support of
the soldiers who are doing the fight
ing, for the men and women who are
making the munitions, and for the
boys and girls of Western Europe,
and that we must also feed our
selves while we are carrying on this
war. The movement to establish
gardens, therefore, and to h tve the
children work in them, is ;ust as
real and patriotic an effort as the
building of ships or the firing of
cannon. I hope that this spring
every school will have a regiment
in the volunteer war-garden army. !
“Cordially and sincerely yours, j
“WOODROW WILSON'.”
Hon Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior.
Army of 5,000,000 Gardeners.
It is Secretary Lane’s idea, that is
being worked out through Commis
sioner Claxton, of the Bureau of '
Education, to have 5,000,000 >oys
and girls of the schools in every
city, town and village in the country,
captained by 40.000 teachers, pro
duce as nearly as possible ,iU of ihei
vegetables, small fruits and eg fir!
their home consumption.
To the extent that each district is I
able to supply itself with these fooa j
products the railways will be re
lieved of the burden of transporting
them, and the allies of the United
States in Europe and our own sol
diers on the battle front will < et
that much more food of which they
are in need.
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W. H. Rogers, meditator and con
cilliator of the department of labor,
and J. Grant, of the Locomotive j 1
Brotherhood in Seattle, will represent J‘
the Cordova train and engine men J
in the arbitration of their dispute '
with the Copper River railroad, hav
ing left Seattle recently enroute to
Cordova. The trainmen of the Cop- 1
per River railway have asked for (
more wages, and the matter has been
put up to the board of arbitration.
William Peters, construction en
gineer, and Thomas Peters, dredge
master, are enroute to the Kusko
kwim, where the Union Construction
company, of San Francisco, will build
a dredge on Candle creek. They are
accompanied by a crew of six men.
The city of Cordova has followed
the exampe of Valdez and appro
priated $600 to build a float for
small boats. Cordova is working
hard for the Ellamar and upper
Sound trade, now controlled by Val
dez.
Buy That Libary Bead Today.
NOTICE OF PRIMARY
To Be Held on
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918.
In the office of the United States
Commissioner at Nenana, Alaska, -
Fourth Division.
Now, on this day, pursuant to I
Chapter 48, Session Laws of Alaska, "
approved May 3, 1917, entitled, “An
Act to provide for the holding of
primary elections in the Territory
of Alaska, to fix the time and man
ner of holding the same, to prescribe
the qualifications of candidates to
be nominated at such elections, and
to designate the manner of filing
and authenticating their candidacy
and for other purposes,” and in con
formity therewith.
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to
be held on April 30, 1918, all of
the territory in the recording district
known as the Nenana Recording Dis
trict, outside of incorporated towns,
is hereby divided into voting pre
cincts, in each of which a polling
place is hereby specified.
Said voting precincts are described
and bounded as follows:
The Nenana Voting Precinct, em
bracing all that portion of the Ne
nana Recording Precinct lying North
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile 389 on the Govern
ment Railway.
Polling Place:—Fire Hall, in Town
of Nenana.
The 35-mile Voting Precinct, em
bracing all that portion of the Ne
nana Recording Precinct lying South
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile 389 on the Government
Railway.
Polling Place:—Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission Store at 35-mile.
Polling places open from 8 a. m. to
7 p. m.
Notice is hereby given that a
primary election will be held on
Tuesday, April 30, 1918, for the
purpose of nominating candidates of
the various political parties in Alaska
for the following offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Rep
resentatives from the Territory of
Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska
Four members of the House of
Representatives of the Territory of |
Alaska; ^
One Road Commissioner for Road
District No. 4.
The said election will be held in
the voting precincts above named
and and the polling places therein 1
specified. The said polling places j
will be open between the hours of
jight o’clock A. M. and seven o'clock
P. M. of said day.
Dated at Nenana,Alaska, February
25, 1918.
r. s. McDonald.
U. S. Commissioner for the
Nenana recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
(seal) • r. s.McDonald.
Dr. E. S. Reedy, formerly chief
mrgeon of the government hospital
it Anchorage, is now first lieutenant
it the Vancouver barracks, in Wash
ngton.
The Pinnacle Rock Canning com
lany at Cordova has started its new
lam cannery plant. All machinery
las been installed and comfortable
luarters fitted up for the crew.
There were 450 employees on the
layrolls of Seward division at the
lose of the period ending March 9.
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The Chickaloon Coal company that
developing its coal properties at
hickaloon is making great progress
nd has one of the best equipped j
lines in Alaska, according to Joseph
aubner, an Anchorage resident who j
2Cently spent ten days looking over i
le coal mines at Chickaloon and j
ska creek.
All tunnels and shafts on the !
hickaloon property and all buildings
re lighted by electricity. The ma
linery used in the operation of th^
line is also operated by electricity. !
here are at this time about twenty
ten employed by the company and
5 the weather becomes more favor
ble for development work, additional: -
len will be aded to the force.
The coal mines operated by the
laskan Engineering commission both
■ Eska creek and Chickaloon are be
ig developed rapidly and the living
•nditions at the Commission's mines
•e exceptionaly good.
Mr. Lauber is representing capital |
i the States and will make a favor
ble report to his principals repard
ir peenral conditions in the Matan
ska coal fields.
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Make Your Spending
Stand This Test
Every time you are tempted to spend a
quarter for some luxury, remember our
brave soldiers under the German guns; re
member the Kaiser’s threats against our
country; remember the German menace that
hangs over your home and loved ones and
Buy a U. S. Thrift Stamp
That is the way to save priceless American
lives; that is the way to make Victory sure;
that is the way to shorten this war.
When you have saved 16 Thrift Stamps, exchange them,
with a few added pennies, for a U. S. War Savings
Stamp, which will pay you $5 in five years’ time.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
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