HEAL Y LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN,
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN
EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANAIMO RANGE COAL
IN SACK OR BULK
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN,
TRANSFERRING AND TEAMING
TEL MAIN 17 ARCADE BLDG.
H. V- HOBEN A- F. DAVIS
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone -s- Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
ANDTS EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
The Alaska Shop
When you have any work In
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
ARON ERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
Good Quick
Eats Service
Alaska Cafe
Private Dining Rooms
F. J. FINN, Prop.
> .
Brunswick monographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. it
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Meat Buying
Made a Pleasure
OUR MEAT remains at its us
ual high standards. The only
thing cut about it is the price
—and that’s so interestingly
done that you’ll surely come
here.
CARSTENS PACKING COMPANY
E. KURTZ, Mgr.
INLET CANNERIES
GOING FULL BLAST
SHORTAGE OF HELP REPORTED
AS BIG RUN RED UNDER
WAY COOK INLET.
The Red salmon run In Cook In
let this season, which is now well
under way, is swamping the canner
ies, according to Seward arrivals
last evening from the Inlet. J. A.
Magil, owner of the Magill saltery,
who arrived in Seward yesterday,
states his fleet of tenders and scows
have been overwhelmed with the
fish wiiich forced him to sell the
SEWARD LODGE
NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Qi(I<d Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
’’iKU^and third Wednesdays of each
month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, V. G.
SCHOOL SYSTEM
OF ALASKA PUT
BEFORE PUBLIC
Alaska and the Territorial school
system have been given consider
able publicity this summer by Com
missioner of Education L. D. Hen
derson, according to the Juneau Em
pire of recent date. He is now at
tending summer school at Columbia'
University after being present at
the annual convention of the Na
tional Education Association at In
dianapolis.
During the convention Mr. Hen
derson addressed a gathering of
educators composed of Commission
ers and state Superintendents of
Education on Alaska and Alaskan
schools. It -was said to have been
one of the features of the program.
Schools of High Rank.
During his stay in Indianapolis,
last catch to the Northwest Fisher
ies, as they were unable to handle
them. The Magill saltery has al
ready packed 200 barrels of Reds
and have shipped to the states 140
tierces of mild cured King salmon.
According to the Anchorage Times
of Monday’s issue, F. Svennsom, Al
aska general supt. of the salmon de
partment for the Libby, McNeil &
Libby says the Reds are just start
ing to run down at Kenai and there
should be a heavy run during the
coming week. This cannery has
packed 30,000 cases of salmon this
season. It is anticipated a total of
50,000 cases will be put up by the
end of the season.
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited
number of 1925 pups will
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
Phone Madison 66
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
Nattschei & Bolam, Machinists
Hardware --Stoves-Ranges
POWDER—CAPS—FUSE—MINERS’ SUPPLIES
SHIP CHANDLERY AND SHIP LINOLEUM
ANCHORS, ROPE AND TWINE
HALIBUT LINES AND HOOKS
Sheet Metal — Plumbing Shop — Gun Repair
J. L. GRAEF
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
'
Mr. Henderson gave an interview
to the Indianapolis Star, which iol
lows:
“Although it has had a depart
ment of education only since 1917,
Alaska today ranks fourth in Amer
ican states and territories in the
perfection of its school system.
“Since the office of Commissioner
of Education for Alaska was creat
ed eight years ago, it has been held
by L. D. Henderson, a native of
Iowa, who has been in Indianapolis
attending the sixty-third meeting ot
the National Education Association.
Mr. Henderson, who was accompa
nied to Indianapolis by W. H. Evans,
superintendent of schools at Cor
dova, the Alaskan delegate assem
bly of the association, left last night
for New York, where he will enter
the teachers’ college of Columbia
University. He will return to Alaska
late in August.
Mr. Henderson was appointed Com
missioner of Education w'hen the of
fice was created, having been super
intendent of school at Juneau, where
he now has headuarters, from 1914
to 1917. The office was created
by the Territorial Board of Educa
tion.
Teachers of Higih Rank.
“Contrary to the popular concep
tion of education in the farthest
north possession of the United States
the schools of Alaska are manned
with teachers who rank wnth the
best of instructors of the States
in training and experience. There
w’ere 199 teachers in the seventy
seven Alaskan schools last year, in
which 4,500 pupils, 600 of them high
school students, were instructed.
“Under Mr. Henderson’s supervis
ion, the white children and those
of mixed blood receive their educa
tion in the same school rooms, with
the Indian children attending schools
operated by the Federal government
under the direction of the Depart
ment of the Interior.
“The teachers without exception
must pass requirements similar to
those of the state educational de
partments, and all are graduates of
American colleges or normal schools.
Seven of the high schools of the
Territory are accredited at the Uni
versity. of Washington and other
higher educational institutions along
the Pacific coast.
Spares No Expense
“Alaska is sparing no expense in
the education of her youth, accord
ing to Mr. Henderson. More than
half a million dollars are spent each
year for education, with the annual
cost per capita averaging about
$115.
“We are not bothered in Alaska
with the problem of keeping the
child in school, after he completes
the eight grades,” Mr. Henderson
said. “Ninety per cent of the com
mon school graduates continue their
education in the high schools, wuth
only a smaller percentage continuing
to higher schools.
“This may be attributed to a large
degree to the absence of large man
ufacturing concerns in our territory.
The opportunities to enter industry
and labor are not so numerous as
in the states.”
Mr. Henderson is proud of the
record of the Alaskan teachers in
membership in the N. E. A. The
Territory ranks sixth in the percent
age of teachers holding membership
in the association, he said.
“The consolidated school, the
pride of Hoosier educators, is prac
tically unknown in Alaska,, accord
ing to Mr. Henderson. Rural life
is absent there, the schools being
located in mining or fishing towns,
the next town and school in many
directions being as much as 100
miles away.
The average American also has
a mistaken idea of climatic condi
tions in Alaska, Mr. Henderson said.
Juneau seldom experiences zero wea
ther and it is infrequently all over
Southeastern Alaska. Only Nome,
which came into the public recently
because of a diphtheria epidemic and
the race with death of dog teams
carrying serum, is ice-bound in win
ter.
“Mr. Henderson and his compan
ion, Mr. Evans, made t.he trip from
Juneau to Indianapolis in less than
seven days, marine traffic being op
en the year round at Juneau.
“Despite the prevalent idea of
frigid wreather, there is no dearth
of applicants for teaching positions
in Alaska, Mr. Henderson said. He
always has a stack of applications
for positions, he said.