AMERICAN EDUCATORS
AIM TO HELP SCHOOLS
OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
MANILA. March 31.—The commis
sion of nine educators who have
come here from the United States to
make a survey of the educational
system of the Philippine Islands, ex
pects to assemble facts and not to
outline policies, according to a state
ment made by Dr. Paul Monroe of
Columbia University, chairman of the
commission.
“We have come to survey the edu
cational system of the Philippines,”
.said Dr. Monroe. “We shall at
tempt to ascertain how much it costs
per capita to send a child through
the seventh grade and how much thru
the high school, and compare this
cost with that in the United States
and other countries. We shall lay
these facts before educational au
thorities, but. we shall not attempt to
say whether the appropriations for
education should be increased or di
minished. That will be up to the
local legislative authorities. We
have not come to criticise, but to
help the islands in educational work.
The commission expects to spend
three or four months in the Philip
pines, visiting public schools and pri
vate institutions. Dr. Harold O.
Rugg, specialist in tests and meas
urements at Columbia University, in
New York, was the first member of
the commission to get down to ac
tual work and in the first three days
after his arrival there had made many
observations in Manila in connection
with student deficiencies and in the
curriculum system.
Regarding the scope of the com
mission’s work, Vice-Governor Eu
gene A. Gilmore, ex-officio secretary
of public instruction, said:
“These educational experts will be
charged with the duty of making an
impartional, dispassionate judgement
of what has been accomplished in
nearly 25 years since the occupa
tion of the island by the Americans.
The board is to make a careful con
sideration of what improvements, if
any, should be made in order to have
more effective educational system. It
will consider to what extent educa
tion has contributed and can con
tribute to the betterment of the is
lands and their inhabitants.”
In the public schools only the Eng
lish language is taught.
Bees Prevent Wren
From Raising Family
Am-JKUfcjfcN, wash., March 31.—
How the maternal instinct of a tiny
wren twice in as many years was
frustrated by a colony of wild bees
has been related here by Samuel W.
Benn. a bird lover of this city.
For two years, Mr. Benn said, he
watched a wren carrying material
1o build her nest in a bird house he
had erected*, and although she occu
pied it for a time each season and
laid her eggs no baby wrens ever
put in their appearance.
Recently when he was changing
the location of the bird house, Mr.
Benn discovered that both years the
wild bees had taken possession of
the nest and had formed their honey
comb over the mother wren’s eggs.
The second nest had been built over
the honeycomb and the wreckage of
the former season’s hopes.
Boxing Becomes Popular
Among Students in Japan
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31.—Jas.
G. Fisk, state adjutant of the Ameri
can Legion, has received word that as
the result of Legion activities in To
kio, boxing has been introduced into
the curriculum of Japanese military
academies.
This came about through a mixed
boxing-jiu-jitsu match arranged by
the Tokio post of the legion as the
request of General Ugaki, minister
of war. An American army captain
competed with a Japanese expert.
The jiu jitsu exponent won the first
fall, but on the resumption of the
match the American officer crossed
a right to the jaw and ended the ex
hibition. General Ugaki Then order
ed that boxing be taught in the mili
tary schools.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
RICH FINDS OF GOLD
START MINING BOOM
IN NEVADA DESERT
GILBERT, March 31—Days of the
old Western frontier are recalled viv
idly by this new mining camp, a gold
boom town that has sprung up at a
place where only rocks and sand and
distant mountains were visible a few
weeks ago.
Scenes here are reminiscent to old
timers of such camps as Goldfield,
Manhattan, and Rawhide, 20 odd
years ago.
Gilbert now has a main street lin
ed with wooden structures of all siz
es and sorts. There is even a week
ly paper, the Gilbert Record. The
hillsides are dotted with 100 or more
tents. Almost hourly big trucks ar
rive from Tonopah and Mina the near
est railroad points, loaded with lum
ber, coal and machinery. New hous
es are going up, and almost every
line of business incident to a min
ing camp is represented. There are
stores, restaurants, an assay office,
law offices, a garage and service sta- j
lion and a dance hall.
The real story of Gilbert starts in
1896 when Charles Lampson, a ties-1
?rt prospector, picked up a piece of
?old quartz near an Indian camp in
the Monte Cristo range. Lampson
spent many months searching the
hills for the outcropping from which
the gold had come. Finally he gave
it up and wandered away to other
fields.
J. 13. Gilbert took up the search.
He met with no more success than
Lampson. His sons, nowever, per
sisted in the hunt. The older Gilbert
died many years ago. Nearly 23
years later his three sons, Fred, Lo
gan and Herman located the Last
Hope They had called it that be
cause they had planne 1 to make i:
their last effort to wring go;d from
bills.
The Gilbert boys began to get val
ues from the surface. They took
out a shipment and the excitement
3tarted. A few days later Dick Ray
craft, a veteran prospector, working
For them, discovered the “jewelry
shop” in a badger hole on top of a
hill now known as the Brack Mam
moth. Some of the rock assayed
$1 or more a pound. This started a
stampede.
The exposed rock on the surface of
the Gilbert holdings is so rich that
an armed guard patrols the place
night and day. Thousands have vis
ited the strike. It is estimated that
not less than $5,000 has been given
away in specimens.
Hundreds of prospectors are in the
surrounding hills. Many new finds
have been reported. Every day Die
interest grows more intense. Old
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
March 24
April 7
Arrives South from
Seward Seward
• March 31 April 7
S. ADMIRAL EVANS
April 14 April .20
S. S. ADMIRAL PEARY
April 27—With freight and explosives.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jcrviee
^admiral line
iH.F. ALEXANDER.
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STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING OF STR. STARR WEST, APRIL 5
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. SEWARD, ALA8KA
time gold-seekers are coming back
from Mexico, from Canada, and else
where.
While the Gilberts’ Last Hope first
drew attention to the new gold field,
it is the Black Mammoth and the
Homestake that bid fair to make the
camp world famous. The Homestake
is just beyond Black Mammoth, and
recently it gave up a ledge 1,000 feet
long which pans gold the entire dis
tance. There are eight different lo
cations where gold specimens may be
taken from the surface at random.
Much development work is in pro
gress.
AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN FAILS
OTTOWA, March 31.—Efforts to
negotiate an agreement between Can
ada and Japan, whereby the Japanese
government would check immigration
into Canada, and in return, the Cana
dian government would moderate its
oriental policy in the B. C. fishing
industry, has collapsed as the Japan
ese government would favor no such
arrangement.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
CQfand third Wednesdays of each
month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
«. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
£^=*08:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary. ‘
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. Visiting
members are always wel
J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
come.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
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
Mrs.
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.
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, N. G.
GRAND NEPHEW OF EMPEROR
SUES TO RECOVER PROPERTY
NEW YORK, March 31.—Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte, grand nephew of
the Emperor Napoleon, has sued his
wife to recover his property, which
he alleges she obtained from him by
fraud. When he was ill, he alleges
Mrs. Bonaparte induced him to sign
papers for the management of the
estate. He learned upon recovery
he had signed away his rights in all
property.
ETHEL BARRYMORE ILL
KANSAS CITY, March 31—Ethel '
Barrymore has cancelled her thre- ‘
atrical engagements for this week ■
and is confined to her hotel with an
attack of neuritis. Her condition is
said not to be serious.
Sheaffer’s Lire Time Pens, at the !
the Alaska Shop. tf I
Brunswick Radiolas, tne Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—0. K. Barber Shop. tf.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
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TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
| Let Morrison Fix it tor you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
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CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
FRESH MILK,
CREAM AND ALL
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Our Motto:
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FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Yukon
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
March 28
April 4th
April 11
April 18
April 25
May 2
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 4
April 11th.
April IS
April 25
May 2
May 9
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 4
April 11th.
April 18.
April 25
Mav 2
May 9
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125_ SEWARD, ALASKA
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As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
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sale at all ticket offices