ACTIVITIES OF
B. EDUCATION
ARE DESCRIBED
B. B. MOZEE, RECENT VISITOR IN
SEWARD. RELATES PAST
SUMMER’S WORK
CLAIMS NEW SCHOOLS NEEDED
Lack of Appropriations handicap De
partment—Fine School at Eklut
na—Outline Given
During the past summer consider
able new building activity took place
at the Eklutna Industrial School of
the Bureau of Education, according to
B. B. Mozee, general supervisor of this
district for the department, who pass
ed through Seward last week en route
to his Anchorage headquarters. A
brief outline of buildings construct
ed last summer, was given to the
Gateway.
These included a staff house, 36 x
36 feet in size; a gymnasium 65 x 60,
and a boys’ dormitory of two stories.
During the summer of 1924 a girls’
dormitory was erected; a teachers cot
tage and an isolated quarter. Plans
to follow. Mr. Mozee stated, would
embrace the construction of shops for
industrial training and a central heat
ing and lighting system may possibly
be installed. At present two steam
plants supply the heat, and a Kohler
system, of which Mr. Orlander is the
Seward agent, furnishes the electric
energy for the lighting of all the build
ings. Two wells, having excellent
water, have been dug. One of these
was put down to the second water lev
el. In connection with these wells
an electric pump is used.
The staff of the Eklutna school con
sists of E. T. Smith, superintendent;
Mrs. E. T. Smith, matron; Miss Olive
Petrashak, Miss Hilah Cheshire, Mrs.
Myrtle Everett, Mrs. Frank Seethiss,
Miss Mary Riff, who has been until
recently employed as a Nurse, has re
signed. Her successor has not ar
rived as yet, at the school. Other
members will be added to the faculty
soon, it was stated.
. An industrial school may be estab
r——
lished at Tanana as soon as funds are
available, Mr. Mozee added. Last
year the Signal Corps building at Kal
tag was trasferred to the Bureau of
Education and a school was opened
under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs.
M. L. Miller, from Tanana. Mr. Mil
ler is the department’s first-aid man
and Mrs. Miller the government teach
er. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. McLeod are
also teachers at the Kaltag school. The
latter teachers have succeeded in hav
ing the natives clear a playground at
the school, and to build a sidewalk
through the village.
Dr. Venters is the physician in com
mand at the Nulato hospital, and has
just entered into his second year. It
will be recalled it was Dr. Venters
who rushed to the relief of the Allaka
ket people last spring during the pto
maine scourge which took away sev
eral natives. The poisoning was due
to decayed caribou meat, the natives
having secured a large amount dur
ing the previous year. Dr. Venters
has just completed one of the finest
gas boats on the Yukon river.
In the central district many villages
have large school populations, and are
desirous of schools. Hopes are en
tertained for the establishment of
schools at a number of these villages
but such depends entirely on funds
made available by congress. A few
of these villages which should have
schools are Minto. Chitina, Gulkana,
Portlock, Old Harbor and Denalie.
Regarding the fishing activities dur
ing the past summer, Mr. Mozee said
on the Moquawkie reserve a very suc
cessful season was enjoyed by the na
tives.
The native store at Tyoek, on the
reserve, has been placed on an excel
lent basis.
Leslie Cramer has been appointed
as disbursing agent for the Bureau of
Education with headquarters at Seat
tle.
The recent storm at Cordova blew
the school building several feet off its
foundations.
Mrs. Mary Johnson of Durham,
Eng., was found starved to death,
sitting before a table on which was
piled $4,000 in gold coins.
Ernest Salford, 5, of Keokuk, la.,
swallowed a metal whistle but suf
ered no ill effects from it.
HEADS BRITISH GROUP TO
PARLIAMENTARY UNION
Serene Geneva Stirred At
Arrival of Rich Maharajah
THE PATIALA CHIEF GOES TO
GENEVA TO ATTEND THE
L. OF N. MEETING.
GENEVA, Oct. 29. (/P)J—So accus
tomed is Geneva to greatness within
its borders that it rarely gets excit
ed over an important new-comer, but
it awoke with sudden interest with
the advent of the Maharajah of Pa
tiala, who came as one of the In
dian delegates to the League of Na
tions assembly. The Maharajah is
credited with being the world’s rich
est resident.
In the ballrooms of the hotels
where various delegations gave re
ceptions with dancing a feature, the
Maharajah was the center of at
traction. Despite his rather ponder
ous body he waltzed gracefully with
some of the fairest ladies present.
His bosom glittered with precious
pendants and in the lobes of his
sars shone huge pearls encircled with
liamonds.
The Maharajah came with a suite
)f fourteen persons. He proved a
source of mterial delight to Geneva
shopkeepers. He is reported to have
spent $10,<300 alone in the purchase
>f watches and binoculars, with an
iccent on binoculars, for which he
seems to have a passion as a col
ector. He developed into such a
antaistic and interesting personality
hat eventually to escape the crowds
ie was forced to leave his hotel -by
he kitchen door to attain his auto
nobile unmolested.
But if the Maharajah was ever in
he public eye his spouse, the Mahar
inee, and her two Iadies-in-waiting,
emained in obscurity. They went
lot to receptions, dinners or balls,
ite their meals in the seclusion of
heir apartments and only emerged
or drives in closed motor-cars.
A woman witness at Willesden,
Ing., was caught carrying off a Bible
n which she had taken the oath as
witness in court.
Many new features have arrived
Dr the Prosperity Edition which is
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Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of (
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brated their 101st birthdays this
year.
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The Fulham, Eng., city council '
furnished funds to enaible Catherine
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, ™S e(^tion will comprise 5,000 copies of 32 pages with cover, making 36 pages in all. The frontispage is from a specially drawn
sketch by Mr. E. F. Jessen well known for his brilliant work as a cartoonist. It is something original and will add ereatlv to
the attractiveness of the edition. The cover will also be of heavy bookpaper, which will add to its appearance. Special articles have
been written or are being written by Mr J B. Reher, head of the Bureau of Public Roads for this district; E P Wafker head of
the Biological Survey and in charge of Alaskan fur and game animals; Supt- Snodgrass of the Matanuska Experimental Station
Chas. E. Bunnell, piesident of the Alaska College; Jos. Imlach, the man who started the herring industry in Prince William Sound
J. J Corey head of the coal mining department, Bureau of Alaska; W. E. Calvert, on the halibut industry; B. D. Stewart on Jen
eral activities of the Bureau of Mines, L. C. Pratt on Forestry; Cal M. Brosius, on mineral deposits near Seward- H mh DouJh
erty on general mining activities of this district: fur farming by Duke Stubbs; a history of Seward, by Wm. WMttlefev Rem
insices of Old Timers, by George Sexton; and numerous others. Letters have been written to Governor George Parks Form Jr
Governor Scott C Bone Col. Hartman Dan Sutherland, Present Coolidge, HenryO’Malley and others, asking for speciaUrt?
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